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I got burned with the quantum dots man I got burned.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday May 11, 2025. This is your award winning Gimmo Nation Media Assassination episode 1763.
This is No Agenda.
Celebrating moms all around Gimmo Nation and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley,
where we do say happy Mother's Day, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's crackpot and buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yeah, we do say happy Mother's Day.
You do, do you say you do say happy Mother's Day?
We do.
We do, we do, we do.
How did, you know, when we were going through COVID,
people loved their moms.
Everybody was crazy about moms because moms became Mama Bears and they had the moms that
were showing up to the show, moms everywhere.
How do you think it is?
What is the state of motherly love today?
Not so good.
Why is this?
This is beyond me. It's just the way it is. It was this way before COVID,
and it's this way after COVID.
It makes no sense. We need moms now more than ever. More than, I mean,
I want my mom. I do you ever miss, I miss my mom. Do you ever miss your mom?
I know it's been a while since she passed, but do you miss your mom?
I see her in dreams. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Comes up, shows up every once in a while, makes a fuss.
Does she make a fuss about the Chinese? Does he make a fuss about the Chinese taking over everything?
She says, where's the toilet paper? Get this. Chinese are buying it all up.
Well, that's nice. My mom doesn't show up in my dreams.
I read an interesting etymology of the word mother today, which kind of…
Yeah.
Why are you laughing?
Why are you laughing?
Why would anyone even look that up?
Okay.
No, I didn't look it up.
I came across it.
In Hebrew, mother consists of two words, eleth and mem.
And eleth is an ox head and mem is a water.
And so, in ancient Hebrew, this would be strong water.
And here it comes.
The ancient Hebrews used to boil animal skins, ox skins,
to get this gooey substance.
They used this glue.
Hence, eleth mem, mothermem mother is glue the glue that keeps
the family together how about that sounds like a cock and bull story if ever there was
you know somehow oops oh boy what happened there somehow i knew you would not be buying it but you
didn't say you didn't say i'm not didn't say, I'm not buying it.
You say, God, I try to avoid that phrase.
Well, then let me get you on a different track.
As we know, I'm very disappointed about picking the wrong Pope.
I mean, I'm not laying awake at night, but I feel like, oh man.
And the more I look at this Leo the 14th provost, the more I'm thinking, if he was even on the
radar, I might have seen that he could be the guy.
So you're reverse engineering your mistake.
Yeah, I think so.
To prove that you probably could have picked it if it was even, if the guy had somehow
cropped up, if it passed your threshold of knowledge, you would have seen him and said,
you know, that's it.
That's the guy.
That's the guy.
But it doesn't matter because the...
I want to hear the rest of the rationale.
Well, no, no, the rationale.
No, that's not as important as what I need to say next
You're not gonna believe it
This came over the transom this morning you're related to the guy from PubMed
the effects of anti diabetic drugs on erectile dysfunction
In conclusion,
GLP-1s demonstrate an advantage over metaphorum in improving erectile dysfunction in patients.
Baby, I nailed it!
Wigovie and Ozempic are now good.
There's two studies. I knew by the way when you said it to begin with that it was an obvious end point
for the sales pitch bull crap that they're pulling.
But the fact that they would...
I nailed it.
That it's come so soon is kind of surprising.
Two studies.
Two studies.
Two studies, not just one.
Not one, two studies.
They're going all out.
Where do these studies come from?
Okay, the first one is PubMed, which I think is pretty...
Yeah, but PubMed doesn't do studies, they publish them.
Yes, okay. So they, alright. They published it. Do they publish bogus studies? Yes.
Yes, Kennedy has mentioned that.
But that's not the point. The point is they want this stuff into everybody's system as soon as possible.
The second study-
I guess the COVID vax didn't kill enough people.
It's actually, so it's both.
It's NIH, the National Library of Medicine, PMC, it's both PubMed, two of them in PubMed.
So this is a bonanza baby.
I, and it's too bad we don't have the morning shows.
Maybe tomorrow they'll be all over this.
I'm sure they'll be all at tomorrow's show.
Yeah, I'm sure they got this.
I'm sure they got the script by now.
We have clips for Thursday.
The script is in.
Oh, everybody.
It's amazing.
It's like, it's time to retire.
When it becomes that easy to see where the things are going, it's like,
might as well just quit.
So that what you did there was to show that you used,
you upfuscated your bad pick for
Pope. Correct.
By bringing in a kind of the long shot,
which seemed like a long shot, but not to me necessarily,
long shot pick for a marketing scheme,
which you predicted accurately. Uh, and then you,
and you just kind of glossed it over as though there's some,
somehow makes you better. I don't know what you're trying to do.
Makes me feel better.
That's all that counts as long as I feel better.
I still like to know, you didn't say because you don't have it in front of you, where these research papers actually stemmed.
Where from did they come?
Okay, I do have it in front of me.
This is a lot of Italians here in the first one.
Guiseppe Lisco.
Let me see.
Let me see what the...
Hey Giuseppe, hey.
Giuseppe, what about my...
I need to...
What about my ED?
Giuseppe.
Okay, let's see.
Doesn't...
And by the way, with these drugs in play for at least a decade,
you think they would have figured this out earlier.
So this was a systematic review and meta-analysis.
A systematic review. This is not research then. This is a review and a meta-analysis.
That's not the same as a research paper.
Right. But they cite all the other papers, including exploring the potential impact of GLP-1 receptor agonist
No, that's not the one I'm looking for. Yeah, this looks like it's smoking mirrors to me.
Good work though. I don't think it's here. Look, look, look over here. Here it is.
GLP-1 therapy boosts erectile function in diabetic obese men.
Now, a lot of people, not a pretty sight.
No, a lot of, a lot of people sent in other ideas that if your wife uses
Wigovie, you automatically lose your erectile dysfunction.
So that joking came a couple of times.
Yeah. Let me see what this is. This one is... okay. Let me see. Let me see who did this.
This is actual research. That's very long. Oh man. You'll have to forgive me if I didn't
read through all the formulaic reasoning that they believe. My goodness. This thing is eight eight football yards long
If we're gonna you will get some well have that's okay
The morning shows when you have the doctor and and dr
Bill and dr. Fred and all these other phony bologna's come on the networks. They will tell us they will tell us new research
That's what they're gonna tell us
It doesn't matter if it's true or not
It just matters that they have something to point to to once again, you know throw in a little ad for for the big boys
the big boys
Yeah, well they can
Well, what do you mean while they can? Oh, well, they're gonna pull the plug on this eventually. Oh, please RFK jr
What have you done for me lately? Well, it looks like Bill Cassidy according to our buddy
Glenn Greenwald you're buying that you watch that and you buy that
Yes, oh boy. Do you have a clip?
No, I just got it this morning. I didn't do any bonus clips this morning. So I'm gonna I'm looking at still haven't fully bought it
But I have kind of, cause it makes sense.
But this guy, this Cassidy guy's a bad actor in a lot of different ways.
He's been a Trump haters, one of the few Republicans that voted for his
impeachment in the Senate.
Well, we had Bill Cassidy clips when, um, uh, when Kennedy was going through
confirmation somewhere, I'm pretty sure we have one.
And he was saying, you know,
well, you're gonna have to talk to me,
you're gonna have to have conversations with me,
you gotta meet with me every month.
Yeah, and then we had Shanahan's clip,
you had it recently.
No, it was a post, it wasn't a clip,
it was just a post.
Okay, it was a post that she said
that she thinks he's not working for the president,
but he's working for some alien force.
She?
Oh, you mean Kennedy?
Yeah.
All because the president appointed
Casey Means as Surgeon General.
That's the whole reason why everyone's all,
as you would say, has their tit in the ringer over this.
That's what I'd say. And a couple of people got their tit in the ringer over your newsletter. A rare,
rare apology. A rare apology. Well done though. I mean, rare because you don't usually have to
make apologies. I felt bad about it. Yeah. Wow. Who are you? You're like saying,
I was wrong
May a culpa the past month has been nothing but honest John
Honest John it's always been honest John. Yeah, it's my old nickname. They used to tell me that in high school
So what happened what happens for the for the dumbos who don't subscribe to the newsletter and could be a part of this wonderful double newsletter day.
Well, I had to, I was going over the records of all the people that were Surgeon Generals and they were all in the Navy, it looked like, because they were all admirals, but they got that assignment later.
And then it became even, there's a secondary controversy over whether the fact that they're given the admiral ship when they
become a surgeon general because they work for public health services, but whether that's
officially, whether that's a Navy position or not. And the argument is no, the Navy guys are all bent
out of shape about even considering, I think because of Rachel Levine, they have enough trouble
in the Navy without that guy. Right.
And so...
What happened to that dude anyway?
I don't know.
Probably on a board of some Kleiner Perkins company.
So when it began, when the Surgeon General began in 1871, it wasn't my understanding,
it was a Navy position and then it kind of devolved into one thing or another,
but they kept these, this idea of keeping the title of Admiral.
It's kind of hard to follow to be honest about it.
And there's a few people that never took the title of Admiral.
It started off as Commodore, by the way, just for all you Commodores out there.
Oh, wow. That's, that's interesting.
Yeah. It was Commodore, Commodore, you can go look up the list of surgeon generals in Wikipedia,
it's all Commodores, and then all of a sudden became admirals,
because the Commodore thing was dropped by the Navy. So gee,
a coincidence, the Navy drops Commodore. And so did these guys.
They wear a Navy uniform.
And my challenge to the Navy guys out there that say that it's not part of the
Navy, or they have nothing to do with the Navy, let's say, I'll give them that.
Um, if you're a Navy, uh, uh,
Lieutenant and you run into one of these admirals, do you salute them?
Oh, interesting question. I would say yes.
I would say yes too. Or w but they're not part of the Navy.
You don't have to salute them, do you?
But they're an Admiral.
What would you do?
What would you do?
I would salute and say,
how you doing, buddy?
Good morning to you.
So the whole thing is sketchy.
But this is beside the point.
It was a botch on my part.
And so I had to us an apology note out.
It's okay. So no sooner had we,
I got a lot of notes and here's what the big, you know what the big complaint was?
The number amongst the complaints, everybody complained about that.
You know what the actual real complaint was when it came down to it?
John, what was the actual real complaint when it came down to it?
Thanks for asking, Adam. I said surgeon generals instead of surgeons generals.
Oh no! What a faux pas! It was a botch of the highest order. Epic proportional botch.
And everybody brought that up whether they they thought about the Admiral ship or not, brings this up.
See, what have we got? A bunch of grammarians out there worried about this sort
of thing.
Clearly. Well, we also called out other people on the news for saying that.
So it's kind of a taste of our own medicine.
That's the irony of course. We have done that.
So no sooner had we ended the show,
or I start getting threads,
ex threads to look at,
Laura Loomer calling out Callie Means as a shill,
a big pharma shill,
and Callie Means saying,
you are the shill, you're getting paid,
no, you're a shill, no, you're a shill.
All about disappointment. And it's, I mean.
Which brings us to the Megan Kelly clip,
which I have, which discusses this in some degree.
You might bring it up to speed.
Yeah, no, I'd like to do that.
Started thinking about the things that would ultimately wind up in the book.
Good Energy would be at the center of the Maha movement.
Her brother, Callie, was going through his own evolution and realizations, having worked for Coca-Cola and came out hard
as almost like a whistleblower against what companies like that are doing to us with the
sugar and the food supply and the SNAP program and so on.
And they've become very important and essential Americans, especially when it comes to Maha.
Great.
So why is she getting mercilessly attacked right now by some within the Maha movement
and by Laura Loomer, who I don't know if she considers herself Maha.
And I really don't dismiss Laura Loomer because people call her a conspiracy theorist.
She's been right about a lot. She's really taking aim at Casey. And I have to say on this one, I
really disagree. I'm just going to tell you some of the allegations, okay? She said that
Casey means her dad wrote a pro-trans children's book back in 2020. Well, he did write a book that was about like a weird, an odd duckling or goose and
how it wound up, it basically wound up being gay. Wait a minute. You're telling me Kelly
Means is a trans guy? Is a dude and is a woman in pants? No. And in the opening to the book,
he does say that this is, it's about Felix and unique bird.
And he says, it's a story for children and adults alike.
And says, it's for, I'm trying to find the exact quote,
but it's about, oh, coming of age is challenging
for most children, but it can be especially tough
for those grappling with their gender
and sexual identities.
Gender.
So he mentions it.
And I looked at the book,
at least what I can find of it. I have like four pages and it's really about a
gay goose.
Oh my goodness. All of these people, Megan Kelly, Laura Loomer,
all these.
By the way, I am never going to clip her again.
That clip that you played there is actually about a half an hour.
Oh, I know.
She repeats herself. She's like a radio person.
You know, these old radio people and TV people, they talk,
and then they wrap it around. They talk.
I had to cut out so much where she just reiterated and came back and did this
and that and put a sides in there.
It's like, you know, when I have to clip Jesse Waters is the same thing.
Yeah.
He's got a sides, a little one-liners and things that aren't a little mockery,
little mockery.
Geez, it's a mess.
It's all of these people.
And, and, and so first of all, the whole controversy really stems from the fact
that Casey, not even Calali, not even Casey, of course,
she's so controversial because is she really a doctor?
Did she quit her residency?
They came out of nowhere.
They had this book.
It's a best-selling book and this is really trauma that I would say Maha have, as in Maga Maha, about President Trump
not saying, hey, that vaccine sucked. This is what it's about because neither of those two,
the brother-sister combo, will actually say, yeah, that thing was not a good idea. They keep hedging around it,
like, well, you know, it could look a little bit. Actually, Kelly addresses this exact point in the
next clip. Oh, excellent. As a gay goose, okay, whatever. By the way, it's her father. It's not
her. Yeah. Like, I don't. Right. Okay. So, like, if she had written this, maybe it would lead to a
follow-up question at the
hearings like what do you think about children grappling with their gender identities?
That's really the question, isn't it?
What does Casey Means think?
She is where I am on this.
She is not pro the transing of children at all.
Her brother, Callie, right now is out there calling it demonic.
They're very close.
That's number one.
Then she points out, Loomer does,
that she never completed her residency.
That is true.
I just gave you the context.
She points out she does not even have
an active medical license in Oregon.
That's true because she decided to stop
practicing medicine a couple of years
into her private practice.
And to do, she has this company now that offers like all day glucose monitoring and explains
to people how to read their blood levels when they get their lab tests back and so on.
It sort of helps more millions as opposed to like individuals.
And I can speak this as a lawyer.
I passed the bar in New York, in Illinois, and in Massachusetts.
I was admitted in all those states.
I practiced at length in New York state, in Chicago, in Washington DC for that matter.
I wound up going dormant on all of my law licenses many years into joining journalism
full time because A, it costs money and B, it's a lot of continuing
legal education.
Okay, but she didn't talk about the vaccine there.
Oh, you know, it got left on the cutting room floor.
Because I got sick of it.
Okay, I'll tell you what she said.
She said that if Callie or is it Casey?
I can never remember.
I know Casey, Casey, we're talking about...
Callie is the one who's been on all these podcasts.
People have been firing at him for hours and hours.
Okay.
And he will not denounce the COVID vaccine specifically.
Okay, she says the following.
Because I...
What's supposed to be in that clip?
I cut it out because I couldn't take it anymore.
Cutting, cutting, cutting.
So she said that if she, Casey, says she was anti-vac,
she would never get approved in a million years,
and so they can't say it.
So in other words, she's implying that they believe it,
but they can't say it because then she would never get approved.
Okay, the bottom line is, well actually, before I get to my bottom line. Is there The bottom line is, well, actually, before I get to my bottom line.
Is there a bottom line?
Yeah, I think there is.
This is RFK Jr.
on the Casey Means appointment.
This was him on the Friendly Fox and Friends.
Yeah, I'm very, very happy and grateful to President Trump for
nominating Casey as the Surgeon General.
The industries that are threatened by her nomination are mobilizing and they're
actually paying a lot of bloggers, we've learned now, to attack her. They're attacking her
on the credit that she...
Where's our dough? Where's our check?
Where's our money? Just at our check? Where's our money?
Just at least offer it.
Just take medicine.
Yeah, at least.
Come on, I feel really left out.
We got a million people listening.
We've been left out of every bribe possible.
Every good deal.
Gold, gold, no gold.
We got no gold.
She was at the top of her Stanford class.
She was president of her Stanford class.
As a resident, she won every award that you could get for the kind of surgery that she
was doing.
But she realized very early on that she was not healing patients.
They were coming back again and again because the surgeries were treating the symptoms and
not the underlying causes.
And she decided to devote her life to figuring out what those underlying causes were and
to ending those exposures.
She wrote a bestselling book that really galvanized the maha movement.
And Rachel, I'm very, very grateful to you for the leadership that you've shown in telling
this story to the American public.
Casey is an incredible storyteller. She is a pregnant mom right now. So she has a
she has a touchstone with every mother in this country.
Okay, so what RFK Jr. is doing here is he is debunking and clapping back at Laura Loomer because Laura Loomer
posted that there's no evidence she's pregnant, why are we hiring pregnant women, they have to
go on pregnancy leave and these people are being paid and as I said Kali was like no you're being
paid so RFK jr is basically saying you are being paid. So RFK Jr. is basically saying, you are being paid.
This is the funny part of it, by the way.
They wish there had some clips of that.
Well, there's no clips.
There's no clips.
It's just, it's on X.
No, it's just the two of them bickering on Twitter.
All of these people, and then we can move on.
All of these people, Megan, let me just get my thought out.
All of these people, Megan Kelly, Laura Loomer,
all the influences who keep coming
back to this thing, which really doesn't matter that much.
The Surgeon General, did we stop smoking because the Surgeon General's because Coop said it's
going to kill you?
No.
The Surgeon General is the Surgeon General.
In your original newsletter, you pointed out no one even knows who the last Surgeon General
was.
These influencers, and I'll put Laura Loomer and Megyn Kelly in there, they're like dogs
returning to their own vomit.
They just keep coming back.
Wow.
Thank you.
I like it.
Oh, you worked on that one.
Thank you.
I worked on that one.
Oh, brother.
But that's what it is.
Who cares? It's another thing. The Fredericksburg rumor network is
in high gear. They're building a Sharia law.
Your point is well taken. Who cares? It's the's the surgeon general. It's not like, you know,
the secretary of state. Because of the tru- that particular part is because of the trauma of COVID
and they're all secretly very mad that Trump has never said, he said, yeah, I don't think
that vaccine was so good. He says the opposite, although he's dialed that back even. It's
a trauma. It is a trauma amongst people who voted for Trump. It's trauma. It would all
end if he just said that. I think his ego's in the way on that one. Or maybe he knows
something we don't. Anyway, the next thing, and we talked about this months ago, oh, oh, they're building
an entire Sharia law city in Texas.
Oh yeah, well before we go into that, I do want to get the, I do have one more case he
means misdirected.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought we were done.
Oh, okay, I got you.
You were making moves and I wasn't paying attention.
I'm sorry.
You weren't.
You were not taking the cue.
I was trying to get my one-liner out.
That's why I was focused on that.
Yes, you develop these things about once a month.
Oh, once a month that you catch it.
Yeah, okay.
Well, that's probably true.
It's probably twice a month and I only catch one.
Yeah.
And then you add Lib, at least you, you add Lib twice as many as you
actually developed.
So I should, I give you credit for that.
Thank you.
Uh, Casey Means was on the Bill Maher show.
Oh, this past Friday?
No, no, it was like a month ago or longer.
Oh, okay.
All right.
After a book came out and she was the special guest. No, no, it was like a month ago or longer. Oh, okay. All right.
After a book came out and she was the special guest.
This is when they used to have, when Barr had the two guests on his right and then he'd
have one special guest on his left.
Yes.
Which he's kind of backed off of.
Yeah, well, the special guest is the guest in the beginning who then comes out later
for the panel discussion during overtime sometimes sometimes it's always strange variation changes his model a little bit. It's a strange format
I don't but you like it
So she is on but this these clips have nothing to do with her except for the fact that they triggered
Something that I had to make some commentary on before we talk about Sharia law in Texas,
which I think is also a Fredericksburg freak out.
No, it's, it's bigger than that, but we can get to that.
Well, it could be, it could be, but let's go, let me get this out of the way.
Hey, you brought it back up.
It does involve a rant, which you enjoy.
Okay. Means? So here's Bill, here's Bill Maher, and the topic changes out of the blue as he has Chris
Cuomo and some other guy and Casey Means on and then it slowly twists.
Who are these clips?
What are they called?
Means.
Means on Maher.
Means on Maher 1, yeah.
There's a lot of stuff in our food that probably shouldn't be there and every time they look the more they look the more they find
They can kill you gambling everybody's head is going like this. Yeah, I think the food is a problem
My question to you is if everybody's head is nodding like this
What is keeping anything from ever happening that moves us in the direction that you've always had?
The food is delicious, that's the problem.
I would say, I would say.
That's what it is.
Who comes back from Italy saying,
I can't wait to get some ragu?
That's right.
I mean, Italy, the food is all, it's more delicious
than what we have and they have.
But we don't live in Italy, you live near McDonald's.
Not yet.
That was Casey jumping in there. Yeah, she's trying to get a word in edgeways, but Mar is out of control.
And then he says the following things which got...
I didn't record any of her. I didn't care.
It's mostly this is the issue.
This is not rocket science.
I don't know what our food is. I'm not talking about like...
The food is delicious. It is.
In America?
If I had six months to live, I'd eat McDonald's every night.
Are you serious?
And if I ate McDonald's every night, I'd have six months to live. Yes.
So look, McDonald's isn't delicious? Who are we fucking kidding?
It's delicious.
See, I mean, you should talk...
I never have it, but it's delicious. And, I, it's so, I mean, you should talk, but I think it's-
I never have it, but it's delicious.
Then how do you know?
I've had it.
Oh.
Have they changed the formula?
I don't think so.
And here comes the rest.
That's what got my attention.
The formula change, yes.
So I have stories, because I used to work as an air pollution inspector, and I got to
inspect all these places.
A number of them were McDonald's jobbers.
They changed the formula all the time and if he doesn't think they changed the formula,
somebody should tell him about the difference between the tallow fries that they used to
make which are famous and all delicious McDonald's fries to the crap they make now which are
soggy seed oil fries.
There's a formula change, isn't there? I'd say.
But the original McDonald's formula
for the sauce on the Big Mac
was largely developed by Morehouse Mustards,
which used to be headquartered in Ameryville,
and I used to inspect that plant a lot,
and I got to know this guy, George Latar,
was one of the owners.
Wait a minute, that's their secret sauce.
Isn't it secret, the sauce? It's a secret yeah. Yeah okay. Isn't Thousand Islands
dressing? Doesn't everybody already know? No no no the kicker was he said Ladder
told me when they blended it the original blend was with fresh horseradish
and that's what made the original Big Mac so tasty because of the horseradish
that was in there and he says as soon as they went into full production,
and within a year they changed the horseradish to a powdered horseradish,
which was bland. Eugh. Formula change, by the way,
for poor Bill Maher who thinks these burgers still taste like they used to.
I've also tasted the burgers, the McDonald's burgers in Paris,
because they have a McDonald's, or they used to have
one on the Champs-Elysees.
And you taste it, it doesn't taste anything like these burgers.
They're totally different.
The bread's different.
Everything's different about them.
Also the bread used to be made, another inspection I made was the Kirkpatrick's, or Kilpatrick's
bread factory in Oakland,
which the company went out of business
during the era of balloon bread,
where you had Kirk, if I remember Kilpatrick's,
Wonder Bread, Langendorf, Sunbeam, Blue Seal,
there's all these different bread companies,
they all made this same kind of fluffy white bread.
And they made the McDonald's burger buns.
And the guy noticed about it. He says, yeah,
he said they had to have a special, they had a template.
So the bun would be, as the bun was just,
after it was before it was being tempered, they smashed the bun with this like temp,
like these little blades that weren't blades,
they were just pushers and they put a cross hatch pattern
on the bread and the guy's manager says to me,
he says, that's to make it look as though
the bread was folded.
It's just fake.
Whatever happened to Wonder Bread by the way?
I love my Wonder Bread as a kid. Wonder Bread's still around, by the way? I love my Wonder Bread.
Wonder Bread is still around, but the other balloon breads are all gone.
If you want to, there's a fun movie to watch.
Michael Keaton in The Founder.
It came out in 2016.
Yes, about Roy Crock.
Yes.
And because we watched this maybe two weeks ago, what triggered me is that they went to
the powdered horseradish.
That was one of the ways he got the company going
is by using powdered milk for the milkshakes
in the early days.
And I'm sure, and they change that, of course,
later as well.
So yeah, Bill Maher doesn't really talk about that.
Yeah, so Maher's going on about
they don't change the formula.
So just to top it off, as you know, I have been tasting McDonald's Big Macs on the show.
At least once a month.
Once a month.
Once a month.
And I stopped a year ago.
Because you were getting sick?
No, I couldn't eat.
I couldn't finish one.
The latest version is so unedible.
And for Maher to say it's delicious, he's great.
He obviously doesn't eat there.
No.
It's not even close to delicious.
It's not edible.
No.
If I have a stomach ache, I'll go to McDonald's so I can poop it out.
That stuff never, that stuff, I mean, you're just the middle man at McDonald's.
You just like eat it and it's right before, I'm not even home.
Like I gotta go.
Okay, enough about nasty food.
I just had to get that off my chest.
Yes, yes.
Well, hopefully the new surgeon general will unveil all things unhealthy.
And I will take RFK Jr. at his word that there's all kinds of money floating. Look, Big Pharma is big.
They know the media is changing. They know that their phony, baloney, CBS morning show segments,
that that's not really, you know, it's really not going to last much longer. Five years,
ten years, I don't know, maybe five months. People in my short. If you ban, if you ban advertising, there you go.
You have to ban the native ads.
You have to bend the native ads. There's no native ads for smoking.
They won't even let you smoke in a movie half the time until it gets bent out of
shape. Yeah. Well, so if they're,
if they're going to ban advertising on television for,
for prescription drugs, they have to ban the, the native ads.
Well, my point is they know change is coming one way or the other and they're
fighting it and they're fighting it in the, in the correct ways.
What I would do, we'd have the meeting.
Hey, let's get, let's cut some checks.
Is Rogan doable? No. Okay. What's next? Loomer? Okay, we'll start
with her. Megan Kelly. Hmm.
You know, like, you know, I can run it by her.
Bob.
You run it by her, Bob.
I can run it by her, Bob. You can see we get anything if good traction. If you run it by her, no, I know her.
She's not going to say anything.
She's not going to do it.
She's not going to say anything.
So I can run it by her.
If she doesn't do it, she doesn't do it.
If she does it, she does it.
We'll find out.
So you know that's exactly what goes on.
Of course.
Of course.
And part of the meeting is always, how about those no agenda guys?
Nah, they're no good.
Those guys.
They'll fuck it up anyway.
Exactly, they'll deconstruct themselves
and before you know it, everybody's onto us.
We can't do that, Bob.
Can't do that.
Yeah.
No, I was just saying,
it was kind of related to the influencers
that the Fred Freak Off,
I'm calling it that now, the Fredericksburg Freakoff,
everyone's all bent out of shape
because influencers are out there again,
like they're building an entire Sharia law city
right outside of Plano.
We know that they've not built anything.
There's a mosque.
Well, they got some nice drawings.
Yeah, you can drive I-10, you'll see 100 mosques if you drive it long enough. There's a mosque. Well, they got some nice drawings. Yeah, you can drive I-10, you'll see a
hundred mosques if you drive it long
enough. There's mosques everywhere.
But it's not like this city has been
built and it's being, it's being
projected now as it's here.
It's Sharia law.
They want to take over.
And so it got so...
That's probably true.
Well, that may be true.
But, you know, so Abbot had to come out and say, hey, they're not
going to, they can't even start construction.
They have no permits.
They don't have the authorization.
So they're playing it legally because obviously in America, you know, if you want to have
a big campus for your Scientology, you can
do it.
If you want to have a big campus for your Islam, you can do it.
Now you can't all of a sudden have different rule of law and that's really what he's
focusing on here.
But it's just amazing how there's so much going on in the world and somehow these things just
get spun up.
Just spun up.
And like calm down.
I'm tired of being the guy who say calm down.
People are starting to not like me.
You're no fun, Curry.
I thought you were a conspiracy guy.
You're just debunking everything.
Yeah, what happened to you anyway?
You're like debunk bot.
What happened is I got burned. I got burned one too many everything. Yeah, what happened to you anyway? You're like debunkbot. What happened is I got burned.
I got burned one too many times.
That's what happened.
I got burned with the quantum dots, man.
I got burned.
The quantum dots.
Yeah, actually that did change you.
Oh yeah, it burned me.
Because quantum dots.
Well, how do you think Pachenec feels?
He went on Alex Jones' show and brought this out.
Yacked about it and Alex was laughing in his face.
Yeah, but Pachynik never contacts me anymore.
No, not even a, hey, how you doing?
No, it's too bad.
He should have been able to snap out of it.
I think he was really burned bad, but he's just kind of like,
he should be able to snap back from that. I don't even know if he does anything anymore.
I think he just kind of retired, like slunk back into the shadows.
He needs to snap out of it.
Anyway, yes, I still love Steve. He's got good stories. He's a funny guy.
He's a great character.
He's got funny guy. Oh, he's a great guy. He's got, he's got good stories. So lots of action in Europe because you know, now that president Trump is trying
to get things to calm down between Russia and Ukraine, the mod squad had to get
together that's Mertz and yes, thank you everybody.
We know that Friedrich Mertz indeed has the same initials as Fred Mertz of I Love Lucy
That was a big email. I got
How'd you miss that? How'd you miss that one? Mertz, McCrone, Stammer and Tusk
Bro! Tusk of Poland. That guy? Yeah, Tusk in Poland. Yeah, two sk in Poland.
They all went to Kiev to a little meeting.
Four European allies of Ukraine on Saturday vowed to impose more sanctions on Russia and
increase military aid to Kiev.
If Russian President Vladimir Putin does not accept an unconditional 30-day ceasefire
The leaders under the umbrella of the coalition of the willing you said that their proposal for a ceasefire
Starting on Monday was supported by US presidents Donald Trump
leaders here all the leaders of the meeting we just had with the coalition of the willing said yeah I'm sorry I should have said the leaders of the coalition of the willing anybody
else in Europe just listen up because these are your new leaders an unconditional ceasefire
rejecting Putin's conditions and clear that if he turns his back on peace, we will respond.
The move appeared to have ramped up pressure on Russia as President Putin hours later called
for direct talks with Ukraine without preconditions.
Now, I'm pretty sure you have some stuff on that too, but I just want to get through what
happened in this 24-hour period. Then Fred Mertz, he came out and kind of wishy-washy
talked about, well, you know, we'll get you into EU and then after that maybe NATO, I
think, if, you know, something like that.
I share the assessment of the Secretary General when it comes to membership for Ukraine. I would
like to add that Ukraine has an accession perspective for the European Union. I think
in terms of timeframes, this will be before accession to NATO if it happens one day. And
it needs to be clear that Ukraine decides in a sovereign way on the path it wants to
take. It has decided to file for membership of the European Union.
You know the criteria for such an accession.
And if Ukraine fulfills these criteria, it is a welcome member within the European Union.
Ukraine is and has to remain a sovereign actor deciding on its own political and military alliances.
In other words, no.
This is just a big fat no.
Now you're not going to get in.
You're not going to get into NATO.
You can file, you can file, but you have to be sovereign.
No, that's a big no.
He's standing next to while he's doing the speech.
Of course, if you've got the coalition of the willing, our boy Mark Rutte is right there.
Well, the whole of NATO agreed on the irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO, but we never agreed that as part of a peace deal.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, Vladimir Zelensky, we've never agreed you can get into NATOs.
There would be guaranteed NATO membership for Ukraine. No, no, that was never agreed. That was never said, dude, never, never. getting the NATOs. No.
My boss.
Oh no, oh no, it is the half court, not the full court.
What are you talking about Mark?
That will piss off John C.
On the side, Russia.
Oh, on the side.
You put it, that's exactly true.
And at the moment, there is a close cooperation
between NATO and Ukraine.
We have the command in Wiesbaden,
which is organizing the military aid into Ukraine.
We organize together and jointly
the training for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We are catching all the lessons which we are gathering
in Ukraine together with Ukrainians in our center in Poland. So there is a lot happening at the moment.
So no to NATO. You're not going to get in but but we gave you some NATO goodies for you, man, so shut up a little bit. And of course, of course Rutte could not leave
the meeting without a little sales pitch. There are many rumors floating around. It's true that
we are having internal discussions now within NATO, what will be the best way to make sure that
we can fulfill all our tasks as NATO going forward in the future.
Money!
Including of course, given the fact that we acknowledge the long term threat Russia is
posing.
So it will mean an absolute increase in defense spending, so we are not going to confirm the
figures.
So don't worry about the truce or a ceasefire, they are long term threat, you need to spend
your money.
Obviously when you increase defense spending you have to think about all the enabling oh yes it's not just
bullets it's a lot of stuff man it's to defense and yes I've always said this if
we stick at 2% we cannot defend ourselves we have to really increase defense spending
increase but that is not enough we also have to build the defense industrial base. They go hand in hand because of a strong deterrence in defense. We can
defend ourselves now, but to be able in five years time to also be able to defend ourselves
and to keep the deterrence in defense at the level we need, we need only to spend much
more but also to build that defense industrial base across
the Atlantic, across the whole Euro-Atlantic area, including the United States and Canada
and all the European countries and NATO.
It's crucial.
Crucial.
We need to do both.
I said it before, the Russians are producing in three months in ammunition, but the whole
of NATO, which is 25 times bigger, 25 times bigger than Russia in terms of the overall
economy.
We produce in one year in a ministerial, they produce in three months.
So that's not sustainable.
So just both spending and more production.
The message is clear.
That guy getting it working on commission.
No, he's not smart enough for that.
It's all for him.
I don't know. It seems pretty smart to me the more I hear it. Well, according to our president, he's not smart enough for that. It's all for him. Oh, I don't know.
He seems pretty smart to me the more I hear it.
Well, according to our president, he's a great guy.
He was a great prime minister of the Netherlands.
He's just awesome.
He's just...
Yeah, that's what you do.
Mark, Mark, you were the best.
You were the best.
You just did a great job, man.
Just great.
That's a typical show business thing, typical of Trump too.
I'm a big fan of your work, man.
Big fan of your work.
I've worked with a lot of different people.
You're absolutely the best.
It's unbelievable. I really feel privileged to be here in your presence. The line is big fan of your work man. Big fan.
Big fan of your work. Big fan. Big fan. Big big fan of your work. Whenever you hear that, that's a Hollywood bullcrap.
Yeah, pull up your trousers.
Step in it.
So, of course, Putin is what everyone's looking at right now.
You have a Putin clip here?
You got something?
I got a couple of Putin clips.
I got two clips.
One, the shorty from BBC World News, or World Service.
Sorry.
Let's start with that.
In the past few minutes, President Putin has appeared live on television saying Russia
seeks serious talks with Ukraine to remove the root causes of the conflict.
He said he was offering immediate direct talks with Ukraine to take place in the Turkish
city of Istanbul next Thursday, the 15th of May.
He said he had never rejected dialogue with Kiev.
Details are still coming in.
By the way, while the BBC is waiting for details,
whenever you're ready, I have a bullet point translation
of Putin's speech, his press conference.
I only have one more clip and you can go right after that.
I just thought that that particular BBC clip,
which was kind of to the point,
just counter-addicted everything, but okay.
Let's go to NPR and this is the Russia-Ukraine little ditty.
European leaders in Ukraine today pressed Russian President Putin to accept a 30-day
unconditional ceasefire or face more sanctions.
In here, Joanna Kikissis reports the leaders say President Trump also supports this proposal.
The leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland traveled to Kiev in their
first joint appearance.
They joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a meeting of Western nations supporting
Ukraine.
Other leaders participated online via video link.
Zelensky and the four European leaders in Kiev also called President Trump.
Zelensky told reporters Trump supports the ceasefire proposal.
It's quite possible to monitor the ceasefire in coordination with the United States, Zelensky
said. The ceasefire could start as early as Monday if Russia agrees to it. However, the
Kremlin says it will oppose a ceasefire unless Western countries stop providing military
aid to Ukraine.
So very poor from NPR and BBC. I mean, we have the best producers who speak Russian and translate stuff for us.
So here's a multi-billion bullet bullet bullet point bullet point of Russian
President Putin's press conference in order of appearance.
The Kiev regime has repeatedly violated the 30-day moratorium on attacks on energy facilities.
The Easter truce was violated more than 5,000 times.
Moscow has repeatedly put forward ceasefire initiatives.
Kiev has sabotaged them. Russia has considered
a further ceasefire based on Kiev's behavior during previous ceasefires. Since May 6,
the Kiev authorities have launched large-scale attacks on Russia 524 drones. During the days
of the declared ceasefire, Ukraine has repeatedly attempted to attack the state border of the Russian
Federation. All attacks have been repelled.
The attacks were carried out solely for political reasons.
The enemy suffered heavy losses.
The Kiev authorities not only rejected the ceasefire proposals,
but also tried to intimidate the foreign leaders gathered in Moscow.
That was on the 8th.
Who were they trying to intimidate?
The leaders who came to us were not leaders by position, but by character.
And they were threatened by those who elevate former SS men to the
rank of heroes Russia is grateful to all foreign leaders for their efforts and
the Ukrainian conflict the Kiev regime has repeatedly violated the 30-day
moratorium on attacks I got that part The Ukrainian armed forces should not rearm and dig in during the ceasefire.
The decision is up to the leadership of Ukraine and their curators who want to continue the war
with the hands of the Ukrainian nationalists. President Putin proposes Ukraine resume direct
negotiations without any preconditions. We propose to begin Thursday, May 15th in
Istanbul, the very place where they are interrupted in 2022. Our offer is on the
table. Now it is up to the Ukrainian authorities and their handlers.
This brings me to, this is interesting, but the interesting part is the 524 drones
which brings me to a clip that I had produced about a month ago.
Maybe you can try looking it up. Okay. Which we never played on the show,
which was about drones, drones being produced in Ukraine, uh,
by a factory there. And they've got, they were, they're making drones.
And you know, they're not using Iranian drones or anybody else's drones.
They're actually making drones by the know, they're not using Iranian drones or anybody else's drones.
They're actually making drones by the drones, by the tons.
And this is like their new business that they do.
And it's never been talked about since.
I have the, this is from last month.
Yeah, two clips.
Kubey.
Now during recent talks in Saudi Arabia, both Kyiv and Moscow confirmed their commitments
to stop attacking each other's infrastructure, energy infrastructure.
But Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has already accused Russia of violating that agreement.
And Ukraine is also...
It says Ukraine drone maker.
Oh, well, maybe it is.
I think it is. I just don't remember. It's so
long I can't remember how the clip's structured. Question is it willing to
ground its long-range drones used to strike oil facilities? The BBC's
Abduljilil Abdurrasulov has visited a secret Ukrainian facility where they
make them. At a secret location Ukrainian engineers work on the development of new
long-range drones. They drill, glue and assemble parts of a model called Raybird.
This drone can cover a distance of more than thousand kilometers and stay in the
air for up to 28 hours. So it can easily reach cities like Moscow. Raybird is
effectively a spy aircraft.
Roman Knyazhenko, the head of Skyton, the company that develops these drones.
The idea was to create the system that can control and monitor big areas or extended
areas like borders of the country and so on.
And it's one of the most advanced system in the world right now in terms of
reconnaissance. It's not too many aircrafts able to work so deep on the enemy territory."
Raybird identifies targets and directs fire. Among the targets are Russia's oil refineries
and fuel depots.
Among the targets are Russia's oil refineries and fuel depots. Drones are the ones that are responsible and that also connects to the 524 drones that were launched against Russia, whether they're ballistic or not. I just found that that's where that information triggered my thoughts on this old clip that
we never addressed.
But that's where the second part…
Right.
Well, so he refers to the 2022 talks in Istanbul.
Isn't that where Boris Johnson thwarted everything or was that before Boris Johnson?
Johnson went straight to Kiev to do that.
Hmm. I'm not sure. I don't really remember. I can't honestly don't remember them doing the talks in Istanbul at all.
I have one more clip here. This is a former Ukrainian negotiator Volker.
A meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is clearly on the radar, the Kremlin's
spokesperson said.
Radar!
But as Moscow seems to be sending the signals about its willingness to meet the US president,
what is the response from Washington?
Former US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations told Euronews Donald Trump would
want to meet Putin as well, but under certain conditions.
I do think he would like to meet Putin, but after there's a ceasefire.
He wants to end the war, and then he would like to rebuild a relationship with Russia.
He thinks that you could reintegrate Russia into a global economy, you could do business
deals with Russia, but Putin has to stop the war first.
And as Putin is not doing that, the prospects for a Trump-Putin meeting
are looking farther and farther away.
It doesn't seem to me that the EU and their
aspiring entrant, Ukraine, really want peace.
It just doesn't feel like it.
Well, I think we've determined that already on this show.
Yeah. That the EU is a bunch of warmongers and they don't want peace. It just doesn't feel like it. Well, I think we've determined that already on this show.
Yeah.
That the EU is a bunch of warmongers and they don't want peace.
They want to…
And they're going to do anything to stop it.
They want to spend more money on military stuff.
That's sad.
Well, you know, they get their tita-ringer for doing stuff like this.
You know, we were talking about a big fan of your work, just staying in Europe, but
really this is more about tariffs with Queen Ursula.
This is our president complimenting the Queen.
Are you planning to meet Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Council, anytime soon? and complimenting the Queen. Definitely, the European Union is a big thing. They want to make a deal very badly. You know, everybody wants to make a deal. Look, everybody wants to make a deal with the United States.
And we're doing that. We're going to make fair deals.
I'm just honored that this was the first one.
I just love her, man. I'm a big fan of her work. Ursula, Queen Ursula, she's the best.
Well, as you remember from the Cochrane clip where, you know, he looks at Trump as a natural at finding weak spots.
It's obvious by her hairdo and the way she handles herself that she would love to be
flattered.
Well, it's funny you say that because they asked Queen Ursula about this.
If after Trump, President Trump, yesterday said that yourself, you are a fantastic leader,
do you think that now you are closer to visiting
the White House and what could that be?
So thank you very much. I like compliments in general. So negotiations as always, nothing is negotiated until everything is negotiated.
So it's against the simple rules of negotiations if you give in between details which are not
totally agreed now with the whole package.
Therefore unfortunately I will of course not go into any kind of details, but this is all the negotiations in the very end have to be
concluded.
We were always transparent from the very beginning.
We always said we prefer negotiated solution, but we also developed countermeasures, and
this is now the process where we have to develop these countermeasures to put this instrument
on the table.
We have other instruments on the table. We will not take anything off the table till we have a satisfactory result. But for me it's important
that if I go to the White House, I want to have a package.
I've got instruments on the table and I want a package. You're going to get a package.
That's a package bad.
You're going to get the package.
I'm pretty sure you get the package.
So you're right.
She must be an easy sell because she's the one,
even though, I mean, she's good at covering it up,
but that deal that she made for the vaccines.
Oh, that's going to come out now.
What's the...
I don't know if that's ever going to come out.
The crazy, not crazy, but the German woman in the EU Parliament with the black hair, the short black hair.
What's her name?
You know who I'm talking about.
She's like, this is no good.
She's finally got her commission together.
What's her name again?
I don't know.
Yeah, she's a bulldog.
Hold on a second. EU Commission Vaccines COVID.
Come on, what is her name?
You know her name.
I can't, come on troll room.
Anyway, she finally has her commission or committee commission, whatever it is. And she's out on the social saying, it's all going to come out.
We're going to get to SMS Gate.
Yeah, I'm predicting nothing's going to come of it.
Well, you're so skeptical.
The Epstein docs are going to drop any day.
I'm waiting for that one.
And the millions of tapes.
And if you notice, Bill Gates is starting to show up all over the place talking about
his $200 million.
Interesting you say that.
First of all, just the background.
First of all, he shows up on NPR's news hour, or sorry, PBS News Hour, and he's interviewed
by the woman there and he's going on and on.
He's sitting there with some douche that is the head of the new guy.
Never seen him before.
The head of the Gates Foundation.
And they're going on about he's going to drop.
I'm going to drop 200 billion.
I'm going to drop it.
Yeah.
And then he shows up on Colbert.
All of a sudden, and all this came off coincidentally, all came up after Pam Bondi shows up with her,
Oh my God, we got 10,000 video tapes of all these guys screwing girls.
What are we going to do with it?
We're going through them one by one.
It'll take a while.
So he's going to close the foundation.
Yeah.
He's going to give away all his money.
That's called twilighted or something, moonlighted or I forget the term he uses.
I don't think I'm looking at the, oh, well, let's see what his social media post was.
I'm looking at Bloomberg talking about it.
Bill Gates plans to give away virtually all his $113 billion.
Here's the impacts.
No, it doesn't say it.
But I don't understand.
This guy has given away all his money a hundred times.
With Buffett, and then Buffett again.
He's made this a profit center somehow.
Big time.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I thought that was really interesting.
Like the minute it kind of heats up in Epstein land,
he's like,
I'm going to give away, there's no money.
Look at me. Look at me. I'm great.
Nobody's going to hate a guy who can give away this kind of money to help the poor.
Well, how about that? And I'm closing it down so I can take some and get on my yacht and sail away.
That's what you want to do.
You've got people investigating non-extradition countries as we speak.
Yeah, what's a good one to go to for him?
Argentina.
Speaking of the South, this kind of slipped by us.
But did you even follow this story from Rubio and the Venezuelan hostages?
No.
No, yeah, listen to this.
Right now we're following breaking news.
Breaking.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is announcing the rescue of five opposition members from
Venezuela.
Rubio posted on X saying that following an operation, all the members are on US soil
tonight.
The opposition group had been taking shelter at the Argentine embassy in Caracas for more than a year
to avoid arrest by the Maduro regime.
It's still not clear how the opposition members
exited the embassy.
This is language.
This is setting up for something.
When you say, he rescued them, the operation, what was this?
Was this like with helicopters and black ops?
What happened here? I've got nothing since this report.
It has to be some sort of black op where you have the guys in the sky.
Well, is it though or is it just, you know, setting up Venezuela?
Could be bull crap you're thinking?
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Venezuela is being set up for something. Possibly. Possibly.
Hmm.
Well, they do have to find these mechanisms to sneak people out of the embassies around
the world and all countries.
You got somebody in there trying to get out of there.
That's another thing.
I just love the Fred Freak Off networks.
So the latest, USAID never went away.
By the way, the Freak Out network in the nearby communities there is a goal
mind for the show.
It's the best.
It's the best.
And I tell them flat out I'm talking about this on the show.
They're like yeah you should because it's important.
You should.
That's exactly what you would say to that type of person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But get the word out.
These are my friends.
I love them.
But I laugh at them right.
I'm like oh come on man. No, no, no, no. No, no, yeah, but get the word like Samantha Powers are no longer
in control of it.
But yes, of course, USAID was a CIA slush fund and the State Department is the CIA home.
Well, the State Department has their own agency.
They're not the CIA's home necessarily.
They work together.
But all the embassies is where the spooks go in.
I mean, let's just be honest about it.
They work very closely together.
And you know, Rubio, yeah, okay.
Yeah, who knows?
We'll find out about Rubio.
So that was one.
Where's the other one?
Oh, Suzy Wiles.
Yeah.
Snake. She's a snake. Snake. She's a snake.
Snake?
She's a snake. She's not to be trusted.
She's the chief of staff, Suzy Wiles?
She's a, there used to be a football announcer named Summer Hall, Summer Hill, Summer Hall, what the hell is his last name?
Very famous, he used to work with John Madden on the NFL broadcasts.
That's her dad.
Oh, yeah, I think we knew that somehow.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So she had broadcasting chops.
I guess my overall observation is
is that there's a lot of, you know,
now everyone's looking, who can we trust?
Who can we trust?
Who can we not trust?
There's snakes everywhere, there's stuff going on,
there's lots of things.
Now, of course, you know, so then they'll ask me like,
what do you think about the chemtrails?
Like, well, that's real, obviously.
So, you know, I'm on their side too,
but the Fred Freak Out or Freak Off network is amazing.
I love it.
I love them, I love it and
They always come to me if they need to be calmed down except chemtrails like no that's that's us real man
They're spraying us like bug
Now this I made a call I made a big call out and I called out our producers and like what like, what do you, how, where are you people? Where are you people? And it happened again.
I hope you, I know what you're going to go into and I,
I would hope that we have some information.
I think this whole thing is a fraud.
Delays mounted again at one of the nation's most important international hubs
today. If only they could blame it all on the weather.
Our scopes just went black again. If you care about this, contact your airline and try to get some pressure from them to fix this stuff.
Sorry to hear about that. FedEx 9C9, I'm switching. Good luck, guys.
For the third time in two weeks, radars failed at a facility in Philadelphia
where controllers managed the airspace in and around Newark Airport.
They were unable to see where planes were in relation to one another, and it lasted for 90 seconds.
The so-called Philadelphia Traycon has been the center of controversy since the FAA forced controllers who handle Newark to move from a similar center on Long Island.
It's their new digs, loaded with technology that was state-of-the-art in the 1970s, that have failed repeatedly, leaving controllers traumatized and taking leave, thus reducing
the number of flights allowed to fly to Newark, a necessary safety restriction that's led
to hours-long delays.
Governor, it's been almost two weeks since the Newark airport incident.
Today, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy ignored questions about the situation at his state's
most important airport.
Yesterday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy used Newark as exhibit A in his multi-billion-dollar
push to overhaul the entire nation's system.
You will see Newark's not just in Newark, you'll see Newark's in other parts of the
country because it's an aging system.
And so we have to actually upgrade it.
But that coast-to-coast project will take years to complete.
The White House stressing temporary fixes are already underway to strengthen the resiliency of the Philadelphia facility that's caused
all this chaos. The FAA are working to address this technical issue tonight to
prevent further outages as well as install new fiber from Newark Airport
to Philadelphia and the goal is to have the totality of this work done by the
end of the summer. Okay so that report actually buried the lead of our girl in the White House, Leavitt.
I need to play her entire one-minute segment on this crisis.
Yes, I'm glad you asked about the FAA. There was a glitch in the system this morning.
I got 99 glitches.
And put a goatsie on there, will you? So I do not accept from as much as we like you, Miss Leavitt,
saying it's a glitch is a cop out, it's bull crap, and of course not a single one of the journalists in the briefing room, including whoever was in the new media seat, said what exactly is a glitch? Okay.
Yes, I'm glad you asked about the FAA. There was a glitch in the system this morning,
especially at Newark Airport. As you all know, I spoke to the Department of Transportation.
That glitch was caused by the same telecoms and software issues that were raised last week. Everything went back
online after the brief outage and there was no operational impact. DOT and the FAA are
working to address this technical issue tonight to prevent further outages, as well as install
new fiber from Newark Airport to Philadelphia. And the goal is to have the totality of this work done by the end of the summer.
There's a four part infrastructure plan that was released by the Secretary of Transportation
yesterday to improve communication, surveillance, automation and their facilities.
They want to replace the antiquated telecom systems with new fiber, wireless and satellite
technologies, replace more than 600 radars which have gone way past their life cycle and address one runway
safety they want to build six new air traffic control centers for the first
time since the 1960s and replace towers as well they want to implement excuse
me new modern hardware and software for all traffic facilities to create a
common platform system throughout the towers. Okay, well John, you already guessed it, of course. They just happen to have this six-year
plan for all these new radar systems and everything. I just released this today,
it's coincidental. This is a total setup, total bullcrap, and I cite from our boots on the ground from not one, but two air traffic controllers.
They happened to live together,
the anonymous controller and his anonymous controller wife
because we had the best producers in the universe.
And they said, hey, okay, we heard you.
We thought it was such a non-event.
We didn't even bother to talk to you.
But yes, of course, it sounds like a couple of things possibly a scheduled outage a work of
sabotage to grab headlines for money the controllers taking leave is nothing sick leave is abused by
controllers regularly rarely are there any questions asked so right there we already know
that part of this is right there scam alertam alert. On the scheduled outage side,
if there was a headline for every time an aircraft went Nordo and what is Nordo?
No operations radio something or other and frequencies went out momentarily,
it would be as often as the weather segment on your local news station.
An example of this.
When the Nashville RV bomber happened a few years back, that explosion
affected our main frequencies, standbys and backups in four sectors.
I believe affecting Memphis center frequencies as well, which is very busy.
Mass chaos ensued after however, regardless of what the Trump administration
is trying to sell and the clips provided.
The United States is the best ATC
system in the world and we are the best controllers in the world.
Foam finger number one.
No one knows what this magic.
Can I stop for a second?
Yes.
This is the reason nobody wrote in right away.
They thought it was like this is that this is the he's
expressing what it was.
What? Why?
Oh, should we send something in? No, no, this is the he's expressing what it was. What why oh should we send something in? No
Time well, why are we writing a note to Adam about this because he wants so you had the bitch and moan and bitch
And moan and bitch and moan you finally got somebody to say, okay, here's the reason yes
Yeah, so that makes sense referring to a secretary Duffy and I have the clip here
What is this magical system Duffy is talking about?
No one knows.
Reality is even if it's passed tomorrow, it won't be implemented for 10 years
and by then it's out of date.
That's how government works.
Again, you want to help ATC system?
It's no keyboards or fancy screens.
It's weather, ground, radar, updates and comms.
That's how you improve the system.
Side note, we're huge Trump supporters,
still don't understand what all this means
or what it even looks like.
And they listen to you, John.
The antiquated radio systems, that's part of the problem.
The Trump administration is detailing plans
of what it calls the biggest overhaul
of air traffic control in the country's history.
NBC's Tom Costello is in Washington.
Tom, it's a pretty tall task ahead.
Whoa, Tom!
Yeah, it really is.
And Secretary Sean Duffy says it will take three to four years and cost many billions
of dollars, but the country must upgrade from its 50-year-old ATC systems that really suffer
serious glitches every single week.
The plan calls for a brand new radio system, fiber optic data feeds and new radars.
Radios and radars recently went down in Newark leaving controllers in the dark.
The DOT also wants to build new towers, new trade cons, new runway safety systems.
The nation's airlines, controller and pilot unions all support the plan saying air travel
needs an urgent upgrade and a safety fix. Keyword unions all support the plan saying air travel, urgent upgrade and a safety fix.
Keyword unions all support the system.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
It'll happen.
They'll get them.
They'll get them something.
But, uh, the other shoe that will drop, I'm just waiting for it is this is
because Pete Buttigieg did nothing.
He was, that's the main thing.
That's coming.
Did you get the clip of Trump talking about him and his husband on the bike?
No, no I didn't.
I didn't.
Oh damn it.
I should try to go back and find that clip.
Because Pete was too obsessed with EV charging stations.
That's the kicker.
Well, of which they built one.
Oh.
Well, Colorado was joining 16 other states suing the Trump administration to free up
funds to build electric car chargers.
Now the money was approved by Congress, but then President Trump froze it with an executive
order.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser argues that's illegal for the administration to
block the distribution of already approved funds.
The state already had plans to spend tens of millions of dollars. And he says without the money, it's going to be difficult to build out electric vehicle
infrastructure.
Yeah.
And I can just remind everybody why the billions of dollars was not spent on EV charging stations
is because it was all earmarked for minority owned businesses.
It was a DEI bill in disguise and they couldn't find any businesses
that qualified to do the work. That's why the money was never spent. That's a good point.
Yeah. Makes sense. But still, it's more fun to blame Pete Buttigieg. Now is the time not to do
these things, by the way, especially if, you know, I'm still skeptical of the Toyota solid state battery, but there's
a battery supposedly solid state.
They call it solid state.
It's just a different engineered style of battery that supposedly goes supposedly.
It's not a super cap.
No one's going to make those.
A super capacity.
Unless you want to see somebody blow up.
Blow up.
Can you imagine?
You're looking out the freeway and there's just a car just blows up.
For those of you who have never blown up a capacitor, it's a lot of fun.
A supercapacitor could create quite the explosion, I'm sure.
A regular little capacitor, I've had to happen to me once in a computer.
Oh yeah. Like one of those little blue ones or the yellow ones.
It was a little, I don't know which one it was.
And I don't know what the capacity was because of what was left of it.
You couldn't tell.
It's like paper wound and it stinks.
It's like a cherry bomb going off inside the computer.
And it's frightening.
Yeah, because they pop, they really pop.
Caps pop, baby.
So this new battery and Toyota supposedly deleting the pack
and even though BYD and these other guys
want to try to keep up, BYD is probably to do it.
But it's supposed to have 10 minute charging.
Oh yeah, as long as you're connected to a power station.
Well, there's always that. The other, yes, the whole thing is...
You need a megawatt to charge it, but otherwise it's fine. You got one of those.
Just plug it into your outlet. It'll work. It's going to melt the wires.
Hey, what's your propaganda clips? I've been looking at those all morning.
I'm like that it says cool propaganda.
That's a series of clips of NPR. If you're ready for it,
I don't know how much time we have before the break.
No, no, we got plenty of time. We got oodles, oodles, oodles.
This is my NPR trying to,
NPR and PBS is trying to do anything they can to kind of make it
clear that Trump's no good and that they're trying to take our money and they're trying
to ruin broadcasting as we know it.
But before we play that, I do want to play, for example, you do want to play.
You do want to play.
I do.
Now this clip is a mess because it's titled Untitled.
So that's always a giveaway. And this was, I'm just, this is a very short, these are all short clips by the way. So this will go pretty quick.
This is an example of NPR at its finest.
This is a woman comes on and she's going to discuss horror films and their effect on children
And they're gonna bring these experts on and talk about the horror films and what can they do to children?
And then that and then I had to cut it for obvious reasons
What's a healthy little scare for kids and what is potentially scarring?
Well, we wanted to talk to two people who have had broadly different
scarring. Well, we wanted to talk to two people who have had broadly different experiences when it comes to thinking about horror movies for kids. All things considered, producer
and film buff, Megan Lim. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
and MPR music and pop culture critic and father of two young adults now, Steven Thompson.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's great to be here. Great to have you both. Okay.
So I don't have kids. Okay. So who cares? So then we go to listen to NPR and there,
and this is another example of this kind of thing. This is another seven second clip.
This is NPR house ad. This is a house ad for the kind of programming that we're gonna get that we need government money for
Imagine if you win a show from NPR that's not like NPR a show that focus is not on the important but the stupid
Imagine if you win a show from NPR that's not like NPR,
a show that focuses not on the important but the stupid.
Yeah.
Well, you cut it off, so I'm a little suspicious.
You know, it's stupid.
It wasn't anything, no, believe me,
I didn't cut it off like a Michelle Obama type clip.
Okay.
So we'll go to NPR leveraging fed cut.
Now here's where they start to bitch.
Oh, you've got a huge NPR thing today.
This is good.
I like it.
Well, if you're just trying to show people that, you know, they send money to the Noag
Genes show is well spent.
Yes.
As opposed to this.
You may have heard that President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block
all federal funding to NPR.
This is the latest in a series of threats to media organizations across the country.
Whatever changes this action brings, NPR's commitment to reporting the news without fear
or favor will never change.
Your support means that we'll be here
for you tomorrow and the next day and the day after that. It's time to join the
movement to defend public media. Yeah, get the plus, get the bundle, get the
bundle. Become become a concierge member. So after complaining about them, so first
so they go after Trump by you know, how else can we go after him? Radio Free Europe. So this starts with, before we get to the propaganda clips,
this is the RFE, RFE, this is a promo, this is a teaser for their RFE, fighting RFE clips.
I think a lot of mainstream press might see us almost like primary source material. RFAs reporters have a history of uncovering genocide,
war crimes and disinformation campaigns. They don't just follow the news cycle,
they often lead it. And now they're fighting to survive.
Oh, that's, but hold on. Your No Agenda Show has actual people who work in the
places where the bullcrap is taking place, like air traffic controllers.
Support your No Agenda Show today.
Yes.
So now this is another promotion.
This is RFE promotion, Radio Free Europe promotion number two.
Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires,
but there's one claim...
No, that's not true. It's owned by Disney, Soros, or at least he has ownership in it.
There's a lot of billionaires that own media, but not, I mean, the New York Times is owned by a
Mexican billionaire and some other billionaires in Saudi Arabia.
The LA Times is an Asian billionaire.
Asian billionaire, a doctor, They're not tech billionaires.
What tech billionaire owns major media, a major media company?
Elon Musk owns Twitter.
That's it.
Well, the Washington Post.
Yeah, Washington Post.
Those are, no, that's not every single one.
Are you calling this fake?
Go back to that clip, start over.
Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place that
still operates like the internet was never invented.
On the new season of The Divided Dial from On The Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where
prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories.
And where an existential battle for the public airwaves is playing out right now.
Listen to On The Media wherever you get your podcasts.
Wow.
Okay.
First of all, this has been queued up in my podcast player for like four days and I didn't know what it was about because I saw the divided dial.
They're really doing an in-depth dive on what's on shortwave radio.
As if anyone listens to it.
This is the joke of it.
As if everybody in Europe has got a shortwave radio and they're holed up in some attic and they're tuning in to the
illegal broadcast coming in. The Dutch, the Dutch World Service, they shut down all of their
broadcast transmitters and towers in Bonaire because no one was listening to it. Everyone's on the internet.
Nobody listens to shortwave radio.
It's 2025.
Nobody is tuning in looking for the broadcast to give us the truth.
This is bullshit.
I'm sure there's a couple of pastors there doing this thing.
They're probably out there.
So here we go.
So now we have...
This is shortwave coming to you from Texas.
The Muslims are coming to take over.
So they want moaning and groaning about Radio Free Europe and Voice of America being shut
down.
They're going to have to go broke. But then they go on to this propaganda series, which is the clips that you saw. Yes about radio-free Asia
No, I never heard of radio-free Asia, but they make it sound as though this is the big deal
Is it on shortwave? Is it on shortwave? Yeah, it's a shortwave. All these Asians are all over Asia, Vietnam.
Radio Free Asia!
And they're in China, in the outskirts of the rural China, and they've got the antenna
that's out there.
They hope they don't get caught and they're tuning the dial on the shortwave so they can
get the truth.
This is nonsense!
Wait a minute.
So, what they're doing, what they're saying here. Just so I get it straight
They are trying to protect their own bacon by saying they're not just killing our funding
They're killing this critical information source for the rest of the world in these incredibly dictator led suppressed countries like I don't know South Korea
Japan
Who can now can't get the truth on shortwave.
Exactly.
You nailed it.
That's exactly what they're trying to do here.
But it's like a vision of the 1940s or 30s where the guy again is in the attic trying
to tune in the radio, the truth that's coming across.
So let's listen to this propaganda, which is,
which came across NPR and Radio Free Asia, part one.
From Record of Future News, this is Click Here.
You may not remember, but COVID began as a mystery illness.
Oh wait, stop the clip, stop the clip.
Am I doing it wrong?
No, no, you're doing it right.
I just had to, I forgot I had to set this one up.
They start off, this is what's a great, this is a great clip.
They start off, this is going to be a COVID, I'm listening,
so this is going to be interesting.
It's going to be a retrospective on how they screwed up the COVID coverage.
And all of a sudden they switch gears in,
in just as like you did earlier in the show,
when you switched over from the fact you didn't pick the right pope to, you know, your prediction about the erectile dysfunction beautifully, they do the same
thing. And it's not about COVID, it's about Radio Free Asia. I don't know how they got that.
From Record of Future News, this is Click Here. You may not remember, but COVID began as a mystery
illness. Growing concern about a new and rare pneumonia like virus
that has caused at least two deaths and has spread from
China to other countries in Asia.
We suddenly noticed that there was a surge of, you know, pings,
people trying to reach us from inside Wuhan.
And this was because they were getting no...
Oh man, hold on, pings.
You mean someone was sending him email or a WhatsApp message?
What kind of pings?
A ping, it was a ping.
Was it like a ping? Like a radar, like a sonar or something?
People trying to reach us from inside Wuhan.
And this was because they were getting no information from, you know, their own government
about what was happening around them.
And they knew that something was happening.
The Chinese government was trying to cover something up.
Turns out it was COVID deaths.
Wow.
They reported a few thousand at the time.
And our reporters called the crematories in the Wuhan area and got the numbers of, you know, the numbers of urns that they were
putting out, talked to people on the ground, and basically found that the number was a
hundred times that.
And they put that out, and it was, you know, not until a couple weeks later that U.S. intelligence
reports actually confirmed that, and it was reported by CNN.
Hold on, John. I'm getting some pings. I'm getting a surge of pings.
They're trying to contact you from Wuhan so you think that this is a guy, oh this is
gonna be interesting it's gonna be a expose or something or other.
Yeah. But no, here we go, here's what it really is about.
And it was reported by CNN.
But he says that Radio Free Asia has had that kind of impact.
Not just on policy and world events, but in fighting against China's dis and misinformation
campaign.
How do you make that switch?
Let me hear that again.
That was pretty quick.
I mean, it took me at least a minute and a half.
They did it in like 15 seconds. And it was reported by CNN.
Bay says that Radio Free Asia has had that kind of impact, not just on policy
and world events, but in fighting against China's dis and misinformation campaigns.
Which, by the way, everybody was all in on it was xenophobia to even
suggest it came from China, but okay.
So when the news came that the Trump administration was trying to pull the
plug, they was surprised.
It was on a Saturday.
So, um, I, I,
that laugh tell about,
trying to pull the plug.
They was surprised.
It was on a Saturday.
So, um, I, I was just at home and got this email from Kerry Lake saying
that our grants had been terminated because we no longer effectuate the priorities of
the administration.
And so what was the first thing that went through your head?
The first thing that went through my head was how is it that we don't effectuate the
priorities of the administration anymore?
And you know, when everything I've heard, especially in the national security space is that we are very impactful and important.
This grant, $60 million, is our annual budget that we're given, and it's peanuts compared with the billions of dollars
that China puts in every year into its global media influence campaign.
After the news about ending RFA's funding was announced, the state owned media in
China sent off a flurry of posts.
Flurry.
With, you know, social media posts celebrating this decision.
You know, basically they are happy because one of the strongest voices that challenges their narrative is
gone.
Wow.
This is really interesting.
I'm sure they won't talk about it, but just to bring in the Obama era overturning of the Smith-Munt Act, it was specifically for these types of operations for voice
free radio free Europe, radio free Asia, voice of America. It was
specifically modernized, i.e. didn't count anymore, because the US government is not
allowed to propagandize its own people
and they realized with all the stuff they were doing on the internet
that they would probably be propagandizing the American people
and they needed to do it
because they really need to do it
and it was actually a bonanza for them
and so we all know that this is bullcrap. And now they're all high and mighty like,
well, you know, this is important stuff.
This is like Tokyo Rose America style.
Who are they kidding?
Yeah.
And they think the Chinese are dumb, I guess.
And by the way, what influence does the Chinese propaganda arm have?
I mean, it's not NTD.
What do they have here?
Well, they have CGTV, which used to be CCTV, and they have a new show.
And it's kind of like the BBC only.
It doesn't have a lot of stuff on it.
BBC is actually... They don't even have any podcasters on their payroll.
Like Russia. Russia had some podcasters.
Oh, they might. But we just don't...
They're doing a better job.
Again, again, again. No offers.
Where's our money?
Where's our offer?
All right.
It's Radio Free. Sorry.. All right. If Radio Free...
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
It's just, it's laughable, this whole thing.
If Radio Free Asia stops broadcasting, lots of important news will go uncovered.
Not just a mystery virus in Wuhan or detentions in Xinjiang, but more immediate events like
what's going on in the streets of Burma right now. These are all things that the authoritarian rulers of these countries would like to hide,
because the Chinese Communist Party is most afraid of, is its own people.
And for their people to lose the knowledge of what their government is doing, what's
happening around them, it's hugely beneficial to the Chinese Communist Party and to all
of these authoritarian rulers around Asia.
Do they provide any proof of how incredibly beneficial it is to these people who have
better internet technologies than we do?
They provide no proof and there's a contradiction in what she said, which is that
the Chinese government is afraid of its own people.
Well, if that, yeah, maybe, I mean every government should be afraid of their own people.
But what have these guys done to stir up the masses?
I don't see any evidence of it.
No, they, they, well, the Uyghurs are still imprisoned if they're there.
We don't know any details.
So Wuhan virus is a scam.
Yeah.
And since when it was always a wet market, where'd that information come from?
And what did the radio free Asia have to do with it?
The pangolins.
Now, now we go to clip four, which has got a, uh, what I call a WTF moment.
And the situation for Radio Free Asia has gone from dire to devastating.
On May 2nd, RFA told its staff that it was eliminating 280 positions in the United States.
That's about 90% of its domestic workforce.
It's also cutting 20 more jobs overseas.
Okay, let's look at the numbers here.
KCBS, which does news 24-7 in the San Francisco Bay area just news news news
Got 18 people. No, they got a hundred about a hundred. Yeah
But they don't have for example, this is radio free Asia
They're bragging about all their coverage is there are do they have reporters over there because they said they laid out
280 which is 90% of their workforce
That were all in the United States.
What are they doing?
They're receiving surges of pings.
Making phone calls?
Receiving surges of pings.
I mean, a daily newspaper has maybe a major, major giant paper that produces tons of material
like the Los Angeles Times.
Baby people.
No, they got about a thousand. Go! A thousand at the Los Angeles Times. Baby people. No, they got about a thousand.
Go!
A thousand at the Los Angeles Times?
Yes, actually I think the Los Angeles Times is probably closer to 1,500 to 2,000.
Wow!
But that includes printing press people, sales people, editors on top of editors.
The number of reporters is probably a couple hundred max.
People who organize meetings, meetings, guys, uh,
uh, AV people for the meetings, copy editors, catering, catering.
Yes. People to pull out a microphone.
Compared to a radio station like KCBS is I think more apt. Yeah.
And that's maybe 150, maybe 200.
And that includes sales guys and they, and these guys don't need sales people.
That's a lot of people.
Well question, do they have any video products or is it just all,
all audio?
It's just all short way. Well, they do websites too.
I'm sure they do that.
They do websites. You're right. They all have to have gone to websites.
So there's websites here and there. And I guess it takes a web master.
Remember that term?
Yes. Who's your web master? Oh, we don't use,
we don't use that term here. We have a web mistress. Remember that?
I only remember that vaguely because that was,
that was some, some who were uppity about using
the term master.
Yeah, I'm looking to see if they have any video products.
They have any video?
Let me see.
Video.
Yeah, video.
Let's take a look at their video products.
Dalai Lama in New York.
Yeah, that's going to free the people of China.
Yeah, they got something about the Dalai Lama.
They're doing, they got some guy in a webcam here.
Okay, so not a lot of video process.
Yeah, so it's mainly audio and web stuff.
Man, think about what we could do with that kind of budget.
What was their budget?
60 million?
In some other clip I don't have on this series, they said, we're going to go bankrupt.
All right, so let's play the this is the last clip which has a kicker. Some other clip I don't have on this series. They say, we're going to go bankrupt.
All right. So let's play the, uh, this is the, this is the last clip, which has a kicker.
Beifeng called it an unconscionable situation and it's unclear what will happen next.
But a May 6 announcement might provide a clue.
Senior presidential advisor, Carrie Lake, the person who told RFA in an email back
in March that their grants had been cancelled, said Voice of America, another federally funded broadcaster,
would be taking in a new newsfeed.
She said one American news network, a reliable pro-Trump television channel, would be providing
news feeds for Voice of America's foreign audiences at no taxpayer cost.
It's unclear whether outlets like Radio for Europe and RFA
will be swept in that move too.
Wow.
Unreported.
It tells you a lot a bit about that outfit, doesn't it?
You heard it here first.
Wow.
Yeah.
One American news, a schlockmeister, the girl with too much makeup and the other guy was always angry and then Chanel Rion and some of these other people that do interviews.
And by the way, they have an OAN feed here in the Bay area that comes over the air.
It's always a week old.
Wow.
Everything that comes over is a week old.
It's like, it's very strange.
I don't know why they do a week old news.
But so OAN, which is a, you know, it's sometimes fun to watch, but it's fourth rate.
Well, let's see what OAN has today.
They've got top news.
They've got multiple Dem lawmaker arrests on the table after storming ice facility.
Let's see, report.
Online users praise photo of Carolyn Levitt feeding baby while working. Uh huh.
Okay.
Yeah, look at her.
Super mom.
She's a super mom.
Gold rush 2.0 record prices, jewelry meltdowns and a Bitcoin boom.
The US Postal Service 3.3 billion.
This is good news.
It's good stuff.
Well, it's news.
If it's free and you're going to give it the voice of America, you don't have to pay all
these characters, all kinds of extra money.
Well, they have my favorite story, front and center.
Apple's plan to offer AI search
options on Safari, a blow to Google dominance.
Who could have seen that coming?
Alphabet shares drop 7% after
Apple says, after Q.
Eddie Q is now the spokes hole
for this stuff.
You remember Eddie Q?
Oh yeah.
Eddie Q is to be in charge of podcasting.
He was the iTunes guy.
He's now the senior vice president of internet software and services.
And he said, yeah, I'm pretty sure we're going to have artificial intelligence services instead
of Google search.
Google pays them $7 billion a quarter, I think.
Some astronomical amount.
How come Apple shares didn't sink?
Yeah, saving Google money.
Yeah, but Google shares go down.
Well, that's because those advertisements have ads.
I'm sorry, those searches results have ads, which Google monetized and some Google probably makes three times the 7
billion that they.
I wonder, you've really got to wonder about, um, Apple.
I've always thought that these guys, they, they, for some reason,
they really want to be in the advertising game. They've, they've,
they've always kind of dipped their toe in, taken it out.
I think they really want it.
Someone must irk them that Google has all that advertising money.
Oh, that could be.
They definitely, once you start putting all this AI on your phone, I don't think it's
a good idea.
Because it's not about displaying...
Those guys are making money off of our backs.
Yes, because it's not about...
They are, literally, because all of the apps,
the apps are the things that are tracking.
They're tracking your, how you hold the phone,
where you're walking or driving, all of this stuff.
So they're like, well, we can sell that data.
But don't worry, we'll keep it on our exclusive little secure chip on your phone.
It'll never leave your phone.
I got to wonder.
I mean, to give up $20 billion a year, give or take, to integrate someone else's AI products
into your phone and not take the money from Google, there's got to be something else to it.
Even Eddie Q is not stupid.
Give him a call.
Hey, Eddie.
Adam.
I bet you wouldn't take my call.
I bet you would.
Yeah.
I don't think I have his number, but I'm sure it's E.Q. It's true. At apple.com.
Well, that brings me to a couple of technology items of note.
First of all, we laughed and I certainly was unaware of the new definition of raw dogging.
We've talked about this, came up.
Was it in one of your clips that this came up, the raw dogging?
Yeah, raw dogging.
And I still think that this is a plant to get the bonehead who's done it before on NBC,
that guy who's CBS, that character that was on there, he was busted before for saying
stuff that was,
he's just naive. He doesn't know it when he says he's the one who introduced it. And yeah,
okay. Now all of a sudden it's been the definition. I saw that.
Well, the thing is, of all the people who should know about this new definition of the term
raw dogging, it should be you because it is a TikTok trend. This is where it comes from.
because it is a TikTok trend. This is where it comes from.
It's called raw dogging.
I'm reading this from Travel Week.
A new trend that's blowing up on social media,
particularly among males requiring people to sit through a long-haul flight
with zero distractions or forms of entertainment.
This means no phones, movies, music, books or even sleep, food or water.
If people can just sit there for hours without any stimuli, they get instant bragging rights.
I.E. raw dogging.
What bragging rights are there? Who are you bragging to?
I was on the plane and I was like putty in that Seinfeld movie or Seinfeld show where he sat there next to Elaine and he didn't move and
didn't say anything.
Make any sense.
So here's here's a tick tock clip that I see is like what do
we see?
Just raw dog to seven hour flight no headphones no movie
no water nothing incredible the power of my mind knows no
bounds.
Yeah, it's like a fast it It's like a fast of water and technology.
Well, in general, a good idea.
Not to drink water for hours on end.
Well, no, but to not use technology,
I think that's a good trend.
I'm all for it.
I like this trend.
It's good.
It's a good trend.
It stinks.
Like you care. When's the last time you were on an actual aircraft?
I'm not flying around. It's too dangerous. The air traffic control is down. It needs
to be modernized.
Yours had propellers.
When I was a kid, you had to go out and start the engine with a shotgun. That's the line I was looking for.
Shotgun shell, start that DC3 engine.
Anyway, in the technology sphere, never let a good United Nations
development report go to waste.
The new UND report is out 2025 and Queen Ursula is all over it.
It's a real pleasure to speak to you today and to welcome this vital
report on artificial intelligence.
The UNDP helps millions of people every year, but a lot has changed in the
60 years since the UNDP was created.
Now, where do you think she's going with this?
What do you think is in this new United Nations development
plan report for 2025?
Climate change.
No, well, it's partially. It's part of the kicker, but no, no, no, no.
The world is facing many new challenges and artificial intelligence is one of the biggest.
This is it, baby. AI coming to Europe. EU is going to be the AI continent.
These new reports. What?
The EU is going to be the AI continent. This new report…
What?
Can I interrupt a clip completely?
I know you hate this idea, but I want to interrupt that clip with an AI clip.
You go right back to the clip and it'll be fine.
Sure.
Because you didn't really get that clip going.
No, because you kept jumping in front of it.
Yes, you can.
Of course you can.
This is Linda McMahon.
Oh, she's the secretary of the now Yes, you can. Of course you can. This is Linda McMahon. Oh, she's the
secretary of the now defunct education. Education. Yes, education. This is unbelievable. She's
talking about AI in schools, but she doesn't really... Well, maybe she's talking about...
I don't know. What is she doing? Letter or report that I heard this morning, I wish I could remember the source,
but that there is a school system that's going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-Ks have A1 teaching every year starting, you know, that far down in the grades.
And that's just a, that's a wonderful thing.
Kids are sponges.
You know, they just absorb everything.
And so it wasn't all that long ago that it ago that we're going to have Internet in our schools.
Now let's see A1 and how can that be helpful?
How can it be helpful in one‑on‑one instruction?
How can it be helpful ‑‑ Wait a minute.
Is she talking about AI?
She's saying A1?
Is that what I'm hearing?
A1 steak sauce in schools?
They just absorb everything.
It wasn't all that long ago that we're going to have Internet in our schools.
Now let's see A1 and how can that be helpful?
How can it be helpful in one‑on‑one instruction?
How can it be helpful in absorbing more information for those fast learners?
It can be more one‑on‑one directed.
Those are the kinds of things and innovations
that I want to see continue to develop.
All right. All right. You deserve this one.
Thank you very much.
A-1 in school. So she's reading off a piece of paper. She's apparently never listened
to anything in the media.
At all.
At all, ever. This is the series of tubes clip of our day.
Remember the internet? It's a series of tubes. Oh man, who was that guy?
Oh, it was the senator that got killed up in Alaska, wasn't it?
Because of the series of tubes?
No, because he was in a plane wreck. I think they tried to kill him for some reason.
He's the one who built the bridge to nowhere.
Ted Stevens, you're right.
Ted Stevens.
Yes, Ted Stevens.
Yeah, can you believe that?
A-1, that's what we're calling it from now on.
Hold on, let's listen to it.
Is allowing all of these entities that support this
to provide streaming, going on the internet.
Now the internet, let's go back. Internet
started with a concept of local to local connections across the country and you could go for Air
Alaska but you only had to go through local connections to get there. Industry wisely
provided for streaming for, in effect, a new kind of long distance and that's what
we've got.
We've got a service that's immune to distance and it's there for the consumer but when we
take and sign up and you've got a movie delivered to your house, you change your order, it delivered
you and this delivery charge is free, right?
Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things that are going on the internet commercially.
And here we have this one situation where enormous entities want to use the internet for their purpose,
to save money for doing what they're doing now.
They use FedEx. They use the deliveries.
The internet is not something
that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if
you don't understand those tubes can be filled. And if they're filled, when you put your message
in and it gets in line, it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous
amounts of material.
Wow. He was not wrong though. He was talking about streaming TV and...
but it was the series of tubes that we all focus on.
Not a truck.
No, it's a series of tubes.
Yes, from now on AI is A1.
And new people to the show will think we are crazy.
These guys don't know what they're talking about.
They think AI is a one.
Well, okay.
So before I get to my Ursula AI clip, a one clip, I have to play this.
This is the latest tick tock craze.
Yes, I'm not playing a tick tock clip.
I'm playing.
No, no, I noticed you.
You're stealing my material.
No, no, this is a clip about this is a a clip about TikTok and what kids, those crazy wacky
kids are doing in school.
This TikTok shows a new and concerning trend among students.
It's more than just a trend, you know, it causes a lot of disruption.
Last Thursday, a student at Newington High School did just that.
It became clear that the damage was done intentionally, that it wasn't a malfunctioning Chromebook, but rather a student had intentionally done things to
it that caused it to smoke and eventually melt. The school was evacuated
as smoke filled the classroom. The batteries that are that are essentially
catching on fire, once they burn, they're they're producing this toxic smoke.
And the same thing happened in both Derby and Cromwell high schools on Monday.
The hallways filling with smoke.
We went in and ended up finding a laptop in a classroom that was pretty much out but on fire at one point.
The back cover where the battery cover was melted away and the battery was smoking.
Investigations are underway across the districts.
And while no one was injured, firefighters say these incidents could have been much worse. The small ones like
cell phones and laptops, they can cause an explosion. It could have potentially burned somebody.
Shrapnel could have hit other people if it exploded. Newington Superintendent Dr. Maureen Brummett says
she plans to hold those responsible accountable. So the kids now on TikTok, they're learning how to jam some metal into the charging USB
port of their school issued Chromebooks.
Of course, they start to smoke, burn and often short them out.
Yes.
This is the new TikTok trend.
It's part of the raw dogging trend.
I got to do with raw dogging.
But you've got to get rid of your technology, babe.
I'm going to blow it up.
This is a Luddite thing.
I'm digging it.
The new Luddites.
I'm digging it.
Neo-Luddites.
Yes, I'm digging it.
Well, none of this will happen in the European Union
because Queen Ursula is all in on A1.
It's a real pleasure to speak to you today.
It's a pleasure!
And to welcome this vital report on artificial intelligence.
The UNDP helps millions of people every year, but a lot has changed in the 60 years since
the UNDP was created.
The world is facing many new challenges and artificial intelligence is one of the biggest.
As this new report says, the world is pulsing with a powerful new technology.
Pulsing with a powerful new technology.
AI has moved from fantasy to fact.
From fantasy to fact, she likes the alliteration.
Two thirds of people around the world expect to use AI within a year.
Areas like health, education and work are being transformed and the revolution has only just begun.
So how should we deal with this crucial issue? How can we make sure that countries and people
benefit from the AI revolution? Well I think it's going to cost the taxpayers money.
Now, let's look at what Europe is doing at home
and in partnerships around the world.
Here in Europe, we want to be leading as an AI continent
to improve lives, promote our values and help humanity.
We're investing.
We're building 13 AI factories and 5 giga factories.
Whoa! 5 giga AI factories!
I don't know exactly what they're going to do, but it's not just a factory.
It's a giga factory.
To unlock 200 billion euros in overall investment.
200 billion euros of your tax money, Europeans.
But with artificial intelligence, there are risks as well as rewards. So we
have brought in a new set of rules for a European approach to safeguard our citizens and maximize
benefits because AI needs to be safe to have the confidence of Europeans. We will control
your AI and we are going to deploy it everywhere and it's going to be good for you. Just listen.
But our focus must also be broader than Europe because there is a danger that AI will grow the digital divide.
Oh, they care so much about the poor countries.
Between wealthy nations and the global south.
And that's why Europe is also working with partners so that everyone can take part in this AI revolution.
Yes, slaves and data centers.
Let me give you five examples.
Firstly, our global gateway strategy is investing in infrastructure and capacity in partner
countries.
For example, a satellite AI factory in Morocco.
What is an AI factory in Morocco. What is an AI factory? I have to ask you, do you have any inkling of idea what an AI factory is?
I think it would be a server farm is what I think it is, but her concept is so 18th
century that she thinks everything's a factory.
Get to work, you poor slave.
They're going to the hamburger factory. Get to work you poor slave. We're going to the hamburger factory. A satellite AI factory in Morocco
that is thus helping tech startups across Africa. Second. So wait a minute my money's gonna go to
Africa? Okay. To support these efforts the European Union is joining the executive
steering board of the AI hub for Sustainable Development.
The AI Hub for Sustainable Development.
Wow.
This is a vital initiative led by Italy, the G7 and the UNDP with a strong focus on Africa.
Thirdly, we have formed a powerful digital alliance with Latin America and Caribbean partners. Fourthly, we're working with Asian partners on global cyber security.
And finally, we're developing super accurate AI weather forecasts
to warn about dangerous tropical storms, for example.
Wait a minute, super accurate AI weather forecasts.
I cannot wait for that.
What a crock.
And of course to help rescue efforts around the world.
Yeah, go find that Malaysian Airlines flight.
So you see, AI can be a gift to humanity.
It's a gift! It's a gift to you!
Hey slaves! Hey, you in the factory! It's a gift!
This important report shows that the future is in our hands.
The choices we make now will determine our tomorrow with the right choices. We can open
new pathways, helping everyone to thrive in a world with artificial intelligence. Boondoggle,
boondoggle money. There's money in Europe, everybody. There's money if you're a scientist and you want to run away from the evil America.
There's money if you want to work in an AI gigafactory.
I just shudder to think what that really is.
These people are nuts.
This woman is delusional.
She doesn't know what she's talking about and she just rambles.
She must really think she's something special.
Well, President Trump likes me. He thinks I'm awesome.
Trump is already on his way. He's just working her already.
She's falling for it.
Hey, with that I want to thank you for your courage saying the morning to you,
the man who put the C in the Chromebooks that explode.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMora!
Yeah, well in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, ships to sea.
The water's on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water and all the dams and nights
out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Hold on, trolls, you're on board.
I'm not gonna let you under that barrel. I'm gonna get you under the banner on panel.
To the trolls.
Anyone's hanging out with mom.
2041 trolls, peak trollage for us today.
Eh, it's Mother's Day.
Wow.
Wow what wow?
That's wow low.
That's wow, that's wow low, man.
It's wow, but people love their moms.
But they don't want-
Well, the ones that love their moms don't donate to the show. No, there's that. There's that. But they love their moms, but they don't... Well, the ones that love their moms don't donate to the show.
No, there's that. There's that.
But they love their moms.
We do have a few mom call-outs.
Oh, luckily. Luckily.
It's good.
All the moms.
You are the glue of the family. Fact.
So the trolls are in the troll room at trollroom.io,
which is our 24-7 livestream and chat room.
You can call it a chat room, but I think everyone calls it a troll room because people troll.
They're just there to troll all the time.
Only 130 real trolls.
These are trolls that are listening.
We have quite a large listening audience.
Not everyone is trolling, but you can hit that trollroom.io or use the Modern Podcast
app.
I can't say it often enough.
One of these days, you're going to be like, I'm disappointed in my podcast app.
If only I had listened to Adam, what was that thing called again?
By the way, it is not podcastapp.com.
That'll take you to a piece of junk.
It is podcastappsplural.com where you can see all of the
modern podcasts.
Is it one P or two?
It's two P's.
It's podcast app S.
Yes, podcast apps.com. Yes, or you can go to podcastindex.org and click on the apps
tab. It's all the same place. And so these give you all kinds
of benefits besides not spying on you, not giving you ads. I'm sure some apps out there do that or
try to give you ads. And you can always upgrade to the concierge package for extra features.
They give you chapters with chapter images.
They give you alerts when we go live.
They have live streams.
You can't get that from Spotify or from Apple podcast apps.
So grab one of those.
It's compatible with all of your podcasts.
You can even import your current subscriptions.
The trolls are there contributing to the show.
We have a value for value model.
Clearly we've taken a route that we can never get out of.
We're not getting any checks from Big Pharma,
not getting any checks from China.
We get no checks.
We get checks from people who want to support us
because they value what we do.
And that's-
Checks from coffee guys.
Yeah, we got checks. Where is my new coffee? I need some new that's- Checks from coffee guys. Yeah, we got checks.
Where is my new coffee?
I need some new coffee.
We get checks from coffee guys.
That's pretty much it.
In the mail.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
But we appreciate everyone who supports us.
Value for value means time, talent or treasure.
And we do have a plethora of artists
and AI, A1 prompt jockeys who like to,
I'm gonna try keep it in there.
She should be called out for that by the way.
She was with that clip, but she should be called out by,
somebody should bring it up at the press conference.
Yeah, what do you know lady?
What do you know?
Go back to wrestling.
One of the ways people contribute
is through providing us art.
We love to select a piece of art right after the show.
These are people who are listening on the fly,
just listening live and on the fly are making art.
They're, yes, it's a tool if you use AI,
but you still have to have a concept
and it has to be a no agenda concept.
It has to have the humor of Gitmo Nation.
Otherwise, AI is just not going to take you anywhere.
We have a combination of traditional artists using Photoshop and clip art and some AI stuff.
We want to thank the artists who brought us the artwork for episode 1762 titled Stick Fight. By the way I think there was an errant, or is a
mistake about the stick fight that we discussed. It is in fact not India and
Pakistan who fight with sticks at the border. It is India and Chinese who
of course pretty much own that region of Pakistan if I understand it correctly.
Well I know they fight on the border too. I don't know if it's two or or and.
I couldn't find any evidence of Indians.
Okay well maybe it's just the Indians and the Chinese fighting with sticks.
But in London, there's a lot of videos in London with Pakistanis and Indians yelling at each other.
They don't really get into fisticuffs but they just yell each other and it's if you if you get out of here man you
pocky you Indian but they London they're fighting each other there the whole
thing it's spreading it's contagion well they were invited there to fight
obviously what else would they be there? That's right.
So we want to thank Sir Shug aka Faux Diddley for the artwork for 1762. A nice U.S. born pope
with a foam finger number one. A lot of people like this art. I got good feedback on it. Yeah, nobody sent us any anyrilegious or any complaints from our Catholic listeners.
No, I got no, no, the Catholics, they like it.
All the Catholics I know, they're like, jury's still out, man, jury's still out.
But I think there's also a lot of propaganda against this pope, just right off the bat,
like, oh, he's LGBT friendly, he's woke, he's this, he's that.
There's a lot of anti-propaganda.
You know, it's propaganda on both sides.
We don't know.
We don't know what this pope is going to do.
We don't know yet, but we'll see.
I hear a lot of, well, he's a registered
Republican, it's got to be good.
Okay.
How can he, he's not a registered Republican, he's living in Chile.
He doesn't even...
In the elections that he voted in when he was in the United States,
he voted Republican. I mean, this is all just, it's out there, you know. I'm just telling you
what people are talking about. As I said, it's propaganda. What I love the most, I heard this one on the other day, that a lot of the M5M talked about this particular Pope, Leo XIV, as the
dark horse candidate.
Did you hear this anywhere?
No.
Okay.
So he was the dark horse.
Well, of course I did because I'm looking everywhere like how did I miss this guy?
Oh yeah.
He was the dark horse candidate.
And then of course that picks up as, aha, white horse,
President Trump, red horse, China,
black horse, Pope, we're just waiting
for the pale horse.
And then, and then the Armageddon
Kessler.
No, no, this is classic.
That has to be a Fredericksburg thing.
You got it, baby.
Of course it is.
I'm telling you, this is the best move I've ever made in my life.
I'm never leaving.
I am never leaving Fredericksburg.
It's a goldmine of crazy people.
The best part is that we talk about this and we laugh about it and we have a good time
and I tell them I'm going to talk about it on the show.
I'm like, yeah, you should do that.
That's good. Like you said, you gotta get this
information out there. You can ridicule us if you want, we don't care as long as it gets out.
No, hey listen, we're good hosts. We have people over, we cook, we have a good time
with them. They're all our friends. We love them. We love our friends. So looking at
the artwork that we had to choose from... You loved your friends in Austin too
until you rousted a couple of them.
Well, but they were really not good.
Let's be honest.
I mean, they just got all spun up.
They got really spun up, but over the wrong things.
You know, like Trump is Hitler.
We don't have that here.
Biden is Hitler.
Obama was the Antichrist,
that kind of stuff.
Doesn't fit with the show.
Anyway, we're looking at the art
at noagendaartgenerator.com,
another fine piece of value for value from Sir Paul,
who put that together for us,
been up and running for over a decade in multiple versions.
Because it was VE Day,
we did stay on Darren O'Neill's
VE Day piece of art.
We discussed it for a while.
We didn't stay on it long,
because you nixed it faster than a,
no, I don't have a line.
No, you don't have a line.
I like the idea of supporting VE Day,
but I didn't think this was a great art.
It's an old dude looking up in the clouds.
Yeah, I wasn't pushing back too hard.
I liked the piece because it was for the day, but then again,
it was okay.
It was okay.
The piece was a little bit funky.
The piece that you said right off the bat was,
I love this one, no agenda, please send free stuff.
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak.
That was the one you liked.
I mentioned it was funny. I didn't, I was going to pick it.
We had a couple of, what was it?
The one I liked a lot, just for its composition. And I just liked that. That was the prettiest
piece was again, Darren, who gets a hair up his ass every so often and just produces a lot of good
stuff. A lot of it, yeah.
Knew and improved no agenda from Alcatraz Prison.
I think that piece was gorgeous.
That was a very nice piece.
Why didn't we choose it?
You didn't like it.
I think the pope with the foam finger was just too good.
It was too good.
Oh no, I know what you said.
We're not gonna pick another Darren O'Neill and Ness works.
Yeah, that's what I said.
Exactly.
Those guys, they got to stop.
This is classic.
This is what you do, by the way, when you're judging for the Pulitzer and everything.
No, you can't have another award.
No, no. That guy's already got too, you can't have another award, no.
No.
That guy's already got too much.
He's already got too much.
Too much, no, we're not gonna do it.
Exactly.
And that's what happens in the back room
and it happens constantly.
People can't take these awards too seriously.
And that goes for the Oscars too.
And that goes for the no agenda art picking process.
It's exactly the same.
It's just the way, it's human nature.
It's just what it is.
Thank you, Sir Shug, aka Faux Diddley.
We appreciate it.
We appreciate the work of all the artists who support us with their time and their talent.
And we always love the people who support us with treasure.
And we will thank every single person who supports us with $50 or above for every single
episode at this moment.
We'd like to thank what we credit as our executive and associate executive producers because we realize just like Hollywood, it's really the people who fund the show who
get those titles, those credits, and these are equal to Hollywood credits.
Wherever Hollywood credits are recognized, these work as well, including IMDb.
You can put it in any resume, your LinkedIn profile, and it looks kind of cool and people
will question you about it.
And if they do, send them to imd.com, you see, that is for real.
And there's over a thousand other executive and associate executive producers.
So here's how it works. $200 or above,
you get the associate executive producer credit and we'll read your note.
$300 and above, you get an executive producer credit.
Who doesn't want that? And we will read your note as well.
And we kick it off with Sir Kevin Dills from Huntersville,
North Carolina with 512. And he says, in the morning, this is my annual birthday donation.
Yes, I, you know, after a while you kind of come to recognize these things and he will
be turning 39 on May 12th.
Please add me to the birthday list.
Of course.
No jingles, just karma.
Thank you for your courage says Sir Kevin Dills.
He is the Duke of North Carolina and we thank you for your contribution,
Duke.
You've got karma.
Uh, we have, what is that, Dixian?
Uh, Dixian Craig is what I have, yeah, Dixian.
Dixian.
Dixian.
Craig, he's in Alberta, Canada.
He sent a check in, with a gray. 500 bucks,
but we don't have a note or anything from him. And I don't know what this is. Oh, this is 500.
By the way, this is 500 Canadian. So it's... Well, it's 500 Canadian. Hey, we still honor the Canadian
dollary dues. And so he gets his executive producer, but he didn't say anything about it.
And so we're going to give him a
double up karma.
We roll it out for all.
You've got karma.
Moving on to Victoria Pratovsky
in Newark, New Jersey.
Actually, she says from West
Orange.
Hello, West Orange.
I used to live near West Orange,
Montclair.
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Okay.
I feel like the alarm went off.
No.
I have a couple of clips from more complaining from NPR.
Oh, you're really on the NPR tip today, aren't you?
Yeah, today's NPR day.
NPR, it is NPR day.
This is the, I guess AmeriCorps, they're going to cut the funds from AmeriCorps.
What is AmeriCorps?
Well, I didn't even think about AmeriCorps.
You know, they still have the Peace Corps, I guess.
But AmeriCorps is kind of like the Peace Corps, but it's not.
It was a lot of money.
And you know, I've concluded that some time back that I don't know how this is going to
turn out for Trump, but all these programs, all these things, except for the USAID and
the stuff that's going overseas, but most of the stuff that's not going overseas, in
fact, a lot of it that's going overseas is not going overseas either.
It's just jobs programs.
We may have been in a depression since 1970 and everybody's working on the
dole in some way, shape or form and people who actually do something that pay taxes,
they're picking up the slack for everybody else. I'm not sure.
AmeriCorps, I'm looking at it right now. They focus on six key areas, disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship,
healthy futures, and veteran and military families.
Yeah, this doesn't sound like a crock of crap.
Just from what you read, nothing does.
Kind of.
Yeah, a crock of crap.
Okay, well, let's go with clip one.
In its push to shrink government, the Trump administration has gutted AmeriCorps. That
is the federal agency created three decades ago as a way for young Americans and seniors
to serve their country. Now, most of the agency staff has been fired and more than 30,000
people have been ordered to stop their service work immediately.
Wow. Are they, where are they?
Are they overseas?
Thirty thousand people, and by the way, three decades ago, that means this was founded,
this thing began in 1995, within recent memory of most of our listeners.
Wow.
It's not like something that's been around forever.
This is bull crap.
And thirty thousand people?
That's a lot. 30,000. But again, I'm thinking this is a jobs program for them, not to benefit anybody else. Onward.
And here's Jennifer Ludden reports.
Until last month, 25-year-old Theo Fauche was an AmeriCorps team leader. He and 10 others got a
small stipend for building affordable
homes in Virginia, removing hurricane debris in Florida, and repairing national park trails
in West Virginia. That's where they were when Fauche got shocking news.
Pull your team off the work site, pack up your camp, hit the road tonight if possible.
The Trump administration had ended nearly $400 million in grants, yanking funding from
more than a thousand organizations, saying it no longer fit the agency's priorities.
People were upset, Fauche says.
He calls AmeriCorps a patriotic program that's good for the country and good for the young
adults he led.
18, 19-year-olds who had never left home, who weren't really sure what they wanted to
do with their lives or what was the right call for them to just travel the country with people they'd never
met before.
The personal growth and agency and confidence I saw in these members was massive.
All of a sudden to have that opportunity ripped away from them is just unconscionable, really.
Kyra Esgate heads America's Service Commissions, a nonprofit that supports national service
programming.
She admits there have been issues.
AmeriCorps failed eight consecutive audits.
A White House spokeswoman cited the same thing and pointed to $45 million in improper payments
last year.
Esquede says the agency found that in its own review and AmeriCorps is upgrading a clunky
IT system to better track money.
Yeah. Okay. So they can't be the eight failed audits for an agency.
Give me a break.
We can't track the money.
And then they, oh, we go, computers don't work.
You know, if you put it, the computers are 1995, which is when this thing began,
would work to do tracking the money. I mean, it's not like,
we had Excel, we had Excel back then.
We had Lotus one, two, three. We had,
you could do it on an Apple too from the, from the late seventies. I mean,
bull crap.
I had Lotus jazz. Do you remember that product?
Yeah, I know Lotus jazz. Do you remember that product? Yeah, I know Lotus Jazz.
Lotus Jazz, never really worked.
Would never, they had all the software keys and stuff,
never really worked, Lotus Jazz.
Yeah, well, that's a scam.
That means not a scam, it's just something
that's grown into a money sink, a money hole.
It's a jobs program.
Yes, you're correct, it's a jobs program.
Yeah, it's just giving money away.
You might as well have like the
Works Project
Administration. Let's set that back up again. We can just paint murals.
It would probably be more beneficial to the American people.
Yeah, it would at least be prettier.
I have Manga News since we're in the second half here. Manga, Manga, Manga News, make
manga news since we're in the second half here manga manga manga news make Africa manga manga make Africa news great again this is interesting because
it's white people in manga the first group of white Afrikaans speaking
South Africans is reportedly due to arrive in the United States early next
week they claim to be persecuted in their home country and have been granted
refugee status by President Donald Trump.
The US leader in February signed an executive order halting all aid to South Africa, accusing
the government of doing terrible things to Afrikaners.
He described them as the victims of unjust racial discrimination, saying the land was
being taken away from them.
Trump's views appear to stem from a recent law that allows land expropriation without compensation
in extremely rare cases.
South African officials say the policy is part of efforts
to address land ownership disparities
that are one of the starkest legacies of apartheid,
and that to date, no land has been seized.
Many prominent Afrikaners and other South Africans
have shouted down Trump's statements
saying they're patently false.
This will be interesting who shows up and what their story is.
There's been so much misinformation about this, about the Afrikaners.
What's the misinformation?
Well, the only news we're getting is it's not true, it's not true, it's not true, it's
just not, there's no white people being killed getting is it's not true. It's not true. It's not true.
There's no white people being killed here.
That's not true.
And these people, they're showing up with signs.
They're like, thank you.
We love you, President Trump.
Thank you for saving us.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're killing white people there.
That's what they're doing.
Yeah.
Well, there's a lot of people there in South Africa who disagree with that statement.
Well, they're not white.
No, no.
Oh, I'm sorry, I missed these.
I have two Pope Leo XIV clips.
I have one Pope Leo XIV clip.
Why don't you go first with your Pope Leo clip?
Okay, you can see it on there.
Yes, he makes a comment.
Pope Leo has made an unannounced visit to the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore,
where his predecessor is buried.
Walking slowly to shouts of long live the Pope,
Leo laid a white flower on Francis's tomb
and knelt in prayer for a few moments.
Earlier, he confirmed to cardinals
that he'd chosen his pontifical name
in homage to Leo XIII, a 19th century pope
who defended workers' rights
during the Industrial Revolution.
He said there was a place for the modern church to meet similar challenges.
In our own day, the church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to
another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor.
Hey, that's the second time I hear a Windows alert sound in one of your clips.
Where's that coming from?
I had something running in the background. I was making a racket.
I had something running in the background. I was making a racket.
Okay.
Well, I got the Pope Leo XIV Chicago welcome.
With Leo's ascent to the papacy,
the city of Chicago is celebrating one of its own.
Chicago, famously a sports crazed town.
So the new Pope is getting the full
Wendy City treatment online.
the full Wendy City treatment online. One of the most popular videos circulating is the Pope coming out to the Chicago Bulls
entrance music.
Meantime, a host of Chicago-themed t-shirts about Pope Leo have flooded Etsy shops in
the last 24 hours.
But about the big question asked by every Chicago native, Cubs or White Sox, the Pope's
brother John prevost confirmed to local media, Leo XIV, cheers for the Southsiders.
He is a White Sox fan.
There you go.
Oh, as long as he's a White Sox fan.
Oh, that's good.
However.
Actually, that's not good. No, of course it's not good. You want to be a C Sox fan. Oh, that's good. However... Actually, that's not good.
No, of course it's not good.
You want to be a Cubs fan.
Of course it's not good.
But, there's more that Pope Leo said.
Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost saying he chose his papal name in part to honor Pope Leo XIII,
a proponent of fighting for social issues and workers' rights.
He also says he plans to follow Pope Francis' lead on his church reforms and commitment to social justice. In the meeting, Pope Leo asking other senior church leaders to uphold
their commitment to the Second Vatican Council, responsible for sweeping church reforms in the
1960s. He also identifies artificial intelligence as a top challenge for working people, human
dignity and justice. Sister Natalie Becquart, a pioneering French nun and the Pope's neighbor,
reacting Saturday.
I think you can't just look at him as an American.
It's true.
He was born in Chicago.
And I remember once we talked about Chicago because he studied in the same
place I spent one semester.
Despite the Pope's strong ties to Chicago, Bekhar says his rich background
makes him a universal Pope.
He's also making the papacy his own, appearing in his first outing since the election, traveling
to a sanctuary in Rome, significant to his namesake.
You could feel that, yes, his roots are from Chicago.
But then he has spent so many time as a missionary in Peru, and he has the Peruvian citizenship,
and as superior general, 12 years here in Rome.
A mass will get underway here shortly, just about 5.15 at Holy Name Cathedral.
Now, as you all know, because of the Pope's strong Chicago ties and his upbringing in
Dalton, Illinois, it's caused a lot of excitement for people here in Chicagoland over the last
few days, especially Sox fans after they learned from the Pope's brother that he was indeed a socks fan growing up and has been a lifelong socks fan.
Yeah, Chicago, Chicago. He doesn't know what she's talking about. Oh no. You don't
call them the socks? No. They're the white socks because there's the red socks.
You don't say socks fan. You say bow socks. You could say bow socks.
That would make more sense than saying socks.
So I don't know that anybody, I lived in Chicago when I was a kid.
I don't know anybody that would call the white socks, the socks necessarily,
especially in a report like this.
Let me see where she is from.
I think it's just a mistake.
I could be wrong.
Somebody could correct me.
Some Chicagoan.
Some Chicagoan that's working there now.
They can send me a note and I'll pay attention to it.
Chicago. Was it WGN report? Was it Chicago local report?
Huh. No, I could be wrong.
Okay. I probably made another mistake.
Some space junk came down. Everyone's all excited.
Oh, yeah. The space junk. I had a clip from the last show.
Well, I have a clip from this show.
A Soviet era spacecraft has plunged to Earth
more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus.
Russia's space agency believes the Cosmos 482 lander
made an uncontrolled reentry over the Indian Ocean,
but European and US agencies say they're still unsure of
its exact location. The shuttle, weighing half a ton, malfunctioned during its
failed launch to Venus in 1972. It never made it out of Earth's orbit, instead
circling the planet in an irregular pattern for decades.
Yeah, I was watching the live stream
and they just don't even know where it crashed down.
I know, it's a piece of junk up there floating around.
It's got no radio, it's got no, it's not signaling anything.
It looks like a big curling thing.
Nobody knows what to do with it.
It was a lander or something.
It's just floating around.
It says 1972.
Yeah, yeah. We're still just doing that kind of stuff. There's a lander or something floating around. It says 1972. Yeah.
Yeah.
We're still just doing that kind of stuff.
Go to the moon again already.
Put some people down.
I'm ready for it.
I'm ready to become a believer.
Well I'm ready to play some clips from the Pakistan India situation.
Can I kick you off with a little overview, an overnight overview.
It's very short.
It'll bring us up to speed.
Oh, it's actually not that short.
It's not short, but it'll bring us up to speed.
Mere hours after a ceasefire was announced between India and Pakistan, its fragility
was revealed.
Explosions lit up the sky above Indian-administered Kashmir in what authorities claimed was a
violation by Pakistan of their
bilateral agreement.
The armed forces are giving an adequate and appropriate response to these violations and
we take very, very serious notice of these violations.
We call upon Pakistan to take appropriate steps to address these violations and deal
with the situation with seriousness and responsibility."
Pakistan said it remained committed to the truce.
We have acted as a responsible state for the world and regional peace and stability and
for the lives of millions of people in the region who gave a positive response to the ceasefire suggestion." The violations tempered the enthusiasm of
those on both sides of the border who earlier had taken to the streets to
celebrate the news. In Mumbai students had even painted artwork of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi alongside the US President. After Donald Trump first announced
Saturday that a complete and immediate
ceasefire would come into effect following a night of US led negotiations.
Pakistan's foreign minister had confirmed the deal saying three dozen countries
were involved in the mediations, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
He celebrated on social media, adding that Pakistan has always strived for
peace and security in the region without compromising on its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Minutes later, India confirmed that both militaries had agreed to halt fighting.
If sustained, the ceasefire would bring an end to the biggest military conflict between
the two nuclear-armed states in decades.
There you go. conflict between the two nuclear armed states in decades.
There you go. That's the update we have on the overnight. Seems like things are doing pretty poorly there.
I guess. What do you have?
I got a bunch of clips, but I'm going to be the only two that work after that are the
India Pakistan bogus ceasefire clip NPR.
After days where India and Pakistan appeared locked into widening conflict, President
Trump announced that the two countries had agreed to a ceasefire.
And with that, it appeared that the worst conflict in more than 50 years between these
nuclear powers had come to a halt.
Has it though?
Late Saturday, both sides have been accusing each other of violations of the agreement.
NPR's Diya Hadid has been covering this conflict with all of violations of the agreement. And PRS Dia-Hadid has been
covering this conflict with all of its whiplash. She covers South Asia and joins us from Mumbai.
Hi, Scott.
So there's a ceasefire for now between Pakistan and India?
Well, just hours after it was announced by President Trump, it seems a ceasefire is being
violated in Kashmir. That's the Himalayan territory that's divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both.
Residents tell NPR there that they've been hearing the sounds of blasts over two major cities, Jamal and Srinagar.
NPR producer Bilal Kachey is in Srinagar and he told us at first that people thought these were fireworks to celebrate the ceasefire.
But pretty quickly people began rushing home to shelter in place.
He sent us videos of the city entirely blacked out.
Plumes of smoke were streaming down and people could hear sounds like these.
And then the Chief Minister of Indian Health Kashmir, who's in Srinagaragar posted on X. What the hell just happened to the ceasefire?
Well, so nothing's changed
Yeah, so it's but I only worried a second half sorry back up and talk about what the American role was in brokering this agreement
Yeah, the day's analysts were saying that the Americans were not being serious.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is just making phone calls.
He hasn't come.
But experts tell me as a situation escalated, America did intervene directly,
as well as through Arab allies to convince both parties.
But again, let's get back to where we started this conversation.
It seems like this ceasefire is looking incredibly rocky right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's not clear whether this is a small violation or a great unraveling. It seems like this ceasefire is looking incredibly rocky right now. Yeah. Yeah.
And it's not clear whether this is a small violation or a great unraveling.
Catch us up to speed on how these two countries got to this dangerous moment right now.
Yeah.
These renewed tensions, they really flared in late April when government opened fire
on tourists in Indian held Kashmir and killed 26 people.
India said the group that claimed responsibility was a proxy for Pakistan's
army, something Pakistan denies.
Overnight Wednesday, India began military strikes and the two countries have been
exchanging fire every night since.
On Saturday this morning, India had actually struck some Pakistani airbases,
including one near the capital Islamabad.
And that prompted Pakistan
to announce an intensified military operation. The fighting was ongoing until about 3 p.m. India time,
then the ceasefire was announced a little bit later. And Scott, just to give you a sense of this,
more than 70 people have been killed on both sides, most of them in Kashmir.
Most of them in Kashmir.
I gotta say once, okay, twice I get it, but four Windows alerts in Eclipse is a bit much. Oh no.
Yeah.
I feel so sorry about it.
Well, maybe you should just upgrade to Windows 11 already.
It's clearly telling you to do that.
That is Windows 11. That's the problem.
What is it telling you to do? What is the problem? There was something disconnecting constantly.
Well, just so you know, when you're recording clips, it picks it up.
Well, I know I would normally not, I would go back and rerecord.
But generally speaking, when I record a long series of clips, like a show,
like a complete NPR show, I just set it up, let it record.
I come back later and then do the, uh, listen toPR show. I just set it up, let it record, I come back later and then do the
listen to the show. Otherwise, I'd have to listen to it twice.
No, no one deserves that punishment. By the way, have you heard anything about
the president going to Saudi Arabia this week? He's going to Saudi Arabia and Qatar,
He's going to Saudi Arabia and Qatar and I guess he's kind of given a cold shoulder to Netanyahu. He's done some kind of deal with the Houthis. I haven't been able to pick up anything on this.
I've kind of heard the same thing, but without any detail.
I haven't seen any real reports, just nothing of any substance.
Why would you expect reporting?
Oh yeah, I guess you're right.
No, instead we get riveting news like this.
She threatened legal action against Google back in February
over its labeling of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users.
President Claudia Scheinbaum has now announced that Mexico is following through on that warning.
Google is already being sued.
There has already been a first resolution and it is being awaited.
Sheinbaum insists that Donald Trump's executive order in January to rename the Gulf
applies only to the US section of the continental shelf.
What we are saying is that Google should put the Gulf of America where it is the Gulf of
America, which is the part that corresponds to the territory of the United States, and
then put the Gulf of Mexico to the territorial part that corresponds to Mexico and Cuba."
Google has previously argued that it made the change in line with a practice of following
name changes when altered by official government sources.
Shane Baum's announcement comes after the Republican-led House of Representatives
voted earlier this week to formalize the name change for federal agencies.
The measure is unlikely to be given the green light by the Senate.
Trump has contended that his order was justified as the-
Why is that? Why is that? Why does she say this? Why is it unlikely to be given the green light
by the Senate? Is the Senate against this? They hit America.
The measure is unlikely to be given the green light by the Senate.
Trump has contended that his order was justified as the US, quote,
do most of the work there and it's ours.
Critics argue the move is in line with his expansionist aims, which include
threatening to seize control of Greenland.
The water has been referred to as the Gulf of Mexico for more than four
centuries and is internationally recognized as such.
I love that she's so mad at Trump.
She's going to sue Google.
It's pretty funny.
I'm mad at Trump, I'm going to sue Google over it.
I wonder, that'll be an interesting lawsuit.
And what court is that? Is that the International Criminal Court?
The International Court of Mapping.
Iran enters a fourth round of nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration saying its right
to enrich uranium is non-negotiable.
It rules out a zero enrichment demand made by some US officials.
Now Steve is putting his talents to work.
US President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Wicoff, said just that on Friday.
Speaking to Breitbart News, he said that an enrichment program
can never exist in the state of Iran ever again. That's our red line, no
enrichment. The Tehran Times headlines that Wigkof's comment dims the prospects
for a nuclear agreement. The article cites a source saying Iran has been
ewered into talks so Washington could subsequently provide a justification for
escalating pressure and
potential aggression.
This is really crunch time.
I would tell you for Iran...
The US president withdrew Washington from a 2015 deal between Tehran and world powers
meant to curb its nuclear activity.
He is threatened to bomb Iran if no new deal is reached.
Iran insists its nuclear ambitions are purely for civilian purposes.
And we want it to be a great country.
Talks in Oman take place ahead of Trump's visit to the region next week. AP is reporting
that his trip to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of nuclear cooperation with the kingdom.
That's what I don't understand. That's the only details I had. His trip to Saudi Arabia signals a nuclear...
What did they call it?
Yeah, nuclear.
AP is reporting that his trip to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of nuclear cooperation with the kingdom.
Wait, with Saudi Arabia?
Yeah, I guess they're going to give Saudi Arabia
the bomb in case Iran gets it.
Oh, not nuclear power, but nuclear nuke.
Oh, well the president did say.
I don't know. I mean, I'm just guessing.
Well, he did say
and I'm sure it wasn't the so-called
UK trade deal, which as far as I'm concerned,
is there even a trade deal?
Have we seen anything?
It's a top secret.
But he said, oh, there's a big thing coming this it's the biggest news ever. This is the biggest
It's not the UK thing was the biggest news. I don't think that's what it was. Was that big news
We're all falling over each other. Oh, wow. That what a big deal
There's got to be something bigger than that. I
Think there's something big big big Well, then it would be tomorrow.
Yes.
Because it said it was gonna be Friday.
Now, the UK deal was on Thursday,
but the big deal was supposed to be Friday or Monday.
Okay.
And everyone assumed that the big deal was
the UK deal on Thursday, that he jumped the gun
on Friday and Monday because he had other things to do.
I'm skeptical. That's what I'm just
surmising from the reportage. I'm skeptical. Well, we'll have to see. Anything else you want to play
before we go into the most important part of the show, which is your tip of the day and other interesting tidbits? Well, we got the...
Yeah, just play this and get it out of the way.
The Bangladesh mess.
Boy, I hadn't even followed that.
The interim government in Bangladesh has temporarily banned the country's oldest political party,
the Awami League of the exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The party is in court over its alleged role in the deaths
of almost a thousand people in an anti-government uprising last year.
Sanjay Dasgupta reports.
The interim government's advisor on law and justice, Arsiv Nozrul,
told reporters that all activities of the Army League,
including its online presence, were being declared illegal.
The suspension will hold till its trial is completed.
The country's oldest political party has been charged being declared illegal. The suspension will hold till its trial is completed.
The country's oldest political party has been charged over its alleged role in countering
mass rallies last year against its leader and the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The nationwide protests led to her ouster, but not before a large number of demonstrators
were killed in a crackdown she ordered.
The Awami League has rejected the government's move, calling it illegitimate. All right, I'll take us out with the most important news of the week. New at four, the Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and
review library books addressing diversity, anti-racism or gender issues.
The deadline is May 21st, according to a memo issued today.
It's the most detailed directive so far on Defense Secretary Pete Hegsess campaign to
rid the military of diversity and equity programs
and materials.
They have a library at the Defense Department?
That's the thing that I didn't know.
I'm sure it's dynamite.
The idea that there's anti-racism books.
No, they're talking about critical race theory books, but they have to change the way they
describe it so they make it sound like, ah, he's a racist.
Well, it was a mainstream news.
So yeah, you're probably right.
He was a racist.
Time now as we prepare for John's tip of the day.
Everyone wants to stick around for that.
Of course, we have meetup reports and we have some end of show mixes.
We got lots of stuff still to come for you.
But first, as promised, we will thank the rest of our supporters for episode 1763, which
includes a knighthood.
$50 and above.
Go ahead, John.
Yes, and no racist here. We start off with Christopher Ebert, Spartanburg, South Carolina, $105.35.
Sir Stuart in Staffordshire, UK, 105, 35.
And he's got a call to his mom.
That was 91, she recently passed away.
She was mom and granny to all of us. Jason Dunn in Flagstaff, Arizona 10535, which I guess these are $100 donations that have
been jacked up.
Yes, $100 donation.
Puts him over the top.
He's got a birthday for his dad. Look for the, well, you want to, well, I read these. Why don't you look for the mom call-outs in case I miss any?
Well, just remember we have to read this one because this brings him over the threshold for knighthood.
Oh yeah, this is George to read because this is a knighthood. Yeah, you go ahead read it.
With this $100 donation brings me over the threshold for knighthood.
However, I want to give this knighthood to my dad for his birthday on May 22nd.
However, I want to give this knighthood to my dad for his birthday on May 22nd
He doesn't know that after my first donation in 2022 I started a small recurring donation and this $100 will allow him to become a knight
I will let him write in to ask for his knight name
But you know for now you can dub him sir Mike of the mountain
I would also like to request a deducing for myself
You've been deduced.
And then he asked for a clippity clop, which is actually I have a clippity clop
for him here. And can you see that juice?
Okay. I think we determined that one.
And a Karma. Yeah, you got it.
It's Clippity Clop.
The message is clear.
Just Clippity Clop.
Oh my gosh!
Can you see that juice?
You've got Karma.
Done.
MFDX of anju
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He says donation node boobs on my knees
DC okay, I get it
Birthday wish to
MfMx of London his 18th. Okay, no bought the mom there
MFMX of London, his 18th. Okay.
No bought the mom there.
Commodore, Dame Early Turtle in Topeka, Kansas, 8430.
Kevin McLaughlin, 8008, he's the Archduke Luna of boobs,
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Archduke of boobs, Archduke of Luna.
He might as well be the Archduke of Luna. He might as well be the archduke of boobs.
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5945 and it's a happy VE day donation
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He's got no scalpel Mengele
Scott Mengele
In Exton, Pennsylvania 5555 in memory of my mom. Leslie Rosenbaum in West
Bloomfield, Michigan. 52-72. Love your show. I'm expecting more mothers call-outs here,
but I'm not getting them. They're not on the spreadsheet anyway.
Jim Geding in Dallas, 5125.
Bad Idea Supply is back, 50.05.
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Get a hold of Bad Idea Supply.
Roderick Brown in, now these are all $50 donors, we're already there, we're almost
done. These are names and locations of $50 donors. Is there a mom call out? I don't see one yet.
Roderick Brown in Mermaid, Florida. Oh, I'm sorry, Mermaid, where is P.E.? Oh, it's Canada.
Where is P.E.? Oh, it's Canada. What's P.E. Canada? Is there a province? P.E.? Maybe it's a northern province. I have no idea. But he's in Canada. And in town of William Spain in Springdale, Arkansas.
Rene Knieg, I think. Knieghe.
Knieghe.
Knieghe.
In Utrecht.
Utrecht.
Netherlands.
Steven Schumake in Zinia, Ohio.
Mike Moon in Athens, Georgia, Andrew Grasso.
Oh, Andrew Grasso.
We haven't heard from him for a while.
He's in Minneapolis.
Long time.
Yeah.
Tom Delvecchio in Blandin, Pennsylvania, John Ford in McKinney, Texas.
And last on our list is our favorite, Dame Rita over there in Sparks, Nevada.
And she says, thank you for your courage. I want to thank these people for making show 1763 a good show.
Prince Edward? Prince Edward Island?
Prince Edward Island. That's got to be it.
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Pretty short list only see three today sir. Kevin Dills turns 39 on the 12th Jason done
Happy birthday to his dad Mike celebrating on the 22nd and MF DX of on juice as happy I wish as MF MX of London a happy birthday MFDX of Anju says happy wishes MFMX of London a happy birthday.
MFMX of London is turning 18 years old.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
And we have one knight.
That would be the dad who is going to enter the roundtable of the Knights of Dame.
So grab your dad blade there for a second.
Got it right here the dad blade. That's beautiful. All right Mike Dunn step on up your son likes you
Mike Dunn thanks to your son's very sneaky support of a hundred dollars over many many moons and
months you are hereby pronounced kated as a Knight of the the Noah dinner roundtable You are to be called sir Mike of the mountain until you tell us differently for you, sir
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And you sir can head over to noagendarings.com,
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Your official Noagenda Night Ring and thank you very much to your son and welcome to the
Noagenda Roundtable.
Noagenda Meetups!
Noagenda Meetups, they happen all around Gitmo Nation.
They are a global phenomenon.
This is where you hang out with people who once you meet them, you'll go back to these
meetups.
I guarantee it.
This is your first responders in any emergency will come from the people you meet at the
Noagenda Meetup.
They are connection that gives you the ultimate protection.
And we have a, well nothing today on Wednesday the royal visit
the ultra special amygdala checkup meetup in Leiden at
733 in Dutch time at local
1650 in light in the Netherlands Baron Robb is organizing that and on Thursday our next showday Charlotte's thirsty third Thursday
monthly meetup seven o'clock Ed edge tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina
Sir Kevin Dills will be sponsoring that for you on the way. We have let's see the 16th
We have Whitefield, New Hampshire, then the 17th Bedford, Texas, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Fort Wayne, Indiana, New Kent, Virginia
Springfield, Oregon, but maybe most
importantly the Fredericksburg Meetup. Matt Long is hosting that with his lovely wife and let me
see it's going to kick off at 3 33 until the cows come home and that'll be at 1776 and Lucumboc
right outside of Fredericksburg. Go to knowagendandmeetups.com for more information.
And we have a promo for the Kansas City Meetup.
Attention, Kansas City producers. You're invited to another KC Meetup, baseball and barbecue
edition. Meet us at Maple Hill Park in Overland Park, Kansas on Saturday,
May 31st at 3 33 PM.
Bring a bat and glove for some fun on the diamond and enjoy some
hometown barbecue.
If you're going to go, let us know at noagendameetups.com.
Well, there you go.
The Kansas city meetup.
It's going to be a hootenanny.
That is just one of the many no agenda meetups taking place all around the world.
Go to no agenda meetups.com to find one near you.
If you can't find one near you, don't worry.
You have an obligation to start one yourself.
It's easy and it'll be guaranteed a party. Go hang out with all the nights and days
You wanna be where you want be Triggered or hell-bame
You wanna be where everybody feels the same
It's like a party
Always a party, guaranteed a party
This is the moment in the show where we do not let up
No! Instead of letting up, we just continue with more fun and shenanigans of finding the
perfect isolated clip for the end of show.
I am loaded for bear today.
I've got, what do I got here?
I got like five of them.
No, let me have them.
Okay.
Do not mock us.
There's one.
Dude.
Okay, second one. It's done. We're all done
Okay in the morning ends with good night
No, no yo yo yo, that's the show
Kind of like that one myself
These guys are uncomparable.
Huh?
I like the Yo-Yo-Yo the best of that group.
It's so good.
Okay.
Oh, Yo-Yo-Yo, so you like the Yo-Yo-Yos?
This one?
Yo-Yo-Yo, that's the show.
Okay, all right.
Well, we have a contender at least.
What do you have?
I like that.
Well, I've got a couple of ones.
I get one of them is not under ISO. It's under you. I typed it wrong US
I loved it US. I loved it, but I loved it, but I loved it little short. Yeah
Was short. Yeah
then I have
ISO donate, please use the button below now to donate a lot of music and I didn't like
Sorry, I've got a cough now. I so swoon that show made me swoon. It was so good
No woman talks like that
Well, then I can't play the last one which is not safe for work and people have to put their kids aside if you want
to play because I actually programmed this. I
can say, I don't know if it was got sentient, but I had it design its own, the
AI design its own. What was the prompt? What was the prompt you put in? I'm not
going to give it away and get people give it. Oh, because people might want to do
this for themselves at home? Yeah. Okay. So wait, wait, I think that I've got it to become self-aware and give us, this is not
safe for work.
And I'm embarrassed that it even showed up this way, but this is the way the clip came
out after I cut loose the AI.
I really, really want to fuck these two guys.
Oh, John.
I mean, this is not terrible. I'm sorry.
Yo, yo, yo, that's the show.
That's what we're gonna go with.
Man, that is just horrible.
I can't believe you did that. I can't believe it.
I can't. I didn't.
That's the point.
Oh, yes, sure. Ah, here's something he did do.
It is his very own tip of the day.
Green fires for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. do it is his very own tip of the day
I didn't mean to do that the AI did it for me mm-hmm yeah likely story I know. It doesn't sound real, but it's back. It does not sound completely bogus. No.
No.
So I had, I was going to do some more boozy stuff, but I just, I got this note from Crystal
Boggs, one of our producers, and she gave me a tip that was just like, and I looked
over the thing, I can't, I haven't used the product, I looked over all the features,
I've got it set up to use it, but it's nothing I would use.
But I can see it being something that would be very valuable to a lot of people, especially
after listening to that horrible AI clip that created itself for people that want to keep
movies and other productions clean, this is a censorship product
that I'm going to read a note from her and this is going to be the product.
The product is vidangel, vidangel.com.
ITM, John and Adam, on the last show you mentioned that some TV shows are absolutely unwatchable
now because of the stuff thrown in to
them these days.
I think we're specifically referring to the horrible show black,
whatever it was, it's got the gay sex scene.
We've been using the 9.99 per month service vid angel for several years,
several years and love it. It filters out whatever you want.
You can customize show or movie
using preset filters. You can watch most titles by linking your streaming
services. We originally got it so our kids could watch shows they otherwise
couldn't with us. But my husband and I have used it just as much for
our own shows. We don't have to be surprised by anything unsavory like you
both experienced and if a kid comes downstairs for water, they're not going to catch a glance of anything we have to talk about later.
We have to talk about it.
We recently used it to watch Jack Ryan, the agency, the diplomat and more.
I can also enjoy the office with my teen with all the hilarious social awkwardness, but none of the adult jokes.
It's got like 300 filters and I don't know how it even works, but none of the adult jokes. And it's got like 300 filters,
and I don't know how it even works, but.
That's interesting.
It's a very interesting product for people out there
that really want to, there's the fleery of the kind.
What's it called again?
Okay, it's under www.vidangel,
V-I-D like video, vidangel.com.
And I will say this, I have mixed feelings about censorship products like this, although
I can see their value for sure, that's why I'm recommending it, but I remember one time
I was on a flight and movies on airplanes are censored.
Back when they started the engines with a shotgun shell.
This is way after that.
Yeah, okay.
So they have the in-flight movie and I watched Get Shorty,
which I thought was a hilarious film, but for some reason I was unsatisfied at the end of it,
because I don't know what it was, but the movie made no sense.
Huh.
But it was funny.
So then I saw it on TV like years later and in the movie, which is a key element within
the movie, there's an airplane crash.
And they had, they left that in?
No, they took it out.
They had to, airplane movies will never have an airplane crash in the movie.
It's a policy of all the airlines.
I understand that.
Yeah, for good reason.
Yeah.
But if you don't know about the airplane crash, the movie doesn't make a lot of sense.
This is the irony of this coming from the guy who just played and not safe for work.
ISO is not lost on me that this is your tip of the day.
I thought it would make up for the clip.
Not at all. Interesting. Is this just vidangel? vidangel? vidangel.com.
Sounds like vid buzzkill is what it sounds like to me.
Alright. It could be if you put enough filters on. You can go check it out and
if a reminder of all of John's tip of the day's, tipoftheday.net.
And here's a tip for you.
Come back on Thursday for more media deconstruction, your No Agenda show, find out what's happening.
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I'm sure something will happen.
I'm hoping something will happen, that's for sure.
Something always happens.
Something always happens and sometimes it's on a show day
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