MarkZ Evening (Uncut) 05-14-2025

Evening News with MarkZ. 05/14/2025

Hello, Lancaster PA. Hello, DRAMI. I’ve seen quite a few just lovely health updates that were very positive.

That makes me happier. Hello, Jerry. Today was my wife’s birthday, the love of my life.

Jerry, happy birthday to the love of your life. Prayers for one of our own, Carla Marie, had to go to the hospital today. Some bad test work and they rushed her off.

And we’ve had others with great praise reports on health, which is great. Hello, Victoria. Hello, Stan.

Hello, Jack’s mom, Joni’s world, Temple Swift. Hello, Karen and Fred. What, what, what up? Trish, Rexy, the good word.

Salvation, redemption. Hello, cue ball and wind rider. Hello, Twana, Tonja, Tonja.

Hello, Buzz Rocket. Hello, Miss Divine. Oh, wait, Miss Linda, the charming lady.

If you guys ever get the chance to meet her. Seventy seventh birthday today. Happy birthday.

Dream, that is to be expected. Yeah, a lot of them aren’t going to sell them until, bam, it’s time. Hello, Edward.

Hello, Marcia. We’re just going to get into the interesting parts. Mark, what are your thoughts about the Crypto Genius Act stalling out in Senate? It’ll probably pick up speed again soon.

We need to get Zester in to give his thoughts on that one because he’s tracking it. Hello, Mr. Hall. John, understanding self.

You haven’t missed a thing yet. We’ll get to it. We will get to it.

Consult a global broker. Yeah, I suggest that one too. Today’s Grant’s birthday.

Fifty nine. Happy birthday to Grant. Let’s see.

Too much time at the labor camp, you understand. Help. I’ll speed this up, Michael.

I’m working it. Let’s get her done. Assuming in the news, but Trump’s big, beautiful bills passed the House.

Now we just got to get through the Senate. We talked about that some this morning. Hello, Miss Kathy.

Hello, Kay and Jamie. I know. We just need to get to it.

Everything seems to be lining up. Hazy, humid southeast Wisconsin checking in. Hello, Mordecai.

Hello, Ray. Hey, Ray, don’t apologize. I’ll get to them.

It’s just going to take me a little while. I am starting to catch up. Hello, Kevin Adams.

Good to see you in the house. Oh, pronounce Tanya. See, that’s what I wanted to call it because of the J and we keep.

All right. I feel better, Tanya. Hello, Miss Lydia.

Cheryl, always a pleasure. Let’s just dive in. Let’s keep this one short so I can get on to whiskey and wisdom.

Safe to buy currency without buying counterfeit. It depends on what kind of currency and who you’re buying it from. But in general, yes, I think it’s very safe right now.

I don’t think I would buy any off the counter or just, you know, off the Internet bonds until I had some serious proof they’re real. My personal opinion, I’m not a professional. This is for entertainment and education only.

Banana, I am not part of historical bond group. Chef, I’m just glad you’re getting better, brother. And Rachel is already drunk tonight.

OK, she’s not drunk. It was just Beckett playing with the keyboard. Friend sent me a voicemail they received to a call and 800 number explaining that credit cards violate fair credit billing and credit act.

You may no longer be required to. Yeah, just make certain you do some serious due diligence and don’t give up important numbers. I’m continuing to read a few.

All right. We should probably just dive in, get through the news and take that break before whiskey and wisdom. When is Iraq summit? Starts Saturday, the 17th.

They already have some people on the ground and they have a surprise guest coming, which may give us a sign about another surprise guest that may be attending. It’s getting interesting. All right.

No fresh news out of Venezuela, Max, other than I am starting to feel more and more confident that it’s going to be included at this point. I’m about ninety nine point nine nine nine percent. I’ve heard such good news from some of the aggregating groups and paymasters that I’m feeling pretty confident.

Beckett, the keyboard warrior. Right. Keep at it, Beckett.

Keep at it. Happy hump day or as Esther would call it, happy Trump day. Yeah, Jimbo.

Totally OK to start early. I’ll try to get to it early myself. Let’s dive into the news.

Throw up the news banner. I know a lot of you folks are going to go straight to bond questions so far. Quiet.

I have one person that checked in right before the podcast that was getting ready to go into there. Excuse me. Call into their Zoom meeting, not go into their Zoom meeting or in their meeting, but Zoom in to get their update.

Attorney is there taking care of things. I am hoping to have great news in the next hour or two. We’ll see how that one goes.

Hopefully I will get an update. All right. Now let’s dive in.

I know a lot of people are going to start asking those questions. James, I would think they’re perfectly good. I’ve just been told the newer, the better on Bolivar.

All right, Michonne, after meeting Trump and Al Shara, the next is better. Syria and Iran. She returned to the Arab fold.

Syria returning. But it gets even more interesting. After meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and his Syrian counterpart, Ahmed Al Shara on Wednesday in Riyadh, spoke about Syria’s return to the Arab fold and said that the next is more beautiful to Damascus, while concluding his tweet with a sentence.

Akbar, Iraq. In other words, Iraq is returning as well. They’re talking about the great prosperity that they are about to see.

And I found that interesting. They were talking about Syria and then immediately said, and Iraq. I’m wondering if they know something that’s about to be announced.

Sudan, Sudanese. I know that creates quite a confusion because of the way they do that. Iraq is an oil and industrial country with the potential to export products to the region.

In the build up to it on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mohammed Shih al-Sudani considered Iraq an industrialized country, not just oil, and can feed the needs of the local market and countries of the region. Of products came during a speech delivered during the inauguration via videoconference of the steel factory in the General Iron and Steel Company in Basra. They are ramping up, guys.

They are becoming an economic powerhouse in the region. A global leader, not just in the Arab world. Safe, secure.

We’ll give you a new value. Here’s a big one, I believe, tonight, because that tells us or tells me something big is coming. Saudi Crown Prince to join the Arab Summit in Baghdad.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salam al-Saud, MBS, is expected to attend the upcoming Arab League Summit on Saturday in Baghdad. It’s May 17th, according to recent reports. I am also hearing rumors that Trump will attend as well or make an appearance.

I can only think of one thing that’s going to get him there for that, and I hope I’m accurate. Let me turn that one off. While we finish, did Kukla pop in? I didn’t think she was going to pop in this evening.

She has been burning the candle at both ends. I was hoping she was going to take a break. An RV, exactly.

Excellent, gal. You are catching on. You are catching what I’m spitting.

White House Qatar deals to generate $1.2 trillion in economic exchange, which is kind of crazy, considering what their yearly economy or GDP is in Qatar. It sounds like something big is happening there as well. President Trump is taking U.S.-Qatar relations to another level by signing a series of deals which boost defense and trade ties.

Arms and jets continue to be the focus of Qatar talks, especially Trump’s signing of a $200 billion deal for an unprecedented order for whopping 160 American-produced commercial jets, a big one for Boeing and GE Aerospace. Huge deals being cut right now in the region. I think we’re about to watch one.

ECMA transfer of wealth, guys. I’m so excited about what’s going on. Biggest Boeing order in history.

Now, some fun stuff. I am going to enjoy talking about this. We all knew it was coming.

And Thursday of this week, it hits the Supreme Court. I think we’re about to see, we certainly hope, the end of weaponization and law affairs. Supreme Court set to end era of nationwide judicial injunctions.

The days of rogue district court judges hijacking executive authority may finally be numbered. On Thursday, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a consolidated case, Trump v. CASA, which challenges lower court rulings that block President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born into the U.S. to illegal immigrants. Despite the constitutional authority granted the executive branch on immigration matters, three district judges issued sweeping nationwide injunctions halting the order.

Now, the highest court may have the chance to rein in judicial overreach and restore the balance between the branches of government. Guys, I told you early on, I told you before January 20th that you would see this. You would see Trump purposely push, purposely push to force the constitutional crisis for them to hear on it.

This is very purposely done and driven. This is some of you guys’ favorite thing to talk about, that 5-D chess, and we’re going to see one of the major moves on Thursday. Don’t know if we’ll have an answer yet because I’ve got to hear it, but it could be just a big one.

It should be. I’m excited about that one. Kevin, yeah, just when’s our money going to be available? I wish I knew what to tell you on that front.

Certainly, certainly appears to be getting daggone close. EPA, oh, no. Now, these are just a couple that I wanted to touch on.

Well, you’ve heard me talk about Congress, how useless they are, how they can’t pass the most simple things that 90 percent of Americans, 99 and some percent, and some instances of Americans agree on, and they just can’t pass a law. They’re too, well, incompetent or evil or bought or paid for. Here’s a great one.

The EPA targets engine start-stop systems in cars. Now, I did not know this. I assumed these companies had no choice but to put these in, so I learned a little bit today.

Start-stop systems exploded under Obama-era rules offering emissions credits, but officials are now signaling a course reversal. Trump administration is taking aim at automatic engine start-stop systems technology installed in millions of U.S. vehicles to reduce fuel use and emissions. With Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin signaling plans to roll back incentives for the feature that he says drivers despise.

Can I tell you how many times it has nearly killed me while trying to tow something? Those extra second or two of stall while the engine re-cranks. Where do you do, any mechanics in here, where do you do the most damage to your vehicle’s engine? Is it driving down the road leisurely at highway speeds? No, it’s starting when you turn on the engine before the oil can fully lubricate everything. I mean, so there’s not as many benefits as yet, but what I did not know is that while the EPA doesn’t require start-stop systems, I just assume they did.

No, automakers get fuel economy credits. In other words, this is one of your DEI things where they reward them because this is what the globalists wanted. I had no idea.

I assume they didn’t have a choice. They were doing it on purpose, meanwhile, telling us that the government was not giving them a choice. At least that’s the pitch I heard from a car salesman telling me that by 2025 or 2026 they’d all have them and you wouldn’t be able to turn them off.

You wouldn’t have a choice. I’m a little P.O. I feel taken, used, lied to. Can I tell you how aggravating it is? You got to push the little button.

If you forget, 95 degrees outside or something, and boom, that A.C. shuts off. Boy, that’s annoying. I mean, just annoying.

So, yeah. They love for us to suffer and chill. I’m with you.

Ted just said my start-stop doesn’t work if I don’t wear my seatbelt. Just leave it off. I got a little button I can push.

I’m dead on kick. Yeah, I don’t know what to tell you, folks. It says I’m on kick.

Yeah, don’t know what to tell you. Maybe there’s some changes and we got to try some stuff over there. But, yeah, it doesn’t look like it’s showing.

All right, you’ve six people on kick. Come on over to Rumble or YouTube or Twitch. Stoke, I’ll agree with you on this one.

Cash for clunkers destroyed so many good vehicles, they were made to be junked. All right. Let’s dive in.

I have one last one that I wanted to share. If Andy joins us tonight, I’m totally going to break this one out on him. And it does.

It has me a little worried about you guys, and it should have you worried, too. It should have you worried about your perfectly green lawns. OK, let’s see here.

So, Mr. Andy, it says, you know, I don’t know what to tell you. I’m totally going to break this one out on him. in JAMA network open analyzed that data for more than 400 residents living with Parkinson’s and more than 5000 match controls across southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin from 91 to 2015.

They looked at how closely individuals lived and whether their drinking water came from groundwater sources, especially in regions vulnerable to groundwater contamination from pesticide or herbicide use. Findings showed that those living within one mile of a golf course had more than twice the odds of developing Parkinson’s compared to those living more than six miles away. All right, for all you folks that were looking forward to revaluation and then living on the golf course, you might not see how they treat their lawns.

There are some golf courses out there that use only all natural things for greening, weed control, etcetera. Wow, Wendy W. Uh, just said my brother died at 42 of unknown cancer after working at golf courses for 12 years. I mean, it’s I don’t know, could be absolutely unrelated.

I certainly hope that it is. But that is, I mean, that’s that’s troubling. So I find that interesting chemical soups plant.

Clean it up. Texas curly. Oh, I’m behind a golf course when I live in Arizona.

Just, um, twitch. Yeah, I’ve actually thought about settling once, uh, taxes, you know, things. I don’t know.

I love Puerto Rico, but the hill country of Texas certainly is nice. Certainly is nice. All right, folks, it’s the chemicals.

Uh, you did miss the news. We already did it. Rosie Posey just back up to the beginning.

It’s it’s Wednesday night. I hit the news very quickly so we can get ready for whiskey and wisdom. Conspiratory.

I won’t argue with that one. Just talking about glyphosate. Soon’s Q. I need to read the big, beautiful bill.

I’m usually top notch at reading the bills, and I give the politicians a rough time because clearly they didn’t read him. And then when I hear him speaking, it’s just like A. O. C. Talking about, um, uh, Planned Parenthood and how Republicans are just gonna wipe all of it. They’re not gonna have anything.

Some of the stuff she is spreading on social media is so inaccurate, factually inaccurate that the only explanation is she’s either stupid or she is listening to mainstream media or her handlers. She cannot be that dumb. I mean, I just refuse to believe that any human being could be dumb enough in that position to not pick up the legislation and read it to see what the proposals are because blatantly spewing misinformation, knowingly spewing it is the only thing that it’s either that or she’s just 100% inept.

And I would be surprised. I would like to think she is smart enough to have at least one of her staff read the bills. Okay, maybe they are that stupid.

Who knows? I don’t know. I do. Democrats just not read it.

You hear Chuck Schumer come out. You hear a stiff come out, and some of the claims they make about Republicans are just so off base. So fact, factually wrong.

It’s just Yeah. Stunning. What do you think about instead of inept compromised? Well, I mean, we we often attribute evil to just plain incompetence when it is awfully often or most often we just pure incompetence and we attribute evil to it.

So I mean, the most likely explanation is she’s truly that incompetent. That is the most likely if we study statistics, facts, reality. But I’m not convinced when it comes to a politician.

Michael, news was finished early. All right, folks, let’s get to it. Meaning I need to get wait a minute.

I know a lot of exceptionally bright bartenders. I know a number of exceptionally bright ones. And I know some dumb ones.

All right, folks. Oh, yeah. Bix ear chiming in.

Fox News. A number of news stations now reporting that Iran is ready to sit down and sign a deal that they’re ready to end things and move to or reset Trump. Trump also talking about that.

Hey, you know, I don’t care what our past was been. What’s our future going to be? He said, I don’t care if you were an enemy in the past. If you want to sit down at the table and negotiate in good faith, work out some deals, work out some business, make some things happen.

Uh, sure. Let’s do it. He’s willing to bury the hatchet and change the outlook.

Change the future. What happened in the past is the past. You can’t change the past, but you can certainly change the future.

What are you doing today? What are you doing tomorrow? Trump talking about that during the his travels and, of course, guitar Saudi in the Middle East, saying, You know what was in the past? It’s in the past. Where are we from here? Let’s make let’s let’s make some some new deals in a new future. I love it.

Love it. All right. Yeah.

Dragon poker. Just air. Anybody? Boom.

I’m with you, Zeke. All right, folks, I’m looking forward to seeing those that aren’t joining us for whiskey and wisdom in the morning because I’m doing whiskey and wisdom tonight. So if you’re not joining, I won’t see you again till the morning.

Uh, Jack Wagon. We already talked about that. Did you poke yourself in the eye? Pull myself in.

No, wait. All right. See you guys.

I look. I really think, Patrick. I believe they’re back door, back room, whatever you want to call it.

Negotiation is going on right now, especially after the article we shared on Iran this morning. I believe there’s some deals running where we’re going to see a change in value of. Actually, I think that was yesterday morning, guys on Iran.

I’d have to go back and look. All right. See you folks for whiskey and wisdom.

Oh, wait. I can’t go yet. I can’t go yet.

I did have an interesting I. R. S. Update for you. Let’s see if I can find it. All right.

May 20th. All I. R. S. Employees are going to receive in an emergency broadcast test, but it’s coming through their workstations, emails and cell phones. Uh, which is something very unusual for them.

Same day. The F. D. I. C. Is having a sunshine meeting on May 20th to 30. Uh, and then in many of these government offices, the I. R. S. Specifically, they’re not just sending out an email or group, whatever.

Hey, we need to make certain that you’re updated. They’re going like to cubicles to I mean, from cubicle to cubicle to person to person, making the management, uh, inform them and tell them all about it of what to expect on the 20th for an E. B. S. Very unusual. All right.

Sorry about that, folks. I will see you this evening at whiskey and wisdom.