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In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Kerr.
And from Refinery Row in Northern California, I'm wondering, did anything happen over the weekend? I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. I texted you on both machines last night, on your phone and on your so-called text system. Did you not receive it?
What? My texts!
I must have texted you 20 times. What did it say? Emergency pod! Emergency pod! Yeah.
missed it sorry
It's time for an emergency. Do you have your heater on?
No, I turned it off. You want to hear what the difference is? No, I believe you. I believe you. No, I was like, emergency pod, man. Everyone's calling for an emergency pod.
Oh, man, we live in such an amazing world.
Right away. Right away. Right away. It was false flag. It's false flag. Everyone's laughing. It's a false flag. And so you have the three-name character. Which is perfect. Perfect. And a kicker is one of our producers sent this note in.
It's the 33rd most popular last name in the United States. Well, there it is. Proof. Alex Jones. Alex Jones did a car video this morning. Everyone wants me to know how to say it. False flag is.
looked at the documents. No, it's not. There's too many security personnel. Hey, how about it makes no sense? How about it's just crazy talk? False.
flag. And, you know, and here's, I have proof. Here's the proof that it was a false flag.
Um,
Because Fox News' Aisha Hasni called in. She called in.
And they cut her off the minute she was about to blow it. I want to just quickly tell you, I was sitting next to Caroline Levitt, the press secretary's husband. He was one of our guests. He was seated right next to me. And, you know, right as the dinner was starting, you know, the national anthem happened. And then he kind of leaned over and said, you know, I watched you on TV. You did a great job. You need to be very safe.
And he was very serious when he said that to me. And he kind of looked around the room and he said, you know, there are some. Oh, they caught.
They cut her off because she was about to...
the false flag!
It looks like we lost Aisha's phone there. And this happens, by the way, especially when you have so many people attempting to utilize.
CNN wrote an article right away. Right away? Oh, yeah, a lot of false flag calls about this one.
*Groans*
Yeah, I was the teacher of the month in December 2024.
In context of this whole White House Correspondents Dinner, this was kind of an amazing moment.
And I have a number of short clips to kind of show that because you have to understand the White House correspondence. I think Trump hasn't attended it like since.
When Obama made fun of him, I think. Yeah, I think that's true. I think that was the last one. And so there's been, you know, when he didn't have a comedian, Jimmy Kimmel was railing on that. Oh, he has such thin skin. He had some mentalist. What is a mentalist?
A mentalist is a kind of a faux magician who does mind tricks to make you think he can read your mind.
Oh, that could have been funny.
It could have actually been pretty funny. I'm sorry that didn't take place.
So before... By the way, I understood that this thing was...
Was this bogus and I was just led astray when they said it was sponsored by Grindr?
I haven't heard this.
But it wouldn't surprise me considering some of the news core.
So just the prelude to this, here's an example, you know, because, of course, the president hates the press and the press hate the president. And, you know, he had already said, I'm only going to do my speech. I'm going to walk away. And here's the view. For the first time as president, Trump will be in attendance.
As president. He was there one time when I was there. The time that Obama humiliated him and he went bananas. I was there. He actually didn't go bananas, if I recall. He didn't go bananas at all. He was very calm. He just sat there, stoic, looking ahead.
Okay, yeah. So here's the situation. A guy that hates the press is at a dinner that honors the press. Right. You can't even make this up anymore. Over 200 journalists signed a letter demanding that Trump gets called out during the dinner.
They decided, and here's what they're saying. Watch the clips. We're really asking the Correspondents Association to get a spine, to stand up there and pledge to fight back against any officeholder who would lead any kind of coordinated attack against press freedom of the First Amendment. We have a very fragile, egoed president who thinks he's king in the Oval Office sitting behind.
the Resolute Desk. Now presidents typically are the guest of honor, but for us to invite this man, this fox into the hen house, and for us to sit there and take it. So that was kind of the vibe. You're talking about a fragile ego. Well, it seems like the press has got the fragile ego. Exactly. So...
The best part of the whole evening, which, as I understand it, was in honor of the First Amendment. There was First Amendment signs everywhere, and it was about freedom of speech. People don't realize that this is not what you see clips on television. We've been following this for years.
The clips on television are, you know, comedian roasting the president, the president roasting the press. But it's an awards, this award ceremony for great journalism. They have.
scholarships, there's all kinds of different things. It's supposed to be for scholarships. Yeah, exactly. So when the president then did a press conference right away, which was interesting because everyone's in their tuxedo and their purdy dresses, they got exactly the opposite. But in light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our difference peacefully. We have to...
have to resolve our differences. I will say you had
Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives, liberals and progressives. Those words are interchangeable, perhaps, but maybe they're not. But yet everybody in that room, big crowd, record setting crowd. There was a record setting group of people.
And there was a tremendous amount of love and coming together. I watched. I watched and I was very, very impressed by that. Oh, no. A message of unity from the president. We can't have this.
It got even worse. He didn't even want to cancel the night. He wanted to go straight ahead and let's do this event. And we're going to reschedule. We're going to do it again. We're not going to let anybody take over our society. We're not going to cancel things out because we can't do that. We wanted to say tonight, I will tell you, I fought like hell this day. But there was protocol.
They said, please, sir, because they didn't know a lot of, there was a lot of action going on and they didn't know.
Could there be probably a lone shooter? But we'll find out. We'll find out very quickly. They have it very well under control. So I want to thank everybody very much. And Todd Blanch, please. So one of the most contentious relationships the president has is with Caitlin Collins of CNN.
And she was going to receive an award. And the ladies of view were already all psyched up and hyped up about it. My colleague and Anna's colleague, Caitlin Collins, is receiving an award for her coverage of this White House. Somebody who we all have seen President Trump insult her, criticize her. And she stands there stoically and keeps asking questions that we all want the answers to. So the night should be and is about the journalists, regardless of who headlines it, regardless of the speech.
from the president. And I anticipate, listen, he's apparently, it's reported, the president's going to go give his remarks and then leave. So they can all celebrate once he leaves if they want to. The White House Correspondents Association should not accept that. If he is going to show up, he should sit there while Caitlin Collins gets...
See, the ladies of the view don't understand how it works. They don't understand the game. I think Caitlin Collins understands the game because when she asked the question, oh, the president's very cool.
towards her. Do you have any political motivations from this? Well, you never know. Now, we'll be able to tell you that maybe by tomorrow or the next day. You know, he's in custody and they're asking him a lot of questions. I guess they're going over to Todd and they're already at his apartment. He lives in California. Yes, sir. And they'll be, they're over there. So they'll be able to tell you. Thank you, Caitlin. Thank you, Caitlin. Very nice.
thing. You know, even the chairman, Madam Chairman, Madam Chairman did a great job. Madam Chairman, I just want to say you did a fantastic job. What a beautiful evening. And we're going to reschedule. Oh, clap, clap, clap. Oh, golf claps.
Very nice. It's very tough for her to ask a killer question, right? But you have done a fantastic job. Please.
Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate it. As you mentioned, it all happened so quickly. And I wonder, especially because, unfortunately, you have experience with these sorts of threats. In that moment, when you realized there was a threat and service agents were telling us to get down,
Can you describe what was going through your mind, how you were feeling in that moment? This is an amazing question because if you go to journalism school, the first thing they tell you is you never want to, your first question should not be, what was going through your mind? You know, that's like, it's like the lamest question. So the best question of the night goes to Peter Doocy. Respectfully, why do you think this keeps happening to you?
Well, you know, I've studied assassinations and I must tell you, the most impactful people, the people that do the most, you take a look at the people, Abraham Lincoln.
I mean, you go through the people that have gone through this where they got them. But the people that do the most, the people that make.
The biggest impact, they're the ones that they go after. They don't go after the ones that don't do much because they like it that way. And when you look at the people that have either, whether it was an attempt or a successful attempt, they're very impactful people. Just take a look at the names here, the big names. And I hate to say I'm honored by that, but I've done a lot.
We've done a lot. We've taken this country and we were a laughingstock for years and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We've changed this country. And there are a lot of people that are not happy about that. So I think that's the answer, Peter. You rightly said Gerald Ford.
Well, almost everyone who has been assassinated or attempted assassination has been impactful. Almost, almost everybody.
And luckily, the president leaves the press with a little bit of bait for the morning shows.
attributes of what we're planning at the White House. It's actually a larger room and it's much more secure. It's got drone proof. It's bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That's why Secret Service. That's why the military are demanding it. They've wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons. But today is a little bit different because today we need levels of security that provide
probably nobody's ever seen before. And I tried to get the clip this morning because I saw it, but I didn't record it. You know, MS Now, I guess the black guy with the fro. Isn't he the president of the White House Correspondents Association? I actually don't know who he is right now. I think he is. And he was like, well, just because you want it in the ballroom doesn't mean we'll do it there. Oh, you want to make a bet?
You want to make a bet that you'll all be dressed up in your tuxedos and your nightgowns?
Like, oh yeah, we're going into the big ballroom. Of course you will.
Yeah, that's where you do it. You want to do something fancy, not, you know, hotels. Yeah. You know, hotel.
One of those hotel ballrooms. Yes, exactly, which is obvious. With the walls that they slide, you know. Sliding walls. So then from the early morning sweep of the news, just a couple clips here. John Carl from ABC personalizes this. John, your phone rang early this morning? Yeah, my phone rang shortly after 7 a.m. My landline, George, actually a number that few people call, and it was the president.
and Trump calling. He said at first he was calling to see if I was okay with what happened last night. Are you okay? And then he reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last night, emphasizing the unity that he felt in that moment, that he felt at the dinner before the shooting and certainly after with the people who reached out to him.
And he said absolutely, and he was quite firm about this, that dinner must be rescheduled. It must be rescheduled. He knows that I was a former president of the White House Correspondents Association and I worked with him on a dinner that never actually happened back during COVID. And he was saying we've got to get this dinner back on. It has to happen. I think this was an interesting turn of vibe.
regarding the president and the press corps. He turned it into a very positive thing. Although Margaret Brennan, of course, had to be the first one to make the pivot. A night to celebrate the First Amendment abruptly ended by a gunman permitted by the Second Amendment to own those weapons. There it is. Gun violence is not new in America, but the threat.
of violence is now a cost.
public life. It permeates our politics. Last month, Supreme Court Justice Roberts publicly appealed for personal attacks on judges.
to stop. U.S. Marshals report there were 564 threats last year and nearly 15,000 against lawmakers, staff, and their families, according to U.S. Capitol Police. Multiple Trump cabinet members
So Threat has got something to do with the Second Amendment?
You're trying to bring logic into her monologue? That's a mistake. I'm just saying she's talking about threats. She's not talking about gun violence. No. But she's talking about gun violence at the base, her basic thesis. So this is a very poor argument.
Correct. Yes, it is. Lawmakers, staff and their families, according to U.S. Capitol Police. Multiple Trump cabinet members now live on military bases for their own protection. Oh, I'd never heard this. Who lives on a military base for their protection? Well, this needs to be looked into.
No such fortress for the federal and state officials who face a growing number of threats in communities across the country. There's a marked increase in harassment and threats of physical violence to journalists in the U.S. From the very public they are working to inform. As the nation wonders how to keep the next gunman out, let's also reflect on how to keep the next gunman out.
How we let this hate in. How we stop it from corroding our democracy and grasp onto our civility before we lose it. Hate is a part of democracy, lady. What are you talking about? That's how it works. Oh, we can't hate. Well, start with yourself. Can't hate. Can't hate. And then the final one is...
About this alleged shooter. So the alleged shooter, as we just said, had multiple weapons in his possession. Here in the District of Columbia, open carry is not permitted. You just said he traveled from California across the country by train.
At this point, are you thinking at the federal level of changing security protocols in any way to, for example, match on trains what you are expected to go through when you fly, where you do have to declare a weapon when you cross? Remember Obama did that? Remember they had TSA at the trains?
I thought they were, I thought they had, Obama was bragging about they weren't doing TSN, the trains. But then, no, he was saying that you don't have to take your shoes off, but then you did.
I don't remember that. Yes, that was the whole joke of it. They had these teams on the platforms after Obama had said over and over about high-speed rail. You don't have to take your shoes off. Yeah, high-speed rail. Yeah, so now they're trying to bring that back. Oh, yeah, trains, trains dangerous. Well, you do have to declare a weapon when you cross state lines. How did he travel by train without any challenge and arrive here in the nation's capital?
Yeah.
You've gone from state to state, haven't you? Yes, in the car. Where would you declare this weapon? Well, Margaret. Do they have a spot there? I mean, they do actually going into California, they do have to declare vegetables that you bring across the state line. But would you say, hey, what do you got with you? You got a palm tree and a .30-06. What?
you
Yeah.
No, of course not. I mean, when maybe you stop at those truck weighing stations, I'm always curious about. Get out of here, your car. Any challenge and arrive here in the nation's capital.
Look, this isn't about, in my mind, changing the law or making the laws more restrictive around possession of firearms. It appears he purchased these firearms the past couple of years. We don't know how those firearms ended up in his possession in D.C. We can we can make some assumptions based upon what I just said about how he got to D.C.
But I don't I don't think the narrative here is about changing laws or changing and making making our laws more restrictive. This is about law enforcement who are doing their jobs and a suspect who tried to do something and failed miserably. Yeah. All right. And there's your emergency pod, everybody.
Hailed miserably. I have the guys. There was a manifesto that appeared on LinkedIn. On LinkedIn? This is the new manifesto posting spot?
Well, it seemed to be where somebody posted it. And.
He goes on about using buckshot and having different targets and who's not targets. Oh, yeah. No, his brother, I think is, hold on, I think I have it here. His...
Yeah, here we go, CBS. Multiple sources tell CBS News that the gunman told law enforcement he was targeting Trump administration officials. Sources now say that Allen's brother had also alerted local...
police of alleged alarming writings that he shared with the family prior to the incident. Yeah, I think that's what this message is. CCTV video reveals the moment the 31-year-old suspect sprinted past a security checkpoint, charging toward the ballroom where President Trump, cabinet officials, and roughly 2,500 guests were assembled. It is clear based upon what we know so far.
This individual was intent on doing as much harm and as much damage. Did you see Judge Jeanine in her nightie?
She was wearing a very sheer dress.
Almost inappropriate. I did see her, but it was a long shot. Almost age inappropriate. A teacher from Southern California opened fire at a uniformed division officer of the U.S. Secret Service before agents tackled him to the ground, handcuffing him. He was armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives as he ran through that checkpoint. Members of law enforcement.
from the United States Secret Service intercepted that individual. I'm still a little skeptical about the Secret Service agent being shot.
I'm thinking that was crossfire or someone else accidentally shot him. I don't know if this guy even got a shot off. I saw that video. It looked like he shot him to me. And he says in his note that he expects the Secret Service guys, he doesn't want to kill them, and he expects them to be wearing bulletproof armor. So then he shot him right in the arm.
Oh, okay. So you saw that on the video.
Yeah, I looked pretty clear. I mean, I could be wrong, but it was so fast because the guy's running like a son of a bitch. He starts running and the guy comes, you know, tries to move toward him and he shoots him. Can we?
In this day and age of 48 megapixel phones, can we possibly get better video? I mean, 120 by 120 is not good enough. That was like see you see me video. Oh, call back.
Um...
Seriously, it's ridiculous. It's like, you don't have to, it doesn't have to be black and white and 10 frames a second because of disk space anymore. Come on. That's an absolute yes. I don't like that. They have cameras on phones that are little bitty things that have better imagery than that.
I mean, I've got, I hung up three cameras here at the house.
at my wife's insistence. And it's great. You know, and like, of course, you never catch anything. Oh, there's the UPS guy. You know, and you get an alert and you can go, oh, look, I can see the UPS guy. It follows him. It tracks him. None of this stationary bull crap.
So how can I have a better system at home than the system in the Hilton Hotel that is meant to provide evidence for calamity? Yeah.
It's not as though these cameras are expensive.
It just doesn't make any sense. I mean, in the olden days, yeah, maybe you had to pay a couple hundred bucks for a little camera for a security system. Now they're like, you know.
The Logitech webcam has got HD and it's like, you know, 40 bucks. I mean, give me a break.
I'm going to read from the note here that this guy said, because I thought this was because they had Jamie Raskin on one of the shows this morning. And it was Dana Bash says to him. So don't you think the rhetoric maybe has a little bit to do with this? I mean, Raskin goes, well, what do you mean? And then he says, well, people have been saying, you know, they say all this stuff. He says, I don't know. I like Trump. He's
Basically. Oh, that's hilarious. So this guy writes this because he's going on and it's hello, everybody is the way it starts off. This is the part that got me. He says, I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile.
rapist and traitor.
to coat my hands with his crimes. Wait, who said this? The guy, the shooter. Oh, this is from his note. In his note, oh. Oh, wow. So, I mean, he's triggered by, you know, it was, you know, the propaganda you have out there, and he's in California, he lives in Torrance, you know, he's loaded with this sort of thing.
Yeah. At the end of the note, he says, I would still go through. He talks about being expected to be shot. What does this mean? What does it mean, coat my hands? I don't know what coat his hands means either. Can we ask the book of knowledge? Let me ask the book of knowledge. Book of knowledge, what does coat my hands mean as a phrase?
Don't let me down, book of knowledge.
I'll just quote my hands. Forget about it. According to the book of knowledge, quote my hands refers to the jet. Quote my hands.
All right, good job, book of knowledge. Back in your hovel.
So continue. Well, anyway, at the very end, he says, I was still going.
I would still go through most.
everyone here to get to the targets if I were absolutely, if it was absolutely necessary on the basis that most people chose to attend a speech by a pedophile, rapist, and traitor. There you go. With the same three words in the same order.
and are thus complicit. But I really hope it doesn't come to that.
Well, that's one more thing I'll just mention from this note. He says administration. I find this peculiar.
He said he does who the targets are. He says administration officials, not including Mr. Patel.
They are targets.
prioritized from the highest ranking to the lowest. Well, that's interesting.
What does that mean? Patel is like enemy number two on the list these days.
Huh.
That's a clue about this guy, one way or the other. Don't you think? I don't know. I think it is.
Hmm.
So anyway, this whole thing is, you know.
What it is. You got any Alex Jones stuff? Because I have some, I actually have some Alex Jones clips that are different. They're about the SPLC. Oh, I actually, I've been looking for, I saw them come in. I haven't, obviously, haven't looked at, haven't looked at you and listened to your clips. But before you do the SPLC, I have a boots on the ground from Dame Rhonda about the SPLC.
Which was interesting.
Okay.
She says the SPLC represented the.
plaintiff Ricky Wyatt against the Alabama Department of Mental Health.
originated when First Lady Lurleen Wallace visited Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa and was appalled at the conditions. What happened? This is a case that lasted many years. Judge Thompson issued a mandate. If the state was going to run a mental health system, certain standards had to be met and funded. If the state could not afford the standards, it would not have a mental health system. The result is that the standards were so high and therefore so costly that Alabama
opted out of providing mental health care.
And the ripple effect was that most every other state in the nation over time relied on that case from Alabama to justify their decision not to fund mental health care in their states. Wow, that's a good one. So Dame Rhonda works or worked in a law office in Alabama. One of the attorneys who represented Alabama in the final years of that litigation is her boss. He's 88 years old, still comes into the office daily in his opinion because...
It was the SPLC that argued that.
He says the SPLC is responsible for getting rid of mental health facilities in America, and he still blames them for that.
Well, he's probably right. Yeah, it's so typical.
Anyway, clips from you. Unintended consequences. Yeah.
So Jones is talking about, you know, who's running the world. New World Order. I've read the documents. Trying to kill us all. Going to kill us all. And the problem is he's kind of wandering. I mean, it's like.
He's not as focused as he should be. So I got three clips, but I thought they were interesting because I wanted to ask you if you could decode what he's actually saying here. Of course. I can do that. I can do that for you. All right.
I won. The ADL, Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Democrats, and the globalists, and the same system run all over the Western world, would have you believe is secretly running everything. Reality, it's a bunch of globalist mad scientists creating a giant AI.
Cyborg Mass Neural Network.
Known as the Intergalactic Communication System. Not just saying that. Look that up. Oh, he forgot to add XRP.
So I looked it up. You read the documents. What did you find?
What is he talking about? That was kind of a joke that was done in the 60s by a scientist who's largely responsible for starting or getting ARPANET going and getting the Internet started back in the 60s. And he made this comment about the intergalactic blah, blah, blah. Which scientist was that?
Link Ladder, Link Ladder is a very famous guy. You can look it up, but you can't look it up. The intergalactic, you have to play it again so I can get it clear, but.
control, intergalactic control. Let's hear it again. Running everything. Reality is a bunch of globalist mad scientists creating a giant AI.
Cyborg Mass Neural Network.
Known as the Intergalactic Communication System. Intergalactic Communication System. Yeah, you can ask the... Okay. It's in the Wikipedia. Here we go. Here we go. Tell me about the Intergalactic Communication System. Now, this should be interesting.
You know, the book of knowledge doesn't look at Wikipedia.
It has its own sources.
According to the Book of Knowledge, the term "intergalactic communication system" may refer to either the historical concept or modern theoretical approaches. JCR Licklider at ARPA used intergalactic computer network in the 1960s to describe his vision of a networked computing system that would eventually become the Internet. For actual intergalactic communication, neutrinos are proposed to be a "neutral" system.
Okay, I get it. Okay.
Look it up, he says. Well, that's what the...
That's what the internet originally was before it all consolidated and was all run by Cloudflare.
The gatekeepers. The gatekeepers for AT&T. Yeah, it was a distributed network. Well, yes, we might as well mention that. It was designed, not intergalactic bull crap, but it was designed to be a communication system that could withstand a nuclear attack.
Yes. And the whole idea was. And it went from college to college to college. It was mostly through the universities. Yes. And the whole concept of TCP IP was that traffic would route around an outage. At one point I had my own C-class network. I had an actual.
Like a big piece of, at the time, a big piece of the internet.
And then the problems came in with peering because that was always the idea of the.
And the philosophy of it was, well, you know, if traffic has to route around something and I have to route traffic from you, then that's okay because you will route traffic for me and it's called a peering system. And I believe it was Enron that screwed that all up.
by saying, hey, this is worth money, this peering system, and you should be charging. And then as more and more networks got rolled up, like MFS and AT&T and Verizon, and it became more and more centralized. Now, yeah, now it's just basically... Well, I'm not sure Enron was... I didn't hear that. What? But I know that Enron had anything to do with it. Yes, Enron was doing bandwidth trading with peering.
know this. What was Enron, a power company, involved with any of this? Because they were a scam. I'll tell you the story. No, I know they were a scam. Let me tell you the story. So we had Think New Ideas.
We had Bankers Trust, another fine outfit.
who had a huge derivatives issue at some point. But anyway, they were our client and we were building online network trading desks for them, which is really no more than a web interface to, to what was the Adobe? Adobe had some kind of, I forget what it's called. Not, they had some kind of component, some kind of desktop.
like Microsoft Meeting Point or something at the time. I forget what it's called. And so our system would connect to that and it would pick up Excel spreadsheets and turn them into web pages.
maybe a year or so after one of the VPs had left and went to Enron. And he's in that movie in the, you know, was it the smartest guys in the room? I don't think he went to jail. He probably went to Columbia. And he came in and said, hey, listen, he was all hyped up and, you know, drinking his Diet Coke and all hyped up. And listen, I need you guys to.
build a trading desk because we're going to do a bandwidth trading. And listen, it doesn't actually have to do anything. It just has to look impressive. We just want to have lots of monitors that look like it's doing something with bandwidth trading. We passed on the opportunity. But that's what they were doing. It was fictitious. It was as much bullcrap as their energy trading was.
Mosaic. That's, thank you, Mosaic. Was it Mosaic? No, no, that wasn't Mosaic. No, it was Mosaic. No, it was. Yes, the Enron broadband scandal, forgotten half Enron scam. So the point, the thing was, is that the original concept, which is this routing all over the place.
You know, then once it started becoming commercialized, when somebody decided, let's do an internet, let the public in on it, they demanded better, you know, you know, they didn't want this, these things. You remember there used to be some programs you could, they used to, I can't remember the name of them, but they would.
They're tracers. And you'd trace the connection. It would go from here to there to here to there. Trace route. Trace route. Trace route. And it would show a million things. Hops. How many hops you got? And then AT&T and all the big boys decided, hey, you know, we can make some money doing this. Yeah. They said, why bother? Why don't we just, you hook to me directly. And pretty soon there was like two backbones.
And all the major hubs like May East, May West, and all the rest of them were kind of left in the dust. That's right. So it's not anything like it was designed to be. No.
And now literally all servers are proxied by Cloudflare. So when Cloudflare goes down, the whole world collapses. The whole world collapses. Yeah. Just bomb the offices in San Francisco and we're ready to go.
Anyway, so yes. Are we on to clip two?
Yeah, now it becomes...
becomes a little loony.
planning to depopulate almost all of us. They tell the mid-level people the word they're going to kill 90%, but really they plan to kill 99%. Call it Nazi, whatever you want. The Nazis had their own competing plan. They talked about it in Nuremberg. They said, Margaret Sanger, the British Eugenics Society, we're just following that plan. That's what's at the top of this. And it's so big that my dad was planned to, as I've told you many times
to UT because he was top of his class, some of the top test scores in the state. He was winning all the science, you know, fairs and stuff. At 14, they recruit him. They go, oh, this is a feeder to NASA. Eisenhower's whiz kid program. He's really conflating a lot of different things here. Yeah, and his timeline goes off a little bit, too. He's talking about his dad now who became a dentist. He, uh...
I looked him up and he was like born in 1950. The timeline doesn't work unless the dad was born in 1942, which is possible.
Because he's saying that he was for it.
when Eisenhower, you know, created the whiz, there was a moment in, during the 50s, once Sputnik was launched, Eisenhower put the, you know, put the hammer down and said, we're turning all our kids into scientists.
And that was in 57.
Not 56.
And so the timeline doesn't match. He's kind of, unless the dad was born in 42, the way I see it. But the SPLC didn't come around until 67.
Yeah, he's kind of gone off, already off the rails, and he's talking about something, about depopulation. He started, it was Kennedy, and my dad started this, and it wasn't NASA, folks. And a couple years into it, he gets called in by the head of the botany department, who was the head of Plan 2. It was Jewish, Professor Speer. Ah, Jew. My dad didn't tell me this until he saw Endgame.
came out in my office with my mother. My mother looked at my dad and said,
David, this can't be true. And he started talking for about 20 minutes. He said, you know, Spear, because he met her at UT. We used to have dinner over at his house, yeah? Yeah, I took Botany for him. Yeah, we used to have dinner with him. Yeah, well, he called me in and said, of the Plan 2 people, you are the best, and you've been selected. And this was when he was about 17. He didn't meet her until about a year
You know Hitler was a eugenicist, and we don't support targeting just one group, but it is eugenics, and that's what this is. And we're going to set up a world government, and we're going to depopulate people. And my dad said, well, I'll still be friends with you, but I really don't want to be in this program. I mean, eugenics, is he confused with Planned Parenthood somehow that he's calling about?
I don't understand.
No, no, he's just rambling. And here we go to the third clip, which is even more confusing.
They said, well, we got another program we want you to be part of. And that was even worse, he said. He wouldn't say what that was.
And then he said, I'm just going to go to Baylor Medical and get a dental degree, and I'm out of this. And he never told me the rest of it, but they didn't basically let him get out of it quite yet. Let's just leave it at that. That's how real I am.
So at the top, there's not a Christian Adventurers Club of Nazis meeting, okay? There's people that put poison shots in the public, and I got news on this coming up.
That's beyond huge. We've just gotten numb to it, though. Congressional hearings where they have the CDC head documents that, oh, it's killed masses of people, including children. It doesn't work. It destroys immune systems. So let's accelerate it. I have the congressional hearings. We're going to play clips. Oh, and the young people are dying. And when they cut them open, their entire organs are filled with spike protein, including no sperm.
spike protein that's grown in the testicles, that's where it goes, the ovaries and testicles, so that when you're having sex with a woman, you've had it, you're now injecting her with this that goes into her ovaries.
and sterilizes you. That's one of its main functions. Nanotech, self-replicating HIV spike protein. That is a fact.
Yes, okay, I'm down with all that, but what does that have to do with SPLC? This is what I don't understand. And by the way, you know, the weave, dipshit in the troll room. We're not conspiracy deniers. We're denying that Alex Jones has any sanity about him right now. This has nothing to do with SPLC. SPLC was a dynamite.
A great marketing idea. And it really started back when, what was the SLSP? There were some other.
There was some other...
Um,
Anti-KKK group.
And this, was it Morris Dees, I think? Morris Dees was the head of the SPLC. Yeah, so he started SPLC as like, oh, this is a great gambit.
We're going to do this. And people actually thinking they were donating to this other group. And so they kind of grew that way. Sorry? It was pretty creative. I thought it was a note of genius about the whole thing.
I want to play one more thing, which is Stossel's report, which was in the early 2000s on the SPLC when he was still working for ABC. John Stossel had a show. He was, you know. It was good. It was good. And I don't even know why. Well, he's still good. Why did he leave ABC? Because he does YouTubes of his stuff now, doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah, he does. It's pretty much like his old show.
I don't know why they got rid of him. I think it was because he turned a little too right wing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was during the woke period. Yeah. And that was, you know, ABC. Yeah, got to get rid of him. Yeah, got to get rid of him. So this is from his old show.
There are dangerous hate groups in America.
who will warn us about them. The media haven't answered. The Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law Center, based in that building in Alabama, calls itself the premier group monitoring hate groups.
Looking at their map of such groups, you'd think America was consumed by hate. I once believed in the center's mission. Well, meaning people still do. Apple just gave them a million dollars. But what donors don't know is that today the center smears people who don't deserve to be smeared. The presence of radical Islam. This woman grew up in Somalia, suffered female genital mutilation.
So now she speaks out against radical Islam. For that, the center put her on its list. Multiculturalism failed these communities. This man was once an Islamic extremist, but then he decided radical Islam was wrong, and now he criticizes the radicals. The center labels him an...
anti-Muslim extremists too.
Join the fight against hate and bigotry. Visit SPLCenter.org. I do think that we have a problem with hate in this country. We put about 10 of these major hate groups out of business. The center's leaders, Richard Cohen and Morris Dees, would not talk to me. So commentator Nomiki Kant stepped up to defend them. They have a history, a long history of fighting against extremists like the KKK.
Years ago, Harper's Magazine reported that the center is the wealthiest civil rights group in America, one that spent most of its time and money on a fundraising campaign.
Now, Morris Dees did once promise to stop fundraising once his endowment hit $55 million. But when he reached $55 million, he changed that to $100 million, saying that would allow them to cease costly fundraising. But when they reached $100 million, they didn't stop. I guess their main claim is they...
Uncorrupted the KKK. And that was it. That was the only thing people can ever say that they did. Because that's all they did. After that, it was, as you, I think, pointed out on the last show, it was like the NAN from Sharpton. You know, it's like, we're going to put you on this list until you donate and we'll take you off the list.
And so I think that the...
time he did this report, it was the 350 million as the endowment. I think it's a billion now. Isn't it a billion? No, no, it's 900 million. Yeah, it's almost a billion. Yes.
Play on. Today, they have an endowment that now is over $320 million, much of which is in offshore accounts, Caymans and places like that. How do you know? Oh, we look at their 990s. And it says Cayman Islands? Yeah. They pay some of their people more than $400,000 a year. Well, you know, it's 2017.
It costs a lot of money to exist in this world. The Southern Poverty Law Center now lists people like...
Ben Carson, Laura Ingraham, and Jeannie Pirro as extremists. But it doesn't list Antifa, the hate group that beats up people on the right.
The center has become a hate group itself. It's now a left-wing, money-grabbing slander machine. Nice! Stossel, way to go.
Yeah, and we've been saying this for at least 15 years, if you know what I mean. Everybody's been spiking the ball on this. Yeah, but we actually, but we had proof.
Well, so did, I mean, Alex Jones did the same thing. But there was one guy, and I can't remember his name, but he picked up on this in the 90s. This Stossel report was from 2017. Wow. I mean, right at the get-go, he saw it coming down Broadway.
So I mean, it's obvious. And then meanwhile, you have guys like Chris Cuomo coming on and defending them. No. I don't have a clip.
I have an MS Now clip.
Um...
And during this segment, I didn't clip it. They had...
SPLC donation ads running during this segment. The indictment is nakedly political and it's the Justice Department turning on itself. I haven't heard nakedly in a long time. Let's hear that again. The indictment is nakedly political and it's the Justice Department turning on itself. For years, federal law enforcement worked...
with the Southern Poverty Law Center to ferret out hate groups and domestic terrorist groups. And recently, the Justice Department canceled its relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center. So the government has been intimately involved in what the Southern Poverty Law Center has done, which has been an important public service, and that is to ferret out these hate groups, these domestic terrorist groups, these anti-
Semitic groups. And this.
Justice Department once again is furthering this pattern and practice of an assault on civil rights through frivolous politically motivated indictments. Think of Comey. Think of the Attorney General in New York. Oh, yeah. Okay.
Not sure how that has anything to do with it.
Yeah, they're grasping at straws.
I think these guys are toast.
Well, yes. And did you see that Gay General Patton has now said that they're going to change the rules about the Form 990? I've been a Form 990 reader from day one. Yes, you're the Form 990 guy. This is your thing. I love the Form 990s. But there's never a disclosure.
who gave the money. And now they're going to change those rules that nonprofits have to list.
And there may be a level that they have to put in there. I'm not sure how they're going to do it because it will be quite burdensome. You know, some like Ronald McDonald House charities, you know, that have to have.
pages and pages of supplemental data, maybe. And a lot of people...
individuals give money and don't necessarily want to be known, but that may no longer be possible. But they're definitely going to say, hey, you've got to disclose where your money's coming from.
So.
And that's why I always question, did Apple put out a press release that they were donating a million dollars to the SPLC? Probably did.
We're good people.
We hate Nazis. We're Apple.
Something like that.
So I'm still, you know, irked about the, I mean, you know, Tim Cook is leaving. Yes.
And they're bringing a new guy in, and this follows the old.
where Steve Jobs gave the company over to Scully. Scully, even though people don't remember this, John Scully racked it up.
I think he quadrupled or more.
sales
and over what Jobs was able to do. And then when he was pushed out.
It was a disaster.
One loser after another came in.
Uh...
I see kind of...
wrong.
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I see the same thing happening again.
Yeah, see, because, well, first of all, there's two problems.
We had Steve Jobs, Tim Cook. Now we have John, but the guy has two syllables in his last name. What is his last name?
I don't know. Exactly. Two syllables. Can't remember the guy's name. So that's already a minus point.
But he's the hardware guy. Yeah. And the way I see.
AI going running locally on local machines by happenstance or maybe by design the Apple universal memory on their, their. Yeah, no, I, you, you're more optimistic about it. Let me finish the art.
No one's heard this. Well, I'm going to just say in advance that I'm not going to argue against you. Well, what you could do is let me finish and then not argue, and that would achieve the same thing without the interruption. That would be less dramatic. This is correct.
The Apple, like the Mac Mini, has become the darling machine for OpenClaw.
Not that it really does that well and not that people are running local models, but like the Mac Studio.
loaded up to the gills with RAM, people are running local AI models quite successfully on that. The Apple chip and the iPhone also has some capabilities. I think they're way ahead of the game where AMD is doing this with their chips now. Was it the Ryzen chip, I think?
I think the local inference of AI may be a winner for Apple long term, in particular because they didn't do what everyone else has done, is cram their phones full of AI garbage. I mean, so I have this Samsung, and, you know, I just want a phone. It doesn't have to do much. You know, I really don't do much with it. I have my...
a Graphene OS phone for other things. But then all of a sudden it pops up. Hi, I'm Bixby. Do you want me to listen to you for your every command without you touching the phone? Like, no, I don't. Oh, my phone literally just lit up when I said that. I said, no, I don't want that installed. It keeps popping up. Hi, I'm Bixby. Bixby is here to help you. Who the hell is Bixby?
Bixby is their Siri, is their whatever. Bixby. That's as gay as Ask Jeeves. Bixby. Hello, I'm Bixby. I should install it just to hear how lame it is.
Yeah, you should. Maybe you can compete with the book of knowledge robot. Nothing can compete with the book of knowledge robot. Nothing competes with that.
So I have a feeling Apple could come out a huge winner, but that really depends on what kind of snazzy stuff they can, I mean, for their desktops, maybe. I don't think they're, I don't know about the phones or anything. I don't know if anyone cares about this stuff at all. I'll tell you this.
Anthropic has yanked the rug what used to be your $20 a month.
Well, now you're really paying $100 a month if you want to get the same amount of time and tokens and usage. Oh, yeah.
And you're $100 a month. Now you've got to pay $200 a month.
There's people at the side of the street with tin cups going, hey, man, I just need some tokens. Give me some tokens, man. I need some tokens real bad. The way Anthropic does Claude Code.
So you have a monthly.
A weekly usage for your $20, $100, or $200 a month account.
But then they have per day, you can only do so many hours consecutively, and then it has to reset and you have to wait. And that can be like a three or four hour wait before you're allowed to use it again. That makes you take a break.
Well...
Of course, then they give you the extra usage that you can buy credits for, which goes at about $2 every 30 seconds.
They're giving away, this is the IPO on the way. I think that if- Trying to balance the books in advance of the IPO. Yes, if you have a $100 account, you're probably getting $2,000 worth of credits.
This is a problem.
I don't know if they're going to fix it.
Well, let's see how the IPO does. They only have one AI story, not you brought up AI. No, you got an AI story.
He has to wonder about that Florida State shooting.
Um, yeah, there's a couple. I actually have a story about this. Is this OpenAI story? Is that what this is? This is AI Florida. The state of Florida is opening a criminal investigation into OpenAI because a suspect allegedly used its chatbot to help plan a mass school shooting. Two people died and five were wounded on the Florida State University campus last year.
From WFSU in Tallahassee, Tristan Wood reports. Florida Attorney General James Othmeyer says an initial review of chat logs shows that gunman Phoenix Eichner consulted ChatGBT for advice over 200 times. My prosecutors have looked at this and they've told me if it was a person on the other end of that screen, we would be charging them with murder.
He says the logs show Eichner asking what type of gun to use, what ammo went with it, what time to go to campus to encounter the most people, and more.
Now, of course, Chad GPT is not a person, but that does not absolve our office, my prosecution team, of our duty to investigate whether or not there is criminal culpability here for a corporation. An OpenAI spokesperson called the FSU shooting a tragedy.
but says the company is not responsible. The company says Chad GPT gave the kind of factual responses to questions that could be found anywhere on the internet.
During the press conference, Uthmeyer acknowledged it is unclear if his team would be able to identify anyone to criminally charge. We're at the beginning, so I don't know what the intentions of design were. I don't know what people knew and at what time, but I hope that we are able to get those answers. OpenAI maintains they voluntarily gave the information about the shooter's chat logs to law enforcement.
and will continue to cooperate with authorities. While this is the first criminal probe from a state attorney general, the AI company has been the target of several recent civil lawsuits.
including one centered on its involvement in a suicide case. Yeah, this is an interesting, it's a set of cases. What preceded the Florida FSU shooting is the one in Canada. We begin with breaking news. Breaking!
Open AI CEO Sam Altman has issued an apology to the community of Tumbler Ridge after failing to alert police about the shooter's concerning use of chat GPT. Altman wrote, I am deeply sorry that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June. In February, an 18-year-old shooter opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, killing eight people.
including six school children, before taking her own life. OpenAI, the tech company behind ChatGPT, was criticized after it was revealed the shooter's account was flagged for violating policies, but authorities were never informed. So what's interesting is the timeline.
of OpenAI and their safety team. This is PBS. Current and former OpenAI employees has issued a public letter warning that the company and its rivals are building artificial intelligence with undue risk and without sufficient oversight. They're calling on leading artificial intelligence companies to be more transparent and provide stronger protection.
We're joined now by NPR technology correspondent Bobby Allen, who's been covering all of these developments. You don't really need to hear the rest of the story other than before these shootings took place.
They were all saying, hey, this stuff is no good. And they got rid of the safety team. And whoever was left resigned from the safety team. So they had no safety team.
Well, there's a couple of elements here of logic that kind of fascinate me. One, the argument that, well,
The opening, I was just saying, you know, it's not responsible in any way criminally because it's just reiterating what's what's out there in the public domain. But isn't that wouldn't that be the same if I was asking you for advice on a gun and I was going to shoot up the Florida State campus and you told me this, that and the other? Yeah, I think I think I'm going to knock on the door.
Yeah, but it's the same, but the argument would be the same, which is that you're just telling me stuff that's out there on the internet.
You're not giving me any information that, you know, that's not available in the public domain. So that argument, I think, is invalid. And the other one is I thought corporations were supposed to be deemed as people. And so they were the same rights and privileges. So shouldn't the corporation be locked up?
Yes. Shuddered, in other words. Yes. Just again. I'm with you. I'm with you. They pay taxes like a person. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that.
Um,
The problem that OpenAI has, and I think Elon Musk has this too, is they went all consumer. They wanted to...
They're mentalists. You know, it's like, come on. This is great. You got a buddy. You got a little Tamagotchi. He grows with you. He remembers you. He loves you. He's going to help you. And Anthropic really didn't do that. They went, code. We'll just make code. We're going to get rid of you with code.
And so, and Musk, all he ever, if you look at his expos, this is all AI and there's no one real in this video. Like, who cares? And he always has these kind of like semi, like homes. Did you see the one Darren O'Neill did? No. But they got hometown American girls, you know, all American girls.
Darren O'Neill did a video promoting his 700th show. Oh, yeah.
And it's, you know, some hottie and somebody else talking about, let's tune in. Yeah. Breast falling out of her top.
Have you ever seen a picture of Darren? I wonder what he looks like. Yeah, there's pictures of him floating around. I've never seen a picture. In fact, I don't want to see a picture of Darren. I have a picture in my mind. What's the picture in your mind? Well, he's very tall. I think he's taller than I am. I think he's one of these chiseled jaw, you know. Oh, yeah, think Favio.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Yes, that is the picture I have in my mind. Darren O'Neill is Fabio.
Nailed it. But maybe it was short hair. Fabio. Fabio with a B. Fabio. Yeah. Oh, Fabio. Fabio. Fabio. And, you know, he should never be seen. That is the theater of the mind. He just did his 700th episode of the Rock and Roll Pre-Show.
He is the quintessential rock DJ. Exactly what he shows in those videos. Yeah, from the 50s. Yeah, well, he's got a T-shirt on. He's buff. He's got a scruff beard. All those missing jokes. Yeah, well, there's that. And the good music. Well, yeah, he plays nothing but live mixes that are...
Well, no, but he thinks that by playing live mixes, somehow it's legal to play those. That's the big joke. Yeah, somehow. Because they're live performances, it's okay. There's no issue there. Soon in jail.
Oh, man.
So King Charles is coming with Camilla. This is all very exciting, people. Buckingham Palace releasing more trip details as King Charles III and Queen Camilla prepare to visit the U.S.
Later this month, here's what we know. They'll start in Washington, D.C., where President Trump will hold a welcome ceremony. Then the king will address Congress before a state banquet at the White House. They also plan to visit New York to commemorate victims of 9-11. Next up, Virginia for a block party celebrating America's...
250th birthday. The palace says this trip is to recognize the shared history of our two nations on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. So they're literally going to the Yorktown battlefield where George Washington kicked the redcoats.
I mean, this is not a celebration for him. That doesn't sound like something you'd do. Well, I think Charles is here to negotiate the terms of surrender with Trump. It's like, you're done, Charles. We got you. We got your banking connections to all the oil, to all the drugs, everything that you've been screwing with us for years, our special relationship, or we're the dumb muscle.
for any war that you start. And the Brits...
are not happy about this visit. I feel sorry for him going and, you know, sitting down to a state dinner with a man who has insulted the British troops in Afghanistan and said they weren't particularly important and weren't needed. Is it a good idea for the king to go to the United States next month? I think it's an acute embarrassment to tell the truth. No, I don't think it's a good idea. And I was...
rather hoping that they might find a way of dodging the column by postponing the visit while what was going on in Iran was going on and say this is not perhaps an appropriate moment to go. I mean, I pity the king. I mean, he's at the mercy of the government. If the government says go, he goes. Just like, remember, the queen had to entertain Ceausescu, the murderous dictator.
That's their job. That's their job. But I feel sorry for them going and
You know, sitting down to a state dinner with a man who has insulted the British troops in Afghanistan. Yeah, you said that. They weren't particularly important and weren't needed. Who's insulted, I'm not talking about insulting the government, but insulted our Royal Navy. What Navy? To be rude about Britain and about NATO. And who's a narcissist and a bully. He's a bully.
There it is. He's a bully. He's a bully. Well, that was David Dimbleby. Here's Ed Davey. Prime Minister's question time. Mr. Speaker, in a phone call with Sky News last night, President Trump has threatened to rip up his trade deal with the UK as punishment for us not joining his idiotic war in Iran. Mr. Speaker, this must be the last straw. Surely the...
The Prime Minister can't send our king to meet a man who treats our country like a mafia boss running a protection racket. Hey, who are you calling a mafia? Ardon? Are you crazy?
Andrew Marr, though, he did. Wait, do you remember during Trump's first term where the parliament was going to ban him from even visiting the UK? Yes. Yes.
Yeah, but you see, we've beaten them into submission. That's what, one more from Andrew Marr. He's now, I think he used to be.
BBC. I don't know if he's still on the BBC, but this is his LBC, his broadcast. It should all be cancelled now. Really, of course, by the... I wonder if they're afraid the king is actually going to sign the terms of surrender. Prime Minister, the possible benefit is far too small. The danger's too great. Even if it all went well... Well, maybe he'll tell us what the dangers are.
And if it all went well and President Trump behaved himself with the monarch he describes as a gentleman, how much credit would be won for Britain? Some, a smidgen, a pinch. A pinch. For ten minutes.
Maybe an hour, perhaps even an hour.
even if we're lucky, a day. And then Trump would change his mind again and cancel the trade deal or further undermine the NATO alliance or be abusive. This sounds like a bunch of scaredy cats to me who have no Navy, who their own generals came out and said, yeah, you know, we don't even know where most of the stuff is and it won't start and we don't know if it still works.
really haven't done anything for over a decade. And so now it's Trump's fault. I wouldn't use words like gangster, but you cannot trust this man. And perhaps to his credit, you cannot buy him either.
After last year's second state visit to the UK, where he was smothered with praise and ceremonial pomp, he started attacking Britain again on the flight home and carried on at the United Nations, making wild claims about Sharia law. The epithets he used about British... Have you seen the northern part of your...
country, Andrew Marr. This time included insane, tragic and sad. So anyone who assumes that putting the king and queen alongside him in Washington this spring will make things sunnier, I am afraid just hasn't checked the record. And the dangers are obvious. The humiliation of the monarch, Trump grabbing the microphone to say something offensive to which the king cannot.
Reply. Oh, there's your dangers, John. Humiliation of the monarch. Look, we have tried flattering the president's ego. We have tried obsequious. It doesn't work. I'm sure King Charles would see all of this as his national duty, grit his teeth and do his stuff.
Probably. Crossed fingers. It will go off okay. But I wonder whether in private, the king doesn't quietly agree with the leader of the Liberal Democrats and feel there has been enough kissing of the rod, sucking up of criticism, and swallowing of pride. Boo! Sucking and swallowing of pride.
Wow, Andrew Marr going all out.
So this is about soft power. You see, we need the soft power of the monarch to come and try and smooth things over with NATO and to still be the fighting arm whenever the UK needs us. It's an important visit, this, and it's very important for the king to go over there as, if you like, our most important envoy that we have. It is a political visit. It is a soft power diplomacy at its height.
The king, after all, you know, is somebody that has been doing this in the sort of number two role for quite some time. He knows how these things operate and he does it very well behind closed doors. He's a very respected man.
And I think that the president will respect his visit and actually warmly welcome him and not embarrass him. So what this is really about is about our military defending the UK whenever they want us to, which we've done historically. And President Trump's view is we haven't gotten much out of that. This is from the House of Lords.
discussion about the military. And as the U.S. undergoes such changes, the United Kingdom must adjust as well. Firstly, it's clear that our high level of military dependence on the U.S. is no longer tenable. President Trump's demands about a greater European contribution are just a dramatic manifestation of a longer term.
American anxiety about imbalances within NATO. Our reliance on the United States predicated on the naive belief that it will always be there to support us in times of conflict. But it's not. Exactly. And have you heard about the latest in the Falklands?
No, no, this I have not heard. So the Falklands is a little piece that's connected to Argentina, which is, you know the history.
better than I would, but...
It's contested, I would say.
Well, not contested by the Brits. No, not by the Brits. They own it, and that's that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there was a little kerfuffle in 1982 about it. Here's the latest that's happening based upon a leaked memo from the Pentagon, which I don't think anyone believes was.
An actual accidental leak. Back now, Downing Street says the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands rests with the UK after it emerged that the Pentagon has been considering options to punish NATO allies for not supporting it with its war in Iran. A US official told Reuters that possible sanctions include pushing for Spain's suspension from NATO and reviewing Britain's ownership of the Falklands. Well, our world news correspondent, Joanne.
I think it's fair to say that if this became official State Department, official American policy...
it will be really very severe indeed. We should say at the moment this is just a briefing document. This is an unverified internal thing at the moment. But what this is is another example of the Americans trying to sort of punish their traditional allies for what they see as their lack of involvement in the Iran war. Exactly. We're going to needle you. Trump seems to be trying to get into Britain's heads, if you like.
like these constant attacks on Starmer, against, of course, the king arriving on Monday. I mean, I feel quite sorry for the king with the level of diplomacy that he's being asked to carry with him. But I think...
Trump is playing his games. He's trying to make the point that he wasn't supported properly by us in Iran, that Spain, of course, as well. He's threatening to throw Spain out of NATO, which possibly is a rather bigger story in some ways. But he is looking, I think.
to needle us and to try and make it clear that we didn't come up to spec.
And so that's why he's come up with this. It's interesting because the statement came from the Pentagon, the State Department, which are the equivalent of the Foreign Office in America, have claimed to know nothing about it. So there might be some sort of internal D.C. Beltway politics going on here. You think? But bear in mind the Americans have never, they've always been neutral about the foreign policy.
They have never said it is a British possession. It is not a British possession. Also bear in mind that Reagan and Thatcher, who were leading Britain and America at the time, had a close relationship. And there was undoubtedly a lot of covert U.S. help in 1982. So, yeah, this is obviously, obviously completely related. And the king's coming over. And, hey, king, you know, I don't know about...
I mean,
I should go on Kalshi and place a bet that Trump will say something about the Falklands.
you know, that, hey, why don't you go visit this battleground where we kicked your butt?
Enjoy that. Have a good look there, Charles. And then there's the close relationship with Millais, which just makes things worse for Britain.
And obviously, Donald Trump is quite close to Argentina's President Javier Millet. So there's, you know, there's a potential sort of axis there. I mean, it does look like Argentina is rearming. Does the UK military have enough footprint to protect the Falklands? Because I've heard many people in the military saying, well, we couldn't do what we did in the Falklands War now.
that's definitely a worry and Argentina are rearming with the help of actually NATO allies. They bought F-16 jets from Denmark and the Americans are helping with the missiles for those jets. And meanwhile, the UK footprint in the Falklands, you know, they've got four typhoons there. They've got under 1,000 troops.
They've recently...
pulled out a Voyager refueling aircraft to take on a task as a result of the Middle East crisis. So I think there would be genuine concerns about what the UK would be able to do to defend the islands. And of course, remember during the Falklands War, we had an awful lot of aircraft and ships.
And at the moment, we don't really have any ships that would be available to send there. And if we did, it would take an awful long time to get there. So I think there's definitely a perceived vulnerability there. Trump games to the max.
Yeah, it's pretty funny. I love it.
Do you have that clip about Macron going to China?
No, do you have that? No, I don't. I should have. It was a mistake on my part. Macron goes to China and starts speaking for the EU and badmouths the US.
It was kind of a fiasco. We'll get to that in the next show.
But...
I want to change gears.
We'll talk about Big Pharma for a second.
Okay, big pharma it is.
First of all, because there was a hearing in Germany with one of the ex-Pfizer guys.
Yeah.
hotshot and I have three clips of that.
And it's just disgusting to listen to these stories. And mostly this is about COVID-19 vaccine. I mean, how long is they going to keep this thing on the market? How long is that guy from UCSF in the Bay Area going to come on TV and say, get another COVID shot. You haven't gotten enough.
He's on TV. Oh, this guy Hong. He's Hong. There's a guy that keeps coming. He's on all the local stations and he comes on. Oh, yeah, the new shot's been reformulated. It's great. Reformulated. It's new COVID shot.
But let's listen to this Pfizer executive. This is translated so you have.
You know, they're speaking German. Yeah. And, but it's very educational, part one.
Dr. Scherz, you worked as the chief toxicologist for Pfizer Europe. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. I was responsible there for all animal experiments related to drug safety. Thank you. My questions concern community from Pfizer-BioNTech. You have dealt extensively with the approval of this vaccine and the documentation. Is that correct?
That is correct. Was the carcinogenicity of this vaccine tested prior to approval? No, the carcinogenic risk was not investigated due to time constraints. By the way, I find it very worrying and also regrettable that no alternative studies were conducted. We are observing in Germany, but also in many other countries, that the birth rate plummeted following the vaccination.
Yes, you are referring to studies concerning reproduction.
Yeah.
A study on rats using Comirnaty was inadequately conducted. Consequently, no reliable assessments of the vaccine's effect on pregnancy or the development of offspring were possible. Nothing had been learned from the thalidomide disaster. According to the RKI protocol, approval was granted in a fast-track procedure. This meant that essential toxicity studies were...
sacrificed for the sake of speed without acceptable justification. I know of no case with a comparable indication in which all these studies were omitted. Thus, the approval led to prohibited human trials.
Wow. But surely they've done these studies now on carcinogenity on the new, new, new, new COVID vaccine. Oh, yeah.
No.
Not that I know of.
you go. So the RKI had noted internally at the time that side effects and vaccine related
injuries were only to be investigated after the product had been launched. Hey, maybe we can use this guy's voice for the book of knowledge. Sounds a little more fun. What came of that? Pfizer's post-marketing report mentioned over 1,200 suspected deaths within just two months of approval. Comirnaty should have been withdrawn from the market by then at the latest.
If I am correctly informed, the Paul Ehrlich Institute has received 2,133 reports of deaths following Comirnaty to date. With these spontaneous reports, there is a high number of unreported cases due to underreporting. The actual number is therefore much higher. In the US, an underreporting factor of 30 is assumed, by which the registered cases
should be multiplied. For Germany, that would correspond to 60,000 deaths caused by the vaccine. 60,000. So the federal government is...
withholding the important SAFAC and KV data on vaccination injuries. And the majority of this commission has even refused to request this data. Could vaccine injuries and deaths have been avoided with approval compliant with the regulations? Yes, because community should not have been approved at all under the regulations.
Wow. And Comirnaty was the good vaccine, if you remember. That was the one you kind of wanted if you had to take it anyway. Wow. Yeah.
Here we go with that. Now, this part kind of bothers me. And again, this brings up my never-ending complaint about liability issues.
You know, if people could sue, none of this would happen. Well, can they sue in Germany? I guess they can sue in Germany.
Maybe. I don't know. I don't know the rules in Germany.
They probably did the same thing there. Currently, many vaccine-injured individuals in Germany are fighting for compensation for pain and suffering.
They often lose because the courts say community has a positive risk-benefit ratio. Is this assumption justified? In my view, absolutely not. Community was not tested at all during clinical development for the prevention of severe illness or deaths. Pfizer documents, therefore, do not indicate a positive risk-benefit ratio at all. Mathematician Robert Rockenfeller from the University of...
Koblenz estimates that for every severe case of COVID-19 that Comirnaty allegedly prevents, there are 25 severe side effects. Okay, did age-adjusted mortality in Germany decline after the start of this vaccination campaign? No, mortality rose significantly from 2021 to 2022 compared to 2020. If there had been a positive risk benefit,
ratio, mortality should have declined when the vaccine became available in early 2021. That makes sense. Did the population receive the active ingredient?
during the vaccination campaign that Pfizer tested in the shortened emergency approval process? No. A highly purified substance was used for the clinical trial before approval. It was too expensive for mass production. The public received a vaccine produced using the Escherichia coli bacterium. The result is significant contamination with bacterial DNA and the consequence could be a headache.
heavily increased risk of cancer. Thank you very much. So, you know, Ron Johnson is the guy in the United States who does stuff like this. This is not like it's anything new. We know this. We've known this. This has been out there. Yes. And it just keeps coming out with more and more. It's like piling on and they still don't stop distributing this stuff.
So why is that?
Well, you tell me. And now listen to this guy. Now, this is Dr. Eric Berg, who had this little ditty that.
I thought this was an eye-opener.
And a lot of it has to do with the corruption of the pharma and the FDC. And listen to this.
So in 2007, Congress passed a law and it says if you run a drug study in America, you have to post the results, all of them, not just the ones that worked, but the ones that did not work and the ones that were they hurt people as well. And that's the law. So and when I say results, I'm not talking about we did a study. I mean, the actual numbers to do drugs work on the thing you said that there were.
measuring, how many people got sick, how many people died. All of that is required by law. Because if a company runs 10 studies and only two out of eight work, and they only show the good ones and suppress the bad ones, then the doctor and the patient are misled, especially in the consent form, the informed consent, when patients sign off that they know the risks and benefits.
So that's.
That's a law for about 19 years. The fine for breaking this law is about $13,000 a day per trial omitted. So every day they're late, the meter runs. $13,000 per day. So take a wild guess how many fines the FDA has collected in those 19 years. Zero. If you guessed zero, you are correct.
Zero, not a dollar. So Oxford University did the math. And if the FDA had enforced the law, pharma would owe $19 billion.
Weeks ago, the end of March, the new FDA commissioner, Dr. Marty McCary, put out this announcement and he said pharma has been suppressing unfavorable clinical trial results. And he used the word suppressing, which means hiding, not showing, omitting. So this is like the first time a commissioner in that job has come out in the open and said it. He sent messages to 2,200 companies.
2200.
And the message wasn't a fine. It was just saying, hey, you know, we see you. We know you're out of compliance. You have to fix it. That's it. And you might say that's a little thing, but just take a look at the enforcement that happened in the last 19 years. The only letters that were sent out were like eight in 19 years.
So the only thing I can hope.
is that
RFK Jr. is doing two things in parallel. One is getting all the healthy stuff in, the maha stuff, which I think he's been doing a pretty good job. We've brought back a real food pyramid.
getting rid of all kinds of things that shouldn't be in our food. We're trying to educate people about what is real food. Some of the food companies are changing. But I hope in parallel he is building a monster, because he is a lawyer.
what he's been doing. He sued pharma companies for his entire career. I hope he's building a monster case that will send people to the electric chair. And, you know, and he has another couple of years to do it.
I really, really, really hope that because that to me was a big part of the Trump administration was when Kennedy jumps in and says, I'm going to be a part of this. And we know, we know he knows it's bull crap. We know he knows that this stuff was bad and dangerous. Now you laugh because, I mean, do you think that that's not even in the cards that he won't do that? I mean, he doesn't seem like he's a, he's a feared kind of guy.
I think he wants to do it.
I think the team around him wants to do it, but there is so much embedded.
And there's so much corruption.
I mean, where's the $19 billion you could have collected?
Now they got nothing. They got zero collected.
And you have the liability scam and you have the advertising on TV scam and you have capture of the media and you have, you know, these guys that come on TV that promote this stuff and they get paid to do it.
It works to get extra money. So that's it. He gives up. We just, no, I can't do it. It's too big. I'm going to die not having tried. That's what it looks like to me.
Well, that would be very disappointing. Well, we'll all be disappointed. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. Well, that was a bummer. Thanks. Let me do a little update on Iran.
We're just a quick little, yeah, some financial economic fury update from the gay General Patton. Just to put a fine point on this, though, is the president in the process of winding down this war? Say what?
Thank you.
Just put a fine point on it. Yeah, well, this is Manhand's Welker. So, yeah, again, they're not mutually exclusive. Sometimes you have to escalate to deescalate. Oh, OK. NBC News is reporting that President Trump is considering sending troops into Iran. Will the administration use troops to secure the Strait of Hormuz or for any other reason? Why is she asking the secretary of the Treasury?
these questions is what I want to know. How would he know? This happens all the time. You pointed this out before. This is not the first time that he's been grilled on stuff that he's not, shouldn't have any connection.
Well, he is the general patent secretary. Again, as President Trump said during the press break yesterday when he was going out to Marine One, he's not going to give away what we're going to do. As President Trump always does, he's leaving all options on the table. We had a very successful bombing campaign against the military installations.
Karg Island, the nexus for all the Iranian oil supply. What could happen with Karg Island? We'll see. And again, just to be clear, the command and control system of the Iranian regime is in chaos. This is Hitler's bunker. Hitler is dead. Himmler is dead. Goring is dead. Oh, no. Eva Gardner is dead.
Most of what you're seeing are lone wolf activities. The mid-range ICBM that was shot off, these two missiles yesterday, that's out of desperation, Kristen. Well, he knows a lot for a money guy. You bring up Karg Island. I want to ask you about your statement. You said it could become a U.S. asset. What exactly does that mean? Could U.S. troops go into Karg Island to secure it? Again, as I said, all options are on the table.
Okay, so that's a possibility. All options are on the table. All right, let me...
your announcement this past week. On Friday, the Treasury Department lifted sanctions on Iranian oil stored on tankers.
I chose this because the previous clip that we played on the show ago, he was doing the math and he was fighting with his calculator, but he did it wrong because he said 60% of 150, or do you want just $100?
And his math was off on the 60 percent. So he's changed that now in his answer. A move that would effectively allow Iran to get more than 14 billion dollars of oil revenue. Why is the.
that it's currently at war with, Mr. Secretary.
below 100. It's better to have them
where they are now. And to be clear, we had always planned for this contingency. About 140 million barrels are out on the water. In essence, we are jujitsu-ing the Iranians. We are using their own oil against them.
We have a much better line of sight, to be clear, at Treasury when this oil goes to. If it goes to Indonesia, if it goes to Japan, if it goes to Korea, we have a much better line of sight and are able to block accounts that the oil goes into. When it goes into China, it completely gets recycled. So to be clear, that $14 billion. I don't understand that.
One is we get to block the accounts that the oil goes into. I mean, maybe the accounts that will be paying for the oil, but I don't know if there's someone go to the bank and say, here's some oil.
And then what he's talking about. And that's what he's talking about. Recycled.
Are the Chinese reselling it to somebody else? I think that's what he means, yeah. No, but that's not what they do with the oil. They use the stuff. He's saying they recycle it. Line of sight and are able to block accounts that the oil goes into. When it goes into China, it completely gets recycled. So to be clear, that 14 billion number is grossly overstated. Let me unpack what you're just saying. First of all, how much?
is it? And second of all, I don't hear you disputing that Iran will get some of the money. Iran already gets a huge amount of the money because Iran is the largest sponsor of state terrorism and China has been funding them. What's the connection there? They get a lot of money because they're the sponsor of state terrorism? Yeah, he's not saying that. Today's show is about illogic. And here is the...
President with the latest on the negotiations. Today, President Trump canceled plans for his top envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, to travel to Pakistan.
for negotiations with Iran aimed at ending the war. The president spoke in Florida right before returning to Washington, D.C. We're not going to spend 15 hours in airplanes all the time going back and forth to be giving a document that was not good enough. We got Zoom. And so we'll deal by telephone and they can call us anytime they want. Tonight, Iran's foreign minister.
The minister who left Pakistan is questioning whether the U.S. is serious about diplomacy. I agree. Zoom call, people. Let's save some money, save some time. Zoom call. So I was sent a clip.
which I'd never seen before. And I think it's Mike Wallace interviewing the then Shah of Iran.
Have you seen this clip? Yes, I have. Good, because I was puzzled by it. Have you seen the lines of cars stretching for blocks, in some cases for miles? This is 1974, the...
gas, the oil shortage, the gas crisis. Waiting to get gas. I have seen the pictures. And you cannot get gas. But you have imported more oil than any time in the past. Well, not recently we haven't. You have? You mean we are still importing more oil than we were, let's say, in September? You believe that? I can't say for sure.
But what is certain is that you are not importing less. Then we were importing last September, then this whole thing is a fraud?
You know that ships are changing their destinations two or three times in the oceans. You sell the oil for a certain destination and it ends up somewhere else.
What you seem to be saying is that there is some fraud involved, that there is something going on that doesn't meet the eye. Oh, something is going on for sure. And who is being enriched?
The oil companies? The oil companies. You know that one oil company has made 67% interest this year and another one even more? Well, the president of Aramco acknowledges. Yes? Not the president, the chairman of the board of Aramco.
that their profits, the parent company, will go up by 400%.
So the implication here, 1974, I'm old enough to remember. I was not in America in the gas lines, but I was in the Netherlands where we had car-free Sundays. There was no driving on Sunday because there wasn't enough oil to make gasolina for the entire country.
What I'm hearing the Shah say here is that it wasn't that...
the oil wasn't available, but it was being diverted by nefarious actors to other places. Yeah, that's cute. Did you know this? Do you think that's true?
Well, it was never documented that to be true. It was supposed to be a shortage. We weren't getting enough.
or the prices were going up and they...
kind of created.
A shortage because of the price.
I don't know, maybe. Well, well, I mean, it's possible. Well, here's the coincidence. I mean, I went through that. I was working for the air pollution district.
And, uh...
Just I had a car.
government car
I didn't have any of these issues. I just drove it around. You just drove it around. Did you go to the government pump and get filled up whenever you wanted?
We didn't have any government pumps, but I never had, I don't remember waiting in long lines.
I just don't. So the oil baron had given me a book to read.
A couple of weeks, a couple of months ago, I talked about it, I think briefly. The men who run the world, the people who run the world. And it's about the commodity traders, the people who actually buy the stuff. And, you know, they're organizing ghost ships.
loading and offloading from one ship to the next. And, oh, you need some oil from Libya. Don't worry, we'll go in. We know guys on the ground. They won't shoot us. And it's a really good book.
And the Freakonomics podcast had the authors of this book on just this week.
And here's their version of what happens during the 70s with an old show favorite, Mark Rich.
And Mark Rich, we know because he wound up in Switzerland and was pardoned by President Clinton on the last day of his presidency. And he arguably was the guy who really put commodity trading on the map.
A lot of what you needed to do to make money in the oil trade in those early days was to have a good enough relationship with one of the big oil producers that they would sell you oil at a price that was probably too low.
One of his big trade flows was through this extremely secretive pipeline that went through Israel that was built as a joint venture between Israel and Iran before the fall of the Shah in great secrecy. And Mark Rich would be buying Iranian oil, putting it through the pipeline, supplying Israel, but also supplying Europe through this pipeline, which then became enormously valuable when the Suez Canal closed in 1967.
after Israel launched an attack on Egypt and Syria. This brief war was over, but the Suez Canal stayed closed until 1975. And for Mark Rich, that was a gift from the gods and he made huge amounts of money. Mark Rich became this almost larger-than-life figure in commodity trading, the most profitable commodity trader ever. We spoke to a number of former senior people at Mark Rich who said...
The company made a billion dollars of profit in 1979, the year of the Iranian revolution, which in those days would have made it one of the 10 largest companies in America. And this was a company owned by a small handful of people that only people in the commodities industry had ever heard of.
But that didn't last because Mark Rich caught the attention of US law and particularly of Rudy Giuliani, then a prosecutor, who indicted him for tax fraud.
for trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. So he and his partner, Pinky Green, fled the US to Switzerland, became fugitives from US justice, and then carried on their business of being the world's largest commodity trading house, despite this US indictment hanging over their head. First of all, a name like Pinky Green is just awesome. Everybody needs a friend whose name is Pinky Green.
But I didn't know that Giuliani was involved in that. And to me, yeah.
This kind of rings true.
This might have been a manufactured crisis by a bunch of shysters running around doing all this oil business with Iran and Israel of all two countries.
Come on, we're being hoodwinked about all of this stuff. All of this stuff is fake and gay. What you're paying at the pump now, fake and gay, all of it. This is all manipulation. They have one more clip here about today's situation. And Giuliani's a suspicious character. Have you heard Kiriakou talk about him? No, Kiriakou's all on the up and up too.
suspicious characters.
None of them are any good. If Mark Rich were starting out today, what would he be doing? He'd probably be trying to trade Russian, Iranian, Venezuelan oil, selling it to India and China. I think what happened here is Trump became the new Mark Rich. He's like, I can do this. I'll just do it for America. Those are the dodgy bits of the oil market.
where there is huge amounts of money to be made and which rely on having good connections and a willingness to bend or break the rules. Now, somebody is doing that, plainly. Lots of people are doing that. For the most part, not the principal characters of our book, because the principal characters of our book have become such enormous companies that they're too reliant on the US dollar system to risk falling foul of the US government.
For the most part, that Russian oil flow, for example, Iranian oil flow, which is subject to even stricter sanctions, has gone into the hands of more shadowy traders. There's this new set of traders that has popped up in Dubai who change his name every few months.
including sometimes because they get sanctioned by the US government, which is involved in trading a lot of the Russian oil. A lot of the Iranian oil gets traded or even bartered directly by Chinese companies and Chinese buyers, sometimes gets shipped via Malaysia, where it gets rebranded as Malaysian oil and then imported into China as Malaysian rather than Iranian oil.
There are political scientists who make the argument that sanctions often fail for a variety of reasons. Do they factor in what you're talking about right now, which is just that there are shadow dealers, essentially, who are finding ways to get around the sanctions? One of the key arguments for why people say that sanctions don't work, particularly sanctions on things like commodities, because if commodities are produced, then as a rule, they tend to...
to flow and they tend to find a market because they're fungible. It's quite hard to trace them. I wouldn't say it's universally true.
For example, in 2012, when the US and Europe ratcheted up sanctions on Iran, Iranian oil production and exports did fall pretty substantially.
This whole thing.
There's so much we're not aware of. There's a lot going on with this. I pray that Trump knows what he's doing. He must have some view of this, of what's happening. And Besson, I think the money part. Besson probably does.
for sure. Yeah, the money part, I think they've kind of got that nailed down.
Well, we're just pawns in the game. Oh, we're just podcaster pawns. We're just the worst. Oh, speaking of podcasters, they're all turning on Trump, man. The Manosphere podcasters are turning on Trump. Something's changed. On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history. That was the winning election promise. This is the reality.
arrests at workplaces and hardware stores.
And some of those huge supporters now publicly cooling. The storming into the f***ing Home Depot and arresting people. No, no, that's not cool either. The military in the street, I think, is a dangerous precedent. Heard you got deported, dude. Theo Von Furious, that this video of his was used by the government in an immigration promo. Aiden Ross, who gave Trump a Tesla, now going in the other direction. So you both voted first time last year, right?
Yes. For Trump? Yes. How do these podcasts affect your vote? I kind of be able to hear him talk for three hours. It kind of gets you a little bit more, oh, this is who he is. He's a little bit more human. When you see these Manusphere podcasters moving away from the president, what do you make of all of that? I think it's important to make your own decisions and not blindly follow like a celebrity or a podcaster just because you enjoy watching their show.
Yeah, that was CNN. Here's MSNOW. But the other risk is that they are now potentially turning Donald Trump into a cultural punchline, right? That he's an idiot, that his supporters are dorks, that he's been fooled into doing all this stuff and that he's a failure.
And, you know, Donald Trump, for better or for worse, has had an incredible ability to shape the perceptions of him and the cultural relevance that he has. And to a degree, he loses that control when these people turn on him, when his own supporters turn on him. And that hasn't really happened in the entirety of his political career.
These people are not MAGA. They are just politically curious podcasters who kind of got sucked in and came to support Trump. Now, you ask, is it dangerous? Of course, it's dangerous politically. But is it justified? And I would argue it is justified because there are a host of promises that Donald Trump made to this sect in particular, but the voters in general, that he's just not followed through on. It's not just to stay out of Middle East wars. It's not just to be completely transparent on the
He literally said he would bring down gasoline prices by half.
So for the people who email me, I've noticed this trend. And the trend is two terms.
Defending and supporting.
Because the emails I get is, you know, well, yeah, it's okay. But, you know, you're defending Trump. You're supporting Trump.
And just because I...
I don't think either of us are hair on fire slamming Trump, which is what...
the audience captured podcasts are doing because their audiences are very similar to ours. You're supporting Trump. You're defending him.
We're giving you analysis. We're trying to figure out what is going on.
what his strategy would be, presuming that he's not stupid. Or nuts. Or nuts. Or senile. So you're going to get a different result by listening to the No Agenda podcast.
that doesn't mean we're defending or supporting anything. We're trying to see it from... I've learned in the 18 years we've been doing this, and really has been during this show, that the world that you see is usually, if you turn it upside down, that's the reality of it. It's the strangest thing.
If everyone's going right, you should be looking left. Don't look over here. Look over there. So when everyone's saying Trump is nuts and he's senile and he's.
demented and he's a liar and he doesn't know what he's doing. I'm looking for the thing where it, maybe it's exactly the opposite. So the only thing I'll defend is our analysis.
And I think it's good that we do that. I think you should cherish what we're doing.
And most people will say, I'm not going to stop listening, but you're wrong. You're defending and supporting him. No, we're giving you a different analysis and you should be happy about that different analysis. It may strengthen your own beliefs. It may make you question them, but either way.
Please don't write these long emails explaining how we've gone off the rails. I don't see it.
I'm sorry? I don't see us going off the rails. No. I mean, if you wanted to say something was off the rails, have a clip. Okay. He's got something. He's got a clip. An off the rails clip. I think now this is funny. Trump administration.
approves firing squads. All right, Ryan Nobles joins us live in studio. And Ryan, another headline we're tracking from the Justice Department. They're bringing back firing squads for federal executions. Yeah, that's right, Tom. The Biden administration had placed a moratorium on federal executions. But the Trump administration is lifting that ban and planning to reintroduce other forms of execution beyond lethal injections like firing squads.
They say it's to streamline the process and speed up those executions. I personally, okay, first of all, I'm all for all of this. I just want the TV rights. This is all I've ever asked for. I think that if I had the TV rights to all firing squads, Dana Brunetti would find the money to back us to do this television show. Oh, yeah.
I also think the guillotine would be a good, cool thing to bring back. The guillotine would be cool, especially if they lift the head up where the guys. By the hair. By the hair. Breathing for air. And the mouth going up and down.
Oh, man. That would be entertainment. Speaking of entertainment, the biggest box office smash.
Have you heard?
What? Michael Jackson.
But this is based on the Broadway play, right?
Well, this is the biopic. This is the loop. Oh, this is the biopic. This is not the Broadway show. No, no, no. This is the biopic. It's a big production. Lionsgate. Here we go. I got a clip. Ready whenever you are, Michael.
Michael explores his ascent to superstardom from the Jackson 5 and A Childhood in the Spotlight. Y'all willing to fight for it? Yes, sir. To escaping his abusive father and manager, Joe Jackson's grip. I need to think. I told you what to think. The title role is played by the king of pop's nephew, Jafar Jackson.
what I want the world to feel. The biopic ends in 1984 at the peak of Michael's thriller superstardom.
But it glosses over a central part of his life story.
the child sex abuse allegations that still haunt his legacy. The filmmaker,
say they planned on tackling the allegations, which first surfaced in 1993, but that they were cut because of legal constraints. One's understanding of Michael Jackson is not complete if you refuse to look at the whole picture. The Jackson estate, which was involved in the film, maintains his innocence and calls the claims against him lies and money grabs. The pop star was a
Hello, Wade.
People just don't care about the allegations, even if, in his view, Jackson is worse than Epstein. I think with Michael Jackson, he was almost too big to fail. The musician's daughter, Paris Jackson, also condemned the film. There's a lot of inaccuracy and there's a lot of just...
lies. There's at least one protest planned outside a Canadian theater, with organizers calling the movie a slap in the face to all child sexual abuse survivors. Taria Esri, Global News, Montreal. So, everybody's in luck because I happen to be somewhat of an authority on Michael Jackson.
Having met him more than once?
Having been in the music business during at least part of his amazing career. In fact, at one point.
I was called upon as an expert in all things Michael Jackson. Oh, here we go. When he died and MSNBC called me.
Yeah, this is your first and last visit to MSNBC. I mean, there seems to be an insatiable appetite for this.
Peace.
Absolutely. And I'm amazed.
and everyone seems to be...
a guy who
shaved. He had a
Go to a
Huge production. You have to be preparing yourself.
Here it comes.
testing.
What happened?
about some form of
medicinal drugs.
in his home.
that no one is looking at a murder.
And they hung up on me. And they've never called again.
But of course, the doctor was convicted of killing him. Well, at least you're consistent. Well, the doctor was convicted of killing him.
Yeah. And his lawyer, who was married to Catherine Bach. Yeah, you nailed it. And these guys, you know, they just, you weren't playing the game. I was not playing the game. So Kamala Harris, as a side note, was the prosecutor on that trial. That might tell you something. He was acquitted. So when you're acquitted, then it's done.
It's very sad to see this theme keep coming up that he was a child molester. And having met him, I can tell you this guy was asexual. There was no sex going on with this guy. I think the one time was with Brooke Shields. I think he actually found her attractive.
But when I went to...
I'll just tell the story briefly. MTV was filled with deals. MTV was all deals, deals, deals.
and they wanted Michael Jackson to perform at the VMAs, the Video Music Awards. And he said, okay, but under two conditions. And one of them was that he would be giving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award of the Year and that the award would be named after him, which they changed the minute J-Lo won it. But, okay, so they're...
They're not good people if they change that award. But that was all political, of course, because, you know, for some reason, Michael Jackson fiddled with kids, which I just do not believe. And so I had to go to Los Angeles. You can see the video on YouTube, me and Tom Freston. Michael Jackson in that video is taller than I am. That's because he was standing on an apple crate.
because I guess he didn't know how tall I was. He requested me specifically. I'm not quite sure why. But when I walked into MJJ Studios, there must have been 30 kids.
And they were brown and black. And I think that they were, you know, underprivileged kids. And they had this beautiful playground. And there were nannies and nurses around them taking care of them. And Howie Mandel was there doing Bobby's World voices. Michael Jackson truly loved children.
And there was nothing sexual about it.
That's just a lie.
And for whatever reason, or money probably, people just keep bringing this up over and over again. So whereas I'm not defending President Trump, I will defend Michael Jackson. Having met him more than once, this guy was asexual. And I'm interested in the movie. People say it's no good, but I'm interested in seeing it. I will go watch. I'm glad it's out.
Oh, good. Nice report.
If only for the reason that I recently asked a room full of 20-year-olds and they said, well, so tell us about what you did at MTV. They'd never seen a video on MTV.
I said, well, you know, it's like Diana Ross and Mick Jagger and David Bowie and Michael Jackson. They had no idea. They had no idea who Michael Jackson was. Of course, why would they? Well, so now they do. There you go. That's my report.
Yeah. Well, you've done this before and I think it's valid. Thank you. Sounds right to me. Yeah.
So I have a couple of just, I don't know how many more, how much time we have left. Yeah, we got some time for something. I got Brooks and K-Party.
This is literally the definition of fake and gay. Brooks and Capehart.
you
This was provided to me by Steve, the clip collector.
Steve, the clip collector. And because I had stopped doing the Brooks and Capehart gig for a while. I was giving it a rest.
And I didn't realize I've given it a rest for so long. It's like four months because I think mostly because you were bitching and moaning about.
because you hate Brooks and you hate Capehart. Pretty much. With good reason. So I found this interesting. This is a couple of things. They're discussing the DOJ dropping the case against Powell.
which they've done.
In fact, we could play a pre-clip here on Powell. Oh, you got a pre-clip? There may be a pre-clip. Where's the pre-clip? It would be under.
Under Powell? Powell. No, I don't see. I think you have a pre-clip. I'm pretty sure I do.
Whatever. I don't think so. Okay, it's beside the point. We can just go right to these.
So here we have the...
discussion of dropping the case. Oh, PBS News. Yeah, there you go. That's your pre-clip. Okay. The Justice Department is dropping its criminal probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over whether he lied to Congress about renovations at the Fed's headquarters.
Instead, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, said the Fed's inspector general would be looking into cost overruns at the site. The announcement opens a pathway for Kevin Warsh to be confirmed as Powell's successor.
Earlier this week, Republican Senator Tom Tillis threatened to block his nomination unless the DOJ dropped its investigation. At the White House today, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt urged Tillis to move forward. Senator Tillis should do the right thing and move to confirm Kevin Warsh as speedily as possible. He is a phenomenal candidate to lead the Fed, and we shouldn't be holding our nation's economy hostage because of a disagreement with the Department.
of justice. The DOJ investigation of Powell unfolded against the backdrop of President Trump's repeated criticism of the Fed chair for not lowering interest rates faster. Okay.
Yes. All right. So here we go with a little analysis. And something caught me off guard. Can I ask you a question first? Yeah. So.
As Fed.
Federal Reserve chairman, which is you're the head of a bunch of banks with a government sounding name. Well, you know, the head of the banks.
You're ahead of a bunch. You're just ahead of this committee, basically. Committee from a bunch of banks and people. Yeah. Okay. I'm just saying, it's not a federal, it's not a government thing. It's independent. It's just a name. It's a club of banks. It's like a 24-hour cleaner. One-hour photo. A one-hour photo, yeah. Just the name of the place. Is it up to the actual Federal Reserve chairman himself?
to lower or to change interest rates? Or is that the entire federal open market committee system? Is the chair of that, because it's very confusing to me, the president appoints the chair, he gets confirmed by Senate, has nothing to do with the government, but can that individual, that one person, can he say, I'm changing the interest rates?
I think he can.
Wow. I mean, he does it in consultation. He just doesn't do it, but I think he can. But it's that guy. So that guy can wake up and say, let's make it 2%.
Let's make it 10. Yeah, I'm pretty. Yeah, I think so. Okay. All right. Now, I could be wrong, but I think so. Back to your clip.
So now there's something noteworthy in here. See if you can spot it. This is DOJ drops Powell probe. The U.S. Justice Department dropped its probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after admitting it lacked evidence. And voters in Virginia approved Democrats' redistricting efforts. For all of that and more, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart. That is the Atlantic's David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNOW.
It's great to see you both. So the DOJ dropped its probe, as we said, into Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in part to clear a path for the confirmation of Kevin Warsh as his successor, but also because the federal judge effectively crippled U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's investigation.
David, what do you see as the takeaways? Who would have thought? Lack of evidence hurts the prosecution. You know, I think, first of all, Donald Trump, like every president, frankly, would love to have a Fed chair do what he wants because he can juice the economy at the right time for the election. Trump is obviously the only one who would actually act on that. And it should be said, we should appreciate the fact the Federal Reserve System is one of the crown jewels of our country.
Yes, obviously in the progressive era. But you look at Greenspan, what Bernanke did was miraculous. I think Powell has been an excellent Fed chair. The fact that we have these independent agencies who are doing their job with civil servants doing their job is just something we should be proud of. And the fact that it's under threat and still under threat should still alarm us, even if we've had a reprieve on this. The second point is.
that Tom Tillis, the senator who is retiring, who is holding up the Warsh nomination, it would be interesting to see if other senators who are not retiring.
start doing that kind of thing, standing up to Trump. Now there's approvals.
in the 30s and not in the 40s. And I anticipate that a few more senators will discover some courage when it comes time to standing up to the administration that they have lacked for the last eight years.
Well, the thing that kind of gets me is it sounds like Brooks believes that this is a part of the government.
Crown Jewels. Sounds like it, I know. Civil servants. No. Bankers. What do you mean civil servants? Okay, what was... But the thing that caught my attention, which you missed... No evidence.
No, it's...
David Brooks from the Atlantic.
Oh.
The so-called conservative Republican from the Atlantic.
What happened to his New York Times gig? Oh, that's an interesting question. Good observation. When this began, New York Times, he was a New York Times columnist for 22 years. And the other guy, Capehart, was a Washington Post guy. Now he's MS.
Now, which is zip, which, you know, pays nothing. So, so I, I, I heard that and I went, what? And so I had to dig back and I, Brooks quit the New York times in, or was ousted. I can't tell. And he wrote one of the, he may have.
It's hard to say one or the other because it doesn't really say it. But he wrote one of the going away columns on January 30th. That's how long ago it's been since he's been out of the New York Times, January 30th. And I read this column, which was like a war and peace. This is a column that ran over 2,800 words for an hour.
essay where he's moaning and groaning about the state of affairs in the country. People should go back and read this thing. It's terror, poorly, not going to condemn other writers, but poorly written. And it just rambles. It's like one of these.
the type of essay you write when you're not given a length. You know, make it 1,200 words. Make it 800 words. No, no. I'm going to write until I drop. Forever. So he writes over 2,800 words, which is a ramble. Run that thing through ChatGPT. Have it condensed. Come on. Everyone does it.
And so he says at the end that I'm going to big, I'm taking the leap and I'm going to bigger and better things. And he ends up at the Atlantic.
The Loren Jobs left-wing rag? Soon to be sued out of existence?
Possibly. Mm-hmm. So I just thought that was odd. Yeah, I missed that one. Yeah.
But anyway, so I...
is taken aback. So here's part two of this. What do you think about that, Jonathan, as President Trump's approval rating starts to soften? Do you think more Republicans will use leverage wherever they can find it? One can only hope.
You know, Senator Tillis, he won this particular war because he made it clear for weeks. He's not voting for anybody's confirmation until that lawsuit went away. And, you know, look, give the president a little bit of props here in that he's just, OK, fine.
Fine. The prosecution is over. I'm going to get my guy in and maybe he will do what I want him to do on interest rates. But we'll have to take Mr. Warsh at his word that he says that he's not going to be a puppet of the president. We'll see. And Powell's term ends next month. Does this episode change the dynamics around his departure or the search, the appointment, the confirmation?
the expected confirmation of his successor. You know, well, if you're Powell, you're worried that they're going to come after you again. And I think that's one of the reasons he's reluctant to leave, because he won't have some certain protections. But I think he kept on doing his job no matter what.
And this is a very tricky economy with inflation rising. And it was not expected that he would be able to drive down inflation without a recession. And he did it. That's amazing. And I thought, well, Kevin Warsh is a pick, the best possible pick that Trump could have had.
I've seen him speak at conferences for years, and he's a serious guy who a normal Republican might have picked, which is not always the case with the Trump administration, substantive guy. So I think all things considered, that part of the government is in reasonably good shape, and they have a gigantic new building.
A big wasted money building.
Again, with the that part of the government.
Yeah, good point. Isn't he an economist, this Brooks character?
No, that's the other guy. No, who am I thinking of? Yeah, you're thinking of the guy who won the Nobel Prize. Yeah, that guy. I can't think of his name offhand. Well...
I mean, I think.
Warsh seems to be saying that he's going to come in and he's going to lower interest rates. Well, we'll find out, won't we? What would happen if he just said, boom, two points off? Would that drive everybody nuts? No one's doing that.
If they took half a point off, it'd be a big deal.
Why is that a big deal? What happens when you take half a point off? It frees up a lot of money. It lowers money. It drops inflation. It should because things get cheaper. It's cheaper to take out loans. But the main point is to lower the interest rate so that the president can refinance the country.
Well, that's your thesis. Trump's a refi guy. He knows what to do. Well, he definitely is a refi guy. Yeah.
So you got Besant in there. Well, we'll see. We're at 39 trillion. That's quite a lot.
You know, this is, speaking of finances, this is a value for value podcast. A lot of people.
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Oh, I didn't get a lot of sleep. Oh.
But I feel okay. Yeah. How's the monitoring going? How's that, that, the telemetry that you're hooked up to now? I don't know. I won't find out anything until after the two weeks is up and they, and they analyze it.
Okay. But your chest is okay? No pain? You're still good? Yeah, yeah. In fact, I'm getting out now.
You're getting out? Oh, you're out around walking the neighborhood? I went to the Mercado the other day to do some shopping in the Mexican market. Oh, nice. Yeah.
And do you have a guide with you? Do you have a... No, Brennan's around in case I keel over. Do you have a cane you can poke kids? No, I don't have a cane. Stay away from me, kids. Hey, get out of my way, girls. Look at this. Oh, I'm sorry. There was an accident.
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We chose Comic Strip Bloggers FBI Vodka. We just thought it was simple. It was on point. There were a lot of different. Are you rummaging in a peanut bag or what are you doing? Macadamia nuts. You will have to talk within the next couple of minutes, just so you know. No, I'm not eating anything. Are you hungry? Are you allowed to eat macadamia nuts?
You can't eat too many because I think there's a phosphorus issue. Yeah. I don't know. You know, one of the things I got was...
a dietician I've ran into finally that knows what she's doing. Oh, so she lets you eat something else? No, no. It's like they look at the blood test. They tell you you can eat this. You got to do this. You got to do that. But it's all based on, it's all new. It's based on research. It's a lot of new stuff. It's like more like Kennedy stuff as opposed to the recent out of school. I mean, the one at the hospital
It sounded like she was from the 1950s.
You know, with the old-fashioned pyramid, too many carbs. The pyramid. The old pyramid, not even the new pyramid? No, it's just like I can't hear this. And then you get somebody who knows what they're talking about. I've had dieticians before.
And it's like, this doesn't sound right. Sounds like, you know, I'm old enough to remember what you're supposed to do in the 1940s. Well, in the 40s I wasn't born, but the 50s and 60s. No, this is not the new stuff.
Anyway, that's my little rant. Yeah. All right. And how about the goop? How's your mouth? Because I know that was the biggest problem. Do you have salves and goops? No, my mouth will still dry out. It hasn't done that today. But it's hard to predict why and when. And the fluids? Fluids. Are they still draining you?
No, I haven't been drained for a while. But do you have fluid?
sloshing when you walk? I don't feel the slosh. When do they go and check? Come on, we want to update. This is an issue that's been brought up.
What has been brought up? It has not been resolved, I don't think. Oh, okay.
All right.
Taking a look at the artwork that we saw, let's see, there was you with, I guess you is a very bad depiction of you with, you know, draining some crude slop into a barrel. That was no good.
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You know, the sock puppet?
Oh, yeah, that was reasonable. That was okay. But, you know, then we just felt like the FBI box, it was clean, it was easy.
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Well, we're going to make it really short and sweet today because we only have one on the list, which doesn't happen very often. Rebecca Hall, who just got her karma. She wishes her dad a very happy birthday. He is turning 89 years old and he still reads the paper without his glasses.
Happy birthday to you from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. And before we throw out the title changes, we actually have two notes to read regarding these. We have a Sir Hebe of Hogtown is how he started out. But after his life altering brain aneurysm experience, which I think you can get in Vegas.
He said he would now like to be survivor of aneurysm. And he says he can hear you grousing about it. I don't think so. Why would you grouse?
I don't know. I couldn't figure out that. It was baffling to me, too. I beat the odds. Well, maybe because it's not a title upgrade.
He says, I beat the odds big time. Thanks to God and some great doctors. And this is one way to commemorate it. Okay. And then we have a title change from Steve Cashman. He says, I've been on the 3333 plan for a while. And with intermittent producing donations, I realized my PayPal account, which seems to put me into double barren.
territory, $1,033.30. I also donated various meetups. So he's got a whole thing here. He says, so with your consent and with Sir Scott of the Armory's blessing, I would like to be dubbed Sir Steve with a V, Baron of South Austin. I believe that's okay. And he just said, oh, he says, I lost my original knight ring. What?
This is scandalous. Can I pay something to get a replacement? I'm sure Jay can work that out with you. And he asks if you have a Dilbert-esque story about office behavior. You always seem to start them with, hey, Bill, is Bill real? He says, is Bill real?
There's a lot of bills.
Is that a yes or a no?
Not offhand. Okay.
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time for some meetups.
No agenda, meetups.
We have Damonette who has put together one of those fabulous meetup reports for the Indianapolis Indy meetup. Hi.
This is Dame Maria. And Sir Mark. And we're celebrating the best Dame wife birthday ever. Gary here, just giving a shout out to Mike the Polymath. Happy birthday, and hopefully you're here at the next one. Hi, this is Sir up over the paper, and I just found out that Gary is not Canadian. In the morning, Nodder from Indianapolis, and to go off of Trevor and Gary, I'm just glad I'm not Canadian. In the morning, John and Adam's from PBR Street Gang
James and I's here at No Agenda here in Indy. Hail to the victorious dead. In the morning, Dame Trinity here in Indianapolis having a great time. And I want to wish Dame Maria a very happy birthday. Happy birthday! Thank you! This is Viscount of Hamilton and the Two Pennies here with my wife, Dame Melissa. Sir Benny, just saying hello.
And Dame Melissa says hello also. In the morning, from Dame Melissa and Dame Swanee. This is Emily, your Shufflecraft spook here to remind you that we are still in the middle of a shutdown. Anyway, I miss Annette. We're here just enjoying good company. Adios, locos. In the morning, this is Shannon. I misread the invite. I thought it was a book club. As far as book clubs go, this is foam finger number one. Hi, this is Cody Bongino.
I was the server for the No Agenda group, and I had a great time. They're wonderful people. Hey, Maria. Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Marie. I didn't realize that. I would have put you on the birthday list. I'm sorry about that. And nice to put your server in there. We love it when they put the servers in there. And, you know, someone just listened to that meetup report. John, you know, it truly is fortunate. There's one thing that I'm so happy that you do not live in Canada.
Oh, yeah. You would have been a candidate for the maid. They would have been, like, trying to get you killed so fast. Oh, yeah.
Don't you think? Hey, you want to die, dude?
Yes, yes.
Exactly.
Hey, we got a meetup taking place today on our show day. M1 Local 1 Spring Fling. It's underway at Brewer Becker in Brighton, Michigan. On Wednesday, we have the new North Toronto No Agenda meetup. I guess that's a new one. It'll kick off at 7 o'clock at All Star Wings and Rubs in Vaughan. That is in Ontario. We got a lot of people in Canada.
We've got to keep a hold of those people because Canada is trying to kill you. On our next show day, Thursday, the North Georgia Quarterly Meetup, 6 o'clock at Cherry Seat Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia. Also on Thursday, the See If Anyone Shows Up Meetup. This is our buddy in Saxony, in Leipzig.
In Germany. Okay, I really want people to show up for this meetup. It'll be at 7 o'clock at Goldhopfen. Goldhopfen, I say, in Leipzig. Come on, Germans, show up for this guy.
Coming up in the month of May, we have meetups in Spathinaw, Oklahoma. That's on the 1st. Camp Hill, Pennsylvania on the 2nd. Buda, Texas on the 8th. Leiden on the 8th. Eagle, Idaho on the 9th. Santa Rosa, California on the 9th. Nashville, Tennessee on the 9th. On the 14th, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Fort Wayne, Indiana on the 15th, Las Banos, California on the 16th, Hickson, Tennessee on the 23rd, and also on the 23rd, Franklin, Tennessee, two Tennessee meetups at the same time. Squim, Washington on the 25th, and it goes through all the way into June, July, I see things in October. These are the no agenda meetups. This is where you go to hang out with people.
who will be very different from you, but you all have something in common and you will get along. You might even meet your future mate. These are connections that give you protection. These people will be your first responder in any emergency. They make you stable, so you're able. Noagentameetups.com. Go find one near you if you can't at noagentameetups.com.
You can enter all the information and start one yourself. It's easy and always a party. Noagendameetups.com. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me. Drink it all, hell's blame. You want to be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. And we're coming up on John's tip of the day. Everybody loves a good tip of the day. The McMaster tip was outrageous.
People really love that. One of our producers, one of our dames out there, she's been working for McMasters, I think, for eight years. Yeah, it's funny. And Martell Hardware sent me a note about how they get stuff from them, too. Wait a minute, so they're just a pass-through now? Is that what they are? Well, I guess they do wholesaling or something. I'm not sure. Oh, excellent.
Before we do that, though, we always choose the ISO for the end of the show at this moment.
in the podcast. I have two, you have two. Looks like you're back on a track. Do you want to start or do you want me to go? Go. Okay, here we go.
comedic gold. I'm not a fan of that one. I think this is pretty good. We rated A+++. A+++. Okay, I have two, a variation and a theme. These are both the same with a variation. Oh, you mean you change the temperature on the AI voice?
No, I just changed the wording. Okay. Dadgummit. That show was riveting.
Wow, he said it in such a riveting manner, too. It was amazing. Let's try the second one. Dadgummit, that show was riveting. Donate, people. Yeah, there you go. We'll have to use that one, because we need to remind you to donate after you hear the tip of the day. Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCB. And sometimes Adam. So this, uh...
This, uh...
stems from the fact I'm staying at my daughter's place with Brennan.
Uh, her husband, and they don't have a grill. Oh, what?
Yeah. It's un-American. It's un-American. This is a Mimi. What? It's un-American. Even Mimi couldn't believe it. So I'm recommending a grill. This could be used for barbecue, but it's a grill that can be used for barbecue. I discovered this product probably in the 80s when I was in Georgia. Because I think the company's...
It's in the south someplace. And it's a company called Char Griller.
not to be confused with Char-Broil. Char-Griller is a company that makes grills, and they make one particular one, their real classic one, which I'm recommending as a tip of the day. And it's called the, and it's available at Lowe's.
Supposedly exclusively, although you can order it from Char Griller directly from their website. You can look up Char Griller.
And Char Griller, the pro deluxe charcoal grill with an 850 square inch burner. The thing that, or not burner, but cooking surface.
The thing that's noteworthy about this being the perfect size, you can use it as a smoker by pushing the coals to one side and smoking on the other side of the thing. But the kicker is the fact that they have cast iron.
A cast iron grate for cooking. You cook on cast iron, not the cheesy little crappy little things that work. Wire, the wire stuff. The wire. Wow. And so the cast, they run around 200 bucks. That's not expensive. No, it's not expensive at all. That's a good best price.
Now, there's a couple of things you should note. Well, can I ask you a question? Don't you have to season that? Don't you have to season the cast?
iron before you use it? You know, I... Oh, you don't believe in that, do you? I have mixed feelings.
A couple of things to note. Lowe's has it.
As an exclusive. Exclusive. But.
Supposedly exclusive. And so that, and the competition is Home Depot. So if you want a home, Home Depot has the exact same product called the 21, I think it's the 2130. It's pretty much the exact same product called the Blazer.
And it's slightly cheaper, but it's the same thing. And the only difference seems to be cosmetic. And instead of having wood shelves or shelves on the outside, you can put stuff on. The shelves, instead of being wood, they're metal and slightly different looking. But from what I can tell, it's still got the cast iron grate. And it still should cook pretty much the same way.
Now, I've been using these. I've gone through three of these personally. You mean that they don't last or you're just that? Well, I don't put a tarp on them and I let them rot. You let them rot.
They last about five years if you let them rot.
And you get a new one. It's no big deal.
You can paint them, you know, to keep them kind of in good shape. But, you know, they get kind of beat up after a while anyway.
This grill, the Char Griller grill, is fabulous. And the one at Home Depot, which is the Blazer, which I would take a look at, is currently on sale for $149.
Which is a steal for a grill like this. This is a tip within the tip. Yeah, tip within the tip. It's a double tip. Wow.
Well, that is a good deal. Can you have it shipped or do you have to pick it up? You can actually have it shipped. And in fact, if you order from the factory, they...
Currently, if you go to the website for Chargriller, they'll ask you, would you like to get on our newsletter? This will give you free shipping. So you sign up for the newsletter, and you should be able to get the thing shipped free. And they're pretty heavy.
I think the first one I bought, I had shipped out. And is there some assembly required? Yes. Yes. Well, yeah, obviously. Yeah. That is the piece I always hate. Now you can, if you get them from, if you get them from.
I know too much. If you get it from Lowe's, you can click a box and they'll assemble it for you. You do know a lot. When's the last time you used one? Use anything outside.
Well, not since the operation. I bet you can't wait to get back to your... Cooking over fire like a man. There you go, everybody. John's tip of the day. You can find him at noagentafun.com and tipoftheday.net. Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCD. And sometimes at home. Created by Dana Burnetti.
And again, we come to the end of our broadcast. But you want to stick around if you're listening on your modern podcast app or noagendastream.com. Unrelenting is coming up next. And this is an episode with a live kebab extraction. It's Sir Gene and Darren O'Neill. You never know what you get with those boys. You never know.
Also, I think some really good end of show mixes. We have...
Let me see. We get Robert Sarkozy. How do I pronounce his name? Robert.
Skolnicki. Skolnicki. There we go. Robert Skolnicki. We have the dude named Ben named Chris. We have Joss Baker. And that's it, I think, for this particular episode. So those are the end of show mixes. We, of course, will be back on Thursday. And we look forward to helping you understand what's going on in the world once again as we break down and deconstruct all media.
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What is this relic, said the medical staff?
They gave me an android, said mine was too old While I'm strapped with gear and doing what I'm told Oh, the China doctor's walking through the door She's in charge of the entire floor She doesn't look at charts, she doesn't look at me Just adding another day for a reason I can't see air, she's masked up tight Hiding every stare while I'm stuck in the ER Gasping for air, I'm reading the riot act out
I've had enough, I'm calling her out while she starts to huff. I told her straight with Brandon right there, you're a lousy doctor and you just don't care. No concern for the patient, no interest at all. Just a long series of things making me feel small. She pushed back a little from behind.
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