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Flying saucers? Adam Curry, John C. Devorah. It's Thursday, May
21st, 2026. This is your award-winning Get More Nation Media
Assassination episode 1870. This is No Agenda. ♪ And broadcasting
live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right
here in FEMA region number Good morning, everybody. I'm Adam
Curry. from Refinery Row where there's no Ebola I'm John
C. Dvorak When Buzz kills in the morning Yeah, that's
what you think, but it's coming. Ebola's coming everywhere. It's
coming, it's coming. I wanted to do something we haven't
done in a while. If that's okay. Flying saucers? No,
not flying saucers. No. We used to do this. In
fact, I think you used to do it. But I
figured I'd do it now. Let's listen to the headlines
as brought to us by David Muir. to tease the
wonderful world we live in and then wonder why people
don't feel good about themselves. late today police revealing it
was two heavily armed teenagers in body armor carrying shotguns,
rifles, and handguns into that Islamic center. Children not far
away. The security guard who took them on in New
York City. Wait, stop. Stop it. What? What? I'm playing
over. He had to start it over. Why? Didn't he
start off with the Muslim thing and then he... Jump
to the woman falling in a manhole and goes back
to the other headline? Hey, man, he's going to make
you feel like crap. That is his job. But I've
never heard this before where they've gone from... Topic to
new topic to old topic. Well, now that you mention
it- Unless I misheard something- Well, let's listen again. By
several- breaking stories the two teenagers in body armor allegedly
charging into that islamic center and in new york city
tonight the woman who plunged into a searing manhole a
witness saying she was screaming i'm dying first tonight the
breaking developments okay so it's like he's teasing the top
two stories which is teenagers Killing Muslims Then the woman
falling into a searing manhole, not just a manhole, a
searing manhole. Unless that's something I'm not aware of. and
then he goes into the the rundown but the rundown
includes includes a lot more I think we're spending too
much time on it. Well, first of all... I think
that's bad. form, but okay. Just let it play. I'm
not going to interrupt anymore. I'm not saying I disagree.
I agree. It's bad form. First tonight, the breaking developments.
Late today, police revealing it was two heavily armed teenagers
in body armor carrying shotguns, rifles, and handguns into that
Islamic center. Children not far away. The security guard who
took them on. In New York City, the horrific and
deadly scene in midtown Manhattan. A woman opening her car
door and disappearing. down an open manhole, falling into the
intense heat below the street service. How this happened. Tonight,
the tornadoes touching down, damaging winds and severe storms set
to hit again this evening. And records broken in Philadelphia.
Intense heat in New York City and Boston. Ginger Zee
is here. Alarming news tonight about the deadly Ebola outbreak.
now raced to another country for emergency help. The case
is now spiking. Tonight, the extraordinary order from the Justice
Department barring the IRS from investigating President Trump, his sons,
and their companies and their taxes. Tonight, the murder case
in the Northeast. A man convicted of killing his brother
and his brother's wife. and children setting their home on
fire, then setting his own home on fire, his family
inside, to make it look like the whole family had
been targeted, what the judge has now decided. Tonight, major
primaries being watched in this country, President Trump taking aim
at one of his top political targets, Republican Congressman Thomas
Massey. I'm telling you, they had to dig deep to
get the guy who burned the family. I mean, hey,
we need more horrible things for the tease. David wants
more horrible things. Give him more horrible things to talk
about. Well, you know, if you're going to play, the
technique here should be to play, now you should play
Tom Yamas' version of the same thing. And I think
that NBC, because I was thinking about this earlier too,
these openers. And I think NBC does the best job.
I think NBC is the leader in the news business.
I think Tom Yamas does a terrific job. And I
think they're opening teases. superior to ABC's. I will make
sure I have one on Sunday. I'll make sure that
we have the superior tease. In fact, from now on,
it'll be known as the superior tease. From Tom Yamas.
You're probably right. But this was good. Because for one
thing, he repeats himself here on two stories. He brings
in the Muslims, he brings in the woman falling in
the hole, then he brings back the Muslims and brings
back the woman falling in the hole. And then he
goes to tornadoes. Just throws in a tornado. Do you
think the woman was on her phone? Yeah, probably. Just
have a thought. But I didn't know there were that
many manholes that close to the curb. Well, I remember
living in New York. You'd have these manholes covers that
were just steaming and, you know, smoke or steam arising.
Steam would be coming out. And from time to time,
we had the exploding manholes. I'm sure we had a
couple stories. Oh, that was always the best. Yeah, we
had a couple. Kaboom. Exploding manhole. I thought personally that
it was interesting the choice of them saying... President Trump,
remarkable. IRS may never audit President Trump or his children.
which is not really the headline of the story. Because
the story is the... um is the slush fund for
Trump allies. That's the story. Yeah, we've got these clips
of that. You know, but to me, I just want
to get a start on this. I thought the biggest
story to me, which no one played as a story.
was this. We've been listening to Vice President J.D. Vance
holding a White House press briefing. filling in for press
secretary Caroline Leavitt. Vance started with Iran saying the administration
has the ability to restart a military campaign, but adding
that's not what President Trump or Iran want, and that
both sides are attempting to negotiate in good faith. So,
not the story about Iran, but the fact that... that
Vance was filling in for Carolyn Levitt and he was
fantastic. I mean that should be his job. He should
be talking to the press every single day. Did you
see any of that? Yeah, I did. I saw the
whole thing. I thought it was good. It's kind of
surprising because normally when the press secretary is not there
to talk. The associate or assistant or whoever it is
as a secondary person. They get the gig. They get
the gig. I've never seen the vice president take it
over. And it was great. He's like, you know, hey,
I got one or two of these things. Let me
see. I just got two clips of him expertly, I
would say, managing the press corps. Okay, Garrett, you have
your hand up. Garrett, you had your hand up. The
Vice President of the United States. Hey, who has had
their hand up? Do you need to go to the
restroom? Do you need to go potty? Okay, restroom. All
right, here we go. Okay, Garrett, you have your hand
up. Garrett, that's right. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. Midterms
are underway. You've got voters. go to the polls in
six states today. You and the president ran on a
platform that included no new wars, cutting gas prices, cutting
inflation. What do you say to people who are going
to the polls today and who feel like those promises
are unkept? Well, I'd say a few things. First of
all, we've delivered great wins for the American people. We
ran on delivering. We ran on the promise of bringing
investment back into the United States of America that rather
than factory closures, we were going to have factories opening.
And we've seen both. construction jobs and manufacturing but also
manufacturing jobs have great rebounds under the Trump administration and
under our leadership. We are very aware that because of
what's going on in the Middle East gas prices have
gone up and a lot of Americans are struggling because
of that. Our view is that it is a temporary
increase. We're taking a number of steps to try to
push back against it and try to ensure that Americans
are paying as little at the pump as possible. But
I feel quite confident after we've taken care of business
in the Middle East, those prices are going to come
down. And there have been a lot of prices, as
you know, a lot of prices from rent to housing,
where we still got a lot of work to do,
but we do see some real progress made across the
economy. on pricing, but also on people's jobs. I mean,
expert. Expertly done. I mean, it doesn't matter what he
says. He's just, he's just, it's so much better than
having the press secretary. I like Carolyn Leavitt, but who
cares? She's an in-between person. Vance is the... Well, this
could be, well, not you brought this in as your
top story. Well, I will say that it's possible that
this may be a trend. Why not? It makes so
much sense. But you have to have a vice president
that can talk well. For example, Pence couldn't do this.
Do you think Kamala Harris couldn't? if he was a
prick. Kamala Harris couldn't do it either. She couldn't do
it in a million years. No, but now it'll be
a requirement for vice president. I think the vice president.
Well, this is where you're jumping the gun here, I
think. But I'm thinking it's possible. that it could be
a requirement for vice president. It's possible that this could
be a trend. One more clip. Because it works. Yes.
Let's hear one more from him. I'm going to call
on John. I'm just going to start calling John Ross.
John. John. I'm going to be calling my favorites. Who's
the teacher's pet? John. John Ross. Not you. Not that
John. John Ross. End up John Ross. Yeah, yeah. I'm
going to call on John. I'm just going to start
calling John Ross. John Ross. Yes. Yes, yes, you're good.
So Trump initially said that the war would last six
weeks. We are now, it's been going on for 11
weeks and three days. Also, what Carolyn Leavitt always does
is she always says, the fake news media has, well,
as many of you have reported in this room, she's
so adversarial. And here, Van... Yeah, she's kind of like...
Trump picks these women. Sarah Huckabee was the same way,
you remember. Yes, yes. She was really mean to everybody.
Yeah, and this is... Everyone's kind of like, hey, it's
J.D. Substitute teacher, J.D. Yeah, that's good. We can ask...
him anything he doesn't care he's not gonna slam us
for that what's your message to the american people as
to why it's gone on so long and it hasn't
ended yet well first of all the president said it's
going to be a short-term operation and i think that
has proven out to be true the active period of
conflict lasted about five five and a half weeks oh
and now active conflict hello people get it right we've
been in this season where we're trying to get a
negotiated settlement that gets the American people the things that
we need for our national security. So I've said before
that we're going to go one of two options here.
We're going to have a good settlement that actually gets
the American people what they need, or we're going to
go back to a kinetic operation. Obviously, the president prefers
to get that settlement. I think the Iranians prefer to
get that settlement. But regardless of what direction the president
ultimately goes down, whatever he ultimately decides, I think it's
important for the American people to know two things. Number
one, it will be for their security and their prosperity.
That's why we're doing this. And number two, it will
not, this is not going to be the sort of
thing that lasts forever. I think a lot of Americans,
especially in my generation. who are worried about forever, endless
conflicts. We have to remember, I think you said 11
weeks. A big chunk of that has been a ceasefire.
This is not a forever war. We're going to take
care of business and come home. That's what the president's
promised, and that's exactly what he's going to deliver. I
mean, outstanding. I mean, remember we had Kareem. Abdul Jabbar
the worst. Jean-Pierre, we had her, we had, who else
did we have? She's just a liar. We had Psaki.
Saki. Well, yeah, but she was with the... Yeah. This
is so much more entertaining. He is making the press
briefing exciting again. And I only caught it because all
four screens on the quad were running it. That never
happens. They were probably running it because they thought they'd
screw up. Maybe. I think everyone was just surprised by
it. And I just thought, yeah, I'll step in. Yeah.
She just had a baby. He should do it for
a couple weeks. Give that girl some time off. I'm
all for it. is much better. Very exciting. I'm very
excited. Well, my top story is the one I wrote
up in the newsletter. Yeah. And that is, I have
one clip, which is Massey, the top story, Massey losing.
Yeah, Massey's good, yes. And no matter what. Anybody, I
don't care why I'm asking you. Why there was a
scandal. We have a letter from one of our boots
on the ground guys who knows Lauren Bobert. And he
wrote a very nice note in. You probably have it
there. I actually don't think I have it handy. I
had to close my email. Oh, it's familiar. Okay. Yeah.
I can open it up. Excuse me. Don't die on
me. Tell me the scandal first. I'm getting there. I
have, I'll get it. I'll bring it up. But play
this clip. Because this is, uh... The story, it seems...
to me that the fact that they refuse, all the
media, including Fox, refuses to discuss, which I talked about
in the newsletter in detail. The scandal about Massey, which
dropped him in May 8th, he was 71% chance, according
to the betting polls. 71% chance of winning the election.
Within a week, he dropped to like 34, 31 or
something really low or 41. That didn't happen because of
Trump. No. Trump has been against this guy for a
long time. I don't think, by the way, I don't
think I got that email that you're referring to. I
don't see it anywhere. interesting oh yeah it was you
were on it but i'll get it but meanwhile um
yes i'm sorry to interrupt So tell us what the
scandal is. The scandal is... is that mass... Well, let's
play this clip and I'll tell you what the scandal
is. Kentucky Congressman Thomas... Massey is the latest Republican lawmaker
to lose his seat for crossing President Trump. The race
was another display of the president's hold on Republican voters.
This morning, when asked about not endorsing incumbents, Trump said
he'd spoken to Senate leadership on the Republican side. Some
of them don't know how to win. I know how
to win. I think I've proven that, haven't I? Massey
lost his primary to Trump-backed candidate Ed Gowrin by nearly
10 percentage points last night. That was just one race
among six states that held elections Tuesday, the busiest primary
day of the midterms. Democrats in Georgia and other states
continue to see large voter turnout, which could be a
good sign for them in November's midterm election. NPR's Stephen
Fowler stayed up late last night to watch these results
and joins us here early this morning. Good morning, Stephen.
Did Massey lose because he went against some of Trump's
policies? Yes and no. I mean, Thomas Massey clashed with
Trump over the Epstein files. He actually led to the
release of the files. He clashed with Trump over the
Iran war and foreign conflicts. He opposed Trump's one big,
beautiful bill. So Trump did back a challenger, former Navy
SEAL officer Ed Gellerin. And what's the latest example of
Trump taking out anyone who isn't 100% loyal in the
last year or so? The last time an incumbent lost
was Saturday with Louisiana Senator Bill Clinton. But Massey kept
it close. I will also note that yesterday, Trump endorsed
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to oust incumbent Senator John
Cornyn ahead of next Tuesday's runoff. You're already hearing some
Republicans there fret if Paxton wins because polls indicate his
victory would make the general election race more competitive. especially
in what's shaping up to be a wave year for
Democrats. Okay. Okay, so what happened was, and this was
all over the, and I'm getting the impression. It was
all over X. Everyone was talking about it. It was
all over X, and I think it was all over,
I think it was on TikTok. Woo! But I think
it was algo-driven. And so I'm beginning to think that
the people who do run NPR, they are getting feeds
that are different than feeds that you get, I get,
and people that would be involved with the Massey, people
in Kentucky that voted against Massey. And it was a
smear campaign that indicated that once... Massey's wife died. He
had an affair with at least two women. One of
them turned on him and said that he was turned
into a complete horn dog and he was screwing Lauren
Boebert immediately thinking she's the hottest thing in Congress. Can
I just... Give you a little different perspective on that.
So his wife was, wasn't she ill? Did she die
suddenly? Died suddenly. Yeah, she died suddenly. Hmm. Well, give
me this perspective. Well, no, I was going to say
that, you know, a guy who... It's possible that... A
lot is possible. But when you're released from something that
you might not have been happy in. That's what you
do. Yeah, but that's fine and dandy. That's not what
you do when you're a congressman. What do you mean?
And you don't let this kind of dirt come out
because it makes you look like a douchebag dog. He's
just a man. He's just a man. Yeah. you And
these are just voters. N. And he supposedly had a
phone, a special burner phone that he called a boner
phone. Oh, show title. A boner phone. And there was,
and so this, because he was calling all these girls.
And then he got married immediately. She was married within
a year to this very pretty girl. That was pretty
quick. I agree. That was fast. And that was not
good. Hold on. You're steamrolling me. What is the appropriate
time between the death of just asking for a friend?
If you're a politician. Yes. It's at least two years.
It's 24 months. Okay. All right. I think it's reasonable.
For some jerk on the street who doesn't care one
way or the other, you can get married the next
month. Nobody gives a crap about it. But if you're
a politician, especially if you're running against Trump trying to
get you out. You don't do any of this stuff.
You just stay by, you know, you lead a clean
life. It's not that hard to lead a clean life.
Of course, I'm old, so I can say that. But
it's not that hard. And if you're a politician, that's
what you want to do. So this came out, and
there were some... AI videos showing the boner phone and
him talking to it and Boebert on there flirting with
him. That kind of thing showed up in certain feeds
and not other feeds, but it showed up in my
feed. And I think it showed up in the feed
of the voters. And this was never discussed by anybody.
Fox didn't discuss it. ABC, NBC, CBS, nobody discussed the
scandal. And I just played a clip from NPR and
they're boneheaded about it. Trump didn't like him, so that's
why he got out. Again, May 8th, it was 71%
chance of winning. May 8th, that's not that long ago.
And so next thing, so the... the rugs pulled out
from under him within a one or two week period.
That's how it happened. And nobody's discussing it. I find
it ridiculous that the media is so oblivious to this.
Well, do you think they're oblivious? That's my point. Do
you think they're oblivious or do you think that it's
more important for them to... say Trump did it, which
he did. I mean, this is the question. This is
the question I could ask you. Were they oblivious because
they weren't in the algo? Which I think is possible
because they're not very aggressive about – some of these
people won't even watch Fox News. Well, Massey was on
– He was going on MSNOW and CNN. He was,
for all intents and purposes, on, quote-unquote, their side of
the Epstein argument. And I think the Epstein released the
Epstein files, all files except for the ones that were
under investigation. That was his. his law, I think it's
the only bill he's ever gotten passed. I think it's
the only one. And, you know, his courtship with Tucker
and Marjorie Taylor Greene, I mean, he put himself in
the enemy camp. And the way I see it, Trump
went, we have to prove, we have to send a
message. Yeah. We have to send a message. May 8th,
71%. That's what I'm saying. I think he could have
beaten it because Rand Paul does it all the time.
Rand Paul's in Kentucky, same state. They're contrarian there. They
don't care. I don't think Trump's influence had as much
to do with it as the smear. Hmm. Well, that's
what I'm thinking because of the nature of Kentucky. Everybody
was out. Grandpa and this guy's been re-elected over and
over. Let me read from Mark's note. He thinks the
whole thing was created. I think it may have been
a creation too. The story was easy. and it killed
two birds with one stone. Lauren came out supporting Mousy,
so they decided to take them both down with one
shot. It was almost too easy. I know, Lauren. And
there are positive and negative things about her. The one
positive thing about her is that she's a fighter and
the truth. And for truth and common sense, Lauren likes
to let her hair down. And have fun too, as
we saw by the video of her in the theater.
In the theater, yes. The guy's grabbing her breasts. But
she did not have sexual relations with that man. Yeah,
it sounds like a smear to me, too, honestly. No,
I think it was, and I think it was well
executed. But, you know, it didn't show up in my
algo, and that was surprising. No one tagged me in
any of the stories. But it did. Here's where it's
important. It did. come because tina told me did you
hear about uh lauren bobert you know tina doesn't watch
anything anymore but she hears it from the ladies of
fredericksburg so one of the big maga ladies heard about
it so it was definitely in the mag in the
maga in the magal go mag i'll go Yeah. Yeah,
I believe there's an algo issue here. Anyway, he continues.
There's a faction of the Colorado GOP. that is following
Trump's orders. and scrambling to find a candidate to primary
her, Lauren. I call them the Davidians after Dave Williams,
the former Colorado GOP chairman that screwed up the party.
beyond where it was already screwed up. This can lose
them and the one seat they could hold on to,
which is Lauren's seat. If they lose it, you can
thank Trump for that. I honestly believe Trump wants Congress
to flip for the midterms to show up Johnson and
Thune. He could care less about the Republican Party. He
thinks it's his own party and force. Well, that's an
interesting twist. I like the theory. That's not a bad
theory at all. Colorado is going, this is actually pretty
interesting now. Colorado is going to. complete the Californication of
the state, this midterm election. The Democrats, Socialists of America.
have taken over the Democrat Party here. and put in
their own candidates, including a mental patient that wears a
dress for state treasurer. Colorado, wow. Colorado's office is gone.
Way to go, way to go. All major state offices
will have DSA members and Congress will be... A 7
to 1 Democrat. With almost all, all with DSA allegiance,
which is. Which is sickening. The one Republican will be
Boebert, unless the Colorado GOP does the bidding of the
DSA and primaries her. Colorado's a real shit show all
across the board. The Democrats have destroyed the state and
the idiot voters are doubling down on stupid. Legalized marijuana
did the opposite of how it was supposed to work.
They deserve their fate. I'm moving to Tampa Bay. If
I can sell my house, I'm going to live in.
Annapolina Luna's district. She's smart, a fighter, and a former
stripper, which is everything I want in my congresswoman. This
is a true... I'm a citizen of no agenda nation.
Perfect. Perfect. And it goes on with some other details
about stuff. going on in Colorado. But I always thought
Luna was just a bathing suit model. I didn't know
she was a stripper. So there is one other theory.
from your boy here we go the most expensive race
in terms of ad spend in history they say most
expensive primary it's 32 million dollars in total just in
ads I think 20 million purely from the Israel lobby
for Gawrine. And we all know why that is. It's
because Thomas Massey is the most vocal critic of the
Israel lobby in Congress and specifically in the Republican conference,
in the Republican Party, in the House. He voted against
foreign aid, voted for release of the Epstein files, voted
in favor of the War Powers Resolution. against the Iran
war. And he called out AIPAC and their handlers on
Tucker Carlson's show. What's interesting, though, and I said this
on my show. Is that they're now all trying to
make this about Trump. Even if you watch Pete Hegseth's
speech, he says, well, why is Thomas Massey a problem?
He is not with the team. He's not supporting Trump
in a time of war. He's not voting with our
movement. That's right. They're deflecting to Trump. And does he
have the power to run the party when in really
it's all about Israel? Exactly. They're hiding behind him. And
the press is letting them do that because that line
is coming from the White House and the Israel lobby.
Oh, yeah. There you go. And that this is what
you have to understand. It's all about the Israel lobby.
All about that. It's not about anything else but the
Israel lobby and President Trump doubled down on it. I'm
right now at 99% in Israel. I could run for
prime minister, so maybe after I do this, I'll go
to Israel, run for prime minister. I had a poll
this morning. I'm 99%. But, uh... No, he's a wartime
prime minister. I just don't think they treat him well.
I think they have a president over there that treats
him very poorly. There you go, President Trump. He will
be the next prime minister of Israel. It's the shoe-in!
It's the Jews, man! Get it together! It has nothing
to do with Boebert! This is how people think. I
don't think they think that way. What? I think they
think in terms of sex and scandals. No, no, I'm
talking about our own people. Oh, white people, yeah. Well,
that's for sure. Trolls right now. Yeah, they're a bitch.
Jew money was all. Here's Hegseth on the case. political
neutrality, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared at a campaign event
for Gal Ryan in Kentucky yesterday and attacked Massey, who
called the appearance desperate. Need reinforcement from Republicans. And that
fight requires a Congress full of warriors, including Ed. This
one, ladies and gentlemen. is a no-brainer. It's kind of
crazy that you would send the Secretary of War. President
Trump would not be doing this if they were confident
that they were winning, and they're worried that I'm going
to win. The Pentagon says Hegseth appeared as a private
citizen and not as the Secretary of War. They say
no taxpayer dollars were used to pay for the visit.
I doubt it. Yeah, here's a MS now. Yeah, I
mean, it's extraordinary, unusual, inappropriate for a defense secretary to
be on the campaign trail to begin with. Let's just
start there to be out campaigning for a candidate. Is
it inappropriate for a defense secretary to do that? Says
who? Well, Willie from MSNOW. Why is it inappropriate? I
don't know. That's why I'm asking you. Or Hatch Act.
Well, why doesn't he explain it? Oh, that's Hatch Act.
Because nobody's done it before? I doubt that nobody's done
it before. It's the Hatch Act, man. There are Hatch
Act considerations potentially here. of a war where just hours
ago the president was on the brink, he said, of
a new round of strikes against Iran before pulling back
again. Why are they fighting against Thomas Massey? Because he
wants all the information out. He wants the truth out
about the Epstein files. This is how hard they're working
to suppress that truth. The president dispatching his secretary of
defense to campaign against the guy who's trying to get
to the bottom of that. Also, Joe, I know this
is something you've talked about for years now, which is.
that Thomas Massey, the argument goes, from his opponents and
yesterday from the head of defense, is not conservative, that
he's anti-Trump, he's not conservative. Look at the voting record
of Thomas Massey. Talk to anybody who's ever spent 10
minutes on Capitol Hill. He is incredibly conservative in all
the ways that... conservatism used to actually hold up. Now
we're talking about Trumpism, which is something very different from
conservatism. But the MAGA folks, Secretary of Defense, trying to
conflate those two things. If you're against Donald Trump, even
on the Epstein files, now you're not conservative. So I,
I. I guess we should still believe that there's Epstein
files we haven't seen. The real ones. I guess. The
pedophiles. It probably is. I'm sure there's something we haven't
seen. But even Massey's own bill called for all files
except... He wasn't really asking for all files. I mean,
I want to see Frazzle drip as much as anybody
else. I don't think the Epstein thing was the key
issue here. He's voted against the big, beautiful bill. He
voted again. He just would not get on board with
a lot of the... from the Trump perspective, ignoring the
real reason that he lost, which was the scandal. Um...
As far as I'm concerned. Well, you'd expect it. Yeah,
I mean, so they must... First, we have to... remind
ourselves that the news media is not here to report
on the news. It is to get us to vote
Democrat. That's what they do. Even Fox is questionable. Yes.
So. um They want to make Trump look bad, you
know, Hegseth, anyone else who is Trump adjacent. That's what
they do. That is, so it wasn't. It wasn't in
their best interest to launch this scandal. Or to report
on the scandal. Report it. Yeah, report it. It wasn't
in their best interest. No, because then it would detract
from the points they're trying to make. So now let's
go to our next president, President Tucker. Uh... who did
an interview with Israel's Channel 13. Did you happen to
see this? No, I did not. I didn't even know
this happened. This is fantastic. So just note. that Tucker
was there. Whenever something happened, Tucker was there. So this
was a very adversarial interview, but I found it fascinating.
Thank you for having me. You were one of Donald
Trump's most consistent and vocal supporters. You called on people
to vote for him. What happened? Yes, what happened was
the war with Iran. which I don't believe serves the
interests of the United States. I think it's destructive to
the United States and to the world, but mostly to
the United States. I'm an American. That's what I care
about. And that's something he promised he wouldn't do. For
10 years, he argued against a war like this. And
then for a variety of reasons, not all of which
I understand, he embarked on it. And so I can't
support that. My views did not change. His did. Do
you generally believe Israel would try to harm you because
of your opinion? Do I believe Israel would try to
harm me? Yes. I mean, of course, I don't know.
I hope not. I don't want to be harmed. Yeah.
But my... My main interest is not Israel. I'm not
just asking you. You were implied to that when you
spoke about your coming to Israel. Let's see that for
a second. And I said to them, okay, I want
to send you the flight information, and I want you
to pass that on to the Israeli military, just so.
You know, they don't mistake us for an Iranian drone
or something. paranoid, but again, this is probably the most
violent country in the world, Israel. So Israel is the
most violent state in the world, even more than Iran.
Are you serious? No country, and I say this with
sadness, but no country has boasted more about killing its
political opponents than Israel, of course, about its assassination programs.
The prime minister of Israel gave a golden pager to
the president of the United States. I was there. I
was there. And that golden pager represented the pagers that
Hezbollah leaders were killed by. Sure. I mean. So, yes,
Israel brags about assassinating people, and of course it does
assassinate people. Many countries assassinate people, but Israel makes a
public relations campaign out of boasting about... killing its opponents.
Dude, have you ever heard someone say Allah Akbar? Uh,
I don't... Tucker, he doesn't know what he said in
the past. Yes, this is the most concerning part. He
doesn't remember anything he said in the past. And he's
adamant about it. I never said that. But he also
says... You know, President Trump went to war in Iran,
which he promised he wouldn't do. Totally true. for reasons
I don't understand why, but it's not America first. Well,
maybe you should ask him why. Now, the answer primarily
will be because Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. Okay,
I'm pretty skeptical about that. We've been hearing that. for
10 years or maybe even longer. I think there were
definitely a lot of financial reasons. And, I mean, look
at this. These guys, they control an area that apparently...
can put the whole world in peril just by them
supposedly cutting it off or doing whatever. So it seems
like that is a problem that just no one ever
wanted to address. But let's go on because Trump obviously
did not do this for America. He did it for
Israel. We all know this. I mean, you know, you
accuse Netanyahu. of dragging Trump into an unnecessary war with
Iran. So let's see. think about what it actually means.
Do you really... think that a foreign leader can pull
the president of the United States into a war he
didn't want and what does it tell us? about Trump?
Is he really that weak? Well, I don't think that
that could happen. I saw it happen. I was there.
I was there. And so that happened. I was there.
He was there. This guy's always there, but he seems
to be like in Israel or somebody else's podcast. But
somehow he's always there. He was there when Bibi Netanyahu
forced Donald Trump to go to war with Iran. He
was there. The United States into a war it didn't
want. And what does it tell us? about Trump? Is
he really that weak? Well, I don't think that that
could happen. I saw it happen. I was there. And
so that happened. So the question is why? He says
this a lot, I've noticed. I was there. I was
there. I think he means he saw something on TV.
TV or he read the New York Times article without
pictures or they said that something happened in the war
room, but he was there. And I just want to
be clear, I don't primarily blame the Israeli prime minister,
who I think is wrong. I think he's gravely hurt
Israel. I think he's leading Israel toward destruction. I think
he's a very bad leader and a very unwise leader.
However, I also believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu is acting
in what he thinks is his nation's best interest. So
I give him credit for that and always have. I
don't blame him primarily. I blame Donald Trump for folding
under the pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu and his many allies
in the United States. donors to Donald Trump, people in
the media class here, were effectively working on behalf of
the Israeli government and Donald Trump, whose decision it was,
caved under that pressure. But on February 28th, the United
States followed Israel into this war. And the Secretary of
State of the United States said we had no choice.
They chose the time. He didn't say we had no
choice. The Israeli prime minister decided when this started. Well,
that's the definition of control. He had control of this
war. Hold on a second. What is the definition of
control? Let me just hear that again. Half of the
Israeli government and Donald Trump, whose decision it was, caved
under that pressure. But on February 28th, the United States
followed Israel into this war. And the Secretary of State
of the United States said, we had no choice. They
chose the time. The Israeli Prime Minister decided when this
started. Well, that's the definition of control. He had control
of this war. That's an interesting way of looking at
it. Even if you took Lubio's... a statement at face
value. It wasn't control, he said. because I know because
we played the clip ad nauseum and pulled it apart,
he said, Israel was going to strike, and that would
mean that we would have strikes, so we had to
go. But I don't think that's the definition of control.
Is it? Of course not. This is Tucker's simplification of
things. Well, that's what he does. Well, that's the definition
of control. He had control of this war. And so
my question is, why did Donald Trump allow a nation
of 9 million people to pull the United States? 350
million people. Wait, the logical inconsistency. First, he defines control.
to mean something he wants it to mean so he
can then make the assertion that how does a nation
of nine million people control, I mean, it's... It's a...
trick. Ah! He uses trickery to make his point. Literary
trickery. Yes, literary trickery. Yeah, it's a trick. And it's
like, okay, well, if you didn't push back on the
earlier assertion, now he's got you. This is like how
a pathological liar works. where they get you to agree
to one thing that they know that you're now you're
cooked because you've already agreed to the other thing. So
everything that logically stems from that must be true. Oh,
yeah. Well, Tucker's very good at that. But now he
adds another 50 million people to our... country which I
thought was interesting. When this started well that's the definition
of control he had control of this war and so
my question is why did Donald Trump allow a nation
of nine million people to pull the United States a
nation of 350 million people into a war that will
change it. Are we at 350 now? Yeah, we've always
been. We've been at 350 for a while. No, we
were at 250 for a while. And then we were
at 300. No, no, no. You're listening to an old
show. It's future. And it is bad for the United
States. And I can't answer that question. You can't answer
it. I don't have an answer. Uh-huh. You want to
hear more? You got a couple more. I don't have
an answer. That's good. You want to hear some more?
Yeah, sure. Okay. You're implying that Donald Trump is so
weak that a foreign leader can drag him into a
war he doesn't want. Well, I'm not. First of all,
I never... But you hesitated that maybe... Now he's going
to kind of walk it back. Well, I never said
that. You just said it. You just said it. You're
implying that Donald Trump is so weak... that a foreign
leader can drag him into a war he doesn't want.
Well, I'm not, first of all, I never... But you
hesitated and may be afraid to say clearly that Donald
Trump is weak. Let me say two things. For one,
of course, I'm not afraid or I wouldn't be doing
this interview or talking about this at all. But maybe
you're wrong by not seeing. what is very blunt truth
that if the United States would cave in to Iran
terror regime that controls now also the Hormuz pathway and
the terror ring that it created in the Middle East
may be It would be even worse for any citizens
in the world, not only in Israel, but also in
the United States. And this is exactly what Donald Trump
said. He said that the United States would have been
in danger. So you don't believe Donald Trump? I don't
believe Donald Trump. And I also think as an Israeli,
you should. Pause before using the phrase terror regime, since
you live in a country that just murdered thousands of
children in Gaza. We should all pull back a little
bit on the rhetoric. Yes. Well, that's the rhetoric. We
should all pull back on the rhetoric after I just
threw out some rhetoric. Two more clips. But the behavior
of the Israeli government... in Gaza is disgusting and immoral.
And of course, Israel is not a democracy in any
sense. There are millions of people who live under Israeli
control who cannot vote, right? And so if the West
Bank, Judea and Sumeria and Gaza or whatever are calling
these places, Judea and Sumeria. What? Which Israel has controlled
since 1967 have... people living in them who have no
control over the government that controls their lives, which is
true. It's not a democracy. So let's just drop the
talking points. I agree with you on self-defense. I don't
think killing children is self-defense. It never will be. And
no amount of recounting the legitimate atrocities of October 7th
will ever get me to accept... this behavior from the
Israeli government, from the U.S. government, from the Iranian government,
or any government. It's always wrong. And Israel doesn't like
to acknowledge the existence of universal principles that apply to
everyone equally. That's why they're principles, not preferences. And Israel,
again, which I've always liked as a country, has a
lot of civilized, decent people living there to this day.
has to acknowledge that principles are universal. They apply to
everyone, even you, even me. My government, your government, every
government. But you won't acknowledge that. It's always like, oh,
Iran's bad. Yeah, Iran's bad. But your behavior is bad
too. Okay, I can't counter that. I mean, lots of...
Behavior is bad. I mean, there's stuff going on in
Nigeria. There's stuff going on everywhere. But Israel seems to
be the focus. And then we get the final question,
which we've all been waiting for. Anything? I don't think
the United States should give Israel anything. I think we
should stop all aid to Israel, all special deals for
Israel. tomorrow. Mr. Carson, are you running for office? Do
you consider running for office? I am not running for
office. I have no plans to run for office. I
am starting to believe that the Republican Party does not
serve the United States. And I certainly believe the Democratic
Party does not serve the United States. And so I
hope we have an option. I would like a democracy
in the United States like I'd like one in Israel.
So I'm moving to Qatar. Israel is not a democracy.
The United States... apparently is not a democracy either. Our
government keeps doing things that people don't want. So that's
not democracy. It's the opposite of democracy. And I want
democracy very, very much. I want democracy. Democracy? Democracy. It's
a republic, you dumb shit. He knows that. But he
wants democracy, as you yelled in the background, in Qatar.
In Qatar. Yes, that's where you want to buy a
house because you feel safe there in the democracy of
Qatar. with a king. With the king. With the king.
It's just interesting. It's interesting he's doing this. I think
he is running. I think he does have a plan.
I really do. What do you mean? I think he
really has thoughts, and people are talking to him. We
know people are talking to him. Your boy Kiriakou is
talking to him. Boy, I call him. Yeah, Tucker, you
got to run, man. You can win this thing. You
can win this thing. I am sure he's thinking about
it. Why else do you do these interviews? Do your
podcast. Do your podcast. Who cares? Channel 13 in Israel.
It was a fluke that I got it. Yeah, it's
a fluke. Yeah. Anyway, I just thought that was fun.
Well, let's get the main story that was pushed on
the ABC News out of the way because I have
a three-by-three about the mosque. And now it's time for
three-by-three. Bad J.C. Dean. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and
NBC! big ones. John's got them lined up. Let's see
if they are exactly the same or if something is
a little different in one of them. Here we go.
ABC. Tonight, authorities have revealed the two shooters were wearing
body armor and camouflage, armed with shotguns, rifles, and handguns
when they stormed the Islamic Center of San Diego, shooting
and killing three people, including a hero security guard. And
they live-streamed the attack using what appear to be helmet
cameras. The shooters made it inside the front entrance. of
a building just feet away from school children. Police say
the suspects went room by room and found no one.
They headed back outside to the parking lot. Police believe
the suspects heard the sound of rapidly approaching sirens and
fled the scene. This new video from blocks away shows
the suspects then opening fire at a landscape. who wasn't
injured. Bull shooters then later found dead of self-inflicted gunshot
wounds. Tonight, sources say the suspects are 17-year-old Cain Clark,
a high school wrestler, and 18-year-old Caleb Vasquez. The FBI
says they met and were radicalized online and shared a
broad hatred of different races and religions. The live stream
appears to show them wearing neo-Nazi symbols. I can't confirm.
There has been a manifesto that's been recovered. They didn't
discriminate on who they hated. Police say the 17-year-old suspect's
mother had called police two hours before the shooting, fearing
he was suicidal, saying her weapons and vehicle were missing,
setting off a manhunt before the attack. And David, we
have just learned from sources that a person previously reported
the 18-year-old suspect in this case and police made contact
with him. They were reported that he was interested in
extremism and mass casualty attacks. David. So many grateful to
that hero security guard tonight. Trevor, all thank you. You
know, you wake up and you're interested in mass. casualty
events. Okay. They met online and got radicalized. How? Oh,
very easy. By the constant... videos everywhere telling you that
islam is taking over america Throw in some SSRIs, which
you'll never hear about, and you've got yourself a powder
keg. This doesn't surprise me at all. And this, they
didn't care about who they hated, bullshit. Just go online.
It's look at this. Look at this Imam. Look at
this. Look at this guy. Oh, look at this. Oh,
they're taking over 200. Mosques in Texas, they're gonna get
us. Sharia law! Yeah. NBC. Yeah, NBC. You can hear
the gunshots. A person scrambling to push a stroller to
safety as a suspect opens fire in a San Diego
neighborhood. And here, glass breaking as more shots come from
that very vehicle. Police say just minutes before that shooting,
two gunmen unleashed a deadly rampage at a mosque, sending
school kids running for their lives. Two senior law enforcement
officials telling NBC News the gunmen have been identified as
18-year-old Caleb Vasquez and 17-year-old Kane Clark. And three senior
law enforcement officials tell NBC News... They're trying to authenticate
a document purportedly written by the suspects full of anti-Islamic
and anti-Semitic views. Also describing themselves as anti-Trump. Outside the
car where police say they killed themselves. A bottle with
a Nazi SS symbol. They didn't discriminate on who they
hated. And at 9.40 a.m. Monday. Two hours before the
killing spree, police say Clark's mother called police to report
her suicidal son had run away, taking his parents' weapons
and car. Police started a search, including at a mall
and school, when two hours later, the first reports of
gunfire at the mosque. And then that second shooting scene.
just blocks away branches still on the ground after police
say the gunman opened fire on a landscaper. One bullet
grazing off his helmet, another embedded right here in this
very home. As this investigation is still ongoing, Morgan, I
know you have some new reporting in on these suspects.
Yeah, Tom, we do. And in addition to recovering those
30 firearms in cross... Authorities say that they believe these
two teenagers met online where they were later radicalized. And
upon realizing that both lived here in San Diego, that's
when they started meeting in person. And right now they're
doing a deep dive into their electronic devices. Deep dive.
I wonder if there was discord involved. And yeah, well,
none of this should be surprising. They hate Trump, okay?
They probably, did they watch Tucker? Did they watch Fuentes?
The Jews are killing America. The Muslims are killing America.
This is what online narrative is. It's in our own
troll room! I'm not surprised by this. They were probably
radicalized by some trolls here. It doesn't surprise me at
all. It's extremely sad. I think, well, I'll wait until
we play CBS. Did they do something different? CBS or
CIA outlet. The only thing that I find interesting was
that both reports said they didn't discriminate against who they
hated. yeah let's see if cbs does that there's a
reason for this i don't know what it is yet
but we're gonna find out we've seized over 30 guns
and a crossbow san diego police say the two teens
who carried out the mosque shooting and apparently live-streamed their
rampage were likely motivated by hate. We also identified writings
and various ideologies outlining religious and racial beliefs of how
the world they envisioned should look. The two teenagers, 17-year-old
Cain Clark and Caleb Vasquez, 18, met online and connected
over their hate-filled beliefs. They approached the mosque just before
noon on Monday and started shooting. The gunmen came within
15 feet of 140 children inside. Two mosque members, Nadir
Awad and Mansour Kazia, engaged the shooters, moving them outside.
Earlier, Amin Abdullah, a security guard and father of eight,
enacted lockdown protocols and took on the gunmen. I felt
a bit scared. My legs were shaking, my hands, and
my head was hurting me a lot. A landscaper working
nearby was shot at. A bullet deflected off of his
helmet, likely saving his life. Imam Taha Hussain says their
community is shaken, but... I know that my community... We're
just trying our best to show the best of who
we are, to stand in solidarity with one another, especially
with the families of the three victims. Police believe the
shooters died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, and tonight there is
growing concern. at religious groups and faith institutions are asking
for additional police presence. Yeah. Well, Christians are on deck
next. That'll be next. This has already happened a couple
of times. Are you kidding me? Yeah. No, I know.
These school shootings with the trans shooters. These guys weren't
trans that we know of. And I'd like to know,
ask a question, what brings somebody to kill? They're ideologues.
They're going on and they get bitching and moaning about
one thing or another and they're going to kill a
bunch of Muslims. They want to do this, they want
to do that. Then they shoot themselves? Wouldn't they rather
be like living martyrs so they could go into the
prisons and get... people on their side of things or
try to proselytize or do something other than shoot themselves.
This whole thing stinks. Well, that's the SSRIs talking in
combo with some discord. It's got to be. clearly. But,
you know, I'm looking for this video. Let me see.
It was. I'll look for it in a moment. This
is an example of why people get all spun up
and angry. But first... CBS was the only one who
had a little bit of the audio of the kid,
the nine-year-old. CNN, they, oh, they went to the mat.
They, let's get this nine-year-old kid on camera. Let's do
it. This will be. great it's great television I felt
a bit scared my legs were shaking my hands and
my head was like hurting me a lot I felt
like a rock The teachers and the kids were like
shaking, sad and stuff. And when the guy kicked the
door, all of them were crying. I heard like a
bunch of bad stuff like gunshots. And plus, uh... I
went inside the closet with my whole class. We heard
like 12 or like 16 gunshots. And then the SWAT
team said, FBI, open up. And they opened the door.
And they went inside. They told us. to put our
hands up and form a big line. We were like
walking inside the Mosalla. All of us, we... We saw
the, like, the Sheikh's apartment inside the mosque. And, like,
it was broken down. We went down, and then we
saw a bunch of bad stuff, people laying down. Yeah,
bad stuff. Oh, man. Child abuse. I agree. I was
going to say the same thing. That's child abuse. So
this is a... Poor kid. This is a guy at
a city hall meeting in Frisco, Texas. And he's got,
for some reason, he has body armor on, like military.
you know, plate in the front, plate in the back.
And this is the kind of stuff that gets people
really spun up. And I can see that this gets
kids, you know, into this radicalized state. Frisco with Stan.
What are you guys doing here? Inviting the enemy to
eat at the table with you and they steal all
your food. without a place to be in because every
single one of their jobs, and you saw the children
that were brought up on this stage, not one of
them is a heritage American, not one of them was
a Texan. This is not Muslims versus Hindus here. They
are here to eradicate the Christians. They are here to
drive us out of our homelands. You have to understand,
these people do not want to assimilate. These people have
not come here to become Americans. They have come here
to drag their third world culture over to our country.
If Jainism, if Hinduism is so great, why are their
countries shitholes? They are bringing this ideology here to turn
the third world. It's not a place. It is a
people. It is an ideology. It is a way of
life. It is a culture. And when they bring their
people, their way of life, their ideology, and their... culture
over to America. Do you think it's going to remain
American? Have you ever looked across the plains of Texas
and said, hmm, I need 5 million Jeets here right
now to shit in the street? No, no, no one
ever has. No one has ever looked across and said
the football fields, the games, all of the amazing cowboy.
I have a first amendment right and I could. Curse
if I want it. I can talk if I want
to. No one has ever looked across the plains of
Texas in the football games and all the amazing cowboy
culture and the raw American spirit here and said, let's
replace this with Muslims. Let's replace this with Hindus. Texas
should remain for Texans. This guy spun up. But this
is the feeling, John. That is being created online. I
think the reality in some places, yeah, you've got Enclave.
Just like, is this anything different than Chinatown, than Little
Italy? then Jewtown, Hasidic Jew, is it any different? ever
been any different? You're muted. Yeah. Ghettos. Kiddos. But has
it ever been any different? There's always been ghettos. Yeah.
I think... If they're talking about people crapping in the
streets, it's not the Hindus. It's the homeless in San
Francisco. They're not Hindus. Don't look at those. Those are
Americans, damn it. So this is what people watch. And
like, yeah. There's no heritage Americans. White. That's a new
term. Oh, that's cute. So, you know, and I push
back here all the time. He said, you're out of
your mind. There are 25,000 churches in Texas. and 253
mosques over the last 20 years, not the last two
years like you see online. I'm like, okay. Alright, well...
Change the Constitution. Change the Bill of Rights. Only Christians.
But this... This is the... It's flowing over from what
happened in Europe, which is a very different situation. And
it's not Muslims. It's Islamists. It's a big difference. He's
right about that. It's a political ideology. And if you
see some dudes talking about we're going to take over
America, they should get a knock on the door. Hey!
What's your problem, son? Let's make sure you don't have
anything strange going on here. Yeah, they should get a
knock on the door. We don't do that enough. I
agree. But, you know, we wait till somebody does something,
then we arrest them. When you should just, you know,
preventative. Crime prevention is very easily done by just a...
you know hey stop doing stop it yeah stop that
for a moment will you stop it Exactly. Well, I
don't have enough of that. We agree on that. So,
you know, so then you get this. Well, that doesn't
surprise me. I have the MSNBC report just to wrap
this up. You know, Robert, when I... I want to
piggyback off of Ayman's idea about the peace of this
community being this mosque, its longevity in this community. I
want you to listen real quick to the Imam, to
Hassan, and what he had to say about this moment.
It is... Extremely outrageous. to target a place of worship.
Our Islamic center is a place of worship. People come
to the Islamic Center to pray. To celebrate, to learn.
Not only Muslims but We have people from all walks
of life, just this morning, earlier. a group of people,
non-Muslims coming just to learn about our faith and our
cultures. So... This is something that we have never expected.
Eamon noted that, you know, They've been there since the
late 1980s, so the depth and the roots of this
community and this center of faith and learning clearly is
not enough. Those roots are no longer enough in this
new... space where... God, I didn't realize he stammered so
much. Well, he's trying to, you know, he's in his
sincere mode. Now he has a... Yeah, this guy's a
stooge. Yes, he is a stooge. He is. He is.
Anyway. Well, let's go to another story that I think
is... To me, it's weird. I don't understand it completely.
I don't know how we can do it, but we've
done it. Which is Castro indictment. Yeah, this is good.
Which one do you want to play first? Well, I'll
start with the NPR, which I think is the overview.
You mean the NTD? Did I? Yeah, NTD. Tonight, the
Justice Department's indictment of former Cuban dictator Raul Castro today
marks a significant move in the Trump administration's escalating pressure
against Cuba. NTD's Arlene Richards has the story. Federal authorities
in Miami on Wednesday announcing charges against Raul Castro tied
to the 1996 shootdown of... civilian planes operated by Brothers
to the Rescue, an incident that killed four people. Castro
served for decades as one of the most powerful figures
in Cuba's communist regime. He was Cuba's defense minister at
the time of the attack and later became the country's
president, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro. Today we are announcing
indictment charging Raul Castro and several others with conspiracy to
kill U.S. nationals. Mr. Castro and the others are charged
with additional crimes as well, including destruction of aircraft and
four individual counts of murder. Castro faces a maximum term
of life imprisonment. on the conspiracy and murder charges and
up to five years on each of the destruction of
aircraft charges. Prosecutors accused Castro of involvement in the order
to shoot those planes down. Raul Castro ordered those fighter
jets to shoot down unarmed civilian aircraft. It was not
an accident. It was... intentional, premeditated, state-sanctioned murder. And their
criminal conspiracy violated Florida's sovereignty. The announcement comes alongside a
commemoration service for those who lost their lives. Federal authorities
say that the charges are a step toward accountability. For
nearly 70 years, the communists... has acted with impunity in
its systematic repression of its people. And for the last
30 years, this regime's senior leadership has gone unchallenged for
its murder of four Americans. While it remains unclear whether
there are plans to bring Castro into U.S. custody, The
indictment represents one of the strongest legal actions yet taken
against Cuba's former leadership. To me, it seemed very obvious
what this was. Solidify Florida. For the midterms, we've got
to have Florida. Got to make sure we nail that
down. But I don't think... Heh. I don't think Florida's
in play. Well, it isn't now, that's for sure. Well,
the other thing... I have mixed feelings about this. One,
they claim that the Cubans sent some fighters to shoot
down these planes in Florida airspace. If that was true,
why weren't those fighters brought down by missiles? No, I
don't think the story is important. I think it's all...
Well, I'm just saying, I'm asking these questions. I don't
know. And Cuba says, no, no, no, we did this
over our land, and these planes were in our airspace,
and we shot them down. The other thing is this
went on for 30 years. Yeah. It's 30 years ago
this happened. Yeah, this is just posturing. They're just getting
ready, getting ready to take over the place. Well, let's
listen to the analysis because I have a theory about
this. Okay. Let's go to analysis one. Next, officials in
Florida today reacting to the federal indictment of former Cuba
dictator Raul Castro, saying it will be life-changing for people
living in Cuba as well as the U.S. NDD's David
Lam has more on that. Officials in Florida sharing their
thoughts on the latest developments regarding Cuba after the federal
indictment of Raul Castro. the former head of Cuba's communist
regime. Alexander Díaz-Rodríguez is, I think, 45 years old. Look
how old he looks in this. You know why? He
was starved. He was tortured. He has cancer. They didn't
give him treatment. That's the face of the Cuban regime.
The indictment describes how Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl Castro,
and others... established a ruthless communist dictatorship in Cuba after
seizing power in 1959. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressing
the Cuban people directly. And currently... The only thing that
is interposed in the path to a better future They
are the ones who control their country. Congressman Carlos Jimenez,
a Cuban-American, says he looks forward to a free Cuba.
Very happy for today. I was born in Cuba, returned...
to Guantanamo about a year ago, and I made a
promise that I would never return to Cuba again unless
it was free. I believe I'm going to be able
to keep that promise and I'm going to see a
free Cuba in the not too distant future. Castro's indictment
stems from his alleged involvement in Cuba's shooting down of
two planes belonging to a humanitarian group in 1996. in
which three American citizens and a U.S. resident were killed.
And people were swimming across the Florida Strait and the
Brothers to the Rescue were going out on their own
to help people get to our shores to escape tyranny.
And they gave the order, Raul Castro, to shoot them
down, to shoot them out of the sky. Well, today
there will be justice. What's the difference between now and
then is that we have President Trump in the White
House. That is the big difference. Here's a thought. Two
things happened this week. Can you be vice president for
a different president twice? So could J.D. Vance could be?
Lou Biot's vice president? There's absolutely no reason you can't
do that. Oh, perfect. This is it. Lou Biot for
president. And he'll have a huge, huge base behind him.
And J.D. Vance, you know, we just saw he's great
at the press conferences, so he'll be vice president slash
press secretary. Forever. Forever, forever. Yeah. This is positioning. Look
at the difference. Lubio gets to say what he just
did? And Vance gets to run the press. It's a
winning team, man. Let's go. Now we have a CIA
guy they brought in. Which brings me to my thoughts,
which I'll, after this second clip of the analysis. And
joining us to discuss the implications of these charges against
former dictator and defense minister Raul Castro is Michael Waller.
He's a former CIA operative and senior analyst for strategy
at the Center for Security Policy. Michael, today for you
must be surreal. You've spent your... career in defense, national
security, and foreign policy development with a specialty on Latin
America. What is the significance of this May 20th Cuban
Independence Day with accountability on the horizon for a Castro?
It's a great day. Raul Castro killed a lot of
my friends. He had them gunned down across Central America
and elsewhere, so this is a really... Exciting time to
see this man finally. brought in for justice in shackles.
Your response gives me chills. Would you expect Castro to
turn himself in or perhaps a Maduro style operation? Or
is he just too old to even be able to
make that trip back to the U.S. in his mid-90s
at this point? Well, I think he'd rather die than
surrender. That's part of his nature, so he'll have to
just... make a choice or we'll make it for them.
Just noted today the U.S. Southern Command announced that the
aircraft carrier Nimitz Strike Group has just entered the Caribbean
and if you look at the video that they posted
on X. There's a map of Cuba in the very
last half second. Okay. Yes, well, this is not unexpected.
So I think this is Trump. Finally getting around to
completing the Bay of Pigs operation that Kennedy chickened out
on. Yeah. It's like, okay, the CIA wanted to do
take this guy out right away. They couldn't. While the
getting was good and then Kennedy didn't have the wherewithal.
He didn't have the, he just didn't like it. And
he was also part of it. No, man. No, man.
Israel told him not to. Yeah, it was part of
that era where people were kind of... soft on communism
uh and this you know and Castro presented himself kind
of not as a full-blown communist And so Kennedy couldn't
pull the trigger. And so they let the thing fail,
the Bay of Pigs event fail, which it did. And
it's got to be, it's been a... Thorne and the
CIA's Paul Eversensen. Trump is fixing it. That's the only
thing that could be going on. That CIA guy was
all jacked up talking about it. And he also mentions
he thinks Raul Castro is still running the country, despite
the fact that he's retired. And there's some other tidbits.
I could have gotten three or four more. clips it
was going to get too boring but i didn't do
it but the uh i think that's what's going on
and trump's gonna end up you know besides uh being
in the quagmire it looks like in iran he's gonna
fix the cuba situation for good well if this is
true and i like i like the thesis What other...
blunders could trump go and fix from the past can
we finally get the vietcong Viet Cong. There's got to
be something else he can do. One of these blunders.
We've had a lot of blunders. Well, he did Panama.
We got Panama fixed. I guess. I don't hear anything
else about Panama. He's fixing the Hormuz Straits. No problem.
And I think he will fix it, and I think
he will fix it before July 4th. one way or
the other. He's got the Cuba thing. He's come in
as the mechanic. that fixes all the screw ups. Here's
some CBC analysis. Trump declined to say whether the U.S.
military would conduct an operation to seize Castro, similar to
what American forces did in Venezuela. when President Nicolas Maduro
was captured and flown to New York to face drug-related
charges. The move facilitated a leadership change in Caracas viewed
as more favorable to Washington and U.S. oil interests. Castro
will appear in court one way or another, says Todd
Blanch. This isn't a show indictment. We expect that he
will show up here by his own will or by
another way. Thank you. Cuba's president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is condemning
the indictment. In a post on social media, he says
the case against Castro has been fabricated to justify military
aggression against Cuba. The Cuban leadership is certainly not going
to just turn him over. Peter Kornbluh is a senior...
Cuba analyst with a research group in Washington, and he
predicts tensions are about to rise. I think we're living
in a very grim moment in which the dark cloud
of possible U.S. acts of war against Cuba are coming.
Donald Trump has said many times he built up the
military in his first term, and now he's going to
use it in his second term. If the U.S. does
decide to take action, it won't likely happen quickly, since
so many resources are already deployed to the Middle East
for the U.S. war in Iran. That's not even true.
Didn't the Abraham Lincoln just come back into port? No,
it was the Nimitz. No, that was the Ford. The
Ford, yeah, Ford came back. It was also big. Ford's
not small. Yeah, that was deployed forever. That's the one
I think that had the bad toilets or something. Yeah,
for 11 months. They had to park in Greece to
have them fixed because nobody in Europe would take the
ship. We're not going to fix that. It really pissed
everybody. Italy would. No, no, no. Get that thing out
of here. Especially with the bad toilets, we don't need
that aggravation. We already have enough toilet issues in Venice.
Here is the ramp up opportunity. As President Trump publicly
weighs taking military action in Cuba, the country's president, Miguel
Diaz-Canel, is warning that doing so would create a, quote,
bloodbath. In an exclusive, Axios reports that Cuba has acquired
more than three... military drones and is discussing using them
to potentially attack the Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention center and
possibly even parts of the U.S. mainland. White House correspondent
for Axios, Mark Caputo, joins me now to discuss his
new reporting and walk us through what you've learned, Mark.
Well, you sort of set it up pretty well is
after the toppling of Maduro in Venezuela. Venezuelan intelligence began
telling the United States that around mid-2023, Cuba had begun
acquiring drones and had as many as 300, which surprised
the United States. And recently, according to the intelligence officials
we spoke to, There were intercepts of chatter, of discussions
in Cuban military circles of not only buying more drones
from Russia, but also discussing possibly attacking these targets. Now,
we are told that there's no imminent threat from Cuba,
that Cuba was talking about launching these attacks. in case
hostilities erupted, military hostilities. Yeah, Shahid drones is what I'm
thinking. So that's the next thing. Oh, they got drones.
Oh. They got the drones and they can hit Guantanamo.
They can hit Miami Beach. Well, it's only 90 miles.
That's what I'm saying. It's a ramp up. This is
a ramp up. Yeah. Well, that's just maybe they're being
set up so they can send a drone or it
could be a false flag, a fake drone. Now we've
got the notion that they've got the drones. Some drone
hits Miami Beach. It could be one of our drones.
A complete false flag. And then we attack Cuba and
grab Castro and change the government. And then, well, maybe
could Marco, could he be the president of Cuba? Could
we give him a gimme? I like that idea. I
bet he would like it too. Think of the vacation
destination. I'm so bored of all the islands. The CIA
guy said that... He claims, I can't verify this, I've
discussed it with some people, though, to be honest about
it, that Rubio can speak fluent, perfect Spanish, but he
spoke, in that speech, he spoke with his Cuban accent.
So he has a Cuban Spanish, which... According to at
least one friend of mine who speaks fluent Colombian Spanish.
Cuban Spanish is like gutter Spanish. It's like talking like
this when you know you have a funny accent in
the United States. You talk funny. Are you making fun
of Texas? No, it's actually not like this. That's different.
Speaking of Texas, something interesting happened in Houston, which I
believe is at the very same hospital where our vax
guy is. What's his name again? The one with the
glasses? No, yeah, Hotep. Hotep, exactly. It's his hospital. and
this is what's happened. A controversial settlement over transgender care
for minors reached today between Texas Children's Hospital and... Hey,
man, you are really banging your mic a lot. I'm
moving things around. And I'm hitting the mic by accident.
I can explain the setup. There's this wire. That I
keep bumping into and it makes it it makes a
noise when it when I hit it. Get some gaffer
tape man lock that down this is a professional podcast.
I need gaffer's tape. I don't have any here. Here
we go I'll start over. A controversial settlement over transgender
care for minors reached today between Texas Children's Hospital in
Houston and Attorney General Ken Paxton. After years of back
and forth and the involvement of the U.S. Department of
Justice, Texas Children's is agreeing to pay $10 million to
the state, revoke the privileges of several doctors, and create
what Paxton calls the nation's first detransition clinic. This all
stems from a 2023 state investigation into allegations that the
hospital improperly billed Texas Children's. In a statement, Paxton says
in part, quote, We may have a lot of Muslims,
but we're stopping this nonsense. Can I ask you a
question? Yep. Okay, so Trump is ousting Cornyn, who has
always voted with Trump on all issues, including the big,
beautiful bill and everything else. And Cornyn has been a
staunch Republican. you And they're running Ken Paxton, who I
understand is somewhat controversial within this. boundaries of Texas itself
for some reason. I think that goes back. We talked
about this guy before. What's going on? Why is Ken
Paxton being run against Cornyn? I think because he won't...
put in anti-ai laws but he's very much i think
he may he may even be in the In the
Trump... Faith office? What? I think he's in the office
of faith. He's one of the people there. Office of
what? The faith office. There's a faith office. Oh, a
faith office. Yes, faith. office. So why is he ousting
Cornyn? Yeah, Cornyn is a shoo-in. Why would you do
this? Just because of the faith office? I don't think
so. No, but he is in the White—my point is
he's in the White House all the time. He's saying,
look, make me attorney general. I will make sure there's...
Attorney General, they're making him Senator. Oh, yeah, or he
is the attorney general. Sorry. Yeah. Hello. Hello. I'm asking
the wrong guy, apparently. Come on. You have to have
the answer to this question. You're the Texan. All I
know is that everybody I know voted for Cornyn. They
did not vote for Paxton. So that's my Texas beat.
Why Trump is doing that? is as much a mystery
to me as it is to you. I'm trying to
come up with some theories and you're just berating me
and you need to stop. No, I'm not berating you.
Yeah, I am. You are. But I'll stop berating you
once you come up with a theory that's understandable because
I sure don't get it. And nobody else does. Here's
what the litany is. The litany is that... Trump is
that Paxton is the result of the mega base demanding
that Paxton be put in and Cornyn be kicked out.
It's got nothing to do with Trump at all. It's
the mega base. But why? I don't know. You have
theories. as good as any. Is the MAGA base that
stupid? No, the MAGA base, which lives in Fredericksburg, is
voted for Cornyn. Well, there you go. So now even
that theory doesn't make any sense then. No. So I
don't know why I'm trying to tell you that he's
in the president's face all day long because he's in
the face office. And he's running around there doing all
kinds of stuff. So, okay, so let me... Think of
possibly this being it. Because I've worked in organizations where
you are, like, as a writer, for example. You're not
in the office. But there's some conniver in the office.
trying to get your job. Well, there you go. That's
as good as anything I can come up with. And
they end up getting your job because you're not in
the office to defend yourself. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But again... Oh,
that's terrible. But, yeah. And I am not a... That's
bad management on Trump's part. I'm not a... Paxton fan.
Someone's in his ear about Paxton. Nobody likes Paxton. That's
the reason I think I'm asking this. He seems to
be disliked by the Texans. Yes. Yeah. Man, there's a,
I can't tell this story on the air. But, what,
there's a, he, Paxton came to our church. a couple
weeks ago. and I can't tell you, but I just
can't tell you on the air. But I will tell
you off the air, but there's, I have... We have
secrets, people. I do. I have reasons to not like
this guy because he swore me. And... And I think
you don't even need to meet him to know that.
He swore me. Swarmy or smarmy? Yeah, both. shmarmy, shwarmy.
Icky. Swarmy, I think is some sort of soup. Icky.
Yeah, creepy. Creepy. There you go. Creepy. Creepy, but he
has a lot of political power. And I don't know
why, but... Sorry, I've been sworn to secrecy on this
one. Okay, no problem. It happens. Let me switch topics
for a second because this is an interesting story. It
comes across as a problem, and I think it is.
This is the Trump... blind trust, so-called blind trust. Yeah,
this is great. Here's MS Now. Okay, I think you're
going to want to take a deep breath before this
one because we got President Trump's financial transactions. What? I'm
taking a deep breath. It's MSNOW. This is how they
talk. From the beginning. They're doing podcasts on television. This
year, and it is stunning. His filing with the US.
show that he has done more than 3,700 stock trades,
many of those trades with companies that this administration is
doing business with. And if you're wondering, I don't know,
I don't trade stocks. Is that a lot? It's a
lot. Steve Ratner, who you know from Morning Joe, he's
a professional investor, said in his decades and decades of
investing, He doesn't think he's done that many trades in
total. I'm talking Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Nvidia, just to name
a few. week alone when he went to China. Who
was there? Tim Cook, Apple CEO. Jensen Wang, Nvidia CEO.
And the timing of these trades is raising some major
red flags. Oh yeah. So here's Rachel Maddow's version of
it, and then I will give you my best deconstruction.
Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of
stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech
in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out
and buy a Dell computer. Then in March, he buys
up a whole bunch of stock in a company called
Thermo Fisher. Repeated purchases of Thermo Fisher. Judd Legum at
Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher
stock. And then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on
a presidential visit. And on this presidential visit to Thermo
Fisher, he praises the company repeatedly as an incredible company.
He says, as president, that he wants other pharmaceutical companies
to start working with Thermo Fisher. He buys their stock,
and then he goes out and boosts the company as
president. Judd Legum also notes that that same day, March
11th, same day as the Thermo Fisher visit. That same
day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock
in Apple. And then that same day he bought the
stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple.
And Apple CEO Tim Cook for praise. Apple, a great
company. Then after that, Trump buys between $50,000 and $100,000
of Micron stock. Okay? Between $50,000 and $100,000 in Micron
stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox
News channel and tells them, Micron, it's one of the
hottest companies. Then it's Palantir, CNBC reporting. Trump makes seven
separate purchases of Palantir stock, hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on True Social
and praises Palantir, Palantir technologies, great capabilities and equipment. He
literally even posted the stock ticker abbreviation for Palantir right
after he bought. hundreds of thousands of dollars of their
stock and got online to boost it, giving people the
stock ticker abbreviation to make it easier for them to
go buy some Palantir to boost the value of the
stock he just bought before he said this online. Okay.
So Rachel, of course, gives us no analysis. By the
way, he's... Buying the stock high. Well, here's my observations.
First of all, I think it was... Eric Trump who
said, it's in a blind trust. And it's not. It's
a revocable trust. And the two Trump brothers are completely
in charge of it. So they can buy and sell.
It's not blind. They can do whatever they want. Now.
You'd have to think they'd be really, really, really, really
stupid. to be taking insider information. And I agree, if
you look at the trades. It's not like he's buying
them at the bottom and then hyping them up. But
the key is 3,700 trades. That's HFT. They've got an
algo running. It's high-frequency trading. They're not in charge of
anything. They're running an algo for this stuff. 3,700 trades?
Ask Horowitz. I'm sure he'll tell you that has to
be... high frequency trading. So they're just letting some algo
run based upon, I don't know, Twitter? That's what you
do when you have that kind of money. Yes, exactly.
So they're trying to make it look like there's all
kinds of insider trading and everything's all wishy-washy, but I
don't think so. I think they just let an owl
go run. Because that's what family offices do. I just
run the algo. And that thing buys and sells a
hundred times a day. up and down up and down
taking a couple of pennies in each each direction of
the trade and that's how it works That's the buried
lead here. That's not... Very gleeful. I love seeing that.
I love seeing that. saying that. Jargon. Woo, yeah. But
then this... Married lead. This story, I think, is a
problem. We turn now to the dark world of online
betting markets that allow bets on virtually any news event.
For a small group of traders, the war with Iran
has been a windfall. On the night of February 27th,
16 bets... platform known as Polymarket made $100,000 each for
accurately predicting when the US would strike Iran. Soon after,
one trader made over half a million dollars betting that
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be toppled moments before he was
assassinated by Israeli forces. The same surge was seen in
oil futures trading as well. Right before President Trump announced
a temporary ceasefire with Iran on March 7th, traders bet
$950 million that oil prices would drop, which they did.
On the same day, 50 polymarket accounts placed bets that
the U.S. and Iran would before Trump announced it on
social media. Overall, traders have placed over a billion dollars
in perfectly timed wagers relating to the Iran war. A
recent analysis by the BBC of online bets placed throughout
President Trump's second term found a consistent pattern of spikes
just hours or sometimes minutes before a social media post
or media statement from President Trump was made public. The
timing of these bets and the huge windfalls they've created
are raising concerns of possible insider trading. Prediction markets and
platforms like PolyMarket and its biggest competitor, Kalshi, are governed
by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, or the CFTC. This
means they can avoid state-level restrictions in place for traditional
gambling and sports betting today. A growing number of states
are trying to stop this, but the Trump administration has
pushed back. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., has advised the
U.S. to stop the trade deal. advisory roles in both
polymarket and Kalshi. Yeah, he should get off those boards.
That's a really bad look. I agree. That's a very
bad look. Yeah, there's some guy, some soldier was busted.
Yeah. There's been a lot of... Hanky Panky. But this
whole thing is... Write for it. We've talked about this
before as a prop bets. Yes. Yeah. But if you're
the president's son, and I do not think he is
intellectually the same as the president, you know, he's he's
swarmy. There it is again. In fact, this is how
schwarm-y they are. Hold on, where is it? Schwarm-y. Swarmy.
Swarmy? There's no such word. What is the word? What
is the word? Swarmy. Swarmy? Yeah. That doesn't sound right.
Smarmy? Yeah. Smarmy? So finally, this is, I love our.
I love our MAGA women here, the women of Fredericksburg.
I know several women. Who had pre-ordered this months and
months and months ago. They were so excited about getting
it and finally it's here! Gold casing, a flag stamped
on the back. This long-awaited T1 phone from Trump Mobile
is finally here. It was in June last year that
the president's sons announced a bold new venture. Today we're
here to introduce Trump Mobile. The phone marketed as a
patriotic alternative to big tech and promised as an American-made
phone. Trump Mobile said the phone would be released in
August. NBC News put down the $100 deposit that same
month. But nine months passed. with 12 phone calls and
countless emails to the company. But one day after this
report last week, here we are in May of 2026
and there appears to be no sign of it. Someone
on behalf of Trump Mobile contacted me and said devices
were going out to the media. Okay, here it is.
Here is. The long-awaited Trump mobile phone. The phone is
taller than an iPhone 17 and comes with... 512 gigabytes
of storage at a relatively cheap $499, which the company
says is promotional pricing. Truth social. Pre-installed on the phone.
Like any other phone, it can make calls, send texts,
have some wide angles, and takes pretty good photos too.
The phone looks different from how it was originally advertised.
The original language on the website said the phone would
be made in the USA, language that has since been
scrubbed from the website, now saying American Proud Design, with
an American flag that has only 11 stripes. Experts say
the phone resembles a phone made in Taiwan. Representatives for
Trump Mobile did not respond to questions about whether the
phone is made in the U.S. And the White House
did not confirm if President Trump himself is using the
phone bearing his name. It's a piece of crap. I
love the 11 stripes on the flag. That's my favorite.
That is that, you know, some dude in China went,
oh, let's do this. That'll be hilarious. There's no room
for all these stripes. You can't fit all these stripes.
And it is a reference of another president's phone. Keep
on poppin' You know? He gave us... Oh man, what
a canard this phone is. It's a piece of crap
Android. It's no good. Ugh. Yeah, but it's gold. I'm
looking at a picture of it now. It's gold, man.
It's gold. It looks like every other phone. So we
miss this. General Patton on the down low, Scott Besant.
was at the G7 Paris meeting. And he laid down
the law, man. He is going after terror financing. And
I had completely missed this, but here's a report about
it. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson called on allies to
more forcefully disrupt Iran's financing networks and said... The Treasury
would scrub its sanctions list of outdated designations to make
it easier for financial institutions to root out the most
sophisticated terrorist financing schemes. In remarks prepared for delivery at
an anti-terrorism financing conference after G7 finance leaders met in
Paris, Besson said that participants needed to stand with us
in full measure against Iran. Bessence said that will require
their European partners to join the United States in taking
action against Iran by designating its financiers, unmasking its shell
and front companies. shuttering its bank branches and dismantling its
proxies. As the Trump administration tries to pressure Tehran to
reopen the Strait of Hormuz to unlock vital oil flows
disrupted by the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, The U.S. Treasury
has stepped up its sanctions efforts through a program dubbed
Economic fury. It aims to disrupt Iran's shadow banking networks
and has frozen nearly half a billion dollars worth of
cryptocurrency linked to Iran's regime. Most U.S. Treasury sanctions are
imposed on individuals, companies, and other entities that are added
to its specially designated designated nationals list. which contains tens
of thousands of designees that are cut off from the
dollar-based financial system and see assets frozen. Anyone that transacts
with designated entities risks being sanctioned themselves. He said the
most effective sanctions are aggressive and targeted. and those left
in place too long could create unintended consequences. He said
the Treasury's approach would maintain agility to maximize effectiveness and
cited examples of easing sanctions on Syria and Venezuela after
regime changes as examples of how the Trump administration intends
to adjust sanctions. So what Besson didn't say, but what
is in the anti-terrorism document from the White House, I
believe. is that all of this nonsense, all terrorism, is
ultimately funded through the Muslim Brotherhood. And we know... Which
is a creation of the British MI6. Exactly. So if
you look at the OFAC list, this is the Office
of Foreign Assets Control, I think it is. What is
it? OFAC. I think that's what it is. Listen to
the companies that are on the list and that are
sanctioned and blocked. Um... We have London. tanker op london
domiciled tanker operators Science Obedient International Company Limited. These are
all UK companies. Double in. Global Fortune Shipping Limited. Luna
Luster, all British companies. Sparkling Courage Limited. UK company. Gala
Rose, chemical oil tankers, UK company, all UK companies. I
think this is more significant than people realize. They're cutting
off these networks, and it all goes back to the
Brits. All of it. Now I have a question. Mm-hmm?
In their report, he says they froze crypto. How do
you freeze crypto? I thought crypto was impossible to freeze.
Well, that's because they're using a general term. Iran, funny
enough. had USDT. tether, tether stablecoin, which is completely controllable.
And that's what he sees. Just click, just lock it
up. So that's not going to encourage its use. Oh,
no, but this is not for if you want to
do something illegal, you go to the to the Mac
Daddy, you go to a bitch. You don't go to
Tether. Well, why didn't they go to Bitcoin? Who says
they didn't? It's very hard to prove. If you ask
the Bitcoin community, oh yeah, it's all Bitcoin. Okay, I'm
sure. No, but part of that toll system was stablecoin.
You remember we had the clip? When they would say,
"Oh, you gotta come by us." and go through the
toll and they were charging stable coin, which is really
easy to get. You know, then you don't have to
go through a lot of know your customer KYC stuff.
But I guess the Iranians, the guard didn't think about
the fact that the general patent on the download could
just grab that, which is exactly what you can do
with. Stablecoin. But stablecoin is not for us. Stablecoin is
for the rest of the world. Stablecoin is for Venezuela,
for South America. It's going to be for Cuba. It'll
be for Iran eventually. Anyone who wants to have... an
American dollar in a digital dollar will be able to
get stable coin. And then you play along. Otherwise we
take. your stablecoin I'm under no illusion that's what they're
doing here. But it's not, I mean, to say it's
crypto is just dumb reporting. Huh. Yeah. Dumb reporting. Yes,
go figure. Whoever... thought that would happen. Dumb reporting. Exactly.
But so if you, so people are saying, you know,
this war. is not good for America. I disagree. I
think it's good to shut down all of this financing.
Look, all the shipping is run out of the UK.
Screw that. We should be running that. I don't know
if we're good at it, but we're going to find
out. I heard from a guy yesterday that I met.
I thought Lloyd's of London was just like one building
and a whole bunch of people writing up insurance policies.
That's not true. It's a trading floor. Did you know
this? I always thought it was. Yeah, it's a trading...
floor and it's always been that way there's a movie
about it oh what is the movie i'd love to
see that i think it's called lloyds of london it
was like done in the 30s or i think and
they have all these different reinsurers all with little booths
on this trading floor and they're all bidding it's like
a stock market yeah yeah i didn't realize that i
thought it was just one big company that rights insurance
policies or reinsurance. That's why people like, you know, every
so often you'd have Rod Stewart. You know, or some
famous person being the underwriter for some insurance policy because
they did the trade to get it. Oh. Oh, that's
interesting. I didn't know that. I like it. What else
you got? I mean... Well, Putin went to China. I
guess I got those clips. Well, of course he went
to China because this is the arc. America, Russia, China,
we're gearing up to kill the old world order, the
dying world order, man. I do want to play, we
need to play that, but I also want to play
the China listening devices clip. Okay, here we go. Before
a single American boarded Air Force One to leave Beijing,
staff lined up at the door with trash bins, and
everything China had given the U.S. delegation went straight into
them. Credentials, burner phones, delegation pins, lanyards, anything and everything
handed out by Chinese officials during the summit. A pool
reporter on the scene watched it happen in real time
and reported, nothing from China was allowed on the plane.
Not a phone, not a pin, not a piece of
paper. Let that image sink in for a moment. The
most powerful delegation in the world just spent days in
Beijing negotiating hundreds of billions of dollars in deals, smiling
for cameras, shaking hands, sitting across the table from Xi
Jinping. And the moment it was over, every single item
China had touched went into a trash bin on the
tarmac. This is not. an accident. This is not over
caution. This is the United States government operating on a
doctrine that has been earned through decades of documented Chinese
espionage. We already reported how the entire delegation arrived with
burner devices, no personal phones, no personal laptops. We reported
how U.S. federal guidelines prohibited plugging into any Chinese USB
port or charging station. We reported how every Wi-Fi network
in China was treated as compromised. Now we know the
protocols held all the way to the last second on
Chinese soil because here is what China does. They embed
tracking technology in delegation pins. They install malware on phones
through standard charging cables. They use hotel room key cards
with embedded chips to map movement patterns. They slip listening
devices into gift bags and commemorative items. They have turned
ordinary objects into intelligence collection tools so effectively that American
counterintelligence agencies... treat every Chinese origin item as a potential
threat by default. Yeah. That's what I'd do. Yeah, this
is why Megyn Kelly hates China so much. Did they
spite on her? No, but she and, what's his face?
Uh, Glenn Greenwald. We're going on and on and on
and on and on. about uh here i have the
clip as far as the students it's 500 000 students
they come good students I could tell them... I don't
want any students. It's very insulting. thing to say to
a country. They would then immediately go out and start
building universities all over China. I frankly think that it's
good that people come from other countries and they learn
our culture and many of them want to stay here.
Ugh. Glenn. Glenn. Who wants that? Literally, what American? once.
It was 300,000 Chinese students like two months ago. Now
it's 500,000. And he goes on to say many of
them will stay here. We don't want that either. We
don't want them taking up our university slots at our
most prestigious universities. And we definitely don't want them staying,
nor do we want them buying up American farmland. Well...
There are some Americans who actually do want that, particularly
Wall Street and the corporate community. They love the right.
They're in bed with the Chinese and always have been.
They were going on and on. What? I said please.
Yeah, on and on and on about the Chinese. When
I was a kid, and I went to Cal Berkeley,
they played was filled with Chinese back then. That was
before the Chinese took over the place. Yeah. And bully
for them. Because the jobs are not going to be
in university. You're not going to need a piece of.
paper to get a really good job anymore. How are
you going to get a good job? Well, I will
give you an idea. He's from CNBC. that the company
needs more workers like Kyson. that's going to be essential
to the AI generation. three years that are the front
side of this, trying to make sure everybody's connected and
has access to our fiber and wireless networks. We'll do
a 3,000 this year. We find that we've got to
go out and find them, train them, and send them
to come in. It's not like we're growing them on
trees in the United States. It sounds like you're saying
there's sort of a misalignment between what... the structure is
to provide and train employees and what business, especially AT&T,
needs. Yeah, I probably have a point of view personally
that as a society and within the United States, we
put a huge premium in value socially on a college
degree, and yet we're short HVAC repair people, we're short
electricians. technicians that can go in and work on fiber
like we talk about, we maybe have missed the mark
in some places. Now listen to your Uncle Adam and
Uncle John. Don't go to college. Whatever you do, don't
go to college is another clip. So when you got
to college, what made you realize that it wasn't working?
Oh, there's some kid who dropped out. Smart. Not for
you. Oh, I was miserable. Kyson graduated high school with
a 3.89 GPA. Graduated from high school. Way to go.
Oh, you're getting good grades. Go to school. He immediately
enrolled at Wright State University and planned to study either
math or engineering. I wanted to work with my hands,
but it was hard because I did get good grades.
expected to go to school. Once I started college, I
was like, this is not for me. After about three
semesters, he dropped out. I was in the same four
walls every day. Did not want to be there. I
wanted more for myself. I was hungry to start life,
and I felt like I was extremely stagnant. I was
in accounting. I loved my professor. I really do. I
mean, looking back, I feel bad, but there was a
guy that was sitting behind me and we had just
finished a midterm in the other class. We both were
like miserable. I was like, you ready for accounting? He
said, nope, I'm going to get lunch. And I had
never, ever, ever skipped class. And I said, you know
what? I'm getting lunch with you. And I knew I
was like, my priority is not. The boy. After Kyson
left college, he worked a mix of odd jobs. Retail,
coaching wrestling, laying solar panels, and he even rode bulls
for a little while. I woke up one morning and
said, I'm spending so many hours working and I'm not
making enough and I wanted a career. I wanted to
be somewhere where I could be a part of the
world. could move up in the company. AT&T was familiar
to Kyson because his dad and grandfather worked there. But
when he applied, he didn't tell his father. It's pride.
Pride. I didn't want any strings pulled. I wanted my
voice to speak for itself. I didn't want to be
Jason's son or Cook's boy. I wanted to be Kyson.
I think it was a job. program for AT&T. They
bought time on CNBC. But there's hundreds of thousands of
jobs that are going to go unfilled. And let all
the Chinese go to the universities. It's fine. And the
universities don't seem too high on AI these days either.
You've heard the commencement speeches. No, I have not heard
the commencement speech. I usually don't listen to that. Here's
Gloria. Well, there's a lot of them. And I'm still
waiting to do a commencement speech so I can become
an honorary professor. I mean, they don't give you that.
They don't make you honorary professors. They give you a
fake PhD. But you can get that from the show.
If you wait long enough. You can get it from
no agenda. Who needs to go to college? Gloria Caulfield
is a real estate person in Florida. She spoke at
UCF. The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial
revolution. you Boo! Boo! Let's do it. - Polar topic
here, I see. - Yes, she got booed, and then--
- There was somebody else-- got booed off the stage
recently. Eric Schmidt. Yeah, it was Eric Schmidt. He did
the same, pulled the same stunt. Here it is. Last
December, Time magazine selected its person of the year for
2025. And it was this time, it was the architects
of artificial intelligence. Interesting. So today we stand on this
edge of another technological transformation, one that will be larger,
faster, and more consequential than what came before. It will
touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital. Every laboratory, every
person, and every relationship you have. I know what many
of you are feeling about that. I can hear you.
There is a fear. People were walking out on him,
which he's not used to. That dude, he's not used
to that. you um Kurt Schmidt's done okay for himself.
Oh, he's done very well for himself. He's fantastic. I
mean, I knew him when he was at Novell. And,
uh... He was, uh... Just a day, he was a...
You know, he's really his personality's changed quite a bit
his looks changed. I think he did some work done.
Hmm Didn't he get a really young girlfriend slash wife?
He has a girlfriend and he's still married. He's one
of those guys who can pull that off. I don't
know how he did that. Magic. Magic. So he's obviously
a sales guy underneath it all. Baby, this is good
for you. Trust me, this is good for you. So
then we had... Google I-O. The big presentation, Google I/O.
And Google has seen the light. Google is going to
create their own version of Claude Bot. But it doesn't
run on your computer. No, no, no. It runs on
Google Cloud. I got a couple of clips. This is
too funny. Particularly excited for what we are bringing right
into the Gemini app. Hey, if we're going to get
rid of Indians, start with this guy. Particularly excited for
what we are bringing right into the Gemini app. Introducing
Gemini Spark. Spark! It's your pfft. man you used to
be a tech reporter this should be exciting to you
it's gemini spark I was always the tech reporter who
was skeptical. Well, I'm with you on this. It's your
personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life.
Huh? Oh, please. What do you think it does when
it helps you navigate your digital life? Oh, it probably
sets your calendar, wakes you up in the morning, and
it looks at your to-do list and then makes another
list for you that you won't get done. And then
it tells you that you have an appointment at 2
o'clock. On your behalf and under your direction. It runs
on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud. And it's 24/7.
And yes, you can close your laptop. Thanks, Sundar. It's
great to see everyone. And let me show you how
Spark works. Oh, get ready, John. Email your chats and
grabs the most important information that you need to by
step. Look at all these steps, all the time it
saves you going through. And again, work across the various
skills. You can see it creates right in Google Slides,
perfectly integrated. And you can see it even pulls in
things like our giant bounce house that's going to be
in the cul-de-sac. Now all of this is happening... The
bounce house? Yeah, this is... You caught it. So. The
AI. Google Spark is so smart, it's going to do
something very important with your bounce house that you have
planned for your backyard. - In the cul-de-sac. - In
the cul-de-sac. - Pulls in things like our giant bounce
house that's gonna be in the cul-de-sac. Now, all of
this is happening. in the background and under my control.
And what's amazing is Jim and I can even go
a step further and pull out things like your neighborhood
homeowners association won't let you set this up before Friday
afternoon at June 5th. That's pulling from a file in
my Google Drive. So it's incredibly helpful about how it
pulls it all together. This is perhaps the lamest example
you could ever come up with. Because we all live
on the cul-de-sac and we all have a giant bounce
house. And we all have a homeowners association that won't
let you set up a bounce house until 5 o'clock.
You need to move out of that homeowners association neighborhood.
But here's a more practical example. And Spark is amazing
at just brain dumping things on your mind. If you're
super busy, it's almost you can just throw tasks over
your shoulder. Super busy, man. You can throw stuff over
your shoulder, I'm telling you. Listen to this. If you're
super busy, it's almost you can just throw tasks over
your shoulder. Sparkle, catch them and then run with them.
Okay. So watch this. Watch. Start a few threads for
me. The first one, find all the upcoming meetings with
Sundar and turn them all hot pink so I don't
miss them. The second one, last night I met our
new neighbor, John. Write a note to him and his
family. Invite them to our block party because they weren't
on our list. originally. The third one, create a document
with the top things my wife and I need to
do for the kids before the end of the school
year. Categorize it by deadline and priority. Make it easy
to digest. I don't want to miss anything. All right,
so we'll send that in. And you can see at
the speed of my voice, it's taking that one task.
And it will capture all of that context as fast
as I can talk. It starts out as a single
thread here, and in the background, it's actually going to
go through and break those down into individual tasks. Now
I can just put my phone away and get on
with my day. And Spark works in the background for
me. We'll check in later and see how it's doing.
Wow. How do you check in? I don't know, but
it's going to happen later. Yes. Wonderful. Wonderful. You can
see, this is one of the first times we've been
able to put a phone down and let it keep
working on the IOS stage. It's great. Because we're prioritizing
safety, we're rolling. It's in the cloud. It's not on
the phone. No, it's in the cloud. It's in the
cloud, so it's... So you put your phone down, you
didn't put your phone down, you hit the phone with
a hammer, doesn't make any difference. That's right. It's working
in the cloud. It's in the cloud. Who are they
kidding? Oh, you got to put your phone down. Now
listen to what this is going to cost. In the
future, you'll be able to create new docs and edit
them directly, all with your voice. Doc's Live is rolling
out for pro and ultra subscribers this summer. and the
same powerful voice capabilities will come to Gmail and Google
Keep then too. *Growls* incredible to see the pace of
innovation rolling out across our products. Supporting all of this
scale for our users while also serving enterprises and developers
around the world. requires massive investments in infrastructure. And we've
been investing for today and for the future. In 2022,
we were spending $31 billion annually in CapEx. This year
we expect that number to be about six times that.
Approximately 180 to 190 billion dollars. Whoa! Whoa! $190 billion
on turning your emails pink in the cloud. This doesn't
seem right. Right. Doesn't seem right. This is not the
future of computing. I can tell you that right now.
That's not how it's going to go down. Not with
that kind of money. That is insane. Anyway. It's all
gonna be on your- Well, you know, you- I'm gonna
give you a borderline clip of the- day for having
that insanity on here. Thank you. You want to do
something before we thank some people? Well, let me see
if I got one last clip here. uh the putin
clips but there's nothing really important there uh The slush.
fun clips, that's always good for a laugh. Elon Musk
lost the lawsuit. I'm just wrapping things up here for
people. The slush fund clip, I like that because... First
of all, everyone's categorizing it as a slush fund for
Trump's allies. It's a very interesting deal that the president
made with himself by setting up by saying okay i'll
drop my 10 billion dollar lawsuit for the irs spying
on me which arguably is a big deal that they
spied or they released his documents. Yeah, it was. I
mean, that's a huge deal. I mean, I wish it
had happened to me. I don't know if I'd get
$10 billion, but you'd get something out of it if
you have suits and boots on the case. And then
he turns around and says, well, I'll do a deal
and let's get some money together for people who were,
who got screwed over, got screwed over. Old grandmas that
weren't even at the event, they got thrown in jail.
This is a horrible situation that nobody wants to discuss.
So two points. One. The actual amount of the fund
is $1.776 billion. None of the news media really said
that. 1.8. No, they did. They did. Oh, they did?
Well, most of them were 1.8, 1.8, 1.8. No, I
heard 1776. Not the predominant number. And the second thing,
I know two people personally whose lives were destroyed. The
J6 or Jenny, she's hanging on by a thread. You
know, she, her whole life was destroyed. She got run
out of town. She had a, I think a salon.
And she was called a terrorist and her entire life
was destroyed. And so that's when she... Well, hopefully, let's
see if she gets money. Well, she should. And also,
Luke Coffey. Luke is the guy who had the crutch
over his head telling everybody to pray and was arrested
for apparently beating cops over the head with his crutch
of which there's no evidence, his life was completely destroyed.
He's now producing Laura Logan's podcast. Just give you an
example of what happened to him. Wow. So we want
Luke. We want Luke to get some money too. Absolutely.
Absolutely. But that's not the way it's being played. We'll
see if they get the money. Yeah, but that's not
why. Yeah, well. Okay, I got three clips that we
can play. Okay. Let's get him out of the way.
This is the first one. Let's start with the grilling
of Senator Todd Blanch. Senators get... Todd Blanch over slush
fund. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch faced bipartisan backlash over
the creation of the nearly $2 billion fund. The president
has set up a slush fund and he literally will
get to choose through his handpicked appointees who gets paid
that fund. That is absurd. The president did not set
up a slush fund. this fund. It's not a slush
fund. Ask repeatedly whether those who assaulted police officers on
January 6th could be paid. Blanche didn't rule it out.
Do you feel they should get compensation after being convicted
of violent acts? My feelings don't matter, Senator, in my
mind. My mind is not limiting to say this. I
will commit to this or that. At the White House,
the vice president was pressed on the same issue. We're
not trying to give money to anybody who attacked a
police officer. We're trying to compensate people where the book
was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the legal
system. The fund was established after President Trump dropped his
$10 billion lawsuit against... the IRS over the leak of
his tax returns. As part of the settlement, the DOJ
said today the IRS is forever barred from prosecuting past
or existing audits into the president, his family, and the
Trump Organization. Do you believe those terms are fair? I
think that there are and will be, continue to be,
a lot of questions. around that. who defended the Capitol
on January 6th tell me if this new anti-weaponization fund
is used to pay those who committed the attack. Yep.
Well then let's take it to these clips which discuss
a little bit about the DOJ IRS situation. This DOJ
IRS forever banned from auditing Trump. Tonight in an extraordinary
move, the Justice Department declared the IRS is quote forever
barred and precluded from auditing President Trump, his family, his
oldest sons. and their companies or pursuing any claims for
past actions. It's part of the unprecedented settlement after President
Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The
deal was orchestrated by the head of the DOJ, Acting
Attorney General Todd Blanch, who is Trump's former personal attorney.
Blanch faced tough questions on Capitol Hill today. You're the
president's consigliere. Your perspective is completely wrong. Well, I think
the facts will prove me right. The president's settlement also
creates a nearly $1.8 billion fund, taxpayer money, to pay
for Trump allies or anyone else who claims they were
mistreated by the Biden Justice department i love all the
little gotchas in there tax taxpayer money slush fund allies
It's a group that includes the roughly 600 people charged
with obstructing or assaulting police on January 6th. Assaulting police
bullcrap. bring all that back. and bring it all back.
Police on January 6th. Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill
police officers be eligible for this fund? Well, as it
makes plain, anybody is- Just let me know if they're
eligible for the fund. Anybody in this country is eligible
to apply if they believe they're a victim of weapons-
I think this show. is a victim of this weaponization.
because we had to speak truth to power. And we
were telling everybody that, no, that's not true. And people
left in a huff. And I think it hurt our
income. And I think we should put in a claim.
Talk to Rob. At the White House, I followed up
with Vice President J.D. Vance. I assume you're not going
to apply. You don't think you should get money out
of this fund? So isn't it just as easy to
say that people that attacked police officers should not get
taxpayer money from this fund? Well, look, John, we're not
trying to give money to... Anybody who attacked a police
officer, we're trying to give money, not give money, we're
trying to compensate people. Give money, not give money. Where
the book was thrown at them, they were... He screwed
up there. We're trying to give money, I mean not
give money, compensate. Trying to give money to anybody who
attacked a police officer, we're trying to give money, not
give money, we're trying to compensate people. Where... The book
was thrown at them. They were mistreated by the legal
system. We do have people who were accused of attacking
law enforcement officers. That doesn't mean that we're going to
completely ignore some of the claims that they're going to
make. It's a very complex building. It comes as Republicans
are trying to set aside another $1 billion in taxpayer
money. for President Trump's new ballroom. They say it's for
security. Back to that $1.8 billion fund, some of which
could go to people who attacked the Capitol building on
January 6th. It's not just Democrats who don't like it.
Senate Republican leader John Thune said today, quote, I am
not a big fan. Yes, here's the president himself explaining
the fund. But this is reimbursing people that were horribly
treated, horribly treated. It's anti-weaponization. They've been weaponized. They've been,
in some cases, imprisoned wrongly. They paid legal fees that
they didn't have. They've gone bankrupt. Their lives have been
destroyed. And they turn out to be right. I mean,
it was a terrible period of time in the history
of our country, and they worked on it. I know
the Justice Department, it's really been working on it very
hard. There's been numerous other occasions over the years where
things like this have been done, but these were people
that were weaponized and really treated brutally by a system
that was so corrupt. with corrupt people running it and
they're getting reimbursed for their legal fees and the other
things that they had to suffer. Yeah, please. Yeah, I
got to tell you, I mean, I've seen the damage
that did and I'd like to see J6 or Jenny
and Luke get some money out of it. Well, let's
hope they do. Let's hope they put a claim in.
I know Luke has a claim. I've got to talk
to Jenny about it. Yeah, make sure she does it.
Maybe Rob should help them. No, that was part two.
That was your part two. I have a part three.
which is Comey. Former FBI director James Comey faces trial
later this summer on charges. he threatened President Trump's life.
The case stems from this Instagram post a year ago,
a photo of Shell spelling out 8647. Prosecutors say the
slang term 86 meant intent to do harm to Mr.
Trump, the 47th president. It is the second indictment against
the former FBI director in one of several investigations and
lawsuits. involving people President Trump sees as his political enemies.
Comey also has a new crime novel out, Red Verdict.
It's a legal thriller centered on Russian espionage. I spoke
with him earlier today. Former FBI Director James Comey, welcome
to the NewsHour. It's great to be with you. I
want to start with your reaction to this DOJ announcement.
The department says it's creating a nearly $1.8 billion fund,
taxpayer money, to compensate Trump allies who say they were
unfairly targeted by the previous administration. What kind of precedent
does this set? I've never heard of it, and I
first thought it was an onion piece when I read
about it. I don't know how it will work. and
how it will be administered. Kiddingly, want to know, do
I get to apply? Do all victims of weaponization get
to ask for attorney's fees? We'll have to see. Would
you submit a claim? I might, maybe just to be
humorous about the whole thing, but if it's for people
who've been targeted for reasons other than the normal... standards
of the Department of Justice, I'm ready to get in
line. Now you're going to have to look this clip
up. This clip is called Comey on Trump January 2021.
Comey on Trump. No, let me set it up. No,
I don't see it, John. Comey... Is it Comey on
Trump? Yeah, K-C-O-M-E-Y on Trump is the name of it.
I'm not seeing it. It's from three weeks ago. I
believe you, but I am. I don't have any... Only
on Trump. Um... Comey on MSNBC about Trump? No, it
says call me. Well, that might be, that actually might
be the same clip. What are the principal points of
danger within the Justice Department if there's another Trump presidency,
given his nature, given what you know about him? He
is a threat to the rule of law in America.
To me, that's what this election is about. about what
kind of country are we going to be. to use
the power of the Department of Justice and the FBI
to target his enemies especially, the rule of law in
America will change in a way we haven't seen in
our lifetime. He would express it in his first term
as a wish. I want people to go after so-and-so.
I want people to go after Andrew McCabe, the former
deputy director of the FBI. In his second term, he
would go a step further, I'm highly confident, and say,
I want him criminally investigated. And he would have, he
was close to the bottom of the barrel. That's not
it. Uh, yes- because you can't find it because it
is in the pile. Let me see, make sure, yeah
it says Comey. C-O-M-E-Y, oh well. Um... I'm sorry. Anyway,
in 2021 he was... The worst. Oh, I got it.
I found it. I found it. I found it. Okay,
let me tell you what this clip is. This is
an example of... This is an example of... of using
the Justice Department as a weapon. Convict him, bar him
from future service, have the prosecutors, the local prosecutors in
New York pursue him for the fraudster that he was
before he ever became president, lock him up for the...
garden variety florals he did there, but don't give him
that center stage, that dominant role in our national life.
just down the street where Joe Biden is trying to
heal this nation. Yeah. Yeah, lock him up. Lock him
up, yeah. Yeah, that's that's that's reasonable it's also fake
and gay the guys are creep i i mean i
think that they're This thing about the 86-47 is a
bit much, but, you know, they're sending a message. And
with that, as it is a value-for-value program where we,
I haven't heard an ad in the past two hours.
Have you heard an ad? You haven't heard any ads?
No. That's because we have chosen a different path. And
I would like to thank you, John C. Dvorak, for
your courage. You are the man who put the C
in the... Astro indictment? Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to
my friend, the other and the one, the only, Mr.
John C. DeWare! Well, good morning to you, Mr. Adam
Craig. Good morning to all ships and sea boots on
the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water,
and all the dames and knights. In the morning to
the trolls in the troll room. 1329. It's vacation time.
It's a holiday coming up. Yep, holiday coming up. It's
how it always rolls. what happens and of course we
have vbs which i just learned today is a thing
vbs What, VBS? VBS, yes. Vacation Bible School. I had
no idea. People are in VBS? Vacation Bible School. So
why don't you just go to, okay. Let's just go
to what? Bible school. No, it's vacation Bible school. What's
the difference? You go to it on vacation. Why don't
you just go to it? Well, maybe they do. But
then they do it during their vacation too. I don't
know. I'm just telling you that people are out. Because
of VBS is what I'm hearing. I can't make it,
man. VBS. I don't know. So... As I said before,
we are value for value operated. Which means we, uh...
We only ask you to send us some value when
you feel you have received value from the program. Now
I'm, let's see, the people are already trying. It's typically
in the summer, man. I'm telling you, people have not
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And that was for our episode 1869. We titled that
Trollery. This was controversial on the inside of the program.
I wasn't too sure about it. Blue Acorn created a
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OG Catholic in action, the Pope, with his little CIA
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It's just, it's too busy. It's too much going on.
I'm not even sure if we see anything fantastic yet.
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I should have mentioned this to you. when you choose
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the numbnuts has no babes. Oh, no, but I'm saying
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show insanity. Yes, yes. I'd say once a month. I
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oh, babes. I just need to do babes. and now
this is the way it is with everything it's like
it's follow the leader oh well that work then let's
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You seem recovered. I still have to do these balancing
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Hello. The Rub-A-Lizer is exclusively for Rub-A-Lizers. so we can't
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I'm sorry. Never heard of it. I'm sorry we disappointed
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And we continue now with the rest of our Time
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And at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. is Nathan Cochran
from Franklin, Tennessee. Nathan, of course, bass player for Mercy
Me, not a small band, and I will be seeing
him this weekend. Tina and I are going to Nashville
for the big K-Love Music Festival. That's the K-Love Music
Festival. It's a festival with music, and it's in... Tennessee
and Nashville. What is it? K-Love. What's K-Love? K-Love is
a radio station that organizes. They're very big. They have
like 400 stations around the country. And Mercy Me is
performing. So we'll be hanging out. Do you need a
backstage pass? Oh, no, I don't even need a pass.
They have their roadie come out and get us. That's
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man. We're in like Flynn. Nathan, check your levels, man.
You've got to be at least a baronet by now,
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Do you need money to set up an OnlyFans? It's
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And the same is for Sir Paul, who is back
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Yeah, they got Roman baths there. That's why it's called
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Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Now $50 and says, gewoon voor de
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En groetjes voor jou, Adam. We are a multilingual podcast.
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And John Maurer, also from Washington, $50. And that wraps
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interesting today we have no nights no dames no birthdays
Which, how often does that happen? Like not rarely, not
very often at all. We do have a make good.
from Nick Della Croce, your favorite. - Let's make good
note, but. It's not really. What does that mean? As
you read it, you can read it and you'll see
what I'm talking about. Should I not read it? No,
you should read it. Okay, I'm going to read it.
I'm reading it. Oh, you want me to read it
out loud? Oh, okay. Nick Della Croce. No, just read
it. We're good. Yeah. Nick Della Croce, my recurring monthly
donations of a... Wow. I'm very grateful I stumbled onto
No Agenda at that point in my life. Adam, my
girlfriend, and I had the pleasure of meeting you at
a... meet up in Fredericksburg. I know exactly who this
is. A few months ago. After chatting together, you looked
at us and said, you two need to get married.
You're a really good thing going on there or something
like that. My girlfriend's exact words, exact words afterward. Wow.
He's so tall and so handsome for his age. See,
this girl is a keeper. John, you're the GOAT! My
girlfriend also finds you absolutely hilarious. Laugh a little too
hard at your jokes, if I'm being honest. You two
both keep me sane and thinking clearly. Thank you for
everything you do, show after show. Please call up my
father, Vince Della Croce, as a douchebag. In the morning,
from Nick Della Croce, your favorite Gen Z-er in Austin,
Texas. P.S. My smoking hot girlfriend is a private chef,
classically trained, lived in Spain and Italy studying food. If
you're ever looking for someone for a dinner party or
special event, reach out. She's the real deal. Done. Done.
I say done. We just celebrated our anniversary. That would
have been very cool. Alright, so let's straighten something out
here. for our Zetters that don't seem to have missed
a boat. Uh... You don't accumulate for associate executive producer.
You don't accumulate for executive producer. You don't accumulate for
red knight. You don't accumulate for PhDs. You don't accumulate
for anything except knights and all the... All the things
that come after night, like barons and dukes and the
rest, that's it. Very good. Now, you also don't, as
you said, you don't accumulate for a red knight. That
comes only with a one-time donation. And we have two
today. Behold. BOO! Red Knights Order of the Heart 2
today, which is a nice score. And I think we
only have 50 of them, so if you want these,
you better get in on this. Sir Ronald Lafferty and
Sir Sadahouser, both of you, are hereby official Red Knights,
the Order of the Heart. Congratulations. BIS Oh, uh, I
don't have any good meetup reports, people. You're falling down
on the job, but there's a lot of meetups to-
Marcy, Marcy, oh, this is our Baroness Isabelle Pearson, the
first Marquiaque No Agenda Mixer, 7.30 in. in Mont-Lazune, Gers,
France. I hope somebody shows up. If not, it doesn't
matter. Baroness Isabel, please send us a meetup report, even
if it's just you. But I have a feeling we
may have some people who drop by. They're all there
for the Tour de France, you see. On Saturday, the
Trifectas and Trolls local extraction meetup... 12.30 in Delaware Park,
Stanton, Delaware. Saturday, number 75 for Flight of the No
Agendas, Leo Bravo, now organizing that in the Proud Bird
in Los Angeles, California. Goonies in the Boonies on Saturday
at 5 o'clock, New York, Pizza Department, Hickson, Tennessee. Oh
man, there's two meetups. Saturday night. And I'm going to
be in Nashville to see if I can visit one
of these. Because we also have the Franklin getting fired
up for summer meetup, six o'clock at Salvo's Pizza in
Franklin. So we have Hickson, Tennessee and Franklin, Tennessee. Then
on Sunday, our next show day, and I'll be doing
that from Nashville. We drink and we know things. I
need a drink edition. Two o'clock at 3BR Distillery in
Keyport, New Jersey. Also on Sunday, the No ID pop-up,
4.30 at the Alibi Room in Vancouver, British Columbia. So
Monday. A meet-up on Monday. That's kind of rare. Monday
Madness in Squim. Ah, yes, it's the 30th. That is
Barhop Brewing in Sequim. That'll be on the 30th. And
of course, is that the 30th already? No, that can't
be the 30th. That's not the 30th. Is it? That
doesn't make any sense. Well, I think, no, that's the
25th. Is that the one Mimi's going to in Squim?
Well, the one in Sequim is the one she's going
to. Well, then that's the one on Monday. What we
do have coming up on the 30th is Anchorage, Alaska.
So please, people, go... Oh! And then we have, I
just have to mention this one, June 6th, Bila Tcherkva.
in kiev oblast ukraine man we get around with these
meetups we have people everywhere in the world, even in
war zones. So go to noagentameetups.com and find out where
you can join the party. Make some connection because these
connections give you protection. Everybody you meet at No Agenda
Meetup will be a first responder in any emergency you
have. Check them out. Go find one near you. If
you can't find one near you, here's an easy solution.
Start one. It's free, it's easy, and guaranteed always a
party. Noagendameetups.com. *music* Now this is weird. head That's very
odd. I had... Hmm. But my meetups are missing. My
ISOs are missing. How does that happen? You didn't do
any. I did. I certainly did do Mido. I had
four of them. You said meetups, not ISOs. I mean
ISOs. I'm confused, all right? I'm confused. Yeah, apparently. Yes,
my ISOs. My ISOs are missing. How did they go
missing? All right, well, I guess you win. This is
a cheap-ass way to get out of it. Well, I
can't help it. I mean, I've lost them. could spend
an hour looking for them. I mean, if you really
want to wait, but I'm... No, no, no, I don't
want to. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, well,
you get two chances here. Here we go. Which one
do we play first? Let's start with Nailed It. These
two geniuses nailed it again. Hey, she got a little
British there at the end. No, a little British accent,
yes. These two geniuses. nailed it again. She starts in
American and ends up in English. These two geniuses nailed
it again. Nailed it again. Okay, we nailed it again
then. What's the other one? Better podcast. Is there a
better podcast than this? I think not. All right, well,
we know what the answer is. Of course there's none
better than that. for the tip of the day. Just
the tip with JCB. And sometimes, Adam. All right, so
this is kind of a, it has a double effect
because it also plugs a veteran's operation, veteran-owned. Mm, very
nice. Blind Rabbits, the name of the company. And they
make something called Screw Lube 2. I'm sorry, Screw Lube.
And it's a two-ounce wood screw container of screw, a
lube for screws that's better than beeswax. It's better than
soap. It's good for if you've got like a three-
or four-inch screw that you've got to... put into some
wood you want. Screw lube. wood screw lubricant. from half
blind rabbit and you can find it on amazon it's
about nine bucks and it's A superior product is something
everyone should have for their... The pros use it. I
have screwed a lot. I cannot ever recall using screw
lube. Is that something you're supposed to use for screwing?
If you're going into wood, yeah, and it's a, if
you're going, say you've got more than an inch. Or
two inches. They got to go in two inches. You
have to back it off and push it back in
and back it off. No, you just use this stuff.
Go straight through. And it doesn't stain and it doesn't
cause issues. It doesn't cause problems. Yeah. You're supposed to
use screw lube. I can hear about five end of
show mixes coming from this very conversation. Give me the
name of the product again, John, so people can go
find it. Screw lube. Screw lube, everybody. There you go.
Another fine tip from John C. Dvorak. Find them all
at No Agenda. fun.com. Created by David Lurie. I am
off to the races after this production ends. We're on
our way to Austin. and on our way to Nashville.
Look out, Nashville. We're coming your way. And even though
I'm out there having a good time at the festival,
I will be ripping myself away from my wife and
friends to do this podcast for you on Sunday. And
I look forward to it because I love doing this
show. Do you love doing the show, John? Yes, and
that's why, according to Elon Musk, the show is so
good. Elon Musk said that? He got it. I should
clip it. He's going on about how some of his
cars are good because they're made with love and love
comes across to the eventual customer and they... I think
it's great because of that. If you hate doing the
show, it would come across as hate. Oh, no. It's
all about the love, baby. Yeah, there you go. Up
next on the NO Agenda stream and in your modern
podcast app, the Millennial Media Offensive. This will be episode
219. And end of show mixes. We got a few
for you. Danny Luce, Just Bake. MVP and Niko sign
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