1872 - "Lunar Economy"

Summary

No Agenda Show Episode 1872 - "Lunar Economy"

Hosts: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
Date: May 28, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, Adam and John return with their trademark blend of media deconstruction, political analysis, old-school pop culture references, and plenty of laughs. Titled "Lunar Economy," the show explores topics as diverse as White House media stunts, the current (and possibly manufactured) Ebola scare, the future of NASA's lunar ambitions, viral TikTok trends, and the always-entertaining tapestry of U.S. political machinations. As usual, the hosts combine irreverence, skepticism, and deep dives into media logic, never shying away from giving politicians, networks, and influencers a ribbing.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Political Auditions & Media Spectacle

[01:13–08:14]

• General Scott Besant’s 'Screen Test':
  • Trump's administration is "auditioning" officials for media appearances in a blatant (and awkward) PR push.
  • Adam and John lampoon Besant's lack of TV charisma, comparing him to campy gay comedians:
    • "Give him the hooks. He’s only fair when he’s Face the Nation." — John [05:42]
    • "Trump should come out now and say, 'Bessant, you’re fired.' That would be perfect for this." — Adam [05:47]
• Media Deconstruction:
  • The hosts point out the transparent nature of these media auditions, mocking the ‘quad screen’ format and discussing Fox, CNN, and BBC’s role as “casting” agents.

2. Ebola Outbreak and Media Hysteria

[08:07–16:21]

• Return of Ebola as a News Cycle:
  • Adam curates a montage of previous Ebola media coverage, reflecting how media cycles repeat panics for ratings.
  • The duo highlight how AI and copyright issues prevent parody songs now, compared to the “Weird Al” era.
  • "If Ebola breaks out in the United States, I'm going to quarantine myself wearing a mask." — Adam [09:35]
• Coverage Critique:
  • They nitpick news reports exaggerating the risk, scrutinizing the logistics (100 tons of supplies for 200 deaths) and perform a media deconstruction on the "travel restrictions" and "enhanced screenings."
  • "Remember during COVID and you go to a restaurant, and they point that thermometer at your head?" — Adam [12:50]

3. Changing Laws, Language, and Historical Revisits

[16:51–21:53]

• ‘Interregnum’ and Political Language Play:
  • The hosts riff on the word “interregnum”—prompted by its use in liberal discussions about Trump, and consult the “Book of Knowledge” for definitions.
  • "It’s a period when normal government is suspended—especially between successive reigns or regimes." — Adam [18:08]
• Cannabis Law Throwback:
  • They play an old Dragnet clip about marijuana, comparing past moral panics to today’s social movements.
  • "Laws are going to have to be changed to keep pace with the new morality." — Dragnet Clip [20:44]

4. Teen Takeovers and “Boomer” Agenda

[22:02–31:25]

• TikTok-Driven ‘Teen Takeovers’:
  • Nationwide concerns over viral youth gatherings; cop clips threaten to hold parents legally responsible.
  • Adam and John reflect on their own youth, noting these aren’t new phenomena—“we had rumbles at the 4th of July fair.”
  • Chicago accused of “censorship” as city leaders plan social media ordinances to stifle organization, leading to a joking concern over policing and tasing teens.
  • "This has been going on for the last 50 years... How about 'Gangs of New York'?" — Adam [30:44]

5. Education Gaps: ‘Whatever’ Podcast Parody

[35:00–43:07]

• TikTok & OnlyFans Culture:
  • John presents clips from the ‘Whatever’ podcast, skillfully lampooning the educational ignorance of young influencers.
  • Notable Q&A snippets:
    • "What country is south of the United States? – Wisconsin."
    • "Who painted the Mona Lisa? – Justin Bieber."
• Reflection:
  • The duo debate whether this ignorance is really worse than adults not knowing U.S. history, poking fun at both generations.

6. Deconstructing the Trump Cabinet Show

[44:00–56:00]

• Transparency or Theater?
  • Trump’s practice of televising full cabinet meetings is unique, but the media only airs soundbites that can be spun as missteps.
  • They consider the CEO-like management style, the boredom factor, and why the mainstream ignores positive government data.
  • "The bothersome thing is that no one covers it... and maybe because it’s boring?" — Adam [52:58]
• Policy Achievements Ignored:
  • Adam lists facts reported in the meeting (ex: lowest murder rate in 125 years, drug price reductions, fraud prosecutions), none of which get mainstream attention.

7. Immigration Policies & International Deals

[63:13–68:18]

• Rubio’s Third-Country Deportation Agreements:
  • 20 countries now accept deportations, which generally prompts people to return home to avoid being sent to less desirable countries.
  • Venezuela oil deals and Cuba’s corrupt administration are discussed with a focus on control over their economies.

8. The “Lunar Economy” Segment

[80:14–90:59]

• NASA's Big Pitch for a Moon Base:
  • The multi-phase plan: robots scout the south pole, build modular habitats, and—eventually—house astronauts on the moon, all for a "paltry" $20 billion.
  • The hosts are deeply skeptical, comparing California’s high-speed rail to moon base costs, predicting either technical failure or endless bureaucratic stalling.
  • "My prediction is Artemis 3 probably, but Artemis 4—when they're actually going to send people to the moon—is going to blow up..." — Adam [84:47]
  • "They're not going to do jack... just yak yak yak." — John [85:05]
• Helium-3 Extraction Pitch:
  • Book of Knowledge explains helium-3 is mainly useful for security screens and possibly future fusion—both hosts mock the "lunar/space/orbital economy" buzzword mania.

9. Domestic Politics: Ferrari, NY Finance, Paxton v. Talarico

[91:46–104:42]

• Ferrari’s Electric Car Reveal:
  • The “Luce” is derided for its design (co-created by Jony Ive of Apple) and artificial engine noise:
    • "It's got Johnny Ive. No wonder it's a piece of crap." — Adam [94:05]
• NY Socialist Mayor & The Wealth Exodus:
  • Jamie Dimon warns Mayor Mamdani he can’t demonize success, contributing to a discussion of urban economic trends.
• Texas Senate Race:
  • Ken Paxton defeats Cornyn in the runoff with Trump’s blessing; Talarico (Democrat) paints Paxton as “the most corrupt politician in America.”
  • Adam and John debate whether Paxton is the right pick, with Adam asserting:
    • "I don't think he's a great guy at all...he'll do whatever Trump tells him to do." [107:16]

10. Media Lies & Algorithmed PsyOps

[108:47–112:19; 76:19–78:57]

• Media Disinformation:
  • Analyzing a clip of Joe Rogan, the hosts show how mainstream news rips comments completely out of context to reinforce anti-Trump narratives.
  • "Good work, media...they've propagated a lie." — John [112:19]
• Russian TikTok/Instagram Flood:
  • John observes an uptick in “pretty Russian girls” and pro-Putin content in his algorithmic feed – suspecting intelligence agency manipulation subconsciously priming Americans for a post-western alliance with BRICS.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Media Auditions:
  • "Auditions...maybe these are like auditions. Yes, all right. We're going to do a screen test with you, Scott..." — Adam [02:01]
• On Modern Censorship:
  • "Censorship. That's how it starts." — Adam [26:27]
• On Learning from History:
  • "You can slam home at the next city council meeting." — John [19:20]
• On Social Media's Decline:
  • "It’s just feeding a market...It’s basically, I hate to say they're NPCs—but they're kind of non-playing characters..." — John [115:28]
• On NASA's Projections:
  • "NASA actually sparks that lunar economy...maybe economic." — NASA Administrator [87:38]
• On Electric Ferrari:
  • "It's got Johnny Ive...No wonder it's a piece of crap." — Adam [94:05]
• On OnlyFans Podcast Girls:
  • "These women would have been homeless and drug addicts. I'm glad they have jobs." — Adam [39:45]
• On Reporting Fraud:
  • "I didn't know there were 400 arrests. Why would I? Because they're not reporting." — Adam [63:13]
• On Book of Knowledge Segment:
  • "According to the Book of Knowledge, an interregnum is a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes." — Adam [18:08]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Political Auditions, Media Satire & LGBTQ Stereotypes: 01:13–08:14
• Ebola Media Cycle & Song Parodies: 08:07–16:21
• Interregnum Language Deconstruction: 16:51–19:13
• Dragnet & History of Social Morality: 19:30–21:53
• Teen Takeovers / Social Media Panics: 22:02–31:25
• 'Whatever' Podcast Clip Parade: 35:00–43:07
• Trump’s Cabinet Meeting Analysis: 44:00–56:00
• International Agreements & Immigration Law: 63:13–68:18
• NASA "Lunar Economy" Skepticism: 80:14–90:59
• Ferrari’s EV, NY Socialism, & Paxton v. Talarico: 91:46–104:42
• Media Disinformation Showcased: 108:47–112:19
• Algorithmic Psyops & Media Trends: 76:19–78:57

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Language and Tone

Adam and John continue their irreverent, sardonic, and thoroughly skeptical approach, blending boomer banter with sharp criticism. They freely cross between tongue-in-cheek and serious analysis, switching gears from pop culture nostalgia to hard-hitting political commentary.

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Additional Features

• “Book of Knowledge” recurring gag for on-demand definitions.
• Running jokes: Tai chi walking, “Craig Bond and Boss Kill,” the “Order of the Heart,” the “Teen Takeover.”
• Listener Engagement: Shout-outs, donations, and community reports from meetups.
• Tip of the Day: Freeze-dried blueberries as a snack.
• End-of-show musical parody: Reflecting pool song.

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Conclusion

Episode 1872 is classic No Agenda: rapid-fire, deeply skeptical, and loaded with meta-commentary on media, politics, and the absurdity of modern life. The hosts dissect, parody, and subvert mainstream narratives, providing listeners with both acute observations and comic relief—plus a healthy dose of lunar skepticism.

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Transcript

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Never has a problem with Horowitz. Adam Curry, John c. Dvorak. Thursday, May 28, 2026 this is your award winning Gimmonation Media assassination episode 1872. This is no agenda. We're back to buggies and bases and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country right here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry and from Refinery Row

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where we've come to the realization that Tai chi walking is not going to make you ripped. I'm John C. Dvorak.

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It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning. Please tell me you haven't been tai chi walking.

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No, of course not.

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Of course not.

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Who's gonna believe that bull crap? Have you seen these ads? Yeah, I started tai chi walking, now I am ripped and this guy's muscle bound. Come on.

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No, I haven't seen the ads.

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Are you paying for your services and not just letting these ads sneak into your feeds? You mean.

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You mean YouTube? Everything I pay for YouTube.

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Oh, you pay for. Well, that's why you're not seeing these ads.

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Well, and that's why my life is much better.

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Well, you're missing out. What if you wanted to do tai chi walking?

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Well, I would have heard you say it's bullcrap and I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't. Oh. Oh. Stop the press. Oh. Oh, this is a mistake. This is a mistake. So whereas we both thought it was dynamite to have the vice president fill in for Carolyn Levitt.

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Yeah.

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Now General Scott Besant is feeling. So Trump's got him on a rotation. Hey, you got to do a swing shift today. Oh, yeah. Boom. So we went to Fox. Boom. There's cnn. I'm waiting for cnn. Waiting for BBC. They've got a switch now. Emma now has four talking heads on screen. Come on. Huh?

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Maybe these are like auditions.

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Yes. All right, we're going to do a screen test with you, Scott. And the way we like to do that here at WHTV is we like to put you right out there and get you in front of the crowd and let's see what your ratings are. I don't think. Oh, well, I'll have to look at it after the show. I don't know if this is his gig.

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No, no, he's too glib. The thing about Vance is he's very pleasant. He's got a nice smile. He, you know, plays to the crowd. He's kind of like. Wants to be liked.

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Yeah.

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Bess is gay.

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What? Gay guys can be funny. And entertaining.

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In fact, after gay comics, maybe.

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Yeah. See, right away your network got shut off because you said the G word. You back.

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Yeah, here's what happened. This is the network that just disconnected. So then I went back to the other one, and then you were bitching because it doesn't work, and so then back on it again. But this happened once before.

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Yeah, a couple months ago. I can recall this happening a lot in the history of the show. It has happened many, many, many.

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No, I'm talking about the specific, specific thing.

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Yes, but considering you're in Silicon Valley's

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backyard, you would think that's what overused. Everybody's on the. Everyone's on the network.

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Everyone's on the AI.

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Oh, be better off in Iowa.

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All four. Yes. The quad screen is finally filled up with General Scott Besant. Oh, yeah.

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You want to put him on?

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Yeah, I could probably do that. Let's see. You know, he's not going to be any good.

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Ah, yes, you do.

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Let's see. Tv.

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He's too halting. Halting is his style.

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Yeah, but it's not a great style.

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No, it's not.

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You know, again, as I said before, you cut off. It would be great if he did campy gay stuff. That would be.

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He's not gonna do that.

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That'd be fantastic. Let's see what he has to say. Come on in, Ben. On the other side of this. That gasoline prices will follow on the table. Sorry. Oh, they're running the table with him. The teams going back and forth. And President Trump has made it very clear, he talked about it at the Cabinet meeting, that he's wearing a blue swatch watch. Wrong. Iran has to turn over their highly enriched uranium. They cannot pursue a weapon. And the Strait of Hormuth. Your question? Energy has to free transit. He's dying. Navigation of the seas. He's dying. As it was before. He can't. He can't do it. Not going to take a bad deal.

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We knew this before he started.

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You know what?

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Oh, now they're going nuts. Piling on.

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How long until we see your signature next to President Trump's face on a $250 bill? Well, again, as Treasury Secretary, I have two mandates for US currency. Oh, he's dying a thousand deaths. By the way, I just noticed he has this. His mouth, in an odd way, resembles that of Elizabeth Warren.

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I have to see pictures now.

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You gotta take a look at it. It's Trump. Could be. Oh, he's boring. Oh, no. There's only one thing worse than not having the answers is being boring.

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Yeah, he's no good at this.

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No, give him the hooks.

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He's only fair when he's face the nation.

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Trump should come out now and say, besson, you're fired. That, that's, that would be perfect for this. You're no good. You failed the screen test. Goodness gracious. So I was next.

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You'll guess I can always tell you who's going to be next.

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Rubio.

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Exactly.

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And Rubio is going to. Well, he may be. He may be. I don't know. He may be.

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No, I don't think so. I think Rubio, who is a performer.

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Yeah.

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Will kick ass. He'll do jokes, he'll do shtick.

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If he dances, extra points.

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Let's see now. You bit about him about Bessant doing some gay material. It would be better if he came out kind of as, like, as a Rip Taylor type guy wearing a flamboyant outfit and then doing prop comedy like.

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No, more like Carrot Top.

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Well, Rip Taylor's the, really the progenitor

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of Carrot Top, but nobody in the universe knows Rip Taylor anymore. Nobody.

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And he's. And Rip Taylor said throw confetti in the air. That'd be a good bet.

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Oh, my goodness. Oh, now, now he's. Now he's showing the app. He's showing the app.

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Oh, no.

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Yeah, this was.

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Give him the hook.

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This was the, you know, actually have

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the, I think get that dancing guy out there and have him pull him off.

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Here's a clip about the app. And starting today, parents who set up Trump accounts for their children can download a new app to manage the account. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant says 6 million are already signed up for the IRA style savings accounts. Parents and loved ones can contribute up to $5,000 a year into the account. For children born in 2025 through 2028, the federal government will donate an additional thousand dollars. The accounts don't officially open investment until July 4th. You know, the thing is really too bad. I mean, and I really, I'm a big Scott Bessant fan and he has done some great snide jokes when it was at the World Economic Forum. He kind of lays into him, but this is not his wheelhouse. And this app, you should just say girlfriend. Let me tell you about this app. I mean, just throw in a girlfriend. Anything. Anything but this.

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He could never do that. That would never happen.

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I know. I'm just trying to help him out.

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The press corps telling you, I think throwing the confetti in the air would do it. He Says, how's that for an answer?

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So I was thinking about AI and stuff, and how it's changed production, how it's changed our lives, how it's changed the art, how it's changed the end of show mixes. One of our producers reminded me, you know, Ebola. Ebola has been in our lives several times. I think it was two previous times we've had Ebola pop up and be scary and the media being filled with it. I think it's two in the past.

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Yeah, this is what you do.

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This is the third time. And I'm reminded about how creative everybody was. So I put together a short little medley. And in the black drums, weighing in at over 3,000 troops, the ISIS of virus, the killer from Nigeria. Ebola. Ebola's back in town. Boner's back in town. E Ball is back in town. E Ball is back in town. E Ball is back in town. Ball is back in town. Ball is back in town. E Ball is back in town. Ebola. Ebola.

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Ebola.

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Ego from Africa. Ebola. I'll tell you this, if Ebola breaks out in the United States, I'm going to quarantine myself wearing a mask. I've already got it in place for my family. Don't catch it. Yeah, Yeah. Remember how good those were?

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Yeah, that was the. We had an era where everybody was weird. El Yankovich.

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Yeah.

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And they could do these parody songs and the AI Won't do that. It can't. In fact, if you try to do a parody song, it won't do it.

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No, it's not allowed. Because. God forbid.

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Yeah, because it's. You know.

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And even.

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Because it's legal. But it's probably going to get thought of as illegal by the stupid AI Even.

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Yes, even me just playing. That will get this episode removed from Spotify, probably.

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No, there's not one thing there that was remotely a copyright violation. Nothing.

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Let's check in with Ebola real quick. There are growing concerns around the globe about the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. The World Health Organization saying the epidemic is outpacing efforts. ABC Marina Roy has the latest. Health officials are racing to contain the

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rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa.

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Just one week after declaring Ebola a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization admitting the outbreak, is outpacing its efforts. Not only is it difficult to test for, but right now it's spreading in these. Wait a minute. Burks keeps telling us we need the test, and now this guy's telling us it's difficult to test for something's up with that health emergency. The World Health Organization, admitting the outbreak, is outpacing its efforts. Not only is it difficult to test for, but right now it's spreading in these communities faster than health officials can keep up with. And it's likely larger than documented. Sending supplies to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where officials suspect at least 200 people have died from the virus. This UN plane bringing protective equipment for health workers, medication and tents for triage. The European Union and UNICEF sending 100 tons of supplies, including testing kits. Several countries, including the US now are tightening travel restrictions. Americans coming from affected areas can only enter through airports. In Atlanta, Washington, Dulles. And what?

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There's a half a ton of stuff per dead person.

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Huh?

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200 dead, 100 tons. They're sending a hundred tons of what stuff? Testing gear.

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Pppe Houston. And they're required to undergo enhanced screenings, including temperature checks. Enhanced screening. Let me take your temperature. What kind of enhanced screening is that? Remember during COVID and you go to a restaurant and they point that thermometer at your head.

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Well, don't you remember pre Covid, during the swine flu? No sars. And they had. Every airport had these thermo graphs as you're walking down the airport.

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Oh, yeah.

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Remember the thermograph?

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Remember the. Do you remember the thermograph?

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Yes.

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Oh, yeah. And you walk by. Oh, you're too hot.

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Too hot, dude.

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And they're required to undergo enhanced screenings, including temperature checks. Non citizens are banned from traveling here at all if they've been to the impacted areas. In the last three weeks, at least 10 African nations have been warned. They now have an elevated transmission risk. With the FIFA World cup less than

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three weeks away, fears are growing that

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the virus could spread beyond Central Africa. And now, despite the warnings and fears, health officials stress that the global Ebola threat remains low.

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Oh, it remains low, but play this clip. This is. I have the Ebola in the USA clip.

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Ebola in the usa. The CDC sending an urgent request to its staff members for help screening Americans returning to the US From Central Africa for any potential signs of Ebola. The internal email obtained by ABC News and sent by Acting CDC Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, asking for volunteers to bolster efforts at airports to check passengers for symptoms like fever. Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, now one of just three entry points, along with Virginia's Washington Dulles and Hartsfield Jackson in Atlanta, for US Citizens who have been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan in the last three weeks. Non Americans are currently banned from entering the country if they've recently traveled to those areas. Ebola is suspected to have killed more than 2, 200 people. And international aid groups say this outbreak could become the deadliest on record. A dire scene in the eastern Congo. A baby born to a mother infected with Ebola dying from the disease. Health officials warning the outbreak is spreading faster than responders can contain it.

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Yeah.

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One American aid worker in the region. That's the talking point there.

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The talking point.

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Faster than they can contain from the disease. Health officials warning the outbreak is spreading faster than responders can contain it. One American aid worker in the region telling us doctors are already stretched thin. Right now we're working 14, 16 hour days, 6, 7 days a week. We're trying to rotate to get breaks. At least 10 African nations bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo now at an elevated transmission risk. And David, the request for CDC volunteers to help with airport Ebola screenings as millions of of soccer fans are expected to travel to the US in less than three weeks for the World Cup. But the CDC insists that the risk of spreading Ebola here in the US Remains low. So that was.

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They always have this little kicker at the end, every one of these reports.

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So I'd say the, I'd say this is. Of course, it's abc, so it's mainstream media, all of them, including Fox or like Democrats, hey, man, if we can't screw up Trump in the midterms, let's at least screw up world soccer.

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Yeah.

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That's all they want to screw stuff up.

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Yeah, they like to screw stuff up.

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They do. They do.

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They're doing a good job. I think they're doing a wonderful job of it.

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Yes. Oh, man. The funny thing is, is that no one's ever upset about this. No one's ever upset about these things. About this. Psyop. Epstein files. Okay. Yeah, Epstein files.

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Since we're going to change topics, I have a little interregnum here.

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Oh, you're using the interregnum term. This is something new. This is a. President Trump is an interregnum in the liberal world order. So you've been affected with the new world order. Liberal world order talking point. Interregnum.

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I was unaware of this problem.

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I've never heard you use this word.

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Well, it's a good word. It was not a great word.

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It's not a good word.

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And I should say, I should use. What was the foodie term. When you have the little, You have a piece of sherbet, you have like a, a small Spoon full of sherbet. Sorbet. I'm sorry? Sorbet.

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Chef has specially prepared this for you and for you only.

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Here.

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Yes. There you go.

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It's one spoonful.

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What is an inter. What is an.

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Isn't interregnum just the thing in between, you know?

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No, I don't. I don't think that's true.

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Yes, it's. It's. It's a moment of in betweenness.

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I mean, do you mind if I ask the Book of Knowledge first? Go ahead, ask a book. Give me the definition of interregnum. People like the Book of Knowledge.

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Yeah, they do.

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They do. Here we go. According to the Book of Knowledge, an interregnum is a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes. It derives from Latin meaning between kingdoms, and refers to any interval when there is no ruling authority or a temporary gap in leadership.

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Huh.

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Thus.

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Yeah, exactly what I said.

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No, it's not. It's not at all what you said.

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And you use the in between.

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It's in between. It's specifically in between Kingdoms. You're doing.

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Yeah, kingdoms of our. Of our eclipse.

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Oh, okay. Hey, I think I learned something. Thank you. Book of Knowledge. I learned something here. Somebody said, hey, man, you gonna open source that? No. You have every. Every stupid podcast in the world using our Book of Knowledge.

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No way.

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No. I spent hours on that. All right. Interregnum, I love. It's even better now when they say it about Trump. Interregnum, in between kingdoms. So he is, by definition, not a king. No, not a king.

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Oh, not a king.

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By definition, an interregnum. He's not a king. It's in between kingdoms.

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That's a good point.

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I'm just saying.

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I think you've got a point there. You can slam home at the next city council meeting. Okay.

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I don't know what that has to do with it, but thanks.

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Here we go. This is from 19. This 19, mid-1960s. About 65, I believe. A little dialogue on the series Dragnet, a TV show with Jack Webb.

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Great show. Dumb. Is that the dum dum dum dum.

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Yep. Dum dum, dum dum dum, dum, dum,

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dum, dum dum dum. We have been smoking marijuana. Marijuana is illegal.

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I know that.

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That's right. For now. In a couple of years, things may change. When all the kids grow up and start wearing ties and going to the polls, marijuana is going to be like liquor, packaged and taxed and sold right off the shelf. I doubt it. Mr. Shipley, look, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but it seems to me there must be better things for cops

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to do than chase down wild rumors

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about something as innocent as marijuana.

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Why don't you go after the big bad guys?

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The heroin peddlers?

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I won't argue with you about them.

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They should be stopped.

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That's right.

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We'd like to put them out of business.

[B]

That's why we're here.

[A]

What do you mean? We're trying to keep them from getting a new customer. There's a big difference between marijuana and hard narcotics. Yeah, but it's only a small step.

[B]

And everybody who takes a drink is gonna be an alcoholic.

[A]

We know that's not true, don't we? Let's face it. We're on opposite sides of the fence, and there's nothing we can do about it for you.

[B]

If there's a law against it, it's

[A]

wrong, black and white. I just don't see things that way, that's all. Well, you ought to give it a try, fella. It might keep you out of jail. Maybe, but we'll change the law Sunday. Even though your friend here thinks we won't. Believe me, it's a new world. Your laws are as outdated as bustles. Laws are going to have to be changed to keep pace with the new morality. They'll change or we'll have to break them. Oh, man. The Lear foundation was already working in 1960.

[B]

I don't think that was. You think that was. No, no, it seems unlikely.

[A]

Was that. Is there a dragnet where they're talking about lgbtq? This is.

[B]

This is. There probably is. You know, I think somebody's got data mining the old dragnet shows. This is kind of like the Simpsons.

[A]

Predictive. Yes, predictive programming. That's very interesting. Well, of course, it was the liberal media hippies who were running the show back then, even, because then in the 70s, we got all in the family and we know that Meathead was a dope smoker.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So interesting. Well, I can't say that it's bad, but it's right down to the packaging and tax. That's interesting.

[B]

I know. It was really great.

[A]

That's pretty good. I like that a lot. Hey, you nailed it on. On those teen takeovers.

[B]

I have a bunch. I had three clips of the teen takeovers and all of. Not all of them, but at least two of them mentioned the idea that we've talked about, which is that parents should be arrested for these teen Punks?

[A]

Well, yes. I mean, I have one or two clips myself. I'd love to hear yours because when I heard how these par are acting in this regard, I'm like, yeah, you're probably right. I only see two though.

[B]

There's another one. I'll find it. It's. It's got a different. It's got the wrong title, of course.

[A]

What are we starting with?

[B]

Let's start with the. Oh, there should be Teen Takeover 2. Okay, I'm. I'm looking for Teen Takeover 1, but let's skip, let's skip right to the box. This is from Tampa, Florida. This is The King takeover. Fox 44.

[A]

Okay, so there's a new tick tock trend. You know, takeovers going into restaurants, trash in places, meeting up, driving crazy. Listen, that's not going to work. In Polk county there's a whole lot

[B]

of laws that not only hold juveniles

[A]

responsible, adults responsible, but parents responsible for your children's conduct to include juvenile curfews. Now summer's coming and we want the kids to have a good time and a fun time.

[B]

They worked hard in school this year.

[A]

We don't want them to start next

[B]

year with a criminal arrest record. But I'll guarantee you.

[A]

Who is this guy?

[B]

Is he from Blowhard?

[A]

Is he from Dragnet?

[B]

He's the cop. It's Jack Webb.

[A]

Tearing up people's businesses, fighting in the streets. We're gonna lighten them up, all of them.

[B]

And then mom and daddy lock them up.

[A]

If you don't hold them accountable personally,

[B]

make sure they're home when they need to be, then we're gonna come lock you up too. Or charge you civilly, depending on which

[A]

laws we can plug in. But parents hold your children accountable so we don't have to. We will hold them accountable if you make us.

[B]

But then we're going to hold you accountable too.

[A]

Think about that and then have a good summer. Why don't, why don't you marinate in

[B]

that for a minute? That's the Florida, Florida law.

[A]

We're going to light them up. What, are you going to tase them? That's what they, that's what they need. They need to be tased. Well, let me just throw an interregnum. This is what happened in Chicago from day into the night. Memorial Day weekend closed out with more teen takeovers. In Hyde park, three people were shot and several arrested. It's not just messing around. In Chicago, we shoot you. The past couple of years, the so called teen trends have been a thorn in the sand. For police, we need to do everything we can to put a stop to these events. And that means giving the police all the tools that they could possibly bring to bear. City Council's public Safety Committee chairman, Alderman Brian Hopkins has been trying to give police more tools like an earlier teen curfew, but Mayor Brandon Johnson has been against it. Hopkins says as the teen trends continue, more of his colleagues are supporting curfews and other measures. It's their voters that are calling them and demanding something be done. And it's Chicago's police superintendent demanding something as well. During a City Club appearance last week, Larry Snelling says it's time to stop making excuses for the teenagers who participate. And there has to be accountability. The failure here is that when we don't put accountability on teenagers because teenagers need it more than anybody, which means having the tools to make arrests. And there's a growing call from Snelling, Alders and the mayor to make parents accountable. Because the teen trends gained steam on social media, St. Savina's youth organizer Lamar Johnson says many parents are aware and

[B]

even enable their kids like majority of

[A]

parents, not all, but majority of these parents. Parents know exactly what their teens are

[B]

doing, know where they are.

[A]

Uber them down there. Alters are working on parent accountability ordinance that would hold them responsible if they allow their children to engage in criminal activity. In addition, city council is working on social media ordinance that will allow police to work with companies to remove posts that could potentially result in violent behavior. Censorship. That's how it starts.

[B]

Yep. I agree.

[A]

Do you agree what?

[B]

That censorship, it shouldn't be done.

[A]

No, but that's. That's how it started. Oh, it's bad post. Bad post.

[B]

Well, I don't have. I can't find the clip one for. But this is part two of another series where they talk about this.

[A]

Now Chicago officials weighing targeting parents with one representative, the same lady proposing charging parents arrested at teen takeovers after the city's 10pm curfew with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a class misdemeanor punishable by up to a $2,500 fine and 364 days in jail. This strategy. That's three years.

[B]

Why don't they say three? Hold on. Why don't they say three years?

[A]

Let me hear it again. And 364 days in jail. That's one year. It's not three years.

[B]

Oh, I'm sorry, You're right.

[A]

Hello.

[B]

This strategy of potentially charging math in my head inaccurately.

[A]

Yes. I mean, you're almost chatgpt accurate jail. This strategy of potentially charging parents, do you think it would be effective? I think that it's a start. We need to have a proactive approach from police. Whereas they should be monitoring social media to establish where these meetups would be occurring and place. Meetups? Wait a minute.

[B]

It's a meetup.

[A]

Meetup. All of a sudden, it's a meetup to establish where these meetups would be occurring and place accordingly. One idea as desperation to rein in teen takeovers rose we. But there was stuff like this. We had weird stuff going on as kids and we all, hey, let's go meet up there. And we get all rowdy. I mean, it's really social media that makes it happen.

[B]

Well, it's social media that is drawing it more attention to it. When I was a kid.

[A]

Here we go.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

You had sit ins.

[B]

No, when I was a kid, and this, I believe was in the 60s, you'd go to the county fair in Pleasanton, Alameda county fair, and on fourth of July, you'd always go on the fourth of July. They stopped showing the fireworks on the fourth of July because of this. Every fourth of July, year after year after year, you could go to the 4th of July and there would be a teen takeover of the fair where two rival gangs usually.

[A]

Yes, gangs, absolutely.

[B]

Rival gangs would come in and start pounding each other.

[A]

No, no, no. They would rumble.

[B]

Yeah, they'd rumble. By the way, the movie with the musical, what was it?

[A]

West side story.

[B]

West side story, the musical. West side story was from this era. And these kids would come in and. And you'd go just. Just to watch it.

[A]

Of course you did. It's going to be a robot.

[B]

They never involved you. They didn't come just randomly. And they would just go after each other and they're doing it. If you watch videos that come out of these teen takeovers, which I think is an interesting. The fact that they've coined a term for it, teen takeover.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And they all use the same term, teen takeover. When you see it, it's just two groups battling each other. They're not really, you know, you see people holding their kid to the side and you see bystanders, but they never do anything to the bystanders.

[A]

Do you remember during Obama, this was a great piece of history. I probably don't have the clip. During the Obama administration, there was an equivalent of kind of a teen takeover. And this mom, this black mom, comes right up to her kid and grabs him by the ear. And do you remember this? Like what are you doing here? And she took. And it was vaguely everybody. Everybody was covering this. Mom. Teen.

[B]

I wonder they might have a clip. But anyway. So this is not a new phenomenon by any means.

[A]

No.

[B]

When you said this happening in restaurants, which I'm sure you know, they used to be in public events.

[A]

Yeah. And then when the cops would come. It's cops. And they would all run every.

[B]

Scatter.

[A]

Scatter.

[B]

Yeah. This has been going on for the last 50 years.

[A]

Longer, maybe longer.

[B]

Yeah. I'm sure it goes back to the 20s and 30s and longer than that.

[A]

How about. How about the Gangs of New York?

[B]

Yeah, there you go.

[A]

Basically, teen takeovers.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Oh, well, I like the parents who Uber their kids. Hey, go ahead. Go to the takeover. Sounds like fun.

[B]

But this is leading to the arrest of parents, and I think this is. This is the real trend that we're looking at.

[A]

It's the fuzz, man. Wow. Welcome to Boomer Agenda, everybody. I still think we're. I think it's great. I think it's great that we know all these terms. You could learn something from us.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Especially if you're a zed.

[A]

You know, I went to a movie screening last night of called Young Washington, and it's.

[B]

Is this one of those Christian films that you. You rush to.

[A]

It is actually. It was produced by the Wonder Network and distributed by angel, but it's more about. They're releasing it on July 3, and it's more intended. It's not like. In fact, if anything, there's a lot of blowing people up in this movie. But that's interesting that you say that. Why do you equate Young Washington with one of those Christian movies?

[B]

No, I think that's the only thing you go see nowadays in the theater.

[A]

Yeah, probably. But I realized how little I know of our own country's history. I didn't really realize.

[B]

Didn't you suspect that this was accurate, this movie?

[A]

Yes. Yeah, I think it was pretty accurate.

[B]

Wasn't idealized like you'd expect. I would expect it to be idealized.

[A]

Not many. Not really. I mean, here's. In short, it shows that he wanted to be part of the British Army. This is colonial Virginia, and he can't because he's just scum. He's a colonist. You know, just go back to your farm, stupid boy. And then he gets an assignment, which he was meant to fail at, to go and scout out some land in the Ohio Valley. And then he finds the French. And I didn't really realize that the Brits fought The French over the Ohio Valley.

[B]

They're fighting the French over everything.

[A]

Yeah, but I'm telling you, I felt like, wow, I'm pretty stupid. I didn't.

[B]

I didn't really feel that way. These are details of history that very few people would know one way or the other. And it's not really that important in the scheme of things.

[A]

Well, how in today's world, how Washington came to be and why. And you know how the uniforms were chosen for the militia? It was. It was an. It was like the prequel to Star Wars. That's what it was Good. And a lot of people getting blowed up. It was. It was. Yeah, it was good.

[B]

I just could do without the violence.

[A]

Oh, really? It's part of our history, man. That's who we are. We're a violent, warring people. We don't want to admit it, but we are. This is our roots.

[B]

We're good at it too, by the way.

[A]

And we were. And in fact, George Washington was friends with the Indians. With Indians.

[B]

In fact. This is interesting because earlier in the conversation you went on about how it be cool. You didn't use the word cool, but you were implying it to tase these poor kids in the teen takeover. Come in there with tasers and just electrocute. Which is a violent act. Have you ever seen anyone shot with one of these things? They shake a lot.

[A]

Well, half the people just keep walking from what I've seen of these taser videos.

[B]

But I didn't need more voltage.

[A]

I was only trying to extrapolate on what the sheriff said about we're gonna light em up. So I thought that maybe if you light them up, that means you're gonna electron electrify them.

[B]

I don't know, lighten them up.

[A]

Anyway, it's a good movie when it comes out. I recommend you go see it.

[B]

Yeah, I've seen one movie at a theater in the last five years and that's about it. I watched my movies on the video.

[A]

On the video. Oh really? Do you get your from Blockbuster or where do you get your video?

[B]

I get it from. I get my videos from the tv.

[A]

This.

[B]

So I got some screwball clips here. Let's play Whatever dummies.

[A]

I was going to go into some real news. We've done nothing but screwball. But okay, whatever dummies. What gas do plants absorb from the air? Oxygen. What continent is Brazilian?

[B]

Brazil is in Latin America.

[A]

What continent is Egypt in?

[B]

Why are you asking me this question?

[A]

Wait, is this the stupid show where these women are all cute and then you, you cut four clips of that. I refuse.

[B]

They're very short. Okay, no, wait, wait, stop. Okay, now what it is.

[A]

Wait a minute. Here's the man who just said, I haven't been to the theater in five years. I don't go to the movie theater. I sit at home and watch these dipshits on Tick Tock for hours. And you probably emailed me a copy of this, didn't you? I'm sure you did. I haven't looked at your emails.

[B]

No, I did not. Because you hate this show. So this is the whatever podcast where this guy.

[A]

This is a show. This is not even a show. This is. Is dumb.

[B]

Is it? Basically this guy. Okay, let's just a little background here. This guy who's kind of a obnoxious character, but he's. He has his moments. He's good at mugging and he brings on only fans, girls and whores, basically.

[A]

And the difference is there's not much

[B]

difference, it turns out. But they. He brings them on and then he. They talk about love and sex and then he goes out of his way to prove that they're all idiots by asking the simplest of stupid questions. Man on the street version. And they can't answer anything. And now you know, this show is run as a live six hour stream every day. It's very hard to watch.

[A]

I'm sure you are just. You're like people who watch Candace Owens. You're like this for this show.

[B]

No, no, I can't watch the show

[A]

because all this is coming on. I can't wait.

[B]

You can say all you do can. Can ridicule me all you want. You can make. You can mock me.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

You can do what you think is funny. But I'll tell you right now, the show's not watchable. So you can only get the clips from it. You got to find someone who knows how to clip the show. But the point where they ask these idiotic questions and then they can't answer the simplest of questions with some of the dumbest things you've ever heard in your life, I think is amusing. Especially when these clips are just 54 seconds. 30 seconds, 47. I mean, these are short. I'm not killing it with these. With long boring clips.

[A]

I will in a moment. I got long boring clips coming up.

[B]

So. So these are the whatever girls. Let's just play two. I'll play two of them.

[A]

No, no, we're playing all four. Let's go. Okay, go for it. Absorbed from the air. Oxygen. What continent is Brazil?

[B]

1. Brazil is in Latin America.

[A]

What continent is Egypt in?

[B]

Why are you asking me these questions?

[A]

Wait, sorry. Egypt is where? The Middle East. What continent is Japan? In Tokyo. You are retracing this.

[B]

There's no way.

[A]

What country is immediately south of the United States? Country immediately south. The United States. Wisconsin. That's a state? I. I don't know.

[B]

I have no idea. Honestly, I've never been there.

[A]

Who painted the Mona Lisa? Oh, why do I. Van Gogh. No, that's wrong. No, Monet. No, I actually. Monet. Were you about to say Monet? Who painted the Mona Lisa? Justin Bieber. So this is interesting because you kind of put me down for saying that we should learn more about our history, and here you are with these.

[B]

Oh, you're throwing my single comment back at you.

[A]

Very, very. I'm very sad by this.

[B]

That was insane. You should be.

[A]

I'm very sad.

[B]

This is pathetic. Especially since these. These are. Are hardworking girls.

[A]

Name three countries besides the usa. You can't repeat. Africa. Keep going. Africa. Africa.

[B]

Europe.

[A]

Asia. Barcelona. Barcelona. Okay. That's a country. Yeah. You know, sometimes I'm a bit harsh on the workers, but sometimes it's the only option. How many states are in the USA? 25, 26. How many planets are in our solar system? I don't know. I'm sorry. Well, actually, I'm going to change my mind now. I think it's very. I praise the guys who started OnlyFans. These women would have been homeless and drug addicts. This is. I'm glad they have jobs.

[B]

Oh, that's an interesting take.

[A]

I am glad they have jobs. This is horrible. How many letters in the Alphabet? 27. Maybe 28. I don't know. What ocean is California next to? I don't know. Atlantic. If a dozen eggs cost $3, how much is each egg? $4. What country is the Panama Canal in? I don't know. Honestly, Lexi, what countries? The what? The what what? What country is the Panama Canal in? I have no clue what that means. Guess. Just throw out the country. Spain. Where did the attack on Pearl harbor take place? Japan. What is 100 minus 66? 100 minus 66. It's very simple. It's 66. Wow. Good for you.

[B]

Huh?

[A]

Did you.

[B]

Onward to number three.

[A]

Number four. This is number four.

[B]

Oh, that was three.

[A]

Yeah. We're at the end. I'm. Now I'm sad you don't have more.

[B]

Yeah. Okay.

[A]

What species are we?

[B]

A genuine thing.

[A]

Sorry, what? I don't know. I don't know.

[B]

I don't know. Homos.

[A]

Homogenous. A little bit. Homophobic. Yeah, that's.

[B]

There's a word close to that.

[A]

I don't know. Please don't refer to people as homos. What. What species are we? Just humans then? Well, we are humans, but what species are we? Why was I the first one? How many states are in the USA? 52. Do you vote? No. Okay, good. What is the capital of the usa? Albany, New York. How many planets are in our solar system? You're counting. Seven. Well, this does bring up an old story. When I entered Dutch school in fifth grade, speaking maybe 10 words of Dutch, but I understood enough to hear the teacher tell me now. So this would have been 1974. No, I'm sorry, 78. And the teacher said, America has 52 states. I went and I raised my hand, I said, no. I said, it's 50 states. And the teacher went, they had 50. And then they bought Alaska and Hawaii, you stupid American. I may be exaggerating a little bit on the last part, but that's how he made me feel. I said, no, it's really 50. I remember now. Here I was, young man, and I called up the embassy that day from home, and I recorded on a cassette record and I asked them, and they told me I was 48, and we bought Hawaii and Alaska, and I took it into school the next day and played it. And I got kicked out of class.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, that would happen.

[A]

And I think that was when I decided I would be a podcaster. This is the gig for me. I need to.

[B]

You decided something at that point because you realize that the system is corrupt.

[A]

Yeah. Yes. There was a lot of good education that I got in Dutch school, but that was not part of it. Anyway, that was fun. Do you think the guy makes any money with that show? How does he make money? Does he have a donation segment?

[B]

No, he doesn't. I don't know how he makes money, to be honest about it.

[A]

He's probably running Onlyfans Girls.

[B]

He might be.

[A]

That's probably what he's doing.

[B]

This is the clip I have from the one girl who's. Who's accumulated $32 million so far in her OnlyFans account. Business. Yeah, it's a business, it's a living. But she probably doesn't know how many states there are in the union either. It's unbelievable. But, you know, again. Yeah, well, I wasn't not knowing that and not knowing that that George Washington ran into some French dudes back in the day.

[A]

It was a little more than that. It's his Backstory. It's the backstory. It's an important backstory. I thought it was good.

[B]

Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm not going to say it's not a good movie. I'm just saying what's the difference between not knowing some small factoid about Washington and not knowing how many planets there are in the solar system?

[A]

Seven,

[B]

by the way, that seven. The girl's counting on her hand, I'm sure, on her fingers, since she gets the 7.

[A]

Mars. Third rock from the sun is Mars, Moon is 2. So yesterday, the President did one of his cabinet meetings. And I was watching. I was watching the stream, but then I was watching the quad screen. And the mainstream media does the same thing every single time they show the President's preamble. Then when the secretaries are all giving their report, they cut away and then they laugh about the President, about Dummy is. And I'll be honest, he went on for 10 minutes about the reflecting pool in front of the Washington Monument, the

[B]

color of the water and the rest of it.

[A]

He went on and on and how he, you know, he's done swimming pools and he got his guys, and now

[B]

he's the right color blue for the paint.

[A]

From a builder's perspective, it was rather interesting. Like, oh, okay, I see what you did there. And I'm sure that I haven't been to D.C. in a long time.

[B]

I'm sure a construction guy thought it was interesting, and that's about it.

[A]

Yeah, but it was this, hey, number one rule, talk about what you know about. But it just went on and on, and. And I was like, I wish I would have kind of seen this thing before he fixed it, because I'm sure it was a piece of crap. You know, he's talking about 11 truckloads of trash they took out of it. It was leaking, it was all oxidized. Nothing was working. So that was, you know, anyway, so. So then they. They'll do that, and then they cut back when the press is asking questions, which are usually. That's accurate representation.

[B]

Yeah, that's about right.

[A]

And then the next day, you get reports like this, President Trump is adamant that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. But exactly how he pulls that off is still an open question. The President held a Cabinet meeting at the White House today where he touched on a wide range of topics, but of course, the headline was, excuse me, Iran. And he said, talks with the regime are still happening, but is leaving the door open to resume fighting if necessary.

[B]

They want very much to make a deal. So far, they haven't gotten there. We're not satisfied with it, but we will be. We will be. Either that or we'll have to just finish the job. They're negotiating on fumes.

[A]

Fumes.

[B]

But we'll see what happens. The President negotiating on fumes. I like that phrase.

[A]

Yeah, I mean it's. Well, the. So did the mainstream media. M5M was all over. Although the phrase is you're running on fumes. But negotiating in fumes, maybe in the context of oil is interesting.

[B]

Yeah, but we'll see what happens. The President said he doesn't feel pressure

[A]

to strike a deal before voters head to the polls in November for the midterms.

[B]

They thought they were going to outweigh me. You know, we'll outweigh him. He's got the midterms. I don't care about the midterms. People understand that. They know that very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

[A]

I don't care about the midterms. Probably true. So that's one version then. Oh, he said something dumb. Oh, and it's a pooper. More breaking news tonight. American breaking. Breaking is breaking news. I'm telling you it's breaking news. More breaking news tonight. New American military strikes on Iran. That's according to a US official who tells us that that Iran set out to US carriers have struck some new sites at the Iran nearby Iran. The official adding that the military also intercepted drones being launched from Iran caps A day that saw the President hold a televised cabinet meeting during which Iran came up repeatedly. He suggested a deal is close but also that there's no hurry to reach one. Saying pressure from the midterm elections was not a concern for him. He threatened to as well to quote blow up Oman which is an ally of the United States. And it's now we have a. Now we all know what an ally is. Now he's going to blow up Oman. Iran wants control of the Strait of Hormuz. Would you accept a short term deal that allows Iran and Oman to control the strait and would they have to open it immediately or would you be open to that happening over a period of time?

[B]

The street's going to be open to everybody. So. And who would control its Internet waters? Nobody's going to control it.

[A]

We're going to watch over it.

[B]

We'll watch over it, but nobody's going to control it. Oman will behave just like everybody else who will have to blow them up. They understand that.

[A]

They'll be fine again. Oman is an ally, gives access to air bases and a port to American forces. And if you think the president's statement about blowing up Oman was a slip of the tongue. The State Department posted that clip of the President making the threat on social media not long after said it as for Iran, it says 23 vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz over the last 24 hours. That's under what it calls its security protection, according to Iranian state sponsored media, with, quote, hostile vessels still not allowed. So that was the main takeaway. Everybody had, oh, he says going to blow up Amman. An ally. And there's an ally. Oh, come on, people. Now, just a question. I think this is. Isn't it rather unique? I'm sorry, let me do the. Tucker. Isn't it rather unique that the president televises his entire. And allows the press to be there the entire time? I just want to. I don't remember any other president doing that.

[B]

No, but. No, it's not unique, but he does it a lot.

[A]

Yeah. And he does some long ones. Yeah, he actually, that's how he started off. And, and I, and I said, yeah, you know, that is kind of. That is true. That's. That's a good point.

[B]

We have a lot of very happy people table because we're a great team. It's been a tremendous period of time.

[A]

How many times have you heard a CEO of a company do this? This is exactly what the Monday morning management meeting was. This is like bloom. It's high Bloom.

[B]

All hands.

[A]

No, it's not at all hands. It's the management team. You sit down with the management team and you pep everybody up. Everybody, it's Monday morning. Okay. In this case, it's Wednesday. Monday morning, everybody. We got a great team. All right. We're doing great, everybody. Everything's fantastic. Good to have you all here for our country. And things are going very well.

[B]

Number of jobs. We have more people working today than we've ever had before in the history of our country.

[A]

Is that true?

[B]

No. Well, yeah, we have more people. More people than ever before.

[A]

Yes. Well, then. So it's true. More people than ever. Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

And many other things. And I have many other things. Many other things that I think will be helpful. And last night was incredible. Not only Texas, but so many other places. And the numbers were fantastic. And they've really been that way for a year. If you look, hundreds of people won and almost nobody didn't win.

[A]

Almost nobody didn't. Who didn't win? Which of his primary candidates didn't win? Do you know?

[B]

Not offhand. But there's, I think one or two.

[A]

One or two.

[B]

But last night was very, very powerful. So I'm thrilled to welcome everyone to the 12th cabinet meeting of our administration. And we're doing something that no administration has ever done. We're always letting the press join us

[A]

because we're very open and transparent.

[B]

You like the word transparent, but we're more transparent than any administration in history. No, to the best of my knowledge, press has never been invited ever to a cabinet meeting for any reason at all. You know, I believe that to be true.

[A]

I believe it to be true. And the thing is, they don't cover it. They don't want you to know what's actually happening.

[B]

Well, it's kind of boring.

[A]

It's not boring. Why do you. Why do you think it's boring?

[B]

Well, I've watched these things. They went. Because the first one he did number one.

[A]

Four. Four hours. Yeah, that was boring.

[B]

Yeah, it went on and on. It was like. And everyone. And here's the thing that. That's bothers me. And I think one of the reasons you don't have these things, I think having the press there does serve a purpose. It keeps everybody in line because you don't have anybody spouting off because they know that it's going to be next thing to be front page in the New York Times. So you can't have anybody blowing up or having anything screwy happening in the press. It makes it very genteel, which is probably what Trump wants. He doesn't want any, you know, because you have enough trouble with leakers that he doesn't need that aggravation in his cabinet meeting. So he just puts. Brings the press in. There's not gonna be any leaking now.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Cause it's all gonna be.

[A]

But the bothersome thing to me is that no one covers it. And yeah, maybe because it's boring, but you know, like a good CEO, he goes through his most.

[B]

Well, you'd think they'd cover it better than they do because they, they have these press conferences and they're. Yeah, they asking the questions. The questions are pre. Answered in these cabinet meetings.

[A]

Well, well, that's what I'm saying. They cover the President's opening to be able to.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

He said, he said Oman. They're gonna blow him up. He's an ally. He's dumb.

[B]

Yeah. Okay, here, here's my take. I'm a journalist and I've got the White House. And I'm thinking, do I want to go to this cabinet meeting and sit there for four hours and three hours or whatever the hell it is and listen to this crap. No, I'm going to go to the bar.

[A]

It was only an hour and a half.

[B]

That's too long.

[A]

So.

[B]

No, too long for the. No, I don't want to put the work in. No, I just don't want to do it.

[A]

No, I think it's for different reasons. I think it's because they don't want to report. So the president, like any good CEO starts with a report. We have had zero illegals come in in the last 12 months. Murder rate is the lowest.

[B]

I'm taking the perspective of the journalists. I'm going to say the same thing. I'm going to say it again. So what? This isn't interesting to me. This is not good news.

[A]

I understand, but I'm deconstructing media by showing you what they're not doing.

[B]

Well, they're not doing anything, it seems like.

[A]

Right. So therefore did you know that we have the. I'm just going to presume these are true and the fact that no one went out and said he lied. I'm just going to say they're probably true. So lowest murder rate in 125 years.

[B]

Yeah, this seems to be true.

[A]

11,888 criminal murderers have been removed. Most favored nation drug prices which I think is in fact he was mad about this.

[B]

Under my most favored nation agreements. This is something that I wish the media would talk about because to me

[A]

it's one of the biggest things ever

[B]

to happen in our country.

[A]

Certainly as to medical, anything having to

[B]

do with medical because drug prices. We're delivering record setting discounts on prescription drugs with price differences of 400, 500 and even 600% at the trumprx.gov now

[A]

wait, he's going to screw this up himself.

[B]

Here we recently added nearly 1,000 low cost, low cost generics to the website. So, so we have drugs down 400, 500, 600%. Now you could say 80, 90, 70,

[A]

60, 50, what percent if you want.

[B]

There are two ways. Depends on the way you ask the question.

[A]

What? Okay, he doesn't help himself with that and he goes into most favored nation drug prices. So a pill that cost 10 bucks in London but 110 in the US now it's 20 for everybody. But that's a big deal. But of course they're not going to. They're not going to.

[B]

Of course. Again if you read my Current substack column dvorak.substack.com Where I talk about the capture of the media by the drug companies.

[A]

Yes. Good piece.

[B]

They're obviously not going to write about this because it has anything to do with drug companies. Forget it's verboten.

[A]

And then he goes into the Somalis,

[B]

the Somalians, what they've done to Minnesota. The Somalians.

[A]

Somalians.

[B]

Crooked as hell. Elon Omar, crooked as hell.

[A]

They're all crooks. And we got them.

[B]

We got them.

[A]

We got him.

[B]

Putting the clamps on that boy, huh? He didn't get Omar. She's still kicking. She's still doing her thing.

[A]

No, no, they.

[B]

He. That's an impressive group of guys that you have behind you. I was watching that.

[A]

And that's J.D.

[B]

a couple of very strong women, too. But I was watching, watching that last night. I said, I'm proud of you guys. In two months, we've exposed tens of billions of dollars of defrauded taxpayer money, prosecuted numerous fraudsters. Todd. And stopped billions of suspicious payments. Very suspicious. Oh, you haven't seen anything yet. Well, you see, I'm getting reports from Todd, from JD I've never seen anything like it. The kind of. Just hundreds of billions of dollars was stolen and no other administration would do what we're doing.

[A]

And he goes on about that. And then he had a nice moment. He thanked Tulsi Gabbard, who was. She didn't speak.

[B]

Before asking Vice President Vance to speak about these efforts, I want to express our tremendous gratitude to our outgoing Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who's a terrific person, actually. She's come up with some findings that were pretty good. And Tulsi has worked tirelessly to restore trust and focus on the intelligence and with the intelligence community. They all respected her.

[A]

And it goes on about all the things she's uncovered about Russia, Russia, Russia. And then, you know, for some reason. And she opened up the jfk, RFK files and then UFO files. I don't think Tulsi had anything to do with that. That. But then the secretary spoke, and they actually were quite interesting. I'll skip Vance because. Well, actually, the beginning is kind of good, sir. Well, first of all, thank you for your leadership, sir. You always have to start with thank you for your leadership, for making it possible. I often find in the Fraud Task Force that there sometimes are barriers that we need to break down, agencies that need to coordinate. And I'll come to the president and say, Mr. President. President, I need your permission to do. He'll say, for what? For the Fraud Task Force. He'll cut me off and say, yes, go do it. So the Fact that we have dedicated presidential leadership is really what's made this possible, because it does require. We've got great people around the table, but sometimes these agencies don't know how to work together at the lower level. And that's one of the things we've had to turn on and force with the fraud task force. So I want to shout out just a few all Stars here. All Stars. Linda at the Department of Education has been amazing at the finding student loan fraud. You've got people who are either illegal aliens or aren't even actually real human beings who are getting hundreds of millions of dollars from the Department of Education for student loans. You know, so all. Most of these reports were all about fraud. And it really is unbelievable how much. How much. I'll never forget my dad. Once when I brought him into my company, we didn't really have a great relationship, but I felt bad. So you can be in my. You can get a desk over here. That was not a. Not a good relationship. And my. This is in Holland, and my company was in line to get a deal with the Department of Education until we found out how fraudulent those guys were. I mean, they literally were committing fraud to pay us. Like, nah, I don't want any part of that. And I had to go testify in court later for that because it was so messed up.

[B]

But I remember him saying nothing came of it.

[A]

No, no, no. The. That guy was dismissed. He got kicked out of government. Oh, yeah.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

Something did come out of it. But I'll never forget my dad, a good company man. He worked for the US Government for many years. He said, this is great. Once you get on the government teat, it lasts forever. And I'm like, yeah, that's.

[B]

That's. Yeah, I've heard the sad. Well, I kind of say the same thing.

[A]

I think the word teat is what bothered me the most. This sucks. They. I hated that. It really bothered me. Here's Todd Blanche, our acting Attorney General. I'll just continue to talk about what the vice president was just talking about, the way that we are. Actually, it's one thing to uncover fraud, which we've done, and that's part of it, but it's also prosecuting the bad guys that are doing it and stopping it from continuing. And that's where you have. Everybody in this room has inspector generals, and for many years, these really hardworking law enforcement members would identify fraud, and nobody did anything about it. DOJ prosecuted it, but spent very little resources on that. So what we've done just in the past 51 days, over 400 law enforcement actions in this country related to major fraud. That's search warrants, that's arrests, that's convictions, that's indictments that are filed. And that's just 51 days. And it's not just the great prosecutors. It's the FBI agents, it's DHS and HSI agents. It's everybody in this room that has inspector generals that are now, they have been freed up. And it's because of you. It's because of the vice President saying this is going to be a priority of what we are going to do. Not just the Department of Justice, even though we're the prosecutors that are putting bad guys in jail, it's also the law enforcement at every agency, FBI and dhs. And so we're already seeing results.

[B]

And billions of dollars was given out just very quickly before Biden left office. Billions and billions were given out. And I mean, I know of many cases, but one. I don't know what's happened with it, but I think you're looking at it. I know Lee was involved in it environmentally. Stacey Abrams was given $2 billion for an account that had $103 in it and environmental fraud, I guess.

[A]

So we heard about this. We heard about the $2 billion to Stacey Abrams. Did you, did you ever hear what happened to that?

[B]

No, I did not. As far as I can tell, nothing.

[A]

So here is Lee Zeldin of the epa. He gets to talk. He came right after Todd. Thanks to your leadership, Mr. President, that was canceled and they no longer have access to that $2 billion. They blood like hell.

[B]

They wanted that money. Go ahead.

[A]

In fact, it was over $29 billion that have now.

[B]

It's now been canceled at EPA.

[A]

You told us to make it a priority. Now, this happened as soon as you came in after the election, before your inauguration. They were caught on video saying that they were rushing to get billions of dollars out the door before you're swearing in because they were afraid that once you were sworn in, you were going to stop it. Well, that part, they were right. So I didn't know that. I didn't know that they pulled that money back.

[B]

I may have known it.

[A]

I, you know, this is the problem. This is the problem. I didn't know there were 400 arrests. I didn't know any of this stuff. Why would I. Because they're not reporting. Why would you?

[B]

Because they're not going to tell you.

[A]

Well, if it wasn't Obama, they would.

[B]

It's not. If they tell you Are you going to vote Democrat? I don't think so.

[A]

Well, exactly.

[B]

This is.

[A]

But Fox News didn't tell me either.

[B]

No. Well, hello.

[A]

Okay. Just saying. So then we got Rubio, who had some funny things to say. Just two quick things I want to touch upon. One, you touched upon the border and security. Part of securing our border is dealing with the people that are in this country unlawfully, many of whom do not want to go back to the country that they originally came from for a variety of reasons. Now listen to this. Can't send them there or some judge ties us up. And one of the key things we have, have achieved is now 20 countries have signed third country national agreements, meaning these are safe countries where individuals who refuse to go back to their country of origin can be sent to that country instead. We've gotten 20 countries now around the world who have signed agreements that allow us to deport people to those places. What often happens when you go to the person who's here unlawfully and say, we're going to send you to this third country is all of a sudden they decide they'd rather go back to their home country. No, man, don't send me. Don't send me to Nigeria. No, no, I'll go back to Mexico. I promise. I promise I'll never do it again. And, and this is the one clip that I did see here and there

[B]

on the main, by the way. That was a stroke of genius to do that, pull that stuff.

[A]

That's a great idea.

[B]

Yeah. No, you can't go back to Costa Rica. Okay, we'll send you to, to Nairobi,

[A]

you know, Tanzania, whatever.

[B]

Yeah, no, Congo.

[A]

No, no, no, there's Ebola there. I don't want to go there. No, no, I'll go back to Mexico, I promise. And then this got a little bit of play in the mainstream. Rubio on Cuba.

[B]

Can I just ask you, Cuba and Venezuela, what's going on there?

[A]

Well, interesting. On Venezuela, that process continues, that three phase process, you know, of obviously stabilization, recovery and transition. I would just say just since January 3rd of this year. Okay. And I think this number's right. And Chris, Chris or Doug can, can correct me on this, but I think over 10 million barrels of Venezuelan oil have been delivered to the United States since the 3rd of January. That doesn't seem like a lot. 10 million barrels since January. Some of these Middle east countries pumping out 5 million a day.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So 10 million in, in what, six months? That doesn't seem like a lot to me. Maybe it's more than was coming out of there. But I was like, no, that's just. That's odd. That industry is being professionalized. For the first time ever, it's going to the benefit of the Venezuelan people. They are selling oil in the market at market rates. The money's going to an account in the United States controlled and monitored by treasury, audited by kpmg. I like that. Kpmg in the. In the. In the house people. And it's for the first time ever, the money's not being stolen. It's going to the benefit of the Venezuelan people. Cuba's in a lot of trouble because unfortunately for them, it's run by a bunch of incompetent communists. And being communist is bad. Being an incompetent communist is like the worst and. Okay, Marco. Okay, Marco. Good one. Lubio in there. The country's been taken over by this company called Gaisa that basically controls 70% of the economy. None of the money in that company goes to help the Cuban people. I didn't know this Geyser. Grupo DA Administration Empresarial, which is. Was set up by Raul Castro in 1955 and does indeed, according to reports, control up to 70% of the entire economy. Tourism, retail, finance, infrastructure like the ports.

[B]

Huh. I'm just going to give you. Just to interrupt you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Venezuela oil production. Yeah, it's around it. Currently. It's up to 893,000 barrels a day. But it's been as low as. As low as two barrels.

[A]

It's really.

[B]

You have to look at this chart. It was as high as like 3.5 million barrels a day back in 1970, and it dropped to as low as. She's just next to nothing in 2000. I mean, it's almost. The chart is just at the bottom. It's the number so low you can't even get it.

[A]

So it's up, though. That's the idea.

[B]

It's up a bit. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But they're not producing. They're not anywhere near capacity. I mean, it's like, ridiculous.

[A]

No, of course, I'm sure.

[B]

Which is what Trump's offering him. Let's get back to cranking this stuff out. And then you can make, you know, you can. This woman who runs the country will be rich. Is it, you know, without being corrupt. Yes, well, it was, you know.

[A]

All right, so then we go to Doug. Doug, Doug Burgum, he's of the interior, and he starts to confirm some things about Alaska that I've been looking at. The pipeline, the. What is it? The North Slope and so here he is on the, the oil, our own oil well. I would President Trump, under your leadership, we've opened up lease sales on public land. This is land that was put away for the benefit and the use of the American people, like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The Biden administration had illegally stopped holding lease sales during their administration. President Trump famously said, drill, baby, drill. But before you can drill, you've got to open public lands. Between the lease sales that have happened in the, the Permian, in the Bakken and on the North Slope, just in, just since January of this year, it's over $4 billion of revenues come into the Treasury. That's 13 times more than the Biden administration brought in on lease sales in the entire four years they're in office. Sir, your policies brought that in in five months. So with that, a lot of excitement, a lot of activity. Very exciting. We also inherited so very exciting. Very exciting. Oil. Oil. I actually checked that because I keep hearing about Alaska and he talks about how all these land leases and, you know, we know that in Alaska the oil money goes to the Alaskans.

[B]

And so that's a piece of it.

[A]

A piece, yes. But the same thing is starting to happen with these public lands and apparently there's a backlog of five or six thousand land leases for oil drilling. So I got to talk to the oil baron about it who did send me a note this morning and say said Your call on $60 oil is right. He said, and he sent me some long analysis, someone who said it's probably going to go down to 62 and it won't take much. It won't take much. So here's they're not, you know, supposedly Alaskan oil is going to China. I think it may be, but I don't think it's quite there yet. This is from cnbc. I want to ask you, Joe just had some headlines here before we came out of the commercial break, which is basically that China may have agreed to buy US Oil. What can you tell us about the China meetings and China's energy purchases from the United States? Yeah, I mean, 20 years ago we were the largest importer of oil and natural gas in the world. And today China is the largest importer of oil and natural gas in the world. So there's a natural energy trade there. We've sold them, you know, ethane for poly for petrochemical chemicals and oil on and off through the years. And I suspect we'll see a growth in their oil imports from the United States. So you think you Said suspect. But you think they will be a larger buyer? We know they're a huge buyer of US lng, or at least Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are. China as well. You think they'll be a bigger buyer of US Crude oil? I do. I do think they will. There's huge interest in Asian buyers from more oil out of Alaska as well.

[B]

You know, now our oil oil goes

[A]

out of the Gulf of Mexico. We'll see more of that going over to China. But in the not too distant future, we're going to see more oil coming out of Alaska. That's going to supply our neighbors and friends in Asia as well. Yeah, that's the pipeline from the North Slope down to the south. We'll see. And then in the Q and A, there wasn't, there were only two kind of interesting questions in the Q and A. This one slipped in. I'm like, oh, I see what's going to happen here. Are you expecting Congress to pass a federal gas tax holiday?

[B]

A gas tax holiday holiday? Well, it's something we might talk about. Let's see what happens over the next week, two weeks. A lot of good things are happening.

[A]

Gas tax holiday. Well, of course, of course you want to do a gas tax holiday right before the Fourth of July because that's what, that's the, that's the date. That's the date we had gas. He has to have an announcement. Do you know how much the federal taxes on on Gasolina?

[B]

No, how much?

[A]

You'd be surprised how little it is. Gas prices are rising again and President Trump is now floating a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax as a way to give drivers some relief. Let's go to Morgan Stevens with the Fact Check Team. So we got to talk numbers. Let's start with the federal gas tax. I believe it's just short of 20 cents per gallon, right? Yeah. The federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon for regular and 24.4 cents for diesel. Now, do you think that would make a lot of difference to people if it went down by basically 20 cents? If it went down by 20 cents,

[B]

I think there's some people who chew up a lot of gas, especially these truckers.

[A]

Yeah, well, that's even more on oil. So that may be part of what he's thinking of doing. Oh, yeah. And I don't think the president can do that. I think it has to be an act of Congress because it, it's a federal tax and that 18.4 cents has been there since the 90s. It's been there forever.

[B]

Yeah, I'm surprised they don't jack it up.

[A]

Well, in California, I think you have almost two dollars. No, I'm sorry, 70 cents. 70 cents of state tax. And I still don't understand how you get the seven bucks a gallon in California.

[B]

Well, our blend is very specific to California.

[A]

Bad blend. Yes.

[B]

Gas. It's a super. It's a blend that supposedly reduces smog and it's only can be made by a few refineries. And once those refineries get shut down by California and stupidity.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Trump talks about it, we won't have any gas at all. And then we can ride our bicycles.

[A]

And then the final question about the Abraham Accords, Iran. That just calls for further talks on uranium.

[B]

No.

[A]

The only option.

[B]

No. The basics.

[A]

No.

[B]

I would foo some of it, you

[A]

know, because it's a memorandum of understanding for speed.

[B]

One of the things that will happen is the strait will open immediately.

[A]

Immediately.

[B]

But it's got to be perfect.

[A]

I'm not going to do.

[B]

I didn't do this to get a crummy agreement. The worst agreement ever signed was by Barack Hussein Obama. What a horrible agreement that was. It was a setback for this country, for the whole world. The Middle east would have blown itself up. No. And we'd like to have the countries we were talking about with Saudi Arabia, uae, Qatar and the others, we'd like to have them immediately join the. And Steve Witkoff is working on that

[A]

with Jared and some others, but would

[B]

like to have them join the Abraham Accords.

[A]

It'll be historic if they do it.

[B]

And we would. I think they, I think they owe that to us, to be honest. I think. Because that really would be a tremendous sign and I think those countries owe it to us. Steve, are you going to get them to sign?

[A]

We're definitely pushing it, Mr. President.

[B]

I'm not sure, I'm not sure we should make the deal if they don't sign. You want to know the truth? If they don't sign to join the Abraham Accords, I don't know that we, you know, we have countries in there already, uae, Great, great countries, bold countries. And it's turned out to be so good, so effective. And so we, we're, you know, requesting

[A]

strongly that they, they join.

[B]

It'll be great. It'd be great for Saudi Arabia, be great for Qatar and Kuwait, the whole group.

[A]

He's pushing, he's pushing real hard for it. Who knows, who knows? Crazier things have happened. And I just listened to this, you know, it was Overall, it was very positive. You know, a lot of good news about manufacturing. And you know, Besant came in and he had nothing but great news to report, of course, and I believe 80% of it is true. But no one hears this. And so as humans, we love bad news and we love living in anger and we love living in sarcasm. And it's just, it's too bad because people get so wrapped up in it. And I'll give you a point there for you talking about the algos and regarding Massie's so called affair with Boebert, I think that people attract these algos and they just sit in that muck all day. It sucks. It's no good, it's horrible.

[B]

I've run into another interesting algo trick. I don't know what this is about, but I mentioned it to Mimi and she says, oh, I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't seen one of these videos, okay? Because I have. My algos are like, he'll talk about it on the show. Just put him on the algo. So there's a bunch of Russian chicks that keep cropping up and there's three of them in particular.

[A]

I would love to see your algo because of course you're getting Russian chicks after you got the nitwits who don't know how many planets there are or letters in the Alphabet. Your entire entire. Your brain is frying, my friend.

[B]

So the Russian chicks, there's a bunch of them. And there's also clips of Putin. I think that Putin one show up a little more on TikTok and is what a great guy Putin is. And look at his security people. And he hands signals and he does this and he does that and he's got. And there's just. And there's meaningless drivel about Putin about what a great guy is. The Russian chicks are all pretty and they're, they have funny stories about Russia and how depressing it is and how. But how great the Russian people are. And it. And there's one Russian girl that's teaching how to say cuss in Russian. You want to know how to cuss somebody out in Russian. And it's one thing after another. And I think that this is, I believe there's an intelligence agency behind these and they are promoting the idea that we're going to. And this backs you up, by the way. I don't know why you complain about it, but this backs your theory that it's Russia, China, United States and maybe India. It's forming A new nexus, because this is warming people up to Russia.

[A]

Yes. And you're right. Add India, lubio was just there for the week.

[B]

Right. He was there just coincidentally with his wife, but not coincidentally.

[A]

Nope.

[B]

And. But this, the Russian prop, the pro. It's oddly pro Russian. Even though they're cynical girls, they're all very pretty. One in particular is a beautiful girl, and she's telling us about, you know, how we should, you know, listen to the Russian women. It's just crazy stuff. And they're short and they're on Insta and they're on TikTok. And I've. And I've seen them, you know, they just kind of crop up. They also show up on Twitter, but not to an extreme. And it's just fascinating because I. You just see it as a. As an op. It's. It's a psyop, maybe.

[A]

But I think the Algos, you know, whatever you're looking. The Algos aren't all that smart. So. Yes, I think it's very easy for any agency to promote things and get people already interested in cute women. Could these Russian chicks, could they name all the planets? Probably. I'm just guessing.

[B]

Yeah. You know, they're not dummies.

[A]

Right. So you can see the difference. This is exactly what I'm talking about. People are living in this negative in America. Very much in America. It's, it's. I just see it everywhere. Sucks. Everything's faking gay Trump Epstein. That's all I hear all day long. But you don't hear any of the good stuff. And it probably doesn't even matter to them anymore. Hey, there's no more idiot illegals coming in. Oh, that's good. Hey, you know, we got a lot of people at work. Yeah, that's pretty good. Hey, we got a lot of. A lot more jobs coming. I talked to one of our kids here the other day, Parker. I meet with him from time to time. He's like, I'm thinking about becoming an H vac guy. I want to make 200 grand. Yeah. Where does he hear it on this show? Like that? Sounds pretty good to me.

[B]

Well, talking about. Since we're on the topic of good news, let's move to this story. NASA moon base, big story.

[A]

Yeah. Buggies and bases, everybody. They're back. Take a look at NASA's vision of a future moon base. Massive, potentially hundreds of square miles on the lunar surface, complete with astronaut living quarters, lunar rovers and power stations with

[B]

the ultimate goal of heading to Mars.

[A]

And we want to be in an environment where we can learn the skill so that astronauts can go and plant the stars and stripes on Mars someday.

[B]

Splashdown confirmed.

[A]

NASA's moon based plans come just six weeks after the Artemis 2 mission that sent astronauts around the moon for the first time in 50 years. NASA hopes to land Artemis 4 astronauts on the moon in 2028. Building a moon base will come in three phases starting this year, eventually using drones and rovers to scout the best landing sites near the South Pole. In 2029, they'll begin assembling the moon base, including solar and nuclear power Systems. Then in 2032, the first astronauts will begin living and working on the moon. Artemis astronauts will stay longer, explore farther and conduct the kinds of science that advances exploration itself. With China also aiming to build a lunar base, NASA plans to establish a perimeter around the American base. It's an ambitious time and NASA will need to learn and react fast and mitigate the risks, including from long term radiation exposure and micrometeorites that shower the moon. Now do you think that this still inspires young people, this whole moon business? Or is it more like hey man, get my gas down to three bucks?

[B]

Here's an interesting question you'd bring up. Let me contemplate. There's a series of NASA, NASA, NASA, yes, NASA clips.

[A]

NASA's gone farther than anyone else. Yes.

[B]

So it starts with NASA Moon Base, et cetera. One, this is an NBC report and there's just three parts and it talks about what, you know, they're trying to. Because Trump wants to defund or not defund, but to pull back on the NASA funding and give more of it to Musk.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And so this is. So now NBC is pushing back with these, with this presentation and NASA Administrator

[A]

Jared Isaacman joins us now. Mr. Administrator, thank you so very much for joining us tonight. Fascinating timeline on all of this. With the first part of Operation Moon Base, it seems like it's already in motion. And it also seems like the first things first is. Hold on a second. Could they not come up with a better operation name than Operation Moon Base? Is that really all they got? You know, Lame. Yeah, very lame. Mapping out and exploring the lay of the land in as much detail as possible with the, with the rovers and the drones. Right? What does that look like? Well, I'll tell you, we're off to a really great start, right? So Artemis 2, just a month and change ago, we got to watch those four amazing astronauts fly around the moon, bring them back safely home to Earth, re establish NASA back in the business, business of sending Astronauts to the lunar environment. Artemis 3 is going to start stacking this summer and then Geopoint in parallel. While we're getting our astronauts ready for that grand return, we're building the moon base. So today we had some credible announcements. First three missions that will go to the moon, uncrewed robotic ones later this summer. But we also announced two rovers on the lunar surface that have autonomous and crewed capability. But this is just the beginning. We're talking about a $20 billion investment over the next seven years to establish that enduring presence on the moon, realize its scientific and economic potential, and master the skills for where we go next. And where we go next is Mars. Oh please do tell me, what is the scientific and economic potential? What is it?

[B]

I have no idea. But I'll tell you this much. If they're going to spend $20 billion to put a moon base up, I think we spent 120 billion for a high speed rail in California that doesn't even have one inch of track laid.

[A]

Well, in that regard, maybe we should

[B]

take some of our money.

[A]

In that regard, I think you're right. The money is rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things. But I can predict what's going to happen. I could get on get your couchy bets.

[B]

I'm going to over predict. After you're done predicting, I'm going to meta predict.

[A]

My prediction is Artemis 3 probably, but Artemis 4, when they're actually going to send people to the moon. Blow up, up. It's going to blow up. It's going to be sad and it's going to blow up and it's going to, it's going to be death and it's going to be no good. That's my prediction. Your meta prediction.

[B]

They're not going to do jack.

[A]

What do you mean?

[B]

Nothing blows up. Nothing happens. Yak yak, yak. They're going to talk, talk, talk. Get a couple of robots up there and one of them will stop working. And then they wouldn't know what to quite do. This is just get put off. 20, 28. They're supposed to send the Artemis up with the people. No.

[A]

Oh, okay. All right. NASA too, if I understand this correctly. You know, extraction of helium 3 again, that is probably pretty far on the horizon. But we're talking about nuclear power.

[B]

That may not. Your question.

[A]

What? They're answering my question.

[B]

Your question was what do they get? What is, what are you talking about? What are they going to get out of? What are, what are we going to extract helium 3?

[A]

So what is, what is, what Is the cost of extracting helium 3 from the. What is helium 3?

[B]

I think it's used for, you know, balloons.

[A]

You got balloons?

[B]

It's not used for balloons. No, it has to do with nuclear power. Why don't you ask the Book of Knowledge to explain it?

[A]

Okay, I shall. Book of knowledge, what is the use of helium 3? All right, here we go. Book of Knowledge is scribbling away and looking for answers for us all. According to the Book of knowledge, Helium 3 serves four primary earthly purposes. Neutron detection for security screening, dilution, refrigerators for ultra low temperature physics, medical imaging, including lung MRI scans, and as potential fuel for future anutronic fusion reactors. Listen to this. Nearly 80% of current Helium 3 is used for security purposes worldwide. For security purposes? For scanning you at the airport. That. Oh, wow. I'm so happy we're doing that. NASA, if I understand this correctly, you know, extraction of helium 3, again, that is probably pretty far on the horizon. But we're talking about nuclear power that may not have any radioactive fallout. There's all kinds of things we could do with helium. Bull crap. Oh, all kinds of fusion. Yeah. What do you think sizable amounts of helium helium 3 would do to a space economy if we could? Space economy. All right, how about Earth economy? Extract it from the moon. So Helium 3 has applications for quantum computing and to your point, fusing power.

[B]

No, it doesn't.

[A]

Quantum computing, everybody efficient fuel source for it. What I will say is There is helium 3 here on Earth. We can manufacture it. In fact, a lot of the reactors up north are capable of doing it. But the question will be, will there be so much demand that helium 3 from the lunar surface. Oh, so much demand for quantum computing. Okay, good night. NASA actually sparks that lunar economy, or maybe economic. We don't know. We haven't been there in a really long time. And we're going back. We're putting a heck of a demand signal out there. I mean, there's going to be so many landers and rovers on the lunar surface. Certainly we're going to have our astronauts there infrequently at flight until you get to the point where it may be. Who is this the guy? Is this the.

[B]

Isn't this a NASA head guy? He's like a lunatic.

[A]

He is a lunatic.

[B]

I think they found him in an insane asylum.

[A]

An operational base, similar to how we keep a continuous presence in low Earth orbit on the International Space Station. So there may be a lunar economy, but what we do know is there is water ice there. And our astronauts will Work with it again to master those skills that are going to be imperative because in the not too distant, distant future, if we can put astronauts in the moon, we'll be able to put them on Mars. The hard part is how do you bring them back? And manufacturing propellant on the moon is a great place to figure it out when you're four or five days away from home and really get good at it before you send astronauts nine months a year away from home on Mars where they're going to have to be incredibly good at those skills. I'm against all of this. This is the worst idea ever. Who cares? Open the straits, give me $3 gas, then we can talk about moon stuff. It's going to be all the lunar economy. Okay, the price tag that you kicked around at the top of this, this conversation, still 20 billion, but obviously mass drivers excluded in that. But is that, is that realistic? Nuts? Oh, very realistic. Oh absolutely. I mean if you take a look at the, you know, the resources that President Trump has made available between the Working Family Tax Cut act, that's a $10 billion one time plus up in NASA, I mean the single biggest, you know, supplemental investment since the Kennedy era, a large portion of that going into exploration, which is putting American astronauts back on the moon to stay, which is the moon base. And then I think you take a Look at the 26 appropriations, the President's budget request. We absolutely have the resources, and not only that, to dial it up to get those landers on the moon, get the rovers there to learn in that unique environment. You're right. We're not getting people on the moon, we're getting waymos on the moon. Robots, robots. Okay, impress me to inform phase two and phase three to realize that enduring presence on the, on the moon and do all the other things. The international space stations, our astronauts, our expertise, all the other things. Our X plane portfolio, the orbital economy. What what we went from the lunar economy to all. That's our X. Our X plane portfolio, the orbital economy. The orbital economy.

[B]

Lot of agonimage going on. We got the space economy, the lunar economy, the orbital economy.

[A]

You know, lots of great missions of science and discovery like Roman and Dragonfly. The Roman and Dragonfly.

[B]

Oh, he's just throwing out words.

[A]

That's the SpaceX stuff. The public should rightfully have high expectations for what NASA can deliver with the very high expectations available. We intend to, to show them. Land a dude there. All right, show me that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And just to put things in perspective, I mean 20 billion for a lunar base here In California. We're still waiting for that link from LA to Francisco on that 100 billion. NASA Administrator Isaacman, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for that information. Thank you. I'm so incredibly happy. I'm so happy about this. That's great. That's just fantastic. I got to play an interregnum.

[B]

Another one?

[A]

Wow. No, we're interregnum full today.

[B]

Have you seen the show title in a regular?

[A]

Oh, no, I wrote it down. Have you seen the new Ferrari?

[B]

The electric one, the doofus looking one?

[A]

Yes. I mean, as a kid growing up, you know, you had your Matchbox cars, your Hot Wheels, you know, a Ferrari that was. It was like a thing you knew you'd never have, but it was cool. And you see one driving like, oh, it's a fry, you know, which version, which model Ferrari it was.

[B]

Oh, there it goes. Yeah, yeah. You know, and then there goes an Enzo.

[A]

An Enzo, exactly. Sitting in the middle. Look at that. The Enzo. And then this thing comes along. I mean, what a dog. And I got this report on it, which made so much sense once I heard about it. It is called the Luci. It is the first all electric Ferrari. And the numbers, well, at least they're impressive. 1035 horsepower from four electric motors. 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds, five seats and a starting price. Get ready for it. 680 and 40 thousand dollars. That's the starting price. But the design, well, as one analyst said, the market has spoken. Ferrari shares down about 4 1/2% on concerns that the Lucha will cheat in the brand and add significant costs that will be hard to recover. Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna telling CNBC that the Ferrari looks different because EVs are different. This guy's about to be out of a job. When you have a new technology, you need to make sure that that technology is properly represented in the design by making it look like a piece of crap. But the design must be different. It's different, like stupid. You have to respect the different needs, the different wishes of the clients.

[B]

So we will have clients already existing

[A]

client that will take it and some clients that are not client today, some people that will not client today, that will get in our community now, now, wait for. For it. This is what I was. I was expecting this part and it certainly is different. The Luce was designed with Johnny. I've designed.

[B]

You just got clip of the day for this one.

[A]

Oh, man. It was. I'm like, holy moly. They didn't do that, did they? Wow.

[B]

Good cat.

[A]

No wonder it's a piece of crap. And it's got. It's got.

[B]

Johnny Ives.

[A]

Yeah, I'm Johnny. I. I build the latest Ferrari.

[B]

I'm just like an iPhone.

[A]

It even uses the gorilla glass or whatever. It certainly is different. The Lucha was designed with Johnny.

[B]

I've.

[A]

He, of course, being the former Apple design chief. And much like the iPhone, the Luce's body is made partly from corning glass. Corning glass. What could possibly go wrong? And guys, a lot of people are concerned about that Ferrari engine sound that made Ferrari famous, where they're going to do it through an electronic amplification system

[B]

that takes the noise.

[A]

This is the dumbest of all dumb. The rear axle amplifies it outside as well as in the cabin. And Sarah, as you said, we're just gonna see how many people buy the new Luce. Luche. Yeah, I'm Jony. I've. I built the Luce.

[B]

I didn't know they were gonna put a phony baloney sound effect on it. What's the point? If you got an electric car, there's a. They're. One of the cool things about them is that they're so. They're super quiet or they make a nice hum. They make some, you know.

[A]

Yeah, they hum along.

[B]

I mean, they just do. What they do is there's electric, but then you make it sound like a gas engine from. Why.

[A]

Yeah, I know. There were more fun things this week. Our socialist mayor of New York met with the bankers.

[B]

Yeah, I saw that.

[A]

I thought that was kind of interesting. I have two clips here. Mayor Mamdani spent most of yesterday afternoon meeting with the folks who helped make New York City the financial capital of the world. To try to contain that backlash that you mentioned, Mamdani met with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at their new headquarters in Midtown Mamdani's office, sharing with Fox Business that the pair discussed, quote, how the public and private sectors can collapse, collaborate to deliver both excellent public goods and a thriving city where all New Yorkers can succeed. From JP Morgan's perspective, they said that the meeting was constructive and included the importance of, quote, keeping the city competitive.

[B]

But JP Morgan has been signaling with

[A]

hiring moves that they're more optimistic about other markets. The firm has reduced their headcount in New York and now has more employees in Texas than they do in the Big Apple. That's because we got it. We have a stock exchange opening up here in Texas, in Austin, actually. I think Mamdani also met with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon. Gracie Mansion. Neither the city nor Goldman Sachs has given Fox Business a readout of that meeting. These talks are the latest efforts by Mamdani to make nice with the business community as he continues to push initiatives like city run grocery stores and massive tax increases on second homes. Mamdani has also been meeting with other Wall street executives from bank of America and Blackstone, the world's largest commercial real estate owner. His office has also reached out to Citadel founder Ken Griffin, who Mamdani previously criticized publicly over his New York City penthouse with that second home tax. Citadel telling Fox Business that Griffin welcomes thoughtful, serious conversations about the policies that can grow the city's economy and create more opportunities for all New Yorkers. And that quote, reckless political theater serves no purpose. No meeting has been announced yet. And there was a readout. In fact, they had a quote from Jamie Dimon about this meeting later in the day. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warning progressive left leaders are driving wealth and business and taxpayers out with their tax. Tax the rich agenda and socialist economic schemes can't demonize success. The Wall street titan also sending a blunt message to New York's Mayor Mamdani saying he doesn't care what the socialist says, but he's watching what he does. They think that somehow being anti business is going to help a city. It's not. So we all want to pay fair taxes. That's not the point.

[B]

But at one point people voted their

[A]

feet and there are a lot of studies have shown that all these people, people moved out and they're obviously the tech, obviously New York booming. So you're not going to see in this year's taxes. But a lot of people are paying billions of taxes left. Why do you want that? How does that help the lower paid person in New York? Yeah, so it sounds like Jamie Dahmer was not so happy with that meeting. Like, and the guy's no good. And you know who's back on the scene. Talk about Algos. The one, the only Pastor Manning from ATLA Ministries is back.

[B]

Well, he's never gone anywhere.

[A]

No, but he's never had anything good enough. I mean he ran for mayor and it was kind of funny.

[B]

But he also turned on Trump.

[A]

Yeah, well, he turns on everybody.

[B]

Yeah, he turns on everybody.

[A]

But I have a clip here where he talks about Mamdani.

[B]

Well, he'd be good on this. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Not kid friendly, everybody. So I'll give you a second to.

[B]

Yeah. Put your hands around your children's ear.

[A]

Stick your feet. Are you okay?

[B]

I'm choking to death here.

[A]

Are you all right?

[B]

I was chewing on a lozenge.

[A]

Ah, the lozenge went down the wrong pipe.

[B]

Careful with that.

[A]

Almost. All right, here we go. A woman can't raise children. You can't raise children with tits.

[B]

You got to have balls.

[A]

You got to have a man. And for a man to not take responsibility. Responsibility to raise his children or to be executed. You have a responsibility before God. And we don't. We don't. We don't want to hear that. Women's rights. No, no. We got the sickest, poorest, economically deficient people on the planet. The other thing is this. Is that when that boy Mondami came out on the scene, this nigger is a Muslim. He is a jihadist, if you will. Insult Intifada if you must. Hamas supporting anti Jesus, Muslim. And niggas are talking about he got a good program. I don't give a damn how good his program is. He's a Muslim, and Jesus is Lord, and I'm voting for him and ain't tell nobody else to vote for. What the hell's wrong with you? I'm tired of the Democrat Party making bitches out of our women. Women and pussies out of our men. I'm tired of it.

[B]

I'm tired.

[A]

I've had enough of it. I've had enough of it. The man needs to stand up and be a man. The reverend never disappoints.

[B]

Yeah, I don't know. I think that was disappointing.

[A]

Yeah, it wasn't that disappointing. It was.

[B]

It wasn't that good. He used to be funnier.

[A]

Well, he did have some better.

[B]

Not just a Muslim rant. Anyone can do that.

[A]

Well, it was. He was tired of the Democrat Party.

[B]

Yeah, well, that part was okay, but he didn't have enough verve. I don't know.

[A]

More verve. Speaking of verve.

[B]

Well, before you go there, since you're talking about screwball clips, this is another one. I just want to get another one of my predictions out of the way.

[A]

All right?

[B]

It's not quite getting there yet, but it's going to happen. This is the drone show mishap clip, okay?

[A]

A major fail at a drone show over the harbor in Sydney, Australia. A thousand drones in the sky, almost 90 drones veering off course, dozens plunging into the water. No one was hurt. Officials say it was caused by a, quote, unforeseen change in radio frequency.

[B]

Am I predicting that somebody's gonna take over one of these drone shows with a radio control and attack the crowd? Can you imagine 100,000 drones coming at you as you're watching one of these displays.

[A]

Yeah, I can actually.

[B]

Of course you can't. You know, you hackers in the mentality. And somebody's going to do it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Local, local news. Texas. Local news. Texas news.

[B]

Oh, yeah, Paxton.

[A]

Yes, Paxton.

[B]

Your buddy Paxton.

[A]

And, but yeah, and yeah, you wanted to say.

[B]

And Cornyn.

[A]

Yeah. So, you know, the, the runoff is complete.

[B]

Cornyn got kicked out.

[A]

Yeah. Sorry. This is an Amy Goodman clip, a real quick one, though. And in Texas, the state's Attorney General, Ken Paxton, backed by President Trump, defeated four term incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary runoff Tuesday. Paxton has previously been indicted on charges of felony securities fraud and was impeached for from office on allegations of bribery, dereliction of duty, obstruction of justice, and abuse of public trust. Paxton is the first primary challenger to defeat an incumbent U.S. senator from Texas since at least 1980. The Republican candidate spent nearly $130 million, making it the most expensive Senate primary in U.S. history. Paxton now faces Democratic nominee, State Representative James Talarico in the general election in November. Now, this is the fight to watch. This is the interesting one. Talarico is an interesting person.

[B]

Yeah, he's a screwball, isn't he?

[A]

Yes. So he went to seminary school. So he's a pastor, he says. I don't know what kind of seminary school he went to because he's all about the LGBTQ and God is a woman. And he said a lot of.

[B]

Right, God's a woman. Trans are the future.

[A]

Yeah, precisely.

[B]

All this sort of Texas stuff.

[A]

So we're going. Yes, well, you know, the Austinites, the Houstonites, the Dallas Tonians, they love this guy. Oh, he's a Christian. Oh, well, he's a Christian. So, you know. And of course, Paxton is also a Christian. And here's the line of attack that Talarico will be using. Democratic Senate nominee and State Representative James Talarico, thank you so much and welcome back. Time. Okay, hold on a second. I, I, Maya culpa. He said God is non binary. I'm sorry. It's so much better than God is a woman. Democratic Senate nominee and State Representative James Talarico, thank you so much and welcome back to Ion Politics. So now we know you're going to

[B]

be facing Republican Ken Paxton in November.

[A]

You've wasted no time. You've come right out and called him

[B]

the most corrupt politician in the United States.

[A]

And I'm wondering, how convincing an argument

[B]

will this be for voters in this Republican state?

[A]

Well, I want us to step back and appreciate the gravity of what happened last night. The most corrupt politician in America just became the Republican nominee for the United States Senate right here in Texas. Three years ago today, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office, his position of public trust, to enrich himself and his donors at our expense. That kind of corruption is the rot at the core of this broken system. It's. It's why we can't afford anything. It's why we can't get ahead no matter how hard we work. For 50 years, Billionaire Mega donors and their puppet politicians like Ken Paxton have rigged this economy against us. They've rigged the political system against us. And I think in this election, you're going to see Texans coming together, Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, to defeat the most corrupt politician in America. And if we can do that in this race, in this year, in this state, then I think we can defeat this entire corrupt system. And that's when we can start to unrig the economy, start raising our pay, start cutting our taxes and lowering our costs. See, he fails at the end, though. He's like, we gotta get, you know, this guy corrupt. He's no good. Once we get that guy out, then all of a sudden we can lower taxes. How does that make any sense? Those two don't compete. Don't compute. I think it's going to be an interesting race to watch, I think. Talarico.

[B]

So. So I have a question for you. You're the Texan.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

I asked a question before about Cornyn, and now I'm asking this. Did anybody do due diligence on Paxton? Why did he get paid, picked, and knighted by Trump? Paxton sounds like a bad guy to push into this position.

[A]

I think this is about the. This is the Christian vote. As I said before, Paxton is in the faith office with Paula White and that whole crowd there. He's in the West Wing all the time. He's in Trump's face. He's got Trump's ear. Yes, sir, Mr. President. Yes, sir, Mr. President. Yes, yes, yes. The lobbyists love him because the guy is a player. That's why he'll do whatever Trump tells him to do. I don't think he's a great guy at all.

[B]

No, you've said this before.

[A]

Well, basically, yeah, he's a creep. And he's done, you know, dumb, nasty.

[B]

Well, I don't think he's a good candidate just listening to what you just played.

[A]

I don't think so either. And I don't think he was A very good Attorney General. In fact, I think was a bad Attorney General. I will say Chip Roy did not become Attorney General. I'm glad about that. I didn't like that guy either. I've seen that guy. I've met him several times. Swarmy. Another guy. No, I don't like Chip Roy.

[B]

Smarmy.

[A]

Yeah, smarmy, smarmy. Shawarmy, shawarma, whatever. Ever. Don't like him. I only have one more sequence here. I want to play two clips. This is to show you how dishonest. Surprise, surprise, Ms. Now is this is. Although I did like the term that was created here, but they brought in Joe Rogan and so I have to stick up for Joe. Donald Trump not helping his midterm chances either. With the Thug Fund we are seeing now bipartisan. I think Thug Fund is to going good. That's a good term. Well, I don't.

[B]

I don't. Well, why is it a good term? Because I don't like it.

[A]

It sticks. It sticks for the Democrats.

[B]

Yeah. Thug Fund.

[A]

Thug Fund. Yeah, I think. I think it works.

[B]

What does it refer to? I doesn't immediately come to what. The reason I don't like is because it doesn't bring anything to mind.

[A]

Okay, well, I thought it was good. We can disagree. Donald Trump not help. That's not. That's not what the clip is about. Donald Trump not helping his midterm chances either. With the Thug Fund we are seeing now bipartisan outra. If you tuned out of the news over the long weekend, it has only been building since a contentious meeting at the end of the week. Republicans are upset. And other Trump loyalists, including longtime MAGA Allied podcaster Joe Rogan, also speaking out.

[B]

Imagine like, what, he's MAGA Allied all of a sudden.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But then listen, listen. So it's about the Thug Fund. It's about the $1.776 billion.

[B]

Oh, it's about that money that's gonna go to the people that got screwed by the Jan A holes.

[A]

The J6ers. Yes, exactly. And then. And then he brings in Rogan, including longtime MAGA Allied podcaster Joe Rogan, also speaking out. That is so crazy. Imagine like somebody accused you of murder. Yeah. And it turns out you weren't guilty of that murder. And then you sue them and you go, you can never prosecute me for murder again. And then you just go straight Uday Hussein. Yeah. And they're like, it's cool. This is crazy. Rogan is not feeling it now. I heard that. I'm like, is he even talking about the same thing?

[B]

No, of course not. He's talking about the fact that they had clips in the last show which we didn't play about Trump not getting prosecuted for IRS offenses.

[A]

Right. But even if it was about that, the clip is disingenuous. I pulled the clip. Didn't Trump do a lot of, like, stock purchases? He's made a fortune. He's made a fortune. They made a settlement with the irs. I think that's why a lot of it came out recently. But, like, he can't be charged with anything or. Yeah, they can't be.

[B]

The.

[A]

The latest thing is that he and his kids and his company cannot be audited. Oh, that's cool. That is cool. That's my settlement. What was the settlement? What was the IRS being sued for? What was the accusation? It was for his. The leak. The leak of his tax returns. Okay, so the IRS leaked his tax returns. He. Yeah, he said they were reckless and. Yeah. Settlement of his $10 billion lawsuit, 2018 leak of his tax returns in the New York Times in the US Is forever barred and precluded from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization current tax filings, according to one page document released Tuesday. That is so crazy. Imagine, like, somebody accused you of murder, and it turns out you weren't guilty of that murder, and then you sue them and you go, you can never prosecute me for murder again. And then you just go straight Uday Hussein. Yeah, so that's. So he took a clip completely out of context. And then Joe and I think was Tom Segura. They actually stumble upon the little bit that is also not reported about this settlement, and they're like, it's of kind.

[B]

Cool.

[A]

Yeah, it's fine. Now, here's the only thing that the detail of that is part of that settlement that says that, like the language that they cannot be for their current tax filings. Does that mean, though, that in the future, future filings also fall under that immunity? Exactly. It's only about previous filings, but everyone makes it look like, oh, he can never be audited again in his life.

[B]

And, yeah, it's bull crap.

[A]

Yeah. Well, that's.

[B]

Yeah. Good work, media.

[A]

Well, good work. If you work for the Democrats or people who will just.

[B]

Yeah, that's basically. They've propagated a lie.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

You know, and it's the old.

[A]

You are.

[B]

I am what I say you are.

[A]

Precisely. Well, that's.

[B]

Okay. How about.

[A]

That's why we're here.

[B]

Something. Yeah, that's exactly right. If it wasn't for us, nobody would know anything.

[A]

Yeah. Breaking news. Yes.

[B]

How about. Let's go into the hu. Biden showing up on Candace Owens and the two of them windbagging.

[A]

Now, was this a new interview or was it an old interview? That was unclear to me.

[B]

It was unclear to me whether it's

[A]

Butler or Charlie or Butler.

[B]

Makes no sense. These things that. Well, it's definitely after Charlie, so it's gotta be fairly new.

[A]

Yeah, you're right. So glaringly not right. It's almost as if they're just saying, f you. F you. They're not even trying. We aren't even good psyops anymore. And that's why I keep saying. I'm like, it's so disrespectful, respectful, that we're not even getting good, good psyops anymore. Like, we're. We're supposed to believe he survived four. What do we have, four assassination attempts? The first president that's ever survived four assassination attempts. They quietly. They lie to us about things. They make a big deal, and then they make it want to, you know, it's going to go away. They're going to keep pretending and telling us that this is a totally normal grieving widow. Okay, no one's buying that. Like, something's just not right here. Everyone can see that this is not how you would react to your husband being shot. And this sort of just, I'm fine and I, like, two weeks later, I fully accept the narrative. I have no interest, interest in anything else. It's over. Let's. Let's close it. I forgive him. Let's move on.

[B]

You're.

[A]

You're asking us to abandon our common sense and our humanity is what you're asking us to do. And there, that kind of seems like where we're at. Like, they're insisting on this. And I'm going, where is this going to go? Because we're not doing the thing they want us to do. Like, they are just constantly giving us slop all the time. I mean, even the recent White House correspondence dinner, there was so much theater to it after so much theater. And now it's kind of of, okay, Secret Service maybe shot each other and we're just going to kind of quietly move on. But Trump needs a ballroom. Like, that's a normal reaction. Hey, there's a shooting duck. Hey, we better get that ballroom. By the way, it's going to cost a billion dollars now. And by the way, it's not from donors. And by the way, we're going to do it. Like, it's just, like, it's just the, the constant. They talk about gaslighting. It's been, this has been just this. And he. We're not even, are we even a

[B]

year into Trump's second term, We're a

[A]

little over a year, A little over a year in a second. And I don't think there's just been. Okay, so what I understand from this clip is they think that all of the assassination attempts are fake and that Erica Kirk killed her own husband.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

You got it. You nailed it. You pulled it right out of a hat.

[A]

Yeah. Even my wife says, I don't trust Erica. There's something up with her. There's something up with her. And you know, I don't go into, we have an agreement about that. It's like I'm just not, we're not going to argue about that. But yeah. All right. And you know, and, and Erica, she was grooming, grooming some girl, Greta. She's very suspicious.

[B]

I think that it's just a, I think there's a market for this kind of thinking.

[A]

No kidding. There's a great, there's a big market

[B]

and it's just feeding a market. And, and it's basically, I hate to say they're NPCs, but they're kind of non playing characters that are not important.

[A]

No, I disagree on the NPC part. I think you were right about the first part. There's a big market for this. See the algos I was talking about earlier and people like this, they like to think this way. It's a lot more fun. I did it for a long time. This is why people say. I got a great note the other day. I think your Texas boomerism and financial security has clouded your judgment.

[B]

Like, what does that even mean?

[A]

Well, one, I'm a boomer and I'm not. But okay, there you are. I'm boomer adjacent.

[B]

No, you're a boomer. You're millennial adjacent or X gen or whatever it is.

[A]

Yeah, I'm Gen X.

[B]

You're ex adjacent.

[A]

I'm X. I was literally the face of Generation X. But okay, three months. Three months of boomer territory. Call me a boomer, that's fine. But the funniest one is your financial security. What? I look at the road ahead and like, I'm going to be doing podcasting for a long, long time. Why do you think I'm podcasting when I go away for a weekend to worship Jesus? Why do you think I'm still podcasting on a Sunday? Why?

[B]

Yeah, and a holiday. We're always working holidays. We're killing ourselves just trying to. We're forced into this job.

[A]

Well, no. And we're not forced into it. But this is our lot.

[B]

Yeah, it's our lot. Same thing.

[A]

It's what it is.

[B]

You know, I believe our lot is being. We're forced into it. It's just the way I see things. It's our lot, but we're forced into our lot.

[A]

Well, I mean, hey, it's not a bad job, but financial security. No, no, that's a good job.

[B]

It's a good job. We get to ridicule things and make fun of people.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So I get this out of the way. Cars for Kids now banned in California.

[A]

You know, I had this clip, too, and you've been carrying it over for three weeks.

[B]

Yeah, I know.

[A]

We knew this.

[B]

We knew it years ago.

[A]

13 years ago. We knew that this was a Jewish organization in New Jersey. Brookly. That had nothing to do with Cars for Kids. We are back now with that infamous Cars for Kids commercial. The jingle that probably just got stuck in your head the second I said the name. But tonight, the music is stopping in California, where a judge has banned the ads. Steve Patterson explains why. That cars for kids jingle. An earworm that lives rent free in people's heads. Cars for Kids. A business model you don't understand and a jingle that will haunt you forever. 877 cars for kids. But if you live in California. A judge ruling that the charity has

[B]

30 days to pull the ads from

[A]

State Airways for violating false advertising laws. The lawsuit was filed by Bruce Pewterbault, who donated his Volvo after he says

[B]

that melody got to it.

[A]

K A R S Cars for Kids.

[B]

But he says he felt misled after learning where the money actually went.

[A]

According to testimony from the charity's coo,

[B]

much of it goes to a New

[A]

Jersey based Jewish organization which uses the

[B]

funds for summer camps, trips to Israel, even a matchmaking service.

[A]

He doesn't care that it's going to Jewish kids. He just wanted to know that because maybe he wanted to send it to poor, disadvantaged kids in California, which is

[B]

what he thought the ads were doing.

[A]

The judge finding that children, especially needy or underprivileged children, were not the exclusive

[B]

recipients of the donations.

[A]

The nonprofit calling the decision deeply flawed, saying it's well known that we are a Jewish organization and our website makes it abundantly clear, adding that they plan to appeal.

[B]

Steve Patterson, NBC News, Los Angeles.

[A]

So here's my life here's my life. You bring this clip. I'm praying that I hope we never have to do play this clip. I mean, I had the clip and I didn't play it.

[B]

Yeah, you're looking at the rock.

[A]

This, this. Yes, I see the clip. Every single time you're going, he's recycling the Cars for kids clip again. And then. Okay, so then you call for it, we play it. And what's the first thing I get? Wtf Curry playing the jingle on the show. Show. It's John's clip. It's not me, people. This is my life.

[B]

You know, I remember the best line is that I donated a car to the Cars for Kids and I never got a kid.

[A]

It's not funny, it's you. It's a horrible way to go into a donation segment. It's probably the worst thing you could ever do before a donation segment.

[B]

Well, I'll tell you one thing it does. It emphasizes something that we don't talk about much anymore but we've talked about in the past. Jingles work.

[A]

This is true.

[B]

We have a jingle expert that's a part of our crew basically is ancillary. He's no agenda adjacent. And jingles work. And we use them for that reason.

[A]

Yes, I guess so. Probably do this one then just to make sure people know the jingles work.

[B]

Lousiest jingle we have.

[A]

Not very catchy with that. I want to thank you for your courage in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in cars for kids. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one that only Mr. John C.

[B]

The morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. Also in the morning I should see boosting ground feeding the air subs, no water dames and nights out there in

[A]

the morning to the trolls for a second. Wow, 1385 low. That's very low. That's. You know what happened? She played that stupid clip.

[B]

No, that wasn't it.

[A]

Everybody ran away. I can't hear that jingle. It is the worst jingle actually. But they were work. They work. They work. We are broadcasting live. We do it every Sunday and Thursday. You can listen to us on the no agenda stream noagendastream.com and if you want to find out how many times we talked about that bogus organization or at least the bogus commercial for the organization, go to bingit IO noagenda.clipgenie.com and you can just search K A R S and you'll see we've been on this for a long time but somehow all of a sudden, sudden the Mainstream media, I guess they weren't. Were they not spending enough ad buy on the. Is that what it was?

[B]

Well, the Cars for Kids, I think it was done as a public service. I don't think there was any payment out.

[A]

No, but maybe that they wanted them to step it up a little bit because, you know, they were. They were buying a lot of airtime at one point.

[B]

I don't think they were buying any airtime. I thought Those are all PSAs.

[A]

Oh, that's a good point. I don't know.

[B]

Hmm.

[A]

How come we can't get a psa?

[B]

Because we don't have any. We.

[A]

No Agenda for Kids Protection.

[B]

We're not a charity.

[A]

Oh, that's right. And for good reason. Because then you can't talk about politics. According to the Johnson Amendment. You can listen to it. Now, here's a cool way to listen to us. Because, you know, people are busy. Lots of stuff going on in your life. However, there are these modern podcast outs. We are, after all, a podcast. You go to podcastapps.com, you get one of these podcast apps. And then the modern ones, they know when we're going live. All of these live shows and no Agenda stream when they're going live. They send out a special pod ping, and you get a notification in your app, just like any other notification. Hey, no Agenda's live. You tap on that. Listening to show live. Even better. Perhaps after we publish the show, within 90 seconds, we're updated on your app, unlike the legacy apps.

[B]

Yeah, that's the interesting part to me.

[A]

Yeah. Because some can take 15 minutes, a half hour, an hour. Now, there's this one app that a lot of people use, Overcast, which is not. Well, they. Marco is an interesting guy. He only makes apps for Apple and he hates me.

[B]

Why?

[A]

Because he is very. If you want to talk about woke, the guy is super woke. Woke. I mean, over the. Over the hill. Woke over the top.

[B]

Is he non binary?

[A]

He could be. I don't know, but probably he never liked the idea of. You know, when we started podcastindex.org we said, let me see. Actually, I should tell you exactly what we said. What did we put on the website? We put. We had a statement, the podcast. Here it is. The podcast index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcast ecosystem. And at one point, we had in there freedom of speech. I don't see that on there anymore. We had that, but the whole thing was started because podcasts were being deplatformed. That's why we started that's why Dave Jones and I started. Started it and. And he didn't like that. Oh, you freeze free speech, huh? Yeah, it wasn't.

[B]

You know, that's the freeze. The freeze peach people.

[A]

Yes. He's one of the.

[B]

That infected the no agenda social, which we both had to bail out from.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

I can't remember what would. What the big deal was. And they always used to use the term freeze speech peach.

[A]

So he always has to do things differently. So instead of. So one of the. We developed a couple of things with the. With podcast index and with podcasting 2.0, we developed the chapters and transcripts and there's 25 other ones. So we make transcripts of our show and we put that in the RSS feed and then the modern podcast apps pick that up. If you. If you don't have transcripts and you. And almost every podcast host now delivers transcripts along with, you know, your. Your files. Files. What Apple started doing is Apple started making transcripts for podcasts that didn't have transcripts, which is, you know, okay, that's Apple. They want to do that. The idea is if I have my own transcript, my own, then you should take my transcript. You shouldn't be using your transcript. Would you agree?

[B]

Right. Exactly. There's nothing but that makes nothing but sense.

[A]

So do you think that once Overcast Marco's app started to do transcripts, do you think that he would use our transcript script instead?

[B]

I'm guessing no.

[A]

No. And so here's how the transcript showed up for our previous show as the jingle played. The jingle being it's crack in the morning, how do you think that show now on? It shows up fine in our transcript. How does it show up in the overcast transcript script?

[B]

I'm sure it's very poor.

[A]

Craig Bond and Boss Kill.

[B]

What?

[A]

Yes, exactly. Craig. As in Craig.

[B]

You're Craig.

[A]

Craig Bond and Bond.

[B]

You're Craig Bond.

[A]

Yes. And you're Boss Kill B O S and Boss Kill B O S. K I L L. Yeah. Use our transcript, Marco.

[B]

He's not even listening to the show.

[A]

No, no doubt. Anyway, that's why you want a modern podcast app that doesn't. And we don't have ads. We don't have ads. I think Overcast. The Overcast app has ads. The ads. If you didn't let you pay for it. So you don't get ads if you don't pay for us. If you don't pay for us, then, you know, that's your own conscience. You have to deal with all we Ask for is value in exchange for the value we delivered. Now, if you got no value from it, fine. Why are you listening? If you did get value, then you should probably consider at some point sending that value back to the show. It's a very simple system. We've been living by it for over 18 years. Years. It's called value for value. Now, you can deliver that value to us in time. Talent or treasures. It's kind of, again, a very simple, simple idea. And value comes in many different ways. When it comes to time and talent, many people will organize meetups, also known as what are they? Teen. What is the. What is the. What is the teenager term? Teen takeover.

[B]

Teen takeover. No agenda takeover.

[A]

No agenda takeover. So you can do that. You can help us out with boots on the ground. Always very helpful. Boots on the ground. And man, lots of people sending kratom boots on the ground. Various, various types of feedback. Most of them saying, I've been chewing those leaves forever. I feel great. And some like, well, my mom is loopy, but she may be on the synthetic stuff. Okay. But it's all appreciated. We all. We take it all into account. Oh, one other boots on the ground. I got a boots on the ground back from our lobbyist about the flavored vapes and the. The CDC guy quitting.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And she tapped her network in D.C. and indeed, Trump forcing him to approve the flavored vapes was the reason he could quit. That was the last straw. Which seems like an odd hill to die on.

[B]

Yeah, I'd say it is an odd hill to die on. I think he wanted to quit anyway.

[A]

I think so, too. So we always want to have a nice piece of art representing the show for our album. Art. Another thing that we've been using for a long time, but pretty much from the. Almost the beginning of the show ever since the first art generator showed up. Sir Paul Couture doing that. Another great example of that actually was Couture.

[B]

No, it was Randy. And it was also another guy. Randy. I can't remember his last name. We lost him. He's overboard. He's dead.

[A]

Maybe he's dead. Randy's.

[B]

I can't remember. There was the original art generator, which is missing, and then it kind of just faded. And Paul Couture took over and did a whole new one and now is the king of the Art generator.

[A]

He is. He is the king.

[B]

But the original ones still has some pieces that. That are lost to time.

[A]

Oh, no. And then you remember Drop IO?

[B]

Do you remember Drop IO?

[A]

You remember? So I was Publishing show notes and art and everything on drop IO. And that was the big lesson about Silicon Valley. We woke up one morning and oh, we've shut it down. We've sold to. I think it was maybe Facebook.

[B]

All of a sudden you can't use it.

[A]

All of our content was gone. Gone. I learned that's when we started hosting things ourselves. And lots of producers have stepped up for that. Anyway, the artwork we wanted something very traditional. We typically do that on days of importance like Memorial Day. Blue Acorn understood it perfectly and did this dynamite piece with just an eagle with his feathers all like. Just very energetic piece like yeah, don't mess with Merica Memorial Day. It was a beautiful piece, Blue Acorn. And we unanimously decided that's the one we want. Now a lot of people took this to a very strange level because hey, I can prompt. Why not? And you know, it's not appropriate to have thank the fallen for their courage. No. Ryan M. Scott. No. That was odd. Very strange. We had Memorial Day alien combination. No, we're looking for Mother's Day, Christmas, Easter, Veterans Day, Memorial Day. You know, we're looking for something traditional and we got it from Blue Acorn. We also learned that I think it. Didn't we get an email from nessworks. The previous art that we selected was.

[B]

Nessworks sent an elaborate email explaining how. How he uses Photoshop.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Which we suspected.

[A]

Yes, that was the flamingo with the drones. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. And how he did it.

[A]

And so it was Photoshop. It's good. We love seeing. And we just chose it because it was a good piece. That proves that doesn't all have to be slopped to get chosen. Noagendaartgenerator.com that is how you support us with your photographic and prompting talent. And we appreciate that. We also thank all of our. Of course they're all producers. Every single one of you. $50 and above. We will thank everybody not under $50 for reasons of anonymity. And we have a special kudos for people who are able to Support us with $200 or more. Not only will we guaranteed read your note but we also give you an official Hollywood title which is the real deal. You can go to IMDb.com you see thousands of no agenda producers in there. So some of them are actual Hollywood big name producers. You get an associate executive producer credit, $300 or more, an executive producer credit. And while they last, we have the Red Knight Order of the Heart still available. We only made 50 of them available. This is in honor of John still living and still being with us, which we're very happy about. Not only will you get your night ring if you don't have one already, but you will get a very handsome red knight pin. And you will be admired by many at your teen takeover no Agenda meetup. And we start with $1,002 from Sir Switcheroo, Black Baron of the i4 Corridor Commodore. And he's in Orlando, Florida and very much appreciated. He says itm John and Adam, this order of the heart contributions signifies my love for you guys. No homo. John, you have become too agreeable. This is understandable given what just happened to you.

[B]

I'm getting a lot of this feedback from people. I'm apparently becoming too agreeable. And I'm being pushed around by you specifically.

[A]

Well, who else should push back? Who else would push you around?

[B]

You're like becoming a bully. An egregious bully.

[A]

Mm.

[B]

And I'm supposed to. And I've taken too much of it. I'm putting up with too much of your. Of your mean spirited bullying. Well, I wish I could come up with that with a synonym for bully, but I can't.

[A]

Let's read the note and see what he actually says because your explanation seems a little over the top. John, you have become too agreeable. This is understandable given what just happened to you. And I'm not talking about your heart surgery. Ah. You can't hide behind that. You experience an immense outpouring of love after your absence. This is a well deserved blessing that must have moved you. However, for the sake of the show, please lean into your buzzkill vibe to keep Adam sharp and the show spicy. Adam, try to be nicer to John. You guys are the best. No jingles. No. Well, you know, I can't. John annoys me often. So. What? What?

[B]

No, it's not true.

[A]

You are not in my head.

[B]

I'm just saying I've taken a note at face value.

[A]

So try to be. I will try to be nice. Nicer. I guess an example of that would be me complaining about you bringing dumb women clips onto the show.

[B]

That is I love the dumb women.

[A]

Was I not nice? I mean, I'm just trying to keep people listening to the show is what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to help the show.

[B]

And we should mention something as an aside. I don't want to change the subject, but I should have been brought up earlier in the show. We now have an official no Agenda podcast Insta account. Account Insta no Agenda podcast. It's Adam and John Are the. The pro. Are the proprietors?

[A]

I'm not.

[B]

We want. We need a thousand. A couple thousand people to subscribe to this thing. So it's a no Agenda podcast. All one word Instagram.

[A]

So I'm. I've been kicked off Instagram.

[B]

What?

[A]

Yeah, my account, which I only use to check in on my daughter and, you know, like, post a picture on her birthday. Adam C. 1999. I was told when I went to log in, though, you need to log in from a device that has had the app used with Instagram before. Well, I've never used the Instagram app. App. So. Okay, I installed the Instagram app login. It says, no, no, but.

[B]

And.

[A]

And it. I mean, it'll send an email to my email address and say. Yeah, you can't reset your password or even log in until you prove that you are Adam by logging in in the app on a device that has been used for Instagram before. So I. I'm in a hole. I can't get out. I can't get in. I can't even see our own Instagram account.

[B]

Well, you're there. I. I just searched you. Adam's.

[A]

But I can't log into my account. So whenever someone sends me an Instagram link, I can click on it. It says, install the app or continue on the web. I continue on the web, and then seven times out of 10, I can see it. And then it says, log in. I'm stuck. I cannot get into my Instagram.

[B]

Well, I'm looking at your posts. Yeah, I think this is a benefit to society.

[A]

And I'm supposed to be nice to you.

[B]

I'm just saying I don't post.

[A]

What is the last.

[B]

Tons of posts on here.

[A]

What's the last post I made?

[B]

You got a picture of Christina.

[A]

Yes, exactly what I just said. Happy birthday.

[B]

Well, there's one. And there's a picture of you, and there's a picture of a horse, and then there's a. You don't post that much.

[A]

No, I don't ever. I just said that. See, here you go. Annoying.

[B]

Well, I did. Now, so what difference does it make whether you post a lot or not?

[A]

I can't even see the no Agenda podcast. Instagram. You just said we're the proprietors of it. I'm not. I'm not. I can't even get on Instagram.

[B]

I'll give you a password for. You can do the no Agenda podcast.

[A]

I want my own account back so I can promote the no Agenda podcast account.

[B]

I don't understand why you can't. This doesn't make any sense. It's never happened to anybody. Can somebody help him?

[A]

It happens to lots of people. These things happen all the time. People get locked out of Google. It happens all the time. This is the Silicon Valley model. We don't.

[B]

I got locked out of Twitter the other day.

[A]

Yeah, well, you bet. You got back.

[B]

And then it put me on some old account I started as a joke and then I couldn't get out of it because you can't log out, sir.

[A]

Switcheroo. Black baron of the I4 corridor commodore in Orlando. Thank you very much. You will be a Red Knight today. We appreciate it.

[B]

Dame Cece in Greensboro, Georgia, 51974. A belated birthday donation for my beloved brother Knight of the Cross Threaded wheel stud from Dame CeCe.

[A]

Very nice. Ian Cummings is in Kingsville, Texas. $450. We appreciate this is a lot of value you're sending back than. Thank you so much. He says this is a donation towards my father Timothy's knighthood as he undergoes intensive chemo for Richter's transformation. Lymphoma. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't sound good.

[B]

Doesn't sound good.

[A]

He is 75 and has been hit in remission for leukemia for years before this bout of cancer hit him. I plan to get him knighted before he passes, but hopefully he lives longer. I think we should give him an F. Cancer is what I'm going to do.

[B]

Definitely.

[A]

You've got karma that sucks.

[B]

Louis Ruiz in Portage, Indiana. How is this. How come the reverse. How come the Texas and US are reversed on. On these guys?

[A]

It's the same thing.

[B]

Same thing with come.

[A]

What are you talking about?

[B]

Well, normally they. The second thing is usually the country. Like Dame Cece. Greensboro, Georgia, U.S. they're all the same. No, I got Kingsville, U.S. texas.

[A]

Oh, I have Kingsville, Texas, U.S. really?

[B]

I wonder why mine is backwards.

[A]

I'm trying to be nice to you so I'll say, well, that's true.

[B]

You can be nice to help.

[A]

I wonder. How Is it possible?

[B]

343.75 ITM John and Adam, thank you for the show. I look forward to it every Sunday and Thursday. It helps make me. It helps make the miles go by faster. Ah, guy in a car. No, I sent John a picture.

[A]

Guy in a truck.

[B]

Truck. I said John, a picture that should have gone with my first donation. Can I get a Love My Truck jingle, please? Four more years.

[A]

Do you have the I love my truck thing? No, I do.

[B]

I love my truck. And I love what I do.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

Excellent.

[A]

I was ready for it. Jorge Hernandez, Lake Stevens, Washington is up next. 33333. This donation goes to my bride to be in future, Dame Savannah. She was born at 1:33pm in Brownwood, Texas. I believe since she has entered my life, I've been blessed with all the 33s life has to offer. Let's have a kick ass wedding Rat. That's her nickname this Saturday. No joke. Joke is. Is he proposing or he don't get it either. Please pray for excellent weather to ease my future mother in law's worries. Jingles Karma for the both of us and Joe Biden's. I'm gonna give you the whole load today. Thank you very much, says Jorge.

[B]

I'm gonna give you the whole load today.

[A]

All right. It'll be good. You've got karma. Praying for good weather, my friend. Praying for good weather for you.

[B]

Dennis k. Cadle in Tampa. 333.33 ITM John and Adam, we're happy to continue to support the best podcast in the universe. And a big thank you to all the listeners who have given manukagold.com a try over the past month. You've made the pain relief gel our new best selling and most reordered product.

[A]

Product.

[B]

That's Adam. Who did that.

[A]

Well, yeah, I have another testimonial but finish this first.

[B]

Exclusive only for no agenda listeners. Don't forget to enter the code Adam20 for Adam20 for 20% off your purchase. Thank you. Dennis Cadle in Tampa, Florida sent from my iPhone.

[A]

I want my code to be 1 Adam 12. That should be my new code. So we were coming back from Nashville and have you ever had this on the plane? Plane where all of a sudden you just get this neck pain on one side that goes from the top of your head almost down your neck down to your shoulder. And no matter what you do, you can't fix it. You stretch, you move, you try to reposition. Have you ever had that?

[B]

I probably, but I don't. I can't recall. Not in a plane.

[A]

I was miserable. We're in the car, we had to drive back from Austin and so I was just miserable. I come home like I'm getting and I put the Manuka gold relief gel on it. I, I don't know what this, it doesn't work the same way for Tina. It worked a little bit for her, but man, I tell you, within five minutes that was gone. I don't know what this stuff is. Well, I do. It's honey but is. I'm. I'm starting that and the burn cream are now in my kit forever. I'm never leaving home without it. We need a smaller vessel. A smaller thing I can, you know, can take with us. The container is too big. I'm doing product development here.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Thank you, Dennis. Lisa Perez, St. Gabriel, Louisiana 25794. Our first associate executive producer. I love your show. Thanks for calling it leg. It is. My husband who's already a night are physicians and love hearing your medical interpretations. I don't know if that's a good thing. We are available to help anytime by the way. Well, the way this works is you just send an email to AdamCurry.com no one can spell Dvorak anyway. And when we mess up, let me know. Or if you think there's something that you can add to it. We love that type of value as well. Thank you.

[B]

Yeah. Austin, your favorite. Cool guy. Sorry. I found my bio from the screen. I thought it said foot. Roseville, California. 250 pool guys. the end it says stay chlorinated. I just found that funny. Good morning gentlemen. Or good morrow. Thank you for your courage and all you do to help everyone's sanity. John, glad you're well. And if I don't take care of myself, I'll end up in the same boat. My grandpa had a five way bypass. That's the big big one. Letterman had five way.

[A]

That's a biggie.

[B]

My letterman had five way and he was back to work in. In.

[A]

Yes, you've. You've mentioned this several times.

[B]

Yeah, I know, it's. It's galling.

[A]

And you're still living with your kid.

[B]

It's because they're re doing that. The house is being remodeled.

[A]

Are you getting one of those chairs that you sit in to take you up the stairs?

[B]

Oh yeah, sure.

[A]

Those are cool.

[B]

I can jog up the stairs now. It's not a big deal.

[A]

Okay, then you can do help with the remodeling.

[B]

Oh please. My Grandpa had a five way bypass. My dad had a three way bypass at 45. That's. See the difference is.

[A]

That's nothing.

[B]

The main difference is that I'm on Medicare.

[A]

Yeah. How much did you ever get the bill for that thing?

[B]

Yeah, we'll talk about the bill in the future. Future.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So I'm probably. Because I have more anecdotes. So I'm probably looking at a one way bypass in my future. Not necessarily magnesium, my friend, magnesium. My dad jokes around and calls the scar on the chest our family crests called a zipper scar. Shout out to my beautiful and talented daughter Marley. Today is her high school graduation. So crazy. So crazy being a dad. But I wouldn't change it for anything. Kids really do change your life.

[A]

Baby.

[B]

Makes making karma for all the younger no agenda listeners. We need more children.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

None for me though. The wife has a bun in the oven due in August and I'm praying it's a sun because there's no. There's way too much estrogen in my house. Even the dog is a girl.

[A]

Oh no.

[B]

I need someone to relate to. Thank you guys again. Stay chlorinated, Austin, your favorite pool guy.

[A]

You've got. Karma. Alright. Thank you Austin. Sir Dixpert. Parts unknown apparently. 24568 My truck hit 33333miles on the way to the cabin over Memorial Day weekend. I didn't need a sign more obvious than that. 233 plus 33 and the fees. That's busin. No jingles, no karma. Thank you for your courage, sir Dixburg. Thank you sir Dixburg. Appreciate that.

[B]

Bussin Busing Eli the coffee guy in Bensonville, Illinois. 205:28 JCD thanks for the tip of the day. Picked up some body. Okay, I got to mention the tip of the day which was the body and I want to tell the people over at the Dogenda Fun and I'm going to mention this again at tip of the day moment because a lot of people won't listen to this segment. It's the body. No added salt version. Not the regular body. Oh yeah, I got note after note I've got to look at. This thing is filled with salt. What are you trying to kill me? It's the. It's the no added salt body noted. Please make changes as necessary. Picked up some body. And by the way, the other stuff is good too, but if you don't care, I grilled up some pork chops over Memorial Day. You may be off the salt, but happy to hear you're back on the coffee care pack. Yes, I have a cup of coffee now and again. Care package are on the way, gentlemen. For everyone else out in gitmo Nation, visit gigawatt coffee roasters.com and use the code ITM20 for 20% off your order. Stay caffeinated says Eli the coffee guy.

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And coming in hot with $200 as she always does. She's in Castle Rock, Colorado. Her name is Linda Lupatkin and she wants jobs Karma because She says your Resume has about 10 seconds to make an impression and most don't. For a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakers Inc.com Linda helps professionals and executives turn their experience into a clear story of leadership, results and impact packed. That's Image Makers Inc. With a K. And Linda Lu, duchess of jobs and writer of winning resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. As always, I want to thank these executive and associate executive producers for their very valuable contributions to the no Agenda show. As always, these are Hollywood credits that are that work anywhere. Hollywood credit credits are recognized and that's a lot of places, including imd, oops, including IMDb.com and for that very reason we say thank you for your courage. Execs and associates formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Shut up, Blade. Shut up. And now for the rest of our producers. $50 and above, never under 50 for reasons of anonymity. And Anonymous actually comes in with $199.99, just shy of the associate executive producership for reasons unknown. From Monroe township in New Jersey. MK Ultra Mark is in Parlin, New Jersey with 133.30. Thank you, Sir Roland Lincoln, Nebraska with 133. 12345. From Dame Monica in Greenville, Indiana. And she needs house selling Karma. We'll give that to you at the end. Douglas Murray, Missoula, MT. 101.01. Probably a couple minutes late for show. They would squeeze me and know you're in no problem. Dame Pompeu from Los Angeles. 100. And there's Kevin McLaughlin with his boob donation. $80.08. 80.08 in Concord, North Carolina. He is the Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs. And as always, he says God bless America and melons. 7227. Nice palindrome from Dame Dana in Laughlin, Nevada. John Alberini, $70.26. Dame Rita, she's always there. Sparks, Nevada, $68.33. And she says cheers to the best podcast in the universe. Dame Tracy and Sir Canebrake in St. George, Louisiana. Double nickels on the dime, $55.10. Surprise of Astonishment is in Yukon, Oklahoma. 54. Now we have Nathan Gwynn in Jackson, Tennessee. 5272. Foster Birch, New York, New York. 5272. Brad McDonald, our first of the 50s. He's in Mason, Ohio. Richard Gardner at $50. Aaron Weis, Gerber Bend, Oregon. 50. Katrin Fontao in Rotterdam, 50. Thank you. And Bobby Bo in Bluegrass, Iowa. $50. Thank you all very much for your support of the no Agenda show. We will not go below 50. But we. But we see you 49. 99s. We see you 33. 33s. We see you 12. 12s. We see you 11. 11s. There's even. What is the lowest number we have on the spreadsheet? Fours. We got fours. We got a couple people with $1. And you know what? Every single penny counts. Every single one is appreciated. Thank you all very much for supporting us. No agenda donations.com for those who needed the karma. Here it is. You've got karma. Noagendadonations.com now, before I continue, we have a make good note for Sir Vincent James. I think he had a red heart donation. Am I correct?

[B]

Maybe.

[A]

I think so. Celebration of John, my father had. Yeah. So this is a make good. My father had the surgery and lived a vibrant life afterwards. Sounds like he's not with us anymore. I'm sure John will be renewed with strength and his famous fighting spirit soon. Well, apparently he's gone. He's gone weak.

[B]

I've gone soft also.

[A]

I'm wishing both of you and all of Gitmo Nation a very happy Memorial Day week as we move forward to celebrate our 250th year of the Declaration of Independence. I pray the celebration reignites our patriotism that is badly needed for our country. Yes. Go and see young Washington. That'll get your spark going. This donation moves me to the level of Earl. I would like to be known as Sir Vincent, Earl of the Rocket City, Protector of the gcc. That's the Gulf coast countries, I think it should be. Take care and God bless Sir Vincent. Okay, we've got that noted. Title change is on deck. And I also would like to give a shout out to Noah. They have this, you know, they've had. They're very busy. They're trying to keep their heads above water. The no Agenda Shop has been with us for a long, long time. And they have the no Agenda Shop sticker club. And I received. They put me on the sticker club. I received the stickers. They're really cool. And we've been a big proponent of stickers. I don't think toll booths work anymore because now we have the E Z Pass. And so you just kind of blow through them.

[B]

There's still a few toll booths here and there.

[A]

Yeah. But you can can put these stickers.

[B]

I know you can't put them on cop cars.

[A]

All kinds of great places. Put them on your laptop. People love this.

[B]

I advise against putting them on cop cars.

[A]

Yeah, it's not a good idea. What am I thinking? But thank you very much. No agendashop noagendashop.com and thank you all for supporting no Agenda. Noagendadonations.com that is where you can go to support us anytime, any amount, whatever you feel like. Whatever is value to you is value to us. Noagendadonations.com you can even set up a recurring donation. And again, any amount, any frequency. Noagendadonations.com. For the past couple of weeks, we've had almost no birthdays. It's the oddest thing. Remember to send A note to notesoagendashow.net if you want to be on the birthday list. And Dame Cece wishes her beloved, beloved brother Knight of the Cross Threaded Wheel Stud a very happy birthday. And that's the only one we have on the list. So we say Happy Birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the universe. Yes, indeed, that is the title change we just discussed. Sir Vincent McCarthy now become Sir Vincent Earl of the Rocket City, Protector of the gcc. Now, it says Gulf Coast Counties, but I don't know if that should be counties or countries, but it says counties twice, so I'm going to take that as what it is. Otherwise we'll do another make good. No problem. Congratulations, thanks to your additional $1,000 in aggregate of supporting the no Agenda show, which is the best podcast in the universe of the Heart. Pure of purpose, right from the start, in the morning, Brave and smart. The Order of the Heart. Very limited quantities, but we are very proud and glad to welcome Sir Switcheroo as a Red Knight in the Order of the Heart. Sir Switcheroo, of course, is the Black baron of the i4 corridor and he is a Commodore and now also a Red Knight. Congratulations to you, sir. Behold the Order of the Heart, Pure of purpose right from the start. In the morning, Brave and smart. The Order of the Heart. No Agenda. That's right, don't go to the Teen Takeover. Instead, go do a no Agenda meetup. It's much safer, you won't get arrested. And it's a lot of fun because you meet people and children from other lands, from all over. You have one thing in common. The best podcast in the universe. Knights, Dames, Earls, Viscounts, Barons. You'll see them all there and just plain old douchebags. They show up as well and welcome them with open arms. Noah Jones no AgendaMeetups.com is where you can find all of them listed and here is a meetup report we've been waiting for this one from the Squim Washington Too Many Eggs meetup. Hey everybody this is welcome you to the no Agenda meetup in Squim. The madness here. Just want to pass the phone around which everyone a great day.

[B]

Here we go.

[A]

Hey this is Miguel at Madfarmer Life and and I am the Duke of Douchebaggery. Good to be here bro. I can't find John still.

[B]

Hello everybody, this is Chris from the Madness in Squim report. I I'm waiting for my too many

[A]

eggs.com book to be signed by Mimi. Total chaos here giving out a 15% discount on heat pumps.

[B]

There's no better way to show you

[A]

love the planet than buying a Douglas heat pump from Tuttle Electric in the morning. Dame Laura of the Golden Mean just want to give a shout out to Leo Bravo and the flight of the no Agenda gang down in Los Angeles. See, I really am from Washington. Hi, this is Sarah. Do it for your big mama. Do it for your Pop Pop.

[B]

This is max power.

[A]

WTC 7 won't go away. Hey this is Dame Jen from Idaho hanging out here in South Squim enjoying the local community and getting to know everybody. It's awesome. Todd wanting to hear more of Mimi on the no Agenda.

[B]

I think that's it.

[A]

And wrap it up for the day. Glad everyone was here, it was a good turnout. Appreciate everyone.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Now this, this was a fun meetup report. They sent me an IKEA package in essence of four different recordings and there was an opening and I had to, I mean I spent priority probably 1112 minutes editing all that together but it was worth it. I tell you it was nice to hear Mimi in there who still can't find you. Apparently this is just one of the many meetups there is one taking place this Saturday. The tiny amygdala of Anchorage unite actually to celebrate summer at 2 o'. Clock. That'll be Alaska time at the Campbell park airstrip trailhead in Anchorage. Looking there's a lot of people in Anchorage and a lot of people in that area. Looking forward to a meetup report from your no agenda meetup in the month of June which is coming up the fourth. Raleigh, North Carolina. The sixth is the big one in Ukraine. Bila Tcherska, Kiev Oblast Boise, Idaho on the 13th Franklin, Tennessee on the 13th Indianapolis, Indiana on the 14th Charlotte, North Carolina on the 18th Rotterdam on the 26th. And then we're already into July, August I see September October. Things are being planned ahead, people. You should plan accordingly. Go to noagendameetups.com find one that is near you. And you know what's cool? If you can't find one, there's no fee, there's no TedX. You don't have to go through a committee. You just put it in like, hey, we're going to be at this bar. We're going to hang out and it'll be announced here on the show. And if you send in a meetup report, I'd be happy to play it. We play almost every single one of them. Go to no agendameetups.com always easy and always a party. You wanna be where you won't be triggered on Hell's Lame. You wanna be where everybody feels the same.

[B]

It's like a party.

[A]

Still to come, John's tip of the day. They've been good lately. See, I'm being nice. They've been very. I've been so good. Your tips are there. Just so fantastic. You're the best. Is it working?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Okay, keep it up. Also, end of show mixes. We got some dynamite ones today, including the entire President Trump reflecting pool now in song. Interestingly, before that though, we have a couple of ISOs. I brought two today. John has two. It's an ISO off. This is what we play at the very end of the show. I will go first. This is incredible. Okay, I'll play my second one. This is so good.

[B]

Good.

[A]

Okay. That's what I have.

[B]

Okay. Well, I went with celebrities again.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

All right, let's start with Jordan Peterson.

[A]

Young men should get their act together and all listen to the no Agenda podcast. A little long, but sounds very, very close. Very close.

[B]

It's close. It's not great.

[A]

Not great.

[B]

And then we have. I think this is Morgan Freeman.

[A]

I just love these two guys and this podcast. They don't. He doesn't say no Agenda. Could have been any podcast. This will be stolen by other podcasters and be like, hey, look at Morgan Freeman said about our podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really good. Just love these two guys and this podcast. And there's a. Some kind of weird edit in there. No, I think Peterson.

[B]

No, no, that's. That was him. Him. That was part of the. Well, it's no good.

[A]

It's no good. We're gonna use Peterson. Peterson is good. I like Peterson. He's long, but it's good. We'll use him. But we will use him after we do John C. Dvorak's tip. Of the day. Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCD and sometimes Adam.

[B]

Okay, first of all, for the people that are documenting these tips, the last tip was, was not, it was not mentioned that the body that I'm talking about has no, there's no added salt. It's a special version.

[A]

You just said that.

[B]

I know. I'm repeating it because people don't listen to the donation segment.

[A]

Oh. They just tune in for the tip of the day.

[B]

They don't listen to this either. But it's beside the point. I'm making it clear and so sorry. Please make that correct. There's another correction involving that tip is that doesn't cut. You can't get it in a big, giant bottle. It's only a small pack.

[A]

Tiny pack. Tiny pack. All right. No, that's good. It's that I'm excited. I have ordered. I'm excited to try it.

[B]

It's a correction. Okay, so today's tip of the day is now I'm looking at these. I'm thinking what we paid is too much. But I'm not sure what the, what the cost was on these because there's a million different versions of the, of this product and any. And you're going to have to try different ones to see which ones you like. But I'm telling you, the best snack I've run into in the last decade. Freeze dried blueberries. Huh. These things are unbelievable. They taste like they have the quality of Corn pops. So they're just crunchier than. They're just crunchy. And you can, you just can't eat enough of them. In fact, the bag that I got from Trader Joe's and you can get these at Trader Joe's and they're. Trader Joe's is in 43 of the 52 states. So you can go get them there.

[A]

You can cross the state line to get them, son.

[B]

And so Trader Joe's has them. But they also, if you go to Amazon, there's about 30 vendors of these things and there's all different kinds of freeze dried food.

[A]

What is the sugar? What is the sugar content per serving?

[B]

It's pretty low.

[A]

Really.

[B]

Blueberries don't have a lot of sugar anyway.

[A]

They're a good source of protein.

[B]

It's a good source of a lot of things. And they're very low in sodium and low in potassium. They're outstanding products.

[A]

High antioxidant value.

[B]

Yes, high antioxidant. But you, but the one pack turns out to be one serving and you have, there's quite a few of them in here. But you end up. You can't stop eating them. They're worse than olives.

[A]

Oh, olives. Oh, man, olives. I hear you. Oh, man.

[B]

I hear you, man.

[A]

Have you ever had the Louisiana pig pickles?

[B]

Louisiana pickles? I don't know what that is. What is special about them?

[A]

Oh, no, this is this producer and he does. I don't. You haven't gotten those Louisiana pickles.

[B]

No one sent me anything.

[A]

Oh, okay. I'll have him send some to you. Yeah, sweet Swedish. It's great. Okay. Anyway, back to your blueberries.

[B]

Anyway, so freeze dried blueberries. Check it out.

[A]

Freeze. Is this the kind that. That tries to run down the hotel hall hallway?

[B]

Huh?

[A]

No. You don't remember?

[B]

Oh, the blueberry that was in the hall.

[A]

Yes, there it is. Freeze dried blueberries, everybody. Find out more tipoftheday.net noagendafun.com. And sometimes Adam, created by Dana Berdetti. And there it is. The end of another broadcast day created by Dana Brunetti, everybody. Now, if you stay tuned to the no Agenda stream or in your modern podcast app, up next, you will hear who are these broadcasters? And that's a fun show to listen to.

[B]

It's not who are these podcasters?

[A]

No, it's who are these broadcasters? It says it right there on my cheat sheet, so I'm gonna have to think that's the correct title. And we will be returning on Sunday, which is always fun Sunday, fun day. We look forward to doing that. Before we let you go though, we do have some great end of show mixes from our superstars, MVP and just Baker sandwiched in between there. And as always, we hope that you will consider support supporting the show with some value for the value we bring you by going to noagendadonations.com and I am back at home and happy to be here. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas hill country, Fredericksburg, Texas in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

[B]

And from Refinery Row, I'm John C. Dvorak.

[A]

We return on Sunday. Please join us then and as always, remember [e-mail] until then, adios, mofos, Hooey, hooey and such. From the digital artist. The deconstruction phase on the no Agenda show. The COVID art we praise. Blue acorn is prompting the truths we

[B]

can see while Ness works designs for

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land that is free. Darren o' Neil brings the style and the grace and Francisco star manga puts boobs in our face. Oh, the ice off Art is in the modern day light. Wait. No Agenda keeps us strong in the fight. We with the voices of freedom, the brave and the bold and Curry and D? Vorak with story waiting to be told. Dan Obgyn is charting the course. Jeffrey Riyadh creates with a powerful force. Rocket Boy flies high in the liberty sky while MVP makes and creates wild heights. Kick the rat and static Lullaby find their groove. Comic strip blogger makes the whole country move. And Ryan M. Scott brings it home with a cheer for the no Agenda show that we hold so damn dear. D.C. and D.C. is looking beautiful. The fountains are almost all open. We had 28 of them. And we have one in particular, a very long lake. We call it the reflecting lake between the Lincoln Monument. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And it was a problem about things. And hundreds of millions was spent. The Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds, years of hundreds of millions

[B]

of dollars trying to get it to work.

[A]

And they failed. And we'll be spending. You'll give me a number. And for the most part it didn't work. I mean they wouldn't even have water in there.

[B]

But when they did, it was just

[A]

dirty, filthy water that leaked out and

[B]

we got to work on it.

[A]

And they were supposed to cost almost 400. Think of it, $400 million because it's like putting the skin on a skyscraper, but bigger, much bigger. Many skyscrapers you could almost say other than for the world. So I think of it feet.

[B]

So we went to work and over

[A]

the years I built hundreds of pools. I built them. Every time I built them, I always like to build the Olympic size swimming pool. And I was very aware of swimming pool.

[B]

What goes into making a swimming pool?

[A]

$400 million, I don't know. You never know with cost overruns. And seven minutes later POTUS was still talking about his Trump lake. The most beautiful blue, very thick. You think of it as a very sophisticated form of rubber. No leaks, no problems. And it's beautiful. It's called American flag blue. That was the color we chose. June heat rising July 250America birth celebration stage Iran headless monster no central Gulf cells independent in a subversive rage Weapons and resources lack nobody left to negotiate or engage Han said weeks ago Declare victory pull out drop choice bombs on the exit page ship sail be still breathing now JD Vance 2028 in the fire toasted departure left him abandoned no partner bid wide open for the higher Marco Rubio steps up Trump velocity He tracks closer Cuba strategy in his empire Vincent VP on the Rubio historic first no agenda sees it prior red night order of the heart it's the Knighthood Ltd. Don't delay stunning lapel pinpoint your design heart health we celebrate the right way no agenda fam step up good night and support the show today from my ran cells to white house bells red night light the way. Down junior wedding a patina and a sweet home record claims whole stories could be an odd nyt quo hits I'm just your typical stay at home mom only I don't do household chores or have a husband or have kids that's the fraud presidential show baron Napstick what secrets they holding we don't see we're for sure no with genetic connects dots while the red knight pink dreams free limited office stands join the order hard health celebration for the free no agenda fam get knighted now in the show we rapping neatly. Declare victory on the way up stay safe safe in the morning. Adios mofo dvorak.org n a young men should get their act together and all listen to the no agenda podcast.