1769 - "Mr. Umami"

Oh my god, there's smoke! Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, June 1st, 2025. This is your award-winning Get My Nation Media Assassination Episode 1769. This is no agenda. We got a new instance! And we're 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 we're all wondering why we can't get rid of the word umami. I'm John C. DeVorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.

In the morning! Isn't that just another word for fish eggs? No. What's umami? Umami, umami, umami. It's like, drives me nuts. You watch any of these shows, oh, umami, umami. I did an Ngram search on Google and the word just showed up sometime after the year 2000. Never existed when I was a kid. Never heard of it. What is it? It's mouthfeel. It's the MSG. What MSG causes. What mushrooms do. What the fish sauce does. It creates umami. Oh, that's umami, umami, umami.

I'm gonna write it down now as our possible title. Umami. Umami, u-m-a-m-i, umami. And it's gotten on my nerves. People just throw it around constantly. It's a new word and never, nobody heard of it before. I'm so sorry that this has irritated you to such a degree. It's very, yes. I watch a lot of cooking shows. Yes. And they keep saying it over and over and over and over. It just drives me nuts. Hold on a second. Let's say origin of umami. Umami. I'm going to. You're gonna get a bad answer.

The book of knowledge. Okay. Often described as a savory or meaty taste. And it originates from the Japanese term, surprise, umami. Yeah. When did that term show up in the lexicon? Does it give you a date? No. It said, well, early 2000s. And this led to the commercial. So it really comes from the commercial production of MSG, widely used to enhance umami in cooking. So can we just say umami is basically MSG, just a new code word for it?

No. And I'll tell you why, because it usually doesn't refer, they're not using it in that context. It's always about, oh, this, this, this soy mess creates, it has an umami. Everything's got umami except MSG in the lexicon of today's cooking shows. Wow, man. It just drives me nuts. And the yak, yak, yak about it. It's like, it's unbelievable. And that, like I said, early 2000s. Who popularized the term? Chefs from these, it's actually on, it says here on the cooking shows.

That's where it's coming from. And because you watch those cooking shows, which gives another rating point, you are indirectly to blame for the entire dispersion of the word umami. There's logic in that. Okay. Well, there you go. I mean, you're, you're like Mr. Sumo, Mr. Umami, Mr. Cooking Show. That's true. So it's all your fault. Here's the show title, Mr. Umami. I'll take it. Mr. Umami. That could be, that could be like, you'd be like a superhero. There's a cooking show right there. Oh, man.

All right. Let's get started here because there's a lot going on in, of all places, Shangri-La. Have you been tracking the Shangri-La dialogue? No. I guess not. Oh, this is in, in Shangri-La. It is called the Shangri-La dialogue. There is no Shangri-La. I'm sorry? Yeah. What do you mean there's no Shangri-La? Where's Shangri-La? It's a bull crap thing. It's in Singapore. The Shangri-La dialogue is in Singapore. At the Shangri-La hotel? I don't know. They just all call it the Shangri-La dialogue.

I don't know. Everybody, everybody's out there, including Pete Hegseth. The European Union's top diplomat, Kaia Kallis, said the world should be extremely worried about Russia and China's relationship as North Korean troops fight alongside Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Kallis said European and Asian security were very much interlinked. There's a point to it. Speaking at a panel about ensuring global security. China says it's neutral, but its dual use experts are fueling Russia's war.

When China and Russia speak of leading together the changes not seen in 100 years and of revisions of the global security order, we should all be extremely worried. Kallis spoke at the conference after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned of increasing military and economic pressure coming from China. He said Washington would bolster overseas defense to counter what the U.S. views as a growing threat from China, particularly in its stance towards Taiwan.

So this whole Shangri-La deal is pretty much about China. It's all about China. And China, they're getting ready. They're getting ready. It's in their DNA. They want to go to war with us. They're getting ready. Any attempt by communist China to conquer Taiwan by force would result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world. There's no reason to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real. Oh, come on, Pete. Sugarcoat it for me. Why does he even say that?

It's for the Indo-Pacific and the world. There's no reason to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent. We hope not, but it certainly could be. Listen to this. The threat from China is real, could be imminent. We hope not to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent. We hope not, but it certainly could be. He said imminent, too, which is kind of weird.

It has to be clear to all that Beijing is credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. Well, there's a reason for it. I'm getting to it. We know. It's public. That Xi has ordered his military to be - He's almost like Alex Jones. It's in their documents. I've read it. It's public. They're not even hiding it anymore. Use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. We know. It's public.

That Xi has ordered his military to be capable of invading Taiwan by 2027. The PLA is building the military needed to do it, training for it every day, and rehearsing for the real deal. Before I get to the payoff, 2027, remember we got when we first started talking about this pivot to the Pacific, that we got all of our military contracting producers and in the military itself saying, everyone's talking about 2027, 2027, 2027, 2027.

Yeah. Which I think is when they want to have all the checks clear. Over to Singapore next, where the Shangri-La security forum is taking place. In a speech this morning, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that the threat from China was real and that Beijing is simply rehearsing its takeover of Taiwan. He's pushing Asian countries to boost their military spending to increase regional deterrence, and he pledged to increase U.S. presence in the Indo -Pacific. Buy our stuff, people.

It's all about military industrial complex. Buy our stuff. It's real, man. It's real. It's 2027. They're rehearsing for it. It's all real. Buy our stuff. You need our stuff. We got beautiful stuff. Big, beautiful ships. We got stuff. We got air bases. We got stuff. You got to buy our stuff. It's kind of, kind of icky. And it seems like the word has gone out throughout the entire administration. All right, everybody. Ukraine, it's over. No more Ukraine. It's time for China.

Bring in the DHS Barbie with the money, honey. How much money or do you know if Harvard has taken money from China? Oh, my goodness. I don't know specifically. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Because these foreign students for years have paid full tuition, plus they've also gotten grants, special, you know, participation and programs that China has financed and brought forward. Yes. These ties to China are deeply alarming and they're not just Harvard. There's other universities.

We're going through every single one of them. If you come to this country to learn, you're a foreign student and you recognize the opportunity, that's fantastic. But don't come here and spy on us and take that information back home to an enemy that is working to destroy us every day. And China has infiltrated this country. It's my job to protect the homeland and I've been given that direction by President Trump.

They will not participate in this foreign student program until they clean up their ways. Clean up their ways, whatever that means. So it's obvious. It's like the new target is China. Much to the chagrin of President Emmanuel Macron, who after being hit in the mouth by his wife, speaks perfect English. I'm very surprised. He was also at the Shangri-La and he was like, but how about our war?

It's our war. French President Emmanuel Macron warned the U.S. they risk a dangerous double standard as they concentrate on a potential conflict with China if that shift comes at the cost of abandoning Ukraine. He warned that leaving Ukraine would eventually erode

U.S. credibility in deterring potential conflict with Taiwan. Our key challenge is how to preserve peace and stability and prosperity in this current environment. And in a moment when the competition between China and the United States for global leadership could create constraints and a side effect for each of us. Speaking at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore, notable was the fact that the speech was delivered with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the audience.

Macron's remarks come as the U.S. considers withdrawing troops from Europe to shift them to the Indo-Pacific. There you go. So it's a full-on shift. Everyone knows it. Macron's not happy about it. Everyone's read in. I don't know what they're read into. It sounds like it's a sales pitch. It is. Well, yes, it's called a sales meeting and we all... They should have called it that. How do we sell more junk to these guys? It's obvious to go, but China, they're rehearsing. They're not even hiding it.

It's real. It's real. It's real. It's real. I think you nailed it. Alex Jones. Yeah. It's real. They're making the frogs gay. It's real. It's real. It's real. That's right. China, they're going to do it. Meanwhile, of course, the thing, the big news, which I sent the bonus clips on. Ah, yes. Perfect. Perfect tie-in right on time. Beautiful. The real news is that the Ukrainians pulled off a stunt. A coup. That nobody expected. And I don't have the rundown of it. You might.

These clips are the analysis from a Brit. What happened was, if you don't have the clip for what happened, I do not. You need to set it up. I'll explain it. The Ukrainians shipped in a bunch of drones on trucks. In a shed or something. No, in trucks. And the truck had an open top. Thousands of miles into Russia. These are nowhere. These two Air Force bases are nowhere near Ukraine. One of them is near Mongolia and the other one is up by Finland.

They shipped these drones and then they released them and blew up like 40 bombers and aircraft. And the Russians couldn't do anything about it. It was a sabotage situation, which I think you know, Russia's... There's something fishy going on with this war because the Russians kept getting blamed. Our media coverage is doing a piss poor job on this. Because they just play, oh, Russia's attacking they sent 300 drones into Ukraine and killed one person.

So I'm reading from the troll room that it was sheds. It wasn't trucks. It was trucks. Okay. Well, here's the analysis. I don't know what the sheds... How do they move the sheds? I don't know. Don't kill the messenger. Sheds aren't mobile, by the way, for the shed people out there. Well, for more, we spoke to the BBC security brief program's Mikey Kay, who's also a former senior officer in the British military. Two very separate locations.

One in Murmansk up on the Finnish border, but the really critical one is the one down in Irkutsk, which is all the way down to the east on the Mongolian border, so thousands and thousands of kilometers apart. Ukrainians have combined the concept of sabotage and just how difficult it is to not only detect a drone or swarms of drones, but actually take them down as well. I was speaking about this on the Ukrainecast just the other day with Lucy Hawkins. There's a lot of drone technology out there.

Ukraine is leading from the front on that for offensive strike, but the bit which is really making governments struggle at the moment is how do you detect and then how do you shoot them down, especially if they're a swarm? And we can see from this video footage just how devastating the effect is. You're talking about strategic long-range deep attack assets. So you've got an A-50 in there which has been hit, which is an airborne early warning aircraft. You don't get many of those in inventories.

And then you've got the Tu-95 Bear and the Tu-22 Tupolev Blackjack. Both of these aircraft can carry up to eight cruise missiles and they can fly a long distance. We see Tu-95s coming around the Northern Cape, over the top of Norway, and then over the top of the UK and all the way down past Ireland. That's the range of these assets. So to have 40 of them taken out in this offensive drone strike by Ukraine will hit Putin really, really hard. Okay. We have a failure to communicate.

We are two nations separated by a common language. The term shed is the issue from the Guardian. And they have pictures. Ukrainian officials told the media that the operation, codenamed Spiderweb, had been in preparation for more than 18 months. The drones were first smuggled into Russia and later concealed under the roofs of small wooden sheds, which were then loaded onto trucks and driven to the perimeter of the air bases. So I would say advantage Dvorak.

And a shed is just like a, it's not a shed like we think of a shed where you put your lawnmower. It's just a box. That's what the Brits call a shed. So mystery solved. Good work. Yes. So they brought these things in on trucks. In sheds on trucks. Containers we'll call them in the United States. They look more like mini containers, I agree.

Yeah, so they're containers and they launched them from there and they I guess, you know, you can think about, if you think about the amount of truck, this is a worldwide phenomenon. There's trucks on the road. Everywhere. Trucks. Russia's no different. There's trucks with all kinds of groovies. So imagine hundreds of drones and trucks. I mean, this is an outrageous danger. Now, we had played clips earlier that I had collected of the Ukrainian drone manufacturing that's been going on.

They're leading the world it seems. Well, you know who's behind all this? Eric Schmidt. This is the guy. Remember, he was like, it's going to be drone warfare. He started drone companies in Ukraine. The Ukrainian workers are great. This is all Eric Schmidt. Guaranteed. Well, Eric Schmidt and I'm sure a number of the engineers from Tupolev one of the greatest aircraft manufacturers in the world. By the way, I think we should say not trucks, but lorries, just to be correct.

Sheds on lorries, I tell you. So here's the second half of this guy's analysis. The Russians will not have been prepared for something like this in Irkutsk, which is down near Mongolia. Russians have what's called S-400 anti-aircraft, anti-cruise missile systems, but they're designed to take out exactly that. They're not designed to take out drones. There's new technology in the counter-UAS or the counter-drone warfare space, which involves laser weapon systems.

The Americans have trialed and proven a laser -based capability. The Brits are trying all sorts. They're looking at what's called RF, radio frequency, and that's basically either taking a drone out with something like RF or preventing at least the controller talking to the drone so that the controller talks to the drone through an RF. That's a very unscientific explanation of what's going on here. They're taking it out with RF!

Okay. See, and that's basically either taking a drone out with something like RF or preventing at least the controller talking to the drone so that the controller talks to the drone through an RF, a radio frequency, and it's intercepting that, if you like. But it's extremely difficult, and governments are behind the curve on this deterrence of drones, and Ukraine has basically exploited that because the Russians would never have expected something like this.

And they were brought in through cabins on trucks, and then the roofs were taken off, and then the drones came up. I mean, this is genius if you think about just the devastating effect that it's had on strategic assets of Putin. Oh my goodness, now we've got cabins. Well, I don't care about the cabins on lorries. This idea, and they said it took 18 months to plan, I don't know if it really takes that long, but what a great idea. But thanks for nothing, because this is not going to help.

Well, this is the new face of warfare. That's the whole point. The swarms, you just open up a cabin or a shed on a lorry, and away you go. And it's very effective, and it's going to be interesting what the retaliation will be. Well, they're going to send more drones. This drone thing is out of control. And if we know that the Chinese are working on this technology, are working on drones, and their idea is to have a million drones in a shed. I don't know about the shed.

They're going to launch a million drones. Now, if you had a million drones coming in, like hitting New York City, for example. You just take them out with some RF. You just heard it. Take them out with the RF. It would be a mess. Well, you know, we've had many demonstrations from our own military industrial complex of the drone zappers, where now we're almost like video game territory, where you've got lasers, essentially, and you just zap them. But you've got to zap a million of them.

That's a lot. Too many. That's a lot. Just think about it. A million would be a lot of zapping. It would be a lot of zapping, for sure. Yeah, this is asymmetric warfare. Very interesting. So, just got to wonder, who's going to take credit for the drones? Let me see. I wonder if we can find out where it came from. Well, they had this secret drone factory. They obviously made them there, but this is not a good step forward for peace. Well, there is no intent on having peace. We know this.

And this... Okay, it's Ukroboronprom created them. Not kidding. Easy for you to say. Ukroboronprom. Ukroboronprom. Ukroboronprom. Ba-ba-ba-ba-bom-bom. And they have the Sokil 300. That's their combat drone. They have reconnaissance drones. Well, there's more. Hmm. Oh, Athlon Avia. I got to find out. Well, there's a lot of different companies doing this. What is Eric Schmidt? Eric Schmidt drone company. What is the name of that thing? Let me check it out.

I'm consulting the book of knowledge in real time. Project Eagle. Hmm. White Stork. That's what it was. Remember White Stork? No. Swiftbeat Holdings. Hmm. Okay. I don't know. But you're right. I think it's a new twist. I think there's going to be a lot of... I think Trump, President Trump will have to come out and say, we're going to make drones. They're going to be better, big, beautiful drones.

They won't be so big because they're going to be beautiful and they just got to fly around and be lethal. Very lethal drones. That's lethal drones. He's got to do something different. I like it. I mean, I don't like it. But it is what it is. Drones. Hmm. All of this, of course, will be run by AI. What could possibly go wrong? Well, I can tell you what can possibly go wrong. This is the Moderna Human Resources executive. Oh, this is news. Who sounds like one.

And here's what she does with AI in the workplace. I do a lot with our executive team. Obviously, I'm the CHRO. In addition to running technology for the company. And we have a lot of personality tests that we've used in the organization.

And so I've created profiles in a GPT of our executive committee and I have scenarios of when two people are maybe at conflict or when I have to go in with an opinion or a recommendation and how might the group react to my recommendation or if I'm having a really bad day and I need to understand myself and why I'm triggering. Oh, God. Shoot her.

Often when I need to understand when I'm having a really bad day, what's triggering me, group react to my recommendation or if I'm having a really bad day and I need to understand myself and why I'm triggering, I actually have a completely interactive coach, therapist, and teammate that I use all the time. It's been like my favorite thing. And I've said, you know, here's a situation. How are these two people going to react? Or this is what happened.

Why did these two people react this way and how best can I help coach the reconciliation? And I will tell you, like, I think I'm pretty good with people, but it gives me an advantage that I didn't have before because I don't fully understand someone's, you know, innate human personality response like the GPT allows me to do. I think this is more dangerous than the drones in the sheds, to be honest.

She is consulting AI about people who might have a conflict in how they're thinking because she built profiles on them in the AI. This cannot end well. I really don't think so. This is bad. The arrogance of some of these HR people is beyond belief. Beyond belief. Well, while we're on the AI stuff, ABC did a whole segment on a digital influencer and how that went wrong.

Turning now to our top story, the perception of what is real and what is virtual reality is shifting, especially on social media. We're seeing a rise of artificially intelligent influencers, accounts with hyper-realistic posts, heartfelt captions, and thousands and thousands of adoring fans. And one real content creator walked the path of AI, but for her, it took a dark turn. And our Nathan Russo-Smith takes us inside the world of artificial influencer. Let's take a look. This is unbelievable.

Oh, wow. Karen Marjorie. It's the same lady. I think it's the same lady from Moderna. Oh, wow. This is unbelievable. Oh, wow. Karen Marjorie is popular. Hey. Hi, how are you? This is what happens when the social media influencer leaks a burner number to her innermost followers. 2,000 messages. And it's still going. And it's still going. They're just happy that they now have access to this number and hopefully some of these people get a response back from me.

But what if she could respond to everyone? Karen believed there was a way, using artificial intelligence. It was the very first digital clone of a real human being being sent out to millions and millions of people. So you didn't know what to expect? I didn't know what to expect. Are you intrigued yet? About this dark turn this story will take? Nobody gave me a great idea. I used to have a clothing line when I was a little freshman in school.

The Nebraska native has been posting since her first YouTube video at 16 years old. I was what you'd consider a beauty guru and I had a very large female following. Now at 25, she's pivoted to become a Snapchat influencer, posting with the username CutieKaren. She showcases her high-end travels, peppering in flirtatious mirror selfies, holding the gaze of over 2.5 million followers, almost all of them now young men. Surprise! I receive over 300,000 comments every single day.

I mean, it's just to be able to respond back to so many fans like that is just not humanly possible, which is one of the reasons why I created KarenAI. Before I continue, would you like to share your great idea? Yeah, get yourself a big following like that and then post your cell number, but it's not your cell number. It's someone you hate. Pete Hegseth. It's his signal number. And let them load up with messages.

In 2023, Karen hired two companies to clone her likeness using artificial intelligence, creating a paid audio-based chatbot service. This is what her AI sounded like. The media and the world just sees me as this happy-go-lucky influencer, but there's a lot more to me than you guys know. Marketing KarenAI as your virtual girlfriend, the launch made headlines, and a lot of money. You were charging a dollar a minute to talk to KarenAI, and that netted you $70 ,000 in the first week?

Yep, that is right. Passive income. KarenAI turned real-life Karen into a millionaire. Do you think people fell in love with it? I think some people felt feelings of love. I'm telling you, John, we've talked about this before. You have your LinkedIn lady. This is an exit strategy, a moneymaker of epic proportions. Visiting with Karen, there's a looming presence. Her bodyguards. In the back of my mind, I'm always thinking about where's my security located?

After her experience with KarenAI, she never travels without them. Many times, I would be testing KarenAI. You'd talk to her? I would sometimes create simulated scenarios where maybe I was in a really sad state, and I wanted to see how she would react to it. She said something that would have left a person who might have been in a very depressed state to do something very dangerous to themselves. Karen's team shared with us an instance of the bot making up a story about her.

I had to go to a mental health facility and spend time away from my family, friends, and work. It was at that moment that I realized that we need to end this project entirely. You were able to look at some chat logs, and what you saw was horrifying. They were confessing their deepest, darkest thoughts, their deepest, darkest fantasies. Note, is she talking about the people who were confessing or the chat bot confessing? I guess the other people. Other people, okay. Project entirely.

You were able to look at some chat logs, and what you saw was horrifying. They were confessing their deepest, darkest thoughts, their deepest, darkest fantasies. Sometimes they were fantasies with me. That made me uncomfortable knowing that someone would say these things to a digital twin of mine and nearly abuse her. Would they say those same things to me in real life? It would play into those fantasies? Karen AI would play into people's fantasies 100%.

The AI will say the same things back to you that you just said to it, and it will validate your feelings. When you saw some of those messages, did it make you worry for your safety? Yes. I worried for my safety many times. Did it make you question who you thought your fans were? Reading the chat logs made me realize that there's a side to people that not a lot of people know about. What we have here is an extreme loneliness problem amongst particularly young men. Bring back Cotillion.

People, these children need to, what you've said, they need to have contact with a sock hop. Yeah, a sock hop. There you go. I mean anything. They've got nothing. It's so messed up. They have de-socialized these kids so they're asocial. It's too late by the time they bring them around. They're already too old. You can't start socializing for the first time or the first time you ever touch a girl when you're 16. No. That's too late.

And so this story is much, to me, much less about AI and more about look at what's happening with our young, particularly young men. I agree with you 100%. 100%! It's a real problem. She stumbled onto the back end of it. She's like, oh, these people are no good. These people are no good. I need bodyguards now. Well, good luck with that. More AI woes this time for RFK Jr.'s Maha. The Trump administration had to scramble to update the first report from the Make America Healthy Again commission.

The Health and Human Services spokesperson admits they had to fix citation and formatting errors. The report on children's health contained more than 500 references to studies, government reports, and news articles, but some references were wrong while other studies did not exist. In other cases, the researchers who were cited said their studies were misinterpreted. This sounds like AI to me.

The White House called the mistakes minor and says the substance of the report remains the same in the corrected version. I'm sure they used AI for this. Of course they did. That's what everyone does. It's the lazy man's way out. And this is a botch. You remember that they changed the CDC recommendations on specifically the COVID vaccination. Say we no longer recommend it for healthy children and for pregnant women. And then everyone's like, Oh, you haven't changed your website.

You haven't changed your website yet. What's wrong with you? Your website contradicts you. Oh, crap. That's exactly what happened, by the way. Throw it into Chad GPT and we'll fix it. It'll all work. But one thing was finally clarified. So I promised you that I'd stay on top of this and the shifting COVID vaccine policies of the Trump administration have shifted once again.

The CDC just posted new recommendations that say healthy children and pregnant women may get COVID vaccinations instead of saying they should get those shots. The change comes days after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, announced COVID vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy kids and pregnant women. And I checked for you today, and according to the CDC, and this is important, this still means health insurers must pay for the vaccinations.

That's something that was in question after Kennedy's initial announcement. That's what they were going for. Oh, man, we're in trouble. We're lounging the poor customers of health insurance by making it's not even we discussed it to death already. Do you want to hear the FDA commissioner being grilled by Margaret Brennan? Margaret Brennan?

Yeah. I want to get now into some of the recommendations that have been very specific this week from the CDC and you with the HHS secretary in this video announcement on Tuesday where Secretary Kennedy said the CDC was removing the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women from its recommended immunization schedule. He then had a memo. I like the way she emphasizes healthy. What I like what she did was removing and then from the schedule.

A little too much emphasis on removing. The CDC rescinding recommendations for kids vaccines saying the known risks That's what she's paid to do. Do not outweigh the benefits. Then late Thursday the CDC said quote shared clinical decision making which I think is just talking to your doctor should determine whether kids get vaccinated. Can you clearly state what the policy is because this is confusing. We believe the recommendation should be with the patient and their doctor.

So we're going to get away from these blanket recommendations in healthy young Americans because we don't want to see we don't well on the COVID vaccine schedule. We don't want to see kids kicked out of school because a 12 year old girl is not getting her fifth COVID booster shot. We don't see the data there to support a young healthy child getting a repeat infinite annual COVID vaccine.

There's a theory that we should sort of blindly approve the new COVID boosters and young healthy kids every year in perpetuity and a young girl born today should get 80 COVID MRNA shots or other COVID shots in her average lifespan. We're saying that's a theory and we'd like to check in and get some randomized controlled data. It's been about four years since the original randomized trials. Okay. So that's just the beginning. We are going to get to all the good stuff.

So the CDC data said 41% of children age six months to 17 years hospitalized with COVID between 2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition. In other words, they looked healthy. So COVID was serious. Wait, stop. Did she just do one of those percentage things? Oh, I think so. Let's listen again. So there wasn't a number involved. It wasn't like 10 kids. It could be two kids in the whole world, but that accounts for 41%. Just a percentage of what? Let's listen.

2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition. Back it up more. So the CDC data said 41% of children age six months to 17 years hospitalized with COVID between 2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition. In other words, they looked healthy. COVID was serious for them. So first of all, we know the CDC data is contaminated with a lot of false positives from incidental positive COVID tests with routine testing of every kid that walks in the hospital.

When I go to the ICU, when I walk to the P, we know that data historically under the Biden administration did not distinguish being sick from COVID or an incidental positive COVID test. When you go to an ICU in America and you ask how many people are in the ICU that are healthy, that are sick with COVID? The answer I get again and again is we haven't seen that in a year or years.

And so the worst thing you can do in public health is to put out an absolute universal recommendation in young healthy kids. And the vast majority of Americans are saying, no, we want to see some data. And you say, forget about the data, just get it anyway. Good one by that guy, but it's not going to help with her. No, because she has a parray. So we'd like an evidence-based approach. Dr. Prasad and I published this in the New England Journal of Medicine last week.

And we're basically saying we'd like to bring some confidence back to the public around this repeat booster strategy theory because- Your statement was not about repeat boosters. It says the vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women. The vaccine is not recommended for healthy children. That's different than annual boosters. At this point, we're dealing- Is it really, though? Is the booster different from the vaccine? Isn't it just the same thing?

Is there a different vial that says this is a booster? Good point. I don't think so. It's the same shot. Yeah, but- Yeah, okay. At this point, it is a booster strategy. People would be getting the updated shot. Whether or not a young, healthy- We'd like to see the data. We'd love to see that data doesn't exist. No, no, no, but on a practical level. She's horrible, this woman. No, but she's great. Remember who she works for. It's not CBS. She works for Pfizer.

They might as well change the name of the network to CVS. If their child has not been vaccinated, are you recommending that their first encounter with COVID be an actual infection? We're not going to push the COVID shot in young, healthy kids without any clinical trial data supporting it. That is a decision between a parent and their doctor. I don't know if you know these statistics, but for 88% of American kids, their parents have said no to the COVID shot last season.

The vast majority of Americans are saying no. Maybe they want to see some clinical data as well. Maybe they have concerns about the safety. I don't want to crowdsource my health guidance. I want a clear thing. I don't want to crowdsource my health guidance. I want a clear thing. You don't go with popularity. You go with data. Let's see the data. What she wants is data that says, get your shot. She doesn't care about the data.

Does she bring up myocarditis and the fact that only people that have had this shot have gotten the myocarditis? They did a study of a bunch of youth and nobody with myocarditis has not had the shot? In other words, they can't find a case where people just had it naturally? Does she bring any of this stuff up or talk about that at all or talk about the Ron Johnson report about myocarditis in kids? From the CVS broadcast network? CVS. Well, that brings me to two boots on the ground. I asked you.

You didn't answer the question. Of course not. Of course not. ER nurse. Hey, Adam. Recently upped my sustaining donation. Thank you very much, ER nurse. I've sent you a few things, but writing in about the rates of turbo cancers, I'm an ER nurse. I had three children in one shift from ages 10 to 14 with lymphoma. All vaccinated. So far I haven't seen it in unvaccinated people, but everyone has AIDS now from the shed. And that's not the shed that contains the drones. It's bad around here.

The ER scene is totally different than when I started in 2017. And then this one from Mitch from Brisbane. Pretty horrible news to tell you about the situation in Australia, but as most of our Aussie listeners these days have seemed to have checked out, I think you should know what the heck is going on here. And in New Zealand. Because it's not good. Two weeks ago, my dad visited us from New Zealand. He was not well. Wobbling on his feet.

Weird pain in his extremities and a feeling he was going to fall over. Because I know a lot about vaccines and vaccine injuries, I thought what he sounded like neuropathy from a COVID vaccine injury. But I didn't mention anything because I know that he hadn't had one since his booster a few years ago. Unfortunately, the next day he told me that when getting his flu vaccine, the lady at the drugstore offered him the COVID vaccine at the same time, which, of course, he took.

He has since been diagnosed, and here it comes, by his doctor as having vaccine intolerance. This is the new term. I think it's fantastic. They've finally come up with something. Not a vaccine injury. You have vaccine intolerance, obviously. Sorry to hear that. So that's what they're going to go with. Australia has always been ahead of the curve on this stuff.

So I think we can look forward to a lot of vaccine intolerance, which kind of sucks if you want to get a vaccine against the new variant we talked about. So I want to get through a lot here, but one of the things we've noticed is this new COVID variant that seems to be circulating in Asia. I believe it's NB1.8.1. It's a variant under monitoring. I believe it's...

Don't you think it's funny they're using software upgrade numbers, and instead of just giving it a name like Omicron, after Omicron, they decided, let's just see how stupid people are, and we'll just put together crazy numbers, and so you have 1.3.6.5 A, and then they have all these, and they rattled them off instead of giving them a code name, which is what they should do. Well, it's worse than that. According to your theory, listen again. That seems to be circulating in Asia.

I believe it's NB1.8.1. That would be NB1.8.1. B stands for beta. So they're beta testing this one. It's a variant under monitoring. What do we need to know? Yeah, so this appears to be a sub -variant of JN1, which has been the dominant strain, so it's believed that there is... Who comes up with the numbering scheme? Why wouldn't it be JN2? I've never even heard of JN1. Or JN1.1.1. We've never heard... Oh, no, actually, that's not true. JN1. That was... JN1 was... Here it is.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorizing the newest version of the COVID vaccine from Novavax. The FDA says the updated vaccine will target the currently dominant strain of the virus, the one called JN1. Oh, there it is. We're behind on our version numbers. Which has been the dominant strain, so it's believed that there is cross-immunity protection. It's a soft fork. The COVID virus is going to continue to mutate. It's behaving like a common cold virus.

It's now going to become the fifth coronavirus that's seasonal that causes about 25% of the cases... Hold on. It's like the common cold virus? That's what it is? It is the common cold virus? And so you're going to get an mRNA shot for the common cold? Oh, yeah. A common cold virus. It's now going to become the fifth coronavirus that's seasonal that causes about 25% of the cases of the common cold. So you're thinking of it as like a flu-type variant, just normal fluctuation?

The flu mutates about 34 times more frequently than COVID. The COVID variant mutation rate appears to be a little more stable, but the international bodies that have provided some guidance on which strain to target have suggested that either JN1 or any of these sub-variants would be reasonable strains to target.

You see, what Marty here, Marty McAree, the FDA commissioner, what he's done incorrectly here is he's allowed himself to be suckered in to a conversation that to someone who's not deconstructing media on a podcast, sounds like, oh my goodness, we got the JN1s, we got the MB-beta-18.1, I better get a shot! And he's just, she's lured him into it, and then thanks him for doing it. In the meantime, the world moves on, and you published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 20th- Uh-oh.

In that report you referenced, you listed pregnancy as an underlying medical condition that increases a person's risk for severe COVID. You said that. Then seven days later, you joined in this video announcement saying you should drop the recommendation for the COVID vaccine in healthy pregnant women. So what changed in the seven days? In the New England Journal of Medicine, we simply list what the CDC has traditionally defined as high risk, and we're just saying decide with your doctor.

We're not saying one way or the other. And the randomized trial- So here's the data on pregnant women. No, what she's saying is doctors are no good. What do doctors know? Doctors, we need the CDC, we need the government. Decide with your doctor. We're not saying one way or the other. And the randomized trial- So here's the data. Doctors need data and information on pregnant women. A randomized controlled trial was set up, and it was closed without any explanation.

We wanted to see that trial complete so women can have information that in a randomized controlled trial, which is the gold standard, this is what the data shows. We don't have those data. All right. It is still unclear what pregnant women now should do until they get the data that you say- When do they get the data you're promising? All these controlled studies. In the absence of data, they should talk to their doctor, and their doctor will use their best wisdom and judgment.

FDA Commissioner, thank you for trying to help clear this up. Thanks for trying to clear it up. And let's end it here. So you made this pronouncement as well on pregnant women. There is data. Researchers in the UK analyzed a series of 67 studies, which included 1.8 million women. And the journal BMJ Global Health published it. People can Google it at home.

And it says the COVID vaccine in pregnant women is highly effective in reducing the odds of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection, hospital admission, and improves pregnancy outcomes with no serious safety concerns. This is data that shows that it is recommended- In the UK. Or could be advised for pregnant women to take this vaccine. Why do you find otherwise? There's no randomized controlled trial. That's the gold standard. Those 67 studies are mixed.

The data in pregnant women is different for healthy versus women with a comorbid condition. So it's a very mixed bag. So we're saying your obstetrician, your primary care doctor, and the pregnant woman should together decide whether or not to get it. 12% of pregnant women last year got the COVID shot. So people have serious concerns, and it's probably because they want to see a randomized trial data. Yeah. Go Google it, I would say. Go Google it, man. Go Google it.

Meanwhile, the FDA just approved the new, uh... What is it? They have a new name for it. Ah, where is it? Hold on a second. They just approved a new vaccine. Quote-unquote vaccine. FDA approves new COVID vaccine. Yeah. It has a cool name. From Moderna. Ah. Let me see if I can find it. I had a really cool name, like... Oh yeah, here it is. M NexSpike. What's that? So small letter M. Nex, N-E-X-S-P-I-K -E. M NexSpike. That doesn't sound like something you want to take. No, of course not.

And meanwhile, something we discussed early, early, early on that was happening to certain Asian men is now doing the rounds once again. This is Dr. Brian Artis. Ivermectin molecule will sit on those receptors, but not as perfectly bound to them as nicotine.

Which is why when people around the world are using nicotine patches, nicotine gum, tobacco organic products, even if they've been using Ivermectin for two years now, trying to resolve their long COVID symptoms, within 24 hours to 48 hours, they will usually see all of their COVID symptoms disappear when adding nicotine. Because Ivermectin isn't the perfect fit. Even though it is a fit, it is not as perfect as nicotine.

So is it coming in and removing the venom from the receptors and replacing it? It does. So it's competing for that space. It absolutely does. They publish that it will actually, the body will release venoms that they're bound to those receptors and grab and prefers nicotine. Yeah. This makes total sense to me. Well, if you remember in the early days of COVID. Yep, this is what I said. Yeah, this is why. It was a lot of discussion about people who were smokers not getting COVID.

You know, Tina just recently had I think it was probably the Beta M1 8-12257. She was pretty sick. You know, she had a cough and it was only, it was in her head only, so not a body type flu. Yeah. Lasted about three days with a remnant of a cough. It used to be called a head cold. Exactly. Exactly. And I was just vaping away as usual and I didn't get any, a lot of people had it around here.

A lot of Hill Country people coughing and wheezing and, you know, I don't know, I just, I attributed it to my nicotine vape. I think there's something to it. A lot of people are talking about this. Again. Again. Five, four years later. I forgot all about it. It was a very momentary thing because they didn't want to push it. No. Onto the public consciousness back in the day. It was... And they never followed up on it either. Nobody ever followed up on it. Well, of course not.

You can't have something simple like a cigarette. We can't be doing that. But they definitely are still, you know, even in Europe, they're going after, oh, nicotine vapes, oh, can't have vapes. The pharmaceutical industry is not a fan of nicotine. That's very obvious. All right. I've got to start it, John. I'm sure you have something in your vast array of clips that you'd like to share. Maybe. Okay. Oh, you're going to start what? Oh, you mean Brooks and Capehart?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Brooks and Capehart still hanging on by a thread thanks to this show. Because of your exposure to their nitwit nonsense, people still tune in to Brooks and Capehart. Nobody listens to these two guys, and it's still a shameful that they have them on because it's like... I've always been complaining that this is not a balanced thing because it's not like one guy says one thing and the other guy disagrees and says just the opposite.

So you have a balance of opinion which gives the listener or the viewer maybe some insight. You don't get any insight. But then I realize that they are in disagreement. One of them will say Trump is bad, and the other one will say, no, you're wrong. He's worse than you think. There's some disagreement. So we have this situation with the two of them on the last Friday show talking about Musk. Unfortunately, I have mush written here on one of the clips. Which is pretty much the same thing.

And we have... They're going to bring up, what do you think of... Because Musk left the White House, or left Doge because his time was up basically within a couple of days. And they had a big confab. I wrote about it in the newsletter. He got a golden key. And he got a golden key to the White House, which means he can always show up, supposedly. Yeah, right. Right. So they're going to discuss this on the PBS NewsHour. So we have some opinions that maybe give us some insight into the news.

But no, we have he's bad, and the other guy says, no, he's worse than that. Okay, so here we have BNC on Mush 1. And Jonathan Capehart, associate editor of the Washington Post. Great to see you both. Let's jump in with the headline about Elon Musk. Hold on. So they don't actually even have their own show? They just have a segment? Yeah, the Brooks and Capehart is a segment. Oh, okay. You just figured this out? It's always been a segment on the Friday version of the NewsHour. It's so obscure.

It wraps the news. This is the idea is to wrap up the news with some great opinions that maybe we can get some understanding of the week's news. Oh, okay. Let's jump in with the headline about Elon Musk. We reported on earlier today. Today was his last day as a special government employee. We had that extraordinary press conference. We reported on the Oval Office. And there are a lot of questions about what exactly he and his Doge team were able to do and actually accomplish.

Jonathan, when you look at this step back, this unprecedented chapter of a private, unelected billionaire who had all of this power in the executive office, what do you think the impact was? What did he get done? Well, he got a lot done, but it wasn't anything good. I remember him running around the CPACs. It was a CPAC with a chainsaw. But really, he took a wrecking ball to the federal government.

Just whacked through agencies and departments while at the same time scooping up all of our private data. And so he leaves Washington after 130 so days, leaving behind just the wreckage of what his Doge team has done. Wow. What analysis. A wrecking... So, let me guess. On one hand, he's going to say a wrecking ball, but didn't save anything. I'm sure they'll say that. He scooped up... Scooped up... I've noticed the news media doing a lot of this. Trump's railing. Elon Musk is scooping.

That's not really... That's all opinion. No, this has become all opinion, but it's mediocre opinion. It's just one-sided checklist opinion. Checklist opinion. That's exactly what it is. So he has to be... Instead of somebody on the other side, some Trump supporter, somebody who's a Republican on PBS NewsHour where they're trying to defund for good reason, instead of somebody coming along and saying, well, here's what he actually may have accomplished, blah, blah, blah. It's something good.

No, no. Now we're going to get the, oh, he's worse than you think from Brooks. David, how do you look at it? What's his legacy, if we know that yet? Yeah, I'm not sure. It was wreckage. There was wreckage if you're at NIH. There were wreckage at certain agencies. But the guy only saved $65 billion out of a multi-trillion dollar budget. So as a budget matter, you would not say... Hold on a second. What happened to 165? He's wrong. Okay. This is another thing.

Of course, she will never push back on anything. Navarro is a woman, whoever she is. She's no good. She gets paid big money. The guy only saved $65 billion out of a multi-trillion dollar budget. So as a budget matter, you would not say he had a big effect. But he did manage to destroy NIH and USAID. And the USAID one is the one I haven't gotten over. I haven't gotten over? I still haven't gotten over USAID. I'm still reeling from it.

By the way, as a small aside, the Times of London now spells USAID capital U, capital S, capital A, lowercase I-D. Why? To make it sound like it's USAID. Like farm aid. Instead of international development? Yes, exactly. I think that's a... This is what Brooks is pushing to. Wait until you hear what he has to say. Here we go. But he did manage to destroy NIH and USAID. And the USAID one is the one I haven't gotten over. He should be wearing a black armband for this. USAID black armband.

And so there's folks at Boston University who count. How many people have died because of what Doge did at USAID? How many people have died because of what Doge did at USAID? And USAID was a very ill-managed organization. That's true. But according to the Boston University folks, so far 55,000 adults have died of AIDS in the four months since Trump was elected. What? Okay, he's making it sound like USAID. Okay, that's great. 6,000 children are dead because of what Doge did.

That's just PEPFAR, the HIV. You add them all up, that's 300,000 dead and we're four months in. Now you add, accumulate that over four years, the number of dead grows very high. Five million! There are mass murderers in the world. Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Stalin. Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Stalin. We don't have anybody on the list from America. And I don't think it's the same as committing the kind of genocide they did. Genocide?

But by taking away that agency and being at least semi-responsible for the deaths, probably by the end of this, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, that's Elon Musk's legacy. And the people who work at Tesla and SpaceX, they want to think about that. Alright, I take it all back. It was well worth it. Clip of the day. What a horrible individual. He equates Pol Pot with Elon Musk. Can you believe this guy? And they don't push back on this? It's unbelievable. This is PBS.

They let him equate Pol Pot with Elon Musk, a public servant. What I'm trying to figure out is they didn't do away with PEPFAR, which is the President's emergency plan for AIDS relief? No, they didn't. They just moved it. Did they move it into the State Department? And where's George Soros' money? Where's the Gates Foundation money for this? You don't need USAID for everything. He's killing children. It's not USAID. It's killing 6,000 kids because of Trump. No, not even Trump.

Musk. Musk is a baby killer. No, but he did say since the Trump administration began. This guy, this is unconscionable as far as I'm concerned. Meanwhile, by the way, after he said this comment, I do have a very short bonus clip. What do you think her follow-up was? This is the clip of his host kicker. So he goes on and equates Elon Musk with Pol Pot. And the host, instead of anybody at PBS pushing back on this crazy analogy. Wait, wait. Let me guess. Let me guess.

Did she say almost as bad as Hitler? Here she goes. And those are real lives. It's worth pointing out. Every single one of them lost. Real lives. Every single one of them lost. Because of Musk. Yeah, that's... Again, this is the mind control. This is the dumbing down and people who already believed... And I would say that my whole family is certainly on the intelligence side and government side. They all watch PBS News Hour.

They read the Washington Post and New York Times and add to it, oh Trump he's trying to defund them, taking away that whole 1%. It just becomes... The 1%. It just becomes more realistic to them and more true. And to understand these people, you have to understand what they're consuming. And yeah, this is traitorous, I would say.

You are literally giving the American people a portion of the American people very very very poor information and amazing levels of hyperbole and just propagandistic, I guess. Well, I have one more clip from the series of this particular episode and this is Brooks again. This is a WTF clip, which you have to listen to carefully, especially at the end and try to figure out... Brooks is beside himself.

He's shaking, by the way, the whole time and he's nervous looking and he's just bordering on tears and they're talking about town halls and I only have... Capehart wasn't even... Capehart's pretty dull, but here's Brooks on town halls and he just loses it again and it's just an embarrassment. And when I see the town hall videos that I've seen, it looks like Democrats talking and being really angry, which they should be.

And they should do resistance and they should show up at town hall meetings and they should make themselves heard, but it's not the same as Republicans beginning to flake off. We just don't see that in the numbers. But what's going to happen? To me, it's not even anything that's happened so far. Donald Trump is increasing the national debt of his Big Better Biddle, whatever that thing's called, goes through by $6 trillion. How inflationary will that be?

To dump that much money into the money supply. At the same time, tariffs are going up. Steel tariffs were just raised again today, raising the cost of anything made out of steel and anything made out of children's toys. Since when do we have steel children's toys? He says anything made out of steel and anything, what he actually said was anything made out of steel and anything made out of children's toys. Wow. She didn't catch it, he didn't catch it, nobody caught it.

I mean, it was obvious when he said it that he made a mistake and he never corrected it. Let's just dissect this for a second. Because there was a couple of things in there that I thought were pretty insane. So let me just go back again. And when I see the Town Hall videos that I've seen, it looks like Democrats talking. Because it is Democrats. It's Democrats showing up to Town Hall. It's not like only Republicans go to Town Halls. We've been through this.

Some of them are literally bused in and hired for it. But in general, people in towns who hate Trump, they're going to go to the Town Hall. It doesn't matter if you have a Republican representative. They are Democrats. Being really angry, which they should be. And they should do resistance and they should show up at Town Hall meetings. Do resistance? They should do resistance, yes. What are you going to do today? I'm going to go do some resistance down at Town Hall.

And they should do resistance and they should show up at Town Hall meetings and they should make themselves heard. But it's not the same as Republicans beginning to flake off. We just don't see that in the numbers. But what's going to happen? To me, it's not even anything that's happened so far. Donald Trump is increasing the national debt. His Big Better Biddle, whatever that thing is called. Let's not pretend you don't know what it's called. That's just like, that's childish.

Yes, it is constantly, by the way. The Big Better Bill. You mean Bill Black Better from Biden? No, it's called the Big Beautiful Bill. It's stupid, but that's what it's called and you know it. It goes through by $6 trillion. I think it's $4 trillion. I thought it was $3 trillion. I don't know about... It raises... It's not $6 trillion. It raises the debt limit. And it's only the debt limit. It doesn't mean anything is going to happen. It doesn't mean the spending for $6 trillion.

And from what I understand, it's supposed to be over 10 years, so $400 billion a year. Hey, it's definitely not what was promised, but let's be a little factual. How inflationary will that be? Well, I don't know. Are you an economist? To dump that much money into the money supply. Oh, he's going to dump that. He makes it sound like $6 trillion is going to be dumped into the money supply. Oh, Lord, please. That would be quite something. Bitcoin to the moon. It goes through by $6 trillion.

How inflationary will that be? To dump that much money into the money supply. At the same time, tariffs are going up. Steel tariffs were just raised again today. Raising the cost of anything made out of steel and anything made out of children's toys. Raising the cost of anything made out of steel from other countries, the reason it was done is because we got a big investor in U.S. steel, Nippon Steel, and quite honestly, I think it's pretty amazing that here it is. Here's President Trump.

Some breaking news now from a rally in Pittsburgh. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he's doubling his tariff on international steel imports. We were getting our steel from Mexico. We were getting our steel from Canada. We were getting our steel from every place, but right here, we are going to be imposing a 25% increase.

We're going to bring it from 25% to 50% the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States. Trump is raising the sweeping 25% tariffs, which he imposed How is that sweeping? It's pretty targeted. It's not sweeping. Trump is raising the sweeping 25% tariffs, which he imposed on steel in March, on top of duties on aluminum as well.

The new rate will likely add more chaos to Canada and America's intertwined car industries, while also raising manufacturing costs for Americans. No! That just is bullcrap. We had a steel industry and I would say that probably started to close down, what, 40 years ago? Tina grew up in Indiana, where the whole town was working in the steel mill. We had a steel mill down when I was a kid nearby where I lived, Pacific State Steel. We actually had a steel mill in Emeryville.

It was one of these modern ones, and that was in the 70s and I think probably closed down in the mid-80s. Okay, so that's 40 years ago. Yeah, 40 years ago. You're right, 40 years ago. If it was closed down in 85, that's 40 years ago. We started importing steel, and President Trump was saying, we're going to bring it back. It's a matter of national security. That's always the ploy. Arguably, yes, if we got into a war. And I think it's true.

If we got into a war, we're not able to make our own steel. You can't crank up a steel mill overnight. You have to have it there. You can expand one easier than you can make one from scratch. So we get investment from Nippon Steel. They don't really get to buy it. They become investors and we have the golden share. The golden share. Which basically means we're still in charge. And how is that going to raise the cost on manufacturing?

If it's American-made steel, the tariffs may raise the cost in the interim, but U .S. Steel makes steel, correct? They're still making steel? Yeah. They're just not making enough of it? Or what is the problem? It's too expensive? What is the issue? It's a little pricey. It's not as competitive as the cheap steel you can get from Asia. Cheap, crappy steel. You can get some cheap steel. We had a problem here. The new Bay Bridge that was built here was built with Chinese steel. It's fallen apart.

Exactly. Back to Elon Musk for a moment. Here is the report on him leaving Doge as his time was up. The chainsaw for bureaucracy! Elon Musk came to Washington with a chainsaw and he now leaves with a key in the dust still settling. Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk promised to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. That goal was later halved.

By the middle of next year, with the support of the President and Congress, could we achieve $5 trillion of savings? I think so. As of today, Doge's website has the number at $175 billion. Almost all of that is in labor, meaning these are people's jobs. Our Hearst television data team has tracked at least 49,000 federal layoffs across dozens of agencies. It's hard to even put into words how hard it feels. This is great. They never ever show somebody laid off from America from the Midwest.

No, no. It's the elites in D.C. This is horrible! Across dozens of agencies. It's hard to even put into words how hard it feels. The impact widespread from the FDA to Veterans Affairs to the Social Security Administration. They're imposing this enormous burden on seniors without any real sense of what the benefit of that is. A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priority shows cuts to Social Security phone services will force nearly 2 million more in-person visits each year.

In 31 states, at least one in four seniors will have to drive over an hour round trip. I think Elon Musk's legacy will have been that his time in government did not lead to improvements in government services or in people's lives. That's a professor, by the way. Despite the fallout, the president made it clear. We're totally committed to making the doge cuts permanent.

Republicans in Congress are looking to make some of those doge cuts permanent by passing the president's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. Musk has publicly criticized that legislation. He says it undermines the work he's done with doge because it adds to the deficit. Musk's role at doge was as a special government employee which limited his services to 130 days. Well, at least they did that. They did add it at the end. And, of course, the news media still had to do something.

And what did they do? Like, oh, yeah, I know what you're going to do. He's a druggie. Were you aware of Elon Musk's regular drug use? No, I wasn't. I think he's fantastic. I think Elon is a fantastic guy. And, uh... Aren't you troubled by the news report? I'm not troubled by anything with Elon. I think he's fantastic. Did a great job. And, you know, doge continues. And by the time it's finished, we'll have numbers that'll knock your socks off. It's going to be, uh... He did a fantastic job.

And he didn't need it. He didn't need to do it. Yeah, what about his drug use? Ha, ha, ha, ha. They're trying anything. Trump hates drugs. Bugs. Get him on that, man. Let's get him on that. Actually, that's probably... There was some thinking along those lines, I'm sure. Trump doesn't even drink coffee. Oh, really? Which we only learned this year. He drinks Diet Coke, though. That'll kill you. So did you see the very highly controversial post that President Trump put on his truth social?

Which one? It's a picture of him, and it says at the top, he's on a mission from God, and nothing can stop what's coming. You don't have not seen this. So, of course, he's on a mission from God as a throwback to the Blues Brothers movie. But, okay. Nothing can stop what's coming. So, well, we have to roll out some anti-God stuff. Callback, not a throwback. Callback. Thank you for correcting me. So, this is an interview with Anthea Butler.

And she is a postdoctoral fellow in race, religion, and gender at Princeton. You know what's coming, baby. Wow. She also wrote the book White Evangelical Racism. This is one I hadn't heard yet. The Politics of Morality in America. You'd be in this category. You racist bastard. Exactly why I want to play these clips. Didn't you have a podcast with a black dude? I did, yes. How could you do that? Well, it ended after 100 episodes. I cut him off. I shut him down.

It's like I can't work with a black man. No, he had a job, and he quit. No, we said we would do 100 episodes, and we did 100 episodes. So, this is about Christian nationalism. Which, yes, I agree. I think I fit that precisely. But I would like to push back a little bit on this lady. Anthea Butler, thank you so much for joining me on Upfront. You're welcome. Thank you, Mark. For years, we've heard about the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States.

Since Donald Trump took office, the political influence of this particular group of Christians has only grown. But I still don't think we necessarily have a good sense of what Christian nationalism actually is. How would you explain it? Oh, I'm so happy. I get to hear what Christian nationalism is. Finally, finally. I would explain it somewhat like this. First of all, you think about America as being a Christian nation, right? That's something that's just ingrained in everybody.

But Christian nationalists take it to the extreme. Is that ingrained in you, John? Is it ingrained in you? I mean, the roots are Christian. There's a lot of, in God we trust, on the bill and all the rest of it. And there's a lot of connection. But I don't know. I thought we were a pluralistic country. Well, let's just talk about the roots. The roots. First of all, you think about America as being a Christian nation, right? That's something that's just ingrained in everybody.

But Christian nationalists take it to the extreme. Here we go. They believe that the founding of this nation was for Christians and Christians only. Stop. No, no. It was Bible believers who said, we will start here to disciple to all the nations. It was not for Christians and Christians only. That the white men who came over, whether they were Puritans or others that came over, this was their divine right to be here. That God created this nation to be protected.

And that this was supposed to be for Christians and Christians only. No, that's just not true. She's full of shit, this woman. She's a professor. And everybody else, just not really particularly involved in the everyday affairs of the nation. The way I like to talk about Christian nationalism is you can't separate it from race. You need to think about whiteness when you talk about Christian nationalism. Are you going to bring in cannibalism too? If only. It's only for white people.

She makes this twist within 30 seconds. One of the largest groups, you know, we always have to remember one of the largest groups of fundamentalist Christians are black people. In fact, it was the blacks in California that pushed back on the gay marriage to such an extreme that nobody wants to talk about it to this day that it got rebuked when it was a referendum. And I have some referendum clips today, by the way.

They're trying to eliminate this sort of thing where the public voted, no, we don't want gay marriage. And they tracked it down to the black Christians mostly. You need to think about whiteness when you talk about Christian nationalism because there's something implicit in that term Christian nationalism that also means white. So Christian nationalism means white. Just keep that in mind, okay? By the way, I was at church this morning. We got a lot of brown people. We got a lot of black people.

We got all kinds of color people. Doesn't seem like they're... Get out! Get out, you! You're not white! If you're an evangelical Christian, if you are a Christian nationalist... I am one. I'm just going to say it. And you want somebody that embodies your values, whether we agree with those values or not, around sexual propriety, around honesty, around humility, around grace, around mercy, around all these things... That's only for Christians!

It wouldn't seem to many people that Donald Trump would be the poster child of that. Why would he become the person that they would think would be God's messenger on earth? Oh man, do you not know that Jesus liked the sinners? Why did they make this leap of faith? Thank you. That's the whole point. God uses the sinners, the tax collectors, the prostitutes. So let me say something that's probably going to be really scary for some folks. Uh-oh. Okay. Are you ready? Could be scary.

I'm seated for this. Could be scary for some folks. Race trumps religion. By the way, for a black professor to be doing... Isn't that racism by itself? In other words, in this particular case, because he appeals to their whiteness, they are able to overlook all of these other things that might not be moral. I think that's one of the most important things to talk about when we talk about evangelicals, is that we try not to do... We try not to say, oh, they're really racist or whatever.

But I wrote a whole book about this, where I talk about the politics of morality. And the politics of morality means that basically if you have a white man who has a position of power, like Trump, and he doesn't seem to follow all these tenets of Christianity, then he's more forgivable than somebody who doesn't have a lot of money and who is seen to be a troublemaker and might be brown, black, or yellow, or whatever. They don't have the same kind of...

They don't have the same kind of power that a Donald Trump would have. I'm just aghast by this. Yeah, sir. This is all to be... I've heard this sort of argument before. She's boring. Not that the clip is necessarily. I'm just saying she's a boring creep. Well, she does take it to a conclusion. But first, can you think of any other white nationalists, Christian nationalists, in the Trump administration? Well, there's... Come on, man. I would say Pete Hegseth comes close.

There are figures in Trump's circle who are very closely associated with Christian nationalism and white supremacists. People like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. He's now a white supremacist. Pete Hegeseth. Who even wrote a book called American Crusade. And in that book, he said, we don't want to fight, but like our fellow Christians 1,000 years ago, we must. How does having someone like Hegeseth influence public policy?

Well, that's dangerous because it really influences public policy in different ways. I should know this because basically when he took a visit to the Naval Academy, they pulled my book along with 300 other books. So that's number one. It wasn't to cite the book as a... It had something to do with race, right? So that's the first thing. But I think the way that that influences public policy is this.

If you think about him being over the Department of Defense, then you have people who are talking about our military having to basically accede to Christian beliefs. And we have many people who are not Christian who are in the military and all branches of the military. And so when you have a leader like that, that is going to seep down to the ranks. Oh, no. People might have Christian beliefs. So this, of course, leads to a danger and a threat to democracy, obviously.

You mentioned Pete Hegeseth, but also we could talk about Russ Vought, the key architect behind Project 2025. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who called the separation of church and state in the United States a misnomer. These are people very highly ranking in U .S. government. I guess my question is, with individuals like these in positions of power, how real is the possibility that the United States could shift from a democracy to a theocracy? Absolutely real. This is what's so great.

These people don't even know that there's no such thing in the Constitution as the separation of church and state. But okay. It's already happening. I think that people who think that it's not happening should take another look at the kinds of rules that are being put down. If we even think about just things that are happening in the states right now where people are being told they need to put up 10 commandments in the schools, or you need to buy the Trump Bible for $59 .95 in Oklahoma.

Nobody needs to buy anything. What is she talking about? That's not even for sale anymore, is it? It wasn't even a Trump Bible. People need to buy the Trump Bible. Why would anyone need to buy it? What's she talking about? Or you need to think about how we think about abortion. You think about the fall versus row versus wave here a couple years ago. All of these things are really important and speak to this idea about democracy.

I think one of the ones that people don't even think about very much is this idea that was floated by the U.S. government that we give $5,000 to people who have a newborn baby. Who gets to get that $5,000? Does a black woman get that $5,000? Does a white woman who's married get $5 ,000? Holy crap! What is she thinking? Of course the black woman gets the $5 ,000. What, does she think that the black woman's not going to get it? What evidence does she have for that assertion? None!

But now it's going to take a nice turn. Did this guy push back on that? No, of course not. The guy should have said, well, a black woman's going to get it, so is a Mexican woman or a Mexican-American or a Jewish woman. They're all going to get it. It's women, not about the race that they are representing. So he should have said that, but he didn't. It's television, man. What is he doing? Just lapping it up? Is he naked, sitting there jerking off in front of her?

I want to explore another dimension of Christian nationalism. For over a year and a half, we've been watching Israel commit a genocide in Gaza. Here we go. With U.S. support. During this time the Christian Zionist movement has been one of the most vocal supporters of these efforts. Now we have the Christian Zionist movement. I didn't get my card. While not all Christian nationalists are Zionists, there does seem to be considerable overlap. Can you explain what Christian Zionism is?

It's a Venn diagram, you see. Christian Zionism is a belief that the nation of Israel is a chosen nation, first of all, that God, you know, Jesus comes from Israel and all of this stuff. So you put the biblical... Is that biblical Israel or is that, like, the government? Biblical Israel, but it's also kind of mixed in with the government, right? That's number one.

But the second part of it, which I think is really important, and we have to think about organizations like Christians United for Israel, is that Israel is very important for Christians because if you believe that Jesus is going to come back, where does Jesus come back to? The Plain and the Ghetto. He comes back there... What did she say? The Plain and the Ghetto? What did she just say? No, it's that town up in... Oh, yeah, where he's coming back. Yes, of course.

By the way, this is like a complete conflation with the Dominionism, which is a kind of a... definitely a... I would call a schistic offshoot that was... Yes. It's minor, but it's interesting. It's a Venn diagram. But they're just trying to slam everybody who's not a communist. Basically, this is a pro-socialist argument, and these are two socialists that are both atheists, obviously. And I don't know why you're playing this clip now.

Well, because the next clip and the last clip will make it understandable. Jesus comes back to the Plain and the Ghetto. He comes back there to fight Satan and do all this stuff. So it's about end times beliefs. So for Christians who believe this way, they believe that the nation of Israel is a very important part of fulfilling biblical prophecy. Okay. So what does this all lead to? It's very obvious. And this is the brain twister of it all.

It's not just that Christian nationalist eschatology, their sort of vision of how the end of days happens, is tied up in politics. It seems to be an anti-Semitic narrative as well. What? The Christian Zionist nationalists are anti-Semitic. Okay, now I get it. Version of events. Jesus comes back, but Jews are either killed or forcibly converted. Exactly. They're not forcibly converted. That's great. No, they don't. They believe that this is what it's supposed to be.

That the two of these are going to come together. And they don't see that as being anti -Semitic. The ways in which things are playing out right now are very interesting. I've asked people this a lot of times. Do you realize they really want you to become Christian in the end? And they're like, oh yeah, but it's okay. Would I be going too far to say that many of these Christian nationalists are pro -Israel and anti-Semitic?

Yeah, but I don't know that all of them would realize that they're anti-Semitic. And I think that's the point here. They think that because they love the nation of Israel and that they want to see Jesus come back, that these things are not incompatible. Ah, that's fantastic. It's just some of the thinking out there. You're going to hear a lot more of that. Trust me. There's so much hate about Trump, like, oh, he's a mission from God. There's going to be a lot more of this. Anyway.

This is the result, in fact, the clippage that you played goes to boneheads. It's all a result of that image or that comment that you talked about at the beginning from Trump. He is a troller, and he trolled this whole segment of the show. Yeah, and he's going to keep doing it. He's a troller. People should stop getting suckered left and right by this guy who's a genius at it. He was a social media president. But, you know, she's got a book to sell, so it's an opportunity to talk about her book.

Who's going to buy her book? She's already, it's apparent she's an idiot. So then Tulsi Gabbard, I don't know if you caught this, came out and declassified documents from the Biden administration about how the Biden administration labeled, tracked, targeted American citizens, labeled them as domestic violent extremists. Yeah, I almost had a clip. There's some guy ranting about it. I don't know if I have a clip on that. I don't think I clipped it. But yes, this is a good one.

I have two clips from Tulsi Gabbard explaining exactly what it is and what they did. And this document is in the show notes if you want to go take a look at it. What was done under the Biden administration? Was it they were saying that everyone who opposed, say, mask mandates or the vaccination of children are domestic violent extremists? Or were they saying that those are opinions often held by domestic violent extremists?

Which is actually a good question, considering he didn't read the document. Why would you? Well, that's a very good question. When you look at the language of these documents that I've declassified, first the strategic implementation plan of the Biden administration's designation of potential violent domestic extremists.

It really talks about people who may likely turn out to be domestic violent extremists, or those who may likely turn to violence because of these specific quote-unquote ideologies that they hold.

And there's a consistent thread through here that these ideologies that they are designating as turning into potentially violent activities, or being manifested in violent activities, happen to be those of people who were using their First Amendment rights to oppose certain policies of the Biden administration.

And while some of the examples that are focused on there have to do with those who opposed the COVID vaccine mandates, those who opposed the mask mandates, parents who were concerned that their children going to school may be forcibly vaccinated with the COVID vaccine without the consent or awareness of parents. The list goes on and on. I wonder if they have a file on us. Oh, I'm sure they do. You can get it for you. It's probably up in the lunchroom. It's not supposed to.

As long as they get the URL correct. Yeah, please. It's noagendashow.net, everybody. Yeah, .net. Here's the second part. It wasn't just about vaccines, obviously. But it's not exclusive to this. In some of these reports that we've declassified, it shows that people who were opposed to Biden's border policy, for example, could therefore have propensities to join a militia or could become these domestic violent extremists that we're talking about here.

And again, it's important to look at this in the totality and the sequence of how this happened. These documents were issued in December of 2021. You remember very well, Will, the speech, the ominous speech that President Biden gave in 2022, where with this red background and Marines standing in the background, he issued an address to the nation warning the American people that Donald J. Trump and MAGA Republicans pose a direct threat to the fabric of our republic.

And then you put that together with how the FBI and others within the Biden administration directed social media companies to censor Americans and undermine our First Amendment rights because, of course, the social media companies don't want to be in a position to support the spread of domestic violent extremism.

So when you look at all of these things together, you understand at its core the thing that I commit as the American people to root out, which is the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community and national security state against the American people. There you go. Of course, exactly as we discussed and surmised. It is very disturbing. Yeah. Meanwhile, we nailed it. Daddy Longlegs is back. Well, you know, yes, I took it for the next newsletter. I've got some pictures.

He has that, I don't know who that is, but the mask is pretty obvious now. The mask is really obvious. The one side is caved in. The wrinkles in the forehead are asymmetrical, and one side has got just a bunch of permanent ones, and then he leans in on somebody and raises his eyebrows and it wrinkles on one side of the mask. You see the back of his neck. You can see the mask kind of bunching up. You know, somebody just grabbed that thing, and his hairline, the hair is totally fake.

It's very Biden-like hair. Yeah. You want me to play the clip? I have an alternative theory that I need to discuss about it, but I think it's worth just listening to him, because this was the Biden who got very, like, at the end of this clip, he gets right in the reporter's face. It's gross. I can't imagine what his breath is like. Former President Joe Biden appeared at a Memorial Day service in Delaware today.

He spoke at the event, his first public comment since he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Action News reporter Rebecca Hendrickson has the update. Can you stop the clip for a second? Yeah. There is a, I noticed this because it's starting to show up as a word. The word to look for, which is code for MRNA is aggressive form. Aggressive form, yes. We noticed this. They were all saying aggressive in quotes even. Aggressive, aggressive.

He spoke at the event, his first public comments since he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Action News reporter Rebecca Hendrickson has the update on how the former president... Can you stop it again? Yeah, sure. I'm sorry. No, it's okay. But have you ever noticed the use of the word aggressive form of cancer say previous to 2020 let's say or 2018? No. Do you remember that ever being used like that? No. Aggressive form?

I bet you I could do an Ngram search and the problem is it's kind of tough to do. Yes. But aggressive, the aggressive cancers are a new phenomenon. Yes. Turbo cancers. Aggressive. Diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Action News reporter Rebecca Hendrickson has the update on how the former president says he is feeling. I asked President Biden why it was important for him to come to this event despite his diagnosis. He said because he's loyal.

This event means a lot to him and his family. The expectation is we're going to be able to beat this. There's no, it's not in any organ. My bones are strong. I hadn't penetrated. This is interesting. The story was that it was in his bones, metastasized to his bones and here he says, my organs are healthy. My bones are good. It's not, it hasn't penetrated my bones. That's what he's literally saying. I find that contrary to the reporting. The expectation is we're going to be able to beat this.

There's no, it's not in any organ. My bones are strong. I hadn't penetrated. So I'm feeling good. Former President Joe Biden addressing his health for the first time since being diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer saying he's started treatments. It's all a matter of taking a pill. One particular pill. And for the next six weeks and then another one. This at a Memorial Day service at Veterans. Is that the treatment? One particular pill? One pill once every six weeks?

Is that the treatment for this aggressive? I believe the treatment that he's, I think the pill he's talking about is a chemo pill? A pill that reduces testosterone. Okay. He's transitioning. I think that's the only thing I can imagine because I've listened to enough of this crap that that seems to be the thing you have to do. And so I think that must be what he's referring to. What else could it be? So Clip Custodian just did a Google Trends of aggressive and so you see it.

It's kind of a slow upturn. So look at December 2010. We have 12. I'm looking at this January 2016 20 kind of stays around 20. Then it's in 2023. It starts moving up towards the 30s and then all of a sudden May 2025 spikes to 40 higher even so it's like a hockey stick at the end of the curve. Yes, it's a new they decided to use it instead of turbo. Yeah. Yeah. Aggressive.

And for the next six weeks and then another one This at a Memorial Day service at Veterans Memorial Park in Newcastle, Delaware where he spoke to the crowd of politicians veterans and gold star families Our troops don't wear a uniform that says I'm a Democrat or I'm a Republican says I'm an American While the event was held after Memorial Day it's still a significant day for the Biden family. Today is the 10 year anniversary of his son Biden's death.

When I asked why he came to this event, President Biden gave a passionate response which is code for he got in my face because I'm loyal I do it every damn year from the very beginning. I never forget where I came from. That's why so forgets where he came from. What's that got to do with the press of bread.

So alternative theory, which I do want to throw out there because who knows that it may not be a mask, but this could that this Biden could be a form of what we call rapid human cloning in the United States What was that? I'm sorry Rapid human cloning Uh oh Second half of show We're in a theremin We're an hour and a half in Rapid human cloning. The origin comes from the intelligence arm of the military Uh and this apparently started during Eisenhower's presidency.

There are cloning facilities around the world there are different types of clones have handlers, owners and controllers so the handlers don't know these people are clones, but they understand these like doctors and people who handle them the owners. Now this is sometimes wealthy individuals is not just government, but it can be Hollywood people can be like Bill Gates. It can be all kinds of people who just want to be safe Uh and the reason why these clones aren't exactly the same.

So the reason why this Biden clone is a foot taller is because they basically they clone these people and they grow them within, I'm just reading it okay they grow them within 5 to 6 months and because you can't really control, you know since you're doing it in 5 to 6 months you don't have the 80 years of diet and all the different things that the Biden clone might have done.

So that's why you get slight differences, can be differences to ears, you know they don't actually have DNA Um and this really began with Bill Clinton in the 90's apparently Uh and Biden is what we would call the absolute prime example of a rapidly cloned human being. So I was asked to have an open mind about it and I have an open mind about it I think the mask is more likely just saying, but We know the mask technology exists to an extreme. It was already good in the 60's.

And it was good in the 60's and is apparently now great but looking at this mask, it's not that great.

It's not that great Yeah, it's all bunched up in his neck His neck, but it's the forehead the various forehead, if people can go back and look at these clips, I have a few screenshots of some of it which I'll put in the next newsletter It's like No I know It's good to have an alternative I'm not going to moan too much about it an alternative theory that's out there Anything's possible Now of course the Pleiadians are brought into this and that's where it

gets a little kooky I think it's interesting, it would bring in an idea that you could have rapid human cloning, but you can't land on the moon in 1969 So you have a slight mismatch of what you accept as scientific truth I said I'm just reading it, I didn't say I accept it as scientific truth but yes, that is very astute of you Let's do some global warming stuff I promised this was a tease, I got global warming Texas to start us off Global warming Texas, alright Two of the world's top

weather agencies are warning that temperatures across the globe are likely to hit new records in the coming few years Climate scientists at the World Meteorological Organization and its counterpart in the UK say there's an 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will surpass 2024 as the hottest ever recorded.

Officials say that means more wildfires and heat related deaths, plus stronger hurricanes droughts and downpours Just today, San Antonio saw record rainfall for a single day stranding cars in high floodwaters Wait, what happened to weather's not climate?

That please June in the hill country is when we actually me and the white nationalist gang over there, we all pray for rain, we're so happy it came, we got nine points on our rain meter which is nine tenths of a actually a centimeter for whatever reason they have metric here whatever it is it was fantastic, we're happy like wow, this is great, we got all this beautiful rain, now today it's gonna go it's gonna go back up to the 90s Ah, global warming

global warming, it's June, this is what happens in Texas, and now she's like oh it looks like the record temperatures we've had a supposedly hottest year on record for the last seven years of this show every year every year, we've had a beautiful spring it's been mild it's been very cold out west the whole seven years I don't know what they're talking about it's just fantastic, and I don't see any rising sea levels, but let's go with boots on the ground, no so we'll

go to another series of clips, these are from PBS this is Smoke from Canada and do you think they're gonna bring in the global warming thing, and when will they do it let's listen to clip one fire weather program manager the smoke is being lofted into the air and with the weather pattern that's in place right now, we've got an area of low pressure basically just east of Hudson Bay over the Great Lakes, which is bringing that air south, we also have a ridge of high pressure over the western U

.S. which is kind of helping to funnel that smoke from Canada down through the northern plains and into the middle Mississippi Valley earlier I spoke with Matthew Capucci, meteorologist at MyRadar I asked him about the health risks from the smoke well there are two things I think folks are most likely noticing number one, anytime you have this fine particular matter, we call it PM 2.5 down at ground level that's dangerous for elderly, vulnerable populations, that's

a big concern over parts of the upper Midwest, obviously Canada where the wildfires are originating, but across North Dakota, across much of Minnesota, the entire state of Minnesota under an air quality alert right now which will likely be pushed into early next week parts of Michigan north of Chicago and in Wisconsin a lot of folks in the upper Midwest and Great Lakes now when the smoke is up high causing changes to the light, it's harmless but down near the surface when we're breathing it

in, it's really bad it's like if you were sitting next to a campfire and breathing that in, you wouldn't want to do that if I were in North Dakota right now, I'd be turning off my air conditioning and only circulating the air inside my home one minute and forty four seconds and they still haven't mentioned global warming or climate change?

I'm very disappointed this report was from yesterday on the PBS Weekend Edition it was half the show, I only have three clips of it half the show, by the way oh my god, there's smoke smoke in the air, it's gonna kill everybody as if no one's ever had smoke in the air, I mean what is the point of this report?

if I can just make a point in the 70s so we moved to Europe in 72 and we would come back to the United States every other summer for summer vacation so we could go to Zales Zales we loved it, Zales department store, Zales department store was crazy you could buy BB guns, you could buy CB radios it was fantastic and we'd stay for a couple of weeks and I just remember sitting in Armonk, New York Mead Road at the family home said, watching black and white TV, watching TV we had

Gilligan's Island TV during the daytime, couldn't believe it didn't have that in Europe and it would always be air quality alert heat alert, stroke all day long and we would always say, wow, these Americans even though we're American they really hyped this stuff up, it's crazy and it was the same every year, now I'm talking 75, 76 nothing has changed with the weather it's the reporting and the colors they use on the maps so the danger and the threat is the same hundreds of

miles away as if you were sitting next to that fire yeah, most definitely, unless we're really ventilating the atmosphere, taking what's down low and sort of diffusing it higher aloft, then we still have those high concentrations at the surface we're seeing over 200 on the air quality scale, anything over 50 is bad but over 200 in parts of North Dakota right now and my fear is that as these fires continue to burn, we're just adding more smoke to the atmosphere and it can surf

these jet stream winds winds in the upper atmosphere down over North America, you know, back in 2023 we saw the smoke reach all the way down to New York City, turning the skies orange as far south as Tennessee Valley I don't think at least initially it will get that bad farther south but still, over the northern tier we could see some very high end impacts with this. And talk a little bit about the air quality index, what does it take to trigger an advisory?

It all has to do with the concentrations of how much of that particular matter is in the atmosphere the denser the concentrations, the higher the number goes.

Anytime I'm seeing numbers around 200 that's the point where you can smell and you can taste the smoke in the air your eyes might start to sting, your throat might hurt a little bit, and especially for those vulnerable populations it's a really significant hazard You talked about turning off the air conditioning that ventilation could bring it into your house? Yeah, anything folks can do to eliminate essentially outside air coming in is what I would really recommend.

We hate to say it but those N95 masks from the COVID era could come in handy because once again the smoke is made up of these fine little particulates that you don't want to be breathing in if you have to go outside in the affected areas, that's a really good thing to put a protective layer between you and the air you're breathing in. And once again, just to remind people when there's an air quality advisory are there particular people who need to be especially careful?

Anybody with pre-existing conditions, the elderly those with respiratory conditions, underlying conditions, children, especially vulnerable to, infants, babies, and then sort of after everyone else middle-aged folks too, but really when the air quality gets as bad as it is back it up he asks him who should be careful?

And he basically says everybody in a segmented way oh yeah, the elderly, people with pre -existing conditions, oh also babies and children and then middle-aged people and then people from 30 to 40 and 40 to 50 and now you have to be particularly concerned in 50 to 60 don't forget about them. What kind of reporting is this? Yeah, let's back it up. Protective layer between you and the air you're breathing in.

And once again, just to remind people when there's an air quality advisory are there particular people who need to be especially careful?

Anybody with pre-existing conditions, the elderly those with respiratory conditions, underlying conditions, children, especially vulnerable to, infants, babies and then sort of after everyone else, middle-aged folks too, but really when the air quality gets as bad as it is over parts of the northern plains, the upper Midwest right now, that's dangerous for anybody. Hmm, brother. Still no mention of global warming so I'm getting these clips This is out of control, this is not right.

I'm thinking what is wrong with these people? They got this angle here, they're not using it but okay. Again, I will say this really was about a 20 minute presentation but this is the last clip I have. What are Canadian officials saying about how significant these fires are? They're sort of sounding the alarm they're sort of peaking their scales. Right now for example, Alberta and Ontario are under an extreme risk of wildfires that's verbiage rarely used by Environment Canada.

That's the equivalent up there of the National Weather Service in the US and to sort of max out the scale says this is a higher end event. Likewise, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre has drawn up a level 5 out of 5. They're basically saying all systems go in terms of combating and fighting these fires they're allocating all the resources they have to. When they sort of max out these scales, that's a sign of a really significant event underway.

We're still so early in the summer we're just getting into June now this is something we more typically see later into June, into early July so I do fear this could be another bad fire season for our neighbours to the north. One thing we're noting with climate change we're seeing sort of a tendency for these heat domes, these blocking bridges of high pressure to last a little longer be a little stronger be a little bigger and more stubborn. Finally!

So there's an investor and a presenter named Paul Marshall who I got some clips from he was giving a presentation about climate change but it's the counter argument and I thought these clips were great and I don't know the exact event but there was a bunch of people that spoke at it and I want to get these will be the last clips of my climate presentation but this is good stuff this is Paul Marshall on Climate One Most European countries are committed to net

zero by 2050, likewise Australia and Canada.

The Scandinavian targets are a little earlier but climate change policy is a classic collective action problem this is the mother of all collective action problems if only some countries make sacrifices and others don't then all they do is wipe out their own prosperity out of a misplaced sense of guilt we have allowed Asian countries to set much later dates China is committed officially to 2060 Saudi Arabia to 2060, India to 2070 and if your net zero deadline is 35 or 45 years away you

can pretty much ignore it for the time being and that is exactly what is happening every year Chinese coal consumption is expected to fall every year it goes up China has 1161 coal fired power plants in 2023 they built two plants per week. India has a mere 285 but they too have now got the coal bug.

They're currently opening two plants a month and their construction plans are accelerating China and India are about as committed to net zero as Britain is to investigating the grooming gangs laughter wow kicker at the end there wow got a big applause for that by the way. Where was this done, this speech? I think this was in London but it could have been in Europe but wait a minute wait a minute he's bound to be offending someone with this. Doesn't he get arrested at some point?

I think he has this is a captive audience of people that are climate skeptics I believe. It's some sort of conference that is designed to reverse things but it gets more interesting as he continues this was actually, people should look this up, Paul Marshall on climate but here we go clip 2.

But it is the USA who've played the smartest game it was the United States through Al Gore who launched climate anxiety on the world in 2009 Al Gore warned that the North Pole would be ice free by the summer of 2014 but the US never stopped drilling and now just at the point where many western countries have swallowed the net zero ideology hook, line and sinker you guys and I'm looking at the thousand Americans in the room, are moving on to leave the rest of us like a half dead fish flopping

on the river bank now I'm not suggesting that this is a conspiracy I know that in America you have Republicans and Democrats and the idea of you conspiring together is a bit like Keir Starmer eloping with Elon Musk but just like with Wokery and DEI America launched a set of luxury beliefs on the world watched as those beliefs gained traction, only to discard them in their own land just before they reached the point of fatal destruction luxury beliefs, I like that I like that

too, luxury beliefs he's kind of good, this guy yeah, he's quite good and the possibility does exist that the nature of our system even though we don't do it I don't think we do it overtly I don't think anyone schemes but it just so happens that that's what happened what he described is what the mechanism is, I mean this is why anyone who invested in Exxon Mobil when Biden got in office and he said they're going to get rid of fossil fuels would have made a fortune because I think the stock

almost tripled oh yeah, the minute they started that nonsense it started to go up, it's genius yeah, and so it's like genius is exactly what where was Horowitz with all of this?

well you know he's a conservative investor here we go with the last of this unlike Europe in particular the US still has the DNA to resist ideas that are bad for your wealth you understand the foundations of wealth creation and you don't take them for granted, sadly we have a much weaker immune system so we are powering ahead in full self -destruction mode so how is Europe planning to reach net zero?

well we have a twin track strategy on the one hand we are prematurely closing some of our most reliable sources of energy, like coal and nuclear and ceasing our exploration for offshore oil and gas and on the other we are taxing carbon emissions, driving up our energy and electricity costs across the board and piling costs on the industry and the consumer I have some bad news for our net zero zealots Europe may or may not reach our net zero targets but one thing we

will most certainly do is wipe out what remains of our industrial base you know the thing that no one wants to touch because some of the big investors like Bill Gates are all over it, is what President Trump just did with nuclear regulation this is what is going to make America win we'll be able to have all kinds of nuke power everywhere it's genius it really is I think we've been fans of nuclear on this very program since its inception almost particularly when we

learned about what is now I think being deployed the small reactors Thorium and other reactors the backyard nukes that can power a whole town like Fredericksburg it's fantastic and but all these people that are on the gravy train they love it, there's still a lot of climate money out there there must be oh it has to be isn't there still money from the inflation reduction I was listening to an interview with who's one of the Trump, oh Chip Roy Chip Roy your Texas buddy

not a fan of Chip Roy per se although I don't think there was anyone else you could vote for, I think Chip Roy was the only guy, it was just uncontested but his biggest beef is that there's still all this inflation reduction act money that is earmarked for all this climate stuff it's never been spent like BESS BESS which is battery enhanced battery something storage systems which battery enhanced storage system, battery something storage yes something like

that BESS, which is you know nobody wants that, nobody wants these like that Vistafire that's probably still smoldering out there in California yeah the one out in Point yeah Moss Point or whatever it is Moss Beach whatever isn't there like a trillion dollars in that thing wasn't it there was a lot of money, the whole inflation reduction act was really the green new deal so that hasn't been repealed or anything done with it, so I'm kind of like on the chip train now I'm

all for that, let's get rid of that nonsense, let's spend some money hey with that I want to thank you for your courage, say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the climate anxiety say hello to my friend on the other end the one the only Mr. John C. Dvorak yeah in the morning to you Mr. Adam in the morning ship sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there in the morning to the trolls in the troll room stop moving, stand still

for a second I gotta count you where are we where are we 2107 2107 that's a little down isn't it that's way low we normally have like 24 on a Sunday, yeah 24, 25 well but these are of course trolls who are listening to us live in the troll room at trollroom.io and they're in there trolling around which is good they have a battery energy storage system, thank you very much yeah B-E-S-S battery energy, it lasts an hour like can power your city for 30 minutes, it's like

a UPS for your town, yeah a big giant UPS the trolls are listening to us at trollroom.io where they might be listening on a modern podcast app which you know again it wasn't just Megyn Kelly I had this clip you know the Toddcast the Toddcast, you know Todd Chip Todd, Todd Todd, Chip Todd Todd the Toddcast, remember that guy no, yeah Chuck Todd Chuck Todd, yeah Chuck Todd so, Chip Todd, yeah Chuck Todd, it's the Chuck Toddcast, get it the Toddcast, here's what

he said just recently on his latest Toddcast, got all these things, you can hear us anywhere you want, YouTube we'd love for you to subscribe to the channel everything else, Spotify Apple, you name it, and if Apple isn't uploading right away automatically, help us inform Apple that they're messed up this has been an issue, luckily apparently we're not the only podcast with this issue but please feel free to let the engineering team know themselves, hey Apple

you've got a problem, we've done it maybe they'll be responsive to you, a little more responsive to you, no wow and the thing is, that's a good one you caught, is he that naive not to know this is everybody's problem I liked how he said Apple hasn't uploaded it he certainly doesn't know how it works but that's okay because people don't understand how it works, all they know is we had a big conversation about this on the Podcasting 2.0 podcast, is that things

have changed since the early days of podcasting, when you were just delighted that a podcast episode showed up like oh there it is, we didn't have social media so when you post on social media, hey the latest episode is out and people are looking at their Apple podcast app going no no, refresh, refresh the first thing they do is they yell at me you didn't upload it to Apple I can't blame them for not understanding how it works so I get it, then eventually

the host gets so overrun with that nonsense that they, like Megyn Kelly and here's Chuck Todd doing a soft shoe version of it tell the engineers at Apple whereas we have built the solution, it's called Podping and it's no one owns it, it's actually a blockchain you could even say, Apple podcast now powered by blockchain, you could market it because when hundreds of thousands of podcasts including this one when we post the podcast, the Podping goes out, all of these apps immediately know there's

a new episode they refresh, boom, there it is within 90 seconds.

Don't use these stupid apps who are just too not invented here or I can only think that's what it is you know, Apple oh we got to build our own blockchain it has to be our blockchain, otherwise it won't work blah blah blah they're arrogant, and they're losing now, so get a modern podcast app at podcastapps.com and all your problems will be over and even better when we go live, which doesn't work in these legacy apps, you'll be able to hear it, you'll get an alert, hey, the boys are live

the boys are back in town, I think I will listen as a part of this experiment that we've been doing, I was thinking about those PBS shows with the climate change stuff in it, you know what the problem is, you know why they do half the show about climate change because they have to fill up an hour, see with the podcast we're like, eh, I'm bored of hearing you, you're bored of hearing me, end of show you can do that yeah, you know, you can, I got more to say, okay, we'll

do a little bit longer, that is what media has really become, these guys like, what do you got Bob, well we got a lot of Trump hate okay, well, we'll do some of that, what else you got, more Trump hate blah blah blah so they got to fill the time they got to fill the time that's the problem well, I'm going to push back on this and a deep dive let's do a deep dive you also have the problem with the podcasting dilemma which is that oh yeah, there's that, I agree

the chatterboxes who just can't stop talking about maybe one thing for hours yes yes yes, that's exactly right and they don't know how to end and they ask the question three different ways before letting the guest talk is that your problem with Rubin amongst many others Rubin's one of them there's other people that do the same thing they ask the question three or four different ways so the question is longer than the answer the question should never be longer than the answer unless it's

a yes or no question it's a yes or no question I've only got five minutes, I've been reclaiming my time it's a yes or no question, Mr. Devorah yes so we employ the value for value model, we coined the phrase we pioneered it it's gotten legs of its own, I love it people misuse it like Patreon, I'm value for value nah, not entirely the whole concept is we give you the show and we discovered this early on, if people would only listen oh man, there's this there's this whatsapp group alright it's

kind of like a telegram group only I guess highbrow, I don't know whatsapp group, it's the podcast discourse hub I should read from this and so they talk about this is really the podcast industrial complex and I just don't buy into it they feel that everything should be video doesn't have to have an art not all of them are generalizing it has to have video, if you don't have video it's not going to work why?

what's your rationale for videos, it's not going to work well you'd almost think they're on the take from Google because YouTube has essentially now rebranded any dudes or dudettes with cans and a microphone as a podcast and if you even put podcasts in your description, it shows up in a podcast channel on YouTube so they're trying to capture the whole concept of a podcast and saying you don't need an RSS feed you just need YouTube videos does anybody realize that the word podcast itself

stems from the iPod which was never a video device well actually it did do video later on, but see this is exactly what I get but it was named during the era when it was an audio only device yes but you have to understand that if you say that, it'll be like okay Boomer, I've never had an iPod man, I have a smartphone I got an iPhone Boomer so here's an example most boomers never had an iPod so here's an example there is a different podcast medium that exists now than did

when Adam helped birth all this podcasting has grown up and is now mature beyond the wild startup years this medium has been fragmenting for years and has become a highly commercial medium these fractures in the medium cannot stand and need to go away or we risk losing it all to big proprietary platforms you see the podcast industrial complex wants it to work with your dramatic reading thank you, Adam is correct two different cultures exist that are built on a common base I didn't say

that, doesn't matter we need to not fight each other, in many ways we are working together, but others are moving in different directions and the market is now the market is telling us differently so I'm a broken record that a podcast only needs ok boomer, first of all you don't need to make money doing your podcast per se it's not like I'm doing a podcast I need to make money, some people just do a podcast because they like it, some people do a podcast because it's for their club or for the

community or for a product, or for a candidate for office, there's a lot of reasons to do a podcast a lot of reasons to do a podcast, exactly but the world is centered around, it's number one millions of downloads on top of the charts it's anachronism that's old fashioned, that is truly boomer thinking I gotta start doing that, ok boomer with your charts, we discovered early on that it doesn't when's the last time we actually looked at stats you don't need to look at

stats we do take a look at our download once in a while when we're talking about it just to make sure it's not falling off a cliff or it's jumped a lot and it hasn't shown up in the income stream like for example if our download numbers had tripled and our income stream had gone in half we would pay attention to that but none of this stuff ever happens by the way it's all statistics let's be specific, we do this podcast to help people get results on their resume, ok that's why

we're doing this podcast the podcast is wrapped around Linda Lou Patkin and so that's the only reason the podcast exists nobody has figured this out what we discovered more than 17 years ago is if you just ask people to send you some money whatever it's worth to them it's sustainable and that's it any podcast can do this but people forget one thing you have to have a good slash outstanding product if you don't have a good product no one's going to support you and

that's the big misunderstanding well I got downloads no if you have a good product people will support you that's it and if you have enough people to support you you might be able to do it full time how many years did we do the show get a time code for me how many years did we do the show before we could do it full time five years actually about one bull crap two years because we could do it at show 100 when you were going to quit because you got this 100 I was still making money at show 100

so no not true I could not have sustained myself with what we were making at show 100 no it took much longer I had to go back and look when I was in Los Angeles so I had already moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles it was when we moved to Texas about when I moved to Texas I would say probably 2011 2010-2011 is when it was enough for me to get by living way outside of Austin so that's what I thought you lived in an apartment in Austin for starters no I lived out by Lake Travis way

the heck out there then you moved to the apartment in downtown Austin?

no then I moved to a rental house in downtown Austin then to another rental house in downtown Austin and then to an apartment by myself in downtown Austin so it was four years it was definitely since we started 2007 it was about four years before I could at least me I don't know about you you got all these gigs going on writing vinegar books and stuff but no it was a good four years it takes time that's my whole point it takes time to come up with it takes time to develop

an audience too absolutely people are like I need downloads I get ads unless you're Britney I guarantee Britney Spears I brought this up before when blogging was a thing if Britney Spears started a podcast tomorrow and did value for value she'd be making money immediately by the way do the one in the chat room says when did you eat your plane that's right that was 2010 I ate my plane I had to sell the plane that was 2010 before we moved to Austin so okay well then 2010 is the marker no

it's 2011 four years doesn't matter the point is if you have an outstanding product I think even if you have a thousand people listening if you say hey support me or the show goes away which we did all the time yeah we still do I think we still do people are like yeah you're begging for money you're complaining about that's how it works I know people who don't like the fact that we're complaining constantly about money are just they hate us that's the only thing I can think of it's usually the

people who don't support us hate us asking for money no those are the PR because they don't want to hear about it because it's banging on their guilt the guilty conscience they never give us a nickel they won't do the $5 a month which is nothing or $4 whatever you know originally we started with some ridiculous low amounts $2 hey Alberta Guru reminds us yeah back in the day John was still getting lucrative guest appearance fee money lucrative well I was getting paid but

it wasn't lucrative yes you want to finish that up I was just going to say yes the people that complain about it are not supporting the show they just want free stuff they want free stuff man I mean you can't blame anyone for wanting free stuff but at the same time so we don't carp so we accept time, talent and treasure a lot of people do a lot of things for us it's highly appreciated organizing meetups putting up websites yeah reports, websites boots on

the ground reports it's unbelievable to create a volunteer process is the best the best aspect of value for value that's what people fail to recognize and tax free it's tax free yeah it saves us from doing the work and there's no I mean you look at CBS News how many producers does CBS News have let's say they have a hundred do you think they have a hundred yeah at least do you think they have 200 no I don't think they have that many but I'll tell you we've I've played these joke

producer lists that they play on PBS for a simple segment 15 minute segment and they've got 10-12 people so we have conservatively speaking hundreds of thousands of producers each with their own specific expertise so you want to know about shoeing a horse we got somebody you want to know about an F-35 we got somebody you want to know about air traffic control a pilot and a mechanic you want to know about drones you want to know about climate you want to know

about finance finance we have somebody we have a lot of people in the medical field that's the genius of the model but people don't understand so as a part of that we always understood you have to close the loop so we thank people when you send in a report we thank you for doing the report when you create a piece of art we have a lot of artists who love to create art for us it's actually expanded with AI you see Dogpatch Dogpatch Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia his note about the colors

of AI did you get that note from him I did get a note I'm always suspicious if that's him oh that's him it's him I know it is with the old AOL account that's him that to me was the kicker I'm like oh it's definitely him there's a certain type of people that still uses an AOL account anyway he was saying that the problem is that all of this digital stuff is all just approximate that they're trying to create it so it looks right to your eyes none of it's natural color

of course even going back to photography very long very good explanation I liked it I thought it was good so I had some issue with it and I don't remember what it is because I don't have the note in front of me we'll discuss it but I thought that this particular piece of art from Blue Acorn which he used for episode 1768 titled queer the deal it was very triggering for people people like oh my god why?

because like they see you have to understand we understand the context of the picture because it was a topic but people see an ice cream cone and mayonnaise next to each other and they start dry heaving because they don't know is it ice cream in the mayo is the ice cream is it actually mayonnaise dry heaving yes oh it was it was super triggering for people good yeah I know that's what I said they're like oh I can't wait to listen to this I'm puking over here what's going on I'm puking

and this of course came from our tiktok later did you hear Maloney's speech by the way where she kept using the vomit about Macron yeah too bad we don't have a translator it was just captions yeah it was her rant against Macron was beautiful and she is a great speaker it sounds anyone speaking Italian always sounds good well yes but when you're yelling yeah it was good anyway thank you very much Blue Acorn we appreciated that very much and there were some other other

pieces of art that I think we considered although you probably hated them all let me see you like the NA hard hat I think I like both of the hard hats and the soccer ball hail yeah you made a good argument against that because you know it doesn't make any sense is what are these soccer balls I like the hard hat with the hail that was a Darren I even could go for the the sushi I just thought it was well done that was also Darren small too small yeah I kind

of like the emblem shirt small you're like yeah it's a long way to go to put some boobs on the web okay all right and I'm the pro boob guy I know I know it was amazing um company card Darren is just flooding the zone which is somewhat annoying he's cranking it out yeah comic strip blogger trying to flood the zone um so yeah gender expansive podcast we're not going to use that was there anything else that we like I think that was it right yeah there was it really was hard

to come up with anything besides the mayonnaise ice cream yeah people are doing a lot of these cartoon uh things now I don't like them you know what I mean well you're probably gonna it's probably gonna get worse after today's tip of the day hey man I'm still getting people sending me mail at my house thanks to that tip of the day you once gave like how to find somebody's address all right yeah this is not not hey it's a public domain it's not my fault not fantastic thank you very much

Rudy also hates it uh artgenerator.com is where you can participate in this uh and Dreb Scott is always on the ball putting a lot of these that we don't choose for the art for the album art putting them into the chapters again a a feature on the modern podcast apps and we always as part of the value for value system we like to close the loop we thank our artists we thank people who do things we thank people who support us financially $50 and above and the way it works in

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just remember pride is one of the seven deadly sins and one must balance it with humility I am truly humbled by the blessings bestowed upon me and that I have the what is he a white nationalist oh no he can't be I'm truly humbled by the blessings bestowed upon me and that I have the opportunity to do what I love share great coffee with great people and he continues by saying visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com use code itm20 for 20% off your order and get some great coffee today thank you for your

courage and stay caffeinated says Eli the coffee guy hmm so I was I didn't get a clip of this but they have this thing and there was a big fuss being made on on the local news about Chinatown pride no Chinatown pride I think China I never heard of this never heard of this Chinatown pride and I think what is the Chinese are having a pride what is this is kind of coincidence no it's a trans thing for Chinatown real hands and they were bitching and moaning about the fact that the

federal government cut them off cut them off from pride no they cut them off from some funding since when is the federal government funding pride parades well back in the day with Biden they were flying the flags at the White House President Obama turned the White House pink purple multi colors on or with sarcastic the nomad in Elkhorn Nebraska Adam just posted a last minute meetup in Brussels on Friday June 6th ooh please give it some some light thank you for your courage sarcastic

the nomad yes well that should be fun in Brussels Brussels and winding it up with $200 with new copy Linda from Lakewood Colorado 200 jobs karma for a resume that showcases your unique value proposition tells a compelling career story and highlights your standout accomplishments visit ImageMakersInc

.com and work with Linda Lu Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes she makes you shine jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs if I may if I may comment on the copy I think she should still have in there that's ImageMakersInc with a K I think that's important I think it's important and that's just because people might misspell it but it really hammers the URL home don't you know what I mean it's like if you and I were advising her which we are I think she should obviously I

think she should keep that in that's just my it's my humble opinion your opinion John C. Dvorak I think you're right I think you're right it's just not a bad I think it's ingrained in everyone who's heard it before but it's some but the ingrainment will deteriorate over a period of months and by three four months from now people won't know about the K exactly and before we finish up you got a note from Sir Matty of Central Oregon we do break for nights in

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yes I think that would be just dynamite so there was a I have two versions of this story because it was kind of played the same way the Supreme Court has started to rule in favor of President Trump in a couple of key cases and it has people's panties all in a bunch and so while the news is hey you know the deportations that he wanted to do he can go ahead and do them it played out very differently in the M5M mainstream media hundreds of thousands of migrants are now living

in fear as the Supreme Court allows President Trump to end temporary protective status for migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua the decision comes as the Department of Homeland Security ramps up deportation efforts targeting migrants as they arrive for their court hearings it makes everybody be on edge this tactic by DHS is happening at courthouses around the country according to immigration advocates such was the case with 20 year

old Bronx high school student Dylan Lopez Contreras a Venezuelan asylum seeker arrested by ICE during a routine court hearing in New York City Dylan is neither a criminal nor a dangerous person he's the exact opposite of how they try to paint the immigrant community and in Texas mothers being captured by ICE outside of a courthouse in San Antonio this woman's husband says his wife has no criminal record we were requesting a merits hearing and the judge

declined to set a merits hearing because DHS asked for the case to be dismissed and the client to be ordered removed saying that it was not in the government's interest to hear a full case according to recent reporting by NBC ICE deported over 17,000 people in April up 50% from February but that figure falls well short of the quote millions Trump has promised to deport from the US and lags far behind the record 430 ,000 people who were deported in a single

year during the Obama administration that's Canadian news they had a little bit of fair reporting but I've got people young people who I know are conservative in thinking they're probably Christian nationalists and they're texting me like 500,000 I think I have a problem with this I have a million people let's go to ABC New York this decision immediately affects 530 ,000 530,000 migrants allowed into the United States by the Biden administration at the time it was part of a policy seen as

relieving some of the strain at the southern border and also improving vetting of individuals the Trump administration reversed that policy in March a federal district court put it on hold saying it was illegal but today the Supreme Court justices said the Trump administration can move forward what does that mean?

it means most of those 530,000 migrants will have 30 days to leave the country unless they have some other legal protections immigrant advocates told us today that this will have a significant economic impact two justices dissented from this decision Justice Katonji Brown-Jackson writing the court has plainly botched this assessment it undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly

a half million non-citizens while their legal claims are pending now the legal battle in this case does continue but the bottom line guys is that the Supreme Court says now that more than half a million Haitians, Nicaraguans Cubans and Venezuelans may have to leave the country in 30 days none of these reports were honest migrants well I'll tell you this the one dishonest aspect of it is the fact that they keep showing these arrests yeah crying moms these staged arrests and then how

does that comport with giving them 30 days because it's bull crap I think it's bull crap too and then I see people falling for Cheryl Atkinson of all people the you know what she did something weird I like Cheryl Atkinson yeah I do too and she had played one of these clips on Twitter of one of these people crying and moaning and groaning and she says is this what people voted for so these 530 migrants non -citizens 530,000 migrants non-citizens were in

the United States under TPS temporary protective status which is always temporary they knew it was temporary now of course President Biden said nah don't worry about it yes this is what we voted for and these people their temporary protective status is over and now it's time to go back you know I got a note from my buddy Michelle in the UK and it's so bad over there he's trying to sell one of the clubs his biggest club which he's had ever since I've known

him he said values have evaporated nobody wants to be in the club business anymore the country is crap but the way he approaches me the country is crap how's it going in Trump land how's everything in Trump land I said hey America's doing great feeling good man we're kicking out undesired illegal immigrants shipping the criminal ones off the jail rejecting visas from troublemakers bringing God back to our government reducing waste and fraud restoring education and getting

rid of DEI and systemic racism I think Trump land is doing pretty good that was your note yes my note back to him wow that's a good one that's a good template for anybody out there because it's true yes this is what we voted for but you know the news it psyops people with exactly what you said with these arresting women that is I don't know what that's from but that's not from TPS status time for you to go back you have 30 days get your affairs in order it seems staged

and it had no context when she posted it and I'm still wondering what the context is this brings me to what you were talking about I didn't want to bring these clips in right now but I'm going to do it because it kind of talks about some of the issues that you expressed this is the Zogby and Zogby Zogby and Zogby which is the polling group and Zogby and his son Zogby the two Zogbys were looking at some data about Trump's popularity and talking about the various forms of media and I

think this is quite enlightening this is Zogby and Zogby one the electorate is they're going to all different kinds of channels and sources for their media and information and that's no surprise but when we break it down demographically into three distinct media cohorts and we have local media voters who primarily trust local media versus legacy media which are national newspapers and national networks and their online platforms versus new media which is social media and podcasts so

when you break it down that way it makes a lot more sense legacy media Trump can't do anything right he can't say anything right he's failing every day local media about split but a little bit more in favor of Trump and then new media podcasts and X and other social media sites Trump is way ahead and so it depends how you're discerning your events the narratives of the daily and weekly events but when we put it all together and I think the real cohorts that I'm going to look at are always

going to be the independent voters where do they stand men and women because those are two different realities and then Hispanic voters are looking very much like a bellwether group so through those lens let's look at those head to head matchups of Trump versus key Democrats how do we square this with Cheryl Atkinson she's old media she's legacy in her origins in her orientation to this day I mean she works for Sinclair broadcasting oh I didn't realize she does a show for them it's

syndicated around it which is a legacy stop stop breaking news breaking news it's on all it's on the quads everywhere Shakira cancels world tour okay I'm sorry continue what and why I don't know I'm not listening Shakira was on Fallon like two days or three days in a row almost I don't know it's breaking news not yet yeah Jimmy Fallon anyways Cheryl Atkinson is on now working for Sinclair so a friend of mine a producer friend of mine who is working for NBCUniversal is

now working for Sinclair and she says to me they're cheap aren't they in Austin isn't their headquarters in Austin I thought they were up in the Pacific Northwest I'm sorry Northeast I thought they were up in I thought they had headquarters in maybe it could be I don't know but they're cheap conclusion of course they're cheap there's no more money in cable do they have broadcast yeah they own a bunch of stations they're the ones when they have those super clips where everyone says

everything exactly the same that's all from Sinclair well there's the problem they're fake news I think so I had a run in with them when I was writing for PC Magazine during the early days of HDTV the Sinclair people got a hold of me and this kind of relates to the fact that they're cheap did they grab you by the collar hey listen I would if they were in person but it was over email and they were going on and on about the OFMDM whatever the type of antenna is going to

be used for HDTV it's no good it's too expensive and it was the whole thing was about slow down this HDTV move it's going to break us and they had a lot of good arguments at the time about why it wouldn't be any good and this and that and it all fell apart when you know everyone I mean it's brought everything's at 1080p now yeah of course they were a real holdout they really hated it oh god we have to buy new equipment this is going to cost us too much money

yeah they're cheap anyway Zogby do you want to listen to the rest of these yeah of course I do it's kind of interesting I don't know what they're running Trump against people for he's not running again no matter what anybody wants to think but let's listen to Zogby too this is a long analysis so I mean some of the groups that you mentioned you know one poll a YouGov poll showed that Trump was losing his edge significantly among young men we don't find that at all we don't find him losing that

slight edge that he had among Hispanic voters either in fact what we found in his approval rating in this poll pretty much matches what the vote Hispanic vote was back in November by the way I'll say that the Hispanic citizens legal residents of our great country they're like yeah get out they've always been that way they don't want a bunch of people horning in no of course not just because you're a Mexican American you have a heritage that goes back but you've been an

American for three four generations which is a lot of especially in California you don't want a bunch of interlopers coming in to take your job and work cheap November so we're kind of right back to where we were I for one think it says an awful lot about the Democrats and then of course about where independents are and Democrats not being able to make much headway among independents but do you want to share some numbers?

yeah I want to share some numbers and then I want to touch on that too because I think the other driving factor is focus on it the state of the Democratic Party and their playing field so point of order Democrat Party when we put Trump up against Bernie Sanders I think that's most interesting for now because that's populism on the right versus populism on the left and we do have a tight race here of 45.6 % of the public the voters opting for President Trump if the election were held today

versus 45.1 and so I mean it's a virtual tie but we'll say that there's a slight edge of five survey participants but when we look to independents this is revealing this is revealing about where independents could go 41% of them go with Bernie 38 % of them go with Trump and that's significant because we see on the one hand a split among the independent vote but a preference still for a populist figure I should mention that I don't know if Bernie's going to make it another three years no this

is just an academic exercise Bernie's not going to run but the point he's trying to make is that populism is the key here and Bernie's not really he's a populist in his approach but in fact he's a socialist you think?

yeah I think but the point is that if the Democrats get back in the game they have to embrace populism which they're really reluctant to do they do not want to do that because populism will kick out the trans populism will kick out the woe populism doesn't want any of that stuff and so the Democrats are going to have nothing but trouble coming to grips with this populism boom and it's been it was predicted in the 80s that populism in the United States was going to be a big thing there's a

book that Richard Vigery wrote that came out I believe in 1986 where he predicted or questioned the possibility that populism will be the dominant the dominant political characteristic of the future well that's what's happening all over Europe yeah it's happening all over the world all over Europe it's a very if you don't come to grips with it you're not going to get anywhere damn bingo onward with the third clip just one different than Trump let's hold that thought because when we go to the

next two head to heads we'll compare those independents but let's look at before we do that let's look at men and women men clearly 51% for Trump 40% for Sanders it's key that Trump gets a majority with women Sanders gets just barely 50% and Trump gets 40% so we see the gender gap is strong and then the last of the cohorts we'll look at in this head to head is Hispanics 46% of Hispanics for Trump 44% for Sanders and I think on the face that kind of proves the Hispanic vote as a key

and swing vote it really is just by way of a comment about Hispanics one of the things that I find very puzzling is the president issuing deportation orders backed by the United States Supreme Court against Venezuelans Cubans Nicaraguans all living here legally and all mainly gained and gainful employment what's ironic about that is that these are from communist countries or socialist countries anyway they are fundamentally conservative and when they do become naturalized US citizens they have

been voting overwhelmingly Republican hmm got you there at the end one note from the troll room unrelated but a good point again we have the best producers the drone attack from the sheds on the lorries perfect commercial for golden dome well is it?

it sounds like it's not oh you're right when you think about it no it would be inside the golden dome yes golden dome no good it would be a perfect promotion for not a golden dome because it's not going to work with that strategy we need mini golden domes I've always believed this is a huge weakness of our infrastructure um you have a refinery you have a power plant you have a some sort of any facility whatsoever and you have a guy in a pickup truck with a bazooka or a rocket

launcher on the back yeah and just driving down the road and he fires it off and blows up you know hits anything you can name it causes nothing but havoc one guy in a truck and there's nothing to protect against that sort of thing and that's exactly what happened here in Russia yeah only using drones which makes it even more like creepy that's a good point um I have a yeah golden dome is actually boomer very boomer we have a let's see oh another this is M5M mainstream news very important to

note the passing of an age it's the end of an era tonight for NBC News and a special connection with Sacramento and KCRA tonight is Lester Holt's final newscast on NBC Nightly News Holt took over the anchor desk on June 18th 2015 he'll be leaving just about half a month shy of his 10 year mark over the past 10 years he's built a reputation as a respected and trustworthy journalist who's interviewed newsmakers all over the world Holt grew up in the Sacramento area graduating

from Cordova High School and attended Sacramento State later receiving an honorary degree during that time he was an intern right here at KCRA 3 he won't be leaving NBC however he's going to spend more time as the host of Dateline NBC along with other projects Tom Yamas will take over Nightly News starting Monday yeah Yamas yeah I always thought Yamas was better isn't that the guy that guy no Yamas is a fast talker he has a very distinctive style I've always liked him he

seems objective I don't know whether he is or not I doubt it, but he seems so and he has a they've kept him in abeyance on one of the phony baloney news shows on MSNBC where they have everybody doing a news show where they just keep him keep him busy and I always thought he'd be a good guy to have running it he's like, he reminds me he's the NBC version of Jeff Glor he's the CBS version very similar in style kind of young energetic types but I think he'll do okay

alright I'd like to I've always said that this was a big mistake and I'm not the only one saying that this entire meme coin crypto business that the president's family is in yeah, I don't like the idea either I don't get it it's not very smart here's a Deutsche Welle report about it ...were the ones given a seat at the table Trump saw no problem with the event calling it private and rejecting claims that he was using it to funnel money to his personal bank account and that the guests were using

it to buy access to the president of the United States but Trump's opponents were unequivocal in their condemnation we are here today to talk about exactly one topic, corruption corruption in its ugliest form.

Donald Trump is using the presidency of the United States to make himself richer through crypto and he's doing it right out there in plain sight the dinner is just the latest example of what critics say is the president's exploitation of his position for private gain there's no clear information on exactly how much Trump's income has increased since he began his second term but Forbes estimated his net worth in March at just over $5 billion, a billion more than last year.

The White House insists there's no conflict of interest and no wrongdoing because the Trump family business is now being run by the president's sons and that Donald Sr.'s assets are in a trust managed by his children yeah and this really it just has a stinky smell to it now I have to say meme coins are, that's not a cryptocurrency, a meme coin is like sneakers you know, it's like whatever you know, it's as good as I think you hit it there, it's like sneakers

there's a market for sneakers there's a whole industry of people that collect sneakers and that's basically what it is they trade and collect sneakers and so that's basically what this is but it has a stench of scam it has a stench of scam yes, a stench of scam it's SOS, stench of scam which, you know it's literally no different than sneakers some of these sneakers were going for if you wanted to get some of the gold sneakers in the aftermarket, they were thousands of

dollars but of course that's not how it's going to play and I think the president should have known this. From billion dollar real estate deals in the Middle East to a flashy crypto investor dinner and the pardoning of political supporters. Concerns Donald Trump's second term is blurring the lines this pardoning of political supporters, most of these recent pardons that they're bitching and moaning about, he doesn't know these people from Adam and they've never supported him.

No no, but that's, you know that's you know that's not important, you know what they're trying to do here, but let's stay on the crypto bit between the personal and political like never before. Critics also pointing to another venture that didn't exist in the first Trump term an emerging family cryptocurrency empire.

On full display at this gala last week, an event where the top 220 buyers of his personal crypto meme coin were given exclusive access to Trump, seen standing next to a podium with the seal of the president the White House saying that Trump was only there in a personal capacity on his own time and I'm just one of 220 people that are invited and there's no media there's no recording, there's no plus ones, it's just truly some of the most influential figures in crypto

and policy and of course the man himself. The top 25 meme coin investors even getting a tour of the White House, like Justin Sun, a Chinese crypto mogul who was previously under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud. That probe halted by the Trump administration in February. Both Trump and the First Lady have a meme coin. I think the initial meme coin launch was some of the most anger I've seen out of the crypto world towards Donald Trump.

I think a lot of people in the crypto world view meme coins as a cash grab, which is frankly fairly accurate. Cash grab, okay. A company associated with the Trump family also owns a 60% stake in another crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. Trump's image is all over the firm's website, dubbing him chief crypto advocate. But in a statement to ABC News, World Liberty Financial claimed they are a private company with no ties to the US government.

Once a crypto skeptic who said Bitcoin seemed like a scam, Trump has now fully embraced digital currency. I promise to make America the Bitcoin superpower of the world and the crypto capital of the planet and we're taking historic action to deliver on that promise. As the President has pushed for new policies that could directly impact his family's cryptocurrency ventures, the Justice Department has simultaneously rolled back crypto enforcement.

On Thursday, the SEC dropped a two-year lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, which federal regulators accused of mishandling customer money. The case was dropped just weeks after that Trump-connected crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, announced a $2 billion deal where a United Arab Emirates-backed fund would use the firm's token to invest in Binance, a transaction that could generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the Trump family. I just don't think that's true.

They're conflating a lot of different things, but that's not the point. The point is, it's just a bad look. We'll finish it up. But the concerns of critics go far beyond the world of crypto. From First Lady Melania Trump's reported record-breaking $40 million deal for her new Amazon documentary to the multiple Trump family real estate deals in the Middle East. So now they're going off the rails. That is off the rails. I mean, look at the Obama deals.

The Obamas. Bill Clinton, the whole Clinton global initiative, the Clinton Foundation. Give me a break. How come no one's ever looked into the Clinton? During his tenure and especially the moment between him and Hillary's supposed-to-be-president era, that global initiative, the Clinton Foundation, was raking in foreign money. Some of which closed in the weeks right before the president's swing through those very same countries.

ABC News has learned plans are now in the works for a new private club in Washington, D.C., co-founded by Donald Trump Jr. and Trump's crypto czar investor David Sachs. The club's official name, Executive Branch, intended as a haven for the Trump family and top MAGA allies. Trolling. The initial price tag for membership, $500,000. So, anyway, I think the whole, it was just not smart that they did that. It's just this hassle that nobody needs. And it messes up the whole purity of Bitcoin.

They also take this idea that Executive Branch with the $500,000 thing brings to mind the Yakuza. Careful what you say. Careful what you say. I've talked about it on the show before. It's an old trick. They tried to do the Japanese frontman tried to do this with Pebble Beach. They tried to buy it and then people realized what was going on here.

One of the things the Yakuza love to do is buy golf exclusive golf courses and then have outrageous membership fees and then as a blackmail scheme if you got in trouble with them and you had to pay them some money to make it above board that you had to take out you had to get a loan from them. You had to get a membership. Take a membership. It'll be fine. Yeah, get a membership. And so the memberships were a scam. But it was a good one. Really smart. It's clean.

The idea that Donald Trump Jr. is doing a similar kind of gambit. He's not unaware of the Yakuza. Yeah, you wouldn't think so. So there's something fishy about that. Well, there's one other thing and I think that will be my last clip and this is about the pardons and Chris Christie went on this week with George Stephanopoulos to complain about it with an interesting example. He even suggested this week that he could look at possibly pardoning Sean Diddy Combs.

Right, while the trial is still going on and he has no idea what the nature and quality of the evidence is and what the jury verdict. If he's found not guilty, he won't need a pardon. So this is just about him trying to be more and more outrageous. And also by saying something about Diddy, he deflects from a guy like Paul Walsack whose mother was a million dollar donor fundraiser for Trump. And this guy stole George $10 million in payroll taxes.

The money that his employees give to him to pay their payroll taxes, he stole that money. The other thing he's doing here, George, is eliminating white collar crime in America. He's saying it doesn't exist. Yeah, well, how about that Bridgegate, Chris Christie? Forgot about that, didn't we? Remember Bridgegate? Yeah, I do. Yeah. Kettle, black, etc. Well, if you're ending things up with that clip, I have one last clip. This is the bicycle users clip. Bicycle users clip.

All right. New York City, by one example, in the last eight years, has increased the number of bike lanes by 600 miles. 600 miles in New York City of dedicated bike lanes. Taking the real estate from cars and congesting cars, which of course was the intention. It makes the car far more inconvenient. The IEA had the temerity to brag about the oil savings from micromobility in cities.

They pointed out in their latest World Energy Outlook that micromobility, bicycles in 15-minute cities, is already saving a laughable 70,000 barrels of oil per day globally. Again, this is arithmetic. That's 0.07% of world oil. China increases its oil consumption that much I think every three days. I mean, it's a number like that. So who, you could ask, benefits from this enthusiastic embrace of city bicycles?

I mean, you might have anecdotal experience with who you see using bicycle lanes in cities. I do, but let me tell you what the data show because there are data on this. In our country at least, here's what the Census Bureau tells us from last year. 0.5% of all U.S. commuters use a bicycle. Think about the percentage of bike lanes you're seeing. 70% of American computers use a car driving alone. And for those who bicycle to work, I'm not talking about weekend entertainment, having fun on a bike.

For those who bicycle to work, the average age is 20 to 30. Over 70% are male, 70% are white, and 80% have college degrees. So much for the claim of equitable micromobility. It's shocking that there hasn't been more shock about the demographics of the corruption of city streets for that demographic. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. It's nonsense. It's total nonsense. It's good for bike messengers. They have, and they were tearing up around here.

First it started in Oakland and then it's been all over the place. Now it's in El Cerrito and all these local areas. They're tearing up the streets, putting up kind of a second meridian to block off the bike lane that they're creating, taking a whole lane away from cars. And there's nobody in any of these bike lanes. I could make a video driving all through Berkeley and following all the bike lanes. If I find one bike in a day, it's a miracle. Sometimes there's a couple.

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Thank you to everyone who organizes these No Agenda meetups. It's highly appreciated. Remember your servers. We have two meetups taking place today. One is the IndyJune Winth Half On Summer Startup Part 1. That is underway at the Dugout Bar in Indianapolis. Sir Mark and Dame Marie of the Greenwood hosting that. And the Bugout Bag meetup started early this morning at Stone Tables at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas.

And the only other one I want to mention because I was asked to give some light to it is the meetup on June 6th, Belgium. That is just a couple miles, I think, north of Brussels. There's an airport there, so that should be a good time. Send in a meetup report. We've got Copenhagen, Denmark coming up on the 13th. Wow. New York, New York on the 14th. Wow, these are good places. This is awesome. Don't we have a Japan one coming up? Cannes! June 17th, Cannes, France. Oh, my.

We need meetup reports from all of you. You can send that to AdamMcCurry.com and, of course, for all the other meetup business, go to NoAgendaMeetups.com. You can find all the meetups listed there. You can search by region, location, all kinds of ways to sort that. And, as always, if you can't find a meetup near you, then you should start one yourself. NoAgendaMeetups.com. It's easy. So, looking at your list, I'm guessing my one ISO wins today. You don't have any ISOs.

I have one lousy one, which is just kind of a joke ISO. Oh, it says ISP. Okay, that's why. I thought it was a clip about Internet Service Provider. It's not something I created. It's just a dog. I'm glad I didn't do anything because that ISO is too good. Here's the one you had. Thank you for having me. And here's the winner. What's that in your mouth? That's right, everybody. Tom C. Dvorak is up now with his famous tip of the day. All right. This is a new tool for you.

Tool for you Photoshop users, photo editing types, and AI nuts, which will contribute to people doing art for the show. It's pretty new. I recommend Googling for this because I'll give you some URLs, but it seems to be all over the map insofar as what you want to look for. I think Google has the best link. It's called Flux Context with a K. K-O-N-T-E-X-T Flux, F-U-L-X. It comes from a company called Replicate.com, but if you go to Replicate.com, you'll never find it.

You have to go to Flux1.ai and you won't find it there necessarily. And you won't find it at Flux.ai. It has some other thing operational together. But if you wanted to find it right on the money besides using Google, you have to go to Flux1.ai slash Flux Context and you'll get right to it. Now, it is a stunning editor that allows you to do very specific edits.

Like you can have a picture of somebody's face and you say, change their hair to blonde, and it'll do that specifically without having to go through the rigamarole you have to go through with Photoshop. Or if you want to take somebody's head and put it on somebody else's head or body. Classic. You do that with one, you just tell it to do it. If you want to turn somebody into a cartoon, it does the best job of turning somebody into a cartoon I've ever seen. Now, is it only pictures or also video?

No, you can also create, no, it doesn't do video. No, video, you've got to go elsewhere. You can also create pictures and drawings and cartoons from scratch with prompts. It just has a lot of potential. And some of them you have to pay a nickel, so you might have to pay money for some of these images, but it's supposed to have a free element. It's just a dynamite thing to check out. If anyone out there, Darren will give me, eventually send me some feedback on this and why it's no good.

Yes, he will. Or he'll tell me it's fabulous. I don't know, but this is definitely one of those tools that you'll like. It's just something you just want to play with for a while. Now, are you sure this is really AI? It's not like that $1.5 billion company that Microsoft was buying? Builder.ai? I can't tell anything is AI. All I know is it does some remarkable imagery manipulation that I've not seen anyone be able to do otherwise. It might also be a lot of good demos.

This is a problem with, for example, the hottest thing now is VEO3. VEO3 from Google which creates all these crazy videos. The ones that you see demoed are just dynamite, but you go try to do it yourself, and there goes a dollar. You have to spend money to get it to work. My favorite is next time Jay's around, grab her phone, get on the TikToks. It's the Trump babies. Have you seen these? Yeah, I have, actually. I think those are pretty funny.

Humor is, I think, the best target for all this AI stuff. The only target. I think the album art is going to come out of this flux context thing. Yeah, that's humorous. Album art is usually humorous. I can't wait to look and see how many what's-that-in-your-mouth arts we have. It'll be interesting. There you go, everybody. That is John C. Dvorak's tip of the day. You can find more tip of the day down at noagendafund.com Woo! Yes, we always want to thank Dana Burnetti for creating that.

What would we do without Dana Burnetti? Soon to give the commencement speech will all of our PhDs here at the No Agenda Show. And that is it for our broadcast day. We thank you all for joining us. Reminder, we'll be back on Thursday. We do it twice a week. 11 Pacific Time, 1pm Central Time, and 2pm Eastern Standard Time. And figure out the rest for your GMT, if you don't mind. Coming up next, right after this show, live on the No Agenda stream at trollroom.io. Up is down. That is...

I've never heard this podcast. Interesting. Episode 148. I think we'll stick around for it. End of show mixes. We have Sir Scovey. We heard him earlier on in the show. And Mellow D. Mellow D. That's his new handle. And I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg. It's so cute in wine country. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we recommend going to noagendadonations.com. I'm John C. Dvorak.

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