No Agenda Show - 1854 - "Rackout"

Those guys, those guys are a great unit.

Adam Curry, John C. Devora.

8th Thursday, March 26, 2026.

This is your award winning given Asian media assassination episode 1854.

This is no agenda.

Testing the Trump Algo and Broadcasting Live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country

here in FEMA region number six.

In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

And from Northern San Francisco Bay, refinery row waiting for free oil.

I'm John C. Devora.

Just crack bottom buzzkill in the mountain.

Hey, baby, it's going to be a banana.

It's going to be free oil for everybody.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

I love how you were saying on a Sunday show.

God Trump's got to do something like three seconds later.

He's like, OK, everything's good.

We're talking.

We got a thing happening.

And we know the Algo.

We know it's like, OK, yes.

And then it'll be something horrible and it's going to threaten again.

We didn't even get to do a show in the meantime while he was Algo ran.

It's two or three iterations of the system took place between shows.

And I think you have a three by three.

I just want to play one clip of this is how our president plays the art of the deal.

And when you just look at it, you can just listen to the reports.

It's like, OK, yeah, well, we know what to expect.

We turn out of the war with Iran in the Oval Office today.

President Trump told our senior White House correspondent Ed O'Keefe

that Iranian negotiators have offered the United States

what the president described as an expensive gift.

Here's that with the details.

Even as Iran launched missiles towards Israel and other Gulf nations today.

We're in negotiations right now.

President Trump claimed the regime is so near defeat.

It has no choice but to negotiate and end to the war.

We killed all their leadership.

And then they met to choose new leaders and we killed all of them.

And now we have a new group.

We have really regime change.

You know, this is a change in the regime.

What makes you trust them?

I don't trust anybody.

Why do you say what makes you, do you think I trust them?

And why bother talking to them?

Because they're going to make a deal.

They're going to make a deal.

They did something yesterday that was amazing.

Actually, they gave us a present.

And the president arrived today.

There was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money.

And I'm not going to tell you what that president is.

The president would only say that president had to do with oil and gas

and the straight of hormones, the major shipping route that remains blocked.

Average gas prices have risen for 24 consecutive days,

now nearing $4 a gallon nationwide.

But even as the two countries are negotiating indirectly,

the U.S. is sending 5,000 troops to the region,

on top of the more than 50,000 already deployed.

Those troops could be ordered to take Carg Island,

a key oil shipping depot, or deploy on the Iranian coastline

to help secure the strength.

It seems so obvious.

Like, you know, we're going to bomb them and then...

Oh, well, you know, they sent me a present.

And then, yeah, I don't know who's talking.

Hey, these are the guys.

They must be the guy.

Just before the show, he said the president was eight,

maybe 10 full tankers of oil,

shipped through the straight of horror moves with Pakistani flags.

Yes.

Yeah, that's the general consensus from everybody.

That's what he said.

Yeah.

Sounds right.

I don't know how big of a gift that is.

Free oil.

Free money.

For who, though?

Who's it free for?

I don't know.

I have no idea where that was.

Tankers are good.

See what the tankers are going.

Yeah, I got a three by three.

All right.

I'll be on the second.

And now it's time.

Both three by three.

Experiment.

Bad GCD.

Everybody.

Comparings to resources for ADC.

CBS and MDC.

The never-ending three by three.

All right.

A three by three.

It's been a while.

You're back in the saddle.

So three by threes are on deck again.

So pretty much the same reporting.

Kind of neutral to anti-Trump.

You know, find the right clip to make them look like an idiot.

Let's go and start with the longest one, which is the ABC.

Even as President Trump claims peace talks are underway tonight, the Army.

Hearing to deploy the troops from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East

to support the war.

The president has said he does not plan to put boots on the ground.

But the soldiers of the 82nd are trained to parachute behind enemy lines.

Their deployment on top of the 4500 Marines and sailors expected to arrive in the region

this week.

It comes as President Trump and Iran sent clashing messages about whether they're negotiating.

Trump insists they are.

The leaders are all gone.

Nobody knows who to talk to.

But we're actually talking to the right people and they want to make a deal so badly.

Iran says that is simply not true.

That there are no talks and that Trump statements are part of efforts.

They don't say Iran claims that is not true.

That would be a little more even keel, I think, if they said it.

Yeah, exactly.

Good point.

Yeah.

Iran says that is simply not true.

That there are no talks and that Trump statements are part of efforts to reduce energy prices.

And by time for the implementation of his military plans.

The President will not say which Iranian leaders the U.S. is talking to.

Today, he cryptically noted that he knows Iran is going to make a deal because they just gave the U.S.

what he called a very big present.

They did something yesterday that was amazing.

Actually, they gave us a present.

And the President arrived today.

It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money.

And I'm not going to tell you what that present is.

But it was a very significant price.

Price.

And they could have cut that out.

Is it what?

They could have cut the um-um out.

They normally do.

No, that's not fun.

This is definitely the way.

Price.

And they gave it to us.

And they said they were going to give it.

So that meant one thing to me would deal with the right people.

The White House would not say what exactly that gift is.

The President would only say it's related to oil and gas passing through the straight of

her moves.

Iranian officials still insist there are no negotiations underway with the United States.

But tonight, sources tell me the Trump administration has sent over a 15-point peace plan

to Iran by way of Pakistan with hopes of ending this war, David.

Yeah, so Pakistanis are our guys now in the middle, which is kind of interesting.

Yeah, which brings me to a clip that's going to come up shortly.

There are after these three, which brings in another player, which nobody's talking about,

which I don't understand why.

Let's go to CBS.

Okay, CBS.

Even as Iran launched missiles towards Israel and other Gulf nations today.

We're in negotiations right now.

President Trump claimed the regime is so near defeat.

It has no choice but to negotiate and end to the war.

We killed all their leadership.

And then they met to choose new leaders and we killed all of them.

And now we have a new group.

We have really regime change.

You know, this is a change in the regime.

What makes you trust them?

I don't trust anybody.

I don't trust you.

Why do you say what makes you think I trust them?

And why bother talking to them?

Because they're going to make a deal.

They're going to make a deal.

They did something yesterday that was amazing.

Actually, they gave us a present.

And the present arrived today.

It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money.

And I'm not going to tell you what that present is.

The president would only say that present had to do with oil and gas and the straight of hormones.

The major shipping route that remains blocked.

Average gas prices have risen for 24 consecutive days, now nearing $4 a gallon nationwide.

But even as the two countries are negotiating indirectly,

the U.S. is sending 5,000 troops to the region.

On top of the more than 50,000 already deployed.

Those troops could be ordered to take Carg Island,

key oil shipping depot, or deploy on the Iranian coastline to help secure the straight.

And tonight's CBS News has learned more than 1,000 troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division

are also deploying to the Middle East.

They specialize in securing territory by parachuting out of airplanes, Tony.

Hmm.

So that's a parachute report.

That's a parachute song they grab.

Well, I mean, they're all hung up on the present,

which I'm sure Trump said that that way specifically for this reason.

So everybody would pick it up.

Yeah, well, they definitely did.

So we're going to move to NBC,

where because Richard Angle is the reporter,

I have to assume this has gotten clearance.

And this may be the official,

whatever kind of report we're going to talk about.

I mean, what the official intelligence sourced

report is what I'm thinking.

And that's from, that's some, okay, use Angle.

More American troops we're learning tonight are heading to the Middle East

to join the war with Iran.

More than 1,000 from the 82nd Airborne Division,

two sources familiar with the batter,

tell NBC News they will soon deploy to the Gulf.

This as President Trump just tonight appeared to be already declaring victory.

This war has been won.

At the exact time he was speaking,

we filmed this.

An Iranian cluster bomb exploding over Tel Aviv.

We're actually talking to the right people

and they want to make a deal so badly.

For now, the war is intensifying.

Israel today announced new massive strikes

on what it described as Iran's main production site

for explosive material.

US air strikes aren't slowing down either,

hitting around 500 targets a day.

And Iran is still firing on Israel

around the clock.

Back channel diplomacy does appear to be taking shape.

Pakistan today offered to mediate between the US and Iran.

Two sources telling NBC News

in-person negotiations could happen in the coming days.

But not everyone walks a quick exit.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel will keep attacking Iran

and Lebanon until Israel's aims are achieved.

And Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler,

Prince Mohammed bin Salman,

has told President Trump that Riyadh

is concerned about leaving Iran angry

and capable of continuing to strike its neighbors in the region,

according to a senior Saudi official.

Yeah, I'm hearing from different military sources

that the GCC nations are getting mad at us.

I don't know if that's true or if someone's just siopping me,

but that's what I'm hearing.

Like, eh, they're mad, they don't like it.

What amazes them?

Yeah, well, you know, what amazes me.

You know, we're talking, of course,

it's, you know, this is ABC, NBC, CBS,

and we're talking about $4 a gallon of gas.

But what this is doing,

and I think what I came to realize this morning

is I'm putting all the show prep together.

This straight of Hormuz,

these guys have had their hands on the throat of Asia,

the European Union, UK, for decades.

That's particularly when it comes to liquid natural gas.

Yeah.

And this, by the way, was the kind of finale

or endpoint of the spook show Rubicon,

yes, with the day back in the day.

Back in the day.

Yeah, but they sank a ship.

They sank a ship in the straight form.

Yeah, they sank a ship in the middle of it to screw it up.

Well, no one's done that yet, so.

But it's amazing how, you know,

because the oil bearer, and he's texting me every five minutes.

You know, like, oh, this is gonna happen.

We're gonna be here forever.

And of course, he's benefiting from oil prices.

But where he's really benefiting is from gas.

I think he's head's 40% gas, 60% oil.

He's had Japanese in town all day.

They're signing long-term contracts for Texas gas.

They're saying, if this war continues,

they will run out of LNG.

And that'll be in a couple of weeks.

Diesel is also an issue.

But it's the gas, I think, that people are overlooking.

Here's, was the CBS had a report on it.

As drones and missiles rain havoc on oil and gas facilities

across the Middle East, thousands of miles away,

the war has triggered a crisis in Asia.

With energy shortages heating almost every country on the continent,

all dependent.

Enough with the nat pops, people.

On the Persian Gulf for supply.

Japan and South Korea are tapping into strategic reserves,

while developing countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand,

and the Philippines are rationing fuel and closing gas stations.

In India, protests have erupted over surging prices

and acute shortages.

China has reserves and pipelines,

but has already banned exports of jet fuel, diesel, and fertilizer,

which is having a knock-on effect.

In self-governed Taiwan that produces the world's high-end semiconductors,

there are serious concerns about a protracted conflict

will remain for the island democracy that imports 97% of its energy.

We are going to feel the same impact as other countries.

You know, the rising energy price, rising oil price,

as they're going to hurt the economy, our economy.

It's Deputy Foreign Minister Chen Ming-ji,

says the government is now racing to find alternative supplies.

What happened in the Middle East?

Tell us, that's very important for us to diversify our energy supply.

Will Taiwan be buying more LNG from the United States?

Definitely, I think that we have a diversify.

If the crisis in the Middle East drags on,

it could prove to be a windfall for American energy companies,

particularly natural gas producers,

as governments across Asia, including here in Taiwan,

try to secure long-term supply.

Luckily you know a lot about this.

Where do we get our diesel from?

That requires a difference.

Is that the Venezuelan oil?

No, no.

You can get diesel pretty much from anything.

Okay, so we're actually in a good kind of a good place.

The problem with diesel right now is states like California implemented this new

close sulfur diesel.

Because diesel necessarily has sulfur,

just always the way it was made.

And now they've restricted that,

and it makes diesel cost more than high octane.

Right.

But that's California.

Yeah, but because of the nature of that fuel,

it's one of those things that you do in one place.

You have to do it everywhere.

Oh, okay.

So California screws it up for everybody?

Is that what you're saying?

Yeah, yeah, kind of.

Yeah, I'll screw those guys.

That's us.

Phone finger number one.

The EU is also in, and they were already in a lot of trouble

with cutting off Russian gas or refusing to take it.

And then, you know, I guess Biden blew up the Nord Stream 2

didn't make it easier.

And now there's nothing come on out of our moves.

And we're the guys.

We seem to be in the cat bird seat.

We have a strategy that is built for a world of higher uncertainty

with risks and scenarios at its core.

Mrs. V feel a guard.

We have a graduated set of options for responding.

And we are starting.

Graduated set of options.

That's interesting.

From a better place, should we need to act?

And we will not act before we have sufficient information

on the size and persistence of the shock and its propagation.

Shock.

At its most recent meeting last week,

the ECB kept interest rates on hold as expected.

While warning of higher inflation and lower growth due to the war.

But analysts now expect the central bank to raise interest rates

as early as next month to curb a likely rise in consumer prices.

That's great.

Higher global oil and gas costs have led to immediate petrol price hikes

in the Eurozone and brought back memories of the energy shock

that followed Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Our favorite word is already being bandied about Europe

which is stagflation.

Yeah.

I'm not convinced that stagflation is what's going on.

Well, they're not producing anything.

What do they make anymore?

Well, yeah, but they can sell Chinese goods and say they did them.

Yeah, I guess they could.

They could.

But I don't know.

To me, it just seems like, okay, this is pretty good for America.

I mean, if we figure, I mean, if California would stop the nonsense

with the sulfur, then wouldn't we be kind of okay?

We got gas.

Lots of it.

What do you think the price of gas is here?

But I'm talking about lick.

You don't know about natural gas.

Oh, you probably seven eight bucks at this point.

Seven.

Okay.

Yeah.

And it's premium here is 460.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Who still uses regular?

Should I be doing that?

I think you can get it right.

Well, I'm not sure.

I mean, you know, this is, this is a quite, I think you've answered this for me before.

I mean, do I need to have premium in a modern vehicle?

Is that a necessity?

Or is this some marketing thing that I'm falling into?

No, you should use premium.

Okay.

And what vehicle should I not be using premium?

When it says, when you open the little thing, it says, use regular.

When it says that, then you use regular.

Okay.

Rental cars.

All rental cars.

Oh, this is, that's a good, that's a good point.

I've probably always put premium into my rental car.

Oh, I would never do that.

What a dumb idea.

What?

Dummy.

Hey, don't worry.

I'll, I'll take care of the gas myself.

What is it?

87.

Here you go.

87 octane.

It knocks a little bit, but otherwise it's a good ride.

All the newer cars have knock computers.

They'll just, they'll tone it back and it won't knock.

Right.

Okay.

So you still haven't really answered my question.

Is it a year?

Is it a type of engine?

What is it?

It's the compression, mostly, and also the, what it's required to maintain a certain horsepower.

Okay.

You could probably put, you know, I mean, you could put premium in or crap.

I'm saying that regular gas into a premium engine.

Like let's say a Lexus and it would say, oh, this is no good.

And it would detune the engine.

You're driving around a junker.

I don't need to drive fast, man.

If it saves me a dollar, a gallon.

It's not a dollar and I would recommend it.

Okay.

All right.

I'm going to play these clips.

I'm going to follow up to the three by three.

But this is from NTD.

Okay.

Which one?

And these are the Trump, Iran talks.

Iran wanted to talk and President Trump is willing to listen.

That's what the White House is saying today.

As the Central Command announces, fresh results from Operation Epic Fury.

Joining us now live is entities White House correspondent Iris Tau.

Good evening, Iris.

What is the latest from the White House?

You didn't do as well, Tiff.

So as the Trump administration has reportedly presented.

What?

What do you see?

I usually take those big gaps out.

It's okay.

I thought it was, I'm sorry.

How do you feel on, by the way?

Sorry, I forgot to ask.

I feel pretty much the same as the last one.

But I think my voice is a little gravelier.

It has a sex appeal to it that I'm kind of digging.

Yeah.

Did I 15 point piece back to Iran?

The White House today is pushing back on reporting that the White House rejected

that peace plan while also saying that talks remain ongoing and productive.

The White House is also making clear that the U.S. will step up attacks

if Tehran rejects peace.

Also warning that the President does not love watch.

President's preference is always peace.

There does not need to be any more death and destruction.

But if Iran fails to accept the reality of the current moment,

if they fail to understand that they have been defeated militarily

and will continue to be,

President Trump will ensure they are hit harder than they have ever been hit before.

President Trump does not bluff and he is prepared to unleash hell.

Iran should not miscalculate again.

And just looking at the algo, I think it's pretty safe to predict

he's going to hit something hard again.

That's what he might be right.

That's just how we works.

He does every single time.

Like, okay.

All right.

It's getting a little old.

Well, it's the system.

It's how he runs it.

And I'm happy.

I don't have to run it.

So the thing about NTD is they do bring in new information

at these next two clips.

The third one in particular,

total clip is,

it's like nobody's talking about half this stuff on the mainstream.

And let's go with the clip two schedule.

And if the White House today also announcing that President Trump's meeting

with China's Xi Jinping will take place in Beijing now on May 14th

and 15th.

Of course, that meeting was previously postponed,

amid the war in Iran.

And when asked today if the new timeline means that the war

will also wrap up before then,

so it will reiterate that the original timeline for the war

was four to six weeks.

But now they are ahead of schedule.

And this was, I saw the cabinet meeting this morning

as I'm putting clips together.

It was like, huh, do I need to clip anything?

Answer no.

But it was, the President said the same thing.

He's like, we had four to six weeks.

We're way ahead of schedule.

Well, I think we got like two weeks left.

But we're way ahead of schedule.

Everything's hunky-dory.

Should be wrapping it up pretty soon.

Well, let's hope so.

Now, this is the one that I kind of got my attention,

maybe put these together,

which is adding Turkey to the mix.

Nobody is discussing this.

Almost a month into the war in Iran and the United States.

And Israel continued launching strikes against Iranian regime.

This as Turkey says it's now mediating talks between the U.S. in Iran

to help bring an end to the war.

And to these Jason Perry has the latest war update.

U.S. forces on Wednesday report striking

Iranian military infrastructure that has threatened American troops

and regional partners for decades.

The U.S. military also addressing claims

that the Iranian regime shot down a U.S. fighter jet,

saying in a post on X that the claim is false,

adding that no U.S. fighter aircraft have been shot down by Iran.

Fighting alongside the U.S., the Israeli Air Force,

saying they completed another wave of overnight attacks in Iran.

This one on weapons production sites in and near Tehran,

including a strike on a facility used for developing submarines.

It is really general saying this the day before.

The Iranians plan to launch hundreds of missiles towards Israel

on the first day of the operation.

They fired fewer than 100 on the first day

and half that amount on the second day.

The number of launches decreased very quickly.

The average is roughly about 10 missiles per day.

In Iranian missile we're seeing falling from the sky in Israel on Wednesday

and workers cleaning up the aftermath from an Iranian missile

that struck Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv.

Also in the region, a Turkish official telling Reuters on Wednesday

that Turkey is now mediating talks between the U.S. and Iran

in an effort to help bring an end to the war.

The Turkish official did not elaborate on what messages were being passed

between the U.S. and Iran,

but he did say that messages were also being passed on to Gulf countries

who have been caught up in the war.

As Iranian attack drones reportedly struck a fuel tank

at Kuwait International Airport the same day.

There's no mention of Turkey about it.

Anybody except these guys,

and it makes more sense if you think about it.

Well, they're in the region.

The Pakistan stuff that has to be about oil for China.

That's got to be some back room deal.

Hey, Trump, we need to give us some oil, man.

Come on, ship some our way.

That's got to be what that is.

That would make more sense.

But they're not...

Pakistanis aren't known for negotiating peace deals,

but the Turks are always trying to get in on the action.

We are.

I was horning in.

Well, they're NATO members, so they do have some standing.

That's still...

That's the last of the clips just mentions the Kuwait Lebanon,

which is still kind of side shows.

That's Israel's deal, I think.

Israel is very much blowing that up.

Kuwait's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva,

saying this about the situation.

What we are witnessing today is a persistent, aggressive approach

that disregards all the efforts and initiatives undertaken

by the state of Kuwait and other countries in the region

over many years to establish the principles of good-nabarliness

and build trust.

And in another development,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

saying Israel is determined to, quote,

fundamentally, change the situation in Lebanon

and the Israel Defense Forces,

so they'll continue to operate against Hezbollah,

accusing the terrorist group of attacking Israel

on behalf of the Iranian regime.

Yeah, Israel's got its own thing.

I think it was France 24,

had a report on how the US interests have diverged

from Israel.

The still smoldering aftermath of Iranian air strikes

on Tel Aviv Tuesday morning.

Weeks into the conflict,

the number of missiles launched at Israel was waning.

But in recent days, they've started raining down again,

casting doubts on just how destroyed Iran's ballistic missile program

actually is.

Now, US President Donald Trump is you turning on the war

from escalating threats to negotiations with Tehran.

After speaking with Trump,

Israel's Prime Minister attempted to show unity

while emphasizing the fight will go on.

President Trump believes there's a chance to leverage

the tremendous achievements of the IDF and the US military

in order to realize the war's objectives in an agreement,

an agreement that will safeguard our vital interests.

At the same time, we continue to strike both in Iran

and in Lebanon.

Israel has been clear its goal is to bring down the Iranian regime.

But US war objectives continue to shift from the destruction

of the nuclear program to ballistic capabilities

or even at one point regime change.

Now faced with the possibility its American partner

may want out of the conflict altogether,

Israel is trying to convince the world the war isn't over.

We continue to attack Iran with all our might.

Regarding Lebanon,

Hasbalar made a grave mistake when it attacked Israel

as a tool of the Iranian terrorist regime.

And it is paying and will pay a heavy price.

Israel wants to avoid a repeat of the 12-day war in June 2025,

which ended at the insistence of Donald Trump.

So there's a little disagreement there.

Trump needs to do what BB says.

I don't understand.

It's not listening.

Well, Israelis are going to be on their own.

Are they sure are?

Did you see that theory someone sends it to us this morning?

If you were looking at a grand plan,

how, and it kind of explains our laxidaisical approach to Syria,

I'm going, hey, you used to be an ISIS guy.

You got a suit on.

You can run the country.

Which, with a new name.

Change your name, throw on the suit.

You're good to go.

So the thesis is that this is all about us gaining complete energy dominance.

So we cut off China with their Syria connection

because they had the whole transit thing set up.

We got Venezuela.

And that Venezuela oil is being traded in dollars.

Now we see what happens with the straits of foremost.

I personally think we're going to take over the island,

and we'll be running that part.

Seems like, and again,

making sure it gets sold in dollars, especially to you, China.

And then the LNG at the real price.

Yeah, retail.

No more wholesale for you.

Retail prices.

And then the LNG part,

I think this is much bigger than we realize.

Europe has to buy it from us.

Asia has to buy it from us.

We're going to power all of the infrastructure

in all the AI.

They took out a whole bunch of data centers too.

It's kind of interesting.

Amazon data centers.

There's your AI.

You bombed one?

Yeah, a couple of them.

Yeah, they bombed a couple.

You're in Iran?

No, no, in Saudi Arabia.

Who bombed them?

The Iranians.

Well, that's interesting.

Yeah.

Let me see if I still have that.

I have a link somewhere about it.

Yeah, they took out a...

Actually, it was our boots on the ground guy.

Here he is.

Let me see.

This is from our guy in the region.

A new casualty of war is data centers and cloud service providers.

Both EWS locations.

Oh, in Bahrain, I'm sorry.

And UAE, not Saudi Arabia.

We're targeted in the past three weeks.

The impact was quite devastating as data center.

Physical security protects from an intruder or fire.

But no data center is designed to withstand a direct drone or ballistic missile hit.

Now, consider the future crosshair.

The world will have around shiny new and expensive AI data centers and the potential cost

of fortify it.

So I think somehow wrapped up in this and that could be part of Trump's maniacal idea that

AI is the new oil, the most important thing in the world.

And you can't power them without our nuclear and LNG plants.

Now, we're going to outrun China with it.

China has really is hurting, I think, from this oil glut much, much less than we are.

So if there's a big plan, a big strategy behind it, part of it is working.

I think the dollar seems to be getting stronger, which in my mind means people need dollars

to get energy and the next shoot, the next boots to fall on the ground would be,

hey, Russia, go ahead and sell it.

Let Russia sell the oil real cheap.

We've already kind of started that.

Well, we'll see.

It seems too damn complicated.

What do you mean?

I mean, you got all these moving parts.

You've got the, you know, oil and gas, and then there's all these other subcategories

in fact, you can play this clip, which is Urea is another missing element in Australia.

Oh, that's the pig urine.

Well, it comes from petroleum.

Yeah, but pig urine.

We've talked about this stuff.

You need it for your climate change friendly diesel.

Well, there are fresh warnings that Australia's food production could be halved in months

as the war in Iran disrupts supply chains.

So what's the biggest threat to our farmers?

Well, it all comes down to fuel and fertiliser.

Yeah, it all imports 96% of our Urea fertilizers from overseas, with over half of that coming from the Middle East.

But with the war, exports have ground to a halt, and that will impact our farmers and eventually our food at supermarkets.

Fertilizer.

Again, how could we let these, these numb nuts in Iran control all of this?

This is what's being exposed.

And the other bad, bad actor, and this is, which nobody's talking about, because that's a little esoteric, which is helium.

Yes.

I had a clip about that, I think.

And you need that to cool down stuff, like chip manufacturing.

It's necessary for chip manufacturing.

And TMSC is only got like three weeks supply left, I think.

Yeah, Samsung has about three or four months.

And if you have to shut down one of these plants, like the one in Taiwan, it could take up to five months to get it back up.

Oh, really?

You can't just flip the switch on those things.

No, no switch flipping.

Really?

Why is that?

The process is complex.

I mean, okay, so you don't have any helium.

Okay, we got to stop.

But then you started up again.

What do you happen to know the complexity of it?

I'm not unsure of it, but there's a lot of moving parts.

Well, and it's one of those things that has to be running all the time.

I'm thinking by Wednesday next week, this thing is we've got something wrapped up.

If not, it's going to get really ugly.

Because then they can just drag on.

I found CNN had retired, what is he?

General, I think, or Admiral, I don't know who it is now.

Steven Anderson.

And he had some pretty decent things to say about the so-called boots on the ground, because the 82nd Airborne,

they're elite guys and gals.

They go and do stuff and get stuff done.

And I got a couple clips.

President Trump said Tuesday, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

said to lead negotiations, officials telling CNN,

a potential meeting this weekend could happen in Pakistan,

although exact timing and location remains very fluid.

The President also has said Secretary Rubio, along with special envoy Steve Whitkopf

and the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will take part in negotiations with Iran,

although it's still unclear whether they'll travel to Pakistan for a meeting this weekend.

Let's discuss all of this with retired Brigadier General.

Steve Anderson, General, really appreciate you coming in.

I want to start with the headlines that people may have seen CNN reported about a deployment of about a thousand troops from the 82nd Airborne.

And just to start with the 82nd Airborne itself, spent a lot of time in Fort Prague as a kid, the significance of the unit.

It's a great unit, the immediate response.

It's a great unit, I tell you.

Those guys are a great unit.

Forced that they put together probably about a thousand troops, although some people are saying perhaps 2,000, that's probably about a battalion's worth.

They can be on the ground in about 22 hours or so to fly to a place like probably AUD Air Base and Cutter that would put them,

if the mission is Carg Island, they'd be about 250 miles away, still a long shot, but still something they could do.

If the mission is in the straight of Hormuz, if some people have talked about, that could be also 250 miles away and they could go to season Island there.

But I mean, this is a light unit, okay?

So they're going to have cruiser weapons, they're going to have individual weapons, they're going to have some mortars, they're going to have aviation support, they're going to have Apache helicopters.

They're going to probably be lifted in on Chinooks or maybe even Blackhawks.

Probably take about 70-some odd Blackhawks to move into that size, battalion size, into Carg Island.

If they had C-130s and they wanted to do an airborne operation, which they could, take about probably 15 or so, C-130s.

But again, that's a very, very dangerous situation.

Now, I'm thinking the retired military man here is sending some messages.

That sounds plausible to me.

82nd airborne, Apache's, drop them in, take over the island.

The buildup that we've seen also, marine units have been moving toward the region as well.

I think there's a lot of questions about what it actually means, whether it's an optionality issue or whether it is, there are definitely going to be boots on the ground.

Speaker Mike Johnson said this when he was asked about it.

Listen.

The buildup of troops is very different than boots on the ground.

We don't have boots on the ground.

We just got a lot in the region, man. They're not on the ground. They're in the water, okay? Feets in the water.

I don't think that's the intention, but I think Iran should watch that buildup, and they need to take note of that.

The distinction that I understand it on its face, but a buildup at this level towards that right now, is this something that can be pulled back with no repercussions?

Absolutely, Phil. I mean, it could.

I mean, it could be a bargaining chip, you know, for diplomacy, just like Speaker Johnson suggests.

The Mu is going to be a very capable entity. Right now, the 31st Mu, we believe, is at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.

But they still got to come through the Strait of Hormuz.

You know, if, in fact, they're going to go to something like Carg, or Carg Island, or one of the islands within the Strait.

But I mean, I think that putting boots on the ground obviously would be a huge step forward.

And, you know, we were talking mission creep big time.

But perhaps they're just trying to position these forces over there in the maze to give them some options later on.

On some level.

Yes, on the signal, some level.

Final one, just because I thought there was a fun little quote in here.

When it comes to the Strait of Hormuz, obviously there has been no major breakthrough.

There have been no naval escorts.

The insurance proposal wasn't enough to trigger tankers in their personnel saying, sure, we'll take a shot at this.

Is there a viable military solution to that that the US would be considering right now?

I would think that probably the only viable military solution, the one that makes the most sense is they have some kind of an escort mission.

But it's going to still be fraught with peril because you're talking about an enemy, a committed enemy.

You mean 200,000, you know, religious fanatics.

That's what the IRGC is. These people are fighting to the death.

They are not going to go down easily. It's either kill or be killed.

They know if there's any kind of regime change, they're gone.

So they're going to continue to use all their asymmetric capabilities.

They're going to use mines. They're going to use missiles.

They're going to use probably some of the cruise missiles, like homemade cruise missiles.

You remember Phil, when the Moscow was sunk by the Ukrainians for years?

Homemade cruise missiles.

I made one the other day.

Probably some of the cruise missiles, like homemade cruise missiles, you remember Phil when the Moscow was sunk by the Ukrainians.

Four years ago, that was essentially a surfboard on steroids.

They also got drones, as we all know, so they're going to use all those elements of their power,

their asymmetric power to try to interdict the straight as best they possibly can.

I don't know, man. I don't know.

Well, maybe they want to take the, how about this?

Okay.

So Trump is in talks with the renegade offshoot of the IRGC.

Obviously.

Yeah, there's some hot shots.

Yeah.

Some guys who can do stuff, they can do stuff, they can do stuff.

Well, they obviously can show, and that's why they sent the 10 ships through.

To show that, no, watch, we're going to watch how they go right through.

There's a gift.

Take these ships.

And so nobody even took a shot at them.

So we're in charge down here.

But that I told us, whoever the other side of the faction, another faction up north,

owns that, has got that island, and the other one is still going to be benefiting from all

the oil that they're going to be able to pump out of that place.

That's the oil export area.

So if you guys can grab that for us, you've got the firepower to do it.

You've already bombed the crap out of it.

Now just grab it and lock it down, and we're good to go.

Kind of like it.

Yeah.

Why not?

We do that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

Fight for someone else.

The juice usually.

Meanwhile, Jesse Waters sent Jenny out for spring break.

Always a hoot.

Did you see this one?

I was having, I almost, I was going to do a three-part clip.

I only have two.

Yes, I did.

It was a typical kind of disgusting because the girls are all sluts, and many of her just

gorgeous and drawn away.

What's the most surprising thing?

Well, I got here the first day.

I hooked up with a guy, and I'm going to do one a day.

We sent Johnny down there for a little welfare check.

What college do you guys go to?

UTC!

Happy you.

Sacred Heart University.

Spring Break, 2026.

What is the game plan?

Drinking, blackout with my rack out.

If my mom is watching, blackout with my rack out.

No.

The thing about this that's always overlooked out, I'm kind of a student of the segment.

Can you turn your mic down just a little bit?

You're just crunching a little bit, sorry.

So I try to keep up with this.

And one of the things that the subtext is these are all colleges.

These are all college students.

And he has him named the colleges.

Yeah.

So if you go to Ohio State, you're going to be blacking out with your rack out.

Blackout with my rack out.

I mean, come on.

What's the state?

Spring Break, 2026.

What is the game plan?

Drinking, blackout with my rack out.

If my mom is watching, I'm sorry, mom.

But I've been getting pretty drunk almost every day.

Hook up with some girls.

Get with as many girls as we can.

And not come back with the SCD.

I got with one person each night.

That's it.

So how many guys have you made out with this week?

I've been here for about 10 days.

So 10.

What were their names?

I don't remember.

Name one.

What is the craziest thing you've seen at Spring Break?

Not that crazy.

I've seen people do like cocaine off of boobs.

I saw a girl like blackout on the street.

That was pretty exciting.

Sunday, my mom was so drunk.

You should have got to take this pants off in the middle of the club.

There's a lot of famous people down here.

Have you seen Johnny Bellisario?

What?

Nevermind.

Okay.

What is the wildest thing you've done down here?

Got with somebody the first night that I came down here.

Hold it.

It's in.

Ah.

Two days ago.

Stripping naked.

Get into the water.

You got to say.

What did you do?

You went something crazy.

Honestly.

All right.

On the strip.

No, we had the ****.

What issue facing America is the most important to you?

What bikini I'm going to wear next?

We just have to remind everybody that man on the street

segments are the most fun for any television producer.

Because you can mold it and shape it however you want.

Because I'm sure there were some kids going.

I'm really concerned about what's happening in Iran.

Okay.

Maybe not.

Cool to you, Gaudel.

University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

Georgetown University.

The Ohio State University.

How woke is your school?

Woke.

Like party wise.

We're woke as ****.

Pretty woke, I will say.

They're crazy over there.

What is the definition of woke?

The definition of woke.

Oh my gosh.

That's like a difficult question.

What happens at spring break?

You have a few people offering you to do things for money.

That's probably the craziest.

My friend was streaking all day last night.

My friend P **** last night.

Why do you do that?

Because he's a **** degenerate.

I just saw a guy start punching this other guy.

Was he really good or was it just?

Actually, he was really good.

Okay.

Could I have taken him in a fight?

How have the ladies been treating you?

Treating me the three shots were free.

She treated you to shots.

Yeah, it's usually the other way around.

Well, you're drinking out of a straw.

So kind of checks out.

Was that good?

No, it tastes like ass, but we're drinking it.

How have the guys been treating you?

Oh, they're guys.

Nice.

Lovely.

Show chivalry is not dead.

It is.

But you don't come to poor Lauderdale to find your husband.

They like like it when you say like,

oh, I have a boyfriend.

They're like, okay, well, he's not here.

If you were president of the United States,

what would be the first thing that you guys do?

Buy something really cool.

Like a bunch of cars.

Lower the drinking age.

All the girls got to be in bikinis 24-7.

Give me and my friends a lot of money.

You'd steal?

Yeah.

When the federal reserve.

What's federal reserve?

Tell me about ice.

I mean, someone's got to do it.

Makes every drink better.

He wants a warm drink, not me.

My dad has a restaurant.

And if ice went into that restaurant

and took and went into our kitchen,

I'm not going to name the restaurant

because ice will actually see this and do it.

But yeah, like the restaurant would not be open.

How about all those TSA lies?

I'm like scared to go back.

All the flights are getting canceled.

One of them was really nice to me.

I had a puppy dog like my stuffed animal

and my backpack and he loved it.

Oh my god.

I was in line for 40 minutes.

Yeah, that was f***ing.

That's interesting.

You did not include any of the Iran stuff

that they had in that segment.

I intended to.

And that's clip two, which you see

by the numbering sequence is missing.

I have some of what would have been clip two.

I'm very happy.

You're told it's dead.

What?

What?

What is that?

Who the f*** is Iotola?

I have never heard that word in my life.

Lewis.

What's Iotola?

I haven't heard.

I found out about Chuck Norse yesterday.

That was more devastating to me.

He was the supreme leader of Iran.

He's dead.

We killed him.

Well, you did.

You killed him.

What have you heard about Venezuela?

Venezuela?

Nothing.

I'm not sure.

I barely know what would be going on

in Tennessee where I'm from.

That they beat us in the world,

baseball, classic.

Have you heard anything else?

No.

Nothing.

I haven't heard nothing about Venezuela.

Yeah.

That's pretty much.

That's why there's two of us.

Good catch.

But you know.

They don't know anything.

But.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, yes.

On one hand, this is an embarrassment.

I will tell you that.

The American college youth,

the university kids.

Are envied by university kids around the world.

Certainly in Europe.

Because they look at this.

And they go.

Wow.

They got no care in the world.

It's great.

They're getting black out with their rack out.

Yeah.

And look at the nice figures on a couple of those.

Yes.

And I have a feeling that this may not be all that bad.

You're a freshman.

You're a sophomore.

Yeah.

Do all your idiotic things.

And they're not.

Then whatever's happening.

Whatever we're all super concerned with.

The whole potosphere.

Run.

Run.

Run.

Run.

Run.

They're like, just having a good time.

Yeah.

Well, they are having a good time.

Yeah.

That's so.

I don't think it's an embarrassment.

Like, yeah.

You know, you'll figure it out later.

That's some level it is.

You'll figure it out later that you need to worry about some things.

But do you really have to?

I mean, do you.

But don't you think by the time that you're a freshman or a sophomore in college.

That the Ohio state.

And that you've graduated from high school.

And you don't know what an Iatola is.

No, you don't need to know in America.

That's the embarrassing part of high schools.

But you don't need to know in America.

You just need to know how to drive the Uber.

Just follow the directions on the map.

You know, these are happy dumb people.

I have less of a problem with it than I thought I would.

Okay.

You know, you become a very tolerant.

A bit tolerant.

It was, it was an interesting Sunday this morning, which is, was it CBS, I think.

Had Arthur Brooks, who is supposedly New York Times best-selling author.

Did you know Arthur Brooks, New York Times best-selling author?

No.

He's a blowhard.

The kind of guy you got to.

You got to blowhard.

You got to edit the pauses between every single word he says.

Oh, one of those guys.

Yeah.

But what he was saying reminded me a lot of you in a good way.

And I want you to listen to this and tell me if you agree.

I think he's spot on with this and it's just, I thought of you.

I'm like, oh, that's kind of what John does.

Throughout all of human history, boredom was just a part of life.

We went to work in the factory or on the farm.

And a lot of that time was, well, pretty boring.

But here's the thing.

That made our brains work properly.

When you're bored, a set of structures in your brain turns on called the default mode network.

This is what you use for mind wandering, abstract thinking, and considering the meaning of your life.

In the last 15 years, we've all but gotten rid of boredom.

And you know how.

The average person looks at his or her phone 205 times a day.

But that also means the default mode network stays off.

So we never think about life's big Y questions.

Over time, this creates a sense of emptiness, a lack of purpose and significance.

This can lead to anxiety and depression.

To reintroduce yourself to the meaning of your life means to learn to manage your devices and not let them manage you.

That requires living with a few simple rules that introduce more silent spaces into your life.

Go for a walk each day without your phone.

Work out without headphones.

Create a phone-free zone at meal times.

Put away the phone and hour before bed and keep it out of the bedroom.

At first, this will be hard because the moment you're a little bored, you'll reach for the device.

And feel a little twinge of disappointment.

But don't worry, it gets easier with practice.

It will take about two weeks.

But you'll find a richness you haven't felt maybe in years.

You'll be calmer and more at peace.

This is how you'll know your brain is working the way it was designed.

People will notice the difference and ask your happiness secret.

Just tell them that your life got more interesting.

Why? Because you allowed yourself to be bored.

Now, I know that you don't have a phone or phone addiction and that you don't grab your phone when you're bored.

I have a question.

I mean, I used to, I wasn't terrible, but once I put it in the drawer and then decided to make a thing about having it in the drawer.

After about, it takes about four months.

And then you go, that's interesting because you think, well, I needed to go to the store.

What happens if there's an emergency?

And so you constantly worry about it.

So you stop carrying it around and you stop using it for navigation.

And after about four, it takes about two months to get used to that.

And then it becomes pleasurable.

It improves things.

It's like, you don't have to worry about where your phone is.

It's just in the drawer.

And then it becomes like, wow, I'm just going to leave it in the drawer all the time.

I do pull it out. I have it right now because I'm not at my house.

And I need some form of communication.

Right.

But it's the way to go.

Now, do you, do you get bored?

Well, I don't know what board.

I mean, I can find ways to stop.

Well, let me ask you this.

When you go out, you don't have, you go to the grocery store.

So this is what I see all the time.

You go to the grocery store, you're standing in the line, the checkout line.

Right. I see it too.

And what do you do when you're in the checkout line because you don't have your phone?

I stand like a normal person in the checkout line waiting to get checked out.

Are you thinking of stuff like lies?

Oh, yeah. I guess that's the moment he's talking about.

Yeah. Yeah.

Probably good for me.

Now that he says it, it sounds like it might be healthy.

Yes.

And I think these kids, they're using their phone only to hook up.

You know, hey, where are you going to be?

And the rest of the time, they're drinking.

Okay, just replace the drinking with some boredom and some thought about life.

And they'll probably be okay.

It's the, it's the, the, the constant.

I've got to, I've, I've got to check.

It was going on.

What's happening?

Oh, man.

Oh, what is Trump doing?

Oh, I got to make sure I'm at the No Kings Day Saturday.

Which is happening again.

No Kings Day Saturday.

Did you see our first lady?

You know, I passed it over a couple of times.

I've been maybe thinking about watching it, but no.

So you must have watched it.

Yes. And I was so disappointed.

Why?

Because, well, first of all, she had a robot.

So she walks out with a robot.

The robot looks like every other manky robot.

You know, okay, it's walking next to her.

Wow.

What was the point of that?

Well, you, we'll get to the point of that.

She walks out with the robot and they all sit behind the day.

She got Bob McCrone sitting there.

He got the, the first lady of Romania, you know, the princess, the, whatever.

You got all these ladies.

And if you watch the Melania documentary, you know, they're all, they're all in it together.

Yes, we're going to help the children.

And I'd like the first lady, but this was so disappointing.

So then they get the robot.

The robot stands in front of the day.

And the robot is kind of waving with its jerky arm to everybody.

And this is the whole, this is the whole robot speech.

Thank you for slating Melania Trump for inviting me to the White House.

It isn't a fun.

The robot has vocal fry.

And it sounds exactly like Carolyn Levitt.

It does.

It's inviting me to the White House.

It isn't a fun.

It's to be a fostering the future together as global coalition and entrepreneurial meeting.

I'm figure three.

A humanoid built in the United States of America.

I am grateful to be part of this historic movement to empower children with technology and education.

Welcome.

Damn the need of those.

You'll go slow.

The end of the new.

So now it's going through welcome in all these different languages.

Wow.

It speaks different languages.

I'm going to sound a bit.

For a few more by Ian.

Let's go across them on.

Don't bring us late.

Thank you.

It can vocal fry in 16 languages.

I like what is this?

Excuse me.

I'm very disappointed.

This robot doesn't do a back flip.

Doesn't do anything fun.

Like point people out say, hey, you know, I recognize you with my with my facial recognition.

Yeah, how's your kid do anything but this?

This vocal fry.

Bienvenue.

And then again, I asked what's what was the point?

Here we go.

Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato.

Plato is always patient and always available.

Predictably, our children with developed deep critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities.

The AI powered Plato will boost analytic skills and problem solving and adopt in real time to a student space, prior knowledge, and even emotional state.

The byproduct, a more well-rounded lifestyle for our children, freeing up time for being with friends, playing sports, and developing interest beyond school.

A more complete person.

So the first lady is advocating for robot teachers so the kid can somehow become more well-rounded.

I didn't understand this at all.

This was in the Netflix special?

No, no, no, this happened just yesterday.

Oh, okay.

This happened at the White House.

No, the Netflix special, you saw her talking about her nonprofit.

Did you come out with the robot?

At the White House, yes, she walked out.

No, I mean, on the Netflix special?

No, no, no, the Netflix special?

Oh, you see it confusing me.

Well, okay, I'm sorry.

I thought we were talking about the documentary.

No, this was yesterday in the White House.

She's walking out with the robot.

And then the whole thing is, oh yeah, remember, the robot's name is Play Toe, but she says Play Doe,

which is just a fantastic Doe, Play Doe, okay.

But she is four children.

You're not going to have your kid educated by this stupid robot?

What's going on?

Whatever it is, it's not okay.

I'm very against that.

Maybe you started off with an analysis of the documentary.

You never gave me a, is it any good?

Oh, just because Mimi and I talked about the documentary, I'm sorry.

Yes.

I like the documentary a lot.

I liked it.

Because she shows a kind of Jackie Kennedy might kill my husband one day.

If he gets out of line and shoot him, you know, class, very meticulous about everything

wants to bring class back to the White House.

Yeah.

And I like that.

Isn't America really?

I like that.

And I know it's classy about a robot.

No, that's my point.

It is perpendicular to the whole Melania loving children.

And she was talking in the documentary with Bob McCrone and the Jordanian lady about

their nonprofit and their work for children.

We have to do stuff for children and they're all there at the White House when Melania walks

out with the robot.

And this is what they're doing for children.

I'm like, no, heck no.

What happened to teachers?

Yes, these robots are going to work out.

It's no good.

Anyway, leads me into the big news of the day.

So Kelly, after more than a week of deliberations, a jury in Los Angeles finding both meta and

YouTube liable on all counts in this bell weather, civil case, over allegations that their

platforms were designed to be addictive, that of course comes just one day after a separate

jury in New Mexico ruled against meta in a case centered on similar claims about product

design and child safety.

Now in this LA case, jurors were asked whether the companies misled the public about

the safety of their apps and whether certain design features contributed to the plaintiffs'

mental distress.

She had a ledge that she became addicted to social media while underage, jury completely finding

in favor of the plaintiff.

Now as for damages, they set that at $3 million with meta-responsible for paying 70% of that

sum, Kelly.

Wow.

So there are seven counts here.

On all seven for meta, they were found negligent basically.

On all seven for YouTube, they were found negligent.

And you're saying of the $3 million they're assigning.

What did you say?

Three-quarters of that, to meta?

Yes.

70% will be paid out by meta.

But three million is coming in a lot lower than some legal analyst had expected.

And I've got the list of seven questions.

Your first one was YouTube.

Was meta negligent in the design or operation of their platform definitive?

Yes, from the jury.

Okay.

Because of the amounts, $3 million and then $3 million in punitive damages to one person,

$6 million.

I kind of brushed the story off.

Yeah.

Whatever.

Okay.

But it was Rob the constitutional lawyer who's just been hounding me, says, you have no idea.

Now, we have to understand that Rob the constitutional lawyer.

But before he became suits and boots, he's now on the, he's now a personal injury lawyer.

So good for him.

Yes.

Okay.

Resuitsandboots.com if you got hit by a truck or anything else you think you got wronged.

But before that, he worked for the tobacco guys.

And he was the one that would go out or one of the many, many lawyers that would defend tobacco companies

against a very similar accusation that they knowingly made their product addictive or maybe even more addictive.

And so we're going back and forth.

And he said, no, no, you have to understand.

This is big.

I said, well, isn't this going to get rolled up into some class action lawsuit and everybody gets $18

in the cracker jacks box?

And he says, no, no, no, no, no.

What?

Did he mention or site the phrase that I guess YouTube said in one of the depositions,

like to see no game type somewhere, the word casino done on purpose to get people addicted to

just like a gambling mechanism.

Well, there's a phrase.

It's a gem.

You know, I might have it in the show notes.

I've seen, I've seen that.

Well, so the, you know, the real point of this, I have all the different analyses.

Everyone kind of sucked NPR.

You know, NPR had, let me see, one, one half decent piece of analysis.

This is just one of the clips I grabbed from them.

Wait, what I want to understand is the young woman at the center of this case who goes by Kaley, I understand.

She's now 20 years old, right?

And she said she started using Instagram, which is just 11 years old.

Isn't that against meta's terms of service?

Yeah.

And this was a major part of the trial, which is how many young people below the stated, you know,

a minimum age are using the platform.

And when Mark Zuckerberg got on the stand, it was read internal emails back to him,

that basically demonstrated that the company has been aggressively pursuing teens and preteens

to get on Instagram and to keep them there, even though like you said, they have a policy of saying,

you know, you've got to be at least 13 years old to use this app.

So that was part of the argument the lawyers made as a way of demonstrating that these companies

really were after young people really wanted to keep them there.

And now we have a really resounding historic verdict that is tied to 2,000 other cases

that have been consolidated over this question of social media addiction.

Okay, so you already said it for that very reason.

I have to play the clip where they mentioned that specifically.

Yeah, the New Mexico case is related, but a little different.

And it is about whether meta protected young people from child predators and sexually explicit

content on its platforms.

And they found that they did not, right?

Right.

So with that historic payout and verdict combined with this one today, I mean, this week has just

seen 2 verdicts that have been in the works Elsa for years and years and years.

It's really a day of reckoning for social media companies.

And the plaintiffs lawyers have been outside the courtroom and saying today is sort of like

the reckoning that the big tobacco industry had in the late 90s, though.

Okay, so that's really what the suit is about is, you know, they're talking about kids.

And I'm sure Cash Patel and these other people will jump in.

Yeah, we need digital ID.

That's all going to be, it's all going to be abused for that.

But at the core, this is no secret to anybody who knows anything about technology or Silicon Valley

and certainly social networks.

Yes, of course, everything is done to keep you engaged.

Everything is done to keep you hooked.

They have brain scientists employed at all of these companies to do one thing.

How do we get that next dopamine hit to our user?

They call them users so that our user will want to stay on the app.

So we see the person slowing down.

They're not scrolling.

Throw those likes we've been holding back at them.

Dopamine hit.

It's absolutely engineered that way.

And from what I understand, although no way I do it.

Well, of course, but there's issues with that.

And okay, and if you and I were back in the day, we're running tobacco company, we beg hey,

listen, jack up the addiction.

This is good for business.

Yeah, unfortunately, if you're trying to hide that, it's going to be a problem.

Now here's the PBS stuff.

Jury in that case awarded $6 million in compensatory punitive damages in New Mexico, $375 million.

How much does that really affect these big tech companies?

Well, it feels like a very small amount of money.

$6 million compared to meta worth a trillion dollars, alphabet worth way more than that.

But you got to think about all of the other cases that this sets the tone for.

This is setting essentially a per plaintiff kind of price in this case.

And so you have 350 family cases behind this.

You know, multiply 6 million times that and you're well over a billion dollars.

You get then the 250 school district cases that come after that.

That's thousands of kids in each school district.

And suddenly you're looking at very, very big numbers very fast.

Also, I would point out, just a few days ago, meta's insurers sued and won to no longer have to ensure them against the judgment in this case.

And so that is another, you know, this basically no cap suddenly on the amount they can be hit with.

And I would also just point out here, John, you know, meta gets a lot of the headlines here.

They were determined by this jury in LA to be 70% of the responsibility.

But the other 30% was handed to YouTube, which has never been held to this kind of standard before.

And the fact that they are now grouped together with this other social media platform could change that platform forever.

So this really has the capacity not just to hit these companies with enormous fines, but also to change the way they do business.

And parents like the one we just heard there are no longer just shrugging and saying,

these just feels like something's wrong, but I can't name it.

Now there is a name for it, a legal theory for it.

And suddenly there's a way for lots and lots and lots of people to sue like they'd never been able to before.

Hey, my kids acting like a moron on the beach during spring.

I wonder where that comes from.

So, but this is something the legal people have been wanting to find a way.

Because look, and this is not Rob speaking. This is out and speaking.

I'm sure every single lawyer in the world is like, they look at these companies ago.

How can I get some of their money? What can I do to take some of that money?

Yeah, yep. So you do.

Yeah, that's what you do. Exactly.

First amendment issues. We've been through that section 230.

Hey, we have no liability for it. People say, but now there's something new and it's under the covers.

Peel the meta-release statements today.

They said they respectfully disagreed with both verdicts and that they would appeal in New Mexico and were evaluating their legal options in California.

What was the company's defense? What do they say to these allegations that their platforms are causing harm?

Well, they have always argued that the misbehavior is not their fault when it comes to what happens on the platform.

And they have, you know, they tried in the Los Angeles case to say that this plaintiff, this kid, had all of these difficulties.

And she did. She had a whole host of problems in the home and a history of some mental health issues.

What really has now happened is we're seeing instead of jury say, oh, well, it's not that they caused that.

It's that they, they managed to, to make a vulnerable kid worse.

And that is a very different standard than what meta has been arguing and YouTube have been arguing all of this time.

And so, you know, and then the big thing here, John, right, is that they have been protected behind both the first amendment and something called Section 230, which is a big blanket immunity for social media companies.

It makes them not liable for the crazy stuff that you and I might post there.

That has been the core of the defense, the big legal wall built around them forever.

Suddenly, these two cases would step around those issues and get into the question of design and behavior modification by design.

Suddenly, we're in a very new landscape that I think these companies are going to have a very difficult time arguing against.

So here's the legal analysis from Rob. And this is exactly what you're talking about.

To find punitive damages, the jury had to find that Instagram and YouTube acted with malice, fraud or oppression.

The plaintiff's lawyer is a guy from Houston named Mark Leneer. Leneer, Mark is a part-time preacher and a fearsome trial lawyer.

He cited internal documents to show that Instagram and YouTube knew about the addiction problem. And he's the one that cited the slot machine effect.

And in closing arguments said the case was as easy as ABC, addicting the brains of children.

That's what you want.

So that's what is the slot machine effect.

Well, actually, the term I was looking for was used by YouTube in an internal document that was brought forth to show that they knew that this was going on all along.

Right. Yeah. And it did have the term casino and it was something else.

I know it is a slot machine effect, but I thought this other term, which incorporates the word casino, was more interesting.

Well, I don't have that. No, okay. But I think there's something here. And with this succeed, of course, they're going to appeal.

This has to succeed. Rob is right. This is exactly the same as the tobacco situation.

Yeah. Because they knew what was going on. They knew about it.

And you know, what's next? AI chat bots. They're going to be next. Same thing.

Yeah. So now I still don't know if they can put everyone's up. Well, that's big numbers.

When you're talking a billion here, a billion there. I don't know about that. But it's good time to be a personal injury lawyer.

That's for sure. Rob. He's in San Francisco today.

Oh, good for him. You want to drop by? No, no. I like to meet the guy like in two months when I've recuperated.

Is that all it takes two months? No, it's going to. Well, it depends.

It didn't take about eight months total. But letterman who had a quintuple bypass.

He was on stage five weeks afterwards. And so it can be faster.

And apparently getting over this can be quite quick if you get lucky.

Well, can we do anything to make it easier for you?

Yeah, I wish the donations went up to make me feel better. I come back to the show that donations drop off a cliff.

Yeah, thanks for coming back. Mimi was doing great. He was making the money.

Mimi was raking it in, man. What happened to you?

So I was at Maverick's place yesterday, getting my, getting my, my implants cleaned.

And he says, dude, dude, I'm like, what?

I listen to the show. What John said, he says, that's actionable.

That you were able to hear them while you were being operated on.

Yes. I get a note from another guy who's an MD, also a lawyer. He says the same thing.

It's actionable. They did not sedate, well, they sedated you, but they didn't put you out.

And the second he immediately says, you got any red hair in your family?

Do you have any red hair in your family? Any redheads?

No. No, sorry.

You got a Scottish or Irish blood in you?

No, I know.

Well, then it's like, well, because they're redheads and a Scottish, which, you know, redhead,

they often need more sedation. That's just genetics.

But so the fact that you don't have that in your DNA makes it actionable.

But the thing you haven't done is you haven't told me how traumatized you are by this.

Well, it was the worst thing that I ever experienced. I guess that's somewhat traumatic.

I mean, it has affected your podcast performance.

Well, you can hear my voice.

Yes. I mean, it is a terrible.

I mean, you have flashbacks and you can't even really perform your job properly, right?

That's what I understand.

Okay.

Okay.

Woo.

I have to talk to someone.

Yeah. Well, Rob, Rob is your guy.

He's sitting there right there.

Well, anyway, Maverick was shocked.

He just, he couldn't believe it.

He said, this is, this is an outrage that should not happen.

Yeah. Well, it was unpleasant.

Yes. I understand.

I just want more tech thing just because, you know, I don't know if you heard, but, you know,

so open AI, they're getting ready to go public.

They shut down Sora, which is.

Yeah, I was irked a lot of people.

Well, of course.

But it was a money sink.

Everybody knew it.

There's no way that they weren't making any money on it.

It's just bleeding money.

And I don't, I really think that'll be the pivot we talked about it last time.

What's funny though is, you know, this open claw thing that everyone's all, all giddy about,

open claw.

Oh, I've got, I've been, I've been claw-pilled.

Oh, my computer's doing stuff for me.

You know, the Chinese are out of control on this.

They are, they're, people lined up around the block to get computers that have this pre-built

because, you know, they call it raising a lobster.

I haven't heard any of this.

But the open, the open claw mascot is a lobster.

And so all these Chinese kids are like, oh, I'm going to raise a lobster.

And I realized, open claw is the new Tomagachi.

This is exactly the same mechanism.

Like, oh, yeah, I get to train this thing and it does stuff for me and it talks to me.

It's the new Tomagachi, which, that's the mechanism.

And that's where, that's where the mark, that's where your tam is, if you ask me.

I'm not necessarily in these massive data centers.

Anyway, interesting.

The last thing on Anthropic because that's just kind of ongoing with the Department of

War.

Lawyers from the Defense Department and the AI Company Anthropic appeared in court in

a high stakes battle over the influence of artificial intelligence in modern warfare.

Anthropic is challenging the Pentagon's highly unusual decision to designate the company as

a supply chain risk.

The judge in this hearing went as far as to compare it to corporate murder.

President Trump recently ordered government agencies to stop using Anthropic after the company

refused to give the government unrestricted use of its AI products.

Anthropic saying it does not want its products to be used for mass surveillance or lethal autonomous weapons.

That's when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled the company a supply chain risk, a designation

typically reserved for foreign entities.

The DOD basically needs to prove that there's some kind of risk that Anthropic would try to sabotage the military.

They attempted to make this argument during the hearing today by basically saying there's a concern

that Anthropic might push a software update with a kill switch.

Basically making it so that the company could intervene if the Pentagon tried to do something

and disagreed with.

The judge seems skeptical of the Pentagon's move, saying she's concerned the government is trying to

cripple Anthropic for criticizing the administration.

Anthropic's leaders have argued artificial intelligence requires safeguarding from both the government and itself.

I failed to understand why companies are all jacked about this.

Just imagine.

Oh, yeah, I'm using Anthropic.

It runs my whole business.

And then Anthropic decides, you know, we don't like you.

Or we're going to charge you extra.

Or oops, it stopped working.

It's a little early, I think.

Be basic.

Yeah, and you know that would happen.

Of course it would.

This is like Google has now announced the Android Automotive OS.

Yeah, so I think GM is already all in on this.

I'm not sure.

I think GM's in on it.

So now they're offering a complete operating system for automobiles.

So the car makers can just focus on our engine wheels, you know, seats.

And we'll take care of the rest.

So you can already see where this is going.

Do you want your car colder than 72 degrees?

That's a subscription.

It's going to control all of that stuff.

All right.

All right.

You're not interested.

Okay.

No, I mean, if you kind of dropped dead there.

Oh, it's easy for you to say.

Yeah, it is.

And so, you know that LaGuardia playing crash.

I didn't want to do any pieces about it.

But maybe it actually dug something up because she's a big fan of Captain Steve.

Oh, yes, Captain Steve.

And I have to say I felt obligated.

Captain Steve.

Captain Steve is not always right.

Yeah.

Well, nobody is.

And I don't watch Captain Steve.

But I do like him.

And I have to say that I felt obligated to play this clip, which is the LaGuardia.

There's two.

I have two clips.

So one analyzing it.

But the first one is this one.

LaGuardia heroes.

The fact that the Captain took the aircraft two seconds after touchdown and four seconds before impact.

I think he saw the truck and he just probably slammed on the brakes.

I'm sure they hit the brakes real hard.

And the heroic part about all this, whether it was on purpose or not, was the fact that they kept that airplane straight as they impacted that truck.

Had they veered one way or another, which they could have at that speed very easily.

One break more than the other put in the rudder to it would be natural.

Human nature to kind of want to do that, you know, and try to avoid hitting the truck.

The wing would have impacted the truck.

It would have ruptured.

There's lots of fuel in that wing.

And you're going to get a fireball.

And I think you're going to get more fatalities.

So the fact that they went straight into that truck.

I think was a heroic act on there.

The last thing because they both sacrifice their lives.

Well, I'm not sure.

Or okay, maybe they were doing over a hundred knots.

I'm not sure they saw it until the last moment.

But okay, give me for Captain Steve.

They're here.

Hey, they're dead.

So I'm not going to speak bad of them.

I'm sure they when they realize what was going on, I'm sure they did whatever was best of them.

I'm sure they weren't happy.

No.

So.

And this was the rationale for the whole thing, the other clip.

And that's what every reasonable human being asks.

How in the world could there have not been a transponder in that fire truck?

Fire truck number one.

No transponder in it.

So again, as Jennifer Hamdi is explaining.

The what happened is she's talking about our primary radar return.

Because there was no transponder in that truck.

Now there's a transponder in the airplane.

And for this as the X system to work, everybody has to have a transponder installed.

But here's the frustrating part about all this.

There's so many little factions at some of these airports, especially in the bigger cities up in Boston.

There's mass port down in New York.

There's the New York port authority.

That's a separate entity, a separate part of money, a separate chain of command from everybody else at the airport.

And they run their own thing.

And so that's who's in charge, the fire trucks.

And so for the ASDX system to work properly, everybody has to have a transponder installed.

Mass port or not mass port.

But New York port authority just basically said, we're not going to spend the money on that.

And so you've got this hugely expensive system in place that's meant to be a last line of defense.

And it doesn't work because you didn't spend the money on the transponder.

And now we see it come to fruition.

Two lives are lost. Could have been a lot more.

They need to spend the money and put the transponder in those trucks.

The system won't alert the controller without the transponder.

Okay. Do you have a question?

Because I certainly have commentary.

I have nothing else to say.

Okay. So yes, many Europe, I think, a lot of the ground vehicles have transponders.

But there's something that I may be captain Steve discussed it.

But what happened prior to this is the reason a lot of things happened here.

This fire truck was not just rolling around for no reason.

There was, I believe, a United Airlines who was on the taxiway.

And they said, hey, we have a problem.

We have some kind of gas or something in the cabin.

The flight attendants are complaining.

They're feeling nauseous.

We need a gate ASAP.

And this goes on for several minutes.

And then the United Airlines pilot on the taxiway declares an emergency.

He says, I'm declaring an emergency.

We need either we need stairs right now, which I think is what this fire truck was coming to assist.

Or we need a gate immediately.

But when you declare an emergency, and I hope that our air traffic controllers will give us their analysis,

I find it interesting.

No one has emailed me about this yet.

If you declare an emergency, whether you're in the air or on the ground or on the taxiway,

that's when air traffic controls say we have an emergency.

Everybody go around.

Let's see what's going on.

This thing could have blown up.

I mean, we didn't know what's going on.

But when a pilot declares an emergency, all bets should be off.

And so there was a lot of confusion.

The fire truck was approved for crossing.

And then the air traffic controller realizes what's happening.

Didn't need a responder to see it.

He says, stop, stop, stop.

And then he says, truck one stop.

And by then it was too late.

But that never should have gotten there.

You declare an emergency.

I don't care what it is.

And I found in general what I heard, ground, and everyone talking.

But hey, this guy is declared an emergency.

Yeah, yeah, we're trying to get him a gate.

No, an emergency by a pilot isn't an emergency.

And we didn't know what it was.

So I think that's where the problem starts.

And you know, high-tech stuff is not going to solve everything.

It's not in you.

Yeah, you're probably right.

It's not going to solve everything.

So tell that, tell Mimi to stop believing Captain Steve.

I don't see no.

She loves Captain Steve.

Yeah, she loves Asman Gold and all these guys Nick Shirley.

She wants to marry Nick Shirley.

Yik Shirley must have a lot of girls chasing him.

Candace Owens is now going after Nick Shirley.

Why?

He's fake.

He's fake.

He's an op.

Obviously.

Oh, please.

Make Shirley an op.

Well, I certainly think the administration helps him get these guys.

Dave.

Oh, no.

Hey, here's Dave.

Here's Bob.

He's your guy.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Nick, go look at these people.

So it's just another way of uncovering corruption.

It's good.

It's a very good idea.

It gets people all steamed and all worked up.

Supreme court.

Supreme court.

This, uh, this involves you and Mimi, actually.

Uh, mail in ballots.

Yeah.

You want to hear the report?

Well, I'll tell you the whole west coast is mail in ballots.

Well, there was a Supreme Court case about it.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in a case involving mail in ballots

that could impact the upcoming midterm elections.

It's a case that pits Republicans against each other in deep red Mississippi.

The key question before the US Supreme Court is whether mail in ballots

that arrive after election day clash with federal law.

Taylor Vance is a politics reporter for Mississippi today.

He told us about a COVID error statute that was passed by the state's Republican

controlled legislature in 2020.

That said that voters can mail in absentee ballots and that local election workers can process

and count those ballots for up to five days after the election.

Now, this does not give voters five extra days to vote

because these ballots have to be postmarked on or before election day.

This is just an extra cushion or a grace period for local election officials to process these ballots.

The Republican National Committee and state Republican and Libertarian parties

all sued Mississippi over the rule.

They argue that election day is meant to be a single day

and that ballots are invalid if they are received after.

If the Justice's rule in favor of striking down the law,

it could spell big changes for Mississippi

and at least 18 other states that allow late ballots

with the midterms fast approaching.

Yeah, so nothing changes, I guess.

Nothing changes.

No, it's not really about the mail in ballots, it's about when they come in.

Yeah.

That's Apple news.

Did that sound like AI to you?

It sounded like AI to me.

Oh, we need an AI or not AI jingles, just like drunk or not drunk.

Yeah, actually, here's a drunk or not.

It sounds very, now they think about it, it did sound a little AI.

Here's a drunk or not drunk.

Negotiations to end the war in Iran are going great according to you know.

Everything is great, it's cool, we're friends, we tight.

Even though Iran is saying we're not talking to anybody in your administration.

Who are you talking to sir?

But he's excited about negotiating a deal with somebody

and his defense secretary explained his role in all of this as well.

Take a look.

They're going to make a deal.

They did something yesterday that was amazing actually.

They gave us a present and the present derived today.

It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money

and I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.

And they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it.

So that meant one thing to me would deal with the right people.

We see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well.

We negotiate with bombs.

You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran as the president talked about.

About your future, President has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon.

The war department agrees our job is to ensure that.

And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as it's hard as it's necessary.

Oh, excuse me.

Keep our hand on that throttle.

It's hard.

Look at the shot of what's his face.

Trout.

When he said that.

We're keeping our hand on the throttle as long as it's hard.

Are you going to go on over there?

Of course, Joy picked that part up.

I mean, it just seems to me.

And what's the gift besides herpes?

No, I think it's.

I think it's.

Look.

I think they are a sauce, man.

What is she doing?

I don't know what's wrong with her.

A lot.

A lot.

It's just a humiliation to ABC.

I must have ratings somewhere.

It's got to be.

Well, no, it has ratings.

Yeah.

Well, there you go.

So with public executions.

Which has always been my dream to produce.

That is your dream job.

And Brunetti.

And Brunetti is all in on it with me.

He's running.

That's what you're talking to him about.

And with that, I want to thank you for your courage.

And the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the energy crisis.

Say hello to my friend on the other end.

And the one, the only Mr. John Seenmore.

Well, in the morning, you and Mr. Adam Curry,

in the morning, I'll show the sea busography in the air.

So it was all our names and nights out there.

Yes.

And I'm trying to get a troll count here.

Hold on.

You can stop moving around.

Check out the thing you want to do.

Oh, man.

I mean, you come back.

It's everything tanks.

Yeah.

1320.

You know.

It's terrible.

But this, this hurt the show.

Yeah.

I just wanted to realize that.

You know, it hurt the show.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It wasn't anything you did, though, right?

You didn't live unhealthy.

Is it just, I never even asked you that.

Is it your fault?

Uh, no, not really.

What do you mean not really?

Not that I know of.

No, I mean, did anyone say, hey, I mean,

I know you're not a smoker.

No, it's just that I'm old.

No, that that is your fault.

You're old.

You said there should be a, we need an age limit on podcasting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's coming.

After we, after we're out.

Yeah.

After we're out.

Well, we're going to hang on to the layer.

It's the very last moment.

You know, the, um, the Wall Street Journal had a, uh,

had a, uh, a piece about, uh, the veteran podcasters

hanging up their headphones.

Did you read that?

No.

Yeah.

Uh, Wall Street Journal.

I mean, no who are the podcasters?

Well, podcast can run forever.

But some hosts are bowing out or changing direction as celebrities

and YouTube dominate the industry.

So they've got all these examples.

And so, so something's changed.

No, as far as I know, 20 years ago is the same thing.

Yeah.

No, I celebrities, comedians, YouTube.

Yeah.

What happened here?

Here's what, I figured it out because there's a long article

and all these, it's all these duos like, oh, well,

we're hanging out.

We're not going to do it anymore.

We're going to do it for seven years.

You're going to do something else.

And they blame it on YouTube.

But that's not the problem.

All of these podcasts that they mention are all guest driven.

Oh, yeah.

And so what they're noticing is that when people have a choice

to go on different podcasts,

yeah, they can only do so many.

And so if you base your podcast on your guest,

which can make for a very successful podcast,

depending on your guest, you know, if you get the...

And your booker.

And your booker.

And you get the Kelsey brothers or, you know, anything.

But the Kelsey brothers like, oh, I did eight podcasts this month.

I'm done.

It's okay.

And that's why they're hanging up their headphones.

So we're just going to keep on trucking, baby.

No one can stop this train.

This is where you agree with me.

Well, that was the thesis from the get-go.

We felt that guests were like...

The whole idea of using them was a hindrance.

And we both had...

Both of us had a laundry list of reasons for that.

Yes.

And they don't show up.

They're dull.

Case in point, I've been on Rogan six times.

There's got to be a deficit of guests.

You've been on six times?

Six times, yeah.

Well, what does that tell you?

There's a deficit of guests.

Hey, we've got over 1,300 trolls checking into the live feed,

the live stream right now, knowagenderstream.com.

And many of them are hanging out in the troll room.

And it's always good to have them here.

Of course, you should be listening on a modern podcast app

because that is the way that you get notified when we go live.

You can make your decision then, like, eh, maybe you'll listen.