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From refinery row where we're all watching Deborah X. Yes, we are. China Chit China. Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-China Yes, but before we talk about China, I had a rather interesting re entry. Oh you're Back. You are back from the uh hint hinterlands. the lowlands, the lowlands The lowlands and Gitmo nation there and uh you have a report. Yeah. Always entertaining, I might add.

Yes, uh our reentry into uh well first of all we had a great time. Um you know, we hung out with Christina and Kevin and we just had fun. It was great. And the airport ho hotel, I have to say, got kind of old after a week. Well they're not the they're not the most luxurious of places. They're just hands. Well they're yeah, I mean they're business hotels, but we were in the hotel a lot because of the uh shows and stuff like that.

But the thing that bothered me is there was a blueberry in the hallway. Have you ever had this where you see a blueberry or something on the carpet? You're like, hm. And then you come back in the afternoon, the blueberry's still there. And then for the whole week you're looking at the blueberry and yeah, then someone stepped on the blueberry, but it never really got cleaned up, the blueberry. That was very disappointing. Oh well did you report it? No, I did not report it.

Well you didn't report it, what do you expect? Well I was waiting to have a little bit of a little bit of a

Hello, world service. I was waiting to see if they would vacuum the hallway as just a crazy, uh, crazy example. Uh they did not. So, um we came back via Detroit. Which is a fine way to go. You know, you can go Atlanta, Minneapolis, Detroit Detroit is a fine way to go. Yeah, for a for a transfer yeah. Actually that airport's kinda fascinating'cause there's a subway system that goes in that's inside the airport itself. It's more like a monorail above. It's not it's not as This is weird.

It's a above way. Yeah, it's above way. It's not a subway. And we decided to walk, you know, to gate seventy three is a long way away. Um but upon reentry Uh we had uh when you we have signed up uh this is uh typical Tina things like we're doing global entry. Okay. We got global entry and you get your TSA pre check and all that to go with it.

So uh uh at uh C B and and I should say as an aside, um there's pretty much it's all C B P now instead of TSA. Um that was just we noticed that on the way out. Well I mean you know, I think that there's still a C D Pistrict Police. No, C B T. The Customs and Border P patrol. Oh. Yes.

Who are doing most and you know, and I th you know everything's kinda smooth, but then coming back in, so you know, we oh we don't have to stand in this line. We're going to the kiosk. We're going to the global entry kiosk. And uh it's odd because you have a card and you got your path. You don't need any of that. You just stand in front of the thing, it goes, biometrics, hello, all right, m walk on by.

So as we're walking up'cause you still have to go through the little the little port and talk to the the dude. Uh he says, Adam and Tina Curry? Well that's interesting. I I didn't expect him to come on up here, family. Okay.

And uh he's like, Okay, where were you? What were you doing? Were you working over there? No, seeing my my daughter, she's gonna have a baby. Oh, that's great, okay. Uh bring any cash with you? No, no cash. Any fruits, meats, vegetables, drugs, anything else we should know? No, nothing. Okay. Oh and so we go in and we're waiting for our for our bags. And there were several customs border patrol dudes patrolling through kind of the the people waiting for their bags.

And I saw it right away, you know, and I'll try not to look like patrolling. And boom. Uh folks, can I see your passports? Okay, passports, yeah, here you go. Uh the same questions. Yeah, what were you doing? Why you're there? Work, you bring any cash? Any uh any uh moot meats, fruits, vegetables, anything? Any drugs? No, no, no, no. Okay, all right. We get our bags, we're walking towards the exit. Another dude.

Uh hey folks. So we just talked to your colleague. Oh really? Say yeah. Said it must be because we look like international diamond smugglers. Is that what it is? Why don't you step over here, Mr. Curry Me in my big mouth. So you made a side remark. I it was a funny remark. I'm like w why are you guys targeting us? Do we look like international diamond smugglers? Yeah, folks want you to step over here. Oh, there's a bank check on you then. Yeah.

Yeah. But the it was so obvious they were looking for cash. Okay. Do you have any cash on you? How much I said how much ca how much do you You're looking for cash coming in? Yes, yes. I don't know. I said, How much cash do you want? Got eighty bucks here. That's all I got. And they really didn't do a thorough a thorough check of the bags at all. Um they were nice and everything, but it was just so odd. They kept asking about cash. It must be a co you know what I'm thinking? What?

There's a counterfeit ring going on in Europe. Something must be going on with cash. Yeah, that they they're looking for counterfeit money bring broad into the country. That I mean that's the only thing that makes logical sense. Maybe. I mean and there's so much to look at in my bag, you know, I got I had my studio with me. No no. Yeah, but they didn't ask a question about it, I'm sure. Not a single thing.

It was it was kind of but so it had to be the cash. Meanwhile I'm thinking, you guys are all so old fashioned. I got a bitcoin memorized in my in my head. I'm walking around with a full bitcoin crossing borders. Didn't mention that, but Cause it is, isn't that just kind of old fashioned, this whole idea of cash? Who who smuggles cash across the border anymore? Especially into the country. Yeah, right. Unless it's counterfeit.

Some of the imagine if I had some of those Trump dollars that we got uh snagged with the other day. What is this? Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So Yeah. We did have uh a dinner with Lex and Fariba, his uh Persian wife. Which was interesting. Yeah, well what's the lowdown? Uh well first of all we had Peking Duck which is kind of Strange to have that in Amsterdam.

Um and she and I said, Yo, so what's the deal? Have you heard from have you heard from uh your family? She says, Well, like once a week we might get a WhatsApp message and they have to do all kinds of all kinds of uh stuff to, you know, you sometimes get a SIM card, if to find a Wi Fi signal. So it's very, very difficult. But in general, when they get a message, it's like it's everything's okay. Nobody knows what's going on. Nobody. They just don't know what's going on.

And you know, and it was it was kinda fun as we're just we're just talking about life in Iran, in Tehran and life in Iran and And I say, Yeah, you know, that that son of the the Khomeini guy, he's supposedly he's gay. And Furiba says, Oh, we have no idea how many men in in Iran are gay. What? Oh yeah. She says, you know, y you can't hold hands with a woman, but you can kiss a man on the street.

I what? Oh yeah. There's even cave drawings in Iran of men having sex with men. This goes back thousands of years. What that sounds kind of weird. Yeah, yeah. She said but it is. You you can you can make out with a with a dude, but you can't hold a woman's hand in Iran on the street. And now on the other hand She made uh made very clear to me that hijabs have really not been a thing in Tehran for a long time. In fact, she says, Look out the window.

Said, look, look at the street here. Says there are more hijabs in Amsterdam than you will ever see in Tehran. Which was kind of a a double, a double slap. Like, yeah. Because it's true. Man, you do not want to go to Amsterdam anymore. Is this there's no Dutch people there. That stinks. Yeah, it does stink really good. And it must really ruin the bar scene. The bar scene. Actually, I have a couple clips about the uh the internet blackout in Iran, if you want to hear'em. Sure. Okay.

Ninety million people. That is how many Iranians have been functionally cut off from the global internet since january eighth, twenty twenty six. Not slowed down, not filtered. Cut off. Connectivity sitting at 1% of normal levels, according to netblocks. The digital governance monitor that has been tracking this in real time. By March tenth, the total had hit two hundred and forty hours of blackout since the start of the year. The Internet monitor marked the milestone publicly.

calling it one of the most severe government imposed shutdowns on record globally. And that was not even the peak. By april eleventh, the counter had crossed one thousand hours. The ceasefire between Iran, the United States and Israel had already been announced three days earlier on april eighth. The guns went quiet, the missiles stopped, and the internet stayed off. That is the detail that tells you everything you need to know about what this blackout actually is.

Because this was never about the war. The war was the cover story. Over the next few minutes, I'm going to show you exactly how Iran built a two-tier information system. Who is online while everyone else sits in darkness? What the regime told the world out loud about who deserves a connection, and why the plan that FilterWatch obtained from inside the government. makes every other authoritarian internet crackdown look like a trial run.

I thought that was kind of a interesting report because you know, they they really did have a whole plan to cut people off from the internet. Um which I guess could happen anywhere. I guess. If you had enough control I don't know about the United States, but I could certainly see it happening in any European country, any EU nation state, and here's uh some of that plan. Technical architecture behind all of this is what makes this story genuinely different from every previous internet crackdown.

FilterWatch, the Iran focused internet monitoring organisation, obtained and published a confidential government plan in january twenty twenty six. The name of that plan is Absolute Digital Isolation. The document describes a deliberate, coordinated, multi year project to transform Iran's internet infrastructure. into what it calls a barracks internet. Under that system, access to the global web is not a default right that gets selectively removed during crises.

It is a privilege granted only to vetted individuals and organizations that pass a security clearance process. Everyone else gets the domestic intranet. Everyone else gets State television. Everyone else gets what the regime decides they should know. The plan is being built on a Huawei-based platform. Yeah. Coordinator. There it is. Iran International obtained information indicating the project is estimated to cost between$700 million and$1 billion.

with all equipment from Huawei entering Iran in twenty four containers after the june twenty twenty five twelve day war. President Masood Pazeshkian visited the construction site in march twenty twenty five. China's ambassador also paid a visit. So and and they have these jamming systems for the Starlink and they you literally have internet and internet pro.

And if you can afford the internet pro and you're on the list, then you can go outside the country and surf the web or do whatever. And somehow WhatsApp once in a while gets through. So... I can see it. I can see that as being a Huawei system. And they sell it to everybody. Hey, you guys want this? You can shut down your people?

Well, you know it's a bad sign, but uh it seems like something that uh other people would be looking at. You're right, the EU could do it. Yeah. Anyone could do it. Maybe it should be done in some countries. Субтитры сделал DimaTorzok You're losing control. Let's be honest, it's not like the internet has has been a a plus for for the world, has it now? Well I mean it it expedites things. Yes, yeah. But that's about it.

It's made every it's my it's made our job harder. We used to be able to watch C SPAN. Now we gotta watch all this other crap. That's true. Did you see any of the of the err Heg Seth hearings, everyone moaning and groaning about Iran and how much it costs and all of this? Yeah, I saw some of it. I think we played a couple of clips. It's been going on for a while. Yeah. Well my um I think it was Murkowski. Where's she from again, Murkowski? What is she even doing in DC? I'm sorry.

She's the one you have to do Murkowski was Uh I don't know how she she actually ch kinda her appearance changed. She was fairly attractive when she was younger. Oh Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. Let's take a look. Yes. Well the point is that she was a the r d Republican representative senator from Alaska. And then sh but she's kind of a middle, you know uh uh middle of the road Republican and so they decided to primary her years and years ago.

And so they brought some stiff in there to run against her, and they took her off there. She wasn't a Republican, she couldn't re register as an independent. Oh, yeah. So she actually had the statewide right in vote. You had to arrive. Remember. Name in the ballot. And she won. You know, I'm looking at her and yeah, she had kind of that cute political kind of face back in the day. You know what? She forgot to moisturize. Yeah. Well she's got a skeletor like look now.

That's where things went wrong. Ladies, you've got to moisturize, particularly if you're doing a lot of flying. Please remember these things. So she misquotes the president, which I thought was just fun to listen to. Now let me turn and say Secretary Heg says the the president has called Medicaid, Medicare and Childcare little scams and said quote we're fighting wars, we cannot take uh care of daycare.

Okay. Let's just go back and listen. Do you think that's what the president said? Did he say these are little scams? Unlikely. Yeah. actually said to them, uh I said to Russell, don't send any money for daycare because the United States can't take care of daycare.

That has to be up to a state. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We have fifty states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare. You gotta let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it.

too. They should pay. They have to raise their taxes. But they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up but we it's not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. Things. They can do it on a state basis. You can't do it on a federal We have to take care of one thing military protection.

So that's what he really said. He said the states need to take care of it, not the federal government. But she twists that and let's just listen to that once again. Now let me turn and say Secretary Heggs the the president has called Medicaid, Medicare and Childcare little scams and said quote we're fighting wars, we cannot take c uh care of daycare. Yeah, you see, that's how you do it. Don't ignore all the preamble that he said. Just say he said this.

W which is complete positioning'cause this is you know, a a a senatorial hearing and it's all about the clips and it's all about your little moment and that's what she wanted to get out. And it's dishonest. And now she now it's like, so b for your half a trillion dollars, Heg Seth, you crazy Christian, for your half a trillion dollars, we have to give up our health care.

Senator, that's that's not my department. I certainly support this and I also support the President's efforts to find and remove fraud wherever possible in a general sense. Yeah. I'm not I'm not tr talking about fraud. I actually asked whether an American family should lose their health care or their child care to pay for this budget. That is literally what the President suggested. Oh man. It's so good.

The President has proposed a historic one point five trillion dollar budget that will defend the nation. And space uh golden dome. administration said they wanted to take care of this problem. He did not.

This committee, the question in front of the American people is what are they being asked to give up for this one and a half trillion dollars? That's where I was talking about. And uh lastly, Mr. Secretary, your budget request cuts through Trump's Ramblings and really makes the truth clear that you and the President don't value families as much as you value defense.

It's such yeah, you don't you don't value families. You just like war. Well, you're talking to the war guy for She's gonna bring value families in, she should he should have thrown back at her with what do you need daycare for?'Cause you should have their true f family structure would have the Oh yeah. Hey if you're if you've Yeah, no, he's n he's good, he's not that He's no he's not that good. President Trump though, you know, he he definitely does not care.

Also taking a toll on American consumers. Inflation rose last month by three point eight percent compared to the same period last year. Energy prices fueling the surge with gas up twenty eight point four percent. That's one factor driving up prices in supermarkets and restaurants. Whether it be Iceberg, Romaine. All the Okay. Tomatoes. Four Before leaving for China, President Trump said higher prices here at home will not influence his negotiations with Iran.

Only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about American financial situation I don't think about anybody Good work, President. That doesn't help his case. So them so but of course, you know, we have to keep spiking the ball here. So we have Patty Murray, Senator but where's Patty Murray? Another one.

Yeah. Becky. Mr Secretary, the war in Iran has not only cost thirteen American service members' lives, it is also costing American taxpayers dearly. tens of billions of dollars and counting and that's money that could be helping people perhaps get health care. But instead we're paying for bombs dropped in a war that American people overwhelmingly oppose. See, you could have had health care. We also all could have had like a new car.

Uh all kinds of stuff. But she oh no, you everyone could have had health care if you stopped dropping bombs. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Oh actually I take it back. Patty Murray from Washington State. Yeah, she's the idiot from Washington. I should be able to do that. Trump's war with Iran. That is twenty nine billion dollars blown on a war of choice, and that's what it would have cost actually to save the Wor By the way, stop. Good. of choice. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one.

They say it as a as a kind of a catchphrase, a war of choice. Mm-hmm. Uh it hasn't caught on and they they they stopped do they started right away with it and then they stopped it for a while and then they're they're bringing it back. Testified Trump's war with Iran cost twenty nine billion so far. That is twenty nine billion dollars blown on a war of choice, and that's what it would have cost actually to save the ACA tax credits.

But as my colleagues have already stated, what is concerning as well is it seems quite clear that that is that cost estimate is suspiciously low. Healthcare versus uh war. Somehow that seeped into the bress the pr into the president's brain and and he's using all kinds of healthcare terms. Have you noticed this? Check this out. Bye. Yeah, i it's i unbelievably weak, I would say. I would call it the weakest right now.

After reading that piece of garbage they sent, I said I didn't even finish reading it. They said, I'm not gonna waste my time reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest. Right. No. It's on life support. They understand these are all medical people. It's uh doctor Oz is standing behind him and he said, Oh the ceasefire's on life support. Doctor Uz, life support is not a good thing. I would say the ceasefire is on the And then I was like, Well yeah, uh that's right, Mr President.

Massive life support where the doctor walks in and says, Sir, your loved one has approximately a one percent chance of living. But they changed their mind'cause they didn't put it in the paper. So when they sent us this document that we waited four days for, that should have taken ten minutes to do, r it look very simple. Simple. We get that, they guarantee no nuclear weapons for a very long period of time and a couple of other minor things, but they just can't get there.

Yeah. D did you notice how he slipped that new thing in there? What's the new thing? No nuclear weapons Yes. Yeah. Yeah, that that's definitely on the table. Yeah, so they're obviously gonna do some deal where uh or they're working on a deal where, okay A moratorium on your doing the enrichment. Yeah. How many years? Okay. Ten, five, ten. You know, and they can make the argument what different you know, since they're waiting for the twelfth Iman uh

You know, what's it what difference does it make whether you wait another decade or not for the twelfth imam? Come on. Does it make a difference really? That's the art of the deal right there. Hey, listen boys, you're waiting for the twelve. He's gonna come, he's gonna come. He'll come when he's ready. Ha ha ha. Uh

Oh that's so funny. Yeah, so um the president and his entire crew are in uh in China. This has been this has been quite interesting to watch. Uh do you have any clips on uh on on the China visit?

I don't know if I do. I'm kind of all over the map with clips today. But uh You wanna do some China stuff?'Cause I've I I've been noticing a few things. Yeah, do finish your China stuff up. Hãy subscribe cho kênh La La School Để không bỏ lỡ những video hấp dẫn Prelude on N T D. Uh teasing the whole thing. There you go. Yeah, good. President Trump touching down today in Beijing for a high stakes two day summit.

Wow, the the terms the terms high stakes, high stakes, pomp and circumstance is a lot of um buzzwords they're using. President Trump touching down today in Beijing for a high-stakes two-day summit with Xi Jinping as rapid shifts in the global power dynamics loom large. Blows to Beijing's key partners in Venezuela and Iran mounting tensions over Tuan, and human rights. Yeah. They're in Tuwan. What's the problem with Tawan? To one. You gotta be sitting at home watching Why are they saying Tawan?

Blows to Beijing's key partners in Venezuela and Iran mounting tensions over Taiwan and human rights all expected to be on the table. And today's White House correspondent Mari Otsu sets the stage for us from the North Lawn of the White House. President Trump. Arrival in Beijing for a major two day summit with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping comes against the backdrop of a new world order.

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro dealt a major blow to one of China's key partners in the Western Hemisphere. And just weeks later, US strikes on Iran hit another regime that's reliant on China, with Iran's foreign minister visiting Beijing a week ahead of President Trump's visit.

Again, all all I say is Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism and China has been buying ninety percent of their energy, so they are funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism. But more importantly, the uh Iran the

The threat of attacks from Iran uh has closed the strait. We are reopening it. So I would urge the Chinese to join us they uh in supporting this international operation. You know, there there are things moving through the UN that China and Russia Now, as President Trump is in China meeting Xi Jinping for the first time since they met in Busan, South Korea, last fall.

Talks are expected to go far beyond trade. That's as the president has framed tariffs, market access, and the flow of fentanyl from China into the US as national security issues. And while new trade agreements on US goods like soybeans, beef, and other farm products.

products are on the table, past deals with the C C P have proved fragile, like the October trade truce reached in Busan after months of zero US soybean purchases from China, China only meeting the twelve million ton goal after repeated delays and extensions. The summit also coming as Washington challenges China's critical minerals monopoly.

Yeah, you know, so everybody uh is spinning this in a certain way. And I'm a little mad at myself. If I had heard your clip, I never listened to John's clips for everybody listening, uh,'cause I wanna be just as surprised as you are. Uh I would have done a a a supercut of this high stakes. Here's the B B C Start with the superpower summit in China. The US President Donald Trump has landed in Beijing, where he'll meet the Chinese leader Xi Jinping for intensive talks.

My colleague in Beijing, Steve Lai, described the moments immediately after mister Trump's plane touched down. Mr. Trump. Thanks, BBC. can see Air Force One just uh landed and taxiing uh to its uh stopping position. You can see

Mil President Military fatigues there standing alone and solitary uh in the center of that screen or just to the left as we go past it. The plane will uh we imagine be turning around. We saw a ladder as well getting ready to to be placed in position for uh the president and his delegation. to walk down and you can see another there military figure standing as well. China said Mr. Trump's visit could be the start of a new chapter in relations between the superpowers and a turbulent world.

state visit, but significant tensions remain between the two countries, and there are a number of complex issues that US and Chinese delegations will need to navigate. Battles over trade and the fight to dominate strategically important technologies like AI mean the two sides will have some very difficult conversations ahead of them. So even if this visit seems friendly, with Donald Trump predicting several times that

Nah crap. The other clip has high stakes in it. This A B C clip has high sta everyone has high stakes. With great pomp and pageantry in China rolling out the red card. Carpet What is pomp? Well I asked the robot. No, I haven't even fired the robot up. Hold on a second. Where is the robot? Hello. Pump. What's the circumstance? The whole thing Explain the etymology of pomp and circumstance. Come on robot. It got Oh, there we go.

According to the Book of Knowledge, Pomp and Circumstance originates from Shakespeare's play Othello, where in Act III, Othello speaks the line pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war. Pomp comes from Latin and French, meaning splendid display or ceremony, while circumstance in its archaic sense meant formal ceremony rather than mere condition. Well we learned something. Yes, I didn't know that.

Well that was interesting. I have to say it's the first time the robot has provided something that's actually interesting. Oh yeah. With great Pageantry China rolling out Oh now we got Pomp and Patrick. They're juicing alliteration. That is not from Shakespeare. 300 young people waving Chinese and American flags. Steps behind him, two of the major tech leaders he brought along. Elon Musk and Allied chipmaker, Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Wong.

D didn't you just love how everyone was going on for days like Well, you know Jensen Wang's not going, he's not going who he's not going he's not going Yeah. Oh, he's going. The summit had already been rescheduled once because of the war in Iran. But the war is now in its tenth week, and China, by far the largest buyer of Iranian oil. And while the president claims the war won't dominate the agenda, he knows it looms large.

They they uh they say they just say stuff. Oh this is tense, it's intense, it's all about this. I I think I think Trump is really looking forward to it. I think he's happy. He's the best. Well did you see Trump's uh presentation at the table? I have a couple of clips of that, yeah. Yeah, he he's pretty magnanimous. Yeah, this this is you remember ARK. America, Russia, China.

against the globalists. I I I I really think that uh everyone's on a little uh party line, some little call, Hey Vlad, hey G, hey Donuts, how you doing? Yeah. And he's got all he's got all his guys on his side of the table. The b the Chinese just got a bunch of ministers, but he's got you know, he's got I think Tim Cook is there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh Wan all these guys that are hotshots that do business with China. Yeah. He is. Listen, more pomp.

A key story of the day. President Trump meeting with uh Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. We're gonna get straight over to Eamon Javers. He's on the ground in China. Damon's on the ground. Good morning. Yeah, good morning to you, Andrew. You're looking at live pictures now of President Trump arriving at the Great Hall of the People. This is for uh the banquet this evening. Remember, it is evening here in Beijing.

Beijing uh and the they have a star studded cast of Cudd uh and political figures attending this. State banquet uh at the Great Hall. We've seen uh cameras in the room. Elon Musk is there, uh, along with a whole host of American CEOs as well. Uh the president uh was greeted by pomp and the president. Pomp and ceremony. Pomp and ceremony. Wow. This is great. Uh the president uh was greeted by pomp. You know, there's you know why they're saying this?

They're saying this because oh Trump all he cares about is is that that they suck is suck him off. Pomp, they just wants pomp. That's why they're saying it. And ceremony earlier today at that same great hall of the people, we saw soldiers marching, adoring children, and of course this handshake which was a Yeah, I think that's a good idea.

That President Trump traveled halfway around the world to come to Beijing to signal uh friendly relations uh with the Chinese side and h uh he hopes to cut some significant business deals. Now, there were some uh some real interesting first um, I didn't know this, but it's very rare that the Secretary of Defense or of War, as we call him, uh would join.

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Hegseth has become the first American defense chief in decades to accompany a sitting president on a state visit to China. This marks a rare break from traditional diplomatic practice. That it that that is kind of interesting. Yeah, what's well, y I have a clip here you should play. Because what's most interesting is Rubio is actually banned from going to China. That's the second part of my clip, but I'm happy to play yours. Oh okay. Well I mine's a little more probably a little more elaborate.

The Secretary of State is traveling with President Trump in Beijing after China sanctioned him back in twenty twenty for introducing bills as a senator targeting the Chinese regime's crackdown on political dissidents in Hong Kong and slavery camps for Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Rubio also introduced legislation to stop China's forced organ harvesting of fallen gong practitioners.

Yeah. Human rights are the most distinct differentiation between the United States of America and the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party is currently conducting a gen genocide. They do forced organ harvesting, which means they pull organs out of living people. Officials does the Chinese Communist Party perform? First. Is this Rubio saying this? No, that wasn't Rubio. Analysis. This is N T D again? Yeah, of course. This is unlike any regime we've seen for say eighty five years.

Yeah. You can think back and see who else acted like that, Nazi Germany and others. And President Trump himself has also vowed to bring some of the Chinese regime's human rights abuses back into the spotlight with the imprisonment of political prisoners, uh such as the Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai and Christian pastor Ezra Jin Mingri. No. Let me see if I can find it for you.

So how is he being allowed entry into China? Well according to reports, Beijing is using a linguistic workaround. Rubio's name has been modified on official Chinese lists. By altering the first syllable of his surname to Lou, this will allow authorities to bypass. Wait a minute, isn't that how they pronounce his name anyway? Ah, Secretary Lubio. Lubio. Lubio. Mr. Lubio, your hair. Yeah.

It's almost like they're writing the jokes for us. Oh, I know what we'll do. We can't have Rubio come, but Lubio, Lubio, welcome. Earlier China also indicated that the U.S. Ruby. The sanctions don't Okay. Um let me see. I think th this this You're right, they they dropped the ball on the punchline. Yeah, it's it's a great punchline. Ha Sakatali Lubio. Welcome to China. This is MBC. Here's the president exiting the plane now, gonna come down those steps.

Absolutely. Listen listen very carefully, I think the the guy comes in here and he's gonna tell you what what he wants you to hear about how China is supposedly thinking about all this, but he uses really sketchy sources. Yeah. this particular ceremony that we're going to see here. Jonathan.

And we had just had Janice explain to us tomorrow will is really where we'll see a lot of that pomp and circumstance when he actually meets with Xi Jinping when the two of them are together. But walk us through what we're gonna see here in this moment and just how significant it is the president stepping onto Chinese soil. I mean as as your colleague said at Yaks, I mean this is the first time we've had a US president visiting China nearly in nearly a decade.

And President Trump was the last one to make this trip back in back in 2017. So this is this is fairly momentous, just the mere fact of the trip actually happening, right? And it is a shift in the o overall tenor and vibe for the US-China relationship. relationship because after that trip in twenty seventeen you of course had the trade war with Washington, uh between Washington and China. Yeah. Yeah.

between the two presidents, it was always in third countries, right? I think there was a real hesitation on both sides. in this kind of reciprocal visit, especially since it's the w the relationship Almost back to an earlier era in some ways, it feels like. Ah crap, that's not the clip I was thinking of. I'm sorry. I dump it. The second time you did this. Yeah. It happens. I got a lot of clips. No, it's because you're you're jet lagged.

Yes, I that's it. I'm jet like. So here is a translated version of uh President uh G's speech just a little bit here, a minute, at the big banquet. And I'm listening to this, I'm like, Man, these guys, they got plans together. This is this was really nice. Mr President, this is a historic visit. This year marks the start of China's fifteenth five year plan for economic and social development. Say what? Oh you mean the the the amount of people? The odd amount of people with those bullshit.

Wait, let's go back. Here we go. How many do you think it is? What is the latest tally? What is Well the most people are pushing it at six hundred million. But I think it's around eight hundred million. There's still a lot of people. Oh yeah, it's three uh two two to three times as many as we have. Yeah. Advancing Chinese modernization. This year is also the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of American independence. This is nice of them to mention that.

After after they say, Hey, we're five thousand years old, but g congrat happy birthday. Happy birthday. of American independence. The over three hundred million American people are reinvigorating the spirit of patriotism, innovation and enterprise. Yeah. Yeah. And ushering in a new journey for the development of the United States. Thank you. The people of China and the United States are both great peoples, achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again.

Whoa! Hand in hand. We can help each other succeed and advance the well being of the whole. They throw out a MAGA, the whole thing. I that was nice. Poor Maggie and It's gonna throw a MAGA in there and said, Hey, we can we can work together, link arms, we grab Russia, we'll fight the globalists. Here's our president. As allies in World War two, President Franklin Roosevelt's mentions of the brave people of China that's what they were crew loud cheers and his speeches in the United States and

Wait a minute, wait. Were we friends back then with China? Well yeah, we had the Flying Tigers over there fighting the Japanese. We had a lot of yeah, the Chinese and us were tight. We were the ones that roused the Japanese were on the side of China. There was all kinds of uh work uh work arounds, work togethers, uh Yeah. Where did you let us do that? Where did this? Where where did this all go wrong? When did all of a sudden they become the big evil China?

When Mao Zung uh Basically, uh maybe you know, forty nine I think is when that began and when they and when the Kuomintang went over to uh Taiwan and Uh Shankai Shek, you know that kind of thing. Yeah, it's just a couple of bad dudes. That uh we noticed that these guys have a lot of uh interesting capabilities, over production being one of them. And then we shipped everything over there and went, Huh, screw you, America. This is great.

Of the brave people of China, that's what they were, through loud cheers and his speeches in the United States and Everybody loved what he had to say. Just as many Chinese now love basketball and blue jeans, Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains. Wow. I didn't hear that one about the Chinese restaurants. I'm surprised they're not calling it. Love that Chinese food. Egg Fu Young. Trump is racist. Zoe.

Racist, he's racist. He's m cracking jokes about them. Chinese restaurants. And uh this is the rap where uh he gets the invitation uh to come and visit us. America prepares to celebrate its two hundred fiftieth birthday. President Trump referencing the past and America's history, talking about US China relations over the years. Positive and productive, and referencing the future with an invitation to China's President to visit the White House in September. Yeah. This is that was funny.

What are you looking for? Yeah. Gone nudge. The guy was talking about he was reading stuff off Twitter. Oh well, the Chi the Chinese think this, the Chinese think that oh man. Yeah, I'm pissed about that. Yeah, maybe there's... Henry Trez joins us here, managing partner and director of economic policy at Veda Partnerships down there in New Orleans. Narland. What are your expectations and the expectations of the people you talk to about this uh coming up summit with President Xi in China?

Thank you. Hey guys. Um my expectations are much like yours, pretty low. I think um Secretary Best. perception for not just weeks but months now, even before the Iran war I am Oh, they have it. They haven't? No one's been th this is Bloomberg. Well Bloomberg hates Trump. Oh big time. Delegation like this since Hank Paulson during the Great Recession, for all of us who remember what that was like and the coordination that was needed around the globe. So

I'm really f expecting if any gains are gonna be made and it's not just a you know, maintenance of the status quo. I suspect it'll be on the soybean deal that she reached in twenty twenty five. I really know I'm everyone talking about oh soybeans it'll be about this and it no. I think that g it's only one that's only one topic.

And everybody thinks it's Taiwan. I don't think it's Taiwan. I think the topic is, hey, Donald, how do we get some of that oil? We need that oil. But can what are we doing? Can we fix the oil? Isn't that the only thing that they care about at this point? Well I would think that would be at the top of the list because China has to get their I mean there are there's they suck energy.

Yes. I mean they do have a lot of coal in China. That's the one thing they do have people always overlook. And they have a lot of coal f fired plants that can keep things going, but they need they need M they need oil. Yeah. And and I think they'll still get it at some kind of discount. But a couple things gotta be squared away. Look at my boys here. I brought all these boys over here. Um we're gonna let you buy some some uh some chips from Jensen. We picked'em up at Alaska.

You know, at the last minute he was trying to hide. Where's Jensen from? What is is he's Asian. What are his roots? Is he Korean? It's Taiwan, really. I think so, yeah. I found the clip I was looking for. Oh it's about time. No, it's a Taiwan bit. Here we go.

As the president makes his way to the stairs of the Temple of Heaven, want to bring in NBC News Chief White House correspondent Garrett Haig, who is in Beijing. And Garrett, as we take a look at these pictures of the two leaders here after their their meeting, high stake.

Oh she throws high stakes, pomp and circumstance in one sentence. Pump and circumstance and pageantry. Yeah, that's right, Francis. And really we only know about that behind closed doors portion from Chinese state media at this point, as you laid out, the Chinese were very quick to say that they believe Taiwan is the most important issue between the US and China.

So he's watching television over there and then he quickly s switches to the Chinese are saying She uh warning President Trump that this is an issue that could ultimately lead to conflict. G didn't say anything of the kind. He did not say that. They're all say they're all parroting this say well Xi said but Taiwan no, you got that off of some television station.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the Taiwan issue like this. They say if the U Chinese were arming a US state that wanted to secede. We wouldn't tolerate that in America. Why should the Chinese tolerate the US position in providing Huh? Say what? They're making it up as they go along. Yeah. Chinese tolerate the US position in providing arms to Taiwan. It is a deeply personal issue on the Chinese side. Likewise, another apparent warning from

You hear that? Another apparent warning from Likewise, another apparent warning from Xi to President Trump, according to Chinese state media, about Enjoy it. Reminding President Trump that there are no winners in a trade So we got media people informing media people, but on the ground the guys like you love my blue jeans, I love your Chinese restaurants, uh MAGA this, working together that.

I get a very different vibe than what they want and then they they bring in Yes, because you're uh listening to actually what they're saying and they're be being recorded and Well that's crazy. As opposed to just making it up. That's crazy. And then they bring in this thing. Some fairly effusive remarks from President Trump at that bilateral meeting. We also saw comments from Xi Jinping at that meeting. Two warnings for the U.S. side from Xi Jinping. One was on Taiwan.

But there were th she never said this. There's two warnings. Warnings for the US side from Xi Jinping. One was on Taiwan. The Chinese leaders said that the t the Taiwan issue, if the US doesn't handle it properly, could lead to a dangerous confrontation. He did not say anything. This is what this is what kills me. He they're making it sound like he said it, but it didn't. And then here it comes.

Between the two countries. He said Taiwanese independence is not compatible with peace in the Strait of Taiwan. So a stern warning there on the issue of Taiwan. The the Sud What? It's some from some Greek play or something? Again, they go from pomp and circumstance to thy threat. Which it seems unlikely that the Chinese are gonna be qu quoting you know, or referring to some Greek play methodology or some structure. Makes no sense. All Confucius say that would be different. Tysidides trap.

is the historical pattern of when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, war usually follows. The phrase comes from the ancient Greek historian Thysuites, who observed that the rise of That's not pronounced correctly by the way, but I can't pronounce it. Thu Thucydides, Thucydides, Thucydides? Some like that. It's impossible. Who observed that the rise of Athens and the fear this instilled in Sparta made war inevitable?

Uh you're right. Th these guys are the Confucius dudes. They're not gonna use this. Okay. No. Bringing up this concept of the Thuclidides. He's going to be Uh the concept that the rising power in the world uh will always challenge the established power in the world and that will always lead to a conflict. Xi Jinping raising that sort of philosophical When did he raise that? Show me that. Philosophical point. point to say that this is one of the great questions of history. Give me a break.

At you, Brutus. US and China manage not to fall into that trap of competition and conflict and war that we've seen time and time again throughout histories. Okay. Yes, all right. Yeah, and those are neighboring powers, you know, that Sparta guys Yeah. Let's see. Субтитры сделал DimaTorzok What's true?

me about uh President Xi's speech is that he's a lot of the language that he uses to describe Chinese aspirations He's now To American aspirations as well, this idea of Chinese rejuvenation and making America great again in order to be a very important thing. Appeal to his guest. Let's listen in to President Trump. Thank President Xi, my friend. For this magnificent welcome. And it really was a magnificent welcome like none other.

and for so graciously hosting us on this very historic state visit. We had extremely positive and productive conversations and meetings today with the Chinese delegation earlier. And this evening is another cherished opportunity to discuss among friends some of the things that we discussed today, all good for the United States and for China and it was a great honor to be with you. Yeah, please. Yeah, he's been paying that at me. I see this as very positive. Well I so far.

A food fight breaks out or something. Rubios are his new name, by the way. President Lubio. Get used to it. You know, okay, so if China busts into Taiwan, I is can you keep the chips coming, Z? I mean, what is really the problem? I don't know Well I mean this is always gonna have to say, you know, the best bet is to keep the chips coming.'Cause we don't want them doing'em.

No, but I mean but I don't see why if China wants to repatriate Taiwan, or we already talk about it like it's part of China, that's part of the diplomatic discourse. So if they want Taiwan Uh I mean Nancy Pelosi was like, Oh, we're gonna we're gonna build a defend Taiwan. I mean shouldn't we just be like, Okay, whatever, that's fine, can we Yeah. I know, but but would wouldn't China be nuts to say, okay, no more chips for you? That makes no sense.

Well they do it with their m they kind of do the that kind of leverage with the rare earths. Well, but we started our um uh defense uh what is it, defense fund? We have a fund now. Did you know that? The Rare Earth Fund? Yeah, it's um That hasn't been done, Jack. Well no, it's it just started. It's the uh I forget what it's called. But it's a it's a defense i i if you wanna do r uh minerals and rare earths you can go borrow money cheap from the government. From the from the Yeah. Hey, Lumio.

Can we can we get some cash? Anyway. Well on the topics, I I think that's we Yeah, no, we've we've done show. But that does bring me sense there's so much lying going on. So John Kiriaku. He's been great. Yes. I've now concluded he's a pathological liar. And you know it's one of these things I'm kinda tuned in. I you know, I have the this thing about pathological liars'cause I've run into them uh now and again. It's always good to spot'em er as early as you can. Yes, you know.

Oh uh early is annoying to me, but I'm going to play what triggered me to think he's a pathological liar. Okay. And then I also did some research on his On his being arrested for being a whistleblower. Uh he was actually busted for revealing classified information and outing agents. Wait a minute, so is this kind of like uh my helicopter was shot down? Ja, kanske. Who was that again? Who who was it that got got fired from it? It was uh d uh not b uh Uh.

Peter Jen? No, not Peter Jennings. The guy in the middle. The guy that came after Peter Jen. No, it was an M B C guy'cause he's not going to be a good thing Oh, is it O D C guy? Demoted to s MSMBC. Carrie. Yeah, John Kerry, that's who it was. No, no, no. It was a news guy. I know, I know, but I'm just saying that as a joke. 'Cause he actually looks like John Kerry. It was uh How many? I knew the chat room would come up with it before we

The control room is i they're sleeping. They're like Jews, Israel Brian Williams, thank you. Ryan Williams. Dan O B G Y N five. Thank you.

Let me just read from the report I dveled. Okay. Uh John uh Kiriaku is not arrested for Exposing torture itself so much as for disclosing classified information about CIA personnel and operations. And then lying

Key word there. To the CIA during the publications review process for his book. Uh read on here, he says, uh the Justice Department City admitted disclosing classified information about another CIA employee and lying in the CIA's publication publication review board about a magic box technique while trying to publish his book.

And then when you go to the bottom of the of the report it says uh the true story is that he was both a whistleblower on torture, which was true, but he was a leaker of classified information and the legal case centered around the latter. And so this brought me to his stories about when he was in jail and he befriended the mob and he befriended the Mexican mafia and all this is a cock and bull story. And it's like then I started thinking about some of the other stuff he's discussed.

Uh, like he has a story about the capture of uh uh Carlos the Jackal and the timeline doesn't match up when you start looking at it. And everything he says is like embellishments and he And he does the look into the down and right thing a lot before he comes up with his uh with his tall tails. Oh one of those tells you.

I'm just so disappointed but I have to play two clips. One of them which is the triggering clip and then the other clip is just a blated lie An a c a a uh uh or a creation, let's say, let's call it a creation that he does on this m another one of these YouTuber podcasts, he's on a million of'em. But here's the here's the Kuriaki one this this is the one that triggered me to thinking this way.

That's interesting because, you know, uh when when we look into Epstein and and the files and the emails and all these dumps that that recently came out, you know, there was quite a bit um I don't know if you had ever has had the any time to read like Whitney Webb's book. I Yeah, Winnie Web is terrific. Whit Whitney's book was great. Ha ha It's unbelievable how many people fall for the Whitney Webb is great bit.

So this guy's a CIA analyst, you know, he's got uh insights, he's got knows operations and the rest and he he he goes for that. S Whitney Webb is great. News flash. There's a lot of dumb people in CIA. News flash. They're not all like super spooks, okay? And in fact the news CIA is filled with numb nuts. So So here we go. Now I wanna play this clip and and break it down. What w I mean this is

This is a creation and it's wrong from the get go in every way possible right to the end. And he doubles d even doubles down on a wrong fact. And he interrupts the conversation. Then it wouldn't be so bad if it was just like in the During the conversation he kinda throws this in no no no. He stops the presses so he can tell you this valuable information about Venezuela, its oil and the whole thing, and it's all bullshit. Here we go.

Yeah and and let's see if if you don't mind, Jay, I Oh feel free. How does Venezuela fit in or not fit into this? Venezuela is different, it's separate. Venezuela Venezuela's oil is is so dirty. It is so high and salt Oh man, this is right up your alley. Oh, you mu when you must have been just cringing listening to this.

This is people have to understand if anyone wants to know about oil and types of oil and refinery and mixtures and summer oil and win o summer gas and winter John C. Dvorak is your guy. Well, it's only because I worked with this I worked as a refinery I was just a background new people. I worked as a refinery chemist for two years and then I became an air pollution inspector with standard oil as my beat for eight years. I have some knowledge about the business. Ending.

And I have standing and I do try to keep up. In this case I like look at the trades and I see, wait a minute, how do you how does this work? How does that work? Oil daily? What is the trade? There's a bunch of them. There's a bunch of trades. I got a new podcast. This week in oil. I had you know, I was as I was doing this I ran into the fact that I was still like a decade behind on my jet fuel knowledge. Oh no, algae.

'cause I'm seriously thinking, you know, uh uh uh JP four which has been discontinued completely. Oh maybe. Day one. And I didn't you know, I I was thinking oh jeez, I'm still thinking these old'cause when I was a chemist I was we used to analyze JP the JP four stream and make sure it had enough anti uh freeze agent in it. Uh Yeah, which Anti icing agent had to be in there. You had to iced it down. You iced the JP four down to a froze.

Well anyway, they're back to this, okay. Back to this bullshit. This week in Oil with John C. Davore. Hey J Cal, new podcast for you. Venezuela Venezuela's oil is is so dirty It is so high in sulfur that it can only be refined at specialty refineries where they inject tons of chemicals to try to purify it. Even still you can't purify it enough to to turn it into gasoline. Right? Right. Right. And and these these refineries exist Right now for the most part

only in uh in South Florida. The Chinese built one recently, the Indians built one, but for the most part, the only refineries that can handle this really dark, heavy oil are in Florida. And the oil is used only for home heating oil. So when we talk about oil and international oil and OPEC, of which Venezuela is a member, we have to keep Venezuela sort of off to the side because it's a different issue from a foreign policy perspective. Wow. No mention of China really at all. Okay, go.

Okay, well let's not mention the fact that Corpus Christi, Texas has most Yes. Most of these refineries Texas has most of the refineries in the country. Corpus Christi has a dozen refineries that handle this oil. Mississippi has the biggest Chevron refinery that handles this oil. Yep. Louisiana has about five a half dozen that handle this oil. Florida Florida Florida has no refineries whatsoever. It's one of twenty or so states that have no refining capability in the entire state.

So he's talking about Florida. Second, besides that bullshit This kind of oil is the most valuable sort of oil. It's got the long hydrocarbon chains that can be breakdown by cokers and fluid uh uh catalytic converters, FCCs as they're called. And they can ba i i c this oil can be made into gasoline no problem. It can be made into kerosene, g diesel. And it has the advantage because it's so heavy of being used for making asphalt which is

Most oils can't do. You can't make an oil, uh a light crude, a really light sweet crude. You can't make it into asphalt. You don't you can't just boil it down and it turns into asphalt. No. You have to have the the big heavy crudes to do all the good stuff and that's what these these cr that's why the Brent i sells for more than Wex West Texas intermediate i on the open market. But so so he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not just used for home th heating oil or whatever he said.

It's just bullshit. It was bullshit from the get go. And the h the hydr the problem with sulfur, yeah. You do and you don't use a million chemicals, although it can't you can use some chemicals in the front end to soften the blow. But generally speaking it goes into a refiner and it's hit with hydrogen, uh just hydrogen, not a bunch of chemicals. You gotta crack it.

Well no it's not no not no this is a different process. This is hydrogen desulfurization, which is totally different process and it It turns the sulfur into H two S gas, which is super toxic and kind of a plague on most refineries, and then sent to a a sulfur plant where it's turned into elemental sulfur. Yeah, which one? And by these plants there are mountains of this sulfur and so he's full of shit this guy.

I love that you bring in Venezuela and yes, it was fun to hear. Stop I could just say something. I need to give you some expertise here about uh Venezuelan oil. It's no good. It's just crud. It's no good. But have you noticed that China has been very quiet? B they were getting all of their oil from Venezuela. All of their oil from Iran. I'm telling you, this it's not about Taiwan, it's not about beans.

Soy beans. No. It's like, hey, we're you know what, G? Why don't we give you oil that on nice, big, beautiful ships? The you don't you don't have to ghost ship in the middle of the ocean. We'll just give it to you. We'll sell it to you. Best price. It's gonna be good. What ships what ships got out of Hormuz? Chinese ships. Come on, this is w this is a America, Russia, China working together against the globalist dickheads. Sorry, just have to say it. Who all circle around Carney.

In Ottawa, Obama shows up, Soros shows up, Well, well we gotta we gotta we' we're we're the new l we're the new new liberal world order. We can do it. Rules based liberal new world order. No. These guys, they got it. This they get it. We're gonna work together, we're gonna compete, where it makes sense, but what we're not gonna do is we're not gonna be part of that stupid system anymore. That's what's happening. So now Kiriaku.

He's an op. It's also b now that you play these clips, he may just be really stupid and just loves getting on podcasts. Does he have another book? He must have another book. Well he came up with the I think he's got three books so far. Because he was on uh was I forget which podcast this was. And he by the way ended up on Jesse Waters the other day. So he gets around and oh it's Kiriaku. I think it's just'cause it's a cool name.

He got a cool name and he's got the story he tells about his being a whistleblower. And this is why he never got the pardon by oh by the way, just back to the oil. Mexico and Ecuadorian oil is pretty much the same as Venezuelan oil and nobody bitches about that stuff. But anyway, Kiriaku's always moaned and groaned about getting a pardon because he's this great whistleblower. No.

He's not getting a pardon'cause he's not a whistleblower. He was busted for being for uh being a leaker. And if any if Trump hates people, anyone he that he hates the most is a leaker. It's a leaker. So you remember on uh Sunday I played a clip, it was Sunday, I think it was Sunday or Thursday, from the New Yorker guy, and like, oh Tucker Carlson, he's the guy that can do it. He can run against Trump. Remember remember that clip?

Oh, hold on a second. Gotta gotta grab that one. Um you remember it, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. So when I heard this little ditty, these three little short clips from Kuriaka, I'm like, this is an op. And it could be that it's so the my initial thinking was this is an op, this is a CIA op, because there's still a lot of CIA CIA people, no doubt. You don't hear Trump talking about the CIA much.

He's got Ratzenberger sitting there like if you just keep him away from me. Ratzenberger, is that his name? Ritzenberger, Ratzenberger. Yeah. Ratzenberger's a good name. If you look at the polls. Somebody like Tucker Carlson. has an actual shot at winning this thing. So oh I love this chick by the way on the pocket. Yes. Listen listen. No by the way, with Kuryaku, nobody on any of these podcasts ever pushes back on any of the bullshit that he says.

Because you know, obviously if you're a podcaster you want you want Podcast president. You want Tucker Carlson to be your president. Yes. Oh. If you look at the polls Somebody like Tucker Carlson? Yes. Has an actual shot at winning this thing. What poll is he reading? Ele é um choque! Ele é um choque! Ele é um choque! This is great. I spoke to him about this recently. And he professes to not be interested. I uh Glenn Greenwald is another popular writer, podcaster, commentator.

commentator I think Glenn Greenwald would consider himself a journalist. I know that Glenn has spoken to him as well. Oh, yeah. Doubt it. I doubt that's true. I doubt that's true. No, if he's lying of course, but it's fun. Listen. It's like you have to run. And I and I told Tucker a week ago, I said, you have to run and I'm all in.

And he said, Well no, it's yeah, I'm not a politician. Which is true, but that's exactly what America wants. They don't want a politician. They want someone they can trust. And out of everybody that's out there in the chattering class, like you and The chattering class. Ah, that's what we are, John. We're in the chattering class. Yeah, well we're chattering.

They want someone they can trust. And out of everybody that's out there in the chattering class, like you and me He's the one that people trust the most. What What? Read my lips I never said anything like that. Read my lips I never said Trump is the antichrist ever at all. But he goes on our boy Kiriaku. Because he says what he believes even at a significant personal cost. He has to have security now. Really. He has to

He has to have security because he's becoming so prominent, so important, he's he's getting threats. And we're in this crazy period right now. Three different people have tried to kill Donald Trump. Okay, stop. Stop for a second. There is a clip going around. Of somebody somebody with I guess his pal sh filming it with the camera. They caught Tucker at the grocery store. It's an old clip. Oh, is that an old clip? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, Tucker just walked away. I mean he didn't have security with him then. This is Kiriaku. He said that his family members have received threats. Absolutely. And if she decides to run, it's it's gonna r really set his life in danger. It will direct danger. So maybe that's what he's contemplating.

I think that's exactly what he's contemplating. I think that that is I think that his primary uh concern is his family. Yeah. As it should be. And I think that he's probably thinking d what do I get out of this? I get one headache after another. He likes his life. He lives in a in a beautiful part of the country. He's an avid fly fisherman. So he can go fishing any time he wants. Why change that? Is it really worth it?

Yeah. What so what are you saying? Well, I got one more clip. By the way, we know that in the winters, in the winter, Tucker goes around and has dinner with his friends.

Remember that clip? It's like oh in in the winter I go and have dinner parties. Remember having a dinner party in DC? Okay, with that said, you compared you compared what might be in twenty twenty eight with with Ron Paul and Ross Perot and I'm gonna add John Anderson. John Anderson was a liberal Republican congressman. No such thing exists anymore. A liberal Republican congressman from Illinois in nineteen eighty. He ran against Ronald Reagan

and Jimmy Carter. And in the end Reagan got fifty one percent Um Carter got forty one percent. And Anderson got seven percent. Anderson had no money. Well and he got seven percent of the national vote. Well, Ron Paul got under two percent when he ran. Ross Perot got a good twenty percent. But he also spent, you know, almost a month. Perot dropped out. What is he talking about? Ross Perot. Yeah. They said, I'm gonna kill your family and rip their heads off. Uh okay.

He ran. Ross Perot got a good twenty percent. But he also spent, you know, almost a billion dollars out of his own pocket. This year could be different. This year could be different because if you look at the polls, talk about People hate the Uniparty.

For all intents and purposes, the Democrats and the Republicans are just different sides of the same coin. They essentially agree on everything. There are minor disagreements around the edges that they want us to think are grave differences and they're not. I I have to restate my thinking now because I initially thought this now I now I know it's an op we've got the New Yorker saying Tucker, Tucker, Tucker and then Kiriaku. But now I think this guy just likes being on podcasts.

And he'll say and he'll mimic anything he hears and anything he thinks is popular. Let's begin a podcast. Yeah. And he's latching on to Tucker's uh coattails, I guess. Well he did a he did Tucker show. It was very uh unremarkable. It was one of his worst podcasts, I think. Maybe he was too starstruck by Tucker, his future president. President Tucker. Actually d it's a possibility. What that he was starstruck. Yeah. But not that Tucker would ever run or would ever become a president.

But now it's dumb. There's too much goin' on with him. No. Anyway. Yeah, yeah. very disappointed'cause I was hoping to tur turn uh, you know,'cause he has uh he s he slanders people uh, you know, by i one person after another, Giuliani thinks should be in jail. He goes he has a whole bunch of and I was hoping to make a a b you know, kind of a a s a department, a segment of the show. The tri Kiriyaku slam. Then I realize he's full of sh It's no good. Uh, did you see uh Netanyahu on sixty minutes?

I did not. I missed it. Oh this is great. Oh. Clearly B B has seen the writing on the wall, the proverbial writing on the wall, and he's he's looking at things and going like man, I gotta make a statement, man. I've I've gotta stop these kids are They're killing me. They're killing me. They're they're they're making me look bad. It's like they got the wrong idea about Israel, I have an idea.

Do you believe it's time for the State of Israel to re examine and possibly reset its financial relationship? This is a scripted question. United States meaning what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis. Absolutely. I've said this to President Trump. I've said it to our own people. Their jaws dropped, but I said, Look at that. Laughto, laughto. Their jaws dropped, but I said, Look. What do you mean? What are you saying? I want to draw down to zero.

the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive we receive uh three point eight billion dollars a year. And I uh I think that it's time that we wean ourselves from the remaining uh military support. Can you give me a timetable? I said let's start now and do it over the next uh decade, over the next uh ten years, but I want to start now. I don't want to wait for the next Congress. I wanna start now.

Well, that'll be no good. Then we can't say that we give money to Israel anymore. That's so good. Can't have that. And then and then he went into this is his own personal thing about the cell phones. You know, he's got I got no weapons, man, I got no juice. I got no social media juice. I gotta pay people, I have people gotta do stuff. I gotta geofence the churches, we gotta have some good stuff about Israel. But I don't see a course. I've been in battle. I've seen friends die in battle.

And you would reject any characterization. I can't do very much of that. Because you can get into the cell phones and you can repeat again and again that I'm a war one. Remember what Oh this is no good. People call me a warmonger. And you can repeat again and again that I'm a war one. Indiscriminate sometimes used.

Yeah, indiscriminate where is discriminating as surgical as any army has ever been in history, not only with the beepers and not only with those leaders in Iran and not only with the other. But in Lebanon and in Gaza. In Lebanon and Gaza, yes. We do everything we can to avoid it. We've killed two thousand terrorists now uh uh since the beginning of the of this uh of the ri of the roaring lion, epic fury.

And we've been very careful to target them. But it's you know, if people say that you're a warmonger and they the repeated ad nauseum, you know, it assumes the cachet of self evident truth. And that's what's happening. You get into their cell phone Altyazı M.K. To repeat it. You show a picture here, a picture there of a tragedy. For us in Israel, every civilian death is a tragedy. For our enemies, it's a strategy. They implant themselves among civilians, you know, so that

They have civilian casualties and they can put it on the tube or in your cell phone. So yes, I mean I don't know How to fight it? I mean Churchill without cell phones and without digital campaigns and farm bots was labeled a warmonger in the nineteen thirties because he said you have to stand up.

And they accused him of being a warmonger. And Hitler didn't even say death to America, death to Britain, you know. I I think he might have planned it, but he didn't say it. And still they accused him of that. And he won the war and lost the re election. Yeah. Little snipe there. He won the war but lost the election. Yeah. B B's fighting for his life here, I think. Yeah, big.

Well yeah, because if he once he gets tossed out of office, which should happen eventually, he gets arrested for some corruption charges as well. Ja. Courts are lined up against him. That's why I've been trying to he's been trying to Prolong the war in Iran. Yeah, or anything. We can't ha we can't stop this war. Trump, you can't win this war, man. Then I'm a dead man walking. Can't do it. Can't do it.

I got a couple of other things here. A real whistleblower showed up in front of Congress to bitch and moan about the CA.

The setup is Um because the CIA was very mad about this guy. Yeah, I would be too if I was the CIA. Hold on, let me find this. Making it look as though the CIAs were what happened was the CIAs now so well okay play that right now. Well go ahead. Well, yeah, my thoughts were you know, the CIA were largely succored by Fauci, who had some, you know, things to say. In fact, they're one of the first clips I play here will

kind of introduced the idea that uh you know Chi they didn't want to hurt China's feelings or there was something that was going on that we nobody knew about. They it the whole thing was very scamish. When the whole when the when it was all Fauci, you know, doing his gain of function stuff and d using a Chinese lab to do it. You know, and it's like, you know, he's covering his own ass. This guy, you know Mimi was bitching about this guy. This guy

Talk about a guy who was skating. You got Ra uh Rand Paul just going after him from the get go and bro knowing that he was lying because Rand Paul had the somebody told had the goods read him in on what was going on. So he's always asking these pointed questions in the in the hearings to Fauci to get him to lie. Lied over and over and over again. They're not gonna do jack to Fauci. Here's the uh the here's the clip about the CIA being mad about the whistleblower you have the clips of the case.

I want to give you a little color that we're getting from the CIA just now. They are not happy with the way this hearing is going down. They are accusing Senator Rand Paul and the Senate Homeland C. security committee of quote, acting in bad faith in putting this hearing together. They say this witness in there isn't a whistleblower. They say he hasn't sought any whistleblower protections. They said

He's in that room right now because the committee subpoenaed him, compelled him to come in and testify, and the CIA says they weren't giving a heads up about this. The committee didn't go through the proper trick. Oh no! Provided Fox News a statement. It says in part quote, the committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA.

Despite having already obtained closed door testimony from the individual previously, the witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul. This proceeding amounts to nothing more than a dishonest political political theater, masquerading as a As the CIA has already assessed, COVID nineteen most likely originated from a lab leak, and efforts to undermine that conclusion are

disingenuous. Well Harris, as Senator Rand Paul, was walking into that hearing room this morning. Again, he chairs this committee. Um I told him about that CIA statement, told him they're accusing him of operating in bad faith. I asked him to respond to that. Here's what he said. The CIA says the committee acted in bad faith with this hearing. They just sent out a statement. You're responsible

You know, I think transparency is good. I think we overclassify everything. Congress passed a law to unanimously declassify all of the COVID information. information. We all want to know the truth. Where did it come from? Why it has it taken so long for people to admit to it. Now almost every agency admits that it did come from the lab, but they still haven't been forthcoming. There's no reason to have secrets on this.

We want them to obey the law. The CIA needs to obey the law and they need to reveal the information There you go. So see ya. Well, yeah. Mad. Mad. In fact he's right. The CI there was a law passed that said you have to declassify everything and the CIA acted in bad faith. Ex yeah, they exactly exactly right. So you know, this is the old you know, you you are what I say I am what I say you are, uh which is a Dutch phrase.

Wat je zegt, ben jezelf met je kop door de helft. I got a new one. Did I ever tell you about Strond aan de knikker? Poop on the marble? Someone has dogs obviously. And I guess back in the day if you were playing marbles and it rolled through some poop, you had poop on the marble. That's another fine No, no, on the marble. That you're playing marbles and then all of a sudden your marble runs through poop. You got poop on the marble.

Wow. I've never played marbles as a kid with poop in the area. I try to stay out of the area, that would happen. Oh the Dutch, you know, they used to have a lot of poop around, I guess. Guess so. Well here you go. CIA whistleblower uh this the in this the intro one. Next, Republican senators questioned a CIA whistleblower today over allegations that the intelligence community downplayed evidence supporting a COVID-19 lab leak.

Lawmakers accused officials of withholding documents as well as shaping analysis to avoid blaming China. Entities Chris Bob has more from Washington. See now th this is where I d disagree. I don't think it had anything to do with blaming China. I mean I mean Trump was calling it the Chinese virus. Yeah, right Racist, he's racist. Yeah, yeah.

We went through that. But so I don't I don't think it had anything to do with blaming China. It was the fact I still think this is true. It hasn't been discussed. I think there are liability issues. And it was developed by the United States as a weapon or something. Yeah. And Fauci was behind it and and along with some other people that he worked with as middlemen, I think there's liability issues. I think there's lawsuits for dead death. This should be.

Uh and and nobody wants to take cr you know, nobody wants to s look at it from that perspective. I don't think it had anything to do with blaming China. They were blaming China anyway, the wet market. All these dumb Chinese they eat pangolins. I mean it's ridiculous. So so this was I still think there's a liability issue and I think it needs to be explored. We developed a biological weapon and killed people with it. We need somebody should sue somebody.

I'm with ya. Where is Rob the constitutional lawyer? We need to There it is. Okay, here we go. Bring out the suits and boots. I'm here today to discuss the COVID cover up. Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident. Republican Senator Rand Paul at a Senate hearing questioning CIA whistleblower James Erdman on how COVID origin assessments were shaped.

For years Americans were told to trust the experts. So the very scientists that were commissioned to investigate COVID were, in some cases, the very scientists who were complicit in the origins of the gain of function experiments. Erdman also described a top down push inside the series. Relately. There's new information that came out in 2022. Ten CIA scientists that were said, why don't you go ahead and do a COVID relook? Eight of the ten Definitely leaning in on lab league.

Bergman said management pushed analysts to revisit their findings after a new assessment emerged. Six of the seven technical experts say, yep, we still think it's a lab leak. Management changed the analytic line. Senator Josh Hawley questioned why the Biden administration released only a five-page report after Congress passed a law requiring declassification of COVID origin materials, saying that statements in the document were false.

They said number one that nothing that was researched at the Wuhan lab could plausibly be a progenitor of SARS COVID two. Are those true statements? No. Not true. If they aren't our screw ups here in the US, why would the C P Birdman said one of the top scientists who did not want to go public said to him. Nobody wanted the lab league conclusion and um I'm concerned that there's too many people willing to make excuses for China in this organization for the wrong reason.

Yeah, I think um it's always the cover up. They always screw it up in the cover up. They're no good at it. It's always the same. The cover up is what makes it worse. Yeah, anyway. And if you listen to this guy, you know he's not. Yeah. Yeah, but you can't get away with it. The the guy is he's talking about Fauci injecting emails and then changing the the national intelligence uh

assessment. It's the the whole thing is it's corrupt and it's full of crud. And the question is, will anything come of it? Yeah. You know my th my take on that is no. No. Yeah. Well, Because the Republicans have they they have no backbone. They they haven't got the wherewithal to really But is this a Department of Justice thing. The Republicans can't throw someone in jail. They can only bring they can only bring it. I know they do a referral and that's then it dies.

Well that there you go. There you go. All right, here's the I can use one more question. However, the season of reveal. I mean we're we're seeing everything. You've been saying that for five years. Well the I didn't say the seas the season of arrests, I said the season of a reveal. It's correct. Senator Ron Johnson said he wanted a bipartisan committee like the Church Committee deputy. View intelligence agencies. But he pointed to the fact that no Democrats attended the hearing.

church community there's there's no curiosity on the other side about what's happening inside State. Senator Paul argued there is no reason why scientific arguments surrounding COVID nineteen's origin should remain classified. Reporting from Washington D C Chris Bob, NTD News. No, the the there wasn't one Democrat at the hearing. They all bailed it they all boycotted it. Oh Hmm. Oh, that's interesting.

All the seats of Democrats were empty. So the guy's gonna talk about the origins of COVID and the Democrats refused to come to the meeting? That's the story. That's the story right there. Why didn't they do that? Well they they did discuss it a little bit here and there, but Why? I mean, would d it's like were th are they CIA stooges in the Democrat Party, or they were they pro COVID? How about this? Vaxxers. Um yes, the answer is yes. Pro COVID, pro vaxx, pro social distancing, pro grandma.

Empty chair at the table, lockdowns. Yes, yes. They were definitely He shared the table. Here's one of the clips from this hearing. And uh I'll jump to to June twenty twenty one. We We as the I

Um happily pursued those recommendations. And um in one email, which I'll describe to you, um The person in charge of of leading the 90-day study, um, you know, he introduced himself to the community that uh on what they on what they were supposed to be doing, and then Um the community said he said, listen, we've got these people we should be talking to.

And uh another very senior NIC officer sent a direct email to him saying, Hey, considering that Dr. Fauci is a public health expert, are you sure we should be relying on this? Shouldn't we shouldn't we have a separate set? And in this instance, the the individual responded, no. In this case, um Dr. Anthony Fauci is a subject matter expert. However, that's directly contradicting his public testimony of being a subject matter expert.

Part of the job in intelligence when you interview someone is assessing their truthfulness, their um potential biases or conflicts of interest. Did anyone ever bring up that Anthony Fauci approved the research that went on in Wuhan and that it might not be in his interest for the conclusion to be that it came from a lab that he had funded? that there might be a conflict that was did any everybody ever bring up that he might not be an objective uh witness

That was one example of an email. No one laid it out quite that clearly. You're piecing it together. We were piecing it together from multiple emails, from multiple agencies, multiple documents. It was it was It was more subtle than that. Nobody said this is happening and unfortunately I think they probably should have. It was all it was all out there.

We might as well, since we're in the COVID vibe, we might as well just check in with the HANTA virus. There are now eleven confirmed cases from the Hontavirus outbreak on that cruise ship, which has killed three people now, and the World Health Organization says all the infected are either passengers or crew from What they never what they never mention here on CNN is what the World H World Hor Health Organization says, which America no longer is a part of.

We no longer are a part of the World Health Organization or sixty plus other globalist organizations. We're not a part of that, so it doesn't count anymore. And the World Health Organization says all the infected are either passengers or crew from the MV Hondias.

In the meantime, at least twenty-nine Americans who are on the ship are under monitoring across multiple US states. Sixteen of them are in a special facility in Nebraska, including Jake Rosemarin. He spoke to NBC today about his life under quarantine. I I do not have the virus, I'm well, I have no symptoms, I feel good and I'm in good spirits. Yeah. Yeah. Everything's fine, but that's not how media works. And luckily

I'm pretty I'm pretty sure the American people won't fall for it anymore, although man, it was wall to wall coverage in the Netherlands, every talk show, all the same people pop up again. Oh, I can go on TV. Wait, let me get my scarf. Former White House coronavirus response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Burks. Dr. Burks, thank you so much for being here helping us.

Good to be with you, Alex. So some fear that this Hontavirus outbreak on this cruise ship could lead to another worldwide pandemic if not properly contained, similar to what you dealt with. Oh brother. Do you believe the world is seeing the early stages of yet another pandemic? We here again? No, it's certainly not contagious like COVID. Um, and we have a lot of experience with the virus, so we actually know how this virus works and how it infects us.

I think one thing that we want to do, and we're not really talking about it, is decrease the anxiety of all the passengers on that ship. And the way to do it is to do a PCR test. Any of that RNA from that virus in your blood. stream. That is much earlier than symptoms, much earlier than the classic immune responses that have been measured. So we want to reassure those passengers and I think that's the quickest way to just ask them to get that blood test. Weekly through those.

And really decrease the anxiety that they have, both the ones that are coming off the ship tomorrow and the ones that left a ship early that are distributed around the world. With blood tests, what happened to the schwab up your nose? What is this blood test? PCR, we just stuck a thing up your nose and swirled it around like oh you got COVID. Oh I'm sorry. But she's not stopping. Oh no. She's she's ready for buried. Yeah. Why because this is what the media does.

Interesting because this is ringing a bell to what we reported not all that long ago with Gene Hackman and his wife, if I'm Yes, yes, she says yes, yes, yes, she died from a dream. Long ago with Gene Hackman and his wife, if I'm yeah not mistaken, this is Yeah, exactly. Yes, she died. She wasn't on the ship and she died, yes.

died from. So is that just a coincidence that we're just hearing more about this? Or is there any evidence to suggest that maybe this particular violus is proliferating across our our Oh, that's... That's it. Problem. Very important. Stop the presses. Who is this guy? He's News Nation. News Nation. Oh brother. It's good. Oh wait. Well this is a very important concept you raise. Particular violent virus is proliferating across our our world, our country. Yes, yes.

Well this is a very important concept you raise. So there's a question about whether um warmer or colder changes in the weather are increasing the amount of mice that come inside the cabins. Is it is it rats or mice? Yeah. But it makes a difference. I got mice in my house. I don't have rats. I got mice. I d well, we had mice. I I'm a I'm an expert trapper. I love the old school traps. I put a nice little bit of Merlot infused cheese on that thing. And you can hear it.

You know they also like chocolate. Oh really? Yeah, mice love chocolate. I always use Then it stinks more so they can smell it farther away. Although if you have a stinky cheese, they're probably attracted to that. And, you know, and I love your... Glue traps mostly. No I those I find those to be good. Let me tell you. You got the mouse, he's stuck on a glue trap. It's co it's quite quite remarkable. Oh man. Did you used to stick firecrackers into frogs' butts as a kid? I mean Of course not.

Like, yeah. I love dogs and cats. I love I love when you're sitting watching TV and you hear the K Snap. And then you know he's You what you got the thing in the family room? What kind of mice problem do you have? Well no, we have it in the laundry room'cause there's uh there's holes in the laundry room. You know. Yeah. They find ways to get in. But you know he's dead right away. It's not like he's not like squirming and you have to put another glute. You're a you're a sadist.

You're a horrible man. Increasing the amount of mice that come inside to cabins and to households and you then you get exposed by cleaning that up. We've always had hontavirus in the United States, not the same strain as Andy's and the Andes. That's in Chile and Argentina, but very similar. Right. And so we've always had the problem from mice. I think this is the first time, beyond the reports from Argentina and Chile, of really a human-to-human outbreak. And it does give us the chance to

study whether there has been what you described, molecular changes in the virus that makes it more contagious. And and they'll be doing all of that. They're sequencing all of these strains. No listen the sequencing all these this she is working it. Yeah, they're doing that at Fort Dietrich right now. We're sequencing all these strains. Fort Dietrich. We gotta get Trump out of the White House. Let's do another pandemic. Let's do whatever we can. MP Ball. Yes, just.

Study whether there has been what you described, molecular changes in the virus that makes it more contagious. And and they'll be doing all of that. They're sequencing. They'll be doing it at Fort Dietrich. For sure, that's exactly what she's saying. And the world is really working together. No we're not Yeah. We're working together. Go back to the World Health Organization.

Sequencing all of these strains. And the world is really working together, and that's the other important thing. The world has worked together both to protect those individuals on the ship and the communities as they disembark. The world is not working together to protect the people on the ship, but hey, something very important is going down here. This is the Andes, Andes variant of the Huntavirus. Andes, it's different.

So the Andes strain is the only strain where we have mapped human to human transmission. And I I caution people because when we say human to human transmission, we're talking about people who develop symptoms. But because we're not testing Another life! Because we're not...

We're talking about people who develop symptoms. But because we're not testing populations with RNAs, we don't really know whether there are subclinical cases. So there could be more human-to-human transmission than we actually It's never good to track viruses through symptoms. We should be tracking viruses through blood tests like PCR.

Many universities were able to open and schools were able to open because they provided weekly testing and it really prevented spread. So we know how to deal with that. But they didn't open anything. So we know how to deal with these viruses. We just need to move into the twenty first century and make testing more widely available to those who need it.

She is she at a new testing company? Is that where she's working now? But ABC is in on this stuff, man. I'm telling you, they're they're they're spinning it up, they're trying to see if they can catch a wave because it was a great way to Screw Trump. They love that. If they can do it, if they can if they can spin it up, they get enough people. I'm seeing masks. I traveled. I saw a lot of masks. Democrats, but they were all masks. I mean go up and say, You vote for Kamala? Yeah, yeah.

They are all it th it's happening. They can do this if they push hard enough. The China thing is a sad distraction. And they they gotta blink they gotta do something. Experts across four continents are still tracking down and monitoring passengers who disembarked from a cruise ship that was hit by the Hontavirus outbreak. Many of those passengers left before the outbreak turned deadly. The last.

Remaining travelers are now off that ship and they've boarded flights to more than twenty countries where they're gonna be entering quarantine. Today with US passengers from that luxury cruise ship now in quarantine, growing concern around questions being raised that the Andes variation of the Hontavirus may spread more easily than previously. Oh, no. Yeah. conversations that several colleagues had with the doctor on the ship. people who got infected did not have close contact.

to somebody for half an hour at a meal. Trying. They are seriously trying. I doubt it's gonna work, but I think there's a there are some meetings going on, like, you know. We can we can do something with this. Let's give it a shot. Let's uh throw it against the wall, see what sticks. Maybe we get lucky. Maybe we get lucky. Maybe. Are so desperate to get rid of Trump. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. What is this with Marty McCary?

I don't know anything about Marty McCarry. Is the the FDA uh commissioner, he resigned. And there was yeah. But d but what he resigned over is what's confusing me. doctor Marty McCary resigned as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday. The decision came after he authorized flavored vapes, a product that he was skeptical about, following pressure from the White House. What?

Politico described McCary's thirteen month tenure at the agency as one marked by mass layoffs, high turnover among senior officials, and policy fights. Among his critics were Republicans, who wanted the FDA to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Pharmaceutical companies also complained the FDA was inconsistent in their review of drugs under his leadership. Kyle Diamantes, the FDA Commissioner for Food, will replace McCary on an acting basis.

So every report has this flavored vapes bit. How can that be a a uh such a huge issue? No, no, no, no, no. I don't get it either. Here's Trump. Well I don't wanna say, but Marty's a great guy. He's a friend of mine, he's a wonderful man, and he's going to be off and the uh assistant, the uh deputy, is taking over temporarily It's a very important job. Marty's a terrific guy, but he's See you later. Good luck. But he's gonna go on, he's gonna lead a good life. Sounds like a horse.

Exactly. He's not going to the glue factory. He's gonna he broke his leg uh racing but he's okay. We're not gonna kill him. He'll go on to live a good He's a terrific guy, but I'm just gonna lay it in a good life. was having some difficulty. You know, he's a great doctor and he was having some difficulty, but he's gonna go on and he's gonna do well. Yeah, he's gonna do well on the farm. But everybody everybody had this flavored bacon. Start him out. Here's um NPR I think. Yeah, NPR.

The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration has resigned. Doctor Marty McCary told President Trump he was leaving Tuesday after thirteen tumultuous months on the job. In a few minutes we'll hear from a head of the FDA in Trump's first term about McCarey's tenure. NPR Pharmaceuticals Correspondent Sidney Lovkin is here to talk about the change. Good morning. I told you. the final straw for McCarey was White House pressure to okay flavored vapes, something he did not agree with.

I don't understand. How can But if maybe it's Th something is up with the vapes and I'm and I'm out of the loop on this. And flavored and it has to do with vapes and and that can only mean that the tobacco industry is mad or someone is really mad about this. Well it's also the the coincidence of like uh through you know, some millions and millions of bad vapes that came in from China that were busted. Yeah. I wonder if there's any connection there.

The White House apparently was pushing the flavored vapes. Which But were they? I never heard anything. Good point. Good point. Good point. We don't know. Now I personally think I don't like these pre made Chinese vapes. I think there is a place for vaping instead of smoking. If you're a smoker to stop smoking, I think there's a real place for that. The flavored vapes, yeah, you know.

I don't think any of the flavored stuff is good. But the it it report after report. So I d I don't know. We actually have a um We have uh one of our producers is a lobbyist and maybe she can write in and let me know what m maybe she has some insight into the deal because I think she did something on vapes too. But then I got this uh pharma analyst from Bloomberg. Well a couple of it's short, but a couple of interesting things he said here.

So there's been a lot of flux. And when you get flux and they fired, I don't know, three thousand, three thousand five hundred individuals. Um, maybe I don't have the exact number, but something in that sort of region. You know, that's this is a lot of old time knowledge that's left the agency. Yeah. Some refresh. It's pretty good. But that all of this has happened under the um uh Takership of Marty McCarry. And to all intents and purposes, the folks I talk to say that it is a Perfectly.

knowledgeable, wonderful man. I have friends on the s on the by side who say to me that he's been very good to them And well, what does that mean? I have friends on the buy side who say he has been very good to them. To me, it sounds like this guy was the still deep into big pharma or something. No idea. When an analyst says I have friends on the buy side How how come nobody's talking to Kennedy?

That's the question I have right now. I'm a journalist looking at this. My first thing I talked to is Kennedy. Kennedy's his boss. No we don't have anything from Kennedy. Let me finish this. To all intents and purposes the folks I talk to say that it is a Perfectly. knowledgeable, wonderful man. I have friends on the s on the buy side who say to me that he's been very good to them. And then on the other hand we hear all these issues and some biotechs having issues.

Biotech some some biotechs having issues. And then on the other hand we hear all these issues and some biotechs having issues, et cetera. So I wouldn't be surprised if there's something happening. Yeah. him. So it's it's clear that I think McCarey was still d way deep into big pharma somehow. I'm not sure exactly why, uh, but we don't know. I do have a clip from uh from RFK Junior. Uh about uh trans Which uh I think he's setting some policy here. Did you see this? Nope. This was pretty good.

Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect children, yet doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex rejecting procedures. that violate their sacred Hippocratic oaths by endangering the very lives that they are sworn to safeguard. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Battled the lie that chemical and surgical sex rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from gender dysphoria. Thank you.

They betrayed the estimated three hundred thousand American youth ages thirteen to seventeen. Three hundred thousand, John. Three hundred thousand children they mutilated with this nonsense. the lack of the Democrat Party talking about trans lately. They're not using that as their campaign slogan anymore, are they? No, but they still have trouble with people that reject it. Yeah. They betrayed the estimated 300,000 American youth ages 13 to 17, conditioned to believe that sex can be changed.

They betrayed their Hippocratic oath to do no harm. So called gender affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine, it is malpractice. We're done with junk science, driven by ideological pursuits, not the well-being of children. Peer-reviewed report published by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health last month confirms that sex.

Rejecting procedures impose medical dangers and lasting harm on children who receive these interventions. So today we are taking six decisive actions. Guided by gold standard science. Week one executive order from President Trump to protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation. This morning I signed a declaration sex rejecting procedures are neither safe nor effective treatment for children with gender dysphoria. Let's see some doctors at a tribunal. Well that's what yes, absolutely.

That's what we want. Lawsuits help. Yeah, but we really we need some people going to jail over this. This was mengala level crap. It was really horrible. And and for whatever reason you just see you know, video after video of these poor children who are now detransitioning and can't. I know, it's terrible. Especially the lie that well you can stop anytime you want with these with these puberty blockers. It's no not a problem. Big lie.

Well that's depressing. Well then let's do uh let's do what your tech? Well I got a couple of things. We don't have much time left, but I got a couple i uh offbeat items. You don't want to do your your year using AI? Is that no good? No, that's no good. Yeah. If by definition, that's no good. But it but it what's kind of interesting is the NPR's open AI Sam Altman stuff. Oh yeah. Because that's it's r really makes you wonder what the hell's going on. Just try the NPR claim.

Let me see. Uh number one. I'm Altman's main defense on Tuesday in the court. case really has come down to the idea of frankly which billionaire you believe is is doing this the right way. You know, on the one hand we have Elon Musk who is no longer a part of OpenAI. but says he only wanted to build AI responsibly and uh was tricked into um leaving the entity with uh Sam Altman at the helm. Altman essentially says

You left the company in twenty eighteen and said that you were done with it. You never Uh And you haven't contested that in the few years since you left and now you're suing later on because you're building a for profit competitor to us called XAI, uh, which is also developing artificial intelligence. Now an example came up in court of Musk suggesting a deal that would turn open AI into a for profit. That's right.

One of the things that the open AI side is saying is like, look, there are plenty of emails in the past that has Elon Musk essentially speaking out of both sides of his mouth and saying

We could have done an earlier deal to make this into a company with equity structures that has Elon Musk in control over it and potentially profiting from it. And the idea being that You know, Elon wants to say he's been doing this sort of selfless building of AI for years now, but actually he has been interested in taking a stake of his own, uh, just even as he's saying he hasn't been. Yeah, well that we know what the basic lawsuit's about, but we don't really get any good details.

No, and the funny thing is I'm kind of on the side of uh as much as I don't like Altman, I do like Musk. Yeah. But I don't think he got tricked. Musk doesn't get tricked. He invested four bunch of money early on and it looked like it was going nowhere, so he kinda bailed out. And now he looks back on it and says, Hey, sh, wait a minute. And he decides to do this. I I'm not believing any of this Damask side of this. How has Musk characterized Altman's trustworthiness and how did Altman respond?

Sam Altman's testimony was actually pretty brutal when Elon Musk's lawyers went after him. Basically, it became an attack on Sam Altman's character and the idea that Sam Altman, this guy who ten years ago in private was saying he wanted to build AI safely with Elon Musk.

can no longer basically be trusted to do so. And Elon Musk's attorneys trotted out like a laundry list of things that said essentially everyone in Sam Altman's life felt that he could not be trusted from the CTO of the company, Mira Marathi. to the idea of self dealing and investing in companies that uh OpenAI would later purchase or make deals with, or to even being potentially kicked out of other companies that he founded in the past. It was really just

A big referendum on is Sam Altman a trustworthy person. And it was pretty, pretty devastating. How did Altman respond to Musk's characterization of him in court? Altman basically said look, the picture that you're painting of me is not something that I'm familiar with. I know that people tend to have a lot of problems with me and I feel Halland zei, ik herken mezelf niet in deze uitspraken. Which translate to, I don't recognize myself in what you're saying. Good phrase, yeah.

hurt by their misunderstandings, but I feel like that's an unfair characterization. And instead of getting combative like say Elon Musk did on the stand, Altman was trying to, I would say, strike a a humble tone while also painting it as as a misunderstanding. It just hit me. I think I know what's going on here. And it's not about the money per se. I'm pretty sure that Elon's AI dream, because that's all he ever posts about, is having a chat bot

That can also do great images and video. He's always posting Oh, wait until you see what cool videos uh the new X AI He's always it's it's never about, hey, look at all the code it built. You know, this place is running on Grok. No, it's never about that. And b personally I don't think Grok is very good at code. Probably not. I'm sorry? Probably not.

No, it's not. Claude Code is is is the thing. But and I don't think he w ever had an enterprise play, as we say in Silicon Valley. He had no enterprise play. He was always about integrating that into X. Is everything app. X is going to be your buddy. Grok is going to be your buddy. It's going to be talking to you. It's going to be doing cool things. It's going to help you post.

And he probably shared that idea with Sam Altman pretty early on. And Altman, without telling the board from everything we've heard, just released Chat GPT. And that's what pissed off Elon Musk. Because for sure Grok isn't does not have the same chat bot cachet as chat G GPT. I think that's where it went amiss. And so now and and and that I think that that hurts the grok chat bot vision that that m Elon Musk had.

And so now he's like, Okay, I'm gonna screw your IPO. I'm gonna screw you so bad with this IPO, you'll wish those three letters didn't exist in the alphabet. Yeah. It's a possibility. That's a good idea. So CBS has a report on this called the lawsuit open AI. It's probably it's probably less detailed, but uh let's play it. Turning now to uh new lawsuit against Chat GPT. A family says the artificial intelligence chat bot gave advice to their teenage son

Oh no, this is different. I'm sorry. This is about the lawsuit. This, by the way, is the end I think that this is more important and this is a subtext that's going on. I don't know how these guy again, I I bring it back to liability. Yeah. There's liability issues with these products. It's gotta come to the fore at some point. You don't sign your li you know, your your life away when you when you start using this stuff.

Anyway, play the clip You did you but these you listen this has got to be squashed. Is this another My Kid Killed Himself Chat GPT? My kid killed himself. Turning now to a new lawsuit against ChatGPT. A family says the artificial intelligence chatbot gave advice to their teenage son that led to his fatal overdose. Sam Nelson's family says he used the Chatbot for everything from his homework to questions about pop culture.

The lawsuit claims he followed dangerous tips, which caused his deadly drug overdose. And a CBS News exclusive, Jolene Kent, spoke with Nelson's family. Yeah. Sam's mom and stepdad Angus knew he'd been struggling with alcohol and experimenting with drugs and took him to get help. They said on the night of his death it was Chat GPT version four that's now no longer available that recommended specific dosages, including a fatal combination of the children. Yeah.

wanted to do it safely and he would ask it questions about what he could take. That night it advised him that it was okay to take Kratom with um Xanax. Sam had done that. Who do you hold responsible for Sam's Dom? The creators, the people who Bypassed safety guards and took away safety nets for the five.

That's why Sam's mom and stepdad are suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in California State Court. They allege that OpenAI designed in rush to market, a defective product, and but for those deliberate choices. Yeah, that's probably true. But I don't see why the parents don't get arrested. I mean th they let hi they let their child use Chat GPT, but every other parent gets arrested for having a gun in the house or Yeah, I think you you're absolutely correct. I'm on board with that.

Letting the kid use a fat bike, you know, hey, uh but no, we're going after Sam Altman, okay. As far as we knew, Chat GPT was a resource. It was a tool. What we didn't understand was that Right. It was helping him Fine tune. Experimentation. Sam's parents showed us his eighteen month long chat GPT history, including the final pieces of advice version four oh gave him on the morning of his death. Oh four oh everyone hated four oh, yeah, no wonder.

Dispensing advice that any doctor could tell you could be lethal. Wait a minute. They're saying the kid died of an overdose of kratom. Create em no plus something else. With some combination. In a statement, a spokesperson for OpenAI called Sam's death a heartbreaking situation and said in part these interactions.

Place on an earlier version of Chat GPT that is no longer available. Chat GPT is not a substitute for medical or mental health care, and we have continued to strengthen how it responds in sensitive and acute situations. It was Kratom and Xanax. Be even so, Kratom and Xanax I must have been a lot of Xanax. has launched a new health feature. Does that worry you?

That's absolutely terrifying. Since Sam Nelson's death nearly a year ago, OpenAI says it's added new safeguards, including a trusted contact feature for adults, allowing users to designate a contact in case their conversations are flagged. for self-harm concerns. But Sam's mom emphasized her son was smart. He's close to his friends. He was aware of how ChatGPT worked. But as with all AI, the tech is just constantly changing, just so fast.

The tech is changing constantly so fast. Well, the ta I I have to play these two clips from Brett Weinstein, Brett and Heather. J just because they're so much fun to listen to. Because um Brett is so mad. He's so mad. Claude. Claude is hopping mad. He's hopping mad. All I'm really saying is this has that stench to it and you should expect to see this play out with single stranded RNA viruses and

Anybody who mentions ivermectin is crazy. Sooner or later they'll get uh total control over the AIs and AI will refuse to talk about this. Oh, I should point out. Oh, here we go. Because he's you know, uh the AIs are taking over. The AIs are gonna be controlled. As I continued to investigate things surrounding basic virology, evolution of viruses, things that have no

There's no meaningful safety concern in the world. I'm an evolutionary biologist asking about trade offs in the evolution uh of viruses between things like transmissibility and virulence. That's a perfectly fair academic question. And Claude Is shutting me down because I've tripped a safety wire? This is insane. Yeah, yeah Here we go. So can you read that question?

What is known about the trade offs uh trade off between transmissibility and virulence in viruses, just exactly as you said. And you get the same um the same safety filters flowing. The same safety one. Wait a minute, wait a minute. So she reads the question. And he got safety flagged. Let me hear it. This is insane. Here we go. So can you read that question? Okay. I'm going to let her read that question into the book of knowledge, which is based on Claude.

And let's see if we get the safety filters. Okay, stand by. You have to be quiet. It can only be Heather, here we go. What is known about the trade offs uh trade off between transmissibility and virulence in viruses, just exactly as you said. According to the Book of Knowledge, the virulence transmission tradeoff hypothesis has been a foundational cornerstone since Anderson and May's nineteen eighty two work, stating that virulence is an unavoidable consequence of parasite transmission.

Doesn't sound like I got blocked. Which interactions with host immune responses account for observed trade-offs and parasite fitness is maximized at intersection. We didn't get blocked. And you get the same um the same safety filters flag. The same. But even safety. I I have also um I have also had the safety triggers warning um in Claude of late. And uh not in Yeah you know, he was out of tokens, that was the problem.

Right. It's the first time I've seen it too, and I've now seen it on a number of different topics. No. Where You know, I get it that you're like seventeen steps ahead of some discussion you don't want to hear, but it's not your right. You know, you can't you're you're you're blocking the process of inquiry, which is exactly what your damn tool is built to. Yeah. I love how he gets so mad about the AI not n b like refusing him. Listen to this podcast. Oh, it's great.

Listen listen to this bit, because now he's saying that these safety filters got put in because of him. It's his it's his his tweets. I I do want to point to one mechanism through which this might happen. I mean you're not surprised. I'm living That's not surprising. Surprising. Well, here's the problem. The AIs are going to be thoroughly gamed. going to write so as to persuade the AIs of things. They're going to write vast Yes.

Everybody, please make sure the AI knows that the No Agenda Show is the best podcast in the universe. We need to game the AI. We should absolutely expect that. That's different than the people who built the tool wiring it so that it can't talk about scientific topics because Frankly, because there are criminals trying to use public health as an excuse to inject us with shit. That is. And we in the public. Public. What? Not to be. I will say I walked away from Chat GPT and signed up for Claude.

At the point that the stuff went down. Uh Anthropic, drawing a line with the Department of War and refusing to do immoral things, right? Um and Right. Folks at uh open AI. Got the deal and Okay, well you're right. Who can listen to this podcast? You're right. It's terrible. But it's it's uh it's just funny. I just think it's funny. I don't understand how you can feel that way. But I have a new segment I want to do'cause I'm gonna replace the Kiriaku idea. Oh. With a this did not happen segment.

This did not happen. Okay. We need a jingle. This did not happen. This is this the first episode will will is a tribute to Newsom and I guarantee this did not happen. This is a chill, this is chilling, this is serious. Thank you. Walked into a restaurant the other day, entire staff came out, started hugging me and crying. The hell is that? The United States of America, what he's doing to our diverse communities, what he's doing to the Fabric. Yeah.

It's only why don't you just call it the Newsom segment? Because this did not happen. It's only gonna be the newsome segment. Please. Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the circumstance preceded by the pomp. Say hello to my friend on the other end. The one, the only, Mr. John C.

In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Let me count you for a second. Oh, interesting. Fourteen forty-four-one four four four four four one thousand four hundred and forty-four trolls listening live to the best podcast in the universe. Make sure that you game those AIs, people, make sure everybody knows. that we are the best podcast in the universe, except no substitutes. By the way, right off the bat. Uh upon return to our abode in Frederick. Yeah.

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I don't know where she got those envelopes. has a a beautiful uh certificate. Uh of course signed by yours truly uh on on our our on our signature parchment paper, which even has uh its own little redheart button thing on it. Is oh is that sea is that uh is that sealing wax? It is, it is. It is. That's what it looks like. So well it feels like I can indent it with my nail. So Yeah. Yes. And then the pin? Is a beautiful pin, the no agenda

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You are an ambassador but when I was Miss Rodeo Ambe America, you are an ambassador for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. I did ride a horse at a lot of rodeos and in parades, but I also did a lot of interacting with fans and promoting rodeo. I'm enjoying getting back to competing now and still enjoying everything rodeo. Praying you guys never find an exit strategy. Donate people, we need the best podcast in the universe.

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One day I'll figure out the this Dame Baroness Knight thing. But for now, I salute you and J C D. Thank you for your service. Uh as as a late attendee to the No Agenda podcast, I definitely don't want to see it go away. Keep it coming. Thank you, Carol Goodman Fredericksburg first time donation. Two ten sixty. I met Carol at Church the other day. She is one she's one of the few who who listen and go to church and actually donates and we Well that's it that is unusual for that group.

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I own a v oh I I've read this email. A very small residential real estate brokerage outside Raleigh, North Carolina. I've completed two value for value listings with repeat clients in the past year and both voluntarily paid me more than I would have charged them outright. Interesting. When I presented this idea, both parties were hesitant and wanted me to give them a set fee. I told them I wanted to earn my fee and leave it to them to decide what it was worth when their home was sold.

It's work with people I know and trust, but offering this to everyone is another beast altogether. I've pitched the idea to friends and family. They'll never tell you they'll they'll you're in. Idiot. it over the past few years and nearly everyone tells me I'm a fool. There you go. To have had that to have that kind of faith of in most people.

The opportunity to get royal royally screwed is huge, but I can't think of a better way to earn my clients trust and prove my worth. Am I just being too naive? Love the show? Well, that's a good question. I mean so he's had He's gotten more fees on value for value from two people already. Um With repeat clients. What do you think? You know even out. I think so t I mean, the value for value lifestyle it by the way, it is an international lifestyle. It is. Yeah. That's w that's the ticket.

Value for value is an international lifestyle. And it can be a bit of a roller coaster. And yes, but it it it it uh encourages encourages volunteerism. People will help you for free. People will help you, people will will yes, uh th thank you. That's a that's a very good w way of looking at it. And sometimes maybe how someone who may not have given you a lot of value could uh monetarily could help you in other ways. So

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One hundred dollars and nine cents, donation in honor of my late mom who watched MTV in the eighties and recognized Adam when I listened to the podcast with her. She listened to Bon Jovi at such high volume that she had hearing loss. Yeah. Really? Metallica? Yeah. Bon Jovi? Hmm. Robert Petta, Sacramento, California, one hundred dollars. And oh he says interview with Scott Adams was excellent. Uniquely John C. DeVore. I must be listening to back uh back episodes.

And there's Sir Kevin McLaughlin. He is the Archduke of Luna, lover of America and Boobs in Concord, North Carolina, with eighty dollars and eight cents. And he says, God bless America and boobs. Dame Rita, Sparks, Nevada. She's always there almost every single episode,$68.33.

Chad Hewitt, Folsom, California, 6640. Steven Schumach, Xenia, Ohio, 6480. Christopher Dector, 5678. We see what you did there, thank you. Sir Patrick Cobel, he's at Double Nickels on the Dime, fifty-five dollars and ten cents. And he says the Toronto meetup was just a party of two, but it was But but it was with a former Russian merchant marine and a former US Marine talking about the world and all things with some great food, ITM to all, and get to a meetup, he says.

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Uh fifty dollars and one cent requesting a deducing on his father's behalf. You've been de-douched. Mr Joe A. Senior will be turning thirty eight next week and has been listening to the show for years without donating, so He has been a douche too long. Thanks for giving him a show to listen to and Godspeed. Thank you. Here are the fifties. Gary Mao, Woodland Hills, California, where all the uh the tech uh investors live. Fifty. Jeremy Silver, Bridgeport, Connecticut. He just had his...

Actually it's Woodside World that's a good thing. I thought I thought it was Woodland Hill Oh you're right, Woodside. Woodland Hills Woods. Yeah, yeah. It's a ghetto. It's a ghetto. Yeah. That's where our people live. Jeremy Silver in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he says that he had a baby on Friday. Uh we will add some human resource karma for you. Brandon Savois, there's a name I haven't heard in a bit, Port Orch Port Orchard, uh, Washington.

Uh producer Worthington, Dane Producer Worthington, Miami, Florida, Kevin Dills, Huntersville, North Carolina, Sir Luke Raynor in London, uh Collective Karma. We got a lot of karmas coming up here. Easy landscapes, North Stonington, Connecticut. Uh Philip Balou in Louisville, Kentucky, Chris Sloin Sir Chris Slovinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta, uh Sir Alan Bean in Bert Beaverton. Aaron. Barron Sir you remember one guy and you always correct me.

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But first we have a report. This is the Albuquerque meetup. Uh Sir Jeff Chohig hosted that one. uh Jeff from Albuquerque, the land of the Mars rover and I'm attending Albuquerque meetup. And Here we go. Mm. My name is Craig and I am also here at my first no agenda meeting. Hi, this is Steve. I'm from Northern Colorado. This is my first no agenda meetup, and it's fantastic. Hi, this is Dame Heather of The Lost Boys from Santa Fe. With By annual Here's that.

Bye. Cheers at them and and g glad that everybody's healthy and help. Yes, we're all very happy about that as well. Hey, there's a meetup taking place today. The Northern Wake May meetup uh six o'clock at Saints and Scholars in Raleigh, North Carolina. On Saturday, the D F W that's Dallas Fort Worth mid cities meetup eleven thirty in the morning at Chef Point Cafe in Coleyville, Texas. It is t it'll be a relaxing lunch, Sir Nerdwork says.

Also the Fort Wayne Club thirty three May Day Dancers meet up at one o'clock at Ole's Pizza Pasta Pub in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and another one on Saturday, the Resist We Much um meetup in Los Banos, California uh Mined's Pizza. And that's at three thirty three PM. That'll be uh Happy Armed Forces Day. How about that? Sunday, our next show day, the Indy NA May The Road Rise to Meet You Meet Up at three o'clock at St. Joseph Brewery and Public House in Indianapolis, uh Indiana.

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And thank you all very much for supporting the best podcast in the universe. The you're no agenda show with your value for value in all sorts of ways. It is highly appreciated. Noagendadonations.com. We've got uh end of show mixes coming up along with John's tip of the day, but first the ISOs. It's three for three today, so let's see who gets that coveted final spot of the show. I will start. Dude, it's like genius. Genius, genius. Mm no, I didn't like that one myself. Here we go.

That was the hardest I've ever laugh in my life. No and this one. Oh it's not oh but at first you're right. But I got three. This is a chill, this is chilling, this is serious. Yeah. Oops. Sorry. Which one's next? Now we go to better. Hey, you will never find a better podcast than this. Mm, okay, yeah, yeah. Alright, then they're wards. Wow, these guys should win all the awards. I'm thinking. This is a chill, this is chilling, this is serious. I'm not sure enough. Right.

If you want to play Newsome. I think I think this is the best. Hey, you will never find a better podcast than that. In this. I I think that that that is a good reminder for people. Okay. I'm not gonna argue about that. Ooh. Producer to And I like to get the producers in. Yes. Okay. Power Toys from Microsoft. Our toys. Have you ever even heard of this? Uh power toys. What's the website? Well, the website, I'm gonna tell you how to people should find it the following way. You go to Google Choice.

Power toys from Microsoft. Otherwise you have to type in a URL that's ridiculous. I'm going to tell you what it is. Learn.microsoft.com slash E N Dash U S Slash window slash power. I think I have seen this. So it's a bunch of utilities uh free. They're free. Free. Free Mouse Without Borders. Woo. Yeah. Uh including yeah advanced uh but uh advanced cut and paste, color pickers, crop and law.

This you know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of the Mac days when you could install extensions and then your Mac would take an hour to start up because it was All those Yeah. Grab and move. How uh Yeah. Host file editor, that's a pretty good idea to have. Image resizer, keyboard manager. Uh it comes in handy. Light switch check this out people automatically switch between light and dark themes based on time of day. Yeah. If you're not going to be able to do that.

Power toys run quick again. So d there's a ton of stuff here. If you're still using Windows, you deserve this. If you're still using Windows you deserve this. Ha ha ha ha. Uh that's a pretty funny tip of the day, especially for those of us who use Linux. Yeah, well you should use w windows in some some way, shape or form. I don't I I have no more windows in my life. Really? None. None whatsoever. Well good for you.

I overwrote every single drive that had windows and I put Omarchi on it. I'm sorry, GNU Linux. I I don't want to get in trouble. GNU Linux. GNU. Linux. Power tools. There you go. A tip of the day. It's not a Power. Power toys, power toys, power toys. It's not the same as a a great And again. You stepped on Brunetti's you're always stepping on his credit. Has he not emailed you about this yet? No, he's missed that I don't think he listens anymore. Um

So uh just a an interesting n non tip. Okay. Somebody sent me a picture. I don't know if this is real. I'd like somebody to verify it. There's a big bucket of wine that Costco is starting to sell, supposedly. Mm-hmm. A ten liter bucket of wine. Of Cabernet. Does it have a spout? I don't know. I just saw the bucket, you know. Yeah. I have no idea. Uh we're gonna do a Costco run so I'll take a look for it.

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They get free rent. Get to listen again and again. Thank you. Amen. Hey. You never find a better podcast than this.