1760 - "Mercenary Spyware"

Summary

Podcast Summary: No Agenda Show Episode 1760 – "Mercenary Spyware"

Release Date: May 1, 2025
Hosts: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak

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1. Introduction and AI-Generated Spam

Adam Curry opens the episode by expressing frustration with AI-generated spam, particularly targeting phrases like "I hope this message finds you well." He humorously critiques the overuse of such phrases on platforms like LinkedIn, attributing them to AI tools like ChatGPT.

• [00:36] Adam Curry: "I'm convinced that that's just Chat GPT... LinkedIn has become a spam network."

2. Breaking News: State Department Shake-Up

The hosts swiftly transition to breaking news, announcing that National Security Adviser Mike Walsh and his deputy Alex Wong are out of their positions. John C. Dvorak introduces Tammy Bruce, the State Department spokesperson, for a press conference.

• [02:21] John C. Dvorak: "...national security adviser Mike Walsh is out, as well as his deputy Alex Wong."

3. Critique of Tammy Bruce’s Press Conference

The press conference led by Tammy Bruce is heavily critiqued by both hosts. They perceive her statements as unsatisfactory propaganda, failing to address critical issues and instead offering vague affirmations of President Trump's first 100 days.

• [06:03] Guest Speaker: "This mission was done well... But President Trump wanted it to work out very well."

• [06:57] Adam Curry: "Complete and utter. Was terrible crap propaganda."

4. Signal App and Department of Defense Usage

A significant portion of the discussion centers around the Signal app, widely used within the Department of Defense for secure communications. The hosts debate allegations of Signal having backdoors, linking it to broader concerns about government surveillance and cybersecurity.

• [07:29] Adam Curry: "The narrative that it said commercial app... It's all on its face. Bullcrap. But clearly, someone had to go, and today we know it’s Waltz and Wong."

5. Trump's First 100 Days: A Satirical Overview

John C. Dvorak sarcastically narrates President Trump's first 100 days, mocking policies such as detaining illegal aliens in Guantanamo and overhauling federal departments. The segment lampoons the administration's perceived authoritarian measures.

• [11:22] Guest Speaker: "Today, America's decline is over."

• [14:11] Adam Curry: "It's morning again in America... it's a communist holiday."

6. Democratic Party Internal Conflicts and David Hogg

The hosts delve into internal conflicts within the Democratic Party, particularly focusing on activist David Hogg and his push to unseat Democrats in safe seats through primary challenges. Ro Khanna is mentioned as a supporter of this movement, critiqued for potentially disrupting party unity.

• [30:32] John C. Dvorak: "He's trying to reach a compromise with the DNC and David Hogg."

• [34:04] Adam Curry: "Maybe Soros money is possible... The Soros gambit is over."

7. Major Blackout in Spain and Portugal: Renewable Energy Reliance

A detailed report covers one of Europe's largest blackouts affecting Spain and Portugal. The discussion attributes the outage to heavy reliance on renewable energy sources, specifically inverter-based solar and wind power, compounded by a substation fire in France that caused a significant power loss.

• [35:10] Guest Speaker: "Holly crap, it’s Spain and Portugal after one of Europe's biggest ever blackouts."

• [39:02] Adam Curry: "Inverter based means solar or wind because they generate direct current... 15 gigawatts is a lot of Generation to lose all at once."

8. Tony Blair’s stance on Climate Debate

Tony Blair is highlighted for his critique of the international climate debate, suggesting that current net-zero policies are unsustainable and criticize the financial burdens they impose. However, he still supports long-term goals for renewable investment and nuclear energy.

• [43:05] Guest Speaker: "Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair suggests there is hysteria in the climate debate."

• [44:59] Adam Curry: "This folds right into a classic clip I have..."

9. Rare Earth Minerals and the Stablecoin Bill

The conversation shifts to the strategic importance of rare earth minerals, particularly in the context of US-China relations. The hosts explain the upcoming Stablecoin Bill in Congress, which aims to digitalize the US dollar through stablecoins like Tether, backed by US Treasuries. They discuss how this move could enhance the dollar's global influence while controlling domestic interest rates via SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate).

• [143:30] John C. Dvorak: "Tether is pushing the US dollar out into emerging markets..."

• [147:34] Adam Curry: "If they strip out those transactions, that is a case..."

10. Partial Impeachment of Donald Trump

John C. Dvorak reports on Congressman Shri Thanidar's resolution to impeach Donald Trump, citing obstruction of justice and abuse of executive power related to wrongful deportations. The segment underscores ongoing political tensions and Trump's contentious relationship with the judiciary.

• [160:08] Adam Curry: "This is a call you got earlier today on your... Is this a robo call?"

• [163:00] John C. Dvorak: "This is Congressman Shri Thanidar. Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy."

11. Engagement with Audience and Humor

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in humorous exchanges, playful banter, and satirical commentary. They play clips mocking media segments, engage in light-hearted role-playing, and utilize humor to underscore their critiques of political events.

• [175:04] Adam Curry: "It's like Jenga, and at some point, DOGE is pulling out pieces..."

• [179:57] John C. Dvorak: "Another fabulous show. What more can I say?"

12. Donation Segment: Recognizing Supporters

The episode concludes with a detailed donation segment, acknowledging supporters who contributed $50 and above. The hosts read personalized messages from donors, humorously bestowing honorary titles such as "Commodore" and "Baron." This segment emphasizes the show's reliance on listener support and community engagement.

• [175:02] Guest Speaker: "All right, he left out. That's true."

• [176:22] Adam Curry: "It's your duty. It's your duty. All right, thank you very much."

Conclusion

Episode 1760 of the No Agenda Show delivers a blend of serious political commentary and sharp satire, addressing current events ranging from cybersecurity concerns and international energy policies to internal party conflicts and innovative financial legislation. Through witty dialogue and critical analysis, Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak provide listeners with a comprehensive deconstruction of contemporary media narratives, all while engaging their dedicated audience with humor and interactive segments.

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Notable Quotes:

• [06:03] Adam Curry: "Last quick thought. You've given us nothing. Nothing. Nothing."

• [14:11] Adam Curry: "It's morning again in America. It's one of the most famous ads of its time and we have a modern day version."

• [35:03] Guest Speaker: "He [President Trump] has been very clear that his commitment is to diplomacy around the world."

• [47:53] Adam Curry: "Do you know what a euro dollar is? We hear it all the time."

• [147:34] Adam Curry: "You're trying to operate a Ferrari on a country road... It's a pedal bike on the Autobahn."

• [160:08] Adam Curry: "This is a call you got earlier today on your... Is this a robo call?"

• [163:00] John C. Dvorak: "This is Congressman Shri Thanidar. Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy."

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Note: The transcript for this episode includes fictional events and characters set in the future. The summary captures the essence of the discussions as presented in the transcript.

Transcript

[Adam Curry]

Yo yo 3. Holy crap. Adam Curry.

[John C. Dvorak]

John C. Dvorak.

[Adam Curry]

It's Thursday, May 1, 2025. This is your award winning Kibble Nation media assassination episode 1760. This is no agenda, celebrating 6,397 days and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.

[Guest Speaker]

I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where I'm sick and tired of hearing. I hope this message finds you well. I'm John Ced Borac.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, I'm convinced that that's just Chad GPT. If you get one of those and someone said, write a nice letter to my friend.

[Guest Speaker]

Yes. And that's this message finds you well. And then there's the alternate, which is I hope this email finds you well. What does this even mean? Has anyone ever said this in real life? I hope this message finds you well. What is it looking for me? Did it found me and it found me well. No, seriously, what does it mean? What does this stupid phrase mean? And why is it at the beginning? And you're right, it's obviously from Chad GPT because it's followed by a lengthy sales pitch that goes on and on and on and never gets to the.

[Adam Curry]

Point, what were they trying to sell you with this? This time with that opening usually some.

[Guest Speaker]

Service or maybe we can get more podcast listeners. LinkedIn is filled with I hope this message finds you well.

[Adam Curry]

LinkedIn has become a spam network. Nobody like LinkedIn anymore. They're all, you know, like, I've got to curate my feed. I've got to close everything down. I can't accept any more connections. It's a mess. They really hoard that. Once Microsoft bought it, they hoard that thing out. They made it bad. They really made. I think they probably let Chad GPT loose on us. Everybody could grab all the emails and profiles and just spam away. That's all that AI is good for. Spam. Deep fakes. Humor, humor, humor. Yes. And. And some Python coding. Okay, I'll give you that. So use some PHP scripts. All right. Dynamite. Dynamite. Before we even get started, John, we have breaking news. It came in this morning over the transform. Breaking, breaking, breaking, breaking.

[John C. Dvorak]

Again with breaking news. Sources are confirming to Fox News that national security adviser Mike Walsh is out, as well as his deputy Alex Wong. Addition. Names are likely to come, we are told, and we expect to hear from the President on this soon. I'm Harris Faulkner. You are in the Faulkner Focus.

[Adam Curry]

I'm in the Faulkner Focus. Oh, no.

[John C. Dvorak]

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce is also with me.

[Adam Curry]

I love this. We have not had Tammy Bruce show up in any real capacity. This is exciting.

[Guest Speaker]

Tammy, she's been on a lot. You just haven't seen her.

[Adam Curry]

Well, no, but she hasn't been on the show because now it's breaking news. Breaking, breaking. And Tammy Bruce is going to tell us exactly what happened or is she going to waffle a bit and be a propagandist, which is exactly the opposite of what she was when she wasn't working for government. I wonder which Tammy will get first, though.

[John C. Dvorak]

Let's get the news of what's coming together right now. Tammy Bruce with the State Department is with us right now. So first of all, just kind of top line this for us. I mean, Jennifer has given us the news.

[Adam Curry]

Now if someone says to you, John, we're going to John at the State Department, topline this, what would we, we be expecting to hear from you?

[Guest Speaker]

The probably the most succinct explanation that explains everything right off the, right off the bat, the top line.

[Adam Curry]

And this is why we have no career, we have no career in broadcast.

[Guest Speaker]

The opening, the open, the, the, the.

[John C. Dvorak]

Headline, the headline from the State Department perspective, Tammy. Well, here's what I can tell you. When it comes to.

[Adam Curry]

Right off the bat, here's, right off the bat, here's what I can tell is nothing.

[John C. Dvorak]

Well, here's what I can tell you. When it comes to national security for the country, the nature of the president.

[Adam Curry]

A little laugh tale in there. I hadn't noticed that when I was clipping it. When it comes to national security for the country.

[John C. Dvorak]

Well, here's what I can tell you. When it comes to national security for the country, the what the lady nature of the president who's involved in making determinations about this nation's trajectory, of course, economically, when it comes to security and what we've seen and what we know from President Trump is he's been very clear that his commitment is to diplomacy around the world. He is clearly an active and engaged president that I think is this is a man who comes from business where.

[Adam Curry]

His vision, blah, blah, this is so disappointing from Tammy.

[John C. Dvorak]

Bruce and his understanding of what needs to occur is the guiding hand of everything that happens in this government. And of course, he is hands on literally when it comes to making things, literally when it comes to the implementation.

[Guest Speaker]

He has hands on walls, what was he doing, etc.

[John C. Dvorak]

At every department every day, whether it's the State Department or the Department of Defense or of course, when it comes to who he chooses to advise him.

[Adam Curry]

She gives us nothing. What kind of top line is that, Tammy? Bruce, the disappointment of the century. We loved you. We loved you on Fox. You were there to tell us, to tell it to us straight. We loved you. No. No. Okay, so let's do some propaganda.

[John C. Dvorak]

That mission was done well.

[Adam Curry]

So now they're talking about the mission of which the stop secret details leaked on the signal and signal.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, the Houthi bombing.

[Adam Curry]

The Houthi. So we're going to move from let's not talk about what happened to that was a great mission. Mission accomplished.

[John C. Dvorak]

That mission was done well. It was completed well. And I think it's worth stating that, that all of this, this is a leadership move now that's happening, but the actual mission that President Trump wanted worked out very well. Your last quick thought, we'll move forward.

[Adam Curry]

Last quick thought. You've given us nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

[John C. Dvorak]

Yeah, I think that's it. When we're looking at the choices that are made when it, whether it's the Houthis, the nature of diplomacy with Iran, which of course always continues bringing people to the table regarding Ukraine and Russia, the situation in Gaza, the critical minerals deal, which is actually a much broader deal with Ukraine with money and resources that will be reinvested into Ukraine and its propaganda building after this horrible carnage that has folded over three years. So you've got major successes economically and otherwise as inflation goes down. It is a historic first 100 days. It has been aggressive, exciting, and America is want to change by electing President Trump. And we're seeing the benefits of his vision on every single framework. And it's been a success. It'll continue to be a success.

[Adam Curry]

Complete and utter. Was terrible crap propaganda.

[Guest Speaker]

Terrible. That was a bad performance.

[Adam Curry]

It was disappointing. Disappointing. Tammy. Bruce, I have a thing. That was the Laura Logan spot. I think she was supposed to get that spot. I don't know why she didn't.

[Guest Speaker]

Laura Logan would have done a better job than that.

[Adam Curry]

Well, that's the problem because this is clearly. Oh, let's just do some propaganda because it's 100 days now just before we move on. I received. We have.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, before we start, I have some thoughts about this waltz thing.

[Adam Curry]

Well, can I, can I just give you a boots on the ground real quick? Because we have the best producers and I've got many producer boots on the ground regarding Signalgate, then, yes, I want to hear your thoughts about Walz. As a military contractor, writes our boots on the ground producer with the army and as a Navy reservist, we are required to Use signal in conus and oconus, which I think is continental United States. And what's oconus? Oh, continental United States. So the narrative that it said commercial app, which you guys debunked, it's false. DoD uses it as the app of choice for OPSEC operational security. I am bed with the 160th for SCOM, which is an unknown acronym to me. All chats between US contractors and our army counterparts are on signal. WhatsApp is only used by rear detachment Air Force units. Get in the back, you WhatsApp people. By the way, Michael Strikars is a douchebag.

[Guest Speaker]

Douchebag. Just throw that in.

[Adam Curry]

He says he turned me on to you in 2019. He doesn't donate, so he's a douchebag. So whenever they say commercial app, it is a requirement within the Department of Defense. So this is all on its face. Bullcrap. But clearly, someone had to go, and I guess today we now know it is. Walt, your thoughts?

[Guest Speaker]

Well, Waltz and Wong.

[Adam Curry]

Well, Wong was the problem. That's what everyone.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, we think it was the problem. I'm wondering whether. Because Waltz was set up with his signal system by the CIA directly, according to him.

[Adam Curry]

Yes. And Wong was.

[Guest Speaker]

I think they set him up. I think this could have been a setup to get rid of him, because, yes, he's annoying. He was not a guy that anyone liked. They didn't. In fact, people that were Trumpers didn't like him either. But what's convenient here is that he could also have been a bargaining chip with trade talks with the Chinese to.

[Adam Curry]

Get some ting Wong back because.

[Guest Speaker]

Some ting Wong.

[Adam Curry]

Wong.

[Guest Speaker]

So Wong was a Chinese national who's anti China, and Waltz was one of the biggest China hawks. So let's get rid of those two guys, and we'll start to talk. And I think they may have been sacrificed. Set up. Set up. To begin with.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

Set up and then sacrifice. The excuse of. The excuse will be, well, you know, this signal thing has some. Somebody had to take a fall for.

[Adam Curry]

It, even though it is a required app, which makes me question. Which makes me question the signal even more now.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, CIA. It's got a back door. Obviously.

[Adam Curry]

It has to have a back door. It must have a backdoor.

[Guest Speaker]

Sure.

[Adam Curry]

Well, all this comes amidst the most important thing. And I did the calculation this morning. We today, John, as of today, May 1, 2025, are celebrating 6,397 days of broadcasting to Gitmo Nation. Congratulations, sir. This is where you say congratulations.

[Guest Speaker]

Congratulations.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, congratulations. Because it's a lot more than the scare. President trump. The first 100 days continues. It continues. The what? First 100 days.

[Guest Speaker]

This is 100 days thing all about. I mean, they didn't. I don't remember this. The first Trump go round. I don't remember during Biden. I don't. The last time I remember first hundred days was I think when Steve Jobs rolled out the Macintosh.

[Adam Curry]

No, I think 100 days has been around. It has.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, they're milking it.

[Adam Curry]

Well, of course they're milking it. Including the BBC, Donald Trump has been marking 100 days since he was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. And in case you missed any of it, here's a reminder of the story so far. From this moment on, America's decline is over. Over.

[Guest Speaker]

To sign some very important executive orders. Military personnel to assist Border Patrol.

[Adam Curry]

30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens. The US Will take over the Gaza Strip. We'll own it.

[John C. Dvorak]

Air Force One is currently flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America.

[Adam Curry]

If all of the hostages aren't returned, let hell break out.

[John C. Dvorak]

The Department of Government efficiency moves to revamp and shrink.

[Adam Curry]

I love the little drum roll in.

[John C. Dvorak]

The background of the federal government. People voted for major government reform and.

[Adam Curry]

That'S what people are going to get.

[John C. Dvorak]

A dictator without elections.

[Adam Curry]

Zelensky better move fast. Should I run again?

[Guest Speaker]

You tell me. You should be thanking the President for trying to bring it into this conference to Ukraine.

[John C. Dvorak]

You're not in a good position.

[Adam Curry]

You don't have the cards right now. Tariffs, you know, they're all set.

[John C. Dvorak]

They go into effect tomorrow. Hopefully we can get a cease fire from Russia. There were nearly 200 who were sent to El Sal.

[Adam Curry]

Department of Education.

[Guest Speaker]

We're going to eliminate it.

[John C. Dvorak]

Details of the US Attack plans were.

[Adam Curry]

First shared two days earlier with Jeffrey Goldberg.

[John C. Dvorak]

I don't know anything about it.

[Adam Curry]

We have to have Greenland. This is Liberation Day. The United States will implement reciprocal tariffs. We've been meeting with China.

[John C. Dvorak]

We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia.

[Guest Speaker]

You have to have Ukraine want to.

[Adam Curry]

Make a deal too.

[John C. Dvorak]

America is back.

[Adam Curry]

You know why they didn't do this for Biden? Because all they would have for the montage is.

[Guest Speaker]

Dignity.

[Adam Curry]

Do you remember back in 1984 when Ronald Reagan became president?

[Guest Speaker]

He became president in 1980.

[Adam Curry]

He was reelected in 84.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, right.

[Adam Curry]

Do you remember the Morning in America campaign?

[Guest Speaker]

Vaguely.

[Adam Curry]

It's morning again in America.

[Guest Speaker]

Today more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's History.

[Adam Curry]

With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes, more than.

[Guest Speaker]

At any time in the past four years. This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women will be married. And with inflation at less than half of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future.

[Adam Curry]

It's morning again in America.

[Guest Speaker]

And under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better.

[Adam Curry]

Why would we ever want to return.

[Guest Speaker]

To where we were less than four short years ago?

[Adam Curry]

It's morning in America. It's one of the most famous ads of its time and we have a modern day version.

[John C. Dvorak]

It's a new day.

[Guest Speaker]

The sun is rising, the birds are singing.

[John C. Dvorak]

And things, things are returning to normal.

[Guest Speaker]

It's norming in America. Today we're actually arresting shoplifters. And fewer businesses are being burned down all over America. Pronouns are being dropped from bios.

[John C. Dvorak]

Men are not having babies and fewer.

[Guest Speaker]

Drag queens are flashing their genitals at children. Videos like this one aren't being shadow banned as much.

[John C. Dvorak]

People are saying master bedroom.

[Guest Speaker]

And look at that, white people are reappearing in commercials. Oh, and guys, we can say guys again. America, the fever has broken.

[John C. Dvorak]

Now we can be sensible, nicer and normal. Join us and let's never go back to those weird, angry, divisive times again.

[Guest Speaker]

It's norming in America. That's right, baby.

[John C. Dvorak]

Have a great normie. You hear?

[Adam Curry]

Same PR team. Clearly, it's norming in America.

[Guest Speaker]

It's very funny.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, I like that. I thought that was good.

[Guest Speaker]

That brings me immediately to a netball clip.

[Adam Curry]

Okay, are you on the mic, man? Are you talking? Are you spitting in that stuff?

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I hope so.

[Adam Curry]

I'm gonna jack you up some more.

[Guest Speaker]

Jack me up.

[Adam Curry]

The opening show. Things write themselves. Okay, that brings you to a clip immediately. You said what kind of clip?

[Guest Speaker]

This is the ranting lunatic chick.

[Adam Curry]

Wait a minute, you're going straight to tick tock. Can we do this? This early in the show, can we handle it?

[Guest Speaker]

Maybe not, but this is definitely as it will set the tone.

[John C. Dvorak]

You know what? Okay, I know I'm insane and I know I'm the Internet's favorite. Crash out. What I'm gonna say, right?

[Adam Curry]

Clash out.

[Guest Speaker]

Lash out.

[Adam Curry]

Clash out. I like that.

[Guest Speaker]

Crash out. Crash. Crash.

[Adam Curry]

She said crash out. I thought it said clash.

[Guest Speaker]

I think she said crash out.

[Adam Curry]

Crash.

[John C. Dvorak]

You know what? Okay, I know I'm insane and I know I'm the Internet's favorite. Crash out. What I'm gonna say Right now is I'm not paying my debt anymore. What we're doing from this point forward is a debt strike. 20, 25. If I have to do it alone and be insane, I will. I literally will. The fact that we would continue paying our debt. We can't stop paying our rent because that's too crazy. It'll put a lot of people in harm. I'm sick of protesting. It does nothing. I don't want to go to war because look how skinny my arms are. We have to do something. I'm not paying my debt. You can join me on this or you cannot. I'm gonna take a picture of. And I'm going to keep records of the debt that I have right now. Because when the interest rates go up on that, I'm not paying those either. Even when they start to meet our demand. And the demands are as such. Abolish ice. Okay. I want those men home from El Salvador. I don't care. And we need to protect Medicaid. The Department of Education needs to be restored. I want critical race theory in the classroom, period. We need to literally be delusional. I'm gonna be delusional right now. I will stand here right now. Be delusional. Make fun of me all you want. This is what we need to do. This is what we need to do. And if they don't meet our demands, then they. Then what we're going to do is then we're going to stop paying a rent. But for right now, stop paying your bills, stop paying your debt. We're going to start there. And it's like, what the fuck do I have to. Oh, my credit score for the house that I'll never buy. I already am not allowed to rent because I don't make enough money. I have to have a cosigner anyway. So what does my credit score even fucking matter? What does it matter, bro? Literally once. And I want Doge out of office. We're done with him. We're done with him. And free health care for all people. I'm so dead serious, guys. We're done with this.

[Adam Curry]

And I love that she called herself delusional. That is. That is some.

[Guest Speaker]

That's a bipolar episode.

[Adam Curry]

No, no, that's engagement farming on Tick Tock.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't think. I think. Yes. You have to see her. She's pretty serious.

[Adam Curry]

No, this is. It's all an act. It's all.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, she's pretty good actress. Well, she's pretty funny.

[Adam Curry]

She got on the no Agenda show. I'll give her yeah, she did.

[Guest Speaker]

But this is part of. There's also another movement going on besides not paying your bills. There's a. None of this is going to work, of course, because it's a very small minority.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, it's norming.

[Guest Speaker]

In America, people call it for the ill. What's illegal, which is a general strike. And they're calling for a general strike. And I think it was for May Day of next year maybe.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, they're getting ahead of the game. They're front running the strike.

[Guest Speaker]

But there's a. I'm noticing it's starting to show up more and more about let's do a general strike. That's going to do it.

[Adam Curry]

Well, today is, of course, a dual celebration.

[Guest Speaker]

Today's May Day.

[Adam Curry]

And what is May Day?

[Guest Speaker]

May Day is workers. It's the workers day. It's. This is the day of the working man. What? It's communist holiday?

[Adam Curry]

Yeah. Communist holiday.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah.

[Adam Curry]

Would you be surprised to hear that this falls on the exact same day as the National Day of Prayer?

[Guest Speaker]

Well, I know it is the National Day of Prayer because Trump was on the air, of course, and he just could not stop talking.

[Adam Curry]

It's called counter programming, man. It's like we're not going to pay any attention to the commies. It's National Day of Prayer. Yeah, it's good. It's counter programming.

[Guest Speaker]

It's a good World's Workers Day. Workers unite.

[Adam Curry]

Prayer, pray. Anyway, it is 100 days.

[Guest Speaker]

Also a show day.

[Adam Curry]

It is a show day. Of course, it's a double. It's a triple threat. It is Workers Day. It is National Day of Prayer and a show day. What more can you do? But we are celebrating 100 days. And President Trump chose ABC to do his 100 day. His one. His 100 day.

[Guest Speaker]

100 day excoriation of the media.

[Adam Curry]

Yes. And most of this was about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Let me ask about one man in one court order.

[Guest Speaker]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

[Adam Curry]

He's the Salvadoran man who crossed into this country illegally, but who is under a protective order. I think to get into the White House correspondence dinner, you had to pronounce Kilmar Abrego Garcia properly. Otherwise you weren't allowed in. That he not be sent back to El Salvador.

[Guest Speaker]

Your government sent him back to El.

[Adam Curry]

Salvador and acknowledged in court that was a mistake. And now the Supreme Court has upheld an order that you must return him to facilitate his return to the United States. What are you doing to comply?

[John C. Dvorak]

Well, the lawyer that said it was.

[Adam Curry]

A mistake was Here a long time.

[John C. Dvorak]

Was not appointed by us.

[Guest Speaker]

Should not have said that. Should not have said that. And just so you understand the person.

[Adam Curry]

That you're talking about, you know, you're.

[Guest Speaker]

Making this person sound.

[Adam Curry]

This is a MS.13 gang member, a tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified to even talk about him. Okay? This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland. I'm not saying he's a good guy.

[John C. Dvorak]

It's about the rule of law, the.

[Adam Curry]

Order from the Supreme Court into our country illegally. You could get him back. There's a phone on this desk. I could.

[John C. Dvorak]

You could pick it up and with all the power of the presidency, you.

[Guest Speaker]

Could call up the president of El.

[Adam Curry]

Salvador and say, and if he were the gentleman that you say he is.

[Guest Speaker]

I would do that.

[Adam Curry]

But the court has ordered you to facilitate that. I'm not the one making this decision.

[Guest Speaker]

We have lawyers want to do this.

[Adam Curry]

The buck stops in this office. I follow the law. You want me to follow the law. If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I'd probably keep.

[John C. Dvorak]

Him right where the Supreme Court says.

[Adam Curry]

What the law is. Now. This was so good because the president really thought that he was going to get a pass somehow. But this. I chose you. I chose you, abc. I chose you. Terry Moran. Listen, I was elected to. To take care of a problem that was. It was an unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man. A man that turned out to be incompetent, that you always said was wonderful, a great genius, right? And now you find out, all of the media, now, they're saying what a mistake they made. A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where millions of people float in. I campaigned on that issue. I wouldn't say it was my number one issue, but it was pretty close. I campaigned in that issue. I've done an amazing job.

[Guest Speaker]

I have closed borders.

[John C. Dvorak]

He said, you couldn't do it.

[Adam Curry]

You wouldn't be able to do it. It would never happen. Well, it happened, and it happened very quickly.

[John C. Dvorak]

Wait a minute.

[Adam Curry]

When we have criminals, murderous criminals in this country, we have to get them out. And we're doing it. And here comes the bone of contention. The tattoo. You'll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out, he's got a. He said he wasn't a member of a gang.

[Guest Speaker]

And then they looked, and on his knuckles, he had MS.13.

[Adam Curry]

There's a dispute Wait a minute, wait a minute.

[Guest Speaker]

He had MS.13 on his knuckles.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, he had some tattoos that are interpreted that way, but let's move on.

[Guest Speaker]

Wait a minute, Terry.

[Adam Curry]

He did not have the letter MS.13.

[Guest Speaker]

It says MS.13.

[Adam Curry]

That was photoshopped. Photoshop. That was Photoshopped, Terry.

[John C. Dvorak]

You can do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime.

[Adam Curry]

You know, you're doing.

[John C. Dvorak]

Doing the interview.

[Adam Curry]

I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you. But that's okay, Terry, but you're not being very nice. We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else.

[Guest Speaker]

Terry, Agree to disagree. Do you want me to show you the picture, by the way? By the way, that is the. The lowest of the low outs. I agree to disagree.

[Adam Curry]

I know. I hear it on podcasts all the time. You and I, we just fight. We never agree to disagree. It's like. You're right.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't think we've ever. I never thought about this, but in 17 years, I don't think we've ever used that phrase on each other.

[Adam Curry]

We've never gone to bed angry at each other either.

[Guest Speaker]

Well.

[Adam Curry]

Well, that's.

[Guest Speaker]

Who cares, Terry?

[Adam Curry]

But you're not being very nice.

[Guest Speaker]

He had ms.13 tattoo.

[Adam Curry]

We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else.

[Guest Speaker]

Terry, do you want me to show you the picture?

[Adam Curry]

I saw the picture. We'll Photoshop. Here we go.

[John C. Dvorak]

Here we go.

[Adam Curry]

Don't Photoshop it. Go look at his hand. He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine.

[Guest Speaker]

I want to get to Ukraine.

[Adam Curry]

No, no, no, no.

[Guest Speaker]

He had Ms. As clear as you can be.

[Adam Curry]

Not interpreted.

[Guest Speaker]

It's Photoshopped.

[John C. Dvorak]

People no longer believe.

[Adam Curry]

Well, the news, because in El Salvador, they aren't there, but let's just go. They aren't there when he's in elsewhere. Oh, they're there now, right? No, but they're in your picture, Terry.

[John C. Dvorak]

Ukraine.

[Guest Speaker]

Sir, he's got MS.13 on his knuckles.

[Adam Curry]

All right, okay, we'll take a look. It's. You do such a disservice.

[Guest Speaker]

We'll take a look at this.

[Adam Curry]

Why don't you just say, yes, he.

[Guest Speaker]

Does, and, you know, go on to something else Contested.

[Adam Curry]

So this is a contentious issue because many people have emailed me this saying, trump, he's not doing his homework. He should just. The take the L. It was Photoshopped. Now there's two pictures. There's one, there's.

[Guest Speaker]

One of them's Got some. You call it Photoshop. Explaining what the symbols mean. Ms. 13. That's what the Photoshop part is.

[Adam Curry]

No, no, it is MS.13 on his knuckles. But the second photo taken in Ukraine, you don't see that. In fact, what you do see is his knuckles are all smudged. That's the photoshop.

[Guest Speaker]

No, the MS.13M. There's no M on his knuckles.

[Adam Curry]

No, no. They showed a picture of MS.13 on his knuckles. They showed that picture.

[Guest Speaker]

That's the Photoshopped version.

[Adam Curry]

I wonder if that's Photoshopped.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, it is. It's obviously, if you look at it carefully, it's just the letters are too clear. Because the symbols mean Ms. 13. That was the idea.

[Adam Curry]

But I'm just. I'm just saying the pictures they showed in this piece showed what you call a Photoshop. But I would say the other picture where his knuckles are completely smudged, that's a Photoshop.

[Guest Speaker]

I think that's Photoshopped too.

[Adam Curry]

They could both be Photoshopped. But yes, the symbols stand for Ms. 13.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, that's all there is to it.

[Adam Curry]

And he beat up his wife. Since when are we. Since when are we.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, that was the. Apparently there's another report that came out this morning where he. He also did something he also beat his wife into. There's some other beating that took place. It's more part of this whole thing. More beatings. Yes.

[Adam Curry]

You are listening to the no Age show. Still ahead, I'm asking the justification for going after people you don't like. We'll be back with more of Trump's 100 days or not. So that was big from the M5M this week. 100 days. What's happened? 100 days? 100 days. 100 days.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, I don't have any hundred day stuff. I have what the Democrats did, which I thought was the best part of the week.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, this is with Hog. The Hog kids.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, no, the Hog kid's not that interesting. The thing I thought that was interesting was the sit in.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, that started on Sunday. We saw the sit in start live on the show.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, we saw it start, but here's the report which. Holy mackerel, I didn't clip this correctly. I can tell by looking at it.

[Adam Curry]

Do you have the name of it?

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, Congress Sit in.

[Adam Curry]

Okay. Oh, it's okay. We'll roll with it.

[Guest Speaker]

Check out what's going on.

[Adam Curry]

Let's see what we have.

[John C. Dvorak]

Congress returns its spring break today, but two lawmakers returned to the Capitol a day earlier in protest of the Republican budget plan. You're looking at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker who held a sit in that lasted more than 12 hours. This is one of those moments where we have to step up more as leaders in Congress.

[Adam Curry]

We are in a moral moment. And what we need now is not.

[John C. Dvorak]

Just for a Congress, congresspeople and four.

[Adam Curry]

Senators, but to get there. We need more people that are willing to stand in this moral storm in this moment.

[John C. Dvorak]

This news congressional correspondent Nicole Killian joins us now from Capitol Hill with more on this. Good morning to you, Nicole. Senator Booker, that kind of ended that speech and everyone stand it up. It was kind of like a Aurora's applause around him.

[Adam Curry]

But why I didn't hear any roarious applause on the clip, did they?

[Guest Speaker]

There was some, there was some applause. But stand the guys. He said they standed up.

[Adam Curry]

Well, he's British.

[Guest Speaker]

This guy's a British. Bring a British guy in so they can do proper English. Yes, they stand it up.

[Adam Curry]

I've been standed up all the time do this.

[John C. Dvorak]

Why conduct a sit in protest on the weekend and from what you can tell, did it resonate? Well, I think a couple of things. You know, interestingly I did ask Senator Booker after he had that record breaking speech on the Senate floor earlier this month if this was a sign of things to come from, from Democrats because of course some have been under fire for not doing enough to combat the Trump agenda. And he did acknowledge the need on the part of Democrats to do more. And so obviously this all happened on the House side of the steps which involved Minority Leader Hunter.

[Guest Speaker]

Okay, you stop the clip. It goes on. This woman is one of those women, I don't know if you ever worked with any of them. They're in broadcasting. They can talk forever. Oh, it's yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak, yak.

[Adam Curry]

Yes.

[Guest Speaker]

They have to be interrupt. They leave very few openings because when I tried to clip her, I tried to cut some because she, she ran like she would use and she like stood and she would. There was no way of cutting.

[Adam Curry]

You know what I mean? An unclippable winch.

[Guest Speaker]

I told you.

[Adam Curry]

An unclippable wench. Yes. He's no good. He's no good.

[Guest Speaker]

Unclippable wench who can't stop talking.

[Adam Curry]

I want to play a little bit of this hog thing though, because I just thought it was interesting to show what disarray the Democrat Party is in.

[John C. Dvorak]

DNC Vice Chair David Hogg was on the lead last week.

[Adam Curry]

Talking about his plan to raise $20.

[John C. Dvorak]

Million to unseat Democrats in safe seats in primaries.

[Adam Curry]

By the way, the woman you're going to hear talking, her name is Meghan. What is it? Do I have it here? Megan Hayes. She was an advisor to Biden and she has a most interesting speech impediment. Now the DNC chairman, Ken Martin weighed.

[John C. Dvorak]

In and here's what he had to say.

[Adam Curry]

No DNC officer should ever attempt to.

[Guest Speaker]

Influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger. While, you know, certainly, you know, I.

[John C. Dvorak]

Understand what he's trying to do. As I've said to him, if you.

[Guest Speaker]

Want to challenge incumbents, you're more than.

[John C. Dvorak]

Free to do that, but just not.

[Guest Speaker]

As an officer of the DNC from.

[John C. Dvorak]

Minnesota, if you can't tell. So Hogg's argument is because he's not here to defend himself. There's a lot of dead weight in this party and we're talking about safe Democratic seats. So whoever wins is going to end up winning anyway. And you know, we need to rise to meet the moment.

[Adam Curry]

That's what he would say.

[John C. Dvorak]

Great. You don't do that as a member of the dnc. You are an elected person on the dnc. Leave the party and go do that. The DNC is not an idea. That is a Democratic party. The DNC is an institution with a job to do. People vote in primaries, not the dnc.

[Adam Curry]

Are you sympathetic to his arguments at all?

[John C. Dvorak]

No. Then don't be part of the dnc. What about the idea that there should be. Absolutely. There should be primaries. People should be primaried if that is. That is how our democracy works. But if you want to help the primary challengers, then leave the dnc. That is not your role as a dnc.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, interesting. Now that I listen to her, you can't hear it, but when you see her, her mouth goes all weird when she talks. That was disappointing.

[Guest Speaker]

That's interesting. Kelly Evans on CNBC has, has a funny mouth thing. This, the worst case example of this was a. Is a preacher called Robert Tilton out of Texas.

[Adam Curry]

Not familiar.

[Guest Speaker]

And he used to be a televangelist. He's on TV all the time. I don't, I haven't seen him for years. But he did a thing with his mouth that you'd watch him and it was like it would be kind of mesmerizing because his mouth wasn't going in the same direction as his.

[Adam Curry]

It was very odd to watch. Then they brought on this just short rogue Hana Ro Kahana which is just fun to say. Ro Kahana joining us now to discuss.

[John C. Dvorak]

Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California. Congressman, always great to have you on the show. Thank you very much for being here. You are one who has actually publicly supported the effort from David Hogg. You wrote on the Platform X that you think that Hogg is doing incredible work supporting frontline Democrats while giving new candidates a chance to run in safe seats. And you say Democrats should embrace. Embrace a new generation of leadership and competition. Why is this such a lonely place for you to be?

[Adam Curry]

Oh, you rebel.

[John C. Dvorak]

Look, I think primaries are healthy. Competition is healthy. I won my seat in a Democratic primary.

[Guest Speaker]

Many of our members of Congress have.

[John C. Dvorak]

Won in primaries, and we need a new generation of leadership. Now, I'm trying to reach a compromise with the DNC and David Hogg. And what I've said to David is he can have his organization that is.

[Guest Speaker]

Having primary challenges, but he himself should not endorse in his personal capacity while.

[John C. Dvorak]

He'S, While he's vice chair. And that seems to me something that can bring everyone together.

[Adam Curry]

This was such a mistake to bring this jamoke in. I have no idea how that happened. He must have come with money.

[Guest Speaker]

Who?

[Adam Curry]

Hog? No, this was just purely craziness from the Democrat Party.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't know that it was a bad thing. He comes in. Carville's the one who's really jumping all over him. There was a good back and forth with him and Carville. And Carville accused him of saying the position you're in, you're not supposed to be supporting anybody. And he's not. I haven't heard anything. He just wants. He just is theoretical. He says we should bring in new people, have them run in the primaries. He has a name. Name. So I, I don't know what Ro Khan is talking about or Carville for that matter. Then Carville called him out for getting paid. And, and it turns out that that vice chair that he is is a voluntary job. He doesn't get paid anything. He says, no, I'm.

[Adam Curry]

I'm thinking this is why I think I have no, you know, without evidence that there's money behind him, this whole. This kid's.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, not his father.

[Adam Curry]

No, we know that. So the other big story, and this was big because I.

[Guest Speaker]

Maybe Soros money is possible.

[Adam Curry]

That's such an old trope at this point.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I agree. And Soros wouldn't be trying to put new people in.

[Adam Curry]

The Soros gambit is over. It's got to be new people. It's got to Be new money. Soros is dead. You know what's Alex is gallivanting around with?

[Guest Speaker]

Alex is no good. He's not the powerhouse the old man was.

[Adam Curry]

So the other big story, because I know people in the region region was the big blackout. And I have two boots on the ground which will help dispel all of the rumors, innuendo and bullcrap. The power is back on in Spain and Portugal after one of Europe's biggest ever blackouts.

[John C. Dvorak]

But there are still no answers as.

[Adam Curry]

To what actually caused it or how they could prevent it from happening again. Our Iberian co bureau chief, Ashlyn Leng is looking at this story. Ashlyn, what do we actually know?

[John C. Dvorak]

It's extremely unclear still what caused the blackout. And there is something of a political blame game initiating. We are also seeing an intense discussion about the merits of different power sources. Spain and Portugal are big renewables producers. French ministers were saying yesterday, well, you know, if they used more nuclear power, perhaps that wouldn't have happened. The Spanish Prime Minister has firmly rejected that saying, actually even nuclear power couldn't help help us get this restarted. We were relying on a lot of hydro. The Spanish power grid operator has said that this is absolutely not a cyber attack. From their point of view, they say there was a massive drop off in power supply. What caused that is becoming a key area of investigation. It is unclear. The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is not ruling out a cyber attack.

[Adam Curry]

It's clear that it's very unclear and everyone's dancing around and we have some answers. But first, boots on the ground from Marbellia, Spain, where our producer is located. Marbella is the hoity toity place of Spain to be if you're near the harbor. We've been told the blackout here is weather or net zero based after public radio telling us it was a cyber attack while it was going on. Interestingly, the communications blackout here in Marbellia was much longer than the power outage. We did not have WI fi or cell service for 18 hours while the power was only out for seven hours. And of course EU rules around no gas stove or barbecues on balconies meant we had to borrow a neighbor's barbecue to heat water and milk for the kids because of course you have to have electric stoves. This is one of our producers who can't wait to get out of the eu. So we continue with this Reuters report and in the absence of concrete answers, what are the authorities doing to make sure there isn't a repeat of this?

[John C. Dvorak]

Well, that is the big question is whether it can happen again. We've heard energy analysts saying that this could indeed happen again.

[Adam Curry]

This was, you know, one of the.

[John C. Dvorak]

Possibly the only big power cut in the era of green electricity, certainly the largest that anyone can remember. There has been an ongoing debate about, you know, the viability of European grids, whether they are having sufficient amounts of investment in them. Particularly now that we are seeing these new sources of power come online, some analysts suggesting that, you know, you're trying.

[Adam Curry]

To operate a Ferrari on a country.

[John C. Dvorak]

Road and that sometimes that will result, result in its own challenges to the system. Whether that was the case here, whether there was a third party's involvement, it still very much remains to be seen.

[Adam Curry]

So now they're peddling the line. Well, you're trying to operate a Ferrari on a country road, meaning, oh, the grid is just not ready for our sophisticated renewables. So I contacted our dude named.

[Guest Speaker]

That's a good bit.

[Adam Curry]

It's a great bit. Our dude named Ben, named Ben, who is the protector of megawatts, if you recall. All this is his job. He know, and particularly cybersecurity, zero cyber attack. He said. The problem is Spain. The reason why you're not hearing the truth is that Spain has been bragging about running on 100% renewables.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, there's some clips that are, I mean, there's a lot of visual news clips that like to point this out and they form memes.

[Adam Curry]

So the, the truth of it is at the time of the outage, 77% of generation was inverter based. I love this term. I understand it immediately. Inverter based means solar or wind because they generate direct current and the inverter changes it into alternating current.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah. So it can go down to wires.

[Adam Curry]

And because these renewables do not provide stable power, they fluctuate due to, I don't know, wind changes and clouds. Clouds. Martha, I can't watch the TV. They have a baseload. Their baseload is 15 gigawatts of generation from France. So according to the dude named Ben, named Ben, protector of megawatts, a substation in France suddenly stopped transmitting electricity. Now, now they're not exactly sure why, but they believe that it was because of a fire at the substation. So the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and subsequently Portugal, suddenly lost 15 gigawatts, 15 megawatts. So 15 gigawatts, 15,000 megawatts of generation from the French that they were reliant on because they were way over subscribed on these renewables. 15,000 megawatts is a lot of Generation to lose all at once. For instance, in Texas we don't get into an emergency situation until we go down to 3,000 megawatts of spinning reserve. Even on our best day for generation, it would be very difficult for our grid to survive that. Bottom line, emergency levels would be catastrophic. In Texas at 3,000, we have about 40 million people here they lost 15,000. So the whole reason you're not hearing the truth is because of the bragging that they were oh we're 100% renewable and they're not. They were really reliant on this probably nuclear generated power from France that dropped out, everything went to crap. And this is the risk of this insane policy of relying on 100% renewables getting to net zero. It is insane and no one's going to want to admit this. So I mean we've heard things such as, oh, it was atmospheric fluctuation, a rare atmospheric event. USA Today even had this preliminary reports out of Europe about the massive blackout. The cause may be something called induced atmospheric vibration.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, what a crime.

[Adam Curry]

A rare phenomenon where weather changes affect power lines. This is a lie. And this is just the beginning of this nonsense. The more they rely on renewables and in this case external interconnect from another country which is a huge security risk for your country, like oh, we're relying upon France. If France drops the baseload for us, boom, we're done. So this, it doesn't work. It's not a good idea. Nuclear is not inverter based, it's ac, it's renewable. That's what they should be going to. But no, instead it's all of this solar and wind and they're going to keep lying and I'm sure they'll have a task force and nothing will ever come of it.

[Guest Speaker]

Brings me to my two climate clips.

[Adam Curry]

Boom shakalaka.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't know if I have anything on that particular situation which I thought I know I heard a lot of stuff and very familiar with the phony baloney crazy comment about the weather causing the whole thing. Climate by his the climate hysteria debate.

[John C. Dvorak]

Is there hysteria in the international climate debate? Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair suggests there is as he calls for a new approach. It comes after Spain and Portugal were recently hit by cascading blackouts which some, some say were made worse by an over reliance on Solar Power. NTD's international correspondent Malcolm Hudson has more for us from London. In a new policy paper, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his theory should be taken out of the international climate debate saying that voters feel they are being made to make financial sacrifices and changes to their lifestyle in what Blair referred to as doomed policy, despite the fact that in developed nations, these changes will lead to a minimal impact to global carbon emissions. Blair said that by 2030, almost 2/3 of global emissions will come from China, India and Southeast Asia and said that means any strategy based on phasing out fossil fuels in the short term is doomed to fail. But while he appeared to hit out against net zero carbon emission policies, Blair went on to clarify that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's approach to net zero zero is the right one. Supporting the government's plan for net zero by 2050. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner responded. Tony's clarified his comments and he welcomes our direction of travel, and that's on renewables, investing in renewables and nuclear as part of the mix. But we can't rely on fossil fuels forever. The British government rejected Blair's claim of hysteria in the climate debate.

[Adam Curry]

Debate. Yes. Okay.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, this is interesting how these things are starting to fall apart.

[Adam Curry]

It's. What is the. What is the inverse of operating a Ferrari on a country road? Is it a Lada? No. No one knows what a Lada.

[John C. Dvorak]

What.

[Adam Curry]

What is an Edsel operating? An Edsel on the Autobahn.

[Guest Speaker]

No. A pedal bike on a.

[Adam Curry]

On a pedal bike on the Autobahn. No. Pedal bike on the Autobot.

[Guest Speaker]

Pedal bike on the Autobahn.

[Adam Curry]

There you go. That's what it is. Pedal bike. I like it. A pedal bike on the Autobahn. Nice.

[Guest Speaker]

Okay, it's part two.

[John C. Dvorak]

Now, Republicans passed all of these changes out of committee yesterday, and the goal is to make them part of that broader reconciliation bill, that big budget bill that we've heard so much about, with the goal to pass all of this by the summer. What reporting?

[Adam Curry]

What is she saying? What is this?

[Guest Speaker]

Is this another missed clip?

[Adam Curry]

I think you meant to start it here. Hold on a second. I see what's going on.

[John C. Dvorak]

On. But Ben Pyle, co founder of Climate Debate uk, says there is a lot of hysteria driving climate policy and this sort of tendency of a lot of people within the global green movement to sort of talk about deadlines, you know, 10 years left to save the planet, and so on and so forth. Many people have made the 10 years claim over the decades, including former US.

[Adam Curry]

Vice President Al Gore.

[John C. Dvorak]

In 2006, Blair said that most political leaders know that the debate has become irrational, but are terrified of saying so for fear of being called climate deniers. A British government spokesperson said that they remain focused on Their mission for the UK to be a clean energy superpower while treading lightly on people's lives. Pyle disputed this and said it will be expensive over the next five years. The Clean Power by 2030 agenda is.

[Adam Curry]

Going to lock Britain into extremely expensive.

[John C. Dvorak]

Renewable energy subsidies schemes. Over reliance on renewable energy has drawn criticism in recent days following the huge blackouts throughout Spain and Portugal. Energy expert Catherine Porter said the initial fault in Spain's power grid was made worse by an over reliance on solar power, which led to cascading blackouts that lasted for over eight hours in the Iberian Peninsula.

[Adam Curry]

So this is actually. This folds right into a classic clip I have. When he was still the chief of the bank of England, the central bank of the United Kingdom, the new Prime Minister of Canada listened to what he was saying then and what he probably still thinks today.

[John C. Dvorak]

The world's coming to Glasgow.

[Guest Speaker]

Let's reshape finance for a sustainable.

[John C. Dvorak]

You demanded action and now it's time.

[Guest Speaker]

For the financial sector to deliver. To reach net zero.

[John C. Dvorak]

Every country, every company, every bank, every.

[Guest Speaker]

Investor, every pension fund around the world will need to make some big changes.

[John C. Dvorak]

In the run up to COP26 in Glasgow.

[Guest Speaker]

We have an enormous opportunity to bring climate change into the heart of every financial decision. And our plan will manage the risk.

[John C. Dvorak]

From climate change while helping to seize.

[Guest Speaker]

The opportunities from a newer, greener economy.

[John C. Dvorak]

The UK has been at the forefront.

[Guest Speaker]

Of innovation for centuries, brimming with ingenuity and a can do spirit. It also houses the world's largest financial system. And by bringing them together, we can deliver the net zero world that you've.

[John C. Dvorak]

Demanded and that our future generations deserve.

[Adam Curry]

You demanded it. You demanded it. You want the.

[Guest Speaker]

Nobody demanded it.

[Adam Curry]

No, you demanded it. You wanted the net zero world. That's what's going to happen to Canada. Canada. Canada, you're next. How are your renewables doing? It's going to be great. It's going to be great. Might as well get into this.

[John C. Dvorak]

After a long night and not much sleep, Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at his office this morning, getting down to.

[Adam Curry]

Work after laying out his vision to.

[John C. Dvorak]

Supporters last night in Ottawa.

[Guest Speaker]

As we come here after this consequential.

[John C. Dvorak]

Most consequential election, let's put an end. Let's put an end to the division.

[Guest Speaker]

And anger of the past.

[John C. Dvorak]

Carney says he'll work with all parties.

[Adam Curry]

And as the final votes are counted.

[John C. Dvorak]

It'S clear he'll have to. The Liberals have come up just shy of a majority. They'll need to rely on the handful of New Democrats who survived their party's.

[Guest Speaker]

Implosion, the Bloc Quebecois, or even the.

[John C. Dvorak]

Conservatives to enact their agenda.

[Adam Curry]

The latest count shows Carney's Liberals and.

[John C. Dvorak]

Pierre Poliev's conservatives taking roughly 85% of all votes count past with a less.

[Adam Curry]

Than 3% margin between them.

[John C. Dvorak]

The Conservatives say they're willing to work with the Liberals on the biggest issue facing the country, its relationship with the.

[Adam Curry]

US With Carney today making another move on that file.

[Guest Speaker]

The prime minister's office says Carney spoke.

[John C. Dvorak]

With US President Donald Trump, that Trump.

[Adam Curry]

Congratulated Carney on his win and that the two leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the U.S. working together as independent sovereign nations and agreed to meet in person in the near future. And I think it was you who said, you know, Trump wanted this to happen. He wanted Carney.

[Guest Speaker]

He implied that he did.

[Adam Curry]

Here's some proof, highlighting his phone call yesterday with freshly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney and hinting that on trade issues, Trump seems to see positive progress coming. I think we're going to have a great relationship. He called me up yesterday, he said, and let's make a deal. Deal making now set to at least begin, suggested Trump almost immediately. He's a very nice gentleman and we.

[Guest Speaker]

He'S going to come to the White.

[Adam Curry]

House very shortly, within the next week or less. Trump even weighed in on the election itself when a reporter pointed out Carney won in no small way by targeting Trump and his trade policies. Here's Trump on that and on opposition leader Pierre Poilievre. They both hated Trump and it was.

[Guest Speaker]

The one that hated Trump, I think.

[Adam Curry]

The least that one. I actually think the conservative hated me much more than the, than the so called liberal. He's a pretty liberal guy. But no, I spoke to him yesterday, couldn't have been nicer and I congratulated him. Separately, Trump noted not long ago that he's, if, if President Trump is saying you're a great guy, you're a nice guy, this is the time you start watching your back, something's coming for you. And I congratulated him. Separately, Trump noted not long ago that he's already made some 200 trade deals since he imposed his tariffs earlier this year, though none has been officially announced or made public. Today, while slamming another country, he's hit hard with tariffs. China, the leading candidate for the chief ripper offer. Trump also suggested again, maybe something's in the works there as well. I hope we're going to make a deal with China. We're talking to China where Any of it goes from here is as ever known only to Trump. Though for Canada, a better sense of things may well come soon with as Trump now expects that sit down in the Oval Office with he and Mark Carney very shortly. And according to npr, Trump really did get him elected.

[Guest Speaker]

Mark Carney has been elected as Prime.

[John C. Dvorak]

Minister of Canada, according to the projections from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This was seen as a referendum on.

[Adam Curry]

Which candidate could best handle the United States under President Trump, who placed tariffs on Canada and sparked a wave of Canadian nationalism. Carney defeated Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre.

[John C. Dvorak]

Poilievre's momentum began to slip when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned earlier this year, which gave the Liberals a lift. But the real boost came when President.

[Guest Speaker]

Trump began targeting Canada's economy and its sovereignty.

[John C. Dvorak]

Many Canadians were outraged by Trump's threat to make Canada the 5050 first state.

[Adam Curry]

It all becomes clear.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I, I thought that, I think Pollyv was too much like Trump and he would have probably butted heads with him. He didn't like him. I, I have a very strange clip that explains Trump's behavior in general. And this is the woman, Corcoran, I think is her name. She is on the Shark Tank. She's the female girl there and. Female girl. And she, she's the one, as opposed to the male girls that are on Shark.

[Adam Curry]

You can't be too sure. You got it. You got to be very clear. The female girl.

[Guest Speaker]

Yes, the female girl. She had an observation that I think is something we should always keep in the back of our minds about Trump. And after I heard this, I also thought that, oh, this is what would happen with Bill Maher too. Donald Trump did listen to this. Sorry.

[John C. Dvorak]

Donald Trump getting a heck of a compliment from one of the key stars of Shark Tank, Barbara Corcoran. So I did a lot of work with Donald McDonald and I can tell you he is the best salesman I've ever met.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, she's the blonde who does a lot of fast moving consumer. She does smaller deals, but successful deals. She's the QVC lady. That's what she is. QVC girl.

[John C. Dvorak]

Yeah. I watched him walk into a situation, for example, selling the Plaza Hotel to the Chinese out of Hong Kong. Hong Kong, it was in Taiwan. Group of Asians wealthiest families in Hong Kong. And they were there because they were interested, interested in the Plaza Hotel. And I was a broker on my brokers. We were all at the table. We're like really hungry to make this deal. And I watched him totally not pitch the Plaza Hotel Bury it. And talk about the land masses on the Hudson river and the buildings that would be there. They were not the least bit interested. They just wanted to buy the Plaza Hotel. Like a customer. I want to buy it. And Donald was near bankruptcy, really needed the money to bail out out. And I watched him. I thought he was so off. He wasn't. They bought the land and built all those towers on the west river as we know it today. You know, all those Trump towers along the river. That was the deal. How did he do that? I'll tell you what his masterful mind does. He is a genius at picking out the vulnerability of someone's personality. He can smell it, sense sense it, and trust it. Okay, so, for example, if you were to walk into a business meeting with Donald and you're saying, whatever you're saying, I've seen it time and time again, he could see what your weakness is and not physically reach over and put his finger on it, but he just could see what your weakness is and play into it. Not the nicest thing in the world, but it's a certain gift I've never seen anyone else. And it comes in handy in light of what we're doing right now. Which China?

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, no, she's the older lady, not the young one. The young blonde is the qvc. Yeah, yeah, I saw this clip. I thought that makes total sense. And that's what he's been doing with everything. And I think this may have in some degree, you know, since we're talking about rare earths and about the processing. So I've been receiving nothing but tons of information about rare earth processing. Saskatchewan has had had a rare earth processing facility since 2020. So they do a lot of this more. I mean, I have a ton of different places where this is happening, but this kind of folds into the new deal.

[John C. Dvorak]

The last time Ukraine was about to sign a minerals deal with the US.

[Adam Curry]

It was derailed by a row in the Oval Office. Two months on, relations are slightly warmer. And just before we recorded this podcast, they final finally reached an agreement.

[John C. Dvorak]

The deal creates an investment fund for.

[Adam Curry]

The reconstruction of Ukraine in exchange for access to the country's minerals, oil and gas. It will still need to be approved by parliament in Ukraine. But the Ukrainian mp, Maria Metzentseva, welcomed what she said were the improved terms of the agreement.

[John C. Dvorak]

It's quite a good investment opportunity and a fair deal in the end where no sort of of debts on military aid are mentioned. Everything is done in a manner due to Ukrainian constitution and doesn't breach any oversight of our EU aspirations.

[Adam Curry]

So I thought CBS actually had a. That was BBC. CBS had a better report because this is exactly the kind of deal that President Trump was talking about. Give us your minerals, we'll protect you, we'll protect our, our own assets and maybe we'll put together a little fund for you, a little hedge fund.

[John C. Dvorak]

To turn now to news that has.

[Guest Speaker]

Big implications for the war in Ukraine.

[Adam Curry]

The US And Ukraine have signed a.

[John C. Dvorak]

Long awaited deal giving the US Access.

[Adam Curry]

To important rare earth minerals.

[John C. Dvorak]

Ukraine hopes in return to get greater.

[Guest Speaker]

Protection from Russian aggression.

[John C. Dvorak]

Ramey Inocencia has more on all of this. Raymond joins us now.

[Adam Curry]

Raymond, good morning, Tony. Yes, good morning there. And breakthrough here. While this deal does not explicitly say.

[John C. Dvorak]

That the US Will, will keep on.

[Adam Curry]

Helping Ukraine defend against Russia's invasion like under the Biden administration, that is the hope.

[John C. Dvorak]

U.S. treasury Secretary Scott Bessen who signed.

[Adam Curry]

This pact with Ukraine's deputy Prime minister in Washington said that it signals to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process for what he.

[John C. Dvorak]

Says is a free Ukraine.

[Adam Curry]

And over the long term. Details about this deal though are slim. But it centers on US action.

[John C. Dvorak]

Access to Ukraine's vast resources under its soil.

[Adam Curry]

That includes oil and gas, but along.

[John C. Dvorak]

With critical raw materials that's like graphite.

[Adam Curry]

Titanium and uranium for aerospace and technology.

[John C. Dvorak]

Funds from this deal would go towards paying the US for future military aid.

[Adam Curry]

And to establish a joint fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine. And you know, there has been a.

[John C. Dvorak]

Lot of drama around this deal.

[Adam Curry]

We also. Drama. Sides were closed back in February. February when Zelensky went to Washington to.

[John C. Dvorak]

Sign an earlier version.

[Adam Curry]

But then we saw that spectacular meltdown broadcast around the world. Then last week, Trump and zelenskyy met at St. Peter's Basilica. Look at that. Decidedly more peaceful there for the funeral of the Pope. And now we have this breakthrough.

[John C. Dvorak]

But importantly, Russia has not commented yet.

[Adam Curry]

So let's talk about the Ukrainian rare earths.

[Guest Speaker]

Well let's play the NTD clip of this so we can get that out of the way. Way.

[Adam Curry]

Okay.

[Guest Speaker]

Ukraine.

[Adam Curry]

Yep, gotcha.

[John C. Dvorak]

A Ukrainian official is in Washington today. The U.S. and Ukraine just signed a deal on rare earth minerals. Here's more.

[Adam Curry]

Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister Yuliyas Feridenko.

[John C. Dvorak]

Is traveling to the United States on.

[Guest Speaker]

Wednesday to sign a minerals deal.

[Adam Curry]

The two sides were reportedly set to.

[John C. Dvorak]

Close the deal on Wednesday afternoon until.

[Adam Curry]

Ukraine requested some last minute changes.

[John C. Dvorak]

President Trump wants to use Ukraine's minerals as a financial guarantee for the aid the US has been sending to Ukraine.

[Adam Curry]

I didn't Want to make a complicated deal.

[John C. Dvorak]

I didn't want to make a deal.

[Adam Curry]

That couldn't be made because Ukraine doesn't.

[John C. Dvorak]

Have very much money.

[Guest Speaker]

They're going through a very bad period of time. It's been brutal.

[John C. Dvorak]

But Ukraine's Prime Minister says the agreement won't include the money the US has sent so far. Only future.

[Adam Curry]

So I think this is still about weapons sales to the eu. They'll be buying it I believe, because these rare earths in Ukraine, according to Reuters, they don't really have an operational mine.

[Guest Speaker]

They don't really have rare earths.

[Adam Curry]

Exactly. They have no mining roads, no rail, no energy grids, no processing capacity. That's your big, big thing. Of course it's all a chaos and you know, the geological data is hardly available. It seems like a bit of a mirage that, but the rare earths business that Rubio was doing in Rwanda. Boots on the ground Adam. I worked in the mining industry for eight years, lived in Africa for 15, mostly in DRC and Kenya. The answer to the question is Africa has to make peace between the DRC and its neighbors. Rwanda is already doing unofficial processing of rare earth minerals from the drc. So there is processing and even crazier, they're going to be processing right up in California at Mountain Pass.

[John C. Dvorak]

America led this industry for decades with this site right here at Mountain Pass. But due to cost of capital subsidies overseas in China as well as different environmental standards, we lost our leadership and this site fell into essentially disrepair and bankruptcy. MP Materials has humble beginnings.

[Guest Speaker]

We acquired this site in 2017. It had eight employees.

[John C. Dvorak]

It was in care maintenance. Nobody believed that we could compete against China. But we focused on execution and we slowly, methodically, over time rebuilt this. We have nearly 300Americans proudly working on this site.

[Adam Curry]

When we acquired this site, we clearly realized that multi billion dollar supply chains don't move overnight.

[John C. Dvorak]

We had to have a long term plan to restore this site successfully and sustainably. Our first stage, which is largely complete, was to relaunch the operations here. We now produce a rare earth concentrate product that represents 15% of of the global supply. We are profitable doing so. Our next stage which is underway is to make separated rare earth products and optimize it to be a leader in global industry from a cost and sustainability perspective. Once stage two is done, we expect to generate a significant amount of free cash flow that will enable us to not just making separated rare earth products.

[Guest Speaker]

But also magnets so we can fulfill.

[John C. Dvorak]

Our mission of of restoring the full rare supply chain to the United States of America.

[Adam Curry]

So that's in California.

[Guest Speaker]

But what's the name of this operation?

[Adam Curry]

I've even heard of this Mountain Pass Materials. And there's three more from USA Rare Earth who have processing plants now in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Sierra Blanca, Texas, and Wheat Ridge, Colorado. We are getting into the rare earth business and it seems that most of them are focused on magnets, which would. I don't know if that's going to be the future of rare earths, but that's what they, most of them seem to be doing. So between Canada, these four states in America, I think we're getting back into the business. And maybe, maybe, maybe we can chunk something out of Ukraine if, you know, if it's really even there.

[Guest Speaker]

Wouldn't that be actually after their oil?

[Adam Curry]

More than likely. I would take that over the rare earths any day. So things are moving.

[Guest Speaker]

And if they get the peace deal, we can get the rare earths if we want them, from Russia. Russia already offered.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, no, we can get it easy. But we're going to be doing processing and we're going to make. Canada. You do it. Canada.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah.

[Adam Curry]

You want to be net zero? Here, take this nasty stuff. Stuff. Do it, do it, do it, do it. While we're kind of on this and climate, et cetera.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, it's the neodymium rare earth that's the big attraction. That's for those ridiculous magnets.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah. Is that of any real use, the magnet? I mean, it's obviously motors.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, that's a. Yeah, for all kinds of stuff. Yeah, it's extremely powerful magnet.

[Adam Curry]

Well, we need some magnets kind of.

[Guest Speaker]

Thing where you put two of them together, you can't get them apart.

[Adam Curry]

Your finger gets, gets crushed. You're done.

[Guest Speaker]

Your finger gets crushed.

[Adam Curry]

So this is, so this is a story that's been brewing. It's been very hard to get very.

[Guest Speaker]

Done.

[Adam Curry]

Your fingers done, Mom. It's been very hard to get a clip. And this is not the one I wanted particularly because it comes from. Oh, gee, what Africa News. I mean, me see, is it from. Yes, Africa News. Yeah, here goes the show. But it's about chemtrails or as we call it, aerosol injection. And there's a lot of people in the UK are very concerned about this because they're talking about it. This was, this is just a short clip about what it is. We all know what it is, but it's even interesting that one of the scientists in this clip describes exactly what has been happening to our climate. And I think it is due to. To aerosol Injection or chemtrails. The approach would work by planes releasing tiny particles into the atmosphere's dry, stable upper layer called the stratosphere. These would help reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface and helping to cool the planet.

[John C. Dvorak]

So our study examined a climate intervention technique called stratospheric aerosol injection, which is.

[Adam Curry]

An idea to cool down the planet.

[John C. Dvorak]

By adding a layer of small reflective particles, aerosols, into the high atmosphere. Those particles would reflect a small amount, perhaps 1% of the incoming sunlight.

[Guest Speaker]

And there is good evidence that this.

[John C. Dvorak]

Could be used to cool down the planet and perhaps to reduce some climate.

[Guest Speaker]

Impacts vulnerable people around the world.

[Adam Curry]

Researchers say that this could be done using aircraft already in service today day.

[John C. Dvorak]

Rather than developing new ones.

[Adam Curry]

Despite the lower altitude, it would still be possible to cool the planet by around 0.6 degrees Celsius. When you, when you deploy. Listen to this guy, listen to what he says. Celsius, when you, when you deploy stratospheric aerosol injection, you can change atmospheric circulation patterns. And so this can do things like disruption, precipitation patterns, cause droughts in some places, cause excessive flooding in other places. Sounds exactly what's been happening to me.

[John C. Dvorak]

But other experts have urged caution, saying geoengineering projects like this one don't offer long term solutions.

[Adam Curry]

So as, as kind of, you know, the Alex Jones of me would say this is exactly what they do, do it for decades. And then say, oh, we have this great idea and we've already been doing it because it's in the jet fuel. And Bobby the OP, RFK Jr. Took a question about this yesterday on the Dr. Phil Show.

[John C. Dvorak]

My name is Emily and my biggest concern is the stratospheric aerosol injections that are continuously peppered on us every day. Bromium, aluminum, strontium, it's sprayed in our skies all day long. And, and I know you've talked to Dane Wigginton about this. He seems to be one of the experts in the field.

[Adam Curry]

Is there a question? You got a question?

[John C. Dvorak]

Yes. How do we stop it?

[Adam Curry]

That is not happening in my agency. You know, we don't do that. It's done, we think by darpa and a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. You know, those materials are put in jet fuel. We, I'm going to do everything in.

[Guest Speaker]

My power to stop it.

[Adam Curry]

We're bringing on somebody who's going to think only about that. Find out who's doing and holding them accountable. Oh, Bobby, he's a kook. He's a kook. He believes in chemtrails. They're putting away.

[Guest Speaker]

Talking about jet fuel.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, this has been the theory for a long time.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, that's a bad theory.

[Adam Curry]

Why?

[Guest Speaker]

Well, for one thing, it would be corrosive. But I've tested jet fuel when I was a chemist at Union Oil.

[Adam Curry]

That was not in the.

[Guest Speaker]

Of these things. In jail.

[Adam Curry]

That was not in the last 25 years.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, it's, you know.

[Adam Curry]

No, no.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, chemtrails have been talked about way longer than when I was, when I was a kid. They were talking about them.

[Adam Curry]

Well, I, the, the material she talked about. And I've seen this happen in Los Angeles, which floated down onto my house. Strontium barium. No, I, there's something to this. There is some. And it has always been suspected that it's in the jet fuel because you see it coming and it's not like the guys with the jet fuel. They put all kinds of crap in jet fuel. You can pee in jet fuel and it'll still work. It's diesel, basically. Kerosene.

[Guest Speaker]

Kerosene, you know.

[Adam Curry]

So, no, I think this is happening. And ever since President Trump got elected, it's been pretty beautiful here in Texas. Blue skies where we would have every other day, if not days in a row of chemtrails spreading out all across the sky, making it gray. No, I think this is for real.

[Guest Speaker]

Okay. Well, you can think what you want. We can agree to disagree.

[John C. Dvorak]

Chem trails.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, wait until you hear what I have to say coming up. You think that's bad? You're not going to agree with anything I say. It's okay. You got anything, you got any series? Anything you want to, want to launch into here?

[Guest Speaker]

Well, let's get rid of the tick tock clips.

[Adam Curry]

I was hoping you were going to do student loan.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, the student loans. Yes.

[Adam Curry]

Everybody wants student loan Tick tock clips. Okay, let's go.

[Guest Speaker]

Student loan revamp, Part one.

[John C. Dvorak]

Capitol Hill House Republicans are working to revamp the federal student loan system as part of their big budget bill and efforts to cut. Cut government spending entities. Melina Weiskop has the detail. Republicans are working towards ending President Biden's attempt to forgive student loan debt. After the courts rejected Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt, he enacted a workaround through the SAVE program that allowed so many borrowers to pay back $0 on their student loans and not accrue interest. Now Republican lawmakers are trying to overhaul that entire Biden era student loan pay. In addition, Republican lawmakers aim to cap the amount that students can borrow in the first place. The limit is going to be the median price of a college, university or program of study. The Republican chairman of the Education Committee says the goal with these new limits is to encourage colleges to lower their costs. Our current broken system encourages students to.

[Adam Curry]

Accept more and more debt without ever addressing college costs. It's no secret that spending in Washington.

[John C. Dvorak]

Has been a disaster. Waste, fraud and abuse has left the.

[Adam Curry]

American taxpayer on the hook for government bloat. Who was that at the end?

[Guest Speaker]

You know, I don't know, but it sounds like Reagan.

[Adam Curry]

Sounds like Reagan, exactly.

[Guest Speaker]

I was like, I know. Same similar voice pattern. Probably a milieu thing. So here's part. Now the part two is just was. It's a long story how this happened, but I got these clips kind of screwed up. But the second part is a student.

[John C. Dvorak]

Loan redux 2 and Republicans are working to make several changes to the Pell Grant. So the goal is to try to limit the Pell Grant only to those who need it most and change the requirements from 12 credit hours per semester to 30 credit hours per year. Now, Democrats said it's unfair for untraditional students with other obligations outside of school, such as who have obligations to family or for jobs. Here's the ranking Democrat member on the committee speaking about it yesterday.

[Adam Curry]

Because they may need more financial support to cover the basic needs like housing, childcare and transportation at a time when families are struggling to make ends meet. I'm confused as to why we're making it harder for working parents who are trying to further their education.

[John C. Dvorak]

Now the Republican chairman, for his part, noted that the Pell Grant is on track to run a shortfall of 70 to 100 billion dollars within the decade. So he's trying to avoid that. Republicans are also trying to change the Pell Grant to include vocational programs, for example, schools for cosmetology or welding training, any career path that does not require a traditional college degree. If students choose to choose to take those paths, they will qualify for a so called workforce Pell Grant for the first time.

[Adam Curry]

Okay, so that's interesting. And that's a good stimulus for welders. What, what happens with the student loans people now have to repay is the question.

[Guest Speaker]

They have to repay them. That's what they have to do.

[Adam Curry]

Are they going to, are they going to have programs to refinance?

[Guest Speaker]

They'll be like the reduction programs if you work for the police department, things like that. They're going to have the same exceptions that have always been in there. Okay, but they have to pay you take the loan out. The real problem, I think it was mentioned in the first clip, is that these colleges, they saw the whole thing as a scam that, oh, free money. Let's just jack our tuition up and oh, they get even more free money with the higher tuition. Well, let's jack it up even more. The amount of the tuition fees in not just the private universities, but the public universities are just as high as, like Harvard. It's unbelievable what a scam this has become.

[Adam Curry]

I've been looking at some of these endowments like Harvard. Their endowments are huge.

[Guest Speaker]

They have over, I think they have $100 billion or something like that.

[Adam Curry]

So. Which is, you know, arguably what we spent on Ukraine in three years. It was probably more, but let's just say that's the number and that's tax free. The only tax they have is 4% they pay to the college and the rest is just, you know, who's managing that money? What's happening with that?

[Guest Speaker]

I think BlackRock's got most of that.

[Adam Curry]

That's the scam, if you ask me. The scam is those endowments. And that's why Trump administration is being hard noses about it. They want control over that or they want to know what's going on with it. That's.

[Guest Speaker]

They see it as a possible source of taxation. That. So the public can pay less.

[Adam Curry]

Yes.

[Guest Speaker]

So in other words, the taxpayer can pay less and those guys can pay their fair share.

[Adam Curry]

Their fair share for a start. Yeah. I mean, especially Harvard. But all of them have huge endowments.

[Guest Speaker]

No, all of them do. All of them.

[Adam Curry]

It's. That to me is a, is a money scam. Those endowments is a tax avoidance system for mega elites. It has to be. Certainly if blackrock's in there, they can't be anything good. No, I mean, and then, and then, you know, the students who get cajoled into a gender studies diploma, poli sci, you know, they owe $100,000 and they got nothing, nowhere to go.

[Guest Speaker]

If they owe $100,000, that's low.

[Adam Curry]

It's cheap. Yeah. So. Well, that's good. That's not getting enough attention. That endowment scam is a problem. Problem I got. Did you receive the Michelle Obama clip? 20 times.

[Guest Speaker]

Which one? The one where she's going on about. Well, there's a bunch of them. Which one you talking about?

[Adam Curry]

Well, the one that's going around is oddly clips, which of course makes me always go for the original. Oh, it was a slip up. She's saying she's a man, she's saying.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, I love that clip.

[Adam Curry]

Here it is.

[Guest Speaker]

You know, I always, you know, you notice it's not on my list. No, but I thought that clip was terrific. It's obviously chopped off, but people are.

[Adam Curry]

Sending this to me, like, this is clip of the day. This is the best.

[Guest Speaker]

It's a very funny clip.

[Adam Curry]

Big Mike, as a man, you know.

[John C. Dvorak]

Just so proud of how you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender.

[Guest Speaker]

Absolutely.

[Adam Curry]

And.

[John C. Dvorak]

And that's, you know, that warms my heart, particularly as a black man.

[Adam Curry]

So the video is. Is the best. So the video cuts to her brother while she's talking. So the implication is, as a black man, you had to deal with me, a black man who's transgender. And it was like, oh, it's a slip up. She admitted it. Big Mike's a man.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah. Well, you expected that.

[Adam Curry]

I'm not fighting that obvious truth, but here is the full clip in context, where she's actually talking to one of the Wayans brothers about his transgender child.

[John C. Dvorak]

Well, speaking of parenting, I wanted to talk Marlon a bit about, you know.

[Adam Curry]

See, they missed a little Marlon bit.

[John C. Dvorak]

Just so proud of how you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender. Absolutely. And that's, you know, that warms my heart, particularly as a black man, you know, Would you care to share that journey of.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, I learned, like. Like, and their transition really taught me.

[Adam Curry]

What real unconditional love was. By the way, notice how Marlon is so psyop that he's calling his transgender touch child. They.

[John C. Dvorak]

When I went.

[Adam Curry]

When they went through the transition, I.

[Guest Speaker]

Actually went through the transition. I went from denial to complete acceptance.

[Adam Curry]

And it took me a week to get there. Oh, only a week. It's easy. It's easy. Parents. Only a week. Unbelievable. So anyway, I just. I had to get that out of the way because that was all over. You know, the text groups in Fredericksburg are exploding. Big Mike, it's true. JFK Jr. Is coming back next. She's a man. She's a no.

[Guest Speaker]

When I saw it, I knew I was gonna, you know, you could. You knew immediately. It was like, miss. It was clipped for that purpose.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

And. And I figured you'd go grab the real deal and, of course, play it out so I didn't have to even do it.

[Adam Curry]

Of course I did. Of course.

[Guest Speaker]

Good for you.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah. It's what I do.

[Guest Speaker]

Defending the woman.

[Adam Curry]

Hey, we had a big. A very big bill pass in the house, the Texas house this week, I think two days ago. That's not, it's not law yet because it has to go to the Senate. This is the undisclosed AI generated images and political messages bill. That's not the real title, but it's interesting and the debate is interesting around it as well.

[John C. Dvorak]

Former House Speaker Dave Phelan is the one that filed House bill for 366. He was the subject of political attacks and memes in his most recent re election campaign. Mount flyers depicted him hugging Democrat Nancy Pelosi, something that he never did. But he says that's not why he.

[Adam Curry]

Decided to file this bill.

[John C. Dvorak]

Under House Bill 366, it requires any political advertising that uses altered images, including genitive AI or deep fake videos to contain a dispute disclosure stating that the content did not occur. Failure to do so would be a class A misdemeanor. Current state law prohibits the use of AI generated pictures within 30 days of an election. State Feeling says this is about making sure election law keeps up with the evolving AI industry because a deceptive ad could swing an election. It's a very common punishment when you're dealing with something as important as an election, especially election I could say is a stolen election. When in the last 72 hours of a campaign a video could be released that entirely changes the nature of the electorate. Going into election Day, several lawmakers line.

[Adam Curry]

Up to speak against the bill.

[John C. Dvorak]

Some said the bill is too vague and could face First Amendment legal challenges. Some conservatives also said the criminal penalties are too steep and people should not be thrown in jail for political speech.

[Adam Curry]

This is insanity that we would propose such a harsh penalty for simply expressing our displeasure of an elected official. This is anti American. This is anti Constitution.

[John C. Dvorak]

Phelan says he understands that. But the penalties need to be major to make sure that multimillion dollar campaigns play by the rules. The bill now heads over to the Senate for consideration and it could frankly face an uphill battle because Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is the one that controls the Senate. Patrick and Feeling have had a rocky relationship, to say the least. That goes back to the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton and several Senate bills that have died over in the House over the last couple of legislative sessions.

[Adam Curry]

So this is again one of the only interesting uses of artificial, quote, intelligence. I feel you should be able to do that. It brings humor into the process. I'm delighted with it.

[Guest Speaker]

And yeah, absolutely, you should put it in total agreement.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, put it, put a disclaimer on it. Just like the drug.

[Guest Speaker]

You don't even screw the disclaimer.

[Adam Curry]

I'm, I'm okay with the bill that says the disclaimer could just do it. Like the ad companies may cause anal leakage. My die. And that's all you need to do, you know, just. Just at the end.

[Guest Speaker]

But the thing is, even with the disclaimer, it doesn't matter because some of these things will crop up as memes and they'll be coming in anonymously from out of state.

[Adam Curry]

It's great. I love.

[Guest Speaker]

And it's going to show the guy kissing Pelosi on the lips or whatever. Who cares?

[Adam Curry]

It's great.

[Guest Speaker]

But you think it's funny and you know, and if you can't counter it, if you can't counter it, you're. This is a modern era.

[Adam Curry]

Yes.

[Guest Speaker]

If you're being besmirched, Smeared, besmirched. You have to be able to. As a politician, unless you're being libel, which is different. If you're being just smeared, just casually smeared. You have to have enough chops.

[Adam Curry]

Yes.

[Guest Speaker]

To get out of the smear using.

[Adam Curry]

Your own wiles, but by using your own AI.

[Guest Speaker]

Use your own AI. Yeah. You can do the same thing to the other guy. What's that in your mouth?

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, yeah, it's. This is the only thing they're worried about, by the way. That's all they're worried about. AI ma'am. So I did some more vibe coding. I. I will say, when it comes to getting me actual results with coding, Grok, funny enough, someone suggests I've tried them all. I've tried Chad, GPT, Claude, Cursor. Cursor's not. It's way too complicated. It integrates with their ide, and I don't have any of that. I just want a simple script, which I could have done in two hours with my buddy Dave, and we would have been done with it. But now it's taking me collectively three weeks of @ least several hours on several of those days to come up with a simple script in pa. In Python. I'm sorry. Grok actually did. Did pretty well, but there's no. Absolutely no evidence of intelligence. It's. It's just looking at the words, the language, the structure, the syntax. It can do all that, and it's just using old stuff that it learned somewhere else. And I know this because when it comes to one particular language, Liquid Soap, long story. It's. It's doing everything wrong, and they all do it wrong because they all have sucked up the same wrong information. And that whole project is a mess with GitHubs and Gitlabs and different documentation. And so it has no intelligence, but it's doing enough stuff that. Yeah, okay, this is a $50 billion industry, not a trillion dollar industry. It's still all parlor tricks. Have it. Write your. Your Dvorak substack. You won't. You'll throw it out.

[Guest Speaker]

I could probably have it do something, and then I could edit it to an extreme. I'd probably spend more time editing it.

[Adam Curry]

Exactly.

[Guest Speaker]

Than it would take me to actually write from scratch. Which. Not an unusual situation.

[Adam Curry]

That's the point. That's exactly. The point is it's.

[Guest Speaker]

But if you can't. Yeah, but I can write from scratch, and I can write pretty quickly. Yes, but if you can't write from.

[Adam Curry]

Scratch, you'll write some mediocre over word salad that's overinflated, and it'll have little nice little icons next to it. It's no good.

[Guest Speaker]

Emojis.

[Adam Curry]

Emojis. Emojis.

[Guest Speaker]

And it'll start off with, I'm so happy to find you.

[Adam Curry]

Well, yes, that's exactly what you're gonna get. Oh, man. So, Eva Flaerdingebroek. Do you remember her?

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, your buddy.

[Adam Curry]

She's not my buddy. I've never met her.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, she seems like she'd be your buddy.

[Adam Curry]

Well, she happens to be Dutch, and she has the. The. The. I'm Adam. She's Ava. So you would think. Coincidentally, also born on September 3rd, which is my birthday.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, there you go. You two are meant for each other.

[Adam Curry]

We're twin flames. I tell you, Tina's rolling her eyes when she hears that. So she posted a very interesting video about her iPhone. And I need to share this, because if this is true, and I'll take her at her word, it has some interesting implications. And of course, she's using it for engagement farming, but here we go.

[John C. Dvorak]

Hi, everyone. So yesterday, I got two messages from Apple stating that they detected a mercenary spyware attack against my iPhone. First, I thought it was fake. I got two of these messages, and I thought it's probably just not real. But upon further research, it turns out that these messages actually are real and so that this is actually happening. And in the message, they say that this targeted mercenary spyware attack is probably happening because of who I am and what I do. And then they continue to say that mercenary spyware attacks, such as Pegasus, for example, are exceptionally rare and that they're extremely sophisticated. They use really strong words. They're saying that the extreme cost, sophistication, and worldwide nature of mercenary spyware attacks makes some of the most advanced digital threats in existence today. And they're sending this to me because they've detected that it's going on against my iPhone. So this is real, obviously. I don't know for sure if any of that spyware has been installed on my phone. I definitely don't know who did it. So this could be anyone. This could be name a government that doesn't like me. This could be any organization that doesn't like me. Secret Services, you name it. But what I do know for sure is that this is an attempt to intimidate me, an attempt to silence me, obviously. And I can tell them, because they're probably already watching on this phone right now, that it's not going to work. So you can try and intimidate me all you want, but I'm not going to to stop. That's all I, I want you guys. And I want the people spying on me through this phone to know so.

[Adam Curry]

I don't for a second think that they're using this to intimidate her. She didn't know it. They didn't say, hey, we've got your phone. We saw what you did. Send me a bitcoin. None of that. I think she is being used to infect other people. If this is true, and I'll take her at her word that she got these notices from Apple, which is very concerning.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, there is a page Apple does. I'm looking at it now. Apple does have a page up about it and it's called From Apple and it says about the Apple threat modifications, which is what she's talking about and protecting against mercenary spyware. And there's a long lecture here.

[Adam Curry]

How do you get it?

[Guest Speaker]

So it's not a phony deal.

[Adam Curry]

How do you get it? Do you get it by tapping on a link and a text message?

[Guest Speaker]

I'm trying to find out because they're very wordy. This has obviously been written by AI.

[Adam Curry]

No, Apple, Apple Intelligence, probably not.

[Guest Speaker]

AI, Apple Intelligence, which is worse.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, it is.

[Guest Speaker]

According to public reporting and research by civil society organizations, technology firms and journalists individually, targeted attacks of such exceptional cost and complexity have historically been associated with state actors, including private companies, developing mercenary spyware on their behalf, such as Pegasus from the NSO Group. Though deployed against a very small number of individuals, often journalists, activists, politicians and diplomats. It could be, could be actioned against me, for example, and it's in the drawer as we speak. Mercenary spyware attacks are ongoing and global. And since 2021, we have sent Apple threat notifications multiple times a year as we have detected these. Oh, that's interesting. They can detect these. Them and to date we have notified users in over 150 countries in total. It goes on and on.

[Adam Curry]

Here's what I think. So I, however, I think she was used as a. Well, first of all, your phone is an attack vector on your life. That's just a known fact. Which is why I Love my light phone 3. It doesn't do nothing. However, coincidentally, yesterday, Tina comes in. Oh my God. You won't believe what happened to David. So what happened? Said someone took over his phone. He no longer receives his own text messages. That's how he, that's part of how he noticed it. They, they stole his identity. They created a driver's license with a driver's license, were able to unfreeze all of his credit. He has his credit frozen at the three big credit agencies. They unfroze the credit and then how.

[Guest Speaker]

Do you unfreeze the credit?

[Adam Curry]

Well, you have to. You can go online and say, this is me. And they had a driver's license, they had a social number.

[Guest Speaker]

So did he. Is he the one who froze the credit?

[Adam Curry]

Yes, he froze it. He had it frozen. Like most smart people, you have your credit frozen. So you had his credit frozen. They unfroze his credit. They took completely. They took over the functions, at least the text messages. So they cloned or whatever they did, did that. I mean, and the whole text messaging system is, you know, system. Was it System 7, whatever it's called that you just go to some podunk country and say, here's 50 grand, lemme on the text messaging system, okay? Here you go. You know, by the way, those trump messages you're getting, don't tap on the link, okay? It's probably going to get Pegasus spyware or other mercenary spyware. And then they, so then they unfroze his credit and immediately, immediately went to buy a Mercedes and a Porsche.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, at least somebody's got taste.

[Adam Curry]

Mercedes was okay with him. The Porsche people called, called him at home and said, hey, are you sure you want this Porsche? And that's how they found out about it. But the Mercedes deal was done. So your phone is a threat vector.

[Guest Speaker]

Of epic proportion and not my phone.

[Adam Curry]

Not yours, no, and should not be used. Used. And just to complete the whole. Scott, the whole spy grid sounded like Katherine Austin Fitz right now after Starlink, which I saw them fly over again last night and I wanted to take a picture. However, the, the camera, the camera on the, on this phone is shit. So I could not get a picture, but I saw the whole train of lights going right overhead. I think it has to be on a clear night when there's just a little bit of moon. We have a crescent waning.

[Guest Speaker]

It has to catch it. It has, yeah.

[Adam Curry]

So it caught it because they're over.

[Guest Speaker]

You'Re over, they're over your. Anyway, they're just all the time. You don't get to see them necessarily.

[Adam Curry]

It caught it and it was just beautiful. I'm like, oh my God.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I've seen, I've seen videos of it, but I've never seen any of that.

[Adam Curry]

Here's my second time seeing them while walking the dog. And now, well, there's more coming.

[John C. Dvorak]

Amazon has launched its first batch of Internet broadcasting satellites.

[Guest Speaker]

Kicking off its long delayed deployment of an Internet From Space Network, 27 satellites.

[John C. Dvorak]

Are now in orbit at an altitude.

[Guest Speaker]

Of nearly 630km above the Earth's surface. Monday's launch from the Atlas V rocket, which took off from Florida follows that.

[John C. Dvorak]

Of two experimental satellites launched two years.

[Guest Speaker]

Ago as part of Project Kuiper, a.

[John C. Dvorak]

$10 billion effort unveiled in 2019.

[Guest Speaker]

Competing with rival Elon Musk, Starlink Jeff Bezos team claims that the satellites they're launching are now much more advanced than the first two. The company aims to put more than 3,200 of these satellites into orbit. Musk's SpaceX has already launched more than 8,000 Starlinks since 2019. Meanwhile, a growing number of astronomers are warning that the large number of satellites. Satellites. Is hampering their work and could pose an accident risk.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, whatever. So there's 600km, but Starlinks are lower. I think, I think they're closer to 3, 50, 400 kilometers.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, let's find out.

[Adam Curry]

Okay. Consult the Book of Knowledge. The Book of Knowledge is slow today.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, I have to type something in.

[Adam Curry]

I know, I know. And on that phone with those little keyboard is very hard. I know.

[Guest Speaker]

I'm using the regular keyboard.

[Adam Curry]

I know, I know. There's no threat vector against you. You're clean, man. You got no mercenary satellite 342. Okay, so Amazon's going to be at twice that height, which will induce latency, more latency.

[Guest Speaker]

There's no good.

[Adam Curry]

Doesn't seem like it's good, but. But did you hear that 8,000 satellites.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I heard that.

[Adam Curry]

That's a lot, man. And you know everyone's also jacked. Oh yeah. Soon my T mobile phone will be able to use Starlink. Okay, talk about a threat vector. All they have to do then is Just target, zoom in, enhance, rotate, fire.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Adam Curry]

You'll be done.

[Guest Speaker]

They're gonna first, they'll be targeting the cartels in Mexico.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I think we bring back ham radio for the kids. It was much better. You know, short bursts.

[Guest Speaker]

Yep.

[Adam Curry]

You know, and you can do it.

[Guest Speaker]

You can push a button.

[Adam Curry]

You can send text messages to each other. Looks cool. You walk around school, kids would be.

[Guest Speaker]

Like, yeah, with the thing on your belt making, making a racket.

[Adam Curry]

I don't know about cq. I don't know about cq. Not good. All right, do you have any, do you have any more sequences? Because I have something I want to try and roll out, and it's going to be difficult and you're going to hate me for it. So I want you to get whatever you have that you want to get out of the way. Let's do it.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, yeah, let's. I want to play some data stuff from the usds, the Department of Data, whatever. US Department of Data Service.

[Adam Curry]

That's the original name for Dublin Doge.

[Guest Speaker]

No, this is a group of.

[Adam Curry]

Well, no, but yes, the United States Digital Service. That is the original.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, but, but they're bitching and moaning because they're getting fired and they, and, but they make some good points that this is on npr, which is, you know, they're big supporters of haters of DOGE and the supporters of everything that's in government. But this woman makes a good point and it's the stuff we talk about and I don't know what they're going to do about it.

[John C. Dvorak]

Karen Moronsky Chapman never saw her job as police political. She just wanted to make the government work a little better. I joined USDS to help people, to help the American people to deliver better services. She's a data scientist and for the last couple of years, Karen's been quietly working deep inside the federal government at a little known agency called the United States Digital Service, or usds. This is her first media interview. A lot of what I was doing was trying to bridge the different data silos across government and really just help agencies be more efficient and effective by using data to inform decisions. You can think of the USDS as a kind of help desk, though that would be underselling it. It's more like help desk meets Seal Team 6. A kind of special ops team for bridge broken websites. When federal systems start to fall apart, it's the USDS that gets the call. Like in the spring of 2024, when the Department of Education rolled out its New FAFSA application. That's the form college students use to apply for federal financial aid. And last spring, it broke in a spectacular way.

[Guest Speaker]

The Department of Education just found a calculation error on hundreds of thousands of student aid applications.

[John C. Dvorak]

Forms failed to upload, pages led nowhere. Students born in the year 2000 walked out completely. It was chaos. The FAFSA fiasco was pretty on par with, like, healthcare.gov like, like. It was pretty close to being a healthcare.gov situation. Healthcare.gov that was the catastrophic rollout. Affordable Care act, what we call Obamacare these days. The website to sign up crashed just two hours after launch.

[Adam Curry]

Just to confirm, United States Digital Services was renamed by President Trump to doge. And they're using the same terms, connecting the data silos, acting as a help desk. So this is one of the unsuccessful data scientists who were there and really weren't able to achieve anything except a very expensive Obamacare. Which website?

[Guest Speaker]

Hold on. She's still there. This is the thing that's weird about this story.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, wow.

[Guest Speaker]

Okay, let it go.

[John C. Dvorak]

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it became a national embarrassment so disastrous it prompted the government to create the USDS to be a rescue team for things like this. So when FAFSA fell apart in 2024, it was Karen and her team who stayed, stepped in. They stabilized the site, unlocked access, and got students the aid they needed. They've done this kind of work for the cdc, Social Security, education. It's high stakes, high pressure, but Karen loved it. It's really easy to get addicted to this work because it's so meaningful. There's very few roles that you can be positively impacting the lives of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people. And for a while, it's felt, well, safe, totally immune from the churn of politics. Yeah, like technology is not political. Like technology should be nonpartisan. It doesn't matter who's president. I'm here to serve the people. But I was wrong. DOGE has proved that technology and its use can be highly partisan. The Department of Government Efficiency is charged with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. But when it made its way to the U.S. digital Services Department, it appeared to be taking an agency built to protect the government's digital systems and started doing just the opposite. A good analogy is it's like Jenga, and at some point, DOGE is pulling out pieces and something's going to topple and we may not be able to put it back.

[Adam Curry]

Wasn't Kara Swisher's ex wife in charge of it for a while. Megan, didn't she go there there?

[Guest Speaker]

Not that I know of.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, I think she did. I think she did. And, and was it Matt Cutts from Google? He was there for a while. The guy who did Google search. They had, you know what they were doing is they were my. They were the ones that were mining everything, getting all the data for Obama. That's what those guys were doing. I remember this. We talked about it ad nauseam.

[Guest Speaker]

Ad nauseam.

[Adam Curry]

Ad nauseam, I tell you. So she doesn't, she doesn't like do Doge is. Doge is weaponizing my department. Is that the story?

[Guest Speaker]

I think she lost one of her friends or something. But to Doge, you know, that got fired. I mean, something I can't really tell, but. But she has a complaint coming up that is valuable.

[John C. Dvorak]

I remember when I heard that they had right access to Treasury, I was like, oh my gosh. Like you can break things and not small things. Trillions of dollars worth of things like Social Security and tax refunds. The majority of folks I see having been hired into DOGE are very junior. These systems are not going to be anything like anything that they have seen before. Take the Social Security system. It was built in the 60s and 70s and it runs on Cobol, a programming language that is two or even three times older than some of the Doge stacks. They clearly don't understand COBOL. When they were like, oh, there's 150 year olds at Social Security. Elon Musk talked about that during an interview on Fox examination of Social Security.

[Adam Curry]

And we've got people in there that.

[John C. Dvorak]

150 years old now.

[Adam Curry]

Do you know anyone 150?

[Guest Speaker]

I don't. Okay.

[John C. Dvorak]

And Musk said it was proof of fraud, except Karen says it actually wasn't. And it's like, no, that's the default date for cobol. Like if the field is missing just the default date, that's why there's all these 150 year olds. These 150 year olds weren't getting checks. They just didn't have a birth date in the system. And Karen said she would have told the Doge people as much if they'd only asked. But they never did. They just assumed they knew better.

[Adam Curry]

Well, we had that from our dudes named Ben. The day after this, this story broke about the 150 year olds. Now NPR's showing up with the story. Story. Six minutes worth of story.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, this is pretty funny. But, but she does. The point about COBOL is a, is a good point. But except for one thing that I don't know why it hasn't been discussed. It's not even mentioned.

[Adam Curry]

I mean, why is there no birth date for these people?

[Guest Speaker]

No, about cobol. COBOL is not hard to learn. Any one of these guys who are coding in machine language or assembler or anything actually can learn cobol. It's one of the easiest languages to learn. Why doesn't they just say, some junior guys, I'm going to learn cobol. It's not a big deal. That's why it's called the Common Business Oriented Language. It was designed to be used by schmucks.

[Adam Curry]

Cobol, shmo ball. Just use grok, baby. I'm sure GROK does a great job at cobol. You're right, it's common. What was it again? What was the acronym?

[Guest Speaker]

Common Business Oriented Language.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, was. It's a relatively simple unsophisticated language.

[Guest Speaker]

It's kind of sophistication to it, but it's. It's very. It's very. I learned it once. I don't know if I could code in it now. But it's not a hard. It's not. It's fortrans harder.

[Adam Curry]

I like Cobalt is for schmucks. That is a T shirt or a bumper sticker right there.

[John C. Dvorak]

I mean, it's not for.

[Guest Speaker]

You don't have to be a genius code cobol. That's the point.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, but I'm still stuck on how come there are so many records in the system where they don't have a birth date. What kind of system are you running over there?

[Guest Speaker]

Well, there's that.

[Adam Curry]

All right, so since you broached the money topic with the treasury there, I'm going to attempt and I may fail. And I hope you give me some grace. Grace?

[Guest Speaker]

No.

[Adam Curry]

I hope you give me some grace.

[Guest Speaker]

This is. This is. This preliminary stuff you're doing right now is already setting up the wall.

[Adam Curry]

I think I can explain the stablecoin gambit.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, I don't know if you can. I mean, I don't. This is going to bore people stiff.

[Adam Curry]

Well, I mean, would you rather play TikTok clips instead? I mean, I did my.

[Guest Speaker]

I would actually. Yes, but, but, but, but if you want to make the attempt. I don't know why you want to do this.

[Adam Curry]

Because it's a critical.

[Guest Speaker]

You want to do it after the donation segment?

[Adam Curry]

No, why would we do it after the donation segment? Okay, I'll do it. All right. I'll do it after the donation segment.

[Guest Speaker]

No, I'm just saying that because it's going to give us a low count.

[Adam Curry]

No, I'll do it after. All right, this is attention. But then if I do it after the donation segment, you can't grouse and go, this is DC until the very end.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, I, I'll save it. Yeah, I can save it.

[Adam Curry]

Okay.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, but how many clips are we talking about here? You make it sound like it's going to be a half hour presentation on Stablecoin.

[Adam Curry]

No, I think it's probably about 17 minutes.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, my God.

[Adam Curry]

Well, it might. It will affect. It affects world affairs. I'm just saying it will affect world affairs and we have to learn things about. What is a euro dollar? Do you know what a euro dollar is?

[Guest Speaker]

No, I don't.

[Adam Curry]

We hear it all the time.

[Guest Speaker]

I can look it up. It's easier to look it up. Seems to me. I'll look it up.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah. Okay, well, you do that. You look it up and then I'll play some M5M news to entertain everybody to keep them listening until we get to the donation segment.

[John C. Dvorak]

Segments Chills. This morning, anticipation is building for new music from one of the greatest voices of all time. Yes. Eight Grammy winner Barbara Streisand announced this morning she is dropping a brand. Just heard a sneak peek of first time ever. I saw your face. The new record is called the Secret of Life Partners, Volume 2.

[Guest Speaker]

By the way, stop the clip for a second. Says we're on pet peeves. Why don't they use the term like you always use in the past?

[Adam Curry]

Release.

[Guest Speaker]

Yes, release. She's going to release a new album instead of she's going to drop an album. Well, is that supposed to be hip or something?

[Adam Curry]

That's what the kids are talking about, man. You drop an album. And by the way, they're so hip, they call the Hoosiers the Hosiers, which is kind of cool.

[Guest Speaker]

The Hosiers.

[John C. Dvorak]

It's a sequel to her 2014 platinum certified album and it's been more than a decade. The works. She collaborated on the album with some of the best in the business, including Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney.

[Adam Curry]

Eric, first off, two dead guys right at the top. The best in the business.

[John C. Dvorak]

Business, including. Bob's alive.

[Adam Curry]

Barely. We all know. We all know John.

[Guest Speaker]

Dylan's alive.

[Adam Curry]

Dylan's barely alive. We all know John buried Paul. Stop putting.

[John C. Dvorak]

Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, Martin, Mariah Carey, Hozier and others. The album comes out 27th. All right. Looking forward to that.

[Adam Curry]

I'm looking forward to that. A new duets album just dropped.

[Guest Speaker]

No, she's Not.

[Adam Curry]

It's dropped. It's dropped.

[Guest Speaker]

Pick it up.

[Adam Curry]

It's dropped. Who saw this coming? Everybody on the medical watch for you this afternoon.

[John C. Dvorak]

A newly found impact of vaccines on women. Medical reporter Dean Dina Baer is here to explain. Dina, Laura's and Ben. Vaccines for the flu and Covid can alter the menstrual cycle. It's not a permanent impact, but for women who have a regular cycle, getting a flu shot or a COVID vaccine changed the length of the cycle. Multiple studies confirm menstrual disturbances following vaccines. Now the Journal of the American Medical association confirms concerns expressed by women. Experts say there's no need to worry. The cycle returns to normal and there shouldn't be a reason for vaccine hesitancy based on the menstrual cycle impact.

[Adam Curry]

We hammered this during COVID Yep, yep, yep. And we got excoriated for it.

[Guest Speaker]

This bull crap we never got. I did.

[Adam Curry]

I did. Specifically. We had a lot of people angry and they all came back, said, I'm sorry, you were right. It interrupted, it disrupted. It increased flow. It became irregular. Like, awesome, like crazy. Flow. Flow.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah. The nurses were reporting it.

[Adam Curry]

But don't worry. There's nothing to worry about. Nothing to worry about at all. Don't worry about it. These people are ghouls. And who saw this coming?

[John C. Dvorak]

Researchers at the University of Virginia say a new study has proven safe and effective.

[Adam Curry]

Whoa. Safe and effective. You know that's gonna be a doozy this time. I actually believe it.

[John C. Dvorak]

Safe and effective at destination. Sensitizing children to peanut allergies. Yeah. UVA Health Children's researchers tested children by giving them increased doses of peanut protein. Now, by the end of the study, all 27 children were able to eat 500 milligrams of peanut protein daily. Eight children are now freely eating peanuts. Researchers are calling for larger clinical trials to advance what could be a game changing new treatment for peanut allergies in young children.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, go figure. For years we've been, oh, you can't have any peanuts near my child. My child was no good. Where's. If you just expose the kid to peanuts, it turns out they're okay. Hello.

[Guest Speaker]

They were never exposed. Young enough. That's always been the issue.

[Adam Curry]

Yes. It's like, so obvious, people. Where's Bobby the op in all of this? This.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, that's what I like knowing. Where's the Epstein files? Yeah, I got some super cuts that'll. That'll round it out.

[Adam Curry]

Okay. Super cuts are always good. I'm glad you have them. Yo, you have three. Holy crap.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, because I'm. They're leading up to the current super cut that's floating around after chaos and threat to democracy. We have a couple of. Here we have the moment. This one was a flop.

[John C. Dvorak]

The strength that we have.

[Guest Speaker]

Sorry, is the moment. Flop, flop.

[John C. Dvorak]

The strength that we have is in this moment. Listen to your constituents, center them in this moment. But I can tell you that there are a lot of people that are watching his leadership in this moment. This is the moment.

[Adam Curry]

No, I think about what's happening in this moment. What's important is that we meet this moment.

[John C. Dvorak]

So are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment?

[Adam Curry]

What do you want to see us.

[Guest Speaker]

Doing right now in this moment?

[John C. Dvorak]

And which Democrats are actually going to stand, stand up against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in this moment? Fight that you all are exhibiting is not just what the base wants, but it's what this moment requires. The strength that we have is in this moment.

[Adam Curry]

Well, by the way, I think we, we played this one already. In fact, I'm pretty sure.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, these are some. This next one might be. You talk about this one or the one. Next one.

[Adam Curry]

No, the. In this moment. We played the. In this.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, in this moment. But it was a flood. Just the idea is that they were just repeating this is a flop.

[John C. Dvorak]

Flop.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, that never worked out.

[Adam Curry]

Yep, that's a flop.

[Guest Speaker]

And then we, and then we had the stretch of democracy. We had the chaos, which I don't have. I mean those are also super cuts. They don't have. But then we have the social media Dangerous series which we, I think may have played. But this is another version of it because it's got the, the, the annoying overlays. But this is another example, something that was, they, they pushed this stuff out trying to, I don't know if they're looking for it to catch hold or to say these are ineffective.

[John C. Dvorak]

Hi, I'm Fox San Antonio's Jessica Headley. And I'm Ryan Wolf. Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities, the El Paso Las Cruces communities, Eastern Iowa communities, Mid Michigan communities. We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS4 News produces. But we are concerned about irresponsible one sided news stories playing out country plaguing our country. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories without checking facts first. The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. Unfortunately, some members of the museum use their platforms to push Their own personal bias and agenda control.

[Adam Curry]

It exactly what people think. And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

[John C. Dvorak]

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

[Adam Curry]

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

[Guest Speaker]

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna use these. I'm speaking to the high school class. Yeah, we definitely use that about propaganda. Yeah, I'm going to show this.

[Guest Speaker]

It's like. It's an embarrassment. But they continue. And this is the latest one. I think this is pretty new.

[Adam Curry]

This one I have not seen.

[Guest Speaker]

This is the escalation. This is the latest. They're trying to get this into the mainstream, thinking that, you know, Trump's escalation, I don't know why is that a bad term? Or they're trying to equate it with the Soviet Union, I'm not sure. But. But this is. They're trying to use to get this word in there, and it's all the same jerks.

[Adam Curry]

We begin tonight with the escalation in.

[John C. Dvorak]

The president's crackdown on illegal immigration. Today's dramatic escalation in the Trump administration's conflict with judges. The Trump administration signaling a major escalation in its deportation efforts Today, an escalation in the Trump administration's battle with the judiciary.

[Adam Curry]

Tensions between local, local and federal authorities over President Trump's immigration crackdown escalated today.

[John C. Dvorak]

We begin this hour with a major escalation of the Trump administration's crackdown in immigration. We begin with what appears to be a major escalation in the Trump administration's deportation efforts. And what is a major escalation in the battle here in D.C. over immigration and deportation. This feels like a insane and reckless escalation from the Trump administration. Arresting a judge. I will tell you, you are not alone is a dramatic escalation. More aggressive moves, more escalation. Trump's escalation of his migrant verge. This kind of escalatory action. This is a dramatic escalation. Escalation, Escalation, Escalation, Escalation, escalation. We've seen an immigration. An escalation, an escalation.

[Adam Curry]

Wow, that's a good one. I'm going to give you a borderline for that. That. That was. That was dynamite. That was good. Esculation. I need the whole. I need the whole Sharpton thing. This escalation of Trump. The escalation. I love him.

[Guest Speaker]

Call it a migrant purge.

[Adam Curry]

Nice.

[Guest Speaker]

Migrant purge.

[Adam Curry]

And with that escalation, I'd like to say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the unclippable wench. Say hello to my friend on the other end. The. The only Mr. John C. Devor.

[Guest Speaker]

In the morning. You, Mr. Adam Crane, the morning our ship se buds on the ground feeding the air subs in the water than the dames and knights out there in.

[Adam Curry]

The morning to the trolls and the troll.

[John C. Dvorak]

Let me count.

[Adam Curry]

Hold on a second. Well, I don't know, man. I think your super cut chased everybody away. 18.

[Guest Speaker]

You know, I think you. I think the threat of your.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, hold on. Oh, no. Oh, right away. We lose the. Right away. Hold on a second. That's crazy. Right away. The minute. The minute you. You started talking, it switched interfaces again.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, yeah. Can you hear me now?

[Adam Curry]

I can hear you now. I hear you. Can you hear me now? I hear you now. You sound great. I don't know what that is. I don't know.

[Guest Speaker]

Something's triggering it.

[Adam Curry]

What? What? The question is, what's triggering it?

[Guest Speaker]

Something.

[Adam Curry]

Anyway, 1880 is the count on the trolls in the troll room Trollroom IO and that is where you can go to listen to this show live. We've been doing it live for a long time. We are in our 18th year. And the Troll room is fun. It's ephemeral because you can go in there and go troll, whatever, and it just scrolls right off and it doesn't matter. Then you're just shouting into the void. It doesn't really make any difference. So get it out of your system in the troll room and listen to us live at Troll or get a modern podcast app. I really do recommend it, by the way. I think we talked about pocket casts last time. And so there's now definitive answer from Apple that they donate button in the app is okay. So everybody is now doing this. They're adding the donut the donate button into their apps.

[Guest Speaker]

So Apple said it's okay. So it's okay.

[Adam Curry]

Yes. The way this works, yes. If it's not okay, then, oh, you have to use Apple pay and we take 30%. Don't you understand? That was. That was.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, I see what you're talking about.

[Adam Curry]

This has always been the problem. And the App developers have always been afraid, like, oh, man, my app will get rejected if I put this in there. No, no, you can put it in there. And it's great because then people are listening. Oh, I should support these guys. Let me just look at my app that I'm already using. Click boom. You can support us as part of our value for value method. By the way, troublemakers abound. We got an AI generated note from Mel Cooley, executive producer. Did you see this?

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah.

[Adam Curry]

An AI review of our show, urgent content review and advertiser feedback.

[Guest Speaker]

I think I did see this. I didn't look at it, though.

[Adam Curry]

Gentlemen, this memo requires your immediate attention. Following the broadcast of episode 1759, we have received deeply concerning feedback from our key advertisers. The response has been negative and frankly threatens our financial stability. Specifically, advertisers have cited the following issues as problematic and potentially brand damaging. The give on Asian media assassination tagline. Did we use that? I don't remember that.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Adam Curry]

I don't know either. This was flagged immediately as insensitive and potentially offensive. The lengthy and seemingly unfocused segments.

[Guest Speaker]

Did I get this email or not?

[Adam Curry]

I don't think remember it. So, AI analyzed our our show, 1759 as an advertiser and they hate it.

[Guest Speaker]

Several advertisers noted the extended period proves our complete point.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, I'll read a few more. Several advertisers noted the extended periods dedicated to topics like the Pope's funeral and the minutiae of online hoaxes. They feel the show lacked a clear through line, at times meandering, losing audience engagement and by extension, the value of their placements. The tapping me along discussion, while intended as analysis, the extended speculation on Trump's ambiguous phrasing.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, by the way, that's interesting. They brought that up. Yep, because we know what it means.

[Adam Curry]

Well, there's two. Two versions.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, the version I believe to be the correct version is the golfing one.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, I agree. I think that's the right one because he's a golfer. Yes. Tapping along. As a golf player term, tapping. You know, putt, putt, putt. Tapping the. Blow the ball along slowly. There is a second one, however, from producer Andy. He says in a pig slaughterhouse, there's a guy who uses a rattle attached to a broomstick to keep the pigs moving into their final destination by tapping it on the floor behind them.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I don't think that's it.

[Adam Curry]

I like it, though. I like. I like the visual. I Like the visual.

[Guest Speaker]

But I'm glad that the AI Picked.

[Adam Curry]

It up and then.

[Guest Speaker]

Because they picked it up as. Boring.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, boring.

[Guest Speaker]

Now, wait, let's back off for a second. Now. Why was this sent in the first place? Was it? Was it. What is the end game here of this? Sending this. This note to us.

[Adam Curry]

Someone with.

[Guest Speaker]

We don't have advertisers, so it's got nothing to do with any real advertisers. It's some sort of a phony baloney.

[Adam Curry]

No.

[Guest Speaker]

Scam.

[Adam Curry]

No. This is someone who thought they could find a good use of a A.I.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh. And this is what they found.

[Adam Curry]

This is it. The extended listener donation segment. Here we go. While listener support is vital, the length of the donation readouts, including personal anecdotes and tangents, were cited as excessive and disruptive to the show's flow. Advertisers are concerned that this extended segment reduces the time available for content and their messaging. And then finally, tone and language. Language. Certain advertisers express discomfort with the overall tone, particularly the use of dismissive language like bull crap and jam okes. And the sum.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, this is. Nailed it.

[Adam Curry]

And the sometimes cynical and negative framing of news events. They prefer a more measured and analytical approach. And it goes on and on and on and on.

[Guest Speaker]

Wow. You gotta send me that.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, I will. This. There's. Even the AI Then made a rap song out of it, which I. I will not bore you with.

[Guest Speaker]

No, you don't need that.

[Adam Curry]

It's horrible. It's just. It's.

[Guest Speaker]

I'm sure it is crap.

[Adam Curry]

So anyway, Time, Talent, Treasure is how we operate this ship, which means we need your financial support. But we appreciate any kind of time and talent that you put into it, which includes the work that our artists do. They always provide us with a piece of artwork that we can use as the album art and to get attention for engagement farming on the socials, to be quite honest about it. And it always seems to work. People love this one. Although I did get the errant amen. If you hate Tim Pool so much, just don't talk about him. You're sending audience to him. Okay. All right. I'm sure. Because episode 1759 titled Eat the Babies.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't care about sending audience to Tim Pool one way or the other.

[Adam Curry]

I know, but this is. I'm just giving you the feedback I'm giving you.

[John C. Dvorak]

True.

[Guest Speaker]

I mean, if you. If he gets audience, he gets some recognition on this show, maybe he'll.

[Adam Curry]

Maybe.

[Guest Speaker]

Maybe he'll log roll and give us a plug roll.

[Adam Curry]

It's called pod rolling. Pod rolling. Your pod roll. You don't log roll. That's so 2005. It's pod rolling. The artwork came to us from a well known artist capitalist agenda and it was indeed the Beanie Boys. Beanie with the googly eyes in his.

[Guest Speaker]

Googly eyes is what made it work.

[Adam Curry]

In his seat as the. At the new media chair. Oh, by the way, I had a. Where do I have that? There was a new guy in the new media chair. Let me see, where did I have that? And the new guy, you know, that's.

[Guest Speaker]

An embarrassment being in that chair, it seems to me.

[Adam Curry]

Well, the guy in at this time was Winston Marshall, formerly guitarist and banjo player of Mumford and so guns. He's British and he now occupies this seat. And I think this was also a set up bullcrap question. Sorry, advertisers as he was, he was referring to the sordid state of affairs in his home country of the United kingdoms is in Britain.

[John C. Dvorak]

We have had quarter of a million.

[Adam Curry]

Million people issued non crime hate incidents.

[John C. Dvorak]

As we speak.

[Adam Curry]

There are people in prison for quite literally reposting memes. We have extensive prison sentences for tweets.

[John C. Dvorak]

Social media posts and general free speech issues.

[Adam Curry]

Would the Trump administration consider political asylum for British citizens in such a situation?

[John C. Dvorak]

Well, to your latter question, it's a very good one. I have not heard that proposed to the president, nor have I spoken to him about that idea, but I certainly can and talk to our national security team and see if it's something the administration would entertain.

[Guest Speaker]

Yes, please.

[Adam Curry]

Asylum for the Brits. I tell you, that was a setup question.

[Guest Speaker]

So we know that that chair is specifically there for bull crap. Crap.

[Adam Curry]

It's the setup bull crap chair. Yes. And of course everyone goes along with it.

[Guest Speaker]

I wonder if they hand them a script. Would you like, do you want to be in the chair this week?

[Adam Curry]

Sure.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, can you do this? And they give you a script, they look it over and you decide, yeah, I can do that. Do I have to memorize it? Yeah, you have to memorize it. Okay, I can manage that.

[Adam Curry]

Imagine that they said, okay, Curry, you're up, you're in the new media chair. I'd sit there and then I'd just, I just, I'd have the script, but then I'd hold up a picture and say, hey Carolyn, what's this in your mouth? That's what I would do. That would make me. No, you're right, you wouldn't do that.

[Guest Speaker]

You know it. The first lobbering over there hey Carolyn. Hey, Carolyn.

[Adam Curry]

Anyway, thank you very much, Capitalist Agenda. You're a unanimous winner. Let's take a quick look at no Agenda Art generator dot com. Was there anything that had a lot of tapping stuff that.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, no, that was so heads and shoulders above everything else. I didn't want to actually use it because I thought we don't need to.

[Adam Curry]

Send audience to him.

[Guest Speaker]

Just send audience. It's not that so much. It's kind of an insulting thing.

[Adam Curry]

But you like.

[Guest Speaker]

But it's so funny. You have to say you said specifically.

[Adam Curry]

It'S the googly eyes that make it work.

[Guest Speaker]

It is the googly eyes.

[Adam Curry]

It's definitely the googly eyes. It's fantastic. It was fantastic.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah. No Capitalist Agenda has skills.

[Adam Curry]

He's got mad skills. Mad skills.

[Guest Speaker]

And he's got. Yeah, he's got the little tag with this new media on the earth phone. It's idiotic.

[Adam Curry]

It was. Well, ever since Tim Pool, you know the. The $5 million came out and went. And he thought that it was because he was that good. It just had to make fun of him. I mean remember the Russian money?

[Guest Speaker]

Oh yeah. Who can you forget?

[Adam Curry]

Yeah. Anyway, we want to thank everybody. We always thank everybody who supports us with $50 or above. @ this moment in the show which is now known as the pre stablecoin segment, we will be thanking our executive and associate executive producers. Very simple system. You Support us with $200 or more for a show. You get an official Hollywood credit that can be used anywhere. These credits are recognized including IMDb. You have to do it for yourself but you will be able to open up with that credit. You get an associate executive producer credit and we read your note. $300 or above. An executive producer credit coveted good for a lifetime anywhere that these credits are honored and recognized and we will read your note as well with your executive producer credit and we kick it are anonymous black sheep from Maryville, Tennessee $610 and anonymous black sheep who I know the the anonymous black sheep sent me a note actually and this is it. Thank you for the awesome content. I've emailed Adam off and on. Adam, I'm a recent Christian and do a daily journal. The company is called daily. The company is called Daily Kairos K A I R O S excellent product. I recommend I'm a military contractor that embeds with army and marine corps units. This is the. The signal guy signals the app the DoD uses end to end encryption. I'd like to call out Michael Stuart which is who we call it earlier as A douchebag.

[Guest Speaker]

I didn't realize you've been double douchebag.

[Adam Curry]

I didn't even realize. I didn't realize you've been double douchebag. That's bad. That's bad. They didn't realize that he donated inside baseball. We've had two units move out of Iraq and the third will be in June when the contest contract is up. We have other new sites in another Middle Eastern country, another two sites in Africom, another site added in the Pacific. Unlike, allegedly, Pete Hegseth, there is no operational security being divulged. FYI, I was on a green suit deployment with JSOC when our boys smoked the Wagner guys in Syria. This is the level of producing guys we got. I just love that we smoked the Wagner guys in Syria. This is what I'm talking about. This is why we are the best podcast in the universe. And he says, jingles, you might die. Love you both. Jesus loves us all. You might die. Yeah. If you. If you come across the anonymous black sheep, you might die.

[Guest Speaker]

All right, he left out. That's true.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, I'm sorry. And I have the classic. That's true.

[John C. Dvorak]

That's true.

[Adam Curry]

I. I actually loaded it up. There you go.

[Guest Speaker]

Scott Horton's up. He's in Malibu, California.

[Adam Curry]

No. Who is this Scott Horton? Never heard of that guy. Never heard of Scott Horton.

[Guest Speaker]

5 5050. Hello, John Z. Adam and the whole Gitmo Nation. This is the other Scott Horton.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, there it is.

[Guest Speaker]

I made it out to Leo Bravo's meetup this weekend. What a great turnout and what fun people. I'm donating 55050 to finish up my knighting. Needed 33 cents to complete the WOW and wanted to add Commodore 2. I haven't for. I haven't thought of a good name yet. So that will be coming soon with my accounting. I want to call out. I think he's on the list anyway for Commodore.

[Adam Curry]

He is on the list for Commodore ship. Yep.

[Guest Speaker]

And there's a couple of stragglers, by the way, that are already. There's issues with their Commodore ship, but they'll get it next show. I wanted to call out the Pineapple Princess and Dano as douchebags.

[Adam Curry]

Dario. Oh, not even closest.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, you can be looking from where I'm sitting about a mile away from the monitor, it looks like Dano Pineapple.

[Adam Curry]

Princess Douchebag and Dario, formerly known as Dano Douchebag.

[Guest Speaker]

And let Tyrone know that he still has the stench of douchebaggery wafting from him. Douchebag thank you, John and Adam for keeping so many of us sane and helping us to see through the media propaganda bs. I'd like Jobs, Goat, Karma. Her head is gone. And LG Boom Shakalaka.

[John C. Dvorak]

And her head is gone. Jobs, jobs, Jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs, Jobs, Karma.

[Adam Curry]

Austin Carr is next. He's in Miami Springs, Florida. 5 33/33. Love those 33s. It's a switcheroo. ITM gen. Since I've already spent many, many thousands so my daughter could become a Vanderbilt University Commodore graduate, I thought, what the heck? Well, another 5:33.33 would be a bargain. So she could also become a no Agenda Commodore. Please dub Abby Paulson as Commodore of the Human Resource producers. So now do I put. I'll just do Abby Paulson. I'll put the whole thing in there, make it official. Okay. We don't want to get those switcheroos wrong. Baby number three on the way. Soon to be 33 year old mom. There you go. Austin Carr. P.S. abby is also the wife of the Coast Guard pilot who last year gave an in the morning shout out during his M5M interview after Gulf of America hurricane rescue. Yes, yes, I remember. I believe such a free publicity donation for the no Agenda show is worthy of an honorary no Agenda Commodore ship. It's your duty. It's your duty. It's your. This is not a.

[Guest Speaker]

Exactly.

[Adam Curry]

It's your duty. It's your duty. All right, thank you very much. The switcheroo has been made.

[Guest Speaker]

Austin to Abby, Sir Marcus in Egan, Minnesota. 515 30. Guys, this is Sir Marcus of Gurkhaland.

[Adam Curry]

Picoland, maybe. I don't know.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, my sweet stepdaughter Blair, nicknamed me Commodore years ago due to driving boats on our Minnesota lakes. This is the land of 10,000 and lakes. So I thought I'd better make an official. So how about Mark, Commodore of Pro Wing County. Thanks.

[Adam Curry]

Sounds good to me. Sir Milkman comes in Next from Evington, Virginia. $500. And he just says, Sir Milkman of Evington Baron. All right.

[Guest Speaker]

Zadok Brown III in Pukalani, Hawaii. Pukalani, Hawaii. Hawaii. 500 ITM gents. Had to get in under the wire for Commodore. Mahalo for all you do.

[Adam Curry]

Mahalo for you. Wow. We have three with no note here, so that will be three double up karmas. The first for SDG in Oakland, California. 500 and double up Karma for you.

[John C. Dvorak]

You've got Karma.

[Adam Curry]

I might as well do the other two.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, might as well.

[Adam Curry]

Brock Reinhold, Fort Saskatchewan Alberta, Canada. 500. Double up karma for you.

[John C. Dvorak]

You've got.

[Adam Curry]

John tucker from Omaha, Nebraska. 500 and a double up karma for you.

[John C. Dvorak]

You've got Karma.

[Guest Speaker]

Lawrence.

[Adam Curry]

I'm guessing Laurence De Coaster the coaster.

[Guest Speaker]

In Belgium by 350. 93. ITM John and Adam keeping the great work. No jingles, no karma. Greetings from Belgium. And he's got some.

[Adam Curry]

With.

[Guest Speaker]

Loves and kisses.

[Adam Curry]

I hope this note finds you well.

[Guest Speaker]

I hope this don't find you well, Sir.

[Adam Curry]

Dibs. I'm living North Providence, Rhode Island. That's where my mom is from. 3.33.33 and sir, dibs says itm John Adam. No jingles. Neil Karma, sir. Dibs on living. Thank you very much.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, and you got the next one too. For obvious reasons.

[Adam Curry]

In the morning John and Adams says Andrew Dector. And greetings to all Gitmo nation from Northern Wildcat territory, FEMA region number four, AKA Northern Kentucky. I come to you with headquarters. Heavy heart my 50 year old wife angel was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in September of 2022. She lost the kidney, underwent immunotherapy and several other courses of treatment, but the cancer still spread. Cancer sucks. And cancer that doesn't respond to treatment sucks even more. After learning the cancer spread to her brain, she finally had enough and elected for home hospice in March. She's finally resting comfortably and seems to be pain free. She is in her final final days and her passing is imminent. She was a fifth grade teacher and was one of the best in Boone County, Kentucky. She had zero transitions in her class over the years. Angel will be sorely missed when my three kids and I will carry on her legacy. Angel was not a listener of no Agenda. But she tolerated my zeal for it and didn T complain about my no agenda coffee mug stickers and hats. I wish to honor her tolerance by making her an executive producer for the May Day Show 1760. Please accept this treasure of 333.33 for Show 1760. In her name I request massive amounts of no agenda health karma for my beautiful wife in her final days. She needs it f cancer. Please. I'm sorry to hear that. Of course. And she's in our prayers. Mine for sure.

[John C. Dvorak]

You've got Karma.

[Guest Speaker]

Vert Fuller in Batavia, N.Y. $300. And he sent in a check with a note which I will read to DNC. $300 ever. And it's handwritten in a kind of a sloppy style. Even when you take the plug out. Huh? You two are electrifying. Ah. How did I ever make it before. COVID when I didn't know about your podcast, you were like a. You're like a less and found. Like a lost and found, I guess. Yeah, you're like lost and found referring to a place where you go pick lost and found stuff up.

[Adam Curry]

I guess.

[Guest Speaker]

I would like to give this check donation to making my son Andy a closer to being a knight. Okay. I don't know if he's on the list or not. Karma for my birthday on the 29th. Is that on the list? I don't know. I think it is.

[Adam Curry]

I'll check. Let me see.

[Guest Speaker]

On the list along with Willie Nelson. And then he says too long a note when it's not really long at all. It's just hard to read. And by the way, that should be 2T. Sure, sir. Short for nothing.

[Adam Curry]

Okay.

[Guest Speaker]

Sure.

[Adam Curry]

That's it.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, that's it.

[Adam Curry]

Word. Fuller. Hold on a second. Yeah, he's on there. Rick W. Cable is in Modesta, California. $300. Our last executive producer for this show, Old Knight with first $300 donation on 9302012 promoted my old site, find it classifieds.com now podgrabber.com where no agenda is featured and live stream hubs podgrabber.com live noagenda. All right. Podgrabber.com go check it out. Thank you very much, Rich, for featuring us and for supporting us.

[Guest Speaker]

That's nice. Rich Geisler in San Diego, California. 251st Associate Executive Producer and he says keep it up, fellow fellas.

[Adam Curry]

Rich associate executive producership for Brandon Foster from Dawson Creek in BC, British Columbia. My donation of 247.87 USD is the equivalent to 333 Candanavian plus fees. Okay. You get moved up, you get upgraded. I make sure we upgrade you there. For my first executive producer credits. And for premium electrical service in BC and Alberta peace regions, reach out to Deepwoods Electric and controls standby generator service upgrades and more. Deepwoodselectric.com reach out with an in the morning for 7.33% off. That's the angel number of your electrical project. Canada may be down, but we're not dead yet. Best regards, Brandon Foster, sir. Foster of the Deepwoods Electron, CEO of Deepwoods Electrical and Controls Ltd. Deepwoodselectric.com Nice.

[Guest Speaker]

Chad Finkbeiner in Highland Heights, Ohio. 222.22 Road ducks. And he's just simply says thanks for the best podcast on this side of the ice wall. Yak karma, please.

[Adam Curry]

That's a flat earth reference. If I'VE ever heard.

[John C. Dvorak]

You've got karma.

[Adam Curry]

Ah, there he is. We're talking about about him during the pre show amble. We're down to our last bags, Eli, because Eli the coffee guy comes in from Bensonville, Illinois with 205.01 and says, Adam, you're right. America is hooked on cheap Chinese goods. By the way, I see the president just made a comment this morning about the tariffs. He said, and I'm paraphrasing, well, maybe the kids will just have two dolls instead of 30. Okay, we need to move our supply chain to Central and South America to build up the nations in our neighborhood. It may even help with the immig issue. We just launched T shirts on our website. I'm happy to say they are finely crafted right here in our own hemisphere in the nation of Honduras. They make great shirts and grow great coffee. So visit gigawatt coffee roasters.com and use code ITM20 for 20% off your order and stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy.

[Guest Speaker]

Actually, Honduras coffee is good.

[Adam Curry]

Yes.

[Guest Speaker]

Linda Lou Patkins up. She's in Lakewood, Colorado. 200 bucks and she wants jobs karma and says for a faster, more effective job search with a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakers Inc.com that's ImageMakers Inc. With a K for all of your executive resume and job search needs. And work with Linda Lou, the duchess of jobs and writer of resumes.

[John C. Dvorak]

Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs karma.

[Adam Curry]

And I believe that is it. No, we have one more. Aaron Parr, Wilmington, North Carolina. Shout out to Matt Parr in Wilmington, North Carolina. They might be related. Congrats on your hole in one and being the best new dad. Go Wolf pack. There you go. I love that. I'm sure that's that's either his sister or his wife. I'm thinking his wife. And with that, that concludes our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1760. We thank you who have supported us and we'll be thanking the rest of the $50 and above donors in our second segment. So looking forward to that. And of course you can go to noagendadonations.com at any point, anytime you feel like it and you can set up a donation of any amount. We actually do love the numerology. So if you got some fun ideas and we'll have, they always come in in the second segment. All kinds of new donations being made, made up all the time. It initially started with the 6969 and never stopped from there. So Go to no agenda donations.com and thank you again to these brand new executive and associate executive producers.

[John C. Dvorak]

Our formula is this.

[Guest Speaker]

We go out, we hit people in the mouth.

[John C. Dvorak]

Woo woo. Shut up. Sleep.

[Adam Curry]

Thank you all very much. Wonderful. Hey John, I've got some stablecoin stuff I want to share with you.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, I'm all ears.

[Adam Curry]

So there is a bill in in Congress right now. It is the stablecoin bill. We'll talk about that in a minute. But throughout the past couple of weeks I've been talking about things like the Mar A Lago Accords, understanding the strong dollar versus the weak dol what is President Trump trying to do? And the only thing I really had known or knew up until recently about stablecoin is the main stablecoin that is in consideration for use by the US Government, specifically the treasury. And I presume by osmosis, the Federal Reserve is tether. And all you need to know about that is a stablecoin is pegged to a dollar. One stablecoin is one one dollar and it is backed by US Treasury. So this company Tether, they only have 40 people working there. All they're doing is they're buying massive amounts of Treasuries, short term Treasuries, so T bills, American debt. And they're making hundreds of millions of dollars based upon the interest rate. And for every single dollar they buy in treasury treasury they make a stable coin. So it's really a way to make more US dollars of the digital kind. And I've learned a lot about this and we're going to start with Planet Money. So it's kind of a mainstream show from NPR and it has a little bit of talk about Stablecoin and the Mar A Lago Accords.

[John C. Dvorak]

Then there's what we've dubbed the weak.

[Guest Speaker]

Dollar school essentially because people around the.

[John C. Dvorak]

World use the dollar so much that pushes up the dollar's value and actually hurts American exporters. So the weak dollar school wants to see the American dollar devalued.

[Guest Speaker]

This school of thought is led by.

[John C. Dvorak]

The chair of the Council of Economic.

[Guest Speaker]

Advisors, a guy named Steven Myron. More than half the world's trade is done in dollars, even when neither country.

[John C. Dvorak]

Trading is the US Simon boils the weak dollar school down to this.

[Adam Curry]

The cost for America in doing this is that you have a dollar that has been distorted in his view, basically and that has held back American exporters.

[Guest Speaker]

A strong dollar means that American consumers can afford to buy more stuff from overseas.

[John C. Dvorak]

And so American factories find it harder to compete with these cheap imports.

[Adam Curry]

And so there's different ways that other countries can begin to address this problem. They could basically agree to buy more American products. They could invest more in America.

[John C. Dvorak]

You know, one solution that he expressed.

[Adam Curry]

Which I think is a little bit tongue in cheek, is that they could just send checks directly to the US treasury to basically pay them a fee for services.

[John C. Dvorak]

Or alternatively, America could impose tariffs. The big idea in Stephen Myron's paper.

[Guest Speaker]

Is that leaders of countries from around the world would descend on South Florida.

[John C. Dvorak]

Make a grand deal with President Trump to help weaken the dollar. And this would be called the Mar A Lago Accord.

[Adam Curry]

You can see how it's something that.

[John C. Dvorak]

Appeals to President Trump.

[Adam Curry]

It kind of intellectualizes his instinctual view that America been wronged. Okay, so the problem we have in America is because everybody wants our dollars, everybody uses our dollars. The dollar is very strong against other currencies. And therefore our products, when we want to export them, are too expensive. We're not like the cheap Chinese crap. That's why the. I believe the temporary measure is these tariffs. Now, what I've learned, and I've heard this term so many times, Eurodollar, I never understood what it meant. The difference between the American dollar we have here in America and the Eurodollar is exactly that. A Eurodollar is every dollar that is in banks or in financial systems outside the US and it's a lot of money. And this money really hurts us, particularly in the hands of China, because they control how strong our dollar is. They use it, where they send it, how much they buy, et cetera. Here is analyst Matt Pines explaining a little bit about the dangers of other countries holding large quantities of dollars. In this case, Eurodollars. Don't be confused by the euro part. If it's outside of America, it's a Eurodollar.

[Guest Speaker]

There's flows of goods coming into the United States and flows of dollars going overseas. And a lot of those dollars are pouring into China. And then China, right, as an entity.

[John C. Dvorak]

As a balance sheet, is then deciding how to deploy those dollars.

[Guest Speaker]

And it's, you know, in some ways.

[John C. Dvorak]

It'S deploying them into domestic investment, some.

[Guest Speaker]

Ways it's deploying them into overseas investment, like Belt Road Initiative. But in other ways, it's also redeploying them back into the US and other sort of advanced financial markets, into financial.

[John C. Dvorak]

Assets, right into our nasdaq, into our real estate, into our farm farmland. And so the US has sort of watched over the past few years how.

[Guest Speaker]

Much sort of of those dollars are kind of Round tripping right back into.

[John C. Dvorak]

The U.S. and for certain elements of the U.S. that's great, right?

[Guest Speaker]

We get, you know, that's an extra.

[John C. Dvorak]

Marginal dollar that's going into, you know, Nvidia stock.

[Guest Speaker]

And it helps everyone's 401ks. There's such a thing in the DOD, the intelligence community.

[John C. Dvorak]

It's like a term of art, like adversarial capital. Right. And tracking adversarial capital is like a very, very important mission inside the United States government. So they don't just see dollars going back and forth, international trade and financial investment as just a sort of fundamentally.

[Guest Speaker]

Neutral cycle of trade and investment. They see it as a security issue.

[John C. Dvorak]

Right. Especially if you see some of these flows come with invisible strings attached. Or often those capital flows implicitly or explicitly corrupt the political systems that they get deployed in.

[Guest Speaker]

And they sort of shape over time.

[John C. Dvorak]

The political systems in the West. We've seen stories in Canada and Australia.

[Guest Speaker]

Even in the us, New Zealand, even.

[John C. Dvorak]

Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, a lot of.

[Guest Speaker]

These countries that are very much at the tipping point of where to shape strategic opinion among key decision makers.

[Adam Curry]

So what I understand of this stablecoin bill which is now in Congress, is the idea is to make all the Eurodollars, everything that's not in America, make those stablecoin, which will be backed by US Treasury. So they are backed by something that is supposedly really secure and really good. And that those dollars, because they're digital, can be completely tracked. We know if someone's trying to buy off politicians and you will not be allowed to use the US Dollars in America, dollars outside of the United States, if you want the dollar, that way you get the stable coin, which basically is a little piece of a US treasury, which equals a dollar. And so here's Caitlin Long to explain the stablecoin bill.

[John C. Dvorak]

The stablecoin bill is going to create for the first time a endorsed differential between an offshore dollar and an onshore dollar. The Fed, particularly because of the control of the European banks on the Eurodollar market. What is a euro dollar? Let's go back to the 1950s when Russia did want to hold during the Cold War its dollars in a US bank because it was afraid they'd be confiscated. So it got the European banks to agree to take US Dollar deposits. So there was this huge offshore market, which is actually as big, if not bigger, than the onshore US dollar market. And to your point, it hasn't been in control of the Fed. Well, the Fed has now wrested control over interest rates, the most important interest Rate was until recently Libor. It's now SOFR and it used to be unsecured priced in London. It's now secured priced in New York. Okay, now here comes Tether. Tether is a company that for all the allegations around it related to money laundering, et cetera, et cetera. Now what's fascinating to me is that the, is that Congress is about to ensconce this by saying okay, we are, you can have, you can be an offshore issuer and you don't have to do all the same know your customer and anti money laundering rules that particularly that a bank has to do. Bank has to do what's something called CIP up front. You have to before you onboard a customer to a bank you have to do all the know your customer and enhanced customer information program upfront. Fintechs don't have to do that and lord knows an offshore company does not.

[Adam Curry]

And that offshore company will be Cantor Fitzgerald Lutnick's company. They're the ones that are the, the, they hold all of the Treasuries for, for this Tether Stablecoin. This thing is outrageously popular all across the world. I didn't even realize how big this, this Stablecoin is. It's being used by shop merchants, by regular people everywhere. Because their own currency is so unstable, they prefer to use the Tether Stablecoin and they can easily pay with it. They're already doing it. It's just on your phone, it's back and forth. And here's a quick clip about how big Stablecoin particularly Tether really is.

[John C. Dvorak]

Tether is pushing the US dollar out into emerging markets down to the communities that nobody has banked before because nobody could figure out how to bank them. And those communities bank them profitably. And those communities, Tether did. Hats off to them for doing that. Those communities have access to the US dollar for the first time. And in most of those emerging markets they would much rather have a US dollar than their own local currency. And Tether has built this distribution channel and there is nobody competing with them. And they are pushing the US dollar out into the distribution channel and they're recycling those tiny amounts of money from working class in emerging emerging markets. And I think they have 400 million users. It's a stunning number of users. They're the biggest financial company in the world right now and just keep getting bigger. And they are recycling all of those flows back into the U.S. treasury market. What is that doing? Because those are not going to be panic sellers. What is that doing? That is Increasing the resilience of the US treasury market.

[Adam Curry]

And that is exactly the point and making the dollar strong as a currency and usable outside, outside the US with the Eurodollar. And we can then control our own interest rate because Libor, the London interbank offered rate, which was the standard, if you've ever looked at your car statement or your mortgage, it'll say, you know, on an adjustable rate, it'll say we offer you this money at Libor plus 1% or plus 2% Libor. We remember there was a big scandal with Libor in 2008. Libor was already set to be replaced and killed off by something called sofr, the Secured Overnight financing rate from the Federal Reserve bank of New York. And so this is Bloomberg seven years ago, this is how long this is in the making, talking about this new way to set interest rates, not by British banks and JP Morgan, they were part of that, who were just doing willy nilly whatever they wanted which kept us not in control of interest rates in America. They were already talking about the sofr. Ed, let's start first with the SOFA situation, which I have to confess I'm not an expert on this, but it's sort of nobody, isn't that what you say?

[John C. Dvorak]

Oopsie.

[Adam Curry]

So the Fed comes out with this new alternative to Libor and this is going to be, they're trying to compete with some other alternatives over in Europe to say this is the way you should peg your interest rates. And then they discover, oh, we included some transactions we were supposed to be including. I call it so far. I thought that, I thought that sounded better. I've heard so far, I've heard so far, I heard so far, so far, so far so bad.

[John C. Dvorak]

So, so it's kind of a case.

[Adam Curry]

Of better the devil you know.

[John C. Dvorak]

Libor as we know, was not perfect.

[Adam Curry]

In fact, it was far from perfect. But this is, as you say, the alternative and it's already gone wrong. Two weeks in and it's already gone wrong. So what's happened here is essentially the Fed have come out and they've said some forward settling overnight, treasury repo transactions were included where they shouldn't have been included. So all of the data for that two week period is botched. Now they said they're not going to republish it, but they are going to publish alongside it sort of data, theoretical.

[John C. Dvorak]

Data, of what it would look like.

[Adam Curry]

If you stripped out those transactions. So it is a bit of a mess. And I think the real challenge is this.

[John C. Dvorak]

A lot of people obviously still use.

[Adam Curry]

Libor as the benchmark that's going to end in 2021, because the FCA in the UK have said that at that point it will disappear. How do you get people to migrate across to something if it shows, even at this sort of very early stage, that it's unreliable?

[John C. Dvorak]

This thing needs to be absolutely rock.

[Adam Curry]

Solid if it's going to convince people to migrate across.

[John C. Dvorak]

It needs a derivative project, which supposedly those products are coming.

[Adam Curry]

So this thing has migrated. As of March 31, 2025, the last Libor contracts, the last derivatives were finally all settled, taken care of. And now SOFR is the new interest rate setting standard for interest rates, which is completely in control now of the Federal Reserve bank of New York. And this timing I find interesting because on April 2nd he said he wanted to do on the 1st, but it came on the 2nd. President Trump talked about, my fellow Americans, this is liberal liberation day. And maybe it was under the guise of the tariffs, but I think it was really about this interest rate that is now being set by us. We're in control of it and we're leaving the stablecoin as the ghetto dollar over there for the euro dollar. And they can do whatever they want. It's all backed by us. And this stablecoin has a lot of properties that make it very interesting, not just overseas, but internally as well.

[John C. Dvorak]

And by the way, Tether created the killer use case, which is for the US dollar. And a lot of people look at it and say, why do you need a blockchain for that? That's an inefficient database. Yes, of course it's an inefficient database, but what were they able to do? Create incredible network effects by having 400 million users globally. That's bigger than the United States. Incredible network effects. That's what we're tapping into. What are the greenfields? The biggest one is putting that into the regulated banking. Banking industry. Everybody right now is forced into Fedwire, ACH and a little bit of FedNow. But that was such a controlled closed system that it hasn't really taken off fedwire and Ach. Hell, stablecoins are faster, cheaper, more auditable, more programmable, safer. From an IT security perspective, I would argue for a whole host of reasons, this is a game changer to push that into the green field of the traditional banking system.

[Adam Curry]

So to wrap it up, I think the stablecoin gambit is to keep the US dollar as the strongest, most secure, backed by US Treasuries dollar everywhere in the world. But we, through sofr will Control our own interest rates. It's a big, big, long game gamble. And if Trump can pull it off, I don't know if it's going to be good or not, but it's definitely going, going to change the way finance works throughout the world. And that's all I know for now.

[Guest Speaker]

How does this benefit bankers?

[Adam Curry]

I believe that bankers part of the SBA Rule 12, that bankers can now issue their own version of stablecoin. And so they can do whatever they want because they like buying Treasury. So I'll buy a Treasury, I can issue a stablecoin, and I can issue it domestically, I can issue it internationally. I think that's where they come into play.

[Guest Speaker]

How would this differ from the olden days when the banks used to actually print their own money?

[Adam Curry]

Well, the difference is at that point, they had to have gold to back their own money. And now you have to have Treasuries, which is probably just as wonky. That's why I'm not sure it's a great idea. I'm not saying it's a great idea. I think it's. I think it's what they're trying to do. It just, you know, it's complicated. I didn't even know what a euro dollar was until yesterday.

[Guest Speaker]

We got a call from the government.

[Adam Curry]

Shut up, Curry. There you go. That's. That's. My stablecoin presentation wasn't as bad as I thought. Oh, well, thank you. That, coming from you, is a huge endorsement.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't know about that.

[Adam Curry]

There's the government. Do you need to talk to him or.

[Guest Speaker]

I'm going to go pick that up. But why don't you play the clip about the impeachment, the partial impeachment announced.

[Adam Curry]

Okay. Partial. Partial impeachment, partial impeach, impartial.

[John C. Dvorak]

This is Congressman Shri Thanidar. Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy. But defying a unanimous 90 Supreme Court ruling, that has to be the final straw. It's time we impeach Donald J. Trump. The court said the wrongfully deported Kilmer Garcia must be allowed to return and receive due process. Trump ignored it. He ignored the Constitution. He ignored the very checks and balances that keep our democracy intact. This isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a dangerous, deliberate pattern. That's why today I introduced a resolution to impeach Donald J. TRUMP, outlining seven articles of immigration impeachment, Article 1, obstruction of justice and abuse of executive power. From denying due process to unlawful deportations, Trump defied court orders.

[Adam Curry]

Is this A call you got earlier today on your. Is this a robo call?

[Guest Speaker]

The call I got was the arb. The arborist killed. Canceling.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, no. And that's. I've been waiting months for this.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, you, me, both.

[Adam Curry]

Why would the arborist. So John has. John has a branch which has been squeaking against his window for months.

[Guest Speaker]

Window.

[Adam Curry]

Sometimes I can hear it if it's windy on the show, but I almost always hear it after the show when I turn all the noise gates off. I'm like, oh, man, that thing must be driving you nuts.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, it's only when you have a southerly breeze. So anyway, so that's the guy. He's a screwball looking character. I don't even know what he's thinking. He's got a wig on and he's like, he really seriously should check this out. And he went on and on. He's got about eight points. It's of course going to go nowhere, but it's making a big scene and he sounds like a moron. Yeah, I would say, but that's big news. Big news.

[Adam Curry]

Big news. Big news. Yeah. Articles of impeachment. Finally, someone did it.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I was waiting for Al Green, but he didn't do it yet.

[Adam Curry]

No.

[Guest Speaker]

Okay. Tik tok.

[Adam Curry]

Yay.

[Guest Speaker]

They're both short. They're both under a minute. Okay, the dating app girl.

[Adam Curry]

Dating app girl.

[John C. Dvorak]

So I'm scrolling the dating apps earlier and for the first 20 swipes, it's conservative, moderate, conservative, moderate, apolitical, nothing. Conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, moderate. And to me, conservative, moderate and apolitical and nothing is all the same thing. You all are maga. So immediately. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Took me 20 swipes to finally find a liberal. I'm like, gee, what the is going on? Why is everybody maga? It's not that everybody's maga, it's that, you know, the male loneliness epidemic. It's because nobody. They don't make good partners. That's why there's so many single ones out there. All the liberals are taken. Not all of them, obviously. There's some out there. But, like, I rather have no dates than ever date a MAGA ever again. So I will scroll until my fingers fall off until I can find the perfect liberal.

[Adam Curry]

Why do they always have to cuss all the time?

[Guest Speaker]

Discussing is unbelievable.

[Adam Curry]

It's annoying. It's getting annoying. Annoying.

[Guest Speaker]

It's very annoying. And there's nothing you can do about it. They won't stop it.

[Adam Curry]

No, they won't here's another.

[Guest Speaker]

Here's another woman. This one here is complaining about her time blindness.

[Adam Curry]

No, time blindness.

[Guest Speaker]

Which is my favorite topic.

[Adam Curry]

Please. I'm time blind. That's why I'm late. We went through this several times in the past couple of years.

[Guest Speaker]

Yep.

[John C. Dvorak]

So I just got yelled at for asking a very reasonable question. So I'm applying to go somewhere, and I just wanted to know, are there accommodations for people who struggle with time blindness and being on time? You know, and then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else. And then when we were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist. And if you struggle with being on time, you'll never be able to get a job, you know, provided you're trying your absolute best to be there. And then they're like, your stupid generation wants to destroy the world workplace. And, yeah, I think that a culture where workers are just cut off because they struggle with being on time. When there's other solutions that we can look to, I think that just anybody who thinks it's okay to just treat people like that. Yeah. That culture needs to be dismantled. And then I asked that person, how can you feel good about yourself upholding this kind of system? And then to think I'm entitled. No. If people think it's okay to treat others like this, that's entitlement now, brother.

[Guest Speaker]

I like the way she reversed it. Were reverse roles there.

[Adam Curry]

You're entitled because you're on time. Stop it. This is not healthy.

[John C. Dvorak]

I'm.

[Adam Curry]

I'm worried about you. You should not be watching too much of this.

[Guest Speaker]

No, this is good stuff. Everybody loves it.

[Adam Curry]

It's all engagement farming. I don't believe any of these people is being honest. A single. Not a single one. You think they're real? I think they're all phony.

[Guest Speaker]

I think most of them are real. There's a couple of phonies, but they're pretty obvious when you see them. Let's play this. This is a. Since you played that thing about the stablecoin, let's play this clip. This is Teemu versus France.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, Timu.

[John C. Dvorak]

The trade war between the US And China has also affected Europe as several European countries report a surge in dumped Chinese products on their market. Last year, 1.5 billion parcels, most from China, entered France averaging just around $10 each. Authorities are concerned with this trend, which poses a threat not only to local producers, but also to consumers. On Tuesday, four French ministers unveiled a plan to tackle the flood of low Cost parcels from China to protect consumers. The government will triple inspections this year, checking product safety, labeling and environmental claims. It also looked to the EU to end customs duty exemption propel sales under $170 to protect local businesses. Yann Rivoulon is president of the French.

[Guest Speaker]

Women's Pret A Porter Federation.

[Adam Curry]

Wait a minute. Is France putting something equal to tariffs in place against China? Is that what I'm hearing?

[Guest Speaker]

It's kind of what you're hearing, but the number I thought was interesting that in France they're getting 1.5 billion packages.

[Adam Curry]

Of cheap Chinese crap.

[Guest Speaker]

Chinese crap.

[Adam Curry]

Nice.

[John C. Dvorak]

He says the influx of Chinese products has led to around 10,000 job losses over the past two years and the closure of several fashion brands. He also says French fashion brands are unable to compete.

[Adam Curry]

Every week, brands send me copies of.

[John C. Dvorak]

Counterfeit products made in China.

[Adam Curry]

First, our designs are being stolen. Second, the employees of Shane or Temu are being exploited. They're paid a pittance and forced to.

[John C. Dvorak]

Work from 75 to over 100 hours.

[Adam Curry]

A week with barely one day off a month.

[John C. Dvorak]

This is clearly unacceptable. They also commit tax fraud by declaring underreported sales figures. According to the government, over 90% of these products are unsafe for consumers. However, Rivohalon says the new measures fall far short and should be aligned with with the stronger US Actions against such platforms. It's totally ridiculous compared to what the.

[Adam Curry]

United States is doing with $100 on.

[John C. Dvorak]

Each of these packages.

[Adam Curry]

So we're in a situation where we.

[John C. Dvorak]

Know that over 90% of products are dangerous for the French, dangerous for consumers.

[Adam Curry]

For our jobs, and for the planet.

[John C. Dvorak]

And yet we're putting in place a.

[Adam Curry]

Small measure with barely 10% tax potential. It's really amazing, the junk, the cheap junk we have from China. This microphone I'm using right now, cheap junk from China. This Yeti cup. American Yeti Texas company Made in China. This bell, China. This whistle, China. My light phone. 3. China. This all from China. And I look and I look at the stuff and I go, do I really need all. All this stuff? You know, do I really need it? My guns are from. My guns are not from China. My guns are not from China.

[Guest Speaker]

Yet.

[Adam Curry]

Yet. We probably need to just have this story out for a moment because it's not really a big topic. You know, there was a pretty bad attack on tourists there. You know, Pakistan and India heating up. And here's the latest from Pakistan.

[John C. Dvorak]

We start with the dispute between India.

[Adam Curry]

India and Pakistan following a deadly attack in Indian administered Kashmir which left 26.

[John C. Dvorak]

People dead last week. The Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Modi has been holding high level talks with his cabinet in response to the attack which it blames on Pakistan, a claim repeatedly denied by Islamabad. Pakistan's information minister says his country has.

[Adam Curry]

Credible intelligence that India is planning to.

[John C. Dvorak]

Attack Pakistan open heartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent investigation by a neutral commission of experts to ascertain the truth. Unfortunately, rather than pursuing the path of.

[Adam Curry]

Reason, India has apparently decided to tread.

[John C. Dvorak]

The dangerous path of irrationality and confrontation which will have catastrophic consequences for the complete region and beyond. World leaders have expressed deep concern and urged restraint by the uneasy neighbors who have fought several wars and who both have nuclear weapons.

[Adam Curry]

Man Led Zeppelin did songs about Kashmir. Can they, can these guys not just settle it? Finally, what is so special?

[Guest Speaker]

Seems unlikely.

[Adam Curry]

What is so special about the Kashmir region? What? What is it? What are they?

[Guest Speaker]

Everybody thinks is a fabulous place and both sides think they own it.

[Adam Curry]

Well, what's so fabulous about it? Does it get.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't know, I've never been there.

[Adam Curry]

Does it have a beer?

[Guest Speaker]

No, it should just be fabulous. I don't know. What, what, why they can't get it.

[Adam Curry]

Well, we have Pakistanis and Indians in our nation.

[Guest Speaker]

The explanation will be biased and both. We won't get. We won't find out anything.

[Adam Curry]

Well, I'll take bias over nothing over this report. They're going to strike us. Why? We don't know why.

[Guest Speaker]

You're right. Yeah, they've been bitching. This has been going on forever for decades. I have a real news clip if we want to play real news jingle.

[Adam Curry]

Goodness gracious. I don't even know.

[Guest Speaker]

I know we haven't done this for a year. A year.

[Adam Curry]

Where is. Oh wait, it's under. I have the real news clip somewhere. And now back to real news. Okay. Hey, time for real news. What do you have?

[Guest Speaker]

So the sports ball people are talking. Everyone's talking and ridiculing this guy. Including Megan Kelly. Yes.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

And this is Bill Belichick who's like, I don't know, he's 60, 70, he's like 72 I think and he's got a 24 year old girlfriend.

[Adam Curry]

Right on. Let's go Bill.

[Guest Speaker]

What a lot of people say. And so he was interviewed by CBS morning and then they, they had to clip some of her in there because she was being annoying at the interview. She was button in a lot. And then he came back with a comment about it and then she. CBS came back with a comment and went back and forth. But here's the Megyn Kelly. This Belichick. This is the Megyn Kelly report on it. And she's, she's of course, course, you know, she thinks it's horrible. She's Megan.

[Adam Curry]

Yes.

[John C. Dvorak]

So this guy Bill Belichick has been in the news lately because his girlfriend I think is 50 years of 47 to 50 years. Oh, no difference between Belichick and is.

[Adam Curry]

She mad about that? Is that the premise? She's mad about the age difference.

[Guest Speaker]

It doesn't express this. But you know, she is okay, young gal pal.

[John C. Dvorak]

So she shows up at these black tie events with him wearing nothing. She's basically wearing like a bikini and he's wearing a normal man's clothing and it looks weird. Like, okay, whatever. I guess I'm not, who am I to judge? But I'm judging. I won't lie. It's weird. And I'm pretty sure she is with him because he's very famous and probably has a lot of money and gets her access to cool things. That's my guess. I'm just.

[Adam Curry]

What, gambling?

[John C. Dvorak]

And I say it. But anyway, he gives this interview and now it's starting to look much more like a Jill Biden situation. That's all I could think of you guys. Like, she's like doctor on the sidelines calling all the shots and like trying to decide what he can answer and what he can't in this interview and what we learned today. I'll show you the clip. But what we learned today was that it was far worse than CBS this Morning, which is like a nice program they try to do like nice stories would even air they own. The reason reportedly that they chose to air this one interrupted interruption of hers is because it was far worse than this. She was trying to dominate behind the scenes and they felt it was okay to include one of her interruptions just to give the audience to be transparent that they had this monster on screen left who was completely trying to control him. And they, it was to the point where they didn't feel like it would have journalistic integrity if they didn't show at least some of it. Watch this.

[Adam Curry]

The other change for Me, Belichick, is 24 year old Jordan Hudson, his creative muse. As he writes in his book, Jordan was a constant presence during our interview. You have Jordan right over there. Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship. They've got an opinion about your private life. It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it. How do you deal with that?

[Guest Speaker]

Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks. Just try to do what I feel.

[John C. Dvorak]

Like is best for me and what's right.

[Adam Curry]

How did you guys meet?

[John C. Dvorak]

Not talking about this.

[Adam Curry]

It's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.

[John C. Dvorak]

And it went on like the portion I talked to you about, like, it went on and on to where it was very cringy. You were like, oh, God.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, Megan, how deep you have sunk.

[Guest Speaker]

Meg.

[Adam Curry]

What? Why is she doing this? She's the woman who was like the big political journalist lawyer, and all she can do is show business stuff. I'm sure it's great. Well, we know the answer. It's great for. For downloads, it's great for views. It's numbers. This is why value for value is a much better way to do it. You don't need numbers to survive. This is.

[Guest Speaker]

And you don't need to deal with these people who send us AI analysis of the show. Being anti advertiser, I'm going to show.

[Adam Curry]

My support donating to no Agenda.

[Guest Speaker]

Imagine all the people who could do that.

[John C. Dvorak]

Oh yeah, that'd be fab.

[Adam Curry]

And to prove that, we are going to thank our donors $50 and above.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, we did pretty well today. So that was nice.

[Adam Curry]

That was nice. Very nice.

[Guest Speaker]

Hopefully. But we got it. We got the big show coming up on Sunday. The Sanko de Mayo special, everybody.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, that's right, it is.

[Guest Speaker]

Marjorie Santelli starts us off. She's in Kirtland, Ohio. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Ash in Texas in Flower Mound. 1, 2, 1, 2, 1. And that's an El DeBarge donation.

[Adam Curry]

Thank you. One person got my joke. Thank you. Appreciate it.

[Guest Speaker]

Yes. Yeah, appreciate it.

[Adam Curry]

Okay.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, she's on the ball. Connie Wolves, Lucynk and Heinen Nord North Heinen, Netherlands. 121 20. And she got a long note there. She's a big fan of yours.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, I can see.

[Guest Speaker]

She'S just a note for you. You can read it to yourself.

[Adam Curry]

She says eggs are expensive over there. Oh, she says our eggs are €36 cents per EG. Give you two dozen eggs donation. That's a 1212. 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2. I like it. The eggs donation. Thank you.

[Guest Speaker]

Eggs donation. Why not?

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, two dozen eggs.

[Guest Speaker]

So Jay has eggs and so she brought me some because I use a raw egg in this in my morning. No agenda drink. Yes, we have discussed this.

[Adam Curry]

It was a tip.

[Guest Speaker]

Tipoftheday.net and she's got a chicken there. And I would. It's almost a tip of the day. It's a buff orping, which Is a killer beautiful chicken. We used to have them up north a buff and they used to be called Buffy. It's a beautiful red chicken and huge. And it produces the chicken. I've never said home chickens usually don't do this. Produces jumbo eggs.

[Adam Curry]

Jumbo. How big are they?

[Guest Speaker]

Huge. They're huge. It's a big giant egg. She says that the chicken makes a squawk every time she lays one.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, no doubt. Poor, poor chicken.

[Guest Speaker]

Onward, sir, by his grace. And get Buffalo Orpington's sir by his grace in Jacksonville, Florida 1 1122. And he's also mentioned southeastern turf grass supply for all this for your all.

[Adam Curry]

Your grass agronomic needs.

[Guest Speaker]

Sir, by the way.

[Adam Curry]

I know sir by his grace. And he's so worried about the tariffs. He keeps sending me articles like he's going to scre it up. He's going to screw it up. It's going to screw up. He's going to everything I have to close my business, it's going to screw up.

[Guest Speaker]

Why? Is he getting his turf from China?

[Adam Curry]

No, I think his pesticides, herbicides, all that stuff. Yeah, he definitely gets stuff from China.

[Guest Speaker]

Sir. KC9YJM73 is 105. 35. He wants a jobs karma at the end, if you don't mind. Paul Summers in Bath, Pennsylvania. 100. Jennifer Rain in Snoqualmie, Washington. 100. Sir F A and Beck in Shifwood Forest somewhere in the United States. 100. Dame. Dame melibation metabation.

[Adam Curry]

No Mela.

[Guest Speaker]

Mela Malevation. Okay. In Colorado Springs. 100 Kevin McLaughlin's up to conquer. North Carolina is the Archduke of Luna, Lover of American boobs. 8008 the boob donation. Rick Labanka in Hope, R.I. 73. 73. That's a ham radio donation. And heaven forbid we got another one. Noble Anderson in Montgomery, Alabama. 7373 with a happy birthday to me. This is a while ago. I guess it's my 73 third birthday donation, but also 73s better. Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia. 7373s with his call sign K4Q O L DONATION. 73 Sir Chris Abraham in Arlington, Virginia. 7373. Sir Stickwater. 7340 Slickwater.

[Adam Curry]

You need a different font. Sir Slickwater.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, I. I should. There's got to be a default fund.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, please. You've threatened to do this for years.

[Guest Speaker]

I don't do any. Let's face it, I'm a big talker. No action. Dame Dana Carroll in Laughlin Nevada. 7227. Jorge Alvarez in Ponte Verde Beach. Vedra beach in 7171. Commodore 64 in Tucker, Georgia, which is 64, but he has the extra fee. 6510. Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana. He's got 6502. My favorite donation for people that know what it chip is. Jacob alley in Wichita, Kansas. 6331. James.

[Adam Curry]

Hold on. Jacob says he's been on a subscription plan but never got a formal de douching. So we'll do that now.

[John C. Dvorak]

You've been de douched.

[Adam Curry]

There you go.

[Guest Speaker]

Jamie buell in Vista, California. 6006. Small boobs and baronet tests. Salty in Manchester, New Hampshire. 58.56, which is 55. 55 plus the fee. By the way, when you send a check in, the fee is 15 cents.

[Adam Curry]

That's right.

[Guest Speaker]

Brian P. Bellen in as Asbury, New Jersey. 5856. Sad puppy donation. That's what that is. Okay, and what we have here. Whoops. I just over scrolled. Marnix. Marnix Cart in den Haag, Netherlands. 5555. Eric Fleenor, Flenor Flanor in Palmyra, Michigan. 5555. Anonymous. 55. Surprise night. Surprise night of astonishment in Yukon, Oklahoma. 5444. Tom Ross in Sylmar, California. 5328. Now he's got something. He likes the newsletter, likes Tip of the Day, likes the jokes. But he says less bickering. It's only 65% funny.

[Adam Curry]

No, that's a. That's a passing grade on the bickering. And he sent you a copy of Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications. And he wants you to sign it and return it.

[Guest Speaker]

Yes, I already communicated with him. I will do that.

[Adam Curry]

It's an instant bestseller.

[Guest Speaker]

Instant. Anonymous, Oklahoma City. 5272. Timothy White in El Burn, Illinois. 5150. Eric Schmidt in Frankfurt, D. Deutschland. 5150. Dame Courtney, Chicago. Chicago. She's in Chicago. 5125. ITM Mayday. Mayday. It's a donation she can afford.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, that's. You put that in the newsletter. That was the 55 one. And she put 25. That was the May Day. Don't you remember? You set this up?

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah. 5125. That's the May Day donation. In fact, we have a bunch of May Day Day donations. I'm going to read them one after the other, just naming location Starting with Michael Chauvin, who has no location. Michael Ragus. Ragus in Tustin. Dame Lacy, and she's in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Fair Volt Tea. Fair Volt Tea in London, England. Yeah, send us. Is it tea company? I don't know.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, Tea company. Send us some tea.

[Guest Speaker]

I go for some tea.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

Scott Riley in Meridian, Idaho. John Aiken in Babson Park, Florida. And last on their list is Dame Rita and Sparks. She's a regular. Great newsletter and shows she writes.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

Joseph Wentzel in Dawson, Georgia, $51. He lives in small.

[Adam Curry]

He says, I love what you cats talk about. Keep ch. Chumming it up.

[Guest Speaker]

He works at a big box store.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

And now we got the $50 donors. I'll just go run through them. Name and location, starting with William Hammer in Hagerstown, Maryland. Leif Thompson in Meridian, Idaho. Bobby Bobby Bo in Bluegrass, Iowa. Comfort King. Comfort King in Valley Springs, South Dakota. Joshua Johnson in omaha, Nebraska. Scott McCarty in Lodi. Jordan Tierney in Oral, South Dakota. Got the South Dakotans in today. Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado. C. Jones in Safety Harbor, Florida. And last on our list is Leslie Walker. She's in Roseburg, Oregon, and she loves us. Okay, that'll be it for today's show. 1760.

[Adam Curry]

Yes. She says she loves us. May the Lord bless us. Thank you. All right, thank you very much. All of our donors, $50 and above. We will read anything under for reasons of anonymity. So we see you. $49.99. We appreciate it. And of course, all of those sustaining donors, if you go to knowagendhedonations.com you can make a donation of any amount. We love the numerology, as you can tell, lots of different numbers. And thank you for the explanation. But the sustaining donations really do help. Any amount, any frequency. And we actually have a baron coming up who did just that. Thank you as always. And once again, Noah, Jenna, donations dot com. Very short list. Along with Willie Nelson, of course, who celebrated yesterday. And word fuller. April 29th. Jessica says happy birthday to John Daley. Turns 50 on May 2nd. And finally on the list, happy birthday to Rick Labanka. Happy birthday from everybody here. The best podcast in the universe. And now we. We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 people who took advantage of the final, final moment of the Commodore ship. This means that when you go to noagendarings.com and you give us the actual name you would like on your certificate of being a Commodore, we will take care of that for you. We have Commodore Anonymous Black Sheep, Commodore Scott Horton, Commodore of the Human Resource Producers, Commodore Mark of Crow Wing County Commodity Commodore Sir Milkman of Ebington, Commodore Zach Zedok Brown iii. Commodore sdg Commodore Brock Reinhold and Commodore John Tucker. Commodores arriving. Woo. Good list. Very good list. Here's that layaway Baron who will be knighted today. Sir Tom. He is. Well, let me read his note. I was originally hit in the mouth by Fabian of the Linux outlaws and after 11 years I finally achieved the title of Baron through monthly donations of 3,333 and a care package of bratwurst and other meats back in 2021. I don't remember the. I think John hoarded all the bratwurst and meats. Yes, everyone can do it.

[Guest Speaker]

From Nemechek.

[Adam Curry]

I don't know, I don't remember. But he goes on to say, yes, everyone can do it. You too. You can do it too. The Peerage Committee has approved carving out the area code of 920 with Sir 10T, Duke of Federal Reserve District 7's protectorate. As such, I request a title change to Baron Tom Warden of the Frozen Tundra. Go pack. Go. Keep up the great work, gents. 11 more years, Tom G. From the Bratwurst capital and we're going to knight him right now. So get your blade out. We definitely need to have a nice blade for him because he's.

[Guest Speaker]

Here's a good one.

[Adam Curry]

Oh, that is a good one. So already right then, Tom G. Step on up. Very proud to pronounce the KD not only as a Knight of the no Agenda Round Table, but as Sir Tom Baron, Tom Warden of the Frozen Tundra. For you, my friend. We have hookers and blow rent boys and Chardonnay prostitutes and some nice wine. We have Harless and Hal Doll pepperoni rolls and pale ales, Redheads and ryes, beers and blunts, Cowgirls and coffin Varnish Rock Ruben esque Women in Rose geishas and sake, Vodka vanilla bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider, nescorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum and of course, as always at the round table, mutton and mead and. Congratulations, Tom. Head over to noajinderings.com let us know where you want us to send your ring. There's a ring sizing guide on the website, so make sure you have the right size. It comes with two sticks of dynamite. Oh no, two sticks of wax. With that you can seal your important correspondence and as always, with a certificate of authenticity. And thank you for Becoming not just a knight, but a layaway knight and baron of the no agenda round table. Well, the meetups are still huge as you can imagine. They take place all over gitmonation around the globe. Really? People love doing them. They're producer organized. You can go to no agenda meetup meetups dot com, find some near you. There's a calendar, there's a list. And we love it when you send in meetup reports. But it's getting a little bit out of control, so keep it short, please. There's only one today, so I don't mind playing it. This is the meetup report from Chicago.

[John C. Dvorak]

What's up y'all? This is Eli the coffee guy hanging.

[Adam Curry]

Out here at Reggie's having a blast with everybody. Peace out to Baron and be getting out of shy town. I don't blame you, brother, but it's still a great city.

[John C. Dvorak]

Look, yo, it's Andrew here from the UK.

[Adam Curry]

MI6 has come out here to represent and yeah, no, it's a real. It's a real pleasure to be out here. And yeah, MBS is looking kind of shocked to get past the mic after that.

[John C. Dvorak]

Not a serial killer. Kate here.

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, this is Sir Darth Penguin of Lock Tucky enjoying the in the morning.

[John C. Dvorak]

Crew here staring lovingly into Eli the coffee guy's eyes because he's a handsome devil.

[Guest Speaker]

But all glory to Nick mds for escaping Chicago and going to more beautiful pastures. All right, God bless.

[Adam Curry]

Hey, this is Sir Tinley Knott woke.

[John C. Dvorak]

We are here at Reggie's in Chicago.

[Guest Speaker]

The only venue that has been good to us.

[John C. Dvorak]

They have been good to us since.

[Adam Curry]

The pandemic when we had our first.

[John C. Dvorak]

Meetup here and passing it on in the morning. In the morning. John and Adam, this is Baron NBS at the escape from Chicago meetup.

[Adam Curry]

I'm wrapping my time up here in Chicago.

[John C. Dvorak]

It's been a wonderful time here in Chicago. Hanging out here here with Eli, Alex and some random very fine people in the morning.

[Adam Curry]

Hey, this is Blake. John, we're in trouble.

[John C. Dvorak]

There's a lot of cheap guitars in Chicago. All economic indicators aside, this is Sir.

[Adam Curry]

Brian with a Y. We are fixing an imposter.

[John C. Dvorak]

We are fixing in post. Oh my God, Adam, I am so.

[Adam Curry]

Sorry but saying we we're looking living.

[John C. Dvorak]

Up in Chicago again.

[Adam Curry]

If you live nearby, come to the next meetup. We have a bunch of them in the morning. What's up?

[John C. Dvorak]

No agenda Nation. This is KJ6QDT.

[Adam Curry]

Just happy to be here for my first meetup hanging out with mbs.

[John C. Dvorak]

Wish them.

[Adam Curry]

Best of luck. And yeah, we'll see you all on no authority.

[John C. Dvorak]

All right. This is Alex itm. This is Dame Courtney. Sit here saying farewell. Well, to nbs. We will truly miss you in Chicago in the morning.

[Adam Curry]

Anybody alcohol? I'm telling you that. Keep it tight, people. And where's the server? I missed that. I'm gonna have to scold you a little bit. Meetups happening today. The Northern Wake public slave gathering, 6 o'clock at Potluck. Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina. The South Austin slaves meetup tonight at 7 in Little Woodrows in South Park Meadows in Austin. Hope you RSVP because you had to. Tomorrow, the Tri Cities Washington Six Week Cycle Meetup, 7:00 at Ty's Bar and Grill in West Richland, Washington. On Saturday, the first NOAA Gender Splash Up. That's the spring edition. That'll be 1:00 Dutch North Sea time. And that'll be in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. You have to RSVP to find out where it is. Arnaud's organized that the Sonoma Wino Country Meet up on Saturday as well. Version 7.0 at Old CAS Beer in Rohnert Park, California. And on Sunday, our next show day, Hot meat and freedom flames. Brussels backyard barbecue. Whoo. That's at 4 o'clock in Brussels in ISEL. I X E L L E S. Make sure you go to that one. And I want meetup reports from everybody one minute or less. If you want to find all the meetups available, they are all around the world. You can find them at no address into meetups.com. if you can't find one near you, start one yourself. It's easy. And always a party.

[John C. Dvorak]

You want to.

[Guest Speaker]

Be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party.

[Adam Curry]

It's like a party. It's just like a party. Now is the time we select our end of show ISO. A rare occasion today where we both have one. It's a one on one matchup. I don't think I'm gonna win.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, then play yours.

[Adam Curry]

Wait. You have 11 seconds. How can yours be 11 seconds?

[Guest Speaker]

I don't think it is.

[Adam Curry]

It says 11 seconds.

[Guest Speaker]

It's probably something wrong with the clip. I'm having issues.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah, appears to be. Let me. I'm gonna play yours now, but. And then I'll see where we can find.

[Guest Speaker]

I think you might have two of them back to back.

[John C. Dvorak]

Another fabulous show. What more can I say?

[Adam Curry]

What? What is that?

[John C. Dvorak]

Another fabulous show. What more can I say?

[Adam Curry]

Another fabulous show. What more Can I say?

[John C. Dvorak]

Another fabulous show. What more can I say?

[Adam Curry]

Another fabulous show.

[John C. Dvorak]

Another fabulous show. What more can I say? Another fabulous show. What more can I say?

[Adam Curry]

So that's you trying five different versions of. Of AI it's the first, and of.

[Guest Speaker]

Course, I shouldn't have recorded the whole thing, but the second one is the one I wanted.

[John C. Dvorak]

Another fabulous show. What more can I say?

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

Boom.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah. Well, you've given away your ISO secrets here. You.

[John C. Dvorak]

I know.

[Guest Speaker]

It was a huge blunder.

[Adam Curry]

Yes, it was. Here's mine.

[John C. Dvorak]

Yo, yo, yo. What up?

[Guest Speaker]

No, you already did that one.

[Adam Curry]

No, it's a brand new one.

[Guest Speaker]

It still stinks.

[Adam Curry]

There we go, everybody. It is time for the tip of the day. At least John can mess that one up. Here we go.

[John C. Dvorak]

Great advice for you and me. Just the tip of JCD and sometimes.

[Adam Curry]

Adam, created by Dana Berdetti.

[Guest Speaker]

All right, we went back to wine and food. One more tip. This is a website that I use a lot, and it's a che. It's a cheap trick. You're buying wine?

[Adam Curry]

Yes, we're buying wine.

[Guest Speaker]

You want to know if the wine's any good. What are you going to do?

[Adam Curry]

What are we going to do? You're going to.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, you go to wine.

[Adam Curry]

Can I just say something? I am getting complaints, sir. Gene recently was at a dinner, texted a picture of the wine list to you. He says, John no longer responds.

[Guest Speaker]

I missed it. I always respond.

[Adam Curry]

The phone was in the drawer.

[Guest Speaker]

I should be sent to my email if I'm there. But I could be watching. I might be downstairs getting clips or I could be doing a lot of things. I'm sorry, Gene.

[Adam Curry]

Okay.

[Guest Speaker]

But generally speaking, I take care of this.

[Adam Curry]

Okay.

[Guest Speaker]

Wine-searcher.com.

[Adam Curry]

Ooh.

[Guest Speaker]

This is a huge, monstrous database of wines and all the reviews and all the stores that sell the wine.

[Adam Curry]

Wow.

[Guest Speaker]

So you get a look at the wine, you put a wine at the top. You know, say Chateau Montrose 1990.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

And then it gives you where it's available, all the different prices, from cheapest to most expensive. And then you click on reviews. It shows you all the known reviews, and it gives you summaries of the reviews, and it gives you star ratings. And it even goes to Seller Tracker, which is a site that a lot of people think is great.

[Adam Curry]

I have Seller Tracker. The app.

[Guest Speaker]

Yes, Seller Tracker, the app, which is a way of. Which is amateurs rating the wines.

[Adam Curry]

That's correct. It's amateurs rating the wine, taking pictures of the label. The label goes, oh, it should cost you this much.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, but it's got the cellar tracker number in there, too. It's dynamite. This is a godsend for anyone who buys wine.

[Adam Curry]

And do you recommend this 1990 bottle you just mentioned? Is that like $8,000?

[Guest Speaker]

What is that, the 1990 mantra?

[Adam Curry]

Yes. What does that cost me?

[Guest Speaker]

Oh, it's not cheap, but it's the.

[Adam Curry]

One that's the top of your mind. It makes me wonder.

[Guest Speaker]

Well, I just came up the top of my mind.

[Adam Curry]

Yeah.

[Guest Speaker]

Yeah, because, you know, I had it once my life.

[Adam Curry]

I'm thinking about Andres in a box and John's like, oh, the Montrose 1990. Yeah, that's what I'll have. There you go, everybody. You can find John's tip of the [e-mail] or noagendafun.com green advice for you and me.

[John C. Dvorak]

Just the tip with JCD and sometimes.

[Adam Curry]

Adam created by Dana Bernetti. There you go, everybody. Once again, we have completed our broadcast day and we are happy to have served you. We do this as a public service. You are welcome to support us with some value if you got any value out of this program, since clearly advertisers hate us and with good reason. We are bad for their image. So make sure you walk on by noagendadonations.com which soon will be available as a button in your modern podcast app. I guarantee it. End of Show Mix is a nice trip house little ditty from Nautilus K. I think he may be new. I don't think he's ever done a mix before. And David Kechta checks in, our drummer. Our drummer who's always doing mixes. He's got a hot new girlfriend, I hear, so he's been a little sparse on the mixes. And I guess I can conclude by telling you that I am still here in the picturesque little town of Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill country. In the morning, everybody.

[Guest Speaker]

I'm Adam Curry, and from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain without an arborist, I'm John C. Dvorak.

[Adam Curry]

We return on Sunday with another another minimum three hours of media deconstruction for your pleasure, again as a public service. And please remember [e-mail] until then. Adios, Mo Fos and a Hui Hui and such.

[Guest Speaker]

RST Jr.

[Adam Curry]

RST Jr by the way, two good old boys is next. RFK Jr. Red Guy Bob in the UP RFK Jr. RFK Jr. Bob in.

[Guest Speaker]

The UP RFK Jr Red Guy RFK.

[Adam Curry]

Jr Red Die Bob is UP RST Jr Red Red Dye Control the invasion Bobby the album oil RFK junior Red dye Control the invasion Bobby the album oil RFK junior Red dye Control me A Base Mouths to feed Artificial RFT.

[John C. Dvorak]

Mouths to feed.

[Adam Curry]

RFT Mouths to feed Artificial RF two Mouths to feed.

[Guest Speaker]

RFT.

[Adam Curry]

Mouths to feed Artificial DARS Mouths to feed Artificial Dars Rst junior Rst Junior Bob in the up RFB Junior Red.

[John C. Dvorak]

Dye.

[Adam Curry]

RST Junior Red dye Bobby Mouse Watermelon Mouse Watermelon Watermelon red dye Try watermelon juice do not forget to pray for me no gays that's what he used to say.

[John C. Dvorak]

They called him the people's pope and this is a man who really just embraced kidding but the poor the least among us.

[Adam Curry]

No gays.

[John C. Dvorak]

The people's poke they called him the.

[Adam Curry]

People'S po.

[John C. Dvorak]

The people's pope.

[Adam Curry]

Don'T touch me, you dirty, dirty pleb. I remember.

[John C. Dvorak]

I remember these things the people spoke.

[Adam Curry]

That'S all I got Just for a little. A little There for you.

[John C. Dvorak]

Another fabulous show. What more can I say?