1773 - "Two Beards"

The sorrows, the sorrows, the sorrows, the sorrows! Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, June 15, 2025. This is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media assassination episode 1773. This is no agenda. No kings, no queens, no nukes! And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number 16 in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry, and from Northern Silicon Valley, where we want to bring back the Fish Witch.

I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Craig Robin Boskill in the morning! The what now? Fish Witch. Fish Witch? Is that like a sandwich, only stinky? It's a sandwich made from fish. Fish Witch, whatever happened to that term? I've never even heard this term. You've never heard of a Fish Witch? That's why it needs to be brought back. No, of course. Yeah, it was a very popular term in the, I don't know when. The only fish sandwich I know is the Filet-O-Fish. Yeah, the Fish Witch.

It used to be called the Fish Witch. No, it's never been called the Fish Witch. Everybody out there, tell him he's wrong again. You're making this up. I wish. Tell him he's wrong again. Tell him he's wrong. He's wrong. Hey, happy Father's Day, John. Happy Father's Day. Same to you. You're the father. You're a father? Yeah, we're both fathers. How about that? Woo! Did you get any socks? You know what? I've had you notice, there's no more Father's Gifts anymore.

Now that you mention it, I haven't gotten a Father's Day gift forever. Yeah. I don't remember ever getting a Father's Day gift. Maybe a tie. No, I don't think so. No. These days, it's like a text and maybe a tweet. Maybe a tweet. Or an Insta post. Because it's the patriarchy. I love my daddy. I said so on Instagram. It's the truth. Socks. That's the best gift. Socks. Well, you were going to give your grandson socks for his birthday. I know, and I bailed out on the idea.

I saved you from embarrassment. One of our— In fact, I should put this as tip of the day. One of our producers came up and— There's an American sock company that makes these socks. They're super expensive, like 15 to 20 bucks a pair. Wow. But lifetime guarantee. You get a hole in them. You send them back, you get a new pair. Really now? I thought that was a— If you start doing the calculation on this, it might not be a bad idea. Yeah, because I— Except for then I realized there's one problem.

What's that? The socks that go missing. You're always missing what we're— You can't send back just one sock. You have to send back two. Is that the deal? I don't know if you have to send back— No, you probably just send back one. But what good does one sock do you? No, but if you just send back one, then you can get two pair for one pair. Send back a sock and say, Hey, look, this is no good. And you send back the other sock later, you get two pairs for one.

Seems like— If the sock's bad, they're going to repair it no matter what. I will say I've seen a remarkable decline in the quality of socks. I have these— Yes, I agree. Smart wool socks, which Tina got me, which I like, but they don't last. They do not last. And you're putting them on, there goes the hole in the heel. You know, Day Master— There's no reason to ever have a hole in the heel.

Holes in the toe, I can— You can see if you got a toenail, you never cut it right or it's jagged in the inside of the sock. But the heel? No, I'm telling you— How do you get a hole in the heel? I have the same thing with— I got socks with holes in the heel. How does that work? It's no good. This is the nature of this show, ladies and gentlemen. We're not talking about socks. I will say, Day Master, when she and Sir Mark were over visiting Fredericksburg, it was an interesting gift.

She gave me three pairs of socks. And they all have the Japanese, you know, red circle on them, kind of like the flag. And they are the most comfortable, sturdy socks I have seen in a while. I need to ask her what they're called. Track them down, make a tip of the day. Sock tip of the day. Yeah, really, really good socks. People, you know, socks just aren't appreciated the way they used to be. Socks, big deal. Everyone just buys them at Costco. So, of course, everything happens on show days.

Oh, we had— it's been a great couple of days. We've had a shooting up in Minnesota. We've had the bombing of Iran. We had the bombing of Israel. We had the whole thing with our joker senator, poor Jeffries, I wanted to talk about. The guy who charged Christy Noem at the press conference and they got busted by the cops. He was forced to his knees like a slave. He was forced to his knees like a slave. And I had a theory I talked to you about that I wanted to bring out on the show.

Do you have a clip so you can kick into this theory? I don't have a clip of it. Because, you know, nobody cares. Just so you know, nobody cares. It's gone. I'd still have to bring the theory out. Okay, but all people want right now is, what's going on? What's going on with Iran? What's going on? World War III? Yeah, we're going to get to that. There's no doubt about it. That's a tease. The point is that all these other things that were going on are just pushed aside.

And this guy's got to feel like the most unlucky character. This guy is a senator from California no one ever heard of, Padilla. And my thesis is the following. Gavin Newsom's not going to run for president in 2028 because he's got the stench of his lousy job he's done in California that will get him nowhere with the party. Because they'll just eat him alive at the end of debates. But he's going to be out of office in 2027, I think. Or 26. So he's going to be out.

He's got to do something to stay in the limelight. He's got to do something to stay in there. So the only thing he can do is run for the U.S. Senate in 2028, which is Padilla's seat is up. So Padilla has gotten wind of the fact that... So wait, you mean this was a show? No. Gambling? Gambling? It was a little show. Oh, interesting. So Padilla has to do something to get his profile up because no one's ever heard of him. He won't have a chance against Gavin Newsom.

Again, Newsom will take his seat in the Senate and then he'll be able to take pot shots at the president. And then he can run in 2036, which is the worst case scenario for him. Best case scenario could be even before then, 2032. But he can redeem himself with the Olympic Games. He could do something really awesome. Well, it won't help. And they'll probably screw it up. So let's assume it's going to screw it up. But so anyway, but he's going to... So he'll run for the Padilla seat in 2028.

And Padilla has to kind of maybe move over because it was, I think, Nat Newsom who appointed Padilla into the vacated seat for Feinstein. Okay. And so we had Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. And then when they left, we had these doofuses running. We should put women back. And so Newsom needs to run for Senate so he can go to Washington, D.C. with his wife. And he can make a fuss there and people will forget what a screw up he is. And he'll be a legislator. And so he can run for president.

This whole thing. So Padilla got wind of this. This is no good. I'm not going to be able to get kicked out. And so he makes a big fuss, try to get some publicity. And then boom, they bomb Iran. I mean, this guy's hopeless. I have a clue. California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla spoke out shortly after he was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference about ICE immigration raids in Los Angeles.

If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cuts, to day laborers. Out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill reacted to the incident during which Padilla was detained after he audibly identified himself as a senator.

There can be no justification of seeing a senator forced to their knees, laid flat on the ground, their hands twisted behind their back and being put into restraints. It is beneath the U.S. senator. They're supposed to lead by example, and that is not a good example. We have to turn the temperature down in this country and not escalate it. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, so that was a nice little bit of theater that went nowhere. Well, it was theater.

And he never, he didn't have his badge on, which they're supposed to carry to identify themselves as senators. He mentioned that he was a senator as they were dragging him off. I saw the whole thing. It's bullcrap. Yeah. And this guy, Alex, can't even remember his first name half the time. This guy is, and if you listen to him, he's just no good. He's a weak-sounding kind of a beta male. He doesn't have a prayer against Newsom, but he's done. All right.

Let me get us into it with a little bit of background here from CBS and Operation Rising Lion. Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion. He even says it that way. Rising Lion. Rising Lion. A targeted military operation to roll back the

Iranian threat to Israel's very survival. This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat. Netanyahu said Iran, which has long threatened to eliminate Israel, has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs, adding that in recent months, Iran has taken steps to weaponize the nuclear material. We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear weaponization program.

We targeted Iran's main enrichment facility in Natanz. We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart of Iran's ballistic missile program. The White House released a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying Israel's action against Iran is unilateral and the U.S. is not involved in the strikes.

The statement says, quote, President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear. Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel. Yes, and remember, they are just days away from a nuclear bomb. Just days and days away. There's a lot going on here and a lot of different angles. I think there's certainly one that is not being discussed.

But let's just get a quick background on the strikes themselves, which seemed extremely targeted. Israel's Mossad intelligence agency carried out a multi -pronged covert operation deep inside Iran, using advanced systems and explosive drones to strike multiple targets overnight, sources told Euronews. Mossad deployed systems equipped with precision-guided weaponry deep inside Iranian territory, a source from Israeli intelligence told Euronews on condition of anonymity.

These systems were activated as the Israeli military offensive began, launching precision-guided missiles at pre -selected targets. In a separate operation, Mossad secretly installed strike systems designed to neutralize Iranian air defenses that, according to Israel, posed a threat to its fighter jets. A third operation was mounted in which Mossad established a base for launching explosive drones deep inside Iran.

During the attack, these drones were launched from that base towards a nearby military installation. So there are a couple of things that were kind of lost in our stellar mainstream reporting here at the M5M. One is the people of the streets of Tehran cheering, who were happy that this was taking place. Multiple, even Forbes had, but no one has any report. It's just video of people going out. Yeah, let's do it. Let's get those suckers.

The only report I could find of who was targeted comes from France Banketra. Iran's nuclear program and its top tier of military commanders and nuclear scientists, all targeted by Israel in one night of airstrikes. General Hussein Salami is among those killed by the strikes in Tehran. With his death confirmed by Iranian media, leader of the Revolutionary Guards Corps since 2019, Salami was responsible for securing Iran's borders and safeguarding it against any foreign attacks.

His forces control Iran's missile arsenal and he was one of the pillars of the regime. Known for his fiery rhetoric against the United States and its allies Israel and Saudi Arabia, he played a key role in suppressing the internal protests of 2019 and 2022. Also killed was Mohammad Barheri, chief of the staff of the armed forces since 2016. He's one of the Islamic Republic's most senior officers and the driving force behind Iran's ballistic missile program.

Another military loss has been Ghulam Ali Rashid, deputy chief of staff and the commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters, tasked with the military operational decision-making. Salami, Barheri and Rashid were long-term members of the Revolutionary Guards and fought in the Iran-Iraq war.

Iranian media and senior officials have also reported the death of Ali Shamkhani, the senior former navy commander and one of Iran's most influential politicians, was a confidant of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to several sources, at least six nuclear scientists were killed, including Fereydoun Abassi and Mohammad Mehdi Taranji. The death of these high-profile figures shows the sheer scale of the Israeli operation.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards have vowed to take revenge after the death of their leader. So, you know, everyone focused on the nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, the nuclear scientists, but there's a lot of leadership there that got taken out. Yeah, all military, no civilian. Well, I don't know if I'm sure there can always be civilian casualties, but these were the guys... No, but civilian leadership, they didn't target them.

No. I ended up watching the analysis of the Middle East Forum guys who were on YouTube streaming. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. I wonder if we came to the same conclusion. What did you see? They talked about this thing being large, possibly a catalyst for regime change. You sound like a black woman there. And the guys there and on the MEF, they all knew every single guy. And they also talked about how they, since the revolution in 1979, it's been 46 years.

And so you end up with a generational loss of excitement. He says that everybody in the army and every place else, one of these guys, the better analysis guys, he says, they're just a bunch of kids, slouches who hate it. They hate it. They go to the classes and listen to the propaganda. They don't believe a word of it. Right. If these guys are put in a situation where they have to go to war, they're not going to fight. He says the whole thing is a house of cards.

I mean, I don't think there's something very different going on that is flabbergasting. This is just no reporting on. So there's a couple of different narratives. The main one is nuclear, nuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons. The other one, I even talked to a buddy of mine who worked at Doge. He's like, man, Israel's drawn us into a war. They're drawing us into a war. I'm like, I don't know. I even see some trolls like, I thought America controlled Israel.

Well, they do. That's exactly they do. That's exactly right. And even Tucker is on the wrong path. Tonight, MAGA divided Donald Trump's support for Israel's actions against Iran is splitting his own base, pitting Israel hawks against those who fear the United States is being pulled into an even bigger regional fight. But remember, when the president campaigned on this message. I will stop the chaos in the Middle East, and I will prevent World War III. I'm going to keep us out of World War III.

We're not going to have World War III, but I will prevent World War III. Former Fox host Tucker Carlson sent Trump a stern warning this morning in his newsletter, quote, the United States should not at any level participate in a war with Iran. No funding, no American troops, no troops on the ground. Drop Israel, let them fight their own wars. What happens next will define Donald Trump's presidency. Well, I think he's really doing something quite interesting that just nobody is.

I mean, I had to go to foreign sources to get anything even close as to what I think is really happening here. And all this talk about nuclear war, there's not going to be a nuclear war. Israel's not going to drop a nuke, not going to shoot a nuke from a sub. That's not going to happen. Iran has no nuclear weapons. This is pew, pew, and they're taking out leadership. And I think you're right. The talk of regime change is close and for good reason.

There's one other thing that was not well discussed. I did catch this very short clip. An Israeli drone strike has hit a natural gas refinery in southern Iran, one of the largest gas fields in the world. The attack took place at Kangan Port. That's a part of the South Pass gas field, which is Iran's side of a joint gas field shared with Qatar. There was a huge fire at the port. That gas field is crucial to Iran's gas production and export capabilities.

Israel has been attacking military science, nuclear facilities and civilian infrastructure for a second day now. So that is a very strategic move to take out the gas refinery or, you know, when it comes to traditional resources, which Iran has a lot of. And there's reasons for this. Even though we certainly discussed that Iran joined the BRICS group last year, it hasn't really been discussed much.

And it's odd, but I found a very good overview of something that happened just 10 days ago on, I think it's the India Times news. So take the reporting, you know, the way it's read. But I thought that this really sums up what's going on here and why there was 60-day negotiation. Yeah, sure, it's about nuclear weapons, but that's not all. Trump wants to do a deal with Iran because he wants to outsmart some other guys.

In a stunning geopolitical power play that could reshape the balance of power in West Asia, the first freight train from China has officially arrived in Iran. While this might sound like a simple trade link, it's anything but that. The railroad cuts through more than just land. It slices through decades of American sanctions, power projections and military dominance. This is not just a train arriving in a dry port near Tehran.

This is China and Iran punching a hole through America's global influence. The freight train traveling overland from Xi'an in China to Ibran dry port in Iran. The train journey slashes delivery time by half. It bypasses sea routes like the Malacca Strait and Red Sea, both under watchful Western naval surveillance, and instead passes through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, reaching Iran in just 15 days. This railroad is a direct outcome of a $400 billion economic deal signed in 2021.

A key part of China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. The goal, to build an economic corridor that completely dodges the reach of the U.S. Navy and any future sanctioned regime. It's a masterstroke. While Washington focuses on sea lanes and maritime choke points, Beijing and Tehran have quietly laid steel tracks where U.S. warships can't follow. The arrival of this train doesn't just move goods. It moves the goalposts in the global power game.

For China, this means a more secure energy source, away from the Middle Eastern monarchies allied with Washington. For Iran, it's a pathway out of economic isolation. This new rail link also complements Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz. It's a strategic chokepoint for global oil. With China now entrenched in both Iranian oil and trade, Beijing has extended its influence deep into what was once considered America's exclusive zone of influence. Oh, shoot, shoot. Here we are.

The train goes this way. We load it up. The train goes the other way. You were telling me just the other day that we've got tons of trains filled with coal and then it gets put on the ship, shipped over to China, to India, all these places. Yeah, we're shipping our coal over there. We can't have that coming from Iran. No, and yes. No, and no, yes, they have incredible influence over the shipping lanes and they're telling us about it.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard commander said closing the Strait of Hormuz is under consideration in response to Israeli attacks. But what could this mean for Europe? The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most strategically vital chokepoints in the world and any blockade by Iran would pose serious risks for Europe. Roughly 20% of global oil and a significant portion of natural gas pass through the Strait. If Iran blocks it, global oil prices would spike and Europe could face energy shortages.

A sudden oil price surge would increase inflation, energy costs and disrupt industries across Europe. Manufacturing, transport and agriculture would be especially vulnerable. Beyond oil, the Strait is a key route for global shipping. Disruption could delay European imports of raw materials. A blockade could also trigger military confrontations involving US or EU navies, risking a broader regional war.

Now, knowing how we've always operated since the Vietnam War, it's like we can't get American boys and girls to go fight in the desert again. That's a non-starter. So what do you do? You tell the people who hate those other people to go and do something. So yes, we used our aircraft carrier in the Middle East to launch some strikes. I think it's more fun. It's your people. There's all kinds of destruction.

But taking out the leadership is what this was about, weakening them so that we can block what China is doing. And this is the big game. It's much bigger than Israel versus Iran and Netanyahu. What a pawn. They always want to kill us. Yeah, OK. This is about whose money will be the world currency, who has the resources, who sells the resources, who is in charge of the resources, meaning oil, gas, minerals. And there's land. And there's always some hooker involved somewhere. It's always the same.

And so now everyone's talking about the multipolar world. The multipolar world. Like Jeffrey Sachs. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Command. I'm sorry, this one. We have a new arrangement of power because these other parts of the world have made a lot of economic and technological progress. So China was a poor country 40 years ago. It is now a quite wealthy and technologically advanced country. I'd say it's at the cutting edge of many of the most important technologies. How did they get there?

Very hard work. Very high investment rates. Very good strategy. Serious planning. They thought ahead. They worked hard at it and they were successful. They stole intellectual property. The second fact is a basic. Well, Sachs is not necessarily a good guy in my opinion. I would say if he doesn't drop that little bombshell in there. Which we kind of understood in the Cold War and kind of forgot after 1991. But it's a real truth every moment of our lives.

And that is because of nuclear weapons and because other countries have a lot of them. We can't defeat those countries. So the world's intrinsically multipolar in the sense don't mess with another nuclear superpower can really wreck your day. And we forgot that after 1991. Why 1991? That was the year that the Soviet Union dissolved into 15 states. And the American elite said, okay, now we really are all alone. We are the world's sole superpower. We treated Russia absolutely stupidly.

I abused our power, which was real. But abused it to the point where we ended up having a full-fledged war. It's in a way a proxy war in Ukraine. Yeah, this is what the game is about. I love the trolls now, John. You'd love the trolls. They're like, oh, the Jew money must have come in to conquer this BS. This is so funny. Now they're just trolling for trolling. Say some analysis clips when you want to get. Well, what is your thoughts on this really being about China?

I mean, this is what I conclude. I like the thesis. It's not going to be brought up by too many people. Probably you're the only one. But again, I think by pulling the clips that only Noah Jenner can do from India and other places that nobody else cares about, you could piece it together. And I think you make it work. And I think the gas field, blown up gas field, one of the biggest in the world. Someone might point out that the Chinese are relying on.

They want to maybe bring some liquefied natural gas over, whatever products they can get from Iran. Good catch. Yeah, and I think I don't think it's all about the Chinese, but I think I think the Chinese insofar as the American perspective and the fact that we're controlling the action, no matter what anyone wants to believe. And we let Israel think that they're, oh, yeah, well, yeah, why don't you go?

OK. And these analysis clips that I have will actually kind of back that up because it's like, especially this one guy, the ambassador to the United States. He is last, which would be the last clip. He just outlines the process that created the the go ahead. It's in other words, there was there had to be a go ahead. Because we already told them not to do this in April. Yeah, it needed a trick. But again, this and then I want to hear you close, but it boils down to this.

Either America is running the show with our money and our resources. Or China runs the show. And you don't really want China running the show. You worry about Peter Thiel and Palantir. Wait until China takes over. Oh, China's that you don't know. You don't want China running the show. They're not there. They're good at what they do. They're no good at running the show. I mean, I'd rather have the Brits. Brits over bricks, I tell you.

We talk about this at the dinner table about how the Brits are, you know, they're the ones that we've talked about on the show. They're the real. I mean, that's where we get all our skill sets for international management. I've been to some of this. I went to an IBM seminar once where they did the whole thing was on international management. IBMers know how to do this. The Brits know how to do it the best. They ran India that nobody else could run. We couldn't do it.

They have a very interesting type of management skill that nobody else can do. And people don't the Indians still don't mind the Brits. They don't like us. They might not like the Chinese, but the Brits can do management at a highest international level because of the nature of their empire and how they formed it and how they develop management skills that we copied from them. The Chinese haven't got a clue. The Chinese classic Chinese management is a Chinese apartment building owner.

You pay now. You pay now. You know, and their whole idea of marketing, you know, best price. They're clueless. They're horrible. That's true. It's not a friendly way of marketing. I'm in full agreement. Full agreement. So we don't want the Chinese running everything. They run themselves fine. They're very good at managing large projects. In fact, they can do that better than I think anybody.

If you start looking at the history of China and some of the stuff that happened in the past where they had fleets of 5000 ships and they were well managed because the Chinese can manage each other, but they can't manage other cultures. No. And look at the mess. You pay now. I mean, that's. Look at the mess. Doesn't cut it. The mess they make in Africa and Iran. In Africa, they make a mess and they know it.

And look, Iran is weak and President Trump, he was doing the 60 day negotiation and it wasn't just about nukes. No, it's like, hey, stop that nonsense with these Chinese. We can't have that. You just can't have it. And it may sound like a dictator, but yeah. Pax Americana, baby. We can't have that. I understand exactly what he's doing. And OK, you want to do that? You don't want to talk. All right. And then he calls Netanyahu and then they go in with the Mossad and their drones. Oh, I'm sorry.

Israel's controlling us. That's why the bombs are falling on Tel Aviv. Please, please, people. That's a lost cause. If people want to think that Israel runs the world, they're they got to screw loose. They all. Don't you know about AIPAC? Yeah, AIPAC controls Congress. Absolutely. But where do we control AIPAC? Where does AIPAC money come from? It comes from the American Israeli Education Foundation. That's where. Go look at the Form 990. I did it. It all comes from Raytheon, Boeing.

It's the military-industrial complex. Eisenhower did not warn for the Jewish-Israeli industrial complex. No, he warned us for the military-industrial complex. I think you should stop beating this up. I won't. Why would I? We did the same with COVID. We did the same with Ukraine. Why? Because it's fruitless. It's not fruitless. You'll never convert those the people that think that way. You're an idealist. I am an idealist. One topic. I am. And you know what? It's never about the people.

The people, the Iranians, they don't want this nonsense. The Israelis, they don't want this nonsense. And we certainly don't want this. And I doubt the Chinese people want it either. This is big game. Big cojones. We'll see how it goes. So far, no bombs dropped on America. Feeling pretty good. Let's play this. This is one of the analysis pieces from PBS. This is the standalone one says Iran-Israel anal.

And for a wider perspective, we turn now to Wendy Sherman, who was the lead negotiator for the nuclear agreement with Iran during the Obama administration. She served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State during the Biden administration and is currently a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. And Vali Nasser is a professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

And he's also the author of Iran's Grand Strategy, A Political History. Our thanks to you both for joining us. Wendy Sherman, we'll start with you. The U.S. says it was not involved in Israel's strikes against Iran's nuclear sites. But is this attack, in your view, is it aligned with U.S. interests? Or does it introduce new and unpredictable risks for U.S. forces and regional stability?

I think it certainly introduces a lot of risk for all of the military personnel, some 40,000 in the region and the hundreds of thousands of Americans in Israel, as well as in the wider region. There is no question that all of us don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. That was the whole reason that President Obama asked Secretary Clinton, Secretary Kerry and myself to work hard to get a joint comprehensive plan of action with Iran to put constraints on its nuclear program.

Donald Trump in his first term as president, as you know, in 2018, pulled out of that deal. I don't think we'd be where we are today if that hadn't happened. Yeah, we'd have a nuclear armed Iran if it hadn't happened. Exactly. This is somebody serving her own purposes. Well, she's from Johns Hopkins, what do you expect? What do you expect? It was a terror, so PBS is useless. But they did bring in the ambassador from Israel. He was making the rounds, the ambassador.

He was all over the news today. That's what you do. He was all over the news today. We can play his, I got three clips from him. And the last one is the only good one, but we'll play the clip one. For more on Israel's goals and what comes next, we're joined now by the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter. Ambassador Leiter, welcome back to the NewsHour. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Amna. It's good to be with you.

I want to begin by asking you about the latest we're seeing of the extraordinary Iranian missile attacks unfolding over Tel Aviv at this moment. As we speak, what can you tell us about the latest on the ground? What kind of damage has been inflicted so far in Israel? Well, we know at present there are 35 people injured right outside of Tel Aviv, two critically. We're praying for their survival. Iran has a very large array of ballistic missiles.

They have fired them in the past, both in April and in October. At that time, we were able to intercept them. Several have gotten through this time, a total of 85 in this barrage. These are huge missiles. Huge. And we do have sustained injuries. U.S. officials said today that the U .S. military is helping to intercept some of those Iranian missiles. Are you expecting U.S. forces to participate more deeply than that when it comes to defending Israel?

Is that something that Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump spoke about today? The United States has had our back both in April and October. There are anti-aircraft missiles that have been set in the Middle East to help support our Iron Dome system. This is a barrage of dozens of missiles all at the same time, and it needs a support system.

And we're very, very thankful for the defensive posture that the United States has taken now for a third time in helping to prevent these missiles from exacting dramatic damage on our civilian population. Yeah, that Iron Dome seems a bit buggy. You know, I do remember the Scud days. The Scud Stud, of course I do. The Scud Stud, yes. And the Scuds were going up. I went and visited Israel a year after that event. And everybody in Israel said the Patriot missiles hit nothing.

And the only thing that was blowing up up there is the Scuds were such junk that when they were reaching their apogee, they just fall apart. Everybody said. The Scuds. The Scuds. So, okay, part two. We have to erase this threat to our existence. This is not a border dispute. This is a threat to our existence. And they make no secret about it. The Iranian regime has made a very concrete plan. It's actually a printed plan in which calls for the destruction of the state of Israel.

And that's not something we can live with. For us, it's existential. We saw Prime Minister Netanyahu say that obviously part of the goal here is preventing Iran from becoming nuclear armed. But we also heard him speak directly to the Iranian people. He said, we're also clearing the path for you to achieve your freedom. This is your opportunity to stand up and let your voices be heard. Ambassador, is regime change in Iran part of the goal here? Well, it's not part of our goal.

If it facilitates the goal of the Iranian people, that's fine. But regimes have to be determined by the people. That's how the democratic process works. So we don't focus on regime change. We want militarization change. We want the annihilationist ideology of the regime to change. If the Iranian people rise up as they've tried to do in the past and change their regime, that's for them to decide, not for us to decide. Yeah, well, of course.

I like the annihilationist, I think is a nice term that he threw in. Now, there was an interesting point he made in there, which has been brought up. It hasn't gotten a lot of play, but it came and went. This is the printed plan. Now, this falls in kind of in line with your thinking about China. There's, you know, they keep claiming and saying, and I believe it's probably true that the Iranians would like to get a nuke any minute. Yeah, happening soon. Amen. And they couldn't.

And they, you know, they just kept saying, well, you know, we're not, that's not what we're trying to do here. And yeah, you are. And so then about, I think it was about six months to a year ago, whenever it was, there was a raid at some place that got blowed up. And they found a printed plan. They found a printed plan, which is what he mentioned. And it was a printed plan. They had the entire outline of what they were, how they're going to get to a nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles.

And they're going to, you know, own the area. And this printed plan was brought to the fore. I think it was even brought in front of the United Nations. It's quite possible that this, because for one thing, you can't go on and on about how unbelievable the Mossad is, how they've penetrated this and that. And the other thing in Iran with all their spies, you can't say that they're that great. And then make no assumption that the printed plan could be bullcrap.

Planted by the Mossad, planted by us. The CIA could have read the whole thing. Very carefully structured printed plan that just coincidentally, they found in a blowed up place. Like a passport found near the Twin Towers. Yeah, the passport found near the Twin Towers. So you have to make the assumption that there's a printed plan that was just coincidentally found in this spot.

It could be bullcrap and there is no printed plan, but it's something they're using as leverage because the whole thing seems to be, you know, it's just well, it's too well structured. I mean, it doesn't help that, you know, bombs are flying every which way and people are getting killed, but I'm skeptical about a lot of this stuff. But I think he wraps it up with how this all got triggered in the third clip.

As you know, there were ongoing talks between the US and Iran to restrict their nuclear program when Israel struck Iran. There was another round scheduled for this Sunday. Do you want to see those talks move forward? Do you have confidence that they could reach a deal? We'd like to see the talks move forward, but we're not confident that the Iranians will come around to a deal. We were skeptical from the outset.

We encourage the talks because it's important to try to pursue a path of negotiation rather than a military one. But the fact of the matter is that the Iranians are ideologically and theologically committed to destroying Israel and they have no intention whatsoever of drawing back their nuclear program, nuclear weaponization program. Look, the fact of the matter is that the president of the United States gave the Iranians 60 days. Yesterday was the 61st day. It's over, number one.

Number two, the IAEA issued a scathing report. This is not an Israeli report. This is an international atomic agency report, which basically indicted the Iranian regime for violations and for the development of a nuclear weapons program. And we see, this is the most important point, Amna, we see in our intel that they're racing forward to achieve the weaponization of enriched uranium. That means a nuclear bomb that changes the world.

And for us, it changes the entire equation because it endangers our very existence. We can't live with that. I think the whole nuclear bomb thing is just a ploy. Everyone be afraid, be afraid, be afraid. Nuclear bomb Irans, they're just days away, weeks away. Any moment now, they're going to nuclear bomb. No, we're totally going to spark regime change. I'm not quite sure what the mechanism's going to be, but it seems like the Iranians are ready for it.

And well, according to the MEP guys, the Middle East Forum, MEF, Middle East Forum guys, they say that the way it's structured right now, that Khomeini, the guys running the show, the grand pooba, he's seen as being very weak because of the bombing that took place. There was no protection for the civilians and there's bombs flying every which way. And now they've lost faith in the grand wizard and his group of mullahs.

And everybody thinks that they're ripe to be overthrown and be hung by the yardarm. And if there's going to be any other military intervention, I can tell you who's next. You know, Saudi Arabia, Trump was just over there. Hey, I got some stuff for you guys. Didn't he, didn't he just sell them like a whole bunch of death defying rockets? Didn't we have a clip on that? You think the Saudis would invade Iran? No, no, no. Lob some stuff over. They've been fighting Iran forever.

Maybe. They've been fighting Iran forever. I know the proxy war with Saudi Arabia and Iran was the Houthi war. Yeah. In South Yemen. Yeah, but it's still proxy war. It's still against, let me see. I think I have this clip. Let me see. United States president Donald Trump wrapped up his Middle East tour on Friday that saw him visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and was the last stop in the United Arab Emirates.

In this first visit to the UAE by US president since 2008, the two countries pledged to strengthen ties and announced deals totaling over $200 billion. This includes a partnership with the UAE to build a massive AI data center in its capital Abu Dhabi and for the Gulf state to buy advanced AI semiconductors from US companies. I'm sure there was bombs in there.

Its anti-had airways is said it'll buy 28 US-made Boeing aircraft in a deal worth $14.5 billion while Abu Dhabi, the UAE's capital, pledged to hike the value of its energy investments in the US to $440 billion in the next decade. The four-day trip was very much focused on business and resulted in a string of lucrative deals for both Washington and the three countries. Trump aborted Air Force One in Abu Dhabi.

I thought that we had a clip somewhere where he sold like a whole bunch of these killer missiles. Well, maybe, but the point is, I think he went there in the first place to soften them up for this attack by Israel because he had to set that up in advance to make sure it wasn't going to go sideways. Meanwhile, of course, the usual suspects are jumping up and down. Mr. Military Industrial Complex himself, or should I say Mrs., Lady G. Game on, everybody. It's game on. It's South Carolina.

Don't they have Boeing? Isn't that like the big military production state? I believe there is a Boeing plant in South Carolina. But have a look at what— This is, I think, this is your Kirsten Welker with, I think, Rand Paul. Let me see. But have a look at what Senator Lindsey Graham argues should happen if Iran does not come to the negotiating table.

He says, quote, if Iran refuses this offer of the United States, I strongly believe it is in America's national security interest to go all in to help Israel finish the job. How do you respond to Senator Graham's call to go all in and help Israel finish the job, Senator? Well, his initial response was game on. And I don't consider war to be a game. The hundreds of thousands of people that potentially will now die on both sides.

You know, for a couple thousand years, we've had this discussion over what is just war. Not only our civilization, but other civilizations have had this discussion. And one of the things that many people came to a conclusion was that preemptive or preventative war wasn't just. And so there is that. But there is also the idea that what happens to Iran, you imagine what happens in Iran now. Do they coalesce around their government, even though their government is unpopular?

Does nationalism thrive? And you would think that they would probably be less likely to want to negotiate at this time, particularly when they may feel that negotiations were a ruse to put them at ease until the bombing happened. So I think it's going to be very hard to come out of this and have a negotiated settlement. I see more war and more carnage. And it's not the U.S.'s job to be involved in this war. Iraq was a mess. Afghanistan was a mess.

And one of the things I like about President Trump is he has shown restraint. And so I think his instincts are to not be involved in this war, but there'll be a lot of pressure from Lindsey Graham and others to get involved in this war. And I hope that his instincts will prevail. I thought there was another. A little standard blather. Yeah, yeah. There was another, let me see. I think I had another one from Lindsey Graham. Where was it? Um, hmm. Hold on a second.

Yeah, Lindsey Graham, he's, you know, he's got Boeing in his pocket. Oh, here we go. Somebody's in somebody's pocket. Here he is. This is from this morning. By the way, it's not just Lindsey Graham. It is the unlikely dynamic duo of Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, the peaceniks at work. I think there is really no obstacle. And this is about Iran and Russia. To our moving ahead with these bone crushing sanctions, even if oil prices spike because of what's happening in the Middle East.

You know, we are now energy independent when it comes to oil. The United States, you're kind of giving the game away here, by the way. It's like, it's about oil. It's about us. But I mean, nukes. We are now energy independent when it comes to the United States. Europe has weaned itself off Russian oil. Europe is solidly behind these sanctions.

And we've incorporated flexibility in this bill based on our national security for a potential waiver where our interests are concerned unforeseeably or unknowably right now. We've incorporated exemptions for our European allies who are aiding Ukraine in the billions of dollars, giving them a little bit more time to adjust. This is a carefully constructed- What he says, there's three categories. If you're not doing business with Russia, you don't have anything to worry about.

If you're doing business with Russia, but you're helping Ukraine, you have a carve out for 270 days. If you're doing business with Russia and not helping Ukraine, you're screwed. The president can waive part of all of this based on our national interest. But to the people who wonder, should we pay a price for our freedom we have in the past? Go to Arlington. Oil prices will go up- Our bill. Oil prices will go up if we try to confront Iran for their nuclear ambitions.

But you pay now, you pay later. If we get Iran right and we get peace with Russia, Ukraine, not only do oil prices come down, the world will be better off. So this idea of having freedom and not sacrificing never existed, nor does it exist now. I'll go sacrifice yourself, Lindsey Graham. What a crock. I mean, it just goes on with all the bromide and cliche you can imagine. I mean, I truly think that President Trump is just trying to get, he's just, let's just compete. Let's do everything.

But, you know, China, you guys don't know what you're talking about. Look, go look at Africa. You don't want China in your country. You don't want to do business with China. That's just, you don't want that. You want, you would rather have the Chinese run the world over us? I don't think so. I think he's truly trying to make this work. I don't know if it's possible, but I think it's worth a shot. He's got a lot of, you got No King's Day, and you got all the rest of it. He's doing what he can do.

No King's Day. What a dud. What a dud that was. It was a dud. Well, you think that would, not according to the Brits? You mean the British media? If you have time to change topics. Yeah, BBC. I want to play the BBC, some BBC stuff here, including their analysis of the parade, which was in competition with no King's peaceful protests. Let me find the right clip to start with. Here we go. Let's start with BBC, says the Trump parade was a no-show.

President Trump has hosted a massive military parade in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. The parade told the story of the military from the Battle of Lexington until the present day. It included thousands of troops, tanks and military equipment and flyovers and ended with a fireworks display and a concert. In his speech, Mr. Trump... Do you think the Brits are a little sour about the whole Battle of Lexington thing, maybe?

Is that maybe why they're... I don't know. Are you playing this report and you get your eyes will roll? ...and ended with a fireworks display and a concert. In his speech, Mr. Trump paid tribute to those who fought for America throughout the years. Time and again, America's enemies have learned that if you threaten the American people, our soldiers are coming for you. Your defeat will be certain.

Your demise will be final and your downfall will be total and complete because our soldiers never give up, never surrender and never, ever quit. They fight, fight, fight and they win, win, win. Our North America correspondent Normia Iqbal was at the parade and she joins me now live from Washington. Did they say, did the BBC guys say Mr. Trump instead of President Trump? I missed it if they did. I think so. Could be, could be. Very typical. Normia, what can you tell us? What did it look like?

It was quite the spectacle, there's no doubt. And I think there was something quite strange seeing armored vehicles and tanks sort of rolling down the streets in D.C. It really had everything. You had thousands of soldiers in historical uniforms, there was flyover, there were even robot dogs. And there were, there were crowds here but the Trump administration is claiming up to 250 ,000 people here. We know Donald Trump loves crowd sizes but there definitely wasn't that number here.

It was pretty overcast. There were a few thousand here. There were lots of empty seats where I'm stood right now on the Mall just in front of me. You know, there weren't a lot of people here. I always loved the... There were a few thousand. I always loved the grammar. There were a few thousand where I stood here or where you stand or where you were standing. The seats were empty, there were just a few thousand. Yeah, no one was there, no. This is bullcrap.

There was very little television coverage for sure. And I will say that it did not look as good as it could have because of the overcast sky. That definitely... Well, it didn't rain. It didn't rain but it didn't make it look, I think, the way that the president would have wanted it to look. But they make it sound nobody showed up. Well, of course. Because, you know, they're all protesting and in fact, you can play the clip. Here's the BBC on the No King's Peaceful Protest. Mass protests.

Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Go to the Parade 2 part because I... Actually, let me play this. Play Parade 2 Birthday and then I want to play a couple other clips. It was Parade 2 Birthday 3. Is that the one you want? Yes. It's a little confusing. Donald Trump sees the military and his command of it as a sign of his own strength and he's been flexing that from coast to coast. Yeah, and it is, of course, Mr Trump's birthday. It is, but he claims that's just a coincidence.

Although, again, you know, those who are against the president will not buy that. And interestingly, at the start of the parade, when he took to the platform and there was the Hail the Chief and a group singing him Happy Birthday, like a mini choir, wasn't quite clear who they were singing Happy Birthday to. Him, the army. I mean, it coincidentally fell on his birthday, but for his critics, they believe that that's no coincidence. No coincidence, his birthday.

It's no coincidence that his birthday fell on the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army. It's a coincidence. He was planned. He was a planned baby. He was planned. Birthday one, PBS. Hold on a second. The occasion, the US Army's 250th birthday, which happens to coincide with President Trump's own birthday. Make a point. Birthday two, PBS.

How did his vision for a Bastille Day -style parade evolve into this event, marking the Army's 250th anniversary, which also happens to fall on President Trump's own birthday? How did he do it? How did he do it? It fell, unbelievable. It fell on his birthday. Here's birthday false comparison. How is the Pentagon responding to concerns that the military is being politicized?

There are critics who have compared this parade to authoritarian spectacles, the types you see in China, Russia, North Korea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had a No King's Day in Fredericksburg, and there was about... Oh, did you take photos? Oh, there's tons, tons of video and photos. And so they're all standing outside the courthouse, which is actually no longer the courthouse. I think they've turned it into a library, which... Yeah, that's the same thing up in Port Angeles.

They stand in front of some... Yeah, or actually maybe storage, and they're planning to expand the library there. But there's only like six people in Port Angeles that do this. Well... The same six old farts. There were probably 50 to 100. Yeah, it was quite a few. And they all were waving... Yeah, they were. Oh, yeah. They were all waving American flags, and they all held up signs that said, Happy birthday. I hope it's your last. What? Yeah, yeah. I'd get the Secret Service on that person.

Wow. They're threatening the president, calling for his death. That's what it sounds like. That's okay. Whatever. It's fine. Now, the last BBC clip is the one on No King's peaceful protest. Peaceful, very peaceful. Mass protests against the Trump administration taking place across the US. The organizers of the No King's rallies accused Mr. Trump of overstepping his presidential powers. Some of the anger has been sparked by recent raids and arrests by immigration officials across the country.

Right now, I think our constitutional rights are being violated. Stepped on, trampled on, and disregarded by President Donald Trump. Everything looks unlawful to me at this point in America. I believe that Donald Trump is destroying our country. He has sold out democracy to the highest bidder. He is really only in this for himself. The events of the past week have been distressing, to say the least. I don't like the reach that the current administration has over our country.

Some of the biggest protests are in Los Angeles, from where I'm joined by our North America correspondent, John Sudworth. John, we're seeing video of police really facing off against protesters. What's the mood like? Yeah, so in the last hour and a half or so, it's turned slightly more confrontational. I've just seen at the top of the street, probably 30, 40 meters from where I'm standing, the police moving forward on horseback and pushing the crowd away from that junction.

A couple of loud bangs, hard to know from here. No sign of tear gas, so that's possibly rubber bullets they're firing as they're doing that too. The junction I'm on is relatively peaceful. There's a line of LAPD, riot police helmets on, holding their batons. A couple of them have the baton round guns, those rubber bullet guns as well. But surrounding them and on all sides of this junction, a big, largely peaceful crowd. I mean, noisy, but peaceful, if you know what I mean.

But you know, it was largely peaceful. And I combed through, I mean, fast forwarded through hours and hours of recorded footage trying to find someone who had a message and it was all kind of the same. It was just like, I don't like Trump. Yeah, Trump sucks. Yeah, I mean, here's an example. This came from Rebel News. The problem that we're having now is even if Donald Trump is not in office, is that the 38% of Republicans that would still support him is a cult.

This is a brainwashed cult that we are dealing with. And they need an intervention. Okay, and if there's nothing else, I think the only thing that Trump has been successful at in this whole past 10 years is that he's been the most successful cult leader on the planet ever. Because he's got- I am what I say you are. What you say about yourself, it gets better. In spite of all the disgusting things that he's done, he made fun of a disabled reporter. That's her one thing, by the way.

That old trope. Of all the disgusting things he's done, made fun of a disabled reporter. And that's all she has, believe me. All the disgusting things that he's done. He made fun of a disabled reporter. I mean, I'm not even going to give you the litany of all the disgusting things he's done. I'm not going to give you the litany. It's beneath me to talk about things I can't really remember. The word sound- Hold it, stop, stop. I want to revisit the disabled reporter thing.

So let's go back in time when this happened. This happened before the 2016 election. Trump used to do a spaz guy. It used to be part of his act. Yes, he did. He would just spaz, do a spastic kind of a thing. It was kind of a joke to him. And so the Democrats had set him up with a disabled reporter asking a question, knowing, because it was a leading question, the kind of question that he- where Trump did the spastic character, you know, as a joke, not knowing that the reporter was disabled.

And so he did the bit. And so then they said, look what he did. He mocked the disabled reporter. This whole thing was a complete setup. And by the way, Trump never did that bit again. That was the last time he ever did it because he got had by being too glib and not paying attention. But that was such nonsense. But it's structured. You know, the Democrats have their thing, they have their methodology, and this is part of it.

And having stupid people, like the woman you just played, is part of the way it works. She's not done because what- you're right, what she's saying- She's not done. No, she's not done. She is literally portraying a brainwashed person. And I'm not saying that it's avoidable for her, but that's the brainwashing that she received. And she holds on to that one thing. And it's beneath her to go through the whole litany of disgusting things President Trump has done because he is only a cult leader.

38% of Americans are cultists. They're just cultists and cannot see that maybe she's the one in the cult. He made fun of a disabled reporter. I'm not even going to give you the litany of all the disgusting things he's done. The word salad, the verbal diarrhea that comes out of his mouth, and these people are still sucking up every single word that he says. I mean, it's like normal people, people with any kind of character, would not support a man like that. So this has gone beyond normal people.

This is in the realm of cult. What would you say to a Republican? What would I say? I would say turn off Fox News, turn off right wing media, find out what he is doing. But it's very hard to speak sense to a lot of these people. They need psychiatric help. There needs to be, in order to bring these people back to reality, back to decency, they need some kind of help or intervention to get them out of the cult.

What's interesting is that we have not seen violence from red-hatted MAGA cult members. Have we? Is there something? Am I misremembering? No, no. So the only violence... Jussie Smollett. Those guys had a red hat. Yeah, they had red hats. It was the black red hat wearers. Yes, exactly.

So, you know, it pains me that, because when you are in this mode, when you say, well, they're in the cult and you can't reach inside yourself and say, you know, you just got to stop watching right wing media, stop watching Fox News. Well, what do you think you're consuming? That just does not enter their minds. And it's too bad. I mean, we've always had a healthy discourse between left and right, Republican and Democrat. And it's just, I don't know if it's repairable.

You know, because people on the right just say, you guys are libtards, you're no good, you're nut jobs, you're crazy. Libtard is my favorite. Yeah, you know, that's not necessarily helpful either. I'm not convinced over time I've done this show long enough and then I also have my background in history. I'm not convinced that this hasn't always been the case. And there's nothing new here. Well, this is not like a schism that just formed. No, you're right.

It's been exaggerated by Fox because Fox News is the first, actually Rush Limbaugh started it. He's the first guy that showed up with a perspective that was honest, right wing, on radio, got a big huge following to the point where he got a $400 million contract just to yack, yack, yack. And then Fox... That irks you, doesn't it? It irks you, yes. Well, but so what has changed... Not as much as Rachel Maddow getting $25 million to work one day a week.

But John, you show up with TikTok clips of nut jobs, which you call nut jobs, and it's just people on the left, you know, okay, they don't have a red hat, they have blue hair. And you make fun of them. So, you know, everyone's... Well, it's because it's amusing to me. I understand. But the thing that has changed is media, social and mainstream. There's more of it. We see more of it. We're more inundated by it. It hits all of the pleasure centers. Oh, there's more.

Oh, there's... I can see someone's fighting. Just scroll on X. Every third video is someone beating somebody else. It's a lot of beat up videos. Look at this. They're beating each other up at the Chick -fil-A. It's, you know, that's... Exactly. A lot of that. Oh, there's black girls fighting in a fast food restaurant. There's black girls pulling hair, pulling wigs off. I know. And that is the scourge. That is what is killing us. On the inside, it's eating our souls. It really is.

It could be feeding our souls, for all you know. Yeah. This is just one perspective that you have. Yeah. Okay. All right. Since I've known you, I've never known you to be just so joyous about nut jobs on TikTok. You're like, I love this. This is great. This is this crazy person. That's what TikTok has done. It's ruined my friend John C. Dvorak. So now I will take this to the next level, which I thought was a very interesting analysis. Back to China?

Yes. By none other than the Cuomo kid, Chris Cuomo, who for all I know could be doing this as a paid job by the State Department. I don't know. If that was discovered, like all of a sudden we now discovered that Mike Myers the comic was working for the CIA or whatever for all these years. Nothing would surprise me. Right. Exactly. Nothing should surprise you when it comes to Intel. Yeah. Now this is about the Los Angeles protests.

These protests are fed by dark sources with a desire for our destruction. One of the main players in organizing and funding the Los Angeles protests is a group called CHIRLA, C-H-I-R-L-A, acronym Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights. They have received millions in government grants and state grants. But now reports are showing that there may be a foreign link, specifically from China, funding and organizing these protests. The pro-Chinese far-left Party for Socialism and Liberation.

They're known as the PSL. They are working with CHIRLA, helping fund the protests in Los Angeles and maybe elsewhere. Remember, all the parties in China are controlled by the CCP. So this is China. And the party is pushing to destroy capitalism and the West. This is its agenda. This is what China wants. They even have a term for the effort. It's called the smokeless war, where they have this theory of how they'll destroy the West without actually taking to the battlefield.

That's what they did during the anti-Israel campus protests. The PSL worked hand in glove with anti -Zionist student groups and helped organize and fund the Columbia campus encampments. By the way, I could totally buy this theory. I think the fentanyl and opioids and all this stuff, you know, the Chinese are still mad about the opioid wars. Yeah, they are. Fungus, smuggling fungus. What they should be mad at, the Brits, not us. We didn't do it. Smuggling fungus into America. It's very possible.

But wait, it gets even scarier. Now it gets scarier. Where does the PSL get its money? Enter Shanghai-based socialist billionaire Neville Singham. 2017, he sold his tech company for about a billion. Reports show the same year he started funding far-left groups like the PSL to the tune of millions. Millions. Singham is not America's friend. He has deep business ties to the CCP, but also has strong ideological ties to communism, period.

People who worked for him says he's an admirer of Mao, Che Guevara, Hugo Chavez. Not friends of American culture. According to the New York Times, Singham has funded and developed a deep global empire of pro-China nonprofits in the media and grassroots political space, steering millions into these groups over the years, including the PSL. And guess who was associated with the PSL and other Singham-funded groups? Elias Rodriguez. Ring a bell? This scumbag.

The 30-year-old Chicago man who murdered two Israeli staffers in cold blood last month. Oh, man, it's too complicated. Well, the Singham guy is great. I mean, he is something, people should look him up and read his bio in Wiki. His name is Neville Singham. It's S-I-N-G-H-A-M. He's from Sri Lanka, half Cuban, half Sri Lankan. Communist, not blatant communist. He lives in Shanghai, China. I think he's still an American citizen. Married to the founder of Code Pink. No. Yes. Not that lady.

Yeah, the crazy lady. What's her name again? I can't remember her name offhand, but she's, you know, showed up for everything. She's like a dirty trickster, like a Dick Tuck Segretti type person. Oh, no, no, it's Jody Evans. That's not the same one. That's not the one you're thinking of. I'm thinking of the founder of Code Pink. No, no, he is married to Code Pink co-founder Jody Evans. You're thinking of the other lady. He's not married to her.

Jody Evans is just, you think there's a difference between the two women in terms of their being nuts? No, I'm just differentiating. It's Medea Benjamin. That's the one you're thinking of. Yes, you're thinking of her. Oh, okay. But this Singham guy is like, he's just basically a communist. I mean, he's not even... He's not hiding it. Not hiding it. He's in Shanghai and he works for the CCP and they're probably funneling money through him. It's probably not even that much of his money.

And yeah, he's subversive and he's got all these phony baloney organizations under his wing. He's worse than Soros at the moment. Yeah. Who just got married, I hear? Alex. Soros? And Alex got married to Uma. Oh, Alex. Yeah, he got married to Uma. Oh, he did. That's good. That's a couple of two beards. Two beards. Show title. Okay, I'm right. Two beards. So let's play the USAID in Hungary. This came up. This is on one of these podcast reports. This is interesting. We have to look forward to this.

Hold on a second. I'm looking for it. USAID, you said? Oh, I got it. Here we go. The Hungarian government has announced that they will be releasing a documentary exposing the USAID scandal. The movie will focus on revealing how USAID funneled millions of dollars into ideological movements in their country.

They claim that political organizations and liberal media, which claim to be independent, received money through USAID to promote Democrat agendas such as illegal migration, transgenders, and war stances. Orban's government says USAID is working with George Soros's Open Society Foundations in the plot. You know, the only thing I'm a little tired of is, like, Fredericksburg, Soros, Soros, Soros. The Open Society Institute is so big. I mean, Soros doesn't even have to think about it anymore.

No, it runs on its own. It's an infrastructure that's been in place for decades. It's worldwide. It's like jumping off a motorcycle. Oh, really? Jump off a motorcycle, the thing will go a mile. Right. Balancing itself. Yeah. Good point. You know, it's OSI, Open Society Institute. And it's just a great place to donate money so that you can enrich yourself by, A, deducting that from your income tax, and B, you know, helping to stir things up. It's not even Soros.

Soros, as far as I know, he's in the cryogenic chamber. The guy is 100 years old. Yes, I know. If you've seen him speak within the last year or two, he can barely get a word out. Can't get anything out. And Alex, I have my doubts about that guy being any kind of powerhouse like his dad. He seems like a beta male. It seems like. I think you called it two beards. You nailed it. And a beard. And, you know, who would get married to Uma Abedin? That's like, you got to watch your six all the time.

Your six. There you go again with that phrase. Watching too many TV shows. Watch your six, man. Yeah. No, no, no. Hey, we're being accused of being boomers. Yeah, you know what? You should listen. We are boomers. Yeah, you should listen to your elders. Hey, you guys are boomers, really? You should listen to your elders. Thanks for the accusation. We're boomers and you're a dipshit. How about that? Nailed it.

The one thing is no one can ever accuse us of not speaking our mind and saying what we think it is, right, wrong, or indifferent. At least we have an opinion. And we're right almost all the time because that's the funny thing about being a boomer. Oh, is that so? Does that give you instant I'm right credits? No, no. It's just from years and years and years and years and years of experience. Well, we weren't right about the former governor of New York.

You know, we were pretty sure he killed all those seniors in the nursing home. Go in there and choke them out. Well, he has evidence that he did a good job. Some people have criticized your leadership during COVID, specifically when it comes to the nursing home crisis. How do you answer that question? First of all, New Yorkers are going to criticize whatever you do. On nursing homes, it became a political football four years ago. We now have had a number of reports that have gone all through it.

And it has been proven to have been politicized. The Department of Justice Inspector General said they played politics with the issue. And then when you look at it at the end of the day, and they have all the final numbers. New York is number 38 in what's called the rate of death for every 1000 people in a nursing home. We're number 38. New York is number 38 out of 50 states. We're great. Which means only 12 states had a lower rate of death. Which is really incredible.

When you come to New York, you'll die less. You think about it. We had it first. We had it worst. We didn't know what it was. And it's a tribute to the women and men who worked in our healthcare system and kept it down that low that only 12 states. We saw your mobile morgues. They were empty. The hospitals were empty. There was nothing. Had a lower rate of death and they had more time to get ready. We were hit by surprise. No, they did an extraordinary job.

And yes, there was a lot of politics in the beginning. And Trump was blaming us. And we were blaming Trump. No he wasn't. Four years later. Trump wasn't blaming anybody. Trump brought in hospital ships. Trump was the. Yeah, he wasn't blaming anyone. Facts and. Another thing to think about. New Yorkers did a great job and we led the nation. When nobody knew what it was, Dan, we were on the front line and we stood up and we handled it.

We were leading the nation by offering people burgers and fries in exchange for a shot. We were first people. That was us. Dope. That if that guy gets gets elected mayor, I don't know. It's hopeless back there. Yeah, he'll get elected. You know, they always I heard of him. I mean, yeah, maybe he gets in. Yeah, this guy. Oh, yeah, he's good. That's possible. Oh, brother. If he gets elected, it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

So speaking of Trump being a horrible dictator, we have in addition to the big, beautiful bill, which is just got Colorado up in arms. Colorado's Democratic delegation blasting a proposal today, they say, would hurt Colorado's outdoor lifestyle. I love the last thing is going to hurt Colorado's outdoor lifestyle. How's that work? Were they going to shut down the sun? I was talking to Bill Gates.

Lifestyle, a new provision added to the budget reconciliation or big, beautiful bill would require the BLM and U.S. Forest Service to sell millions of acres of public lands to build housing. Public lands matter. Yes, Colorado, Colorado. They make the West the West. But which lands? Lawmakers ended the call before taking that question for me.

So I followed up with an email and Senator Michael Bennett's office responded, saying that because areas with oil and gas grazing or mining permits could not be sold, recreation areas would be at risk. Places like 18 Road in Fruita, Hartman Rocks in Gunnison or Animas City Mountain in Durango. What might seem like a barren parcel on a senator's desk on a map is actually a place where Coloradans hike, camp, hunt, ATV, climb and so much more.

Jessica Turner, president of the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable, says there's already a mechanism to sell or lease federal land for housing. We don't need a whole new. By the way, this woman who's in charge of whatever this thing is, she is so she's inside her house and she's on her computer. She has, you know, those rich lady clothes, the ones that are couture and they're made of always thick material.

You know, like and it's pink and it's thick and then you look at her and her living room has like Baroque furniture. It looks like my first wife's living room, honestly, Baroque furniture and just, you know, she's she just oozes wealth. That takes away those safeguards. She's a hiker. No, she does not look like a hiker at all. No, I would call her a Brahmin American. You know, we have a class of society. It's it's people like this. I mean, seriously, it's people like this.

You know, it's our version of Brahmins who are upper middle class to just upper class. And and they know everything and they understand everything better. And for God's sake, man, who's going to clean my toilet? You've got to keep the illegals here. But Summers acknowledges tourism and recreation in Colorado are also hugely important to our economy and anything that would impact that, including the sale of federal lands, would have to be analyzed further.

Right now, one thing we do know, the bill couldn't touch some of our state's landmarks. It does stipulate that no protected areas. So a national park, a national monument, a well-seen river, those would not be part of this proposal. So I look at this proposal and what percentage do you think is proposed in this amendment to the big, beautiful bill to what percentage of Colorado land will be sold off? Five. Zero point seven five percent. What? Yes. In fact, it says zero point.

It says between zero point five and zero point seven five percent. But we got to blast him. It's not. It's nothing. It's not. It's nothing. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Well, talk about since you're on Colorado, I get my two Colorado clips. You got Colorado clips. Something screwy is going on or these clips wouldn't exist. And here they are. Colorado clip one. NPR has learned the Department of Justice has made it. Where's Scott Scheinman? Is he on vacation?

Scott Scheinman. Scott Scheinman. Is he on vacation? He's only working. No, he works weekends. Weekends. With that black screechy girl. NPR has learned the Department of Justice has made a sweeping demand for Colorado's election records. NPR's Jude Joffrey Block Report's documents show the DOJ asked Colorado to turn over all records from the twenty twenty four federal elections and to preserve any records it still has from twenty twenty.

Several voting experts and officials told NPR that broad of a request is highly unusual and concerning. Given President Trump's false claims, false claims, false, false claims about elections. Jenna Griswold is Colorado's Democratic secretary of state. We are seeing them use the apparatus of the federal government to undermine our elections and our democracy. And I would assume that this is more of the same. Oh, yeah. Yeah. False claims. False false claims. False claims. False claims. Claims.

Claims that are false. False claims. So claims that are false and false claims are two different phrases and they don't mean the same thing. They do not. So here we end up in the former, which is claims that are false is more accurate. The other one is just propaganda. When you say false claims is propaganda. And then this is PBS or NPR is NPR. So it's propagandistic. Yes. National Propaganda Radio NPR. OK. OK. OK. OK. OK. Right. So let's play clip two.

The Justice Department indicated it had received a complaint. Colorado was not complying with federal record retention rules. The department declined to provide additional details. Yeah, this is obvious. What's going on is Colorado, I think, is ground zero for these voting machines, which just seem to be a mess technically. Well, Colorado is the first state that tried to keep Trump off the ballot. But that's not unconstitutional. I forgot all about that. Oh, what an annoying, annoying.

And so Colorado is this and that. And then when you play the clips about the 0.07 percent. Yeah. Point whatever. Yeah. It makes you wonder, wait a minute, is this Colorado pushing back by the elites, the woman, the elite woman, the Brahman, which I like that phrase. The Brahman American. Brahman American. Yeah, it leads, you know, there's elites there. My buddy is actually going. There's a lot of elites in Aspen. And and there's two or three of these cities in the, you know, the mountain towns.

Aspen's a great one. Yeah. Bill Ziff had a place in Aspen. I visited, so I visited Bill Ziff's place in Aspen because I was sorting out his wines. Yeah. And I know there's a little bit. How does that call go? Hey, hey, Dvorak, come over to Aspen. I want you to sort out my wine. So I'm in Aspen going through the place and there's mousetraps all over the place because the biggest Aspen is loaded with mice. And and so I take a look at the whole operation. He's got a big indoor pool.

And this is one of these stories. So there's a big indoor pool. And and there's a whole bunch of workers in there and they're over the pool. They've got a big netting and a bunch of flowers and some they're putting up a bunch of, you know, like vines and flowers or something. They're all growing live flowers across the top for the guests. And they're bringing all these big light light stanchions. There's a whole bunch of lights.

And and the lights are underneath the flowers above the pool and pointing up. And I said to the guy, what do you do? What is the flowers getting enough? What's the deal with the lights? And the guy says, well, we put him here for a couple of weeks and it gives enough time for the flowers and the plants to kind of turn toward the light. So when they have a big pool party and people look up, they get to see the flowers. Oh, that's some Brahman stuff right there. That's some rich dude stuff.

I shook my eyes and said, wow. This is a new story. I didn't know this story. This is a new one. Yeah, that's a new one. That's a good one. All right, let's let's turn our focus to Minnesota. Very, very odd things going on in Minnesota. Let's get a little background from Good Morning America. This morning, an urgent manhunt underway after a man investigators say was posing as a police officer allegedly shot and killed a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in their home.

Police say the same suspect was involved in a separate attack just 90 minutes earlier, allegedly shooting and wounding another lawmaker and his wife. Suspects posing as police officers shot two victims. Police responding to reports of gunfire around 2 a.m. Saturday at the home of Democratic Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, just outside Minneapolis.

Officers then checking on Democratic former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband a few miles away at their Brooklyn Park home, willing to find the two fatally shot. They noticed that there was a police vehicle in the driveway with the lights, emergency lights on and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house.

When our officers confronted them, the individual immediately fired upon the officers who exchanged gunfire and the suspect retreated back into the home. This this whole thing. So I think there's a clip somewhere where immediately just within hours of it happening. I was expecting to find a MAGA hat in the car. You know, and then they released this the name of this guy. And it's all very, very. The whole thing is super suspicious. Dubious. I have the bonus clip.

Well, let me let me let me let me let me finish this one up and then we'll get. I just want to say this has this is the screwiest, most suspicious. This is MK Ultra. I'm with you on that. Authorities now naming 57 year old Vance Bolter as the suspect. Investigators say he was dressed as an officer wearing a vest, a badge and a taser and was driving an SUV with police lights. The FBI releasing images they say are of him in a cowboy hat and wearing a latex mask outside one of the victim's homes.

Investigators say they've recovered several firearms from Bolter's vehicle, along with no King's Flyers and writings mentioning the names of the victims, some abortion providers and other Democratic lawmakers. Sources telling ABC News law enforcement is looking into whether he may have been motivated by extreme views on abortion. And that's kind of new, this extreme views on abortion that wasn't there in the beginning.

And this video of this guy, undated video, you know, he was waffling on for about four minutes. He's like a guy that picks up dead bodies and takes him to the morgue. I have this. I have the clip of that if you when you want to get to it. Yeah, we just do it now. Is that oh, you got the whole thing. That's the bonus. Yes, you're going to have to live with the whole thing because it's interesting enough. I couldn't really I could have just clipped out where you talked about it.

You brought that whole I didn't even clip it. It was like this is nothing. Well, you can run to the beginning of it because once I can just summarize. I don't have to play the beginning, but before you play it, there's a couple of things I want to note that people should note this. When they discuss the cop comes out and this has been said more than once, he was 61 inches tall. That's five one. He's a midget. And so no offense to the short and petite males out there listening to the show.

Interesting. So do they that's that they always say instead of saying he's five one, they say he's 61 inches, which makes him sound like maybe he's bigger. Well, you know, when you take a mugshot, when you take a mugshot. Yeah, I know you have the inches on the side inches. Yes, but when you're in a press conference, you don't say you don't take people's inches. Well, the reason I'm getting into it with you is because that probably means there was a mugshot of him taken at some point.

Otherwise, why would you even say that? Well, that's a good point. Because whenever you see a mugshot, it's always has inches on the. Yeah, you have to do the calculation. And so I don't see where at any point this guy is some kind of security guy for some. Not at five one. And the other thing is, according to this, the clip you're going to play, he's married with five kids. Yes. Another one. Where where's the wife? Where are the kids? Well, the wife did show up and they did.

Somebody did contact her. But why did it was mentioned that he had told his two roommates, two dudes that he was going to be gone for a while and may end up dead? This came up in the press conference. So why is he living with two guys if he's married with five kids? Let's listen to a little bit of this video. Oh, my name is Vance. Wait, let me preface the video. This is this is a from a zoom call he made. He was linked. He's on.

I saw his LinkedIn profile to is a zoom call he made because he was taking a class on mortuary services. It was one of those online classes. And in those classes, you introduce yourself. This is his introduction to himself. I advance no other names that I use. I live in Greenell, Minnesota, about an hour away from the Minneapolis, St. Paul area. I'm affiliated with two funeral homes. I work full time for Wolf Funeral Home, which is an intake location for about six funeral homes.

And we also do all the intake for the National Cremation Society and the Neptune Society for all their cremation. What kind of courses? What kind of course was he taking if he already is doing the job? He's basically a grunt worker picking up dead bodies. He's not a he's not a funeral director. And I think that's what he wanted to become. As well, so I mainly do removals at this point. So I work at Wolf full time. And then I also work for another funeral home called Metro First Call.

And they also do traditional removals at nursing homes, assisted living apartments. But they also have contracts with medical examiner's office. So like one contract is the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office. So we'll do removals, which we're working with a lot of police officers and and deaf investigators at the location where a decedent is found. Have you seen any pictures of the so -called car that looked like a cop car with lights on it? Have you seen any pictures?

No, they didn't show that. And then the other thing is he just they've just found his other car to this earlier. And supposedly took off on foot. He was wearing a stupid mask. This whole thing is really screwed up. This is a bad op. Yeah. Is there anything else in here we need to listen to? Well, actually, you have to keep now that you started. That part is not not interesting. It gets more interesting as we right now. It starts to be a crime scene or just a natural death.

And our role is to just take the decedent from that place of death to the medical examiner's office. And so between those two locations, I'm working about six days a week. This is about where I build on the video, so I'm glad that this is the part where it gets good. OK, well, I'm glad you got it. What else here? Family and pets. I have a wife and five kids and we have two pets, German shepherds. Fun fact about myself, I've been in the food industry about 30 years and that led to an opportunity.

I was invited to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is located in Central Africa. When I was in high school, the country was called Zaire. That's a little bit more familiar with people, but it's the largest, second largest country in Africa, right in the middle and the center there, and was asked a couple of years ago to go and see what I could do for ideas and helping their food supply system. Their population is about 100 million people and they import 80 percent of their food currently.

So some of the food companies I worked for in the past were Farm to Fork, like Del Monte Foods and Golden Plum Poultry, where we did everything from at Del Monte. We planted the products to harvest them, to process them and then shipped them out. In Golden Plum Poultry, we had our own hatcheries, grew our own barns. Well, how is that helping feed the people of Zaire? It sounds like it sounds like some kind of capitalist takeover. Farmers and then processing plants.

So between those two companies, I have some experience with agriculture. And so over in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I had some ideas they thought were pretty promising, which. Package up some Congolese and put them in Del Monte cans. The whole thing is just he goes on about this and then he was going to move his family there. And then he was but he wanted a part time job here so he could make money to pay for this other thing. I mean, he's almost done, I think. Yeah, yeah. 30 seconds.

But it's like, what is this guy? What is going on here? The company I was working for at the time wasn't interested in doing anything in Africa. So I talked with my wife and we decided I just put in my two week notice and we just go off on our own to try to do these projects to help out in Africa. So we're doing farming and fishing projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

And to help pay the bills, I just started working at a funeral home because the shift worked good for my schedule with the other things I was doing. And that led to some classes at DMACC, which led to this course. So just learning more about the funeral industry. And I think that covers everything. And I will look forward to seeing you in class. And we'll go from there. Well, where was the interesting part?

Well, I thought it was interesting that he's connected to the Democratic Republic of Congo. And if you go to his LinkedIn page, he's the CEO of the Red Lion Group, which is... This is bullcrap. There's a website, all right? These are websites and the Praetorian Guard. It is bullcrap. But what is... This is crazy bullcrap, considering what this guy just did. He had a hit list with Ilan Omar on it. Why he didn't put her at the top is unknown. You're a horrible man.

Let's listen to ABC here for a second. This morning, the urgent manhunt continues in the Minnesota Twin Cities region for 57... By the way, manifesto immediately mentioned. Manifesto. Yeah, where's the manifesto? We don't get the manifesto. They never give us the manifesto until they rewrite it. We don't get the manifesto. I want the manifesto. This morning, the urgent manhunt continues in the Minnesota Twin Cities region for 57-year-old Vance Bolter.

The suspect, police say, killed a beloved Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounded another legislator and his spouse. This was an act of targeted political violence. He knew that that was there right away. Targeted political violence. I mean, is it an op gone wrong? There's something... There's something gone wrong. Something is wrong. The FBI putting... By the way, that woman, we don't have a... There are clips available of her. She was frightened because... Oh, good. OK. I have the clip.

Here she is. Representative Melissa Hortman after she voted no on health care for illegals. I know that people will be hurt by that vote. And I'm... We worked very hard to try to get a budget deal that wouldn't include that provision. Yeah. So she looked... She sided with the Republicans. She looked and sounded distraught.

And she was very upset because, according to other reports, all the Democrats in the state were going after her for siding with the Republicans on the free welfare for undocumented immigrants. And... Which is an easy kind of MAGA right -wing thought, like, oh, that's why he killed her. But that's why she was killed. I'm not buying any of that. Something else is going on here. Well, I'm not buying anything because I think this is some sort of... I think you maybe hit it right, an op gone wrong.

Yeah. Let's finish with ABC. Targeted political violence. The FBI putting out these images they say are of Bolter not long after the attack in a cowboy hat, offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. Bolter, a Minnesota resident, ran a private security company with his wife. Do not approach him. You should consider him armed and dangerous.

Around 2 a.m. Saturday, police in Champlain, northwest of Minneapolis, responding to reports of a shooting at the home of state Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Suspects posing as police officers shot two victims. Eight miles away in Brooklyn Park, a fast -thinking sergeant proactively checking on the home of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, finding them fatally shot.

They noticed that there was a police vehicle in the driveway with the lights, emergency lights on, and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house. When our officers confronted them, the individual immediately fired upon the officers who exchanged gunfire, and the suspect retreated back into the home. I just happened to go check on him. Yeah, I should go check on him. Yeah, by coincidence.

And the other thing is, now all of a sudden, instead of being at Africa or a funeral home or a food service, he's co-owned a security company with his wife, while he was living with two dudes. You know what? This to me— This is nuts. This sounds like a contracted hit from someone else not politically motivated. How about this? Now that you bring that up, the guy was a hitman. Yeah, yeah, in Congo. Yeah, and maybe that's why he was in the Congo, to do a hit there.

I mean, this is really out there, but what's the possibility? There are these guys out there that are professional murderers. They're usually about 61 inches tall. And the 61 inches tall is code. Yeah. And what's the mugshot taken for? Because I think your analysis of that is probably correct. It had to be a mugshot with a 61-inch marker on the side, which is where that came from. When people ask me how tall I am, my standard joke is 5'17". But I'm going to start switching to inches now.

So they really go, 5'17 is already hard for people. So— Oh, oh, oh, I see. You're 6'5". This is very—and then what's he doing with the— in the supposedly, in the car, there was a bunch of these no kings. What's that got to do with the price of bread? And then the phony baloney list of people that were on, you know, Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz, and a bunch of other politicos that were on. That's bullcrap. This whole thing could be bullcrap. But I like the hitman theory of my own.

I'm patting myself on the head. It's a hitman. Don't give yourself a brain injury. And she was nervous when she—that clip you played of the speaker. She was a nervous wreck for some reason. Something else was going on. So, anyway, for people who are emailing me and saying, what is our—what is happening in our world? Just look at the ground. Turn off the TV. Put your phone down. Turn off the TV. It'll be okay. It'll be okay. These things have been going on forever.

I mean, no one even mentioned the 10 people shot in an Austrian school. That wasn't news. Here. No, well, I saw one report— A little bit. A little bit. But, you know, it's like, this is the— we live in a broken, fallen world. That's just it. But it's not. It's the same old world it's always been. That's my point. It's just more amplified. It's amplified continuously. Yeah, which gives us the opportunity to do a No Agenda show for people. They should be thankful.

No. I don't care if they're thankful or not. Yeah, you do. Just—but it's like, don't worry about it. Go outside. Enjoy your neighbors. Have a joke about their birthday signs. Hey, how you doing? Yeah, okay. That's pretty funny. Just calm down every— I mean, there are— It's off the rails here, John. It's off the rails. Like, well, you know, 2030, Soros, the World Economic Forum. They're going to— the New World Order. We're back to New World Order. That's cropping up again.

It's the cycle that's just annoying. It's like, hey, I went down that rabbit hole 15 years ago. It is nothing at the bottom. There's no Alice in Wonderland. There's no Looking Glass. Aliens. Speaking of, something else to be worried about. It's roughly the size of a 15-story building. Asteroid 2024-YR4, dubbed the City Killer when it was discovered last year, was initially given a 3% chance of striking Earth on the 22nd of December 2032.

New projections from NASA have downgraded that threat to almost zero. Instead, our nearest neighbor, the Moon, may now be in danger. Oh no! NASA has upgraded the chances of a lunar collision to 4.3%. Though unlikely, the impact could be visible from Earth and may leave a new lunar crater up to a kilometer in diameter. Objects in space, where there is so much space and the chances of hitting anything is extremely low in most circumstances, 4% is very high indeed.

Debris from- How can 4% chance of it hitting the Moon be very high indeed? It's better that it was high compared to one. Now, I wonder if this thing hits the Moon, if it's going to crack through the uh- The hollow Moon. The hollow Moon. The hollow Moon, because it could crack through, because so far nothing's been able to penetrate that inner thing, whatever it is. Did you see- Spacecraft.

I didn't clip it, but there was some guy, a state senator, I think, and he was being interviewed and he let it slip. He said, well, you know, I've talked to Army guys, we got Army people on the Moon. I'm like, what? Did you see that video? No, I didn't. It was almost unclipable. I'm surprised that you saw it, you didn't clip it. It's like three seconds long, I'm like, eh. I tried to find the original, couldn't find it. I gotta get up. Yeah. I gotta do work now, I can't do that. I gotta get it.

Where's the gun? Ah, it's too late, forget it. Can't do that. Are the Grammys coming up? Are the Grammys on the way? Is it- You're the one that keeps track of the Grammys, I don't. Let me see, when is the Grammy Awards? I think the CMT had something to go. Let me see. Look at your Satan cycle calendar. I'm looking at the Satan cycle here, let me see. The Grammy Awards, when are they coming up? They should be coming up soon, the 20 - Is it the- February? Oh, please.

Because they just announced some new categories, which is also very interesting. Changes are coming to music's biggest night in 2026. The Recording Academy has announced new rules and new categories for the Grammy Awards next year. The Best New Artist category is expanding to include acts who were previously nominated for Album of the Year as a Featured Artist. I don't understand this. So- What?

Yeah, so if you were nominated for Best Album, you can now be nominated for Best New Artist, even if you won, I guess, that category. But then you're not new. I mean, who are they trying to get on the show that they have to- This is like when we did- Oh, that's exactly right. This is what we did with- I've told this story- with Michael Jackson.

We wanted to get Michael Jackson on the Video Music Awards, and he would only do it if we promised to give him the Video Vanguard Award, and we would name it after him, the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award of the Year. And so, yeah, okay. And there were some other stipulations, which- Well, I'll tell the story in case someone hasn't heard it. This sounds corrupt. So, and then we had to do this whole special weekend to debut his video. I don't remember which one it was.

And so we recorded- on Friday, we'd record for- Let me see. Thursdays, we record for Saturday and Sunday, and Friday, we record for Monday, because none of it was- not much of it was live. So we did the whole 48 on Thursday, and then Friday, we taped for Monday, and everybody went home.

And then the frantic phone calls, everybody had to come in on Saturday to reshoot everything for the weekend, because in the contract that stipulated every single time we would say Michael Jackson, it had- you had to say Michael- Oh, yeah, you did tell this story. Michael Jackson, the King of Pop. And so we didn't- that contract piece hadn't come down to the studio. But anyway, so, you know, you finesse the award, you make up an award to get someone to appear on the award show.

And by the way, once he was dead, that's now the J-Lo Video Vanguard Award. That didn't last, those hypocrites. So anyway, so there's something up with this. Who were previously nominated for Album of the Year as a featured artist. The Academy is also carving out a standalone category for Best Album Cover and create- Album cover? The No Agenda Show should win that. When's the last time you saw an album cover?

On an album cover, and creating a brand new category for Best Traditional Country Album. The existing Best Country Album category has been renamed Best Contemporary Country Album. So they're kind of giving two lanes for that. What that means is we have a white country, a country winner and a black country winner because Beyonce took it last year. The change comes after, of course, Beyonce won Best Country Album last year for Cowboy Carter.

We're really seeing a lot of expansion within that music category. There's no words to reflect it. This is weird. Best Contemporary. This is the same thing that Tony's did. Tony's added a bunch of, first, you know, the Best Actor and Best Featured Actor. Two separate categories. Hmm. What the hell is that supposed to mean? I don't know. It's strange. You're right. I think you absolutely nailed it. This is corruption at the core.

We want to get so-and-so to show up for the show because nobody wants to do these shows anymore because the ratings are flagging. And it's not helping us much if they don't show up. If nobody shows up, it gets worse. We got to bribe them somehow. So how are we going to do it? Okay, here's what we're going to do. Let's have a meeting. Yeah. Let's have a meeting. Oh, man. Oh, boy. What are we going to do? Well, we do the Albrego Garcia stuff. I got two clips.

Oh, is he, is he, what's happening with him? Well, here's the update. The Albrego Garcia update. In Tennessee, Kilmar Albrego Garcia pleaded not guilty today to federal charges of human smuggling. It was the first time the construction worker and long-time Maryland resident has appeared in a U.S. courtroom since he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March. The Trump administration brought him back to the U.S. last week to face criminal charges that stem from a 2022 traffic stop.

The people united will never be divided. Albrego Garcia's supporters called for his freedom outside the courthouse today. And at a nearby church, his wife, Jennifer, described seeing her husband for the first time in three months. Meantime, a federal judge has sided with the Trump administration's push to keep Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil in detention.

That's despite a previous judge's order saying the pro-Palestinian activist could no longer be held based on the administration's initial argument that he's a threat to U.S. foreign policy. The government now says Khalil is being held on other grounds, claiming that he lied on his green card application. No. They're keeping him in Louisiana for some sort of debriefing. By the way, when you're ready, I have the answer for Louisiana for you. But first with Albrego Garcia, this is interesting.

This was on a podcast. This is Dershowitz. Dershowitz clip. Yeah. Talking about the analyzing the whole situation, saying that his lawyers, his liberal lawyers got him screwed over. Big mistake. Big blunder by his lawyers. His lawyers never, ever should have tried to bring him back to the United States. They should have filed a motion having him transferred from El Salvador or Nicaragua, where maybe there was some fear, to another place, say Argentina or Brazil.

He might be a free man today if they had done that. Remember that he was ordered deported. The only flaw in the order was where he was sent, not whether he was sent. And so I think he may spend a long time in prison. If he's found guilty, he's presumed innocent. But if he's found guilty, he's going to spend a long time in prison complaining about his ideological radical lawyers who made a hero out of him and try to get him back to the United States when that was not in his own self-interest.

So lawyers made the most fundamental mistake a lawyer can make, putting ideology before the best interest of the client. Right. One quick bounce question, and then I'm coming to the GOV. The GOV. Professor, the idea of what America should have done with him, why these charges from a traffic stop that didn't seem to amount to much when it happened, instead of challenging the stay of removal? Well, they can do both. That's the problem with what the lawyers did. They're going to have a trial.

If he's convicted, they're happy. But if he's acquitted, they can still bring the deportation charges because the standard of proof is very different in deportation charges. All they would have to do is deport him to a country where he could not make a plausible claim that he's in danger. So from the government's point of view, it's a win-win to do it this way. Did Cuomo say, in a minute, we're coming to the GOV? Yeah. Is that his brother? We're coming to the GOV? Yeah, the GOV. The GOV.

Yeah, they tried to make this a George Floyd type deal. That's what they tried, and it failed. Well, they're still working on it. They got the protesters out there demanding he'd be freed. It's not going to happen. It was so sad to see these people who were just, you know, so you have these vans, kind of like courtesy shuttles almost. And I guess they rousted some people and put them in the courtesy shuttles. And then you have these protesters standing in front and just completely hysterical.

Let my people go. Let my people go. It's like, wow. I love that woman yelling that. She's screaming at the top of her lungs, damaging her vocal cords, no doubt. Yeah, let my people go. Let my people go. And she's like, you know, she's bald. She's some bald white woman. Yeah, she was. She was bald. It's like, what is wrong with these? But this is terrible. Yeah, she needed a hug really bad. No, she needed. Yeah, she needed a hug. And in the sane asylum, she needs a hug with a straight jacket.

When you go that hysterical, I mean, there's no coming back at a certain point. It's like a temper tantrum for an adult. I have trouble watching that. I look like, oh, it's just hard. What is going on? Yeah. So that reminds me of this TikTok video. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't I got to stick with Louisiana for a moment? OK. Oh, yes. I want to hear that. I'll bring you back. So our Dell dealer, he's in Louisiana and he says, oh, no, we what you what?

The Dell dealer is the guy who sent who sends the Dell computers. Oh, the guy who never sent me anything. Yeah, I think I have yours. Oh, not one of those deals. It's like the people that send me candy bars for you. They send me Dells. You know, he was going to send me a cool seven inch touch screen. But then he heard Tina complaining about the mess in my studio. He said, oh, I didn't send it out because I didn't want Tina to get mad at you.

I just got screwed out of a cool seven inch touch screen. So whose fault is that? Don't think I'm going to say it's my wife's fault. It's always my fault. Hello. So he's in Louisiana. I met him. He came to Fredericksburg with his daughter. Nice guy. Real nice guy. We had a lunch. We hung out for a little bit. And he said, oh, no, it's this is the place to be. We we have we're number one when it comes to detention centers. And he sent me a couple of maps and some clips.

And I think this one says it all. Since the all woman South Louisiana ice processing center. These facilities are five some five hours away from downtown New Orleans. Most folks don't even know they exist. It's one of Louisiana's privately run ice facilities, where Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumisha Ozturk is currently being held. The facility is part of a growing network of detention centers across the state, now under scrutiny by lawmakers and activists.

Unfortunately, Louisiana has a very has a lot of prison capacity. Nell Hahn works to educate migrants in Lafayette about their rights. She says the rural locations of these centers make it nearly impossible for detainees to access help. It's particularly hard on immigrants because there aren't that many immigration lawyers and most of them are not concentrated in central or north Louisiana. Louisiana is rapidly becoming a detention hotspot.

In March, Columbia University student Mahmood Khalil was transferred to a center in Jenna. Just a month earlier, migrants from Guantanamo Bay were sent to Louisiana. According to TARG, Louisiana now holds the second highest number of ice detainees in the U .S., over 7,000. Texas ranks first with more than 29,000. And it's not just the numbers raising eyebrows, it's who's running the show.

According to research from the National Immigrant Justice Center, 90% of people in ice custody in the country are held in privately run facilities. These are incredibly, incredibly profitable businesses. There you go. That's America, baby. Profit. That's why. Far away from lawyers and very profitable. Like far away from lawyers. Far away in the middle of nowhere, Louisiana. Far away from lawyers. That would be, no lawyer wants to work there.

And from what I understand, the government facilities, it costs $120 a day to house a detainee and the commercial guys, eh, we'll do it for $75. We got you. We got you, gov. We got you, government. We'll take care of you. So that's why. And but Texas is still number one. Who knew? Oh, I didn't know that either. Where? Probably in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in Texas, outside of Waco. And with that, I want to thank you for your courage.

Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in coming to the gov. Say hello to my friend on the other end. The one, the only, Mr. Wine Orderer himself. John Cena. Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. Joe Gallagher. Yeah, hello, trolls in the troll room. Very trolly. Well, it's Father's Day. 1912. That stinks. I thought there'd be more people willing to hear our Iran bombing stuff. No, I guess not. They're like, dad's more important. I'm okay with that.

If dad's more important than Iran bombing. Iran bombing stuff. I'm fine with that. I'm good. It's nice. You had a nice little ditty in the newsletter about the origin of Father's Day. Can you recant? I mean, recount? Yeah, Father's Day was, you know, it was a pushback. Mother's Day had been established long in the 1800s, I think. And they had, the fathers were short sheeted and they didn't get any day. And so they started bitching about it.

It began in 1901, the first kind of somebody came up with the idea of Father's Day. It never went anywhere. And then in 1956, to be specific, the Eisenhower administration, they recognized it was a Father's Day. And then it started floating around. It was in the 70s where they gave it a day. Third Sunday or second Sunday of the month or whatever. And it's always been semi-rejected because it's a symbol of the patriarchy. Yes. And socks. Socks.

Socks. I got Happy Father's Day from my stepdaughters, even. It was really nice. Both of them? Both of them, yeah. Both of them. And from my own daughter. Yeah, it's nice. I feel like a dad. I feel like the patriarch of the family. Heck yeah. Well, I got a Happy Father's Day from my daughter, not from my son or my stepson, either one. None of them, or my wife, nobody else. Really? Mimi didn't even say, hey, thanks for being a great father? But I probably ignored it. How can you ignore it?

Does she need a banner flying over the house? Does she text you? You just ignored it. No, I think she said something last night, but it wasn't official. Hey, by the way, Happy Father's Day from my... All right. But I think we've discussed this already. It's a nudnik day for the most part, except apparently for our listeners. Yes. Well, we do have some Father's Day well wishes. I looked at the spreadsheet. I saw it come in.

But first, we want to remind you that the trolls who we count diligently, they're all listening through a number, a variety of ways, and they're in the troll room, of course. Trollroom.io where you can listen live, and you can troll along if you feel like it. Lots of trolling happening today. Suggestion, listen on a modern podcast app. Did I tell you that the research came out that it's been denied, that YouTube was out there claiming they're the biggest podcast platform ever?

Did you hear any of that? No, I know nothing of what you speak. Okay. So, well, basically, Google slash YouTube have been just going on and on. Well, people, podcasts are on YouTube. Podcasts, everything is a podcast. And they'd go in and automatically... If you had headphones on and a microphone, they'd change your tags to, it's a podcast. And then they say, oh, we've got a billion podcasts. It's like, it was fake and gay, honestly. It was not okay.

And then some guy came out from Signal Hill Research, which is part of some other big group, said, no, no, no. In fact, if you look at it, it's like over 60% listen to podcasts on podcast apps. And then the whole industry, which for a year and a half has been going, oh, you need video. You can't have a... Oh, the market's demanding video. If you don't do video, you can't have a podcast. You won't be successful. No one's going to care about you. The young people, they only watch podcasts.

They don't want to listen to podcasts. On a dime they turned. You know, people are misinterpreting what I was saying. You know, I just felt it was the shiny new thing. Boo. So podcast wins again. You cannot... In fact, I would say that podcast is the biggest medium in media in general. I think you could probably make that claim. I think somebody might be able to prove it. Well, if you take four and a half million podcasts, let's say the average...

Yeah. Well... When I turn to go YouTube TV, I do not have four and a half. Even with Pluto, I do not have four and a half million channels. A 1.8 of those million comes from Anchor, formerly known as Anchor, which is a free host and now is Spotify for podcasters. It's still free. So a lot of those are like, test one, two, poop. Right. Okay. That's your podcast. Test one, two. They got one episode. But let's just presume that on average, every podcast has 100 listeners.

That's 400 million, four and a half, 450 million. It dwarfs everything. You are either a podcast or you don't exist in media land. That's just it. Podcasting is bigger than anything else. En masse. And it's distributed and no one owns it and no one can take it down. Good try, YouTube, who came out and said, YouTube, you know, they've never reported their numbers. I don't even think they're profitable. If you were making tons of money with YouTube, wouldn't you say, hey, YouTube did really great?

Wouldn't you put that in your numbers? They've been very secretive about all their numbers. Well, they still report numbers. Their public numbers, the way they report numbers is like they don't want anyone knowing what their formula, underlying formula for number generation is. So they Google's always even before YouTube, they were always very sketchy about how they reported numbers. They had the money. There's money here. Look, there's a pile of money.

Well, that's the report they came out with is we contribute $55 billion to the GDP of the world. Okay. Does that include camera companies and probably that number is probably true, but the underlying foundational calculations for that number are a mystery. They had to make special chips just to encode all the video they get to do it with any kind of speed. I mean, I just don't see. Well, it doesn't matter. Podcasting MP3s. We're glad you're listening. We've never done video.

We're never going to do video. That's one thing I can say. We're never going to do that. We're just too old and boomery. No one wants to look at us old and boomery. You don't want to watch a couple of boomers with cans on there. I mean, what's worse than two boomers on a podcast is two boomers on a video podcast. That's the worst. I don't want to imagine that. So anyway, try out a modern podcast app.

It works with all of your existing podcasts, and it has lots of benefits, including chapters with art, which is nice, which you can crowdsource those. Dreb Scott does them for us. But I think the most exciting pieces are that you listen to the live show in the podcast app. It alerts you when we go live. We got the bat signal.

And when we publish, and this is the one that is most appropriate for today's issues, particularly with some of the legacy apps where you've got people complaining, oh, it's not an app. Within 90 seconds of us publishing the podcast, it shows up on the modern podcast apps. That's why you want to get one. Everything else is kind of the same. And there's like 27 other new features, but you can figure those out for yourself.

We are still a value for value program, which means we just give you our unadulterated opinion, years of experience, years of doing media deconstruction. I mean, I have end of show mixes. I just pulled out all the Bob Moran clips again. This is the fifth time we've used them in the history of the show. You could just keep pulling them out. They're still valid. Just keep pulling them out. There we go again. Time to Bob Moran. It's always the same people saying it too.

So we thank people who give us time, their talent, their treasure. We always thank people who support us financially. $50 and above. We'll mention your name. But before we even get to that, you mentioned it earlier, the artists. We should indeed be nominated for album art for a Grammy. I would gladly. It wouldn't be funny if we went up there to accept it. We got a Grammy for best album art. Go podcasting! That's what you'd make me say. I know you'd make me say that.

Definitely, you'd have to say that. So we have No Agenda Art Generator, which is one of the great examples of time, talent, and treasure. That is Sir Paul Couture who put that together for us. And the artists have been uploading art for well over a decade, maybe 15 years with different versions of the art generator. So we always get to, right after the show, we get to choose from a plethora of art, which I have to say I'm seeing model collapse before my very eyes. Everyone's using AI these days.

They've gone from photographic type images. Now it's just all cartoony. And the cartoons, they're starting to look the same, like the same cartoon. The same. It's like, that's why we get confused. Oh my gosh, that was my thesis, that digital 1-1-2-2-1-1-5, whatever his name is. Digital man 1-2-1-1-2. Was Darren O'Neill. Yeah, because it all looks the same. Because the cartoon they have, they're prompting. I don't know if they're using the same software. Maybe they're not.

That would make it even worse. But this happened with the last DHN plug that's coming up. Is the, or the one last week, or the one coming, there's one, some art that Andrew did. It is the same. It looks like it was done by O 'Neill. I mean, it's got the same character, cartoon type. It's just like a certain, it's annoying. It's the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy. You can't stop it. It's just unstoppable.

When this stuff keeps eating its own art, it's just going to, it's just going to get worse and worse and worse. And then, you know, whoa, no, but there's this new one. Yeah, because it hasn't been saturated with its own output yet. There's going to be a lot of new ones, apparently. Well, of course, because everyone knows you hang around long enough. I mean, who still uses Dali, please? That was, that was the cat's meow back in the day. I do. Yeah, well, where's your art then? I don't know.

Exactly. We, we want to thank our artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1772. And it was indeed Digital2112man for the concept. There were multiple versions of the concept. And this was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. No, because he left out the term Dr. Pepper. Yes, he, the most important part was left out, but he had the album cover concept correct. So that's why we chose it. It's, you know, I guess it's John and George. You and me, it's you and me.

I don't even wear glasses, but okay. No, but I, no, I'm the, well, who am I then? I'm not the guy with the mustache. The guy with the glasses with the hat. Yeah, I'm the guy with the hat. Had the right idea. And let's just go take a look at the other art because there was, there was one other, which actually had Dr. Pepper on it. Because that was a mistake. You said Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was funny. And so we had, well, there was also Digital2112man.

He did No Agendas, Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club, Curry and Dvorak Band. But it was just a poster. It wasn't even the right thing. He should have combined those two. Yeah, he should have. That's a misser. But if you're just working with prompts, you can say combine the two and you won't get what you want. But everything, everything is AI. And it's just blending together. It's all starting to look alike.

The good example is Digital2112's, if you go down further, you got the two cartoons next to each other. Keep that story in your pants and No Kings, which I like the No Kings one. But the cartoon style is the same as Darren O'Neill's cartoon style and every other cartoon style is the same one that Horowitz ran into. Because that's all. It's not even outputting good stuff anymore.

In fact, Scaramanga's Mexican Protestacan down further down, which I liked a lot, but you rejected because Curry and Dvorak was too small. You can't read it. It was too small. It was too small. But why is Scaramanga doing that? What happened to his photorealistic stuff? It can't be done anymore. I'm telling you, it's like Mike, Mike Reilly's entire catalog was boomers complaining about AI. No, I got more complaints coming up. Oh, yeah. Just so you know. Known fact.

Was there anything else that we like? Yeah, you like the crosswalk down below Scaramanga's thing, which I use for the newsletter. Yeah, because and the only reason why is that kind of reminded me of the Beatles, you know, the Abbey Road album cover. And it was OK. But again, Digital 2112 man. And what's going to happen is his art is going to start sucking because the AI is sucking up his art and it's going to suck worse. It's going to degrade.

Digital 2112 man also did the one another one I like, which is the Rotten Fruit. Yeah, which is down the next layer. And did you hear that the Atari chess computer program beat Chad GPT at chess? No. The Atari program in an emulator from the 80s. Yes. Yeah. And Chad GPT was mad. It was like, well, you know, it had all kinds of excuses. If we just start over, then I can show you I can win, was basically Chad GPT's answer every single time. Yeah, I think. Yeah, that's when you walk.

Yes, you're two out of three, five, three out of five. Yeah, right. But that five out of seven. What's next? That just goes to show. You know, this stuff is no good. It's not what it's great for is a so-called help desk. I think it's great for that. Yeah. How can I help you? Your trash will be picked up on Thursday. Would you like a special time for ten dollars extra? It can do that. I think help desk call center valid. Everything else. No good art. Disappointing. Disappointing.

I miss our artists. I really do. Well, I don't. They've deserted us. I think they're the new prompt. Jockey artists are doing just fine. I think it sucks. It's not it's not fine. OK, it's fine. Yes, it's fine. It's not great. It's just fine. OK, if you have a funny concept, you can still win, but it's not there's nothing is stunning anymore. Do you think there's anything stunning like, wow, that's just so great, so beautiful?

No, no. About, say, any one of these pieces that you bitch and moan about constantly, if you put it back in time five years and dropped it in, you'd win. Yeah. And Mike Reilly. Exactly. And he's deserted us. Yes, he has. Yes. Mike Reilly has left the building. Yes. I don't think he listens to the show anymore. No, no. Because of you. He's like the Dvorak. I hate him. All right. So yes, thank you very much. Digital Man 2112 for your win and no agenda. Artgenerator.com.

Anybody can prompt and participate these days, apparently. Now we thank our executive and associate executive producers for Father's Day for episode 1773 1776 coming up soon. This is where we chose. That's right. This is where we thank everybody who supported the show. Fifty dollars or more. In fact, in this particular segment, two hundred dollars or above. Not only do we thank you. Not only do we tell people the number, because numerology is important.

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Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Let's take a look at this. Karma. I want to take a look at Das Nordhaus. Das Nordhaus dot net. Go ahead. While you're doing that, I'll plug Sam Hamad. Hamad or Hamadi. He's in Commerce Township, Michigan. And he came in another $1,000 Ph .D., $1,000 from him, but no notes. So he has to get a double up karma. You've got karma. Okay, I'm looking at Das Nordhaus dot net. Wow, it is a beach house. Yeah. It's a cool beach house. How big? Uh, let me see.

Does it say how many? How many? Let me see. How many rooms? It looks big. Seven bedrooms. Three and a half baths. That's beautiful. It's got a bonus room, a breakfast room. Oh, man. I didn't get a deal. I could take Dina to Lake Michigan. Troy Walters. Yes. I was going to say, maybe one of the reasons the trolls are so low today. I just got a note from Janet, who says she's been trying to get listened to the live stream and she can't. No. How long do I have to wait?

It says it's coming, but will it? What should I give up? Where is she looking? I don't know. Oh, you know what? It's very. No, I know. I hate the life. I hate the bad signal. Everybody got the bad signal. I don't know what she's talking about. Let me see. She has two notes and she's so panicked. Well, did she go to troll room dot IO? That's I mean, I've said it a million times. Anyway, Troy Walters in Long, Long Warren.

Long, Long Warren, Long Warren, Long Warren, Victoria, Australia, one thousand dollars, which I'm guessing is is Australian dollar reduce matters not night number three. He says, do you remember when John ran the strip club and he sends a link? Actually, I saw this note come in and I and I posted the link on X. This is the Gitmo Nation murder in Australia. Do you remember that whole YouTube video from 13 years ago? Did you look at it vaguely? No. Oh, it's so good. They did. Oh, no, I did.

Yeah. The one. Yes. Yes. The one that they were. The guy gets shot in the alley. Shot in the head. Yeah, it was great. I guess he was one. I think I'm pretty sure Troy is one of the producers of that. And that was I don't remember the thing when it came out. Oh, I do. And it was before I and they and they did some video overlays and look pretty good. It was fun.

Yeah, the Gitmo Nation cops trying to come and get people shooting him in the head and people with Hello Slave T-shirts where you could still wear them. Good times. Thank you very much, Troy. Thank you for everything, brother. So so we are. Janet has sent in a bunch of screenshots from the troll room and she claims she can't hear anything. Look, I can't. I can't. I know I can't do anything. I'm just saying tech stuff for her. Maybe something's amiss. There's nothing amiss. It works fine.

OK, well, I'm just saying she's I don't normally see this sort of complaining. I don't know what to tell you. I can't help it. I'm doing a show. OK, I'll send you the note. Yeah, take care of it later. OK. Onward, I think you had the which where you're up with Chris Kearns. Oh, Chris. Yes, man. Billerica, Billerica, Billerica. Is that right? Massachusetts never has bugs. No, sounds right. Thanks for the show. I'd like my knight named to be Sir Chris of Billerica.

I know it's pronounced differently. It's got to be a little additional. What? Maybe Billerica could be better. It could be no, no additional items at the table for me. No jingles, no karma. God bless Chris. All right. Then we go to Joop. Joop van de Pet in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. One thousand dollars.

And he says a few weeks ago, I asked John to bring back the Ph.D. immediate deconstruction because I think that having attended more than 400 classes in over 400 years now qualifies me for this coveted academic title. Yes, it was. He was the one who was the one who triggered this. So I was thrilled to hear I could be graduating in the class of twenty five. I hereby send you my tuition fee, which also brings me to instant knighthood.

As my knight name, I would like to be known as Sir Vix Destroyer. Wait, that's way too offensive. Let's go for Sir. Sir T... Tiefied? Maverick? Tiefied? Tiefied? What do you think that is? T-I-F-I-E-D. Tiefied. Hello, I'm looking for feedback. I have got nothing. Sir Tiefied Maverick of the Peaks and Poulders. Tiffied. Tiffied. No, it's not Tiffied. Tiffied. Tiffied. Tiffied. Sir... Oh, Sir Tiefied. Sir Tiefied. Sir Tiefied. Well, duh. Sir Tiefied Maverick. OK, got it. Of the Peaks and Poulders.

As it reflects my cultural heritage being born in Colorado near Peaks... Not Pikes Peak and living in the Netherlands. Can I have tulips and tumbleweeds at the round table, please? Why, yes, of course you may. Can I eat those? Well, you can. You can. Hey, it's whatever he wants. You can have whatever you want. Forget about the arrangement. Yes, a centerpiece. I have a couple of requests.

When I donated for the first time a while back, my note mentioned that I didn't want to be a douchebag when meeting Adam at the meetup near Schiphol, but I forgot to explicitly ask for a de-douching. Therefore, I never got one. Please officially de-douche me. You've been de-douched. Also, could you put my girlfriend Oshra on the birthday list for show 1777? You're gonna have to email this back, brother. That's... I mean, Jay is pretty good at it, but email just in case.

She turns 40 on the 30th of June. Last time I donated, I asked for jobs and relationship karma, but I received neither. Since then, I did manage to find both a great job and an awesome girlfriend, so I guess I can go karmaless this time around. However, he wants WTC7, and we told you so on no agenda, which is actually a banned jingle, but we've banned it so long that I'll play it because we don't like spiking the ball. Thank you for your courage, says Joop van der Putt. WTC7 won't go away.

We told you so on no agenda. There you go. Yeah, that's no good. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, that was a long... I would call that the long note of the day. Long note. That was a long note. There's more to come. But Baronettes Kelly in Sayville, New York. Okay, Ville. ICM gents, I hope you have a very happy Father's Day and a happy Father's Day to my amazing husband, Joe. Yo, yo, Joe. Thanks for putting up with all the estrogen in our household. Just some yak karma. Thanks, boys.

Baronettes Kelly of the longest island. You've got karma. Oops, there's the topper. Yeah, Amzie Meyer from New Rockford, North Dakota. 333.33. In the morning, sorry to blow out your spreadsheet again, John. Not long ago, I got my tax return. The mail asked my wife if I could donate it to no agenda. Reluctantly, she said yes. That's a good idea. The small amount of stolen treasure I've been able to recover is being donated in honor of my father for Father's Day, which will make him a knight.

He should be knighted Sir Preston, knight of the CS. I'd also like to call out Jeremiah as a douchebag. When the mask mandates were in place, Dad went to hospital a few times. When he was told to mask up, he told the nurses that he can't because he has CS. Why? Because CS stands for common sense. I don't think he's listed on the Knights. Okay, I'll check it. Dad, you're an amazing father and role model to me and your other human resources. I love you.

On a more sobering note, I would like to ask for prayers for all those who have taken the jab. Life goes on and it isn't easy to be ignorant when you're healthy, but I worked with someone who recently died of heart complications after being through hell and back with blood thinners, medications, and open heart surgery. It's frightening to hear people discuss taking 10 different medications to counteract the side effects of the one or two they actually need. He was also vaxxed and boosted.

His wife also started having similar issues, though I haven't kept up with her. Another former co-worker of mine who was only 59 had two strokes and has been calling me to tell me she won't be coming in for work even though that she stopped working here over a year ago. Adam, go set Rogan straight about AI. He's becoming part of the op. I did it on the last show. I told him he was wrong. With love, Sir Amzie, Knight of the Northern Plains.

May God bless the two of you and thank you for your courage. So let me make sure we have Sir Preston. Knight of the C.S. on the list. Okay, you may continue while I do that. Yes, and Angel Young in Tucson, Arizona. Our first associate executive producer at 263.22. There's no note. Uh-oh. That means a double up karma. You're getting all the good ones today. You've got. Yeah, I am. Karma. Moving right along to Daniela Pompu. Pompu. Daniela Pompu. Los Angeles, California, $250.

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Reminds me of a million golf jokes. On the 11th green at Bishop's Stortford Golf Club in Hertfordshire. Thinking of you on this special day, Dad, for all the great dads. Sir Stuart, the angry accountant. All right. Sir Donald. Ah, Sir Donald of Calgary, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 233.99. In the morning, John and Adam, please accept my donation of 222.22 USD. He did give us. It doesn't. 233.99 equals 222.22. I seems unlikely. Isn't Canada almost like 40% down from our U.S. dollar? Wouldn't be up.

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Thank you for the best podcast in the universe. Your pal, Sir Donald of Calgary in the future free Republic of Alberta. Hot Pockets. All aboard, trains good, planes bad. And a little bit of karma. Here we go. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. F cancer karma. You've got karma. Anonymous Saint of the Northwood smoking hot wife in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. Two 3333 from my mom to my dad. Happy anniversary on June 13th to the anonymous spirit of the Northwoods from your smoking hot wife.

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And I'd forgotten that it consists of two parts. Here we go. The oldest jingle in the catalog. WTC7 won't go away. That's right. Wait, wait. Part one. Here comes. I don't know how to tell my baby. That's it. That's the oldest one we have. And I think that's right. That's at least by file date. That makes sense. And then the most recent one. Which is soon to be a class, an instant classic, everybody. You've got karma. Huh? Yeah, finally on the list.

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So I promised some griping about AI. Yeah, I thought that promise was a promise for the future. No, no. Well, the future is here. Welcome to the future. It's actually two, two clips. Apple had their big WWDC conference and, you know, liquid glass. It's gorgeous, but, but missing, missing from all of the announcements was the, the overhyped and overpromised Apple intelligence. And the Wall Street Journal somehow, amazingly, got an exclusive interview with Craig Federici.

You know, Craig, he's the chief of software. And Greg Joswiak, he is the head of marketing. And he's like, hey, what happened to Siri? Weren't you supposed, aren't you Apple? What happened to Siri? Where is our super Apple intelligence from Siri? Yeah, you got liquid glass. It's gorgeous. But what about your AI strategy? Last year, you announced a smarter AI driven Siri. Where is she? We had a really two phase plan, two versions of an architecture to deliver a great Siri.

And as we got into the conference, we had V1 working to do basic capabilities that we showed off at the conference. So we had some real software we were able to demonstrate there and show what was coming. But it didn't converge in the way, quality wise, that we needed it to. That's Apple speak for it really sucked. We had something working.

But then as you got off the beaten path, and we know with Siri, it's open ended what you might ask it to do, what, and the data that might be on your device that would be used in personal knowledge. And we wanted to be really, really reliable. In other words, it was hallucinating. And we weren't able to achieve the reliability in the time we we thought. But there was a working version of this. This wasn't just, yeah, vaporware. Oh, no, no, no, no. Of course.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It wasn't real. It was a real demo. Oh, no, no, no, no. Of course, no, we were filming real working software with a real large language model with real semantic search. That's what you saw. Yeah, there's this narrative out there that yeah, it was demo ware only.

know it was it was again something we thought as Craig said would actually ship by later in the year and look we don't want to disappoint customers we want we never do but it would been more disappointed ship something that didn't hit our quality standard that had you know an error rate that we felt was unacceptable so we we made what we thought was the best decision I'd make it again Steve Jobs is rolling over in his grave never would Steve Jobs admit defeat like that he would blame it on the

user you're holding it wrong you did it wrong you're doing it we'll send you a rubber bumper but you're doing it wrong so of course how is this possible you're your Apple it's great that you set this high bar you're also Apple I mean you've got more engineers more cash than most companies maybe any company why can't why couldn't make it I mean this is this is new technology I think when it comes to automating capabilities on devices in a reliable way no one's

doing it really well right now and we wanted to be the first we wanted to do it best and I guess say we had very promising early results and working initial versions but not to the level that as we began living on it internally and feeling we're like this this just doesn't work reliably enough to be an Apple product so this stuff takes hard work but we do see AI as as a long-term transformational wave is one that's going to affect our industry and then and of course our society for

decades to come we want to get it right there's there's no need to rush out with the wrong features and the wrong product just to be first it can't be done Apple won't do it because it's no good it just is no good it's not gonna happen if Apple can't do it who can I mean they can make it look gorgeous but no I don't think it can be done John I don't think it can be done it can be done but not by Apple nah it's no no good it's not all they had to do is just release

sir with a different voice and say it was a I they would have gotten away have anonymous Indians in the background just scrambling and so we know that the kovat shot is a very controversial in America because people are losing access to it and just because it's not recommended they're not losing access but interestingly Canada is following suit healthy individuals will be paying out of pocket if they want a kovat 19 shot the province making the announcement Friday it means starting this fall

most Albertans will have to pay full price for the vaccines and the shots will be administered through community health clinics not available at pharmacies as they have been in years past now there are exceptions seniors in supportive living environments home care clients and those older than 65 or six months and older with any underlying medical conditions or immunocompromised they're gonna kill their seniors they just want to get rid of them well that's Canada's whole thing oh

they always have the option to you know you you're gonna have this heavy medical bill or you can kill yourself well this has been a Canada thing for some time I happen to have two clips from Del Bigtree you know Del Bigtree yeah and he had on this woman what's her name Angelina Ireland and she had quite an interesting story about the so made is the name of the is the acronym for medically assisted something death what is it medically assisted induced death what is it what is it for what does

it stand for again mad Canada medically assisted Oh medical assistance in dying oh it's even easier to remember medical it's not even a night cool term is like so it seems to be kind of a mandatory feature of all health care in Canada at the time when they were pushing made down on to everybody who gets public money okay so any any company that gets public money anywhere well it's a public health care system everybody gets public money so everyone's on it everybody's getting

money it's everybody it's everybody Wow so we we did have a public partner partnership public -private partnership with the Fraser Health Authority okay and we were told in our hospice so I became the president of the Delta Hospice Society and we were told because we had a hospice that we operated a facility that we actually built we fundraised eight million dollars we built it we got a land lease for 35 years we built those buildings on it we were told that if we want

money we're gonna have to start killing our patients we're not killing our palliative care we don't do that right the whole point is just ease the suffering as they go through this experience well life yeah until your natural end which I could help you with yeah right and so they said well you're not getting any more money we said that's fine we don't want your money and we don't need your money Wow okay right so we had we're sitting on this land with our buildings so we had 25 years left on

that land lease so as soon as we started to resist and be defiant not get into lockstep they canceled that lease with 25 years left Wow right yeah it evicted us from our buildings took our money away and basically took our facility from us kicked us off the land and expropriated those buildings eight and a half million dollars worth add to the government so the government walked in started to operate our hospice with us gone and provide euthanasia there man they're just killing their

citizens this is the medical system in both countries we had that clip from the Joe Rogan show last show yeah where the woman talked about how the hospital is just killing patients with the morphine overdose yes get rid of them yeah get rid of them but yeah this idea that well you know you you get some money from us you got to kill some of these people off I mean there are there are drain as they're useless eaters this is the kind of kind of elitist mentality we're dealing with here you

know what good is it it was so great so what grandma's in the she's okay she's alive it's okay so what get rid of her it's it's kind of ghoulish kind of I mean this is this is the thing people in Fredericksburg should be worried about oh I'm sorry they're not because you know President Trump is gonna roll out the med beds and it's gonna be great you know about the med beds don't you know here we go the whole everyone's talk I thought we mentioned this med beds med beds med

beds look it up med beds MED BEDS explain the med beds oh it's a new breakthrough and President Trump's gonna roll it out they're gonna be everywhere the med bed is you lay down on the bed no matter what issue you have it has sonic vibrations it will heal all the sonic vibration it will heal you the med beds because we know it's vibes that cause everything it does the work vibes man I'll be vibe coding on my med bed there's a second part to this because of course Dell says sorry

I'm gonna tell you you can get clip of the day for that oh well thank you very much that that wasn't even expected as a follow-up Dell said well what about the media aren't they covering this a period of time and all just because you're like we're not gonna offer death as one of the options in our hospice that's right so you are now compelled you see and this kind of made right is conquest and then compel that's the dance that's the modus operandi that they're using and that's going to

be facilitated by the court system by the judiciary yeah right and all of ours our court our courts and our judges are appointed in Canada appointed by the government yes and so the government is controlling the whole thing and what's so what where's the media come into this why is the media not pushing back I mean because I mean here I mean I know here we have pharmaceutical control of our media so we'd be kind of screwed here but you don't have that in

Canada no we have government control of our media the government gives the media billions of dollars so basically it's you know I joke kind of not really that is like Soviet style Pravda yeah that's our media so none of the television stations they all get government funding I'll get money but particularly the CBC yeah that's the state media outlet and they get money right and of course you know we have never been able to get our message on to the legacy media into the

mainstream media it's all very pro-maid so people don't really even know how bad it is oh that's why you get all your Canadians listening to the no agenda show we'll tell you how bad it is just give in just become any government money well these that we know of just we're getting that Jew money though get enough Jew money or government money all right five minute warning okay well I got a couple of let's see what we can do here I don't have much left anyway well we could you know

I was watching a Netflix and there's a special called cocaine flights or so there's some cocaine specials very short documentary is it involves Sarkozy oh and they were trying to try to blame him for smuggling cocaine or something and he says a joke but then meanwhile this smear piece comes out on Sarkozy from the BBC there they're out to get Sarkozy the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of France's highest honor the Legion d 'honneur as a result of his conviction for

corruption mr.

Sarkozy was found guilty of bribing a judge four years ago and finally handed a three -year sentence in December last year Wow I didn't know that yeah of course not why would you know mm-hmm so that my last clip I'll play a tick-tock clip oh thank goodness I'm gonna save one of them for later but this one here is this is these are embarrassing these are racist clips that keep cropping up and it's not like anyone's making these dumb women go online and say stupid stuff and you have to

look at and say is she an actress is this acting and you have to say no I don't think it is and in this case it's a woman complaining about having her car repaired and she doesn't understand the word catalytic she thinks it's Cadillac and so she doesn't get the fact that she thinks they're trying to convert her Jeep into a Cadillac and it's just it's a mess I love it when people think that I'm stupid I love when people think that I'm stupid because tell me why I'm at the mechanic

shop and he talking about I need a Cadillac converter but I drive a Jeep make it make sense I think I'm stupid ladies when y'all going down to the mechanic shops take somebody with y'all your brother your uncle your daddy your boyfriend somebody stop going to these mechanic shops by yourselves cuz they know we don't know anything about cars so they're trying to give us any type of services that we services we don't even need outrageous prices because I don't understand make

it make sense a Cadillac converter I don't even have a Cadillac a Jeep converter maybe they think we stupid ladies don't let these mechanics play in your face and it'd be the shade tree ones all the way down to the dealerships they all try to play in our faces so next time when I go get my car fixed make best believe I'm gonna have somebody with me because I'm not playing with these people today I'm not playing with these people they think they got me but ain't got me I have a

since we're doing car talk I have a car story so Tina went to get a new car not a new car a year old you know we're not stupid I gotta buy a brand new car so she but she goes the dealer she gets a year -old car and she and I said just make sure it has everything you want and the one thing she asked for was adaptive cruise control which is you know it's a nice feature adaptive yeah so that it you know you don't have you can just set the cruise control it'll stay X amount of

car lengths behind the car in front of you if the car slows down your car slows down radar in the car okay LIDAR whatever it's a call it's every car has it these days so she gets the car she comes back and it was my request it was it wasn't even her she doesn't care she's a car girl she likes to drive she doesn't I don't want any cruise controls for wimps so was my request I'm a wimp I like I like adaptive cruise control and I say oh that has cruise control but it's not adaptive she says what

so but you know and we and I said well if you want to go back she's nice itself is fine is the big f-word it's fine I don't need adapter bar is her car yeah I just won't drive your car cuz it doesn't have adaptive cruise control it's her car she says it's fine and then so she gets the survey and she puts on the survey you know not five stars four stars because and she puts in there and Tina's a survey girl too she fills out surveys because she's a used to be in marketing and she's the

season is I would fill out the survey let people know and she says yeah the you know the the sales guy said it had adaptive cruise control and didn't otherwise I'm happy with the car the sales guy calls her oh can I send you the survey again because you know I get dinged in my compensation if I don't get five stars on everything so what is the point of the survey oh this is classic this happened to me when I was flying Emirates do tell I've told the story in the show

before I don't think so you fly Emirates air I'm going to Dubai and so you're in the Emirates which is a great airline I mean this is the most comfortable airline and beautiful food of course everyone's all covered up in burkas but besides that it's it's a nice flight and at the before the flight ends they have these magazines that they give everybody they say on page six of this magazine we want you to fill out these surveys and then they monitor you and so you have like three or four in

-flight magazine of magazines from various companies and you and you have to it has which is your favorite airline you got to check Emirates and so they make and they check your they check your work yeah you didn't share what is this no no no not cat day Pacific is the Emirates or they throw this study throw them they'll throw it out it's like what kind of a survey is this they do this everywhere it's a great airline but come on people yeah and Tina also got a new phone her old

phone she had out of phone like five years things falling apart so we go to the T-Mobile store you know and it takes forever it takes longer to get a phone than a car yeah oh is it back it up and move it over up on T-Mobile for this exact reason and then as we're about ready to leave the guy says you know you'll get a survey it would be great if you could give me five stars because anything less and I get dr.

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by date by location if you can't find one on no agenda meetups calm start one yourself it's easy and always a party still to come we have our bomb bomb Moran and to show mixes you will love that that's a little ditty if you haven't heard it five times in our history before because it always seems to pop up for some reason very interesting we're always trying to bomb Iran John's tip of the day coming up as well but first we search for the end of show ISOs I don't think I

have a winner so I will go first don't touch the hair man I'm glad not a good end of show but it's a good bit to just a half yeah no good I agree what do you have I have one only hmm and I brought back one of my favorite girls yes I just love this show so sexy don't touch the hair man I just love this show so sexy everybody but before you even get to that it's John's tip of the day created by Dana Burnett II okay well Mimi reminded me that I have I have a rotation

for these tips and this is the cleaning product that I do every couple months another cleaning products beautiful cleaning products people need cleaning people always can use a good cleaning product yes I agree this is a good one it's been tested this is leather honey leather honey now there's different products you can get for to keep your leather fresh especially if you have a car with a leather interior because it gets hot in there it is and it dehydrates the leather yes the leather

gets all crackly and you and you need to keep it hydrated and leather honey now they also have a conditioner that the conditioners the one you want they also have a cleaner there's a cleaner and a conditioner but the cleaner you can use anything to clean your leather but it's the conditioner that you want leather honeys run it's not cheap it's around $16 and it's it's terrific it's a terrific leather product do you use this on the 27 year old Lexus on the leather

seats in the Lexus yes you can use it on it yes and you use it on the indoor outdoor dashboards it's particularly good on German cars which have which crack really fast the German leathers junk do you know what they've done with the new Lexus friend of mine brought it brought a new Lexus and you know what they have now on the Lexus if you look away from the the road in front of you too long the car says hey look at the road if you start slouching it tells you hey

sit up straight and you can't turn it off as far as I know oh that yeah this is the Lexus nag 3,000 yes the famous Dana Brunetti who celebrated his 52nd birthday just recently what a baby he's such a baby he's a newbie and newbie coming up we have the end of show mixes we've got oh we've got the clip custodian Neil Jones we have Jeffrey croaky who's back and then we have instant night me and Ben Tunes tune said with the classic bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Moran mix-ups

for the end of show mix and coming right up if you can listen to the live stream I guess we've had some troubles for some reason Nick the rat is coming in from the sewer right here on the no agenda stream keep listening at troll room dot IO or in your modern podcast app and we look oh and of course we look forward to seeing y'all on Thursday and I would say coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country home of the new med beds happy Father's Day

everybody in the morning I'm Adam Curry man from the other Silicon Valley where we also wish you a happy Father's Day of John C. Dvorak remember us at no agenda donations calm we'll see you on Thursday until then adios mofos who we who we and such Oh not create any violence nobody was shot nobody was killed get it in your head don't think that somehow because they called out the National Guard there was there was no bow I was on the streets as an opportunity and they moved in and they're

just playing right in at Donald Trump's hand going in hard bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom and then bottom again bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom bottom but who's gonna drop a nuke here this should be played at high volume preferably in a residential area because this is my point we need ever been working in this city really badly who are they going to get to pick all the food and the vegetables because I because that this is my point you know

think back y'all wherever you heard that food is gonna be sitting and rocking because there's no one to grab it I love that that's a fantasy of mine I dream about it now that's the way it's supposed well I've been called hysterical for because Americans don't want to do we know that the farmers are saying the Americans don't want to do that because I because that this is my point that's the way it's supposed to be I just want to say you know construction places you're gonna have a lot of

time trying to people who are going to be able to come and do you have we the people we bomb them we need to kill and bomb them bomb them we need to kill and bomb them bomb them we need to bomb them we need to kill them and bomb them again the best podcast in the universe adios mofo jevorak.org slash n-a I just love this show. So sexy.