1745 - "Old Crone"

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Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak It's Sunday, March 9th, 2025 This is your award-winning Cuban Nation Media Assassination Episode 1745 This is no agenda Singing for Science And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country Here in FEMA Region Number 6 In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where we've noticed They're bombing Ukraine The Russians are bombing Ukraine And John C. Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill In the morning

Yes, they're bombing Ukraine And, more importantly It's that time of year again, John Oh, okay It's Ford Truck Month Ford Truck...

Oh, I thought it was Toyota-thon No, it's Ford Truck Month Every single podcast I listen to Except for ours, of course They all interrupt three times during the show And if it's not the wellness company It's Ford Truck Month I don't believe I just don't believe that the people who listen to Pivot Buy trucks They're not Ford truck drivers Those people that listen to Pivot Subaru, maybe Yeah, that is... When did that become, like, the lesbian car? That was...

Did we play a clip of the guy who explained it? Oh, I'm trying to think if we did Was it a marketing thing? It was a marketing guy The guy said, you know He just had this sense that there's some woman's thing that was going on He said, you know, I think if we push the car into this direction It would be a big hit I'm looking, I can't find it I have to revisit this marketing trick But yeah, it all of a sudden became the lesbian car Is it still successful, though? Is the Subaru still a big seller?

Is it still a thing? Oh, yeah, they do very well It's a good car The thing that makes the car... It's, like, got the safety features of a Volvo So they're very... It's a good car to drive A good family car That, for me, is the quintessential lesbian car The Volvo Come on, obviously It's up there Yeah, I had a Volvo One of my first cars was a Volvo I told you the Volvo... I took a tour of the factory In Sweden?

Yeah Oh, do tell I did not know about this Yeah, it was great Because they also gave us a tour on the track They let us race around on the track Wow Oh, you'd be surprised This is when I first drove those new diesels The ones that turned out to be, like, you know Kind of sketchy in terms of the way they polluted Was that the... I thought that was the Volkswagen, wasn't it?

The Volkswagen Yeah, I drove... I know, the Volkswagen had the reputation But this is the same product Because these things went... This diesel... Because I've driven diesels A diesel that goes like a bat out of hell Something's up I remember... So my first car... No, my...

Yes, my first car was the Volvo 142 Which was the size of a tank with a lawnmower engine And I was always jealous Because a buddy of mine had the 144 with the overdrive feature It had a little button on the top And it was overdrive... Whatever that meant But then later As a payoff Whatever that meant I don't know what that means Later, as a payoff... It has to do with sports ball No No, later as a... It's a guy's thing Yeah Later as a payoff for... Kind of like one of those old...

You know, the black musicians in rock'n 'roll in the 50s They weren't allowed to pay me to drink milk on TV So they gave me a car instead It's a long story It has to do with commercial interests on public broadcast And they gave me a Volvo 480 ES Have you ever seen that car?

No, I can look it up Yeah, you should take a look It had flip-up lights It's not that cute little sportsy looking thing Yeah, yeah Well, I don't know if it was cute looking The front end was kind of cute looking It was sportsy But the thing was There was something... Because it was one of the first ones in Europe And I remember... Because I was a smoker then, of course It was Volvo, what? 480? 480 ES EF? ES That's Eco Sierra Oh, yes And there was something...

They had treated the steering wheel and the interior With some kind of new plastic And if you...

And so if you were driving And if you for any reason Put your fingers near your mouth Which you would do as a smoker It was like this acidic burn That would just go into your mouth And you couldn't get rid of it It was a poisonous vehicle, I tell you Maybe I see it, yeah That's cute Anyway, enough about cars Because it's Ford Truck Month And also It's time for a whiplash A whiplash in trade policy Here at the White House Has sent the stock market reeling This whiplash triggered another

sell-off On Wall Street, the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P All to... We start with that news market sell-off The reason?

More whiplash from President Trump Over tariffs A full week of whiplash Over President Trump's On -again, off-again tariff strategy Whiplash President Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs On Canadian and Mexican imports Is off again It feels like whiplash by the White House Has many people wondering what's next Many experts say this constant whiplash By the White House Has many people wondering What will happen next The fast action from the new Trump administration Has also led

to some neck-breaking whiplash Joe, a lot of whiplash to go around Happy Friday Well, a lot of whiplash There you go, a lot of whiplash Sounds like it People are complaining that I'm over-modulating Why is this? Yeah, you're breaking up Am I breaking up on YouTube? Yeah Well, it's during the clip The thing would just go off the rails And it would just be distorted Really?

I'm not sure why that is Okay, well I thought it was just local here But I guess not No Well, the experts in the troll room They know exactly what's going on 1-2, 1-2 No, it seems okay That's just That's all your gear, man It's nothing to do with me So, yes Whiplash on the tariffs This is the big thing No one understands it What's going on The markets are upset The markets are crashing Markets are crashing, John Markets are crashing Have you heard the markets are crashing?

It's crashing I heard this And I heard there's whiplash Yeah, whiplash Because we are in the fog of trade war The fog of trade war Good evening, I'm John Dickerson I'm Maurice DuBois The financial markets were rattled today Oh, by the way, stop, stop So, they fired Nora from CBS Yes News deconstruction is what we should be talking about Yes, yes So, they got rid of her And they put her on Of course, they never fire anybody They put you on special assignment Yeah,

and you get to do long-form programming Yeah, and then you're done So, they put in John Dickerson Who's good enough, you know On his slow-talking morning shows And this other guy And it's like a Huntley-Brinkley report They're trying to bring back Huntley and Brinkley From the 60s and 70s Which was on NBC, not CBS, of course But they're trying to put this team up It stinks And the two guys don't have any rapport Almost as though they're competing with each other

Figuring one of them is going to get the other guy out of there And he's going to take over I'm on the brink, honey Once I get that guy out of here It'll be all me It'll be all me So, this is the worst And the Multiculti guy Will probably win if they're going to do that Because Dickerson seems nervous He doesn't seem comfortable He's not doing a very good job The way they've staged it stinks And not only that, but they're a mile apart It's just terrible It's terrible It's worse

than Nora All the more reason to go back to the clip The fog of trade war Good evening, I'm John Dickerson I'm Maurice Dubois The financial markets were rattled today By the Commander-in-Chief and General Confusion Conflicting signals from the President Is that a new guy? General Confusion? Is that a new guy?

I never heard of him I don't know Oh yes, Maurice Dubois Otherwise known as General Confusion There you go Conflicting signals from the President About his trade war Sent stock prices tumbling The Dow lost a full percent The Nasdaq more than two and a half What happened to you? What are you doing? I'm moving stuff around Could you do it not during the clips?

You know, just More than two and a half President Trump granted more exemptions today To his 25% tax on imports from Canada and Mexico For one month Goods covered by the USMCA trade agreement Will not be subject to the tariffs He gave that same exemption yesterday To Detroit's big three automakers This is not the first time The President has threatened or imposed tariffs And pulled back And the uncertainty goes well beyond Wall Street Ed O 'Keefe is at a curling center In Toronto What?

Ed O'Keefe, Canadian sports Are they talking about curling? Canadian sports? Yes, he's at a curling center in Ontario Which is where you get your boots on the ground from Because when you think of Canada What do you think of? Well, I always think of curling The on -again, off-again tariffs Are mostly off-again Are they going to keep saying on-again, off-again?

Yes, they do keep saying that actually Here in Canada's largest province Which is warning of economic pain For at least some Americans We have to put an end to this This is mass chaos Right now around North America And actually around the world Doug Ford is Premier of Ontario The hub of Canada's economy And home to 40% of Canadians He dismissed President Trump's pause on tariffs He said that before And he switched his mind A few days later, a week later So once I touch a stove And I get burned

once I don't touch that stove again He needs to drop all tariffs And if he doesn't drop them for good Ford says Ontario Which transmits electricity to the United States Will put a 25% tariff On power sent to Minnesota, Michigan and New York Starting Monday Ford got into a heated phone conversation this

week With the U.S. Commerce Secretary And has banned the sale of American-made spirits In Ontario liquor stores So if I hear you, you're turning off the lights And you're running the bourbon dry In response to what the United States is doing The last thing I want to do is turn off the lights I'll put a tariff But let's straighten this out And to the American homeowner in Minnesota Or New York Or somewhere else that gets its power from electricity They're going to

see the electric bill in a month And they're going to realize, whoa A lot more expensive than it was And there's one person to be blamed And that's President Trump Even if the tariffs are temporarily off The anger has hardly subsided At the private Royal Canadian Curling Club Hold on a second Before we get back to the curling club What is Ford talking about? He's going to jack up the prices?

That's not a tariff That's an increase in price I know Just before you finish this clip I have to mention something I've been meaning to talk about For a month Oh, please Ever since Trump got elected On Fox A couple of the shows on Fox Have had this running I should have recorded it, I'm sure A running ad Promoting Ontario I've never seen this before on television Interesting It's an advertisement Ontario, your trading partner The greatest place in the world We in Canada, blah

blah blah And it goes on It's a 60 second commercial And they play it all the time on Fox And when I first saw it I said, oh, something's going to happen here There's something wrong Why is Ontario, of all places, advertising On network television?

Right, right And by the way, for those of you wondering No, no, no, this is Doug Ford Not to be confused with Tom Ford Or with Ford Truck Month Or with Rob Ford This guy For months, Rob Ford, the embattled mayor of Toronto Has been dogged by allegations That he'd been caught on tape Smoking crack And today, the mayor of Canada's biggest city Came clean Have I tried it?

Probably in one of my drunken stupors Just hours later He fell on the sword again Admitting it Was the most difficult And embarrassing thing I have ever Had to do That's his brother Yeah, they're all I'm sure they all party This guy here This joker Seems the same guy to me Let's go back But let's straighten this out And to the American homeowner In Minnesota or New York Or somewhere else that gets its power from electricity They're going to see the electric bill in

a month And they're going to realize, whoa A lot more expensive than it was And there's one person to be blamed And that's President Trump I was fighting words Oh no This is one small thing that we can do And Danielle Brown says Royal Canadian anger isn't about the American people Just the American president It's really just sad and a shame That leadership is actually Maybe for positioning, who knows why Trumping up These allegations That we're maybe Not as good partners as we

actually are I have respect for the Canadians There's a big movement We're only buying Canadian, eh?

Which is good I think that's Most of their wine is made in the bathroom Okanagan Valley makes a good product That's for sure But if you go to Canada All the liquor stores are government controlled So they can do this stuff Even though they already bought the stuff But they're going to put it back in the warehouse But they have these shops Throughout Canada Where you can go in there and buy home winemaking Gear And must And grape juice and different kinds of things And you make it at home And I

think a lot of Canadians Somebody from Canada can call me out on this if I'm wrong But it seemed pretty popular to me That they had this Rig that you could buy To make your own damn wine In the toilet In the toilet, basically It's interesting because I asked Canadians To send us some boots on the ground And some thoughts about everything And it varies I got some good reports too Maybe we'll get to them later Most of what I received is We actually wouldn't mind being the 51st state I didn't

get too many of those I know I got a couple of those Also You know A lot of like well And this is kind of permeated It might be in this report A lot of Canadians would say Well we all know that we only exist Because you haven't invaded us yet Which I think is Well I didn't get that one Yeah I got that one These guys are the ones Who burnt down the US capital These Canadians The war of 1812 Was a war of the United States Versus Canada We don't like talking about it Because the Canadians won

The Canadians will discuss it Let's get some more insight from CBS Now Ed we usually think of Canadians In kindness but in this case They seem pretty angry right about now Why are they digging in so hard Browsing hold on a second The Canadians Oh they're so kind That's not necessarily It seems like that on the surface But when you go and spend any time at all in Canada They're gruff They're quick to I've had this happen more than once It takes a while to get used to being in Canada Because

when you have this Polite back and forth Where you say Thank you Thanks You always say thanks and you're welcome If you don't get the thanks out Fast enough The Canadians will say you're welcome In a very gruff tone as though you haven't said Thank you fast enough You are generalizing you realize that right Generalizing from lots of experience Got a report from Corey Corey and his wife Attended the Tony Hinchcliffe show In Niagara Falls Ontario Last night that's the guy who said You

know who Talked about the trash in the ocean being Puerto Rico Yeah right So he opened the show With the American National Anthem The Star Spangled Banner Nobody booed everybody cheered How about that That's odd Well there was no alcohol Go to a hockey game and get everybody else sauced up It's like Maybe they weren't even booing Maybe they were just trying to bend over Oooh Trying to bend over Well Maurice AdamMcCurry.com Oh The Canadians love me They love us they love the

show We're the only Americans who Pay any attention to Canadian news We know they just read Rob Ford Nobody else does The important stuff Well Maurice in their view And the reality is there have been Free trade agreements between the U.S. and Canada In place since the late 1980s Many may remember NAFTA

more recently The U.S. Mexico Canada free trade agreement That was negotiated in part By Donald Trump They're sick of being pushed around And they're not quite sure what it is the president Wants done by early April To call off this trade war entirely Trade war trade war So here's the final one about the actual Products that are being affected And if these tariffs stick What other kinds of products Or what other ways will Americans be affected Well let's walk our way across Canada

To give you an example In British Columbia the lumber from there Helps build American homes In Alberta the oil and gas gets pumped into American cars Fertilizer from Saskatchewan Gets scattered across the heartland And we went to a steel manufacturer here in Ontario Who makes window wells and garden beds That get bought up all across the American suburbs And then of course there's the produce Blueberries, tomatoes, and yes Maple syrup, the cost of them Would go up as well What kind of got lost

in all of this And I got some boots on the ground From our producers about this as well Is initially And I think still These tariffs are indeed About fentanyl And if you look at the reporting There are a lot Of Fentanyl You know I wouldn't call them factories But labs all over Canada And it's produced there And then it gets put into You know trucks That carry stuff You know for our cars, our fenders and bumpers And whatever else And it comes right into America I think the president's right on

this At least from the reporting I see And ABC went a little bit deeper into this With what's the guy's name Kevin Hassett Who's this guy Kevin Hassett He is Oh he's one of the president's economic advisors Yes he's the director of the National Economic Council So we saw the president this week Impose tariffs, delay a bunch of the tariffs And then on Friday he said There are more and bigger tariffs To come suggesting possibly As high as 250% On Canadian dairy and

lumber Can you just explain In short What is driving the president's decision making Let's go through what happened this week Because I didn't really think The way you guys characterized the tariffs Made sense to me so I just want to go back to what happened What happened was that we launched A drug war, not a trade war And it was part of a negotiation To get Canada and Mexico to stop shipping fentanyl Across our borders And as we've watched them make progress On the

drug war Then we've relaxed some of the tariffs That we've put on them Because they're making progress And so that drug war is something that's been going on Since really the beginning of the Trump administration We've also announced that we're going to put out a study April 1st That says what is the harm to America Of all the asymmetrical trade practices Of foreign governments And what are we going to do about it And that's the April 2nd number That you keep hearing the president

say So this isn't even a tariff on trade This is just a tariff on drugs Which is what was initially announced But somehow it turned into Just A fog of tariff war And they continued on this But let me ask Because I am confused now By what you're saying about this being a drug war Not a trade war So let's just take Canada I mean you said Canada's shipping fentanyl into the United States I mean I don't think that's happening I mean 1% of fentanyl Is being smuggled across the border

1% I mean Canada's not a major source At all of fentanyl in the United States Well yes they are a major source And I can tell you that in the Situation Room I've seen photographs of fentanyl labs In Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone Canada's got a big drug problem Even in their own cities Go walk around Toronto And see what it's like And you'll see that it is a big problem And frankly we have intelligence That Mexican cartels operate in Canada as well And so if you

want to get the cartels out of the

U.S. You've got to get them out of Canada and Mexico Okay but if you're saying that this is an effort To make them crack down And it's worked It's working yes it's working Then why are these tariffs going The very same tariffs going back into effect on April 2nd Well we'll see what happens So what's going on With the trade war Is that we're going to have reciprocal tariffs In April What's going on with the drug war is we're trying to make progress So there is a trade war In April

there's going to be a reciprocal tariff And then if they lower their tariffs We'll lower ours April 2nd The real tariffs And by the way those are reciprocal tariffs 250% on dairy Yeah we get screwed on the dairy We can't send our dairy up there They don't want our dairy Why is that This protectionary I guess Total protectionary Because they wouldn't have An industry at all Well this of course has Fueled the And I'm pretty sure This is all being fueled for the

Upcoming election in Canada At least of the new prime minister We heard from Chrystia Freeland Who is Using this Who nobody takes seriously According to our Her I thought it was a rumor But her dad actually was A guy who collaborated with the Nazis It would surprise me She sounds like it Just saying And the real front runner though Is a guy we know very well on the show Mark Carney The front runner?

No no for the liberal party The liberal party is done Well Mark Carney man He returned home to his supporters To make his bid for the party leadership Mark Carney made it clear he wanted To become Canada's 24th Prime Minister I'm back home in Edmonton To declare my candidacy For leader of the liberal party And prime minister He says he has the experience Canada needs Consider this I've helped manage multiple crises And I've helped save two economies Mark Carney is a former Governor of

the Bank of Canada And a former governor of the Bank of England He has served as an advisor to Justin Trudeau And to Boris Johnson Carney was born in Canada's remote Northwest territories in 1965 He went to Harvard and worked at Goldman Sachs Before being named deputy governor Of the Bank of Canada in 2003 He became governor in 2008 At the age of 42 In 2020 After almost 7 years At the Bank of England He served as a UN envoy on finance and climate change In the liberal party leadership battle He

argued Canada must fight The US President Donald Trump And his tariffs by diversifying trading relations He argues he's the only person Prepared to handle Trump We have to recognize that the Donald Trump of today Is different than the Donald Trump Of several years ago Then his objective was to Take more of our market Now he wants to take Our country Yeah! You're not Greenland Okay?

We don't want your country I mean we'd love to have you as 51st state But that's up to you guys We would fold them in We'd have a great time Don't you think it would be great to have Canada Part of the United States? Yeah that's never going to happen And I don't want it to happen What's wrong with you?

It would be great No you don't need The complaining Canadians In the United States John at Dvorak.org Everybody Canadians know what I'm talking about Um Yeah So that's North America By the way it was Freeland's grandfather Not her dad, grandfather It was a Nazi collaborator He wrote some Newspaper stuff Um I think that again It's just like Thursday The action is in Europe People are I mean the European leadership Let's put it that way Are so gung ho on war They really are

You know what you just said Because that little anomaly is still there Oh really? It was funny Because when you said gung ho on war It kind of became People in the chat room can confirm this You know the sound that you always Ridicule me for when I come in With that Mickey Mouse sound Well you know what It's so sparse And sporadic If it's on the clips then I'd rather reboot the machine Yeah They're saying it's back It's got to be the machine It's Windows 10 John 10?

Yes, it's Windows 10 You should be using 11 by now I need to upgrade my experience Everything has been rebooted And hopefully everything's okay now Sorry for people out there bored stiff Mimi always bitches when this happens She's listening live But this is why people listen live They love this, this is the best part Oh they love it What time is it Bill?

It's time to go home We We used to have The biggest problems on Skype The biggest problems And now Did you know that Microsoft is shutting Down Skype in May Can you believe it? We're on the show I'm recording Microsoft's shutting down Skype And why is that? Because they never got the source code to begin with They never knew how it worked Those guys said Nah, we're selling you the product How do you know they never got the Source code?

When they originally sold Now I could be wrong, they could have gotten it later I could be wrong But when they sold it was a big deal Those two guys, those Norwegians or Swedes They actually Developed that all in Amsterdam I met them there and I was like This is never going to fly, I'm not investing in you Classic Classic Something of a mistake Classic But they had They were going to give Microsoft The product But they weren't going to tell them how it worked And it was kind of a Big

deal, Microsoft was Typical, well It reminds me of when Lohenbrau Was bought By Miller, I think they bought it And the Lohenbrau Team said Hey, which was a famous Beer at the time They said hey you guys You want us to send some brewmasters over To show you how we make this stuff And Miller's comment was According to folklore, Miller's comment was No, we know how to make beer You're telling me That Microsoft paid 8.5 Billion dollars And they didn't get the source code?

I'm telling you that they didn't Get the knowledge That they needed to know how the product Worked, whether they got the source code Or not, it's like you can get source code But if it's not, you know Source code doesn't mean anything if it's Spaghetti code I mean they don't even know how Windows works half the time Nor do we Apparently Just kick it, shake it Turn it off Because I remember the first time I was in, I think Sweden And I was When this product first Appeared on the scene before

Microsoft Owned it and I heard it Because we were doing some presentations And people kept getting these Skype messages And you'd listen to people It was stunning The quality of the sound It sounded like, I always call it CD sound It sounded like a CD, it was so crisp And Microsoft got it It still sounded good and very slowly It started to deteriorate And Now They can't even keep the thing running And they're giving up on it Just get teams And then of course It reminds me, what was the name of

that SIP Well the SIP Still exists It's a crap protocol that makes everything Sound crappy And so everything that's any good Was always proprietary Because you have some genius That figured out Clean feed is the same way How does this work Well I don't know, but those guys They got an academy award for clean feed Yeah, for good reason Yeah, it's good stuff Anyway We're boring, this is too much insight Exactly, alright I wanted to go to To Europe, where there As I said

before, are many reboots They are out of control They are completely abusing The European public, and I know because I'm getting screaming emails From people Like Trump can just do whatever he wants You don't care He's just breaking laws left and right He wants to start World War 3 I'm like, what are you talking about He ignores the courts There's so much And by the way That's the elite messaging system The M5M is doing its job well People are completely Under their spell And

believe everything they hear Everything they read But ultimately, you are the ones Being played by your own leaders They want to complete the European project And notice how they always Are intertwining Europe and the EU This is the President of the EU Parliament Roberta Mezzola I think I'll be a little bit more blunt Than usual today And our message on This day of the Special European Council On Defence is that It is about damn time This is something that we have been Asking for

a long time That the European Union That Europe is capable of Standing up on its own two feet That's why we've been saying We need to scale up, we need to be prepared We need to produce And we need to protect That is essentially what our citizens are asking from us That is essentially what it will take For Europe to say That we are ready to put Finally our money where our mouth is On Ukraine The situation today Is exactly the same as it was Three years ago Ukraine is fighting for

Europe And Europe needs to be Hand in hand, lockstep Notice this, notice It's for Europe, but only EU Has to pay, and the UK of course Fighting for Europe And Europe needs to be Hand in hand, lockstep With whoever is fighting for our security For our values, Ukraine's security Is Europe's security And today, more than ever Also with the President of the country We will stand with him and we'll say We are with you, but to do that We need to do more, we need to make sure That even here we

put Our money where our mouth is That we help financially That we help militarily And we're able to say that yes What you are fighting is what we will be fighting for together I mean, that's the President Of the European Union Parliament I mean, that's the President Of the European Union Parliament I mean, she's a warmonger And you're going to pay for it EU Here's the Lithuanian President There's no need to explain In a detailed way How important is this meeting We are in

the fourth year Of the war in Ukraine And Ukraine is buying The precious time for us every day Paying with the blood So it would be highly irresponsible To waste this time And to have long hours discussions Without a clear outcome So I think we have Two very important proposals On the table, first of all I appreciate the efforts Of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen For this 800 million Billion Euro plan I think this is A step forward comparing

with this When I hear this guy He's like, oh, I thank Ursula Queen Ursula for the 800 billion Euro plan I hear a guy who's going Money, money, money, money There's money coming in, baby This is a step forward comparing With the situation we are Now, and it would be Really high assistance for my country Because we have very ambitious target In my country to spend For defense from six To five To six percent of our GDP It means a lot, but for that We need more flexible treatment Of defense spending

While calculating the fiscal Deficit according to economic Growth and stability Plan Then 20 billion Euros Financial package for Ukraine You are smiling I think this is very serious Because Lithuania is Committed to contribute And to pay Our part to this fund Because We are committed also to support Ukraine by 0.25 percent Of our GDP Each year We calculated If other countries will commit To pay the same amount Ukraine would receive 43 billion Euros And this is a lot And this is really What

they need right now It's amazing what is taking place In Germany Merz is trying to get Their part of the Rearmament scheme Rammed through before the new Parliament is compiled Or chosen They got to shuffle stuff around To get their majority They don't want the AFD in there It's going to be a roadblock They got to get going before the guys Get their seats So they're going They want to go to a trillion But they're going to start It's all borrowed money They have

to undo Their handbrake legislation So they can start borrowing that money And the French Well they have a totally different plan They're taking it from their own citizens Boosting France's defense budget A pressing priority But where to find the billions of Euros Needed?

One idea is to use French citizens' savings By offering a new personal investment vehicle Based on defense funds So it starts One option is war bonds That's basically what this is But then it gets crazier as it goes on The war bonds thing goes back in history To the World War I And a lot of people think This whole thing is a scam For war bonds to sucker everyone Basically taking their money And turning it into war bonds For the purposes of this So this is some true I believe that to

be possible The United States has to get away from This is like Well you know NATO has kept The peace and blah blah blah I've always said It's never been NATO that's kept the peace It's the Nuclear deterrence that's kept the peace Because people know what would happen If you got into a conflagration Conflagration Yes And NATO's just been there We have to get out of NATO Because these people, this is pent up The fact that we've had peace for so long Is pent up in Europe They want to get back

into fighting each other We continue We have to get out of this This is not good for us Yeah but let's listen to how the French are getting screwed And then we'll talk about that Investment vehicle based on defence funds Not everyone is keen I'd rather it be used for social good Or for the environment Not the military I don't want my money to be financing war Another option The Livre A A tax-free government regulated account Popular with French savers Its deposits are

currently used mostly To finance social housing Some of that though could be reoriented Into defence Whatever the product It will need to attract investors To mobilise French savings Certainly you can call on patriotism Defending the country But savers will be looking at the returns If those are low They'll prefer the Livre A Or a tax-deferred investment account Other options include directing funds From those tax-deferred investment accounts

Towards defence Incentivising institutional private investment Or reducing interest rates For defence contractors The French state itself Could borrow to fund more military spending But not without consequence We have to be careful We'd have no problem borrowing that money But interest rates are higher now Than they were before the financial crisis So this debt will cost us more One option that President Emmanuel Macron insists Is not on the table

Raising taxes Borrowing money is a taxation Taking your savings Is more than a taxation The French are going to wake up to this And then No they're not The French They do a lot of protests about one thing or another But they can't This is relentless But then there's a new player that pops on the scene Unfortunately this is Euronews And Euronews has I tried to Speed it up as much as possible They've resorted to AI voices now For their reports This is the

worst But it's the report that counts France versus Germany The battle for Erdogan's favour And the 150 billion euro European defence Funds between France and Germany Over the European Commission's proposal For a 150 billion euro investment In European defence Whether these funds Should be exclusively reserved For EU-based defence industries Or if they should also benefit Non-EU partners Including Turkey According to the Financial Times Turkish President Recep

Tayyip Erdogan Has already expressed interest In participating in Europe's Joint defence effort Given Turkey's strong military industry A divided Europe Last week European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Proposed a 150 billion euro Defence fund Aimed at boosting Europe's military production While all EU member states Support the idea Disagreements remain over Who should receive the funding During the EU summit last Thursday German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Argued that the

initiative should be Open to non-EU partners, stating It is very important for us That the projects we support Are also open to countries that are not Part of the European Union But maintain close cooperation with us Such as the United Kingdom Norway, Switzerland And Turkey However, French President Emmanuel Macron Strongly disagreed Insisting that EU defence spending Should prioritise European manufacturers These investments Should not be spent on equipment

That is not of European origin So they're fighting over The money already And this is just The first tranche The 150 billion that Queen Ursula promised And Turkey's saying Hey we're in NATO We've got NATO gear, you don't have anything You gotta go build stuff So they don't actually want to help Ukraine They just want the money So we can have a war economy And Macron Is making very dangerous Noises The UK and many of the Member states in the EU They have our

nukes I know the Netherlands has several But France, they have their own Yeah, so is the UK Yes, so if you want to launch Something from the EU You've gotta get, you've gotta sign the EULA I mean from the EU You've gotta sign the EULA And make a payment and then we'll give you the code And we'll activate your nukes But Macron Is like, he's got his own And he's making dangerous noises In a televised address Wednesday evening French President Emmanuel Macron Delivered a

stark message to his nation Macron warned That Russian aggression knows no borders And could extend beyond Ukraine Crazy He also said he would consider extending French nuclear deterrence To other European countries And that's a statement Russia condemned As quote, very confrontational Macron also acknowledged That the French people's worries are legitimate And said Europe must prepare For a potential future without US support Russia has become a threat to France

And Europe I want to believe that the US will stand By us, but we have to be ready If this is not the case Whether or not peace in Ukraine Is achieved quickly, Europe Must be able to defend itself better And deter any further aggression And the Kremlin is reacting Strongly to Macron's speech By saying the French leader's comments Are an indication that Paris wants to Prolong the war in Ukraine And the Russian spokesman had particularly Stern words for Macron's statement That he is

considering sharing France's nuclear Capabilities within Europe Of course this is a threat against Russia If Macron considers us a threat Gathers a meeting of the chiefs Of general staffs of European countries And Britain, says that nuclear Weapons need to be used And prepares to use nuclear weapons Against Russia This is certainly a threat This, I mean I mean It's unbelievable, you've got Mr. Peepers Coming in In In Germany You've got Macron married to a dude And

you've got Starmer, who knows what his deal is Yeah They've all gone insane And I, you know They're suicidal maniacs Oh that's a good way of putting it And Now if we get out of NATO I mean, what happens? Well, all hell's gonna break loose I sure hope not Well the thing is They keep talking about Russia this, Russia that Russia has taken What has Russia done so far?

They've taken pot shots at Ukraine With a bunch of drones flying every which way And glide bombs It's about as close as they can get And the glide bombs hit whatever they hit And they've taken the Donbass Which is an area that they've controlled anyway Because they're all Russian speakers And Crimea, which they controlled anyway Because they took it over in 2014 They haven't done anything else They kind of make an inroad here And an inroad there And they lost the Kursk area Their

own part of their own country Because of the Ukrainians So how is this a big threat to France?

For all practical purposes France is a bigger threat They're shaking their sword right there And well, let's see what happens When one of those 50 ton bombs The Russians have nukes that are Nothing compared to the French The French nukes are jokes by comparison To what the Russians have 150 ton bomb Would take Paris in a second And they can Take all their nuclear missiles And recalibrate where they're going to be targeted And good luck France Give me a break These guys are idiots

I don't understand why The Europeans They're kind of silent Except for the ones yelling at me Because it's all Trump's fault We had in Fredericksburg yesterday 50 protesters With Ukraine flags On Main Street What? In Fredericksburg?

In Fredericksburg You don't even have that in Berkeley I think that was the entire Democrat Representation in Fredericksburg But yeah, I was surprised Well there's a couple Of organizations that Mimi turned me on to That are floating around 501 Somebody in the chat room knows this I think it's called 505104 There's some number And it's a national organization There's about 2

or 3 of them .org .com And they are organizing These little events all over the country Constantly I think it stands for 50 states 50 events So it would be 5050 01 maybe That's what it is And 50 events, 50 states Something like that Is that an ActBlue or a Soros? Soros!

I don't see any ActBlue connections But it's obviously ActBlue Because they have the same website look And there's a certain web designers That do all these sites Are all the same And that's probably who organized That Fredericksburg thing This group So Tina said she drove by And gave a thumbs down And the people went, well God bless you Have a blessed day I would give a thumbs up And go in with a microphone And start chatting So Now there's also Implications Depending on how

this goes There's implications for Five Eyes And of course Australia is dangling down there With a cyclone going on Which not many people are talking about But it seems to be pretty bad From people I know down there Power is going out And all kinds of stuff is happening It's a big hurricane But Europe wants to The European Union wants to Tie up with Australia You have the UK And this is Fiona Hill She was on Face the Nation She is I think CFR Brookings Institution I think she also worked in

the UK government Here she is on Face the Nation The US pauses of lethal intelligence sharing Including targeting data For US provided weapons like HIMARS We also know it extends To satellite imagery Which is no longer being shared with Ukraine What's the practical impact of that And the military freeze?

Well I think we can see the impact It's certainly on the one hand emboldened Russia To really step up the attacks And it's also not just blindsided But also partially blinded Ukraine I mean we heard from the previous segment That there's still some sharing With allies like the United Kingdom of course Which is part of the Five Eyes sharing With the United States But frankly none of the other Allies including the UK Have the same access to satellite imagery As the United States does

So even if there is some sharing Not much restrictions This certainly has an impact And frankly I think it's going to be an impetus To other allies to start stepping up their own capabilities And questioning themselves About the virtues of sharing with the United States I mean this is a two way street We have to remember that other countries Also share pretty vital information With the United States Even if the scale is not quite the same Huh So as it turns out everybody's leeching

off of our data As per usual Yeah we're the ones with all the satellites We're the ones with all the good data We have the targeting information We got the data people Alright how will Five Eyes respond This woman is a spook Oh of course she is The UK, Australia among those who do so You think they will essentially punish the US By not sharing intelligence I'm not sure whether it's punishment But it'll be a lot of questioning About what actually happens with this

Because if you're bundling together intelligence And then effectively the United States Is putting restrictions on that Was that pre-discussed With our Five Eyes allies for example Or with other allies Particularly in the midst of Basically a conflict Before I continue this clip What do you think the odds are that Trump Is so hacked off at Five Eyes And for all the stuff they did To him in his first To him In his first go around That he's just going to tell them to

screw off too I think He's been doing that consistently A conflict That is as we've heard over and over again The largest land war in Europe Since World War II This is really unprecedented In terms of the actions of the United States In this regard because it's not just Affecting Ukraine Looking at her background We're not hearing her We're hearing MI6 complaining Yeah I agree It's having knock on effects For all of our other allies Who are directly affected All of our European allies

That are directly affected by this conflict Then of course The horrible things that President Trump Said about Putin In other words he said Yeah Putin's doing what I would do So President Trump said on Friday when he was asked If this uptick in Putin's bombing Was directly related to the US halt Here's what he said I actually think he's doing What anybody else would do I think he's I think he wants To get it stopped and settled And I think he's hitting them harder

Than he's been hitting them And I think probably anybody In that position would be doing that right now Yet earlier in the day The President had posted on social media He was considering possibly Putting sanctions on Russia That's a contradiction Contradiction What do you make of what he said?

I make of it exactly what he said I mean he's actually Obviously putting himself in the shoes of Vladimir Putin And saying that if I were the aggressor That's exactly what I would be doing If I wanted to make Ukraine capitulate So I mean yeah he called it as it is I don't believe what he said for a second about the sanctions I believe more what he just said There in the Oval Office Sitting behind the Resolute Desk I mean I think that's what you can take away from this He believes

the President I think he should I mean he's the President of the United States And he made it crystal clear I think And he sees obviously The Ukrainians And he said that in the Oval Office During the meeting with President Zelensky That he sees them on the back foot as losing And he's basically telling them That they have to capitulate Very clear She's interpreting it of course Yeah she's a mind reader now And as you correctly pointed out She's a spook And so she

has some information From Spook Central The Council on Foreign Relations You don't have the cards was the line he kept using So I know you were at the Council on Foreign Relations This week as was I I had an interview As was I? What? Who is this?

Margaret Brennan As was I I was at the briefing of the spooks As was I I had an interview with Trump's envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg And when we were discussing The President's decision to cut off Ukraine He said Ukrainians Brought it on themselves And the decision was like Hitting a mule with a 2x4 Across the nose You got their attention Comparing our ally to a farm animal here That needed to be beaten Oh no the audacity In diplomacy you really should Only be

speaking in your native language And I think there was a lot of this Which was lost in translation First of all President Zelensky didn't fully understand That this agreement was just purely With President Trump And President Zelensky didn't quite follow all of this Because like the rest of our allies He actually thinks that Commitments made by the United States Are supposed to hold over successive administrations And what we learned there And what he learned there was

that is not the case You're essentially going to have to make a new Commitment with President Trump It's a personal commitment And that was what he was being told And he didn't fully understand And I think in future when the Ukrainians are meeting With the Americans They ought to have translators with them Because as good as President Zelensky's English is There's two things that he's missing He doesn't quite understand the way that President Trump operates Although

I think he's probably got the message now But he doesn't always understand the nuances And I would also think that Our side on the United States side Could do with some interpretation as well So the way I read that from the Council On Foreign Relations is Oh no no, it's not Zelensky's fault He didn't screw it up He's a good guy, he just didn't understand What it meant when President Trump said You don't have any cards I want to mention something here Just so

we clarify Because it's never mentioned by Margaret That she was not only doing an interview While she was at the Council on Foreign Relations And she's talking to a member of the Council On Foreign Relations She herself, I'm looking at the roster She herself is a member Of the Council on Foreign Relations Margaret Brennan, the journalist Is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations And she does not disclose that Oh wow Gambling?

I'm very surprised You're not surprised Ian Bremmer is also One of the things Another good one Well, I'm very sad for this turn of events And I don't know if President Trump has more cards up his sleeve To bring all this back Into Some kind of normalcy And I don't know if he can The Europeans They have a secondary agenda That they are just not being honest about They want a war economy They have a problem with their economy in general As does everybody

And so they're, well, we need more factories We need to borrow money It's a racket Every single time But if you don't have the reserve currency Like the US has Which is also coming to its end now You can't What?

Not necessarily It's not great Let's put it that way It's not great But they can't just be printing money all over the place Not everybody wants euros I'm sure they think They'd want that to be The reserve currency But it's this I have And you just look at the M5M here in the US Doge, Elon Doge They are the ones that are stupid They're not giving anybody any useful information And we all Have roots back in Europe But no No, no, no, it's just all Trump It's Trump, he did it all

It was Certainly, it was the United States Who started this whole This whole mess We lied We lied with Baker Before that We lied with Baker, that's when we started it Actually We don't know that that was a lie Baker may have been sincere Maybe Baker was reflecting Because that was right after the fall Of the Soviet Union It fell apart And we made the promises to the Russians That we weren't going to move NATO around anymore Because it wasn't the threat that it

once was And that doesn't I don't think it was a long term scheme I think it's just later That it devolved I could be wrong But now you see the power of propaganda And the power of Of mainstream Which still lingers Because no one has ever received this information They don't know anything about it And Putin for years has been saying Stop expanding NATO Stop expanding NATO Until he was fed up And then the little twerp over there in Ukraine Said, well maybe we'll

get some nukes over here And that's when he Went for it, after we had already Committed a coup in that country So the whole thing is shameful And President Trump is actually Trying to fix some stuff But oh no He's getting zero help In fact Before you play that, I want to play a little sub clip This is an example You know Trump just got in Trump's approval rating as far as I can tell Is quite high for a president Never as low for a president this early In his administration, ever

And people Most people, at least if you look at the Social media Even the black folk Like the fact that Musk is kicking ass The black folk But yet On the latest version of Margaret Hoover's show Firing Line, which is a take off Which is the modern version Of the William F. Buckley show When he was very erudite He was kind of mocked for being so And Margaret Brennan Has the temerity To use that word To think she could be Another William F. Buckley She's a clownish Blonde, who used to

be on The O'Reilly Factor as a stooge She Opens the latest show with this little Ditty, with a guy that's With a guy who is the columnist for The New York Times, here we go Welcome to Firing Line Thanks so much for having me Margaret, it's great to be here President Trump delivered his first Address to Congress this week And declared that he had Accomplished more in 43 days Than most administrations accomplish In four Or eight years The fact is, the economy Is

showing some flashing signs His approval rating Is lower than any modern president At this point in his term And his alliance with Elon Musk is deeply unpopular How do you assess The opportunities And the real risks Of the moment we're in I mean, I think what you've just said Is basically correct Yeah, she's no William F. Buckley So that's what We have to deal with PBS, thank you very much People, stop sending your money to them Here is the report about The ongoing negotiations Taking place in

Where's it going to take place? Saudi Arabia With Russian airstrikes Continuing to rain down on Ukraine As Moscow claims more advances The pressure for Kiev to end the three -year war Is at boiling point President Zelensky has confirmed Ukrainian negotiators Will travel to Saudi Arabia next week For talks with U.S. officials And he is optimistic for dialogue We are preparing a meeting In Saudi Arabia I'm confident that the meeting will be productive We in Ukraine are committed to this We will

do our best to ensure that Ukrainian Interests are taken into account Taken into account in the right way Zelensky will also be present In the Gulf Kingdom for his pre-planned Visit with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Though he will not be participating In the negotiations The war is at a critical juncture for Kiev After Donald Trump suspended crucial U.S. military aid For Ukraine After his very public clash with Zelensky In the Oval Office last

week Trump has also defended Russia's relentless bombardment On Ukraine since the aid pause Calling it what anybody would do The Saudi talks though show a step forward For Kiev in repairing ties with Washington That's not defending That's not defending He wasn't defending it He was just saying that's what anyone would do That's not the same as defending This is a false report It's France Vincatra You know The people with the nukes After Donald Trump suspended crucial

U.S. military aid For Ukraine After his very public clash with Zelensky In the Oval Office last week Trump has also defended Russia's relentless bombardment On Ukraine since the aid pause Calling it what anybody would do The Saudi talks though show a step forward For Kiev in repairing ties with Washington With the U

.S. envoy saying Thursday The idea is to create a framework For a longer agreement I think that the President has said That there's a path back And President Zelensky has demonstrated That he's intent on that Good faith path back He's apologized He said he's grateful He said that he wants to work towards peace Oh he's apologized He's grateful I don't think that was really the issue Ever But you're talking About the The speech The joint The joint session Not the State of the Union

State speech Yeah just the speech I noticed something That happened while the President was speaking And it was corroborated And I'd kind of forgotten about it Did you notice that while he was speaking A little white dot appeared On his left sleeve No Well I noticed it because you know He has a blue jacket on All of a sudden there's this white dot I'm like oh I didn't know this It's almost like one of those very small pieces Of styrofoam Like a round styrofoam

ball It turns out one of the Democrats Shot a spitball at him Is that right?

Yes I don't have confirmation on who did it yet But somebody shot a spitball That's how Wow this is like the 5th grade Or something It's amazing It's amazing You can go back and take a look at it It wouldn't actually completely surprise me No So for those of you Not in America A spitball is done with a straw And you take a little piece of paper And you put it in your mouth and make it all nice and wet And you jam it into the straw And then you shoot it out It's like a blowgun It's a kid's

version of a blowgun And if you've ever used a blowgun I don't know if you've ever had a real one Many times Those things are astonishingly accurate And powerful You know back in the day In the Netherlands When we first arrived there in 72 All the kids were walking around With the same device And I was like What is this?

So you get a piece of PVC pipe And they'd saw it off You know just that regular plastic Kind of beige-ish PVC pipe That you put Wiring through And then they'd walk around with this With strips of newspaper In their belt And they'd whip a piece out Wrap it around their finger Make it into a dart, rip off the tail end So it fits perfectly into the tube And they would just be shooting blow darts At each other all the time I got really good at rolling those darts Actually that

was the precursor to my joints I think Well I used a commercial blow dart A big one It was about 4 feet long And it had a real dart And it was pretty amazing Wait I have a jingle for us Where is it? Someone sent a couple of these in Yeah here it is We are the boomers Born to be wild and free Check out my new Harley Boomers Yeah baby And no we're not quite there yet We are the boomers Although technically I have learned I'm Generation John Jones, I'm sorry Generation Jones Jones?

Yes It has a Wikipedia page so it's true Oh yeah Some guy like you put it up Generation Jones Is the generational social cohort Between the baby boomers And Generation X So being born in 1964 I'm officially Generation Jones Unfortunately Is it just that year or is it a couple of years? Do you have some leeway here to be a Jones?

Yeah the leeway is No wonder you're Jonesing all the time It's really 64 But if you look at the At the people who are my Fellow Generation Jonesers Bill Gates Neil deGrasse Tyson Barack Obama I'd rather be a boomer than with those guys That's no good Creeps So there was a report In the New York Times about a Rift that occurred Between Elon Musk And Marco Rubio Yes this New York Times report And it's also Maggie Haberman I think has something to do with it I don't trust her at all She's

the co-author Some brand new reporting in the New York Times today On a confrontation of sorts Inside the White House between Elon Musk And several members of Donald Trump's new cabinet Is this Nicole Wallace?

Of course it's Nicole Wallace Of course she's beautiful To the role of spectator The Times cites five people with knowledge Of the confrontation Reports this about an argument between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote Quote So I of course don't know If there was a real You know huffy shouting match Or something that went on But I do know first hand information That the Doge people

Were kicked out Even the unregistered Doge people Were kicked out You know because there were some other Some other personnel That were put in That you know were Kicked out of what the meeting or the State Department? State Department and this is bad because I was a bad because the State Department is more trouble than USAID. Oh no, the State Department is the worst and they have their own secret they have their own spy agency that nobody wants to talk about.

Exactly so Rubio I think we have to keep a sharp eye on and and maybe President Trump is all in it's like okay you keep your you keep your your secret intelligence group you keep all I mean every single embassy is a CIA station haven't heard much about the CIA lately either. No they're laying low for some reason. Well maybe it's it's related but there's I mean not clearing out the State Department and okay whatever 1,500 people took voluntary leave they took the buyout fine.

I'm I'm skeptical about the the State Department. Well you should be. Yeah but we could do a whole Lib Joe episode on that alone. Oh can you believe it it the bromance is over the bromance is over Elon's not allowed to do anything he's being curtailed by Trump. Orange man no good. Some people actually like that. Yeah. No when we did that on the last show. The skit you mean? Yeah the skit we did what I got back was wow y'all you sounded so much happier it was much more light-hearted.

What do you mean he sounded happier? Two guys grousing about the president. I'm just telling you that that's how they heard it. It was music to their ears. Anyway here's the NBC follow-up on this. All of this comes against the backdrop of these tensions between Elon Musk who's charged with slashing the federal government and the cabinet secretaries. I asked Secretary Lutnick about that he wouldn't. This is old Manhans talking now isn't it? Who? Manhans the Welker. Isn't this Welker?

I'm not sure. The one they have to yellow up? No no no this is Courtney Cube. Courtney Cube? I never heard of her. Yeah oh well I looked her up for you somewhere. She's a she's a correspondent. Secretary Lutnick about that he wouldn't kind of go so far as to say look bottom line the president said we're all in charge of our own agencies but what are you hearing about? You're right this is Manhans now Cube comes in. What came out of that meeting?

Yeah yeah that's right I mean this is the first time that we've heard that some frustrations that frankly have been in place for several weeks now are actually boiling over and what I was really struck by was they boiled over in front of President Trump. So in this case there were several the confronted Elon Musk on Thursday about the way that Doge is doing these firings.

So it's not just the firings in general but how they are doing it cutting thousands of employees in some cases having to bring some of them back because they are not taking into account employees performance or some of the critical nature of the jobs that they're doing. That was really at issue here. Now this is something that Republicans have been concerned about that's why Elon Musk met with them Wednesday night on the Hill.

They met for two hours but at the end of the day Elon Musk still has a lot of authority. What we did see out of this cabinet meeting was President Trump said look the secretaries have the authority to make their own firings here but if you don't do enough Doge will step in. Remember most of these secretaries will do enough. I will say the president also walked out of it saying Elon Musk is doing an amazing job. I think his role as first buddy is probably still pretty safe. First buddy?

Slow down for God's sake. I got some Doge clips I got to play. Give me some Doge. You got any Doge? How much Doge do you got? I got three, four Doge clips but let's play this one. Doge NPR. This is the NPR report. Millions of federal workers are still weighing how to respond to a second email sent over the weekend asking them to justify their jobs. Wait, they're still doing this? Another round. Oh another round.

NPR's Bobby Allen reports the messages are part of Elon Musk's push to root out dead or non-existent workers. Musk has now asked the federal workforce twice to list five bullet points about their accomplishments. He said ignoring it could lead to termination. To former Twitter employees it sounds familiar. When Musk took over the social media company he launched a payroll audit to see how many fake people were on Twitter's payroll. Ian Brown worked at Twitter for nearly a decade.

The wild sort of paranoia of just like woke zombies not doing stuff is just complete fantasy. Musk has called the messages a pulse check suggesting without evidence Without evidence. Without evidence that taxpayers are paying the salaries and benefits of phantom employees. That always happens in government. It always happens without evidence. Of course. Without evidence. Well let's go to the Doge analysis from NPR and of course the at sign means two. Yeah I gotcha.

I don't know why I keep doing that but here we go. Here's Doge analysis. Yes. It's exactly what the clip says. The headlines say new limits on Elon Musk. And that guy right there. This guy is so awesome. I like this guy. There's a new analysis on Elon Musk. The headlines say new limits on Elon Musk. And that President Trump is reigning in Doge. The president put it in the Oval Office this week. Referring to his cabinet secretaries.

So we're going to be watching them and Elon and the group are going to be watching them and if they can cut it's better. And if they don't cut then Elon will do the cutting. NPR senior Washington editor and correspondent Ron Elving joins us. Ron thanks for being with us. Good to be with this guy. What are we seeing? Are they putting a leash on that Doge? It's been seen that way. When he says it's even better. Are they putting a leash on that Doge? What are we seeing?

Are they putting a leash on that Doge? It's been sold that way. Like it's Trump siding with his cabinet over Musk. But if you listen to that clip we just heard. It still seems that Musk gets to come along batting clean up and deciding whether the cabinet secretaries and other Senate confirmed officials have done enough. So who decides what's enough? Is it Musk or is it Trump himself? And do we know whether that's really a difference?

The New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have reported that there have been clashes between Musk and members of the cabinet including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, both of whom were reported to have been scolded by Musk for not cutting enough and for having too many DEI hires still working for their departments. It's outrageous, I tell you. Put a leash on that Doge. I'm no Elon Musk fan, but I kind of take his side in this.

There's a funny thing before I play the second clip. They're trying to slander him as much as they can. And the Atlantic is the one that's kind of a go-to for this sort of thing. The Atlantic, which had an article recently on how if you have your own backyard chickens, you're losing your ass on the free eggs. Oh, really? I would talk about it some other time. But in that same issue, they had a report on Musk being a ketamine freak. Yeah. So he's like on ketamine.

So he's got that same, you know, Kevin Rose is a big fan of ketamine. All these guys are ketamine guys. And they all end up with that funny look on their face. And I realized that, yeah, I guess he is. You know who else is on ketamine? Who? Professor Scott Galloway. Oh, that doesn't surprise me. Yeah, he's also doing the ketamine thing. And the article talks about how Musk started using ketamine because he's a depressive. And it brings you out of depression.

And I think Rose talked about this too. And then you get locked into this kind of funny state of mind, which they claim makes you feel. And I relate this back to, I think, the 1981, 1982 era when Time magazine made cocaine the man of the year. I missed that one. And in the article about cocaine, they said that cocaine makes you feel like you're – gives you overconfidence. And it sounds as if the ketamine does the same thing. You sound like – you're a world beater.

And as I was reading this, then I find out that Kevin Rose has restarted Digg. He's rebooted it. And I'm thinking, well, that's kind of an interesting ego thing to do for him. But with Musk being all jacked up on ketamine because he's – I guess he's gone in and out of overusing it, you know, beyond what he's supposed to. It's disconcerting. Well, let's just tell everybody what ketamine is. Ketamine is a horse tranquilizer. It's a horse tranquilizer that the zombies like to use in San Francisco.

It was first – that's when it first showed up in the news around here where the fentanyl users would use fentanyl and ketamine. And you can still see – you can go drive around San Francisco downtown and see these guys. They're kind of hunched over. Bent over, yeah. They can't stand completely up straight and they walk with a stagger, a weird stagger. And they're just wandering around San Francisco all over the place and disheveled.

They're disheveled and their clothes are dirty and their pants are falling off. And this is the combination of fentanyl and ketamine, which is called the zombie drug. I'm not happy about this. No. Fentanyl and ketamine is called the breakfast of champions. Yes, and you can see the mini champions roaming around the streets of San Francisco pooping in the street in the champion way. But the – so there's a moment in the ketamine usage where you fall into the so-called K-hole.

And the K-hole is when you're just completely immobilized. And you can see what's going on, but you can't speak. You can't move. You're just in the K-hole. Yeah, this is not the K-hole itself as that term is not discussed, but they do discuss the dissociative characteristics where you dissociate. In other words, you leave your body. Yeah, so maybe Elon's in a constant state of K-hole or on the edge. Man, just about five lines went by me that I could have used. And not a one came out.

What good are you? Not one came out. Well, that's because of the daylight savings time. All right. That's the reason. Part two. Part two. Is the Department of Government deficiency a potential political liability for congressional Republicans? Because after all, federal jobs are getting cut in their states. Yes, that's right. It's not a clear liability yet, at least not for Republicans in Congress.

Because as we saw on Tuesday night at the State of the Union, Musk is still a hero to Trump fans both in Congress and beyond. Musk still polls well among Trump supporters. But the Musk stock may have seen its peak, Scott. We will see how the cuts to veterans affairs staffing, for example, go down with the families of vets in the care of the VA. And we'll also see how much Musk gets to do with Social Security. That's the most popular federal program in history by all measures.

But Musk has compared Social Security to an illegal private investment swindle. He did that on Joe Rogan's podcast last month. Everybody's got a podcast. And I bet you that you have that as an ISO. You better. Do you have that as an ISO? Everybody's got a podcast. So first of all, he called it a Ponzi scheme, which it is. He called it a Ponzi scheme. It's a Ponzi scheme because they've been stealing from the fund.

Yeah. And so just take the money from the new people and give it to the old people. It is a literal Ponzi scheme. It's not the way it was designed. No, it's not the way it was designed. It was designed as a separate fund, an insurance fund, separate from the basic tax pot of taxes. But what they're doing here and they're continuously scaring Americans with this. Oh, he's coming for your Social Security. He's coming for your Medicaid.

Well, the fact is the government got your Social Security a long time ago. There is no Social Security unless we keep making babies and new people to fund the Social Security so you get your checks. So that's just not true. And what is he coming for? They're always doing this. You don't want him with your sensitive information, but everyone gives it to TikTok, to Instagram and Facebook. I know, it's ludicrous. Give me a break. But it's working. It's working.

And I feel so bad because we're seeing the same kind of splits happening in families and friendships that happened during COVID. It's exactly the same. It's not that funny. It's funny to me. Yeah, you have no friends. Do you have family? I know, I lost all my friends. You lost all your friends during COVID. You finally got the Lib Joe's back. Be careful. Be careful. They got the Lib Joe's back barely. Don't bet with them. They'll just get mad.

You know, talking about the bet, I hate to do this to my own son. What did you do? I wish people would stop betting with me. I just don't lose these bets. You've actually been kind to me and saying, no, I'm not going to take that bet. But yet you bet your own flesh and blood? What was the bet for? It was because it was at the dinner table and everyone witnessed this, and I didn't look like I was going to be a weenie and back down from this idiotic bet.

But this is another one of these political bets. And this was, I don't know what got into him because he's a smart kid. He's like, you know. Yeah, he's brilliant. He's brilliant. He says, and he insisted the bet be 500 bucks. I think I got you for 500 once. At least once. And I told you not to bet anymore. You wanted to bet five grand or something ridiculous. That was on the Facebook stock price, which you very graciously said, no, I'm not going to take that bet.

I don't want to take money from a baby. And you were right. It was great. I appreciate that. But, well, never mind. Doesn't matter. Here's the bet. J.D. Vance is going to run in 20. I can't believe this. Can I get it on the action here? Is it still time? You probably could, but I'm not going to allow it. J.D. Vance is going to run for president in 2028, and the vice president is going to be Trump. Oh, man. That's like a Fredericksburg rumor.

Only it used to be the vice president would be JFK Jr. They've kind of let that go. No, he is alive. I argued with him about the idiocy of this concept, and he said, no, because then he talked about the law about getting in for eight years or whatever, and he went on and on. Totally convinced of it. I have no idea where he got this from. He insisted on the bet, and he insisted on the bet being inflation-proof. Inflation-proof?

Yes. In other words, today's 500 bucks, whatever it's worth in four years, will be what the total amount of the bet will be. So he's going to owe me more by 540 bucks or something. Wow. Just beyond me. You've got to stick that kid back in the womb. He needs some rebaking. I don't get it. He needs rebaking. That's no good. And why do these bets come my way like this? Because they think they can take money from an old man, and I learned a long time ago that's a big mistake. It's a big mistake.

When it comes to these bets. Don't try to take money from. Well, oh, wait. Oh, that's a very good idea. Hold on a second. Hold on. I'm not going to say it on the air yet, because I want to make sure I can get it. This is a very good idea. I like this idea. So we have one more doge clip, which is just kind of a throwaway. This is the doge suit and how it's working backwards.

Okay. The attorneys general of Washington D.C. and 19 states are suing more than 20 federal agencies over the firings of probationary employees. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports. The Democratic attorneys general argue that federal agencies falsely told probationary employees they were being fired because of their performance. In fact, the states argue the agencies were trying to shrink their headcount, but they failed to follow proper procedures for doing so.

Federal law requires agencies to notify states when laying off 50 or more people so that states can jump into action and try to prevent instability throughout the economic region. States are required to reach out to those losing their jobs and provide support with the goal of reducing their reliance on public assistance. The states have asked the federal court to reinstate the workers. So I tried to get Trump, vp.com already taken. Let me try Trump, vp, 2028.com. Oh yeah. Boom. Got it.

That'll be worth something. Probably. This is, this is if my son has this in his brain, that means it came. Yeah. Trump. Why is it out there? Is it people are nuts? Well, but this is where we're at. I mean, have you looked at X lately? I mean, just look at what's going on. I mean, there's a lot of nutty things out there right now. A lot, mainly from Ian, Ian Carroll. He seems to be the main progenitor. You've seen Ian Carroll. You've seen.

Yes. And here's the, here's an example of what's on the exit you're talking about. This is Jasmine Crockett. Oh gosh. Okay. And I have the documentation that she's nuts, but she's like a leading candidate for president. Isn't she from Texas? Yeah. She's a Texas girl. Yeah. All of a sudden she's talking like she's from the Bronx. Yeah. You know, and not only that, but if people have looked into her background, she was a privileged black girl.

She went to private schools, finishing school for all practical purposes. And then she, but she tries to be ghetto. Okay. City law enforcement, local law enforcement. They are always going after crime and they don't say, oh, you committed a murder. Oh, but you're an immigrant. Well, let me let you go. Right? So they are always focused on crime. They continue to say things like the illegals and that they broke the law coming in.

But what they're not telling the American people is that it is a civil violation. It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. It's not, it's not a criminal it's crime. It's not a crime, which is why they're so frustrated because they really want our local law enforcement to go out and round up people when they could be looking out for the murderers and the sexual abusers, as well as the robbers. They want them to go and round people up on civil accusations.

And so that's why I wanted to point out, don't give me this fake outrage about criminals roaming our streets. When you guys stand 10 toes down for the biggest criminal that we have ever seen going to the white house. Well, AOC has a problem as far as I'm concerned. That's not AOC. No, that's I know it's not. Oh, you mean because of the president theory? Well, just that she's just, this girl's going to beat her out. Just in general. There's a, there's a new sheriff in town. AOC is getting tired.

You know, she had a lot going for her. I could get clips from her. She's hanging into her. I want to just talk about what, what Jasmine said. This is bull crap. Okay. Really simply be okay. Now she's right about simply being present in the U S without papers is a civil offense. This is true. And she's assuming that in other words, you're a student, you come in, you stay, stay your visa. Lots of students have done. And there's lots of that.

However, I'm going to take this right from the, from the, from the document here. However, entering our or entering or reentering the U S without proper authorization can be criminal. Specifically eight U S code 1325 makes improper entry, a misdemeanor, which is a crime punishable by up to six months in prison and or a fine, but. U S code 1326 of section eight or eight U S code makes it illegal to enter. It makes a, it makes it a felony. If you've been thrown out and then you come back in.

Yes. With penalties that can include up to two years in prison and more under certain circumstances. So, so she's full of crap though, about it being civil. This is misdemeanor and felony, both current criminal. She's, she's nuts. And, and people listened. Oh, okay. Just look it up. She's having her moments. Let her have her moments. She's having a moment. No, they're giving her a moment because they, because she, because I've got no one else. Good media. They've got, she's pretty good.

They've got no one else. Did you see cusses? She acts ghetto. Did you see that? The, the purple witch creep from Connecticut? Oh, I love her. She's great for the show, but I don't know if you can, I have, I pulled the clip. It's no good for the show. Cause you can't see her. You have to see her. She looks like an old witch, an old crone. Crone. How do you spell that? C R O N E. An old, what is an old crone? An old crone, a crone. Oh, that's a, that's a wizened old woman.

That's a, that's supposedly smart. And, and, but it's, it's a crone. She's a crone. She's an old crone. Her name is Rosa DeLauro. DeCrone. She's from New York. Rosa DeCrone. She's Connecticut. She's the Connecticut. Oh, I'm sorry. Right. She's good. Well, New York, Connecticut. What difference does it make? So it's a, it's as if someone went to the Trump Gen Z group and said, Hey, tell this lady that she needs to do her video like this. And she throws in skibbity and sus and cringe and the bag.

Yo, this is the ranking Rizzler on appropriations. The rankling Rizzler. Serving Connecticut's third district. It's time to enter your dark academia Congress era. All right, besties. House appropriation is the money moves in Congress. We are not chasing the bag. We are the bag. Democrats are making life smoother for government funding. It's giving skibbity. So Sigma main character energy, but Republicans project 2025 is mad sus. Eliminating the department of education, negative borrow points.

Basically the biggest fandom tax on the environment, on your education and your rights. Big L posting it online, buddy. Democrats understood the assignment, but go off. See how I keep you informed. Very cutesy, very demure. Everybody's trying something. Everybody's trying to get some kind of viral moment to become the leader or the front runner. I mean, it's wide open. There's, there's nobody leading the Democrat to become the leader. Well, she look at her hair.

Did she expect for people to think that was a good look? No. Now she, she's nuts. Well, she's deluded. He makes it so good. Speaking of, uh, unfortunately people should try to track that. They showed it a lot all over the place. It's all over the place. You have to see it to appreciate it. Yes, this is not a great clip. Well, the troll room who hadn't heard it, there were, they liked it. So speaking of a delusional, um, Rachel Maddow, sorry.

I actually have two clips today from Rachel Maddow because, you know, she is back because she was banned from the show, but she's here only for a hundred days. So we, you know, we can, we can ban her. She's unbanned temporarily unbanned because she was, she, she, Hey, Hey, she gets a pardon. She's getting a part, a temporary pardon, a temporary protection order from the show.

Uh, she had Elizabeth Warren on and Elizabeth Warren lays out that, you know, now the Donald Trump, president Trump and Elon Musk out there breaking all these laws, which I haven't, I have yet to understand what laws they've broken. Do you have any examples? They've broken the law of common sense. Okay. Um, so there's a strategy here because if you don't, uh, obey the law as an underling, as a minion in the swamp, you're going to go to jail.

What do you make of this big, I think constitutionally existential question existential question about whether or not court rulings are going to be treated as optional, um, by these guys that they're brazenness. So, so this is my point. No one has ignored a court order. As far as I know, the president keeps saying, Oh, well, we'll have to go back and go up to Supreme court. Yeah. They're always going to go back and, you know, yeah, they're going to appeal everything that happens.

Right. But what, what Rachel Maddow is setting everybody up to think that they are ignoring the law. And that's where Elizabeth Warren comes in. Breaking the law, whether it's with the CFPB or USAID or any of these other things they're doing seems to be born of a kind of confidence that can only, was there any law broken with shutting down USAID or CFPB? I don't think so. Do you know of any law that was broken? I think there's some procedural issues that they could complain about.

You know, people were fired without cause. It seems in some situations, they got eight month payout. Well, that seems like a good deal. It's a good deal. I'll take an eight month payout from this show. Born of a kind of confidence that can only come from their expectation that the courts don't mean much at the end of the day. And that illegality is not necessarily a reason to avoid doing something that they really want to do. You're right. You mean like student debt relief?

Is she talking about like student debt relief? That the court just said, no, you can't do this, but Biden did it anyway. Is that what she's talking about? That's whataboutism. Whataboutism. Stop your whataboutism. That they really want to do. You're right. We've got our toes right on the edge. Or how about having the federal housing authority pick up the tab for like something crazy, like a trillion dollars worth of mortgages that are delinquent. Have you heard about that? I think I did.

Yeah. Some guy with a video going around about it. I'm like, that's, that's pretty bad. Right on the edge of a constitutional crisis. But here's the thing. It may be the case that Donald Trump is so full of confidence that he thinks he can wave his wand and whatever he wants to happen will happen. And in many cases, he will be right. For example, the Republicans in the Senate, just go ahead and confirm people for jobs that they know they are not qualified for. So they will kowtow to him.

But I don't think that's going to happen with the courts. And here's the next part. They may not be able to force Donald Trump to do something, but Donald Trump isn't actually the guy who puts in the orders and cuts people's paychecks. There's somebody else in the system who does that. And they're a click down from Donald Trump and a click down from that and a click down from that.

And when a federal court issues an order and then gets people in front of them and says, you either follow that order or find yourself in contempt. Now we're going to see whether or not those are people who are going to say, oh, but Donald Trump told me and a judge is going to say, I don't care what Donald Trump told you. I'm telling you what the law is. You follow the law. All hypothetical. And if what she says is true, then who cares? Yeah. Then what's the big deal, Rachel?

What's the big deal? Yeah. Then we're good to go. Yeah. It sounds like it to me. I don't see what the problem is. A lot of protests. By the way, the Fredericksburg 50, they were also protesting against Elon and Tesla. And, oh yeah, you got to protest against Tesla. Although weren't there revenues up that I read something that they actually had a pretty good quarterly. Well, they have a lot of international sales is a big deal.

Yeah. But the, the, the, the big problem is the scientists, the scientists, you know, funding is getting cut everywhere. They're not, they're not getting to do all their projects, which of course comes from the transgender mice story. That was quite interesting. When I was a kid in the olden days, there were places like bell labs, these corporations that have their own damn research. They didn't rely on government handouts to do fake research. Why, why did that, how did that change?

Don't these corporations and these high paid CEOs, shouldn't they take some of that money and put it into R and D? No, that's all the universities. The universities get all that money. The universities provide the lab and then the grants go to the scientists. And they were out protesting hundreds were standing up for science because if standing up for science, because if the funding goes away, well, all hell's going to break loose.

Scientists and researchers from institutions across the front range, making time to leave their workplaces on Friday and rallying for science funding at the state Capitol. Science is factual and it saves lives. It's very cathartic to be out here screaming at the top of our lungs. It feeds researchers. It feels cathartic to be out here screaming at the top of our lungs. that's cool.

Wasn't it, wasn't there like a, I think a role thing or something used to be a role, a therapy, a role thing, role thing. Yeah, it was a role thing. You yell at the top of your lungs and you felt good. Well, no, I think role thing is also they do. Well, you scream at the top of your lungs while they're putting their knuckles in your back. I think there was a two-parter on that. I think that was a massage parlor. I've heard of it. It's factual and it saves lives.

It's very cathartic to be out here screaming at the top of our lungs. These researchers from CU Anschutz say every day feels like they're in limbo. Last month, the federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration policy that would significantly lower the agency's funding for major research institutions, more specifically limiting NIH research funding for overhead expenses that make their work possible. Those court ordered restrictions fall by the wayside.

We will be doomed within a matter of weeks. The cuts would eliminate a total of nearly $90 million in NIH funding at CSU, CU Anschutz and CU Boulder. These scientists say the impacts to research in Colorado would be huge. So you're not getting the future training for future scientists and researchers, but you're also not going to be making the discoveries that allow us to improve health and allow us to identify those new targets and new biomarkers and new drugs, new drugs.

We won't have new drugs that save lives. Pharmaceutical companies are supposed to invest in research and development for new drugs. They do big pharma. What does it got to do with you? No, they do after, after you create the drug, the new drugs, then pharma, you know, pays you handsomely with a, you know, you get a nice little residual and then they pay you to promote it in your white lab coat. I am generalizing, of course.

Yeah. And, and even, and man, this was, this is on, on par with the, with the Connecticut, which former NIH director Francis Collins probably got this clip, probably as much responsible for the COVID for prolonging. Should probably be in jail. Yeah. Yeah, probably. That guy's just no good. And I remember during COVID, he was out there with his guitar and then he and his wife were singing puff the magic dragon songs. You remember that? Oh yeah. Wait, do we still have that? Let me see.

Let me see if we still have that. Yeah. He likes to play the guitar, that guy, but he only plays folk songs. Yeah. Cause he, yeah, because he's only five chords. He needs to know. And he just plays them and sings off key. That's what folk folk song is today. Well, here he is at the standup for science rally. Noble dream. You got that. So it's just all the good people, but the second line, part of this family and the last line, we're joined together by this noble dream. Do that with me.

This is a song for all the good people. Come on. Don't eat the brown acid. We're part of this family. This is a song for all the good people. We're joined together by this noble dream. Well, this is a song for all of those dreamers. We're looking for answers to come our way. Scientists, doctors, students, sharing the hopes for a much brighter. I got to stop that. It's too much. It's too much. Well, that will stop. That will show Trump. Yeah. I'll stop. That'll show him bastard.

There is one thing that I found quite interesting after, after this, the state of the not state of the union speech that the president did. He, man, David wickers texting me. He, he, so he discussed the research for transgender mice. Now, technically what the re the $8 million for transgender mice, technically, it was to test the response to mice being transitioned with either testosterone or estrogen. And different puberty blockers, et cetera.

But you could kind of say that's, you know, testing transgender mice, but that then got a big lie came out. Oh no, they read that wrong. Doge read it wrong. It's, it's a trend trends. What was it? Transgenetic, whatever. But the, so CNN was out there saying this for about a week. Oh, he lied. It's not, they misread it. They don't know the difference between transgender and transgenetic. Hmm. But they had to go back and correct that they fact checked it. And CNN published that.

Oh, then, you know, I don't think they said it on the air. So we were wrong about that, but the president wasn't right either because they wasn't really transgender mice. Like that's the thing, but they were testing puberty blockers and other transgender transitioning drugs on the mice. So you can hear this now take place.

Axelrod was on the panel with Van Jones and Scott Jennings and Scott Jennings even says as Van Jones, because he wasn't read in on it because he's still hanging out with this a hundred million dollars from Bezos doing whatever. He has no time to follow everything. Didn't get the briefing. He's like, and the Jennings actually says, what were we told to say then? Because Scott Jennings knows the initial blush of, of, of Musk with his chainsaw may have had some resonance.

These, the fact that he's cutting down stuff indiscriminately less. So, well, it's not all indiscriminate. I mean, we don't really need the transgender mice, do we? I mean, it is real. I'm sorry, man. It's real. No, hold on a second. Did we, did we have to, did we have to say it was real or not? No, no, it's real. I mean, Musk was a real thing. So listen, they weren't talking about trans. Don't get in the mice. No, no, listen, you don't want to talk about it.

We don't talk about it, but it wasn't transgender. It was a different term that was misinterpreted as transgender. They were actually trying to do doing basic medical experiment on mice to figure out don't spoil a good troll. Having a good troll. Don't spoil it. Here's the point. They have found some things. Yes. And there you go. So Van Jones, it's a different term, but he didn't know the term. Stop counting your money, Van. Can you believe the basis?

You got a hundred million bucks out of the blue. You got to spend all your time money managing after that. It's so annoying to read the newspaper. Even so annoying. I have no more time to do anything else. I'm counting the money. It's a problem. Who gave this was, I think this was clip custodian or his brother gave me this clip. The last time a president tried to undo the department of education was Ronald Reagan. And meet the press brought up an old clip from his, from his Doge guy.

President Trump is considering an executive order, which would abolish the department of education. Though as a federal department, it cannot be eliminated without congressional approval. But Mr. Trump is not the first president to push for its removal. Ronald Reagan also tried to scrap the education department, but he later backed down citing lack of support in Congress. Reagan's education secretary, William Bennett joined meet the press to explain.

As I've said to conservatives in the past six months, if we're elected, we ought to govern and we ought to govern aggressively. The president, you know, nine months ago said he changed his mind about the department. He said he didn't think we needed to get rid of it anymore. He said it wasn't bothering anybody anymore. I would say now it's bothering the right people. You have said though, that sometimes Republicans seem to think that you just don't need to spend money on education.

What did you mean by that? Well, we are as a nation going to spend more money. Americans like to spend more money on education. And when we put forward our budget proposals and admittedly, on some occasions we asked for reductions, Congress just rejected them out of hand. American people want to spend more, but what we know is it's not the spending more. It's what you spend it on. And if we spend it on the right things in those inner cities and those poor schools, we'll get results.

If we spend it on the wrong things, what the special interests want us to do, we're not going to get anywhere. Well, should be interesting to see what happens. Does, does Al Green tell you what's going to happen? Nothing's going to happen. Well, that's what you said about Doge and things have happened. More has happened. I was skeptical. I'm not going to deny it, but I'm glad that things are happening, but still there's a lot of pushback.

And I think they got to go back to finding these stupid programs and then exposing them, which is what Rand Paul's been doing this for decades. Yeah. Yeah. He, he votes up every year and he, and he gets no credit. I tried to get ahold of his office to get some comment on this. He's not going to talk to a podcaster. He's not going to know. He, you can't even get through to his chief of staff.

It's, it's one of those operations that did Mike Lee's got one of these two, these guys, they're, they're basically cut themselves off from the public. They don't want, they're, they're disdainful of any discussion or back and forth with the public as opposed to other people. I've run into these, these offices. They'd be glad to help you, but these guys won't help. So instead of getting any kind of credit, Rand Paul is getting nothing. He's a, he's a dipshit the way I see it.

Did you, did you call him? He's been doing the same thing for all these years. Did you call like a Kentucky accent and say you were constituent? I couldn't. Do you want to hear the story? Yeah, of course. Okay. So they, everything you, if you call his office, you always go, everything goes to the voicemail. If you're a member of the record, these, by the way, you need to, this is show material that you're just throwing away by not recording it. I agree. So you can be, if you're media.

So I have the media line. So I call the media line. It says, okay, leave your message. Uh, and tell us when you leave a number, call back, tell you what the calls about. So yeah, I'm John C. Dvorak and I'm click. It's a wait, wait. Hello. Is this thing on? It's that old coot again. Hang up. No, it's just a machine itself. They won't take the call. It's just like, it's, you can tell they don't. It's the thing. Well, it doesn't give you enough time to even put a phone number in.

Wow. So that was it. Yeah. You gave up after that. I give up quick. You called them. I supposed to do. I banged my head against the wall to give somebody some free publicity. Forget it. They get their own damn publicity. Well, okay. Do you have a phone patch? Because you definitely need a phone patch. You need to patch that thing in man, just so you can get a zoom and just connected so you can just record whenever we're always missing the cool scam calls. The all the, I guess I'm great ones.

Yeah, but not recorded. You have nothing recorded. This is, this is a problem. Uh, there's no, I'm a slouch. Yes. Um, okay. I'm going to violate my rule for the second time just because it was so awesome and it's a bit of a throwback to the show back to 2015 as president Trump signed the executive order to create the strategic Bitcoin reserve. Um, here is the misinformation from Rachel Maddow. I should say I am by no means a crypto expert.

I'm not going to give you a lecture on blockchain or coins or any of that. I just, Hey, I don't know. And be, I don't care. but I do think it's worth looking at this thing a little bit. So if you're going to start off by telling everyone you don't know what you're talking about, you know, how does that compelling TV radio or whatever? How's it compelling? Hey, Adam, I don't know anything about this topic, but I'm going to pontificate.

If both of us were making $25 million a year, I'd be like, I don't care. Pontificate away. I'm good to go. Whatever you want to say. You got me. Yeah. I don't care. Um, but I do think it's worth looking at this crypto thing a little bit only because it is a deeply, deeply old fashioned, simple scam at this point, which points right to the white house news from the white house tonight really gives us no choice. You have to look at it.

Hopefully the broad strokes of crypto trading are not complicated. It's, it's like when there was the beanie baby craze in the late nineties, people started buying these stuffed animals, right? So she is now about 10 years after us. When we first saw Bitcoin, we all said beanie babies, beanie babies years ago, at least. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Kind of inherently not worth much, but people were speculating on them, right?

It was a beanie baby trading bubble other than maybe some emotional value. If you had one as a child, beanie babies didn't have much inherent value. And when I mentioned that the news tonight leaves us not too much, not much choice, but to, but to talk about this stuff right now, this is what I mean.

The white house just posted this video tonight of Donald Trump signing an executive order establishing a digital Fort Knox, as someone says to the president off camera, Trump apparently signing this executive order, creating what they're describing as a federal government cryptocurrency reserve. Now imagine the beanie babies again for a second. Imagine Trump had just announced that the U S government was going to just cannot get cheap talks too much. Hey, for $25 million, I'll talk up a storm.

And imagine Trump had just announced that the U S government was going to buy up tons of beanie babies. No, we're going to establish a federal government reserve of billions of beanie babies. What do you think would happen to the value of beanie babies? Right? Oh, it turns out there's a huge guaranteed buyer for these things. They're buying billions of them.

Okay. So the point here being that she's really full of crap because there is no billions of Bitcoin being bought by the federal government, quite the opposite actually. And, uh, the scam, if it was a scam, worked out really great as Bitcoin has dropped down to 83,000 let's back up. Uh, no, it's, it's, it's back down. It's up and down, up and down. But it was, it was close to 108 ,000. It dropped down after, you know, it took too long. Cause of course everyone's in on the scam.

It took too long for the strategic Bitcoin reserve. And now Trump came out with a meme coin. Oh no. And now it's down below 85,000. And there's good reasons for that because a lot of people were stupid and believed exactly what Rachel Maddow said, that there will be a strategic Bitcoin reserve and the government be using your tax dollars to buy more Bitcoin and nothing could be further from the truth. And I think it's actually a great executive order.

And here's his announcement of it during the crypto crypto conference. Yesterday I signed an executive order officially creating our strategic Bitcoin reserve. And this will be a virtual Fort Knox for digital gold to be housed within the United States treasury. That's a big thing.

The federal government is already among the largest holders of Bitcoin, as you know, uh, really one of the largest holders in the world with as many as 200,000 Bitcoin obtained via civil law and various other forms of law and including enforcement actions. These existing holdings will form the foundation of the new reserve.

The treasury and commerce departments will also explore new pathways to accumulate additional Bitcoin holdings for the reserve, provided it's done at no cost to the taxpayers. We don't want any cost to the taxpayers. Now, this of course, was not the actual big news from this round table, which I will play in a moment. But just briefly on the executive order, I like the fact that it starts off with the background saying Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency.

The Bitcoin protocol permanently caps the total supply of Bitcoin at 21 million coins and has never been hacked. As a result of its scarcity and security, Bitcoin is often referred to as digital gold. And then it says, because there's a fixed supply of Bitcoin, there's a strategic advantage to being among the first nations to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve. Then the executive order is very clear that no Bitcoin will be purchased. If any Bitcoin is acquired, it has to be budget neutral.

Now, that doesn't mean that you can't say, hey, I'm going to fine you, company, Apple, whatever, Google, they fine people all the time, pay it to us in Bitcoin or any other way. But that really was so anybody who was gambling on that to be a big catalyst was very short sighted and just got caught up in hype. The real news came from Scott Besant, our openly gay Treasury secretary. How come they don't mention that? That's mentioned now and again. Not really.

Well, they don't push it because it's a Demi, because it's because it's a Republican and gay can't have the gays thinking that they could be Republicans. We want to keep them on the Democrat side. So don't talk about if you're in the media, you're talking about him being gay. You're doing the wrong thing. You're not helping. You're not helping at all. Exactly. But here was the big news, as far as I'm concerned.

Much of Treasury's responsibility in this order relates to the tax code and determinations around risk weightings. And I'm here to assure you that we are going to work with the control of the currency, the IRS, and we're going to rescind and amend all applicable previous guidance. OK, so that was kind of hard to hear in the second part. I hear it.

Well, he was he's saying we're going to change the tax code, which a lot of people think means that there may not be capital gains on selling your Bitcoin. I'm skeptical of that. But here, hopefully you can hear this next part. And we are going to put a lot of thought into the stablecoin regime. And as President Trump has directed, we are going to keep the U.S., the dominant reserve currency in the world. And we will use stablecoins to do that. A trillion dollar coin. Exactly as I predicted.

Yeah, you've been I have to say you've kind of even though you don't have it. I'm going to hate to use this word sussed. Since you brought it up earlier out completely, I think you're right. Yeah, they're going to they're going to. No, I do have it. And by the way, talking about openly gay. Tammy Bruce is now in the administration. You know, she is the spokeshole for State Department. She's the state or defense. No, I think state. She's the new Psaki or she defend. Maybe she is defense.

It's one of the but she's openly gay. Yeah, it's crazy. LGBTQ rights being violated again. Not to be held back. Fifi Lagarde came out president of the European Central Bank and in as much announced the digital euro coming this October. On your second point, I tend to share your views. Nature doesn't like vacuum. And we start. She is a robot. Started working on the digital euro way back.

Actually, when I started my term five and a half years ago, and I'm not claiming, you know, parental parentality on. She's totally claiming parental rights to it. The digital euro, because my colleague, Benoit Curie, had already committed a speech on this matter before I arrived. But I certainly carried on with that project. And subsequently, Fabio Panetta on the board and then Polanyi, who has. OK, we get it. You did it. You're the best.

Fabio have taken the lead together with a very, very good team, which is focused on accelerating the pace and hopefully campaigning enough with all the stakeholders, meaning European Parliament, meaning European Council, meaning European Commission, so that we can eventually, you know, not put to bed, but put to reality this digital euro. The deadline for us is going to be October of 25. And we are getting ready for that deadline.

But we will not be able to move unless the other parties, the stakeholders, as I call them, Commission, Council and Parliament, actually complete the legislative process, without which we will not be able to move. And I think it is critically important. And it seems to the agnostic or the sceptics, it seems to be more relevant and more of an imperative now than ever before, both on the wholesale and on the retail level, both.

So I'm thinking, since this is a central bank digital currency, that's how the EU is going to finance their weapons industry. Just make a whole bunch of these digital things. This is a house of cards. Yes, of course it is. The whole thing is, well, by the way, you have so much digital, your savings is going to be digital. So I'm going to have $100,000 in the bank, let's say I'm a rich person living in France, and the next thing you know, I've got $50,000. What happened to the rest of it?

Well, you're helping Ukraine. It's for the good of the country. Do you want war or do you want $50,000? Wasn't it Cyprus that had all this digital thing, and they just took everyone's money? Okay, all the savings accounts and everybody that lives here, half of your money is gone. That was the Russians. The Russians did that, didn't they? I think the Russians closed it down. I don't know who did it, but I do remember it happening. It was just like, well, what are you going to do about it?

What happened to my money? It's gone. We took it. I want it back. And it's gone. It's like that star at the South Park. And it's gone. It's like you don't get it back. This is the way it is. This is by law. It's going to be interesting. Rachel Maddow could have talked about the stable coins as Beanie Babies. I would have been in on that. That would have been better than what she did. Well, she said herself that she doesn't know what she's talking about. So there you have it.

And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage. And see you in the morning. To you, the man who put the sea in Krone. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMora. Wow, in the morning to you, Mr. Alan McCurry. Also in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feeding the air, subs in the water. And all the dames and knights out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Let me count you for a second. All right, 2,452.

I think that is a little below our recent average. Yeah, for a weekend. Because it's because we expected a blurt. A blurt, yes. And we got nothing. Well, I mean, no, we didn't. Oh, the average chart is not loading. Cotton gin. Oh man, I hate it when that happens. Yeah, we expected a blurt. Didn't really. I mean, and you know what? Oh, here we go. The average Sunday last show was 2,759. The last 10 shows, 2,551. So we're below the average. We're below the average for the last 10 shows.

Well, of course, you'd be going offline for a long time. It could have hurt some of that. Yeah, I'm sure. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man. Is that Australian? We'll put an asterisk. That's the Australian gear I've got. You know, it's like it's made in Australia. Who knows? Yeah, by Elmer Fudd. You get what you pay for. Anyway, those trolls are here to listen to the show live. And I think a lot of the trolls actually enjoy when it goes wrong. You know, I know Mimi hates it.

But everybody else seems to like it. Oh, this is funny. It's not working. You're in denial of the lower numbers. What do you mean? The good numbers. Not everybody must like it because the numbers have fallen off from the average of 25 to 24. No, that has to do with your newsletter. It has nothing to do with me going offline. The trolls listen at trollroom.io. They also can listen on a modern podcast app. Today, I'm going to say that a good one to try is Castamatic if you're using an iPhone.

Castamatic is a very nice iPhone app. You can find many of those modern apps at podcastapps.com. The good thing about these podcast apps is they let you listen to the live show in addition to... And this is going to... Eventually, Apple's going to do this. And radio stations around the country are starting to understand that you can do this because there is no central app, really. There's no central place to get your radio stations.

And now, you know, like Noah Jenner's stream, that's a radio station, basically. So you can listen to the stream and you get an alert when we go live. And when Planet Rage with Darren and Larry goes live, they send an alert too. You can listen to that in your podcast app. And also, when you release the podcast episode, you get notified within 90 seconds. Boom, you're good to go. No more waiting for an hour and a half from, you know, for Spotify. What is that for? Are you bored of my talk?

Yeah. No, it was to add some moment of excitement. Wow, you should do that more often. I feel it's very exciting. Very exciting. Thank you. Thank you for spicing it up. Appreciate it. This program, as you notice, was not interrupted in the first three minutes. And again, after 13 minutes to tell you that it's Ford Truck Month. Instead, we run it value for value, which means you're laughing. But there's a lot of Ford Truck Month ads going out. That's funny. Not really.

I wonder if they gave, you know, Leo is the one that was the original at the... He had the Ford Mustang, right? The old... Not, I think, no, he sold it once they gave... No, no. But he was... Wasn't he advertising the Mustang? No, he was advertising Ford, but Ford tested their marketing with the Twitch show. He ended up buying the Mustang, by the way. They didn't give it to him. I don't know how that works. He did that wrong. Yeah, I know. He doesn't know how to do it.

He still buys phones that he uses. I don't get that either. I want to be a good journalist. I want to be... I don't want to get... Hey, I'll take anything for free. Yeah, I'll talk about it. That's what you do. That's what you do if you're a real pro. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, so they tested with him, and I think that they found that, you know, there's moments when it's usable. I don't know whether he got any Ford truck promos, but... I heard a Ford... Go ahead.

I'm just saying, it sounds like a lot of people did. Oh, right. He was pitching the Ford Sync. Remember that horrible entertainment system? The Sync. Oh, yeah. We're the future of in-car entertainment. Okay. Way to go, Ford. Way to go. No, I actually heard the Ford Truck Month ad during the Midas Touch. I'm like, those people aren't buying trucks. It's very strange. Midas Touch people? Yeah. If they bought a used Volkswagen, it'd be a miracle.

So, we run our value for value, which means whatever you get out of the show, you just hand it back, whatever that is. Time, talent, treasure. You can do stuff. Lots of stuff can be done for the show. Get more people into the troll room, for instance. Get more people listening. Tell more people how great we are. You know, I love how every single... The new engagement farming is, you've got a podcast, and of course, we knew from day one, we don't want guests on this show.

It's the worst possible podcast strategy you can come up with. Because booking guests and getting them to sound right and get them to show up on time is a nightmare. You do not want to do that. So now, all these podcasts who have been built upon the Joe Rogan model... Boy, we have open conversations for hours with people. It's really entertaining. So they go on X, and they post, who should I invite on for my next guest? And they all do it. They all wind up doing it. They're hard up for guests.

Yes. And then, so you see a whole row, at Adam Curry, at The Real Dvorak, at Adam Curry and at The Real Dvorak. These guys, they're the best podcast in the universe. He invented podcasting. You should have him on. Not a single time ever have I gotten a show booking out of that. But I appreciate the effort. It never works. They have no desire to talk to me. I don't know why. But you're a jerk, maybe. I'm not a jerk. No, you're not, actually. I'm going on. You're a good guest. I'm going on.

Here's the problem. No, here, I'll tell you what it is. Oh, okay. Well, good. How can I change this? Well, it's because you know too much. Well, I can't change that unless I get on the special K. You know too much. And you're also a knee-jerk Republican. But even though you're not, I know you're not a Republican. You seem like a Republican to them. Well, but I'm talking like Patrick Bet-David. Oh, they're not going to put you on. Why not? Because I know too much.

Yeah, I think it's because you know too much. And you'll call them out. Those guys value attainment. I mean, right there, it's a ridicule. Bait for you. You're right. Value attainment. You're so right. I would start it off with, I hope to bring more value attainment to your program today than ever before. Yeah, you know. You could go on Glenn Beck again. I think you fit there. But see, Beck tried to hire me and I said no. And I think that that put me in bad graces with him. You know what I mean?

He wanted me, hey. Well, then he's very pretentious. He's got to be. And he seems so. That if you bring a guest on, you like the guest. You like this guy. Well, he should be working for me. He brought me back. He had me on twice. Oh, okay. Did he try to hire you the first or second time? The second time. And then he wouldn't bring you back after that? Well, he was like, you know, I'd really like. So he brought you in. Okay, he brought you in as a pilot. Yep. So it's a pilot episode. Pilot test.

Well, it is. Adam's pretty good. Let's bring him back on. This time we'll throw the pitch at him. See if he wants to work for us and disappear off the face of the earth. No offense. No, no, not to be fair. He wanted me to be his every Friday guest on the show, on the radio show. Every Friday? Yeah. How's that? That's an interesting idea. No, it's not. I don't want to work for anybody. I don't want. No. Well, you just take a quick drive to Austin on Fridays. You're not working the show here.

Why don't you take a quick drive to Austin? I'm not taking a short drive, no. I'd have to fly in and just be on me. This is not an exit strategy. No, I don't want. Some icing on the cake. No. Some promotion for this show. Ah, there it is. There's the true John. You don't care about me. You don't care. You just want to work me like a slave, like a monkey boy. Dance, monkey boy. Dance. You can do it. Drive to Austin. You nailed me. Yeah. No, I'm not going to do it.

Anyway, because I like Beck. And I think it's fun to be on his podcast. And I've been on his radio show. I like him a lot. But just the phone's not ringing anymore from Dallas. I don't know what's going on. I don't know. Oh, he's in Dallas? I thought he was in Austin. No. Oh, he's in Dallas. You're right. He's got that dynamite museum. That's too far. Yeah. No, no. But it could just be a phoner. It could just be a phoner. Oh, that stinks. Anyway, we also enjoy when people just send us money.

Because that really does help keep the show going. It has worked so far for 17 years with its ups and downs. And did you throw out a sad puppy? Sad puppies in play. Sad puppies in play. Well, anyway, we always want to thank the people who support us financially. And what's a nice list today? Sad puppy is in play. Yeah. We thank everybody. It takes the content out of the newsletter. I had two problems. One, I have the Easter day wrong that I heard from a couple of people.

What are you talking about? What is Easter month? One guy says. And of course, Jay calls me immediately after the newsletter goes out. Because I looked it up. I said, and this is the mistake. First time I made it all year. When is Easter 2024? I asked Google. Oh, instead of 2025. And so, and what triggered that, what triggered the Easter thing is that last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday for all the Catholics. Virtue signalers.

They had to put a big patch of ashes on their forehead and show up on TV. That's not virtue signaling. That's a part of their vibe, man. It's a part of their. Okay. You can call it what you want. But I'm looking at Janine Pereira, whatever her last name is. Piro. Judge Janine. Judge Janine Piro. And she's got a smudge on her face. It's the size of New York City. It's a big mess. And she's on talking away like there's nothing different about it. The whole thing is ridiculous. It was a clip.

I didn't get it. Of Byron Donald. Byron Donald. Yeah. Byron Donald. And he's grilling the mayors about their. It was quite funny. I heard this clip. And then he had the mayor from, was it Boston? And she had. The woman. The Chinese woman. Yeah. And she had the big Ash Wednesday cross on her forehead. Yeah. So I always thought Ash Wednesday, being a former Catholic, was always near Easter. It used to be. No, it's 40 days. It's the beginning of Lent, 40 days until Easter.

Well, okay. Okay, Mr. Big Shot. How come you didn't notice in the newsletter that you proofread that I was way off on Easter? Because I don't look at content. There's no content in the newsletter. I'm just looking at spelling mistakes. And I saw it was a short newsletter. I'm like, okay, I messed up. I missed it. Sorry. I should have caught that. You're right. It's now. So I had Easter wrong. So I'm sorry. I apologize for that. It is now a collectible. Yeah. Yeah. That newsletter is collectible.

Collectible. It's a collectible. Bonehead move on my part. But it was a short content-less newsletter because, except for the one, you know, the hypocrite of the week. I always have that. Yeah. Because it was a plea for more donations because it was getting ridiculous. And the numbers that came in that morning were terrible. Yeah, and you are able to gauge that quite accurately after all these years. You know that if the numbers are down, that it's not going to get much better.

You have made a science out of that. You should write a book about it, honestly. You should. It's coming out right after the Vinegar book. And give it to the value attainment guys. So we always thank everybody who supports us with $50 or more. We're very transparent in this. We mention the people, unless they want to be anonymous, and how much they donated. And we have all kinds of, well, we don't have any of the like Patreon levels. You don't have to subscribe to get the show.

We just give you the show. We just love giving you the show. People used to put the show on CDs when CDs were still a thing. Maybe vinyl. Wouldn't be great to have the show on vinyl. That would be great to put a show on vinyl. So that would be a triple box set each show. Each show would be a box set of three vinyl. Yeah, because you can only get about half our on the side. Yeah, that would be cool. Um, now there's many, as I said, there's many ways that, uh, actually, I forgot the artists.

I can't believe I forgot the artists. I'm sorry, artists. Um, in fact, one artist, we want to thank the artist who brought us the artwork as a part of the time and talent portion of Value for Value. Episode 1744, we titled that Eula for Ukraine and Tanstafel, which I forget what the acronym means again. There are such things as free lunch. Yes, there you go. Uh, brought us the no agenda fried dodo bucket, which we thought was very, there were a number of good dodo.

First of all, for people who missed the show, you missed a doozy because we found out that dodo bird is quite delicious. Notoriously so. Notoriously delicious. So, and you know, as we always say, bad art only comes because we didn't give anybody, you know, we didn't have a great item in the show and your dodo three clips. And I was, I really thought, you know, it started with the woolly mice thing. It's like, oh, where's this going? And there was a massive shaggy dog.

You paid it off with the, with the, with the dodo, the delicious dodo. And, uh, I don't know about you, but they went extinct largely because people were eating them. Yeah, really? Yeah. Wow. And they were easy to catch because they were dumb. And so that's where the word dodo comes from because they're dumb. It was called dodo birds. And then the, the, the moniker, you're a dodo came from the bird because they would just stand around and say, oh, okay, what are you going to do with me?

Why are you picking me up? Okay. Oh, you're killing me now. Oh, now you're eating me. What's going on here? Uh, and they, they were just good, good eating and easy to get. And they were just dynamite. So there was the, they had no chance, but they could be bred. I think a big giant dodo farm. They didn't, the Dutch were, didn't have any foresight whatsoever. They just ate them all stupid Dutch.

I wish we could talk about the rest of the art, but the art generator seems to not be responding at the moment. Oh, do you get any response from it? I'm not getting any response. No agenda. Art generator.com is where you should be able to upload your art. Um, if, uh, oh no, no. Oh, I got a cloud flare error. Oh, that's no good. Uh, if you, if you can't upload it, then email it to John, John at Dvorak. No, he did. Adam mccurry.com. John at Dvorak.org. Email it to him.

Uh, if you, if we can't upload it, people are making the art during the show. Uh, oh boy, it's going to give Dreb headaches. Otherwise we're going to end up using a piece by a Darren. Open threat. You don't want that to happen. No agenda. Art generator.com. Thank you very much. Tom Stoffel. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Now to the, uh, the donors $50 and above in this segment, we'd like to thank our executive and associate executive producers. The way that works is $200 or above.

You get the exclusive title of associate executive producer for this episode. And that is something you can use anywhere that credits are recognized. Business cards, your LinkedIn, um, imdb.com. And if anyone questions, it will be very happy to vouch for you. And we'll also read your note. The same goes for our executive producers, $300 or above, and we will read your note and we kick it off with anonymous from Pennsburgh PA with five 1538, which I'm pretty sure is $500 plus the fees for PayPal.

We appreciate that. And anonymous says, what is the threshold for the ring thing? How long have you been listening to the, to the show? Are you just going from show to show and collecting goodies? It's a thousand dollars. You become a night of the knowage and the round table. That is not just a ring thing. Although you do get a handsome signet ring, which you can use to seal your important correspondence. We supply the wax with that and a certificate of authenticity.

And it's also great for picking up chicks. Thank you. And respectfully says anonymous. And we thank you very much. Anonymous. Yeah. We also thank Brian Moss who came with the exact same amount. Five, 1538 Rancho Santa Margarita, California. And he writes the no agenda show is the antidote to the exaggerated polarization that, that we are being fed through the M five M and social media. Yeah, that's exactly right. And then he says, you're a blessing to the world. I wish more would listen.

I wish more would listen to, you know, I wonder if that, I wonder if JC picked up that Trump VP rumor from social media. Is that possible? Do you think he's not like a social media nut? He seems like a blue sky kind of guy. Well, I don't know that. Definitely not that. Okay. Andrew Glenn is in the UK. Oh, there we are. A UK listener who has the balls to support us. You could go to jail over this $500 and not $509. I guess, uh, I guess they get a discount. I don't know what that is.

After over 13 years of douche baggery, since my last donation, your hilarious mad lib section, as in the lib Joes from show 1744, which I hope you will occasionally reprise, gave me the necessary shove. Here's proof. John people love that kind of show. What are we doing? Messing around doing this. He needs to de-douching. You've been de-douched. So please find my donation of $500 plus a bit extra for expenses. Thank you for the position of Commodore.

And I intend to follow this up in a week or so with a further donation, which will take me to knighthood. And with that will be a slightly longer note. In the meantime, I guess you're, you better de-douche me. You just did that. And can I also have some yacht selling karma? Oh, it's one of those guys. Your brother. Andrew Glenn. There you go, brother. Thank you so much. You've got karma. We go to Indianapolis, Indiana to Sir Greg, who also comes in with $500.

And he says, nice, short note says, thanks. Thank thanks for all you to do for us. Karma for everybody. Sir Greg of parts unknown. You've got karma. Catherine Knight is in Mesa, Arizona, executive producership for her. And she comes in with $400. And 33 cents. That cannot be an accident. ITM, she says, this donation allows me to become Dame CAC, roamer of the Hawes Hills. At the round table, I'd like filet mignon, medium rare, with borscht mineral water, which we. Borscht, oh, that's it.

I'm sorry. Sorry. Well, we had it shipped in from Romania. So I hope it's the right stuff. Is borscht something different? No, borscht is a sweet wine. No, I think this is the Romanian mineral water borscht. Keep up the good work. I rely on you for a sane view of the world. Ah, another soul saved or created. Perfect. Brandon Mango in Midland, Pennsylvania, $350.93. And his note is the best so far. He says, love the show. And we love you, sir.

Dr. Sharkey, Jackson, Tennessee, $333.34. Dear Adam and John, I apologize for my absence. Life happened. But I'm back. De-douche me just to be safe. You've been de-douched. You guys haven't lost your touch. Hearing you break down the BS brings some sanity back to the world. Looking back, I first donated to No Agenda in February of 2013. It's been the best value investment I've made. Also known as value tainment. I'd like some rev. Resist we much, sir. Dr. Sharkey. We much. We giddy. We dab.

We giddy. Oh no, first stop, Kansas. All right, there you go. You got a little extra from me. Nero Consulting in New York City. Nero Consulting, $333.33. No note. So Nero Consulting gets a double up, Karma. You've got double up, Karma. Onward to Nathan Rottier. Rottier. Eureka River, Alberta, Canada. See, they don't hate us. They still consume our products. Tariff-free. $333.33 executive producership for you.

I was going to wait until my usual annual donation, but the newsletter was getting more and more dire. So here's an early one. Hey, good job, John. See, he didn't care. He didn't care about your canard. Jingles Hot Pockets and a C35 guy. What in the world is this? P.S. special thanks to Eli the Coffee Guy. Hot Pockets. In the bathroom, taking a shave. Oh, wait a minute. And I heard us. Hold on a second. That's not the right one. Oh, how did I get that one wrong? That's the long version.

What was that? Well, that's the guy, but I needed the ISO, I guess. Yeah, this is it. Oh, I said, what in the world is this? There you go. Now we have Ronald Pokrant, or Pokrant. Parts unknown. $333.33. Note unknown. So he'll get a double up karma. You've got karma. Commodore Brennan. Perrysburg, Ohio. $333.33. Our last executive producer for this show. We're very grateful for that. I mean, grateful that we have so many. And he says, the sad puppy in the newsletter always pulls at the heart.

How could I resist a call to action like that? Well, we're glad that you didn't resist, we much. This donation also puts me over knighthood status. Henceforth, I would like to be known as Sir Commodore Brennan of the Black Swap. Please add knufla soup. Am I saying that right? Knufla. I have no idea. Knufla. Knufla. Maybe it's just knufla soup to the round table. And he wants to hear some mac and cheese. And he says, thanks. Commodore Brennan of the Glass City.

You slaves can get used to mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Macaroni and cheese. Cheddar melted together. Hey, everybody. Christy Zeitz in Hampton Bays, New York. Will be our first associate executive producer. $250 and another fabulous note. She says, thanks. We love notes like that. Rachel Epperson is in Chicago, Illinois. Row of Ducks, 222.22. And she says that she emailed the note, but I did not receive anything from Rachel. Did you receive anything?

Well, now I should go look and do a search on the email and find out. I mean, Epperson, E-P-P. Let's try it. E-P-P-E-R-S-O-N, I think. No. Okay. Well, email us back, Rachel. We're happy to give you a make good. Yeah, I got nothing. Eric Reinhart comes up. San Antonio, Texas, 210.60. And he says, newsletter donation indubitably. Beautiful. 205 from Todd in Northern Virginia.

John, get ready with your noisemaker because he says, in the morning, John and Adam, I was enjoying another fine episode, fully engaged in the deconstruction when suddenly chimes. Oh, the chimes. Cute chimes. Chimes. At first, I thought I was hearing things. Was it the wind? The sound of God? No, it was John masterfully deploying his donation -driving chime psyop. And you got me. The subliminal percussion worked.

My hand involuntarily reached for my wallet, and now here I am sending in a donation like some kind of activated NPC. Well done, gentlemen. In fact, you got me so good that this donation pushes me over the top for knighthood. So please knight me as Sir Todd of the Jingling Winds. Please pass the mutton and meat and keep those sweet, sweet chimes a coming. In the morning. That's good. Last on our list, we got Linda Lupatkin. There she is in Lakewood, Colorado. What happened to Eli the coffee guy?

I guess he missed. He missed the deadline. He always comes in very late at night. Well, anyway, I'll just give him a plug for gigawattcoffeeroasters.com. Because you had too many cups today again. Linda Lupatkin, Lakewood, Colorado. $200 jobs karma for a competitive edge with a resume that gets results. Go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs. That's ImageMakersInc with a K. And work with Linda Lu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes.

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I got three Ohio State hoodies. Oh, nice. It works. One of them from Dreb Scott, who sent a terrific design. One of his buddies did it out of Detroit. Really? And then I got another one. There's also a red one that came in. I don't have the guy's name. I want him to write me so I can give him a thanks on the air.

But also, I got another hoodie, plus a bunch of souvenirs, including a small icon, a doll called Brutus, which I guess is the guy's mascot, a horrible looking animal from the Park Street Law Group, Jay Madison in particular, or Jeff Madison. And he sent in a hoodie plus some other stuff. I want to thank him and everybody who's followed up, finally, from Ohio State, one of the greatest universities in the world. Okay. All right. Don't use bingit.io to hear previous remarks.

Well, previous remarks are null and void. So very sad, very sad, sad news that Mimi's theory was wrong. Wrong, I tell you, about Gene Hackman. Yes, yes, it was. It was more grotesque, depending on which version you've heard. Tonight, New Mexico authorities with tragic revelations to a week-long mystery, saying Gene Hackman died of heart disease and complications from Alzheimer's, likely a week after his wife, Betsy, died of the rare deadly disease, Hantavirus.

The cause of death for Mr. Gene Hackman, aged 95 years, is hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer's disease as a significant contributory factor. The cause of death for Ms. Betsy Hackman, aged 65 years, is Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Hantavirus is transmitted to humans by mice. There's been less than 900 cases since the CDC started tracking it in 1993. Hantavirus can be transmitted to people through rodent urine droppings or saliva.

The couple, married for 30 years, were found dead inside their Santa Fe home by a neighborhood caretaker February 26th. Hackman, found in the mudroom, appearing to have suddenly fallen, Betsy in the bathroom with pills scattered on the counter, her body further decomposed than her husband's. Based on the circumstances, it is reasonable to conclude that Ms. Hackman passed away first, with February 11th being the last time that she was known to be alive.

Officials say pacemaker data indicates Hackman likely died February 18th. Does this mean Gene Hackman was likely home with his deceased wife for a week before he passed away himself? Yes, I would assume that that is the case. This is a very, very bad day for these people. It was gruesome, this whole idea. Hantavirus. Hantavirus. And they had a number there. What was the number of the cases they said, total? 900 or 600? Yeah, it's not very big. I actually have a... It's bigger than the measles.

Hello! Oh, we're going to get to that. I have a Hantavirus clip from 99 that explains the Hantavirus. When CDC investigators compared the antibodies from the outbreak victims to those in their vast file of known diseases, they made a surprising discovery. The only sample that was in any way similar was one that was 40 years old. It was a sample taken from a soldier stationed in Korea in 1950. During the Korean War, more than 3,000 troops developed high fevers and kidney failure. About 400 died.

Doctors called it Hantavirus because it was traced back to Korea's Hantan River. That region was home to large numbers of striped field mice. Feces and urine from infected mice carried the virus. When it dried out, it became airborne and was then inhaled by the soldiers. From there, the virus attacked the kidneys. Wow. That's from the forensic files. Does that sound right to you? You being our resident. Yeah, it's a terrible product. So they didn't explain the dog.

Did the dog just starve to death? Well, they did say that there were pills scattered on the floor. No, on the counter, not on the floor, on the counter. Well, I'm skeptical. The dog needs to be explained. Maybe he did starve to death, but he could have eaten one. That's what dogs would do. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Maybe he ate some of her and got Hantavirus. I don't know. Well, the story continues to unfold. I got a note from one of our producers. I was listening to the show.

Couldn't help but chuckle during your Oscar Awards talk with John today. And of course, we were talking about Gene Hackman getting very, very little airtime for his illustrious and lengthy career. And our producer says, I work with a tribute package team for award shows. Huh? I know, it's ludicrous, the people that we have listening. It is well known in our little circle how much of a hard time the Oscars seems to have with their in-memoriam package.

This is industry inside stuff you'll never hear about. Brunetti, listen up. I don't work on that show specifically, so I don't have any really good inside gossip to share with you. But it's very common for a final product to be harmed by internal board member politics. I've witnessed it many times in the past, and can only imagine how egregious it is at the Oscars. Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, of course. I wonder what kind of... Was Hackman a Republican, or what was the deal? I don't know.

I don't know. Supported Trump? That could be. Possibly, although I don't think he did. I don't think we didn't hear much of him. Anyway, since you brought up measles, the big pharma is on a trip with this measles thing, man. It's unbelievable what they're coming up with now. This is CBS. And today's health watch, the measles outbreak is showing no signs of slowing down. Get this. Last year, there were a total of 285 cases. At least 164 cases of the virus have been detected so far this year.

Two unvaccinated people who were diagnosed have died, a child in Texas and an adult in New Mexico. We know measles is a severe and potentially deadly virus, right? But a lesser known fact is how the virus can damage the immune system, raising the risk of other infections even after the person has recovered. It's called immune amnesia. Have you ever heard of this bullcrap? No. Immune amnesia. So first of all, potentially deadly virus. Yeah, the flu... Can't the virus is worse? The flu is...

The numbers are higher. The flu kills tens of thousands of people a year, but okay, it's about vaccines, obviously. Let's bring in Celine Gounder, a doctor. How exactly does measles wipe out immunity to other viruses people have already been exposed to? That confuses me. Well, we know of other viruses... It's confusing because we've never heard of this before ever. No. Confuses me. Well, we know of other viruses that infect the immune system. HIV is probably the best known one.

Measles infects immune cells, and when it does so, it damages immune cells, and it wipes out partially your memory, your immune system's memory to certain infections. So it leaves you more susceptible to getting some of those infections. Now, we have an animation here to help you understand how this works. Okay. They literally have a drawing of two jars with colored balls in it. Let's say you have two babies. As they grow... They're not babies. They're jars with balls in it, Celine.

Their immune systems mature, and they both gain immunity to different infections, which is represented here by the different colored marbles. Okay, marbles. One baby gets vaccinated against measles at age one, and then later at age four, that baby gains immunity to measles through vaccination, which is what you're seeing here with the red marbles. Okay, all right. Which, there we go. There we go. The other baby doesn't get vaccinated and is not immune to measles.

At age five, both kids will start school, and the unvaccinated child gets measles. So if that kid is lucky, it's a mild case, and they don't need to be hospitalized. They develop immunity to measles from... I need to stop right here. How do you get a mild case of the measles? What does she mean by that? The only thing I can think of is that your immune system is strong, and therefore the effects of the measles are not as strong on you, or that, you know... I don't understand a mild case.

It used to be something like that, because I remember when my son JC had chicken pox. He had a mild... I would have to say it's a mild case, because there were like two pox. Two pox? He was a two pox Shakur. He was a two pox. It was like ludicrous. Okay. So strong immune system, those Dvorak's. That kid is lucky. It's a mild case, and they don't need to be hospitalized. They develop immunity to measles from the infection, Wait, how many kids were ever hospitalized from measles?

That's a really bad case. A normal case, you wouldn't get hospitalized. You don't have to be a mild case. No, you can be sick. This story's bullcrap. Oh, but they're doing this for a reason. They develop immunity to measles from the infection, but immunity to other infections is weakened, and that leaves them at higher risk for other infections. That's because the measles is damaging your immune system and erasing that memory to other viruses. Bull. That was digestible.

Thank you for putting it like that. Dennis Schott would do the same thing to you, because that gives you a mild case, doesn't it? Ah, this is the question. Can you fix that with boosters? So if somebody's been infected with the measles, is there anything they can do to regain the immunity that they've lost? No, it's just time. Time for your immune system to build back up and recover. Build back better.

The best thing is not to get measles in the first place, and the best way to do that is to get vaccinated. Because we were always told that once you get it, it lasts your lifetime. Once you get vaccinated, yes, you're covered for your lifetime. One dose gets you to about 95%. Two doses to 97% coverage. Well, then you're not covered for your lifetime. And it was 93 in other reports, but now it's 97. So pretty much if you've gotten your measles vaccination, you are set.

You are immune for your lifetime. Should people try to get boosters just because of this outbreak? Well, there's a very specific age group where you may want to consider getting a booster. Oh, John, did you get a measles vaccine? No, I had the measles. Yeah, I had the measles too, but pay attention. So if you were born after 1957, but vaccinated before 1963, you may not have immunity from measles infection or vaccination. Really?

Because that's an age group also where the vaccines that we had available were not as effective. So if you're in that very specific age group, again, born after 1957, vaccinated before 1963, you may want to get a measles booster. Just get a booster. Whatever it is, get a booster. It can't hurt. What can it hurt? Just get a booster. Now, this immunity amnesia, which I really question the validity of this, but this is a CBS, it's big pharma pays their bills.

So we've got all this anti-vax stuff out there. So we might as well try it with this one. How long does that immunity last? I mean, the amnesia. I'd never heard of the phrase immune amnesia. Because it's dumb. Do the effects of that last? Well, from studies, it can last months to a couple of years. So, you know, it really does set a child back.

And back before kids were being vaccinated for measles, it's estimated that half of the deaths were actually from other infections they got later because of that weakened immune system. This is fear mongering on parents. That makes me have to play these COVID clips. Wait, wait, I got to play the last one because it's all about RFK Jr., obviously. There's so much information out there, but it's different when it comes from the White House.

Earlier this week in a Fox News interview, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. supported some unconventional treatments for measles, including vitamin A and cod liver. Are these effective tools? I mean, what does science tell us? Oh, please, are you kidding me? What does science have? Science for cod liver oil. Look at your face. So there were three humans. It's like you're struggling to hold your face straight. You can see your lip curled up a little bit.

So you have cod liver oil, which has vitamin A. What is cod liver? Cod liver oil. Oil from the cod liver. Cod from a fish's liver? Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. That's been around for centuries. Okay. But it is a good source of vitamin A. In very malnourished kids in developing countries, studies showed that it helps reduce certain complications for measles, in particular blindness. But you don't see that in the US. Less than 1% of kids have that kind of thing.

So unfortunately, this is not very good advice. It's not very good advice because it comes from RFK Jr. It's not good advice. Before you do your COVID clips, I have two clips from McCullough about the measles specifically. Good, yes, because he'll give us some rundown on this, even though he sells pills. Yeah, he does sell pills. I was going to say cod liver oil, because we don't get enough omega-3s. It's loaded with that, too. It's a product that's been around for centuries.

Yes, because cod liver oil. In fact, all of the Nordic countries, they gobble this stuff down. When I was in Iceland, I remember going to the grocery store. I always go to grocery stores when I travel. And there was like an aisle, an aisle of cod liver oil and cod oil and fish oils. There must have been a thousand examples of it. It was unbelievable, because you need this stuff for sunlight. You have lack of sun. There's all kinds of reasons to have this stuff. It's good stuff. It's good stuff.

All right, here's McCullough. He's on the Dell Big Tree show. Our media and public health officials, I think, have to be far more responsible in this type of reporting. And just to level set, our CDC says anybody born before 1957, now, it's assumed that they've had measles. It's just a broad assumption that that's the case. I was born in 1962. I had a single measles vaccine at age two. And I had another one at age 20 when I entered medical school. And that's because I didn't have immunity.

I didn't have antibodies against measles. And now a paper from Bianchi and colleagues from Italy has actually done that exact study of medical students entering medical school. And the answer is about 20% of those who took the measles shot do not have effective immunity, according to Bianchi and colleagues. Now, the answer is if they've had measles during childhood, about 6% may not have adequate immunity. So clearly natural immunity beats vaccine immunity.

And now our CDC is reporting as of February 27th, 2025, we have 164 cases in the United States of measles in Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island, and Texas. So it's not just the Mennonite community in West Texas. And you know what? In last year, in 2024, we had 285 cases. So, Del, measles is something that does occur sporadically. It is spread by respiratory aerosol spread. And it's a morbilliform rash.

You know, we have other illnesses that have very similar rashes for which there's no vaccine, including hand, foot, and mouth disease caused by a Coxsackie virus. Oh, man, Coxsackie, that's a frightening one. Christina had that as a kid. Actually, I had Burke's clip, so we'll skip her. Here's the last of the McCullough. And this is a very interesting little tidbit.

Prior to the MMR vaccine, prior to vaccinating for measles, infants that are the only really, truly susceptible group of children that are in danger of measles. You do not want your day-one-old, one-month-old, two-month-old, five-month -old infant to catch the measles. At that age, it is dangerous, no doubt about it. But here's what's shocking. The numbers, when we look back in the 1950s and 60s, had very few infants that died.

The reason being that their mothers passed on measles immunity to the baby at birth. How did that happen? Every mother that caught the measles as a child kept that immunity through life. And once they started having their own children, that natural immunity passed on to the infant, to the baby. They were protected for at least six months, oftentimes a year. And if the mother breastfed that child, that immunity could last up to a year and a half long.

But certainly at six months to a year, now that that immunity given by mom wears off, now the child is at a place where they're healthy enough to handle a measles infection. It was amazing. Nature, or God, if you will, had done an amazing job at protecting our babies. But then we started vaccinating every person in this country starting in 1963, 64, depending on how you look at the data. We've been vaccinating ever since. Here's the problem.

No mother that's been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine for measles passes anything on to their infants. Our infants now have zero protection whatsoever. Well, thank you, Big Pharma. That's great. That's just great. Wow, there's your ironic story of the day. Yes, that's just great. Yeah, it's meddlers. You meddle, you pay the price. That's right. Yeah. All right, we'll wrap it up with your COVID stuff. Okay, so Montana's got a law they're going to pass to stop all mRNA vaxxes, period.

There's just no genetic anything. Yeah, Montana, there's about, I think, four or five other states trying to do this. And so there's a doctor that comes out and gives a pretty good rundown, just so we remind everybody, I feel, I'm sorry about anybody who's got the, I mean, if you got the vaccine, you got the vaccine, you're probably okay. But it has issues. And I wanted to play these clips of the woman's testimony. There's three short, well, the second clip's a little longer, it should be.

And this is the woman coming on and giving a nice little rundown on why they should pass this law and take this vaccine off the market. It's ridiculous. My name is Christine Drivdahl-Smith, D-R -I-V-D-A-H-L hyphen S -M-I-T-H. I'm a family physician in Miles City. I have no conflict of interest. I am a volunteer board member of the Montana Medical Freedom Alliance. Gene-based vaccines or mRNA vaccines are the most destructive and lethal medical products that have ever been used in human history.

I'm asking you to support this bill banning gene-based vaccines so that we can halt continued harm, disability, and death of our citizens. Gene-based vaccines include the COVID-19 shots, and there is one other RSV shot that was approved for this past year for older adults. There are ongoing trials for influenza and bird flu, and there are dozens more in development. The COVID shots were rolled out just over four years ago under Emergency Use Authorization, or EUA.

This has been renewed multiple times. The last renewal was in December of 2024 and extended the EUA until 2029, which also extends the liability protections. Under EUA, the FDA may allow use of unapproved medical products, including experimental products. Further, the regulatory procedures do not apply to the EUA products, which explains why the FDA has not withdrawn these dangerous vaccines. I'm glad you're ending the show on a happy note. This is great. We're not ending the show.

Well, this is going to end the show. I mean, we're three hours already. It won't fit on the vinyl if we don't hurry. Yeah, but a lot of the three hours is trying to get the machines. No, no, no. This is the actual recording, 257. Yeah. Sorry. No, it's not your fault. I love this. I just, I feel that we're leaving people with a downer. You're going to make this approve these vaccines. They never have. No. Bull crap. They haven't.

Okay. By the end of 2024, there was over 38,000 deaths reported to the VAERS system with a known underreporting factor of 31 to as much as 100. There are over 3,400 peer-reviewed studies in the medical literature describing injury from these vaccines, including cardiac arrest, myocarditis, blood clots, immune suppression, autoimmune disorders, cancers, neurological disorders, prion -induced disease, pregnancy harms and miscarriage.

Every highly vaccinated country has had a significant increase in all-cause mortality, a decrease in life expectancy and a decrease in fertility. These vaccines do not prevent disease or transmission. In fact, the more shots one receives, the more likely they are to get COVID. Over a year ago, it was discovered that the COVID shots are contaminated with DNA. This has now been confirmed by multiple labs around the world. The amount exceeds the regulatory limits as much as 400 times.

The presence of this genetic material increases the risk of cancer in the recipient. And this foreign genetic material has now been found within dividing human cells in a petri dish and in colon cancer biopsies. These mRNA vaccines, like other gene therapy medical products, can be shed to others via blood, body fluids, excrement and airborne exosomes. Studies have now confirmed that these products are shedding to others and that those exposed via shedding can experience adverse reactions.

As you can see, there are no benefits and only the potential for harm. And yet, 23% of Americans continue to receive boosters. The American College of OBGYN continues to recommend COVID shots to pregnant patients. And the CDC has added the COVID shots to the pediatric vaccine schedule starting at six months of age. So tell me at the end of this testimony, they all go, thank you very much for coming. We're just going to keep on using them. I mean, this is very depressing.

I'm sorry, but here we go. This will wrap it up. There have been ever increasing calls for an immediate ban by professional groups all across the globe. Five states attorneys general have filed a suit against Pfizer for misrepresenting the effectiveness of the COVID shots. And just last week, citizens filed a petition with the FDA to remove these. What was that? Time's up? One minute. Wow, someone didn't want to hear her.

With the FDA to remove these products because the DNA contamination was not revealed to the regulators. The drug companies, the regulators, the federal government have failed to act. We all know that the hands of justice move slowly. Time is of the essence. I've spent over half of my medical career in emergency medicine. And during a trauma code, the most important thing is to stop the bleeding. So I'm asking all of you to use common sense and a Montana let's get this done attitude.

We must ban gene-based vaccines in Montana. So will this ever be admitted by RFK Jr. considering President Trump is so proud of Operation Warp Speed? This is the question, the big question. He even touted it during his not state of the union by saying that he had... Yeah, it's a problem. This is a real big problem. It would be dynamite if he just said, you know, I was wrong. How about that? I was wrong. He's never done that. This is his flaw. He can never admit to being wrong.

I have a couple of just ask Adam clips which are a little lighter. You might find it more amusing to end the show with these. Okay, hold on a second. It doesn't say that, these are gut-filled. Oh, but don't I need an ask Adam jingle? You would, yeah. Ask Adam, yeah, I can do it. You know what's happened is like, I have a million clips called Ask Adam. Here it is. All right, I'm ready to answer the question.

Okay, so I'm going to play the first clip actually the question for you comes after the second clip. So it's not going to be that hard. Okay, this is Gutfeld playing a Rogan clip of Bill Murray talking about Bob Woodward. Now we've had talked about Bob Woodward's inability to tell the truth. Yeah, he's a spook. Including, yes, well here we... I wanted, so here's the clip that's the setup and this is the Gutfeld-Woodward setup.

The video of the day comes from Joe Rogan's podcast where comic legend Bill Murray discussed Bob Woodward's 1984 book, Wired, about the late John Belushi. As far as Murray was concerned, the book was so inaccurate he had to wonder if Woodward's reporting on Watergate was also full of crap, watch. I read like five pages of Wired and I went, oh my God, they framed Nixon.

All of a sudden I went, oh my God, if this is what he writes about my friend that I've known for half of my adult life, which is completely inaccurate, talking to like the people of the outer, outer circle getting the story, what the hell could they have done to Nixon? Okay, I have nothing to answer yet. The Russ Baker book discussed all this in great detail.

So Gutfeld now goes around the table and he's talking to everybody and then out of the blue he pulls out a little piece of choice tidbit and the ask Adam part is, see if you can easily spot what is kind of the missing piece of this. M.K., do you know Woodward's background before Watergate? Do you know, do you want me to tell? He had no experience. He was a naval officer and then all of a sudden he gets a job at the Washington Post and quickly breaks the biggest story of the century.

I know, no, this is all up. The red flag for me here too on Woodward, and this has happened in various others of his books as well, where people have called him out and been like, well, that's not true. The piece that's missing? Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't hear it right off. No, I didn't. Gutfeld says that Woodward was a naval officer and then leaves it at that without ever mentioning that that's not the important part of him being a naval officer. He was a naval intelligence.

Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. It's Gutfeld. Why does he leave that out? That seems to be the key. It wasn't that, oh, he's a naval officer that he went to work for the Washington Post. Was he a journalist in the Navy? What was he doing there? He was a naval intelligence officer that went to work for the paper. He could have been a bosun. He could have been a swabby. A swabby, swab in the lobby. A deck swabby.

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That'll be at seven o'clock at March 1st brewing in Cincinnati, Ohio. There are a lot more of these meetups taking place in the month of March. All the way through, how many we have into April. We've got into June even in Texas here. So make sure you go to noagendameetups.com. Check out the list. You just put in your zip code, put in your whatever you are. Think area code. Everything works somehow. And you will find a list of meetups near you.

If you can't find one, start one yourself and put it on noagendameetups.com. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. You want to be where you won't be triggered or held lame. You want to be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. Well, I don't have a snowball's chance in hell here today because I already know you've got a great ISO for the end of show. So I'll just play the one that I brought just for yucks. In a word, balls. You're not even trying. I'm not.

I'm not. Because you're just killing me with these choices. You've got some well that just never runs dry. What are we going to play first? Well, here we go. Let's start with this one. All three of these are good. Let's start with better. That was better than a podcast. Oh, God, this is so good. Yes. What's your next one? Then we have podcast. Everybody's got a podcast. Everybody's got a podcast. This is really done right. What's the last one you have? Wow. That wow. That show was hot today.

Oh, close second. Everybody's got a podcast. Wow. That show was hot today. I don't know, man. What do you like best? That's hard. It's a hard one. You know, I think all this is tough, but I think if we go with the with the mumbler, the guy, everyone's got a podcast. I think it fits. And then we can I can move these other two. I won't have to go digging for more. I won't have to do anything for the next two weeks. Everybody's got a podcast.

All right, everybody, we have a podcast, but not everybody has John's tip of the day. This is a product you'll find here and there, it's an important product for people who have wheat issues. And Mimi has become one of these people. Yes, we know. And it's not just the gluten thing, but the gluten free stuff is what you have to look for. At least that's a start.

So there I make, if I make pancakes, I make them, I just take any flour and I put some baking powder in it, mix it up with some salt, a little shake of salt and put an egg and some buttermilk and mix it up. And there's pancake. It's a pancake. Yes. But it's got wheat, obviously. So and I don't like pancake mixes, but I have to say there's this one pancake mix, gluten free from a company called P .A.N, P.A.N. And they have a gluten free pancake mix. It's a mix of flours and starches.

And it tells you instructions how to make it. But I just use it, throw an egg and buttermilk in it. I don't care what they tell you to do, just as though it was a flour mix. And you make a pancake from this stuff. And I don't think anyone in the world could tell that this had no wheat. And it's the stuff I buy it for Mimi because she can have a satisfying pancake that you'd swear was real, the real deal when it's not. It's just a blend of crazy flours and starches.

And it's P.A.N, gluten free pancake mix. P.A.N, gluten, you know? Wow, so Tina won't eat any pancakes. And she makes great pancakes. So I'm going to see if we can get some of that. Maybe she'll eat it. And P.A.N, they have it. Mexican stores carry this brand. It's online. You can get it all over the place. They have a bunch of different pancake mixes, but this is the gluten free ones. The one that surprises me how good it is.

Everybody has a podcast, but not everybody can tell you how to make the best gluten free pancakes. I'm sorry. That alone is worth the price of admission. And it is known as John's tip of the day, tipoftheday.net, noagendafund.com. ♪ Great advice from you and me ♪ ♪ Just a tip with JC Dee ♪ And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Brunetti. Yes, thank you very much, Dana Brunetti. Created by you. You're the best. You are the awesomest. All right, everybody. That's it for our deconstruction for today.

We hope you had an enjoyable time. We certainly had a good time. And maybe I'll be able to salvage the backup recording. Otherwise, hope you enjoyed that messed up audio at the beginning. It's fantastic. Coming up next on the Noah Jenner stream. Oh, Bandrew says, that's the microphone guy. I won't even mention it. Uh, episode, I don't know what episode. Episode 412. I'm not going to say anything. Yeah, I already did.

He's the microphone guy who would test our microphones and give us a glowing review. End of show mixes. Come to you from Sir Michael Anthony. We've got sound guy Steve and secret agent Paul. And I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, where we have 50 people holding up Ukraine flags. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, we haven't got any protesters around here that I know of. Maybe in San Francisco. I'm John C. Dvorak.

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