1741 - "Nurse Injector"

I'm taking credit for the blurt. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, February 23rd, 2025. This is your award-winning Kibble Nation Media Assassination Episode 1741. This is no agenda. Booing! Voila! And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas air country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where the witch is dead, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill. In the morning.

Uh, let me guess, you're referring to Joy Reid. Yes. You know what? It's hurting the show. It hasn't done anything yet. Joy Reid is a staple. Hurting the show. Joy Reid is a staple. She's going to be a podcaster, let's face it. But she's a... She's going to be a TikToker, I think. I think she'll be a TikToker. She's done a lot of TikTok already. Yep, could be. She's actually more unhinged on TikTok than she is normally. You know who's going to replace him, don't you? Just a team of jerk-offs.

Yeah, what's the guy's name? Michael Steele's one of them. Yeah, exactly. Here, I have... Listen, this is the team that will be replacing Joy Reid on MSNBC. And tell me this isn't hurting the show. What would you have us do? I would actually... You know what? I'd just like you to show that you give a damn. That you got a little emotion about the fact that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately.

That this individual sitting at down the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has given absolute power to one man who brings his son into the Oval Office whose son says to him, you're not the president. You shouldn't be in that chair. Where did he get that from? He got it from his daddy. Because that's what his daddy thinks of the man who brought him into the Oval Office. So I just like to see somebody wake the hell up and get excited about the fact that your country is under assault.

They're not at the gate anymore. They're in your bedrooms. They're in your living rooms. They're in your businesses. They got your data, dumbass. They got all your stuff. Elon Musk has his tentacles in everything you're doing. Not just off of X, but now he's in the Treasury Department. He's in the Labor Department. He's in the Department of Homeland Security. And nobody seems to give a damn.

And so it's all I want somebody to show that they care enough to get off their fat ass and say something about it. This is all part of the Democrats, and he, of course, is supposed to be a Republican, just going unhinged. I mean, we've been noticing the cursing, and he had a lot of... The cursing's out of control. Damn this, damn that, off your fat ass. Did you hear James Carville? He was cursing? Well, he's... No, no, no, no. He's always cursing. This is not even a cursing clip. He is so upset.

And he was on... What's the blockhead? Sean Hannity show. Was the microphone pointing up his nose this time? What LSU outfit was he wearing? No, he was wearing an LSU hoodie, of course. And he was on with Sean Hannity, which by itself is always kind of fun. Carville was on Sean Hannity, I missed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen to his voice. I see your party screaming and yelling and acting like lunatics, and you're smarter than that because that's not you.

And you're kind of spinning a little on me because you got your ass kicked in this election, and everyone thought you were all going to win. Okay, I lost a point. What was that? That was his voice. I have no idea what that was. It was like something locked in his vocal cords. Listen again. Your ass kicked in this election, and everyone thought you were all going to win. Okay, I lost a point. He's doing a voice. No, no, no, I did not do that. I don't think he was doing a voice, man.

That was very strange. Now I have to go back and watch that show and see what he does. The brand new chair of the DNC, Ken Martin. No, that guy. The white guy from Minnesota. The milk toast from Minnesota. Oh, the milk toast from Minnesota. Well, even he's swearing, and it was difficult. I don't think he wanted it to come out this way, but he couldn't even hold back himself. He was talking to my new favorite show to watch, Politics Girl. You ever watch her? Politics Girl. Yeah, she's good.

I think she'll be a source of information for the future. Hey, listen to this. We cannot show up four months before an election, and the first conversation we have with someone is asking them to do something for us, to vote for our candidates or our party. I mean, think about this. Why are we losing ground with Latino voters? Why are we losing ground with young voters? Why are we losing ground with every single demographic group?

There's a million reasons, but one is because they only see us during an election, usually the last few months, and when they hear from us, we're asking them for something in return. And then they don't see us again for two years. They feel like we're using them for their vote versus actually caring a shit about what's happening in their lives. So we've got to get back to actually showing them that we give a damn. Where did that... What?

Because the phrase is giving a, not caring a. I know, but it's so rampant throughout this milieu that the word shit just has to come out. And he's not used to it. You can tell, otherwise he would have said, you know, giving a shit. He said, we got carrying a shit. I said shit. He said like carrying. I've got a pile of it in this bucket, and I'm carrying it. And he even ends with a damn at the end. Actually showing them that we give a damn. We give a damn.

They're all in the same room, these people. But the funniest, and I don't know if, I don't think he's, I don't, I think he's probably politically agnostic, but he is back on the show, ladies and gentlemen, making his re-entry. The one and only Reverend Manning. Elon the monkey wore a hat, a cap into the sacred Oval Office. The late, great Ronald Reagan, it is reported, would not go into the Oval Office without having a jacket on.

That's how much he honored the work of Abraham Lincoln and all the other presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Kennedy and a bunch of others that came before him. Ronald Reagan wouldn't go into the Oval Office without a jacket on. And yet that Elon the monkey stood there in a black t-shirt and a black hat and wouldn't take the hat off while standing in the Oval Office. You take your hat off when you show respect. You take your hat off to be courteous.

You take your hat off to recognize a power greater than you. Well, Elon Musk kept his hat on because there ain't no power greater than him. Trump ain't greater than him. The Constitution ain't greater than him. And you saw that, and you know it. You saw it and you know it. Elon the monkey. That's good, that's good. It's good, I like it. That's a good one, Elon the monkey. Of course, referring to Doge, we are the Department of Podcast Efficiency here, also known as DOPE.

So I was listening to, well, there's a lot of stuff that took place. The CPAC had their annual fest. Oh yeah, yeah, there was a lot going on there. And I have some clips from it because I think the one thing I caught- Explain what CPAC is. CPAC's the Conservative Political Action Committee. But it's also run by, it's a- I think it's conference. I think it's action conference. I think CPAC is, I don't think it's committee. Well, people can look it up and then correct me. I'm looking it up.

Or you. Yes, conference. Conservative Political Action Conference, yes. Okay, so the big conference takes place once a year. It's been going on forever. It was out of the public eye for a long time because it was a bunch of- It was boring. It was boring. Yeah, Trump came along and livened things up. Exactly. But he also brought some of his cronies into livening things up. But I just want to play two clips from Tom- Tom Holman. Holman, yeah. These are very short.

And this is the kind of thing this guy does. How you doing? Look. How you doing? All right, right there. That should just be our universal greet. How you doing? Look. How you doing? Look. Let me start out by saying this. If I offend anybody today, I don't give a shit. Don't care. The media in the back room, I'm sure I'll be reading a lot of hip pieces on me tomorrow. I don't give a shit what you think about me.

I get asked all the time, does it bother you that there's a big part of this country that hates your guts? I don't care. I don't care. Because we got a job to do. You know, I wake up every day for the last four years pissed off because the Dwight administration took the most secure border in my lifetime and unsecured it on purpose, right? I worked for six presidents starting with Ronald Reagan. Every president I ever worked for- Hold on a second. How old is this guy?

He worked under Ronald Reagan? I don't think so. He's 63. Well, he probably worked under Ronald Reagan when he was in his 20s. Okay. Right? He's 63, he looks 80. I'm just saying what I, I don't know. Right? Right. I worked for six presidents starting with Ronald Reagan. Every president I ever worked for took steps to secure the border. Even Clinton Obama took steps to secure the border because they clearly understood you can't have national security without border security. They got it.

Joe Biden's the first president in the history of the nation who came into office and unsecured the border on purpose. So for four years, I wake up every day pissed off. That changed November 5th. Now I wake up every day excited because I worked for the greatest president of my lifetime, Donald J. Trump. When was- So they did a lot of that kind of thing. But I have the second Holman clip, which I think is, I don't know what the point of having him even talk was, just to go up there and grouse.

Police commissioner of Boston, you said you doubled down on not helping the law enforcement office of ICE. I'm coming to Boston. I'm bringing hell with me. I looked at the numbers this morning. I counted, I stopped counting at nine. Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts. But rather than honoring an ICE detainer, released them back into the street. You're not a police commissioner. Take that badge off your chest, put it in the desk drawer.

Because you became a politician, you forgot what it's like to be a cop. Oh my goodness. 84, Reagan was still in office? Yeah, he was in office until 88. Okay. So he was at INS as a border patrol agent. Okay. He started young. And you know what? He clearly doesn't give a shit. He's like, this is the typical profanity. Now we have, I'm going to play these quickies from Trump, because I think I've caught some new material.

Trump, they've taken a lot from his speech that he gave on all the different networks. They took a piece here and a piece there. Yeah, well, of course, that's what you do is snippety up. In fact, here's the typical example. This is Trump's CPAC summary on NPR. President Trump used a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference to tout his agenda one month into his second term in office.

Speaking to CPAC attendees, Trump said he wants something in return from Ukraine for the billions of dollars the U.S. spent helping the country defend itself against Russia. Europe gave it in the form of a loan. They get their money back. We gave it in the form of nothing. So I want them to give us something for all of the money that we put up. And I'm going to try and get the war settled. And I'm going to try and get all that death ended.

Russian state media say preparations are underway for a face to face meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin. Yeah. So, you know, it sounds like it was actually kind of a no, that's not true that Trump gave some pretty funny bits. He had some new material. OK, in fact, I think most of the speech was new material. I think he's working on some stuff. OK, so what's and I have a few of them. What are his bits? Well, here's one of them. He this one here, he kind of abruptly ended.

But this was his his bit on going after Rachel Maddow. And we have great confidence and they've lost their confidence. As I said, they really lost their confidence. I watched them. They're really screwed up. I watched this MSNBC, which is a threat to democracy. Actually, this stone cold thing. But there's stuttering. They're all screwed up. They're all mentally screwed up. They don't know what their ratings have gone down the tubes. I don't even talk about CNN. CNN sort of like that.

I don't know that they're pathetic, actually. But MSNBC was mean. Their ratings are absolutely down this Rachel Maddow. What does she have? She's got nothing, nothing. She took she took a sabbatical where she worked one day a week. They paid her a lot of money. She gets no ratings. I should go against her in the ratings because I'll tell you, she gets no rest. All she does is to talk about Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, all different subjects. Trump this Trump that.

But these people are really I mean, they lie. They shouldn't be allowed to lie every night. They are really a vehicle of the Democrat Party. Yeah. Anyway, then he drops it wasn't all that it wasn't all that funny. No, I know I'm getting to the funny one. OK, so now we have him with talking about Bill O'Reilly. OK, together we've achieved more in four weeks than most administrations achieve in four years. We made we made a lot of progress.

I heard O'Reilly last night say Donald Trump for the first four weeks is the greatest president ever in the history of our country. That was O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly is all right. You know, he said second was George Washington. I beat George Washington. I love beating George Washington. Thank you, Bill. OK, so that means he listens to Chris Cuomo show. Oh, because did O'Reilly say it on Cuomo? No, that only place I know that O 'Reilly shows up is on Cuomo. OK, got it.

So that's kind of interesting. And so there he goes off on what the one we expect is Joe Biden. And this is this I think is good. He could go with cameras on him, television, fake news on him, probably because he knows it wouldn't cover it badly. You know, they covered him as well as you can cover him. How the hell can you cover the guy? Well, but but he had this incredible ability. He could barely walk in the sand. Somebody thought he looked great in a bathing suit.

And he'd walk in the sand pulling a thing that weighed about six ounces. You know, those aluminum, see, aluminum is very good. You can a child. It's meant for children and very old people to lift, right? So he would put it down and he'd put it down and he'd fall into it and he'd immediately fall asleep in front of the media. I could never do that. That's the only thing. That's the only thing I could never do it. Now he was sleepy Joe, but he was crooked as hell. You know, there's no question.

It was a sleepy, crooked guy. Terrible, terrible president. He was the worst president in the history of our country. I don't care, I'll say it. Jimmy Carter passed away recently and he passed away a happy man. He was a happy man when he passed away because he said that it's not even close. Joe was the worst and believe me, I have to clean up the mess. I'm cleaning up the mess and it is a mess on the border with inflation. To go over every single thing he touched turned to shit.

Okay, every true. It's true. That's true. Now Franklin Graham's angry at me. You know that Franklin wrote me a letter. He said I love your speeches. I love them. I love them so much. But they'd be better if you would never use foul language. And I told him, I said, Franklin, you know, Franklin Graham's a great guy, by the way, does a great job. The son of the great Billy Graham, right? But I said to Franklin, you know, sometimes you need it for emphasis.

You know, based on your theory of how important the president is for culture, we're going to have toddlers walking around saying shit this and shit that. No, it's terrible. It's not my theory, by the way. It's a political science thesis that every political science course teaches in universities across the world. Well, I'm giving that the president is the moral authority. I'm giving you full credit. Yeah, I'm not going to take it. The president is moral authority.

And so when he starts cussing, which he does, everyone starts cussing. It's just like part of the thing. But is that maybe why you see all these news hosts doing it as well because of the president? It has to be. But they're not good at it. I mean, it's like, it's the F-bombs from the left that are, because I get all these TikTok clips. I try to, I don't have any today. I have one maybe. Dodge that bullet.

And so these poor women, they're just throwing out F-bombs left and right as though it's something cool. I'm not getting what the thinking is on this. It's really sounding like truckers and the worst kind of trucker. Even truckers don't cuss this much. I have a very short CPAC clip. Like I said, all this gold at Fort Knox, it's the public's gold. It's your gold. So I think you have a right to see it. Can I take a tour? Yeah, I think we should have a tour.

And then the president last night was like, I think he's in favor of it. That'd be cool. And then it should be like a live tour. Like you can see what's going on, open the door, like what's behind it. I think I'd watch that. You know what that reminds me of? Geraldo. Geraldo Rivera with Al Capone's vault. Because I think what's going to happen is they're going to open it. It's going to be there. The gold's going to be there. It's going to be there. And they won't be like, oh, that was bogus.

But for all we know, it's tungsten. Well, we've all forgotten the tungsten scandal. No, I haven't. I haven't. Could be. It could be tungsten. But we can, I guess weighing it doesn't make any difference. You've got to drill it. Yeah, you got to drill it, otherwise you can't tell what it is. I think it's a mistake. As a callback for people who don't know what we're talking about. There was a, I think this was about 10 years ago. There's a big scandal.

People were selling gold bars, but all they were chunks of tungsten coated in gold. I think it's more than 10 years ago. It was a while back. It was when you were a gold bug back in the day. I still am. I just don't have it anymore. Yeah, well, we won't need to get into that. But you'd be loaded. I'd be loaded. I'd be rolling in dough.

The idea was that people were buying gold bars because it was a big deal to do so, but a lot of them were scams because tungsten has pretty much the same weight as gold. So you coat it with gold and you got a gold bar when it's really tungsten. And I guess it was a lot of it that was showing up out of the blue all over the world. So take credit for the blurt. Take credit for the blurt. I'm taking credit for the blurt. I won't take credit for the cussing, but I'll take credit for the blurt.

You can take credit for the blurt. And the blurt is working. The blurt is paying off. And the first blurt was the Magaza blurt. We're going to own that. We're going to take it. We're going to take all of Gaza. We're going to own it. We'll take very good care of it. We're going to turn it into the Riviera. It's going to be great. And it is paying off in spades. The Arab summit in Riyadh is billed as an unofficial fraternal meeting.

Diplomatic sources say the main point on the agenda is how to counter Donald Trump's proposed plans for Gaza, which sparked global outrage. The U.S. president said the U.S. would take over Gaza, in his words, own it, and turn it into what he called the Riviera of the Middle East, and to achieve that, forcibly displace two million Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt. Diplomats from those countries are attending the Riyadh summit, along with the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

The Palestinian Authority has also been invited. Egypt has already begun formulating a plan for Gaza that would unfold over three to five years. It hasn't yet been published, but it's understood it would begin with debris removal, and eventually lead to the reconstruction of infrastructure, housing and services, as well as steps towards an independent Palestinian state.

The proposal could include $20 billion in funding from wealthy Arab states, but financing such a plan could be the biggest challenge. None of those states are going to be willing to put in, you know, finance and begin a reconstruction process unless the political process is in play. We can be sure that the conditions would be set around a political arrangement or a political governing structure that they can all agree to, and one that Israel accepts and one that the U.S. is fully behind.

Displaced people in Gaza have been returning to their homes, but they're finding mass destruction. The U.N. estimates rebuilding Gaza will cost more than $50 billion. So right down to the amount, right down to the need for political reform. And I'm glad you got this clip. I have another one which will lead you into your bonus clip. This blurt thing is interesting. And I don't know if...

Well, before you play the second clip, then let me just throw this interjection in, because I didn't get these clips. There was a PBS people went into Dearborn to talk to some Muslims about this, because the Muslim community in Michigan supported Trump in a big way. And so they went in and said, what about, you know, because they hated Biden and his policies in the Middle East. And so they talked about this. Well, he wants to get rid of all these Palestinians. He wants to do this.

He wants to get them riled up the way PBS would do. What did they say? They said, you know, yeah, that's what he said. But he also wants Canada to be the 51st state, which is obviously never going to happen. And the Muslims, they all agreed that, no, this is the way Trump operates. It's not a big deal. Why are you taking it so seriously? We're not.

It's an interesting template, because the news media can't resist going all in and saying how, and, you know, they, of course, they need that because there's no news anymore. It's just all opinion. Rachel Maddow's opinion, CNN, everything's a bit Fox, everything's opinion. So they, you know, so Fox can go, oh, we're just going to own it, we'll clean that right up. And then Rachel Maddow's head explodes and CNN pretends to be all intellectual about it.

But meanwhile, he's just that believable enough that the Egyptians, the Jordanians and the Saudis who go, you know, we probably should do something here because that guy's crazy. He just might. And, you know, from time to time, he's going to have to come through on stuff and, you know, and do something just to keep that fear alive. So here's the other blurt that was, well, it's been a constant blurt about give us all your minerals. We want all your minerals.

The minerals deal between the U.S. and Ukraine may be closer than ever. On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky indicated that his country was working on a draft agreement. Today, Ukrainian and U.S. teams are working on a draft agreement between our governments. This is an agreement that can add value to our relationship. And the main thing is to work out the details so we can work. I hope for a fair result.

U.S. President Donald Trump wants Ukraine to give U.S. companies access to its vast natural resources as compensation for the tens of billions of dollars of aid delivered during the war. In return, Ukraine is seeking security guarantees from the United States. Sources say that the two sides made significant progress during a visit to Ukraine this week by retired General Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Russia.

Although there is no concrete timeline on how long such a deal would last, those talks came just days after the U.S. President fired several barbs at his Ukrainian counterpart, including calling Zelensky a dictator and falsely blaming Ukraine for starting the war. Some have speculated that was a tactic to try and rattle the Ukrainians. And now Trump is more confident than ever of getting a deal done. I think we're pretty close. I think they want it and they feel good about it.

And it's significant. It's a big deal. But they want it. And it keeps us in that country. And they're very happy about it. Ukraine's soil holds some 5% of the world's mineral resources. The proposed partnership would give the United States access to deposits of critical minerals, including aluminum, gallium and titanium. You know, we're not going to get any money back.

We're just going to get exclusive access to it, which is what he wanted in the first place to shorten, you know, to cut off China's leverage. At least that's what it seems to me. And then we're going to give security guarantees in exchange. This will be, this is his new chit. So you want security? You're not going to get it from NATO. You get it from me. They still have, Zelensky's still a roadblock. In fact, this is what this clip is leading to the clip that you, the bonus clip.

Yeah. Now, before, before you play that, which is a, which is Marco Rubio telling one of the yeah, it was Harridge. Yeah. Was it Harridge? Um, that the Zelensky's a two-faced liar is what he basically says. But I was thinking about this. You have, they have this resource. They have these resources. They have the minerals that are important minerals. They have oil. We know about that. That's been discussed in the past. And they're the breadbasket of probably Africa and much of Europe.

But that deal was already done. Cargill already has it though. No, I'm just saying, this is the, I'm talking about the country itself. It has these resources. Yeah. And it has a nuclear power all over the place to power the play. This is like a gold mine of riches. And these, and the two bit mentality of the Ukrainian should just be a bunch of thieves and a crooked corrupt operate basically, you know, the penny anti-corruption. It's, it's an embarrassment. Well, but it's all, well, yes it is.

But the, because of the resources is why the corruption has always been so rampant. It's just, it's just, it's all two bits stuff because if, you know, if he really, you know, leveraged it, you know, and did your job, right. You'd be making tons of money every which way, but okay. Yeah, but it's historical. They, there wasn't, they didn't have the strong leader to shore it all up. And, you know, and everyone got hoodwinked into thinking, oh, okay. Minsk, we're good with Minsk.

And there was the Europeans, the EU who used the Minsk two agreement to arm up because they have their own agenda. And they're, if anything, I'd say the European union are the stupid ones. They should be looking at it and saying, you know, this is kind of what we need. And they had plenty of time to do that, but instead they want to go fight Russia. So here we have Rubio sitting down with Harwich discussing a meeting he and Vance had with Zelensky.

And this is very, I mean, I'm liking Rubio more and more as he does this stuff because he's, he is not, he just plays it so straight. He has an interesting way of biting his lower lip when he's done with a sentence. Have you seen that? Oh no, I'll have to look for it. He's biting his lips so he doesn't say anything off base. He's like, I finished a good sentence, stop. Okay. Okay. When president Trump posts that president Zelensky is a dictator without elections, what are you thinking?

I think president Trump is very upset at president Zelensky in some case and rightfully so. Look, number one, Joe Biden had frustrations with Zelensky. People shouldn't forget it. There are newspaper articles out there about how he cursed at him in a phone call because Zelensky, instead of saying, thank you for all your help, is immediately out there messaging what we're not doing or what he's not getting.

I think the second thing is, frankly, I was personally very upset because we had a conversation with president Zelensky, the vice president and I, the two, three of us, and we discussed this issue about the mineral rights. And we explained to them, look, we want to be a joint venture with you, not because we're trying to steal from your country, but because we think that's actually a security guarantee.

If we're your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to get paid back some of the money the taxpayers have given close to $200 billion. And it also, now we have a vested interest. He said some of the tax, some of the money, the taxpayer plus $200 billion. It was kind of, no, he said, he said it was 200 billion. I thought it was much, I thought it was 350 billion. Well, he thinks the numbers are all over the place on this. That's a problem. Yeah. Let's listen again.

Country, but because we think that's actually a security guarantee. If we're your partner in an important, which is exactly what you said one or two shows ago, you said Zelensky saying, we're not going to do that without security guarantees. So we don't have to be at a joint venture with you. If we're your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to get paid back some of the money the taxpayers have given close to $200 billion.

And it also, now we have a vested interest in the security of Ukraine. He said, sure, we can't sell you the whole country. we want to do this deal. It makes all the sense in the world. The only thing is I need to run it through my legislative process. They have to approve it. I read two days later that Zelensky's out there saying, I rejected the deal. I told him no way that we're not doing that. Well, that's not what happened in that meeting. So you start to get upset by somebody.

We're trying to help these guys. One of the points the president made in his messaging is not that we don't care about Ukraine, but Ukraine is on another continent. You know, it doesn't directly impact the daily lives of Americans. We care about it because it has implications for our allies and ultimately for the world. There should be some level of gratitude here about this.

And when you don't see it and you see him out there accusing the president of living in a world of disinformation, that's highly, very counterproductive. And I don't need to explain to you or anybody else, Donald Trump's not, President Trump's not the kind of person that's going to sit there and take that. He's very transparent. He's going to tell you exactly how he feels. And he sent a message that he's not going to get gamed here. He's willing to work on peace because he cares about Ukraine.

And he hopes Zelensky will be a partner in that. And not someone who's out there putting this sort of counter messaging to try to, you know, hustle us in that regard. That's not, that's not going to be productive here. I agree with you. I'm liking Rubio. The problem I have with him is, one, he, because I watched all 40 minutes of this interview with Katherine Harridge, and she's independent now. She's no longer with a news organization. She's on X, as far as I can tell.

And he never cracks a smile, never has a joke. And, and he's funny. I think he is. He can be very funny. He's made some good jokes. No, he was, when he was trying to be funny, when he ran against Trump the first time in 2016. The tiny hands thing. That was kind of funny. The tiny hands gag and some other stuff. And he was doing basically a standup routine. It was quite funny. We played a bunch of clips from it. It was, his timing was good. Everything was good.

He knows he has good stage presence. And then he got, of course, he lost big time. Bigly. Bigly. And he stopped doing it. He stopped trying to be funny. And all of a sudden he became very serious. And he's, you're right. He hasn't cracked a smile. I am happy. I have heard from a very reliable source that there is a team going into the state department outside of Doge to check on what they're doing, which is kind of interesting. It's not a Doge team. It's another team.

And I was happy to hear that because that's, you know, you don't hear Doge going into the state department. Haven't heard about it at all. And we know there's an intelligence agency in there. They've got their tentacles and everything. Every embassy is a CIA station. There's a lot going on in the state department. The techno experts, who said, do they get fired when Hillary Clinton left? Didn't she have 2000 techno experts? A lot of them. All kinds of stuff going on.

The internet in the suitcase. Yeah. I have two other shortish clips of Heritage with Rubio, which I thought were worthwhile. This is about Havana syndrome. You recall at embassies, people were getting zapped or we didn't know exactly what was happening with them. And what was the, what was the basic narrative about that? It was true. Then it wasn't true. It was like a microwave weapon. They were weaponizing and they were aiming it in the hotel rooms of American diplomats.

And whether it was true or not, they still had never been totally resolved. Well, here we go. I want to ask a question about Havana syndrome or AHIs, these debilitating neurological conditions. State Department personnel, intelligence, community, military, even families have directed energy weapons been used against U .S. government personnel. I do not believe in the conclusions that we've seen in the past.

And I think evidence in time will prove me correct that these things happened by accident, that these things were a result of mass hysteria or some preexisting conditions. Now, in some cases, maybe. But I have no doubt in my mind that something caused people to be suffering from these things and different posts around the world, not just limited to Havana. There's a lot of work still going on. I think we're going to learn a lot more about it over the next few years as more work goes into it.

But I've met some of these people. I've interacted with them for years and I can't explain every case. But I think there are most definitely cases where there is no logical explanation other than the fact that some external mechanism caused them to suffer brain injuries that in many cases look like they were hit over the head with a baseball bat or assaulted somewhere. We can't ignore that.

And in the meantime, what we have to ensure is that whether they were State Department personnel or working for some other agency, that those people are getting the treatment and the support that they need. And it's a top commitment of mine to make sure these are people we sent abroad to serve our country. They were harmed in the service of our country, and they deserve our ongoing support, not to be not being accused of things like mass hysteria or, you know, they're just...

It's government gaslighting. Well, I think it's outrageous. And I don't know what the intent was behind that. But ultimately, this State Department is going to be transparent with them. Anything we know, they will know. And in the meantime, we are going to assume the worst and we're going to treat them as if they were victims. No matter what, we're going to treat them as if they were people that were harmed. Okay. Well, Rubio's all over it.

And then just at the very end, it was just interesting because I'm sitting there like, wow, you know, this is Rubio with heritage. That's, you know, she's a networkless person, a networkless pixie. And she brought it up. Will you open up the State Department briefing room to independent journalists? Yes. We're here today. We're here to talk.

I was going to say, Secretary Rubio, you could have given this interview to any reporter, any major corporate outlet, but you chose an independent journalist who posts on X. Yeah. And I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. But here's my observation. We have to go where the people are. And so we need to communicate with people. We need to be able to... This is their State Department. It's not my State Department.

I'll be here for a number of years and then my job is done and I'll go back to being a private citizen. But this will always be their State Department. And we're making decisions every day and they deserve to hear from us. Where are people getting their news and information? That's where we need to be delivering our news and information. I still talk to them. I just went overseas. We had a bunch of people from different traditional outlets on our trip and we're not going to exclude them.

But we have to be able to communicate people where they're getting their news and information. What we can't allow to have happen is we can't allow our message to solely be provided through the filter of legacy traditional media outlets who's, sadly, I don't mean to hurt their... I'm not trying to be mean here, but the readership is down. The viewership is down. The ratings are down.

We have to take our message where people are getting their news and information and any sort of long form interviews where you're getting serious questions and can provide answers to nuanced issues, not little sound bites that they run during the cable news hour for news and entertainment purposes. So we'll engage everybody, but we'll most certainly see a greater emphasis on independent journalism because that's where people are getting their news and information. Yeah, there you go.

That's a smart move. I want to go to my new go -to for some analysis. It's crazy that it comes from the CBC. I played him on the last show, Andrew Rassoulis, former defense guy in Candanavia, and he had some good points about what the president said at CPAC and about Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump has once again signaled that he wants to end the war in Ukraine, but with a condition for Kiev. Earlier today, he spoke at a conservative gathering in Maryland.

Trump said he wants to recover the cost of American military aid sent to Ukraine by securing access to certain resources. Andrew, let's start on that point that Donald Trump was making in that speech rather defiantly, saying we want anything we can get, specifically zeroing in on those rare minerals. What's behind this? I mean, he had said he wants to achieve peace in Ukraine. He'd said that pretty much from the get -go.

But this week, he has been really forceful about getting President Zelensky to accept his terms. What do you think is behind all this? Well, it represents the major shift in Trump's foreign policy, particularly as we see it in Ukraine, which is not based on protecting the liberal rules-based international order, which the Biden administration has been doing. And it's not so much a defense of democracy versus autocracy. What Trump is doing across the board, he is advancing America's interests.

That is financial interests, security interests, but you have to understand it's transactional interests. And so he's saying, you know, Ukraine isn't that important for the United States. He said repeatedly, they're on the other side of the ocean. You know, we spend a lot of money and we want to get a bit of a financial payback. That's exactly the line he's taking.

And that is, of course, again, a major shift from the previous administration and from previous administrations that the United States have had more or less since 1945. It seems very logical because, of course, we've heard him say this over and over again. Years ago, he went to the World Economic Forum and said, no, no, no, patriots, our own country first. But this is, I mean, I'm just realizing that the elites of the world, from media to politicians, they're shocked. They're absolutely shocked.

He only cares about America. What? That's not how you're supposed to play. You're supposed to be for the rules based liberal world order. And they are shocked. But this is what I wanted to ask you. I mean, how rare is this? It's rare.

The aid that Ukraine received from the previous U.S. administration, specifically in ammunitions, in military aid that President Biden had promised and delivered to Ukrainians, under no circumstances did it seem like that came with a caveat that you're going to have to repay us in kind or in any other way. How rare is this in terms of American foreign policy? It's just crazy, I tell you. It's extremely rare.

And you have to really go back certainly to pre-World War II and sort of the isolationist period. And Trump himself sees America between the Civil War and World War I as a golden age with the economic tariffs and all that stuff. And America was very isolationist in that period. So it's America first, America in the Western Hemisphere, that's also very important, and basically motivated by enriching America's financial interests. What a crazy idea.

How could you ever think of doing something like that? I think it's really shaking these world leaders up a lot. They just can't believe that he doesn't want to play ball. And when he says, well, there's a whole ocean in between us and Ukraine, it's not such a big deal for us. And I have, if you want to hear him, I have a couple, I have a report by Richard Engel, our NBC resident spook. Oh, yeah. Oh, about the war, it was filled with Nat Pops and all kinds of beautiful things.

President Trump is pushing for American access to Ukraine's wealth of valuable minerals as part of a deal to end the war with Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, under intense pressure from the United States, is considering the proposal as President Trump's possible... Listen to the music. Oh, it's almost... That's not Richard Engel. No, no, he's coming up. This is the intro to Richard Engel. But the music, it's so demure, it's like, oh, who needs it? Oh, boy.

Approach to Zelensky raises concerns about the future of Ukraine and the terms of peace in the war Russia started three years ago. Russia started. NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel has our Sunday Focus. Three years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine. We were here as columns of Russian tanks streamed across the border. I just have to remind everybody who doesn't know what a Nat Pop is.

This is a television term used by the news producers where they just cut in bombs and explode or screaming ladies, dying children, anything to just get your emotions going. Capturing Ukrainian cities on their way to the capital, Kyiv. Russia is picking off Ukraine's military facilities one after another. But Ukrainian troops are fighting back. Putin said his goal was to overthrow President Zelensky, who saw his country's future with the United States in Europe instead of Russia.

Putin claimed Zelensky, who's Jewish, was actually a dangerous American-backed Nazi. Russia cannot feel safe, develop and exist with a constant threat emanating from the territory of modern Ukraine. I got so tired just from this first report. It's like, oh, man, it's like this. Putin's so bad. And Zelensky, who's Jewish, he couldn't be a Nazi. Oh, no. So it was a shock to Ukrainians when President Trump this week, adopting the role of peacemaker, blamed Zelensky for starting the war.

You should have never started it. You could have made a deal. And beyond rewriting history, Trump opened peace talks in Saudi Arabia with the Russian side. Ukraine wasn't invited. Russia occupies 20 percent of Ukraine's territory. I mean, the lies are amazing. Yeah. Rewriting history. Well, no, if you look at the history, it was kind of Ukraine saying they were going to get nuclear weapons in and be part of NATO that started it with our with our coup in 2014.

Yeah. Yeah. So it's no eclipse going around now. McCain over there taking movies of the video in the Maidan thing. Oh, yeah. Newland. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Don't stop. Stop rewriting history. Trump officials have suggested Putin may be allowed to keep it at a school in Harkiv built with USAID funding. President Trump. Oh, throw that little plug in. Oh, yeah. Teachers and staff wonder why Trump seems to be. This is a propaganda piece. Yes, it is.

But it's but it's so transparent and and almost over the top. It's almost as done as though it's like, let's overdo it. So people notice that this is a propaganda. Oh, no, no, no, no. This is working extremely well on people who are open to this type of messaging. Trump is horrible. I mean, he took away the USAID money from children, from children. I tell you, Ludmilla Ivanova is a math teacher. What do you make about the things that President Trump is saying and doing about Ukraine?

It is very sad because we feel we have lost a partner and a friend, and we hope that soon President Trump will change his position. She said a few miles away, the troops manning the front lines see ominous signs. Oh, man, you have two more pieces to this. You want to hear it or is it too much? Yeah, it's pretty, pretty tedious. I would play one more, see how it goes.

Out here in eastern Ukraine, the fighting is relentless with Russian drone and missile attacks coming almost constantly, especially when the weather is clear like today. But now Ukrainian troops say they have perhaps an even bigger problem. Wondering whether they still have support from Washington. Does it feel like decisions are being made about Ukraine without Ukraine's input? Does it feel like it? Yes, this is exactly the feeling we have, said Ivan, a commander of the 127th Brigade.

It does influence the mood. It's very demotivating. At a rehab clinic, some soldiers told us they think Ukraine is caught between a rock and a hard place and has few options. But Vladimir Chayka is a sergeant in the Storm Brigade. Some critics have said that President Trump is exploiting Ukraine, is taking advantage of its position right now in order to- Exploiting, exploiting Ukraine. How are we exploiting Ukraine? Extract resources. Between two evils, you have to pick the better one, he says.

If I have to choose between the United States and the possibility that Russia will take over our country, I pick the United States. False equivalency. I might as well play the last one because this kind of boils it all down to what Richard Engel is trying to communicate. Some Republicans, Richard, pushing back this week on President Trump's characterization of Zelensky as a dictator in Ukraine, as the aggressor in the war.

But what does his hostile stance mean for a potential deal to end the war? Well, it makes Ukrainians, as you saw in that package, very nervous. They think that Trump and Putin have some sort of special relationship that they are trying between the two of them to carve up Ukraine. And Ukrainians say that if there is a bad deal, if they are forced to accept a deal that leaves this country weak and unstable, it would only lead to more conflict in years to come.

They see right now the future of this country is being decided. The future map of Ukraine is being locked into place, at least for now. The borders are going to be potentially redrawn. And they're very skeptical, based on what they've seen so far, that President Trump is going to be an honest broker. And they worry much more that he's going to cut a favorable deal for Vladimir Putin, potentially forcing the Ukrainians to sign away natural resources.

But they say if they're in a weak position, it's bad for Ukraine. And long term, it's bad for Europe and also bad for the United States. Wow. Everything's bad. It's bad. It's all. And, you know, the thing that I'm working on a supercut, I just don't have enough good ones. This guy. No, it's Engel, man. I don't have enough good ones yet. But there's this ongoing messaging that I'm seeing from M5M. And the message is there's a growing backlash.

Voters are fed up with Doge and fed up with what Trump is doing. And they're pressuring Republican lawmakers. They're pressuring them. And, oh, there's a lot of pressure from people. I see no evidence of this. There is zero evidence of what you just said. I'm noticing it, too. I'm noticing on MSNBC and NBC, mostly, also a little ABC doing this. They're making these claims that all his numbers are down.

But Trump's numbers are going to even PBS will go that far, although they Brooks and Capehart will. Oh, you have a Brooks and Capehart. Well, this is if you if I'm going to bring this one, I'm going to it's going to probably have a follow up. But this is Brooks and Cape. This is the classic example of PBS's analysis. They bring Brooks and Cape this last Friday. They bring Brooks and Capehart to talk about what's going on with Ukraine and Trump. So let's start with Ukraine.

No one expected Donald Trump to handle global affairs like his predecessors, but he has fully adopted Russia's false propaganda on Ukraine. We didn't say playbook. What's wrong with the script? Rewrite that script. Tater falsely stating that it was Ukraine that started the war. This this is this is the literal rewriting of history that they're doing. This is an ongoing rewrite of history, falsely stating that Ukraine started the war. This is amazing.

Rhetorically turning against a democracy that was invaded in favor of the invader. What are the implications? Yeah, it's pretty revolutionary. I mean, I think first you can say goodbye to NATO and NATO is really built around Article five, the promise we make to each other that we will defend each other. And I don't think Trump is going to defend anybody else.

But I think the bigger story is a shift in values that American foreign policy and Western foreign policy has been built around democracy, promotion, human dignity, human rights. So we banded together to sort of promote those causes. Donald Trump doesn't see that world that way. He sees the world as a place where ruthless mafiosos get to do what they can. There's a famous line from the Peloponnesian Wars that strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.

And so I think in Donald Trump's world, there are three ruthless mafioso countries. Russia will have hegemony over its region. We will have hegemony over our region, and China will have hegemony over their region. And so anything that gets in the way of ruthless mafioso is being eliminated. And some of that is international alliances. But some of this is just the idea that you shouldn't interfere in other people's elections.

And some of it is the idea that you shouldn't be able to invade neighboring countries. And so all those rules are being rewritten by somebody who wants to turn all of global affairs into survival of the fittest. What about that? Are we on the precipice of the end of the alliance as we know it? There's nothing David said that I disagree with. There's nothing David said that I disagree with. There's nothing David said that I disagree with. So is this the idea of perspective?

So when we watch PBS NewsHour, we get some sort of indication that maybe we can get some understanding of what's going on. But no, we have two guys who agree with each other on everything they say, all anti-Trump. You got the one guy, the Capehart, the Prissy character, who just hates Trump because he's a big Kamala supporter. And you have David Brooks, who claims to have once been a conservative, and he hates Trump because he's always been wrong about him from the get-go.

And so we have two haters on here, and this supposedly gives the public perspective. Stop giving these people money. Why can't they find someone who can maybe describe what Trump is doing in some positive way or in any way other than, oh, he's just a mafioso. All he wants to do is push people around. Come on. You are tilting at windmills, my friend. I am. Play the Trump versus Zelensky, which is another PBS clip.

President Trump levied new shots against Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky today. First, he told a radio interviewer that he didn't think it's very important that Zelensky attend meetings aimed at bringing the war to an end. Then President Trump stepped up his criticism while speaking to a group of governors gathered at the White House. I've had very good talks with Putin, and I've had not such good talks with Ukraine. They don't have any cards, but they play it tough.

But we're not going to let this continue. This war is terrible. These latest comments follow a week of escalating tensions between Trump and Zelensky, which has seen the president refer to Zelensky as a dictator and falsely claim that Ukraine started the war. They keep doing that. Yeah, they falsely, falsely claimed. Yeah. That he started.

He mentioned in passing, there was a clip that you played earlier where he says if he hadn't started the war, in other words, he didn't go right to the negotiating table and he'd begun fighting in defense, we could say, which is fair. But it's not the same as this guy started the war. He never said that. In fact, a lot of stuff that's going on on PBS, both mostly PBS, by the way, is false accusations that they're saying stuff that didn't happen, didn't exist.

You can play this clip if you want to continue this kind of thinking. This is the Pentagon firings and certain kinds of BS in this report from PBS. President Trump's shakeup of Washington reached the Pentagon as he fired several top military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the leading the Navy. Last night, Mr. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said they were dismissing Air Force General CQ Brown as the country's senior military officer.

Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy. General James Slyfe, the vice chair of the Air Force, as well as the top lawyers for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. President has selected retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Cain to be the new Joint Chiefs chairman. That job requires Senate confirmation. Mr. Trump has spoken highly of Cain since meeting him in Iraq during his first term.

Eric Edelman has served in several senior positions in the State and Defense Departments under both Republican and Democratic presidents. He's now at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Mr. Edelman, how unusual is this? A new president coming in in his first month, getting rid of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a bunch of other leaders. It's crazy. It's unprecedented, John, as far as I'm aware. We've had presidents relieve other senior commanders of positions.

Of course, President Truman relieved General MacArthur during the Korean War. President Obama relieved General Stan McChrystal. But that was for cause. And in this instance, no cause has been given. So it's really unprecedented as far as I can see. Oh, hold on a second. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964, he just got in, walked in the office, immediately appointed William Westmoreland as chief of staff, fired the other guy. You're out, you're in.

As soon as Richard Nixon got in, immediately replaced Westmoreland with Creighton Abrams in 72, the minute he got in. Gerald Ford appointed William Wayland as chief of staff in 74, served until 76. George H.W. Bush, as soon as he got in, appointed General Marshall Thurman. This is bullcrap. And they're just playing this straight up because this guy comes on and says, oh, I don't think so. This is unprecedented as far as I know. And this is PBS playing this as news? Are you kidding me?

The difference here is President Trump fired them. He should have said, I've relieved them of duty. You see, it's a little kinder. I've relieved him of duty. That's what it should have been, relieved him of duty. These reports from PBS are pathetic. We're never going to make four more years at this rate, people. This is no good. I want to get back to this backlash, though, because I have a boots on the ground report.

Tonight, the Pentagon announcing it will eliminate the jobs of some 5,400 employees beginning next week, the latest and one of the deepest known cuts to any one federal department. A DOD statement saying the termination of as much as 8 percent of the civilian workforce is to, quote, produce efficiencies and refocus the department on the president's priorities.

A new Washington Post poll shows the president's early actions are unpopular, supported by just 43 percent of Americans, 57 percent of respondents telling the Post they believe the president has exceeded his authority. The president dismissing concerns about the cuts without providing evidence. No evidence. We've polled it. And people are thrilled. They can't even believe it's happening.

Earlier, the president speaking to a bipartisan gathering of governors at the White House, the president also butting heads with Maine's Democratic Governor Janet Mills over her state's refusal to comply with the president's executive order seeking to ban transgender women from women's sports, threatening the state's federal funding. You better comply because otherwise you're not getting any any federal funding for every state. Good. I'll see you in court. I look forward to that.

That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics. So just on the backlash. And by the way, there was like now there's a video going around of this governor in a drag show. Oh, really? Yeah. She's dancing and prancing on the stage in some sort of weird outfit. That's what you do. That's what you do as governor. So Tina and I were invited to the annual Lincoln Reagan dinner here in Fredericksburg Friday night.

Rick Green from the Patriot Academy invited us to go and sit at his table. He was emceeing the event. And so this is I, you know, I don't support any political party. I don't never belong to any political party. This was the Gillespie County Hill Country, Texas GOP. One hundred percent. And Chip Roy was there and he did a couple of minutes of of shtick saying he really was talking about his latest resolution to get us out of the UN. He did talk about that.

He talked about all of the different bills that are coming that are meant to put the executive orders into law. So he talked about that. Then we also had Ellen, Ellen Troxler, I think Troxler, she she was our our district, this district's representative. And she was she she did a lot of hey guys, you know, a little waffling. But so the keynote speaker was actually interesting. This young Latino kid, Abraham Enrique, and he talked about how how they got the Latino vote for Trump.

And, you know, because it was a Lincoln Reagan dinner, he referred to Reagan, I guess, said at one point he says Latinos are Republicans. They just don't know it yet. And his big joke of the evening was Republicans are Latinos. You just don't know it yet. The kid was funny. It's a good twist. Yeah, the kid was good, but we like Mexican food. But there was there was no pushback. No one was booing any of the things that were being discussed. You know, cheers for Doge. Everything's fantastic.

The thing that that was really disappointing is everything was Democrats are stupid. The liberals are insane. They're no good. Yeah, they're no good. I'm like you people this this is like that's not you know, at one point, this Enrique kid, he says, you know what Democrats don't do and people think they don't go to church. I'm like, dude, like they are just as unhinged as the Democrats. And I think they're making a big mistake by this rah rah rah. It's also great. It's all fantastic.

Spiking the ball. And then yes. And then the final speaker. This was a huge mistake. So he was like a politics nerd. He might he might be he's doing stuff in the Texas Senate. And he went on. He had 100 PowerPoint slides, you know, with graphs and pie charts. And he's telling everybody that. And this is true. I know that the the the Republicans in the Texas House at the Capitol, they are they're all teaming up with the Democrats just to get get on the right committees.

And they're not really doing any of the things that that you'd expect Republicans to do. And he was so boring that his message was lost. And there was a Trump. It's all great. And they're missing that their own state is in peril by, you know, I guess what you'd call rhinos. It was it was it was kind of disturbing and disappointing. It's like, no, just as you need to have a counterbalance, a smart counterbalance in our political system, which we don't have.

Democrat Party is all trans. You know, you can't just sit around going like, yeah, Trump took care of it. You're going to be disappointed in like 24 months. When because that's you know, this president, he really has like 100 days to get everything done, because then everyone's going to start thinking about midterms and all going to be running around trying to unseat each other. So, you know, this was not it was I was like, really, that's what it is. Disappointing.

Yeah. These kinds of things are always that way. Yeah, I've never been to one. So partisanship, it's just very dull. They did have good pulled pork for dinner. I'll have to say the pulled pork was amazing for Texas. Texas is not pulled pork country. It's a beef country. Yeah, it was good. It was good. Here's another. Let's see. Federal firings is from ABC tonight.

President Trump taking a victory lap, touting his federal firing spree to a crowd of supporters gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference. I've ended all of the so-called diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the entire federal government and the private sector and notified every single government DEI officer that their job has been deleted. They're gone. They're fired. You're fired. Get out. You're fired. And tonight, Elon Musk posing a new ultimatum to federal workers.

Explain what you've done or resign. Posting on X, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. Musk giving no details about the criteria or who will judge the responses. But polls show voters are concerned. A Washington Post Ipsos poll shows 53 percent of Americans disapprove of what Trump has done. Not doing it right.

This 57 percent said Trump has gone beyond his authority as president and only 34 percent approve of how Musk has handled his role. Republican lawmakers starting to feel the heat. Angry Americans across the country from Georgia to Kansas are pushing back. We are all freaking pissed off about this. You're going to hear it. And overnight, President Trump firing the nation. They literally have one. So Americans everywhere are there. Oh, they're pushing back. It's a real problem.

They have one soundbite. It's across the country from Georgia to Kansas are pushing back from Georgia to Kansas. Is that across the country? That's not across the country from Georgia to Kansas. It's like a like a four hour drive across the Bible Belt right through the buckle. But that's about it. Angry Americans across the country from Georgia to Kansas are pushing back. We are all freaking pissed off about this. You're going to hear it and feel it.

And overnight, President Trump firing the nation's top military leadership, ousting General CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's top military officer, alongside several other senior leaders. Trump aims to rid the military of leaders who support diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, as Brown and some of the others who were fired had done. The so a lot a lot of our producers work in government and I've received a lot of emails from people and they receive this.

Tell me the five things you've done. And the general consensus that I'm hearing is, first of all, funny enough, they feel their work life balance has improved now that they have to go back to the office. Ah, yes, I can see why I think that makes sense. That's your that's work. And then you, you know, you go and you go home as opposed to just being being being working the whole time and running back to your laptop. And this is a very typical business move.

I mean, I've I've fired people from my companies. I fired people who I was friends with. It's very difficult. But certainly if you're like, think new ideas was a service business and we lost the client and the team has to go if you can't replace it. You can't have a, you know, eight eight people dragging down on a slim margins as they were. It's very hard. Sucks.

And then, you know, when we had 700 people at one point and then, yeah, you say, OK, you know, we've been around for a year and a half now. Let's see what everyone's doing. So we understand and we'd say, you know, describe what you're doing. What have you done? But there was always a follow up. And it was how could we make you more productive? And I don't know if they're going to do that. And and everything I'm reading from people is, you know, our system suck. The middle management sucks.

We we're not empowered as a big one. We're not empowered. So I wonder where they're going to put the actual E in Doge into efficiency, because something has to change in the in the way things are done. Yes, I think not. You think that's not going to happen or you don't think it's necessary? Both. And because a lot of this is work, make work. Sure, sure. It's a giant welfare system to keep people employed and keep the economy running. A lot of these government jobs, it seems to me.

And having worked in the government, I said, you don't. OK, well, you definitely have that experience. Well, I'm going to lead you into another list of clips we have, as we know, and quite a number of Postal Service workers who listen to the No Agenda show. Mail carriers are big podcast listeners. Surprise, surprise. Well, they should be. They should be. They love listening to the podcast. They're not watching YouTube. No, they're listening to the podcast while they're running around.

People have been there for twenty five years or more. And now they're very worried about what President Trump is going to do with the post office and the United States Postal Service. And I see that you have a number of clips about this. I do. And the thing is, again, we're dealing with a I think a slanted reporting from PBS, incredibly inaccurate. There's they're they're promoting that, you know, this is all anti-Trump stuff.

And can we just say that the Postal Service was written up in the Constitution? It's not like I don't think it's something you can just get rid of. No, you can't. And it's also actually predates the Constitution. Does it? Oh, really? I didn't I didn't realize that to these clips. But yes, I think it was formed in seventeen twenty five. I'm if I'm not I'm not mistaken. Wow. And it was part of the system that was needed for it's a great idea to have this.

Well, it's also the only I mean, we're supposed to have true privacy where you can send anything to the mail. It's illegal to you. You have a lot of yes. And there's laws that allow us to bust criminals for all kinds of different things. Mail fraud. Yes. Yeah. It's a handy little thing. Yeah. What do they call it? Law enforcement benefits from the way it operates. Yes. So the thinking is, is they're trying to stick Trump with Trump with Trump.

He wants to look at it, but they're trying to they're trying to promote the idea. And there's no evidence. And I'll say to use that phrase, no evidence. It's going to be a show title one of these days. No evidence that he wants to privatize it. Right. But they're going to our mail carriers are have been completely inundated with PSYOP. And they are that's the number one thing they worry about is if he privatizes it, it's going to be too expensive. It's going to be no good.

It's going to be horrible. They're they're all freaked out about that one thing. Yes, because that's the one thing that the PBS and the mainstream media wants to stick on Trump, because they know to freak out people. And it's just a freak out mechanism. Let's just blame Trump. Currently, Trump's thinking about maybe incorporating the Postal Service into the Commerce Department and leaving it at that for what for a number of reasons. But the notion of privatizing is is bullcrap.

If you listen to the report, you can kind of pick up where they kind of imply that Trump wants to privatize it. Trump has never said this, but let's go with clip one. President Trump reportedly plans to fire the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service and place the independent agency under the control of the Commerce Department, a move that could be the. When when they say independent agency, what does that even mean? I don't know what it means and they don't explain it.

And an agency under the control of the Commerce Department, a move that could be the first step in privatizing a service. How can it be independent if it's under the control? Well, I think what they're doing is they're trying to compare it to USAID, that that was independent. It's all isn't everything an independent agency. This is all propaganda. This is propaganda. We'll start over. President Trump reportedly plans to fire the governing

board of the U.S. Postal Service and place the independent agency under the control of the Commerce Department, a move that could be the first step in privatizing a service established 250 years ago. The White House initially denied that an executive order to make that change is in the works. But late today, President Trump admitted that he's considering it. Jacob Bogage broke the story for The Washington Post. And he joins us now. Thanks for being with us. Hold on. Jacob Bogage?

Is he the progenitor of Bogativeness? Jason Bogus. Nice. Hey, great to hear from you, Jeff. Thanks for having me. So what are your sources telling you about what the administration is planning and what it could ultimately mean for the U.S. Postal Service? Well, step one here would be to place the Postal Service, take it out of independent status and embed it inside the Commerce Department. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was just sworn in today.

And we've reported over the course of months that he's been engaging with then-president-elect and now-president Trump about privatizing this agency. So taking it out of that independent status would be step one. And step two would be leadership changes. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced he plans to retire soon. And the board of governors can be fired for cause by the president. That could be another step.

Okay. So this report has already introduced the idea of privatization twice with no evidence. No evidence. Well, this will certainly lead to legal challenges. What have experts been telling you about the authority the president would have to dissolve the Postal Service leadership and then effectively move it to the Commerce Department? So the Postal Service has to have a board of governors.

These are bipartisan individuals appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, and then they together select or can remove the Postmaster General. There are powers that the Postal Service has on things like service, on things like rates and prices, on major investments that can only be made by the governors. So you have to have a board in place. And that's kind of what's complicating this for the White House a little bit.

How do you take these individuals who can only be removed for cause from an agency that by law is independent? You can't legally move it into the Commerce Department. How do you bring that under the control of the White House? You know, that's a legally dubious question. He sounds dubious. Okay. So it's a legally dubious question, and there's no evidence they're doing any of this.

In fact, the way they presented it earlier is there's no, you know, there was going to be an executive order and then there was not going to be. And then Trump says, well, I was thinking about it, maybe. This is really propaganda that we're listening to. Just to slam Trump. It took the media a couple of weeks to get on their feet. And now they're full bore. Full bore. Anything they can pick up on is just, oh man, you should hear that Midas Touch podcast.

You know, the one that has dethroned Joe Rogan. Yeah. Oh my God. It's 15 episodes a day of Trump sucks. That's seriously. Play this clip. Trump sucks. He's worried. So this is the WTF clip of the series. And there's just a real eye roller in here. Well, President Trump, as you well know, he's long mused about privatizing the Postal Service. And as you mentioned, the Commerce. Hold on. Stop. This is the third mention of privatized because Trump has long mused. Mused. What does this even mean?

He's long mused. Where's the evidence? Has he written a statement saying he wants to do this or he's just mused? I mean, I've mused about it. So what? What does mused actually mean? Oh, kind of think about it in a casual way. No, no. To become absorbed in thought. To think about something carefully and thoroughly. It's not what you said. Not casually. No, he's been thinking about this. And these people are familiar with the President's thinking. The Postal Service. Yeah, they're mind readers.

Mentioned the Commerce Secretary was sworn in today. And here's what the President had to say about USPS during that ceremony. Well, we want to have a post office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money. And we're thinking about doing that. And it'll be a form of a merger, but it'll remain the Postal Service. And I think it'll operate a lot better than it has been over the years. It's been just a tremendous loser for this country. Tremendous amounts of money are being lost.

It's undeniable that the Postal Service has been losing money. It had a lot to do with the way its pensions were organized. It's lost more than $9 billion in the most recent fiscal year. Does that strengthen the case for privatization? Does that $9 billion include the prefunding of the pensions? He didn't quite make that clear. Well, he kind of indicated it might. But yes, it obviously is why they lost so much money. How did that end? I'm sorry. That was it. How did that end?

It's lost more than $9 billion in the most recent fiscal year. Does that strengthen the case for privatization? Again, privatization. Privatization. So it's PBS and the media that are pounding the privatization thing as though it's a theme when it's not. It's not a theme. This is a creation. This is their creation. They may have actually pulled it off and make it privatized because of the way they're promoting it. But this is their promoting it. Nobody else is. All right.

Sorry. Well, President Trump, as you well know, he's long mused about privatizing the Postal Service. And as you mentioned, the Commerce Secretary was sworn in today. And here's what the president had to say about USPS during that ceremony. Well, we want to have a post office that works well. Wait a minute. No, this is clip four. This is clip four. Is it the same length? Let me see. Clip two. No. Clip three. No. Okay. Well, obviously, I failed to clip off the beginning of this one.

You're going to have to play it. I'll pick it up. That was a blunder. It was another one of my editing mistakes. I take full responsibility. People are pushing back on you, Dvorak. People are mad. They're pissed off at your editing skills. The Postal Service didn't have a profit motive. Its motive was to serve people all across the equal and reliable service. We changed that in 1970 for—it's a long story we don't need to get into right now.

But we changed that to be more of like a crown corporation or a government sponsored corporation. So what do we lose without an independent Postal Service? Well, this is an agency that belongs to all of us. It doesn't belong to the White House. Because it's independent, it has an obligation to serve all of us equally, reach everybody's address with the same service and the same pricing.

A privatized Postal Service or one in which mail delivery becomes political will not have those same motivations. Okay. Again, now they're just doing hypotheticals and then imagining what bad things are going to happen because of the privatization. Yeah. And there's postal union, of course, so they can rile those people up. This is all meant to rile people up. And it's working. It's working. All right. Now you've— And the last one is just a little gotcha in here.

I played this little bonus ending clip, which is like, wait a minute, let me think about this. To your point, in many cases in parts of the country, it's the only mail carrier, the only mail service. And e-commerce giants like Amazon rely on the Postal Service for those last mile deliveries. So how could that affect the mail and packages that Americans get? Okay. He said that in some parts of the country, the U.S. Postal Service is the only mail service.

Are you in some part of the country where there's a competitor? No, no. I've never seen a competitor. I think it's illegal. That's a good point. That's a good point. So, but they bring it up as, oh, in some parts of the country, the Postal Service is the only Postal Service. But FedEx won't deliver? I'll bet you they will. Well, it's beside the point. The only one that does Postal Service, the FedEx doesn't do Postal Service. You know, they do messaging.

It's basically an overflown messaging service. It's like a bike messenger, basically. Postal Service is Postal Service. There's no competition. So why would you say what he's just said that, oh, in some parts of the country, it's the only mail service? As if. This is a terrible operation, this PBS. It just gets worse by the minute. And it's slanted and propagandistic. And this reporting, they're part of the reason that everyone's all worked up about privatization.

They're the ones who are bringing it up. Nobody else is. There's some ex-account called, that was Doge underscore USPS. And it's all, you know, people have been following. It's not, I don't think it's an actual Doge account. It's probably PBS put that together. Yeah. But they're just trying to, and I think it's part of their methodologies to try to regain union support. Union, yeah, exactly. Get the unions all riled up.

There was a good, I didn't clip it, but Trump had a very good bit about why he picked the Labor Secretary woman, because she's a little left of center. He says, he says, the Labor Party's all supporting me. I had to throw him a bone. A woman, but he's a misogynist. I mean, look at what he's done. He's got women everywhere. They don't say misogynist much these days. He's also a racist. So he brought a whole bunch of token black people to the White House. And I jest, of course.

And he threw them a bone. The last administration tried to reduce all of American history to a single year, 1619. But under our administration, we honor the indispensable role black Americans have always played in the immortal cause of another date, 1776. We like 1770s. In the very first skirmish of the Revolutionary War at Lexington Green, an enslaved black man named Prince Estabrook, you know Prince Estabrook?

Yeah. Answered history's call and fought as the minute man alongside the other patriots of the very small Massachusetts town. Couldn't protect itself, but they did a good job. Prince was wounded in the early morning battle, becoming not only the first African American soldier to fight in the revolution, but among the very first Americans to spill their blood. One of the first in the nation to spill blood in that very, very tough time.

Soon, Estabrook joined the Continental Army and ultimately won his own freedom along with that of his fellow Americans. His legacy will endure and we're very proud to honor him today. It's a very important day in our country and we honor him. First person to spill blood happened to be Tim Estabrook. Today, I'm pleased to announce that we will be including the statue of Prince Estabrook in our new National Garden of American Heroes. We're going to be doing a Garden of American Heroes.

And now that I think of it, I didn't have, I must tell you, you know, sadly, most of them, I guess all of them are not with us any longer. I was going to put Tiger in the garden. He's talking to Tiger Woods. There was one interesting moment. And I mean, he handles this in a typical Trump fashion, where he's calling out people. Great business leaders are here with us. They have no idea why Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, was there at the- To get booed. Yes. Appreciate it very much.

We also have the head of Pfizer here. So I want to thank him, one of the great, great people, one of the great businessmen. Thank you, Albert. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now, do you think he's saying thank you just because he thinks that the microphones won't pick up on the booing? Or is he saying thank you for booing him? He smirked. He's saying thank you for booing him? No, I don't think he's saying thank you. I don't think he's that crass. I don't know, man. But he was smirking.

He thought it was funny that Bourla was getting booed. It was interesting. It was very interesting. It was a very, very funny moment. So Big Pharma is going nuts right now. There's report after report about measles, and we're all going to die in the bird flu. And, whoa, man, there's a new... What is this? A global concern grows for new pandemic after research team in China detects COVID-like virus in bats with the same potential to infect humans. It goes on and on and on.

Closer to home, the GLP-1 providers, Osempic, Wigovi, they are doing everything they can to make sure that you do not get your GLP-1 except in their approved... Overpriced package. Overpriced package, yes, which is... Look, it has a dial so you can never shoot up too much. And I had to get these two clips. This is from WGN in Chicago. I think it's the... Right after the morning news, it's the morning show. It's a coffee clutch.

And they bring in... I think she's called an injection doctor, which is even crazier. I swear to God. I think it's like injection doctor. And she's very well versed in what she's saying. She's not saying the drugs that you're buying on the black market. She's not saying that they are not good. She's saying you're doing it wrong and you don't have the expert supervision of the packaging that we have. And your provider who...

Of course, you could only have your provider can only give you the very expensive approved GLP-1 products. I'm against all of this. And she even throws in the side effects that you can get if you basically inject too much. That's what this is all about. But it's brought to you by this team who, of course, are ultimately being paid by pharmaceutical advertisements as don't get the black market stuff. Everyone is running towards the cheapest available versions of Ozempic and Manjaro.

But what are the dangers of getting these injectables online? Aesthetic nurse injector Neha Thengel joins us now. Nurse injector. I've never heard of someone like that. She's a nurse injector. A nurse injector. Manjaro, but what are the dangers of getting these injectables online? Aesthetic nurse injector Neha Thengel joins us now to break it all down. I saw an article recently of a big brother candidate or somebody who was on the show who almost died from getting black market Ozempic.

Yeah, she was on the UK Big Brother. She almost died from getting black market Ozempic. This is GLP-1 is not patented. It's I don't even think it's patentable. It's it's what does he call it? It's a one of those things called peptide. It's a peptide. So, you know, it's available. But yeah, it's black market getting black market Ozempic. Yeah, she was on the UK Big Brother. Yeah. And she said that she got this injectable on the black market.

She took quite a bit of it, more than her recommended dose. So she took more. She took too much of it. OK, so was it the black market stuff or that she took too much of it? Doesn't matter because it was on TV. It was on Big Brother in the UK. Perfect. She said she was puking. She was diarrhea. And at one point she had three bags, bags of vomit next to her. Oh, my goodness. Oh, no. And then here I just read another article. This 26 year old, she was a social media influencers.

You know how every company wants to use these social media influencers to get their name out. They gave her the medication for free. OK, she took five times her recommended dose. OK, well, then that was dumb. She took five times the recommended dose. OK, so it's not that it's not the stuff. It's the dosage, the dosage. She didn't know that. They told her to take point five. She took point five and ended up in the hospital puking. So she knew what they told her to do still. Apparently.

And she contacted them and their response was, well, nausea is a side effect of it. So, you know, good luck. And ended up taking five times her dose. Went back to the hospital with heart palpitations, had some liver, elevated liver enzymes. I mean, she could have really died. Right.

So to get these medications online and not knowing who you're going to go to, where like the sterility, the sterility of the drug and where it's being made and who you're getting it from is such a big, big issue out there. This went on for seven minutes. I only have another minute and a half. I won't I won't torture you too much, but it was just you're going to see a lot of this in so many ways in this relatable format. This was done on network TV. They discussed this situation.

What happened was the Ozempic people who also make Wegovy, same group, they finally got their supply chain down so they could start cranking it out again to the point where there's not a shortage of supposedly was a shortage. That's what allowed the FDA to approve the ability of these of these pharmaceutical or I'm sorry, these compounding pharmacies to make this stuff. And now they're in fact, way the reports all ended was and now we can put these guys out of business.

I imagine that's why they're so cheap because you don't know what's in it. No, because it should be cheap, right? Because it's a jip otherwise. What do you mean? You don't know what's in it. That's it's cheap. It's cheap. I imagine that's why they're so cheap because you don't know what's in it. People should be strung up. There's no reason for the news media to be this corrupt. Well, to be fair, this is my thing for today because everything you hear or every report we're playing is just bad.

It's bad information. This is so good. They're lying to us. It's so good that all time. Now you're a little bit more expensive. You know, I can get it on, you know, this a little bit more. It's like 60 bucks for one in 1200 for the other expensive. You know, I can get it on, you know, this website or this website for 50 bucks or a hundred bucks. And I say, you know, you're not paying for just a drug. You're paying for the expertise, the knowledge, the support.

You can go online and just ask for the medication and someone's going to give it to you. But how do you know you qualify for it? And how do you know what drugs are good for you and what medications and what side effects in a given week, probably anywhere from three to five messages I get, Hey, I have this vial. What do I pull the injections out to? Or, Hey, I'm having this side effects. What do you think I could do? And it's like, I can't really guide you because I'm not your medical provider.

You need to reach out to the company that you got the medication from, but there are just so many people that are looking for that bargain. And I, and Hey, look, I know times are tough. I'm for that bargain, but at what cost, looking for the segment, I all of a sudden found, you know, Facebook clickbait. I mean, there is just no way that you can get an injectable for $50. Come on. I scrolled through Instagram. There's no way you can get an injectable for $50. That's just not possible.

If not expensive, it's $50 is high. Facebook clickbait. Oh my gosh. It's just no way that you can get an injectable for $50. Come on. I scrolled through Instagram and no more than seven or eight different companies pop up. And yeah, I got on there once just to see what it was. And I went through the profile and they recommended three drugs they'd never heard of. Yeah. And I was like, lady, all the drugs I see on TV. I've never heard of. I can't remember the names. Recommended three drugs.

I've never heard of. Yeah. And I was like, Oh yeah, this is a bad idea. Well, you know, are the drugs coming from China or like Europe or, you know, some other drugs come from China or like Europe. That's literally where Ozempic comes from, from Europe. Is it from Norway? Uh, I guess one of the European drug makers. Yes. Oh, if it comes from Europe, you can't trust it. Let's see what it was. And I went through the profile and they recommended three drugs I'd never heard of. Yeah. Oh yeah.

This is a bad idea. Well, you know, are the drugs coming from China or like Europe or, you know, someplace like that? Are they being regulated? Um, and do you know if you're a candidate, if you don't even have like a meeting with a provider consultation, how do you know that you're okay? If you're 300 pounds, you need it.

But if you have an underlying thyroid issue or you have elevated liver enzymes or you really are a diabetic and have hypertension and things like that, like I know times are tough, but at what cost do you say I'm going to take the cheaper route and not go see a medical provider? I mean, I think isn't even Kim Kardashian marketing a GLP-1 drug now? Is that right? Yeah, I think so. Maybe Chloe. Oh, one of those. Probably Chloe. She looks like the type. She looks like the type.

Um, but there's a lot of, a lot of worry in the market about, uh, RFK Jr. He hasn't really, I guess Monday, tomorrow will be his first day already. He's issued two bombshell orders on vaccines because, you know, he's an anti-vaxxer. It has mainstream doctors terrified. He ordered, they're terrified. They ordered the CDC to scrub its digital wild to mild flu vaccine campaign. Uh, that was too, uh, so that's good. Yeah. That's what I would think.

He's changing the advisory committee, you know, from shills to maybe someone who has a crush. He cares. And then, and this is my favorite. Uh, when he was sworn in, uh, he had a little speech and I'll tell you what people have emailed me about. Actually, I think it's in this clip in case you didn't hear it. There was an interesting comment by RFK Jr. in a speech he made after being confirmed as secretary of health and human services.

This guy, this is, this is the kind of stuff I get emailed, but it's going around. It's, it's worthless. It's only 40 seconds. Here's the part I'm referring to. For 20 years, I've gotten up every morning on my knees and prayed that God would put me in a position where I can end the childhood chronic disease epidemic in this country. On August 23rd of last year, God sent me president Trump. We need a man on a white horse.

Kennedy's reference to Trump as a man on a white horse is rather interesting from a biblical perspective as the rider of the white horse is the first of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. He is also the antichrist. So Trump is the antichrist. I just wanted to say, I'm pretty sure that the rapture comes before the tribulation. So if, if Trump is the first of the four riders of the apocalypse, as long as I'm still doing the podcast, you have nothing to worry about.

If I get zapped away and I'm not here anymore, then you should worry. Until then, calm down, everybody. Calm down. Does that mean I get all the checks? You get all the, you also have to do all the production. I can do production. Yeah. I just don't like doing production. Sure. You're so great at editing. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, um, have you, you know, have you heard about the super pigs? The super pigs. Yes. The super pigs.

It's a, it's another plague from Canada. Blame Canada. Oh, I thought it was the, I thought it was the, okay. Man, there was like three or four ways I could have gone with that joke and I dropped the ball on all three. So. On the US Canadian border, there's an epic battle between man and beast going on. And it seems the beasts are winning. Large wild hogs are wreaking havoc on ranches and farmland on both sides of the border.

In tonight's In Depth, CBS's Adam Yamaguchi travels to Canada to track the so-called super pigs. Super pigs. We got super pigs. As the sun sets on the Canadian prairie, the search begins for one of North America's most destructive animals. These tracks are clearly quite fresh, right? And you can see them going in both directions. Professor Ryan Brook of the University of Saskatchewan has been tracking them for years. They're here for sure. No question. And like lots of them, not just two, three.

There's a lot of pigs. It's kind of mildly alarming. Brook is one of Canada's leading authorities on the so-called super pigs. He calls them an ecological train wreck. They're crossbreeds, wild boars deliberately bred with domestic pigs, big, smart, and prolific breeders. Their population now spreading out of control. Why is it so difficult to eradicate this problem? I think there's two challenges in Canada. One is their biology makes them very, very hard to get rid of.

They reproduce faster than you can shoot them. They will eat anything to survive with devastating consequences. You've eaten everything that's of value off of it. He's lost all this. You know, the problem is Canada needs more guns. We have an active tourism industry in Texas of shooting wild hogs, the super pigs. In fact, you can rent a helicopter. You and your buddies can go around flying, shooting up hogs. Shooting pigs, look at this guy. They'll give you a 50 Cal, whatever you want.

They are a soup. They're a horrible plague. They ruin everything. Oh, they're terrible product. We have them in Marin County. But they're good eating. Let's look at the positive side. No, I've heard that they're not good eating. No, I've heard nothing. But they were first, they first showed up in Marin County because somebody brought some real ones, some marcusans, because they were used to, they butchered when they're young. When they're old, I don't know what that's like.

But when they're young, they make a terrific bacon. You can have wild boar bacon. You can also have wild boar steaks. But wild boar bacon is just dynamite. If it's just dynamite, you can buy it. Whole Foods has it often. And it's yeah, no, they're delicious. In fact, it was the idea was to bring marcusan in for a couple of restaurants in the Bay Area that like to serve this wild boar. And then they escaped into Marin County and started breeding like nuts.

So now there's like 1000s of these stupid pigs all over the place. They breed real quick that they like every six weeks or something. They're popping out piglets. Yeah, they have so that's an issue. And so they haven't been able to control them. And in Marin County, everyone's goes, he goes like his guns. Yeah, you don't have exactly, you can have the same as the Canadians attitude about these things. And in Marin County, they're afraid. So the pigs are taken over. Super pigs.

Yeah, not just pigs. They are good. He can show me some evidence or not. I've had wild boar. I used to have Marcus on it. There's a place a restaurant in San Rafael called Maurice and Charles, which for a long time was the number one gourmet restaurant in Northern California. And they would serve these various pig dishes from these wild boar killer. Let me set you up. Have you heard about the pig problem in Canada? Come on, come on, throw one. You don't have one ready, at least one of them.

What one one clip? No one joke. Like you had all these jokes ready. And I said, no, I believe me. I dropped the ball. For some reason, I'm not on my game today. Choking. You could tell that ever since I had that one bad edit. Yeah, which then gave me grief about later in the show. I have been I have not been myself. No, but that's when you said that you would get all the checks and you would and you could do everything yourself. I didn't start with the right away. I'm dead.

You're the one that says you're going to leave the show by going floating up into the atmosphere out of the blue. I get raptured. And then you're like, all you can think is how about the checks? Well, that seems to be the most important thing. OK, on a more serious note, things are not going well with the pope. Well, it does seem that his condition has deteriorated today. The Vatican said that he had a prolonged respiratory crisis today in hospital that required a high flow of oxygen.

He also had a blood transfusion for a disorder that seemed to be related to anemia. Now, the doctors briefed the media yesterday for the first time since Pope Francis was admitted to hospital a week ago. And they said yesterday one of the biggest concerns is septus, which is a blood infection. And if he does get that kind of infection, it could affect his organs and ultimately cause his demise. So at the moment, a great deal of concern.

The crisis has been named by the Vatican as a crisis, and his condition has been considered critical. So a lot of millions, well, millions of Catholics are going to be watching on very anxiously at the pope's health. What is his outlook like? Well, the doctors who briefed the media yesterday said that he would have to stay in hospital at least another week now. He's already been in there for eight days. He's staying on the 10th floor of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. He has a private suite.

And we're getting updates in the morning and the evening. But there is a great deal of concern about the deterioration that we seem to have seen today. And tonight will be critical in terms of what happens next. Now, this, of course, is very bad news for the pope. At 88, there's talk of sepsis and double pneumonia. These are not good things at an old age. What it is good for is for the Academy Awards vote. And we never want to put anything past the entertainment industry.

The movie Conclave is up for a vote. And if you don't want to know what the movie is about, then don't listen. I'm going to spoil it. Do you know the plot? How are you going to give away the entire plotline? How are you going to spoil it? It's not possible. Yes, I'm going to give away the entire plotline. Okay, go. Okay. The pope dies right before they seal up, you know, to go talk and blow smoke out the chimney. A mystery cardinal shows up and he had the secret diocese of Kabul.

So all these scandals... Is this the Stanley Tucci character? I don't know who plays him. Scandals. The frontrunner for new pope falls from grace after the mystery guy gets in after some stirring speech. But then turns out the new guy, the mystery guy who shows up has an appendectomy. Turns out he also has ovaries. Only Hollywood could come up with this one. And then there's some Islamic terrorist plots and there's all kinds of... Oh, brother. Yeah, I can see what you're saying.

Spoil it by ruining the movie by telling us it stinks. I like the ovaries part. That's kind of like, whoa, all right, didn't see that one coming. That's very interesting. I'll probably watch it now because of that. Yeah, good. Give us a review when you're done. I think there's reports coming in on the pope are contradictory. There's reports this morning, oh, he's going to be fine. He's not critical. And they're always going to be dead tomorrow. So you don't know.

It seems to me that he's a goner. I think so, too. I think so, too. And that means we have to get back into our predictive modes. And that means you, mostly, as the guy with second sense about these things. I cannot make my prediction. You know, this is going to be it because you blow this one. Then I'm done. Then I'm toast. Then you might as well take over the show, take all the checks for yourself. Take the checks and let you go float up to the sky.

But there's more disappointments ahead, everybody. I saw your appearance at CPAC with Ben and with Ted Cruz. And one of the things that you alluded to, and this is something Donald Trump has talked about. He's talking to Pam Bondi. The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files.

That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies. So have you seen anything there? You said, oh, my gosh. Not yet. What? Yes. What? There's no, oh, my gosh, in the Epstein client list. What? No, didn't she say yes? No, no, no. That's not what she said. No, listen, listen. That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies.

So have you seen anything there? You said, oh, my gosh. Not yet. Not yet. Oh, not yet. No, there's no, oh, my gosh. She hasn't even looked at it, I'm sure. They're sitting on her desk. Bull crap. I can't believe she said, but she has the JFK file, the MLK files. All on the desk. And they got that. Do you know the JFK files is like a room full of documents? How could it be on her desk? Why? Why? I ask you. Well, my question to you. I'm just going to parray with a question.

Why are they on her desk? They have to be disclosed. That was the executive order. Did it say Pam Bondi gets to check it first? Is she in charge of redacting? She's ad libbing. Oh, well, disappointment. I, she should be saying, well, she should have at least said, well, you know, you never know. I can't wait. You know, it's on my desk. I haven't, I haven't gotten through all of it yet. But instead she says, no, I'm not. She shouldn't be going through any of it.

It's supposed to be released and released as means of release. Well, the Epstein list, was that in the executive order? I don't think so. And what is this list? Is it just a list of people he knows? Or does it have like five chicks, three chicks, adrenochrome? I mean, what is going to, what is in this list? Yeah. You're asking the wrong guy. I never got invited. You only went to that owl place. That's the only place you went. And that was, and that was a dud too. The owl.

Yeah. What was that place called again? The Bohemian Grove. Bohemian Grove. And you said it was a huge dud with a bunch of old farts. It was just, it wasn't what everyone says it is. It's just a drinking club as most things. You didn't get invited to the special party. You didn't get invited to the freak off. That's what happened. I guess not. I do have one, a Bohemian Grove story though. There's always just this. There we go. There's this story about the owl, this giant owl.

Yeah. That's was Gollum or whatever the hell. The effigy that they burned. It's a big giant owl. It's like a giant monster's owl. And this guy says, you want to go see the owl? I said, yeah, hell yeah. I want to see the owl. The owl is, there's nothing left. It's rotted. It's like a stump. And it's like, he says, there it is. I said, where is it? I said, that's what's left of it. This owl has been gone for 40 years. It's been just rotted away from the day they built it. And it's just a nothing.

And it's like, well, that's kind of disappointing. And that's not what Alex Jones is telling us. Wait, but there were no old guys walking around naked, burning up the owl? No, but I did learn something interesting. Ah, here we go. So I'm floating around with some guy. I got this flashlight. We're just roaming around at night. And there's all these crickets and birds and all the frogs, all this noise. And the guy says, stop, don't move. So you stop and you wait about 15 seconds.

All the noise stops. It's silent. And now take a few steps. Add to all, there's all the frogs and birds. It's piped in. No. Yeah, it was dynamite, by the way. I was thinking of doing it in my backyard. So there's motion sensors. So you're walking around at night. It's so interesting, you know, and there's chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp. And then you stop moving. Boom, silent. Then you move again. Ah, there it is. Chirp, chirp, chirp. It was, I thought it was a fabulous idea.

That is crazy. That was crazy. Huh. A little known fact, only on the No Agenda show, ladies and gentlemen. 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 no evidence. Say hello to my friend on the other end. The one, the only Mr. John C. Dvorak. And in the morning to you, Mr. Adam McRae. In the morning, ships, sea, blue, sun, and ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, dames and knights out there.

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But again, a lot of this shows up in the chapter art. Which Dreb Scott always diligently diligently puts together for us. And we chose a piece by Tante Neal. Which we have to be quick to point out. We did not choose it because she groused about the one before that. Yes, we have to mention that. You have to mention that. It was not my favorite, honestly. It was okay. It was the war of the words in the Russian disinformation space. I did like the font that she used.

And it was a nice rubble-ized image. There were a couple other ones that we looked at. And by the way, that brings... Where's Tante Neal on the leaderboard? Let me see. She's one of our Dutch masters. She is... Wow, where is she? Oh, that's all time. Let's see, rolling annual. She's number... She's third place on the rolling annual. Rolling six months, she's sixth. Rolling 90 days, she's sixth. But all time... Oh, she's also sixth place of all time. Okay. She's up there, man. She's important.

She's a very good artist. And she doesn't use AI, which is something that I like. As we look down the list, there were a lot of female pilots. Oh, by the way, turns out, as far as I understand, the pilot of the Canadian Air that landed hard and... A Delta. A Delta that landed hard and wound up upside down was a 26-year-old female pilot who... Now, it's not... In fact, it's quite normal for the first officer to land... She was first officer, so co-pilot.

Not abnormal for them to land the plane while the pilot does the radio. She had 1,500 hours, which is more than enough. She qualified, bad day. We still don't know if it was just a hard landing or if there was a mechanical failure. But it's kind of sad because now everyone's like, well, it was a female helicopter pilot who crashed into the CRJ. It was a female pilot who... This is bringing back the woman driver idea. There's one tree in the desert and she hits it.

And in both cases, there was a responsible... A sexist would say. Yes. There was a responsible pilot in command who is ultimately responsible for what happens, whether you're the instructor on a check ride or if you're the captain and you're allowing your co -pilot to land, it's still ultimately your responsibility. But I get all kinds of messages. You still think female pilots are as good as men? Well, yes. Meanwhile, of course, she was named and shamed. Of course. So she's going to be...

Oh, no. No, she's toast. She's scarred and it's unfair. I mean, most... It's unfair. I think so too. Yeah. Most... Nobody died. That's the key. That's what we call a good landing in aviation. If everybody walks away... She's having to be upside down, but still... Yeah. If everyone walks away... You got a story for life. Yeah. Well, she's probably scarred for life. Because yeah, they immediately... I'll bet she is. I feel bad.

Was this ever happened before this exact kind of scenario where the plane flips over? Jeez. Yeah. It was quite a classic. Well, we still don't know exactly what happened, but we'll know eventually. But we do know one thing. It was upside down. It was upside down. Yes. Let's see. There were a lot of Dogecam pieces of art. Dogecams on dogs. Dogecams on people. Dogecams on chicks. A lot of rented chickens. A lot of rented chickens. There was an on Gigi.

And I never met on Gigi, so I don't know if that was a true depiction by Darren O'Neill. But no one would understand that piece of art. No one would understand it. You kind of liked the chicken cam. The chicken taking a selfie, which baffled me. But I did like that piece. Yeah. Then there was lots of black popes. Little too early for the pope jokes, people. Little too early. Yeah, I'd say. It's like, we're not. We're not. Yeah, too soon. We're not going to do that.

So in general, a lot of AI slop. And then a very acceptable piece from Tantaniel. I didn't see much else. Ness Works. No, it was pretty lame. It was, yeah, it was light. Light on goodness, I would say. But you can only blame the show. If we don't come home with the goods. Yeah. And deliver some interesting storylines that people can develop art from. It's our fault, not theirs. Did we do anything for this show? Do you think that we... Not yet. But wait, the show isn't over yet.

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I think Johnny Walker green has a just delicious scotch flavor that is for the, for the price. There's no comparison for the price. Okay. By the way, my knight name will be Sir Tenty of the New East India Company. All right. Sir Tenty, as in certainty. Sir Tenty of the... Certainty. Certainty. Yes, sir. Another pun. Certainty. Yes. Thank you very much. We appreciate you. Piers Chidley. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I had to do the jobs, Karma. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

So we got Piers Chidley. I'm guessing Chidley, C-H-I-D-L -E-Y in Brighton East, Victoria, Australia. Chidley, probably. Chidley. I'd just guess. I'm going to stick with Chidley. Okay. He came with 526.36, which is, if that's American money, that's a lot of Australian dollars. ITM gentlemen, medium time listener, first time donating. So please de-douche me firstly. You've been de-douched. Been listening for about six months from Melbourne, Australia, and can't get enough. Had to get myself...

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No. East, uh, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. 200. No, Joe Cool was a notorious, uh... This is a period way back in the day when we were building cars from scratch. I had a Sterling. I built it. Wait a minute. You... Oh, stop. Here's a story I don't know. You built a car from scratch? Well, you buy the body from a, you know, fiberglass operation. These were called Sterlings. You can look them up. Yeah, they were kits, right? Yeah, a car kit.

And yeah, I had a Volkswagen mid-frame with a Porsche engine. I put a Porsche in it. You had one of the... These are awesome looking cars. Yeah, I had one for a couple years. It's like a Corvette that's been stepped on and elongated. It's smashed, yeah. Wow. It was fun to drive, too. Nice. So the problem was is that the taillights were never approved properly. Uh, so you had to get a different back end for the thing because of the, uh...

Because this guy, Joe Cool, who had bought one of these Sterlings, was driving around ditching cops and they finally caught up to him and they threw the book at him and then they threw the book at the car. So they impounded his car? Well, they took the car and they made it so everything that was on it was illegal, you know, because it was pretty, you know, you look at the car, it's obviously there's some issues with the legality of the thing. And so the taillights were the big sticking point.

So they had to swap out the taillights on all the cars. No thanks to Joe Cool, who, I don't know whatever happened to him, but that was... Did you complete the kit? Yeah, I had driven it for a couple years. And it says here the price of the kit was $2,100? Yeah, yeah. It's cheap. What happened to it? I sold it to some auto mechanic down in San Jose after I put in mothballs because there's a couple of features, just a couple of things that fell off. Like brakes didn't work. No, the brakes were...

No, the car worked fine. The thing, the hardest part was getting a Porsche engine onto the Volkswagen transmission and it took a... It was an experience in itself based on... It had all had to do with the flywheel. And so you had to get a flywheel from a fastback, some screwball Volkswagen. I finally got the right one and everybody was... It was unbelievable. I gave up on doing anything mechanical. You know what they should do?

They should do one of these kits where you just take a Tesla car engine and the chassis basically, and then you could build your own car on top of it. The guy who used to run BoardWatch Magazine has essentially started, has been doing this. Really? What you just described. Really? Well, there goes that idea. Another exit strategy ruined. So Curtis Cool in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania came in with $200. Halfway to knighthood with this $200. Keep up the Commodore going for a while longer.

I want a star and an anchor on my shoulder too. Commodore. Um, okay. Please call out my older brother, Doug is a douche bag. Tina's right. Tina's right. Tina. Tina. Tina, my wife. Is right. He says, he writes this down very emphatically that Tina's right. You guys could handle a few chickens. I think there's a thing going on at the household there. Yes, I believe so. I believe so. Yes. He says, she's right. That Tina, your wife, Tina is right. We got the message.

We have 12 chickens with two coops and they're pretty easy to care for. Sure. They care for, yeah. Get some meat rabbits instead if you don't want. I can just imagine the rabbit poop is cold fertilizer and can be put directly into a garden. I'm with you, Curtis. This is not a good idea. She will never hear this segment. I will cut it out. And $200. There she is, Linda Lou Patkin from Lakewood, Colorado. And she asked for jobs, karma, and she has changed the copy.

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Starmer-ish, which is, you know, the head prime minister of the UK who's a dick. Thanks for your entertaining. Wait, wait, wait. You can never go. You can't go to that wedding in the UK now because they're going to arrest you at the airport. I just said he's a dick. Yeah, you can't. Who knows that? You cannot say that. You can't. Thanks for your entertaining. Well, okay. I'm sorry. Too late. That doesn't count. Thanks for your entertaining and informative work. No jingles, no karma.

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Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. So there's a lot of news about privacy. And we were just talking about the UK and your friend, the prime minister over there, your buddy. As the UK had said to Apple, we have to be able to access everybody's stuff. You cannot encrypt it. And here it is. Apple scraps encryption security feature after order to create a backdoor for big brother Starmer to access British iPhone users' texts, audios, videos, and pictures.

Yes. Yes. They had this. So you have an end-to-end encryption feature on Apple that also goes into iCloud, which means you encrypt it and then it can't be decrypted on the iCloud. That's what they say. That is now no longer available to UK users of the iPhone product. So they are easy to buckle. In the Netherlands, looks like the Netherlands will be the first with a digital ID from the government. Yay. Yes. So you will have to authenticate for all kinds. Everything in the Netherlands is digital.

You will need this government digital ID in order to access any services with the government, which means, of course, it's just one small step away from, I don't know. Chipping. Well, no. To be authorized or authenticate yourself in order to use social media. Oh, and then take your money away. Social credit score. And well, yeah. I mean, you will be known. And this is apparently also there's a bill for this in the UK. But don't worry. You don't have to worry. Don't worry, people. Don't worry.

A new piece of legislation introduced last week. Where I say it's a new piece of legislation, it's a rehash of an old piece of legislation that the Tory government had attempted to push through, but didn't get it through in time before the general election. This is called the Data Brackets Use and Access Bill. And the scope of this is all encompassing. And the aspect of this today that I want to focus on is digital identity.

One type, this is going back a couple of years, one type of digital identity which could be developed under the trust framework is similar to a wallet, but created securely on your device. It lets you store various trusted pieces of information about yourself. We call these pieces of personal information attributes.

The really excellent thing that the government has now announced, and everybody will be extremely impressed by this, I have no doubt, is the Office for Digital Identity and Attributes. This has been launched in the last few days. This organization is all about enabling digital identities.

And they say in this blog post, to prove who you are across the economy today, you have to use a patchwork of paperwork from the government and the private sector, proving your age in the supermarket, opening a bank account, buying a house. These processes are complicated, time-consuming and expensive. There is a better way to check that someone is who they say they are. We call this digital identity.

Digital identity can make people's lives easier and unlock billions of pounds of economic growth. And they say in this blog, we're doing this without any form of government identity card. So don't worry, it's all absolutely voluntary. This system does not involve a centralized database, they say. Using a digital identity will be completely voluntary. You will be in control of your data and who it's shared with.

And they say that instead of a centralized database, you'll be able to choose from a range of digital identity and attribute providers based in the private and charity sectors. I think No Agenda should register to be an attribute provider. OK. I think that's a great idea. You know, already I'm getting emails from people saying, I want to move to the States. Will you vouch for me? See, I won't sponsor you, but yeah, I'll vouch for you. Sure. You're a good producer of the No Agenda show.

That's what I will say. You're a solid person. People are leaving the country. I can see why. I mean, and the fact that they say, don't worry, don't, and whenever the government says, don't worry, don't worry, you're probably in trouble. Now, there was one thing that, I don't know exactly where the $5,000 number came from, but President Trump is talking about the savings of Doge. Or as Kara Swisher likes to say, doggy. Which is exactly what Matt, she got that from Rachel Maddow.

She's the one who developed that joke. Yeah, but she has to keep saying doggy. That's what I call it. Doggy. That's what I call it. Doggy. That's what I call it. It's not even cute. It's dumb. Anyway. I meant that sarcastically. Yeah. He says 20%. What was he saying? 20% will go to pay off the debt. 60% will go towards the budget for next year. And 20%, he's going to give to Americans cash, a check, $5,000. Have you heard about this? Oh, yeah.

I think Musk is the one who introduced the idea to Trump who ran with it. I mean, can they even do that? He can't do that. This is another blurt. It's a blurt. Okay. All right. I get the check for five grand out of the blue. I'll be happy. According to New York Democrat Jasmine Crockett. Oh, yeah. What a dipshit she is. Now, President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Doge back to Americans as kind of a dividend. Would you support that?

Listen, he's just telling a lie. He's not the one that had anything to do with the $1,200 refunds that people had during the that was done by Democratic House and Democratic Senate. Right now, what they're going to do is say, hey, we want to give you a refund, but Congress won't let us because they already know that there's just no money for that. The only reason that those refunds came before was because we were living in different times.

This was a time in which hopefully we won't ever go through again. We had a once in a lifetime pandemic. The bad part is that I don't know if it's once in a lifetime because we know that Ebola, unfortunately, was detected right here in New York here recently.

And if we continue down this road of getting rid of scientists or deciding that we don't want to rely on experts as relates to what they're telling us to do, or we don't want to deal with vaccines and medicine in this country, then we may be facing not only our next pandemic, but our next two, three or four pandemics because of their incompetence. So, no, we are not in the business of giving out money. And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you. What? Okay, this woman. Five thousand.

I can do a lot for me. I do a lot from anybody. So she is like they're grooming her to be the next presidential candidate. They're really pushing her. She's got it. She has a machine behind her. Yeah. Huh? This is because she's a chatterbox and she can keep yakking away. I think they can mold her into something that's important. She's in total dipshit. You know, let's talk about Germany. They got the elections coming up. Their results are coming in today. It's taking place as we speak.

And it looks like, let me see. I have the latest here. I don't think we have a full count yet. According to the two parties, the two main parties, each lingering near the 5% market just barely crossed the threshold, razor thin margin. If the numbers holds a final outcome, Friedrich Merz will not be able to build a coalition. And the Alternative for Deutschland has doubled their amount of percentages and supposedly seats in the German parliament.

So that will be very interesting to see what happens. We really won't know until tomorrow, I guess. We're going to play these clips about the elections. And again, it's a public broadcasting propaganda. And let me guess, far right, extreme right, Nazi. There's a little of that, but it's more subtle in this case. They're talking about the dangers, of course, of the AFD.

But the other thing is they keep making the assertion that the Trump administration is supporting the AFD and it's counter to American interests and the Trump administration supporting them and blah, blah, blah. When in fact, Elon Musk is indeed supporting them. And then what JD Vance said at the Munich Security Conference, where he scolded the EU in general and Germany specifically about their freedom of speech issues.

He never said anything about the AFD, but they're making the implication that because he said that, that means he's supporting the AFD. In the German capital of Berlin today, a man was critically wounded in a knife attack at the city's Holocaust Memorial. And the suspected attacker was arrested hours later near the scene with blood on his hands. All this just two days before voters go to the polls in an election dominated by concerns about immigration.

The country is expected to reject the incumbent left-leaning Chancellor Olaf Schultz in favor of a center-right candidate followed closely by an anti-immigration party that has the backing of the Trump administration. Special Correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports now from Germany. Magdeburg in former East Germany. Two months have passed since the terror attack by a Saudi Arabian doctor who drove his car into a packed Christmas market, killing a nine-year-old boy, five women and injuring 300.

The tributes have diminished, but not the grief of El Capet. There have since been two more Islamist attacks in southern Germany that have claimed four lives and driven Magdeburg street food vendor Diana Daum to despair. One attack after another happens. How far does it have to go? The attacks have galvanized support for the anti -immigrant AFD, the Alternative for Germany party. Now is the time for our security, says leader Alice Weidel. Now is the time for a new beginning.

You know, this other guy, Mertz. Yeah, he's, uh, it looks like he and, uh, he's this, um, the Christian Democrats and the CSU. What does that stand for? The Christian Democrat Union. Okay, so they, they, it looks like they are claiming victory. They should win. And this Mertz guy who's, as I mentioned in the newsletter, and there's a photo of him compared to Mr. Peepers, a character from the 50s. He does look like Mr. Peepers, doesn't he? He looks just like him.

He's a wimpy guy, just total wimp. And he, but he speaks, his English is really good. Oh, okay. Do you have a clip of him speaking? No. Oh, great. I mean, there may be him speaking within these clips, but this is just a rundown of the election and the propaganda that somehow Trump is supporting the AFD when that's not true, but the PBS wants to push that narrative because they're far right, far right, far right, far right.

While the AFD has doubled its popularity since the last election, it's expected to come second, but barred from joining the next governing coalition. Barred. All the opinion polls suggest that the center -right Christian Democrats, the CDU, will win the election and lead Germany's next government. They've accused the outgoing left-leaning coalition of being soft on immigration. The CDU is promising to restore law and order and make the country safe again.

Unless there's a major upset, Germany's next chancellor will be Friedrich Merz, a pro-business lawyer. During a debate with Social Democrat rival Olaf Scholz, Merz warned of the consequences of failing to tackle migration and Germany's flagging economy. Then we will finally slide into right-wing populism, and I am standing here to avoid exactly that. I will only sign a coalition agreement that includes a turnaround on migration and a turnaround on the economy.

Scholz, the outgoing chancellor, also signaled his willingness to get tough on immigration. Perpetrators must be severely punished, and if they've committed such offenses and do not have German citizenship, then they must certainly expect that we will return them to their country of origin. I have big talk. Big talk. Big talk. Where were you years ago, dude? Yeah, dude. Dude. So, on with three.

Despite its popular support, the AFD is regarded as beyond the pale by all the mainstream parties, and they've agreed a so-called firewall to keep the far right out of office. But can Merz create a stable coalition government without the support of the AFD? Catherine Kluver-Ashbrook is a German-American political scientist. If that coalition hold is strong enough in terms of its majority, then he can absolutely push out and sideline the AFD.

Now, is that majority going to be stable enough for the AFD to not hit the coalition with a lot of obstructionism and make their life very hard? Those are what the numbers on Sunday will show. Right now, those numbers are very, very tight. Helped controversially by Elon Musk, who declared his support for the AFD when he interviewed Alice Weidel on X. Only AFD can save Germany. End of story. Yes, because you rightly said there is a difference of making a law and then enforcing it.

Then Vice President JD Vance entered the fray at the Munich security conference. What German democracy, what no democracy, American, German or European will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Vance's intervention played well in Magdeburg. We want to be heard, but we're not being listened to. The politicians up there do whatever they want.

They lie to us and serve only themselves instead of serving the people. They call themselves Democrats, but behave in a way that is far from democratic in my eyes, especially because they always refer to German history. This exclusion and marginalization, we've seen that before. And it must never happen again to anyone, not even to the AFD. So this Merck's guy is a former BlackRock board member. BlackRock. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of makes sense.

Looking at him, you know, like one of those guys. So the idea that you can hear it there, they at the beginning of the report, the PBS NewsHour claimed that Trump administration was supporting the AFD. And throughout the report, we have Musk, who is, but he's not the Trump administration. And J.D. Vance, who just talked about free speech, he's got nothing to do with it. So that was basically just another propagandistic lie on the part of PBS.

But can't they now say Trump's no good because he failed, he didn't get AFD to win? Yeah, that's what they'll do. Yeah. Was that the last clip? No, no, there's one more. Here we go. But there was outrage elsewhere. We respect the presidential elections and the congressional elections in the U.S. And we expect the U.S. to do the same here.

Whether it's the defense minister or the chancellor or the president, but also average people feel highly offended by the fact that somebody would attempt to officially meddle in the way that they perceive the functionality of their democracy. But the AFD's deputy leader, Beatrix von Stork, couldn't be happier. How important is the endorsement of the United States vice president?

I don't think it shifts numbers, but it shows to our enemies that they maybe should be a bit careful and that we have got strong allies. We have got strong connections towards the United States and towards Russia. In recent weeks, there have been large protests against Germany's lean to the right actor and musician Herbert Grönemeyer.

Our democracy is under fierce attack, be it from smear campaigns, disinformation, fake news trolls, or from enemies of democracy in the parties and in the media who do not just want to jeopardize our peaceful liberal coexistence, but destroy it. Yeah. There you go. There you go. Well, all right. Scrambling. Yeah. They really hate populists. They don't want to listen to the public. It's just sort of the global guys. The global. Dead end. What do we call those global guys?

You know, there's like the global guys. Those guys. I do want to call out the Daily Caller for stealing your line. Headline, Daily Caller. It appears Democrats have finally picked a hill to die on. That is, that's lifted right from you. Well, there you go. Democrat lawmakers. We get a lot of stuff lifted from this show, by the way. I'm sure they do. Yeah. And they say the Democrats are dying on the hill of trans. Yeah, they are.

Well, the way I'm seeing it is that they have one last shot because they're true believers. And people should, there's a good book by Eric Hoffer called The True Believers, required reading for anyone with an actual education. Or not. It's just required reading. And you're subscribed to such an extreme and you're sincere. That's the thing that's always overlooked by the right. The right thinks these people are insincere, but I don't.

They're sincere and they're going to give it one more go round, which takes them right through the midterms. Like, yeah, no, this is, we're going to stick with this because it's the right side of history and it's the way, because everyone should be trans. And we should, you know, love our trans people. And make people trans and introduce them to the ideology of trans. And then after the midterms, that's when the rebuke will take place where they get serious.

So they're going to lose the midterms. It seems to me the Democrats, which normally they wouldn't. Well, if they keep going at this pace. They're not going to stop. Why would they stop? I had, it was kind of funny. Because of James Carville lecturing on that guy. Let me see. No, the, that guy who I played the clip from earlier, the, yeah, Ken Martin. So he's the guy that's supposed to provide the direction for the party, right? He's the, he's the chair of the DNC. Isn't he supposed to?

The milquetoast. Yeah, milquetoast. What do we call him? I already forgot what we called him. I had a good name for him. Milquetoast Martin. There we go. Milquetoast Martin. Milquetoast Martin. Yeah, perfect. So here's another clip of him on Politics Girl, which is interesting. No one watches it, but it's an interesting podcast.

And I think the thing is, is that you were saying in the campaign for DNC chair, that one of your biggest concerns coming out of the 2024 election was America's perception of the two parties, right? That they had switched somehow. That people somehow think the Republicans are the party of the working class, and Democrats are the party of the elites, which of course, based on policy, couldn't be further from the truth. So what do we do about that?

Because the Republicans clearly have used their extraordinary messaging machine to paint the Democrats as the enemy. So how does the party then redefine itself under those constraints? Here you go. I mean, this is straight from the horse's mouth. We're going to find out exactly how they're going to do it. Define itself under those constraints.

Well, I think it's really important to realize, and I don't know when this happened, Lee, but our party started to message to smaller and smaller parts of our coalition, right? And while I think that worked to a certain degree, what we lost is the thing that connects all parts of our coalition, all of these disparate groups of folks, right? In Minnesota, I'll use an example.

I mean, what connects a corn farmer in southern Minnesota with a steel worker on the Iron Range with a new refugee in the Twin Cities? It's economics, right? It's kitchen table issues. It's a belief in the American dream. The belief that if you work hard, no matter where you're from, no matter where you live, no matter who you are or who you love, you should be able to actually achieve economic success and climb the economic ladder, build a better life for your family, right?

Yet so many people right now, and this has been happening for some years, so many people who are part of our coalition feel that they can't achieve that American dream, that there are obstacles in their way, that they're being forgotten and left behind, right? They're working their asses off.

They're working harder than they ever have before, and they don't feel seen or heard by a government, whether it's state and local government or the federal government, they don't feel seen or heard by politicians. But that doesn't sound like much of a strategy to me. But it does lead to a clip. Bingo, boom, shakalaka. This clip, this is the cult clip. This is, I got this off of Twitter, and I like to see the whole thing. You got it off the net. I got it off the net.

And they're discussing which party is a cult, and they talk about how the Democrat Party is a cult. And what he described kind of fits into what this woman's saying about being an ex -Democrat, a cult member, because they don't let you talk to them. They shut you down. Here we go. I think both sides are very tribal. Yeah. But in terms of cult, at this moment in time, I think the left is more cult-like. I was in it for 20 years.

What's known today as the woke left, but we used to call it social justice left, progressive left. Known by conservatives as woke. Right. But here's some of the characteristics that I think make it more cult-like than perhaps the conservative side. One is that if you had questions, you had to check your privilege, or there was always some line that they would use to get you to stop asking questions, which is sort of cult-like.

And then the other thing was, there was this encouragement to separate from people who didn't agree with you. And so I slowly over time whittled my world down to just people who were in the social justice left. And there was really, for people who left, which they did eventually, which was a long process, it's a bit like you become an apostate. You don't just leave or have different opinions. It's like once you leave, you can't come back. Oh man, this reminds me of a story.

I didn't hear this story firsthand. I heard it from Tina, who heard it from someone here at the women's group. One of the many women's groups, a lot of women's groups here, and I learned a lot from them. New, relatively new people moved from California to Texas. And they had a dinner party, and they had a big mansion, and so everyone's in there, and so it's a big to-do. There's all kinds of other details, which I'm going to leave out. I'll tell you later about those details.

And so at the table, the topic of the Dixie Chicks comes up. And I had to look it up. The Dixie Chicks said something disparaging about then -president H.W. Bush, W. And I had to look up what it was. It was kind of funny in hindsight, because they said on stage, we're ashamed that our president is from Texas. That was the entire line. And they got deplatformed. They had the number one song on the country charts, the number one album for three years.

They could not get their record played on country music stations. And they ultimately wound up changing their name to the Chicks, which I thought was kind of odd, you know. It's like Lady Antebellum just had to change her name to Lady A, because they're all so woke. And so the hostess says, what do you think of that for the Dixie Chicks? And someone said, well, I thought it was kind of ridiculous.

The hostess picks up her plate, slams it down on the table, and storms out and didn't come back for the rest of the party. What? Yeah. Completely unhinged. But what was she unhinged about? That they didn't agree that the Dixie Chicks were straight up heroes for saying they were embarrassed the president was from Texas. And that someone had the audacity in her home to say, well, no, it's kind of ridiculous, that whole thing. So this woman that stormed out was a Republican?

No, she's from California. Hello. See, I'm not getting the gist of this then. Because she didn't defend the Dixie Chicks as being righteous. Yes, then the hostess, who was clearly- And so the hostess in California thought that's because she should have. Yes, but she's in the Democrat cult, got so outraged that she lifted up her full plate of food and slammed it on the table and then stormed out. Wow. That's cult, man. That's cult behavior. Yeah, very much. I guess you had to be there.

Would have been better. I'd like to have been there. Well, I don't think we're going to get invited now. That ship may have sailed. A little interesting tidbit about Newsom's Inferno here in California. By the way, I think that battery plant is still igniting as we speak. No, it reignited. Yeah, that's why I said it reignited. The word still is not in the plot yet. I'm sorry. It reignited. It reignited. Well, there's some lessons to be learned about filling up your state with battery cars.

With its sun-drenched lifeguard towers, bronzed surfers, and bikini-clad volleyball players, Will Rogers State Beach is one of the most recognizable stretches of sand in the world. Thanks to the global cult classic Baywatch. But now the iconic beach is barely recognizable. Surrounded by the ruins of burned homes and palm trees, the parking lot is a sorting ground for hazardous waste from the wildfires. The beach babes have been replaced by Environmental Protection Agency crews in hazmat suits.

The decision to sort through hazardous waste along the coast has prompted protests. Sort the hazardous waste in its place. Sort the hazardous waste in its place. The EPA says there is no ideal spot and that speed is of the essence. Steve Kalinog is the EPA's incident commander for the L.A. fires. What about all those Teslas and electric cars that were incinerated? Where did they go? The lithium-ion batteries is a unique phenomenon in our modern day life.

When lithium-ion batteries are damaged, and in this case by high heat and flames, they have the potential for reigniting and exploding days, weeks, months after they've been impacted. So we have to treat them like unexploded ordnance, or as the military calls UXL. We have to process them so they can be transported safely to a recycling or disposal facility. Yeah, who knows where that facility is? It's over here, over here on Moss Point.

Throw it in here, no one's going to know, they'll think it's part of the old fire. Months later, it can reignite? Yeah, this stuff, this is bad, bad stuff. This is not a good product. Well, since you brought this up, here's the L.A. fire chief, the mayor fired her. That was funny. The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, dismissed the city's fire chief today over her handling of last month's deadly wildfires.

In a statement, Bass said she's removing Chief Kristin Crowley effective immediately, adding that 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning of the fires broke out were instead sent home on Chief Crowley's watch. The Palisades fire erupted in early January and went on to destroy or damage 8,000 homes and other structures. At least 12 people were killed.

Because they don't mention it as part of a back-and-forth because the fire chief blamed the mayor, and then the mayor went to Africa, and then meanwhile, the associate, whoever, the assistant fire chief murdered the other lesbian, murdered. What? She murdered her? She got murdered. I didn't hear about that. Oh yeah, she got murdered, and they think it may be the wife. No. She, the wife can't be found, at least as of a couple days ago. Did you hear that? Yeah, she got murdered, stabbed to death.

I didn't hear about that. In her own house. That's the big burly one, the one that says, ah, you know, if you're in it, far too bad. She got stabbed to death? Yeah, she's dead. Did you hear the so-called, I don't know if it was, actually, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, that call about her trip that, you know, that got leaked? You heard this from, I think this is from CJF, so that's O'Keefe. Did you hear this call? No, I don't think so. Listen to this.

Just in terms of my trip, just so you know, I'm missing two work days. That's it. And if President Biden extends me an invitation, I took it. And hopefully you can read in between the lines. But I would just appreciate, just, and it's hard for me to tell you this, but hold tight. You will understand soon. Ooh, creepy. I couldn't understand a word she said. Well, that's why I didn't clip it. She says, I'm going on this trip and President Biden, I'm only going to miss two work days.

President Biden extended an invitation to me and just hold on. You will find out in just a few days. Yeah, it's a lot of insinuation. Find out in a few days about what? Well, that was a few days before the fire, of course. So insinuating that she knew that there was going to be a fire. Yeah, that's O'Keefe, man. You know, I was like, I got props for O'Keefe. He's doing interesting stuff. But you just never know. So here is the, what I call the wow clip for the day. Oh, a wow clip.

We'll take a wow clip. Although this has been played up a little more than at the time this came out. This was a clip of another lawsuit against NBC that they're just whatever. This is the way it goes. NBC has settled a defamation suit filed by a Georgia gynecologist who had been falsely labeled a uterus collector. NPR's David Fulkenflik reports the segment aired on the shows of MSNBC.

The coverage at issue kicked off in September 2020 after advocacy groups presented a whistleblower complaint to federal authorities. The whistleblower was a former nurse at a facility run by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. She alleged the doctor had performed mass hysterectomies.

The presiding judge ruled in June that, quote, the undisputed evidence establishes that multiple NBC statements are false and found that the plaintiff, Dr. Mahendra Amin, had performed only two hysterectomies there. NBC was not protected by the fact it was relaying false claims by others, the judge noted. The announcement in court papers of the settlement follows a number of high profile settlements of cases by media companies, several involving President Trump. Give him a hysterectomy.

And it was if I understand the case, it wasn't so much about the the incorrect reporting was more about Rachel Maddow and others saying he was the uterus collector. I think that was part of it. That was malice. Yes, it's malice. What's the difference between malice and what's the what's the other term? I don't know. Well, yeah, you can sue slander. You got slander. You got a slander and libel. No, malice is an element. Slander and libel, one's in print, one's by saying something in public.

But the malice is meaning that you're doing it on purpose to defame. You're purposely defaming somebody with malice. That means malice. If you did it by accident, then that's different. Then the lawsuit's harder to throw at you. But if you're doing it because you're just a mean prick. So if she just reported straight up without her typical snarky editorial, that probably would not have been a strong lawsuit. That's kind of what I'm driving at. Yeah, I think that's probably true.

Yeah, she does her normal snarkiness. Don't be snarky, Rachel. But the thing is, it's a $30 million settlement that person gets, which is a nice payout. But that was Maddow's salary. So there's a spit in the bucket for NBC and Brian Roberts, the guy who's the CEO of Comcast, who really is behind all this, I might add. It sets a dangerous precedent because now, you know, she says something snarky. They should be suing and more suits should happen, I think.

Before we go into our break, I'd love to hear your Mangione clip. It's just an update on Mangione's. Here we go. Also in New York, Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appeared in court today for the first time since his arraignment on state murder and terror charges two months ago. His attorney said there were search and seizure issues during Mangione's arrest.

Outside the courthouse, she said a number of factors are complicating his right to a fair trial. He is being publicly treated as guilty and having the presumption of guilt, as opposed to the presumption of innocence, which is what he is entitled to. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He faces a separate federal case that could carry the death penalty. That's interesting because I got a text from the Zoomer in New York and she said, I'm boots on the ground, I'm boots on the ground.

And there were tons of people, free Luigi. They all had free Luigi masks on. They're all running around, people with free Luigi written on their bald heads. There was a lot of pro. Well organized. Yeah, pro Luigi stuff. Here's kind of a related clip. Tonight, as Luigi Mangione's murder case moves forward, reports that the Justice Department is now investigating UnitedHealth Group's billing practices.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the new civil probe is looking into allegations the company profited off false diagnoses. Last summer, the journal reported UnitedHealth added diagnoses to patient records for conditions they weren't treated for, triggering an extra $8.7 billion in payouts to insurers. News of a DOJ investigation sending UnitedHealth stocks plunging 7% yesterday, a $30 billion loss in market value. The company calling reports of fraud misinformation.

And as for that federal investigation into UnitedHealth Group tonight, the DOJ declining to comment. Yeah, yeah, I think they're going down on that. I think so too. This whole thing is going to implode. And Kennedy's and Bondi together are going to make life miserable for a lot of these operations, which are scammers. Yes. And by the way, I'd love to have a free Luigi hoodie. I finally got my, I got a bunch of people finally chimed in and I'm getting me myself some Ohio State gear.

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And I dropped Adam's name in order to score an interview with Lara Logan at CPAC yesterday. I'm so proud of myself. Hello, Adam and John. This is Paulo. Scott Horton sent me. And this is Sir William of West Kentucky. Don't forget to wax your ceiling. This is Roundy. I had nothing to do with that puppet. Now I got to check Edgar. So Roundy gets himself on this thing twice? Yeah, as Edgar and as Roundy. One as a puppet and one as himself? Now I have to go see what he did with Lara.

Lara Logan, she hasn't yet a new podcast, John. She's got a new podcast. It's Going Rogue with Lara Logan. Available on YouTube and Rumble. Yes. So it was Lara Logan. I thought I heard her say Laura Loomer. But no, no, I said Lara Logan. And he dropped my name. So she'd be like, oh, yeah, I know him. He's my neighbor, Adam Carolla. Anyway, meetups. She's actually, wait, did I tell you that story? No, we were at the opening of some bar here on Main Street.

The White Elephant, I think, is what it's called. And she's there and she's my neighbor. And she said, and she's introduced me to Adam Carolla. Hey, I want to introduce you to Adam Carolla. And I'm like, oh, brother. No. Yeah. She felt bad about it because someone corrected her. She felt bad about it after someone corrected her? Well, yeah. Shouldn't she have caught herself? No. No. Oh, my God. It's a common mistake. It happens. What? It happens more often.

I mean, how many people used to say, hey, man, I love your dad's work? Referring to Tim Curry, the actor. That's kind of died off. Yeah, that's died off with the years. Yeah, I used to get a lot of that. Today, the Orlando Yoga and Lunch Meetup. It's actually underway at Great Southern Box Company. The yoga is optional. It's in Orlando, Florida. But of course, it's organized by the very entertaining Dame Meowters. And so I expect a good meetup report from her.

The Indie No Agenda 33 Days of DJT Huzzah. Also underway as we speak in Indianapolis at the Dugout Bar. They're always good for a fantastic report. It's a big group. Over 100 people usually show up. On Thursday, our next show day, the North Georgia Monthly Meetup. Six o'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia. And that's what's coming up in the near future. We do have San Francisco, California just at the end of the month on the 28th.

And many more actually to be found all around the globe, including the Netherlands, Osaka, Japan, Culemborg. Also in the Netherlands, Tilburg. Wow, the Netherlands are going crazy, man. And also Wisconsin and New Jersey. Go to noagendameetups.com. That's where you can find an entire beautiful calendar. It's a fantastic website with lots of features. You can send people RSVPs, replies, updates, all kinds of things. Thank you very much to Sir Daniel for providing that very valuable website.

noagendameetups.com. If you can't find anything on there near you, you should just start one yourself. It's easy, and it's always a party. It's like a party. Yeah, baby, always a party. Tim Curry, 78. Nah, he's too young. Too young to be my dad. Um, I have, uh, it's been quite the struggle. He could have had a kid when he was 18. Yeah. Yeah, possible. But then I wouldn't be working. I'd be rich. Living off daddy's teats would have been great. Instead of just podcasting.

Um, it's been a struggle to keep up with your end of show isos. You have had so many good ones. So I'm gonna, I have three, you have three. It's time to determine which iso we will stick at the end of the show, and I'm gonna go first. Elon the monkey! No, I guess not. I like it as a clip. Yeah. But I don't, you know, it's in the show. I don't think. You're fired! No. No. How about this? This reveals a perverted mind. That's actually pretty decent. Not bad. Not bad. That's not great.

It's not bad. Let's try. I'll start with a maze. That was a maze balls. Oh man. Already you've knocked my clip off the board. Here we go with crazy. It's crazy. No, it's not. I don't like the. You know what that was? No. Jon Stewart and AOC. Yeah. No, no. Let's try top that. Try and top that for a killer show. That was a maze balls. I think a maze balls. Try and top that for a killer show. Hold the top that one because. That was a maze balls. That's just too good. Where did you get that?

That came from a book. I can't think of which one. These books. People start looking at books and get me some clips. I need some end of show isos. And now as always time for Jon's tip of the day. Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCD. And sometimes Adam. Created by David Letty. So this tip comes from the last show we did. Where I had to move my gear over to another machine. And you went on and on. How great I sounded. Yes, you did. You actually sounded great.

Well, then after the show was over and I moved stuff around. I noticed that as great as I sounded. I was actually coming in from South America on a VPN. Oh, really? Yeah, that's what I said. That's interesting. So I want to recommend a VPN. The one I use. Okay. The one I use was I've done enough research on VPNs. I don't like the fact that this VPN exists in the United States. Because it could be a spook operation. But I'm not sure. But it does a really good job.

But it does a fabulous job with bandwidth. You send out a fast signal. Megabit or gigabit. I have gigabits material here. Goes out and comes back faster than you'd imagine. Last show we did came in from South America. So I had to. I'm shipping my voice to South America. It's doing a turnaround and coming back into Texas. And it sounded great. As Adam said. So this. So this product is private internet access. And this will be the VPN I recommend. Yeah, it's PIA.

Just one letter different from you know who. PIA. So yes, from CIA. So that's probably you don't know. But it's good. Only use it for your podcast, people. Just use it for the podcast. If you're doing a podcast with me, it's perfect. So the VPN comes in handy for any kind of illicit activities. Yes, which you don't. It also prevents you from getting certain kinds of diseases off the net. It doesn't prevent you from getting various malware from what I can tell.

But it does a good job of keeping you isolated. And poison pen letters. Perfect idea to have one. Don't want to get in trouble. And it's a good product. And it works well. And you and they have nodes all over the world and all over the United States. If you have to stay in the country. You want to watch some videos that are that are that are. You have to be part of that country. You have to be in the country to watch the video. This is when we gather news. We need to do this once in a while.

You put a VPN up, put yourself in the UK, and you can get stuff that you might not be able to get over here. And what is the cost of said products? Ah, it's pretty cheap. It's like 10, 10 or 12, 15 bucks a month, something like that. Because I got the you know, Christina's in this reality show in Holland. Did I tell you that? Yeah, you told us a couple of times. Yeah. So I, I wanted to watch. And it's so crazy that it streams on a thing called Videoland, which is an endemol service.

And so she gave me her login. I'm like, okay, I'll go get a VPN. And I got the ProtonMail VPN. Those guys are pretty reliable, right? And they've got, I would, I would go with that. They got tons of servers in the Netherlands. And so I hook it up to a Netherlands server. And right away, the Videoland says, no, that video is not available in your country. How does it know? I tried all the different VPN servers in Holland.

I mean, I guess they must know that that, I mean, and by the way, There is, there is a blacklist that floats around. I've found there's some of this PIA stuff sometimes hits one of these lists, depending on which, which nodes you're coming in from. And you have to be aware of that. And so you have to try a different, different provider. Well, I'm going to try PIA. The crazy thing is I would pay for it if they just let me, but no, no, you're not in Holland. So you can't pay for it. Is that crazy?

Or are these people insane? Yeah, they're insane. Exactly. Not insane as John's tip of the day. Find it at tipoftheday.net. And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Brunetti. That's right. Also, noagendafund.com, which has all kinds of other groovy things that we do, such as our, our book list, our movies list. And find that at noagendafund.com. Of course, tipoftheday.net for all of those tips of the day, which is a fan favorite.

We are going to shut down the broadcast for today, but we will return on Thursday to bring you the latest media deconstruction. I'm sure there will be a plenty. Probably from some stuff from, I don't know, EU, NATO, Ukraine, Deutschland. The usual suspects. The usual suspects, yes. But we love doing it for you and keep those, keep those far right. Coming up next on the No Agenda stream, you can just keep listening if you're in trollroom.io. It's a brand new value for value music show.

It's the Mountain Music Happy Hour. So check that out. And we'll be back on Thursday. End of show mixes. Only two. I had to cut one out. We've got Sir Michael Anthony with the Aunt Gigi Psy mix and David Kekta. Both perfect end of show mixes. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And I'm from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain. I'm John C. Dvorak. Remember us at noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, hui hui, and such.

I just filed my paperwork at the courthouse and you can see right here the date of separation. It's just super cool. I'm not just doing this because of the action of booing. I'm doing this because of everything that it represents in our relationship. I have loved Taylor Allison Swift since I was 12 years old. That's not a man. That's a boy. And when you see that, you can't really unsee it. Get an MRI. Get a 360 MRI of your head.

Have you ever noticed how Elon Musk has a resting, rich, asshole face? Get a 360 MRI of your head. HIV is important. She raised her asshole face. We're learning now about mitochondria and viral impact and brain fog and the changes in our neurons and the cells that nourish our neurons that really allow us to think and move. That was amazeballs.