1760 - "Mercenary Spyware"

Yo, you have three, holy crap. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, May 1st, 2025. This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation Media Assassination Episode 1760. This is no agenda. Celebrating 6,397 days and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm sick and tired of hearing, I hope this message finds you well. I'm John C. DeVorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill.

In the morning. Yeah, I'm convinced that that's just chat GPT. If you get one of those and someone said, write a nice letter to my friend. Yes, I hope this message finds you well. And then there's the alternate, which is, I hope this email finds you well. What does this even mean? Has anyone ever said this in real life? I hope this message finds you well. What is it looking for me? Did it found me? And it found me well? No, seriously, what does it mean? What does this stupid phrase mean?

And why is it at the beginning? And you're right. It's obviously from chat GPT, because it's followed by a lengthy sales pitch that goes on and on and on and never gets to the point. What were they trying to sell you with this time, with that opening? Usually some service or maybe we can get more podcast listeners. LinkedIn is filled with, I hope this message finds you well. LinkedIn has become a spam network. Nobody likes LinkedIn anymore.

They're all, you know, like, I've got to curate my feed. I've got to close everything down. I can't accept any more connections. It's a mess. They really hoard that. Once Microsoft bought it, they hoard that thing out. They made it bad. They really made, I think they probably let chat GPT loose on us. Everybody could grab all the emails and profiles and just spam away. That's all that AI is good for. Spam, deep fakes, humor. Humor. Humor. Yes. And some Python coding. Okay, I'll give you that.

Use some PHP scripts. All right. Dynamite. Dynamite. Before we even get started, John, we have breaking news. It came in this morning over the transformation. Breaking, breaking, breaking. We begin with breaking news. Sources are confirming to Fox News that National Security Advisor Mike Walsh is out. As well as his deputy, Alex Wong. Additional names are likely to come, we're told. And we expect to hear from the president on this soon. I'm Harris Faulkner. You are in the Faulkner Focus.

I'm in the Faulkner Focus. Oh, no. State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce is also with me. I love this. We have not had Tammy Bruce show up in any real capacity. This is exciting. So she's been on a lot. You just haven't seen her. Well, no, but she hasn't been on the show because now it's breaking news. Breaking, breaking. And Tammy Bruce is going to tell us exactly what happened.

Or, or is she going to waffle a bit and be a propagandist, which is exactly the opposite of what she was when she wasn't working for government. I wonder which Tammy will get. First, though, let's get the news of what's coming together right now. Tammy Bruce with the State Department is with us right now. So first of all, just kind of top line this for us. I mean, Jennifer has given us the news. Top line. Now, if someone says to you, John, we're going to John at the State Department.

Top line this. What would we be expecting to hear from you? Probably the most succinct explanation that explains everything right off the bat. The top line. And this is why we have no career. We have no career in broadcast. The opening, the opening, the headline, the lead, the headline from the State Department perspective. Tammy. Well, here's what I can tell you when it comes to right off the bat. Here's what I can tell you right off the bat. Here's what I can tell you, which is nothing.

Well, here's what I can tell you when it comes to national security for the country, the nature of the president. A little laughter in there. I hadn't noticed that when I was clipping it. When it comes to national security for the country. Well, here's what I can tell you when it comes to national security for the country. What does it with a life tell, Tammy Bruce?

Nature of the president who's involved in making determinations about this nation's trajectory, of course, economically, when it comes to security and what we've seen and what we know from President Trump is he's been very clear that his commitment is to diplomacy around the world. He is clearly an active and engaged president.

That I think is a man who comes from business where this is so disappointing from Tammy Bruce and his understanding of what needs to occur is the guiding hand of everything that happens in this government. And of course, he is hands on literally when it comes to making things literally when it comes to the implementation. He has hands on walls. What was he doing? I don't know.

He's touching it, etc. At every department, every day, whether it's the State Department or the Department of Defense, or of course, when it comes to who he chooses to advise him, she gives us nothing. What kind of top line is that, Tammy Bruce? The disappointment of the century. We loved you. We loved you on Fox. You were there to tell us to tell it to us straight. We loved you. No, no. OK, so let's do some propaganda. That mission was done well.

So now they're talking about the mission of which the top secret details were leaked on the signal and signal. Oh, the Houthi bombing. So we're going to move from let's not talk about what happened to that was a great mission. Mission accomplished. That mission was done well. It was completed well. And I think it's worth stating that all of this is a leadership move now that's happening. But the actual mission that President Trump wanted worked out very well.

Your last quick thought will move forward. Last quick thought you've given us nothing, nothing, nothing. Yeah, I think that's it.

When we're looking at the choices that are made, when it comes to whether it's the Houthis, the nature of diplomacy with Iran, which, of course, always continues, bringing people to the table regarding Ukraine and Russia, the situation in Gaza, the critical minerals deal, which is actually a much broader deal with Ukraine, with money and resources that will be reinvested into Ukraine. And it's re-building after this horrible carnage that has unfolded over three years.

So you've got major successes economically and otherwise as inflation goes down. It is a historic first 100 days. It has been aggressive, exciting, and America wants to change by electing President Trump. And we're seeing the benefits of his vision on every single framework. And it's been a success. It will continue to be a success. Complete and utter bullcrap. Propaganda. That was terrible. She did, that was a bad performance. It was, it was disappointing. Disappointing, Tammy Bruce.

I have a feeling that was the Laura Logan spot. I think she was supposed to get that spot. I don't know why she didn't. Laura Logan would have done a better job than that. Well, that's the problem, because this is clearly, oh, let's just do some propaganda. Because it's 100 days. Now, just before we move on, I received, we have. Well, before we start, I have some thoughts about this Walz thing. Well, can I, can I just give you a boots on the ground real quick?

Because we have the best producers and I've got many producer boots on the ground. Regarding Signalgate, then yes, I want to hear your thoughts about Walz. As a military contractor, writes our boots on the ground producer, with the Army and as a Navy reservist, we are required to use Signal in CONUS and OCONUS, which I think is Continental United States. And what's OCONUS? Oh, Continental United States. So the narrative that it's a commercial app, which you guys debunked, is false.

DoD uses it as the app of choice for OPSEC, operational security. I embed with the 160th, FOSCOM, which is an unknown acronym to me. All chats between us contractors and our Army counterparts are on Signal. WhatsApp is only used by rear detachment Air Force units. Get in the back, you WhatsApp people. By the way, Michael Strickars is a douchebag. Just throw that in. He says he turned me on to you in 2019. He doesn't donate. So he's a douchebag.

So whenever they say commercial app, it is a requirement within the Department of Defense. This is all, on its face, bullcrap. But clearly someone had to go. And I guess today we now know it is. Walt, your thoughts? Well, Walt and Wong. Well, Wong was the problem. That's what everyone thought. Well, we think he was the problem. I'm wondering whether because Walt was set up with his Signal system by the CIA directly, according to him. Yes, and Wong was... I think they set him up.

I think this could have been a setup to get rid of him because... He's annoying. He was not a guy that anyone liked. They didn't... In fact, people that were Trumpers didn't like him either. But what's convenient here is that he could also have been a bargaining chip with trade talks with the Chinese. To get some Ting Wong back? Because of some Ting Wong. Some Ting Wong? So, Wong was a Chinese national who was anti-China. And Walt was one of the biggest China hawks.

So, let's get rid of those two guys and we'll start to talk. And I think they may have been sacrificed. Set up, set up to begin with. Yeah, set up and sacrifice. And the excuse will be, well, this Signal thing, somebody had to take a fall for it. Yeah. Even though it is a required app, which makes me question the Signal even more now. Yeah, CIA, it's got a backdoor, obviously. It has to have a backdoor. It must have a backdoor. Sure. Well, all this comes amidst the most important thing.

And I did the calculation this morning. We today, John, as of today, May 1st, 2025, are celebrating 6,397 days of broadcasting to Gitmo Nation. Congratulations, sir. This is where you say congratulations. Congratulations? Yes, congratulations. Because it's a lot more than this. President Trump, the first 100 days continues. It continues. The what? First 100 days. What is this 100 days thing all about? I mean, I don't remember this the first Trump go around. I don't remember during Biden.

I don't remember. The only last time I remember the first 100 days was, I think, when Steve Jobs rolled out the Macintosh. No, I think 100 days has been around. It has. Well, they're milking it. Well, of course, they're milking it, including the BBC. Donald Trump has been marking 100 days since he was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. And in case you missed any of it, here's a reminder of the story so far. Yes. From this moment on, America's decline is over.

Over. Over. I'm about to sign some very important executive orders. Military personnel to assist Border Patrol. 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens. The US will take over the Gaza Strip. We'll own it. Air Force One is currently flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America. If all of the hostages aren't returned, let hell break out. The Department of Government Efficiency moves to revamp and shrink. I love the little drum roll in the background.

Of the federal government. People voted for major government reform, and that's what people are going to get. A dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast. Should I run again? You tell me. You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict. Have you ever been to Ukraine? You're not in a good position. I was. You don't have the cards right now. Tariffs, you know, they're all set. They go into effect tomorrow. Hopefully we can get a ceasefire from Russia.

There were nearly 200 who were sent to El Salvador. Department of Education, we're going to eliminate it. Details of the US attack plans were first shared two days early with Jeffrey Goldberg. I don't know anything about it. We have to have Greenland. This is Liberation Day. The United States will implement reciprocal tariffs. We've been meeting with China. We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia. You have to have Ukraine want to make a deal too. America is back.

You know why they didn't do this for Biden? Because all they would have for the montage is, Dignity. Do you remember back in 1984 when Ronald Reagan became president? He became president in 1980. He was reelected in 84. Yeah, right. Do you remember the Morning in America campaign? Vaguely. It's morning again in America. Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history.

With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes. More than at any time in the past four years. This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women will be married. And with inflation of less than half of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future. It's morning again in America. And under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better.

Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago? It's morning in America. It's one of the most famous ads of its time. And we have a modern day version. It's a new day. The sun is rising. The birds are singing. And things are returning to normal. It's norming in America. Today, we're actually arresting shoplifters. And fewer businesses are being burned down. All over America, pronouns are being dropped from bios. Men are not having babies.

And fewer drag queens are flashing their genitals at children. Videos like this one aren't being shadow banned as much. People are saying master bedroom. And look at that. White people are reappearing in commercials. Oh, and guys, we can say guys again. America, the fever has broken. Now we can be sensible, nicer, and normal. Join us. And let's never go back to those weird, angry, divisive times again. It's norming in America. That's right, baby. Have a great norming, you hear? Same PR team.

Clearly. It's norming in America. It's very funny. I like that. I thought that was good. That brings me immediately to a nutball clip. Okay, are you on the mic, man? Are you talking? Are you spitting in that? Yeah, I hope so. I'm gonna jack you up some more. Jack me up. The opening show things right themselves. Okay, that brings you to a clip immediately, you said. What kind of clip? This is the ranting lunatic chick. Wait a minute, you're going straight to TikTok?

Can we do this this early in the show? Can we handle it? Maybe not, but this is definitely, it will set the tone. You know what? Okay, I know I'm insane, and I know I'm the internet's favorite crash out. What I'm gonna say right now- Wait, clash out? Clash out. Clash out. I like that. Crash out, crash, crash. She said crash out? I thought she said clash out. I think she said crash out. You know what? Okay, I know I'm insane, and I know I'm the internet's favorite crash out.

What I'm gonna say right now is I'm not paying my debt anymore. What we're doing from this point forward is a debt strike 2025. If I have to do it alone and be insane, I will. I literally will. The fact that we would continue paying our debt, we can't stop paying our rent, because that's too crazy. It'll put a lot of people in harm. I'm sick of protesting. It does nothing. I don't want to go to war, because look how skinny my arms are. We have to do something. I'm not paying my debt.

You can join me on this, or you cannot. I'm going to take a picture, and I'm going to keep records of the debt that I have right now, because when the interest rates go up on that, I'm not paying those either, even when they start to meet our demands. And the demands are as such. Abolish ICE, okay? I want those men home from El Salvador. I don't care. And we need to protect Medicaid. The Department of Education needs to be restored. I want critical race theory in the classroom, period.

We need to literally be delusional. I'm going to be delusional right now. I will stand here right now, be delusional, make fun of me all you want. This is what we need to do. This is what we need to do. And if they don't meet our demands, then what we're going to do is then we're going to stop paying our rent. But for right now, stop paying your bills. Stop paying your debt. We're going to start there.

And it's like, what the fuck do I have to owe my credit score for the house that I'll never buy? I already am not allowed to rent because I don't make enough money. I have to have a cosigner anyway. So what does my credit score even fucking matter? What does it matter, bro? Literally, I want Doge out of office. We're done with him. We're done with him. And free healthcare for all people. I'm so dead serious. Guys, we're done with this. I love that she called herself delusional. That is some...

That's a bipolar episode. No, no. That's engagement farming on TikTok. I don't think... I think you have to see her. She's pretty serious. No, this is... It's all an act. It's all an act. She's a pretty good actress then. She's pretty funny. She got on the No Agenda show. I'll give her that. Yeah, she did. But this is part of... There's also another movement going on besides not paying your bills. These... None of this is going to work, of course, because it's a very small minority.

Yes, it's norming in America. But there's a bunch of people calling for the illegal, which is a general strike. And they're calling for a general strike. And I think it was for May Day of next year, maybe. Oh, they're getting ahead of the game. They're front running the strike. But I'm noticing it's starting to show up more and more about, let's do a general strike. That's going to do it. Well, today is, of course, a dual celebration. Today is May Day. And what is May Day? May Day is workers...

It's the workers' day. It's... This is the day of... Commies. ...of the working man. What? It's a communist holiday. Yeah, communist holiday. Yeah. Would you be surprised to hear that this falls on the exact same day as the National Day of Prayer? Well, I know it is the National Day of Prayer because Trump was on the air. Of course. And he just could not stop talking. It's called counter-programming, man. It's like, we're not going to pay any attention to the commies.

It's National Day of Prayer. That is good. It's counter-programming. It's a good job. World's workers' day. Workers unite. Pray, pray. Anyway, it is 100 days. It's also a show day. It is a show day. Of course, it's a double... It's a triple threat. It is workers' day. It is National Day of Prayer and a show day. What more can you do? But we are celebrating 100 days. And President Trump chose ABC to do his 100-day... His 100-day... The 100-day excoriation of the media.

Yes. And most of this was about Kilmar Abrego -Garcia. Let me ask you about one man and one court order. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. He's the Salvadoran man who crossed into this country illegally, but who is under a protective order. I think to get into the White House Correspondents' Dinner, you had to pronounce Kilmar Abrego -Garcia properly. Otherwise, you weren't allowed in. That he not be sent back to El Salvador.

Your government sent him back to El Salvador and acknowledged in court that was a mistake. And now the Supreme Court has upheld an order that you must return him to facilitate his return to the United States. What are you doing to comply?

Well, the lawyer that said it was a mistake was here a long time, was not appointed by us, should not have said that, should not have said that, and just so you understand, the person that you're talking about, you know, you're making this person sound, this is a MS-13 gang member, a tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified to even talk about him, okay? This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland.

I'm not saying he's a good guy. It's about the rule of law. The order from the Supreme Court sends him into our country illegally. You could get him back. There's a phone on this desk. I could. You could pick it up, and with all the power of the presidency, you could call up the president of El Salvador and say, send him back. Nope, not good. And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that. But the court has ordered you to facilitate his release.

I'm not the one making this decision. We have lawyers that don't want to do this. But the buck stops in this office. No, no, no, no, no, no. I follow the law. You want me to follow the law? If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I'd probably keep him right where he is. The Supreme Court says what the law is. Yeah, this was so good because the president really thought that he was going to get a pass somehow. But this, I chose you. I chose you, ABC. I chose you, Terry Moran.

Listen, I was elected to take care of a problem that was, it was a unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man. A man that turned out to be incompetent that you always said was wonderful, great genius, right? And now you find out, all of the media now, they're saying what a mistake they made. A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where millions of people float in. I campaigned on that issue.

I wouldn't say it was my number one issue, but it was pretty close. I campaigned on that issue. I've done an amazing job. I have closed borders. He said you couldn't do it and you wouldn't be able to do it. It would never happen. Well, it happened. And it happened very quickly. Wait a minute. When we have criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get them out. And we're doing it. And here comes the bone of the contention, the tattoo.

You'll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out, he said he wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked and on his knuckles, he had MS-13. There's a dispute with that. Wait a minute. He had MS-13 on his knuckles tattoo. He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But let's move on. Wait a minute. Hey, Terry, Terry, Terry. He did not have the letter MS-13. It says MS-13. That was Photoshopped. Photoshopped? That was Photoshopped. Terry, you can't do that.

Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that's OK. I picked you, Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else. Agree to disagree. Do you want me to show you the picture? By the way, by the way, that is the lowest of the low outs. I agree to disagree. I know I hear it on podcasts all the time.

You and I, we just fight. We never agree to disagree. It's like, you're wrong. I don't think we've ever done. Not that you may. I never thought about this, but in 17 years, I don't think we've ever used that phrase on each other. We've never gone to bed angry at each other either. Well, well, who cares? Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else. Terry, do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture.

And you think it was photoshopped? Well, here we go. Don't photoshop it. Don't look at his hand. He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine. I want to get to Ukraine. No, no, no, no, no. He had MS as clear as you can be. Not interpreted. It's photoshopped! This is why people no longer believe the news because he's fake news. In El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go. They aren't there when he's in El Salvador.

Oh, they weren't there, but they're there now, right? No, but they're in your picture. Terry. Ukraine, sir. He's got MS-13 on his knuckles. All right. OK? Well, we'll take a look at that. It's such a disservice. We'll take a look at that, sir. Why don't you just say yes, he does. You know, go on to something else. It's contested. So this is a contentious issue because many people have emailed me this saying, Trump, he's not doing his homework. He should just take the L. It was photoshopped.

Now, there's two pictures. There's one. One of them's got some, you'd call it photoshopped, explaining what the symbols mean. MS-13. That's what the photoshopped part is. No, no. It is MS-13 on his knuckles. But the second photo taken in Ukraine, you don't see that. In fact, what you do see is his knuckles are all smudged. That's the photoshop. No, the MS-13, there's no M on his knuckles. No, no. They showed a picture of MS-13 on his knuckles. They showed that picture.

That's the photoshopped version. I wonder if that's photoshopped. Yeah, it is. It's obviously, if you look at it carefully, it's just the letters are too clear because the symbols mean MS-13. That was the idea. But I'm just saying the pictures they showed in this piece showed what you call a photoshop, but I would say the other picture, where his knuckles are completely smudged, that's a photoshop. I think that's photoshop too. They could both be photoshopped. Yes, the symbols stand for MS-13.

Yeah, that's all there is to it. And he beat up his wife. Since when are we doing this? Since when are we doing that? Apparently, there's another report that came out this morning where he also did something. He also beat his wife into... There's some other beating that took place. It's more part of this whole thing. More beatings. Ah, yes, you are listening to the No Agenda Show. Still ahead. I'm asking the justification for going after people you don't like.

We'll be back with more of Trump's 100 days. Or not. So that was big from the M5M this week. 100 days. What's happened? Well, I don't have any 100-day stuff. I have what the Democrats did, which I thought was the best part of the week. Oh, this is with Hogg? The Hogg Kid? Oh, no, the Hogg Kid's not that interesting. The thing I thought that was interesting was the sit-in. Yeah, that started on Sunday. We saw the sit-in start live on the show. Yeah, we saw it start, but here's the report.

Which, holy mackerel, I didn't clip this correctly. I can tell by looking at it. Do you have the name of it? Yeah, Congress Sit-In. Okay. Oh, it's okay. I'll... We'll roll with it. We'll figure out what's going on. Let's see what we have. Congress returns from its spring break today, but two lawmakers returned to the Capitol a day earlier in protest of the Republican budget plan.

You're looking at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker, who held a sit -in that lasted more than 12 hours. This is one of those moments where we have to step up more as leaders in Congress. We are in a moral moment, and what we need now is not just four Congress people and four senators, but to get there, we need more people that are willing to stand in this moral storm. In this moment.

CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nicole Killian joins us now from Capitol Hill with more on this. Good morning to you, Nicole. Senator Booker there kind of ended that speech and everyone standed up. There was kind of like a rorous applause around him. It did. I didn't hear any rorous applause on the clip. There was some applause, but stand... The guys, he said they standed up. Well, he's British. These guys are British. You bring a British guy in so they can do proper English?

Yes, they standed up. I've been standed up all the time. Why do this? Why conduct a sit-in protest on the weekend? And from what you can tell, did it resonate? Well, I think a couple of things, you know. Interestingly, I did ask Senator Booker after he had that record-breaking speech on the Senate floor earlier this month, if this was a sign of things to come from Democrats, because of course some have been under fire for not doing enough to combat the Trump agenda.

He did acknowledge the need on the part of Democrats to do more. Obviously, this all happened on the House side of the steps, which involved minority leader... Okay, you can stop the clip. It goes on. This woman is one of those women, I don't know if you ever worked with any of them, they're in broadcasting. They can talk forever. Oh, it's... Gag, gag, gag, gag, gag, gag, gag. And they have to be interrupted. They leave very few openings.

When I tried to clip her, I tried to cut something because she she ran like she would use and she's like stood and she would there was no way of writing you know what I mean. An unclipable wench, I tell you. Yes, she's no good. An unclipable wench who can't stop talking. I want to play a little bit of this Hogg thing though because I just thought it was interesting to show what disarray the Democrat Party is in.

DNC vice-chair David Hogg was on the lead last week talking about his plan to raise 20 million dollars to unseat Democrats and save seats in primaries. By the way the woman you're gonna hear talking her name is Megan what is it do I have it here Megan Hayes she was an advisor to Biden and she has a most interesting speech impediment. Now the DNC chairman Ken Martin weighed in and here's what he had to say.

No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger. While you know certainly you know I understand what he's trying to do as I've said to him if you want to challenge incumbents you're more than free to do that but just not as an officer of the DNC. From Minnesota if you can't tell.

So Hogg's argument is just because he's not here to defend himself there's a lot of dead weight in this party and we're talking about safe Democratic seats so whoever wins is gonna end up winning anyway and you know we need to rise to meet the moment that's what he would say. Great you don't do that as a member of the DNC you're an elected person on the DNC leave the party and go do that.

The DNC is not an idea that is a Democratic Party the DNC is an institution with a job to do people vote in primaries not the DNC. Are you sympathetic to his arguments at all? No then don't be part of the DNC. Well what about the idea that there should be. Absolutely there should be primaries people should be primary if that is that is how our democracy works but if you want to help the primary challengers then leave the DNC that is not your role as the DNC.

How interesting now that I listen to her you can't hear it but when you see her her mouth goes all weird when she talks. That was disappointing. That's interesting Kelly Evans on CNBC has a has a funny mouth thing. The worst-case example of this was a is a preacher called Robert Tilton out of Texas. Not familiar.

And he used to be a televangelist he's on TV all the time but I don't think I haven't seen him for years but he did a thing with his mouth that you'd watch him it was like it would be kind of mesmerizing because his mouth wasn't going in the same direction. It was very odd. Then they brought on this just short Ro Khanna Ro Khanna which is just fun to say Ro Khanna. Joining us now to discuss Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California. Congressman always great to have you on the show.

Thank you very much for being here. You are one who has actually publicly supported the effort from David Hogg. You wrote on the platform X that you think that Hogg is doing incredible work supporting frontline Democrats while giving new candidates a chance to run in safe seats and you say Democrats should embrace a new generation of leadership and competition. Why is this such a lonely place for you to be? Oh you rebel. Well look I think primaries are healthy competition is healthy.

I won my seat in a Democratic primary many of our members of Congress have won in primaries and we need a new generation of leadership. Now I'm trying to reach a compromise with the DNC and David Hogg and what I've said to David is he can have his organization that is having primary challenges but he himself should not endorse in his personal capacity while he's while he's vice chair and that seems to me something that can bring everyone together. This was such a mistake to bring this jamoke in.

I have no idea how that happened. He must have come with money. Who? Hogg. No. This was just purely craziness from the Democrat Party? I don't know that it was a bad thing.

He comes in, Carville's the one who's really jumping all over there's a good back-and -forth with him and Carville and and and Hogg Carville accused of me saying you you know what the position you're in you're not supposed to be supporting anybody and he's not I don't I haven't heard anything he just wants he just is theoretical he says he should we should bring in new people and have them run in the primaries.

He hasn't named names so I don't know what Ro Khan is talking about or Carville for that matter then Carville called him out for getting paid and and it turns out that that vice chair that he is is a voluntary job he doesn't get paid anything he says. I'm thinking this is why I think I have no you know without evidence that there's money behind him this whole this kid's... Well it's not his father. No we know that.

So the other big story this was big because I know what well maybe Soros money it's possible that's such an old trope at this point yeah I agree and Soros wouldn't be trying to put new people in.

The Soros gambit is over it's got to be new people it's got to be new money Soros is dead you know what's Alex is gallivanting around with Alex is no good he's not he's not he's not the powerhouse or no he's the old man was so the other big story because I know people in the region was the big blackout and I have two boots on the ground which will help dispel all of the rumors innuendo and bullcrap.

The power is back on in Spain and Portugal after one of Europe's biggest ever blackouts but there are still no answers as to what actually caused it or how they could prevent it from happening again. Our Iberian co-bureau chief Aislinn is looking at this story Aislinn what do we actually know?

It's extremely unclear still what caused the blackout and there is something of a political blame game initiating we are also seeing an intense discussion about the merits of different power sources Spain is and Portugal are big renewables producers French ministers were saying yesterday well you know if they used more nuclear power perhaps that wouldn't have happened the Spanish Prime Minister has firmly rejected that saying actually even nuclear power

couldn't help us get this restarted we were relying on a lot of hydro the Spanish power grid operator has said that this is absolutely not a cyber attack from their point of view they say there was a massive drop-off in power supply what caused that is becoming a key area of investigation it is unclear and the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is not ruling out a cyber attack it's clear that it's very unclear and everyone's dancing around and we have some answers but

first boots on the ground from Marbella Spain where our producer is located Marbella is the hoity-toity place of Spain to be if you're near the harbor we've been told the blackout here is weather or net zero based after public radio telling us it was a cyber attack while it was going on interestingly the communications blackout here in Marbella was much longer than the power outage we did not have Wi-Fi or cell service for 18 hours while the power was only out for

seven hours and of course EU rules around no gas stoves or barbecues on balconies meant we had to borrow a neighbor's barbecue to heat water and milk for the kids because of course you have to have electric stoves this is one of our producers can't wait to get out of the EU so we continue with this Reuters report and in the absence of concrete answers what are the authorities doing to make sure there isn't a repeat of this well that is the big question is whether it can happen again we've heard

energy analysts saying that this could indeed happen again this was you know one of the possibly the only big power cut in the era of green electricity certainly the largest that anyone can remember there has been an ongoing debate about you know the viability of European grids whether they are having sufficient amounts of investment in them particularly now that we are seeing these new sources of power come online some analysts suggesting that you know you're trying

to operate a Ferrari on a country road sometimes that will result in its own challenges to the system whether that was the case here whether there was a third parties involvement it still very much remains to be seen so now they're peddling the line well you're trying to operate a Ferrari on a country road mean or the grid is just not ready for our sophisticated renewables so I contacted our dude that's a good bit it's a great bit our dude named Ben named Ben

who is the protector of megawatts if you recall this is his job he know and particularly cybersecurity zero cyber attack he said the problem is Spain the reason why you're not hearing the truth is that Spain has been bragging about running on 100% renewables yeah there's some clips that are of it I mean there's a lot of visual news clips that like to point this out and they form memes so the truth of it is at the time of the outage 77% of generation was inverter based I love this

term I understand that immediately inverter based means solar or winds because they generate direct current and the inverter changes it into alternating current yeah so I can go down to wires and because this altered this these renewables do not provide stable power they fluctuate due to I don't know wind changes and clouds I can't watch the TV they they have a baseload their baseload is 15 gigawatts of generation from France so according to the dude named

Ben named Ben protector of megawatts a substation in France suddenly stopped transmitting electricity now they they're not exactly sure why but they believe that it was because of a fire at the substation so the Iberian Peninsula Spain and subsequently Portugal suddenly lost 15 gigawatts of 15 megawatts of 15 gigawatts 15,000 megawatts of generation from the French that they were on a reliant on because they were way over subscribed on these renewables 15,000 megawatts is

a lot of generation to lose all at once for instance in Texas we don't get into an emergency situation until we go down to 3,000 megawatts of spinning reserve even on our best day for generation it would be very difficult for our grid to survive that bottom line emergency levels would be catastrophic in Texas at 3,000 we have about 40,000 40 million people here they lost 15,000 so the whole the whole reason you're not hearing the truth is because of the bragging that they were over 100%

renewable and they're not they were really reliant on this probably nuclear generated power from France that dropped out everything went to crap and this is the risk of this this insane policy of relying on 100% renewables getting to net zero it is insane and and no one's gonna want to admit this so I mean we've heard things such as oh it was atmospheric fluctuation a rare atmospheric event is so bogus USA Today even had this preliminary reports out of Europe at the massive

blackout the cause may be something called induced atmospheric vibration phenomenon where weather changes affect power lines this is a lie and this is just the beginning of this nonsense the more they rely on renewables and in this case external interconnect from another country which is a huge security risk for your country we're relying upon France if France drops the base load for us boom we're done so this it doesn't work it's not a good idea nuclear is is not inverter base it's AC it's

renewable that's what they should be going to but no instead it's all of this solar and wind and they're going to keep lying and I'm sure they'll have a task force and nothing will ever come of it it brings me to my two climate clips boom shakalaka I don't know if I have anything on that particular situation which I thought I know I heard a lot of stuff and very familiar with the phony baloney crazy comment about the weather causing the whole thing climate

by his the climate hysteria debate is there hysteria in the international climate debate Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair suggests there is as he calls for a new approach it comes after Spain and Portugal were recently hit by cascading blackouts which some say were made worse by an over reliance on solar power entities international correspondent Malcolm Hudson has more for us from London in a new policy paper former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said hysteria should

be taken out of the international climate debates saying that voters feel they are being made to make financial sacrifices and changes their lifestyle in what Blair referred to as doomed policy despite the fact that in developed nations these changes will lead to a minimal impact to global carbon emissions Blair said that by 2030 almost two-thirds of global emissions will come from China India and Southeast Asia and said that means any strategy based on phasing out

fossil fuels in the short term is doomed to fail but while he appeared to hit out against net zero carbon emission policies Blair went on to clarify that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's approach to net zero is the right one supporting the government's plan for net zero by 2050 Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner responded Tony's clarified his comments and he welcomes our direction of travel and that's on renewables investing in renewables and nuclear as part of the

mix but we can't rely on fossil fuels forever the British government rejected Blair's claim of hysteria in the climate debate debate yes okay yeah this is interesting how these things are starting to fall apart it's what is the what is the inverse of operating a Ferrari on a country road is it a lot that no no one knows what a lot that what is what is an Edsel operating an Edsel no no no a pedal bike on a pedal bike on the Autobahn no pedal bike on the Autobahn pedal bike on

the Autobahn there you go that's what it is pedal bike I like it a pedal bike on the Autobahn nice okay it's part two now Republicans passed all of these changes out of committee yesterday and the goal is to make them part of that broader reconciliation bill that big budget bill that we've heard so much about with the goal to pass all of this by the summer what reporting what is she saying what is this I don't is this another miss clip yeah to play what I think I think you meant

to start it here hold on a second I see what's going on but Ben Pyle co-founder of climate debate UK says there is a lot of hysteria driving climate policy and this sort of tendency of a lot of people within the global green movement to sort of talk about deadlines you know 10 years left to save the planet and so on and so forth many people have made the 10 years claim over the decades including former US vice-president Al Gore in 2006 Blair said that most political leaders know that

the debate has become irrational but are terrified of saying so for fear of being called climate deniers a British government spokesperson said that they remain focused on their mission for the UK to be a clean energy superpower while treading lightly on people's lives Pyle disputed this and said it will be expensive over the next five years the clean power by 2030 agenda is going to lock Britain into extremely expensive renewable energy subsidy schemes over reliance on

renewable energy has drawn criticism in recent days following the huge blackouts throughout Spain and Portugal energy expert Catherine Porter said the initial fault in Spain's power grid was made worse by an over reliance on solar power which led to cascading blackouts that lasted for over eight hours in the Iberian Peninsula so this is actually this folds right into a classic clip I have when he was still the the chief of the the Bank of England the Central Bank of the United Kingdom the new

Prime Minister of Canada listened to what he was saying then and what he probably still thinks today the world's coming to Glasgow let's reshape finance for sustainable you demanded action and now it's time for the financial sector to deliver to reach net zero every country every company every bank every investor every pension fund around the world will need to make some big changes in the run-up to COP 26 in Glasgow we have an enormous opportunity to bring climate change into the heart of

every financial decision and our plan will manage the risk from climate change while helping to seize the opportunities from a newer greener economy the UK has been at the forefront of innovation for centuries brimming with ingenuity and a can do spirit it also houses the world's largest financial system and by bringing them together we can deliver the net zero world that you've demanded and that our future generations deserve you demanded it you demanded it you want

the nobody demanded it no you demanded it you wanted the net zero world that's what's gonna happen to Canada Canada you're next how are your renewables doing it's gonna be great it's gonna be great might as well get into this after a long night and not much sleep Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at his office this morning getting down to work after laying out his vision to supporters last night in Ottawa as we come here after this consequential most consequential election let's put an

end let's put an end to the division and anger of the past Carney says he'll work with all parties and as the final votes are counted it's clear he'll have to the Liberals have come up just shy of a majority they'll need to rely on the handful of new Democrats who survived their party's implosion the bloc québécois or even the Conservatives to enact their agenda the latest count shows Carney's Liberals and Pierre Poliev's Conservatives taking roughly 85% of all votes cast with a

less than 3% margin between them the Conservatives say they're willing to work with the Liberals on the biggest issue facing the country its relationship with the US with Carney today making another move on that file the Prime Minister's office says Carney spoke with US President Donald Trump that Trump congratulated Carney on his win and that the two leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the US working together as independent sovereign nations and agreed to

meet in person in the near future and I think I think it was you who said you know Trump wanted this to happen he wanted Carney he implied that he did here's here's some proof highlighting his phone call yesterday with freshly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney and hinting that on trade issues Trump seems to see positive progress coming deal-making now set to at least begin suggested Trump's pretty almost immediately he's a very nice gentleman and we he's going to come to the White

House very shortly within the next week or less Trump even weighed in on the election itself when a reporter pointed out Carney won in no small way by targeting Trump and his trade policies here's Trump on that and on opposition leader Pierre Poliev they both hated Trump and it was the one that hated Trump I think the least that one I actually think the conservative hated me much more than the than the so-called liberal he's pretty liberal guy but no I spoke to

him yesterday couldn't have been nicer and I congratulated him separately Trump noted not long ago that he's if if President Trump is saying you're a great guy you're a nice guy this is the time you start watching your back something's coming for you and I congratulated him separately Trump noted not long ago that he's already made some 200 trade deals since he imposed his tariffs earlier this year though none has been officially announced or made public

today while slamming another country he's hit hard with tariffs China the leading candidate for the chief ripper offer Trump also suggested again maybe something's in the works there as well I hope we're gonna make a deal with China we're talking to China where any of it goes from here is as ever known only to Trump though for Canada a better sense of things may well come soon with as Trump now expects that sit down in the Oval Office with he and Mark Carney very

shortly then according to NPR Trump really did get him elected Mark Carney has been elected as Prime Minister of Canada according to the projections from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation this was seen as a referendum on which candidate could best handle the United States under President Trump who placed tariffs on Canada and sparked a wave of Canadian nationalism Carney defeated Conservative Party leader Pierre Palliative Palliative's momentum began to slip

when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned earlier this year which gave the Liberals a lift but the real boost came when President Trump began targeting Canada's economy and its sovereignty many Canadians were outraged by Trump's threat to make Canada the 51st state it all becomes clear yeah I thought that I think Palliative was too much like Trump and he would have probably butted heads with him he didn't like him I have a very strange clip mm

-hmm that explains Trump's behavior in general mm -hmm and this is the woman Corcoran I think her name she is on the shark tank she's the female girl there and she female girl and she she's the one as opposed to the male girl you can't be too sure you got it you got to be very clear the female girl yes the female girl she she had an observation that I think is something we should always keep in the back of our minds about Trump and after I heard this I also thought

that oh this is what would happen with Bill Maher to listen to this sorry Donald Trump getting the heck of a compliment from one of the key stars of Shark Tank Barbara Corcoran so I did a lot of work with Donald and I can tell you he is the best salesman I've ever met my she's the blonde who does a lot of fast-moving consumer she just smaller deals but successful deals she's the QVC lady that's what she is QVC girl yeah I I watched him walk into a situation I for

example selling the Plaza Hotel to the Chinese out of Hong Kong it was in Taiwan group of Asians wealthiest families in Hong Kong and they were there because they were interested in the Plaza Hotel and I was a broker or my brokers were all at the table we're like really hungry to make this deal and I watched him totally not pitch the Plaza Hotel bury it and talk about the landmasses on the Hudson River and the buildings that would be there they were not

the least bit interested they just wanted to buy the Plaza Hotel like a customer I want to buy it and Donald was near bankruptcy really needed the money to bail out and I watched him I thought he was so off he wasn't they bought the land and built all those towers on the West River as we know it today you know all those Trump towers along the river that was the deal how did he do that I'll tell you what his masterful mind does he is a genius at picking out the

vulnerability of someone's personality he can smell it sense it and trust it okay so for example if you were to walk into a business meeting with Donald and you're saying whatever you're saying I've seen it time and time again he could see what your weakness is and not physically reach over and put his finger on it but he just could see what your weakness is and play into it not the nicest thing in the world but it's a certain gift I've never seen anyone else and it comes in handy in light

of what we're doing right now with China yeah no she's the older lady not the young and the young the young blonde is the QVC yeah yeah I saw this clip and I thought that makes total sense and that's what he's been doing with everything and I think I think this may have in some degree you know since we're talking about rare earths and about the processing so I've been receiving nothing but tons of information about rare earth processing Saskatchewan has had a rare

earth processing facility since 2020 so they do a lot of this more I mean I have a ton of different places where this is happening but this kind of folds into the new deal the last time Ukraine was about to sign a minerals deal with the u.s. it was derailed by a row in the Oval Office around on relations are slightly warmer and just before we recorded this podcast they finally reached an agreement the deal creates an investment fund for the reconstruction of

Ukraine in exchange for access to the country's minerals oil and gas it will still need to be approved by Parliament in Ukraine but the Ukrainian MP Maria met sensei were welcomed what she said were the improved terms of the agreement it's quite a good investment opportunity and a fair deal in the end where no sort of deaths on military aid are mentioned everything is done in a manner due to Ukrainian Constitution and doesn't breach any oversight of our EU aspirations so I thought CBS

actually had a that was BBC CBS had a better report because this is exactly the kind of deal that President Trump was talking about give us your minerals we'll protect you we'll protect our our own assets and maybe we'll put together a little fund for you a little hedge fund turn now to news that has big implications for the war in Ukraine the u.s. and Ukraine have signed a long-awaited deal giving the u.s. access to important rare-earth minerals Ukraine hopes

in return to get greater protection from Russian aggression Ramey innocentia has more on all this Ramey joins us now Ramey good morning Tony yes good morning there and breakthrough here while this deal does not explicitly say that the u.s. will keep on helping Ukraine defend against Russia's invasion like under the Biden administration

that is the hope u.s. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson who signed this pact with Ukraine's deputy prime minister in Washington said that it signals to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process for what he says is a free Ukraine and over the long term details about this deal though are slim but it centers on u.s. access to Ukraine's vast resources under its soil that includes oil and gas but along with critical raw materials that's like graphite titanium and uranium

for aerospace and technology funds from this deal would go towards paying the u.s. for future military aid and to establish a joint fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine and you know there has been a lot of drama around this deal we all sides were closed back in February when Zelensky went to Washington to sign an earlier version but then we saw that spectacular meltdown broadcast around the world then last week Trump and Zelensky met at St. Peter's Basilica look at that a decidedly

more peaceful there for the funeral of the Pope and now we have this breakthrough but importantly Russia has not commented yet so let's talk about the Ukrainian rare earths well let's play the NTD clip of this so we can get that out of the way okay Ukraine yep gotcha a Ukrainian official is in Washington today the US and Ukraine just signed a deal on rare earth minerals here's more Ukraine's first deputy prime minister Yulia Sviridenko is traveling to the United States on Wednesday to

sign a minerals deal the two sides were reportedly set to close the deal on Wednesday afternoon until Ukraine requested some last-minute changes President Trump wants to use Ukraine's minerals as a financial guarantee for the aid the US has been sending to Ukraine I didn't want to make a complicated deal I didn't want to make a deal that couldn't be made because Ukraine doesn't have very much money and yet they're going through a very bad period of time it's been brutal but Ukraine's prime

minister says the agreement won't include the money the US has sent so far only future aid so I think this is still about weapon sales to the EU they'll be buying it I believe because this these rare earths in in Ukraine according to Reuters they don't really have an operational mine they don't really have rare earths exactly they have no mining roads no rail no energy grids no processing capacity that's your big big thing of course it's all a chaos and you know they

geological data is hardly available that it seems like a bit of a mirage that but the rare earths business that Rubio was doing in Rwanda boots on the ground Adam I worked in the mining industry for eight years lived in Africa for 15 mostly in DRC and Kenya the answer to the question is Africa has to make peace between a DRC and its neighbors Rwanda is already doing unofficial processing of rare earth minerals from the DRC so there is processing and even crazier they're

gonna be processing right up in California at Mountain Pass America led this industry for decades with this site right here at Mountain Pass but due to cost of capital subsidies overseas in China as well as different environmental standards we lost our leadership and this site fell into essentially disrepair and bankruptcy MP materials has humble beginnings we acquired this site in 2017 it had eight employees it was in care maintenance nobody believed that we could compete against

China but we focused on execution and we slowly methodically over time rebuilt this we have nearly 300 Americans probably working on this site when we acquired this site we clearly realized that multi-billion dollar supply chains don't move overnight we had to have a long-term plan to restore this site successfully and sustainably our first stage which is largely complete was to relaunch the operations here we now produce a rare earth concentrate product that represents 15

% of the global supply we are profitable doing so our next stage which is underway is to make separated rare earth products and optimize it to be a leader in global industry from a cost and sustainability perspective one stage two is done we expect to generate a significant amount of free cash flow that will enable us to not just making separate rare earth products but also magnets so we can fulfill our mission of restoring the full rare supply chain to the United States of

America so that's in California but what's the name of this operation I've heard this Mountain Pass materials and there's three more from USA rare earth who have processing plants now in Stillwater Oklahoma Shira Blanca Texas and Wheat Ridge Colorado we are getting into the rare earth business and it seems that most of them are focused on magnets which would I don't know if that's gonna be the future of rare earths but that's what they most of them seem to be doing so between Canada

these four states in America I think we're getting back into the business we're and maybe maybe so maybe we can chunk something out of Ukraine if you know if it's really even there maybe actually after their oil more more than likely I would take that over the rare earths any day so things are moving and if they get the peace deal they we can get the rare earths if you want them from Russia Russia already off I know we can get it easy but we're gonna be doing processing and we have

and we're gonna make Canada you do it Canada yeah you want to be net zero here take this nasty stuff do it do it do it do it while we're kind of on this and and climate etc oh it's the neo diminium rare earth that is that that's the that's the big attraction that that's for those ridiculous magnets yeah is that is that of any real use the magnet I mean it's obviously yeah that's motor very yeah that's a yeah for all kinds of stuff yeah it's extremely powerful magnet well we

need some kind of thing where you put two of them together you can't get them apart your finger gets gets crushed you're done so this is so this is a story that's been brewing it's been very hard to get your fingers done it's been very hard to get a clip and this is not the one I wanted particularly because it comes from OG what Africa news let me see is it from yes Africa news yeah here goes the show but it's about chemtrails or as we call it aerosol injection and there's

a lot of people in the UK are very concerned about this because they're talking about it this is just a short clip about what it is we all know what it is but it's even interesting that one of the scientists in this clip describes exactly what has been happening to our climate and I think it is due to aerosol injection or chemtrails the approach would walk by planes releasing tiny particles into the atmosphere's dry stable upper layer called the stratosphere this would help reduce

the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface and helping to cool the planet so our study examines a climate intervention technique called stratospheric aerosol injection which is an idea to cool down the planet by adding a layer of small reflective particles aerosols into the high atmosphere those particles would reflect a small amount perhaps 1% of the incoming sunlight and there was good evidence that this could be used to cool down the planet and perhaps to

reduce some climate impacts vulnerable people around the world researchers say that this could be done using aircraft already in service today rather than developing new ones despite the lower altitude it would still be possible to cool the planet by around 0.6 degrees Celsius when you when you deploy listen to this guy listen to what he says Celsius when you when you deploy stratospheric aerosol injection you can change atmospheric circulation patterns and so this can do

things like like disrupt precipitation patterns cause droughts in some places cause excessive flooding in other places sounds exactly what's been happening to me but other experts have urged caution saying geoengineering projects like this one don't offer long-term solutions so as as kind of you know the Alex Jones and me would say this is exactly what they do do it for decades and then say oh we have this great idea and we've already been doing it because it's in the jet fuel and Bobby

the op RFK jr. took a question about this yesterday on the dr.

Phil show Emily and my biggest concern is the stratospheric aerosol injections that are continuously peppered on us every day and bromium aluminum strontium it's sprayed in our skies all day long and I know you've talked to Dane Wigington about this he seems to be one of the experts in the field you got a question yes how do we stop it that is it's not happening in my agency you know we don't do that it's done we think by DARPA and a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel

you know those materials are put in jet fuel we I'm gonna do everything that in my power to stop it we're bringing on somebody who's gonna think only about that find out who's doing and holding them accountable oh Bobby he's a kook he's a kook he believes in chemtrails they're always talking about jet fuel yes this has been the theory for a long time yeah that's a bad theory why well for one thing it would be corrosive but I've tested jet fuel when I was a chemist at Union Oil that was

none of these things in that was not in the last 25 years well as you know no no well chemtrails have been talked about way longer than when I was when I was a kid they were talking about him well I the materials she talked about and I've seen this happen in Los Angeles what floated down onto my house the strontium barium and now I there's something to this there is some and and it's always been suspected that it's in the jet fuel because you see it coming and it's not like

the guys in the with the jet they put all kinds of crap in jet fuel you can pee in jet fuel and it'll still work it's diesel basically kerosene kerosene you know so no I think this is happening and ever since President Trump got elected it's been pretty beautiful here in in Texas blue skies where we would have every other day if not days in a row of chemtrails spreading out all across the sky making it gray no I'm I think this is for real I think okay well you can think

what you want we can agree to disagree oh wait until you hear what I have to say coming up you think that's bad you're not gonna agree with anything I say it's okay you got anything you got any series anything you want to want to launch into here well let's get rid of the tick-tock clips yeah well I was hoping you were gonna do student loan oh the student loans yes everybody wants student loan with tick-tock clips okay let's go student loan revamp part one Capitol Hill House Republicans are

working to revamp the federal student loan system as part of their big budget bill and efforts to cut government spending entities Melina Weisskopf has the details Republicans are working towards ending President Biden's attempts to forgive student loan debt after the courts rejected Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt he enacted a workaround through the save program that allowed so many borrowers to pay back zero dollars on their student

loans and not accrue interest now Republican lawmakers are trying to overhaul that entire Biden era student loan payback program in addition Republican lawmakers aim to cap the amount that students can borrow in the first place the limit is going to be the median price of a college university or a program of study the Republican chairman of the Education Committee says the goal with these new limits is to encourage colleges to lower their costs our current broken

system encourages students to accept more and more debt without ever addressing college costs it's no secret that spending in Washington has been a disaster waste fraud and abuse has left the American taxpayer on the hook for government bloat who was that at the end you know I don't know but it sounds like Reagan exactly I was like I know the same similar voice patterns probably a milieu thing hmm so here's part now the part two is that I just was it's a long story

how this happened but I got these clips kind of screwed up but the second part is a student loan redux to and Republicans are working to make several changes to the Pell Grant so the goal is to try to limit the Pell Grant only to those who need it most and change the requirements from 12 credit hours per semester to 30 credit hours per year now Democrats said it's unfair for untraditional students with other obligations outside of school such as who I have obligations

to family or for jobs here's the ranking Democrat member on the committee speaking about it yesterday because they may need more financial support to cover the basic needs like housing child care and transportation at a time when families are struggling to make ends meet I'm confused why we're making it harder for working parents who are trying to further their education the Republican chairman for his part noted that the Pell Grant is on track to run a

shortfall of 70 to 100 billion dollars within the decade so he's trying to avoid that Republicans are also trying to change the Pell Grant to include vocational programs for example schools for cosmetology or welding training any career path that does not require a traditional college degree if students choose to choose to take those paths they will qualify for a so-called workforce Pell Grant for the first time okay so where that's interesting and that's a good

stimulus for welders what what happens with the student loans people now have to repay is the question they have to repay them that's what they have to do are they going to are they going to have programs to refinance they'd like the reduction programs if you work for the police department things like that they're gonna have the same exceptions that have always been in there okay but they have to pay you take the loan out the real problem I think it was mentioned in

the first clip is that these colleges they saw the whole thing as a scam that owed free money this is jack our tuition up yep and oh they get even more free money with the higher tuition well let's jack it up even more the amount of to the tuition fees and not just the private universities but the public universities are just as high as like the Harvard I was unbelievable what a scam this has become I've been looking at some of these endowments like

Harvard their endowments are huge they have over I think they have a hundred billion dollars or something like that so which is you know arguably what we spent on Ukraine in three years it was probably more but let's just say that's the number and that's tax -free the only tax they have is 4 % they pay to the colleges and the rest is just you know who's managing that money what's happening with that it's I think black rocks got most that's that's the scam if you ask me the scam is those

endowments and that's that's why Trump administration is being hard-nosed about it they want control over that or they want to know what's going on with it that that I see it as a possible source of taxation that's public that can pay yet less yeah in other words the taxpayer can pay less and those guys can pay their fair share where's their fair share for a start yeah I mean especially Harvard but all of them have huge endowments all of them do all of them it's that to me is a is

a money scam those endowments is a tax avoidance system for mega elites it has to be certainly if Black Rocks in there then can't be anything good no I mean and then and then the other students who get cajoled into a gender studies diploma poli sci you know they owe $100,000 and they got nothing nowhere to go if they owe $100,000 that's low it's cheap yeah so well that's good that's it that's not getting enough attention that that endowment scam is is a problem I got did you receive the

Michelle Obama clip 20 times which one the one where she's going on about well there's a bunch of them which one you talking about well the one that's going around is oddly clips which of course makes me always go for the original oh it was a slip-up she's saying she's a man she's saying oh I love that clip here you know I always you don't you notice it's not on my list no but I thought that clip was was terrific it's obviously chopped off but people like this to me like

this is clip of the day this is the best it's a very funny clip big Mike is a man you know just so proud of how you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender absolutely and that's you know that warms my heart particularly as a black man so the video is the best so the video cuts to her brother while she's talking so the implication is as a black man you had to deal with me a black man who's transgender I'm not fighting that obvious truth

but here is the full clip in context where she's actually talking to one of the Wayans brothers about his transgender child well speaking of parenting I wanted to talk Marlon a bit about you know see they missed a little Marlon bit just so proud of how you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender absolutely and that's you know that warms my heart particularly as a black man you know I would you care to share that journey of their transition

really taught me what real unconditional love was by the way notice how Marlon is so psyop that he's calling his transgender child they when I went when they went through the transition I actually went through the transition from denial to complete acceptance and it took me a week to get there only a week it's easy it's easy parents only a week unbelievable so anyway I just I had to get that out of the way because that was all over you of the text groups

in Fredericksburg are exploding big Mike it's true JFK jr. is coming back next no when I saw it I knew I was gonna you know you knew immediately was like miss it was clipped for that purpose yeah and and I figured you'd go grab the real deal and you play it out so I didn't have to even do it of course I did of course good for you that's what I do defending the woman hey we had a big a very big bill pass in the house the Texas House this week I think two days ago and it's not it's not

law yet because it has to go to the Senate this is the undisclosed AI generated images and political messages bill that's not the real title but it's interesting and the debate is interesting around that as well former House Speaker did feel in is the one that filed House Bill 366 he was the subject of political attacks and memes in his most recent re-election campaign mail flyers depicted him hugging Democrat Nancy Pelosi something that he never did but he says that's not why he

decided to file this bill under House Bill 366 it requires any political advertising that uses altered images including generative AI or deepfake videos to contain a disclosure stating that the content did not occur failure to do so would be a class-a misdemeanor current state law prohibits the use of AI generated pictures within 30 days of an election date feeling says this is about making sure election law keeps up with the evolving AI industry because a

deceptive ad could swing an election it's a very common punishment when you're dealing with something as important as an election especially election I could say is a stolen election when in the last 72 hours of a campaign a video can be released that entirely changes the nature of the electorate going into election day several lawmakers lined up to speak against the bill some said the bill is too vague and could face First Amendment legal challenges some

conservatives also said the criminal penalties are too steep and people should not be thrown in jail for political speech this is insanity that we would propose such a harsh penalty for simply expressing our displeasure of an elected official this is anti-american this is anti-constitution feeling says he understands that but the penalties need to be major to make sure that multimillion-dollar campaigns play by the rules the bill now heads over to the Senate for

consideration and it could frankly face an uphill battle because lieutenant governor Dan Patrick is the one that controls the Senate Patrick and Phelan have had a rocky relationship to say the least that goes back to the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton and several Senate bills that have died over in the house over the last couple of legislative sessions so this is a again one of the only interesting uses of artificial quote intelligence I feel you should be able to do that it brings

humor into the process I'm delighted with it and yeah absolutely you should put a total agreement yeah put a disclaimer on it just like the drug you don't even do off screw the disclaimer I'm okay I'm okay with the bill that says the disclaimer could just do it like the ad companies may cause a no leakage you may die and that's all you need to do you know just but the thing is even with the disclaimer it doesn't matter because some of these things will crop up as memes and they'll be

coming in anonymously from out of state it's great I love and it's gonna show the guy kissing Pelosi on the lips or whatever who cares it's great but you think it's funny and you know and if you can't counter it if you can't counter it you're this is a modern era yeah if you're being besmirched smeared this besmirched I tell you have to be able to cut as a politician mm-hmm unless you're being libeled which is different if you're being just smeared just casually smeared is you have to be have

enough chops yes to get out of the smear using your own wiles your own but you by using your own use your own AI yeah you can do the same thing to the other guy what's that in your mouth yeah yeah it's this is the only thing they're worried about by the way that's all they're worried about AI ma'am I did some more vibe coding I will say when it comes to getting me actual results with coding grok funny enough someone suggests I've tried them all I've tried chat GPT

Claude cursor cursor is not as way too complicated that integrates with their IDE and I don't have any of that I've just want a simple script which I could have done in two hours of my buddy Dave and we would have been done with it but now it's taking me collectively three weeks of at least several hours on several of those days to come up with a simple script in PA in Python I'm sorry grok actually did did pretty well but there's no absolutely no evidence of intelligence it's it's just looking

at the words the language the structure the syntax it can do all that and it's just using old stuff that it learned somewhere else and I know this because when it comes to one particular language liquid soap long story it's it's doing everything wrong and they all do it wrong because they all have sucked up the same wrong information and that whole project is a mess with githubs and get labs and different documentation and so it has no intelligence but it's doing enough stuff

that yeah okay it this is a 50 billion dollar industry not a trillion dollar industry it's still all parlor tricks have it right your your Dvorak and substack you won't you'll throw it out I could probably have it do something and then I could edit it to an extreme I'd probably spend more time editing exactly that it would take actually right from scratch yes not an unusual situation that's the point that's exactly the point is but if you can't yeah but I can write

from scratch and I can write pretty quickly yes but if you can't write from scratch you'll write some mediocre over word salad that's over inflated and I'll have a little nice little icons next to it it's no good emojis emojis emojis and it'll start off with I'm so happy to find you well exactly what you're gonna get oh man so Ava flooding a brook do you remember how your buddy she's not my buddy I've never met her oh she seems like she'd be your buddy well she happens to be Dutch and

she has the the the I'm Adam she's Ava so you would think coincidentally also born on September 3rd which is my birthday well there you go you two are meant for each other we're twin flames I tell you Tina's rolling her eyes when she hears that so she posted a very interesting video about her iPhone and I need to share this because she there's if this is true and I'll take her at her word it has some interesting implications and of course she's using it for engagement farming but here we go

hi everyone so yesterday I got two messages from Apple stating that they detected a mercenary spyware attack against my iPhone first I thought it was fake I got two of these messages and I thought it's probably not real but upon further research it turns out that these messages actually are real and so that this is actually happening and in the message they say that this targeted mercenary spyware attack is probably happening because of who I am and what I do and then they continue

to say that mercenary spyware attacks such as Pegasus for example are exceptionally rare and that they're extremely sophisticated they use really strong words they're saying that the extreme cost sophistication and worldwide nature of mercenary spyware attacks makes some of the most advanced digital threats in existence today and they're sending this to me because they've detected that it's going on against my iPhone so this is real obviously I don't know for sure if any of that spyware

has been installed on my phone I definitely don't know who did it so this could be anyone this could be name a government that doesn't like me this could be any organization that doesn't like me secret services you name it but what I do know for sure is that this is an attempt to intimidate me an attempt to silence me obviously and I can tell them because they're probably already watching on this phone right now that it's not gonna work so you can try and intimidate me all you want but I'm

not gonna stop that's all I want you guys and I want the people spying on me through this phone to know so I don't for a second think that they're using this to intimidate her she didn't know it they didn't say hey we've got your phone we saw what you did send me a Bitcoin none of that I think she is being used to infect other people if this is true and I'll take her at her word that she got these notices from Apple which is very concerning well there is a page Apple does I'm looking at it now

mm-hmm Apple does have a page up about it is call it from Apple and it says about the Apple threat notifications which is what she's talking about and protecting against mercenary spyware and there's a long lecture here hmm how do you know it's not a phony deal how do you get it do you get it by by tapping on a link and a text message I'm trying to find out because they're very wordy this has obviously been written by a no Apple intelligence probably not AI Apple which is worse yes

it is according to public reporting and research by civil society organizations technology firms and journalists individually targeted attacks of such exceptional of such exceptional cost and complexity have historically been associated with state actors including private companies developing mercenary spyware on their behalf such as Pegasus from the NSO group though deployed against a very small number of individuals often journalists activists politicians and diplomats it could be I could be

actioned against me for example and it's in the drawers we speak mercenary spyware attacks are ongoing and global and since 2021 we have sent Apple threat notifications multiple times a year as we have detected these oh that's interesting they can detect them and to date we have notified users in over 150 countries in total goes on and on I think so I however I think she was used as a well first of all your phone is an attack vector on your life that's just a known fact which is why I love

my light phone three it doesn't do nothing however just coincidentally yesterday Tina comes in oh my god you won't have believe what happened to David so what happened said someone took over his phone he no longer receives his own text messages that's how we that's part of how he noticed it they they stole his identity they created a driver's license with a driver's license were able to unfreeze all of his credit he has credit frozen at the three big credit agencies they unfroze the

credit and then how do you unfreeze the credit well you have to you can go online and say this is me and they had a driver's license they had a social security number so did he is he the one who froze the credit yes he froze it he had it frozen okay like most smart people you have your credit frozen so you had his credit frozen they unfroze his credit they could took completely they took over the functions at least the the text messages so they cloned or whatever they did that

I mean and the whole text messaging system is that you know system was a system 7 whatever it's called that you just go to some podunk country and say here's 50 grand let me on the text messaging system okay here you go you know that by the way those Trump messages you're getting don't tap on the link okay it's probably gonna get Pegasus spyware or other mercenary spyware and then they so then they unfroze his credit and immediately went to buy a Mercedes and

a Porsche Mercedes was okay with him the Porsche people called called him at home and said hey are you sure you want this Porsche and that's how they found out about it but the Mercedes deal was done so your phone is a threat vector of epic proportion and not my phone not yours no and should not be used and just to complete the whole Scott the whole spy grid sound like Katherine Austin Fitz right now after Starlink which I saw them fly over again last night and I wanted to take a

picture however the the camera on the on this phone is shit so I could not get a picture but I saw the whole train of lights going right overhead I think it has to be on a clear night when there's just a little bit of moon we have a crescent waning yeah you have to catch it because they're over you're over there over your all the time you don't get to see him necessarily it caught it and it was just beautiful I'm like oh my yeah I've seen I've never seen any

second time seeing them while walking the dog and now well there's more coming Amazon has launched its first batch of internet broadcasting satellites kicking off its long-delayed deployment of an internet from Space Network 27 satellites are now in orbit at an altitude of nearly 630 kilometers above the Earth's surface Monday's launch from the Atlas 5 rocket which took off from Florida follows that of two experimental satellites launched two years ago as part of project Kuiper

at ten billion dollars effort unveiled in 2019 competing with rival Elon Musk Starlink Jeff business team claims that the satellites still launching are now much more advanced than the first two the company aims to put more than 3 ,200 of these satellites into orbit marks SpaceX has already launched more than 8,000 Starlink since 2019 meanwhile a growing number of astronomers are warning that the large number of satellites is hampering their work and could pose an

accident risk yeah whatever so there's 600 kilometers but Starlink's are lower I think I think they're close to the 350 400 kilometers well let's find out okay what the book of knowledge is slow today I have to type something in I know I know and on that phone with those little keyboard is very hard I know I'm using the regular I know I know there's no threat vector against you you're clean man you got no mercenaries I like a 342 okay so Amazon's gonna be at twice that height which will induce

latency more just no good doesn't seem like it's good but but did you hear that 8,000 satellites yeah I heard that that's a lot man the end and you know everyone's also jacked oh yeah soon my t -mobile phone will be able to use Starlink okay talk about a threat vector all they have to do then is just target zoom in enhance rotate fire yeah pretty much you'll be done no they're gonna first I'll be targeting the cartels in Mexico oh yeah oh yeah I think we bring back ham radio

for the kids it was much better you know short bursts yep you know and you can do it you can push a button you can send text messages to each other that looks cool you walk around school kids would be like yeah the thing on your belt yeah make it right make it a racket all right do you have any do you have any more sequences because I have something I want to try and roll out and it's gonna be difficult and you're gonna hate me for it so I want you to get whatever you have that you want to get

out of the way let's do it well yeah let's see did I want to play some data stuff too from the USDS the Department of was data's whatever what the US Department of Data Service that's the original name for Doge no it this a group of well you know yes the United States Digital Service that is the original but but they're bitching and moaning because they're getting fired and they and but they make some good points that this is on NPR which is you know they're big supporters of the haters of

Doge and the supporters of everything that's in government but this woman makes a good point and it's the stuff we talk about and I don't know what they're gonna do about it Karen Moronsky Chapman never saw her job as political she just wanted to make the government work a little better I joined USDS to help people help American people to deliver better services she's a data scientist and for the last couple of years Karen's been quietly working deep inside the federal government she's a

little known agency called the United States Digital Service or USDS this is her first media interview a lot of what I was doing was trying to bridge the different data silos across government and really just help agencies be more efficient and effective by using data to inform decisions you can think of the USDS as a kind of helpdesk though that would be underselling it it's more like helpdesk meets SEAL Team 6 kind of special ops team for broken websites when federal systems start to

fall apart it's the USDS that gets the call like in the spring of 2024 when the Department of Education rolled out its new FAFSA application that's the form college students used to apply for federal financial aid and last spring it broke in a spectacular way the Department of Education just found a calculation error on hundreds of thousands of student aid applications forms failed to upload pages led nowhere students born in the year 2000 walked out completely

it was chaos the FAFSA fiasco was pretty on par with like healthcare.gov like it was pretty close to being a healthcare.gov situation healthcare.gov that was the catastrophic rollout of the Affordable Care Act what we call Obamacare these days the website to sign up crashed just two hours after launch just to confirm United States Digital Services was renamed by President Trump to Doge and they're using the same terms connecting the data silos acting as a helpdesk so this is one of the

unsuccessful data scientists who were there and really weren't able to achieve anything except a very expensive Obamacare website hold on she's still there this is the thing that's weird about this story oh wow okay let it go it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it became a national embarrassment so disastrous it prompted the government to create the USDS to be a rescue team for things like this so when FAFSA fell apart in 2024 it was Karen and her team who stepped in they stabilized

the site unlocked access and got students the aid they needed they've done this kind of work for the CDC Social Security education it's high stakes high pressure but Karen loved it it's really easy to get addicted to this work because it's so meaningful there's very few roles that you can be positively impacting the life of millions if not hundreds of millions of people and for a while it felt well safe totally immune from the turn of politics yeah like technology is not political like

technology should be nonpartisan it doesn't matter who's president I'm here to serve the people but I was wrong George has proved that technology and its use can be highly partisan the Department of Government efficiency is charged with rooting out waste fraud and abuse but when it made its way to the US Digital Services Department it appeared to be taking an agency built to protect the government's digital systems and started doing just the opposite a good analogy

is it's like Jenga and at some point George is pulling out pieces and something's gonna topple and we may not be able to put it back wasn't Kara Swisher's ex-wife in charge of her for a while Megan didn't she go there that I know of yeah I think she did I think she did and and was it Matt Cutts from Google he was there for a while the guy who did Google search they had you know what they were doing is they were mine they were the ones that were mining

everything getting all the data for Obama that's what those guys were doing I remember this we talked about it at nauseam ad nauseam ad nauseam I tell you so she doesn't she doesn't like do doge's doge is weaponizing my department is that the story I think she lost one of her friends or something but to doge you know that I got fired I mean I can't really tell but but she has a complaint coming up that is is valuable I remember when I heard that they had right access to Treasury I

was like oh my gosh like you can break things they're not small things trillions of dollars worth of things like Social Security and tax refunds the majority of folks I see having been hired into doge are very junior these systems are not going to be anything like anything that they have seen before take the Social Security system it was built in the 60s and 70s and it runs on COBOL a programming language that is two or even three times older than some of the

doge staffers they clearly don't understand COBOL when they were like oh there's a hundred and fifty year olds at Social Security Elon Musk talked about that during an interview on Fox. The date gamut.

Pressure examination of Social Security and we've got people in there that a hundred and fifty years old now do you know anyone that's 150 I don't okay and Musk said it was proof of fraud except Karen says it actually wasn't and it's like no that's the default date for COBOL like if the field is missing just the default date that's why there's all these 150 year olds.

These hundred and fifty year olds weren't getting checks they just didn't have a birth date in the system and Karen said she would have told the doge people as much if they'd only asked but they never did they just assumed they knew better. Well we had that from our dude's name Ben the day after this this story broke about the 150 year olds now NPR is showing up with the story six minutes worth of story.

Yeah this is pretty funny but she does the point about COBOL is it is a good point but except for one thing that I don't know why it hasn't been discussed it's not even mentioned. You mean why is there no birth date for these people? No what about COBOL?

COBOL is not hard to learn any one of these guys who are coding in machine language or assembler or anything actually can learn COBOL it's one of the easiest languages to learn why doesn't they just say some junior guys I'm gonna learn COBOL it's not a big deal that's why it's called a common business-oriented language it was designed to be used by schmucks. COBOL schmoball just use grock baby I'm sure grock does a great job at COBOL. You're right it's common what was it again was the acronym?

Common business-oriented language. Yeah was it relatively simple unsophisticated language. Well it's got a sophistication to it but it's very it's very I learned it once I don't know if I could code in it now but it's not a hard it's not it's Fortran is harder. Like COBOL is for schmucks that is a t-shirt or a bumper sticker right there. I mean it's not you don't have to be a genius to code COBOL that's the point.

Yeah but I'm still stuck on how come there are so many records in the system where they don't have a birth date what kind of system are you running over there? Well there's that. All right so since you broach the money topic with the Treasury there I'm going to attempt and I may fail and I hope you give me some grace. No. I hope you give me some grace. This is this is this preliminary stuff you're doing right now is already setting up the wall. I think I can explain the stable coin gambit.

Oh I don't know if you can I mean I don't this is gonna bore people stiff. Well I mean would you rather play tik -tok clips instead? I mean I did. I would actually yes but but but if you want to make the attempt I don't know why you want to do this. Because it's after the you want to do it after the donation segment? No why would we do it after the donation segment? Okay I'll do it all right I'll do it after the donation. No I'm just saying that because it's gonna give us a low count.

No I'll do it after. All right this is attention but then if I do it after the donation segment you can't grouse and go crap until the very end. Oh I'll save it yeah I can save it. Okay yeah. But how many clips are we talking about here? You make it sound like it's gonna be a half-hour presentation on stable coin. No I think it's probably about 17 minutes. Oh my god. Well it might it will affect it affects world affairs.

I'm just saying it will affect world affairs and we have to learn things about what is a euro dollar. Do you know what a euro dollar is? No I don't. We hear it all the time. I can look it up. It's easier to look it up seems to me. I'll look it up. Yeah okay well you do that you look it up and then I'll play some m5m news to entertain everybody to keep them listening until we get to the donation segment.

Oh chills this morning anticipation is building for new music from one of the greatest voices of all time. Yes eight-time Grammy winner Barbra Streisand announced this morning she is dropping a brand new album. And we just heard a sneak peek of the first single called first time ever I saw your face the new record is called the secret of life partners volume 2. By the way stop the clip for a second. This is around pet peeves.

Why don't they use the term like you always use in the past release yes release you're gonna release a new album instead of she's gonna drop an album. Well that's supposed to be hip or something. That's what the kids are talking about man you drop an album and by the way they they're so hip they call the Hoosiers the Hoziers which is kind of cool. The Hozier? It's a sequel to her 2014 platinum certified album and it's been more than a decade in the works.

She collaborated on the album with some of the best in the business including Bob Dylan Paul McCartney. First off two dead guys right at the top the best in the business business including Bob Dylan. McCartney's alive? Barely. Including Bob Dylan. We all know we all know John. And Dylan's alive. Dylan's barely alive and we all know John buried Paul. Stop. Including Bob Dylan Paul McCartney Ariana Grande Mariah Carey Hozier and others. Hozier. The album comes out June 27th.

Alright Babs we're looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to that whoo a new duets album just dropped. No she's not. It's dropped. It's dropped. Pick it up. It's dropped. Who saw this coming everybody? On the medical watch for you this afternoon a newly found impact of vaccines on women. Medical reporter Dina Baer is here to explain Dina. Lourdes and Ben vaccines for the flu and COVID can alter the menstrual cycle.

It's not a permanent impact but for women who have a regular cycle getting a flu shot or a COVID vaccine changed the length of the cycle. Multiple studies confirm menstrual disturbances following vaccines. Now the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms concerns expressed by women. Experts say there's no need to worry the cycle returns to normal and there shouldn't be a reason for vaccine hesitancy based on the menstrual cycle impact. We hammered this during COVID. Yep yep yep.

And we got excoriated for it. It's bullcrap. I did specifically. We had a lot of people angry and they all came back said I'm sorry you were right. It interrupted. It disrupted. It increased flow. It became irregular like awesome like crazy flow. Yeah the nurses were reporting it. But don't worry there's nothing to worry about. Nothing to worry about at all. Don't worry about it. These people are ghouls. And who saw this coming?

Researchers at the University of Virginia say a new study has proven safe and effective. Whoa safe and effective you know that's gonna be a doozy. This time I actually believe it. Safe and effective at desensitizing children to peanut allergy. Yeah UVA Health children's researchers tested children by giving them increased doses of peanut protein. Now by the end of the study all 27 children were able to eat 500 milligrams of peanut protein daily. Eight children are now freely eating peanuts.

Researchers are calling for larger clinical trials to advance what could be a game-changing new treatment for peanut allergies in young children. Oh go figure. For years we've been oh you can't have any peanuts near my child. My child was no good. Whereas if you just expose the kid to peanuts it turns out they're okay. Well they were never exposed young enough that's always been the issue. Yes it's like so obvious. People. Where's Bobby the op in all of this? Yeah that's what I like.

Where's the Epstein files? Yeah I got some super cuts that'll round it out. Okay super cuts are always good. I'm glad you have them. Yo you have three holy crap. Yeah because I'm they're leading up to the current super cut that's floating around after chaos and threat to democracy. We have a couple of here. We have the moment. This one was a flop. The strength that we have. Sorry. Is the moment flop? The strength that we have is in this moment. Listen to your constituents.

Center them in this moment. But I can tell you that there are a lot of people that are watching his leadership in this moment. This is the moment. No I think about what's happening you know in this moment. What's important is that we meet this moment. So are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment? What do you want to see us doing right now in this moment? And which Democrats are actually going to stand up against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in this moment?

The fight that you all are exhibiting is not just what the base wants but it's what this moment requires. The strength that we have is in this moment. Well by the way I think we hit we played this one already. In fact I'm pretty sure. Yeah this next one might be. You talking about this one or the next one? No the in this moment. We played the in this moment. But it was a flop. Just the idea is that they were just repeating this is a flop that never worked out. Yep that's a flop.

And then we had the threat to democracy. We had the chaos which I don't have. I mean those are also super cuts they don't have. But then we have the social media dangerous series which we I think may have played but this is another version of it because it's got the the the annoying overlays. But this is another example of something that was they they they push this stuff out trying to I don't know if they're looking for it to catch hold or I would say these are ineffective.

Hi I'm Fox San Antonio's Jessica Hedley. And I'm Ryan Wolf. Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities. The El Paso Las Cruces communities. Eastern Iowa communities. Mid-Michigan communities. We are extremely proud of the quality balanced journalism that CBS 4 News produces. But we are concerned about the quality of the news stories that are plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media.

More alarming some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. Unfortunately some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think. And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. Yeah, I'm going to use these.

I'm speaking to the high school class. Yeah, you should definitely use that one. About propaganda. Yeah, I'm going to show this to them. Yeah, and it's like, it's an embarrassment. But they continue, and this is the latest one. I think this is pretty new. This one I have not seen. This is the escalation. They're trying to get this into the mainstream thinking that, you know, Trump's escalation. I don't know why. Is that a bad term? Or they're trying to equate it with the Soviet Union?

I'm not sure, but they're trying to get this word in there. And it's all the same jerks. We begin tonight with the escalation in the president's crackdown on illegal immigration. Today's dramatic escalation in the Trump administration's conflict with judges. The Trump administration signaling a major escalation in its deportation efforts. Today, an escalation in the Trump administration's battle with the judiciary.

Tensions between local and federal authorities over President Trump's immigration crackdown escalated today. We begin this hour with a major escalation of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration. We begin with what appears to be a major escalation in the Trump administration's deportation efforts. And what is a major escalation in the battle here in D.C. over immigration and deportation?

This feels like an insane and reckless escalation from the Trump administration arresting a judge. I will tell you, you are not alone. This is a dramatic escalation. More aggressive moves, more escalation. Trump's escalation of his migrant purge. This kind of escalatory action. This is a dramatic escalation. We see an immigration escalation. An escalation. Wow, that's a good one. I'm going to give you a borderline for that. That was dynamite. Borderline. That was good. Escalation.

I need the whole Sharpton thing. This escalation of Trump. The escalation. I love him. Call it a migrant purge. Nice. Migrant purge. And with that escalation, I'd like to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the unclippable wench, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeVore. Hi, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Crane. In the morning, I ship the sea of Buddhists on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water to the dames and knights out there.

In the morning to you, the trolls in the troll room. Hold on a second. Well, I don't know, man. I think your supercut chased everybody away. 1880. I think the threat of your... Oh, hold on. Oh, no. Oh, right away, we lose the... Right away. Hold on a second. That's crazy. Right away. The minute you started talking, it switched interfaces again. Oh, can you hear me now? I can hear you now. I hear you. Can you hear me now? I hear you now. You sound great. I don't know what that is. I don't know.

Something's triggering it. What? The question is, what's triggering it? Something. Anyway, 1880 is the count on the trolls in the troll room, trollroom.io, and that is where you can go to listen to the show live. We've been doing it live for a long time. We are in our 18th year, and the troll room is fun. It's ephemeral because you can go in there and go, troll whatever, and it just scrolls right off, and it doesn't matter. Then you're just shouting into the void.

It doesn't really make any difference. So get it out of your system in the troll room and listen to us live at trollroom.io or get a modern podcast app. I really do recommend it. By the way, I think we talked about pocket casts last time, and so there's now definitive answer from Apple that the donate button in the app is okay. So everybody is now doing this. They're adding the donut, the donate button into their apps. Apple said it's okay, so it's okay? Yes. Is that the way this works?

Yes. If it's not okay, then, oh, you have to use Apple Pay, and we take 30%. Don't you understand? Oh, I see what you're talking about. This has always been the problem, and the app developers have always been afraid, like, oh, man, my app will get rejected if I put this in there. No. No. You can put it in there, and it's great because then people are listening. Oh, I should support these guys. Let me just look at my app that I'm already using. Click.

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The response has been negative and frankly threatens our financial stability. Specifically, advertisers have cited the following issues as problematic and potentially brand damaging. The give on Asian media assassination tagline. Did we use that? I don't remember that. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know either. This was flagged immediately as insensitive and potentially offensive. The lengthy and seemingly unfocused segments. Did I get this email or not? No, I don't think so.

I don't remember it. So AI analyzed our show, 1759, as an advertiser, and they hate it. Several advertisers noted the extended period. That proves our complete point. Yes. I'll read a few more. Several advertisers noted the extended period dedicated to topics like the Pope's funeral and the minutiae of online hoaxes. They feel the show lacked a clear through line, at times meandering, losing audience engagement, and by extension, the value of their placements. The tapping me along discussion.

While intended as analysis, the extended speculation on Trump's ambiguous phrasing. Oh, by the way, that's interesting they brought that up. Yep. Because we know what it means. Well, there's two versions. Well, the version I believe to be the correct version is the golfing one. Yes, I agree. I think that's the right one. Because he's a golfer. Yes. Tapping along as a golf term. Tapping, you know, putt, putt, putt, tapping the ball along slowly. There is a second one, however, from producer Andy.

He says, in a pig slaughterhouse, there's a guy who uses a rattle attached to a broomstick to keep the pigs moving into their final destination by tapping it on the floor behind them. Yeah, I don't think that's it. I like it, though. I like the visual. I like the visual. But I'm glad that the AI picked it up. Because they picked it up as boring. Yes, boring. Now, wait, let's back off for a second. Now, why was this sent in the first place? What is the end game here of sending this note to us?

We don't have advertisers, so it's got nothing to do with any real advertisers. It's some sort of a phony baloney scam? No, this is someone who thought they could find a good use of AI. Oh, and this is what they found? This is it. The extended listener donation segment. Here we go. While listener support is vital, the length of the donation readouts, including personal anecdotes and tangents, was cited as excessive and disruptive to the show's flow.

Advertisers are concerned that this extended segment reduces the time available for content and their messaging. And then finally, tone and language. Certain advertisers expressed discomfort with the overall tone, particularly the use of dismissive language like bullcrap and jamokes. Well, at least he nailed it. And the sometimes cynical and negative framing of news events. They prefer a more measured and analytical approach. And it goes on and on and on and on. Wow, you've got to send me that.

Yeah, I will. The AI then made a rap song out of it, which I will not bore you with. No, you don't need that. It's horrible. I'm sure it is. It's just crap. So anyway, Time Talent Treasure is how we operate this ship, which means we need your financial support. But we appreciate any kind of time and talent that you put into it, which includes the work that our artists do.

They always provide us with a piece of artwork that we can use as the album art and to get attention for engagement farming on the socials, to be quite honest about it. And it always seems to work. People love this one, although I did get the errands. Man, if you hate Tim Pool so much, just don't talk about him. You're sending audience to him. Okay. All right. I'm sure. Because Episode 1759 titled Eat the Babies. I don't care about sending audience to Tim Pool one way or the other. I know.

But this is I'm just giving you the feedback. I'm giving you true. I mean, if you if he gets audience, he gets some recognition on the show. Maybe he'll maybe maybe he'll log roll and give us a log roll. It's called pod rolling. Pod rolling. You pod roll. You don't log roll. That's so 2005. It's pod rolling.

The artwork came to us from a well -known artist, Capitalist Agenda, and it was indeed the Beanie Boys Beanie with the googly eyes in his googly eyes is what made it work in his seat as at the new media chair. Oh, by the way, I had a where do I have that? There was a new guy in the new media chair. Let me see. Where did I have that? And the new guy, you know, that that's an embarrassment being in that chair, it seems to me.

Well, the guy in at this time was Winston Marshall, formerly guitarist and banjo player of Mumford and Sons. He's British, and he now occupies this seat. And I think this was also a set up bull crap question. Sorry, advertisers. As he was, he was referring to the sordid state of affairs in his home country of the United Kingdoms. It's in Britain. We have had a quarter of a million people issued non-crime hate incidents. As we speak, there are people in prison for quite literally reposting memes.

We have extensive prison sentences and for for tweets, social media posts and general free speech issues. Would the Trump administration consider political asylum for British citizens in such a situation? Well, to your latter question, it's a very good one. I have not heard that proposed to the president, nor have I spoken to him about that idea. But I certainly can and talk to our national security team and see if it's something the administration would entertain. Yes, please.

Asylum for the Brits, I tell you, that was a set up question. So we know that that chair is there for bull crap. It's the set up bull crap chair. Yes. And of course, everyone goes along with it. I wonder if they hand them a script. Would you like you do want to be in the chair this week? Sure. Well, can you do this? And they give you give you a script. They look it over and you decide, yeah, I can do that. If they do, I have to memorize it. Yeah, you have to memorize it. OK, I can manage that.

Imagine that they said, OK, Kerry, you're up. You're in the new media chair. I'd sit there and then I just I just I'd have the script. But then I'd hold up a picture and say, hey, Carolyn, what's this in your mouth? That's what I would do. That would make me. No, you're right. I wouldn't do that. You know, the first lobbering. Hey, Carol. Anyway, thank you very much. Capitalist agenda. You're a unanimous winner. Let's take a quick look at no agenda. Our generator dot com.

Was there anything that had a lot of tapping stuff that. Yeah, no, that was so head and shoulders above everything else. I didn't want to actually use it because I thought we don't need to send audience to him. Just send audience. That's so much. It's kind of an insulting thing. But you like it. But it's so funny. You have to say you said specifically it's the googly eyes that make it work. It is the googly eyes. It was definitely the googly eyes. It's fantastic. It was fantastic.

Yeah, no, capitalist agenda has skills. He's got mad skills. Mad skills. And he's got, yeah, he's got the little tag with this new media on the earphones. Idiotic. It was. Well, ever since Tim pooled, you know, the five million dollars came out and he thought that it was because he was that good. He just had to make fun of it. I mean, remember the Russian money? Oh, yeah. Who can you forget? Yeah. Hmm. Anyway, we want to thank everybody.

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We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Thank you all very much. Wonderful. Hey, John, I've got some stablecoin stuff I want to share with you. Oh, I'm all ears. So there is a bill in Congress right now. It is the stablecoin bill.

We'll talk about that in a minute, but throughout the past couple of weeks, I've been talking about things like the Mar-a-Lago Accords, understanding the strong dollar versus the weak dollar, what is President Trump trying to do, and the only thing I really had known or knew up until recently about stablecoin is the main stablecoin that is in consideration for use by the U.S. government, specifically the Treasury, and I presume by osmosis, the Federal Reserve, is Tether.

And all you need to know about that is a stablecoin is pegged to a dollar. One stablecoin is one dollar, and it is backed by U.S. Treasury. So this company, Tether, they only have 40 people working there. All they're doing is they're buying massive amounts of Treasury's, short-term Treasury, so T-bills, American debt, and they're making hundreds of millions of dollars based upon the interest rate, and for every single dollar they buy in Treasury, they make a stablecoin.

So it's really a way to make more U.S. dollars of the digital kind, and I've learned a lot about this, and we're going to start with Planet Money, so it's kind of a mainstream show from NPR, and it has a little bit of talk about stablecoin and the Mar-a-Lago Accords. Then there's what we've dubbed the weak dollar school. Essentially because people around the world use the dollar so much, that pushes up the dollar's value and actually hurts American exporters.

So the weak dollar school wants to see the American dollar devalued. This school of thought is led by the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, a guy named Stephen Myron. More than half the world's trade is done in dollars, even when neither country trading is the U.S. Simon boils the weak dollar school down to this. The cost for America in doing this is that you have a dollar that has been distorted. In his view, basically this means overvalued, and that has held back American exporters.

A strong dollar means that American consumers can afford to buy more stuff from overseas, and so American factories find it harder to compete with these cheap imports. And so there's different ways that other countries can begin to address this problem. They could basically agree to buy more American products. They could invest more in America. One solution that he expressed, which I think is a little bit tongue-in-cheek, is that they could just send checks directly to

the U.S. Treasury to basically pay them a fee for services. Or alternatively, America could impose tariffs. The big idea in Stephen Myron's paper is that leaders of countries from around the world would descend on South Florida, make a grand deal with President Trump to help weaken the dollar, and this would be called the Mar -a-Lago Accord. You can see how it's something that appeals to President Trump. It kind of intellectualizes his instinctual view that America has been wronged.

Okay. So the problem we have in America is because everybody wants our dollars, everybody uses our dollars, the dollar is very strong against other currencies, and therefore our products, when we want to export them, are too expensive. We're not like the cheap Chinese crap. That's why I believe the temporary measure is these tariffs. Now, what I've learned is, and I've heard this term so many times, euro-dollar, I never understood what it meant.

The difference between the American dollar we have here in America and the euro-dollar is exactly that.

A euro-dollar is every dollar that is in banks or in financial systems outside the U.S., and it's a lot of money, and this money really hurts us, particularly in the hands of China, because they control how strong our dollar is by how much they use it, where they send it, how much they buy, etc. Here is analyst Matt Pines explaining a little bit about the dangers of other countries holding large quantities of dollars, in this case, euro -dollars. Don't be confused by the euro part.

If it's outside of America, it's a euro -dollar.

There's flows of goods coming into the United States and flows of dollars going overseas, and a lot of those dollars are pouring into China, and then China, as an entity, as a balance sheet, is then deciding how to deploy those dollars, and in some ways, it's deploying them into domestic investment, in some ways, it's deploying them into overseas investment, like Belt and Road Initiative, but in other ways, it's also redeploying them back into the U.S.

and other advanced financial markets into financial assets, into our NASDAQ, into our real estate, into our farmland. The U.S. has watched over the past few years how much of those dollars are round-tripping back into the U.S., and for certain elements of the U.S., that's great. That's an extra marginal dollar that's going into NVIDIA stock, and it helps everyone's 401ks.

There's such a thing in the DoD, the intelligence community, it's like a term of art, like adversarial capital, and tracking adversarial capital is a very important mission inside the United States government, so they don't just see dollars going back and forth, international trade and financial investment as just a fundamentally neutral cycle of trade and investment.

They see it as a security issue, especially if you see some of these flows come with invisible strings attached, or often those capital flows have implicitly or explicitly corrupt the political systems that they get deployed in, and they shape, over time, the political systems in the West.

We've seen stories in Canada and Australia, even in the U.S., New Zealand, even Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, a lot of these countries that are very much at the tipping point of where to shape strategic opinion among key decision makers. So, what I understand of this stablecoin bill, which is now in Congress, is the idea is to make all the euro dollars, everything that's not in America, make those stablecoin, which

will be backed by U.S. Treasuries, so they are backed by something that is supposedly really secure and really good, and that those dollars, because they're digital, can be completely tracked. We know if someone's trying to buy off politicians, and you will not be allowed to use the U.S. dollars in America dollars outside of the United States if you want the dollar. That way, you get the stablecoin, which basically is a little piece of a U.S. Treasury, which equals a dollar.

And so, here's Caitlin Long to explain the stablecoin bill. The stablecoin bill is going to create, for the first time, an endorsed differential between an offshore dollar and an onshore dollar. The Fed, and particularly because of the control of the European banks on the euro-dollar market, what is a euro-dollar? It goes back to the 1950s when Russia didn't want to hold, during the Cold War, its dollars in a U.S. bank because it was afraid they'd be confiscated.

So it got the European banks to agree to take U.S. dollar deposits. So there was this huge offshore market which is actually as big, if not bigger, than the onshore U.S. dollar market. It is big. And to your point, it hasn't been in control of the Fed. Well, the Fed is now arrested control over interest rates. The most important interest rate was until recently Libor. It's now SOFR. And it used to be unsecured, priced in London. It's now secured, priced in New York. Okay, now here comes Tether.

Tether is a company that, for all the allegations around it related to money laundering, et cetera, et cetera. Now, what's fascinating to me is that Congress is about to ensconce this by saying, okay, you can be an offshore issuer and you don't have to do all the same know -your-customer and anti-money laundering rules particularly that a bank has to do. A bank has to do what's something called CIP up front.

You have to, before you onboard a customer to a bank, you have to do all the know-your-customer and enhanced customer information program up front. Fintechs don't have to do that and Lord knows an offshore company does not. And that offshore company will be Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick's company. They're the ones that are the, they hold all of the treasuries for this Tether stablecoin. This thing is outrageously popular all across the world. I didn't even realize how big this stablecoin is.

It's being used by shop merchants, by regular people everywhere because their own currency is so unstable. They prefer to use the Tether stablecoin and they can easily pay with it. They're already doing it. It's just on your phone. It's back and forth. And here's a quick clip about how big stablecoin, particularly Tether, really is. Tether is pushing the U.S. dollar out into emerging markets down to the communities that nobody has banked before because nobody could figure out how to bank them.

And those communities banked them profitably. And those communities, Tether did, hats off to them for doing that. Those communities have access to the U.S. dollar for the first time. And in most of those emerging markets, they would much rather have a U.S. dollar than their own local currency. And Tether has built this distribution channel and there is nobody competing with them.

And they are pushing the U.S. dollar out into the distribution channel and they're recycling those tiny amounts of money from working class and emerging markets. And I think they have 400 million users. It's a stunning number of users. They're the biggest financial company in the world right now and just keep getting bigger. And they are recycling all of those flows back into the U.S. treasury market. What is that doing? Because those are not going to be panic sellers. What is that doing?

That is increasing the resilience of the U .S. treasury market. And that is exactly the point. And making the dollar strong as a currency and usable outside the U.S. with the euro dollar. And we can then control our own interest rate because LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate, which was the standard, if you've ever looked at your car statement or your mortgage, it'll say, you know, on an adjustable rate, it'll say, we offer you this money at LIBOR plus 1% or plus 2%.

We remember there was a big scandal with LIBOR in 2008. LIBOR was already set to be replaced and killed off by something called SOFR, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. And so this is Bloomberg seven years ago.

This is how long this is in the making, talking about this new way to set interest rates, not by British banks and JP Morgan, they were part of that, who were just doing willy-nilly whatever they wanted, which kept us not in control of interest rates in America. They were already talking about this SOFR. Ed, let's start first with the SOFR situation, which I have to confess, I'm not an expert on this, but it's sort of oopsie. Nobody is, David. Isn't that what you say?

Oopsie. So the Fed comes out with this new alternative to LIBOR, and this is going to be, they're trying to compete with some other alternatives over in Europe to say, this is the way you should peg your interest rates. And then they discover, oh, we included some transactions we were supposed to be including. I call it SOFR. I thought that sounded better. I've heard SOFR, I've heard SOFR, I've heard SOFR. So far, so bad. So it's kind of a case of better the devil you know.

Look, LIBOR, as we know, was not perfect. In fact, it was far from perfect. But this is, as you say, the alternative, and it's already gone wrong. Two weeks in and it's already gone wrong. So what's happened here is essentially the Fed have come out and they've said some forward settling overnight treasury repo transactions were included where they shouldn't have been included. So all of the data for that two week period is botched.

Now they said they're not going to republish it, but they are going to publish alongside it, sort of theoretical data of what it would look like if you stripped out those transactions. So it is a bit of a mess. And I think the real challenge is this. A lot of people obviously still use LIBOR as the benchmark. That's going to end in 2021, because the SCA and the UK have said that at that point it will disappear.

How do you get people to migrate across to something if it shows even at this sort of very early stage that it's unreliable? This thing needs to be absolutely rock solid if it's going to convince people to migrate across. It needs the derivative projects, which supposedly those products are coming. So this thing has migrated. As of March 31st, 2025, the last LIBOR contracts, the last derivatives were finally all settled, taken care of.

And now SOFR is the new interest rate setting standard for interest rates, which is completely in control now of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. And this timing I find interesting because on April 2nd, he said he wanted to do on the 1st, but it came on the 2nd. President Trump talked about, My fellow Americans, this is liberation day. And maybe it was under the guise of the tariffs, but I think it was really about this interest rate that is now being set by us.

We're in control of it and we're leaving the stable coin as the ghetto dollar over there for the Euro dollar and they can do whatever they want. It's all backed by us. And this stable coin has a lot of properties that make it very interesting, not just overseas, but internally as well. And by the way, Tether created the killer use case, which is for the US dollar. And a lot of people look at it and say, why do you need a blockchain for that? That's an inefficient database.

Yes, of course, it's an inefficient database. But what were they able to do? Create incredible network effects by having 400 million users globally. That's bigger than the United States. Incredible network effects. That's what we're tapping into. What are the greenfields? The biggest one is putting that into the regulated banking industry. Everybody right now is forced into FedWire, ACH, and a little bit of FedNow, but that was such a controlled closed system that it hasn't really taken off.

FedWire and ACH? Hell, stable coins are faster, cheaper, more auditable, more programmable, safer from an IT security perspective, I would argue, for a whole host of reasons. This is a game changer to push that into the greenfield of the traditional banking system. So to wrap it up, I think the stable coin gambit is to keep the US dollar as the strongest, most secure, backed by US Treasury's dollar everywhere in the world, but we, through SOFR, will control our own interest rates.

It's a big, big, long game gamble. And if Trump can pull it off, I don't know if it's going to be good or not, but it's definitely going to change the way finance works throughout the world. And that's all I know for now. How does this benefit bankers? I believe that bankers, part of the SBA Rule 12, that bankers can now issue their own version of stable coin. And so they can do whatever they want. They like buying Treasuries, so I'll buy a Treasury, I can issue a stable coin.

And I can issue it domestically, I can issue it internationally. I think that's where they come into play. How would this differ from the olden days when the banks used to actually print their own money? Well, the difference is, at that point, they had to have gold to back their own money. And now you have to have Treasuries, which is probably just as wonky. That's why I'm not sure it's a great idea. I'm not saying it's a great idea. I think it's what they're trying to do.

It just, you know, it's complicated. I didn't even know what a euro dollar was until yesterday. We got a call from the government. Shut up, Curry. There you go. That's my stable coin presentation. Okay. It wasn't as bad as I thought. Oh, well, thank you. That, coming from you, is a huge endorsement. I don't know about that. There's the government. Do you need to talk to them?

I'm going to go pick that up, but why don't you play the clip about the impeachment, the partial impeachment announcement. Okay. Partial impeachment. Partial. Impeach impartial. This is Congressman Sri Thanedar. Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy, but defying a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling? That has to be the final straw. It's time we impeach Donald J. Trump. The court said the wrongfully deported Kilmer Garcia must be allowed to return and receive due process.

Trump ignored it. He ignored the Constitution. He ignored the very checks and balances that keep our democracy intact. This isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a dangerous, deliberate pattern. That's why today I introduced a resolution to impeach Donald J. Trump, outlining seven articles of impeachment. Article one, obstruction of justice and abuse of executive power. From denying due process to unlawful deportations, Trump defied court orders. Is this a call you got earlier today?

Is this a robocall? The call I got was the arborist canceling. Oh, no. I've been waiting months for this. Well, you and me both. Why would the arborist... So, John has a branch which has been squeaking against his window for months. Sometimes I can hear it if it's windy on the show, but I almost always hear it after the show when I turn all the noise gates off. I'm like, oh, man, that thing must be driving you nuts. Well, it's only when you have a southerly breeze. So, anyway, so that's the guy.

He's a screwball-looking character. I don't even know what he's thinking. He's got a wig on, and he's like... He really seriously should check this out. And he went on and on. He's got about eight points. And it's, of course, going to go nowhere, but it's making a big scene, and he sounds like a moron. Yeah, I would say so. But that's big news, big news. Big news, big news, yeah. Articles of impeachment. Finally, someone did it. Yeah, I was waiting for Al Green, but he didn't do it yet.

No. Okay, TikTok. Yay. They're both short. They're both under a minute. Okay. The dating app girl. Dating app girl. So, I'm scrolling the dating apps earlier, and for the first 20 swipes, it's conservative, moderate, conservative, moderate, apolitical, nothing. Conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, moderate. And to me, conservative, moderate, and apolitical, and nothing is all the same thing. You all are MAGA.

So, immediately, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Took me 20 swipes to finally find a liberal. I'm like, gee, what the fuck is going on? Why is everybody MAGA? It's not that everybody's MAGA. It's the male loneliness epidemic. It's because nobody wants to date them. They don't make good partners. That's why there's so many single ones out there. All the liberals are taken, not all of them. Obviously, there's some out there.

But I'd rather have no dates than ever date a MAGA ever fucking again. So I will scroll until my fingers fall off until I can find the perfect liberal. Why do they always have to cuss all the time? This cussing is unbelievable. It's getting annoying. It's very annoying, and there's nothing you can do about it. They won't stop it. No, they won't. Here's another woman. This one here is complaining about her time blindness. Oh, time blindness. Which is my favorite topic. I'm time blind.

That's why I'm late. We went through this several times in the past couple of years. So I just got yelled at for asking a very reasonable question. So I'm planning to go somewhere, and I just wanted to know, are there accommodations for people who struggle with time blindness and being on time? And then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else.

And then when we were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist. And if you struggle with being on time, you'll never be able to get a job, provided you're trying your absolute best to be there. And then they're like, your stupid generation wants to destroy the workplace.

And yeah, I think that a culture where workers are just cut off because they struggle with being on time when there's other solutions that we can look to, I think that just anybody who thinks it's okay to just treat people like that, yeah, that culture needs to be dismantled. And then I asked that person, how can you feel good about yourself upholding this kind of system? And then to think, I'm entitled. No, if people think it's okay to treat others like this, that's entitlement. Oh, brother.

I like the way she reversed the reverse roles there. You're entitled because you're on time. Stop it. This is not healthy. I'm worried about you. You should not be watching too much of this. No, this is good stuff. Everybody loves it. It's all engagement farming. I don't believe any of these people is being honest. Not a single one. You think they're real. I think they're all phony. I think most of them are real. There's a couple of phonies, but they're pretty obvious when you see them.

Let's play this. This is a, since you played that thing about the stable coin, let's play this clip. This is Timu versus France. Oh, Timu. The trade war between the US and China has also affected Europe. Several European countries report a surge in dumped Chinese products on their market. Last year, 1.5 billion parcels, mostly from China, entered France, averaging just around $10 each.

Authorities are concerned with this trend, which poses a threat not only to local producers, but also to consumers. On Tuesday, four French ministers unveiled a plan to tackle the flood of low-cost parcels from China. To protect consumers, the government will triple inspections this year, checking product safety, labeling, and environmental claims. They're also looking to the EU to end customs duty exemption for parcels under $170 to protect local businesses.

Yann Rivoy-Allant is president of the French Women's Prêt-à-Porter Federation. Wait a minute. Is France putting something equal to tariffs in place against China? Is that what I'm hearing? That's kind of what you're hearing, but the number I thought was interesting, that in France they're getting 1.5 billion packages of cheap Chinese crap. Cheap Chinese crap.

Nice. He says the influx of Chinese products has led to around 10,000 job losses over the past two years and the closure of several fashion brands. He also says French fashion brands are unable to compete. Every week, brands send me copies of counterfeit products made in China. First, our designs are being stolen. Second, the employees of Shane or Temu are being exploited. They're paid a pittance and forced to work from 75 to over 100 hours a week, with barely one day off a month.

This is clearly unacceptable. They also commit tax fraud by declaring underreported sales figures. According to the government, over 90% of these products are unsafe for consumers. However, Rivoy-Allant says the new measures fall far short and should be aligned with the stronger U.S. actions against such platforms. It's totally ridiculous compared to what the United States is doing with $100 on each of these packages.

So, we're in a situation where we know that over 90% of products are dangerous for the French, dangerous for consumers, for our jobs, and for the planet. And yet, we're putting in place a small measure with barely 10% tax potential. It's really amazing, the junk, the cheap junk we have from China. This microphone I'm using right now, cheap junk from China. This Yeti cup, American Yeti, Texas company, made in China. This bell, China. This whistle, China. My Light Phone 3, China.

It's all from China. And I look at the stuff and I go, do I really need all this stuff? You know, do I really need it? My guns are from, my guns are not from China. My guns are not from China. Yet. Yet. We probably need to just have this story out for a moment because it's not really a big topic. You know, there was a pretty bad attack on tourists there. You know, Pakistan and India heating up. And here's the latest from Pakistan.

We start with the dispute between India and Pakistan following a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, which left 26 people dead last week. The Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Modi has been holding high-level talks with his cabinet in response to the attack, which it blames on Pakistan, a claim repeatedly denied by Islamabad. Pakistan's information minister says his country has credible intelligence that India is planning to attack.

Pakistan openheartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent investigation by a neutral commission of experts to ascertain the truth. Unfortunately, rather than pursuing the path of reason, India has apparently decided to tread the dangerous path of irrationality and confrontation, which will have catastrophic consequences for the complete region and beyond.

World leaders have expressed deep concern and urged restraint by the uneasy neighbours who have fought several wars and who both have nuclear weapons. Man, Led Zeppelin did songs about Kashmir. Can these guys not just settle it finally? What is so special? Seems unlikely. What is so special about the Kashmir region? What is it? What do they care? Everybody thinks it's a fabulous place and both sides think it's theirs. They own it. Well, what's so fabulous about it? I don't know.

I've never been there. Does it have a beach? No? It used to be fabulous. I don't know why they can't get it over. Well, we have Pakistanis and Indians in our own nation. The explanation will be biased in both. We won't find out anything. Well, I'll take bias over nothing. Over this report. They're going to strike us. Why? We don't know why. You're right. They've been bitching. This has been going on forever. For decades. I have a real news clip if you want to play real news jingle.

Goodness gracious. I know. We haven't done this for a year. A year. Where is it? Oh, wait. It's under... I have the real news clip somewhere. And now, back to real news. Okay. Time for real news. What do you have? So, the sports ball people are talking... Everyone's talking and ridiculing this guy including Megan. Kelly? Yes. Yeah. And this is Bill Belichick who's like... I don't know. He's 60, 70. He's like 72, I think. And he's got a 24-year-old girlfriend. Go right on.

Go Bill. What a lot of people say. And so, he was interviewed by CBS morning and then they had to clip some of her in there because she was being annoying at the interview. She was butting in a lot. And then he came back with a comment about it. And then CBS came back with a comment. And it went back and forth. But here's the Megan Kelly, this Belichick. This is the Megan Kelly report on it. And she's, of course, you know... She's Megan. She's horrible. She's Megan. She's Megan.

Yes. So, this guy, Bill Belichick, has been in the news lately because his girlfriend, I think, is 50 years, 47 to 50 years... Oh, no! ...difference between Belichick and... Is she mad about that? Is that the premise? She's mad about the age difference with the chick? No, she doesn't express this, but you know she is. Okay. ...young gal pal. So, she shows up at these black tie events with him wearing nothing. She's basically wearing, like, a bikini. And he's wearing a normal man's clothing.

Shocking! And it looks weird. Like, okay, whatever. I guess I'm not... Who am I to judge? But I'm judging. I won't lie. It's weird. And I'm pretty sure she is with him because he's very famous and probably has a lot of money and gets her access to cool things. That's my guess. What? Gambling? I'm just going to say it. But anyway, he gives this interview and now it's starting to look much more like a Jill Biden situation. That's all I could think of, you guys.

She's like Dr. Jill on the sidelines calling all the shots and trying to decide what he can answer and what he can't in this interview. And what we learned today, I'll show you the clip, but what we learned today was that it was far worse than CBS This Morning, which is like a nice program. They try to do nice stories. It would even air. The reason, reportedly, that they chose to air this one interruption of hers is because it was far worse than this.

She was trying to dominate behind the scenes and they felt it was okay to include one of her interruptions just to give the audience, to be transparent, that they had this monster on screen left who was completely trying to control him. And it was to the point where they didn't feel like it would have journalistic integrity if they didn't show at least some of it. Watch this. The other change for Belichick is 24-year -old Jordan Hudson, his creative muse, as he writes in his book.

Jordan was a constant presence during our interview. You have Jordan right over there. Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship. They've got an opinion about your private life. It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it. How do you deal with that? I've never been too worried about what everybody else thinks. I just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right. How did you guys meet? I'm not talking about this. No?

It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on. What? And it went on. The portion I talked to you about, it went on and on to where it was very cringy. You were like, oh, God. Oh, Megan, how deep you have sunk. Megan. Why is she doing this? She's the woman who was like the big political journalist, lawyer, and all she can do is show business stuff. I'm sure it's great. Well, we know the answer. It's great for downloads. It's great for views. It's numbers.

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Very good list. Here's that layaway baron who will be knighted today, Sir Tom. He is, well, let me read his note. I was originally hit in the mouth by Fabian of the Linux Outlaws, and after 11 years I have finally achieved the title of Baron through monthly donations of $33.33 and a care package of bratwurst and other meats back in 2021. I don't remember the... I think John hoarded all the bratwurst and meats. Yes, everyone can do it. And this is from Nemechek. I don't know. I don't remember.

But he goes on to say, Yes, everyone can do it, you too. You can do it too. The Peerage Committee has approved carving out the area code of 920 with Sir 10T, Duke of Federal Reserve District 7's protectorate. As such, I request a title change to Baron Tom, Warden of the Frozen Tundra. Go, Pat, go. Keep up the great work, gents. 11 more years. Tom G. from the bratwurst capital. And we're going to knight him right now. So get your blade out.

We definitely need to have a nice blade for him because he's becoming a... Ooh, that is a good one. So, all right, then. Tom G., step on up. Very proud to pronounce that he not only is a knight of the Noah General Round Table, but as Sir Tom, Baron Tom, Warden of the Frozen Tundra. For you, my friend, we have hookers and blow, red boys and chardonnay, prostitutes and some nice wine.

We have harlots and haldol, pepperoni rolls and pale ales, redheads and ryes, beers and blunts, cowgirls and coffin varnish, ruminants, women and rosé, geishas and sake, vodka, vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, and, of course, as always at the Round Table, mutton and mead. And congratulations. Tom, head over to NoahGenderRings.com. Let us know where you want us to send your ring.

There's a ring sizing guide on the website, so make sure you have the right size. It comes with two sticks of dynamite. Oh, no, two sticks of wax. With that, you can seal your important correspondence, and, as always, with a certificate of authenticity. And thank you for becoming not just a knight, but a layaway knight and baron of the Noah Gender Round Table. Well, the meetups are still huge, as you can imagine. They take place all over Gitmo Nation, around the globe, really.

People love doing them. They are produced and organized. You can go to NoahGenderMeetups.com. Find some near you. There's a calendar. There's a list. And we love it when you send in meetup reports, but it's getting a little bit out of control. So keep it short, please. There's only one today, so I don't mind playing it. This is the meetup report from Chicago. What's up, y'all? This is Eli the Coffee Guy, hanging out here. Reggie's having a blast with everybody. Peace out to Baron NBS.

Getting out of Chi-town. I don't blame you, brother. But it's still a great city. Look! Yo, it's Andrew here from the UK. MI6 has come out here to represent. And, yeah, no, it's a real fucking pleasure to be out here. And, yeah, NBS is looking kind of shocked to get past the mic after that. Not a serial killer, Kate here. This is Sir... Darth Pengura Laktaki, enjoying the in-the-morning career, staring lovingly into Eli the Coffee Guy's eyes because he's a handsome devil.

But all glory to Nick NBS for escaping Chicago and going to more beautiful pastures than a natural totalitarian. All right, God bless. In the morning! Hey, this is Sir Tinley Knott. Woke. We are here at Reggie's in Chicago. The only venue that has been good to us. They have been good to us since the pandemic when we had our first meetup here. And passing it on. In the morning. In the morning, John and Adam. This is Baron NBS at the Escape From Chicago meetup.

I'm wrapping my time up here in Chicago. It's been a wonderful time here in Chicago. Hanging out here with Eli, Alex, and some random, very fine people. In the morning. Hey, this is Blake. John, we're in trouble. There's a lot of cheap guitars in Chicago. All economic indicators aside, this is Sir Brian with a Y. We are fixing an imposed food crisis. We are fixing an imposed. Oh my God, Adam, I am so sorry. But we're living up in Chicago again. If you live nearby, come to the next meetup.

We have a bunch of them. In the morning. What's up, NOAA Gender Nation? This is KJ6QDT. Just happy to be here for my first meetup. Hanging out with NBS. Wish them best of luck. And yeah, we'll see you all on NOAA 30. Hi, this is Alex, ITM. This is Dame Courtney here saying farewell to NBS. We will truly miss you in Chicago. In the morning. Alcohol, I'm telling you. Keep it tight, people. And where's the server? I missed that. I'm going to have to scold you a little bit.

Meetup's happening today The Northern Wake Public Slave Gathering. 6 o'clock at Potluck. Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina. The South Austin Slaves Meetup. Tonight at 7 in Little Woodrow's in South Park Meadows in Austin. Hope you RSVP'd because you had to. Tomorrow, the Tri-Cities Washington six-week cycle meetup. 7 o'clock at Ty's Bar & Grill in West Richland, Washington. On Saturday, the first NOAA Gender Splash-Up. That's the spring edition. That'll be 1 o'clock Dutch North Sea Time.

And that'll be in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. Scheveningen. You have to RSVP to find out where it is. Arno's organized that. The Sonoma Wino Country Meetup on Saturday as well. Version 7.0 at Old Caz Beer in Ronert Park, California. And on Sunday, our next show day, Hot Meat & Freedom Flames Brussels Backyard Barbecue. Woo! That's at 4 o'clock in Brussels in Isel. I-X-E-L-L-E-S. Make sure you go to that one. And I want meetup reports from everybody one minute or less.

If you want to find all the meetups available, they are all around the world. You can find them at noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. It's easy and always a party. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. Hot meat, sugar, no hell flame. You want to be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. It's like a party. It's just like a party.

That was the time we select our end -of-show ISO, a rare occasion today where we both have one. It's a one-on-one match-up. I don't think I'm going to win. Well, then play yours. But you have 11 seconds. How can yours be 11 seconds? I don't think it is. It says 11 seconds. There's probably something wrong with the clip. I'm just having issues. Yeah, it appears to be. I'm going to play yours now, and then I'll see where we can find yours. You might have two of them back-to -back or something.

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What more can I say? Yeah. Boom. Yeah. Well, you've given away your ISO secrets here. I know. It was a huge blunder. Yes, it was. Here's mine. Yo, yo, yo. What up? No, you already did that one. No, it's a brand-new one. It still stinks. There we go, everybody. It's time for the tip of the day. At least John can't mess that one up. Here we go. Great advice for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Brunetti. All right, we're back to wine and food. One more tip.

This is a website that I use a lot, and it's a cheap trick. You're buying wine. Yes, we're buying wine. You want to know if the wine's any good. What are you going to do? What are we going to do? You go to Wine Searcher. Can I just say something? Yeah. I am getting complaints. Sir Gene recently was at a dinner, texted a picture of the wine list to you. He says, John no longer responds. I missed it. I always respond. The phone was in the drawer. It should be sent to my email.

But I could be watching. I might be downstairs getting clips, or I could be doing a lot of things. I'm sorry, Gene. But generally speaking, I take care of this. Wine-searcher.com. Ooh. This is a huge, monstrous database of wines and all the reviews and all the stores that sell the wine. Wow. So you get a look at the wine. You put a wine at the top, say Chateau Montrose, 1990. Yeah. And then it gives you where it's available, all the different prices from cheapest to most expensive.

And then you click on Reviews. It shows you all the known reviews, and it gives you summaries of the reviews, and it gives you star ratings, and it even goes to Cellar Tracker, which is a site that a lot of people think is great. I have Cellar Tracker, the app. Yeah, Cellar Tracker, the app, which is amateurs rating the wines. That's correct. It's amateurs rating the wine, taking pictures of the label. The label goes, oh, it should cost you this much.

Yeah. But it's got the Cellar Tracker number in there, too. It's dynamite. This is a godsend for anyone who buys wine. And do you recommend this 1990 bottle you just mentioned? Is that like $8,000? What is that? The 1990 Montrose? Yes. What does that cost me? Oh, it's not cheap. But it's the one that's the top of your mind. It makes me wonder. Well, it just came up to the top of my mind. I had it once in my life. I'm thinking about Andres in a box, and John's like, oh, the Montrose 1990.

That's what I'll have. There you go, everybody. You can find John's tip of the day at tipoftheday.net or noagendafun.com. Creating vibes for you and me. Just the tip of the JCD. And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Brunetti. There you go, everybody. Once again, we have completed our broadcast day, and we are happy to have served you. We do this as a public service.

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Our drummer was always doing mixes. He's got a hot new girlfriend, I hear. So he's been a little sparse on the mixes. And I guess I can conclude by telling you that I am still here in the picturesque little town of Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain without an arborist, I'm John C. Dvorak.

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