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We're having a great time. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore.
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It's Thursday, July 2nd, 2026. This is your award-winning Kimo
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Nation media assassination episode 1882. This is no agenda. I'm
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awaiting the stork. And we're broadcasting live from Museum Square
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in the heart of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. And from Northern
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Silicon Valley, where we're awaiting 250, I'm John C. Dvorak.
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Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. Yeah, that's kind of
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weird. I'm over here and there's no... I think it's
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great because it gives you... It'll give you the European...
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uh perspective of r250 which is a big deal which
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is nothing no one cares they don't care what what
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they don't care no they don't care here they don't
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care at all there's there's no one walking around going
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wow almost two well i'm sure that's not happening but
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but That's interesting because they sell Black Friday. Yeah, that's
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true. They do. How did that happen? You're absolutely right.
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I can't argue on that. They picked up Black Friday,
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but no, there's no such thing. They don't even have
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Thanksgiving yet. They still have Black Friday. It's not like,
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you know, it's like Taxi Eric. this up from the
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airport. And it's not like he said, hey, almost 250.
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No, no. Or I thought he'd demand a land acknowledgement.
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No, but we are pretty excited here. I got a
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text from Christina. She said... The mucus plug has fired.
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Which, uh... Yuck. Thanks. It's a big deal. It means
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the baby could come soon. The timing could be perfect.
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which is the main reason we're here. We're here for
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other reasons. What are the reasons? Well, um... When my
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mom passed 20 years ago, it was on this day
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actually, July 2nd. She had envelopes for the four of
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us, the three of us. Bob, her husband, so four
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of us, but the three of us. And in this,
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she had a personal letter and there was, you know,
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little, little things. And I opened up my letter. My
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letter's like, um. I do not want a, uh... traditional
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you know, like a funeral, I want you to arrange
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right away. a 50s party with a soda fountain and
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people dressed in 1950s bobby socks. And I'm like, okay.
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And so I. I did it and within two days
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on July 4th. I arranged that. I had, you know,
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50s hot rods. I had the whole, I had everything
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all set up and people came over and they hung
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out and didn't quite understand what was going on. But
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I did that. So my sister, Tiffany, who lives here,
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she kind of made a, family reunion and we're all
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here to celebrate the 20th memoriam, I guess, of my
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mom. But it's kind of a family reunion. So the
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Italian curries are coming, and it's going to be fun.
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Everybody's here. That's the idea. Okay. I can tell you're
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floored by this. Yeah, well, I was like, I thought
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the story was leading in one direction and then it
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didn't. Well, what did you expect? Well, I thought it
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was like, you know, the secret node was to be
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open today or something. Oh, yeah. And congratulations, you have...
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20 years later, you open the node. It is. $10
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million, Adam? It's a check for $10 million. Wouldn't that
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have been great? No. So anyway, so we're on the
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plane and now we booked Delta. Delta has direct flights
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from Austin to Amsterdam, which I thought was only KLM,
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but you know, they co-chair or whatever. Yeah, it's the
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same company. Yeah. Well, not the same company, but they're
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the same. Yeah. Well, interestingly, so we go to the
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Delta check and they're like, oh, no, no, you got
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to go to the KLM. So my ticket says Delta.
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So yeah, no, but you got to check in the
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KLM. Okay, so we go. So it is a KLM
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aircraft. It's a KLM crew. Haven't been on a KLM
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plane for. a number of years actually. And So we're
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sitting down and there's the prototypical gay steward. you know
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my age so 56 my 40s my age 50s 60s
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and he's like oh Oh, oh, oh, it's so great
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to have you on board. You're Christina's dad. Like, oh
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my goodness. Yeah, and? The point is, I used to
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be famous. Oh, that's hilarious. Wow. Wow. Hello, penny drop.
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Well, I thought it was, again, I thought you were
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leading in another direction. That was the punchline. Oh I
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thought it was going to go the following, that it
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was scripted and somebody had told this guy to say
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that, which has happened to me. Oh, no. And you
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found out the fraud and it was going to go
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in all kinds of directions. It never did. I'm looking
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at the troll room. Why is Potty Mouth saying... According
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to... Rocket Reach. No Agenda LLC is valued at $2
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million. Yeah, that's with us alive and in it, dude.
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We'll sell the show for five. What are you talking
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about? I'll sell it for two. Good to go. Take
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it over, please. And now it's time for 3 by
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3. Let's get right to it today. Experiment by JCD.
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Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC. Remember! John's got
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the big three stories from the big three. There were
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quite a number of stories, most of them pretty boring
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and stupid, but... Most of the stories were boring and
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stupid and I will say this this was the Supreme
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Court came down with some decisions and everybody focused on
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the one that that burned Trump he's trying to do
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stuff he can't do which is mainly then so they
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all whoa blah blah blah you know he couldn't get
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his birthright citizenship thing through and they burned him and
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on and on and on so here we go with
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three versions of that story yeah let's start let's start
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with uh which one do you think we start with
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uh abc abc tonight the supreme court rejecting president trump's
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effort to end birthright citizenship upholding the fort Thank you.
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free-born person in this land. We keep that promise today.
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Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito dissenting. Alito
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calling the decision a serious mistake that will seriously affect
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the future. Trump signed the executive order ending birthright citizenship
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on the very first That's a good one. Birthright. That's
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a big one. Today, he called the court's ruling too
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bad for our country, adding we can easily make it
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up in Congress through legislation. But Congress does not have
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the power to overturn the 14th Amendment. Today, the justices
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handing Trump a victory. when he returned to the White
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House last year. The justices allowing states to ban transgender
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girls and women from playing on women's teams. Citing both
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fairness and safety, Justice Brett Kavanaugh writes, states may maintain
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women's and girls' sports for biological females. In her partial
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dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor insisting it's not been proven that
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transgender student-athletes categorically posed dangers to competitive fairness and safety.
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And David, the Supreme Court did not outright ban transgender
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girls. from competing in women's sports. That is up to
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individual states. And right now, 29 states have restrictions on
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transgender athletes. The other 21 allow trans girls to play
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on girls' teams. All right, so they wrapped those two
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together. Can you take your speakers down just a little
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bit? I'm having a hard time gating that out. So
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they... folded those two into one okay All right, that
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makes sense. Yeah, that's the way they did it. It
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was like blame. Let's try NBC. Tonight, the U.S. Supreme
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Court dealing a major blow to President Trump's immigration crackdown,
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striking down his controversial executive order that sought to ban...
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automatic U.S. citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants. The
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president today slamming the court's decision as too bad for
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our country, while immigration advocates celebrated it. The fact is
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that if you're born here, you're an American citizen, period.
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The president has long railed against birthright citizenship. enshrined in
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the 14th Amendment to the Constitution passed after the Civil
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War. This was not meant for Chinese billionaires to have
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their children become citizens of our country. This was meant
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for other rich people, poor people. This was meant for
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the babies of slaves. But today, Chief Justice John Roberts
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writing for the majority, reaffirming the long-settled understanding of the
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14th Amendment, guaranteeing citizenship to all children born in the
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U.S. and subject to its power, with limited exceptions. Writing,
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quote, the framers of the 14th Amendment extend...
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that promise to every free-born person in this land. We
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keep that promise today. In dissent, Justice Samuel Alito calling
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the ruling a serious mistake that preserves a powerful incentive
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to enter or remain in this country illegally. The executive
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order, if allowed, could have potentially impacted more than 250,000
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babies born in the U.S. every year to non-citizens. 13-year-old
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Mia expressing relief today that families like hers can now
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stay together. This is our home. We belong here. Yeah,
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okay. Boy, this is so shallow. It's shallow. Yeah, no,
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they could have mentioned. Claris Thomas. No, they said the
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same Alito stuff. And then they don't mention that it's
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not ex post facto. You know, somebody's already born here.
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All of a sudden now they got kicked out. They
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got kicked out? No, of course not. Which is what
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they imply there at the end of the story. Yeah,
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they're wrapping it up with dreamers and DACA. So, um...
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That's what they're doing. They never mention it. They don't
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mention it. You're right. It's shallow and lame. I have
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some analysis from our constitutional lawyer in a moment, but
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let's hear what CB... Good. We'll hear from him after.
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By the way, these have been in order of length.
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But you can see that the ABC one was stretched.
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The NBC was actually technically the longest for just about
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the topic. And the shortest one is from CBS. The
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court said that the framers of the 14th Amendment extended
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the promise of citizenship to almost quote every free person
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born in this country. land, rejecting President Trump's efforts to
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rewrite the Constitution with the stroke of a pen. In
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one of the first executive orders of his second term
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on Inauguration Day, President Trump tried to end birthright citizenship.
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Today, after the Supreme Court rejected his effort in a
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forcefully worded opinion, called the ruling too bad for our
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country and urged Congress to take action immediately. Trump had
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argued the 14th Amendment was intended to grant citizenship to
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freed slaves and their descendants after the Civil War, not
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to the 250,000 babies born every year to people here
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illegally or temporarily. But in the decision by Chief Justice
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John Roberts, joined by Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett and
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the three liberal justices, the court said, under the Constitution,
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they are citizens at birth. Juan Perano, CEO of LULAC,
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cheered the ruling. I mean, the stakes are $400,000 to
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$500,000. children born in the United States to parents that
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may be undocumented or at least in the process of
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getting legal status in the United States. All those children
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born would not have been U.S. citizens and they would
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have been stateless. So this is really quite disturbing. Disappointing
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from all three of the big so-called news networks. They
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really they really left a lot of things out here
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Because really, this wasn't about the 14th Amendment per se.
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I'm getting this from Rob, our constitutional lawyer. We have
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more producers than any news program, any news organization, anywhere
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on the planet. That's true. Because we don't have listeners.
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We have zero listeners. We have nothing but producers. At
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issue here was Trump's executive order. to limit birthright citizenship,
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which is a little different than ruling on the 14th
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Amendment itself. Which, according to Rob, and I'll take his
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word for it, SCOTUS! actually disagrees five to four on
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the meaning of the 14th amendment See, they don't discuss
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that. This was only about his executive order. And... Rob
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goes into the relevant part of the 14th Amendment, which
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derives from a British... common law doctrine called "Ju Soli."
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Youth Soli. Latin for this my Latin Latin for law
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of the soil. And under the Yu-Sol-Li doctrine, anyone born
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within the king's allegiance or protection was deemed a natural-born
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subject of the crown. regardless of the parent's status. The
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Dred Scott decision, this is, you know, I can't believe
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no one even brought this up in the news reports.
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temporarily overruled this concept and made it... Hold on. I
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should mention, because your complaint is legit, except for the
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fact, if you listen to all the news analysis... programs,
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a number of people brought up the Dred Scott decision.
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Right, but you know... Yeah, but it wasn't... Yeah, these
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straight-up reports are really bad. So the Dred Scott decision
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temporarily overruled this concept and made hereditary rather than soil
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the determining factor. So Justice Clarence Thomas... He wrote a
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91-page dissent. Not mentioned in any of the three reports
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from the networks. And he says that Yusolai does not
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just mean geographical location, this is interpretation, but actual allegiance.
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He argues that the majority wrongly ignores that the... The
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14th Amendment requires primary allegiance through domicile, not through mere
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temporary or unlawful presence, which I think means that you
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can throw out every single Democratic politician because they have
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no allegiance to America. So we should just throw them
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all out. And actually, I'll put this in the show
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notes. Because I thought it was really interesting that they
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really didn't focus in on anything. They did do cute
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things. Like Ms. Now, I still have a hard time
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saying Ms. Now instead of MSNBC. And MSNBC, they might
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just call themselves the podcast now. They're doing podcast level
15:56
content with podcast level. Visuals. And podcast level production. Everything
16:03
is podcast level. We're better. I mean, okay, you don't
16:05
see my pillow against the wall here, but... So the
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cute little gag was plan B. They've got a plan
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B. And the way I took that was, you know
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what plan B is. The Medication Plan B Yeah. Okay.
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So it was like, oh, for birthright, you know, we
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got a plan B for aborting the birthright. Yeah. It's
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a, it's a subtle pun that they kind of threw
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in there and, and here's the plan B. But let's
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talk about the decisions from the Supreme Court that we
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saw this week and last week. What are you hearing
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from the White House? about the reaction to some of
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these cases, especially the Birthright Citizenship Act. It seems like
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Brett Kavanaugh has given Congress a roadmap to now follow
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through on crafting legislation to codify the president's executive order
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that SCOTUS has said is not viable. What are you
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hearing? Yes, and there's more pressure on Congress now. It's
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not just with the SAVE Act, but also on birthright
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citizenship. So when they come back after this July 4th
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recess, I think there is going to be yet another
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to-do list for Republicans on Capitol Hill. I think with
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birthright citizenship, this was something the administration was expecting. We
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even heard President Trump sort of... try to lower expectations
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on this. So this was clearly something that they had
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in their back pocket ready to go with as a
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plan B in the likely scenario, which happened of the
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Supreme Court striking it down. Yeah. So that's so now
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they're going to take it to Congress and see what
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they can do there. I like the allegiance part more
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than anything. Makes kind of sense to me. Yeah. Well,
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they have these tourism, there's baby tourism. They bring the
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pregnant women over here. This is an offensive term, John
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C. Dvorak. Offensive. One of President Trump's first acts on
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returning to office last year was to sign an executive
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order seeking to end automatic citizenship for anyone born to
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foreign parents in the U.S. He'd argued that undocumented migrants
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were not subject to a right that has been enshrined
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in the American... He responded by saying... You hear how
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the BBC actually got it right, which is astounding. Our
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own news guys, news outfits can't get it right. They
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said this was about him annulling the 14th Amendment with
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an executive order. That's all that this was. This didn't
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validate or invalidate the 14th Amendment. with the stroke of
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a presidential pen. He responded by saying the court's decision
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was too bad and that he would use Congress to
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get around it. The House Speaker, Mike Johnson, also expressed
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his disappointment. It is a serious problem. We have, it's
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become a tourism, birthing tourism, they call it, you know,
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a trend where people would just. come and you just
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come onto the soil and have your child and then
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they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and
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everything else. It's been abused. But for those who've settled
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in the US and gone on to have children, this
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ruling brings a great sense of relief. The BBC heard
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from one woman who travelled to the US to claim
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asylum after fleeing Guatemala because of the threat of violence
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back home. Last year, she gave birth to a baby
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girl. She didn't want to give us her name, and
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her words are spoken by an interpreter. She says the
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term birth tourism is offensive to many hard-working migrants. There
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you go. Offensive. You're just an offensive man. You're birthing
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tourism. Blah. Offensive. Offensive, I tell you.
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Yeah. Well, did anyone really expect that to go in
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his favor? I didn't expect it to go in his
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favor. No, I don't think so. I don't think anyone
20:08
did. But we got another one for Trump. We got
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another one. And what else? Oh, is... His fare is
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no good. The fair. The fair. They keep showing, they
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never show the fair. They just show the giant lawn,
20:24
which is near the fair, that has people, you know,
20:27
which is a monstrous thing. And they say, look, nobody's
20:30
at the fair. But nobody's at the, because they're not
20:34
at the fair to see who's at the fair. People,
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we got notes from people that went to the fair,
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they said, I actually got it here. I actually got
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it here. Please read. This is from Gumbo in D.C.
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who works in D.C. and asked to be kept anonymous.
20:50
How about a real-time boots on the ground? I've been
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on the mall many days and nights since the opening
20:55
ceremony, including this show day. I was listening to today's
20:58
episode. That was Sunday. on the walk back to my
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condo. my condo and pause to send this when you
21:04
gents talked about the fair it's been packed every single
21:06
visit but people are making it look empty with how
21:09
they take the pictures the mall is huge there's so
21:13
much to do that people migrate to the next big
21:15
event all day concerts performances movies on huge screens even
21:19
a rodeo A real rodeo? We haven't seen... A rodeo.
21:24
What network has shown us the rodeo? Or what network
21:27
has shown us the giant screen? I had no idea.
21:30
I had no idea that there was a rodeo going
21:32
on. No, because all they show is they take a
21:35
shot from a mile away of the giant lawn that's
21:39
out there. Out in the middle of the whole place.
21:42
And they say, look, there's nobody here. I'm telling you.
21:45
It's really such a fake. I thought I had a
21:49
clip about this. Unless he shows the rodeo. I thought
21:51
I had a clip here. Let me see. of rodeo
21:56
but no there's nobody there okay uh here it is
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uh freedom 250, yes. I think, is this it? Let
22:02
me see what this is. This Great American State Fair,
22:04
which is happening just down the mall, is being put
22:05
on by an ostensibly nonpartisan group called, what is it
22:09
called? Freedom 250. Right. But Trump has sort of taken
22:12
the thing over. How did that happen? So there was
22:15
a congressional bipartisan committee set up to celebrate America's 250th
22:19
called America. 250 and that's been sort of shunted away
22:22
and supplanted by freedom to freedom to it's always freedom
22:25
right wait and this this is your this is the
22:27
confusion you brought up Yeah, no, I brought it up,
22:31
but America 250 didn't go away. No. Which is a
22:36
creation of Trump. He appoints the leaders, the White House
22:38
leads it. It's funded by... taxpayer money in a lot
22:41
of cases, but it's directed by the White House. It's
22:44
a Trump political operation. I mean, and I was joking
22:46
about, you're a pollster when I'm talking about nanobubblers, but
22:48
your focus on non-profits and how they were used is
22:51
what won you that award in the first place. When
22:53
you see this organization, what are you looking at? What
22:56
it means, so the money that, this is taxpayer money
22:58
that goes into a non-profit. And that nonprofit, then its
23:02
spending becomes opaque. We don't know if it's giving out
23:04
no-bid contracts. We don't know who it's hiring. We don't
23:06
know who it's paid. I'm trying to find. This is
23:10
so odd. I thought I had an MS Now clip.
23:14
where, oh, here it is. Yes, this is the one,
23:17
I think. Hi again, everyone. It's five o'clock in the
23:19
east. Donald Trump's This is what's her name? Here, let's
23:32
start it off properly. Here we go. Sometimes the pictures
23:35
really don't tell the full story because if you look...
23:38
So this is good. This is Ms. Now. uh what's
23:41
the sake sake show playing a bit of fox so
23:45
this is in fox you've probably seen they've got their
23:47
white couch they're outside they're basking in the glory of
23:51
the fair which is also kind of sicko sometimes the
23:54
pictures really don't tell the full of the full story
23:57
because if you look behind us you see okay there
23:59
are a couple hundred people back there but the The
24:00
truth is when you make your way over here and
24:03
you're in this lot, you're in a wash of people.
24:06
There are thousands of people here. And I'll tell you
24:08
what, that's with rain, with everything else going on, the
24:11
fact that it is heightened security just because of the
24:13
world right now. It's really an awesome crowd. And it's
24:16
the people that want to be here. Don't believe your
24:18
eyes. Don't believe your ears. I put on my glasses.
24:20
to get a closer look the live show i'm sorry
24:23
it's uh it's the other woman literally behind all those
24:27
people saying all those things tells a totally different story
24:30
from the things coming out of their mouths oh they're
24:33
lying let's talk about it hi again everyone it's five
24:36
o'clock in the east donald trump's long-awaited freedom 250 great
24:40
americans State Fair went off with a whimper this weekend
24:44
with what looked like tens, dozens of people showing up
24:48
for the event, which was plagued with problems, power outages,
24:51
a shutdown Ferris wheel, extreme weather, and the cancellation of
24:55
a performance by one of the only artists who stood
24:58
by Donald Trump other than Kash Patel. girlfriend and that
25:02
was part of vanilla ice what kind of slight is
25:06
that Kash Patel's girlfriend? Is she a singer? I thought
25:10
she was a Russian spy. She's a singer? Well, she
25:12
could be both. Oh, okay. Other than Kash Patel's girlfriend,
25:15
and that was part of Vanilla Ice. Oh, no. The
25:20
Iceman. Stellar reviews of the thing. Hold on. Vanilla Ice
25:23
is Cash Patel's girlfriend? This is a scandal. There in
25:27
the viral posts about his itty-bitty little crowds have gotten
25:31
under Donald Trump's skin in a big way. Donald Trump
25:33
posted this response on True Social. Quote, Do you think
25:37
people appreciate what a fantastic job we did in building
25:39
and operating the great American state? fair at the National
25:42
Mall packed with happy people. Oh my God, I can't
25:47
believe I'm reading this and everybody loving it. Well, you
25:50
are. The president went on. Ask yourself the simple question.
25:53
The president of the United States switched to all caps.
25:56
Quote, do you think that Obama or Sleepy Joe Biden
25:59
could have done it? The answer is. In Trump's post,
26:02
no. The answer was like Obama did it last week
26:06
at the opening of the Obama Center. Oh, please. But
26:09
I guess in this case, Trump has a point. Obama
26:12
has never in his life, like if Obama's motorcades draw
26:15
bigger crowds for OTRs, trips that aren't even announced. Oh,
26:19
my goodness. I'll continue. Wow. continue with our boots on
26:22
the ground. So even a real rodeo. And the Ferris
26:24
wheel line is very long at peak times for the
26:28
best views of the city. If they allowed drone footage,
26:31
you would see the, oh, that's a good point. You
26:33
would see the entire mall, but these grifters and clickbaiters
26:37
know that and just want to orange man bad this
26:39
thing. Also, the weird religious tent that people keep bitching
26:43
and posting about. That thing has been on the mall
26:45
for many months. I don't think the park folks can
26:48
kick them off because they got a permit. Has nothing
26:50
to do with the 250th Fair. Says gumbo in D.C.
26:53
Our boots on the ground. So there you go. But
26:57
all of the news, it's all so cynical. call and
27:01
so No, I didn't even call it cynical. It's misleading.
27:06
Well, yeah, but that's not a surprise. I mean, that's
27:11
not the surprising thing. It's just, come on. Like continuously.
27:16
And then we have... The ongoing fight with the housing.
27:21
Let's skip that for now. I'm not in it. I
27:23
don't want to talk about nothing but bills. It's all
27:26
kinds of bills going on. Bills this, bills that. Um,
27:32
Let's talk about... Let's see. Well, I got a number
27:37
of things that we can talk about. Yeah. But you
27:41
will be changing the subject. Yeah, we don't. I mean,
27:45
well, what is the subject of 250? Do you have
27:47
anything on the 250? I think we can talk about
27:50
250 on the Sunday show. We're working over the July
27:53
4th weekend. Dude, I literally. People don't seem to appreciate.
27:56
I literally flew through the night, set up the studio
27:59
and I'm working. in here and it's it's uh yeah
28:04
most podcasters would have taken the day off yes and
28:07
relaxed after a international trip I flew through the air,
28:12
I landed, and then set up the studio. And my
28:15
wife is in her bathrobe here on the bed. Hello.
28:17
Hello, wife. She's going, when are you going to be?
28:20
done she has a headphone oh she's very annoyed by
28:22
it yeah we don't we don't well how come we
28:24
don't have a suite where you can be in a
28:26
different room well because i'm a podcaster you should have
28:28
married a politician So there you go. Let's talk about
28:35
the daredevils. The Empire State... I got two clips. This
28:43
was good. I got the first ones from NTD, which
28:46
I think is a good rundown, which is Empire State
28:49
Daredevils. Okay. Two daredevils were arrested today after climbing the
28:54
antenna of New York City's Empire State Building. The duo
28:58
flew a banner from the top, which read, quote, When
29:01
the power of love beats the love of power, the
29:04
world knows peace. The NYPD has released video footage of
29:07
officers interacting with the couple. An officer could be heard
29:11
telling the couple that they weren't allowed to be where
29:13
they were, and then the couple could be heard saying
29:16
that they speak Russian. New York City Police Commissioner Jessica
29:19
Tisch praised the emergency. The duo were daredevil artists, Angela
29:26
Nicolaou and Vanya Birkis. of the building like most of
29:41
these Spider-Man people? They never say that. I think they
29:45
got in the elevator, went up to as high as
29:48
they could and then climbed. That part's not explained. All
29:51
we know is we have some phony footage of them
29:54
up there. I identified one thing that was on Fox
29:58
where the helicopter's going around.
30:00
them but they weren't moving is this uh now is
30:03
this signage is this uh uh like okay they got
30:08
that from a podcast oh From a podcast. He got
30:13
it from a podcast. Hold on. How come our producers
30:16
aren't climbing up buildings and promoting the show? Well, they
30:20
did promote the show because the second clip is Daredevils.
30:24
Here they are in jail. And what it turned out
30:27
that the whole thing was to get engaged. And they
30:31
did. And they had a big kiss at the top
30:33
of the Empire State Building. And this is the two
30:36
of them in jail doing an Instagram. post and the
30:40
thing looks rigged. It's like TMZ and CBS and all
30:44
these networks were involved somehow. Hello from jail. We are
30:51
They couldn't be here. It was... Wait a minute. They're
30:54
in jail and they let... They give them their phones
30:57
in jail? I'm just saying. Lifelong dream to get engaged
31:02
on top of skyscraper. We want to thank ABC, TMZ,
31:08
CBS, Fox News, ESPN, T9, Yahoo, everyone who shared our
31:15
love. NC Science, yes. When ze power of love beats
31:20
ze love of power, ze world knows peace. We found
31:25
that on a Mel Robbins podcast. Yes, Sam. You can
31:28
find us on ZNOT. And we are registered at Bed,
31:34
Bath & Beyond. I love you. No touching. So according
31:46
to Nick the Rat, who came out of, he came
31:48
out of the sewer into the troll room. This is
31:52
a Netflix promotion for the documentary Skywalkers, A Love Story.
31:58
that follows daredevil couple angela nicolai nicolaou and ivan Birkus.
32:05
That's that. Yes, Tim. So it's a promotion. It's a
32:08
movie promotion, as usual. Everything's a movie promotion. And then
32:13
they get a plug-in for being on The Knot, so
32:16
they're going to get a bunch of... Free wedding gifts.
32:18
Free stuff, yeah. Oh, man. That is... You know, I
32:23
bet you Steven Spielberg is just stewing right now. It's
32:27
like, how come I couldn't get this kind of attention
32:29
for Disclosure Day? And these idiots take it all. Not
32:35
only that, but they were They were on Twitter and
32:40
this and they were on Facebook and the news, CBS,
32:45
NBC, Fox. And she says, Yahoo. Yahoo. Yahoo. Well, that's
32:53
pretty good. You know, I've been up there. If you
32:56
look right at that tower, if you look at the
32:58
tower. The base of the tower is a little round
33:02
room. That's where they did the proposal. They were in
33:06
that room, the little, the small, tiny, because you know
33:09
what's in there. Oh, no, no, they were up above
33:11
it. No, okay, so right under. It was an open
33:13
platform. Yes. I mean, I don't know how, you know,
33:16
there's something about the mentality of people that can do
33:19
this kind of thing where you can be 1,400 feet
33:21
in the air on the top of a building on
33:23
a windy day on an open platform and look over
33:26
and go, hey, look how far up we are. So
33:29
I don't know how you do that. I've been up
33:31
there one time with Steve Pepe. who was the engineer
33:36
at Z100. And the way it worked, this is back
33:39
in the late 80s. It was a different radio station's
33:45
transmitter engineer's responsibility. They change, I think, every three months.
33:50
And it would be that guy's turn to go up
33:52
to the top of the Empire State Building. and to
33:55
check the health of everybody's transmitter. And it's this little
33:58
room. It's like the size of a hotel room. It's
34:01
round, obviously. And there's just nothing but transmitters up there.
34:05
And, you know, I think you can get impotent if
34:07
you stay up there too long. I think that's what
34:09
I wonder about climbing that antenna. That's probably not a
34:12
great idea. Well, that's... No, it's the tower. It's the
34:16
tower. It's not the antenna, but still. But yeah, and
34:19
there's a special elevator that takes you all the way
34:22
to the top, and then you walk up the little
34:25
twisty, turny stair, like a spiral staircase. Then you're in
34:29
that room, and the platform is right above it. So
34:32
maybe they didn't even, did they even, do we know?
34:34
They didn't climb up the side of the Empire State
34:36
Building. They took the elevator up to the tiny room.
34:38
Yeah, that's what they did. I'm sure that's what they
34:40
did. Oh, interesting. Well, it's a good promotion. It's pretty
34:45
good. It was a Dynamite promotion. I have to say,
34:47
that's pretty good. And she's cute, and she's showing off
34:51
her ring. The whole thing is fake. Fake and gay.
34:54
Yeah. to talk about ai because there are a couple
34:58
of stories that came out that i think will affect
35:02
uh the uh what would you call that the ai
35:05
trade the ai trade Yeah, well, I have one. Good,
35:09
because I have one clip. When you're done, I want
35:11
to play this clip because it's... The clip bothers me.
35:14
Would you like to start off with that? I'd prefer
35:16
if you... Well, it's more about... It's not about AI
35:19
so much about the server farm. So I want to
35:22
hear the AI. Well, there's two... So a couple things
35:24
happened. The first one is Ford made a rather... startling
35:28
announcement saying, you know... We replaced a whole bunch of
35:33
people with AI and AI cameras and AI sensors to
35:38
make sure the nuts and bolts were tightened just perfectly.
35:42
And, yeah, we're hiring people back because our cars, our
35:45
trucks are sucking with this AI stuff. And so this
35:49
was a pretty big financial story. This is from Bloomberg.
35:51
So was it... Your team, was it an employee, a
35:55
labor issue? Was it, you know, technology? Did you use
35:59
AI? Was it factory processes? Like, can you get into
36:03
specifics of how you did it? This guy, these Bloomberg
36:06
people are doing podcasts, too. This is not journalism anymore.
36:11
Yeah, if you were to visit... Today, the Rouge plant
36:14
where we make the F-150, Matt, what you would see
36:17
is a whole control center around data and quality data.
36:22
So we measure the torque of every one of our
36:24
fasteners. We have AI tools for vision systems. But most
36:29
of all, it's just old-fashioned hard work. of our team
36:34
members all working together to pay attention to the very
36:38
small details that will make a difference between a perfectly
36:41
built Ford and an okay built Toyota. It's just an
36:46
incredible attention to every single... Wait, hold on, stop! Is
36:52
he equating There's an equivalency thing he did there, but
36:56
I think it may have been subconscious. He equates a
37:00
perfectly built Ford with a mediocrely built Toyota. Are they
37:06
the same? I think what he meant to say was
37:09
it's the difference between our trucks, which are great, and
37:12
a crappy. Toyota, which is slapped together with robots. That's
37:16
what he meant to say. But let's hear it again.
37:21
There will make a difference between a perfectly built Ford
37:23
and an okay built... Yeah, difference. Give him a break.
37:27
He said it's a difference. Details. There will make a
37:29
difference between a perfectly built Ford... and an okay-built Toyota.
37:35
It's just an incredible attention to every single detail. So,
37:41
you know, they had a 700,000-unit recall on trucks. I
37:45
don't know if that's something to do with it, but
37:47
the way the CEO Farley here is spinning it is...
37:51
This is America, man. We use American workers. So, I
37:55
mean, it's interesting now that we're in the age of
37:56
AI and we're talking about this technology killing jobs, but
38:00
it seems like in your case, it's really experienced human
38:04
workers that made the big difference. It did. I have
38:08
to say, the process coaches, the area coaches, You know,
38:11
they get up every morning, they look at the last
38:13
shift's quality data, we look at how many vehicles are
38:16
repaired, and we work that process every moment of every
38:21
day. Every employee walks into any one of our plants,
38:25
they know exactly are we winning or are we losing
38:27
yesterday and today. Everyone is fully aware. of where we
38:31
stand. We know exactly where Toyota is. We knew exactly
38:35
how to, you know, where we needed to get to,
38:38
to beat Tundra and, and Super Duty better than any
38:41
of the other domestic competitors. And so everyone is aware
38:46
exactly the quality is coming out of our plant in
38:50
any particular shift. every 50 seconds and and that is
38:54
that human motivation to pay attention to everyone everything is
38:59
amazing look we make 85 of our vehicles in the
39:02
u.s matt that means these are u.s factory workers versus
39:07
even our domestic competitors they're some of the biggest employers
39:10
in the u.s We're not building these vehicles in South
39:13
Korea or Japan. These are American workers beating Toyota and
39:18
Hyundai and our domestics who import their vehicles. We beat
39:22
them all. Yeah, baby, we beat them. We're the American
39:25
workers, but... The story that I really that and I
39:29
saw this we were waiting the airport in Austin and
39:32
had the screen and so on. Before you go on,
39:37
what did he say in that clip that was anything?
39:40
That's what I said. It's a cover-up. They switched back
39:43
from a whole bunch of engineering tasks, which I think
39:47
is assembly line tasks, that they had decided to use
39:50
AI for. And they said, no, no, now we have,
39:53
because it was a big story. They rehired hundreds of
39:57
Ford engineers, assembly line.
40:00
people because the robots were doing a crap job. They
40:04
weren't tightening the bolts. You know, stuff was falling apart,
40:07
rattling out off the assembly line. So he spins it
40:10
as we, you know, when the next people come on
40:14
the line, they've checked with the people before them did
40:16
because we love our country. We love our truck. Where's
40:20
your jingle, man? This is a perfect time. Yeah, actually,
40:24
funny you'd ask about that. Perfect timing for it. As
40:27
I yak. As I'm talking. As you stall. So I
40:32
can find it. Hello? Exactly. So, but that's a chink
40:38
in the armor. of the AI craze. But what happened
40:44
on CNBC, and this was like a 20-minute segment, Alex
40:47
Karp, I don't know if you saw this, he's the
40:50
CEO of Palantir, the company that somehow people believe has...
40:56
I saw parts of this. He went nuts. great. He
41:00
even said, well, I'm going nuts. Yeah, he said that.
41:04
I saw that part. You know, people, and we've had
41:07
people who work at Palantir email us. with boots on
41:10
the ground. It's like, you know, they're not even really
41:13
an AI company. You know, they sit on top of
41:16
Oracle databases and all kinds of other stuff. And they
41:19
have... some proprietary, and they've been doing this for a
41:22
long time, but somehow people believe that when you take
41:25
Palantir and you put your flock cameras in there and
41:28
all the data centers, they're going to control every single
41:30
move and we're all going to die. And Palantir, which
41:33
of course has got Jews in there, they're going to
41:35
control us all. I read the documents as how it
41:38
was all gonna go down. But that's not true at
41:41
all. In fact... their applications sit on top of, if
41:49
anything, AI, sit on top of the large language models.
41:54
And he... I think partially because their stock price has
41:57
gone down because they don't have a sexy AI story.
41:59
I think that's why he's mad, even though... They're all
42:01
billionaires. They've made so much money. Oh, yeah, heaven forbid.
42:05
But what he said here was absolutely spot on. So
42:10
the general way these things were sold, and again, these
42:13
people are, Sam and Dario, there's nothing more fun than
42:18
debating Dario in private. So I'm not throwing shade at
42:21
them. I'm not throwing shade at them, okay? But something
42:24
has gone completely wrong, and the basic view among enterprises
42:29
in this country is I'm going to chill. What? Who's
42:33
Dario? The CEO of Anthropic. Oh, okay, right. He's complaining
42:38
about open AI and Anthropic. And... The basic view among
42:43
enterprises in this country is I'm going to chill wax
42:47
and waste my time with tokens. I'm going to get
42:49
no value and they're going to get my IP. That
42:52
sounds like shade. Okay. And not to shade. It sounds
42:55
like you're saying these. No, no, no, no, no. This
42:57
is reporting. Okay. Hold on. Can you stop it again?
42:59
Yeah, sure. The one part about this interview that... that
43:03
just almost made me just... I don't know why. He's
43:07
going to break something. At one point, the carp... And
43:14
this is an interview with what's-his-name of the New York
43:16
Times, or no, with CNBC, used to be the New
43:18
York Times. The Sorkin Kid. Yeah. Is it Sorkin? Yeah.
43:24
Yeah, it's the Sorkin kid. Yeah, Andrew Sorkin. Andrew Sorkin.
43:27
Andrew Ross Sorkin. Oh, I'm sorry. A-R-S. Andrew Ross Sorkin.
43:31
Yes. Karp says, well, I'm going to tell you something.
43:34
The New York Times, if they got a hold of
43:36
that, I would never say this ever in a million
43:38
years, but I'm going to say it because... And I
43:40
know the New York Times, I hope they're not listening.
43:42
I hope the Washington Post is not listening. But I'm
43:44
going to tell you something. Sorkin interrupts him and asks
43:47
another question. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. Sorkin wants none of
43:49
this. What is wrong with this guy? Sorkin? Yeah. Oh,
43:54
it's his job to keep this going. It's not their
43:57
job to report on. There's only one. I think... The
44:00
old dude, Joe, what's his name? Joe Kernan. I think
44:07
he's pretty good. He's a fly in the ointment. He's
44:12
the Dvorak of CNBC. And he sits there, but he's
44:15
not quite as... He doesn't get all the gays. Abrasive.
44:20
But, you know, and all the rest is like, market's
44:25
going down, buy the dip. Market's going up, you don't
44:28
want to miss out. I mean, that's all they do.
44:30
Yeah, CNBC is known as perpetual bulls. And that's okay.
44:36
But what he's saying here, and I got five very
44:38
short clips because the whole thing was 20 minutes. So
44:41
I think these are the key points. So here he
44:43
is saying, hey, this thing is bull crap. That's basically
44:47
what he's saying. I'm going to get no value and
44:50
they're going to get my IP. That sounds like shade.
44:53
And not just shade, it sounds like you're saying these.
44:55
No, no, no, no. This is reporting. Okay. And this
44:59
is reporting. I'm doing your job. sorkin that i've i've
45:02
literally against my own interest called these like i'm profiting
45:06
from this right Okay, so he's saying he's doing reporting
45:11
here. It's good for his business. That's interesting that he
45:15
is open about that. But I'll just give you a
45:20
preview. What he's saying is... that corporate America I got
45:24
the bill for tokens. And went, okay, this is not
45:29
paying off. This is not replacing people. It's costing more
45:32
than the people that I want to replace this with.
45:36
Hence the Ford clips you played previously. Yes, yes. And
45:39
it's not really doing the job we were promised. But
45:42
in addition, what's happening with my data? If I'm using
45:47
open AI or anthropics models, are you just sucking up
45:51
my data and using that? Well, the answer is yes,
45:54
of course. And so he's going to talk about weights
45:58
and alpha. These are all proprietary things that you can.
46:01
you can adjust a large language model with. Then you
46:05
have my enterprises in the private sector who have the
46:08
same issues. They're like, why would they get access to
46:11
my data if they're going to build my alpha? Why
46:13
wouldn't I control the weights? And that's where you get
46:16
this partnership. What aligns me with NVIDIA and I think
46:21
is what the cost technical customers want which is control
46:26
over their compute their models, their data stack, and their
46:31
alpha. They want to know they own the means of
46:34
production. It's not being transferred to someone else. They're not
46:36
interested in some fake deploy code that somehow is deploying
46:40
tokens that transfers the alpha. Okay, so this sounds a
46:46
little complicated, but you have to understand that Palantir just
46:50
did a direct deal with NVIDIA, and they're going to
46:55
run open large language models that their customers control and
47:00
own. And whatever comes out of it will be their
47:03
intellectual property and not open AI or anthropics. This is
47:07
a complete... destruction of the model that is supposed to
47:11
make these companies, trillion-dollar companies and their IPOs, which as
47:15
far as I can tell are being delayed. Here's a
47:17
very simple version of it that CARB gives us. Our
47:21
products are agnostic. We now sell a product to customers
47:24
that allows you to switch from model to model. And
47:27
we're completely agnostic. But we need to rebuild trust. And
47:31
that trust is going to happen where everyone gets to
47:34
ask and answer basic questions. Who owns the data? Where
47:38
is it cached? Are the prompts secure? Is this being
47:41
transferred to you? Are you being, okay, if it was
47:45
so valuable, let's say I can make you a billion
47:46
dollars tomorrow. Wouldn't I say, I'll make you a billion
47:50
dollars and I want 30%? Why are they charging for
47:53
tokens if it's so valuable? Yes. I think we even
47:57
said this a while back. If you can create any...
48:00
business if you can recreate it why wouldn't you just
48:03
go into that business Why are you selling things at
48:06
a loss that clearly this tokens is not making you
48:10
enough money? And he's saying, you know, if this was
48:13
really so good. Why wouldn't I just take 30% of
48:16
the profits that I make? Well, because it sucks. Because
48:20
it's not. It's no good. But I'm telling you, in
48:23
this country, at every single enterprise I deal with, these
48:28
people are livid. They're like, I am paying for tokens
48:31
that create no value. These people are stealing the weights
48:34
and alpha of my business. And they're creating a wealth
48:36
tax that does not help the poor. It just punishes.
48:39
Starts with the billionaires, every single person at this table
48:42
is going to be paying a wealth tax only to
48:44
punish us. And the reason for it is because these
48:48
models have been completely over irresponsibly over sale. And the
48:51
sale is it's dangerous for everyone, which is why I
48:54
can give it to all your adversaries, but I can't
48:56
give it to the Department of War or I can't
48:58
safely give it to an enterprise. in this country without
49:01
being certain that the alpha of that business could transfer
49:04
to this model tomorrow, i.e. I have no business, no
49:06
job. You sound pretty angry. No, this is the voice
49:11
of American business that is being channeled through me. He's
49:16
right. Yes, I think he's spot on. And so, of
49:20
course, now we have the bubble question. I want everybody
49:23
watching this to test what I'm saying, especially investors who
49:26
think somehow this is working. Pick up the phone and
49:30
call a CEO in private, not in public. Every single
49:34
person here can do this. Call two or three and
49:36
say, Madman Carp is on TV saying we're livid. I'm
49:39
not going to quote you. You know I won't quote
49:41
you. You have a history. And see, they're twice as
49:43
livid as me. So if you're right, though, does that
49:47
mean that we are living in some kind of terrible
49:50
AI bubble and that we're going to, in a quarter
49:52
or two or three quarters from now, we're going to
49:54
hear that big enterprises are canceling their subscriptions? to these
49:59
products.
50:00
The build-out is going to slow. He is just buffaloing
50:03
through them like, oh, you said that this is what's
50:05
going to happen. You're just crazy, man. This is the
50:09
tragedy of it. The reality of compute plus ontology plus
50:15
model is changing the course of history. Ask the Ukrainians,
50:21
ask the Israelis, ask our Department of War, ask the
50:24
enterprises that are working. We do not have to oversell
50:26
what we have. We have, and it's all being built
50:29
in this country. Basically, except for the open models, which
50:33
is a real thing coming from China, except for NVIDIA
50:35
open models, which are world-class, basically. all being built here
50:40
we do not have to overhype we do not have
50:42
to overhype it to the point where we're going to
50:44
have wealth tax punishing right if they're charging the enterprise
50:47
three times as much as they should be yeah and
50:50
then and then they have to pull back on that
50:52
that changes the math of all of this yes it
50:54
does sorkin child yes exactly This and And as nutty
51:00
as Karp is, he's right. This stupid marketing gamut of,
51:05
it's just too dangerous. We just can't give it to
51:08
you. I'm sorry. No, no, we have to. The Department
51:11
of War said it. Trump said it. Yeah, that's been
51:14
deconstructed by more than a few people. Bull crap. Total
51:17
bull crap. And then I don't know if you saw,
51:20
neither of us are on the mic. I'm not on
51:22
Microsoft at all anymore, but you're wisely, you're still on
51:27
Vista. And are you on Vista or 10? What are
51:31
you on? Are you talking about my operating system? Yeah,
51:35
yeah, yeah. You're on Windows, but you're on a special
51:37
one that doesn't upgrade. I'm a special old version of
51:41
10. Yeah. It's 10. That doesn't upgrade. Right. It doesn't
51:47
upgrade. Well, did you hear what happened on Patch Tuesday?
51:51
No, but I can just imagine. So Patch Tuesday. Patch
51:55
Tuesday has always been. issue. Right, but this was the
52:00
biggest Patch Tuesday in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday history. And over
52:06
200 bugs appeared, including... Bit locker keys being required. Now,
52:14
if no one's ever seen this, Where? Something happens with
52:19
your windows. And then you get a blue screen that
52:23
says, yeah, this is a dangerous version. This could be
52:26
fake. So you have to enter your 3,000-digit BitLocker key.
52:33
which you then have to get from the Microsoft website.
52:36
Have you ever been through this loop? I know, thank
52:40
God. Oh, Lord. The BitLocker loop is crazy. And so
52:43
just imagine you're an IT guy and you have, I
52:47
don't know, 400 desktops. Try 10,000. You have to go
52:51
and find a BitLocker key for every single one. The
52:55
trash, if you want to empty the trash. across the
52:59
board now, Windows. If you want to empty the trash...
53:02
The dialogue pops up, "Are you sure you want to
53:05
delete?" J6529322278#$#? So it doesn't give you the file names
53:13
anymore of what you think you're going to delete. And
53:16
at the same time, you've got Satya Nadella. saying Why,
53:21
you know, 30% of our code is coded by AI.
53:25
Yeah, no kidding. This is what's going on with this
53:30
stuff. It's no good. And so then CNBC follows up
53:35
with the stories, which are obvious that people are like,
53:37
you know, this stuff is not. not working for me
53:40
in my business on the balance sheet. I think it
53:43
makes sense. The market is trying to understand sort of
53:46
the new narrative around the MAG7 because they went from
53:49
asset-like companies that produced a lot of free cash flow
53:53
now to ones that are more balance sheet intensive, actually
53:56
funding what will look like a larger balance sheet. I
54:00
do think investors are going to start to view that
54:02
balance sheet as a workforce, right? I mean, the reason
54:06
they're spending so much money is to replace essentially human
54:11
endeavors with AI. that balance sheet is going to be
54:16
deployed and generate returns. So I think over time, investors
54:18
are going to start to view that as as a
54:20
moat. But you're right. We're in a transition period of
54:22
that narrative. Yeah, of the narrative, but not of reality.
54:26
Tom, I guess maybe the big arching question, overarching question
54:29
right now is whether or not this dip is the
54:32
sign or beginning of something deeper or whether or not
54:35
investors should be comfortable just buying. All right. So this
54:38
is CNBC. So all of these big AI trades, stocks,
54:43
the chips, Nvidia, everything is down 8%, 9%, 10%. So
54:47
what is the answer from CNBC? Well, we know what
54:50
the answer is. Dom, we published a note yesterday looking
54:55
at the 17 times that the SEMI index, SMH, had
54:59
fallen six percent more in a single day. It may
55:04
or may not surprise viewers, but these almost always occur
55:08
in the middle of a bull market, that these sharp
55:11
one-day drops are not a sign of a top, but
55:13
are actually rather viable entry points. One month later, 88%
55:18
of the time, the... the semi index is higher with
55:22
a 12 median gain meaning your six percent drop is
55:26
more than recovered within a month so by the day
55:28
i actually think this is a buy the pullback there
55:30
it is by the dip everybody pull back by the
55:32
pullback All right. By the crash. I'm not. By the
55:39
crash. We should have stickers. Buy the Crash. This is
55:43
a good show title. Yes, that is a good show
55:46
title. by the crash. So this thing, I mean, we
55:50
knew it was gonna unwind, but it may come sooner
55:52
than we thought actually. Well, this is just foreboding. uh
56:00
yeah it's good nobody knows i mean that's the thing
56:03
about it These things are always kind of surprise. Well,
56:08
in hindsight, like two years later, well, yeah, you could
56:10
see it coming. No, you couldn't. Nobody could. Well, but
56:15
I'm an active user of this stuff. There was a
56:18
great. Yeah, you're the you're the two of us. Yes.
56:20
I mean, I use you. perplexity and I draw, I
56:26
use some of the art tools, I use Sonos. Yeah,
56:28
search stuff, search stuff. Suno, not Sonos, Suno, Sonos. Suno,
56:33
Sumo. No, I'm an active user of Claude Code and...
56:39
And I happen to... Yeah, and all you do is
56:40
complain. People don't realize that after the show, when we
56:44
do our post-mortem and figure out what R to use
56:49
and all the rest, you always have some horrific story
56:53
about how the thing screwed up. Yeah. And you're talking
56:56
to yourself constantly now. Yes. about it. You know, I
57:01
don't see how it's going to do on this. Oh,
57:03
yeah. Oh, yay. Yeah. It made it. It made it.
57:07
It made it through. And you're moaning. Yeah. You become
57:10
kind of a psychopath. There's this great video. I think
57:14
I, I post, I reposted it on X. And it
57:18
shows you a guy working. working with AI, like a
57:21
coding guy. And he says, "Okay, cut the sandwich in
57:24
half." And then the other guy, which is him, has
57:27
a Subway sandwich. And so the AI guy starts to
57:32
cut it lengthwise. No, no, no, stop. I said the
57:34
other way. And then so it tries to cut it
57:38
on the, you know, it flips it on its side.
57:40
wants to cut it. lengthwise, but right into the meat
57:44
of the sandwich. No, no, the other way. Turns it
57:46
upside down. I mean, it goes on and on and
57:48
on and on. Because that's exactly what it's like. It
57:51
is so, so close to reality of what this AI
57:54
stuff, not all the time. When it works, it's great.
57:57
But man, I don't want it flying my plane. I
57:59
don't want it operating my oil business. No, it's just
58:04
been oversold. I mean, there's great stuff. There's great stuff
58:07
to do with it. But I wouldn't trust it with
58:10
my taxes. I mean, as long as you don't get
58:12
an audit, it might be great. You did great this
58:16
year on your taxes. Or not. Or not. Yeah. So
58:22
what was your clip that you wanted to play? I
58:24
had two clips now. Let's start with this. Since you
58:26
talked about, you know, the danger, let's play the Tesla
58:29
kills a woman. Didn't we already play this one? I
58:33
just got it. Tonight, a woman was killed, two people
58:36
injured when a Tesla crashed into an outdoor scene. Oh,
58:39
that's new. There's just so many of these stories. Didn't
58:53
you just do this story? Yeah. Okay, now the other
58:56
one is... I'll just say this. That's not really AI.
59:00
I mean, this is machine learning that's been done and,
59:04
you know, this is rules and sensors. It's not really
59:07
an AI story. No, neither one of these stories is
59:11
really an AI story. Oh, okay. But this other one,
59:14
which I... Because I didn't even think about this until
59:18
this woman. This paranoid chick, big mouth girl with a,
59:23
you know, not unattractive. toothy, goes on and on with
59:28
this paranoid delusion. But then I started looking at the
59:32
numbers. I was thinking... She's right about the basics here.
59:38
Do you realize that operation in Utah, they're trying to
59:41
build a big data center? Yes. That Kevin O'Leary is
59:44
somehow behind? No, no. Yeah, this has been going on
59:47
for a while, and there's some left-wing group that he
59:49
says is funded by China. They're the ones behind the
59:52
protests. Oh, yeah. It's been an ongoing thing. Now, Kevin
59:56
O'Leary is cited in covert. Action Magazine.
1:00:01
As a spook. Mmm. not as an asset. Oh, a
1:00:06
spook for some other outfit? No, for the outfit. Oh,
1:00:11
the outfit. Hmm, okay. Maybe, maybe. Well, I don't know
1:00:15
one way or the other, and I, you know, you
1:00:17
could probably... You know what's gonna tell ya, cause you
1:00:20
can't do that legally if he is, but they kind
1:00:22
of imply it in the magazine, you know, covert action
1:00:26
has been around since 78. And, you know, it's just
1:00:29
sketchy, but. leery sketchy so so so so then this
1:00:35
woman chimes in with this this is the data center
1:00:39
paranoia clip. This is the whole, this is it. Does
1:01:01
she mention Palantir in this clip? She better, because that's
1:01:04
what I'm hearing. No, just play it. They're calling them
1:01:08
data centers because calling them mass surveillance centers would probably
1:01:13
send people into a spiral. They're literally building the infrastructure
1:01:18
for a surveillance. state and they're doing it right in
1:01:21
front of your face. It's going to be fully capable
1:01:24
of monitoring your speech, your behavior, your purchases. It's going
1:01:29
to essentially harvest your biometrics and create an entire digital
1:01:34
profile for you. People are trying to say that something
1:01:37
like this would never happen. There's a 90 chance on
1:01:41
polymarket that something like this is prohibited. Utah just got
1:01:45
approved for a massive data center blueprint. This data center
1:01:50
in Utah is going to be 63 square miles. Do
1:01:54
you guys know how massive that is? I'm talking almost
1:01:59
three times the size of a car. Manhattan and 200
1:02:02
times the size of the NSA's data center that already
1:02:06
exists in Utah. Why does Utah need a 63 square
1:02:10
mile data center? And by the way, it's going to
1:02:14
be using up double the electricity that Utah uses currently.
1:02:20
Honestly, why does the country need anything like that for
1:02:24
that matter? So I'm asking you to just ask yourself
1:02:28
if this is really for the betterment of society and
1:02:32
storing family photos and for you, or is it for
1:02:35
mass surveillance? Yeah, this is a known meme going around.
1:02:40
across the political spectrum. Okay, so I just had to
1:02:43
look into the numbers here. Now, she's wrong about three
1:02:45
times. We're talking twice. You've been to Manhattan. Yep. Can
1:02:51
you imagine the entire Manhattan Island a data center? you
1:02:56
Because I looked into it. Manhattan Island is 23,000. Depends.
1:03:00
You can get different numbers. But the maximum number you
1:03:02
get for acreage is 23,000 acres. That's Manhattan Island. The
1:03:08
proposal for the Utah data center is 40,000 acres. Yeah,
1:03:14
great. That's roughly twice the size of Manhattan. You can't,
1:03:18
what do you, how do you... build put put that
1:03:21
many computers in the in the entire city of manhattan
1:03:25
let alone two manhattans How do you even wire that?
1:03:31
I mean, if I was anybody, I'd be buying copper
1:03:34
futures. I mean, there's just, it doesn't make any sense
1:03:38
in terms of this. The magnitude. Well, okay, so a
1:03:42
couple things. One, let's just talk about what she's saying,
1:03:45
and then we'll get to the magnitude of it. She's
1:03:48
saying these data centers, yeah, there's data centers all over
1:03:52
the world that are being built in Canada, the UK,
1:03:55
Mexico, Saudi Arabia. And this is what the hyperscale, this
1:04:01
is the AI race as to who's going to be
1:04:04
done first with the data center that's going to have
1:04:06
all the NVIDIA chips in there that is going to
1:04:09
run the compute, the compute for all of the stuff
1:04:12
that we're going to need for the stuff that clearly
1:04:14
doesn't work well enough. And somehow in the corpus of
1:04:21
the lexicon of the citizen this has turned into and
1:04:25
this is why i'm surprised you didn't mention palantir this
1:04:28
this is the surveillance state which darling the surveillance state
1:04:33
is the phone in your pocket It's already here. The
1:04:37
data centers, it's not going to. surveil you. It's a
1:04:41
data center. Somehow they think that a big data center
1:04:46
means more surveillance. No. The phone in your pocket is
1:04:49
doing all of that for you, and it's going to
1:04:52
data brokers sold by Google. Facebook meta. And you're actively
1:05:00
involved in it. So that's what people are saying. And
1:05:03
then the flock cameras. Oh, the flock cameras. Oh, they
1:05:05
got everything. Oh, by the way, it's funny. She was
1:05:07
doing that, of course, on her phone. Oh yeah, of
1:05:10
course, of course. Yeah, no, already I can see the
1:05:13
troll room. Oh yeah, Adam's going to say it's not
1:05:15
for... No, data centers do not surveil you. The systems
1:05:19
surveil you, and you have that in your pocket. In
1:05:21
fact, you're typing on it right now, you idiots. You're
1:05:24
typing on it. If you're on Windows, you're on a
1:05:27
surveillance system. So you don't need a 63 square mile
1:05:31
data center for that. I think O'Leary. got over his
1:05:35
skis on this one. This is my theory on that.
1:05:37
got over his skis he's like holy crap this thing
1:05:40
because he's not dumb This thing's going to come apart
1:05:43
at the seams. I have committed to too much compute.
1:05:47
too much acreage. And so he's already like, oh, okay,
1:05:50
we're going to scale this back. We're going to make
1:05:52
it smaller because these people are making my life difficult.
1:05:55
I think he's the first one to see that. This
1:05:57
is not what he thought it was going to be.
1:05:59
This whole thing was a real estate play to begin
1:06:01
with. That's why Musk is saying, no, no, we've got
1:06:04
to have data centers in space. I can't wait for
1:06:09
those. On the moon. And everyone's all into it. Oh
1:06:12
yeah, oh yeah, wait until Elon's data center's in space.
1:06:15
Okay. Are these going to be circling around and using
1:06:18
solar? Well, they went over to the South Pole where
1:06:20
it's nice and cold. Yeah, all kinds of places. That
1:06:23
would be a good place to have them. But you're
1:06:24
not allowed to go to the South Pole because that's
1:06:26
where they have the saucers. um So there's a couple
1:06:32
of things that are flowing here. And then you have
1:06:34
the elect. the electricity part and municipalities are seeing this
1:06:38
and they're getting mad you've got the farming part where
1:06:40
the farmer's like hey you're taking away farmland that'll never
1:06:43
come back the whole thing is a bad idea well
1:06:45
in utah that's yeah and and so the smart there's
1:06:49
no farm the smart money and i'll just say nvidia
1:06:51
the only company really making money off of this They're
1:06:55
saying, yeah, you know what? Just run it on your
1:06:58
computer at home. That's the way to go. They're selling
1:07:02
little computers. Yes, yeah. They've got the DGX Spark and
1:07:06
they've got these clones by MSI. And the cheapest one
1:07:09
is $3,000 now, but that'll come down. Well, this is
1:07:13
all fine and dandy what you're saying. And you're right,
1:07:16
and I'm not arguing about the local is where it's
1:07:19
all headed. But what is the point of even specking
1:07:24
out a data center the size of Manhattan Island? He's
1:07:28
not called Mr. Wonderful for nothing. That doesn't answer the
1:07:33
question. Yes, because the money was there, the money was
1:07:37
flowing. But what would be the point of it? To
1:07:40
take 10% of the money before it all goes bankrupt.
1:07:44
The whole thing is a giant scam. That's the point
1:07:49
of it. There's no need for this. There's no need
1:07:52
for it. And I'm telling you, well, how do you
1:07:56
even get to the point of signing off? On a
1:08:01
data center. Dude, people bought it. The size of Manhattan
1:08:04
Island. John, people. Who signs off on this? How do
1:08:07
you scam that money? Have you not watched CNBC? We
1:08:12
literally just had an IPO that made. Elon Musk a
1:08:14
trillionaire on the promise he's going to put data centers
1:08:18
in space. That's even crazier than a datacenter the size
1:08:23
of Manhattan. This is, let's talk about reality. This is
1:08:27
crazy. It's absolutely nuts. Canada! Canada! who normally just frown
1:08:35
and look unhappy and they complain, they send letters. I
1:08:40
don't like this data center. Listen to what's happening in
1:08:42
Canada. This is becoming a familiar sound of protest in
1:08:52
Canada. Large groups of people are gathering in the streets.
1:08:54
of people saying they don't want giant tech companies building
1:08:57
enormous data centers near them. It's already a widespread backlash
1:09:02
to the growing AI boom and the heavy demands it
1:09:05
places on land, electricity, and water. Happy Birthday! This group
1:09:11
was in Saskatchewan, but similar protests have erupted in Ontario,
1:09:16
British Columbia, Alberta. One study calculates that applications are in
1:09:20
the works for more than 90 new data centers. Nonetheless,
1:09:24
the federal government recently gave the green light to two
1:09:28
new data facilities in Vancouver. The Carney government says they're
1:09:31
important to establishing what it calls... Digital sovereignty. That means
1:09:36
cutting our dependence on other countries, especially the U.S., to
1:09:39
develop and store much of our data abroad. Ottawa insists
1:09:44
new data infrastructure is necessary for Canadian independence. I like
1:09:50
it. No, eh, say no to AI, eh? A-A-I-A? A-I-A?
1:09:59
Oh.
1:10:00
They're right. They're right. Simmer down, everybody. This stuff is
1:10:04
just, I've been using it for a year and a
1:10:06
half trying to figure it out. We know the chatbots
1:10:09
are evil because people are so gullible, but none of
1:10:12
this is really working. And then, okay, now we move
1:10:15
on to the next technology scam. With no evidence whatsoever.
1:10:19
even though I'm a big believer that we've had the
1:10:22
technology since at least the 70s, but probably the 80s
1:10:26
and 90s. All of a sudden, we've had a successful
1:10:30
test of a directed energy weapon. Don't show it to
1:10:33
anybody, but just trust Pete. Secretary Hegseth shared that the
1:10:39
first milestone test. of the Golden Dome for America was
1:10:41
a success and that directed energy was harnessed to eliminate
1:10:45
incoming threats. So obviously the Pentagon is wanting to buy
1:10:48
these to use them against our adversaries. What do you
1:10:51
think of the investment in these types of weapons? It's
1:10:55
definitely needed, Katie. Obviously, you know, knocking down $2,000 drones
1:10:59
with million, $2 million SM-2, SM-6 missiles or Patriot missiles,
1:11:04
just, you know, your enemy can bankrupt you. So we
1:11:07
have to deploy these lasers. They're on board Navy ships.
1:11:10
They're on ground-based units now. So the economics are starting
1:11:14
to level the battlefield here. These direct energy weapons are
1:11:18
pretty high speed. They've been in use for a while,
1:11:21
and as Eric said, they are a wide variety. But
1:11:25
as you alluded to the Havana syndrome, these have been
1:11:28
used for a while, and they can be debilitating. I
1:11:31
think the president kind of let it slip that we
1:11:34
use some of the stuff during Absolute Resolve when we
1:11:37
went in there to get Maduro. So these, it's a
1:11:41
new level of warfare, but it's definitely leveling the playing
1:11:44
field. Yeah, he let it slip actually during our interview
1:11:46
with him at the White House. I'm glad we asked
1:11:49
about that. And then he went on to call it
1:11:51
discombobulator. Now. If you and I ran, uh... Raytheon or
1:11:59
Northrop Grumman. Don't you think we would have videos all
1:12:03
over the place of this stuff? for sales. Well, it
1:12:09
depends. If it works. Well... Pegseth said, oh, I saw
1:12:16
it. I saw it happen. We zapped drones right out
1:12:19
of the air. And this, of course, begets more questions
1:12:26
about Havana syndrome. These weapons seem to be in the
1:12:30
hands of many factions that are operating without oversight. So
1:12:34
this is an absolute threat to domestic America. You know,
1:12:40
all enemies, foreign and domestic, we have these factions running
1:12:43
around without oversight. There's personnel that are damaged. The Department
1:12:47
of War lied about this for many years, saying they
1:12:49
didn't know what was causing Havana Syndrome. They said they
1:12:51
had no idea. Nobody has this technology. Well, guess what?
1:12:55
The Department of War this year stated, we possess directed
1:12:59
energy weapons and we're safe. Scaling them up. Yeah, baby.
1:13:03
We're going to zap your brain. And first we're going
1:13:06
to collect all your data, put it into the Biggs
1:13:08
data center so we control you. People are not thinking
1:13:12
logically, John. I mean, I'm seeing it in the troll
1:13:14
room right now. Ben Rose is a smart guy. He's
1:13:17
like, they're just going to control us once they have
1:13:19
all the data in the data center. Bro! Don't put
1:13:23
your data in the data center. There's no need for
1:13:26
it. Yeah, just keep everything local. Use Linux. And use
1:13:30
a flip phone. Yeah, there's another thing you should do.
1:13:33
I agree with that. You don't have to give everything
1:13:37
voluntarily. Oh, I use my old, old version of Windows.
1:13:41
10 they can't be upgraded that's not that's not too
1:13:44
bad That's the most stable machine I have. But, you
1:13:49
know, when you had a medical emergency. couldn't even get
1:13:55
into your computer where where where is this true where's
1:13:59
the service can say, oh, don't worry, we've got you
1:14:02
covered. Here's all John's passwords. You can send the email
1:14:05
newsletter again. Yeah. Couldn't get in. None of this makes
1:14:09
any sense. And that's the way it remains. But this
1:14:11
is the Black Pill vibe that we're seeing everywhere. Oh,
1:14:16
it's just lost. We're just, well, hold on. Let me
1:14:19
tweet something about how lost. we are with all our
1:14:21
data. Let me take a photo and let me put
1:14:25
that on the cloud. Tell everyone how lost we are
1:14:27
with our data that they're harvesting in the huge data
1:14:30
centers. people stupid? I guess. Well, they have to be
1:14:36
stupid to even imagine a data center. The size of
1:14:40
Manhattan. island and then then you say well how about
1:14:45
twice the size of manhattan island You can't do- what
1:14:49
are you nuts? Yeah. Have you seen the gigafactories that
1:14:53
Musk builds? Those things are minuscule by comparison. Yeah. No,
1:14:58
that was just an investor scam. Well, it has to
1:15:01
be. Of course it is. But at what level do
1:15:05
people go, wait a minute, it makes no sense. You
1:15:08
can't build a building that's the size of a Manhattan
1:15:12
Island. Look at all the buildings that are on Manhattan.
1:15:16
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense. No. I
1:15:20
know. I know. Well, that's the point of that clip.
1:15:24
Well, that was a good clip. But you hear it.
1:15:27
You hear it. It's everywhere. Man. And Palantir's going to
1:15:32
control us all and the flock cameras. The flock cameras.
1:15:36
That's my favorite. The flock camera. Yeah, the flock camera
1:15:40
scandal reminds me of. what i think it was a
1:15:43
number of years ago you know they they pretty much
1:15:45
wired up a lot of england the uk especially london
1:15:48
totally yeah and people would said there's there's it's overwired
1:15:52
they got cameras everywhere no one knows what the hell's
1:15:54
going on It can't be monitored. Or maybe AI can
1:15:58
monitor it. AI can monitor a lot, yeah. AI's already
1:16:01
had a... We have documented women and men who have
1:16:05
been arrested for being here or there, and they weren't
1:16:09
there because AI misidentifies. AI's no good. I'm pretty sure
1:16:14
that Larry Ellison didn't help at all. When he, uh...
1:16:20
I'll just replay this clip. Now, Oracle, if you want
1:16:25
to talk about data harvesting, Oracle definitely is a company
1:16:29
to be worried about. They are the de facto data.
1:16:33
They are data brokers. They are data harvesters. And when
1:16:37
he was at the Stargate conference, what happened to that,
1:16:40
by the way? What happened to the magic Stargate? Where'd
1:16:43
that go? Is that still being built? Or that dwarfs
1:16:46
in comparison to the entire data center on Manhattan Island
1:16:50
by the guy on Shark Tank. Here is what he
1:16:54
said then. The police will be on their best behavior
1:16:58
because we're constantly recording, watching and recording everything that's going
1:17:03
on. Citizens will be on their best behavior. because we're
1:17:07
constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on. and it's
1:17:13
unimpeachable. The cars have cameras on them. I think we
1:17:19
have a squad car here someplace. But those kind of
1:17:22
applications... Using AI, if we can use AI, and we're
1:17:26
using AI to monitor the video, so if that altercation
1:17:30
had occurred, it occurred in Memphis, the chief of police
1:17:33
would be immediately notified. It's not people that are looking
1:17:37
at those cameras. It's AI that's looking at the camera.
1:17:39
No, no, no. You can't do this. It would be
1:17:41
like a shooting. That's going to be immediately, that's going
1:17:44
to be an event that's immediately, an alarm is going
1:17:47
to go off, and we're going to... have supervision. In
1:17:52
other words, every police officer is going to be supervised.
1:17:56
at all times they are now and the supervision will
1:17:59
uh and and if there's a problem AI will report
1:18:02
the problem and report it to the appropriate person, whether
1:18:05
it's the sheriff or the chief or whomever we need
1:18:09
to. take control of the situation. We have drones. If
1:18:15
there's something going on in a shopping center, and I'll
1:18:17
stop, a drone goes out there way faster than a
1:18:20
police car. There's no reason for, by the way, high-speed
1:18:23
chases. You shouldn't have high-speed chases between cars. You just
1:18:26
have a drone follow the car. I mean, it's very
1:18:29
simple. And then new generation of autonomous drones. Yeah, okay.
1:18:35
as Larry. That's what Larry does. I'm selling you the
1:18:38
future, baby, and you will love it. Doesn't it sound
1:18:40
great? He's gone off the deep end with that commentary.
1:18:45
Sensei, sensei, back off the sushi. You're eating bad fish.
1:18:48
Yeah. course. Meanwhile, you have to deal with the following.
1:18:54
Here's Johnny. From your Jesse Waters show. On the Jersey
1:18:59
Shore. When he's on the Jersey Shore- asking people simple
1:19:02
questions about the Independence Day that's coming up, which is,
1:19:06
by the way... July 4th is on Saturday. Yeah, it's
1:19:10
just around the corner. Uh... He's going to ask a
1:19:14
few questions about Independence Day on the Jersey Shore amongst
1:19:18
the classic Americans that you run into. There was one
1:19:22
person that did answer all the questions correctly. I cut
1:19:24
most of that out. Now, of course, because not only
1:19:26
is man on the street already skewed, but you can
1:19:29
skew the skewed. So good job. Good work. Johnny hit
1:19:33
the Jersey Shore for a good old-fashioned Independence Day quiz.
1:19:37
Why do we celebrate the 4th of July? Ummm... I
1:19:42
honestly couldn't answer that. Well, actually not sure. Be lit
1:19:46
and enjoy life. How old is America turning this year?
1:19:50
Hello. I have no idea. 58. 58. Is it actually?
1:19:58
No. 250?
1:20:00
Where do we declare our independence from? Explain that a
1:20:04
little bit further. What do you mean by where? The
1:20:06
United States. Mozambique, Africa. What was the name of the
1:20:11
war in which we fought for our independence? Civil War.
1:20:15
The Civil War. Yeah. No. Um, oh God. I actually
1:20:20
don't know. The Reb. Bruh, I don't know. French and
1:20:23
Indian War. World War II. The Revolutionary War. What was
1:20:29
the name of the general that led us to victory
1:20:31
in the Revolutionary War? Um... Does it begin with an
1:20:36
A? Washington? GENERAL Hitler. It was not Hitler. Then I
1:20:43
have no idea. What year did we declare our independence?
1:20:47
Um... This is a very wide... 1920. 1786 1776 1654.
1:20:59
Democrats, they like to say Donald. Trump is the king
1:21:01
but we know we don't have kings in this country
1:21:03
because we kicked a king to the curb what was
1:21:06
his name? Oh my god might need some multiple choice
1:21:09
here King Tut King Charles or something? Neptune? Who signed
1:21:16
the Declaration of Independence? William Shakespeare. Lincoln? Wake up! George
1:21:24
Bush. Yeah. King Tut. King Tut was a good one.
1:21:32
You'd be surprised how many educated, intelligent people who are
1:21:37
friends. Uh... when they said oh man you're gonna be
1:21:41
over there for the fourth of july so yeah yeah
1:21:43
I said, do they celebrate the 4th of July there?
1:21:46
Five people at least have asked me this question. What?
1:21:50
Yeah. And today is... It's the same thing with... Do
1:21:54
they celebrate the 4th of July over there? Or do
1:21:57
the same thing with Thanksgiving. It's like, no. The old
1:22:02
joke is, do they have a 4th of July in
1:22:05
Holland? Well, yes. Something between the 3rd and the 5th.
1:22:09
Yeah. And they usually realize their mistake. Like, oh, that's
1:22:15
kind of stupid. But it comes so easily to us.
1:22:20
Yeah. I mean, I was just going through clips today,
1:22:24
I'm like... Man, everything is so cynical and negative and
1:22:29
downer and... And yes, we got the 4th of July.
1:22:33
We should be happy. I remember the bicentennial. I'm old
1:22:36
enough to remember 1976. I was in America. We came
1:22:39
back. on leave from Europe? And it was great. I
1:22:45
think we were in Rhode Island for some reason. And
1:22:48
it was fantastic and everyone was happy. fireworks and drill
1:22:53
teams, drill teams. It was fantastic. That's how I remember
1:22:58
it. And I just see... Yeah, just negative, negative, almost
1:23:02
everywhere, except the people on Fox. It's just the media.
1:23:05
I mean, I don't think it's just generally. No, but
1:23:08
what do we do? It's not even negative around here,
1:23:10
and I'm in Berkeley. Yeah, but we deconstruct media. So
1:23:13
when I'm going through clips, I'm like, oh, man, this
1:23:15
is all that it is. It's just America sucks. We've
1:23:18
got a king. He's no good. This was a whole...
1:23:25
Jake Tapper just went off on Trump's disclosure. Now, I'm
1:23:33
pretty sure that... uh world financial and the trump meme
1:23:39
coin and all that stuff I'm pretty sure that was
1:23:41
all done and wrapped up before he became president. Do
1:23:46
you recall? I do not recall, but I do have
1:23:50
the Trump reports crypto earnings CBS clip. Yeah, let's kick
1:23:55
it off with that and then we'll do some analysis
1:23:58
from Jake Tapper. We have breaking news now from the
1:24:00
White House. about President Trump's bank account tonight. including hundreds
1:24:12
of millions from selling those Trump meme coins. Tony, good
1:24:20
evening. figures jumped out because of how big they are.
1:24:24
President Trump's financial disclosure reveals he reported more than $1.4
1:24:28
billion in income from his family's cryptocurrency ventures last year,
1:24:33
including $635 million in royalties from those Trump meme coins
1:24:39
and more than $500 million financial token sales, which is
1:24:44
a venture he and his sons co-founded. Tonight, the White
1:25:01
House says there are no conflicts of interest. Also new
1:25:05
tonight, President Trump just announced the Republican Party will hold
1:25:08
a convention for the midterm elections for the first time
1:25:12
ever in Dallas in September. He says it will include
1:25:15
a massive rally and entertainment. Tony. Yeah, so... Let's just
1:25:21
set a couple of things apart here. So World Financial,
1:25:24
which is run by the Trump brothers, which they sold
1:25:28
to, I think they sold the majority, if not all
1:25:30
of it, to Qatar, to the... the Goomba over there,
1:25:35
whatever his name is. Goomba. The Goomba, yes. And that's
1:25:39
a stablecoin company. It's a completely legitimate business. Coinbase is
1:25:45
in it. There's tons of companies doing it. Tether, Circle.
1:25:49
And just to make it simple to understand, it could
1:25:53
actually be very good for America because that shifts the
1:25:57
treasury auctions. and the interest rates from the Federal Reserve
1:26:04
to the Treasury. So the Treasury can say, you know
1:26:07
what, and these will all be short-term bonds, you want
1:26:13
to create $10 million of stablecoin, you have to buy
1:26:18
$10 billion or $10 million. of treasuries. So it's backed
1:26:22
by treasuries. And already over $30 trillion in stable coins
1:26:28
being used around the world. It's a great way to
1:26:30
expand our currency dominance, which you want. You want the
1:26:34
dollar to exist. If you're an American, you want the
1:26:36
dollar to continue. And that's a legitimate business. They're very
1:26:41
small in comparison to Tether, which is actually owned by
1:26:45
our Commerce Secretary, or he's the agent for it, which
1:26:49
is, what's his face? Smiley guy. A commerce secretary. Yeah,
1:26:56
not Besson. No, no, no, the commerce secretary. Yeah, I'm
1:26:59
trying to think of his name. I'm blanking for a
1:27:01
second. And that's a legitimate business. And the way you
1:27:06
make money, and there's a big argument in Congress right
1:27:10
now, the way you make money is you buy the
1:27:13
treasuries and there's a pretty good deal right now because
1:27:15
you get a guaranteed 4.5%. um interest on those treasuries.
1:27:22
And so all you're doing is just creating a digital
1:27:25
token for each treasury and you collect the interest. Now,
1:27:28
the big argument over the Clarity Act, which you might
1:27:31
have heard about, is can we also offer benefits to
1:27:35
people who buy our stable coin? And the banks are
1:27:38
saying no. because then you have to be a bank
1:27:41
because banks have, you know, deposit insurance. And so that's
1:27:44
what the Clarity Act is all about. um and the
1:27:48
stablecoin's legit business now the meme coin that trump did
1:27:51
i tried to do that I really tried to do
1:27:55
that. I had crap partners. We were going to do...
1:27:58
You were in Holland. Holland, yeah. advertising in Dutch. Yeah.
1:28:02
I saw one of these ads. Yeah. You're promoting this
1:28:05
coin. What happened? um they could well so we were
1:28:10
going to an ico an initial coin offering that is
1:28:14
that is there's tens of thousands of them and what
1:28:17
you do is you say okay We're going to issue
1:28:20
this coin and this coin can be used to go
1:28:23
to concerts. This is our deal. Concerts, meet artists. You
1:28:27
know, if you have X number of coins and the
1:28:29
coins have value and they have value because of this.
1:28:32
And it's all about marketing. And just as we were
1:28:35
doing that, and this is all based on Ethereum. This
1:28:38
is a long time ago. um the Ethereum price kind
1:28:42
of collapsed and no one really wanted to do ICOs.
1:28:45
And these partners were Dutch. That was the first problem.
1:28:49
We just couldn't get it off the ground. And then
1:28:52
they didn't want to put any money into it. They
1:28:55
never paid half of my bills. So it was a
1:28:59
rip. It was a loser. It was a loser, yeah.
1:29:02
But it could have been an instant where, oh, boom.
1:29:05
And you could have made a billion dollars. I would
1:29:07
not be doing this show. I would be sitting on
1:29:10
an island somewhere laughing it up. No, you'd probably be
1:29:14
wasting the billion dollars somehow. No, I already went through
1:29:16
one of those cycles. I'm like, I've learned. my lesson
1:29:20
on that. Yeah, that's what they always say. Yeah. Maybe
1:29:24
you would stop. And you know what? There's always the
1:29:25
podcast. I'd be like, I can always go back to
1:29:27
the podcast. And so, as Bill Gates used to always
1:29:31
say, you need. Catch him. In the early days, he'd
1:29:36
say, well, if this never, if this. Microsoft's idea doesn't
1:29:40
work out. I can always go back to coding. Lutnik.
1:29:43
Howard Lutnik. He's the guy. Howard Lutnik, our Commerce Secretary.
1:29:49
So the meme coin, yeah, it's a... You know, it's
1:29:53
no better or worse than Elon Musk with Doge and
1:29:56
all of this stuff is... in essence, worthless or, you
1:29:59
know,
1:30:00
It's like a collectible. Spaceball cards. Trump has a lot
1:30:04
of collectible items. He knows it. He does the Bible,
1:30:09
the watch. He made like $8 million on the stupid
1:30:14
watch. It's all in the report. Yeah, and people are
1:30:16
going about, oh, this is corruption at the highest level.
1:30:19
I don't think so. I don't think there's anything wrong
1:30:22
with a president of the United States. who is, who...
1:30:27
who likes tchotchkes, which are junk. And people have sent
1:30:32
me most of the collector. There's two things missing from
1:30:37
my collection. Not that I'm asking. for these things, although
1:30:41
it's going to sound like it. I don't have a
1:30:43
Trump watch. And I don't have an Indiana. sweatshirt from
1:30:49
their championship. But... And I was wearing, at the meetup,
1:30:53
I was wearing Ohio State, and I was condemned for
1:30:55
not wearing Indiana, and I said, this cheap bastard's from
1:30:58
Indiana. If no one has ever sent me a sweatshirt.
1:31:02
But you have a Steve Jobs dollar coin. There's no
1:31:05
difference. But I did get to Steve Jobs. The best
1:31:09
digital thing I ever did was MTV.com. MTV.com was a
1:31:14
great deal for me. And of course I can't divulge
1:31:18
it because we settled out of. court no one has
1:31:20
any further comment but I started my company right after
1:31:23
that and I had a good run It's funny because
1:31:27
John Markoff of the New York Times was on top
1:31:31
of the same kind of idea, and he got NYT.com.
1:31:36
Oh, really? Yeah, that was his domain. So I two
1:31:39
domain stories and he and they bitched about it so
1:31:42
he just gave it to him well i had elvis.com
1:31:46
And for a while I had an email address going,
1:31:49
king at Elvis.com. And people would send emails. Hey, King.
1:31:55
I saw you at the 7-Eleven. I love your music.
1:31:58
Just go on and on and on. And I had
1:32:00
that for a long time. And then Priscilla Presley called
1:32:03
me. says, Hey, um, You got Elvis.com. I said, you
1:32:08
can have it. I'm not going to fight you. I'm
1:32:11
not going to fight Elvis. You can have it. I
1:32:13
gave it to her. Then when we built Budweiser.com. For
1:32:18
Anheuser-Busch, it was my client. Bud.com was owned by some
1:32:23
dude in the Texas backwoods. His name was probably Bud.
1:32:29
Totally. And he was a big fan of Budweiser. And
1:32:34
so Budweiser's like, oh man, this guy's going to jerk
1:32:38
us around. He's going to cost us millions of dollars.
1:32:40
So let me talk to him. Let me see what
1:32:42
we can do. Call the guy. He was exactly like
1:32:44
that. I'm just a fan. I just love my Bud.
1:32:47
It's really good. So, well, Budweiser would really, really like
1:32:52
to use that for their internet domain. Would you consider
1:32:56
parting with it? And he thought and he said. Do
1:32:59
you think you could get- Get me a six pack
1:33:01
of long neck signed by August Bush. I think I
1:33:05
could do that, sir. I think I could have it
1:33:07
hand-delivered to you. And that's how they got Bud.com back.
1:33:11
It's like a Seinfeld episode. Yeah. He was a good
1:33:17
old boy. He didn't want a lot of money. He
1:33:19
could have picked up a few. Dollars and cents? I
1:33:24
recommended that they fly him in on the jet and
1:33:27
give him a tour, but they didn't go for that.
1:33:29
So you should just do that. Anyway, he's not recommended
1:33:33
it. You should have said that's what he's demanding. Oh,
1:33:35
yeah. Well, I was young. Can I say I just
1:33:38
given up Elvis dot com. Yeah, you did. Still have
1:33:43
diaries.com. Still waiting for that million dollars to come in.
1:33:47
You have diaries.com and nothing's come of it? Nothing. I
1:33:51
think you missed the window. The window was early. It's
1:33:53
like the guy who had art.com. A decade ago. Yeah,
1:33:57
longer than that. Art.com. I know this for a fact.
1:34:01
Art.com sold for $1 million. Well, Broadcast.com bought Mark an
1:34:08
entire basketball team. Yeah, that's right. Yep. So anyway. The
1:34:14
Yahoo's at Yahoo. Let's listen to... Do you want to
1:34:21
listen to Tapper talk about it? Yeah, let's be here
1:34:24
a little bit. It's kind of fun. Today we're getting
1:34:26
a much clearer picture of just how much President Donald
1:34:29
Trump and his family have been profiting in many ways
1:34:33
since Trump's return to the White House. We're going to
1:34:35
walk you through multiple examples, starting with President Trump's newly
1:34:39
released 2025 financial... disclosure required by the Ethics in Government
1:34:44
Act of 1978 that shows his total income for 2025
1:34:47
exceeded $2.2 billion. That is up. from $622 million in
1:34:54
2024, before he returned to the White House. This 927-page
1:34:59
report is a s-- staggering look at President Trump's growing
1:35:04
fortune made, while he's president, through cryptocurrency holdings, royalty payments,
1:35:10
property investments, and much more. Now, Trump's total crypto earnings
1:35:15
alone totaled about $1.4 billion during his first year back
1:35:19
in office. Stop clip. Does he discuss? how this hurts
1:35:25
the taxpayers or how this involves the taxpayers or how
1:35:31
this involves taxpayer money. No, that he spent almost 45
1:35:36
minutes on just complaining about it. No, there was no
1:35:40
mensch. He brings on... Because there is no taxpayer scam
1:35:43
here. No. No, there's not at all. It's impropriety, man.
1:35:48
It's just a bad look, man. Own totaled about $1.4
1:35:52
billion during his first year back in office. $1.4 billion
1:35:56
with a B. Billion with a B. And it's important
1:35:58
to note, President Trump began making cryptocurrency regulations. or the
1:36:02
lack thereof. See, this is what they try to do.
1:36:05
What they're trying to do is saying, well, he made
1:36:07
all this money because he's got cryptocurrency regulations going. But
1:36:13
they already sold out. They already sold out on the
1:36:15
stable coin. It was $500 million. That was what they
1:36:20
got. Which went into, I think it went into, I
1:36:23
don't know if it went into Trump himself personally, but
1:36:25
probably into the Trump family money. That was it, but
1:36:29
that was before any regulation was in. A big part
1:36:32
of his presidency, some of the crypto earnings on the
1:36:36
financial disclosure include more than $526 million from sales of
1:36:41
cryptocurrency tokens tied to World Liberty Financial, LLC, which is
1:36:47
managed. That's factually false. They didn't sell any tokens. They
1:36:53
sold a piece or most of the company for that
1:36:56
money. Part by his sons, Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
1:37:00
Also, an agreement. paid Trump $635 million. No, I don't.
1:37:18
Oh, gosh, I'm racking my balls. I'll think of it.
1:37:20
This is thought to... To be behind the Trump meme
1:37:23
coin. which has plunged in value since he launched it
1:37:26
days before taking office. After Trump and Co. sold them,
1:37:31
they plunged from a high of $74.27. to their current
1:37:36
value around $1.70, according to Coinbase. Scam must be a
1:37:42
scam must be a scam. Let's talk about the royalties.
1:37:45
Royalties. Then there's more of the deals that Trump struck
1:37:48
to lend his name to random products and ventures which
1:37:51
lead to huge royalties and licensing fees such as Trump
1:37:55
watches generated 4.7 million dollars in royalties. Don't forget the
1:37:58
208,000 dollars related to a Bible. that the president frequently
1:38:03
promoted, plus $67,634 for Trump sneakers and fragrances. What exactly
1:38:13
is a Trump fragrance? You don't know. Aside from business
1:38:16
ventures, Trump's financial disclosure also includes gifts and his various
1:38:20
quote-unquote settlements with social media companies and news organizations whom
1:38:25
he sued. or threatened to. $8 million from Twitter or
1:38:30
X after Elon Musk settled with Trump last February. $16
1:38:33
million each from ABC and from CBS, donated to the
1:38:38
Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, of course. $24.5 million
1:38:43
from Facebook parent company Meta, also donated to the Trump
1:38:46
Library. $22 million from YouTube. given to the trust for
1:38:50
the National Mall. In terms of Trump's actual profit-making, It
1:38:55
is... unprecedented for a sitting president. And it's drawn criticism
1:39:01
from opponents and others who say there are multiple conflicts
1:39:04
of interest. The White House denies that. And today, Trump
1:39:06
downplayed any concerns that he could be profiting off the
1:39:10
presidency. What message does this send to average Americans, especially
1:39:19
those who may be struggling right now? I don't get
1:39:21
involved in my personal. We have funds that run my
1:39:24
money. To critics who say you're profiting off the presidency,
1:39:27
Mr. Well, you know why I'm profiting? Because the stock
1:39:29
market's going up. Everybody's profiting. The stock market is not
1:39:33
why he made 2.2. billion dollars last year oh man
1:39:38
okay here's the pbs version that will stop this nonsense.
1:39:41
Eric, I guess the big question here is if Mr.
1:39:43
Trump was not president, could he or would he have
1:39:46
made the same amount of money that he did? It's
1:39:49
hard to imagine that if he were not president that
1:39:51
there would that his meme coin or it would be
1:39:56
as as profitable as it has been or that there
1:39:59
would have been this
1:40:00
scale of investment in world liberty financial. Yes. What kind
1:40:04
of analysis is this? If he was not president then.
1:40:08
That's exactly. This is like, how much money did you
1:40:11
make, Mr. Curry? Well, I made an X amount of
1:40:14
money as a podcaster. Well, what would you have made
1:40:17
if you weren't a podcaster? Well, you know, it's logically
1:40:23
stupid. No, this is my favorite is, well, you have
1:40:26
a lot of listeners because you were already famous. Dude.
1:40:30
No. There was no podcast when I started podcasting in
1:40:37
2003, and you and I had to... drag this thing
1:40:41
out of the swamp. for years. Same type of thing.
1:40:47
yeah meme coin or it would be as as profitable
1:40:52
as it has been or that there would have been
1:40:54
the scale of investment in world liberty financial on the
1:40:57
stable coin it is it seems as if his status
1:41:02
as president is like intimately intertwined with the success of
1:41:06
those companies. Okay, hold on. So what we're doing here,
1:41:10
this is a trick. The implication, even though he's not
1:41:15
saying it directly, is that, which is a little different
1:41:19
than my analysis I just gave. This implication is that
1:41:22
this is corruption. This is play, a pay to play.
1:41:26
If he wasn't president, then the stable coin wouldn't exist.
1:41:30
Or the stable coin wouldn't be successful. Meme coin, meme
1:41:33
coin. That's not a stable coin. Meme coin, if he
1:41:35
wasn't president. The only reason, this is basically the analogy.
1:41:41
to Hunter Biden's art. Yeah, yeah. No one would buy
1:41:45
Hunter Biden's art if Biden wasn't president. It's true. That's
1:41:50
not the same thing as this. Okay, we'll continue. It's
1:41:57
like intimately intertwined with the success of those companies. And
1:42:01
I mean, the fact that he launched the meme coin
1:42:05
as they were gathering at a one more. What? One
1:42:09
more thing. With Hunter Biden's art, I'm giving Hunter Biden
1:42:12
a quarter of a million dollars to get favor with
1:42:15
somebody. I'm not buying a $10 meme coin so Trump
1:42:19
will do me a favor. There's no quid pro quo.
1:42:22
Well, you do get to go to a special dinner.
1:42:28
There's a special dinner for everyone who bought a meme
1:42:31
coin? Yes, yes, he does these dinners. Oh, I should
1:42:34
have bought one. Exactly. Trump's going to be there and
1:42:38
I don't have to pay for the dinner? It's a
1:42:39
free meal? Well, a lot of these people paid a
1:42:41
lot of money to get their meme coins i guess
1:42:44
so yeah the three days before his inauguration for what
1:42:46
was called the crypto ball it was a bunch of
1:42:48
crypto executives and and administration you know soon to be
1:42:51
administration officials there to celebrate his inauguration and that's the
1:42:55
night he launched it and and it was like follow
1:42:57
me as i lead the world um these things are
1:43:01
so intertwined. I think it's hard to imagine he would
1:43:03
have made as much money. He's never made this much
1:43:05
money in his entire life as he's made in this
1:43:08
one year. So I think that's part of your answer
1:43:10
right there. Oh, there you go. That's it. That's PBS,
1:43:14
man. We don't know this. No. Because his taxes have
1:43:18
never been released. How do we know that this is
1:43:22
the most he's ever made? We don't. Well, then why
1:43:24
didn't they say that they stated it as fact? This
1:43:28
is what I'm saying. Everything sucks. All the news is
1:43:31
this. Ugh. Yes. This was in interviews. So there must
1:43:42
have been pushback by the reporters saying, well, how do
1:43:44
we know that this is the most he's ever made?
1:43:46
He's never released his taxes. At least Ms. Now is
1:43:50
honest about it. And they just come out and say,
1:43:53
hey, we're doing all of this because of the midterms.
1:43:56
That's all that we're doing it about is for the
1:43:58
midterms, is 2028. And we're going to blank. at the
1:44:01
airways with all of this stuff non-stop until you vote
1:44:05
Democrat. No. The midterms for 2026, but... 2028 for the
1:44:11
next president. And we're going to blanket the airwaves until
1:44:15
you vote Democrat, you stupid people. In many ways, though,
1:44:18
our story in America has been our ability to- to
1:44:21
overcome adversity. This isn't the first time our nation has
1:44:25
faced adversity. But what we've done in every chapter of
1:44:28
our American story is, despite the challenges, we've ended that
1:44:32
chapter on a more... What's adversity? What? What adversity are
1:44:38
we in? Trump, he's just an adversity. He's the adversity
1:44:41
president. No, with more freedom, more opportunity, more justice, more
1:44:45
equity. I know it doesn't feel that way right now,
1:44:48
but we are in the midst of writing that chapter.
1:44:51
And it will be up to the American people, less
1:44:55
people with titles next to their name, more ordinary Americans
1:44:58
doing what Franklin said to that woman outside Independence Hall
1:45:02
that Meechum referenced, defending our republic, keeping our republic. The
1:45:08
work falls to all of us. That's why we need
1:45:11
a national referendum this November on Donald Trump's chaos and
1:45:16
cruelty and corruption. We need people to rise up and
1:45:19
vote. It's the trifecta. to chaos, cruelty, and corruption. And
1:45:26
I'm a sucker for alliteration. They nailed it on this
1:45:29
one. I know what the sea is today. This November
1:45:32
on Donald Trump's chaos and cruelty and corruption, we need
1:45:35
people to rise up and vote and be a check
1:45:39
on this president. Begin to see our way out of
1:45:41
this darkness. toward more light, toward more sun. What? At
1:45:48
least they're honest about it. This is what I love.
1:45:50
They're honest about it. They're honest. There's two more from
1:45:54
this. This is so good. Oops, sorry, this one. I
1:45:57
mean, it is as clear as day in the 14th
1:45:59
Amendment. This case should have taken... regarding the 14th Amendment,
1:46:03
but it's all about Trump. A nanosecond to decide, and
1:46:06
it should have been 9-0. I gather some of the
1:46:09
justices were intimidated by Donald Trump sitting there in the
1:46:13
court, staring at them, glaring at them during that decision.
1:46:17
And then J.D. Vance comes along and says the quiet
1:46:20
part out loud. It's one of the reasons why we
1:46:23
have to win the United States Senate and not let
1:46:26
them appoint a justice should there be a vacancy who
1:46:31
would be younger, who would be there for a long
1:46:34
time and be more dangerous when it comes to eviscerating
1:46:37
the rights of Americans. So bottom line here is we
1:46:41
need real reform. in this country. It's gotta be people
1:46:44
centered and people powered. People power. And it's gotta come
1:46:47
as a result of people rising up, showing up at
1:46:50
the ballot box, demanding more from. Mail in ballots. Their
1:46:53
elected officials and ushering in a new chapter in this
1:46:57
country. One that gets us back to our roots of
1:46:59
being more hopeful, more inclusive. And more just. You see,
1:47:04
this is the point. Do you feel down with all
1:47:06
the messaging we're throwing in your face? Just vote Democrat
1:47:10
and everything will be more hopeful. And this is the
1:47:14
kicker, the last one in this series. Ty, I want
1:47:15
to ask you something of a personal question. I mean,
1:47:17
you represent Donald Trump. You worked closely with him. Now
1:47:21
you're a pretty vocal. of him. What do you think
1:47:26
of the lawyers who signed on to work with him
1:47:29
during this administration? So I think it's very important that
1:47:35
even the worst presidents have the best assistance. So I
1:47:40
think lawyers who go to work for this administration. with
1:47:43
the determination to honor their oath, which is to serve
1:47:47
the Constitution and American citizens, not an individual. Take Todd
1:48:03
Blanche as Exhibit A or Pam Bondi as Exhibit A1.
1:48:08
Pam Bondi had a session in the Great Hall of
1:48:11
Justice where she declared the fealty of herself and the
1:48:15
entire department. to one man, to Donald Trump. Not to
1:48:19
the country, not to the Constitution, to one man. And
1:48:21
you've seen Todd Blanch. slush fund, taking the money from
1:48:27
the taxpayers that unjustifiably was given to Trump in a
1:48:33
quote settlement of a dispute that wasn't really even a
1:48:36
legal dispute. We've seen people just do things that are
1:48:41
unconscionable and unprecedented. in American history and at a scale
1:48:45
that the country is now being numb to. No, no,
1:48:51
no. The kicker's coming here. Listen. Now being numb to.
1:48:54
I've seen comparisons of Hunter Biden to the Trump family.
1:49:01
That's like... That's like comparing a Jay Walker to Jeffrey
1:49:05
Dahmer. Oh, there we go. It wasn't worth the effort.
1:49:09
Well, only because you got bored of it. I can't
1:49:11
help it. The guy's long-winded. Do you remember? I have
1:49:14
four clips I want to play before we go out.
1:49:16
This is what I'm seeing the time constraints here. Yeah,
1:49:19
well, it's because we're having a good time. We're having
1:49:22
a great- time. Too bad we can't do anything about
1:49:27
that. We gotta at least mention the heat deaths in
1:49:30
the EU. Yes, hold on a second. And because you're
1:49:34
in the EU and I wanted to make sure we
1:49:36
got to this clip. Yeah, and I will give you
1:49:38
a boots on the ground report after the clip. In
1:49:42
Europe, there's a perfect storm. The oldest population on any
1:49:46
continent that's warming the fastest. France's record heat last week
1:49:51
is linked to roughly 1,000 deaths of mostly elderly. Of
1:49:55
all climate-related impacts and hazards, heat is the biggest killer.
1:50:00
European officials are calling for change, but not the kind
1:50:04
that may seem obvious. Install air conditioning, especially for vulnerable
1:50:08
people, and save lives. Why is that not a solution
1:50:11
in Europe? My honest response is I don't think that
1:50:15
should be the solution anywhere. In the longer term, what
1:50:18
happens is... Installing more air conditioning actually emits more heat.
1:50:23
into our environment so it will actually increase the speed
1:50:27
of warming. It's also more expensive. Energy prices are much
1:50:32
higher in Europe. Governments find other ways to cool historic
1:50:37
and densely populated cities. In Rome, wearable technology is distributed
1:50:42
to monitor the elderly, who are by far in the
1:50:45
most danger. A recent survey in France said one in
1:50:48
six people they surveyed said they'd rather suffer for the
1:50:52
sake of the environment. Does that surprise you? No. We're
1:50:56
not doing this for us. We're doing this for the
1:50:58
future generations. Lee Kenire, CBS News, London. I heard, I
1:51:05
have no evidence, but I read and I heard that
1:51:09
in the UK, they were going around saying, you got
1:51:13
to take that air conditioner out of your window. We're
1:51:16
going to arrest you. I wouldn't be surprised. It kind
1:51:24
of wouldn't surprise me either, but... Supposedly, according to some
1:51:29
reports, they're doing that all over the place. Because she's
1:51:32
trying to kill people. That's what it is. So I
1:51:34
asked Christina before we came over. Then I sent her
1:51:37
a link to one of these stories and I said...
1:51:39
Because she finally, because she's 38 weeks pregnant. It was
1:51:43
100 degrees. They had no air conditioner, flat roof above
1:51:48
the bedroom. So they were sleeping downstairs. And they got
1:51:51
a portable unit. She's like, oh. So nice. And I
1:51:54
sent her this link. I said. I hope the climate
1:51:57
crazies don't do this in Holland, she says. Now, she's
1:52:01
a woman of the people. I think Dutch people would
1:52:04
revolt against that. Everybody's tired of everything and all the
1:52:07
climate bullshit. So maybe, but they still don't have their
1:52:11
bikes back, so I'm not sure that they would really
1:52:14
revolt about it. The bikes. It was a nice 73
1:52:18
degrees and raining when we got here today. Oh, that's
1:52:21
perfect. Yeah, it's very nice. And the rain was only
1:52:24
brief, cooled everything down. Everybody's happy. Everyone's outside on the
1:52:29
terraces having a good time. What's your second clip? Secret
1:52:33
event. Tell me what it is. Secret event. Oh, I
1:52:37
know exactly what this is. This is the... Darren O'Neill
1:52:41
has been invited. to be the emcee of the Taylor
1:52:47
Swift wedding at Madison Square Garden. Did I get it?
1:52:52
The clip. Newark Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch indicating that something
1:52:58
big was about to happen at the world's most famous
1:53:00
arena. In a briefing about major events happening this weekend
1:53:04
in New York City, I would be remiss not to
1:53:07
mention an event that we are tracking at Madison Square
1:53:11
Garden on Friday night. The NYPD will, of course, have
1:53:16
a detail in place, but I am not going to
1:53:18
go into. More specifics on that at this time. Of
1:53:25
course. Do it on the 4th of July weekend with
1:53:27
the biggest celebration for 250. Are they really going to
1:53:30
do it on this weekend? Yeah, it's supposed to be
1:53:33
like tomorrow. Three idiots. Two more clips. Oh, I have
1:53:38
one climate change clip. for Europe, if I can sneak
1:53:41
that one in. Okay. The last 11 years are the
1:53:44
hottest on record. We know the ocean is getting warmer.
1:53:47
This is PBS, of course. The temperature is rising. Europe
1:53:51
is experiencing unprecedented heat right now. What's the impact of
1:53:55
climate change on all of this? You know, climate change
1:53:58
underlies all of this. right all of it air temperatures
1:54:01
are about three degrees fahrenheit warmer than they were just
1:54:03
a little over a hundred years ago so if you
1:54:06
picture it like a building if your foundation of the
1:54:08
building is let's say three feet higher well then your
1:54:10
building's going to be three feet higher so what wait
1:54:13
distance this is distance and this has got something to
1:54:17
do with yeah with the temperature Yes, and apparently it
1:54:21
was 97 degrees in Europe 100 years ago. Sorry, this
1:54:27
is a cycle, man. Here's your go. So if you
1:54:29
picture it like a building, if your foundation of the
1:54:31
building is, let's say, three feet higher, well, then your
1:54:34
building's going to be three feet higher. Wow. What? Climate
1:54:42
change is making all heat domes, every heat wave, more
1:54:46
intense, longer less. Okay. I looked it up. You know
1:54:50
when we started talking about heat domes on this show?
1:54:55
At least 15 years ago. No, not quite. 12 years
1:54:58
ago. And it was just, it was a heat dome.
1:55:01
We weren't too crazy about climate change at the time.
1:55:05
But now all of a sudden, heat domes are because
1:55:07
of climate change. Let's forget El Nino, the super El
1:55:10
Nino. Let's forget the jet streams. Let's forget all about
1:55:13
that. It's climate change. Heat domes. Every heat wave, more
1:55:17
intense, longer lasting. and also larger in scope. And what
1:55:22
we're seeing is unprecedented type heat. In fact, the heat
1:55:25
wave in Europe that played out over the past week
1:55:28
or so, there was a study that was done by
1:55:30
World Weather Attribution. They found that the heat dome was
1:55:33
likely about six degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it otherwise would
1:55:37
have been just 50. years ago and 50 years ago
1:55:40
it would have been virtually impossible without climate change but
1:55:44
i have a study so that's the impact on the
1:55:46
european heat wave there's going to be another one shaping
1:55:48
up as we head into the weekend and next week
1:55:50
for the eastern us again not an unprecedented heat wave
1:55:53
but climate change is certainly making it hotter than it
1:55:56
would have otherwise been due to climate change You know,
1:56:00
that's the one thing. These people should be arrested. That's
1:56:03
the one thing I'm so, I'm happy about our president.
1:56:06
At least he did that for us. He just called
1:56:09
it out and stopped all the funding of it. He
1:56:14
slowed it down. No, I think he changed people's minds.
1:56:18
I think he really did. hope so. Yeah, I think
1:56:20
so. Okay, now here's one more that has to do
1:56:23
with, we've been kind of talking about this on and
1:56:25
off. This is the latest iteration of, uh, let's get
1:56:28
some new gear. This is the drone hitting the airliner.
1:56:32
You heard this one? Yes. Tonight, the FAA is investigating
1:56:35
a potential drone strike over New York. JetBlue Flight 948.
1:56:39
from Las Vegas was on final approach to New York's
1:56:42
JFK Airport early this morning when pilots reported a close
1:56:46
encounter with an apparent drone at 3,000 feet. Did you
1:56:53
collide it? The Airbus A321 landed without incident. JetBlue says
1:57:00
a post-flight inspection found no signs of damage or any
1:57:03
indication of a collision. The FAA is also investigating another
1:57:08
drone incident at nearby Newark Airport Friday. A United Airlines
1:57:12
737 reported it was nearly hit by a drone while
1:57:15
descending with 111 on board. Hi, Sarah Kimme, United... uh
1:57:22
Blow it. 9 to 15, 13, do you get a
1:57:24
look at it? It was... Looked like it was about...
1:57:34
Drones are not supposed to fly near airports or above
1:57:37
400 feet. But the FAA receives more than 100 reports
1:57:44
a month of drones operating around airports. Tony, that's more
1:57:48
than three every day. Yeah. Remember when we had all
1:57:53
those... Drones from an Iranian mothership. In New Jersey? Yeah,
1:57:59
what about that one? It got a lot of play.
1:58:01
That was good. Those were good times. Hey, man, this
1:58:04
is real, man. This is Iran. Wasn't it Aliens? That
1:58:10
was supposed to be aliens involved. Social media has ruined
1:58:12
the world. It has ruined the world. It has ruined
1:58:15
the world. And so has Ozempic. In my last... clip
1:58:17
will be this one there's always something with ozempic yeah
1:58:22
there's a couple of things with ozempic these these days
1:58:25
a crazy shirt i heard today at the wait wait
1:58:28
sorry i was going to ask you if you have
1:58:30
you heard of well actually ozempic vagina Oh no, but
1:58:35
I might want some. The craziest shit I heard. today
1:58:38
at the salon comes from a friend client in the
1:58:40
medical sales community According to plastic surgeons in the South,
1:58:45
the highest growing procedure is to correct ozempic vagina. So
1:58:50
if the symptoms of ozempic weren't bad enough, now there
1:58:55
is enough deterioration of the connective. tissue that it is
1:58:59
causing the vagina parts of the vagina to deteriorate and
1:59:04
fall out of the body. So it's still attached, but
1:59:07
the procedure, as far as we could tell, corrects that
1:59:12
and lifts it back into the body. So if the
1:59:16
other, if hair loss wasn't bad enough, If all the
1:59:18
other side effects weren't bad enough for the 1% of
1:59:22
people who actually need to be on Ozempic, not like
1:59:25
the general public, that's just taking it as a recreational.
1:59:31
option this seems like the one to watch for. Wow.
1:59:38
And it's now on Medicare. 50 bucks a month. You
1:59:42
too can get OVAG. That's right, everybody. OVAG. OVAG. But
1:59:45
it's okay. You won't be able to see it from
1:59:47
your rotting eye disease. So it's all good. It's all
1:59:50
good. And only one man could bring that to you,
1:59:53
that story, ladies and gentlemen. It is the man who
1:59:56
put the sea in chaos, cruelty. and corruption. Say hello
1:59:59
to my
2:00:00
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2:00:02
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Before you continue, can you do me a favor? Yeah,
2:02:05
sure. Forward the spreadsheet spreadsheet to my gmail account. Okay.
2:02:12
Hold on a second. Oh, this is This is a
2:02:15
tricky operation. Okay. Hold on. I actually killed my email
2:02:21
client. Okay, here we go. I can forward this. Did
2:02:25
you not receive it today? No, I have an IMAP
2:02:29
issue with my email server. An IMAP issue? When I
2:02:32
went to just retrieve it, it just, I can't get
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it. An IMAP issue? Well, this is not, oh, your
2:02:37
Gmail, I'm sorry. You just get no spam because you
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get no emails. I don't know if I have, is
2:02:52
it just, I don't know if this is your... Don't
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say it. I'm sorry. I don't know if this is
2:02:58
it. Let me see if it gets rejected. Let me
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see. No, it looks like it went. I could always
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do it in a browser, I guess, on my Gmail.
2:03:05
You get it? Come in. Seriously. Is it? I did
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get it from Jay. Oh, so you got it. I
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think. Let me see if I can download it. Well,
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while you look for that. Well, I'm doing all the
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work. Oh, yeah. Tons of work there. While you're doing
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all that work. Well, I got to click on this.
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I got to click on that. I got to. I
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want to tell everybody about Value for Value, the new
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19 years. where we don't make you jump through hoops
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good stuff. No, we just give it all to you.
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Twice a week. All of it right there. All you
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have to do is to keep it going. If you
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like the show, if you get value out of it,
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ooh, there it is. Send us some value back. You
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know, how come you never pitch the value for value?
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Why is it always me? I want to hear your
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value for value pitch. Hey, I'm trying to get this
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thing up. That's what she said. Okay, did you get
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it up? Is it up? No. Otherwise I'd be pitching
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value for value. Mm-hmm. Okay. So, well, I can stop
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taping. Oh, there we go. You got it? There we
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go. Okay, you got it. All right, good. Good. Okay.
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All right, I'm good to go. Right, okay. So tell
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us about Value for Value, John. Well, the idea is
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simple. We're producing this show, it's three hours, six hours
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a week total. And it has information that you can
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use for all kinds of purposes. And it also calms
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you down. I think it helps people make wise decisions.
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It keeps them on the straight and narrow. And we
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don't charge anything for them, but we do expect that
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maybe if they get some sort of benefit. a benefit,
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any sort of benefit. It may be for their health.
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It may be for their relationships. It may be some
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information that they needed to make a good investment. Who
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knows? They could give us some income to support this
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effort because we can't get the income any other way.
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We can't get the income by going to advertisers. We
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could, but then the show would suck and it wouldn't
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have any good information. There's things we couldn't say. You
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can't make an assertion about one thing or another, like
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how we lost the interactive broker's account over there at
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DH Unplugged. Is that because you gave bad information? How
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did you lose the interactive broker's account? No, no, it's
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because somebody on the show made an offhanded comment about
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prop bets. Oh, really? And they got mad and then
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interactive brokers? Oh, somebody wrote a nasty note and, you
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know, you shouldn't have said that. And the next thing
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you know, we don't have a sponsor anymore. This is
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what would happen to this show. If we didn't get
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people to pony up. So just think about the results.
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You won't have the show. You'll have a piece of
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crap show like every other podcast. Let's look at an
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example. So if the big advertiser, the biggest advertiser these
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days is Better Health. from the Wellness Company. And we'd
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be ragging on all kinds of stuff. Like, we just
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did a GLP-1, we'll give you OVAG. Do you think
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that the companies that sell that stuff would want to
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advertise with us? No. Have you heard a podcast talk
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about OVAG anywhere? No. Why not? And you won't hear
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it on the mainstream media. Because they've sold out. Yeah.
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So that right there is a health tip. of epic
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proportion. Well, especially if you're a guy. I mean, yeah,
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you know what? If you're a guy, you're really in
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trouble. You can support us multiple ways. You can set
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up a meetup. We love the boots on the ground.
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extremely valuable to the show. We also need money, so
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we have time, talent, and treasure. And we have found
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that throughout the ages, it's great when we have a
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different piece of artwork. And I'm a little surprised that
2:07:07
after this fine piece for episode 1881, we titled that
2:07:11
The Cow Cartel. This was a piece by Jeffrey Rhea.
2:07:14
And it was a no agenda. Mahjong tiles and It
2:07:19
was an interesting piece because, you know, a lot of
2:07:21
these mahjong tiles didn't really have official mahjong tile shapes.
2:07:27
But I still, I've gotten, again, only tons of emails
2:07:31
from people saying, oh yeah, Mahjong tiles, this is great.
2:07:34
people pay hundreds of dollars for mahjong tiles. Why don't
2:07:37
we have no agenda mahjong tiles? Because the people that
2:07:41
play Mahjong are old women who don't listen to the
2:07:44
show. We'll sell no Mahjong tiles. Okay. Well, there's your
2:07:50
meeting. That's literally how we run the company. We appreciate
2:07:54
it. I appreciate you, Jeffrey. This is true. This is
2:07:57
true. And by the way, I'm not the only one
2:07:58
who shouts at the other guy. No. No. When did
2:08:02
I last shout at you? I don't shout at you
2:08:04
ever. We're gonna shout at you. At the beginning of
2:08:08
the show, you said I should be dead. No, but
2:08:12
I did shout at you when you had a bypass.
2:08:14
I'm like, what are you doing? You're ruining the show.
2:08:17
Yes, of course. I should. Yes. So, Marty, our joke
2:08:22
writer. Uh-huh. Your joke writer. Let's get this straight. Your
2:08:26
joke writer. Yes. One of my joke writers. One? Oh,
2:08:29
you have a whole stable of them. I have a
2:08:30
couple. And you have something to say about my robot.
2:08:32
You've got joke writers. Okay. Yeah, but they're humans. I
2:08:36
come with my own material. So Marty went and had
2:08:39
open heart surgery. He just went and had that, like
2:08:42
he had a taco. Well, he gets a lot of
2:08:46
operations, but he had, and I had, he sent a
2:08:49
note in, I should like to read it. Oh yeah,
2:08:52
I'd love to hear that. Is he okay? Let's just...
2:08:54
gets through to it. Yeah, he made it through. It
2:08:56
was last Friday. What did he have? Single, double, triple,
2:08:59
quadruple? No, it wasn't a bypass. It was a valve
2:09:02
replacement or some damn thing. Oh, overhaul. Okay. Valve replacement.
2:09:06
Now he's out of trouble and he's mad because of
2:09:11
the service he gets at the hospital. He didn't get
2:09:14
Good service. Oh, he's alive, isn't he? Is that not
2:09:17
good service? Well, here we go. Let me read this.
2:09:18
Sorry about being switched to the general ward I did
2:09:21
two days ago or a day and a half. ICU
2:09:24
and then sent to the general ward which was a
2:09:27
giant step downward in every way. After two days of
2:09:31
that shit, I said, get me the F out of
2:09:33
here. There's nothing. Oh, no. giggling with friends. There's an
2:09:56
enormous article in this for you, John, especially in Boston,
2:09:59
where that
2:10:00
The idea of flooding low-paid jobs to semi-literate Africans, not
2:10:04
black Americans, not African Americans, Africans, has taken hold. I
2:10:09
give general medicine, especially in hospitals, and no more than
2:10:13
a couple of years before they would become clinics run
2:10:15
by physician's assistants. But that's already happening. Wow. Love to
2:10:20
talk to you by phone. Thank you for both. Now,
2:10:22
I ran into this. There was a number of Africans
2:10:27
that you run into. Now, there was a lot of
2:10:29
Filipino women, especially in the Bay Area, that were doing
2:10:32
most of this work. But there were literally Africans who
2:10:36
could barely speak English, and they didn't seem to be
2:10:39
able to speak English. incompetent at anything and they were
2:10:41
in the hospital you know doing this and that What
2:10:46
is this and that? That's what I'd like to know.
2:10:49
They come in, bumble in, and they do something, they
2:10:53
wouldn't get anything accomplished. Somebody else would replace them and
2:10:56
do what they were supposed to do. There's something... fishy
2:11:00
going on with all these Africans. A lot of, you
2:11:04
know... The Somalis, for example, they're all over the place.
2:11:09
And they're eating the dogs. No, that's the Haitians. Oh,
2:11:13
I'm sorry. I didn't run into any of them. Oh,
2:11:15
wait a minute. The Somalis, they're ripping off Medicare right
2:11:17
there in the hospital. All I know is that his
2:11:21
complaint is legit. I believe it. You don't want to
2:11:26
go to the hospital. No, you don't want to go
2:11:28
to the hospital. It's no fun. So somebody out there
2:11:32
can send a note in. Where do all these Africans
2:11:36
come from? from Africa when there's people in America that
2:11:39
need work. Yeah, well, you know what they'll say. Well,
2:11:44
Americans don't want to work. Maybe. Bullcrap. Yeah, I'm with
2:11:49
you. Okay, well, I'm glad Marty's okay. Has he gotten
2:11:54
funnier since the operation? By the on basis of this
2:11:58
note, no. Let's, as we near the... The 4th of
2:12:04
July, the celebration of our great country. We have been
2:12:08
asking for the $2.50 donation, which I think you can
2:12:12
also do a $25. Do we do a $25 as
2:12:14
well for the $50 or is it only $2.50? I
2:12:16
probably should do one for the next show. Yeah, and
2:12:18
you know, we should read them too. If they want
2:12:20
to, they want us to. They have a note at
2:12:23
year 25. It would be nice. I put a Canada
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Day thing in, by the way. No response. Got not
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one response. No. From any Canadian who, like years ago,
2:12:36
they'd say, well, thanks for recognizing some things. No, I
2:12:40
put, you know, no, no, one Canadian cares. So let's
2:12:45
look at the artwork. We had Jeffrey Rhea. And we
2:12:48
thank you, Jeffrey. There was. Some odd ones. Of course,
2:12:52
Darren O'Neill with the boobs in a mahjong tile. We
2:12:56
had, uh, we have, uh... *burp* Comicster Blogger did have
2:13:00
an interesting piece that we never used. It was a
2:13:03
Mahjong tile and his... Signature butt. Which was kind of
2:13:09
an in but no, no, I'm not gonna use it,
2:13:10
but it was interesting and then there's heads like Marjorie
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Taylor Greene or is it Megyn Kelly? I don't know.
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And Tucker Carlson? No, we're not going to use that.
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We're not going to show Fauci behind bars or John
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Bolton behind bars. No, and then the blue acorn stole
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an idea from someone. with the Statue of Liberty pointing.
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That's from... Yeah, Caitlin. Caitlin. No, it's not Cain. It's
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Cunningham. Cunningham, yes. That's who it is. Yeah, she's getting
2:13:47
all the attention. Yeah. Caleb must be mad. So, you
2:13:51
know, I see some different models being used. That's interesting.
2:13:54
But no, the most artistic was Jeffrey Rhea. You even
2:13:58
thought it was, I think you said. That's interesting. Didn't
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you say that? That's interesting. I like the piece a
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lot. Yeah, that's good. I thought it was artistic. Yes,
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Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles from Spokane Valley, Washington.
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And he says, and this is. question. Gentlemen, I'm hoping
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I'm not too late to attain Red Knight status. Cheers,
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Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles. I thought we were
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out. That we had the... Because of the buffer, we
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do have one left. You had a buffer. For him.
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For him. Where's the guy with the rubbilizer? It's supposed
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to come in on the 7th. Oh, okay. Wait a
2:16:04
minute. So he could reserve that in advance? Yeah. Hmm.
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Okay. Well, if it doesn't come in, we release three
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rings. Okay. Or three pins. Yes. Okay. All right. Well,
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thank you, Sir Donald. You're good to go. You're in.
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You're in. You're in the pocket, brother. You're good. Okay,
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next we have... Um... Sir Kretschmann in Richmond, Indiana. He
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wrote a note, which is right here. I have the
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Yes, you have the note. I can make noise with
2:16:45
it. In the morning, gents, in the picture, John holding
2:16:48
the stuffed heart pillow. Reminds me of my father's cardiac
2:16:52
surgery 25 years ago. He was sitting in the waiting
2:16:54
room while my grandmother was seeing a cardiologist. Bored, he
2:16:58
picked up a brochure about the signs and symptoms. No.
2:17:00
Wow. Nice. Dan Kretschmann. He loves the show, but he
2:17:23
can't figure out how to use the podcast app. Well,
2:17:28
that's we tried to make that pretty easy. Yeah. Yeah.
2:17:32
Have him call me. I'll show. No, not you. Oh,
2:17:35
I'm sorry. I'll do a zoom call. I'll do a
2:17:37
zoom. We should do an instruction. Just show him. Yeah,
2:17:41
help him out, Jason. Adam, I have returned to our
2:17:43
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. It's been nice hearing you
2:17:46
speak of him. I treasure both of you trying to
2:17:48
make sense of the world and current events. But I'm
2:17:51
now thoroughly convinced only one man knows the Apollo program
2:17:55
broke through the firmament. Who shot JFK and how a
2:17:59
terrorist passport was... found intact in the rubble of 9-11.
2:18:02
So... I think Jesus is the only one who knows
2:18:06
that. Is that what he's saying here? I don't know
2:18:08
what he's saying. I think that's what he's saying. Maybe
2:18:10
he knows. Lastly, thank you to every podcast listener or
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No Agenda listener who donates their time, talent, and treasure
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to the best podcast universe. You are valued. by this
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humble listener. Four more years, can I get massive dumps?
2:18:25
Shut up, it's science and a goat karma jingle. Jason,
2:18:30
uh, Kretschmann of the White, Sir Jason, Sir Kretschmann of
2:18:34
the Whitewater Valley. They did dumps. They call them dumps.
2:18:39
Big ma- of dumps. But anyway, that was just my
2:18:42
little... Oh, wow. Hold on a second. That's not the
2:18:44
right... We haven't done this, Dr. Kiki. And huh. Sorry.
2:18:51
If it's worth it. Why'd it shut up already? It's
2:18:57
science. It's gone? This is lame. Shut up science. Don't
2:19:05
tell me this is gone. Ah! Where's Dr. Kiki? What
2:19:15
has science done for you lately? What is worth it?
2:19:20
And I clicked this one and it's the wrong one.
2:19:23
But anyway, that was... I say that's the wrong one.
2:19:27
This is a problem. What is this one? Probably under
2:19:30
shut up. No. No, I know it has Dr. Kiki
2:19:34
in the title. Very just kiki. Yeah, that's what I'm
2:19:41
doing. I have Kiki. All right, shut up science. Let's
2:19:45
see. Shut up science. No. Well, you're going to have
2:19:52
to bump it. I'm very upset by this. Yeah, you
2:19:56
should be. Generally, yeah.
2:20:00
Organized. This is what makes me nuts. Because I have
2:20:05
this one. What has science done for you lately? Right.
2:20:10
And then I have, this is Dr. Kiki's science. But
2:20:13
anyway, that was just my little setup. Okay, there you
2:20:18
go. I only have a piece of it. Something's very
2:20:21
wrong here. I'm gonna have to look into that. Here's
2:20:23
your goat karma, though. I know where to find that
2:20:24
every single time. You've got... Karma. Sorry about that. Gotta
2:20:31
work on that one. Michael... No, I'm sorry, Manuka Gold.
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Manuka Gold continues their streak of $333. 33 cents and
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we appreciate them supporting the show. ITM everyone, we still
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offer 20% off exclusively to No Agenda listeners at ManukaGold.com
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and we thought code FREEDOM was a good choice for
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July. Yes. Hope everybody has a safe and fun time
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celebrating the big 250. my criticism of their copy to
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heart john yeah i saw i see this attenuated note
2:21:07
we appreciate manuka gold The meeting went like this. Did
2:21:11
you hear what that courier said about us? Yeah, we're
2:21:14
going to have to stop sending them this because it
2:21:17
is ridiculous. Well, we have to send it one more
2:21:19
time. Unlike interactive brokers, though, they didn't quit. Didn't rage
2:21:24
quit on us. *laughs* Do they do prop bets? Is
2:21:29
that what's going on? Does Interactive Broker do prop bets?
2:21:32
Yeah, they got some prop bets. Something similar. Similar enough.
2:21:35
And somebody on the show. Not quite as bad as
2:21:37
what is the worst one. Can't remember their name. Kelshi?
2:21:44
No, there's one. I can't remember. People know what it
2:21:49
is. Michael Taster's up. He's in Urbandale, Iowa. He came
2:21:53
in. Now, we don't have very few executive producers today,
2:21:55
only three. So we're in associates here at $257.94. I
2:21:59
think that's $250 plus fees. Yes. Probably. Here's my semi...
2:22:05
Semi-sequincenti... Quarter millennium, or forget it, my American 250 donation.
2:22:14
This will be my second 250 donation. My first was
2:22:17
back in the 1776 show last fall. Ah, yes. America
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Bulldog Karma, please. you thought. And there's Richard Adams from
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Orem, Utah with a freedom donation, America 250. donation plus
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fees $257.94. He says a 250th anniversary only comes along
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once in a lifetime. I'd feel unpatriotic if I didn't
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do anything for America 250. I feel better now. Thanks
2:22:53
Adam and John. Well thank you. And we continue with
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Sir Johnny B. in Brockport, New York, 25794. This is
2:23:02
Sir Johnny B congratulating America on 250 years of striving
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to be the best and most of the time hitting
2:23:09
the mark. Please check out Sir Johnny B and the
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Robot on Apple Music. That's J-O-N-N-Y-B. Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, or
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any other music platform. Johnny B and the Robot. And
2:23:23
he sent me a link and he said, hey, I'm
2:23:25
going to send a donation because you listen to the
2:23:27
music. And I did. And I'm conflicted about it. Is
2:23:32
he no good? It's good. Well, first of all, the
2:23:36
song he sent me a link to is a song
2:23:38
about Romans 1, 2, and 3. So it's like a
2:23:43
gospel. Biblical. Yeah, it's a gospel worship music, but it's
2:23:46
almost metal. It's very heavy, which I kind of like
2:23:49
that. But, you know, I'm just like. Like all music,
2:23:53
if you're really, if you're going to be serious about
2:23:55
music, it's just like, ah, is it, is it really
2:23:58
music? Yeah. Cause he clearly. Yeah. You think this is
2:24:01
all showness? It's AI. Well, no, it's AI because he
2:24:04
does a lot of our end-of-show mixes. So he's an
2:24:06
AI guy. It's Sir Johnny B and the Robot. And
2:24:10
so, you know, anyway, he's going to try and do
2:24:12
value for value for it. So I promote that. Go
2:24:14
listen to it. Let me know what you think. It's
2:24:17
good, but I'm just like, is it human? Is it
2:24:20
robot? Is it? I don't know how to feel about
2:24:23
it. I'll send you a link. I'd like to know
2:24:26
what you think about it. There you go. R. Davis,
2:24:30
87. from parts unknown, $250. And he says, ITM to
2:24:36
my brother Crackpot and Uncle Buzzkill, a.k.a. John and Adam,
2:24:40
in honor of the $250. 50th trip around the sun
2:24:42
of our great country, I would like to offer this
2:24:44
small token of my appreciation, and I humbly ask for
2:24:47
your de-douching. You've been de-douched. As I return a small
2:24:54
portion of value you have provided to me. Thank you
2:24:57
for your courage. R. Davis, 87, protector of the northern
2:25:00
Mohawk Valley and southern... Adirondacks, and he would like John's
2:25:05
all-aboard sound effect and goat scream karma. All aboard. All
2:25:14
aboard. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it's this. Nope. Nope.
2:25:19
Nope. There it is! You've got our mind. Oh, this
2:25:29
next one's good. All right. Matthew Martell. Oh, there he
2:25:33
is in Brummel, Pennsylvania. 21060. Hey, I keep things short.
2:25:40
Have a happy 4th. Visit Mark. Use coupon code MANUKAGOLD
2:25:47
for an additional 10% off your order. You'll never hear
2:25:52
that in traditional advertising ever. No, not going to happen.
2:25:56
That's hilarious. You got to love the no agenda nation.
2:26:00
And coming in with $207. two cents because he's the
2:26:03
guy who always comes in with $200 and the date
2:26:06
of the show, Eli, the coffee guy from Bensonville, Illinois.
2:26:09
And he says, 250 years ago, a bunch of guys
2:26:12
who'd had enough signed a declaration in the name of
2:26:15
freedom and bet everything on it. Feels like a good
2:26:18
time to remember that. Grab a flag. Fire up the
2:26:22
grill. blow some things up and support an American small
2:26:26
business while you're at it. Visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com. Use code ITM20
2:26:31
for 20% off your order. And whatever you do, stay
2:26:35
caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee Guy. Onward with the... Linda
2:26:43
Lubatkin in Castle Rock, Colorado, 200. Jobs Karma. Your resume
2:26:48
has about 10 seconds to make an impression and most
2:26:51
don't. For a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakers,
2:26:54
Inc. Linda helps professionals and executives position their experience so
2:27:01
employers can see their value. That's Image Makers Inc. with
2:27:04
a K. And Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer
2:27:07
of winning resumes. Best, Linda. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
2:27:14
Let's vote for jobs. You've got my mind. You know,
2:27:18
I really do appreciate the small business value that we
2:27:21
get. I really like it. You know, they send in
2:27:25
funny notes. We get to rag on the long ones.
2:27:28
They're cross-promoting each other. And they're supporting the show. Yeah,
2:27:31
they do. And they're supporting the show. There's something really
2:27:34
lovely about that. I'm enjoying that. Thank you so much,
2:27:38
everybody. Our last note is, and our last associate executive
2:27:43
producer is from Shafina English. Shufina. And she is from
2:27:47
San Francisco, California. She celebrates her birthday on the 27th
2:27:52
of June. So it's a belated birthday. And she has
2:27:54
a note here. Dear John and Adam, this is $200.
2:27:59
This is a 627 birthday donation. Also a request for
2:28:01
health care. karma or healing prayers as I prepare to
2:28:05
undergo a deferred reconstruction project. Is that a health thing
2:28:13
or reconstruction project? Well, it depends. Well, healing karma and
2:28:18
a healing prayer. So I will definitely pray for you.
2:28:20
Yes, she has some issue that had... It has to
2:28:23
be reconstructed. Corrected. It's going to be O-Veg. I mean,
2:28:26
anything's possible. No, I don't. Hopefully not. O-Veg. No, probably
2:28:31
something else. I'd like to thank all of the dames,
2:28:35
knights, and other producers over the years throughout Gitmo Nation
2:28:38
for their consistent 8808 donations. The message has been heard.
2:28:42
been received. Thank you very much for all that you
2:28:46
do and bring humor and light into this world fondly.
2:28:51
Shafina English. Shufina is the pronunciation. Yeah, she usually comes
2:28:56
to the meetups and she didn't make this one. She
2:28:58
sent a second note which was an apology. That she
2:29:01
didn't make it? Oh, that's sweet. And this was a
2:29:03
postcard or on? Yeah, postcard. From the Taj Mahal Intercontinental
2:29:08
in Bombay. I guess she grabbed a few cards when
2:29:12
she was there. Very cool. Well, thank you very much.
2:29:14
And that wraps up our executive and associate executive producers
2:29:17
for episode 1882 of the best podcast in the universe.
2:29:22
Go to noagendadonations.com and we thank these executive and associate
2:29:26
executive producers because they now have Hollywood titles they can
2:29:30
use anywhere. You're linked in. You can go to imdb.com
2:29:33
and see that you too will be very official. Our
2:29:36
formula is this. We go out, we hit people in
2:29:40
the mouth. to our meetup reports. We've got a couple
2:29:57
of those and we also have John's tip of the
2:29:59
day.
2:30:00
We have a few more producers to thank. Under 200,
2:30:04
but above 50, Baron Lattiken from Houston, Texas, with 100.
2:30:09
Sir F.A.I. Ann Beck. Excuse me, in Vista, California, 100.
2:30:13
Viscountess Dame Knight in Edmonds, Washington, 100. And coming in,
2:30:18
boy, he sent in a longer note, but... He deserves
2:30:20
it because he is not only Kevin McLaughlin, he is
2:30:23
the Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs. He
2:30:26
lives in Concord, North Carolina. And he says the following.
2:30:30
In Congress, July 4th, 1776, the unanimous declaration of the
2:30:35
13 United States of America, when in the course of
2:30:37
human events, it becomes necessary for one... people to dissolve
2:30:40
the political bands which have connected them with another, and
2:30:44
to assume among the powers of the earth the separate
2:30:46
and equal station to which the laws of nature and
2:30:49
of nature's God entitle them. A decent respect to the
2:30:52
opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
2:30:56
which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths
2:31:00
to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
2:31:03
they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,
2:31:07
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
2:31:10
happiness. Thank you very much, Kevin, and we appreciate your
2:31:15
unending support of our work here. Luke Cumberland? From Oxford,
2:31:21
Mississippi, Missouri, I'm sorry, comes in with 73.77. Dame Dana
2:31:26
Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, 72.27. Brian Furley, double nickels on
2:31:31
the dime, 55.10. Joshua Johnson, Omaha, Nebraska, with 50. Oh,
2:31:35
we've hit the 50s already. Nathan Noel from Nederland, Texas.
2:31:39
Terrence Clark. Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Tony Lang, Castle Pines, Colorado.
2:31:43
Daniel LaBoise, I think it's Sir Daniel LaBoise, Bath, Michigan.
2:31:47
James Sharameda in Napanoc, New York. Leslie Walker from Roseburg,
2:31:52
Oregon. And she says, I'm excited for your new grandbaby.
2:31:55
We'll be praying for your daughter that things go smoothly.
2:31:58
Thanks for all you guys do. Yeah. Did I tell
2:32:00
you that she started out, oh, we're going to have
2:32:02
a home birth and we do everything natural? Exactly. She's
2:32:07
like, I'm getting an epidural. I can't wait. I'm sweaty
2:32:10
here. I'm going to the hospital. Exactly. Ichikidogawa in San
2:32:14
Francisco, $50. And Sir Michael in Snohomish, Washington, $50. And
2:32:19
the rest is... Under 50, lots of 4999s. We don't
2:32:23
read those for reasons of anonymity, but we are very
2:32:25
grateful for you. Thank you so much for supporting your
2:32:28
No Agenda show. After all, it is our show. We
2:32:31
do it together. No one is a listener. Everybody is
2:32:34
a producer. Become a producer by going to noagendadonations.com. Any
2:32:38
amount, anytime you feel like it. a recurring donation any
2:32:41
amount any frequency at noagendedonations.com who, as we said, we
2:32:54
congratulate belatedly. Eric Gibbs turned 52 years yesterday on July
2:33:00
1st. Arno wishes Anita a happy birthday, turns 25 on
2:33:05
the 4th of July. How about that? And Barry Gildia
2:33:08
turns 50 on July 23rd. You are well ahead of
2:33:11
time, but we say happy birthday to you and everybody
2:33:14
else from all of us here at the best podcast
2:33:16
in the universe. And then no nights. but we do
2:33:20
have Behold This Only one red knife. And this is
2:33:42
just because we had a buffer, apparently. And we're happy
2:33:46
that Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles will now be
2:33:49
an official Red Knight in the Order of the Heart.
2:33:52
Go to noagendaring.com. Let us know where to send this
2:33:55
fantastic package off to you. Sir Donald of the Fire
2:33:58
Bottles, Red Knight, Order of the Heart. Ah! That was...
2:34:03
There we go! ♪ This ♪ The Star I'm so
2:34:20
close, so close that I came. Now I thought I
2:34:23
had more than one meetup report here. Am I missing
2:34:26
a meetup report? Hold on, let me check. Mmmhmm. Let's
2:34:32
hit the meetups here. No one shut down, B-Dog! I'm
2:34:42
sure I had a second chance and I'll have to
2:34:45
go look for that later. In the morning, this is
2:34:48
Pete Feature, Knight of Dublin, Bain Island, And it's been
2:35:04
a great time and yeah. In the morning here in
2:35:09
the fentanyl capital of Scandinavia, we microdose some freedom. In
2:35:13
the morning! Yes, I was right. I have a pipe
2:35:18
smoker. Let me see. Let me check this out. Hey,
2:35:22
everybody, this is Scott Ault. Having a great time at
2:35:24
the inaugural Pipe Smoke and Cheeseburgers meetup in Boca Raton.
2:35:29
We're going to start doing this more often. Had a
2:35:30
good time with Eric watching the Bright Line trains go
2:35:33
by. Nobody got run over by the train today, so
2:35:35
that was good. In the morning, $100 Eric at the
2:35:40
Charm City Pipe Smoke and Cheeseburgers inaugural meetup. We didn't
2:35:44
hear too many train horns, but we were listening. I
2:35:46
don't have a cool nickname like $100 Eric. And here's
2:35:50
our illustrious proprietor to talk to. This is Nick here,
2:35:54
general manager of Charm City Burger Company in Buckridge, Florida.
2:35:57
Just wanted to say thank you to Know Agenda for
2:35:59
coming out today. On a day like Father's Day. Thanks
2:36:04
for them coming out. Enjoy a burger. Listen to some
2:36:06
music. Look forward to see you guys real soon, okay?
2:36:10
In the morning! How about that? See, they didn't just
2:36:12
get the server. They got the general manager on the
2:36:15
horn. Oh, there you go. Now you're talking. And he
2:36:17
figured it out. Yes, this is an opportunity to market.
2:36:20
Fantastic. Go to Boca Raton. Go have a burger. We
2:36:24
have, oh, the No Agenda Pre-Freedom Fest is, let me
2:36:30
see what time, what time is it? Oh, it's starting
2:36:32
in about an hour from now. It's the Northern Wake
2:36:35
No Agenda Pre-Freedom Fest. Saints and Scholars in Raleigh, North
2:36:38
Carolina. Then tomorrow, the 3rd, the America Fest starts at
2:36:42
2 o'clock. in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at Paseo Pad. Nothing
2:36:47
on the 4th. In fact, nothing until the 11th. But
2:36:49
then we do have Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Eagle, Idaho on
2:36:53
the 14th, Scottsdale, Arizona, the 15th, Asheville, North Carolina, followed
2:36:58
by Charlotte, North Carolina on the 16th, Anaheim, California, Leo
2:37:02
Bravo there on the 25th. and July 30th, Alpharetta, Georgia.
2:37:07
And those are just a few of the many meetups
2:37:09
that are scheduled. This is a place where you can
2:37:12
connect with people, and connection always gives you protection. We
2:37:14
have an end-of-show mix just about that, so stick around
2:37:17
for that. These people that you meet at the meetups
2:37:20
will be your first responders in any kind of an
2:37:23
emergency. Go to noagendameetups.com. Just search for one. There's no
2:37:27
cost. It's completely producer organized. And it's a great way
2:37:31
to meet people in person. Get off the phone. Go
2:37:34
to a meetup. Noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near
2:37:37
you, start one yourself. Always a party. ♪ And before
2:38:01
we even get to the tip of the day, we
2:38:02
always have some... isos we'd like to select one for
2:38:06
the end of the show it is my real people
2:38:08
versus john's um presidents really presidents you have more presidents
2:38:16
You know, I have a drone outside the house. Don't
2:38:19
fly. Really? Is it like eye level? Uh, it's about...
2:38:24
It's about three blocks over... Oh, so it's not looking
2:38:29
through your window or anything. No, no, it's not like
2:38:31
right out the window, but... But it's hard to tell.
2:38:34
It's interesting to see this thing because it's like, what's
2:38:38
it doing there, A? And it's up pretty high because
2:38:42
I'm about 400 feet at least that high. And, uh...
2:38:47
It's annoying. Well, this is riveting boots on the ground.
2:38:51
A drone. I'm sorry. Okay. Yeah, I have two. Yeah,
2:38:54
well, the presidents. Okay. Yeah, and I see that you've
2:38:59
gotten into this thing now. where you'll reply to someone's
2:39:03
posts your engagement farming is what you're doing. You reply
2:39:06
to someone's post on... And this is bad? It's kind
2:39:11
of... It annoys you, I know that. It's kind of...
2:39:15
Let's go with Trump. I would like to know if
2:39:17
anyone has started listening to the show because of... If
2:39:20
you're here because John posted at Presidents... saying, listen to
2:39:25
the No Agenda show, please let me know. If I
2:39:27
had known that No Agenda was this good, I would
2:39:31
have given them Secret Service protection. Not bad. It's a
2:39:36
little long, but it's not bad. Okay. It was a
2:39:39
little, yeah. And then we got Obama. As far as
2:39:42
I'm concerned, the No Agenda podcast. is the best in
2:39:45
the universe. I think Trump is better than the Obama
2:39:49
one. Let me hear it again. Let me check this.
2:39:51
If I had known that no agenda was this good,
2:39:54
I would have given them Secret Service protection. It's long,
2:39:57
though. But it's possible. Let me see if I have
2:39:59
something.
2:40:00
better a-o-k always go to the well oh man that's
2:40:05
pretty tight Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Or? Copy. Good work,
2:40:10
you two. From the International Space Station. I couldn't understand
2:40:14
it. How about this one? Don't let your friends play
2:40:17
with commies. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. I like it, but no.
2:40:21
Okay, so we're going to go with... If I had
2:40:23
known that no agenda was this good, I would have
2:40:26
given them Secret Service protection. Well, before we even let
2:40:30
the president say that, it is time for John's Tip
2:40:32
of the Day. Advice for you and me, just the
2:40:38
tip with J.C.D. Sometimes, Adam. drone's gone. Okay, we got
2:40:47
an interesting tip. This kind of reflects some elements of
2:40:51
the show. And it's something I, it's not a bad
2:40:54
idea. This is the Mag Griffin, M-A-G-R-I-F-F-I-N. Which is the
2:41:01
Amazon choice, by the way. RFID blocking card. Okay. Now,
2:41:10
this card, you get three of them for $15, so
2:41:13
you can use them here and there. And it's a
2:41:18
credit card-sized card that's a super- super thin. It has
2:41:23
RFID circuitry in it that will blow out anybody that
2:41:26
tries to... steal your, you know, tries to capture your
2:41:32
RFID information. And then use it. Do we know if
2:41:37
anyone has really successfully done this with RFID? I think
2:41:41
there's evidence that people have successfully done this. But it's
2:41:44
nice to have it anyway. And it also will block.
2:41:47
It will block for four inches. either way from where
2:41:52
the card is so it'll block an entire wallet. and
2:41:56
it will also block a passport. Oh. To the same
2:42:00
RFID frequency the passport uses. - Ah, it's interesting. So
2:42:06
you put it in your wallet or your purse. Now,
2:42:09
do you put it on the bottom or the top
2:42:10
or does it not matter? Well, if it's in a
2:42:13
wall, it should be in the middle somewhere so it
2:42:15
blocks everything. And the people who sell these things, and
2:42:20
there's about... 20 companies that sell them, and they range,
2:42:23
they can be as expensive as $35. Oh, that seems
2:42:25
too much. But they say that... wallets that have the
2:42:31
protective shields inside fail. They don't work all the time.
2:42:36
You can check them out. This card supposedly is the
2:42:40
way to go because it's got electronics in it. Wasn't
2:42:42
Sir Gene selling something like this at some point? He
2:42:45
was selling an EMP-proof thing or something. Well, yeah, that
2:42:49
was a Faraday cage. You can buy little sheaths. to
2:42:55
stick cards in and that works. - How about cash?
2:42:57
- But this is different. - How about just using
2:42:59
cash? They can't lift your cash. Just use cash. Cash
2:43:04
is the way to go. I'm not going to argue
2:43:07
with that, but people do have credit cards. There it
2:43:09
is, everybody. This is the one and only John C.
2:43:11
Dvorak's Tip of the Day. Go find them all at
2:43:13
tipoftheday.net. Just the tip with Jason. ♪ ♪ And sometimes
2:43:22
Adam. Ready? I'll be in bed sometime around midnight. Now
2:43:31
that is it for your No Agenda show for today.
2:43:35
We do this because we do it as a public
2:43:37
service. We love it. We want to make sure you
2:43:39
always have as much to knowagenda as you can get.
2:43:41
If you found it valuable, then please return that to
2:43:44
us by going to knowagendadonations.com. End of show mix coming
2:43:49
up. We've got, I had too many to choose from,
2:43:52
so I got to just Baker and Johnny B. MVP.
2:43:56
I got to talk to you about an MVP mix.
2:43:57
Did he piss you off or something? Do you know
2:44:00
anything about this? Why is he... he's got some nasty
2:44:04
things to say? No, he's like apologizing. I got to
2:44:07
send it to you. I didn't want to play it
2:44:09
until I heard the story. Okay, send it to me.
2:44:12
I'll tell you what I think. Okay. Well, all right.
2:44:17
And since he's been in the troll room throughout the
2:44:19
year, the show. We have Nick the Rat up next.
2:44:22
Oh, he's only in the troll room so he can
2:44:24
hear himself. That's right. And this is the Syphilis Sewer
2:44:27
Secrets. Oh yes, a classic Nick the Rat. We'll be
2:44:31
back on Sunday, and I'll be here in Amsterdam. Maybe
2:44:35
I'll be a grandpa. Who knows? You will get all
2:44:37
the latest, and we will help. untangle your world. Coming
2:44:41
to you from the heart of Amsterdam here at the
2:44:43
Museum District in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And
2:44:46
from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak. Remember us
2:44:50
at noagendadonations.com. Adios mofos, a-hooey-hooey and such. KURRY I'm still
2:45:15
being pirate wave. as a kid to countdown fame. We'll
2:45:19
be right back. But the vibe carries on if the
2:45:41
baby's playing hard to get like He'll hop that flight
2:45:44
back then return for the rest or running on its
2:45:47
own value for value time No agenda But the weight's
2:45:53
divine. Curry and hot. Before he flies away. ♪ The
2:46:08
jet back home but the return trips lock, lock ♪
2:46:11
♪ Value for value ♪ Now I'ma turn it- T-Ward
2:46:20
hype. story Keeping the dream alive. No agenda. Yeah, I'm
2:46:30
out here taking pause with my little notebook Ask a
2:46:33
simple question, watch the whole room get shook Thank you.
2:46:49
never stand out crowd got quiet tension Push punch line
2:46:59
This shit really just dropped this. while I'm trying to
2:47:23
Dropping boots on a gr- from the lonely broadcast blues
2:47:47
time rendezvous In this pixelated prison we break out and
2:47:55
refresh I mean, dried ice. ♪ It's in shadows of
2:48:01
stories they dissected for the show ♪ ♪ The isolation
2:48:05
installation got installed in our heads ♪ ♪ Then the
2:48:07
producers got the memo time to link up instead ♪
2:48:10
♪ From the morning transmission to the meetup after dark
2:48:12
♪ ♪ We swapped typed out takes for a real
2:48:14
life ♪ ♪ In the division while the ♪ I'm
2:48:21
scared. Connection is protect- It's diff- But I ♪ Agenda
2:48:32
Nation, we're building the scene ♪ ♪ Used to hop
2:48:34
♪ Humans who catch the inside joke most. No central
2:48:43
server needed. It's a mess made of meat. Organic and
2:48:46
unfiltered. Can't be sold or delivered. Connections the cure. No
2:49:01
plan, just connection as BrickSax- *Demonic voice* If I had
2:49:33
known that no agenda was this good, I would given
2:49:36
them Secret Service protection.