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Oh my god, what a shocker! Adam Couric, John C.
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Dvorak. It's Sunday, June 7th, 2026. This is your award-winning
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Gimbo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1875. This is no agenda.
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We... Photorama! And we're broadcasting live from the heart of
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the Texas Hill Country. Agent number six. Good morning everybody,
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I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we've
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discovered the Antichrist. It's the iPhone. I'm John C. Dvorak.
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In the morning. Well, a couple observations right off the
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top here. One. You're coming to us from Northern Silicon
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Valley. Which means you're back home. Yeah, I'm at the
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house. Excellent. They're still banging away back there, working on
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that place. What do you mean, banging? What happened? They're
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redoing the bed. There's a bunch of work being done
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on the house. Yeah. I'm making sure they don't wreck
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the place. That's why I'm here. Is they Mimi? Does
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she have a crew? Does she have a crew of
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Mexicans? Illegal immigrants? It varies. So what do they do?
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Well, first of all... Welcome back. Good to have you
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back home. That's good news. Second of all, Are we
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close to being able to see your studio? Well, you're
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talking about the challenge for people who go to the
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new Instagram No Agenda account, which is... no agenda podcast
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yeah the official no agenda account on instagram And once
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it gets to 5,000, we take a picture of the
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studio. How close are we? I'm sorry, I don't keep
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up with the Insta. I think we're around 3. 3,000?
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yeah wow that that went pretty fast shouldn't we get
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should we be like uh trending somewhere if we get
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that many followers in one go i know we're not
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oh those guys those guys are uh no no not
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those guys just don't don't no no no no you
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don't you know it's a fake anyway so why would
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put them on it it's all fake. And what's this
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with the Antichrist iPhone? I mean, is this a news?
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I'm determined that the iPhone is the Antichrist. Why not?
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Well, it's possible. I mean, is it only... Oh, I
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see. I'm floating around. I'm seeing... I'm telling you, like,
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yesterday, we went to the store, and there's, like, people
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getting out of their car there. looking at the phone
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as they get out, stumble out, walking into the store,
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always eyes on the phone. I don't know how people
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can navigate. I mean, you remember the early days of
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these phones, people were banging into poles and walking over
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curbs and falling into manholes. Yeah, sure. They stopped doing
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that. There's this new radar or some sense that phone
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has kept them from banging into stuff. You know what?
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Go ahead. Walking around with the phone and the same
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person comes out still looking at the phone. What is
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on the phone? I don't think it's the Antichrist, I
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think it's It's a national security issue. We are a
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vulnerable. You don't think the anti-crisis is a national security
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issue? Okay, fair point. Fair point. It's just these people,
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I mean, we are very vulnerable as a country when
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we have robots, you know, NPCs just roaming around looking
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at their phones. That is a national security issue. And
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you spotted a cup number years ago. Oh, 10 years
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ago at least, maybe even longer. You spotted the fact
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that people are walking around with their phone in their
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hand. Yeah. You know, women mostly, but now men too,
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men and women, walking around with the phone in their
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hand. All the time. Yeah. You know, we forget that
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this is happening. We kind of got used to it.
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No, it's so normal now. I mean, on Mondays, I
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go play chess with this guy. And so it means...
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I park on Main Street and I get out. Is
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this in the park? No, I park on Main Street.
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No, I know. You park the car, yeah, but I'm
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saying, is it in the park outside? No, no. Is
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it a black guy, an old black guy? No. It's
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inside a Java ranch. You know, your favorite, Java Ranch.
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It's with Willie. That's why I play with Willie. And
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he was not a black guy. And, uh, but just
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walk. And so I have to, I have to cross
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two streets. Two traffic lights. And all you see is
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people walking with their phones, looking at their phones. It's
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everywhere. It's rampant. And we've kind of gotten used to
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it. It's a national security issue. And yes, if it
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is the anti- Is it only the iPhone or is
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Android also the antichrist? Well, obviously it's the smartphone in
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general. Yeah. Because I see people looking at... They're all...
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operate the same people are looking at them they're carrying
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around it's the same you know no it's all the
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phones all the smartphones And what are we going to
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do with it? Everything but a flip phone. And I'm
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not even so sure about that. Yeah. Well, you know,
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I had to give up on the flip phone because
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they made it impossible to communicate. If you don't have
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RCS, then you can't communicate with the Antichrist people on
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the iPhone. Yeah, but it's not people communicating with each
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other so much, it's they're just... Well, no, I understand
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what you're saying. But if you have a flip phone,
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it used to be doable when everything was still kind
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of over. SMS or you know It's like you had.
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MMS. Remember this protocol? Yeah, MMS. So someone will send
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out a video to me and it comes in like...
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You know, like a little postage stamp because you can't
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see that because everyone's doing it over IP. All the
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iPhones and the iPhones got connected to the Android with
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RCS. And, you know, it was really Apple that screwed
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all this up. They had their own little protocol. And
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then, you know, you couldn't participate. You can't be in
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a text group anymore. And if it actually worked, then
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people yell at you. Who's the green bubble? Who's the
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green bubble? Who's ruining my text group? Yeah, that's me
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now. Anyway, so. How's that voting going in California? Oh,
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I do have a clip. Oh, please. What's your clip?
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Yeah, we got Stella, one of our podcast friends. Stella,
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the Stella Show. Yes. Talks about the Cal voting situation.
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U.S. Attorney Bill Assele says his office... has multiple election
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fraud investigations now underway in coordination with the FBI as
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California officials are still counting the ballots from this week's
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primary. It could go on for weeks and weeks and
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weeks. What is your reaction to this? Because I know
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you're following it very closely. I mean, this is your
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lane. This is what you do. It is about time
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that. all eyes are on California's election process. And we're
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looking at 37 days to get counted for our mail-in
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ballots. And it's just about time. And I'm really appreciative
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of Bill Asseili. You know, he was a former assembly
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member and he has always done everything he could to
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possibly bring some course correction to our state. It's incredible.
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You know, I ran for state assembly. And so I
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looked at our voter rolls. People were registered to vote
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in empty parking lots and old houses and buildings. It's
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about time that we start cleaning this mess up because
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we deserve to be represented. And, you know, California is
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such a beautiful state, but we've got a problem. So
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there's a fighting chance right now. Voting infrastructure that... that
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the Democrats and Gavin has created here allows for this.
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We have every single Californian and even Californians who have
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left the state are getting mail-in ballots. You can register
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same day and get a provisional ballot. It is incredible
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that there's no voter ID. We're seeing helicopters bringing in
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ballots. Why is this even happening? Gavin actually had the
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nerve to go on to his public platform and pass
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SB 73 saying that the signatures on mail-in ballots no
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longer have to be verified. So, you know, what exactly
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does that do? That enables cheaters to happen. So they're
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really bringing in ballots with helicopters? yeah there was a
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bunch of choppers coming in that's great dropping off dropping
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off ballots by the truckload talk about an airdrop well
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since you played stella let me play state of daniel
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this uh there's one of our podcast friends last night
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there was a drop of about who's not gay 24
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000 ballots and spencer did not get a single one
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let's take a look at the results over here. So
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last night, you can see before the drop, it was
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308, 878,000. After the drop, 333,712,000. And as you can
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see, Spencer Pratt did not gain a single vote. He
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still had, before and after the drop, 86,323. Meanwhile, all
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of the other contenders here, all of the other candidates...
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did gain vote totals. What are the odds of that?
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That, quite frankly, is impossible. By the way, when that
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24,000 vote drop came in, there were also drops that
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included the votes for governor. What are the odds here
9:33
that even Steve Hilton would be gaining votes overnight, but
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none for Spencer Pratt? Are people not voting down? No.
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Are they just voting for governor and they're not voting
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for L.A.' 's mayoral race? I get that there are
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many people voting for governor who would not be able
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to vote in this mayoral race. Like, obviously, if you
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live in the northernmost part of California, you would not
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be eligible to vote for L.A.' 's mayor. But you're
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telling me that not a single person who cast a
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ballot in those. 24,000 votes in LA. Not a single
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one. Voted for mayor, but they voted for governor. All
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of this just does not make sense. That's almost like
10:09
the election where you saw the counts go down live
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on TV. Yeah, the counts reversed. That was great. That
10:14
was fantastic. Some of the negative votes for Trump during
10:17
that Biden election. Let's move. From our podcast crew to
10:21
Ms. Now. President Trump is sticking with the playbook, election
10:25
denial. The president hopped on Truth Social, as he does
10:29
on most nights, to claim without a doubt. I like
10:31
the election denial. Then said Democrats were, quote, trying to
10:34
steal the primaries for California governor and L.A. mayor. He
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offered, surprise, surprise, no. facts to support no facts no
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evidence claim pointing only to a predictably slow counting process
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in a state wait a minute is this Now, let
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me ask you a question. You're in California. You're the
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man on the scene, boots on the ground. I'm the
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boots on the ground. California. Is this predictable, this slow
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counting process? Is this something that... always happens with California?
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It's been getting progressively worse ever since Newsom got in
11:07
office. It never used to be this way. In fact,
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there was a couple of memes floating around showing them,
11:13
you know. finishing the vote count within two or three
11:18
days of the election. And that's been stretching and stretching,
11:22
largely due to the fact that Newsom decided to Newsom.
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And, you know, you can't just blame Newsom. It's also
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the state legislature. They're the ones who create the bull
11:33
crop. And they, uh... decided to send everybody whether you
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ask for you don't have to ask for absentee ballots.
11:42
Years ago, if you wanted to vote by mail, you
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had to request. Yeah, you had to request it. You
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get a package. A package. If you signed this package
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and sent the package back, then they send you an
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absentee ballot. No, everybody gets an absentee ballot. We continue.
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Portis claim pointing only to a predictably slow counting process.
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in a state with a huge volume of mail-in voters.
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which has always been the case and he is always
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known after all he's now been in politics for more
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than 12 years joining us former democratic congressman for new
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york and Senior advisor for VoteVets, Max Rose. James Sample,
12:22
still with us as well. All right, so. All right.
12:26
Is this Katie Turr? Turr? Yes, Turr. It's got to
12:29
be. It sounds like her. She's so snide. Yeah, well,
12:32
that's what you do. Very slowly, Max. Very slowly. Very
12:36
slowly. It's always been the case. How much? It's always
12:38
been the case. Oh, what? I got boots on the
12:41
ground here that says that's not true. They do count
12:43
very slowly, Max. Very slowly. But this has always been
12:46
the case. How much traction does he get? on an
12:50
accusation like that. This is what Donald Trump always does.
12:53
Yeah, it's kind of tiresome, isn't it? It's horrifying because...
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I think really the Democratic Party has turned. I'm so
13:06
tired of these people saying Democratic Party. We really have
13:10
to keep calling this out because it just it makes
13:13
it sound like they're democratic, but they're not. Democrat party.
13:17
Come on, dude. Amidst the I think really. The Democratic
13:20
Party has turned itself in the right direction in terms
13:24
of its willingness to go on the offense, its willingness
13:27
to really use the power at its disposal. It's been
13:31
a change, right direction. On this front, though, I still
13:34
think it's a blind spot that somehow there's this thing
13:37
about Donald Trump where we're like, you know, yeah. 2020,
13:41
did the steal, January 6th, the whole thing. That won't
13:43
happen again. There's zero doubt in my mind. that he
13:48
will be using this language and attempting to use the
13:51
powers at his disposal for this midterm election. So he
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said they're under investigation. The California vote process is under
13:59
investigation. Under investigation. Should we take him at his word
14:02
that it's under investigation and that something might be happening
14:05
at DOJ? We should take him at his word that
14:07
he wants there to be an investigation, and we should
14:09
take him at his word that what he wants from
14:11
DOJ, he typically gets. Yes, of course, he gets that.
14:15
Now, wait, wait, wait. We should take him at his
14:19
word that he wants there to be... An investigation? When
14:22
did he say he wanted... That's not his words. No.
14:28
Well, how can we take him at his words when
14:30
they misquote him? This whole station is set up to
14:33
defend the Democrat Party. I mean, we know this. The
14:38
station is pathetic. Well. So This morning on... Face the
14:44
press, spank the press, meet the press, meet the press.
14:48
Spank Depressed. That would be a great show. Wouldn't that,
14:53
though? Can you imagine? Who would host? Well, Manhans Welker
14:56
is hosting Meet the Press. Well, she'd be perfect. She's
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got the hands. for it. Have her spanking the press.
15:05
So she was in Wisconsin interviewing the president and things
15:08
did not go well for her. Just to be very
15:10
clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying. No evidence.
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No evidence. No evidence. Let me ask you about Todd
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Blanche. Listen to me. Listen to me. Let's talk about
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Todd Blanche. This tremendous evidence is. nothing but evidence. The
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election was rigged. It was a dirty election. And it's
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happening again right now in California. It's happening right now
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in California. Right now, it's looking, look at what's happening
15:34
in California. It's four days in California. It's, no, they're
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not, they're dropping fast because... It's a rigged election. Let
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me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even
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close to coming up with it. You know why they're
15:48
doing that? Because they're cheating on the election. Do you
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have evidence to support that? All I have to do
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is look. All I have to do is look. That's
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not evidence. And I listen. And I listen to people.
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And let's see what happens. But sir, that's not evidence.
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Do you think it's appropriate? That's how they do it.
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Count the votes in California. Do you think it's appropriate
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that they have an election and five days later they're
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nowhere close to picking the winner? State and local officials
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acknowledge they are slow. They're urging. No, they're crooked. They're
16:12
urging the votes to be counted. That's how they vote
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in California. You're crooked just like you're crooked. Your press
16:16
is crooked. Oh, here we go. You're crooked. Oh, here
16:19
we go. Here we go. Here we go. No, they're
16:21
crooked. They're crooked. They're urging the votes to be counted
16:23
quickly. That's how they vote in California. They're crooked, just
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like you're crooked. Your press is crooked. And meet the
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press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. Really?
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Well, you play right into their hands. To be fair,
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Mr. President, I'm not crooked. To be fair, I'm not
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crooked. Just to be fair now. Let's be fair now.
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I'm not crooked, Mr. President. That is a great... Isn't
16:43
that great? To be fair, I'm not crooked, but let's
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continue. Really? Well, you play right into their hands then.
16:48
Let's continue. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play
16:50
right into their hands with this rep. You know that
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these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged.
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You know that I won an election. in a landslide
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and I got 94% bad press. You know why I
17:06
got that? Because you have no credibility. No, that's wrong.
17:10
That was a mistake he made. What did he say?
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He says, I got a 94% I don't know. Whatever.
17:21
promoting himself he says and then no you know you
17:24
got 94 bad press after being a winning in a
17:27
landslide as he calls it not 93 And he says,
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why? Because you have no credibility? No, no, he was
17:36
on the crooked theme, pounding home crooked. and then he
17:42
switches it to credibility. That was a blunder. Well, he's
17:46
about to rectify it. Elections are rigged. Your network knows
17:50
that they're rigged. You know that I won an election
17:53
in a landslide and I got 94% bad press. But
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Mr. President, you've never presented evidence. You know why I
17:58
got that? Because you have no credibility. But you've never
18:01
presented evidence that it was rigged. Let's keep talking about
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it. I want to talk about Todd Lynch. You have
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more evidence. There's more evidence than ever presented. Let's talk
18:09
about it. Your elections in this country, we're like a
18:12
third world country. Your elections are crooked. And you're crooked.
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And Mr. Press is crooked. And so is ABC and
18:19
CBS. and CNN. Your one-sided crooked network. Let's call it
18:25
quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a
18:27
good time. And he walks off the set. This is
18:32
the best part. You know, there's a Welker standing... No,
18:37
hold on. What? Now, I didn't get to see this
18:39
because it was, you know... Past my bedtime. I was
18:42
still getting up. Yeah. I understood the whole thing was
18:47
50 minutes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It wasn't like he
18:51
just walked in and walked off. No, I didn't say
18:54
that. No, I know you didn't say it, but it
18:56
sounds like it, the way it comes across. Well, it's
19:01
because I'm playing a clip. 50 minutes? How much time
19:04
is he supposed to be there? I mean, I'm playing
19:06
a clip, but the point is... He says, okay, we're
19:09
done. He pulls off the mic, gets up. Thanks, darling.
19:13
You're crooked. And then Welker is, her eyes are bugging
19:17
out of her head. She's like looking at the producer,
19:19
looking at the crew like. Like, what just happened here?
19:21
Now, is this the one that aired? This is what
19:24
aired, yeah. Because I know they put a... transcript and
19:27
they i guess they posted a secondary complete interview well
19:32
somewhere so at the end They come back to her
19:36
in the studio. And here's what she says. Please, I
19:40
travel all the way to Wisconsin. This is actually the,
19:43
this is how it went on air. I travel all
19:45
the way to Wisconsin. On and off in the rain,
19:48
and I've given you enough time. You hear what he
19:50
says? I've given you an hour, he says this. I
19:53
travel all the way to Wisconsin. On and off in
19:57
the rain, and I've given you enough time. You ought
20:00
to straighten out your press because you know what? A
20:03
country can never be great with a dishonest press. Listen,
20:06
we traveled all the way to Wisconsin for the press.
20:09
There goes the microphone. Now they switch back to the
20:12
studio and here's her tag. I spoke with President Trump
20:17
on Saturday and we both acknowledged the complications during the
20:21
interview posed by the rain. He agreed to sit down
20:24
with me for another Meet the Press interview. It's because
20:28
of the rain, I say. Okay. Well, there was some
20:31
talk about the rain. They were in a barn with
20:35
a tin roof. Yeah, with a tractor in the back.
20:39
It was raining and they had to cut it a
20:43
number of times and they had to stop them. interview
20:47
a number of times supposedly according to the report i
20:50
read the whole thing was crazy The whole thing was
20:54
crazy. Now, there was some... There's a Supreme Court case
21:01
that may stop some of these ballots. I have a,
21:03
this is back to Muz now. Tell me about SCOTUS
21:06
and mail-in ballots. Well, so there's a pending, I mean,
21:09
California, we're tracking the mail-in vote. We're tracking how long
21:12
it takes them to count. California is one of the
21:15
states that allows for a grace period for ballots that
21:17
are postmarked. by election day, but arrive. It's not just
21:21
a ballot that goes right into a post box. You
21:23
have to get it posted and signed off on, certified
21:28
essentially by somebody at the post office. Just as when
21:31
you mail your taxes, you can mail them out on
21:34
April 15th at 11 o'clock at night if you can
21:36
get to a post office and make sure you get
21:38
that postmarked. The IRS isn't going to reject your money,
21:41
but there is a movement afoot to reject votes that
21:44
would meet that same standard. And the Supreme Court has
21:47
a case pending before it right now called Watson v.
21:50
Republican National Committee that has not yet been decided. And
21:53
at oral argument, there were essentially three groups of three.
21:56
There are three votes that were a little bit... hard
21:59
to read based on oral argument. There are clearly three
22:01
votes to end this practice by this, to have the
22:04
Supreme Court end this practice. There may be five votes
22:07
to end the practice. Would it be retroactive? It would
22:08
not be retroactive. There's no way you could make it
22:10
retroactive. Certainly not for California. Well, could it work for
22:12
November if they decided? Yes, conceivably. That would be a
22:15
massive change. There's a principle called the Purcell Principle. which
22:19
says we shouldn't interfere, but realistically... Alabama. Right, right. Realistically,
22:24
this Supreme Court applies that principle when it's convenient for
22:27
this Supreme Court to apply that principle for its partisan
22:30
ends. Yeah, okay. Well, we'll see where that goes. Nowhere.
22:34
There was a... See, this is a... It was an
22:36
interesting commentary on Kate. about why they are taking so
22:42
much time. Tonight, election fraud investigations underway in L.A. as
22:46
some, including Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton, express their
22:51
frustration that final results of Tuesday's primary election could be
22:56
weeks away. This is an absolute... shambles, a humiliation for
23:01
California. It is making our state a laughingstock here in
23:04
America. President Trump, without releasing any evidence, accusing Democrats of,
23:09
quote, grieving the election, saying Americans are ashamed of what
23:13
is happening. U.S. Attorney Bill Assele announcing his office is
23:17
coordinating with the... FBI in multiple investigation. But political experts
23:23
say there is nothing to indicate widespread election fraud. And
23:26
the delay is expected because of California's mail-in ballot process.
23:31
It's nothing fraudulent. It's nothing untoward. The reason it's taking
23:36
a long time is that. The people counting the ballots
23:40
take their time matching signatures. Oh, that's it. Matching signatures.
23:46
Please. SB25, they mentioned in the Stella podcast, says you
23:52
don't have to do that anymore. According to... The bill,
23:57
SB 25- I'm sorry, SB 75 that Newsom signed says
24:01
you don't have to match the signatures. So how does
24:04
this come into play? Well, they're lying. Somebody's lying. Yeah.
24:10
Well. For sure, we will not see Xavier Becerra. He's
24:16
the guy now leading? *laughs* Yeah. Wasn't he healthy? Didn't
24:20
we laugh him out of town when he was at
24:22
Health and Human Services? Now he's the front runner? He's
24:25
the front runner in California? I think he was. Was
24:28
he the one that was impeached, too, I think? It
24:31
might have been. Let's ask the robot. Yeah, look it
24:34
up. That's a good one. Book of Knowledge. Was Javier
24:37
Becerra impeached? when he was in HHS. Let's see. I
24:42
think you're right. Well, one of them was. I think
24:46
it was him. It could have been. It could have
24:48
been. Well, it's taken a long time to figure it
24:52
out. According to the Book of Knowledge, Xavier Becerra served
24:56
as the 25th United States Secretary of Health. and human
24:59
services under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2005. But
25:06
no impeachment proceedings occurred during his tenure. It was the
25:10
Homeland Security guy that was impeached. Oh, yeah, you're right.
25:14
Different brown guy. Yeah, Becerra was a do-nothing, do-nothing. guy.
25:19
He oversaw the vacs. Isn't he a pharma guy? Yeah,
25:25
he's a big pharma, he's a big business guy. The
25:27
advantage that he has, or the only good news for
25:31
him, is that he's like pro-refinery. And well, he's pro-oil.
25:37
He's pro-oil. He's big oil. Chevron has paid, financed his
25:41
campaign. What? The Jews haven't done it? Well, no, the
25:45
Jews, I think the Jews want to stire. So Steyer's
25:50
out. Of course. How could they fail? Nobody likes Steyer.
25:55
Steyer's a creep. Yeah, but how could he fail? fail.
25:58
I mean, he had all the money. I'm sure he
26:00
had APAC. And how can it fail? I don't understand.
26:03
People always tell me. If you got all the money,
26:07
then you win. You should also mention the fact that
26:09
I was watching one of these old clips and Hillary
26:12
had twice as much money as Trump in 2016. How
26:15
come she didn't win? I'm just saying. Twice as much.
26:19
Anomaly. So we were pretty much correct about Pulte. Now,
26:27
is Pulte the guy? That was probably more you than
26:30
me on this one. Is he the guy from the
26:33
big construction company? Is that this Pulte? Isn't there a
26:36
Pulte Construction? I don't know if it's the same guy
26:39
or not. But he's definitely got nothing to do with
26:42
intelligence. I think it's one of these things. I think
26:44
Trump does this a lot. I'm going to put you
26:47
up for this. You're going to be able to say
26:49
you're going to put in your bio that you were
26:51
nominated. Your wife's going to like it. Everybody's going to
26:54
think you're great, but you're not going to get it.
26:57
Well. The theory goes a little deeper. Let's listen first
27:00
to CBS. Now we're taking you to Washington where acting
27:03
Attorney General Todd Blanch has just confirmed that a controversial
27:06
$1.8 billion payout fund for Trump allies has now been
27:11
totally canceled. In the meantime, there's new controversy over the
27:15
president's decision to name a close... ally as acting director
27:18
of national intelligence. Weijia Zhang is at the White House
27:21
with the latest on this. Weijia, good morning to you.
27:24
What's the issue? Good morning, Gail. Good morning to everybody.
27:26
President Trump passed over other high-ranking intelligence officials and appointed
27:32
Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency,
27:36
to also be the acting director. of National Intelligence. When
27:39
we asked the White House about why Potee was picked
27:42
for the role, they only said he would do a
27:45
great job. President Trump named Bill Potee to oversee 18
27:49
intelligence agencies and organizations, touting his, quote, deep experience managing
27:55
the most sensitive matters in America. But even some Republicans
27:59
were quick to point out those sensitive matters don't include
28:03
national security. No evidence of any qualifications for that. No
28:07
evidence. The director of national intelligence position was created after
28:11
9-11 to coordinate communication for the intelligence community. Pulte currently
28:17
runs. an agency that regulates home loans. I don't know
28:21
of any national security experience he has. Dr. Mehmet Oz,
28:24
who led Tuesday's White House press briefing. Good afternoon, everybody.
28:28
Said he didn't know anything about Pocchi's situation, but added.
28:32
I do trust the president's judgment. He is a very
28:35
sharp and quick study. I love the, CBS does this
28:40
a lot. They're doing very, very short quotes from everybody,
28:45
just popping it. I mean, I have to say, it's
28:47
fast, but it's all, you know, it's either a gnat
28:51
pop or it's going to be a quote of, you
28:53
know, there's no evidence he has any experience. And he
28:55
is the home builder. It is the Pulte home builder.
28:57
according to the total. Okay, that makes sense, because he
28:59
would be a FHA guy, sure. Yeah, of course. Here's
29:01
a second clip. Pulte also earned the president's praise for
29:04
pushing prosecutions of the president's perceived political opponents. Like California's
29:09
Perceived political opponents. This is great. Senator Adam Schiff, New
29:14
York Attorney General. That's not perceived. That's a political opponent.
29:17
Tisha James and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for alleged
29:22
mortgage fraud. We refer people who are Democrats, Republicans, it
29:25
doesn't matter. Congress doesn't have a role in confirming acting
29:31
cabinet-level officials like Potee or Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch.
29:37
fund is something that President Trump talked about for a
29:39
long time. Blanche faced fierce backlash even after the Justice
29:43
Department dropped plans to set up a proposed one point
29:47
which is really inherently dishonest. Yeah, but the way they're
29:52
doing it, I like it because it keeps the pace
29:55
and flow going like crazy. It's augmenting, it's not... confirm
30:01
in other words they don't say something and then the
30:02
guy says the same thing exactly blanch faced fierce backlash
30:07
even after the justice department dropped plans to set up
30:10
a proposed 1.8 billion dollar fund to pay people who
30:15
feel they were victims of government weaponization But we are
30:18
not moving forward with the fund, period. A federal judge
30:21
ruled to temporarily block the fund until next month, but
30:24
Blanche says even after that date, the administration will not
30:27
try to... Okay, so now we go to the president
30:31
himself. It's an acting position. It's not a permanent. He's
30:34
not going to be permanent because, you know, I don't
30:36
think he'd want to be permanent. But he's a very
30:38
smart guy, and you may find out some things about
30:41
the rigged elections, et cetera, et cetera. I think you'd
30:43
like to do it. I'd like to. I think he
30:45
wants to do it very much. Got a lot of
30:47
energy. But he'll be very good. A lot of energy.
30:51
Again, it's not a permanent position. We're interviewing people right
30:54
now. But it's somebody just to... Take it over for
30:58
a little while. Does he have a necessary, in your
31:00
view, Mr. President, a necessary national security experience to take
31:04
on that position? Well, I do, and I think he
31:05
does, actually, because he's smart. He's smart. His national security
31:09
experience. Yeah, he's smart. So what we deconstructed. is that
31:13
this what he's doing here is getting a guy bull
31:17
in a china shop look at this look at this
31:20
look at this look at this and there's a guy
31:22
behind him which is the same guy who was behind
31:24
tulsi and that's the guy he said okay here's bill
31:29
pulte he's going to be the acting director of national
31:32
intelligence which has them completely in a conniption fit. Why?
31:39
Because Pulte is like a bull in a china shop.
31:42
And my friend The NSA veteran, Kirk Wiebe, once told
31:48
me, I asked him the question. How would you go
31:51
about reforming the deep state? What would you do? And
31:54
he said, first, you need some... with a chainsaw weed
31:57
whacker who's willing to go in there and just Tear
32:01
everything down. And then you need somebody from the intelligence
32:05
community who actually knows how to direct the weed whacker
32:09
to where he's got to go. So Tulsi Gabbard did
32:12
that in the first term. capable of doing that. He's
32:18
got Tulsi Gabbard's chief assistant, Aaron Lucas, who is the
32:22
deputy DNI under Tulsi, to show him exactly where to
32:27
go. And people like Mark Warner, the senator who was
32:32
probably most responsible for Russiagate. is completely flipping out. He
32:38
says, this guy's going to have access to every classified
32:41
secret in the United States. What does that mean? In
32:45
his interview with Miranda Devine yesterday, Trump hinted at it.
32:49
He kept coming back over and over again to the
32:52
rigging of the 2020 elections. And my bet. is the
32:57
way he's seeing Pulte is this is the guy who
33:01
can prevent the fraud coming up in the midterms. All
33:05
right. So chainsaw weed whacker. There you go. Who is
33:11
that? Who said that? Who was that last? Clip from
33:16
Barbara Boyd. Is that a Prometheus person? Yes. Old lady.
33:21
Yeah. They have a bunch of them. They only have
33:24
two of them. Well, it seems like a bunch to
33:27
me, Susan and Barbara, but. I mean, that's the guy.
33:31
He's been a spook for 20 years. Of course he
33:33
knows where everything is. And you get Pulte, yeah, I'm
33:37
sure the guy's going to have fun. It's just like
33:39
demoing a house. This is basically, in the private sector,
33:43
this is the same act that we're seeing with Nick
33:46
Shirley. Oh, do tell. Nick Shirley's always got some guy.
33:51
Oh yeah, yeah, he has Dave. Bob. Bob or Dave
33:55
or... Fred, there's some guy telling him what to do.
33:57
Yes, yes, exactly right. It's fantastic. It's a good bit
34:02
because you have a front man. And then when all
34:04
hell breaks loose and you got to ax him, you
34:07
just, okay, you're out. Yeah. And but meanwhile, the real
34:12
damage is being done by the second guy there. He's
34:14
still there. And you bring another front man in, he
34:17
does the same exact thing. It doesn't make any difference
34:19
who it is. And so the whole thing, it reminds
34:22
me, there used to be a... The guy who ran
34:26
Computer World and IDP. Oh, here we go. Here we
34:30
go. I'm already loving it. I'm already loving it. This
34:32
is the one I've not heard. I don't think I've
34:34
heard this one. It's possible. I have told this before
34:38
because it's a very good story. It's not my story.
34:41
It's a story that everyone knows. Pat McGovern used to
34:45
run Computer World, Info World, all these magazines, and IDG,
34:49
the publishing company, is really big in Asia. They're everywhere.
34:52
And Pat used his gambit. He'd do the same. He
34:56
pulled a similar kind of stunt to have somebody who
35:00
was a... Like just a prick writing nasty stuff. By
35:07
the way, that's a classic word we need to bring
35:10
back. Prick is not used often enough because, you know,
35:14
it's a word you can use. People aren't offended, but
35:16
it really explains like a, just a nasty. Yeah, beyond
35:20
a dick. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's dick and beyond. So
35:24
this guy, so the idea, so he'd create these people
35:30
that didn't exist and he'd have somebody. Ghost writing. for
35:35
him. So he had all these different writers that would
35:38
go on and on and on about something or other
35:40
and they'd slam some company and say, these guys are
35:43
no good. Of course, this may be a company that
35:46
didn't advertise a lot. There's a lot of reasons to
35:48
do it. Obviously. and it would get the company all
35:53
bent out of shape. And so McGovern would always go
35:56
up to the company and say, well, you know, if
35:59
you guys maybe advertise a little bit. Well, we can
36:01
advertise, but that guy's got to go. And McGovern would
36:05
always say, no problem, I'm firing him tomorrow. Some guy
36:10
who didn't exist. A guy who didn't exist. That's perfect.
36:15
He's out. He's out. We're with you, buddy. That's great.
36:22
Do you think that stuff must still happen at publications,
36:25
I'm sure? Sure it does. Everything is like that. When
36:29
we mess up, we're going to fire our producer. That
36:33
guy's gotta go. So this next clip, because we're kind
36:36
of moving into... Todd Blanch, which everyone is also really
36:40
upset about because he's the president's personal lawyer. How many
36:44
times have we heard this? Oh, the attorney general's acting
36:48
like the president's personal lawyer. Now it actually is his
36:51
personal lawyer and they're losing their minds over it. But
36:55
I caught this on Miz Now. I'm obsessed with Miz
36:58
Now. It's so bad. I must be single-handedly raising their
37:02
ratings through the roof. Listen to this. Doubling them. Blanche
37:07
has been auditioning for this since Bondi was ousted in
37:09
April. Auditioning! Oh yeah! And pushing to go even farther
37:14
than she would on cases that even if they ultimately
37:17
lose or are overturned, reflect Trump's demands for a partisan,
37:22
political, revenge-oriented DOJ. The move does follow on what Trump
37:28
wanted in Telegraph. Many are concerned that this obvious... Legal.
37:33
Conflict will only get worse if he goes from temporary
37:36
to permanent. Remember, it is a scandal and a legal
37:40
breach. Isn't that Ari Flyer, the guy with the 6
37:44
o'clock shadow? The guy who does rap lyrics at the
37:47
end of his show. I remember in the great words
37:50
of Q West. Conflict will only get worse if he
37:54
goes from temporary to permanent. Remember, it is a scandal
37:58
and a legal breach in and of itself for any
38:00
president to take someone who was their personal defense attorney,
38:04
someone who was loyal to them on a personal basis,
38:06
and say they should also run the DOJ, run the
38:09
law firm, if you will, for the country. Because throughout
38:11
modern history... of the DOJ, it was a huge dividing
38:14
line that it is supposed to be independent. That of
38:17
course, any president is entitled to their... Well, this is
38:20
a very good question. He says modern history, but let's
38:22
just go through the history because I did a deep
38:25
dive. Oh good for you. Let's start with... Number one,
38:29
George Washington. His... Department of Justice. This is he actually
38:34
established. This is before the Department of Justice was established.
38:39
This is 1789. Edmund Randolph. was his private personal attorney.
38:45
managing his extensive personal legal affairs and estates in Virginia,
38:49
and he appointed him as the nation's very first U.S.
38:52
Attorney General. Huh. Well, there's the precedent has been set.
38:55
The precedent has been set. The precedent has been set.
38:58
Let's go to Warren G. Harding, 1921. Harry Daugherty, Ohio
39:05
lawyer who served Harding's personal attorney, close political confidant. Upon
39:10
taking office, Harding appointed Daugherty. as Attorney General. Well, there
39:14
you have it. That's pretty modern. Now, how about this
39:17
one? This is my favorite because it's not just the
39:19
old guys. It's not just the Republicans. John F. Kennedy
39:24
literally appointed his brother. Robert F. Kennedy. There you go.
39:29
As his brother, his brother became Attorney General. Yeah, there's
39:32
no conflict there, that's not crazy. Richard Nixon. appointed John
39:38
Mitchell. And Richard, he was Nixon's law partner at their
39:43
firm. Ronald Reagan, William French Smith, and Edwin Meese. Both
39:49
in the inner circle. And, of course, George W. Bush
39:54
with Alberto Gonzalez. So this is bull crap. This is
39:58
bull crap. This is basically a lie being put on
40:02
the poor, dumb viewers of MS Now. Low IQ viewers
40:09
is how we call that. Yes, exactly. So this whole
40:13
thing... But, you know, it's a new day, it's a
40:17
new dawn. I guess that's, I guess that's, I don't
40:22
know. I don't know what I'm saying, but you know,
40:24
you know what I mean? Since we're talking about the
40:27
Department of Justice, I have an interesting little tidbit for
40:30
you. Okay. This is an Ask Adam. Oh, hold on
40:34
a second. You surprised me with the Ask Adam, but...
40:37
Ask Adam. Ask Adam. Yeah. All right. Here we go.
40:40
Ask Adam. What are we doing? So this is... I
40:43
want you to listen to this clip. And this is
40:45
about Hegseth. Talking about, you know, he hexes. came out
40:51
with this speech that got all the EU people bent
40:55
out of shape saying you guys are on D-Day. It's
40:58
a D-Day speech. Yeah, June 6th, yes. We had D-Day
41:01
yesterday for people. It wasn't celebrating the United States at
41:03
all anymore. Nobody cares. 22,000 dead on the beach, but
41:08
now that's... Whatever. Let's skip it. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. Whatever.
41:13
Yeah. Okay. So this is Ask Adam Hegseth on EU.
41:19
The US Defense Secretary Pete Hegsov has criticized European nations
41:23
for allowing what he described as an invasion of migrants
41:26
on their shores during a D-Day anniversary speech in France.
41:30
Speaking in Normandy, he said different European beaches were being
41:33
invaded by dangerous ideologies. Sadly, today, different European beaches are
41:41
stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain, in Italy,
41:46
in Greece, Bulgaria, boats. And men arrive. When will European
41:53
capitals do something about that invasion? Migration has become a
41:58
major political issue across Europe with parties supporting hardline immigration
42:02
policies surging in the polls. Ask Adam, ask Adam, will
42:08
he know or will he want to know? ♪ Slow
42:12
as cattle ♪ Answer the question. Go. All right. What
42:16
is the question? Well, this is a BBC report, and
42:20
I'm asking you, what subtle insult? to the Trump administration
42:26
was made in that clip. That doesn't come to mind
42:33
immediately. No. Because you didn't catch it right away. So
42:37
I'm going to play a short clip. Yes. Which is
42:40
another BBC clip with another presenter doing the same insult.
42:45
The U.S. Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has called on European
42:49
countries. to resist what he called an invasion of foreign
42:53
migrants. An invasion of four... Wait, she said countries, which
42:57
was... That caught my ear right away. He's the Secretary
43:04
of War. Oh. The U.S. Defense Secretary, Pete Hagsner, was
43:08
called on European... countries to resist what he called an
43:12
invasion of foreign migrants. Yeah, very good. Very good. I
43:17
did not pick up on that. No, because it's meant
43:20
for you not to. They're just not giving, you know,
43:24
we don't care what you call it. We're going to
43:26
call it what we're going to call it. We're British.
43:28
You're right. It's not the Gulf of America. I tell
43:32
you, it's the Gulf of Mexico. So we have, uh,
43:36
panic. Panic, everybody, panic! Panic! here in Texas. The new
43:42
world screw worm. The new world screw worm. The screw
43:47
worm is back. So, Texas Slim. stayed here overnight. He's
43:52
on his way to, uh, Baylor White. Baylor Scott White
43:58
Hospital. He has like acute pancreatitis. Not from drinking, because
44:04
he hasn't, I don't think he's had a drink in
44:06
a decade. Yeah, how do you get it from drinking?
44:07
It's just something else. It's like a virus. So I
44:09
really want everybody, you know, think of Slim. Pray for
44:13
Slim. It's not great. And Slim is even slimmer than
44:17
he was. But, you know, this is Mr. Beef Intelligence,
44:22
and he's like... oh man, this screw worm. He told
44:25
me the whole history of the screw worm. He said,
44:27
back in the day. He had screw worm. Yeah, we
44:30
had screw worm. And you dug a trough and you
44:34
walked all the cows through it with poison and they
44:36
came out the other end and the screw worm was
44:38
gone. That's what we did with screw worm. It was
44:40
that simple. I said, but now, he says, now there's
44:45
two things. One, the vaccine's got to be coming. We've
44:48
got to have a vaccine for the screwworm. And the
44:50
other one is really... What's this? What? A vaccine against
44:53
a worm. course it's ridiculous he says it's just to
44:58
reduce the herd even further they're going to want to
45:01
call them you know it's all regulatory capture is what
45:04
he said i listened to because you know slim is
45:06
the one who said six years ago Our herd's going
45:09
to go down. You have no idea how bad it's
45:11
going to get. Now, he said to me last night,
45:13
he said, there's going to be a famine within 90
45:16
days. It may not be America. It could be Asia.
45:18
This is a very big problem. And there's a couple
45:22
of things I caught in this. Fox. Live Now report.
45:27
Does he think this famine is being... the wood. Don't
45:31
change. so quickly? What is the indicator for a famine
45:38
and what is the trigger? Well, the trigger is stuff
45:41
like this, where the herd gets reduced to where, I
45:44
mean, have you been to a restaurant lately and ordered
45:48
a... A ribeye? I mean, you're talking $89. $1,000. There's
45:53
literally in Austin at, what is that place called? Three
45:57
Forks, Five Forks, I don't know, Fork and Spoon. It's
46:00
a fancy restaurant. Do you get one of those Flintstone
46:04
ribeyes? What is it called? What's the big one called?
46:08
You know, the huge one? Yeah, bone-in. Yeah, no, no,
46:11
but big, like you eat it with three people. Oh,
46:15
a double cut. No, no, no, no, no. No, a
46:20
high collar. No, what is that thing called? A low
46:22
pocket. No, what is that thing? Come on, there's a
46:25
name for it. It's a tomahawk, the jumbo tomahawk. A
46:29
tomahawk steak, yeah. They sell them at Costco. Those things
46:32
are great. How much do you think they charge for
46:34
it at the fancy restaurant in Austin? And you can,
46:37
three people can eat. You could do four if you
46:39
really wanted to. but you and I could probably devour
46:43
one ourselves. Well, maybe not. You need three people. What
46:46
is the price, do you think, in the fancy Austin
46:48
restaurant for a jumbo? tomahawk rib eye. A jumbo tomahawk
46:53
rib at a fancy Austin, which is overpriced. This is
46:56
New York prices. Yep. For some unknown reason. I would
47:00
say $95. $875. What? No. Yes. Yes. Dude, I was
47:09
in a... What? Yes, I was in Nashville and one
47:13
little stupid rib by $110. We didn't eat it, by
47:17
the way. We didn't go to the restaurant. $110 for
47:20
just a little ribeye. No, no. It's out of control.
47:24
Let's back this up. $895 for a... $875. 875. 875,
47:31
the Tomahawk, which you can buy at Costco, by the
47:33
way, for about... 50 bucks maybe? 40? No, I don't
47:37
think it's that much. It's probably less. Like 30. No,
47:43
that's the best price. So, but this is what's happening.
47:48
And I'm sure that, you know, There's a whole bunch
47:51
of things that come into this. Well, hold on a
47:54
second. This doesn't cost them. What are they marking the
48:00
thing up and why? Well, the thing that Slim told
48:03
me years ago. Or maybe they don't have it and
48:05
it's just bull crap. No. I'm going back to what
48:08
he said five, six years ago. ago. He says, mark
48:10
my words. He says, Texas beef will be sold as
48:14
caviar. You remember that? You're saying it's gonna be like
48:18
caviar. And that's what's happening. And as a little aside,
48:22
we don't get most of this beef. Most of this
48:24
beef is going to the rich Chinese and the Japanese,
48:28
and it's all going overseas. We're not even eating Texas
48:31
beef, which brings me to this report. First about the
48:34
scary screwworm. So first of all, let's just break down
48:37
what exactly this new world screwworm is and the threat
48:41
that it poses to livestock. Yeah, so like you said
48:44
earlier, it is a fly and it's a parasitic blowfly
48:47
and it lays eggs on wounds. of animals or any
48:51
type of opening or orifice that it has access to
48:54
and then those larvae will hatch off and start eating
48:58
on the flesh of that animal. And when it eats
49:00
this flesh, I mean, like, does it just eat away
49:03
at the whole animal? Well, I mean, since it's fly
49:05
larvae, it is a little tough for them to eat
49:07
and consume an entire animal, but they will. feed on
49:10
it and make wounds very grotesque in a sense and
49:14
what really ends up happening is the animal doesn't survive
49:17
these infestations so normally the animal will pass before full
49:22
consumption by the larva, but the impact is severe while
49:25
they're there and while they're feeding. Okay. So now this
49:28
is... I think it's Laredo where this happened. They've got
49:32
a 12-mile radius zone. And the worm doesn't fly, okay?
49:40
It doesn't like jump, fly around. I'm going to go
49:44
hit hill country. I'm going to go over here. No,
49:46
it doesn't. You have to have contact, pretty much contact.
49:50
with the other animal to get that. But now listen
49:52
to this piece. Unfortunately, it began moving out of South
49:55
America through Central America and up into Mexico a couple
49:59
years ago, right? We've been watching it since 2022 or
50:01
2023. But most of that movement is due to moving
50:07
of animals that were infested with these. larva and when
50:11
you move those animals without treating them ahead of time
50:14
it can lead to further infestations in other areas. So
50:17
what's wrong with this picture? It comes from animals that
50:22
were moved up from Mexico and South America. This is
50:25
beef country. That's not a Texas cow! They're moving. We're
50:31
eating the crap. That's what's going on. You go to
50:34
the supermarket, H-E-B, you're eating South American crap that has
50:38
been touched by Lord knows how many hands, what they've
50:41
injected into these animals to get them here. And our
50:44
beef, the big Flintstone stuff, that's going overseas. This is
50:48
not even our beef. Why are we driving cattle up
50:52
through Texas? We got cattle. Now, it doesn't matter because
50:56
we need to reduce the herd. They're probably, well, you
50:59
got to cull them or shoot them up, which will
51:02
make them inedible and make them die eventually as well.
51:05
So how do we, what do you do? So wait,
51:07
let's back up. So initially. In the olden days, they
51:11
would just run them through a bath and that would
51:13
be the end of it. Yep. a poison bat which
51:16
you do which you can do with dogs too uh
51:19
you know it's kind of bastard or Got malathion in
51:22
them or whatever it is. Yeah. What's wrong with that
51:26
process? No, there's no more knowledge. It's all... you know
51:32
It's all... rules and regulations that have been written over
51:37
decades. and you know it's regulations these regulations these regulators
51:42
coming now you can't do that It's toxic. Yeah. It
51:46
gets into the groundwater. Exactly. And maybe Brooke Rollins, I
51:52
think that's her name, our Ag Secretary, maybe she'll figure
51:55
this out. But the media, and this is Fox. They
51:59
still want to scare you. They want to scare the
52:01
bejesus out of you. Now, how do we scare Americans?
52:05
What's the best way? You're gonna die. No, even worse
52:13
than you dying. Your children are going to die. No,
52:16
worse than the kids. I don't know. Your dog! Let's
52:21
talk about pets. There are a lot of dog owners
52:23
out there, a lot of cat owners out there. Do
52:25
they need to be worried? Can this impact their pets?
52:28
Definitely. Especially if you're in an area. Definitely. I don't
52:32
know if we have anybody listening from outside the United
52:34
States, but if you're in an area, you definitely need
52:36
to be concerned if the screwworms have returned in that
52:39
area. And in that area of Texas right now, we
52:41
do want to watch our pets. We want to look
52:43
at them just as much as we would our livestock
52:45
because, yes, they will infest animals. Dogs seem to be.
52:48
high on the list right now out of Mexico, not
52:51
as high as cattle, but still over 5,000 have been
52:54
identified as having infestations, and that's a large number. Is
52:57
this, does it pose a threat to humans? Yes, even
53:02
humans have to be concerned. It is rare in humans,
53:05
and even rarer in birds. We get asked a lot
53:07
about that too. Now it's like a 1% or so
53:10
or less of the population of the cases they've recorded
53:14
that impact humans. But we still, we want humans to
53:17
be aware it is a possibility. I wouldn't put high
53:20
on your list, but we still want them to realize
53:23
that it is, it can happen. We've had cases of
53:27
it over the last several days. decades of travelers going
53:31
to places where they still can get into, where they
53:33
still find New World's screw worms, and then coming back
53:36
to the United States with infestations. Yeah, you should still
53:38
be worried, no matter what you say. Be worried, be
53:41
worried. You want to hear the CBS version of this,
53:43
and we'll close it out? Yeah, and I'd be very
53:46
interested to see if they use the Nat Pop style
53:49
of... of analysis. We've been holding off the fly for
53:54
years from Panama. Scientists developed a way in the 60s
53:59
to breed sterile screw worm flies. Then when they would
54:03
drop them out of airplanes, by the millions, the flies
54:07
out in the wild were unable to reproduce. Using that
54:10
strategy, they pushed this fly south, out of the United
54:14
States, out of Mexico, all the way down through Central
54:17
America, using that exact same strategy. During the pandemic, there
54:21
were some breakdowns in the process and in surveillance. There
54:24
was additional movement of people and animals to the north.
54:27
People? The fly. What? The people with screwworms, come on.
54:31
Screwworms started to spread again. And I rubbed against the
54:35
cow and the cow got my screwworm. Once that became
54:38
evident, the U.S. started devoting more resources to trying to
54:41
stop it. They started to prepare a location in Mexico
54:46
to breed more sterile flies. They prepared an old base
54:50
in the South U.S. to be able to receive sterile
54:53
flies and drop them again. And right now the work
54:55
is ongoing to try to breed sterile flies again in
54:58
the U.S. That in itself is significant. Researchers have told
55:01
me that the flies considered to be so dangerous, they
55:03
can't even get their hands on live samples. They've had
55:05
to go south to Panama. to study them. They were
55:10
all over the place. Nah, this is bogus. So, do
55:14
you know who got money to do this? This is
55:16
going to kill you. What company in America, amongst many
55:20
others, got money to do the sterile fly, the sterile
55:25
mosquito, the sterile ticks. Bill Gates. Now, we already know
55:31
he does. No, Google. Google. Google, yes. Oh, yeah. You
55:37
know what? I did know this because I saw this
55:39
run past the wire. Yep. Google. Yeah, Google. How does
55:45
that even work? Say Kessler. Go, yeah, right? Why don't
55:49
you go make your AI better, Google? If these flies
55:54
impact the ability of ranchers to have calves, they have
55:58
to limit the seasons because they can't have calves in
56:01
the warm season when the fly is active. That starts
56:05
to impact how much they're able to rebuild their herds.
56:07
There you go. It impacts. the ability of wildlife to
56:11
survive. And yes, in some cases, it could impact pets
56:14
and people. There's been surveillance ongoing for months and months
56:18
and months. State and federal agencies have been training on
56:22
where to watch for the fly, how to trap it,
56:24
how to recognize it. They have been developing therapeutics. and
56:29
treatments and hope that once it was here they could
56:33
get on it right away but now it is called
56:36
Melithia across the border it's about a hundred miles southwest
56:41
of San Antonio And the battle is now not just
56:44
something that scientists are expecting to happen. It is here.
56:50
It's here. San Antone. Like, I could have screwworm at
56:53
any moment. You could. You probably do. I was wondering
56:57
about that itch. I got a screwworm. This is, uh,
57:01
yeah, this is bad. And, uh... Okay, we'll see. We'll
57:05
see what Brooke does. Nothing. I'm afraid you're right. The
57:11
whole thing's an op. Well, it is an op. It's
57:13
an op to collapse the herd even further. Yeah, well,
57:17
they don't want people eating meat. We had a couple
57:19
of clips. Then we played that clip where the guy
57:21
says we've got to poison the public with Alpha Gal
57:25
so people stop eating beef. Well, that's an old clip.
57:28
Save the planet. Yeah, that is an old clip of
57:30
that guy. I know it's an old clip, but that's...
57:33
What's new? Yeah. Yep. So. We're just going to continue
57:38
eating our Texas beef. Straight from the rancher. That's where
57:41
you want to get it. So I got a couple
57:45
of oddball clips today. Okay. I would like to get
57:50
some non-oddball clips. It turns out that the... Ukraine attacks
57:57
St. Petersburg as we played last Thursday, but they did
58:02
it again on Saturday, and everybody's making it sound like
58:05
this was the first attack, when it's obviously not, since
58:08
we report. or played clips from NTD last show. And
58:12
Russia has suffered what it's called an unprecedented attack on
58:16
the city of St. Petersburg and the surrounding areas. Ukraine
58:20
fired hundreds of drones at Russian targets early on Saturday,
58:24
and many of those drones targeted St. Petersburg itself, coinciding
58:28
with the... final day of a flagship economic forum being
58:32
held in the city. Moscow and Kiev have intensified drone
58:36
strikes on each other in recent months amid US-led diplomatic
58:40
efforts to end the war. But does this latest attack
58:43
risk escalating the conflict? Our correspondent in Kiev, Vitaly Shevchenko,
58:48
told me more. The Ukrainians are saying that they hit
58:53
a weapons storage facility, a navy base and an oil
58:58
depot outside St. Petersburg. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called
59:05
the attack a just response to... Russia's aggression. The Russian
59:11
authorities say that this was an unprecedented strike. The governor
59:17
of Leningrad region said that hundreds of people were evacuated
59:24
from outside a military facility which caught fire. So a
59:30
pretty big incident in St. Petersburg. And were there any
59:34
deaths or any injuries? The local authorities are sort of
59:38
vague on that subject. They're talking of a number of
59:42
people injured. They say the damage to buildings in the
59:47
area is... insignificant but i've seen videos of smoke billowing
59:54
outside in biedersberg and there's one video of a man
59:59
who appears to be a local resident and he says
1:00:02
that weapon stores have caught fire and you can hear
1:00:06
a lot of explosions happening in the background Was there
1:00:09
any video with this report? Or did they just say
1:00:12
that there's smoke and weapons deposed? This is the BBC
1:00:14
World Service, so I didn't get to see any videos.
1:00:17
Oh, okay. I don't hear any nat pops. I don't
1:00:19
hear any explosions. The BBC World Service, they don't do
1:00:21
that. They should. If they want to stay relevant, they
1:00:24
need to do nat pops. Get on board, BBC. Well,
1:00:26
you know, they're still from the old shortwave days. and
1:00:29
they know if they did a nat pop it would
1:00:30
sound like interference on the wireless. This is the BBC
1:00:34
World Service. We have no nat pops. We have a...
1:00:38
from a guy on the street who said, "I heard
1:00:40
some explosions." That's exactly what it sounds like. Yeah. I'm
1:00:48
a shortwave listener. You can't find anything anymore. On shortwave?
1:00:54
It's pretty hard to come by. And, you know, it's
1:00:59
kind of pathetic compared to what it was when you
1:01:01
were a kid. Yeah. So let's go and play part
1:01:03
two of this. We had long waves. You had medium
1:01:08
wave, which is AM. They had long wave. And Longwave
1:01:13
was what... *Sigh* Was it, what was the thing in
1:01:18
Luxembourg? Radio Luxembourg. Yeah, a lot of these stations weren't
1:01:21
long, but it was always called shortwave. No, no, you
1:01:24
had... I mean, the receiver was called a shortwave receiver.
1:01:27
Yeah, but... Yeah, it had longwave. It had longwave. LW.
1:01:30
LW. Your band on there said LW. Yes, yes, that
1:01:34
was great. And you had a switch. Oh, now I'm
1:01:39
on long wave. Hey, and you know what you hear?
1:01:44
I'm ready, Alexander! Long way! Yeah, you would get a
1:01:51
lot of that wave sound. That's what we grew up
1:01:55
with, kids. That's what we grew up with. Next, I'll
1:01:57
do the modem sound of a dial-up. All right, here
1:01:59
we go. How did Ukraine manage to get their drones
1:02:03
so far into Russian territory again? Well, I've spoken to
1:02:08
the commander of one of the Ukrainian drone units involved
1:02:14
in the strike. And he basically told me that Russian
1:02:19
air defenses were useless. We take part in many operations
1:02:24
in the north region of Russia. And it's very interesting
1:02:28
that in these days... Keep those balls. Is there a
1:02:35
fear, Vitaly, that given the potential humiliation that Russia has
1:02:49
suffered, Thank you. accusing each other of carrying out all
1:03:12
sorts of atrocities and saying, well, look, we have to
1:03:17
respond. But my view is that this is basically political
1:03:23
rhetoric. And the truth is that all these attacks, they
1:03:28
would be hampered. happening anyway because for different reasons Ukraine
1:03:34
and Russia are still willing and able to fight foreign
1:03:39
You know... They went on forever, by the way. You
1:03:43
should thank me for stopping it there. Yes, in my
1:03:45
view, in my view. That's the point. That's why I
1:03:48
had to stop it. So this has resulted in a
1:03:51
powwow. The French, German and British leaders will meet their
1:03:55
Ukrainian counterpart in London on Sunday. French President Emmanuel Macron,
1:04:00
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
1:04:04
will discuss with Zelensky the way forwards at a time
1:04:07
when Russia... in a state of military, economic and strategic
1:04:11
failure, is persisting unsuccessfully with a deadly war, the Élysée
1:04:15
Palace said. On Friday, Macron welcomed the letter from Volodymyr
1:04:20
Zelensky to Vladimir Putin aimed at achieving peace. So he
1:04:24
sent a letter. sent a letter. A curse letter. Do
1:04:28
they really? Do they still send letters? Yeah, a turd.
1:04:31
But I mean, seriously, do they, like with a big
1:04:34
wax seal on it? I mean, do they really send
1:04:37
letters? Well, Trump keeps saying he's waiting for a letter.
1:04:40
From who? From the Iranians. Oh, yeah. I got a...
1:04:47
It's funny you bring that up. I've got... I got
1:04:50
to. A clip from Toosie, your guy, Toosie. Toosie? Remember
1:04:56
Toosie? Toosie? Toosie. T-O-U-S-I. The YouTuber guy. The Toosie guy
1:05:02
who... who we suspect might be a spook, but we're
1:05:05
not quite sure. Oh yeah, right. He does all the
1:05:08
Iranian news. And so he shows... All these videos, because,
1:05:12
you know, the Internet is back open. So IRGC decided,
1:05:15
okay, everybody's got Internet now. We'll turn it back on.
1:05:17
And there's tons of videos of protests, students protesting. interesting
1:05:24
to watch because what you don't see is There's almost
1:05:30
no headscarves. All the girls just got their hair flapping
1:05:33
in the wind or tied up in a bun. Persian
1:05:36
women, they actually are attractive. Very. Oh, sometimes they get
1:05:41
thick ankles. Well, you know, it's... I'm just saying. It's
1:05:45
the food. you That's only when we're auditioning Persian women,
1:05:51
okay? That's the context in which we say this as
1:05:54
producers. So he had a little report, which I figured
1:05:58
I'd share. Doing protests against the Islamic occupation is quite
1:06:01
dangerous, as you've also seen back in December and January.
1:06:07
Having said that... The regime is getting weaker every day
1:06:11
because thanks to President Trump and the US military because
1:06:14
the President Trump has not abandoned the mission as you've
1:06:18
seen over the last couple of months and few weeks
1:06:21
the US military continues their operation against the regime in
1:06:25
the Strait of Hormuz the blockade continues There have been
1:06:28
some clashes, but of course the blockade is doing its
1:06:31
job, draining the resources, draining the finances of the regime,
1:06:35
creating uncertainty and infighting inside the regime. And that's why
1:06:39
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are trying their best to
1:06:43
drag the Americans and everybody else and the Arabs into
1:06:46
an all-out war because it's in the interest of the
1:06:47
people. of the regime in Iran to have an all-out
1:06:49
war because at least it will create unity inside the
1:06:51
regime and they could just drag this along. But the
1:06:54
US decided not to take debate and continue to paralyze
1:06:58
the regime. And they don't know what to do right
1:07:00
now. If the US military had abandoned the mission, if
1:07:03
the US military and the US government had abandoned the
1:07:06
Iranian people, for example, obviously... The regime right now will
1:07:09
be strengthened massively. But right now, they can't. because the
1:07:12
US military is not stopping what they are doing and
1:07:16
President Trump is also not giving up. And he also,
1:07:20
he had many opportunities to sign a deal, give a
1:07:23
deal to the Islamic Republic and just get out of
1:07:25
it. He said, no, I'm not getting out of this.
1:07:28
And he's rejected every single deal sent from Tehran. Ah,
1:07:34
July 4th is just around the corner. You're going to
1:07:37
have to get it together. Premium was down 20 cents
1:07:40
here in Texas. I thought that was quite a drop,
1:07:45
actually. It should be down to nothing. Texas. This is
1:07:48
an oil producing state. Okay. Got it. You know, the
1:07:54
oil baron, he's reopening wells they previously capped. He says
1:07:59
there's so much demand right now. They have 1,500 wells
1:08:03
that they capped and they're opening them up again. He
1:08:06
says that right now... It used to cost, let me
1:08:09
see his number. It used to cost $28,000 a day
1:08:13
to operate a well. Now it's $38,000. He says, because
1:08:17
it's hard to get anybody. Let me get anybody. To
1:08:21
work. People to work. You can't get anybody to work?
1:08:25
They rift all these people. you know, reduction in force.
1:08:30
And now these people who were riffed, they're like, I
1:08:33
don't know, man, pay me some more. I'll come back.
1:08:36
That's how the oil business works. Well, that's the way
1:08:38
it should work. Yeah. You keep your employees or you
1:08:42
screw up with them and they're going to screw with
1:08:44
you. Come on. So then NPR had. I had this
1:08:48
woman on who wrote a book. Let's see. What's her
1:08:56
name? Yagane Torbati. She... who wrote the book Stolen Revolution.
1:09:01
And she kind of says the same thing, that things
1:09:03
are kind of groovy in Iran right now. I married
1:09:06
Louise Kelly. That country. I was just describing, it's Iran,
1:09:10
or at least Iran at the time of the 1979
1:09:13
revolution. The path from 1979 with the toppling of a
1:09:18
monarch through the decades of oppression and economic turmoil that
1:09:22
followed to this current moment is mapped out in the
1:09:25
book Stolen Revolution. trail and hope in modern Iran. Co-author
1:09:31
and journalist Yeganeh Torbati is here to talk to us
1:09:34
about it in this special episode of the podcast. We've
1:09:37
spent so much time here these last few months talking
1:09:40
about the current war in Iran. It felt worthwhile to
1:09:44
dig deep on Yeganeh's reporting on some of the forces
1:09:47
and people who brought Iran to this moment. Yeganeh Torbadi,
1:09:51
welcome. Thank you so much for having me. All right,
1:09:53
now listen to her report. You, in that same story,
1:09:57
though, write about a rock concert in Tehran that has
1:10:02
just sold out. Rock concert? Bruce Springsteen is playing Tehran?
1:10:06
Hipsters, young hipsters. Hipsters in Tehran who are still hanging
1:10:09
out at cafes and having fun. Hipsters, check the calendar.
1:10:16
Joy continues. Hope does continue even amidst a wider sense
1:10:22
of hopelessness. Life goes on, you know. I think even
1:10:25
in people in war zones, figure out ways to have
1:10:29
those moments of joy because you sort of have to,
1:10:32
to keep going. And I do think, you know, my
1:10:35
job as a book author and my job as a
1:10:37
newspaper reporter can sometimes be a little bit intention because
1:10:41
reviewing all this history, I sort of got a sense
1:10:45
of like, nothing is permanent. Like things change. and movements
1:10:48
can arise out of nowhere and people learn to kind
1:10:51
of deal with things and maybe come up with solutions
1:10:54
and they manage to find ways to keep contesting power
1:10:59
and to keep asserting themselves over time. And so, you
1:11:02
know, for a news story, you kind of have to
1:11:04
like have an angle and a conclusion, but it's just
1:11:07
not. snapshot in time and in a year or in
1:11:10
five years we may look back and you know see
1:11:12
all of this as a prelude to something or kind
1:11:14
of be able to identify the threads that then led
1:11:17
to something bigger and we sort of have to be
1:11:20
patient and also keep keep watching I think so the
1:11:23
hipsters are doing rock concerts in Tehran how much of
1:11:26
a war is this This woman, something's phony about her.
1:11:31
She does a laugh tell before she uses the word
1:11:33
book author. I'm a book. That's a fair point. Then
1:11:37
she uses a laugh tell in front of the word.
1:11:40
I should have written it down, but another key word.
1:11:46
Yeah, fair. Halfway through. Fair. That's fair. So I guess
1:11:50
she's a spook. This is a bullcrap book. There's no
1:11:54
rock concerts going on. I mean, maybe there are. Yeah,
1:11:57
I think the rock concerts. There might be, but I
1:11:59
don't think, I think this is going to be. It's
1:12:02
just not presented correctly. They're making it sound like, oh,
1:12:05
don't worry about it. That's how I took it. Don't
1:12:07
worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about
1:12:11
it, it's all good. So we are on the eve
1:12:15
of something pretty big. these big IPOs. the tech IPOs.
1:12:23
You mean after the crash on Friday? The AI crash
1:12:29
on Friday? Yeah. You think these IPOs are going to
1:12:32
come off? Yeah, I think they will. They got to
1:12:36
go. But here's the thing. Let me see if I
1:12:38
can find this. The thing that is rather concerning... Is
1:12:44
this. For the general public. If you think about your
1:12:48
average investor, a lot of them are passive investors. You
1:12:51
look at your 401k, your retirement accounts, you're probably plugged
1:12:54
into some sort of an index fund. So you don't
1:12:57
have to go and be a stock picker. You can
1:12:59
just sit back and collect money that's growing within these
1:13:03
major indexes. So the rules have changed a little bit.
1:13:06
for these listing places like the NASDAQ for the New
1:13:10
York Stock Exchange. Before, when these companies debuted, there was
1:13:15
a waiting period around three months before they were included
1:13:18
in these index funds. Now, as little as two weeks
1:13:21
later, these massive companies with unproven financial models can now
1:13:25
be added to the index. funds. And typically when you
1:13:28
see a company debut, the first day of trading is
1:13:31
very volatile. The first few weeks of trading are very
1:13:34
volatile because people are trying to price what the value
1:13:38
is of this particular company. So now that these companies
1:13:42
like your open AIs, your SpaceXs, that they can be
1:13:44
included. Your open AIs, your space. X's? Is there more
1:13:47
than one space X? Your space X's? This is bad
1:13:52
reporting. Particular company. I can give you some other examples
1:13:56
of why it's bad reporting when you're done. Okay. The
1:13:59
way she presents it is bullcrap. What do you mean?
1:14:04
It's not like, oh, now you can. Now the indexes
1:14:07
can pick them up after two weeks. They have to
1:14:10
pick them up after two weeks if they're in the
1:14:12
index. If it's allowed, this is a scam. We talked
1:14:17
about this on DH. Okay, good. What did you conclude?
1:14:21
To conclude this was another beautiful ploy. by Elon. To
1:14:28
change the moment where the index fund has to bring
1:14:32
this, you know, instead of letting the stock settle out,
1:14:35
you know, it comes out, goes up and down and
1:14:37
up and down. Who knows what it's going to do?
1:14:38
You don't know. You really don't know. Instead of waiting
1:14:43
for it to go through the normal process. and then
1:14:46
putting it in the index fund. And it's a big
1:14:48
part of the index fund, which means you've got to
1:14:50
bring a lot of, you've got to buy a bunch
1:14:52
of stock because the index funds have to own the
1:14:56
stock. So they have to buy a bunch of stock
1:14:58
instead of having to let it go through its rigmarole.
1:15:00
It artificially crops it up because it has to buy
1:15:04
it right away. a scam and it should be pointed
1:15:07
out as not a scam illegally it's just another elon
1:15:12
musk beautiful the guy's a genius well they're all gonna
1:15:17
get in i mean if they all have this level
1:15:21
all of them will have to be, will be, not
1:15:23
have to be, all of them will be pulled into
1:15:25
the index. They have to be. It's by the rules
1:15:28
of the fund. So, okay. So you're going to have
1:15:31
a bunch. In other words, this could be the beginning
1:15:34
of the end. This could bring down the whole thing.
1:15:37
You don't know. There's more and more crazy stuff going
1:15:42
on asking for a major correction. So there's something else
1:15:46
I learned. from a friend of mine who works at
1:15:48
an accounting company. Not the anonymous gay guy, but he'll
1:15:52
probably weigh in. He still listens. I know he does.
1:15:55
I always hope so. Oh, no, he texts me all
1:15:58
the time. No, he never texts me. Well, the anonymous
1:16:01
gay accountant, of course, texted me about testosterone. Hello, I
1:16:05
mean. He was the first one to text me. What
1:16:09
did he say? It's great, and you got to get
1:16:14
on these peptides. I'm ripped. That's what he said. Peptide.
1:16:18
I'm ripped. You should have put him. I'll bet he
1:16:21
is. Of course he is. My son found one. The
1:16:25
Wolverine. Everyone's talking about the Wolverine package, baby. Is that
1:16:29
the one that brings your muscles up and they can
1:16:31
get as big as pot? You can turn into literally
1:16:35
a monster by working out once a month. Yes, it's
1:16:39
the Wolverine. It's like two peptides. And please don't email
1:16:43
me. I have everything I need to know. And you
1:16:45
know what I'm going to do? Absolutely nothing. I would
1:16:48
avoid it like the plague. I got some feedback from
1:16:53
a PhD as well. Anyway. So a lot of these,
1:16:57
what they call the hyperscalers. which includes Google. They have
1:17:02
switched from stock options to RSI. use. Are you familiar
1:17:06
with this? It's like revenue service units. No, I'm not
1:17:10
familiar with them. So as an accounting thing, they switched
1:17:14
everybody to RSUs. So it's all about accounting. Yeah, everything's
1:17:19
about accounting. Every single time an RSU employee cashes out.
1:17:23
The company has to sell stock to cover it, which
1:17:26
pushes the stock price down. So then, of course, they
1:17:29
have to do stock buybacks to keep the price up.
1:17:32
It's like a treadmill. And Google is raising $80 billion.
1:17:39
For their AI. Well. If you look at the... In
1:17:44
fact, Reuters wrote about it. 40 million of that is
1:17:48
going towards compensation of employees who are cashing in their
1:17:53
RSUs. 40 billion of it. So. The theory is... that
1:18:02
these big tech companies so I mean, they so need
1:18:07
AI to succeed. because their wealth at this point is
1:18:11
really on paper. They got to spend all this CapEx
1:18:14
on AI. And these employees, you know, they they cash
1:18:19
out, boom, legally. Every time an RSU employee cashes out,
1:18:25
they have to withhold 22% upfront. That's a lot of
1:18:30
money. So there's something going on that is not well
1:18:34
in Silicon Valley with Google of all companies. They were
1:18:39
printing money. And somehow now this whole AI thing has.
1:18:44
is screwing everybody's numbers up. So yeah, you better believe
1:18:48
it has to be successful. A note from a dude
1:18:52
named Ben who works at Microsoft. We've been told to
1:18:55
use AI for everything that has resulted in a lot
1:18:59
of token maxing. This is the big term in Silicon
1:19:03
Valley. Token maxing, here's your tokens, you gotta use them
1:19:07
all. I work in C++ and I've had to review
1:19:10
code that was complete slop. Amongst my co-workers, we keep
1:19:14
talking about how much this is actually costing us, and
1:19:16
no one knows. We're told, hey, now is the golden
1:19:19
age, so use as much as you can before it
1:19:21
ends. I think everyone knows there's going to be a
1:19:24
limit on it eventually. but we don't know how much.
1:19:26
The other thing to note is that AI use is
1:19:28
just tracked and factored into promotions and bonuses. This is
1:19:33
what leads to token maxing. So you have to show
1:19:36
that you're really productive by using a lot of tokens.
1:19:39
um this is crazy that's a good one um I
1:19:44
don't think AI coding is going anywhere. The models have
1:19:46
gotten a lot better. However, it can be really frustrating
1:19:49
to work with them. Sometimes they can implement features really
1:19:52
well. It's fantastic. It's like a slot machine. Yes, is
1:19:54
what I've noticed too. I hope they get better, but
1:19:57
I hope they get better for things I really need
1:20:00
to understand. For now, I'm writing all my code myself.
1:20:04
So now enter the big problem that we've been talking
1:20:08
about, which is the data center to the desktop. And
1:20:12
CNBC had, what's this guy's name? Patel, of course, Indian
1:20:17
dude. He is the... President of Cisco. Cisco and of
1:20:25
course Cisco wants to sell routers and and switches and
1:20:30
stuff for traffic So the guys were kind of full
1:20:32
of crap, but what he's saying here. I think is
1:20:36
very relevant. Hey, just imagine that Employees in the company
1:20:42
use about $200 worth of tokens every week. 50 weeks
1:20:45
a year, that's 10,000 bucks. um in tokens uh you
1:20:49
have 40 000 employees that's 400 million dollars you have
1:20:51
90 000 employees that's 900 million dollars that wasn't really
1:20:54
starting price can you say that again slowly 200 dollars
1:20:58
per week okay that doesn't seem like it doesn't seem
1:21:00
like it's crazy right trying to think of my my
1:21:03
open claw bell you probably use more than that deidre
1:21:06
you'd be a very expensive i guess it gets shut
1:21:09
off and i'm like i gotta re-up it okay so
1:21:11
200 a week and then you multiply that at how
1:21:15
many 50 weeks yeah let's say you take two weeks
1:21:17
off right a year you maybe take four weeks it's
1:21:20
48 weeks roughly it's 10 000 bucks a year and
1:21:23
right per employee per employee and so that we have
1:21:26
90 000 employees so now we have the problem for
1:21:30
these ai frontier model companies like open ai anthropic and
1:21:34
to a degree uh spacex ai element op model routing
1:21:39
what about model routing i feel like this week everyone's
1:21:42
talking about that and it makes a lot of sense
1:21:44
like you can just see the numbers it costs you
1:21:46
25 for an output on cloud opus under a dollar
1:21:52
for the same output on DeepSeq. Are you guys utilizing
1:21:55
that? Absolutely. We actually have three models ourselves. We have
1:21:58
a deep network model. We have a foundation security model
1:22:02
that we've open sourced. And we've got a time series
1:22:05
model. We just also got another model for observability. And
1:22:09
we demoed that on stage that, you know, if it
1:22:11
takes 12 cents for token costs that you would have
1:22:16
for a certain task, you could take out 95% of
1:22:19
the costs if you actually go with the local model.
1:22:21
Local? That's a small model. But what you have to
1:22:24
do is you have to have an intelligent routing layer
1:22:26
that says for these prompts and these tasks, I'm going
1:22:29
to go over here. And for these other tasks, I'm
1:22:30
probably going to be able to go to something cheaper.
1:22:32
So I'll get back to that in one second, only
1:22:35
two more clips, because this term. came up. Two weeks
1:22:40
ago, I'd never heard it before, and it's back, Jevons...
1:22:43
paradox. What does that mean for premium price AI? I
1:22:47
mean, there's always going to be a place for them,
1:22:49
right? But is it going to be growing as quickly
1:22:51
as we've seen over the last few years? I think
1:22:53
there's Jevons paradox that's going to be like constantly on
1:22:58
supercharge right now. The lower the price goes, like the
1:23:00
biggest risk we have as an industry. is if this
1:23:03
gets too expensive where the cost of tokens is disproportionately
1:23:08
higher than the value it generates, then people pull back.
1:23:11
So actually, the cost per token going down is better
1:23:14
for the model providers because when the cost goes down,
1:23:17
people use it more, but your value is actually commensurate
1:23:20
to what you're paying per token. Let me push back
1:23:22
on that. point. We actually don't know if the value
1:23:24
is commensurate. And that's what... No, I'm saying it's not
1:23:27
right now. Right. Yeah. So if it's not, and if
1:23:30
the price goes down, that's actually better because then people
1:23:33
actually use it more. Is that a problem though? I
1:23:35
mean, do you think that that will hit demand? Some
1:23:37
of these questions over return on investment and value. I
1:23:40
mean, Scott was just here basically... saying that if you
1:23:42
don't get enough value from our product, we're going to
1:23:44
pay $10 million for your usage. It feels like everyone
1:23:47
is scrambling to show that they're providing value, but this
1:23:50
is a question too that is not new. That hit
1:23:52
the AI trade, the public AI trade before. It's kind
1:23:55
of been off to the races recently, but there's some
1:23:58
of that skepticism creeping back in. I think there's a...
1:24:01
is this, this is one of those bull crap, Silicon
1:24:04
Valley things. We've seen this come and go a hundred
1:24:06
times. Jevons paradox, which, and this, I don't know if
1:24:12
you remember it two weeks ago or something like that.
1:24:14
Someone said, Oh, it's Jevons paradox. So this is, and
1:24:17
that was on the all in pod. So this is
1:24:19
a, a bull crap term they're using in Silicon Valley.
1:24:22
Jevons Paradox is an economic principle discovered by British economist
1:24:28
William Stanley Jevons in, wait for it, 1865. Can you
1:24:33
just see some VC coming up with this? Oh, absolutely.
1:24:38
Well, you know, according to Jevons Paradox, it states that...
1:24:41
technological improvements that increase the efficiency of resource use. can
1:24:47
paradoxically lead to an increase in the total consumption of
1:24:51
that resource rather than the expected decrease. The paradox occurs
1:24:57
because the efficiency improvements make a resource cheaper to use.
1:25:01
The cost savings often lead to increased demand that more
1:25:05
than offsets the efficiency gains. For example, Where's the paradox?
1:25:10
Well, I'm waiting for it. More fuel-efficient cars might lead
1:25:13
to more driving, or energy-efficient appliances might encourage people to
1:25:17
use them more frequently. This is Silicon Valley speak. for.
1:25:23
We're screwed. The model doesn't work. Jevons paradox, man. Don't
1:25:27
worry. When Jevons kicks in, it's all going to be
1:25:30
great. I can just feel it. It's one of those
1:25:33
things. Can't you see John Doerr running around? This got
1:25:39
me to just change this little present. presentation here. change
1:25:43
the tip of the day. To what? You'll hear it
1:25:47
when you get to the tip of the day. It'll
1:25:49
be at the end of the show. People have to
1:25:51
listen. But this will be very relevant to what you're
1:25:54
saying. Oh, good. And then the final clip, this is
1:25:56
truly what I think is already happening and where all
1:25:58
this is heading and why your 401k will suffer. or
1:26:02
when these IPOs and these companies get added to the
1:26:05
index. Companies are eventually, and this is what you were
1:26:07
talking about earlier on desk side computing, is that right?
1:26:10
He says companies are eventually going to shift to running
1:26:13
local models. Prices are getting too high for Fortune 500
1:26:16
companies to swallow. We are already starting to see the
1:26:20
leaders shift to this idea. It makes a lot of
1:26:22
sense, doesn't it? Explain, though. Break this down for me.
1:26:25
Okay. I have agents. I want to use these agents.
1:26:29
I'm going to actually have a Mac Mini right next
1:26:31
to me. That's my desk-side computer. My laptop computer is
1:26:34
where I'm working. My desk-side computer is where the Mac
1:26:37
Mini is where my agents are working. That means I
1:26:41
now am doing a lot of processing locally i might
1:26:44
have models that actually sit on that mac mini that
1:26:46
that agent is using because they're getting smaller and smaller
1:26:49
smaller and smaller so my if i can get a
1:26:53
substantial percentage of the workload on those Boy, that's a
1:26:57
great thing. What that does, though, is it's going to
1:26:59
require a lot more network bandwidth. because those agents are
1:27:02
going to generate, you know... Listen to this bull crap.
1:27:05
Oh, here we go. Oh, yeah, a lot more bandwidth
1:27:09
because the agent's going to want to talk to the
1:27:11
traffic. Use our routers. That'll have to go back and
1:27:14
forth between the data center. Oh, back and forth between
1:27:16
the data center. Oh, no. These agents aren't just talking
1:27:18
amongst themselves. They're going to talk amongst themselves. on the
1:27:22
Mac Mini, but they'll also talk to someone in the
1:27:25
cloud. Oh, you need two gigabits now. And so I
1:27:28
think you're going to have a, at this point, an
1:27:31
agent workflow is a routing challenge. It is a trust
1:27:37
decision and it's a telemetry event. Telemetry event? And the
1:27:40
telemetry event being I need to make sure that I'm
1:27:42
showing the traceability of where that agent is going, what
1:27:45
it's doing. All those things together make this a coordination
1:27:49
of intelligence. It's not just a... It's not just that
1:27:53
you're going to have one large model and one large
1:27:55
data center and it's going to answer all your questions.
1:27:57
So here we go, John. We're pitching now. So taking
1:28:01
in mind what you all know, course, Jevons Paradox. When
1:28:04
we have these telemetry events, we're going to be rich.
1:28:07
Just watch. It's going to be great. Invest now. Here's
1:28:09
my PowerPoint. Well, can you determine the telemetry threshold? For
1:28:16
the ROI. Yes, I can do that with the locally
1:28:20
managed network operating protocol. call with the advanced network analysis
1:28:24
language. Ah, my new set. I heard you could do
1:28:29
that. My favorite. My favorite. My favorite one, advanced network
1:28:35
analysis language. Now, there is good news. There's good news
1:28:39
because finally we have something that AI is useful for.
1:28:42
I fully support this. I think it's great. Call Dana
1:28:45
Brunetti because we're going to kill Hollywood once and for
1:28:48
all. It's interesting that this is a YouTuber that is
1:28:52
making the leap because you were pretty early investing in
1:28:57
the creator space with full screen. What did you learn
1:29:01
out of that and did you think? that in the
1:29:04
year 2026, we would see this run of digital native
1:29:09
filmmaking talent making the leap not just to getting Hollywood-style
1:29:14
movies made, but getting big audiences. You know, Obsession just
1:29:18
opened big and keeps growing, and now we've got this
1:29:22
other... YouTube first movie that is going to be big.
1:29:26
It's called Back Room. Have you heard of these movies?
1:29:30
Well, the only one I've heard of is the one
1:29:33
that's actually playing in a theater. Yes, that's Back Rooms.
1:29:35
At the Tribeca Film Festival. I think it's Back Rooms
1:29:38
is the one that's playing. No, no, it's something violets.
1:29:43
I'll get the title. There's a couple of them. Absolutely.
1:29:47
The only one playing in the theaters is the Vilas
1:29:52
film. Let's listen to this. This is... Who is this
1:29:57
guy? I'll figure it out in a minute. He believed
1:30:00
that. You did? Yes. You know, we have been huge
1:30:04
believers in the creator economy and going back. I think
1:30:08
we invested in full screen 14 years ago. Look, it's
1:30:13
also, to be fair, it's no accident, we are the
1:30:16
only media company based in Silicon Beach. Our offices are
1:30:20
in Playa Vista. We are off the streets. Where is
1:30:23
Silicon Beach? Down south is Calabasas or someplace down in
1:30:27
Southern California. Calabasas? Yeah, it's bull crap. This is great.
1:30:31
YouTube is right over there. I'm in Silicon Hills. Facebook
1:30:36
is right over there. You know, as a company, I'm
1:30:41
deeply interested in technology. blah blah blah blah what's happened
1:30:46
is the movie's dreams of violence dreams and it's from
1:30:49
an iranian filmmaker and it's about iran riots or killings
1:30:54
or something like that and it was very controversial it's
1:30:57
the first one accepted into film festival and there's a
1:31:01
bunch of news stories on all the networks about it
1:31:03
Well, now Hollywood is just like Silicon Valley, except instead
1:31:07
of the... What is it, the Jervin? I forgot the
1:31:11
name already. The Jarvan Principle. What was that guy's name?
1:31:17
The Jarbo Principle. The Jambo Principle. Jambo. There you go.
1:31:21
Poor Jambo guy. Jambo Principle. Our poor Jambo guy. Now
1:31:25
it's, yeah, man, we want YouTubers. Get us YouTubers. We
1:31:29
need more YouTubers. You can't just live on sequels. You
1:31:32
can't just live on existing IP. It's a terrible thing
1:31:36
to do to the audience. I hope that there is
1:31:37
a lesson to those big studios in both Obsession and
1:31:41
Backrooms. they should be taking risks like that. You know,
1:31:46
and if you go back to the big franchises, which
1:31:49
they are making infinite sequels of. are generally 15 to
1:31:53
30, 40 years old at this point. Half the audience
1:31:56
wasn't born when they started. What do you think the
1:32:00
model is going to be? Do you think that it's
1:32:02
possible that... these YouTube first movies that they could reinvigorate.
1:32:10
People going to theaters to see it? Like vinyl, you
1:32:15
know? Like everyone's all, oh, vinyl, vinyl. Oh, no, you
1:32:18
got to see this thing in the theater. You think
1:32:21
that's possible? Could they do that? possible, but not for
1:32:25
a while. Well, there's a couple of these movies happening.
1:32:29
I mean, surely we can't just have people putting them
1:32:32
out on YouTube and not making YouTube pennies. That's not
1:32:35
going to last. Well, the movie Dreams of Violets, they
1:32:40
had protests out in front and everyone's moaning about it.
1:32:44
Really? Yeah, because, oh, it's going to ruin Hollywood and
1:32:48
we're all going to die. Brunetti should be all over
1:32:51
this. No, Brunetti probably is all over it. I haven't
1:32:54
talked to him about it. But I'm sure he's all,
1:32:58
he's not all over. He should be producing this stuff.
1:33:01
He should be producing. He should be a, hey, kid.
1:33:04
Hey kid, I'm gonna make you famous. You want to
1:33:07
get rich? You want to leave your wife rich? Yeah,
1:33:11
stick with me. I'm Dana Brunetti, babe. I'm Dana Brunetti.
1:33:15
You want to get a job? You want to be
1:33:16
a star? You want to be a star? A star?
1:33:19
Yeah, I'm Dana Brunetti. That's not at all how he
1:33:22
sounds, by the way. What? That's not how he sounds.
1:33:26
No. Yeah, he sounds just like that. That's not at
1:33:30
all how Brunetti sounds. Yeah, he talks like this. And
1:33:33
he doesn't look at all like he sounds either. You
1:33:37
know, he looks like this. He looks like a frat
1:33:40
boy with a beard. He's got a big cigar, usually
1:33:42
smoking it. Yeah. Hey, kid. Hey, kid. So I have
1:33:48
an AI story that needs to be. All right. Played.
1:33:52
Okay. This is a, this is a, an ode to
1:33:55
Linda Lou Patkin. Oh, all right. Linda. It's about AI
1:33:58
job searches. And what a little tidbit here is quite
1:34:02
interesting. Stanford just released the biggest study ever done on
1:34:06
AI hiring tools. And it's uncovering this massive web that's
1:34:09
answering the question all of us are asking. Why does
1:34:12
my resume keep getting rejected for jobs that I am
1:34:14
completely qualified for? And I'm going to be honest, this
1:34:17
study has changed the way I think about every application
1:34:21
I've ever sent. 90% of companies are using AI to
1:34:24
screen applicants before a human ever sees them. And the
1:34:27
interesting thing is that most of these companies are using
1:34:30
the same few vendors to do that work. Meaning it's
1:34:32
the exact same tool, just used in different companies. And
1:34:36
it's probably everywhere that you have been applying. Here's how
1:34:39
it actually works. You apply to a job. And then
1:34:41
the company sends your resume to a third-party AI tool.
1:34:44
And that AI platform gives you a score. And then
1:34:47
it sends that score back to the employer. But that
1:34:50
score doesn't disappear or get regenerated with every application you
1:34:53
send. sometimes it holds onto that score for 330 days.
1:34:57
So when you apply to another company that uses that
1:35:00
same platform, you're not getting a fresh start. You're just
1:35:03
getting that same score again. And the research is real.
1:35:06
They tracked over 4 million applications across 156 employers. And
1:35:12
when they found that the people who had applied to
1:35:14
multiple companies who were using the same AI tool to
1:35:17
screen, the rejection rate was a little too high to
1:35:20
be coincidental. So they're calling it systemic rejection. The study
1:35:24
is called Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring, if you want to
1:35:27
check it out. But just know that if you've been
1:35:29
sending applications out and hearing nothing back, it's probably not
1:35:34
your resume. And this is just another reminder that we're
1:35:37
not living in some glitch. It's effectively one score for
1:35:41
330 days. every company that you're applying to. And this
1:35:44
is why laws like the ones Colorado is passing right
1:35:47
now are going to be imperative to the future of
1:35:51
job applications and hiring. I'm going to continue to report
1:35:54
on this, so follow, like, comment if you want to
1:35:58
know more about the systems that are actively working against
1:36:00
you in your job search. And feel free to share
1:36:03
this with anyone else who's being actively gaslit by AI
1:36:06
on a daily basis. That's Image Makers Inc. with a
1:36:08
K. Now, I would say a couple. First of all,
1:36:11
I did not edit that. I'm better than that. This
1:36:18
is typical high-tech. Uh... way of saving money. Instead of
1:36:24
having, you know, you get an application in and you
1:36:27
scan it for some score and you send the score
1:36:30
back to the first company. Another thing comes in from
1:36:34
the same person from a different company. Why bother scanning
1:36:37
it? Same score. You already have the guy's score. Just
1:36:42
send the same score on, so that's what they're doing.
1:36:45
This is classic. Why burn tokens on it? No, they're
1:36:48
not going to do that. Yeah, why burn tokens when
1:36:50
you can just, hey, he's in the database, send out
1:36:53
that same score. Yeah, it's good to go. It's a
1:36:54
completely different resume, but so what? Keep him there for
1:36:57
a year. It's good. That's a year, and by the
1:37:00
way, I doubt it. I'm sure this... permanent it's like
1:37:04
a credit score yes you're done you're toast you're not
1:37:08
ever gonna work again I gotta do these two peptide
1:37:12
emails since we made such a big deal about it
1:37:14
and we had so many lovely people writing in. About
1:37:17
what? Peptides. Oh, peptides. Peptides, yes. About 95% were telling
1:37:25
me it's great. It's phenomenal. I inject myself twice a
1:37:29
week. I'm on the Wolverine. This is the best thing
1:37:33
ever. It's fixed my back. I don't doubt it at
1:37:37
all. Yeah, I'm sure it helps a lot of people.
1:37:39
Yeah, but there's two emails I wanted to highlight. one
1:37:42
from our senior medical student he's written in before. He's
1:37:46
in Australia. He says, basically, you buy this stuff online,
1:37:50
but these peptides can be between 50% to 300% purity
1:37:53
of the stated dose. This makes no difference for the
1:37:56
fancy water peptides that people get a placebo from injecting
1:37:59
them. I'm sure there's a lot of that going on.
1:38:01
But for harmful drugs like this new R-E-T-A, as everyone
1:38:05
calls it, RETA, this can kill people. I've seen otherwise
1:38:09
healthy young patients coming in with symptoms of pancreatitis, of
1:38:13
unknown cause. Hey, Slim. Until you ask about the peptide
1:38:17
use. I had a young lady taking four times the
1:38:20
recommended dose of... Retrotrudide daily. This is the stuff we
1:38:27
talked about. This is not even mentioning the fact that
1:38:29
her vials could have been 200% purity, so it could
1:38:33
have been 8 times the dose. Based on talking to
1:38:36
patients, I would say around 10-20% of young Australians, 14-30,
1:38:39
are taking peptides with up to half considering it. This
1:38:43
is a lot. Yeah. I think this is a bigger
1:38:47
thing than we suspect. Yes. Fact is, most of these
1:38:51
peptides are, I know people who get their peptides from
1:38:54
their hair person. Just saying. Fact is, most of these
1:38:58
peptides are showing promise in studies on rats and muscle
1:39:01
cells in petri dishes. With minimal human safety trials other
1:39:04
than Reddit and TikTok forums, these companies can get away
1:39:09
with making millions selling these as it's not illegal here
1:39:11
in Australia to sell research-for-research purposes only peptides with no
1:39:15
recourse. Um... Here's a, some people take. uh msh to
1:39:25
be more tan and it works well for this but
1:39:28
when you stimulate the melanokites on your skin you stimulate
1:39:33
the moles that are normally hanging out there Most people
1:39:37
have moles that could turn into melanoma. Okay, so there's
1:39:39
all kinds of horrible things that can happen. And then
1:39:41
we have... Um... Boots on the ground from Patrick. Before
1:39:46
you're done with that letter, I should mention I sent
1:39:50
that letter to JC. Yes, that very one. I'm sorry?
1:39:54
The one from Australia? Yeah. Yeah, okay. And he says
1:39:59
he thinks it's wrong. Wrong. What he says about the...
1:40:03
A melanoma generator because it turns out that it might
1:40:07
actually be just the opposite. Might be. It might be.
1:40:11
Sure. Might be just the opposite. It might be. And
1:40:14
he cited some rationale that it would, anyway, he says
1:40:20
it's dubious. The argument. Okay. It might be. I don't
1:40:28
know. It might be. We don't know. And the fact
1:40:30
is, the thing that bothers me about all this, of
1:40:32
course, is people that are all, you know, concerned about
1:40:36
eating whole foods and being careful about what they eat
1:40:40
and ingest. We'll just take these things out. from a
1:40:43
drug dealer. It's just... Crazy. So now we have Patrick,
1:40:49
who is pursuing his doctorate in chemistry, right up your
1:40:52
alley. He was listening to Thursday's show. He said, I
1:40:54
heard you were interested in peptides. Well, since I'm pursuing
1:40:56
this, I thought I could weigh in and tell you
1:41:00
what I know. From a scientific perspective, the discovery and
1:41:02
creation of peptides of GLP-1 drugs is interesting and they
1:41:05
have gotten pretty good from what they began as. When
1:41:07
it comes to peptides as a drug, the hardest part
1:41:10
is making sure they are not digested in the body.
1:41:13
For the large majority, you cannot just eat peptides because
1:41:17
your body will digest them like any protein you would
1:41:19
get and from eating food and not enter the bloodstream.
1:41:22
This is why they are injected into the bloodstream, and
1:41:25
even then your body will break them down, although at
1:41:27
a much slower rate. When it comes to peptides, which
1:41:30
many people are using to biohack, yeah, that's it, outside
1:41:34
of GLP-1s, most of them come from Chinese companies, which
1:41:37
have little to no studies, especially not in human trials.
1:41:40
The rationale of using them to improve... bodily function mainly
1:41:43
comes from computational modeling, like climate change. The biggest issue
1:41:48
for these is the actual production of the peptides themselves.
1:41:51
That kind of goes along with what our previous boots
1:41:53
on the ground said. Companies utilize E. coli to produce
1:41:56
the peptide. What? Whoa. Whoa. process known as recombinant protein
1:42:03
expression. I do this on a regular basis in the
1:42:06
lab and it's actually a very efficient way of producing
1:42:08
peptides and proteins. Insulin is produced using this method. The
1:42:12
biggest issue with using this to create drugs for human
1:42:14
use is the contamination of polysaccharides, sugar, which can create
1:42:19
severe allergic reactions if injected. into the bloodstream. Pharmaceutical companies
1:42:24
are great at removing this and have testing to ensure
1:42:27
that batches are not contaminated. The equipment used is very
1:42:30
expensive and I would bet that the Chinese companies that
1:42:33
are producing peptides are not doing this. Yeah, best price.
1:42:36
I have friends that have had adverse reaction to these
1:42:39
peptides and gotten sick from them. This is the biggest
1:42:41
issue I see with peptides outside of the general ignorance
1:42:45
on how they will interact with the body as the
1:42:47
biochemical pathways within the body are very complex and small
1:42:51
changes can create big effects. So, yeah, I mean, biohacking
1:42:56
is what people are doing. And you don't need to
1:42:59
email me and tell me these guys are. full of
1:43:01
crap and I don't know what I'm talking about because
1:43:03
guess what I don't but no we don't we we're
1:43:06
we're rank amateurs when it comes all we're doing is
1:43:10
presenting what we know yeah but what we're told what
1:43:12
our producers tell us yeah what our producers tell us
1:43:16
yeah what do people yeah and we're going to continue
1:43:20
to do that for a while yes Because, I mean...
1:43:23
It's a big deal. This is going on. Yeah, so
1:43:26
when people get all bent out of shape that now
1:43:29
Eli Lilly is taking what they've basically been getting for
1:43:33
50 bucks from their hairdresser, they're now, you know, now
1:43:37
they have to pay a thousand bucks a month. They're
1:43:39
all bent out of shape, blah, blah, blah. Production matters.
1:43:44
Quality matters. Except when it comes to vaccines where there's
1:43:49
no liability issues. Well, no, please. Well, since you inject
1:43:52
this, can't they just call it a vaccine? And how
1:43:55
would the pill, how would this pill work better than
1:43:58
injecting it, mainlining that crap, baby? Come on, mainline it
1:44:02
right into me. Actually, it doesn't make sense what the
1:44:07
chemist said. It doesn't make sense about the pill. Because
1:44:11
they're just getting, you know, digested like any other protein.
1:44:14
I mean, I'm, here's what I'm worried about. You get
1:44:16
this stuff, particularly if it gets approved by the FDA.
1:44:20
And before you know it, you're voting Democrat. I'm telling
1:44:22
you, you got to be careful about these things. I
1:44:24
think you might be on to something. You got to
1:44:25
be careful with these things. But yes, the Wolverine combo
1:44:31
is what everyone seems to like a lot. If you're
1:44:33
working out a lot and you get ripped. Crazy ripped.
1:44:37
Ripped. Yeah. I'm not a exerciser. I'm a walker. So
1:44:41
I'm not going to get ripped anytime soon. I'm a
1:44:44
podcaster. I got no time to exercise. Podcasters shouldn't be
1:44:48
ripped. There's nothing sick about a ripped podcaster. Well, tell
1:44:53
that to Joe Rogan. Yeah, but Rogan was always, yeah,
1:44:57
but Rogan's also a UFC fighter. And by the way,
1:45:00
which brings me to the... I finally got one more.
1:45:03
It took forever to get a Sharpton clip. Oh, a
1:45:06
Sharpton clip? Where he screws up. Of why they're having
1:45:10
these fights on the White House lawn, the UFO and
1:45:14
all, whatever they call it. The UFO. Excellent! Yeah! Finally,
1:45:21
a new Sharpton jingle to use. Very good. Very good.
1:45:24
I'm very happy. Thank you. Thank you. Excellent job. Excellent
1:45:28
job. Very happy with that. Oh, man. Ebola update. Wait.
1:45:35
I need to do my Ebola jingle. I need to.
1:45:40
I need to. Oops. Ebola. Yes, here we go. Ebola,
1:45:47
Ebola, it has been with us two times in our
1:45:52
lives. you I was the third It's time to speak
1:46:00
about Ebola. Security has been stepped up at Ebola treatment
1:46:06
centers in eastern Congo with extra UN peacekeepers and local
1:46:11
police deployed. Medical staff have faced growing hostility with reports
1:46:16
of attacks on facilities. Richard Kogoy reports. against health workers
1:46:22
in a region where distrust and misinformation about Ebola remain
1:46:25
widespread. Security has been reinforced in Rwampara and Mugumbwalo in
1:46:29
Ituri province after incidents targeting treatment centers and medical staff.
1:46:34
Troops will also guard smaller clinics receiving patients and supervise
1:46:37
imperial teams. Alongside the security push, the government and aid...
1:46:41
partners are running outreach campaigns to counter false information and
1:46:45
build public trust in communities where cultural beliefs have shaped
1:46:48
views on illness and death. The WHO says nearly 500
1:46:52
cases are confirmed, including 82 deaths in the outbreak across
1:46:56
Central Africa. I have a follow-on clip from CBS regarding
1:47:00
a little mystery. misunderstanding. After this outrage in Kenya in
1:47:05
which two people were killed protesting a Trump administration plan
1:47:09
to set up an Ebola facility only for Americans at
1:47:13
a military airbase, Secretary of State Marco Rubio now says
1:47:16
that there has been a misunderstanding. And that's about whether
1:47:19
Americans would only be observed. for symptoms if they've been
1:47:23
potentially exposed in the region or if positive whether they
1:47:28
would be quarantined and then treated for the longer term
1:47:31
we're not actually actually in kenya to set up treatment
1:47:34
for americans i think the one that's been very controversial
1:47:36
is a misunderstanding there is a facility that the kenyans
1:47:39
are allowing us to open if there are any americans
1:47:41
that are Yes. What? No! about 125 miles north of
1:48:06
Nairobi. This was before a Kenya High Court judge blocked
1:48:11
the facility, at least temporarily, but also after that judge
1:48:15
blocked the facility. After those protests broke out on June
1:48:18
1st, Kenya's Prime Minister, William Ruto, said that it was
1:48:21
a would be good for the country's own Ebola preparedness
1:48:25
and said that the U.S. and Kenya have had a
1:48:27
friendship for the past 30 to 40 years. But many
1:48:31
Kenyans feel that this is the Trump administration outsourcing American
1:48:35
health risks to their own home country. And a high-level
1:48:39
medical contact of mine in Nairobi told me that the
1:48:41
expectation is that this U.S. facility will go ahead regardless
1:48:45
of what any high court says. I mean, don't you
1:48:48
think it's time for a repeat of the Ebola flight
1:48:52
coming in and everyone's all... Got their hazmat suits on.
1:48:56
The dude hops out like... I got Ebola. Hello, hello,
1:49:02
hello. and takes off. Yeah. Bye-bye. We didn't play this
1:49:05
clip the other day, but it's relevant, I guess, now.
1:49:09
Two research scientists have been arrested and charged with smuggling
1:49:12
mpox into the United States. Vincent Munster and Claude Quay
1:49:17
work at the National Institutes of Health Biosafety Lab in
1:49:20
Montana. According to prosecutors, the pair traveled back to the
1:49:24
U.S. from the Republic of Congo, where there was an
1:49:27
outbreak of mpox. When they went through customs, CBP officers
1:49:32
questioned them about a large plastic case they had. They
1:49:35
allegedly lied to the officers about what was inside. After
1:49:39
investigating and testing... The FBI found vials of deactivated mpox
1:49:44
virus, chickenpox virus, and human DNA. The men face up
1:49:49
to five years in prison. You know, the scandal isn't
1:49:52
so much. that they did this. Five years? Can you
1:49:57
imagine Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak show up at
1:50:00
the airport? What you got there? Nothing. Well, let's take
1:50:03
a look. Oh, you got like mpocs. You got human
1:50:05
DNA. We would be locked. This would be, we would
1:50:07
be locked away forever. But, oh, they're NIH. Oh, that's
1:50:11
okay. One of them's a Dutch guy. I find this
1:50:15
scandalous. Yeah, I think you're right. Maybe five years. Who
1:50:20
knows? I mean, okay, it's... inactive or deactivated whatever she
1:50:24
said that's what they said yes exactly Like, no, I
1:50:27
don't like this. Lock those guys up. Can't be doing
1:50:30
that. Okay, let's see. Oh, this was kind of funny.
1:50:39
This is about our prop... favorite prop bet We have
1:50:45
two. Koushi being one. Federal investigators are examining the prediction
1:50:51
market trades of former New York Republican Congressman George Santos.
1:50:55
NPR's Bobby Allen reports it's the latest case raising questions
1:50:59
about insider trading on the betting sites. Four months after
1:51:02
George Santos had a seven-year wire fraud prison sentence commuted
1:51:05
by President Trump, he took to social media. I'm going
1:51:09
to be there for the State of the Union in
1:51:11
the gallery, guys. Just chill, trolls. Chill, trolls. What he
1:51:14
didn't say publicly is that he was betting tens of
1:51:16
thousands of dollars on the prediction market site Kaoshi that
1:51:19
he would not attend. Before it was revealed he did
1:51:22
not go, he cashed out. That's according to three sources
1:51:25
with direct knowledge of Santos' trades. The Justice Department and
1:51:28
the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are investigating. When reached by
1:51:32
NPR, Santos said the investigations were news to him. He
1:51:35
said, I'm not saying yes, I'm not saying no, when
1:51:38
asked if he has an account on Kaoshi. Oh man,
1:51:41
how low IQ are you if you do that? Well,
1:51:45
this is, I can make money quick. Was it illegal?
1:51:51
Well, isn't it insider trading by definition? It's not the
1:51:55
SEC. There's no SEC involved in this. Not yet. And
1:52:00
with insider training, you're the guy people are betting on.
1:52:03
Well, he bet on himself. You don't think the basketball
1:52:05
guys do this constantly. Yeah. Oh, I sprained my ankle.
1:52:09
I can't play. Right. They get in trouble for it.
1:52:11
Do they? But from the league. Yeah, true. Oh, Wall
1:52:17
Street Journal. Trump urges Pulte to Fire Intel employees. Here
1:52:21
we go. Here's the, here's the, you're right. Here we
1:52:24
go. The bull in the China shop, the chainsaw weed
1:52:27
whacker. Yeah. Oh, this is going to be so much
1:52:31
fun. It's going to be great. It'll be good for
1:52:33
the show. It should be. Yeah. You're going to find
1:52:37
all kinds of stuff. I'm sorry. I was going to
1:52:41
say the World Cup, we got a clip on Iran.
1:52:44
They gave them visas. I have a bunch of, I
1:52:49
have a couple of screwy clips here. Um... Did you?
1:52:54
I'm going to ask you. This could be an Ask
1:52:56
Adam. Mm-hmm. What is the gayest city in the United
1:53:00
States? the gayest city in the United States. It's gay
1:53:06
pride month. I got a gay pride clip. Well, I
1:53:10
mean, instinctively, you want to say... San Francisco, but somehow
1:53:15
I don't think it's the gayest. I don't think there
1:53:18
is one. I think New York would be it, personally.
1:53:21
Or Atlanta. Atlanta's very gay. Which clip is it? Which
1:53:24
clip? This is the mayor, Mayor Bowser, the mayor of
1:53:28
Washington, D.C. Oh. She claims that Washington, D.C., the capital
1:53:33
of the United States of America, will play the clip.
1:53:38
one year's In the future of 51st. The same bull
1:53:50
deserves to be We're celebrating Pride Month in the... gayest
1:53:58
sin Well, let's be fair. We do have some a-gays.
1:54:07
uh in dc you know so you bring in a
1:54:11
besant there's going to be a whole bunch of other
1:54:12
people who follow around I can see. Do you think
1:54:16
Besant will be out there at Pride? With his chaps.
1:54:19
With his chaps. No. He did not do a good
1:54:25
job, man, the other day. Let me see, where is
1:54:28
it? He was being grilled. Let me see. Here we
1:54:35
go. You think with all the experience. experience he's had.
1:54:39
It's no good. He'd be better. Oh, he's no good.
1:54:43
Listen to this. Why are you allowing President Trump and
1:54:45
his family to have complete immunity from being audited? Again,
1:54:50
since you're a lawyer, you will understand that the US
1:54:54
Treasury and the IRS are represented by the justice. Department
1:54:58
and the acting Attorney General. Yes, but I just mentioned
1:55:01
a Supreme Court case that doesn't bar you from testifying.
1:55:04
It's pretty clear to me, though, however, that you're not
1:55:07
interested in answering questions. You're interested in arguing. Let me
1:55:12
ask you this question. If President Biden amended a prior
1:55:15
tax return and claimed that... He was owed $1 billion.
1:55:19
Do you think that that would be audited or should
1:55:21
it be audited? I'm not going to. the talk about
1:55:25
any, any, the... Because you're not really here to answer
1:55:29
questions. I don't understand why you wouldn't audit that, and
1:55:33
I don't understand why you wouldn't do the same for
1:55:36
President Trump. So the ruling by the Justice Department, excuse
1:55:42
me. Do you have specific knowledge of an audit of
1:55:44
President Trump? Excuse me. It's my time. You're not here
1:55:48
to ask me questions. I'm here to ask you questions.
1:55:51
And hopefully you're here to try to answer some of
1:55:53
them. Oh, man. It got even worse. Where he's like
1:55:57
he's he's he literally clutches well he didn't he was
1:56:01
if he had pearls he'd be clutching him Like, this
1:56:04
is an outrage! Can't Rubio take him aside? Rubio's the
1:56:09
guy that's good at this. Yeah, and Rubio is good
1:56:12
at this, but Besson has to answer, and he's just
1:56:15
no good at it. I don't know. I don't. understand
1:56:18
me He just, he chokes, choke, choke. He listens to
1:56:22
this. I'm curious to know who counts as Trump's family
1:56:25
for the purposes of this immunity. Is it his children,
1:56:29
his in-laws, his grandchildren, his second or third cousin, his
1:56:35
great-great-grandchildren? Do you know the answer to that question, Mr.
1:56:39
Secretary? Again, I imagine you have the Justice Department phone
1:56:43
number. I would suggest you call them. I'm not the
1:56:45
one that runs the Department of the Treasury or that
1:56:48
oversees what is happening with this immunity that has been
1:56:54
granted. I'm not the one either. We follow the instructions
1:56:56
of our lawyers. We obey the law, Representative. I hope
1:56:59
that you're proud of your performance today, Mr. Secretary, because
1:57:03
I think it's pretty safe to say that this is
1:57:09
probably the most corrupt Treasury Department in our nation's history.
1:57:13
I am going to have to take exception with that.
1:57:17
I'm going to have to take exception with that. I'm
1:57:21
going to write a stern letter to the Times. And
1:57:25
I'm going to write an op-ed about you. You will
1:57:28
be in deep, deep kimchi later. I'm going to have
1:57:31
to take exception with that. While you dance around questions
1:57:34
to protect Trump, Americans are suffering in Trump's fire. I
1:57:37
know what's going on with him. You know what it
1:57:48
is? Low T. That's what's happening here. Maybe peptides are
1:57:55
needed. Anything. Anything. Oh my goodness. I'm a Besant fan.
1:58:05
But this is bad. It's just bad. No good. I
1:58:10
hope you get some good social media clips out of
1:58:12
this. Yeah, very lame. Extremely lame. And he's got that
1:58:16
nervous... sound to his voice is no good hey i
1:58:21
want to play this clip i've been holding it but
1:58:23
i just want to play this because i just think
1:58:24
this is a technology that needs to be discussed more
1:58:28
okay the x59 i don't know if you've seen pictures
1:58:32
of this thing this is a new jet no i
1:58:35
haven't i'll have to look It's a jet that can
1:58:39
go... Mach 1 point something. It goes past the speed
1:58:44
of sound with no sonic boom. How does it even
1:58:48
work? Well, that's what I like to know. But if
1:58:51
you look at the design of the thing, it's loopy
1:58:53
looking. Oh, it looks like a Concorde. Except with the
1:58:58
lore, it's just cool. It's cool looking, let's put it
1:59:01
that way. But at the same time, it doesn't, I
1:59:04
guess, stir up enough. I don't know. I have no
1:59:07
idea. The explanation is not in this report or anyplace
1:59:10
else. NASA's X-59 research aircraft is designed to fly at
1:59:15
supersonic speeds without... producing a loud sonic boom. This month,
1:59:20
the X-59 will fly supersonic in test flights at around
1:59:24
43,000 feet in altitude. That will be followed by a
1:59:28
mission conditions. That's a flight at Mach 1.4 speed and
1:59:33
an altitude of roughly 55,000 feet. NASA's goals here... are
1:59:37
to have the aircraft fly over U.S. communities to gather
1:59:41
data from the public about its quiet supersonic operation. All
1:59:45
right, I have to ask the book of knowledge. Why
1:59:48
does the X-59 aircraft not produce a sonic boom? I
1:59:51
mean, we can sit here and we can just be
1:59:54
yapping at each other, but let's ask the book of
1:59:56
knowledge who knows. all things in the universe. And so
2:00:00
here we go. According to the book of knowledge, the
2:00:03
X-59 reduces sonic booms by shaping acoustic pressure waves, preventing
2:00:09
shock waves from merging into a single boom and creating
2:00:12
instead a gentle sonic thump. Its 38-foot extended nose carefully
2:00:18
shaped fuselage and top mounted engine use the aircraft body
2:00:22
as a shield to direct and dissipate shock waves. DOS
2:00:27
It is being written. A son- okay, well that's- A
2:00:30
sonic thump. That's right, a sonic thump. Now that means
2:00:33
I would love to have them fly this thing over
2:00:35
the Bay Area, let us know. Yeah. And I want
2:00:39
to see so we can hear the sonic thump. Because
2:00:41
when I was a kid, when I was a kid
2:00:44
living in Centerville. There used to be, this was pre,
2:00:49
at some point or other, you'd hear sonic booms because
2:00:53
there was no big deal. It's like, yeah, so what?
2:00:56
And, you know, this. finally put some laws against it
2:00:59
after the I guess it broke a few windows here
2:01:01
and there around the country but It would be a
2:01:05
loud, I know exactly what a sonic boom sounds like
2:01:08
because I was, well, kind of, I can remember that.
2:01:11
It rattles the windows. It's a loud boom. It's BOOM!
2:01:16
Yeah. And it's like... Like, okay, well, that was a
2:01:19
jet. So I want to hear the sonic thump. Now,
2:01:23
here's the thing. I have been in the Concord twice,
2:01:26
which does create... booms yeah that's why i wasn't allowed
2:01:31
to fly over much of the country inside the aircraft
2:01:35
nothing What would there be? I'm just, well, you'd think
2:01:39
that if it was boom outside, you'd hear it on
2:01:41
the inside. But you don't hear it. It's a big
2:01:44
letdown. It's like a good bass note, you know, you
2:01:49
can't really hear it near the speakers. Yeah, but these
2:01:51
things are loud! But I'm in the plane. I mean,
2:01:56
I'm in the plane. I thought I would hear it.
2:01:58
I remember the pilot. I was in a plane that
2:02:02
got hit by lightning, you could hear that. Well, ladies
2:02:05
and gentlemen, welcome aboard British Airways Concorde. We'll be doing
2:02:09
Mach 2. Unfortunately, there will be no spectacular booms. This
2:02:12
is a very comfortable travel. Enjoy yourself. However, the plane
2:02:15
will elongate by 11... Cheers and flights. Enjoy. That thing
2:02:21
would get longer. while it was flying. Yeah, the SR-71
2:02:26
used to, uh... change its size and shape during high-speed
2:02:32
flight, which is why it leaked gas. Jet fuel leaked
2:02:36
all over the... runway because the thing only sealed up
2:02:40
at speed. So Logan 5 says, no, Adam. This is
2:02:46
a troll. You fly faster than the sonic wave that
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the plane creates. Oh, that makes sense. Ah, that does
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make sense. Yes, it does. You know what else makes
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should make it an even 20 and quit. What do
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All right. I want to go out on top, Ben.
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You know, like... I want people to go. In the
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I'm like, oh, man, I miss them. We need them
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pods. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. We just do emergency
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pause like 20 minutes. Emergency pod. Trump said something. Emergency
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pod. Anyway, I don't want to get any... Do your
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female folk actually listen? Mine doesn't listen anymore. Yes. Mine
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doesn't listen. Mimi listens. She's the only one left. Jay
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will listen if she knows something about her is going
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to be discussed. Yeah. She sent me a selfie. Oh,
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yeah, well... I said, send me a selfie, Jay. Tina
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wants to see what you look like. Yeah. She's so
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cute. I'm glad she looks like her mom. Woo. Um...
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Value for value. That's where I was. That's right. It's
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They were from China. No one ever got a tote
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Did you get any value out of the show? If
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This is very valuable to the show. We appreciate stuff
2:06:49
like that. In this case, when it comes to the
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artwork, not only did we get a fun piece of
2:06:56
art. We also got a cool movie out of it.
2:06:59
See, this is what we have to remember. Whenever we
2:07:01
choose Scaramanga's art... He always makes a cool movie. Did
2:07:05
you see the little video he did? I missed it.
2:07:09
It's on the tweeters. Check it out. So we titled
2:07:13
the episode The Kennel Index. How is the kennel, by
2:07:16
the way? Is the kennel full? Is it draining? I
2:07:19
didn't ask. Well, you got to ask. I know. It's
2:07:22
how indexes work. Yes. We have to know. Can we
2:07:26
put some AI into our index? The kennel index. We
2:07:29
got to put a camera at the kennel. Yes. Yes.
2:07:32
There you go. Like the old coffee pot cam. Remember
2:07:35
back in the day? Oh, we could see what the
2:07:37
coffee pots were. Bird cams. Bird cams. Bird cams, yes.
2:07:40
I had the Empire State cam for a while. This
2:07:44
was done by Francisco Scaramanga. He is an expert in
2:07:47
usually babes. And it was just too funny what he
2:07:51
did. He had this goofy looking dude. Like a 50s,
2:07:55
like... Madman type dude all jacked on peptides. A big
2:08:00
no agenda testosterone pot next to him. And he's rubbing
2:08:04
the cream on his balls, which is a football, a
2:08:07
basketball, and a soccer ball, accentuated by the text, just
2:08:11
rub it on your balls. I mean, everybody laughed. Everybody
2:08:16
thought this was great. I think the fact that he's
2:08:18
wearing short white shorts with his leg spread kind of
2:08:21
helped. Made a little extra gay. Um... And there were
2:08:28
a couple other people who did similar things. Let's see.
2:08:31
Looking at noagendaartgenerator.com. We had, uh... Oh, wow, I've got
2:08:36
a lot of screw worm stuff for today. um where
2:08:39
was it wow i had to scroll away oh yeah
2:08:41
we had darren o'neill Yeah, Darren had a couple of
2:08:45
good pieces. Blue Acorn had the teabag. We liked that.
2:08:50
It was a close runner-up. Yeah, the teabag was second,
2:08:55
I would say. Close runner-up. That would be second. And
2:08:59
then there was a lot of women made to smile.
2:09:03
And they were pretty good too, but just nothing quite
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as good as a Scaramanga's piece. I thought that was,
2:09:10
we loved it. We really did. It was, we laughed.
2:09:13
Did we laugh out loud or did we laugh out
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loud? I think we laughed out loud. I think we
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lulled, for sure. It was silly. It's silly. And that's
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what we love about it. We love silly. It's great.
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Now in the treasure department... This is where you can
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go to noagendadonations.com, and we really appreciate it when people
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do that. And you can send us whatever you think
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we don't really know what's valuable to you. You know,
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$5 may be a lot of money to you. Well,
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we appreciate that just as much as someone who sends
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$5, $500. Because that may be different for them. It's
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value for value. Somehow it all kind of evens out.
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It's a bit of a roller coaster, this international... lifestyle,
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but it evens out and we feel good about it.
2:09:59
I love the... The spammer we have on our No
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Agenda Insta. Who is telling us, I never understand this.
2:10:10
Donations will go up if you tell everybody that Tucker
2:10:13
should be president. He's the true representative MAGA. And the
2:10:17
far left and the far right have to get on
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board with everything anti-Israel. I mean, do people really think
2:10:23
that that works? Can you imagine thinking that Tucker? I
2:10:30
mean... Tucker Carlson doesn't want to be president. I'm being
2:10:35
a meaghe, baby. We talked into running, but it's a
2:10:38
farce. And they're associating him with like Spencer Pratt and
2:10:44
Trump. Because you have, oh, you got these guys that
2:10:47
they didn't have any experience. Trump has been running for
2:10:50
president since the 1980s. He's talked about it. Yeah, new
2:10:57
book, new book, I'm running for president. For at least
2:11:00
16 years before he actually ran. Yeah. And so then...
2:11:05
And it was predicted by the Simpsons. I mean, it
2:11:07
wasn't like some surprise. And he's always been somewhat political.
2:11:11
The other guys that are high profile is people like
2:11:13
Ronald Reagan, who is high profile. He was the governor
2:11:18
of California. Okay, let's discount that. He was the head
2:11:22
of the Screen Actors Guild, I believe. And he was
2:11:26
a left-winger turned right-winger, which a lot of these guys
2:11:29
do that. And Spencer Pratt has got a bone to
2:11:33
pick. He's very dedicated to trying to... fix Los Angeles
2:11:37
is just a mayoral thing. It's not a big deal
2:11:40
in terms of like national spotlight, like Tucker being president.
2:11:44
It's stupid. Let me read this guy's post, his comment
2:11:48
verbatim. It's pretty funny. The Israel issue is going to
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drastically reduce donations. I've been listening to no agenda since
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Obama. And it's hard to hear them sound so out
2:11:58
of touch. Ancient boomers every time the... Ancient? Ancient boomers
2:12:04
every time the... What? Every time the Israel issue comes
2:12:08
up. Israel is the most important issue of times. John
2:12:12
and Adam seem to like the idea of Rubio for
2:12:14
president instead of Tucker. which is insane. The next president
2:12:18
must be actively anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish people, just anti-Israel. That's
2:12:25
great. Yeah, and this guy's writing constantly. Oh yeah. He's
2:12:31
a troll. Well, can't you block him? Maybe I- Jay
2:12:36
would know. Not that you should. I mean, I think
2:12:37
it's hilarious. I'm not going to block him. He's okay.
2:12:40
Yeah, I think it's hilarious. I mean, he's adding some
2:12:41
demand. I told him the same. I told Jay is
2:12:46
our social media person. Well, Jay is more than our
2:12:49
social media person. No, but that's one of her jobs.
2:12:52
Yeah. And so she's doing the whole thing. The instant.
2:12:55
told her when you get these things she what did
2:12:57
i say about this guy she says this guy's annoying
2:13:01
and so uh I said, and I said... And I
2:13:06
wrote a little ditty up for her to just keep
2:13:08
posting, which is a reference to the no agenda mission.
2:13:13
Yes. Go to noagendashow.com and read the mission statement. You'll
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find a link to it. And that's the answer. We
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don't promote anybody for president. We think Rubio's going to
2:13:27
be the president. We're not taking part in his campaign.
2:13:32
No. No. Let me read the mission statement. Where is
2:13:37
our mission statement? You sure it's on there? And of
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course it is. Where's the mission statement? It's down, go
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to the bottom. It has all those links at the
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bottom. You see the mission statement. You know, you say
2:13:49
that. It's on the left pile of links. I'm looking
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at the left. At the bottom. I'm looking at the...
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Oh, no agenda mission statement. Here we go. Oh my
2:13:57
goodness. Who wrote this? You've seen this before. I had
2:14:00
you put it there. The No Agenda is a podcasting
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people. It's worth it. So that is the time and
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So for anonymity and brevity's sake, we don't do all
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place. And we have a peerage ladder, $1,000 in aggregate
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over. It doesn't matter how many years or decades, in
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this case, you can become a knight or dame of
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the NO Agenda Roundtable. But we start off today in
2:16:37
Allentown, New Jersey, with Sir Dr. Vasant Lord of Cotland.
2:16:43
And he sends us $1,030.26. So that is likely $1,000.
2:16:49
He added the fees. We're very thankful for that. He
2:16:51
says, ITM, health karma for all. Sir Dr. Vasant. Lord
2:16:56
of Cotland, future Red Knight. Well, sir, you, in fact,
2:16:59
will be a Red Knight today. And here is that
2:17:02
health karma for all. He's a doctor, after all. You've
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got karma. Onward with Richard Gerhart. in Macomb. McComb. Michigan.
2:17:17
same thing, 103026. Uh, ITM? I've been a $4 a
2:17:25
week contributor. Very popular, by the way. Wow. But enjoy
2:17:30
the show so much, I could not resist becoming a
2:17:33
Red Knight. Please call me Sir Richard. The open-hearted. Ooh.
2:17:38
Ooh, that is good. Thanks for your courage, perspective, and
2:17:43
insights, Richard Gerhardt, Rich Gerhardt in Macomb, Michigan. On to
2:17:48
Sir Anonymous, the Viscount of the ADFC and Arapahoe County
2:17:52
in Aurora, Colorado, $369.99. in a note. which is very
2:17:58
nice. It is very colorful. Did it on Mac paint,
2:18:01
I think. This note from Synonymous, the Vicon of ADFC
2:18:06
in Arapahoe County, for the show. Thank you for your
2:18:08
courage and your continued deconstruction. It has been far too
2:18:11
long since my last tithing. Please de-douche me. Happy to
2:18:17
do that. You've been dedouched. No jingles, no karma. Sir
2:18:23
Anonymous, Vicon of the ADFC in the Arapahoe County. He
2:18:26
does say below here about this donation, the amount of
2:18:28
$369.99 is something I like to call the triple intel
2:18:32
threat. That's... Oh, treat. I'm sorry. Triple Intel treat. He
2:18:37
even says that's treat, not threat. Triple Intel treat. As
2:18:41
I've donated this amount before, a brief explanation may suffice.
2:18:43
It's related to Executive Order 12333. Ah, EO12333. Some of
2:18:49
the no agenda spooks may know what that is, but
2:18:51
the number 12333 also has... special meaning to the numerologists
2:18:55
amongst us. Here you have the power of three in
2:18:57
many forms. 1, 2, 3.33 times 3 is 369.99. Wow,
2:19:03
perhaps you noticed that 369.99 is 3 followed by 6,
2:19:07
which is 3 plus 3, and the Jews did it.
2:19:10
I'm sorry. That's usually what comes out of those things.
2:19:14
Followed by 9, which is 3 plus 3 plus 3,
2:19:16
or 3 times 3, ending with 99, which is 33
2:19:19
times 3. Wow. The guy is really into his numbers,
2:19:23
John. Did you mute yourself? It looks like we won't
2:19:33
make it. to 20 years. You're back. Yeah. What happened?
2:19:38
That took a long time. Yeah, well, you know why?
2:19:41
No, I'm curious. I moved the chair, unplugged the router,
2:19:47
which was tangled up in the chair, the wire on
2:19:49
the floor, pulled the thing down and then jerked it
2:19:53
around so much. I couldn't get it back on. So
2:19:55
I had. So I'm thinking I could get it going,
2:19:59
but no. And so... Wow. Something got bent. So I
2:20:04
ended up having to switch networks to a Wi-Fi third
2:20:08
backup that I have downstairs, which is an AT&T connection.
2:20:12
That is a boomer move if I've ever heard one.
2:20:15
Awesome. Awesome. I'm going to leave some of that in
2:20:19
the show. That was pretty good. It was ludicrous. Anyway.
2:20:24
Thank you very much, Sir Anonymous, the Viscount of the
2:20:29
ADFC in Arapahoe County, for your many, many number threes.
2:20:33
Yeah, um... Now we go to Sir Carl of Cary,
2:20:39
which he calls himself such because he's in Cary, North
2:20:42
Carolina. 340-375. He says, my wife saw the sad puppy,
2:20:48
which was the last newsletter, and I explained what it
2:20:51
was about. She actually told me I should send in
2:20:54
a donation. And it's been too long since the last
2:20:58
one. Good woman you married to. Yes, you did. Also,
2:21:02
I want to make sure you guys don't run out
2:21:04
of... What? A ball? Oh, ball cream. Yes, ball cream.
2:21:13
That's a joke for you. That's a reference to the...
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Yeah. Thank you for your courage. I'm sorry I said
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that. Sir Kerry, Carla Kerry. Yes, ball creep. There's Dennis
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Cato, Tampa, Florida. 333.33. And Dennis says, we have been
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on such a journey over the six weeks since we
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decided to start supporting the podcast. And Adam gave us
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a shout out. for the pain relief gel. Seems like
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pain is the one thing everyone has in common nowadays.
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Oh, this is Manuka Gold, people. We began Manuka Gold
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for sending it to me. I realize you do have
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development now, John. I'm so proud of us. Thank you
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as always, John and Adam. Thank you. Dennis, for your
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product and your support. Onward with Sir Arak-Rak. Ciroc Rock.
2:22:52
in Brigantine, New Jersey. And he sent a note. In.
2:22:58
I will jump you. This actually comes from a Caneel
2:23:02
Bay letterhead. John, enclosed assortment of eclectic stuff. Yes. He
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sent in a... An assortment of eclectic stuff. Yeah, yeah.
2:23:15
Like what? So he's got like a, like a... The
2:23:20
mold is... Some old stamps, some... Uh... Looks like some
2:23:27
sort of shit from 1928 Germany. or ration slip or
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something. A book. called The Vineyards of Hitler's Vineyards. And
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it's all good stuff. Please apply a check for producer
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whatnot.com. Maybe a good show tip of the day or
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a way for Adam or you to offload unwanted stuff.
2:24:03
Smiley face. Sir. A rock rock. A Eric. A K
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a. All right. Wonderful. Uh, now we have our first
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associate executive producer with $250, Sir Woody the Phantom. from
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Madison, New Jersey. A lot of New Jerseyites. Hello, New
2:24:19
Jersey. And sends a nice note. which I have here.
2:24:24
ITM John Adam, thank you for your hard work. I'm
2:24:26
glad John is back and better than ever. Jury's out.
2:24:30
Mimi, actually, you are better than ever. I've never, like
2:24:34
you are today and the last show. Fantastic. And now
2:24:38
that you got your noisemakers back, I can just sense
2:24:41
the joy. Are you sleeping at the house as well
2:24:43
or just doing the show there? Well, my bedroom's a
2:24:47
mess, so I'm sleeping up at the other house. So
2:24:51
I'm going to this... Cardiac rehab is special for you
2:24:57
know, people that had. Issues. issues. My legs are like
2:25:03
rubber. Rubber? Yeah, I got on one of these machines
2:25:08
for an hour. Oh, no. Do they have that mask
2:25:12
on your face too? You gotta... No, luckily nobody's masked
2:25:16
up. Not me. One of those that measures your lung
2:25:19
pressure. No, but no, you have an EKG hookup and
2:25:23
then they keep checking your blood pressure so you don't
2:25:25
drop dead on one of the machines. Yeah, that would
2:25:27
suck. I mean, I guess it's happened. If you're going
2:25:31
to die, do it on the show. Don't do it
2:25:33
on the treadmill at the hospital. That's no good. You
2:25:35
know, so there's a bunch of, yeah. I know, I
2:25:37
realize I have enough. I have enough background in the
2:25:42
biz to know to do this. To know what to
2:25:44
do. You know how show business works. Exactly. This is
2:25:51
dark, people. Onward with Sir Woody the Phantom's Note. Mimi
2:25:55
did a great job covering in John's. absence. I enjoy
2:25:58
the tips of the day. They are very useful. What
2:26:01
is the name of the song that plays on the
2:26:03
outro? It's quite lovely. Yes, that is... Oh, goodness. I
2:26:09
keep forgetting, it's this, I think it's this... Starland Vocal
2:26:13
Trio. Let me see. That was the olden days. Those
2:26:20
were all public domain songs that you had somehow created
2:26:23
a website for. So you could use the... Right? I
2:26:27
don't remember. I do. Um... Let me see if I
2:26:32
can find it. I should, I should, I'll find it
2:26:35
for next show. like the pod free or something called
2:26:39
oh oh you mean the um the uh Oh, goodness.
2:26:45
You don't even keep up with all the stuff you're
2:26:47
doing. Yeah, well, you know, it's... Hey, low T. What
2:26:50
can I tell you? You know, hey, there was a
2:26:52
show. There was an operation called Pod Show. Yes. You
2:26:55
ran it. Do you know that? Yes, I do. It
2:27:00
was Podsafe Music Network. Thank you. The Podsafe Music Network.
2:27:04
You said thank you to somebody in the chat room
2:27:07
who came up with it? No, I said myself. I
2:27:09
wasn't even looking at the chat room. Oh, okay. You
2:27:11
thanked yourself. I'm still looking for the music and I
2:27:14
can't find it. I mean, I have the music, obviously,
2:27:17
but the... It just says, "NA closer, tune easy," but
2:27:22
that's not the fun. I'll find it for you. I'll
2:27:24
find it. Okay? Promise I'll find it. Uhhhhhhh... And so
2:27:28
I'll find it. I'd like some house search karma doggy
2:27:31
style please. Well yes, we got that. . our minds.
2:27:45
Where was that? Huh? Which one did you read? Oh,
2:27:51
the note, the third note. Oh, so I'm on La
2:27:54
Jolla Salt Corp. Yeah, correct. Yeah, he's in La Jolla,
2:27:57
California. Yes. La Jolla to you, outsiders. $210.60. Normally, we
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Take what? I thought you were gonna do it. Read
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okay. I was doing something else. Yes, Linda's thing. Jobs
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know. I just got... You're a mess. All of a
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sudden dried out. That's okay. We're with you. We understand.
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We were on the treadmill. It was bad. It was
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real bad. Sir William of Bainbridge Island here. I've been
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What HRT conversation? Well, it was about the testosterone. What's
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We're trying to move California from California to Japan in
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box here. And I got a note from Sir Darius
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Unity. He is the, he always sends, he sends me
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a new copy of his book. I keep giving away
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snapshots. He's the guy who Iraq vet and he published
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a book of pictures of him in Iraq. Oh, yes.
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This is a, I wanted to thank him for giving.
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Yeah. He sent me one and one for Mimi. I
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NTs. And, oh, the book is updated. I didn't realize
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also sent me a... Florida Goldback. which is one two
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thousandth of a troy ounce did you get one of
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those yep that's cool so what is that one two
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thousandths of a troy ounce like a buck No, it
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was like two bucks. Yeah, how much is... No. One
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two thousandths is probably two bucks. Yeah, two bucks. It
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was nice. Thank you very much. Also... Thank you to
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Matt Benjamin who sent me his book, Back to the
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Beginning. He said, well, you can always use this QR.
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He's doing value for value with this book. back to
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qr code adam get the pdf and have your robot
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I'll tell you what the book's about. I'm actually enjoying
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it. That's an interesting idea. Yeah. Wisdom from Genesis for
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Modern Life. I like that very much. Thank you so
2:44:00
much. Was there anything else? No? Okay. Good. That means
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it's time for the meetups. No one should die. No,
2:44:15
of course it is vacation time, so there's no meetups
2:44:19
until this coming Saturday. That is June 13th. That's when
2:44:22
the Treasure Valley Boise meetup will take place. Is that
2:44:24
Juneteenth? No, that's the 14th. Juneteenth. I know it's the
2:44:29
18th. No, Juneteenth is... The 19th. I don't know what
2:44:32
it is. Treasure Valley Boise meetup on the 13th, 3
2:44:37
o'clock at Green Acres Food Truck Park in Boise, Idaho.
2:44:41
That should be fun. Also on the 13th, the Franklin's
2:44:45
Slices and Sips meetup. That'll be at Salvo's Pizza in
2:44:49
Franklin, Tennessee. Looking forward to meetup reports. People will definitely
2:44:52
get one from the meetup on the 14th in Indianapolis,
2:44:56
Indiana. The 18th, Charlotte, North Carolina. The 26th, Rotterdam, the
2:45:00
Netherlands. The 27th, Fort Wayne, Indiana. The 27th, oh, Albany,
2:45:04
California. Oh, you're going to go to the Albany, California,
2:45:06
27th? I know nothing about it. This is totally new
2:45:09
to me. It even says new, new, new, new, new.
2:45:13
When is this date? The 27th. The 27th of June?
2:45:18
Yes, that's probably a sign. I shall be there. I
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comes in so I can play it on Thursday. Well,
2:45:47
I hope at least one person showed up. Well, the
2:45:50
organizer. The guy who organizes has got to be there.
2:45:53
Well, I mean, besides the organizer. I sure hope so,
2:45:55
too. It would be cool. Very cool. Are you kidding
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John's revised tip of the day coming up. I'm very
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excited what this revision is. I mean, I've never really
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had any influence on him at all, and certainly not
2:46:52
on the tip of the day, so this should be
2:46:54
fun. But before we get to that and our end
2:46:57
of show mixes, we have to select the end of
2:46:59
show ISO, which will be played at the very end
2:47:01
of the show. I've got three and seems like you've
2:47:05
got some celebrity ISOs, so I will go first. Are
2:47:08
you ready? Yeah, here comes bend over. Man, maybe these
2:47:12
conspiracy people are right about everything. a little on the
2:47:16
long side, but I kind of liked it. Yeah, season
2:47:19
number two? That about sums it up. Got cut off.
2:47:23
What? No, it's no good. It's no good. It's no
2:47:25
good. Here's one. We've done it for a long time.
2:47:30
I kind of like my first... Man, maybe these conspiracy
2:47:33
people are right about everything. All right. Yeah, I kind
2:47:35
of like that one, too. It's good. Let's see what
2:47:37
you have. Well, I got some celebrities. I got... You
2:47:40
know, I've been going to these different sites. There are
2:47:41
just a million of them now. Yeah. I think a
2:47:44
lot of them are basing on the same... Model. Models.
2:47:47
It's hard to say. Some of these models are no...
2:47:49
good. This is, for example, Morgan Freeman. The No Agenda
2:47:53
podcast is great, so donate. Doesn't sound like him at
2:47:57
all. I know a guy who can do Morgan Friedman.
2:48:01
We'll have him do some jingles. I will. I will.
2:48:04
Yes, I agree. It's not that one that I'm dumping
2:48:08
that one out of the player. That's no good. Here's
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Trump. Folks, make podcasting great again with the No Agenda
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podcast and donate today. Also close, but... Not, it's not
2:48:23
really him, you know, I didn't really, let me hear
2:48:26
it again. Folks, make podcasting great again with the No
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Agenda podcast. and donate today. It's like Trump and Jason
2:48:34
Calacanis had a kid and then made an ISO. No,
2:48:38
I have to reject it. I'm sorry. It's just not
2:48:41
good enough. Well, I'm not going to argue the point
2:48:44
because the thing that bothers me about their model for
2:48:47
Trump is he can't end a sentence. Right. And donate
2:48:52
today. Yeah, no, it's no good. Believe me, I worked
2:48:56
it. I spent a good 10 minutes changing the copy
2:49:00
and I still couldn't get the ending to come out
2:49:03
correctly. It was also almost as long as the podcast
2:49:06
itself. So that was. It wasn't that bad. Yours is
2:49:11
long. Okay, what's the timing on yours? The one that
2:49:14
you're going to pick and this one, I think yours
2:49:16
is longer. No. Mine is three seconds. Yours is five
2:49:19
seconds. I will play them at the same time. To
2:49:23
prove my point. 3, 2, 1. Folks, make podcasting great
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again with the No Agenda Podcast and donate today. Huh?
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Okay. Wow. You've come up with new trickery to humiliate
2:49:36
me. Time for tip of the day! for you Just
2:49:42
the tip with JCB and sometimes Adam. Okay, I think
2:49:48
people have to, uh... The AI thing needs to be
2:49:51
tempered. So when the whole thing collapses, you're not going
2:49:56
to be taken. Oh, my God. What a shocker. So
2:50:00
you want there's a sub stack out there that is
2:50:02
the guy he is the guy who is the expert,
2:50:08
an AI expert who is also a naysayer. His name
2:50:12
is Gary. Ed Zitron. Sorry? Ed Zitron. No. Gary Marcus.
2:50:16
Gary Marcus. Professor back east. Gary Marcus. Everybody knows him.
2:50:20
Hmm. GaryMarcus.Substack.com And just read his material and you will
2:50:26
have a very... grounded sense of where This is going
2:50:32
why it's no good. why it's going to fail, how
2:50:35
it's going to fail, and all the rest of it.
2:50:39
He is the best at this. Do you think that
2:50:41
if AI was really good, it could avoid the bubble
2:50:44
popping itself? That's a good one. Gary Marcus, what is
2:50:52
his latest insight that you have read? Can you paraphrase?
2:50:56
The last one that I remember was he commented on
2:50:59
the market crash of Friday, which was really AI crash.
2:51:05
and he discusses why and how and it's actually very
2:51:09
he writes a little long but not in a boring
2:51:13
long way, just long. Okay. Is he a boomer? I
2:51:19
don't know. I never, I don't even know how old
2:51:21
he is. He's really good though. Well, I will investigate
2:51:24
and I will report back on this tip of the
2:51:26
day, which of course you can find at noagendafun.com or
2:51:29
tipoftheday.net. It's nice for you Just the tip with JCB
2:51:38
and sometimes Adam. Now let me take a look real
2:51:43
quick, let me see if the robot found out what
2:51:45
this is called. Oh, no. No. No, I'll have to
2:51:53
find some other way. Robot fails. AI is no good.
2:51:59
Although, when you listen to this mix of end of
2:52:02
show mixes, which includes Ian Cummings, who is new. He's
2:52:08
got the toe tapper in the middle. We have Justin.
2:52:11
Baker and MVP all sandwiched together for our end of
2:52:16
show mix. It's not bad. It's a little bit in
2:52:19
your face here and there, but it's not bad. At
2:52:21
least the lyrics are about the show and telling you
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to donate. So please consider doing that at knowagentthedonations.com and
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working man feel the sandbag ♪ I don't know why
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they sing the tone, trucker. The Immigration Army funding by
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the... We ♪ Zombies in drain reservoirs ♪ you you
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There's a signal in the static late night on the
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dial. Two cats breaking headlines with a crooked smile. ♪
2:55:09
Adam's got the faders, John's got clips ♪ to read
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they deconstruct the story cut it right to the bleed
2:55:16
the anchor cell you panic dressed in suit and tie
2:55:19
but these two play the tape back ask the question
2:55:22
why they shuffle all the spin line stack them side
2:55:25
by side then swing them off the bandstand let the
2:55:29
truth collide Kings of content. No Adman thrown, just a
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couple of cool cats with a mic and a tone.
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No agenda In the balcony tapping in time to time,
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Showing the universe floating on air. Just the truth we
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share Keeping the producers out of No agenda. Mofo. Dvorak.org
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slash N-A. Man, maybe these conspiracy people are right about
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everything.