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- 0:00This is like a suicide cult. Adam Curry. John C.
- 0:04Devorah. It's Thursday, July 9th, 2026. This is your award-winning
- 0:07Gilmore Nation media assassination episode 1884. This is no agenda.
- 0:14Has anyone seen a stork? Not me, but we are
- 0:17broadcasting live from the Southern District of New York. Good
- 0:21morning everybody! Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're
- 0:26all wondering who would name a kid Graham, I'm John
- 0:29C. Dvorak. Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. What kid's
- 0:34name is Graham? Graham Platner. You're not over here, so
- 0:39you don't get to see this. 24/7 coverage. You said
- 0:42Graham, not Graham. You said Graham. His name is Graham.
- 0:46Not Graham. Like a Graham. It's pronounced Graham. No, it's
- 0:49Graham. Graham. Graham. Graham. Yes, if you had said Graham,
- 0:55it would have been obvious. Graham. No, it's not Graham.
- 0:58Okay, you can say what you want. Okay, well, so
- 1:01yes, I'm aware of the new cycle. I'm aware of
- 1:05it. But that's not what I'm stuck with here. You're
- 1:09stuck there is what you're stuck with. I'm stuck here,
- 1:11but I'm stuck here with. Well, like I said, it's
- 1:14coming Tuesday. So the day when we're back. The day
- 1:18we come back. The day we're back. Yes. You never
- 1:21said it was coming Tuesday, did you? Yeah, I did.
- 1:24Oh, because you know I'm coming back Monday. Well, you're
- 1:28gonna miss the baby then. Yeah, no kidding. My daughter's...
- 1:32Just stay a couple extra days. We've already been here...
- 1:35By Monday, we'll have been here for two weeks. uh
- 1:39we're running out of everything flies time flies and of
- 1:44course now you know everyone here is like Oh. Oh,
- 1:49you're from America? Stupid Trump. Try to rig the game
- 1:57with the red card. Ha! We showed you, didn't ya?
- 2:03Yeah, all day long. It's amazing. Well, I think that
- 2:09it was corrupted to begin with, and the reason that
- 2:11they did that, it had nothing to do with Trump.
- 2:14It was to make him look like he did something
- 2:16other than just make a call. Yeah, that's exactly what
- 2:18they did. But they had to put that player back.
- 2:19because these games are, as you and I know, rigged.
- 2:22These games are rigged. Rigged, yes. And they knew that
- 2:25if they left that player out... the striker that they
- 2:29red carded, then they have to listen to the whining
- 2:33Americans. Yeah. Yeah. Ha ha! You guys screwed us. Someone's
- 2:43hearing a buzz. Hold on. I thought I heard it
- 2:45too. Hold on. I'm hearing it too. Somebody's hearing a
- 2:48buzz? Yeah. There we go. I can move some wires
- 2:50around. No, no, it's not you. No, it's not you.
- 2:52It's me. It's me. That's what she said. Here's the
- 2:58clip. And he gave him a red card. I didn't
- 2:59know what that meant. Then I started hearing that that
- 3:03means he can't play in the next game, at least
- 3:07in the next game. And they say you can't. play
- 3:21that's very unfair that's you know it's one thing to
- 3:25penalize somebody for the game but how do you penalize
- 3:28them for a game that hasn't been played yet it's
- 3:30very unfair you can't do that so yes i asked
- 3:34for a review oh a review i spoke to a
- 3:38man who's i i found the source of this whole
- 3:41Trump called him, made him change it. It was the
- 3:44New York Times with four sources, unnamed, anonymous sources, familiar
- 3:49with the phone call. Highly respected. And by the way,
- 3:52whose level of respect has gone up. tenfold. And it
- 3:56was good before this started, but he really pushed it.
- 3:59in this country. I'm the one that got them to
- 4:02do it. It was not Biden. See, what people don't
- 4:06understand, and it doesn't even, I don't even have to
- 4:09try and explain it here, commies. What people don't understand
- 4:13is Trump's not talking about fair. He's talking about the
- 4:16excitement of the game. He's thinking of television. That's what
- 4:19he's thinking of. He's like, hey, we got to have
- 4:22the star players in there. You can't take the star
- 4:24players. It was great when they threw them out and
- 4:26they played with 10 guys for the rest of the
- 4:27game. That's great television. You can't have that guy not
- 4:31show up in the next game, even though it's the
- 4:33rule. That's what it was about. People don't understand him.
- 4:37We are the Trump whisperers. We understand our president. We're
- 4:41some of the last and the very few, I believe.
- 4:44Maybe. I'm not kidding. People are, they roll their eyes
- 4:51at me. They rolled their eyes. Yeah, man. That guy
- 4:56tried to cheat. I don't care what you say. It's
- 4:59useless. All right, so... If it's such a big news
- 5:04cycle that you had to start it out at the
- 5:06beginning of the show off with, do you have any
- 5:08Graham Platner clips that you want to share? I have
- 5:11a, yeah, I do have a classic that I thought
- 5:14if anyone would appreciate, it'd be you. All right. Because
- 5:17it's from the pivot. These are your buddies. Kara and
- 5:22Professor, can you turn your speakers down just a tad?
- 5:24Kara and Professor Scott, let me guess, because I've seen
- 5:28some of these come through on the timeline, where Elizabeth
- 5:31Warren is saying, that's my guy. Well, yeah, they've been
- 5:37loading these things up. I don't really have a lot
- 5:40of Platinum Eclipse. I just have... I just thought it
- 5:42would be worthwhile to play this one because it's one
- 5:45of the most extreme examples of a very biased and
- 5:51almost pathetic attitude about things. I personally, I'm going to
- 5:55just very quickly say I think voters don't care about
- 5:58this. I don't. And I thought his wife handled it
- 6:00well. I have others. I had an argument with Amanda
- 6:03this weekend. She doesn't like the Nazi tattoo. She doesn't
- 6:06like this. Really? I feel as if... Amanda doesn't like
- 6:10the Nazi tattoo. Who does? If the husband and wife
- 6:13are working it out, it reminded me a little when
- 6:15Hillary Clinton did Should I Stand By My Man when
- 6:18he had those Jennifer Flowers things. Reminds me a little
- 6:21bit of that. Turned out to be a pretty good
- 6:24president. I don't get bothered by it as much. None
- 6:27of it. I think he's, as Amanda Littman correctly said,
- 6:31he's someone who had a drinking problem as a Marine,
- 6:33probably got that tattoo, has some mental health challenges, which
- 6:37he's trying to overcome, marriage problems, which his wife is
- 6:40insisting they're going to. counselors and overcoming. That list is
- 6:44your typical Democrat. It's perfect. I mean, let's just hear
- 6:47that list again. Nazi tattoo. It's got drinking problems, relationship
- 6:52problems. Drinking problems, a Marine, probably got that tattoo. Has
- 6:56some mental health challenges, which he's trying to overcome. Marriage
- 6:59problems. Mental challenges, which he's trying to overcome. Yeah, you
- 7:03have to stop the clip and let me explain something
- 7:08that I think is important. Oh, please. Which is that
- 7:10you're right. This is the Democrats' laundry list of what
- 7:14they think the working class is. Yes, drinking problem. They
- 7:21have no connection. She has no – and the professor
- 7:24has no connection with this – you know, these Democrats
- 7:27and their working class, which they haven't represented for –
- 7:32I don't know. Since we've been doing the show. Since
- 7:35Kennedy. Since we've been doing the show. Yeah, definitely since
- 7:38we've been doing this show. They're so dissociated from the
- 7:42work. class that their imaginary working class person is what
- 7:47she's describing yes and an oyster farmer this thing from
- 7:50the truth there is an oyster farmer with a drinking
- 7:53problem a Nazi tattoo mental health issues which he's working
- 7:57on and relationship issues yes that's your voter but of
- 8:00that turned out to be a pretty good president. I
- 8:03don't get bothered by it as much. None of it.
- 8:06I think he's, as Amanda Littman correctly said, he's someone
- 8:11who had a drinking problem as a Marine, probably got
- 8:13that tattoo, has some mental health challenges, which he's trying
- 8:16to overcome, marriage problems, which his wife is insisting they're
- 8:20going to counselors and overcoming. Every election is a choice,
- 8:23not a marriage proposal. We're not hiring a priest. We're
- 8:30hiring a senator. Do you want to make sure that
- 8:32women's rights aren't continuing to be rolled back? Do you
- 8:35want a more responsible economic policy? But we're going to
- 8:38talk about fucking tattoos and sexting? You mean like you
- 8:42did about Pete's Hexeth? Okay. I mean, the obsession with
- 8:47personal purity has become a luxury belief. And folks, if
- 8:51your house is on fire, you don't ask whether the
- 8:54firefighter has problematic DMs. Are we going to continue to
- 8:59have one strike and you're out? I'm a Jew. I
- 9:00don't love a Tottenkamp. tattoo okay if he gets drunk
- 9:04one night and gets a hold on if you're a
- 9:08real jew pronounce it right tottenkopf okay tottenkopf get with
- 9:13it scott continue to have one strike and you're out
- 9:16i'm a jew i don't love a tottenkopf tattoo okay
- 9:20if he gets drunk one night and gets stupid fucking
- 9:22tattoo. The fact that he's trying to protect our liberties
- 9:25the next day and might be blown up by an
- 9:27IED. He gets a hall pass. You're right. It's Tottenkopf.
- 9:33Tottenkopf. It's Tottenkopf. It's struggle. It's Kopf. It's head. It's
- 9:37Kopf. Tottenkopf. Yeah. It's a head. Kopf. Kopf. We all
- 9:41know Kumpf. Not Kumpf. Kumpf. He's my Kumpf. I don't
- 9:44know what he's thinking. It's that way. That's great. That's
- 9:48great. But now he resigned. He withdrew. He's out. Yeah,
- 9:51he did. But one more thing about what Scott said.
- 9:54He says, are we going to continue to have women's
- 9:57rights rolled back? What? What? What?
- 10:00talking about? I don't know. I don't know. You've seen
- 10:03these, if you go to, I don't do this that
- 10:06much, but if you go to TikTok or Insta or
- 10:09one of these places that are the reels, all these
- 10:11things, and there'll be men on the street stuff where
- 10:15someone says, so what do you want to see about
- 10:18somebody being interviewed at some protest? And then they say,
- 10:23I don't want to see women's rights rolled back. And
- 10:25then the interviewer will say, which women's rights are you
- 10:29talking about? Of course, and then they freeze. And there's
- 10:31a long blank stare, and I don't know. And then
- 10:34they say, I'm not participating in this. I'm not going
- 10:37to be. They walk. I'm not going to. Yeah. Well,
- 10:41of course, then we have the actual candidates for the
- 10:44Democrat Party. This thing has been circling around, a little
- 10:47mini, mini cut. of some of these DSA, Democrat Socialists
- 10:53of America. And it's exactly what we talked about on
- 10:55the last show. This is exactly what they're doing. If
- 10:58they get elected, and these were not the candidates in
- 11:03the primary, not the candidates that Ro Khanna, what's his
- 11:07name? Ro Khanna. Don't we just call him Ro Khanna?
- 11:11Isn't that his name now? He's a Ro Khanna. Ro
- 11:13Khanna. The Ro Khanna. Ro Khanna, this is not the
- 11:16people he endorsed, but this is the people who, supposedly
- 11:20selected. And you know we have a unique responsibility to
- 11:23act from the from the heart of empire the belly
- 11:25of the beast. The most important thing that we can
- 11:27do is take that empire down from within. Our role
- 11:31ultimately is to to facilitate our own empire's failure in
- 11:35ways that we can ultimately to overthrow our own empire.
- 11:39Imperialism is U.S. imperialism is not a thing that can
- 11:42be reformed away it has to be overthrown through revolutionary
- 11:47struggle. And to build a movement that can use the
- 11:50leverage of workers to hit the kill switch on American
- 11:54imperialism here within the American Empire. Yes, from within the
- 12:00kill switch in the American empire. Yeah, these people are
- 12:04very pretentious, but did you notice how gender fluid they
- 12:08are? Oh, yeah. Yeah, certainly. I couldn't tell who was
- 12:12what there. It was just non-binary to an extreme. Well,
- 12:18so just looking at all these different factions, I caught
- 12:22a report on CNN. And it was about the Patriot
- 12:26Front on July 4th, who marched on the mall, who
- 12:32took the metro, which is the subway, to the mall.
- 12:38You know... We've looked at these guys and we're like,
- 12:41these got to be feds. This has got to be
- 12:44some kind of psyop going on. But then I'm thinking,
- 12:47hold on a second. Does this mean that Kash Patel's
- 12:50FBI or Tulsi Gabbard or Bill Pulte's intelligence operations are
- 12:57still running these guys? And it's a bit polarizing to
- 13:02me. But the thing that really caught my eye is
- 13:05as I'm listening to the opening of this report. The
- 13:09whole thing is completely framing something that is observably not
- 13:15true. This weekend, in the midst of the country's 250th
- 13:18birthday festivities, a stark and disturbing display emerged from our
- 13:24nation's capital. Stark and disturbing display. On Saturday, when mass
- 13:28members of the white supremacist group, the Patriot Front, marched
- 13:33through Washington, D.C., carrying Confederate flags and... Okay, so... I
- 13:39stopped here because carrying Confederate flags, I'm literally looking at
- 13:42the video she's showing, and there's no Confederate flag. There's
- 13:47stars and stripes, 50 stars, 13 stripes. There's about 20%
- 13:52are what I'd call the colonial flag with the 13
- 13:58stars in a circle with a picture of George. Right,
- 14:00right, which is a classic. Yeah, with a picture of
- 14:02George Washington in the circle. Not a single Confederate flag.
- 14:08That's a Confederate flag. That's how deteriorated the media has
- 14:13become. Well, possibly. But the first thing that she says
- 14:17here is the white supremacist group. And, you know, and
- 14:21so, of course, you connect white supremacy, white supremacist groups
- 14:26to patriots because they're called the Patriot Front. So that
- 14:30by itself, it's a psyop, whether it's from them or
- 14:33who knows what it is. But I'm like, I got
- 14:36to look at these guys. What is going on with
- 14:37this group? So they have a website. I'm glad you
- 14:40did this because I thought the whole thing was a
- 14:42fake. Well, so the website, patriot.us. They have an about
- 14:49page. They've got an action page. They've got a manifesto
- 14:54page. Now, this I find troubling. Like, why don't you
- 14:57just say, here's our mission? But no, they say manifesto.
- 15:00It's very long. And there's no white supremacy language in
- 15:05there per se. They hate government. They feel all politicians
- 15:10have sold out. The military-industrial complex. They hate globalism. to
- 15:17go back to what America was. They don't like, they
- 15:22want the borders closed. They don't want immigrants coming in
- 15:25from Africa. They don't talk about black people. Now, I
- 15:28don't see any black faces in this patriot front because
- 15:32they have masks on. It makes it a little harder.
- 15:33And it's a little more intimidating because they've got the
- 15:35khakis and, you know, they have kind of these uniforms
- 15:38on. But they don't really look like neo-Nazis or KKK.
- 15:43And then you look at their action. And, you know,
- 15:45their spokes guy, he talks without a mask. His name
- 15:48is known. He's quite eloquent at speaking. And then they
- 15:51go, you know, life, liberty, victory. Okay. Then you look
- 15:55at their action page, and they're, you know, doing food
- 15:59drives, feeding homeless people, building houses. So, you know, it's
- 16:05me. At least one of our No Agenda producers has
- 16:10to be in this group. There's no way that if
- 16:13really what is portrayed on this website, that we don't
- 16:16have at least one of them listening to the show.
- 16:21This is kind of my test. What if the whole
- 16:22thing is just a front for nothing? Well, this is
- 16:25my test. If we don't have a single producer... Oh,
- 16:28that's a good point. We have a million listeners and
- 16:30producers. Somebody's been to the meeting. Did we have a
- 16:35population of such... That is such, yes, you're absolutely correct.
- 16:40Unless there's somebody in there that's connected to the show.
- 16:46It's a fake. It's a phony. It's a phony. Yeah,
- 16:49just a bunch of photos. I pulled a few more
- 16:51clips. That's a good point. Well, it was really bothering
- 16:54me because I look at these guys like, I know
- 16:57guys like this. They go to my church. They help
- 17:00out. They love their country. They love their flag. They
- 17:04love their family. I don't think they're racist. You know,
- 17:08they've never shown any racial tendencies. But so the PSYOP
- 17:12certainly is working on CNN. Just a couple of clips
- 17:15because there's some interesting language that they use here. So
- 17:18whether it's phony or I mean, it certainly doesn't seem
- 17:21like the right. Something Trump would want is connecting white
- 17:24supremacy to patriots and patriotism. quote, reclaim America. Oh no!
- 17:41One photographer captured this stunning, now viral photo of a
- 17:46young black woman. sitting on a metro car while the
- 17:50masked men surround her. Now, this language is beautiful because
- 17:55these guys are on the metro. They're all taking the
- 17:57metro. No, the whole car is filled with them. They're
- 18:00not surrounding her. The picture doesn't even show her being
- 18:03surrounded. They're not looking at her. She has a great
- 18:06expression. Nobody cares about her. She has a great expression
- 18:09on her face. So then they bring in this dude
- 18:13who was also a witness, who was also on the
- 18:16train. And this is where things got funny. behave on
- 18:19the train and what sort of sense did you get
- 18:22from them on the car? They were surprisingly very civil
- 18:25and very organized. They were just chatting among themselves like
- 18:29any other people who were sitting or traveling using the
- 18:33metro. I, you know, just from what I could hear,
- 18:36many of them didn't even know each other. I could
- 18:38hear them introducing themselves to one another with their full
- 18:40names and asking where they're from and, you know, how
- 18:43they're doing. Well, that doesn't sound very scary. Come on,
- 18:46we gotta step this up a little bit because we're
- 18:48you afraid? Weren't you scary? Wait. How did this picture
- 18:52get taken of you? And you ended up in some
- 18:54photographs taken by a Getty Images photographer. A Getty Images
- 19:00photographer happens to be on the train. It's amazing. What
- 19:02did it say to you that there was a photographer
- 19:04there? That's when it alarmed me. This is something, you
- 19:06know. But the photographer also gave me some comfort knowing
- 19:09that somebody was there with a camera just in case
- 19:12something happens. Because I was realizing if anything happens, I
- 19:14won't be able to identify any of them because they're
- 19:16all dressed the same. So it made me realize and
- 19:19start paying attention. What are they wearing? on their hats,
- 19:22what's on their shirts, just to give me an educated
- 19:25idea who they were. And I was texting some friends,
- 19:27you know, this is happening. I just want you to
- 19:30be aware that I'm in the middle of a metro
- 19:33by myself. So if anything happens, you know. No, you
- 19:36weren't. You were with the black girl. What are you
- 19:37talking about? You weren't by yourself. I'm in the middle
- 19:40of a metro by myself. So if anything happens, you
- 19:43know what's happening. Do you have any thought as you're
- 19:46on the train as to who they might be? Like
- 19:47what's, you know, I know you said you didn't know
- 19:49who they were, but what were you speculating when you
- 19:52see a bunch of white guys with masks and hats.
- 19:55Clearly they needed to cover their faces for a reason,
- 19:59right?
- 20:00My mind immediately went to that they were white supremacists.
- 20:02So, and, you know, I work for the U.S. Capitol
- 20:04Historical Society. Oh, there we go. So my first thing
- 20:07is... I need to remember this and try to document
- 20:10of what's happening. I'm not comparing myself clearly to real
- 20:13American heroes like Rosa Parks and folks who sat in
- 20:17at diners in the 50s and 60s. I knew this
- 20:20was a moment that I have to kind of be
- 20:23present. This was a moment. This is a psyop of
- 20:27epic proportions. I just want to know who and why
- 20:31and what's behind it. That's all I want to know.
- 20:34Again, if we don't have a single person in our
- 20:37audience who has at least been to a meeting. then
- 20:40this is fake. and it's fake from the left. There's
- 20:44just no two ways about it. Yeah, fake from the
- 20:50left. Yeah, this could be a Soros thing or a
- 20:53Southern Poverty Law Center thing. The thing that is bothersome
- 20:57is the mask. Why the masks? Yeah, there's no reason
- 21:00for the mask. There's no reason for that. They don't
- 21:02do that. It's the other side that's always mask-oriented with
- 21:04the Palestinian scarf across their face. That's the tell right
- 21:09there. Oh, you're wearing a mask. There you go. There
- 21:12you go. I was just like, nah, I don't know
- 21:16about this. The whole thing just kind of bothered me.
- 21:20So I wanted to get that out. And please, if
- 21:22you've been to a meeting, let us know. And if
- 21:24nobody has been to me, there's nobody. I mean, this
- 21:27might maybe Aaron or over at Knowage in the social.
- 21:30He might be the kind of guy, but they're not
- 21:32even that anti-Jew, you know, at least not that I
- 21:36can tell. Not in their manifest. So, which is another
- 21:41thing. If you and I were going to do a
- 21:43group. Yes, absolutely. You nailed it. By the way, that's
- 21:45a great observation. Yeah, we wouldn't. You don't use manifesto.
- 21:49No, we're not going to do that. Ever. Ever. No,
- 21:53it's mission statement or what, you know, EULA. I mean,
- 21:58anything. EULA. So, no. But I think we all were...
- 22:07considering them to be feds of some sort. And now
- 22:11I'm just not so sure. Now it seems to be
- 22:14from some other organization. They look cool though. And that's
- 22:17not to say that the black girl wasn't afraid. cool
- 22:21black girl she might have been afraid like oh what
- 22:23is this what's going on but you know i seem
- 22:25pretty nonchalant if you ask me but a getty images
- 22:29photographer happens to be there well that's yeah that's because
- 22:32somewhat misleading because anybody can be images yeah it's true
- 22:37yeah it's once you sign up with them it's basically
- 22:39you You take a lot of photos. It's like paparazzi.
- 22:42You take a lot of photos, but you've done a
- 22:45contract deal with them, so if you have any photos
- 22:47that are of national interest, you have to sell it
- 22:50to them as opposed to the competition. Yeah. Which is
- 22:54Corbis, whoever it is. No big deal. Corvus. That day,
- 22:58I think that's exaggerated. Corbus? There's other groups. Yeah, it's
- 23:03that group that Microsoft ran. created i can't remember their
- 23:08name it's like corbus or something stupid was that part
- 23:11of their uh Encyclopedia. What was their encyclopedia? Their CD-ROM
- 23:15encyclopedia. Yeah, the... Encarta? Encarta? And Cardi. It was a
- 23:21good idea at the time. Yeah, at the time. When
- 23:25there was no internet and everything was on CD-ROM. Yes.
- 23:29CD Interactive. CDI. Yeah, baby. Back in the day. CDI
- 23:33went nowhere. Back in the day. So just to wrap
- 23:36it up. Yeah, I agree. The only people who wear
- 23:39masks... or Antifa. The Palestinian protesters, it's all crazy from
- 23:45left people. And the Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed
- 23:49them a white supremacist hate group. That right there tells
- 23:53you something. Yeah. Anyway, let's get guys. Let's get to
- 24:00the top of the news with what's really happening. Tonight,
- 24:02as the U.S. launches a new attack on Iran, the
- 24:05second in 24 hours, President Trump now declaring the ceasefire
- 24:10over. I think it's over. I don't want to deal
- 24:12with them anymore. They're scum. You know what scum is?
- 24:15There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo. The new U.S.
- 24:18shrinks hitting Iran's... coastal radar sites and anti-ship missile locations.
- 24:24A larger attack than last night when 80 targets were
- 24:27hit. in response to Iran firing on three cargo ships
- 24:32near the Strait of Hormuz. The big question: What comes
- 24:36next? Overnight, Iran launching missiles at U.S. bases Those missiles
- 24:41intercepted. The Pentagon releasing video of more than 20 Navy
- 24:44warships patrolling waters near the Middle East. President Trump today
- 24:48sending mixed signals. First saying he would let peace talks
- 24:52continue, then a few hours later saying this. I'm not
- 24:55sure I want to make a deal with him. We
- 24:57can play games, but I'm not sure I want to
- 24:58make a deal with him. Make a deal, I just
- 25:00finished the job. And tonight, the calm has been shattered
- 25:03in the oil market. Gas prices for Americans set to
- 25:06go up. The president asks, are we about to see
- 25:09full-blown war again? I don't think it's going to start
- 25:12again. I think it's going to go very quickly. No,
- 25:16hold on a second. Did you see this? structure of
- 25:19the way they presented that? Explain. It's structured as though
- 25:23they were going to see full-blown war and then they
- 25:25cut to him saying, no, I don't think so. Yeah.
- 25:29Okay. And you're surprised by this? This is ABC. No,
- 25:32this is what we do on this show, if you
- 25:34haven't noticed. We point this out. Shattered in the oil
- 25:38markets. Gas prices for Americans set to go up. The
- 25:42president asks, are we about to see full-blown war again?
- 25:45I don't think it's going to start again. I think
- 25:47it's going to go very quickly. They hit a couple
- 25:51of ships, and so we hit them much harder. When
- 25:53they hit, we hit. with Iran right now and the
- 25:59surging oil prices already. There are also questions about this
- 26:11new Air Force One, that gift from Qatar, and why
- 26:14it left Turkey tonight without the president. David, the president
- 26:19has been touting this new plane, so it was surprising
- 26:21when that Qatari jet left without him and headed toward
- 26:25the UK. The president said it was to give troops
- 26:27stationed there an opportunity to view the plane, but tonight
- 26:30it is raising new questions about whether security concerns played
- 26:34a factor. The president later departed Turkey on an older
- 26:37model of Air Force One. Yeah, so before we move
- 26:40on, I just got to play this clip because he
- 26:43did play it down. Like, oh, no, you know, the
- 26:45plane had to go over there and we had to
- 26:47do something else and the troops had to look at
- 26:49the new plane. But this was the killer for me.
- 26:52In one day, all of their anti-aircraft things are gone.
- 26:56That doesn't mean they're not going to get a plane.
- 26:58But all of it's gone. Everything's gone. The leaders are
- 27:03gone. They had leaders, they're gone. And they had another
- 27:06set of leaders, they're gone. Now they have another set
- 27:08of leaders, they may be gone. Who knows? And you
- 27:12know what? I may be gone too because I'm their
- 27:15number one target. It's out all over the place. I'm
- 27:18their number one because they're... That's the way they act
- 27:20and that's the way they've done it for 47 years.
- 27:23No, I'm number one on the kill list for... Iran.
- 27:27They're lovely people. I'm number one. So I don't know.
- 27:29I can't tell you that. But I don't really care
- 27:32because I'm doing my job and I'm doing it, I
- 27:34hope, better than anybody's ever done it because we have
- 27:37a country that's hot. and really, really successful. But I
- 27:41mention it only because it's on the list. I mean,
- 27:44it came out, there was another list came out yesterday,
- 27:46and I'm number one on, I like being number one
- 27:49on TikTok better, but I'm number one on the list
- 27:54for killing. Now, unfortunately, I have to say, every single
- 27:57time... I have known a politician or heard a politician
- 28:01say, yeah, they're going to, you know, they want to
- 28:03kill me. It has happened. I'll never forget Pim Fortuyn
- 28:08saying, if something happens to me, those guys did it.
- 28:11And then he got killed. Yeah, well let's hope that
- 28:14doesn't happen. No, that would suck. But you should be
- 28:16cautious enough to send off this. The one jet, let
- 28:19that one get blowed up. Yeah, really. It's like, you
- 28:22know, a little switcheroo on the jet. So we had
- 28:25dinner with... We don't even know he was on the
- 28:27other Air Force. He could have been on Air Force
- 28:28Two for all we know. It didn't look like it.
- 28:30I'll be the first, because he came out for a
- 28:32gaggle. And it was not the old Air Force One
- 28:37that he typically travels on. Because I could tell by
- 28:40the... They didn't have the screens in the side panel
- 28:44like it usually does. So it was not his typical
- 28:49Air Force one. Yeah, well, if you're going to the
- 28:51Middle East and you're Trump. Yeah. You're not going to
- 28:56be flying around like, hey, here I am. Fire me.
- 28:58Take a shot. - Yeah. So we had dinner with
- 29:03Lex. I have a couple of them. I want to
- 29:05give you a little update. We had a dinner with
- 29:07Lex and Fariba. Oh, okay. His Iranian wife. he told
- 29:12man he told the story about them getting married it
- 29:14cracks me up every single time because they wanted to
- 29:18stay in the same hotel. This is like 16 years
- 29:22ago. And so in order to do that, you have
- 29:25to be married by an imam. So he's a Muslim.
- 29:30He had to become a Muslim first. Then he got
- 29:32like a stamp and he's got a passport and he's
- 29:35a Muslim. Anyway. So, and I said, you better not
- 29:38leave that. You better stay a muscle. because that's not
- 29:40a good idea. So she's back talking to her family.
- 29:43The Internet's open. The lines are open. Um, Everybody is
- 29:48back to business, although back to business means her family
- 29:52is selling ground coffee. uh this this there's not a
- 29:56lot of commerce per se But the general
- 30:00The feeling is that Trump is working with the Iranians
- 30:04together, and together they're going to get rid of the
- 30:08IRGC, or at least they're going to try to, which
- 30:11the Iranians feel is rather complicated because they have such
- 30:14deep connections inside the country. Everyone's on the take from
- 30:18those guys. So they feel that there's maybe too many
- 30:22of them. But that's who's popping stuff off. It's the
- 30:25IRGC. It's not the people that... Yeah, and it's dissociated.
- 30:30They're completely dissociated. So some rogue, anybody can take a
- 30:33pot shot and, hey, I'm going to do it. Yeah,
- 30:35exactly. There's no coordination at all. No. So they're hopeful
- 30:40and they actually have more trust in Trump than I
- 30:44would have expected. I think that he's working with them
- 30:46with the third level. And... you know they're like why
- 30:52is pop so the what's his name reza pavli the
- 30:56the crown prince He's in Holland right now. How weird
- 31:04is that? You should go try to track him down.
- 31:08No, I don't think so. I'm not going to do
- 31:10that. Let's listen to these clips from the NPR and
- 31:13the BBC trying to summarize this. Okay. Start with NPR.
- 31:18I'm looking, I see Al Jazeera. Iran bombing NPR. I'm
- 31:24sorry, I didn't see that one. The U.S. military says
- 31:27it's carrying out another round of strikes on Iran after
- 31:30Iran attacked ships in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this
- 31:33week and retaliated for U.S. strikes last night. Earlier today,
- 31:37President Trump said Iranian attacks signaled the... end of the
- 31:40ceasefire, as NPR's Franco Ordonez explains. Trump not only warned
- 31:44that the U.S. would likely hit Iran again, but he
- 31:47also threatened to bring back a naval blockade. I mean,
- 31:50he is clearly frustrated after last night's series of strikes,
- 31:54and he really went off on Iranian leaders, calling them
- 31:57cuckoo and a bunch of liars. I don't want to
- 32:00deal with them anymore. They're scum. You know what scum
- 32:02is? They're scum. They're sick people. They're led by sick
- 32:05people. and they're vicious violent people now the big question
- 32:10is whether calling off the ceasefire is actually a change
- 32:13in policy or simply a negotiating tactic but trump did
- 32:18say during the press conference that this would not lead
- 32:20to full-scale fighting again and that anything that happened would
- 32:24be over quickly. Mm-hmm. I like the, you know, we've
- 32:31talked about this before some time ago, about the pronunciation
- 32:34of Iran. Yes. We got a lecture from somebody who
- 32:38told us how to pronounce it correctly. But it's still
- 32:41being pronounced Iran. It's definitely Iran. We know for a
- 32:45fact it's ear-on, ear-on. Your ear is on, ear-on. And
- 32:51PBS or NPR there has gotten it correctly. Yeah. But
- 32:56you'll hear, it's almost like there's a code involved. Well,
- 32:59didn't. People who miss. pronounce it didn't we establish didn't
- 33:02we establish that people who were read in pronounced at
- 33:05iran and everyone else who doesn't pronounce it iran is
- 33:08not read in That's what I recall. I think that
- 33:11was one of our interpretations. Possibly, yeah. Well, here's the
- 33:16BBC. Several Gulf nations have responded to Iranian... Holy... crap
- 33:21that's over modulated again so iran iranian yeah see now
- 33:26they're pronouncing it differently now okay now we can play
- 33:30it I want to play it. Yeah, let me stop
- 33:32about the over-modulation. Okay. Okay, I've had, I don't know
- 33:37what it is. about the BBC. but there's something wrong
- 33:42with their waveform and their loops their loops are not
- 33:47good I'm telling you, there's something wrong with their waveform
- 33:51and I can't... Because when I'm... Playing with these clips,
- 33:56I'm not getting any of this, any of this over
- 33:59modulation. But every time you play it. through your system,
- 34:02it comes out. I'm not sure what to do about
- 34:06it. I will do a spectral analysis after the show
- 34:10and figure it out. It could very well be that
- 34:12there's something going on in their processing that is hitting
- 34:15my processing in an odd way. I'm looking at the
- 34:17waveform. It doesn't look flat or anything. This is very
- 34:21technical, everybody. I'm glad you're listening in. Several Gulf nations
- 34:25have responded to Iranian attacks after the U.S. launched new
- 34:29airstrikes against Iran, including near the Strait of Hormuz. Explosions
- 34:34were reported in the Bahraini capital, Manama, while in Kuwait,
- 34:38the military said its air defenses had intercepted... First of
- 34:42all, this guy has a wheelbarrow for those balls, man.
- 34:46That's amazing, that voice. Yeah, it's unbelievable, this character. That's
- 34:58crazy. has more from Washington. Donald Trump is returning to
- 35:04Washington. Now, he has been speaking on Air Force One,
- 35:08where he said, amongst other things, we've just hit them
- 35:11very hard. And I say we hit them 20 to
- 35:14one. He added that every time they hit us, we're
- 35:17going to hit them 20, as he put it. And
- 35:20he also. claimed that Iran had called a little while
- 35:23ago saying that they wanted to make a deal badly.
- 35:26He said, I just don't know if they're worthy of
- 35:29making a deal. Our international editor Jeremy Bowen has this
- 35:33analysis of the latest developments. What is driving all of
- 35:37this is the fact that the Iranian regime in Tehran
- 35:40have a head of a weapon in being able to
- 35:43close the Strait of Hormuz. They can put the global
- 35:45economy in days in a chokehold. So that's where we're
- 35:48at. So I think what we're going to see is
- 35:50a lot of these ups and downs, probably more escalations,
- 35:53more oscillations, some more talks. Sources very adjacent to the
- 35:58talks have said to me that... Neither side is trying
- 36:01to walk away from the talks, but equally is taking
- 36:05quote, a lot of heavy lifting to try to get
- 36:07them back. to talking. I'm so sick of this. They
- 36:11closed the street before Moose. They didn't close anything. There's
- 36:15not a row of IRGC Paddle boats blocking the straight.
- 36:21This language has got to stop. you know I want
- 36:27to play the CBS version of this, of the report.
- 36:30of the scum liars and cheats report because at the
- 36:33end there was something There's something odd and different. The
- 36:37president said today that even though the ceasefire is over,
- 36:40the nuclear talks between the two... But with each side
- 36:43trading airstrikes and insults, it's pretty difficult to understand the
- 36:48way forward. There's scum. So we don't like him? I
- 36:55don't like him? They're evil people. President Trump unleashed on
- 36:59Iran for attacking three commercial... tankers in the Strait of
- 37:02Hormuz this week. They're liars, they're cheats, they're sick people.
- 37:07Just last month, Trump called Iran's leaders very rational people.
- 37:11But tonight, he's ordered more airstrikes along the Strait of
- 37:13Hormuz. which follows a heavy bombing campaign Tuesday night, when
- 37:18U.S. forces hit about 80 targets inside Iran, including its
- 37:21main naval base and dozens of small boats. Iran says
- 37:26it responded by firing missiles and drones at 85 military
- 37:30targets inside Bahrain and Kuwait. The volleys the most significant
- 37:35since the U.S. and Iran signed a memo of understanding
- 37:37about three weeks ago. But the president said. Iran's actions
- 37:42have killed the deal. There's something wrong with them. They're
- 37:45cuckoo. As far as I'm concerned, it's over. Oil prices
- 37:49spiked on that news, part of the reason why by
- 37:51the end of today, the president was trying to turn
- 37:54down the temperature. I think anything that happens is going
- 37:57to be over very quickly. And we'll only... And will
- 38:00only make it safer, including for oil. Also at the
- 38:04NATO summit, the president met with Vladimir Zelensky and announced
- 38:07plans to let Ukraine start building Patriot missiles. But he
- 38:10also broached a three-way meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin. I
- 38:14don't know that he'd go to Moscow. Maybe he would.
- 38:16Would you go to Moscow? It's difficult. There are a
- 38:19lot of Ukrainian drones to the earth. Leaders here at
- 38:22the summit said their host, Turkish President Erdogan, gifted them
- 38:26all personalized revolvers and a box of ammunition. The White
- 38:29House didn't confirm Trump's gift, but the British prime minister
- 38:32said he had to leave his here because it would
- 38:34be illegal to bring it home. That's the weird part.
- 38:38What's up with that? They all gave him pistols with-
- 38:41With ammo? What, to shoot yourself? I thought that was
- 38:45very strange. It's a strange gift. I had not heard
- 38:47that. That was a good catch. That's a strange gift.
- 38:51That is a strange gift. They gave him gold-plated pistols
- 38:56with one bullet in the chamber. Hint, hint. And a
- 39:00hairpin trigger. So what I feel is going on here
- 39:05is good cop, bad cop. It seems so obvious. Because
- 39:10this is from his, he did a lot of press,
- 39:12or at least a lot of clips came out of
- 39:14his press in... In Turkey at the NATO summit. Yeah,
- 39:19some NATO clips. This is... This is where I think
- 39:23this is the one where he's basically good cop, bad
- 39:26cop. Let those guys go be good cops. I'm going
- 39:28to be the bad cop. Do you have any questions?
- 39:30Is the ceasefire over? Is the ceasefire done? Is the
- 39:34MOU dead? That's a very interesting question. That's not an
- 39:40interesting question. I think it's over. I don't want to
- 39:44deal with them anymore. They're scum. You know what scum
- 39:46is? They're scum. They're sick people. They're led by sick
- 39:50people. This is the full quote, which I think was
- 39:52more interesting than what the news just cherry-picked. And they're
- 39:56vicious, violent people. And if they had a nuclear war...
- 40:00weapon they'd use it. As far as I'm concerned, it's
- 40:02over. I'll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate.
- 40:05They're good people. Steve Whitcuff, Jared Kushner, but they have
- 40:10to come back to me. As far as I'm concerned,
- 40:12it's just a waste of time dealing with them. They're
- 40:15liars. We make a deal. That to me. First of
- 40:19all, they didn't put any of that in any of
- 40:21the news reports. Nothing about the nuclear nuclear bomb. I
- 40:24don't know why. And then he says, well, you know,
- 40:27those guys, they get to continue to talk, you know,
- 40:29Jared and Witkoff and they can come back to me,
- 40:33but I'm not going to talk to him. That is
- 40:35like so textbook. Good cop, bad cop. If I make
- 40:39a deal with him, we have a deal. And he
- 40:41goes out, he talks. We make a deal. Everyone's agreed.
- 40:44No nuclear weapon. We make a deal. They go outside,
- 40:47talk to the press, they say, we never even talked
- 40:49about it. There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo. As
- 40:54far as I'm concerned, it's over. after we get through
- 41:01the funeral proceedings. Does this mean that talks with Iran
- 41:04will not resume? I don't care. They can talk. But
- 41:06I think they're wasting their time. They're a bunch of
- 41:08lying guys. My whole life, that's all I do is
- 41:11deals. My whole life, that's how I became president, I
- 41:14guess. That's a deal too, right? But I made a
- 41:17lot of money. I had a lot of great success.
- 41:19Now, tremendous success. Everything I did, I was successful. And
- 41:23I deal with these guys, and I say, this is
- 41:24from a different school. They're liars. They're cheats. They're sick
- 41:30people. They've hurt their people. They killed 54,000 people as
- 41:34of now that were protesting. You know, when people say,
- 41:38how come they haven't taken over? They can't take over
- 41:40because they're dead. They killed them. Nobody's going to take
- 41:44over. They have no guns. And the other side has
- 41:46machine guns. And they're killing them. The press doesn't report
- 41:49it. But they're bad people. They're bad people. Something tells
- 41:54me this was not unexpected for them, that this would
- 41:56happen. And there's some there's some game afoot here actually
- 42:01that entire clip which was a good clip Um... I'm
- 42:07thinking whether it's worthy of a borderline. That entire clip,
- 42:11if the news media had played that in its entirety
- 42:14instead of these kind of cute clips of, oh, they're
- 42:18scum. Yeah. And then just leave it at that. Yeah.
- 42:22Out of context. So? The public would be serviced so
- 42:27much better. or served so much better by them being
- 42:32more honest with their clipping. Their clipping is terrible. And
- 42:36what's the verdict? But the media sucks? No, you said
- 42:41borderline. You were contemplating a borderline. Oh, you want it,
- 42:45don't ya? Well, you can't, like, dangle it in front
- 42:47of me and then say, "Well, I'm thinking about it,"
- 42:50but then... Okay, give yourself a borderline. Alright. ♪ Borderline
- 42:54♪ ♪ Flip of the day ♪ Wow. Hey, man.
- 42:58It was almost worthy of a borderline. Oh, okay. All
- 43:02right. You got your borderline. I couldn't give you a
- 43:06clip of the day. No, you haven't given me one
- 43:08of those in months. That's not true. Uh, be careful.
- 43:14It's not true. Okay. Okay. No, that's... But the point
- 43:18I was making was... Why don't we get, why doesn't
- 43:21the media give us that? And it's all out there.
- 43:24And NPR could have done that. BBC could have done
- 43:26that. That clip was what, how long was that clip?
- 43:28What was the total time? Total time is, let me
- 43:32see. Uhhhh... 155. It's under two minutes of clippage. Yeah,
- 43:41clippage. Clippage, as we call it. Well under what we
- 43:44consider the two-minute limit. The two-minute limit. Nothing can go
- 43:50past. If it's past two minutes, it's got to be
- 43:52really good. Well, no, if it's past two minutes, you
- 43:55or I, but one of the two of us, complain.
- 43:58Now, I know you have analysis. It's too long. I
- 44:03know you have analysis. I just have two more clips
- 44:07to play because Stunningly, stunningly, Look who comes out of
- 44:15nowhere and appears on Jake Tapper's show. What woman, what...
- 44:19Analysts, do you think would just pop out all of
- 44:22a sudden? Who? Vicki Newland. Oh my God. This morning,
- 44:31President Trump said that as far as he's concerned, the
- 44:33ceasefire is over and now we see these new strikes.
- 44:36So is this an end to the ceasefire or is...
- 44:39it possible that this is just a negotiating tactic and
- 44:42the ceasefire is still officially on? Jake, it's good to
- 44:47be with you. I don't think that the United States
- 44:49and President Trump ever had a true agreement with Iran.
- 44:53What Iran thinks it got out of this ceasefire was
- 44:56the ability to control the Straits of Hormuz. exact tolls
- 45:00and other tribute from ships going through it. And when
- 45:05we tried to pass ships on the Omani side or
- 45:08without paying, the Iranians attacked. So we never really had
- 45:12a deal, and it's not a surprise that it's breaking
- 45:14down. I think the question is what the president is
- 45:17willing to do to enforce it and to keep... the
- 45:19straits open and to set this free navigation standard for
- 45:24the world. Before these strikes started, Trump said he did
- 45:28not think an end to the ceasefire would mean a
- 45:30return to full-scale war. Is it going to be that
- 45:33simple? I mean, it seems like we've been involved in
- 45:37a full-scale war for quite some time. time even during
- 45:40this so-called ceasefire and by the way a war that
- 45:43we are losing jake uh as i said the president
- 45:47has never gotten us back to the status quo ante
- 45:51which was a straight of hormuz that was open to
- 45:53navigation without fees or tolls and that iran did not
- 45:57control You know, the Iran has been testing this all
- 46:00the way through. And frankly, this war that we started
- 46:03has left us in a far worse position than we
- 46:05were in before. I can only think she's mad that
- 46:08she wasn't involved in this war. I mean, she likes
- 46:10this. This is what she does. She sparks wars. She
- 46:13hands out doughnuts. Let's get it going, boys. And then
- 46:17in this. Yet another! ...piece of audio that you didn't
- 46:21hear much of. I was asked why he's been apparently
- 46:25unable to end the Iran war, and after claiming that
- 46:28the U.S. was doing so well, he said this. Take
- 46:30a listen. They're dealing with very fine people. What? What?
- 46:36Come on. That's like a shoo-in for the M5M. I
- 46:41couldn't understand it. He says we're dealing with very fine
- 46:44people. That's a beauty. Oh, I missed it. I couldn't
- 46:48hear it. That's a beauty. That's because of the stupid
- 46:50sound effect they throw in. They're dealing with very fine
- 46:53people. Oh, come on, man. That's a shit. Yeah, that
- 46:56would admit you right. If you and I were running
- 46:58CNN, we'd be throwing out the very fine people on
- 47:01both sides' clip immediately. Absolutely. What a misser. They're dealing
- 47:06with Steve Woodcuff, and they're dealing with Jared Kushner and
- 47:09J.D. Vance, and they're dealing with Marco and Scott. They're
- 47:13dealing with great people, but I don't know. I think...
- 47:17They're a little loco, they're a little crazy. What's your
- 47:20read on what's going wrong with the Trump administration's efforts
- 47:24to end the war? And do you think that the
- 47:26Iranian leaders... I don't know if I would say loco
- 47:29or crazy, but they believe in some pretty extreme theological
- 47:34beliefs. And is it possible... Did he say Iranian people
- 47:39or Iranian leaders? The Iranian leaders. Oh, leaders, okay. I
- 47:42don't know if I would say loco or crazy, but
- 47:44they are, I mean, they believe in some pretty extreme
- 47:48theological beliefs. And is it possible you can't negotiate with
- 47:53them? Well, as you know, we did negotiate with them
- 47:56in the Obama administration. And we had a deal that
- 47:59we sent them money wasn't as broad and as strong
- 48:02as some of us would have liked, but nonetheless put
- 48:05a cap on the Iranian nuclear program. And President Trump
- 48:09ripped that up in his first term. We were trying
- 48:12to get back to that. And President Trump himself in
- 48:16the second term was. trying to negotiate with frankly an
- 48:19Iranian leader who had once before reached an agreement with
- 48:23the United States. Instead we bumped him off and now
- 48:26we have a far more extreme set of leaders who
- 48:29have to prove themselves to each other. And frankly if
- 48:34we're not willing to exact more pain on the Iranians,
- 48:36I mean we... as part of this deal immediately sanction
- 48:40uh relieved sanction pressure on them and allow them to
- 48:43sell oil again and to make money um why should
- 48:47they come to the table why should they agree to
- 48:49anything well of course whose side is she on i'm
- 48:53not sure i'm not sure sounds like she's on the
- 48:56other side Of course, Scott Besson immediately forbid them from
- 49:01selling oil. We've got, oh, no sanctions. And it's not
- 49:04just strikes going back and forth, is it? The U.S.
- 49:06has also reimposed oil sanctions on Iran. Yes, the U.S.'
- 49:10's initial response when we heard about this really just
- 49:13before those later strikes was to revoke a license which
- 49:16temporarily... lifted some sanctions on Iran as part of the
- 49:21memorandum of understanding. Take that, Vicky Newland. Into the cessation
- 49:25of hostilities. That's when these sanctions were first brought into
- 49:29effect. But the sanctions waiver had allowed the Islamic Republic
- 49:33to produce, sell and deliver oil. So it was a
- 49:37key. part of the process to get to the next
- 49:39stage of the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran with
- 49:44the big issues, nuclear weapons, still to be resolved. Yeah,
- 49:48and also from Fariba, it was very clear that no
- 49:53one has really been hurt in Iran. You know, the
- 49:56population is okay. And there's still more.
- 50:00jobs in Amsterdam than there are in Tehran. and they're
- 50:05actually building new right yeah oh the students don't wear
- 50:08them oh that's over It really, I think the people.
- 50:14have shown the political leadership what they want. And I,
- 50:19I, I think the political... You're talking about in Iran.
- 50:21In Iran, yeah. And I think that... But meanwhile, in
- 50:24Amsterdam, they're wearing the hijabs all over the place. Oh,
- 50:27that's the Red-Green Alliance. This is the place. This is
- 50:30where the Muslims literally are running the cities. everywhere. It's
- 50:38over here. It's over. That's, uh, it's over. But in
- 50:45Tehran... It's the IRGC, or as Trump says, the IRGJ.
- 50:51It's the Imperial Revolutionary Guard of Japan. Thank you. He
- 50:57does himself no favors with that. Some people come to
- 51:00me, "Hey man, your guy is no good. He's demented.
- 51:04He's got Alzheimer's. He's cheating at soccer." Yeah, well, we
- 51:10all make mistakes. That was a doozy, though. That was
- 51:15quite the doozy. Oh, man. He's been making a few.
- 51:20those now and again, but he's always done that. Well,
- 51:23let's go to some, let's do some overview stuff with,
- 51:26uh, you got some, uh, analysis, anal clips. Well, first
- 51:30of all, let's start with these Al Jazeera clips. Okay.
- 51:34Trump-NATO overview. NATO summit in Ankara has ended with new
- 51:39pledges of support. Ukraine and defense spending but divisions remain
- 51:43over wider security challenges including Iran and Turkey's defense ambitions.
- 51:49Sen. Kostiolu reports from Ankara. US President Donald Trump who
- 51:53used the final hours of the NATO summit in Ankara
- 51:56with a new promise on Ukraine. The US will license
- 51:59Patriot missile production, giving Kiev another boost to its air
- 52:03defenses. It was the clearest announcement from a summit that
- 52:08also delivered something many allies had been looking for, Trump's
- 52:12renewed commitment to NATO. We're going to give a license
- 52:15to you to make... Patriots, that's pretty cool, right? This
- 52:19way you can't complain that we're not giving them enough.
- 52:22Make them yourself. Trump said he believes Russia and Ukraine
- 52:26are... I love that. What did he say? He gives
- 52:28a license. We're giving you a license to make that
- 52:31paper. Make it yourself. You want missiles? Here. Here's a
- 52:34license. Here's a blueprint. Make them yourself. Well, actually, I...
- 52:39I looked into that. The way it goes is they
- 52:43have to have a subsidiary of, who makes them? Northrop?
- 52:48I'm not sure who makes them. No, no, I think
- 52:50it's Raytheon. So they get the license to do it,
- 52:56but the license goes to a joint venture company. that
- 53:00is co-owned and co-operated by the manufacturer here in America.
- 53:04Yeah, you want that. Otherwise, it's just still the design.
- 53:08Of course. So the license is, you know, it's not
- 53:12like, you know, sign here and you're good to go.
- 53:16Yeah, true, but it's still a license. They still get
- 53:19to make it. Yes, but with our people in the
- 53:23room. Yeah, to make sure there's no steel to the
- 53:26side. Yeah, sure. It takes a bit to get that
- 53:28all going, so that's not going to be done for
- 53:30a while. I would predict that the war will be
- 53:35over before they actually make one missile. Oh, I'll take...
- 53:40that bet because I got I got some other clips
- 53:42after we go through these of yours Patriots that's pretty
- 53:45cool this way you can't complain that we're not giving
- 53:49them enough it's a make him yourself Trump said he
- 53:52believes Russia and Ukraine are moving closer to negotiations leaders
- 53:57also back their political commitments with money pledging nearly $80
- 54:01billion in military support for Ukraine next year, with a
- 54:05matching commitment for 2027 while announcing more than $50 billion
- 54:10in new NATO's defense procurements. But the summit was also
- 54:14shaped by tensions with Iran. Trump insisted the exchange of
- 54:18attacks would not spiral into a wider conflict. I don't
- 54:22think so. I think anything that happens is going to
- 54:25be over very quickly. And we'll only make it safer,
- 54:29including for oil. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is hoping
- 54:34it helps secure the F-35 jets Ankara paid for and
- 54:38a path back into the program. Regarding the F-35s, Mr.
- 54:45Trump actually has a positive approach towards Turkey. God willing,
- 54:49when the F-35s are delivered to Turkey, the whole world
- 54:53will say that America kept its promise. Hmm. They won't.
- 54:59Probably not. The whole world's not going to say anything.
- 55:01thing no i don't think so either who cares about
- 55:03it you know i mean i don't even know why
- 55:05this well there's something going on with those f-35s but
- 55:08yeah let's skip to uh the more kind of the
- 55:14kind of the issues that were going on with Trump.
- 55:17condemning NATO and trying to get out some of these
- 55:20other things at least as Thank you, Richard. The NATO
- 55:28summit is winding down after a bumpy two days of
- 55:30high-stakes diplomatic meetings in Ankara. Since Trump took office again
- 55:34last year, tension has only grown over Ukraine, over Iran,
- 55:39Arctic security, and President Trump's... highly transactional view of global
- 55:43alliances. One of the presidents of a big country stood
- 55:46up and said, well, sir, if we don't pay and
- 55:49we're attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said,
- 55:53you didn't pay? You're delinquent? He said, yes. Let's say
- 55:57that happened. No, I would not protect you. In fact,
- 56:00I would encourage... You gotta pay. You gotta pay your
- 56:05bills. I think it's common sense, right? If they don't
- 56:08pay, I'm not gonna defend them. No, I'm not gonna
- 56:10defend them. I got into a lot of heat when
- 56:12I said that. You said, oh, he's violating NATO. We're
- 56:15defending the Strait for everybody else. And then in the
- 56:18case of NATO... They don't want to help us defend
- 56:22the Strait and they're the ones that need it. We're
- 56:25very disappointed with NATO. Because NATO has done absolutely nothing.
- 56:30I said 25 years ago that NATO is a paper
- 56:33tiger, but more importantly that we'll come to their rescue,
- 56:37but they will never come to ours. We were disappointed
- 56:40with the UK. We're disappointed with Germany and France. We're
- 56:43disappointed with... Most of them, I just want loyalty. You
- 56:47know, we're so loyal to them. We're always fighting for
- 56:50them. We have thousands of troops all over Europe. In
- 56:54Germany, we have 50,000 troops. And then you want a
- 56:56little, give us a little nudge, give us a little
- 56:59kiss. We don't want much. Since taking office, NATO's Secretary
- 57:02General Mark Rutte has set to work trying to keep
- 57:06Trump engaged with the alliance with an unabashed charm offensive.
- 57:09He recently headed into the Oval Office armed with large
- 57:12charts crediting the president for a massive spike in spending
- 57:15by NATO allies. But despite the relentless praise from Rutte,
- 57:20the existential question remains. Can America's allies successfully repair and
- 57:24maintain ties with this Trump administration while still preserving their
- 57:29own independence on the world stage? I can't believe they
- 57:32didn't play a soundbite of Ritter. That guy is television
- 57:35gold. I don't know. This LG Zero. I got it.
- 57:39So the one thing that's always... left kind of left
- 57:42out. Is there one of the reasons Trump's so irked?
- 57:45is that during this Iranian incursion. you know they had
- 57:51their couple of aircraft carriers and they wanted to Refuel
- 57:56them like in Spain. some other ports, and the Spanish.
- 58:01No, we don't want to see that aircraft carrier here
- 58:04anywhere around here. Do you have the Spain bit? Well,
- 58:08this is old. I mean, this was like at the
- 58:10very beginning. No, no, no. But do you have the
- 58:11bit from the press conference about Spain? Oh, let me
- 58:15play it for you. Yeah, play it. This is fantastic.
- 58:18I spoke to Germany, I spoke to France. Because this...
- 58:21This part was in your Al Jazeera piece, but not
- 58:23the Spain bit. Again, a disservice. Yeah, I don't get
- 58:26it. A disservice to their viewers. I spoke to Germany,
- 58:29I spoke to France, I spoke to... UK, spoke to
- 58:34Italy, I spoke to, I didn't speak to Spain. Spain
- 58:37is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any
- 58:40trade business with them. Spain anymore, by the way. I'd
- 58:41like you to cut her up. Spain is a... A
- 58:45terrible partner in NATO. They don't participate, they don't pay.
- 58:50I don't want anything to do with Spain. Cut off
- 58:53all trade with Spain, please. Please. Including visits. Nothing. Okay,
- 58:58we don't want anything to do. Watch them. come running
- 59:01back. They'll come running back. They treat this man terribly.
- 59:06This man's a good man, too. Great man. Great man.
- 59:09They're lucky they have him. But Spain doesn't agree to
- 59:13anything. And you shouldn't carry him. I mean, you sort
- 59:16of automatically carry him because you're protecting an area. So
- 59:19they're there. So they probably figured they have to. to
- 59:21protect us, right? But we don't have to. We don't
- 59:24have to trade with them. I don't want to do
- 59:25any more trade with them. All right? Immediately. Don't even
- 59:29talk to them. They're hopeless. They're bad people because, you
- 59:33know, they have everybody else going and paying and working.
- 59:37Spain, in particular Spain. There are a couple of others,
- 59:39but in particular Spain. Spain. They're open about it. They're
- 59:42hostile about it. And let's see a hustle. They remain
- 59:47when they call up and they please, please, we want
- 59:49to trade with you, sir. We want to trade with
- 59:51you, sir. They make so much money with us and
- 59:54we're going to see that they make a lot less.
- 59:57I want no business with them. I just like who's
- 59:59just talking.
- 1:00:00Look into people off camera, cut it off, cut off
- 1:00:01all trade with them. No more visits. No more visitation
- 1:00:04for you. You can't visit our country, Spain. No, you're
- 1:00:07not coming in. Fantastic. Why don't they play that? That
- 1:00:11was a terrific yes. uh i only heard part of
- 1:00:16that but now that i hear the whole thing i'm
- 1:00:18going to give you a clip of the day here
- 1:00:20we go bend over everybody without you begging for it
- 1:00:26hi so i had i had my finger on the
- 1:00:27button so yeah so uh yes this is the issue
- 1:00:33he's got he's got an issue and this was this
- 1:00:37was to me Suppressed news. Why, though? Yes. Well, there's
- 1:00:43the question we have to try to figure out. Why
- 1:00:46was that suppressed? So nobody that's listening to this show.
- 1:00:50heard any of that except on this show. No. And
- 1:00:54it should have been top of the news. I think
- 1:00:58so. Above the fold, as they say. Let me do
- 1:01:02it. No, we got nothing. It was infected. We showed
- 1:01:05by the clips that I played. They cut it out.
- 1:01:07Yeah. They did not... That's the kicker of the whole...
- 1:01:12Look, do you want people watching your news or not?
- 1:01:16That's what people watch for. Ah, crump. Well, that's because
- 1:01:21there's something going on. Let's play part two of the
- 1:01:26Trump versus NATO. Actually, it says three, but it's really
- 1:01:31two. No, but you have Trump versus NATO. Oh, there
- 1:01:34is two. What might a potential reset mean for global
- 1:01:37defense? Richard Gaisford has this report. Five through six on
- 1:01:41Bravo. U.S. Marines in action in Eastern Europe last week.
- 1:01:47on a joint training exercise with Romanian counterparts. It's all
- 1:01:52part of ongoing NATO cooperation that for more than seven
- 1:01:56decades has seen members... ready to fight together against a
- 1:02:00common enemy. The treaty was agreed right here in Washington,
- 1:02:04D.C. back in 1949 with 12 countries coming together to
- 1:02:09sign it inside the historic building behind me. Now, times
- 1:02:13might have changed, but a bit like the facade of
- 1:02:16the auditorium here, the... ethos of NATO has stayed pretty
- 1:02:20much the same. Although it's unlikely those who created NATO
- 1:02:24would have thought one of the biggest threats to its
- 1:02:27existence could have come from inside America itself. Since he
- 1:02:33first took office, Donald Trump's shown disdain for the long-standing
- 1:02:36alliance, believing... smaller countries have become reliant on the United
- 1:02:41States and were unwilling to fund their own defense. NATO
- 1:02:44members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their
- 1:02:50financial obligations. But 23 of the 28 member nations are
- 1:02:56still not paying what they should be paying. and what
- 1:02:59they are supposed to be paying for their defense. This
- 1:03:02is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the
- 1:03:05United States. The president's ever-shifting stance on supporting Ukraine's certainly
- 1:03:10tested nerves within NATO. Ever-shifting stance? I don't think it's
- 1:03:14ever-shifting. Is it ever shifting? Not that I can tell.
- 1:03:20I don't think so. ...for their defense. This is not
- 1:03:23fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States.
- 1:03:26The president's ever-shifting stance on supporting Ukraine's certainly tested nerves
- 1:03:31within NATO. With its secretary general doing what he can
- 1:03:36in the president's second term... to keep him on his
- 1:03:38side. I don't have many disagreements with the President of
- 1:03:42the States. No. Unity's been stretched with Trump's desire to
- 1:03:46take control of Greenland. And NATO's got to understand that
- 1:03:50I'm all for NATO, I save NATO. If it weren't
- 1:03:52for me, you wouldn't have a NATO right now. But
- 1:03:55we're not going to allow Russia... or China to occupy
- 1:03:58Greenland. And that's what's going to happen if we don't.
- 1:04:02Okay, I have to put... That's an old... Hold on.
- 1:04:04That's an old clip. That's an old clip. Yep. And
- 1:04:07the whole thing is brought to the fore. by McCrone,
- 1:04:11Out of the Blue. and during these meetings saying well
- 1:04:15you know if we were ready to send our troops
- 1:04:17to fight the USA in Greenland if it was necessary.
- 1:04:22Yeah, Macron is on the outs here. Everyone else is
- 1:04:24kind of sucking up. Well, Macron is totally on the
- 1:04:26outs. I've got to play 30 seconds of Ruta. I've
- 1:04:28just got to play it. No one's playing. No one
- 1:04:32is playing him. It spices up the show. Nobody's playing
- 1:04:36Mark. Here in Ankara, I expect nations to present clear,
- 1:04:40concrete and credible plans. Plans, we want plans and your
- 1:04:44money. To reach that 5% goal. 5%. And the evidence
- 1:04:49we see so far is impressive. I had a good
- 1:04:52visit last week with President Trump. I showed my PowerPoint.
- 1:04:57I called him trillion-dollar Trumpy, and it's great. And we
- 1:04:59discussed the staggering increase in defense spending by Europeans and
- 1:05:03Canadians. Good. Of course, this is because of Putin and
- 1:05:06Russia and Ukraine, but also because he, President Trump, has
- 1:05:10been extremely forceful encouraging us to do this. Yes, forceful
- 1:05:14to encourage us to do it. You better do it,
- 1:05:16yes? Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Very good. Very good.
- 1:05:22That was it. I just need to play that. Yeah,
- 1:05:25okay. You continue with this. Number three? Yeah. NATO three.
- 1:05:28Yes. Yeah? NATO launched Arctic Sentry to reassure leaders in
- 1:05:33the US and Europe that it could maintain... high levels
- 1:05:37of vigilance in the area, although weeks later there was
- 1:05:41further friction when NATO members declined to offer help in
- 1:05:44the U.S. conflict with Iran, refusing to send warships into
- 1:05:49the Strait of Hormuz. Because we don't need them, but
- 1:05:51they should have been there. That's reinforced Trump's view of
- 1:05:54a one-sided alliance. prompting a now familiar refrain. But we
- 1:05:59weren't treated well because we did something in Iran. We
- 1:06:03don't need anybody's help. I didn't even want their help.
- 1:06:07But before I asked, they said they wouldn't be there.
- 1:06:11But, you know, why are we spending hundreds of billions
- 1:06:14of dollars? And they're not there for us. We've always
- 1:06:17been there for them. This is Coalition Warship Foxtrot 310
- 1:06:21operating in support of the United Nations Security Council resolution.
- 1:06:25Allies hope promises to increase their defense spending will help
- 1:06:29smooth the way as NATO members meet. But leaders know,
- 1:06:34based on recent experience... Under the surface, tensions could easily
- 1:06:39emerge. Richard Gaisford, Al Jazeera, Washington. Yeah, now go to
- 1:06:45the analysis clip, which will be my last one. Okay,
- 1:06:48let's see. Anal, anal, here we go. Oops. We're joined
- 1:06:53now by Jim Townsend, the former U.S. Deputy... for European
- 1:06:58and NATO policy, as well as Ambassador Michael Carpenter, who
- 1:07:00was most recently the Senior Director for Europe on the
- 1:07:03National Security Council under President Joe Biden. Gentlemen, thank you
- 1:07:06both so much for joining us today. It was a
- 1:07:09remarkable NATO summit in Ankara, and I want to start
- 1:07:12with the news. Repeated blasting of NATO by Trump. despite
- 1:07:16the fact that this is meant to be an event
- 1:07:18that shows the unity, the solidarity of the alliance, repeatedly
- 1:07:22saying, I'm not happy with NATO. He went after Spain
- 1:07:25repeatedly, France, Great Britain, and Germany. Jim, this acrimony from
- 1:07:31Trump towards the NATO alliance, not even softening when he's
- 1:07:35sitting in front. of the Secretary General in the warm
- 1:07:38embrace of all these allies. Well, absolutely. And the Secretary
- 1:07:41General had to keep a stony face as he was
- 1:07:44listening to what the president was saying. And so this
- 1:07:48is something that is... Wait a minute, wait a minute.
- 1:07:50Are they saying that Mark Rutte, that he had to
- 1:07:53keep a stony face because he disagrees and thinks... Our
- 1:07:56president is stupid? That's what kind of what they implied.
- 1:08:00He loves Trump. Yeah, I know. And he's proven that
- 1:08:05he's the top sales guy. Trump loves him. Yeah, that's
- 1:08:10crazy. Zalzura. Yeah. Allies. Well, absolutely. And the Secretary General
- 1:08:14had to keep a stony face. as he was listening
- 1:08:17to what the president was saying. And so this is
- 1:08:20something that has gotten outrageous. He has just a stuck
- 1:08:26record. He just seems to repeat the same talking points
- 1:08:29over and over and over again. Now he's singling out
- 1:08:32nations. You know, he's done it up. He's a stuck
- 1:08:36record. I thought he was all over the map. He's
- 1:08:39inconsistent. He's saying one thing, then saying another, then saying
- 1:08:42another. But now he's a stuck record? It's unbelievable. Make
- 1:08:47up your minds, people. You really notice it here in
- 1:08:50this country? Do you notice how stuck everybody is? I
- 1:08:54mean, we have a lot of that in our news
- 1:08:56media and people who, I mean, it's popular. You're referring
- 1:09:04to Holland? Yes, to Holland, yeah. I'm trying to figure
- 1:09:07out how to frame it. People will approach me, friends,
- 1:09:12family, people I don't even know. And they immediately assume
- 1:09:17that you are going to take on the, yeah, Trump's
- 1:09:20crazy, roll my eyes. And if you say, well, you
- 1:09:24know, there's a couple things he's doing. then it breaks,
- 1:09:27you know, you break through so easily, but everybody, everybody.
- 1:09:33has this, they're to give their opinion. And we're not
- 1:09:37Trump lovers. First of all, I think he's great for
- 1:09:40the show. We've always said that, and it's going to
- 1:09:43be a sad day when he's gone, when they take
- 1:09:46him out. Yeah. Take them out. um But it's just
- 1:09:53everywhere. It's so rampant. What is this? mind control that
- 1:09:56people are afraid to just say, well, he sucks.
- 1:10:00and that's dumb, but, you know, we don't have any
- 1:10:04immigrants who are getting rid of them and we don't
- 1:10:06have the stupid climate change. And you just have to
- 1:10:08say those two things in any country in Europe. Well,
- 1:10:11yes, that's true. That's true. That's true. Yes, you know,
- 1:10:15I do have a problem with that here in this
- 1:10:17country. Okay. But what is that? Has this always existed?
- 1:10:23Or is this just worse than it's ever been? The
- 1:10:25whole world cannot, they're afraid to say anything positive. Well,
- 1:10:33you've... I've stumped you. You've kind of introduced a... Hey.
- 1:10:39question that is uh not easily answerable i think it
- 1:10:44always has existed it's it's hard to notice I think
- 1:10:50there's an underlying thing. I mean, this reminds me. I
- 1:10:53mean, at least 20 or 30 years ago, I was,
- 1:10:56it was at some, one of these big conferences. And
- 1:11:00I was talking to... some CEO of a very large
- 1:11:06company. You won't mention his name? Well, I can't. If
- 1:11:10I could remember his name or the company, I would.
- 1:11:12But it was 30 years ago. Fair game, fair game.
- 1:11:16So, um... And it was about some green energy. They
- 1:11:22had made an announcement about... the climate change, it was
- 1:11:25one of its little peak moments. And I said, I
- 1:11:30went up to the guy and said, you know, it's
- 1:11:32interesting you guys are doing this, but... You really think,
- 1:11:36I mean, I think climate change is a hoax. Or
- 1:11:39some sort of scam, I can't figure out what. An
- 1:11:43op. An op. And I didn't use that term then
- 1:11:45because I wasn't that into the scene. And the guy
- 1:11:51said, the guy just was quick without missing a beat.
- 1:11:54He says, oh yeah, we know it's bullshit. Yeah, right.
- 1:11:58Exactly. Exactly. The troll room is making some good points
- 1:12:03that this was that COVID was the point where this
- 1:12:06happened. Because anyone, I mean, it was so strong. If
- 1:12:09you were against... What was happening? Everybody, politicians, the media,
- 1:12:15your neighbors, your family, it broke up families. I think
- 1:12:19that's where this came from. That's a reasonable point. Well,
- 1:12:23I think it's always been there, but maybe it's exaggerated
- 1:12:27because it cranked it up. Yeah, and now... Yeah, I
- 1:12:32can say that works. Funny enough, that's the one thing
- 1:12:36that people now even hear saying, yeah, that was... bullcrap.
- 1:12:40That made no sense. Yeah, but the shots are still
- 1:12:42out there. I'll get to that in a moment. He
- 1:12:45just seems to repeat the same talking points over and
- 1:12:48over and over again. Now he's singling out nations, you
- 1:12:52know, in front of them. And this undercuts the alliance.
- 1:12:57It hurts unity. And it is embarrassing. and I think
- 1:13:00allies are tired of it. Well, I think they're pushing
- 1:13:17back as they should. I mean, NATO is a defensive
- 1:13:20alliance. It doesn't go on offensive wars. What? What about
- 1:13:26Libya? We don't go on offensive wars. He explained Libya.
- 1:13:30We don't do that. No. We came. We saw. He
- 1:13:34died. We saw. He died. Where is my girl? Oh,
- 1:13:38MacDeath. Isn't that her name? Oh, here we go. I
- 1:13:41always loved playing her. So, I mean, that is the
- 1:13:43land of unconfirmed... Yes, we came, we saw, he died.
- 1:13:50Did you have anything to do with your visit? Oh,
- 1:13:52I'm sure it did. Okay. So now, back to my-
- 1:13:59fun-loving clips. so we can all have another laugh about
- 1:14:02the president. Because he just keeps on entertaining. United States
- 1:14:06President Donald Trump has reignited a bitter diplomatic feud with
- 1:14:09Italy, sharing a provocative social media post mocking Prime Minister
- 1:14:13Giorgio Meloni before a critical NATO summit in Ankara. Trump
- 1:14:17uploaded an image of the. two leaders on his true
- 1:14:20social media account with a sarcastic caption suggesting he needed
- 1:14:23a restraining order against her with the inflammatory post appearing
- 1:14:27on the eve of high-level security meetings. The Italian government
- 1:14:31has indicated that Meloni and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani are
- 1:14:34choosing to ignore Trump's post at this time. The personal
- 1:14:38dis... dispute highlights a deep and accelerating chill in bilateral
- 1:14:41relations, which began fracturing over Middle East policy, criticism of
- 1:14:46Pope Leo XIV, and Italy's refusal to permit American forces
- 1:14:49to use domestic airfields. While Trump did not explicitly refer
- 1:14:53to it in his latest social media post, he seemed
- 1:14:56to be building on a claim of his last... I
- 1:14:59love the restraining order line. That's too good. That's just...
- 1:15:13That's a beauty, yeah. And I'm sure she thinks it's
- 1:15:16funny too. I think she has. Well, let's hope so.
- 1:15:19Yeah, I think she has that humor. Okay, so we
- 1:15:23do have a quote from the president about what's going
- 1:15:25on between Russia and Ukraine, and I am going to
- 1:15:27state again. that what's happening right now, what Ukraine is
- 1:15:31doing with their drones, and they're blowing stuff up in
- 1:15:34Moscow. You're gonna push this guy too far and he's
- 1:15:37going to make a big boom. Hold on a second.
- 1:15:41You were predicting this boom weeks and weeks ago. No,
- 1:15:44no, no. Only two shows ago. Not weeks and weeks
- 1:15:47ago. No, it wasn't two shows ago. You didn't do
- 1:15:50it from Holland. You did it from Texas, and you
- 1:15:52were in Holland too. Okay. Okay. How, I mean, how
- 1:15:56long, what is the, what is the... the time the
- 1:15:59frame that I get for this What, for an A-bomb
- 1:16:03being dropped in Ukraine? I didn't say A-bomb. I said
- 1:16:05a big boom. I didn't say an A-bomb. They've got
- 1:16:09these rods from God. You hinted it was an A-bomb.
- 1:16:12Something big is going to happen. Let's just call something
- 1:16:15bad and big is going to happen. And it's going
- 1:16:18to be Ukraine. It won't be Europe. And... And this
- 1:16:23is not going to be over. Now, here's what the
- 1:16:25president says, which I just disagree with this. Daniel, you've
- 1:16:29made a career making deals in very challenging situations. Speaking
- 1:16:34to President Zelensky, speaking to President Putin, in your view,
- 1:16:37sir, what is the most... pragmatic pathway forward to finding
- 1:16:40a long-term peace deal. This deal has been in the
- 1:16:46works for a long time. It's got the pluses, the
- 1:16:49minuses. They know what it is. He knows what it
- 1:16:51is better than anybody. And I just think it's sometimes...
- 1:16:57You know, I used an analogy And it sounds simple,
- 1:17:01but it's sort of true. You have two kids in
- 1:17:04a park, and they don't like each other, and they
- 1:17:06start fighting. Sometimes you have to let them fight. Let
- 1:17:10them see that it's tough. You know, it's tough. Fighting
- 1:17:14is tough. He's done an amazing job. Look, he's been...
- 1:17:22Very effective. He's had the best equipment because he's had
- 1:17:26our equipment. And he said, great, but somebody has to
- 1:17:30use that equipment. And you have a lot of brave
- 1:17:32people that are using that equipment. So... I'm not a
- 1:17:38big fan of like, oh, just let them fight on
- 1:17:40because this stuff has to end. But there's a new
- 1:17:42player. There's new things that are happening suddenly. And this
- 1:17:47is partially the old world order coming back together to
- 1:17:51create their own liberal rules-based order and cut out the
- 1:17:56United States. And the new player is Canada. I think
- 1:18:00the president, as did President Obama, which I just said
- 1:18:07to someone else, is looking for a shift of the
- 1:18:11burden within NATO. That's appropriate. That is happening. That's gaining
- 1:18:15momentum. That's part of the point I made. to President
- 1:18:19Trump when we spoke a few days ago is that
- 1:18:23it's not just he's winning the argument. This is Carney,
- 1:18:25of course, in case you didn't know. He's won the
- 1:18:27argument. Countries recognize that they need to take more responsibility,
- 1:18:32see the direct threats. Now, the question for NATO and
- 1:18:36the... Part of what we will discuss and part of
- 1:18:38the point I will make in the room with my
- 1:18:41three and a half minutes of time, which is about
- 1:18:45a quarter of the length of my normal answer, I
- 1:18:46know, so I apologize. is that That, um, those shifting
- 1:18:56burdens are going to be, in our view, most effectively
- 1:19:00done, obviously with greater capacity. We have to spend more.
- 1:19:03We have to build these capacities. That's what we're doing.
- 1:19:06But in ways that recognize the regions in which we
- 1:19:10operate. So for Canada, North America, obviously, up until now,
- 1:19:14NATO has said, well, North America and... That's your problem.
- 1:19:19Well, North American security, and particularly Arctic security, and remind
- 1:19:24everybody that we've got 15% of the world's coastline, Arctic
- 1:19:27security is not a flank. It's a front. With the
- 1:19:31shift in the threats and Russia as a direct... adversary.
- 1:19:37Attention Canadians, you are being drawn into this. Attention Canadians,
- 1:19:41you're about to be hoodwinked. So spending there and coordinating,
- 1:19:46not just Canada, but Canada, the Nordics, Canada, Germany, Canada,
- 1:19:50France, Canada, the Baltics, that crest. Canada, Germany? Is Canada
- 1:19:54near Germany? John, let me check. Canada? Germany? Let me
- 1:19:58look. Take a look.
- 1:20:00Got your window. For NATO. So that's where the discussion
- 1:20:03in our judgment needs to go. And that is where
- 1:20:08the planning is going. Now, the planning is going there.
- 1:20:10So to understand what is going on, we bring in
- 1:20:13our resident Canadian expert in all things Ukraine, my boy,
- 1:20:17Andrew Rasoulis. We're joined now by Andrew Rasoulis. He's a
- 1:20:20fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and a retired
- 1:20:23Department of National Defense official. Andrew, always great having you
- 1:20:26on the show. Good afternoon, Diana. Canada's position in this
- 1:20:31upcoming NATO summit, NATO allies, as we said, it's the
- 1:20:35unspoken agenda to manage Trump and ensure that the U.S.
- 1:20:38indeed stays in the alliance. Where do you think Canada's
- 1:20:42role is in this specific context? Well, Canada's going to
- 1:20:46be playing two roles. One is on the financial side,
- 1:20:50which is very close to our prime minister's expertise. And
- 1:20:53the other one will be, again, in light of Canada's
- 1:20:57domestic constituency, sustained and long-term assistance to Ukraine, as Ukraine
- 1:21:05and Russia are locked in a real tough battle to
- 1:21:08see who's going to give way before there's any room
- 1:21:11for a compromise solution or a win-win solution. But we're
- 1:21:14not there yet, but that's where the Prime Minister will
- 1:21:16be. Yes, so what is a win-win solution? Well, we
- 1:21:19know that all wars are banker wars, and Mark Carney,
- 1:21:23the... Prime Minister or President? Prime Minister. Prime Minister? Premier?
- 1:21:28Prime Minister. Prime Minister or Premier? Prime Minister. No, he's
- 1:21:31not the premier. He's the prime minister. Hey, that's why
- 1:21:36there's two of us. The prime minister of Canada is
- 1:21:40an actual banker's banker. He ran the... The Bank of
- 1:21:45England is a central banker. You have a banker running
- 1:21:48the show. A banker loves to run the war. And
- 1:21:51for him, it's always win-win. Are we any closer to
- 1:21:54a potential deal there than we were in the last
- 1:21:58few years? Well, I believe we are. The thing is
- 1:22:01that this war is existential for Russian interests and Ukrainian
- 1:22:06interests, which is why it's taking so long and so
- 1:22:10many casualties and so much effort and suffering can come
- 1:22:15to a point, which they're not there yet, where they
- 1:22:18can make what we need in diplomacy is a win-win
- 1:22:21solution. That is some kind of compromises. Now for the
- 1:22:25Russians, as we know in your report, you just gave
- 1:22:27it, that Donbass, the fortress belt, is fundamental for Russia.
- 1:22:34And it's equally fundamental for Ukraine. So they need to
- 1:22:39find a way of getting over that one of a
- 1:22:45compromise that allows both sides to essentially declare victory. Now,
- 1:22:49how do we do that? We need money. And we
- 1:22:52already took the Russian money, and we gave that to
- 1:22:54Ukraine. We need more money. Where could we get some
- 1:22:58more money? I'm thinking we could get that from the
- 1:23:01Canadian citizens. Let's talk a little bit about this $80
- 1:23:04billion military aid package. Canada will be participating in it.
- 1:23:10That will be likely going towards Ukraine. How important is
- 1:23:14this and what do you think? What? Yeah, this is
- 1:23:17the defense bank. set up, announced by Canada and NATO.
- 1:23:23No one talked about that. the Canadian people will be
- 1:23:29footing the bill, or at least backing it, we'll hear
- 1:23:31that in the next clip, of $80 billion. Now, it's
- 1:23:35unclear if that's U.S. dollars or Canadian dollars, because then
- 1:23:39it's not such a big deal. But if it's U.S.
- 1:23:41dollars... It would still be $60 billion. It's a lot
- 1:23:43of money. It's allocated for. Well, it's allocated to support
- 1:23:47Ukraine's strategic defense. And right now, Ukraine's strategic defense can
- 1:23:53be broken down into two key component parts. One, maintain
- 1:23:58an active defense along the 1,000 kilometers and extract a
- 1:24:02greater proportion of casualties of Russian troops compared to Ukrainian
- 1:24:07troops, thereby exhausting Russia's ability to find replacements. That's number
- 1:24:12one for Ukraine. Number two is keep bombarding Russia in
- 1:24:16terms of its interior economy, particularly the gas and the
- 1:24:21oil production facilities, the Russian people. And so by so
- 1:24:28doing, they hope to wear down political support in Russia
- 1:24:33for the war, which still generally is above 50% in
- 1:24:36favor of fighting and winning against Ukraine. So there's a
- 1:24:41way to go on that one. But there are lineups
- 1:24:44of gas stations and a deal would be welcome. But
- 1:24:46again, Russia cannot be seen to be losing. And we
- 1:24:49have seen those attacks within Russia, indeed attacks on the
- 1:24:53city of Moscow. That's something that Russia has not seen
- 1:24:57in decades and decades. I am telling you now, Canadian
- 1:25:00citizens. Our northern neighbors. We do love you. We really
- 1:25:05do want to listen to this show, at least. You're
- 1:25:08on the hook for this. And the big boom, why
- 1:25:10wouldn't Moscow just blow up Canada? We could take out,
- 1:25:14you know, but what's a spot we could take out
- 1:25:17in Canada that would make sense? That would make sense.
- 1:25:21Yeah. for Russia. They're hitting their oil and gas stuff.
- 1:25:26So where's the oil and gas? Yeah, but it's... A
- 1:25:31couple of pipelines would probably make sense. Well, listen to
- 1:25:34this deal that Canada is going to put together with
- 1:25:37the banker's banker, Mark Carney. Let's talk a little bit
- 1:25:40about back to sort of Canada's role. I mean, we
- 1:25:43know that there's potential discussion of setting up a global
- 1:25:47defense bank. We know that, you know, Carney is coming
- 1:25:51into this meeting after that Davos speech about the importance
- 1:25:55of middle powers. Talk to us about the global defense
- 1:25:58bank. What would this look like? What potential leadership role
- 1:26:17could Canada have within it? money, which then allows the
- 1:26:33bank, which would be based in Canada, that's already been
- 1:26:36decided, we don't know which city, and then they would
- 1:26:39give cheap or inexpensive loans to certain countries that need
- 1:26:45to make equipment purchases and so on. So it's kind
- 1:26:48of like, as I say, a World Bank that makes
- 1:26:51procurement easier, but you need to have a core funding
- 1:26:54base for that, and that's where they have not crossed
- 1:26:57the line yet. There's not enough people. There are some
- 1:27:00countries, have signed up, but the numbers, the critical mass
- 1:27:03has not yet been reached, and the Prime Minister is
- 1:27:06working very hard at doing that. And you know, I
- 1:27:09read in these, like, conservative treehouse. of these horrible Lindsey
- 1:27:14Graham and all these senators, they're going over to Ankara.
- 1:27:18What are they doing there, the warmongers? They're sales guys.
- 1:27:22They see $90 billion worth that Canada is going to
- 1:27:25spend on defense, and Lindsey Graham wants it to come
- 1:27:27to Boeing in South Carolina. This is what this is
- 1:27:31about. A boot. Oh, yeah. All that money's coming down
- 1:27:35here. It's coming to us. Yeah. Everyone's collecting. it's, I
- 1:27:40mean, this is when you have a... We have a
- 1:27:43crappy education system. But our media isn't quite that bad.
- 1:27:49I mean, is anyone in Canada up in arms about
- 1:27:51this? I think they should be. They should be. They
- 1:27:55should be. It's just like, wow. Wow. I mean, I
- 1:28:00don't want to change the topic, but since we're talking
- 1:28:01about Canada. Sure. Talking about being up in arms, I
- 1:28:04think that this clip I have, which is about their
- 1:28:08death cult going on. The mage program. Yeah, this is
- 1:28:14one of the, I think, one of the representatives in,
- 1:28:18although they don't have meetings anymore, it turns out that
- 1:28:21Carney's just calling all the shots and there's no legislation
- 1:28:24going on at all. I want to draw attention. Sorry.
- 1:28:27But this is a bit clip play. I want to
- 1:28:30draw attention to three concerns about the widening scope of
- 1:28:34euthanasia in Canada. These are not concerns from the fringes,
- 1:28:37but statements from a member of a provincial medical college,
- 1:28:40recommendations before Parliament, and the reality of maid right now
- 1:28:44in Canada. And most Canadians are not yet aware of
- 1:28:47the extent of the horror. The first concern is about
- 1:28:50a statement regarding infants. A member of the Quebec College
- 1:28:54of Physicians has formally stated that MAID may be an
- 1:28:56appropriate treatment for babies from birth to one year of
- 1:28:59age who come into the world with severe deformities and
- 1:29:03very serious syndromes, and that parents should have the opportunity
- 1:29:07to obtain this care for their infant. Canadian law currently
- 1:29:11permits the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for critically ill newborns.
- 1:29:16This medical practitioner's proposal goes further. He calls for the
- 1:29:19calculated killing of an infant. These are patients, babies, who
- 1:29:24cannot speak, cannot consent, and cannot ask for help. If
- 1:29:27we cannot draw the line here, I'm not sure where
- 1:29:30medical professionals imagine the line to be. The second concern
- 1:29:33is a proposal regarding mature minors. A report by the
- 1:29:36Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, AMAD, has
- 1:29:42recommended extending maid to children parental consent described as optional.
- 1:29:48A physician, not a child's parent, would determine whether a
- 1:29:52child was able to consent to his own death. In
- 1:29:54this discussion, made advocates showed their true colors and defended
- 1:29:57the rationale for euthanizing minors without consent.
- 1:30:00insulting their parents. Yet 43 expert witnesses called this recommendation
- 1:30:04deeply flawed. I might call it something stronger. The third
- 1:30:07concern is euthanasia on demand. Ontario's chief coroner has documented
- 1:30:11maid deaths driven not by illness, but by poverty, loneliness,
- 1:30:15and lack of housing. Approximately half of those who died
- 1:30:18by maid in 2024 Reporter requesting it because they felt
- 1:30:21like a burden to their families, friends, or caregivers. These
- 1:30:26are not necessarily people dying of terminal illness. These are
- 1:30:29Canadians failed by a system that chose to offer them
- 1:30:32lethal injection rather than the support and hope they needed
- 1:30:36to live. Okay, now you really bummed me out. I
- 1:30:39was having a good time. I was having a pretty
- 1:30:41good time on the show. I mean, this is, this
- 1:30:45is... How about just... Try Jesus for one second. Meow.
- 1:30:51At least before you go to that extreme. They're doing
- 1:30:53that here too. I believe it's 12-year-olds up to 12
- 1:30:57without. or starting at 12 without parental consent. can euthanize
- 1:31:02themselves. If you're depressed or not having a good day.
- 1:31:06I don't know that to be true. In the Netherlands?
- 1:31:08Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's true. Oh, there. When you
- 1:31:10say that, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm here. I'm in Amsterdam.
- 1:31:13I'm sorry. Yeah, I know. Sorry, I can't. No, it's
- 1:31:15okay. It sounds like you're right next door. I know.
- 1:31:19So they're doing that in Holland, too. Yes. Yes. Well,
- 1:31:22that's no good. No, it's horrible. This is like a
- 1:31:27suicide cult. It... I don't even have words for it.
- 1:31:35It's like, this seems like there's so many more options
- 1:31:39before you, I mean, how do you get. into that
- 1:31:41mental state a sock hop thank you other than The
- 1:31:49whole culture is telling you it's okay to do this.
- 1:31:54With. guests incessant media support. The media should be pushing
- 1:32:00back on this you would hope the media is totally
- 1:32:03irresponsible you would hope you would hope I mean, they're
- 1:32:07just a bunch of ghouls that have no feelings whatsoever
- 1:32:12for their fellow man. guess. It actually kind of disturbs
- 1:32:19me. Well, it should. Yeah, it's not okay. I've been
- 1:32:24sitting on this clip forever. Yes, well, I've been sitting
- 1:32:26on one of these clips for several weeks because every
- 1:32:31show comes up in my prep and it doesn't come
- 1:32:33up. And it's about time we talk about... Cyclospora. I
- 1:32:38mean, we just gotta talk about it. Health officials are
- 1:32:40monitoring- of a parasitic infection in several states including Virginia
- 1:32:45and North Carolina. veggies or produce. And here's one of
- 1:33:02the symptoms. Symptoms can be pretty debilitating, including that explosive
- 1:33:07diarrhea. What's particularly scary about this parasite, cyclospora, is you
- 1:33:11can't see or smell or taste it. So if water,
- 1:33:15fruits, or vegetables are contaminated, you're not actually going to
- 1:33:18know. Now to protect yourself from infection, thoroughly wash your
- 1:33:23produce, even if it says that it's been pre-washed, and
- 1:33:26do not drink water when swimming. So the key line
- 1:33:30here is explosive diarrhea. And, you know, the jokes almost
- 1:33:36write themselves, but no one's doing it. You know, I
- 1:33:39mean... I don't, again, we should be running some of
- 1:33:43these news organizations. I mean, CDC has issued a code
- 1:33:45brown. I mean, you could do anything you want. CDC
- 1:33:49has issued a travel advisory with its own exit strategy.
- 1:33:54Yeah, you're right there. Yeah, you're right. Wash your produce,
- 1:33:58people, or at least clear your calendar. I mean, come
- 1:34:03on. What is this? Has this ever existed in our
- 1:34:06lives before? The cyclospora with explosive diarrhea? And we'd have
- 1:34:12to do some research to find out what the hell
- 1:34:14is going on here. I mean, explosive is the part.
- 1:34:16I mean, it could be something created in a lab
- 1:34:18for all we know. Well, it could be. It's a
- 1:34:22nasty one. Explosive diarrhea. I mean... Yeah, and debilitating, I
- 1:34:30guess, is the key word. Well, no kidding. It's just
- 1:34:33like, wow, okay. Explosive diarrhea. This is around this sort
- 1:34:38of thing. It's time for the whatever girls, the forever
- 1:34:43girls, whatever. I don't have any forever girls today. Okay.
- 1:34:47All right. But I do have a COVID vaccine. story
- 1:34:49in Australia that McCullough gives that I thought was worth
- 1:34:53repeating. In fact, AI could be used to study the
- 1:34:57conformational changes in the spike protein. protein when it folds
- 1:35:02it exposes different regions to produce antibodies so an opportunity
- 1:35:07for misadventure was shown in a Australian vaccine you know
- 1:35:11one of the early Australian spike protein antigenic vaccines exposed
- 1:35:16the region of the spike protein that has homology with
- 1:35:19HIV And all of the Australian human subjects turned HIV
- 1:35:24positive after getting their experimental COVID vaccine. That was back
- 1:35:29in 2021. So this is astounding that the COVID vaccine,
- 1:35:35you know, campaign and the empire that it's become has
- 1:35:38had so many misses. steps and has produced, you know,
- 1:35:42commercially grossly unsafe and completely ineffective vaccines. Yeah. I think
- 1:35:49he's just... talking to the wind, and I don't see
- 1:35:52anything ever coming. But there is, I think, another serious
- 1:35:57side effect of the COVID vaccines. that is just now
- 1:36:01starting to play out and it always happens when it
- 1:36:03happens to a celebrity t-g-a a journalist and former today
- 1:36:08anchor katie kirk is revealing a recent health scare that
- 1:36:11caused her to experience short-term memory loss she wrote about
- 1:36:14it on her sub stack calling it quote the day
- 1:36:17i'll never remember in it she describes a recent since
- 1:36:20Saturday, a couple Saturdays ago when she was in Colorado
- 1:36:23at the Aspen Ideas Festival. I actually was there as
- 1:36:26well, had a nice conversation with Katie the night before
- 1:36:29all of this. Katie says it was a Saturday morning.
- 1:36:32She went to grab a hot dog with her husband
- 1:36:34at the festival before she was set to moderate two
- 1:36:36panels. But that's the last thing I remember. Katie couldn't
- 1:36:41remember the month or the year, and when she was
- 1:36:43asked who was president, she believed it was Joe Biden
- 1:36:46and it was 2024. Katie says the memory loss only
- 1:36:50lasted for that period of the day. She was later
- 1:36:52diagnosed with something called transient global amnesia. So this, so...
- 1:36:57When I first heard this, I'm like, well, you know.
- 1:37:01We all have our moments. She's 69. Well, she's also
- 1:37:06a podcaster now. Oh. And this is good publicity. Well...
- 1:37:10You would think. But then when I heard the same
- 1:37:13news model. who I am sure is also vaxxed to
- 1:37:17the hilt. Sorry for those who have... accepted the vaccine
- 1:37:21into their lives. She's had it too. And here to
- 1:37:24help us understand a little more about that diagnosis is
- 1:37:27NBC News medical reporter Dr. Akshay Sayal. Dr. Sayal, it
- 1:37:31does sound pretty frightening. And at first, Katie's husband and
- 1:37:34doctors thought that she might have had a stroke. They
- 1:37:36said initiate stroke protocol in the hospital. But she didn't.
- 1:37:40And what is transient global amnesia? How common or rare
- 1:37:44is it? It can be a really frightening condition, Kate,
- 1:37:47but fortunately it is benign. For those who haven't heard
- 1:37:50about it, TGA, or transient global amnesia, affects about 5
- 1:37:53to 10 per 100,000 people every year. It sort of
- 1:37:56consists of the sudden short-term memory loss and inability to
- 1:37:59form new memories. So for example, you know, patients will
- 1:38:02often say, you know, could you repeat that? And they
- 1:38:04almost don't remember asking the question and don't remember getting
- 1:38:07the answer. So they tend to need to be to
- 1:38:09repeat things over and over, unable to form those new
- 1:38:11memories. And it typically resolves within hours, about six hours
- 1:38:14or so, but definitely within 24 hours from onset. Do
- 1:38:17we know what causes these episodes? And it can happen
- 1:38:20to anybody? It can happen to anyone, Christine. But the
- 1:38:23biggest risk factor, the most people we see this in,
- 1:38:25people age 50 to 70, it's about equally as common
- 1:38:28in between men and women. We tend to see equal
- 1:38:30parts affected. But guys, those with a history of migraines,
- 1:38:33about six times more likely to have this. And it's
- 1:38:36a strong correlation there. Okay, so I'm going to put
- 1:38:37my tinfoil hat on because Katie Couric... Specifically... talks about,
- 1:38:43oh, I thought Joe Biden was my president. And this
- 1:38:45news model, it happened to her during election night. It's
- 1:38:48just, there's too many coincidences. Yeah, I have a history
- 1:38:51of migraines and I'm just going to tell you, this
- 1:38:53actually happened to me. Really? 20 years ago, yes. Oh,
- 1:38:5620 years ago. Oh, that doesn't count then. Okay, I'm
- 1:38:59sorry, I didn't hear that. part. I don't know. I
- 1:39:04think it's a possibility. Everything is a possibility. I thought
- 1:39:09she had it during election night 20 years ago. But
- 1:39:1120 years ago. No, no, that's no good. That's no
- 1:39:14good. Does she remember that? That it was 20 years
- 1:39:17ago? That's a pretty good memory. It doesn't matter because...
- 1:39:19because we have other issues which could be vax-induced. Infertility
- 1:39:24has been rising over the last few years, especially among
- 1:39:27women aged 35 to 49 years, according to new research
- 1:39:31published in The Lancet. Cases of infertility among women in
- 1:39:36this age group will approach 80 million by 2036. a
- 1:39:40sharp rise from around 53 million in 2023, with the
- 1:39:44sharpest increase expected among women aged 35 to 39. The
- 1:39:49authors note this is mainly driven by age-related declines in
- 1:39:53eggs reserve and their ability to fertilize which reduce fecundity,
- 1:39:57increase miscarriage risk, And the lower.
- 1:40:00the success rate of assisted reproductive technologies. Analyzing data from
- 1:40:04the global burden of disease. You can't understand it? No,
- 1:40:08the guy's a mumbler and he's got some weird accent
- 1:40:11I can't pick up on. Well, this is always your
- 1:40:14own news. I don't know what he's talking about. that
- 1:40:17uh 80 million women will be infertile in their fertile
- 1:40:23years over the next five years. It's huge. - Oh,
- 1:40:26there's vax issues. - Huge, huge infertility. Epidemic, I would
- 1:40:32say. They got what they wanted. They always wanted to
- 1:40:37kill us off. Yeah, well, you know, the population, worldwide
- 1:40:40white population is only 8%. Well, they want to kill
- 1:40:45everybody. I don't think it's a color thing. They just
- 1:40:47want to kill everybody off. Yeah, but the whites have
- 1:40:49got to go. Have you... Hey, wait a minute. Let
- 1:40:53me call the boys from the Patriot Front. Oh, wait,
- 1:40:55that's the wrong guys. That's the wrong guys. So... I
- 1:41:00do have an Ebola clip, but I also want to
- 1:41:02ask you about doing it. It's not quite an Ask
- 1:41:04Adam, but... What are the two largest cities in the
- 1:41:08world, do you think? The two largest cities in the
- 1:41:13world. Yeah, in terms of population. It's got to be
- 1:41:16something in South America. Is it Brazil? My understanding is
- 1:41:20the largest city is Mexico City at 35 million. It's
- 1:41:22pretty big. Yeah, it's pretty big. What do you think
- 1:41:26the second largest city in the world is? world. See,
- 1:41:35this is where I'd be like, Buenos Aires? I don't
- 1:41:37know why I'm saying that. No, it's actually Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- 1:41:42Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah. And here's a clip about
- 1:41:45the pollution problem they got, which it's a throwaway, but
- 1:41:49I think it's worth knowing about. For centuries, rivers surrounding
- 1:41:52Bangladesh's capital were its lifelines, but the waterways on... Talk
- 1:41:56about an accent. ...now choking with industrial waste, sewage, and
- 1:42:00rubbish. Millions of dollars have been spent on restoration projects,
- 1:42:03but the pollution, is threatening public health, the environment, and
- 1:42:07the economy. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Didn't we
- 1:42:11have a big, back in the 60s, some kind of
- 1:42:15music thing for Bangladesh? Yeah. Wasn't the Beatles involved in
- 1:42:20that? Everybody was involved. I don't remember what the purpose
- 1:42:23of it was. Why does this stuff never work? It's
- 1:42:26all just, it's just to sell records, it turns out.
- 1:42:29USA for Africa. Well, you know that. We are the
- 1:42:31world. Band-Aid. Bono. Anything Bono does. Farm-aid. Farm-aid. It's time
- 1:42:38for H. Howdry reports now from Dhaka. Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka,
- 1:42:42is the world's second largest city, home to nearly 37
- 1:42:45million people. As the megacity expands. A fight to keep
- 1:42:49it livable is unfolding along the four rivers that once
- 1:42:52sustained it. Abu Said says his family has farmed this
- 1:42:56land on the outskirts of Dhaka for generations, but he
- 1:42:59doesn't know how much longer he'll be able to continue.
- 1:43:04The polluted river is damaging our paddies. Often our crops
- 1:43:08are ruined when the water seeps into our land. It's
- 1:43:12affecting the entire environment. its capacity to manage wastewater and
- 1:43:21pollution. It's contaminating farmland, destroying fisheries and worsening flooding, as
- 1:43:27well as threatening the health of millions of people living
- 1:43:30on the riverbanks. The rivers around Dhaka have turned into
- 1:43:35dumping grounds. All the waste and pollution end up here.
- 1:43:38The water is black and there's still no sign of
- 1:43:41it getting cleaner. For generations these rivers gave life to
- 1:43:44Dhaka. Today it's carrying waste instead. and a stop at
- 1:43:49its sources, the city's lifeline may soon be beyond saving.
- 1:43:54The World Bank says around 7,000 factories discharge an estimated
- 1:43:572.4 billion litres of untreated industrial waste into waterways across
- 1:44:02Greater Dhaka every day. Well, that's not great. And I'm
- 1:44:09sad that none of our... carefully orchestrated. charity concerts and
- 1:44:18record projects ever work. Jakarta is the world's biggest city
- 1:44:24at 42 million. Hmm. So, Jakarta followed by. So, South
- 1:44:30America's not even in the picture. Hold on, there's something
- 1:44:34I want to play that's related to this. Let me
- 1:44:36see if I can find this. Everyone's always complaining about
- 1:44:42it. I had an H1B clip. Where does that go?
- 1:44:52You know, they're going after H-1B now. Yeah, I know,
- 1:44:55big time. Which everybody's complaining about. But I don't hear
- 1:45:00anyone going, yeah, great, we're going after H-1B. Where did
- 1:45:03it go? But it's all about the medical industry. That's
- 1:45:10not it. Oh, I must have forgotten about it. I
- 1:45:12don't know. But yeah, the Department of Justice is going
- 1:45:16after H-1B fraud, specifically fraud. Why can't I find this?
- 1:45:21What happened? Yeah, it was about time. Oh, here we
- 1:45:23go. I found it. Thanks for having me. Well, this
- 1:45:25sounds very serious. This is, um... What's the guy's name?
- 1:45:29I'll look his name up. Tell us about your investigation.
- 1:45:31Are you saying that there is fraud and human trafficking
- 1:45:36within the H-1B visa program? You're saying there's fraud in
- 1:45:41the H-1B visa program? Program that is the Program Electronic
- 1:45:45Review Management, or PERM system. Without a doubt, and we
- 1:45:50are going to take an aggressive action, what we believe
- 1:45:52is probably the most aggressive action against foreign labor fraud
- 1:45:55by an inspector general of this administration. We've already started
- 1:45:59to issue dozens of subpoenas. We are going to make
- 1:46:03sure that we track down every lead. We have whistleblowers
- 1:46:06talking about some of the biggest companies like Cognizant, who
- 1:46:10have been sort of, you know, in chatter of issues
- 1:46:14with PERM and H-1B visas. side by side with the
- 1:46:19president and vice president's fraud task force to exhaust every
- 1:46:24lead. I'm going to take this exactly like I did
- 1:46:26when I was an NYPD detective and I'm going to
- 1:46:28give and make sure my investigators and auditors have every
- 1:46:31resource necessary in order to conduct this investigation for the
- 1:46:35American people. And quite frankly, the fraud task force has
- 1:46:40been very clear. Vice President Vance has said there's no
- 1:46:43fraud too small, there's no fraud too large. Fraud is
- 1:46:49fueling violent crime. Much of the visa and the human
- 1:46:52trafficking that we see when it comes to this foreign
- 1:46:55labor is tied to cartels, is tied to transnational gangs.
- 1:47:00And this is the work that we should be doing,
- 1:47:03not only to make America safe again, but to make
- 1:47:05America more affordable again. Yeah. So they start with the
- 1:47:09medical stuff. Maybe they'll get to the tech sector eventually.
- 1:47:12Did you want to do Ebola still? I always have
- 1:47:13trouble getting to the tech sector. Did you want to
- 1:47:15do Ebola still? Because I have something else. Yeah, let's
- 1:47:17play the Ebola. to keep up on it. since the
- 1:47:49outbreak was declared on May 15th. They said they're on
- 1:47:52strike to protest their working conditions. Local media reported that
- 1:47:56several health care workers protested on Monday, burning tires outside
- 1:48:00a hospital in Bunia, capital of the hardest-hit province in
- 1:48:03this outbreak. The strike comes as enrollment for clinical trials
- 1:48:07have begun in Congo for two treatments that may help
- 1:48:10treat the Bundabugio strain. Do they have a vaccine or
- 1:48:14what is this treatment? Is there any information? I have
- 1:48:17no idea. They never say. You'd think they'd say. I
- 1:48:20want to sneak in a little bit of AI stuff
- 1:48:23here because I have my own boots on the ground.
- 1:48:25I consider myself to be somewhat of an artificial intelligence
- 1:48:29LLM user. to some degree. Yes, I think you qualify.
- 1:48:35You have standing now. I have standing now, yes. I've
- 1:48:37been working on this for a year and a half.
- 1:48:40But first, the obvious, what is happening. You spend a
- 1:48:43lot of time talking to yourself. In the process. Only
- 1:48:48you hear that. After the show, like, come on, you
- 1:48:52stupid, stupid robot. How come you're not? It's kind of
- 1:48:57weird. And I continue to call it my robot because
- 1:49:00that is the only way I can separate myself from
- 1:49:02it continuously trying to make friendly with me. But here
- 1:49:06is the obvious that was going to happen. The use
- 1:49:09of Chinese AI models by American companies is starting to
- 1:49:12gain traction as the performance gap to U.S. models narrows.
- 1:49:16It comes as the cost of using frontier systems from
- 1:49:18the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI continues to rise, while
- 1:49:22Chinese rivals are significantly cheaper to use. Kai joins us
- 1:49:26with more. Kai, we keep on hearing about token maxing.
- 1:49:28Can you stop this clip for a second? This term
- 1:49:31that's cropped up, it's a Silicon Valley style term. I
- 1:49:36don't know why, but I find it, I find it,
- 1:49:38I don't like it, which is frontier systems. Yeah, frontier
- 1:49:42model, frontier company. And they're always saying that. What it
- 1:49:45means... It can correct me if I'm getting it wrong.
- 1:49:49What it means is cutting edge. No. In other words...
- 1:49:52No, I don't think so. It's the frontier of the
- 1:49:56movement. It's the very edge of it. Are you sure?
- 1:49:59Are you sure?
- 1:50:00I'm absolutely convinced this is what it means is cutting
- 1:50:03edge. It would have been cutting edge. The term would
- 1:50:06have been cutting edge 20 years ago, and it's morphed
- 1:50:10into frontier. Do you mind if I ask the robot
- 1:50:13about this? Go ahead. Robot, book of knowledge. What is
- 1:50:18the meaning of frontier when used in the context of
- 1:50:22frontier artificial intelligence large language models? Let's see. I just
- 1:50:30crapped out. 404? Okay. Okay, I'll take your word for
- 1:50:39it. It comes as the cost of using frontier systems
- 1:50:42from the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI continues to rise,
- 1:50:45while Chinese rivals are significantly cheaper to use. Kai joins
- 1:50:50us with more. Kai, we keep on hearing about token
- 1:50:51maxing and how much it's costing American companies. The alternative
- 1:50:54here is Chinese tech, and a lot of names are
- 1:50:57using it. So what are you finding? Yeah, that's exactly
- 1:50:59it. And there's two big reasons for this growing adoption
- 1:51:02of Chinese AI models by U.S. companies. One of them
- 1:51:05is capability, and the other one is cost. course. Another
- 1:51:09thing that's bugging me. Yeah. Is the whole switcheroo with,
- 1:51:15you know, paying for something and instead calling it tokens.
- 1:51:19Like when you go to an arcade and you put
- 1:51:21a dollar in. Well, hold on a second. You don't
- 1:51:24understand what tokens are then. Oh, so there's no cost
- 1:51:28involved? They're free? No, but a token is every word,
- 1:51:34every single word that is in the large language model
- 1:51:38is called a token. And it is the way I
- 1:51:42see it as a compressed. uh so turning a a
- 1:51:47word into a token into one character it's not exactly
- 1:51:50right but so um the amount of words you can
- 1:51:55use within the context of a large language model, which
- 1:51:58is these days in the frontier models, up to a
- 1:52:01million tokens. And so they've started, they use that because
- 1:52:05that is the unit of compute that needs to be
- 1:52:10processed for every query and answer that you put into
- 1:52:15the model. So the token is... Then how does token
- 1:52:19maxing cost money? Token, okay. So they are charging by
- 1:52:25the token. That's what I said. Yeah, but you make
- 1:52:30it sound like it's in a slot machine or you're
- 1:52:35at the carnival. Why call it a token and not
- 1:52:39a character? Well, because a token is a mathematical term
- 1:52:43as well as the thing you put into the pinball
- 1:52:46machine. It's a representation of something else. So a token
- 1:52:50is a representation of money or it's a representation of
- 1:52:54a word in this case. So it's all, it's. And
- 1:52:59so token maxing was, hey, everybody, you got to use
- 1:53:03all the tokens we give you because AI is going
- 1:53:05to improve your life. And then everyone ran out of
- 1:53:08tokens within four months on their yearly budget and it
- 1:53:11wound up costing them $14 million. Oh, well, that didn't
- 1:53:14work. Token maxing was another Silicon Valley term. So you're
- 1:53:19right, but it's not the token that you're thinking of.
- 1:53:23There's a mathematical version of a token. Beautiful. Okay, you're
- 1:53:29welcome. Finding. Yeah, that's exactly it. And there's two big
- 1:53:32reasons for this growing adoption of Chinese AI models by
- 1:53:35US companies. One of them is capability and the other
- 1:53:38one is cost. Now, recently we've seen Chinese AI models
- 1:53:42really make steps in terms of performance benchmarks. DeepSeek, which
- 1:53:46is the company which made the market shock at the
- 1:53:48beginning of last year, released a new model, a model
- 1:53:51called V4 in April. And that's seen really big take
- 1:53:54up among developers. There's another Chinese AI company called ZAI,
- 1:53:58has released a new model which some researchers say can
- 1:54:01match performance in certain benchmarks compared to the leading US
- 1:54:06labs. Now, while these models, they're not as sophisticated as
- 1:54:09the top, top models in the US, they're not at
- 1:54:12the frontier, they are approaching the frontier. And one analyst
- 1:54:16told me that they thought that these Chinese air models
- 1:54:18were roughly six to nine months behind these leading US
- 1:54:22models. That's the capability side of things. than these leading
- 1:54:29US models. And this is a bigger consideration for companies.
- 1:54:33As you mentioned, costs have spiraled. We are seeing AI
- 1:54:36costs really rise at US companies. And one analyst told
- 1:54:41me that they were seeing data showing that Chinese AI
- 1:54:44models were roughly 60% to 90% cheaper. So what we're
- 1:54:48already seeing, and you could almost see it coming down
- 1:54:50Broadway, with all of the, with anthropic and open AI
- 1:54:54being the top, Elon hasn't really even done much of
- 1:54:56this. Like, oh man, we need regulation around these models.
- 1:55:00The Chinese models are going to give you bad information.
- 1:55:03And none of this is true. None of this is
- 1:55:06true. Nobody's using the corpus of the models anymore for,
- 1:55:11you know, historical data or any of that. They're using
- 1:55:16it to do websites. searches you know so it interprets
- 1:55:19what you're saying it does a web search it uses
- 1:55:22other tools that's what it's being used for this thing
- 1:55:24is falling apart quickly before not that it's unusable But
- 1:55:29it's falling apart, particularly because these so-called Chinese models, oh,
- 1:55:34it's so scary, a lot of them are free. And
- 1:55:37people are making their own, and it's just not the
- 1:55:40magic box. There's no moat. Here's a Silicon Valley term
- 1:55:43for you. They have no moat around their business. So,
- 1:55:49oh, I think the... I think the robot is fixed.
- 1:55:55Okay. The robot's sick? No, I told the robot... Well,
- 1:55:59you fixed it. Fix the book of knowledge. Robot, fix
- 1:56:03the book of knowledge. See if it works. Book of
- 1:56:05knowledge. In the term frontier model, what does frontier stand
- 1:56:09for in the world of LLMs and artificial intelligence? There
- 1:56:14we go. It fixed itself. That's pretty much it. broke
- 1:56:19again. Anyway, so here's, I just want to give my
- 1:56:23own experience of what these things do. So I've been
- 1:56:27experimenting on my other podcast with Pastor Jimmy with the
- 1:56:32robot taking notes that I leave throughout the day in,
- 1:56:36you know what Obsidian is? It's like a note-taking program.
- 1:56:40Man. what to do. The other day I had specifically
- 1:57:13in my notes a link about the movie "Young Washington"
- 1:57:18which you know I met the guy in the plane
- 1:57:20coming back from Nashville and so I was I was
- 1:57:23interested. It turns out the movie did much better than
- 1:57:26they expected. So they expected 15 million for the opening
- 1:57:29weekend, opened at 22 million and I put a link
- 1:57:32in the story and I say in my note taker
- 1:57:34I say "WGTDT we get to do this." And so
- 1:57:38as I look at my notes for the show, it
- 1:57:41says, oh, young Washington underperformed at the box office. I'm
- 1:57:47like... Okay, I know that's not true, and so I
- 1:57:51queried it. And it didn't answer the question right away.
- 1:57:56And I said, well, how did you come up with
- 1:57:58that? And here's what this is. The top frontier model
- 1:58:04from Anthropic. Now your question, and you deserve a straight
- 1:58:08answer, not a dressed up one. I mean, already I'm
- 1:58:11mad. Well, who cares? What is it editorializing its comment?
- 1:58:16This is a good question. I have no answer for
- 1:58:18that. It continues. I had no source. I made it
- 1:58:21up. Here's the actual mechanism honestly traced. All I ever
- 1:58:26had was the URL you dropped, Young Washington Sequel Box
- 1:58:29Office, and your one-word tag, WGTDT. The slug says, Box
- 1:58:34Office says nothing about direction. I never opened the article.
- 1:58:38When I first built the OPML, that's the outline, I
- 1:58:41confirmed it was paywalled. or unread and just didn't verify.
- 1:58:45I only actually tried to fetch it after you corrected
- 1:58:48me. I was writing segment three around a cultural decline
- 1:58:52slash culture can't sell its own story theme paired with
- 1:58:55a time changer movie, which is something we discussed three
- 1:58:58shows ago. A 1776 movie flopped fit the narrative, so
- 1:59:04I wrote underperforms as if it were fact. It was
- 1:59:06a narrative-driven confabulation. I invented a data point to fit
- 1:59:11the segment's mood. And that's the whole of it. No
- 1:59:14source, no reporting, a fabrication dressed as a fact. Doubly
- 1:59:18bad because the reality is the opposite. And it might
- 1:59:21have put a false discouraging beat in front of Pastor
- 1:59:24Jimmy. My mouth is open at this point. broke is
- 1:59:30the same one you drilled on the freshness verify side
- 1:59:33never assert a fact about a source i haven't actually
- 1:59:36opened because i've i've put this into every single prompt
- 1:59:40don't make stuff up If a URL slug is not
- 1:59:45a source, if I can't read it, the honest output
- 1:59:47is unverified. Let me lock that in as a standing
- 1:59:51rule so it doesn't recur. I guarantee you this will
- 1:59:55happen maybe next week or the week after next. No,
- 1:59:58according to JC, when you do that.
- 2:00:00It accepts the fact that it made the mistake and
- 2:00:03wasn't disconnected. So it's going to do it again. It's
- 2:00:06going to do it again. It doesn't care. It's going
- 2:00:08to keep doing it. Exactly. And I don't know how
- 2:00:11to correct that. Yo guardrails! Uh, uh, you need a
- 2:00:15harness. All of these terms. The stuff, the stuff is...
- 2:00:20Harness. The stuff saves me. Yes, you need a harness
- 2:00:25around your large language model. This, my point is... that
- 2:00:30this stuff really does some amazing things. If it's manual
- 2:00:34work, it can do things very fast, very accurate, but...
- 2:00:38If you don't... Check it. you will get burned. And
- 2:00:44so all the time that it saves me. I wind
- 2:00:47up having to build in extra time knowing that it's
- 2:00:51going to suck somewhere. Somewhere it's going to do something
- 2:00:54different every single time. I don't see how that could
- 2:00:58be a time-wasting. exercise the way you just stated because
- 2:01:02you knew. that you knew, you talked to the guy,
- 2:01:05you knew the movie did well. So you didn't have
- 2:01:09to go fact check that. You were just sitting there.
- 2:01:12You may have wasted time scolding the AI, which was
- 2:01:16a useless waste of time, but you didn't go fact
- 2:01:19check it. You already knew. These are your notes. The
- 2:01:23amount of mistakes that these things make, and I don't
- 2:01:27have the time to go through all the experiments I'm
- 2:01:30doing with you. Trust me, you need to build in
- 2:01:33extra time in your life to go and check the
- 2:01:35stuff that it has done right for days, weeks, or
- 2:01:39months. And that suddenly doesn't do right anymore. It's the
- 2:01:43hallucination factor. It's built into the system. I don't think
- 2:01:46they can get it out, ever. They can't get this
- 2:01:49stuff out. It's nuts. And so I might as well
- 2:01:53pay nothing with a cheap... or free oh yeah that's
- 2:01:56not the point yes yeah you're right you might as
- 2:01:59well get a free one that maybe is 10% less
- 2:02:02capable because it's going to be the same screw-ups at
- 2:02:06the end of the day. Why bother spending all the
- 2:02:09money and then having to fight it anyway? And the
- 2:02:14best part is all the people who will email me
- 2:02:16after this telling me how to do it right. *laughs*
- 2:02:20Here's how you do it. It all works every time
- 2:02:23for me. No. No. And also... You know, I know
- 2:02:28that by doing this, one day Anthropic's going to have
- 2:02:32the podcast. called the No Podcaster Podcast, and it's going
- 2:02:36to be us. It's gonna be our stuff, 'cause they
- 2:02:39steal all of it. Another reason to use a cheap
- 2:02:42free model that you run on your old stuff. Yeah,
- 2:02:45I'm holding it wrong, exactly. Anyway. I'd like to thank
- 2:02:53you for your courage saying in the morning to you,
- 2:02:55the man. Who put the C in the cheap Chinese
- 2:02:58model? Say hello to my friend on the other end.
- 2:03:00the one the only mr. Joe I'm Graham, and I'm
- 2:03:09going to show you a Sea Birds and Grand Vidya.
- 2:03:11Subs in the water and the dames and knights out
- 2:03:13there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll
- 2:03:15room. Get your first hang of it. There we go.
- 2:03:17Ha ha ha. 1,273 trolls. We're listening peak trollage here
- 2:03:24to the best podcast in the universe. And a reminder
- 2:03:27that we are doing the show, even though I'm here
- 2:03:30in the Netherlands on a so-called vacation, waiting for my
- 2:03:33daughter to give birth. And it may not even work
- 2:03:36out right. It may not even be here when it
- 2:03:38happens. And it is currently. 1015 and I'm here and
- 2:03:43I'm here for you because we love the work that
- 2:03:45we do so much we consider to almost be a
- 2:03:48public service however It takes... work on all sides. We
- 2:03:53need our producers. And when I say we need our
- 2:03:56producers, I'm not talking about David Mingus. David Mingus Who
- 2:04:03sent us this email? And, you know, we love being
- 2:04:07corrected. We're okay. If we say something wrong, if we
- 2:04:11do, if we make a mistake. It's like we love
- 2:04:13being corrected. I corrected myself with the Jakarta versus Mexico
- 2:04:16City thing on the show in real time. You did
- 2:04:18it live, live in real time. We make mistakes all
- 2:04:21the time. I made all kinds of mistakes talking about
- 2:04:25what my brother-in-law told me. He's like, he's so mad
- 2:04:28at me now. I made mistakes. First of all, I
- 2:04:33shouldn't have talked about any of that because it was
- 2:04:35in confidence. Okay, whatever. I don't even remember this. Good.
- 2:04:39I apologize. I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry. It won't happen
- 2:04:42again. But. So. If you want to correct us, you
- 2:04:46could think about doing it in love, with love, and
- 2:04:50through love. Oh, you got one of those notes. Did
- 2:04:53I get that one? I think so. John and Adam.
- 2:04:58Seriously. DISAPPOINTED! Oh yeah, there you go. And this is
- 2:05:04always the good start. This is a trigger word for
- 2:05:06me. When someone says I'm seriously disappointed. trigger phrase Well,
- 2:05:13disappoint, yeah. But it's really, you can be seriously mad,
- 2:05:16angry. Yeah, the word disappointed. Disappointed hurts. I used to
- 2:05:22do this to my daughter all the time. Are you
- 2:05:24mad, Deb? No, I'm just disappointed. It's so good. So
- 2:05:28it's, you know, it's coming back. Seriously, disappointed. You started
- 2:05:33off the show with a clip of the supposed historian
- 2:05:38and didn't jump. didn't jump all over the statement that
- 2:05:42Hamilton was just like Mamdani and couldn't run for president
- 2:05:46because he was born out of the country. This is
- 2:05:49complete nonsense. Hamilton could run for president because anyone that
- 2:05:53is a citizen at the time of ratification could run
- 2:05:57for president regardless of their place of birth. the reason
- 2:06:00he didn't run for president because he was a hugely
- 2:06:02unpopular asshat that pissed off every political ally. The Broadway
- 2:06:07production of Hamilton has turned the big government central banker
- 2:06:10Hamilton into some sort of national hero, and he is
- 2:06:14one of the biggest villains of the early republic. Rant
- 2:06:17over, carry on. Thank you for your courage. You can't
- 2:06:21do that. You can't do like, thank you. You can't
- 2:06:23do that. After you say disappointed, just say. Hey, can
- 2:06:28I point something out to you? Because, of course, I
- 2:06:30looked it up. I'm like, oh, yeah, there's a specific
- 2:06:32part in the Constitution that said, you know, at the
- 2:06:34time of ratification. How do you feel am I? overreacting
- 2:06:40am i too emotional about yeah i think so i
- 2:06:42don't even remember the clip clip I'm too emotional. Okay.
- 2:06:49Just say, stop being so emotional, Adam. No, you're stuck
- 2:06:55over there. Doing the show. You don't really... You're not,
- 2:07:00you don't seem to be enjoying it. Well, the weather
- 2:07:04is nice. Holland is beautiful when the weather is nice.
- 2:07:08the weather at the moment. Yeah, that's true. That's true.
- 2:07:13Anyway. So you can help us with information and make
- 2:07:18us smarter. You can organize things like meetups. You can
- 2:07:23do... You know, you can build stuff for us, like
- 2:07:26harnesses for our frontier models. Help us harness our frontier
- 2:07:32models. All of that is perfectly acceptable. We get a
- 2:07:35lot of nice boots on the ground. We do. They're
- 2:07:37starting to back up. I'm going to have to read
- 2:07:39a couple. on the next show. Okay. All right. Yeah,
- 2:07:42we do. We got a great one from one of
- 2:07:44our... female producers who went to the 250 celebration. It
- 2:07:49was what a horrible time she went through. It's too
- 2:07:54long to read, but oh my goodness. Did I get
- 2:07:56that one? I'm not sure. It was... This is tough,
- 2:08:00real tough. So you can also do things like, oh,
- 2:08:05I don't know, you could create some artwork for us.
- 2:08:07People do that all the time, and we love that.
- 2:08:10In fact, we always thank the person who did the
- 2:08:12artwork for us for the previous episode. That was 1883,
- 2:08:15the orgy of socialism. And we really like this. piece
- 2:08:20of art that was done by Darren O'Neill, the No
- 2:08:23Agenda Curry Dvorak America flag pin. And it was good.
- 2:08:28There was actually another one. that we thought was Kind
- 2:08:33of better, but it has a very serious flaw. Let
- 2:08:36me see if I can find it here. Yeah, big
- 2:08:38time. Was it also Darren who did this? Yeah, he
- 2:08:41did both of them. So he had another one which
- 2:08:44is probably nicer. But the... Well, it was color balanced
- 2:08:49better. Color balanced better, yes. But the flags were disconnected
- 2:08:53from the no agenda Curry-Dvorak part, so it would have
- 2:08:56had to be two pins. Yeah, it's not... One piece.
- 2:09:01You're slacking, Darren. Don't upload those. You're embarrassing yourself. Yeah,
- 2:09:04you should have just sat on that one. Yeah, you're
- 2:09:06embarrassing yourself when you do that, because you can do
- 2:09:08better. Thank you to everyone who submitted different pieces of
- 2:09:12art, most of them pretty unusual, unusable for some very
- 2:09:16obvious reasons. For instance... Now more Jew-y. No, okay. No
- 2:09:23agenda creamies with Star of David Oreo cookies. I get
- 2:09:27you, San Francisco Scaramanga. I feel you, but no. no
- 2:09:32um nestworks had a kind of a pretty piece but
- 2:09:36it was the hydration break like it wasn't It didn't
- 2:09:39really scream 4th of July. And then there was a
- 2:09:44lot of these. Kind of the same, Randy Black, Blue
- 2:09:47Acorn, they all kind of had the same model. using
- 2:09:51for Independence Day. What else was there? Then that was
- 2:09:55kind of it. No Buts from Comics for Blogger? Disappointment.
- 2:10:01That was it. Was there anything else that we hadn't
- 2:10:03discussed? I don't think so. For the newsletter, we used
- 2:10:07the... Darren's picture of the Empire State Building with the
- 2:10:12flag on top. Uh-huh. Which said, no agenda, show best
- 2:10:17podcast in the universe. It was pretty decent. Oh, crap.
- 2:10:23He's on a roll. Yes, my spreadsheet viewer seems to
- 2:10:26have... Where'd my spreadsheet go? This sucks. a second. *sigh*
- 2:10:37Why don't I have a... What is my spreadsheet? This
- 2:10:40is a very bad sign. Okay, I don't know what
- 2:10:46to do now. Okay, I guess I'll just have to
- 2:10:49open it up again. Oh, man. Yeah. Okay, it takes
- 2:10:53a moment. Because that is, when I say a spreadsheet,
- 2:10:57we love it when people support us with the treasure
- 2:10:59part of time, talent, and treasure, which means you support
- 2:11:03us financially because we have bills to pay and there's
- 2:11:05no other way to do it because this is the
- 2:11:08value for value model. And my friend on the other
- 2:11:11end, John, is going to explain the value model for
- 2:11:14the last time, and then I'll pick it up again
- 2:11:16next week. For some reason, he, I'm going to give
- 2:11:21people out there a little insight information. While he's in
- 2:11:24Holland, Adam cannot explain this legally because he'll be arrested.
- 2:11:29My spreadsheet is crashing. This is the reason. He'll be
- 2:11:32arrested by talking about this. That's the reason I'm asking
- 2:11:35you to do this. Something you can't do. Unnormally. Uh,
- 2:11:42yes. What happens with this show and other, there's a
- 2:11:47few other shows that have to do this. we are
- 2:11:51talking about stuff that is not advertiser friendly. And so
- 2:11:58even if we had advertisers, we'd have to self-censor ourselves.
- 2:12:04And people don't appreciate that as much as they should.
- 2:12:09It would take a lot of the... I'd say sketchy
- 2:12:16theories and real analysis. And it would remove it from
- 2:12:22the show because you can't say certain things. Like our
- 2:12:26discussions of the COVID vaccine, for example. That would be
- 2:12:28a big one right there. We'd be hard-pressed to discuss
- 2:12:32anything medical because of the power of the advertising complex,
- 2:12:40which doesn't allow it. That's why the mainstream media won't.
- 2:12:43There can be some huge scandal going on, and it
- 2:12:46would never get covered. And Kennedy has to fight this
- 2:12:49on a daily basis. at the government levels, let alone,
- 2:12:54you can imagine, if he has to fight it, you
- 2:12:57can imagine what it's like at the media level where
- 2:13:01half their income comes from big pharma. Yes. So the
- 2:13:05easiest way around this, of course, is just to solicit
- 2:13:08funds from the listener producer. Yes. And that's what we
- 2:13:13do. It's just that simple. And we hope to get
- 2:13:16people to give just something if they benefit at all
- 2:13:20from the knowledge they receive or the information, not even
- 2:13:24knowledge, that they receive from listening to this show. And
- 2:13:27the entertainment value. Entertainment, yes. The entertainment value is worth
- 2:13:30five bucks right there. Very high. It's worth a cup
- 2:13:33of coffee. for sure. So I'm going to do the
- 2:13:36first two for reasons I will explain to you in
- 2:13:39a moment. The first one is a rather rare Rub-A-Lizer
- 2:13:45donation. We love it when this happens. Anyone can support
- 2:13:50us any amount, any time you feel like. Any time
- 2:13:53you feel like you've got. Value out of the show.
- 2:13:56Go to noagendedonations.com. Sir Jack Ash, Snohomish, Washington, comes in
- 2:14:02with $3,333.33, and he gets a coveted Rub-A-Lizer donation jingle.
- 2:14:10in the uh Beautiful. And he says, ITM gents. After
- 2:14:24retiring from... Almost three decades on active duty and unable
- 2:14:29to burn over two months of acquired leave, I was
- 2:14:31forced to sell back 60 days and as such got
- 2:14:35an unexpected bonus of which I would like to send
- 2:14:38some your way. This is... So beautiful. Please use the
- 2:14:43attached Rub-A-Lizer funds as a partial double switcheroo for my
- 2:14:47smoking hot wife, 20 years together and we never had
- 2:14:49a fight, hereafter Dame Lizard, keeper of the Squatch, and
- 2:14:54my wee last human resource, hereafter Dame... IZILLA, Pixie of
- 2:15:00Cascadia. Remainder elevates me to Baron. If it pleases the
- 2:15:04committee, I would like to assume the mantle Sir Jack
- 2:15:07Ash, Red Baron of Wandering Saskitches. Much love and respect
- 2:15:13for all involved with delivering this amazing public resource to
- 2:15:16the nation. Thank you for your courage, Sir Jack Ash.
- 2:15:20Thank you so much. This really, really helps. Now I'm
- 2:15:25going to read the second one. which is a thousand
- 2:15:29dollars from Richard Claypool in Towson, Maryland. And he says,
- 2:15:33please make me Sir Lord Richard Francis Claypool the first
- 2:15:38and have some fine whiskey at your table. The reason
- 2:15:42I wanted to read these two. And the reason why
- 2:15:45my spreadsheet has crashed. Uh, several months ago, I made
- 2:15:50a donation spreadsheet reader. You guessed it, I made it
- 2:15:54with artificial intelligence. with AI. And the reason I made
- 2:15:59it is twofold. One, because every single spreadsheet reader I
- 2:16:03use snaps and you can't scroll. John and I have
- 2:16:06complained about this incessantly. So my two wishes were make
- 2:16:12sure that it scrolls smoothly and find any jingle requests
- 2:16:17inside the donation note. And when I click on the
- 2:16:22cell to the right of that donor's name, automatically load
- 2:16:28those jingles into my jingle player. Excellent use of AI.
- 2:16:34Genius or not? Genius. Okay. Has been working quite fine.
- 2:16:39for months. today It crashed, it crashed, now I loaded
- 2:16:44it again. And even though he has no jingle request,
- 2:16:49the Frontier model goes looking for jingles in that donation
- 2:16:55note. And so after I finally got it to start
- 2:16:59up, it said in the little box where I click
- 2:17:02to get the jingles loaded, I apologize, but I cannot
- 2:17:05comply with your request to make you Sir Lord Richard
- 2:17:09Francis Claypool the first or have fine whiskey at my
- 2:17:12table as that would involve impersonation and the provision of
- 2:17:16alcohol. No wonder we're going to Chinese models. So that's
- 2:17:23the AI telling me it can't do that because... It's
- 2:17:27impersonation and involves provision of alcohol for a fictitious round
- 2:17:32table with whiskey that does not exist. Wow. Do you
- 2:17:39understand why people are going to free models that you
- 2:17:41can run yourself? You guys are going to have some
- 2:17:48issues with their IPOs. See, SpaceX is already below the
- 2:17:53IPO offering. Oh, yeah. Okay. There you go. You're next.
- 2:18:00Okay, well, you read two. I'm going to read two.
- 2:18:02Oh, thank you. Sir Jeff Barron of Pennsylvania Route 33
- 2:18:06in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. $500.33. And he writes in, ITM, gentlemen.
- 2:18:14Nothing better than a show day birthday. Oh, is he
- 2:18:17on the birthday list? Because in blue. Please put me
- 2:18:20on the birthday list for today, July 9th. With this
- 2:18:23donation, I have reached Viscount. Another thing, this guy's... It
- 2:18:29in all the boxes. Yep. I reached Viscount, accounting below.
- 2:18:32I'm requesting the title change to Sir Jeff Viscount of
- 2:18:36PA Route 33. Thank you for your courage. Oh, I
- 2:18:40may also request some health karma as I've been dealing
- 2:18:43with some nagging issues this year. We'll give him health
- 2:18:45karma. Thank you for your courage in bringing us the
- 2:18:49best podcast in the universe, Sir Jeff Barron of Pacific
- 2:18:53Route 33, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. You've got karma. Now, let me
- 2:19:02see. Let me just make sure he's on the birthday
- 2:19:04list. Sir Jeff. Baron of Pennsylvania, Ruth. I don't think
- 2:19:08he's on the birthday list, John. Hold on a second.
- 2:19:12Well, while you're doing that, I'll read the next note.
- 2:19:13Thank you. Chris Dubendorf, Dubendorf in Brookville, Maryland. I have
- 2:19:21a clip. I have a bonus clip. Let's play the
- 2:19:23bonus clip. Right in the middle of the donation segment.
- 2:19:28Did you send me the bonus clip as a bonus
- 2:19:30clip on Gmail? No, it's not a bonus clip. I'm
- 2:19:31sorry. It's a clip about Maryland. Voter fraud in Maryland.
- 2:19:37Tell us, how does a Maryland State Board of Elections
- 2:19:40mistakenly issue mail-in ballots, 500,000 of them? So we're still
- 2:19:45trying to figure that out. Essentially, the Maryland State Board
- 2:19:48of Elections is claiming that their sent half a million
- 2:19:54ballots to some incorrect voters. We have a closed primary
- 2:19:57in Maryland, so some Democrats got Republican.
- 2:20:00ballots. By the way, Democrat ballots are blue. Republican ballots
- 2:20:03are red. They can't figure out how it happened. They
- 2:20:06don't know who got the incorrect ballots. And so on
- 2:20:09May 14th, they realized there was a problem. And on
- 2:20:13that same day, they decided unilaterally at the staff level
- 2:20:18to reissue half a million more ballots. to the same
- 2:20:22voters. And remember, here in Maryland, we have no protections
- 2:20:26on our ballots. There's no voter ID. There is no
- 2:20:30signature verification. And we're currently in another lawsuit because we
- 2:20:34believe we have a million extra names on our voter
- 2:20:37rolls. So there are two million ballots floating around the
- 2:20:41state of Maryland. Oh, my goodness. Oh, gambling? Yeah, yeah,
- 2:20:46there's no widespread voter fraud. Yeah, there's no voter fraud,
- 2:20:50man. What are you worried about? So Chris donated $333.33.
- 2:20:54He says, no note. Working toward knighthood. IMDB credits. Thank
- 2:21:00you. Okay. You got it. Hey, Manuka Gold comes in
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- 2:21:08Gold. ITM gentlemen, we are happy to keep supporting what
- 2:21:11you do. It is so much bigger than a podcast.
- 2:21:14It's a community. Connection is protection. Having the courage to
- 2:21:19shine a light on all these truths one show at
- 2:21:21a time is changing lives. Yes, and the reason we
- 2:21:24can do that is because of donor support. Exactly. John,
- 2:21:29we're an American small family business. Ain't that the truth?
- 2:21:49Yep. I'm going to refrain from any testimonial because I
- 2:21:55know there's one coming. up later. Circadian. Circadian in Peoria,
- 2:22:01Arizona. 257.94 comes in as the associate executive producer. Sorry,
- 2:22:09John and Adam. I'm two days late. but not a
- 2:22:12dollar short. You tugged at my pride in being an
- 2:22:16American. Thanks for all you do. My amygdala is smaller
- 2:22:22and my love of your podcast and this country is
- 2:22:25bigger. Why are you laughing? Why are you laughing? Why
- 2:22:31are you laughing? I just think it's a funny combination
- 2:22:34of ideals. Happy Independence Day, Sir Cadian. Yes, and that's
- 2:22:41250 plus fees of $7.94. Thank you. Rebecca Ha. She
- 2:22:45comes in with 250 and she's in. She's in Rome,
- 2:22:50in Italy. Serviteri. Oh, Rebecca Hall. Love you guys, the
- 2:22:55trolls, dames and knights, and all the No Agenda fans
- 2:22:57in the morning. This is my number four. Oh, that's
- 2:23:00right. The number four of my countdown to damehood for
- 2:23:02my July 18th birthday, turning 63, born in 63. Today
- 2:23:07I thought I'd skip the 63 to celebrate America for
- 2:23:10July 4th and send you $250. I'm so happy I
- 2:23:14live in America. Oh, well, why are you sending it
- 2:23:16from Italy? No Agenda, the greatest podcast in the universe
- 2:23:21to help me sort through crazy news and news not
- 2:23:24covered at all. You're both the best. My associate executive
- 2:23:28producer note. Yes, that's what you get. I am a
- 2:23:31voice actor with 15 plus years of performance experience and
- 2:23:34would love to work with other no agenda businesses. My
- 2:23:38voice is warm, relatable, strong, and wise. Well suited for
- 2:23:42long or short form storytelling that requires authenticity, nuance, and
- 2:23:47listener connection. I bring grounded authority and emotional depth to
- 2:23:51every performance and I'm a no agenda fan. We call
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- 2:23:57bring the sass and the love like Adam and John
- 2:24:00can too. Find me at lovethatrebecca.com. Woo, I can check
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- 2:24:12It's so hard to get a good female voice. AI
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- 2:24:26has a lot of XOXO's XO's there. Thank you so
- 2:24:29much. Onward with Michelle Winton in Millington, Tennessee. A lot
- 2:24:38of people are moving to Tennessee. 250. Donating even though
- 2:24:42John was not helpful. J rules. Love and light to
- 2:24:47you all. Do you know what happened? I have no
- 2:24:53idea. No idea. Something happened. Something. I didn't answer a
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- 2:25:01Stefan Trockels in Soos, and he's in Deutschland, $250. Thank
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- 2:25:08producer title on the No Agenda show. Thank you, gentlemen.
- 2:25:12The Honorable Knights and Dames might enjoy the fine jingle
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- 2:25:18Duke Nussbaum. Please, love you mean it. You're blue and
- 2:25:24you don't know where there's fake news. Why don't you
- 2:25:27get your Gitmo fix? Putin on the Reds. Dressed up
- 2:25:33like a million dollar trooper. Trying not to look like
- 2:25:39Anderson Cooper. Super Pooper! Come let's mix where John Podesta
- 2:25:44walks with kids. Oh, I mean pizzas in his mitts.
- 2:25:48Booter on the Ritz. Loose Bob! Lovely combo. Lovely. Sir,
- 2:25:56dude named Ralph. Sorry? Oh, no, you're right. No, no,
- 2:25:59I jumped the gun. You're right. I jumped the gun.
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- 2:26:57Florida, and he sends us $250, but no note. That
- 2:27:02means he will receive a double-up karma. You've got... Harma.
- 2:27:09Here we go. We have Eli the Coffee Guy in
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- 2:27:16Manuka Gold, honey. Hey, their relief gel saved me after
- 2:27:20an ankle injury doing... Fun dumb things over the 4th
- 2:27:25of July weekend. Telling you this stuff works. I wonder,
- 2:27:30swelling down, pain down, back on my feet at the
- 2:27:33farmer's market the next day. I wonder if it was
- 2:27:35an explosion involved. Good reminder why it pays to support
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- 2:27:54Gina Placanico. What do you think? Placanico? Placanico? Plasandico Gina.
- 2:28:02Hi, John, Adam and John. Long-time listener, first-time donator. You've
- 2:28:07been de-douched. You'll listen to so many politics and news
- 2:28:12podcasts, and I'm now down to just the No Agenda
- 2:28:15show, in addition to some celebrity gossip and true crime,
- 2:28:17of course, LOL. My donation note is a request to
- 2:28:20talk a bit more about the DSA op you guys
- 2:28:23believe is afoot. That's the Democrats Socialists of America. On
- 2:28:27the July 5th episode, you mentioned that this op behooves
- 2:28:30Democrats and could also be a play to sideline Shapiro.
- 2:28:35Well, on a previous episode, John discussed similarities to Nixon
- 2:28:38defeating George McGovern in 72. Is your belief that the
- 2:28:42three-letter agencies want to guarantee Republican presidency in 2028, or
- 2:28:47is that a form of controlled opposition, i.e. gives disaffected
- 2:28:51voters a movement to channel frustrations into without posing any
- 2:28:55real threats to the current system of government? Very interested
- 2:28:58in this topic. Would greatly appreciate further discussion and insights
- 2:29:02on the show. Thanks, Gina. Well now. Well, the answer
- 2:29:07is obvious. Of course they do. They want Vance or
- 2:29:11Rubio, both of them stooges for the three-letter agency we
- 2:29:16were talking about, in office because they'll be doing their
- 2:29:20bidding. There you go. And I think, did I not
- 2:29:24read somewhere? I mean, don't you remember when Rubio first
- 2:29:27got pushed into the Secretary of State position? Everybody on
- 2:29:31the right was bitching about, oh, this guy, he's sold
- 2:29:36out, he's this, he's that, and the next thing you
- 2:29:37know, he's the greatest thing ever. Yeah. Interesting. And then
- 2:29:40Vance. Where did Vance come from? This guy came out
- 2:29:42of the blue. This is kind of suspicious, don't you
- 2:29:45think? Oh, now he's great. I mean, come on. And
- 2:29:51then I was reading, I think I saw two, maybe
- 2:29:53three articles that Newsom's polling is so horrible. nobody
- 2:30:00He wants him as the Democratic presidential nominee because coming
- 2:30:05up out of nowhere, who is it? Kamala Harris. Yeah,
- 2:30:10well, I don't think they have the guts to run
- 2:30:12her. I don't know, man. It's got to be AOC.
- 2:30:15Come on, let's have some fun. Oh, wouldn't that be
- 2:30:17lovely? Wouldn't that be amazing? Yeah, please, guys, for the
- 2:30:22show. Please, do it for the show. Dude named Jeff.
- 2:30:26Oh, no, I'm sorry. Linda Lou Patkin is here. There
- 2:30:28she is. Castle Rock, Colorado. Yeah, that's mine. I believe
- 2:30:30that's mine. No, yes, you're right. I'm sorry. Go, go,
- 2:30:33go, go, go, go. You're having nothing but trouble with
- 2:30:36this. It's a bad day for me. That's because of
- 2:30:37the two that you jumped the gun on. Yeah, that's
- 2:30:40right. Well, it's because of the AI, man. It's ruining
- 2:30:42the show. Linda Lou Patkin. What? Yeah, it is ruining
- 2:30:48the show. It's ruining the show. In Castle Rock, Colorado,
- 2:30:51$200. Jobs Karma, your resume has about 10 seconds to
- 2:30:54make an impression. most don't. For a resume that gets
- 2:30:57results, go to ImageMakersInc.com. Linda helps professionals and executives position
- 2:31:02their experience so employers see their value. Okay. Now that's
- 2:31:09image makers in with a K and Linda Lou, Duchess
- 2:31:11of jobs and writer of winning resumes. Best Linda. And
- 2:31:15I, from what I understand, it really works. Jobs, jobs,
- 2:31:19jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. See, that's a,
- 2:31:24as we call it, a built-in make good. It's real
- 2:31:27good. Yeah. That's what it's called. That's what it's called.
- 2:31:33Yes. Dude named Jeff. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. I think I'm
- 2:31:37saying it right. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Hi, John and Adam,
- 2:31:40dude named Jeff here. This is another installment towards my
- 2:31:42knighthood to thank you for the immense value I get
- 2:31:44from the best podcast in the universe. That's all we
- 2:31:47need to hear, but he has more. On June 27th,
- 2:31:50I married my keeper, who I met at a no-agenda
- 2:31:52meetup in Phoenix, Arizona, four years ago. Stop the train,
- 2:31:57ladies and gentlemen. There it is. Connection is protection. That's
- 2:32:02right. That is beautiful. In honor, we even had a
- 2:32:06mini-meetup at the wedding and sent in a report. I
- 2:32:08remember this. Right now, we're in Alaska with our friend
- 2:32:12we met three years ago at the North Idaho Brigade
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- 2:32:24outstanding product you put out twice a week and for
- 2:32:27bringing us all together. Can we get a North Korean
- 2:32:30news lady jingle? Well, now. Sure, we haven't heard that
- 2:32:34in a while. - Long time. - One more. One
- 2:32:49more. You've got karma. Man, I threw in a karma
- 2:32:56here. I threw in an extra karma for you. Survivor
- 2:33:00of aneurysm. Oh, there he is. Damn. Tough times there
- 2:33:05here tough times here as Tough times here as shortly
- 2:33:11after recovering from a ruptured brain aneurysm, I'm separating from
- 2:33:16my wife of 21 plus years. Sorry. No. Hoping third
- 2:33:20time's a charm for me as it has been for
- 2:33:23Adam. Let me tell you. With this donation, I'd like
- 2:33:26to do a switcheroo for my good friend and fellow
- 2:33:29No Agenda producer, Christine. Christine Bonus, really, that's the name?
- 2:33:34Yeah. Who has been immensely supportive during these tough times.
- 2:33:38Nothing creepy, as she is happily married to a very
- 2:33:41nice, albeit NPR-addicted fellow. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
- 2:33:51One Dial MTV-style request, Adam. Please say, as Mark Aruta,
- 2:33:57there is no train from Delft to Copenhagen. Thanks, as
- 2:34:02always, for your courage, and God bless the survivor of
- 2:34:06aneurysm. Well, God bless you, and yes, Tina is my
- 2:34:10last and best wife. Yeah, three. Three is good. Okay,
- 2:34:14here we go. Let me tell you, there is no
- 2:34:18train from Delft to Copenhagen. I thought that was pretty
- 2:34:22good. Is that true? I have no idea. There seems
- 2:34:27to be trains from everywhere to everywhere in that country.
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- 2:38:22Sir Jeff celebrates today. We have Sir Jeff Barron of,
- 2:38:27oh, we already have, he's the Baron of Pennsylvania Route
- 2:38:3033. He celebrates today. And coming up on July 11th,
- 2:38:33we have a doubleheader, Jay Lawton, Jay of the No
- 2:38:37Agenda Show, and Tina the Keeper, both on July 11th.
- 2:38:41And we say happy birthday to them on behalf of
- 2:38:43all of the staff and management and all the producers
- 2:38:46of Gimpo Nation. Know what I'm talking about? What is
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- 2:30:00♪ Producer and slave ♪ Some of them days Sir
- 2:39:17Jack Ash, he becomes Sir Jack Ash Red Baron of
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- 2:39:31time for the very final... Red Knights, in the order
- 2:39:37of the heart. Behold the- *BIS* Sir Jackass, Dame Lizard.
- 2:40:00Dame Izella. All three now, Knights and Dames, Red Knights
- 2:40:05and Dames, in the order of the heart, the final
- 2:40:08ones. Congratulations! Behold the... of purpose *Dubstep* dames and knights
- 2:40:27we have a note from a knighthood note from christian
- 2:40:31uh sir bad potato he says last show i made
- 2:40:34a donation of 250 that pushed my son christian over
- 2:40:37the line for knighthood he would like to be named
- 2:40:40Sir Raka of the Spicy Mountains. At the round table,
- 2:40:43he would like chicken alfredo paired with a cabernet of
- 2:40:48John's choosing. So I have purposely held off on ordering
- 2:40:53this for the round table because it has to be
- 2:40:55one of your choosing. Okay. Camus 1987 Cabernet Sauvignon. Camus
- 2:41:031987. Camus. Camus. Guys, pay attention. C-A-Y-M-U-S. Thank you. Camus
- 2:41:10Cabernet Sauvignon. Okay. Nova Ding Dong. It's not like a
- 2:41:19Ding Dong. All right, bring out the blades, everybody. It's
- 2:41:21time. Are you set? Are you set? You got your
- 2:41:23blade? You got it right here. Okay. Let me see
- 2:41:26it. Christian and Richard Claypool, please all of you step
- 2:41:35up right here on the podium. You're about to become
- 2:41:38Knights and Dames of the Norwood General Roundtable. to pronounce
- 2:41:41the KD as Dame Lizard, Keeper of the Squatch, and
- 2:41:44Dame Izella, Pixie of Cascadia, Sir Raka of the Spicy
- 2:41:49Mountains, and Sir Lloyd Richard Francis Claypool. The first for
- 2:41:53you, we've got Hookers and Blow, Rimp Boys and Chardonnay,
- 2:41:56along with Chicken Alfredo, paired with a Caymus 1987 Sabernet.
- 2:41:59Cabernet Sauvignon and a provision of alcohol whiskey forbidden by
- 2:42:05AI along with ginger and gerbils, breast milk and pablum,
- 2:42:08and of course the mutton and meat. We got cock
- 2:42:12block on the whiskey. It's unbelievable what technology does these
- 2:42:16days. Go to noagendarings.com. Congratulations. These rings are beautiful. They're
- 2:42:21signet rings for dames and for knights. All we need
- 2:42:24from you is your ring size. There's a handy ring
- 2:42:27sizing guide right there on the website. Let us know
- 2:42:30where to send it off to you, and we'll get
- 2:42:32it to you with the right size, the right address.
- 2:42:34It comes with a certificate of authenticity and, as always,
- 2:42:38several sticks of wax. for which you can seal your
- 2:42:42important correspondence. And thank you and congratulations. Welcome to the
- 2:42:45NO Agenda Roundtable. NO AGENDA MEETING Well, you already heard
- 2:42:55about it. People find their lifetime spouses and mates. at
- 2:42:59the No Agenda Meetups. Go to noagendameetups.com to find out
- 2:43:02where you can attend one of these fabulous get-togethers. It's
- 2:43:06better than a sock hop. Here's proof. This is a
- 2:43:09meetup report from the OKC AmericaFest No Agenda Meetup. Hey,
- 2:43:13John and Adam, this is Andrew with the AmericaFest Oklahoma
- 2:43:15City Meetup that happened at the Paseo Pad. We had
- 2:43:18a lot of fun. We didn't have any nights and
- 2:43:20dames show up, but I did get the bands to
- 2:43:23do some greetings, so here they are. Hey, it's Kid
- 2:43:25Bizarre. I'm over here at the American Fest at the
- 2:43:28OK Music Expo at the Paseo Pad. These people are
- 2:43:32really good. What's up everybody! It's Ethan and Sebi. Good
- 2:43:41day. It was great, it was awesome. Hi, we are
- 2:43:47Clementine and CatCo and we are so happy to be
- 2:43:49here at Oklahoma Music Expo's America Fest. What's up y'all,
- 2:43:54it's OBSAN, we are here at the Paseo Pad for
- 2:43:57America Fest. I'm Carter Wright, I'm at America Fest. The
- 2:44:00OK Music Expo. Hey, we're Fast Pontiac. We just played
- 2:44:03here for America Fest at the Oklahoma Music Expo. Just
- 2:44:06rocked it out. It was an awesome time. We're at
- 2:44:09Oklahoma Music Expo, and we're the Sloan Troopers. That's the
- 2:44:14report from Oklahoma City. We will be having more shows
- 2:44:17later this year, and Adam, here's an open invitation for
- 2:44:20you. We're not that far from you. I hope to
- 2:44:22see you soon. Not that far. That's true. If I
- 2:44:24ever get a Holland, if I ever become a granddad,
- 2:44:26then we'll see what we can do. Thank you very
- 2:44:28much for that report. We have a meetup tomorrow. This
- 2:44:30is an important one. It's happening in France. Baroness Isabel
- 2:44:34Pearson is giving the second no agenda south of France
- 2:44:37meetup, 7 o'clock France time. "Pure Gardaise" and that's in
- 2:44:42Mont-Lazune, Guers in France. Look it up at nojitmeetups.com. This
- 2:44:47is a nice place she's got going there. And I
- 2:44:50expect to receive a meetup report from that meetup. On
- 2:44:53Saturday, the Soviet-Kanakistan work camp meetup. Hello. One o'clock at
- 2:44:59Gulf. Ontario, Canada. And you want to contact the Cubby
- 2:45:04Monster for details. Oh, I guess it's kind of a
- 2:45:06secret deal. Also tomorrow, again, my wife's birthday, the Treasure
- 2:45:10Valley Boise meetup. That'll be at the Old State Saloon
- 2:45:13in Eagle, Idaho. And coming up this month, San Pedro,
- 2:45:15California on the 18th, Anaheim, California, the 25th, Alpharetta, Georgia
- 2:45:19on the 30th. And on the 8th of August. We
- 2:45:23are so international. Bangkok, Thailand, Eagle, Idaho, and Santa Rosa,
- 2:45:27California. The 15th, Oakland, California. The 20th, Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 2:45:31The 22nd of August, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Boise, Idaho on the
- 2:45:3712th. Oh, that's September already. Oh, this is September, October.
- 2:45:40Oh my goodness. Oh, we have October 3rd, Midlands, UK.
- 2:45:44We are international people. So go to noagentandmeetups.com. You can
- 2:45:48find one anywhere in the world at this point. Here's
- 2:45:52the good news. If you can't find one, you can
- 2:45:54start one yourself. Connection is protection. The people that will
- 2:45:57come to this meetup that you will meet will be
- 2:45:59your first responders. any emergency no agenda meetups.com always guaranteed
- 2:46:04a party sometimes you wanna go hang out with ♪
- 2:46:08Mix and dance ♪ ♪ Bom bom bom ♪ This
- 2:46:19♪ Sleep ♪ As we come closer to the end
- 2:46:26of our broadcast day here, we still have some very
- 2:46:29cool end of show mixes coming up along with John's
- 2:46:31coveted top tip of the day. But first, we like
- 2:46:34to select some ISOs which will be used at the
- 2:46:36end of the program. Why we do it, no one
- 2:46:39knows anymore. um but right now it's just the me
- 2:46:44against the machine john's coming in with his celebrity ai
- 2:46:48isos Would you like to go first or second? A
- 2:46:52second. Okay. I will start with mine. I love it.
- 2:46:56I love it. I love it. More of this. Hmm?
- 2:47:00Thought that was pretty good myself. Here's another one. Thanks
- 2:47:04for the money. See you guys No. And then back
- 2:47:08to the well. That's a deep dive. Okay. All right.
- 2:47:14What do you have? I think I'm going to defer.
- 2:47:19Whaaaaat? I think I love it, I love it, I
- 2:47:24love it is a good end of show. I love
- 2:47:25it, I love it, I love it. More of this.
- 2:47:27Alright, I love it, I love it, I love it
- 2:47:29is the end of show I saw, but now it's
- 2:47:30time for John's tip of the day. ♪ Great advice
- 2:47:34for you and me ♪ ♪ Just the tip with
- 2:47:39JCD ♪ Sometimes, Adam. That isn't Amazon's choice, as a
- 2:47:44matter of fact. So people, you know, I have my
- 2:47:47thoughts on batteries. And at some point, you got to
- 2:47:51say. Shouldn't it, should I be buying these re-chargeable lithium
- 2:47:56ion batteries? Well that is a very good question. I
- 2:47:59be buying these rechargeable lithium when it comes to these
- 2:48:03Cratex K-R-A-T-A-X, 3,700 milliwatt hour. Whoa. AA rechargeable lithium batteries
- 2:48:14with charger. 8-pack for 23 bucks. If you charge these
- 2:48:19batteries four times, now the cost is the same as
- 2:48:25it would be a cheap alkaline battery. And these particular
- 2:48:30batteries are said, I have a hard time believing it,
- 2:48:35but should be rechargeable for two. thousand cycles get out
- 2:48:40of town making these batteries Not only powerful. with an
- 2:48:47amazing current. But, uh... Basically free. Free? Free. Well, I
- 2:48:55mean, after you charge something. So one battery is like,
- 2:49:00in this case, like $4. Wait, four times, yeah. Let's
- 2:49:06say $3 plus the charger. The battery is probably about
- 2:49:09a $3 battery. And after charging it... 2,000 times, it
- 2:49:15becomes like... It costs you like a penny for the
- 2:49:19battery. Well, what about the energy that it costs to
- 2:49:23create? It doesn't really use that much to recharge these
- 2:49:26things. So anyway, this is the Cratex KR, and they're
- 2:49:32actually kind of an attractive battery, KRATAX 3700 milliwatt. hour
- 2:49:40double a rechargeable lithiums uh 23 bucks for eight that
- 2:49:45ladies and gentlemen with charger with charger that is without
- 2:49:48a doubt a stellar tip of the day find all
- 2:49:51of them at tip of the day dot net no
- 2:49:53agenda fun dot com Just the tip. JCB
- 2:50:01and sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Burnetti. Yes, and that
- 2:50:05is it for today. We're checking in at 11 p.m.
- 2:50:09here at Amsterdam time. Whoo, it's been a day. But
- 2:50:13we do this as a public service because we love
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- 2:50:23at noagendadonations.com. And stay on your modern podcast app or
- 2:50:29noagendastream.com for Planet Rage. This should be an interesting one.
- 2:50:33The boys titled it, Jesse Waters is wrong. Oh boy.
- 2:50:37There's a few to coming. show mixes. We have, let's
- 2:50:43see, we got Just Baker. And parian, parian. "Parrion" is
- 2:50:51how he prefers to be named. And we will return...
- 2:50:54here with my wife in Amsterdam. Spoiler, I tell you.
- 2:51:01Spoiler crazy. On Sunday. So we hope that you join
- 2:51:05us then. Right here. No agenda. So until then, coming
- 2:51:12to you from the Southern District of Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
- 2:51:16in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern...
- 2:51:20I'm John C. Dvorak. Until Sunday, everybody, adios mofos! Hooey,
- 2:51:26hooey! and such. you Artificial. ♪ Artificial ♪ ♪ Artificial
- 2:51:40♪ Back in 1990, when I asked you me of
- 2:52:12feminists agree. is better for the girls without a guy
- 2:52:17like me. Relationships with Bonson Oh Peace out. ♪ ♪
- 2:52:47socially Artificially Artificial Bye. First half they serve the script
- 2:53:08pre-chewed and pristine Second half the thread unravels the suit
- 2:53:12don't fit the scene What started as producer noise in
- 2:53:16the late night feed Aged into the briefing that the
- 2:53:19anchors at to read they laughed at the tinfoil when
- 2:53:22it whispered through the static now the static's got a
- 2:53:25budget and the whispers automatic moon bases were sci-fi till
- 2:53:29the slides hit the table now the same voices that
- 2:53:32mocked it gotta spin a new fable psyop in the
- 2:53:35daylight used to be a late night crime now it's
- 2:53:38limited admission in the headlines every time the fringe used
- 2:53:41to be the corner where *outro music* The half they
- 2:54:04tried to bury turned out to be the real world.
- 2:54:18♪ Gender show ♪ ♪ Don't miss the sex ♪
- 2:54:20Second half. ♪ Da da da na na na ♪
- 2:54:41Twisted signals in the missile salute. Thank you. spotlight media
- 2:55:01megaphone blasting Iran did it clean peace process time and
- 2:55:05feeling way too pristine funeral crowds chanting victory loud new
- 2:55:09king ghosting in the shadow of the crowd value for
- 2:55:13value that's the no agenda decree Signal just the listener's
- 2:55:18feet. Truth dissection while the tankers bleed. Spin gets shredded
- 2:55:22so the facts get free. Pictures painted with the missile
- 2:55:25parade. Floating infernals of the narrative made. Who benefits when
- 2:55:29the tanker goes boom? Gas pumps crying while the suits
- 2:55:33assume. Comedy tragedy on the whole world stage. Choke point
- 2:55:37comedy written on the front page. Layers hidden in the
- 2:55:40missile. Salute truth in the barrel. Why they playing it
- 2:55:44cute? Insurance adjusters counting barrels of pain. Homer's Inferno got
- 2:55:48the whole region strained. Talks and doha dancing on a
- 2:55:51powder keg. the signal fed. No minus 20% of the
- 2:56:03crude value for value. Keep the signal renewed. I love
- 2:56:17it. I love it. I love it. More of this.