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Adam Curry, John C. DeVore.
It's Thursday, November 2nd, 2017.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination.
Episode 9 or 7, 8.
This is no agenda.
Keeping an eye on the China so you don't have to.
And broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas.
Capital, the drone, Star State, in the co-deal.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where the two-for-one offer ends at midnight tonight.
I'm John C. DeVore.
Yes, it does.
It's over.
The end.
The end is near.
The end.
The end.
All right, Jean-Claude, I'm back.
I'm back in the Cluedio.
Yes, and we, of course, expect your classic international return report.
Yes.
Through the various security systems that are laid out in the airline's substructure.
Yes, and the most curious one is London Heathrow Terminal 5, as I flew back with British Airways again, and again had that Dreamliner between London and Austin.
Woohoo!
Yes, big woohoo.
It's really good.
But at first I took the short hop 40 minutes from Amsterdam to Heathrow.
Oh, actually, I should mention that my guys finally came through after I was checked in at, well, I think it was 6 a.m.
It was like a 7.30 flight.
One of the...
One of our military intelligence guys picked me up and took me the back route.
I'd never seen this before.
It's a whole VIP security.
You know, the lounge and newspapers and classical music.
I guess that's for really important people.
So, not for me, usually.
You know, you get a personal screening and then boom.
You go through in two minutes.
It was beautiful.
Well, that's kind of cool.
It should be a service for all No Agenda listeners.
I'm going to request this.
Because it made a big difference.
And I got to talk to the guys.
I said, hey, is it true that you have the new scanner?
I said, yep.
So what do they do?
Well, you can leave all your liquids in your bag.
It detects whether it is an important liquid or a dangerous liquid or not.
I don't know how it works, but they do.
Or can it detect whether it's water and has to be discarded so they can sell you water inside the terminal?
No, you can keep any liquid in there.
It will detect if it's dangerous or not.
At any amount?
Yes.
So you can have a gallon jug?
If you wish.
Well, it's still in beta, so it's not an official...
But they're testing it.
I got a detailed explanation of the process.
They're not going to allow this because they're going to lose too much on water sales.
Well, maybe they'll allow it at Schiphol Airport.
I don't know.
Although they were quick to tell me the whole thing is ridiculous because you could just buy some...
He mentioned some brand of, like, firewater brandy or something.
You just stick a rag in that and you can blow up the whole plane.
You can buy that at duty-free.
Thanks, guys.
I feel so much safer.
But arriving at Terminal 5 at Heathrow, even though you don't leave the actual terminal, you're still airside, they make you go through an additional security check.
And this is very different from anything I've ever witnessed.
And it's not pleasant.
So first you go through some gates.
You scan your ticket barcode so it knows you're in the, I guess, the ultra-secure area.
Then you queue up and then you go through one of the lines and the line consists of the following.
Another scan of your boarding pass and then you pretty much have to take everything out, take everything off, except your shoes and Which I kept on, but I was wearing my boots.
And so then you go through first the magnetometer, then you go through the full body scan machine.
And I went through the magnetometer and said, take your shoes off, sir!
Take your shoes off!
So I walked back.
Sir!
Sir!
What?
What?
Take him and put him in the corner here!
So, you know, typically, what we do in the States, we walk back to the magnetometer, take our boots off, put them on the belt, and then go through the machine again.
Oh, no.
I got yelled at.
I said, oh, that's from, you know, in America, this is not American, is it?
Yeah, I like that answer.
Wow.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Didn't say that, but wow.
And then they ripped both of my bags to shreds.
Took me 45 minutes.
Your bag is very busy on the inside, sir.
It's called a studio.
I carry it with me.
Everything had to go out.
Every piece had to be swabbed.
It really was unpleasant.
And they were not pleasant.
They were not nice.
At all.
Worse than RTSA. This was at Heathrow?
Yeah.
Terminal 5.
Surprising to me.
And you know, it was a very typical kind of...
I think they were just doing it to screw with us.
Possibly.
But it was interesting to see the hiring policy...
Seem to be, you know, like a certain type of person.
Every screener was a woman.
Kind of the, you know, it's a look that some British women have, generalizing.
A matron.
Yeah.
More like angry lesbian, but with long hair.
It was very strange, but they all kind of looked the same, and they got black gloves on, and they're yelling at everybody.
And, you know, people coming through don't speak English.
And, you know, so a guy's unloading everything, and, sir, sir, only your laptop, sir.
Are you ready now?
Are you ready?
Are you okay?
Are you sure?
It's like, jeez, lady.
Diesel dyke.
That's what it is.
It was very uncomfortable.
So they're hiring a diesel dike, yes, which is a certain type.
A British diesel dike.
Yes, BDD. That's exactly.
It wasn't pleasant at all.
Although, for the first time, I arrived at the international terminal.
We're getting nine extra gates here in Austin, which will all be an international terminal.
And currently, I think it's pretty much only the British Airways flight that does it.
But that's very interesting because there are no...
I mean, everything is automated passport.
Now, I already have the global entry, and they have the global entry machine, so there's no line.
You go in there, you're done.
But everybody else goes to new kiosks, and it's kind of the same process, only...
I guess I have a shorter line, otherwise it seems to be a fairly identical system.
Very laid back.
Once you get your suitcase, you take your little piece of paper, and they say, anything to declare?
No, boom, you're in.
Good.
No dogs running around looking for stuff that you might see at JFK or Newark Liberty Airport.
So that was quite an enjoyable experience.
The Austin end of it.
Yeah, the Austin end, exactly.
When you get to Austin.
Yeah, I'm never going to fly.
Yeah, it's because that won't last.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It seems to be a new thing.
These kiosks seem to be new because I saw them at, I think it was...
Well, I like the kiosk.
It's just I don't think that missing dogs is going to be a thing when somebody gets a clue and brings a bomb through Austin.
And the good thing is about my trip, which was...
The trip, which was really a whirlwind trip, I packed a lot into a relatively short amount of time.
I think I told you in the last show this whole royal performance for these knights and these 100-year-old veterans.
It was just a fantastic experience.
I got tons of cool challenge coins from these guys.
I got a huge one.
I tweeted that, the picture of it.
But also, I took a lot of cabs and Ubers, and every single driver was either from Turkey, Morocco.
See, we had one or two from Africa.
And, well, we can do it later, and I want to do it a little bit later, but I think I have a new thesis for the show.
And I've even compiled a compendium to go along with it.
So once we've kind of gotten into some of the basics of the day, I'd like to see if I can roll that out on you.
It's something that, you know, kind of, I think maybe close to a pipeline-type thesis.
You sure you want to do a write-off?
No.
No.
No, because there's no clips.
Well, there are.
No, let's not do it write-off.
You want to do it write-off?
Oh, you apparently.
I think you do.
No, I... Let's go do some clips to keep it lively and then we'll go right into it.
Let's do it after the first break.
Okay, good.
Good idea.
So what I missed, I got very, obviously watching European news, the attack in Manhattan was interesting to witness that.
You know, CNN International.
I don't know what it was over here, and I wasn't able to clip it.
But I kept hearing people say, the driver got out and said, God is great in Arabic.
That's only CNN. But that's not okay.
No, I know CNN over here did that too.
That's really something way out of context.
That's not what he said.
No, he said al-awakbar.
Yeah.
Al-awakbar.
It's just, it's not, it's, no.
Why are they, in fact, I have, let me give you this report.
I did get one thing.
There's some policy at CNN now.
They're not going to...
Well, I got this.
They're going to trade, they said, they should have said what he said in translation.
Yes.
Because he did not say God is great.
He said Al-Aqbar.
And this reporter who I don't think I'd ever seen his name before, Shimon Prokopech?
I've never heard of this name on CNN. I think he's on the CNN International.
Okay, well he reported on the suspect, but listen to what he wouldn't report.
Shimon, you have some new reporting?
Some more details here that I'm getting.
I'm told that this happened just after 3 o'clock, and as we've been saying, this pickup truck, which appears to be from Home Depot, according to information that I have now, Hopped onto the curb, into the bike path, and then drove south on the West Street bike path where it appears at this point that the driver struck several people, hitting them from behind.
He then keeps driving and at some point hits a school box where you'll see this is how This vehicle gets damaged, which you can see in video now.
What I'm told is, as he was driving, he eventually maybe perhaps tried to get away, and he struck a school bus.
And at some point, police encountered him and shot him.
And so now he's at Bellevue Hospital.
Police know who he is.
They have a description of him.
I'm not going to share that at the moment.
But they know who he is.
He is alive at the moment.
And basically, it looks like they're going to try and talk to him.
And I'm going to stop right there in terms of all the information.
But that is what we can report at this moment.
So why is CNN holding back?
They clearly know what the law enforcement said.
Oh, no, we're going to hold back.
We're not going to say that he was radicalized or whatever they didn't say.
He was very clear.
I'm not going to say that.
Why?
Why?
Yeah, why?
Are they hiding or something?
CNN must be under some tight leash where they're saying, don't do anything unless you get permission.
Something like that.
That's pretty peculiar.
But the Al-Akbar thing was annoying to everybody.
It was noticed a lot.
What, they were saying that he said God is great?
Yeah.
You don't have a clip of that?
Of what?
Of CNN saying that.
It was crazy.
No, I don't have a clip of it.
Okay, alright, good.
But you had, you know, it's well known.
I like that the spin pretty quickly went to, he was just radicalized, he was not a member of ISIS, but inspired by ISIS. Come on, why can't we just say what's going on here?
Which is exactly what they promised.
They said, we're going to take weak, feeble-minded people and tell them to go get trucks and cars and mow people down.
It was in their magazine.
Inspire magazine.
So, yeah, well, factually, I guess, correct.
You have to put some context to it.
Well, let's listen to a couple of our reports, which were a little more elaborate, since most of these news organizations here are out of New York.
Let's start with the NBC. This is kind of an interesting one.
This is the NYC driver update.
This is one of the last reports.
This is where Anthony Mason, he's passing the torch to Jeff Glor, who I have more thoughts about as an anchor.
That's a new guy, right?
The new guy who I think they're going to try to appeal to millennials.
Yeah, right, right, right.
And he is, and so this is very awkward.
Anthony's in the studios and he throws it to Glor, who then kind of takes over the broadcast in a very awkward way and he's throwing it to other people.
And so I picked up on a very peculiar habit that Glor has that I think can get annoying fast.
He has characteristics of...
Am I not pausing long enough?
Too long.
You're rounding out your sentences wrong.
This must be.
So, Glor has this habit of kind of anchoring like an actor, which means...
Oh, yeah, okay.
So, let me just read it like a sentence.
Well, Adam, I went the other day To the store to get something.
Oh man, I'd be starting the clips wrong all the time if you talked like that.
Well, this is the way he talks.
And I got some examples of it.
And it's very peculiar and kind of makes you...
Shiver a little bit, so let's start with the driver update.
Good evening, I'm Anthony Mason at CBS News Headquarters in New York.
We begin with Jeff Glor, who's in downtown Manhattan, where federal terrorism charges have just been filed in the Halloween truck attack.
Jeff?
Anthony, that attack left eight people dead and 12 injured, and the driver, wounded by a police officer, was taken from the hospital to U.S. District Court to face a judge.
The suspect was in a wheelchair, handcuffed and shackled.
The police say the attack had been in the works for a long time.
Late this afternoon, federal prosecutors filed two federal charges against the suspect, Saifulu Saipoff, U.S. Attorney June Kim.
Alleged terrorists like Saipoff view the city as a prime target for their hate-filled crimes.
But the thing is, for the alleged terrorists like Saipov, they will find in New York City something else, justice.
According to the court filings, Saipov chose October 31st because it was Halloween and he believed there would be more civilians on the streets.
On one cell phone, authorities found 90 ISIS-related propaganda videos and 3,800 propaganda images.
Saipov is in custody at a nearby hospital and apparently talking to police.
Sources tell CBS News Saipov bragged about what he did and was very pleased with the success.
Sources also say police recovered knives from the truck and 10 to 15 pieces of paper which give ISIS credit for the attack, saying ISIS will live forever.
We also have a more detailed timeline of the attack.
The truck Saipov rented turned onto a lower Manhattan bike path at 3.04 p.m., striking bikers and pedestrians and killing three.
Police say he traveled at a high rate of speed for about a mile, hitting and killing five others before he crashed into a school bus.
Oh my God!
That crash, which injured four, including two children, was caught on cell phone video.
Sources tell CBS News Saipov said that was an accident.
He wanted to continue down the bike path and over the Brooklyn Bridge.
Saipov attempted to get away carrying a pellet gun and a paintball gun.
He was arrested after being shot by 28-year-old Officer Ryan Nash, just five years on the force.
He shot Saipoff once.
I understand the importance of yesterday's events and the role we played, and I'm grateful for the recognition we have received.
So, just a moment about the cadence.
And it becomes very apparent when he separates words, and instead of saying school bus, it says school bus.
Like, that is not normal.
But this is going to end, because at the end of the broadcast, his cadence will take up probably two minutes, two valuable minutes of advertising time.
So that will end.
I hope so.
If you listen to the end of the report, if you just go back a little bit and listen to the end where the cop comes on, and earlier when the cop comes on, he has the cadence of a cop reading a report.
Yeah.
How far in?
Not very far.
It's right at the end.
The cop comes on and says something.
Traveled at a high rate of speed.
That's all him.
It was way further back.
No, no.
At the very end, I thought there was something.
Well, that's okay.
It's not important, because I do have a couple of examples.
I have Glore Awkward Pauses.
You can play this clip, and this is a good example of him pausing in, like, bad acting.
You know, we used to...
I used to.
I used to.
Brother.
We must have a lag or something.
But anyway, go on, play that.
It's being held tonight without bail.
Did you hear it?
Of course I heard it.
Without bail.
I wonder if it's a teleprompter spacing issue.
Let me listen again.
This being held tonight without bail.
It could be just a new line if it's a portable prompter.
Small prompter.
If he's out there doing stand-up, he doesn't need a prompter.
Believe me, this guy's on a prompter.
Well, here's Gloria's awkward pauses bad acting.
Play this clip.
That's what I just played.
Well, then play the without bail clip.
Ah, okay.
Ben Saipoff is being held tonight without bail.
Yeah.
They're both the same clip?
Yeah, one is two seconds.
Oh, here it is.
We have Glor's something pauses on John Miller Report.
Is that maybe one you wanted?
That's also short.
That's the third one.
Play that one.
Okay.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism John Miller says they're still investigating whether the radicalization was assisted.
I'm telling you, that's a bad prompter read.
He's on location.
Was he looking right in the lens?
I have to see it now.
But that, to me, feels like just a poor prompter reader.
Well, this guy's going to be the anchor, and that's all he's going to be doing is prompter reading.
Well, but if he's in studio, it'll be better, because you'd have a bigger prompter screen.
Well, he sucks.
He totally sucks.
I've got two other clips I want to run through, which will highlight the episode in New York, including Jeff Pegues, who's on, also the CBS guy I like, Well, that's the poop guy, right?
Yeah, there's your Jeff Pegues report on NYC Driver.
More now from Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues.
Until he was taken down by an alert New York City police officer.
Sifolo Sipob was not someone investigators seem to view as capable of mass murder or even a threat.
I need an ambulance right here.
But while the 29-year-old married father of three wasn't himself the subject...
By the way, that is, you know, now you hear the difference between...
What happened in Vegas and what happened here, where in Vegas there's one video of people saying, EMT! EMT! I need an EMT! Here, give me an EMT! Which, no, you don't say that.
What people say is ambulance.
You know, there's a big difference, just pointing it out.
Deemed to view as capable of mass murder or even a threat.
I need an ambulance right here.
But while the 29-year-old married father of three wasn't himself the subject of a law enforcement investigation, an intelligence source tells CBS News he had some contact with individuals who were considered radicalized extremists, and at least one of whom was from his native Uzbekistan.
John Miller, the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, says investigators have been going through Saipov's past.
What were his communications?
Who were they with?
What was the content?
What's relevant to this?
Saipov is from Uzbekistan, a hot fan of radicalization for young ISIS sympathizers, many of whom have gone on to fight in Syria and Iraq.
He immigrated to the U.S. in 2010, settling in Ohio, where people who know him say he spoke little English and seemed to grow disillusioned, angry, and depressed even as he embraced Islam.
Murak Mahmumanov is an Uzbek religious activist who knows the suspect.
After he moved from Ohio, I think he's becoming more and more radicalized.
And, you know, maybe he got some teaching from Internet.
Court documents filed late today show Saipov told investigators that he was, quote, inspired by ISIS videos he had watched on his cellular phone, including one video by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
And he wanted to kill as many people as he could.
I guess he wasn't using that iPhone 5 or higher, huh?
And by the way, while we're on that topic, how cool is it that with the new iPhone X, you got your terrorist right there, you just hold the phone up to his face.
You're good to go.
Unlock.
That sounds secure.
That's a great idea.
Yeah.
I never thought of that.
Well, maybe that's part of why they did it.
I... That's...
Yeah.
Instead of stealing somebody's phone surreptitiously and then cracking into it, you have to actually have the guy there.
Yeah, you just tell the guy, look over here.
Yeah.
I think that's pretty smart.
It's very secure.
Thanks, Apple.
So I have two more of these.
This ruined the news, of course, because, in fact, CBS played bit after bit after bit after bit from different correspondents, and including Major...
Yeah, this is Major Garrett with...
This is what I consider one of the best rundowns.
We're going to get rid of this lottery program as soon as possible.
Meeting with his cabinet, President Trump called the New York attacker an animal and urged Congress to end the visa lottery program the suspect used to enter the U.S. in 2010.
Diversity lottery sounds nice.
It's not nice.
It's not good.
We want a merit-based program.
The diversity program was created in 1990 to increase immigration from countries underrepresented in legal entries.
At the time, largely those from Europe and the Middle East.
Applicants enter a lottery for up to 50,000 visas.
They must complete the same background checks as other immigration programs.
On Twitter, the president referred to the diversity lottery as a Chuck Schumer beauty.
The Senate minority leader did support the program when it was signed into law by George Herbert Walker Bush.
Wait, didn't he introduce it?
I thought it was his bill or his amendment or something.
I'm sorry?
I thought it was Schumer's amendment, the whole thing.
It was one of the guys.
They didn't say anything different, did they?
Well, they said he supported it.
Oh, he's the one who backed it, yeah.
Yeah, but it was a little more than backing.
It was more like, hey, this is great, we should do this.
I go around Manhattan on my bike and I see all these people who come in on this, which just used to be known as the Green Card Lottery.
I never knew the official name was the Visa Diversity Lottery.
Isn't that funny?
Yeah.
The Senate Minority Leader did support the program when it was signed into law by George Herbert Walker Bush.
But in 2013, Schumer was part of a group of senators that unsuccessfully tried to scrap it.
Really?
Look, the president...
Stop, stop, stop.
What?
I said stop because I want to make a comment.
I was thinking about this because half the reports, ABC didn't mention that Schumer was trying to repeal the thing.
CBS mentioned it.
And a couple of...
We went back and forth and I started thinking about it.
This is a bogus commentary because if you just study this enough, you know there's a lot of things that get a little pushback.
And so they make a fake effort to overturn it.
Unsuccessfully.
Right, right, right.
And then they can say, hey, I tried, I tried.
It's on the record.
It's on the record.
I voted for the new thing, but nobody else wanted it.
So that's bullcrap.
Yeah, good point.
Unsuccessfully tried to scrap it.
Look, the president ought to stop tweeting and start leading.
The American people long for leading.
Whoa, there's your bumper sticker.
Stop tweeting and start leading.
Oh, yeah.
This was mean.
Mean.
That was a good one.
Yeah, it's very good.
Look, the president ought to stop tweeting and start leading.
The American people long for leadership, not divisiveness, not finger-pointing, not name-calling.
Tennessee Republican Bob Corker agreed.
Again, I don't know that's why you bring out the best in our country, but everybody has their wife, I guess.
The president also lashed out at prosecutions against terrorist suspects and said he would consider sending Saifelo Saipov to the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
And we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now.
Because what we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock.
I want to thank the terrorism, prosecutors and investigators in my office.
Just hours later, Saipov was charged in federal court, acting U.S. Attorney June Kim.
The folks in that unit, working with the FBI, the NYPD, the JTTF, Have a long and unblemished track record of successfully investigating and prosecuting domestic and international terrorists.
With Saipov charged in federal court, moving him to Guantanamo appears off the table.
By way of explanation, the White House said the president was merely venting his frustration and will not be proposing new ways to prosecute terrorism cases.
What I'm hearing here is a legal battle that is being set up, and I don't think it's over at all.
The whole...
And these guys came real quick.
Wheel the guy in with a wheelchair.
Quick, let's indict him.
That went fast, John.
That's much faster than normal.
And that's because they don't, for whatever reason, they don't want it to fall under the enemy combatant clause, which...
For obvious reasons, we don't like that because I could be deemed an enemy combatant and could be hooded and thrown in a van and taken to Gitmo.
But the question is, whose jurisdiction is it and who's moving fast and why?
That's a good question.
We have to look into that, but I think you're exactly right.
And this was discussed on almost every newscast, which is...
Which was Trump's flippant comment that we should send him to Gitmo.
It's not that flippant, it's the law.
And I think that, well, there's a point that's made, I think it's in this one, this will be the...
Let's try this one.
This is a shorter ABC clip on the New York City attack.
...of the New York attack, the president unloaded in a series of political tweets.
I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already extreme vetting program.
Being politically correct is fine, but not for this.
And at the break of dawn this morning, he launched into an attack against New York's own senator, Chuck Schumer.
Tweeting, the terrorists came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery program.
A Chuck Schumer beauty.
Today, the White House insisted the president wasn't politicizing the tragedy.
The president has not blamed Senator Schumer and doesn't feel that the senator is responsible for the attack.
We believe very strongly that the individual who carried out the attack is responsible and no one else.
The diversity visa program, which was supported by Senator Schumer and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush, receives millions of applicants every year and provides visas to about 50,000 people, all of whom get background checks.
Diversity lottery sounds nice.
It's not nice.
It's not good.
So we want to immediately work with Congress on the diversity lottery program, on terminating it, getting rid of it.
Live tonight from the White House, and John, we heard the president criticize the justice process as well in all of this for the terrorist suspects.
And today he even said he would consider sending the alleged New York attacker to Guantanamo Bay.
Can he do that?
Technically he can do it, but any move to send the alleged attacker to Guantanamo Bay would certainly face a constitutional challenge.
No one ever arrested on American soil has been sent to Gitmo, David.
It's never happened.
I just looked it up, John.
Because every bill always has reasoning.
Why?
Sometimes it has assumptions.
And this is...
Yeah, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a...
Well, now that can't be it.
Skills-based...
No.
Oh, you're talking about the...
Yeah, that's the wrong one.
I'm looking for...
The diversity bill.
Yeah, I'm looking for the...
That's exactly what I'm looking for.
Hmm.
Oh, shit.
What Google is doing is showing all the acts to eliminate the diversity visa bill, which is not helpful.
Let me switch to Bing.
Bing, man.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Bing!
That's right.
Everybody was switching to Bing.
Switching to Bing, stand by.
Switching to Bing.
Switching to Bing.
Let's see what it does.
That might be funny.
Okay.
I'm really switching to Bing.
I'm going to Bing it, baby.
Bing.com.
Alright, let's try it here.
What does Bing give me?
Well, how about that?
First hit, right on top.
Nah.
That's okay.
Here's the last clip from the whole thing, because this had to be clipped in and brought into the discussion, which is this again, CBS did 10 different reports on the same topic, this time with Nancy Cordes, who tends to be one that uses the whipsaw non sequitur approach to her clippage, pretty much to an extreme, and she's very anti-Trump.
And so they brought in this little point, which is And it got a little traction, which is, let's contrast what Trump did with this guy with what he did with the guy in Vegas to prove he's a racist.
Yeah, because this guy's brown.
But is he a citizen or just a resident alien, which is the correct term?
They never mention that.
Okay, because the Visa diversity program implies that you just have a green card.
Yeah, I think he's a green card holder.
The conflicting reactions to two tragedies angered some Muslim American leaders.
Why the hypocrisy?
Why the double standards?
And some Las Vegas survivors who were lobbying Capitol Hill today.
We knew that something needed to be done and we just assumed the country was behind us.
I think a month later we've seen nothing happen.
They're pushing for legislation banning the kind of devices that allowed Steven Paddock to wound 500 people in a matter of minutes.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said today it shouldn't surprise anyone that the president is more focused on immigration.
The president has been talking about extreme vetting and the need for that for the purpose of protecting the citizens of this country since he was a candidate long before he was ever president.
Despite some initial GOP interest, a Senate bill banning bump stocks currently has 40 Democratic co-sponsors but no Republicans.
And the Senate Judiciary Committee says it won't even hold a hearing on bump stocks, Jeff, until the Las Vegas investigation is further along.
Like the way she changed topics.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Very interesting.
Well, I got one clip from, when it comes to extreme vetting, a change of heart from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was on with the Cuomo kid on CNN. He's a Democrat, so you'd think he'd be against all of the things that Trump wants.
The world has changed.
I've heard you talk about it with your kids, and we were talking to young people this morning.
When you and I were growing up, Mr.
Mayor, if we saw the long guns in the police presence like we see today, it would have freaked us out.
But today, there is a reassurance in that.
But there's also a new dynamic.
Who does this?
And you saw the president weighing in this morning.
He's blaming this presence of this man for seven years in this country on what they're calling an open border policy, essentially.
Yes, he came in legally through a process, through an airport, and had been here many years, as so far we understand, without incident or any flags to authorities.
But there's blame here.
This is about Muslims.
This is about people wanting to get us.
This is about Democrats like you letting them in too easily.
How do you respond?
Look, the last thing the president or anyone else should do is politicize this tragedy.
We have to find out what happened here.
That work's going to be done by the FBI, by the NYPD, and all of our partners to determine exactly who this man is, what moved him to this horrible act, what's going on here, is there any bigger ramifications?
That's what we should be focused on.
But look, in the end, the last The last thing we should do is start casting aspersions on whole races of people or whole religions or whole nations.
That only makes the situation worse.
The bottom line is anyone who wants to come to this country should be very thoroughly vetted as an individual.
But the minute you start generalizing it, especially to a whole religion, Then, unfortunately, we're sending the exact negative message that a lot of our enemies want sent.
The terrorists want to affirm that this nation is somehow anti-Muslim.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's never been the message.
It's always been they hate our freedom.
Now it's because we hate Muslims?
No.
We've got to change these messages.
That's not cool.
But he said it right there.
I want everyone extreme vetting.
I found it, John.
Act 203, Allocation of Immigrant Visas.
It's very interesting.
I actually found out there's a notice on the Diversity Visa Lottery page at the Department of State.
Due to a technical issue, the DV 2019 entry period that began on October 3 has been closed.
Entries submitted during October 3 to 10 are not valid and have been excluded from the system.
They will not count as duplicate entry.
The technical issue has been resolved, and a new full entry period will begin at noon, U.S. Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, or run until noon Eastern Standard Time Wednesday, November 22, 2017.
It's weird.
I wonder what that was about.
Just a glitch?
Glitch?
One of those glitches?
How about somebody hack the system?
ISIS hacked the system.
After all, they know more about it than we do.
The Annual Diversity Visa Lottery, also known as the Green Card Lottery, is a U.S. government program that makes 55,000.
I heard 50, but I guess it says it right here.
This is on the official page.
Yeah, they all said 50.
The official page, which has a very odd picture of the president, right there, next to this text.
55,000 permanent resident cards available every year to persons from, quote, underrepresented countries.
That's very interesting.
I know at least five Dutch people personally who have won a green card lottery.
I guess that Holland is an underrepresented country who have been less represented in employment.
Sounds like a scam.
Yeah, listen to this.
55,000 permanent resident cards available every year to persons from underrepresented countries which have been less represented in employment and family-based preference categories.
In the United States of America and who meet two basic eligibility requirements.
This year, 2017, green card lottery program is called DV2019, the year successful applicants may enter the United States of America on the green card they won.
It won.
That's so cool.
It's like bingo.
And it's now open to all individuals worldwide who meet two basic requirements.
The program makes permanent resident cards available to the winners, authorizing the winners and their families to live, study, and work in the United States of America as permanent residents.
The Green Card Lottery Program is a United States congressionally mandated program for receiving a United States permanent resident card, also known as the USA Green Card.
And it doesn't really explain anything else other than the guarantee The Diversity Visa Lottery Program is the most generous immigrant visa program in the world with up to 55,000 permanent resident cards allocated yearly.
If a person is unable to qualify for family, refugee, or employment visa in the United States, this is the only option they have to immigrate to the United States.
While luck is certainly a key factor in the initial draw...
What are the odds?
We should have odds on this thing.
A scratch-off.
This is the only option they have to immigrate to the United States.
While luck is certainly a key factor in the initial draw, many important factors that affect the applicant's chances of winning.
Hold on a second.
There is no way a Dutch person can immigrate to the United States because this is the only way?
That's bullcrap because, of course they can.
Yeah, so this has got a false premise.
Here's what I think is going on, because what is not explained in the text, and maybe there's more legal texts that we can find, our producers can work on it, Is it like a big bowl and they take names out of the hat?
Do they have the Powerball lottery and they're turning a big cylinder with ping pong balls in it?
Or is it something where there's 55,000 and so if you're a legislator you can say, hey, I need a couple of those lottery green cards.
That's what I think this is.
That's what it's kind of sounding like.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Very, very, very interesting.
Well, I know tons of people who can maybe provide us answers, and I'm going to have to reach out.
But I still need to find the actual text of this put in and the reasoning behind it.
But it's unfair what it is.
It's just dumb.
It's a game show.
In fact, now there's your answer.
Why don't we just make it an actual game show?
I mean, this is a format that is a winning format.
And now, straight from Urzgan, come on down, Mohammed!
Yeah.
And we could do tasks like, Hey, Mohammed, here's your question.
What color is the White House?
You know, all kinds of cool stuff like that.
I think you got something.
And then we could always do an Oprah moment where everybody in the audience would be just a tourist where, guess what?
Look under your chair!
You all have a green card!
Woo!
Well, it sounds a lot like that would be what's going on here.
Well, I think it's totally salvageable.
We just need to turn it into a TV show.
Win, lose, or be deported!
Yeah, that's actually a good one.
Echo that one.
Echo it.
Okay.
Win, lose, or be deported!
Yeah, there you go.
Perfect.
We'll work on it.
It's a winner.
Well, anyway, I wanted to make a couple of points about that last clip, which was they went on and on about, oh, the president is politicizing this.
I think he was, but they criticized him for not politicizing the Vegas thing, according to Nancy Cordes' report.
Oh, he didn't say anything about that, so he should have politicized that too?
Is what they're kind of saying.
And it's like every time anything happens to Democrats on the other side, they politicize it, but they usually bring it in the Second Amendment.
It's interesting when I was in Europe...
Because you couldn't do it with this, by the way.
All the news, and it becomes very apparent...
You know, they really have no journos, no journalistic resources in most of the M5M in Europe.
They just copy whatever's in the U.S. newspapers and, you know, just translate it.
Which is work, you know, and have someone else do the...
And I can read both fluently.
So I see one-for-one copy.
And people are kind of sick of all the Trump news.
You know, Trump farted today.
Why do we need to know?
Everyone in Europe is like, this is stupid.
You know, we need to know other things.
Like, what really happened to MH17? You know, give us the real data.
Give us the real report.
People are getting mad about it.
No one's serving the interests of the people over there.
Should be politicized.
You hear the difference, though.
You hear the difference, you see the difference.
I'm not implying anything out of the ordinary for me, but this is a very real terror attack.
Everything is different about it.
They spend more time on this than Vegas.
Well, the thing is...
And we got the deputy director of FBI taking the stage.
We got the deputy attorney general.
I mean, the big guns came in for this, but not in Vegas.
Right.
I think that's probably the key difference.
Even though Vegas could be a terrorist attack, too.
Yeah.
I mean, if you listen to some of these guys.
All right.
I'm trying to organize these.
Our spreadsheet came in.
Yes, I have that.
I have that.
So we're good on that.
It's going to be, unfortunately for us, but unfortunately for the show, it's another long list of thank yous we're going to have to deliver.
And we're going to...
I'll try to...
I'm going to edit as I go.
There's a lot of notes I've noticed have been coming in that have been...
Kind of off topic.
Off topic, a little bit too long, perhaps.
We'll keep the format of the previous.
Many of them are way too long in this discussing, you know, family matters.
It's not really something that everybody's interested in.
Oh, well.
Except for the douchebagging.
If anyone has a douchebag or a call out.
Yeah, that's always important.
Well, I do have a couple of things, if we're done with this, momentarily.
I believe so.
A couple of things about, you know, the horrible media men.
What's the name of that spreadsheet, which is still not surfaced?
Shitty media men.
That's what it was.
Shitty media men.
Yeah, the fake.
It's a fake.
I wanted to see it.
The shitty media men.
There was a good one that came out.
Totally out of left field.
Literally.
Yeah.
NPR News has placed its top news executive on leave tonight after allegations surfaced that he sexually harassed women when he was Washington bureau chief of the New York Times.
Oh, it gets so good.
Those allegations against senior vice president for news Michael Oreskes, stemming from nearly two decades ago, were first reported by the Washington Post.
Two women say he kissed them forcefully without their consent.
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik reports...
Hey, Folkenflik, get over here!
There was another less severe incident of sexual harassment alleged here at NPR. Less severe.
Gee, I guess you can grade this, huh?
I can't wait to hear how it was less severe than that.
David joins us from our studios in New York.
And David, first, tell us more about the allegations as reported by The Post.
So these allegations, as you say, stretch back nearly two decades, and they involve separate instances in which two women who are unnamed, have not been willing to be identified to date, say that a rescis kind of kissed them as they were trying to discuss their job prospects with him at the New York York Times.
They were expecting it to be a job conversation.
Instead, he unexpectedly veered in, kissed them on the lips, and stuck his tongue down their mouths without consent.
Without consent, I tell you.
Hey, baby.
And, you know, he was inked for their job prospect.
Now, this is severe.
This is the true definition, the true definition of sexual harassment.
I mean, he has power over these women's careers, and he's sticking his tongue in their mouth without asking.
That's terrible.
Without asking.
Stuck his tongue down their mouths without consent.
Okay, how is NPR responding?
There's an investigation underway.
We're going to have a love-in.
That's what we're going to do.
NPR said it's looking into this, and executives have confirmed to me tonight that they've put Michael Oreskes on leave as a matter of taking this seriously.
In addition, you're alone.
The CEO has put out...
Hey, if this guy...
I don't want to interrupt this, but if this guy is that high up in NPR, we must be able to have a photo of him.
Oh, yeah.
No, you can find a photo of him.
And you know what?
Not hot.
Well, I was, yeah.
Michael, what is it?
I'll get it for you.
I'll get it for you.
Just do head of news, NPR head of news.
Michael Oreskes on leave as a matter of taking this seriously.
In addition, you're all moan.
The CEO has put out a staff-wide memo saying he's got their back and that, you know, sexual harassment is not welcome here.
It's not welcome here.
No, you must go next door to PBS. And just to be clear about the timeline, these are alleged episodes that happened before Oreskes was at NPR. The guy is a nebbish.
But wait, he's a nebbish.
Exactly.
He's the Weinstein of news.
Look at the guy.
I'm telling you, if this guy, the guy looks like a frog, he looks like a frog-like nebbish.
And he would be very, it'd be nasty to be kissed, yeah.
Complaints being made by these two women have been filed with lawyers here at NPR. You are also reporting tonight that there's been another complaint filed by a younger colleague here at NPR who has filed a formal complaint with HR against Oreskes.
Can you tell us what she is alleging?
Yeah.
Yes, this dates back two years to an episode in October 2015.
Rebecca Hersher, she's a producer on the Science Desk now, has had a number of long-term temporary assignments at the network.
Hersher took Oreskes up on his offer when he visited out at NPR West one time to get career advice and guidance to talk about what lay ahead for them.
And she ultimately connected with him in Washington, D.C. at our headquarters.
Mid-afternoon appointment became an invitation for drinks and then dinner.
And during that dinner, she was 26 years old at the time, he asked her a lot of questions about her personal life, about her boyfriend.
Listen closely.
At one point he said, it's surprising to me that any boyfriend or man could keep up with you.
At another point he talked about a girlfriend being his first sex girlfriend.
And there were a number of instances that she claims made her feel deeply uncomfortable.
From my point of view, every little thing that he or I said pointed to the relative difference in power.
Like, he's the one with the power.
He gets to decide what we talk about, and I am trying to keep up.
But it's also, I get to decide what you talk about.
That's how you get shit on the radio.
With a guy like that, with a creep like that, who's head of news.
No wonder.
No wonder.
Yeah, it's not a surprise.
And I'm sure it's not an isolated incident within any organization, but certainly not within NPR, because it's show business.
You think it's all just people like, oh, I'm on the radio, I'm a journo, I'm doing important work.
No, it's show business!
Did you hear me on the radio?
Well, yeah, I work for NPR. Just so you know.
Can't you tell from my NPR cadence I work for NPR? Well, good.
It'd be the big deep...
You put one of those little sound boots around your head.
I think it's very important that these people in news are outed.
Hollywood is...
It's all important to the women and men involved.
And in Holland...
Oh, man.
The Me Too hashtag, which I think has kind of died out, and I was just talking about it, but not really...
Doing a lot of the hashtag.
I mean, there's whole TV shows where some actor, 30 years ago, very similar to Kevin Spacey, 30 years ago, you know, had sex with a director.
And the director's famous now.
And so 30 years later, he's bringing this all out.
And it's like, you know, it wasn't for a job or anything.
He's like, oh, let me just slip into bed with you.
They were drunk.
Very similar to Kevin Spacey.
And although I understand the response that people have to Kevin Spacey, imagine that you're bisexual or, and I'm not trying to downplay anything, because, you know, I got a lot of pushback from The Keeper when I said, you know, look, the guy's, you know, he's young, they're into play, you know, whatever, they're drunk, he lays on top of him, the kid pushes him off, and okay.
And it's not like I hadn't been accosted when I was 14 by, you know, gay men trying to come on to me.
It happens.
It's not great.
But for Spacey, he then also has to say, well, crap, now everyone knows I'm gay.
I might as well tell you I'm gay.
It's sad that he had to do that.
And then he gets ripped for it.
Yeah, totally.
But he molested.
No, I don't know what is molested.
You know, it's very subjective.
Very, very subjective.
It's not great.
Again, it's happened to me, but, you know, go away.
Creep.
Done.
Now, this also guy...
While you were gone, I don't know if you noticed, but the actor...
What's his name?
The guy who played...
In the movie with Tom...
I can't remember anything.
Okay, Tom Cruise.
Dustin Hoffman got busted for apparently grabbing ass or something 35 years ago.
Dustin Hoffman's so tiny, he probably looks at women in their butt crack.
The guy is like 4'9".
Now...
Yes, he's not a big guy.
Very tiny.
But, you know, this seems a bit, at some point, seems unfair.
And what gets me is that before the show, you played, it sounded like, or somebody put this together in a mix, what sounded like Doris Day singing a song called Boobs.
Yeah, I don't know if it's Doris Day.
It sure sounds like her.
You gotta have boobs.
Yeah, I don't know if that's Doris Day.
Okay, well, I don't know who it is, but you've got to have boobs.
I'll look it up.
I've got discographies.
I'm sure you have the 78.
What do you mean you have to look it up?
I don't have that 78.
I would remember it.
So, in that song, she says three boobs might be better, one in the back for dancing.
Ruth Wallace, I think.
Oh, Ruth Wallace.
Okay, yeah, she sounded like Doris Day.
So I thought that was kind of rude.
And what is, to me, the boob in the back for dancing, meaning you'd be grabbing the boob.
Well, I'm looking at the album cover before you continue.
Ruth Wallace's greatest hits, Boobs, 19 classic songs from the Queen of Party Records from the original Masters.
Oh, man.
You've got to have boobs if you want to impress tycoons and rubes.
You need boobs to fill out a sweater, but you need two, but three might be better.
Ah, good times back in the day.
So I'm thinking, this is like, and to all the men out there, and I apologize to the female listeners, this is mixed messages.
Yeah, it sure is.
Make up your mind, ladies.
Yes, indeed.
Indeed.
Again, of course, it goes right back to that Eliza Schlesinger commentary and others.
Hey, if the guy's good looking, who's going to complain?
Probably very few people.
That's why when I looked up this guy, the news guy, he's not a guy who's going to get a lot of attention from the women folk.
Not typically.
Certainly not based upon appearance and likely personal hygiene.
I'm just looking at the guy.
Not so sure that's going to happen.
Why don't we do a little bit of Russia stuff and then go to our break?
How does that sound?
Okay.
You got anything you want to lead us in with?
Well, if you're talking about the Russia investigation and all the nasty stuff going on in the hearings.
Well, yes.
The hearings.
I knew that you would be checking out the hearings.
Maybe just to lead us into the hearings.
Well, I didn't get that much hearing material because it was...
I thought it was...
These guys, well, here's an example.
This is the typical question, and this is the typical answer.
I think the company should be called out for collusion, because they obviously colluded with each other.
I'm talking about Facebook, Twitter, and Google, because they all sent their chief attorney, their chief counsel.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
That's racketeering, isn't it?
Or is that, what is, that would be anti-competitive?
No, I don't think it would be either one of those.
But there is a collusion aspect to it.
And there's no reason you can't talk amongst each other if you all have a call to a meeting.
But they all got, obviously, they called each other and said, what are we going to do?
What are we going to do?
This is terrible.
Well, let's just send our top lawyer.
Okay, that's a great idea.
Stupid lawyers come up there, then they're to say nothing.
They don't know anything.
They don't know anything about policy.
And they're brown-nosing the senators.
And here's a good example of them brown-nosing the senators.
It's a typical question at Senate hearings.
So how do you know they're Russians, and what are you looking for there when you're talking about Russians in retrospect?
Right.
That's a great question.
That is clearly not a great question.
Almost every lawyer kept saying, that's a great question.
That's a great question.
That is what lawyers do when they have to cover up an answer.
And it gives them thinking time, and it's a whole number of reasons for it, but it's because they really don't want to answer anything.
Now, the question, the one question I nailed, which is an answer, this is a back and forth between, I can't remember if it was a Republican, but this particular back and forth We're good to go.
And this particular clip says it all.
This is the Facebook ads, 81 million versus Senate hearing.
Mr.
Stretch, how much money did the Russians spend on ads that we now look back as either disruptive or politically intended?
Is that $100,000?
It's approximately $100,000.
I meant from your company.
Yes.
Approximately $100,000.
How much of that did they pay before the election?
I've seen the number 44,000.
Is that right?
56 after, 44 before?
The ad impressions ran 46% before the election, the remainder after the election.
46%.
Well, if I had a consultant that was trying to impact an election and spent only 46% of the money before Election Day, I'd be pretty upset about that, I think.
So they spent $46,000.
How much did the Clinton...
That's a very good point.
So the majority of the spend, as we call it, came after the election.
Yeah, and so the total that they actually spent was $46,000.
And we're having a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing over this $40,000.
This money is a ridiculous amount of money.
It's so low.
Let me finish.
So they spent $46,000.
How much did the Clinton and Trump campaign spend on Facebook?
I assume before the election.
They were more organized than the other group.
Combined, approximately $81 million.
$81 million, and before the election.
Yes.
Well, they just don't know how to do it right.
The Russians clearly have cracked the code of marketing.
$46,000 versus $81 million.
And we're making a fuss to the point that we're wasting taxpayer money on this investigation of collusion because of this massive amount of money that was spent?
Are you kidding me?
And on collusion for a moment, here is America's favorite lawyer, Alan Dershowitz...
Best argument against having a special counsel.
Why?
Special counsel is looking only for crimes.
There are no crimes in collusion.
Take the worst case scenario.
Is there even a federal criminal statute that says collusion?
No.
Let's take the worst case scenario.
This never happened.
Candidate Trump calls Vladimir Putin and says, Vlad, do I have a deal for you?
You want to get rid of the sanctions.
I want to be president.
You help me be president.
I'll help you get rid of the sanctions.
Terrible.
Horrible.
Not a crime.
There's nothing in the criminal statute book against that.
Maybe there should be, but there isn't.
That's why we should never have had a special counsel.
We should have had a bipartisan or nonpartisan independent commission like 9-11, like the Warren Commission, looking into the relationship between Russia and American elections, whether it impacts Democrats or Republicans.
That's correct.
In other words, both sides of the political power.
Absolutely.
We want to get to the It's a great point because a bipartisan approach commission would have been transparent, you would think, right?
That's right.
No, it's not even illegal.
I know.
This is ridiculous.
It's great.
Now, the only other thing that was kind of interesting, I think, I don't know if this is the right clip or not, but this is the hearings Russian IP issue.
We're looking for signals.
Not everyone identifies themselves as a Russian, especially these malicious actors.
So we're looking at things like...
Is the person wearing a hat, a big furry hat, that might be a signal that he's Russian?
So we're looking at things like whether they registered in-country in Russia.
Do they have a Russian phone number?
Are they on a Russian mobile carrier?
Do they have a Russian email address?
Are they coming in from a Russian IP? Have they ever logged in?
You'll see in a retrospective work we looked at, have you ever logged in at any time from Russia?
That's the entire...
Way of seeing if it's a Russian, if it has a Russian IP address?
If they're using a phone that's in Russia?
This whole thing is a joke.
And here, let me mention something.
I was wondering why.
I never thought much about it until I heard this.
I was wondering why the Russians, it was recently, but about six months ago, the Russians have kind of kicked out all the VPN vendors that were running their stuff through Russia.
Oh, really?
I didn't know that.
Yeah, I had a VPN that had a Russia IP, and I would use it once in a while because it was extremely quick.
I mean, it was like blazingly fast.
You should be careful with that.
It looks like I'm coming in through Russia.
Yeah, you should be careful with that.
Well, careful about what?
But I could see if somebody was some fake, you know, some scammer here in New York in a building was grinding away and they decided to make it look like it came from Russia.
You just jump on your VPN, click on Russia, go through some Moscow server, and then you're looking like you're an IP from Russia.
You're hired!
And the Russians, meanwhile, are saying, hey...
Not to say that half of these guys that spent a huge $46,000 on the campaign weren't from Russia.
They probably were.
I can see how you can really make it look like somebody from someplace else.
Well, there's a reason.
It has nothing to do with the collusion.
It has to do with regulating the internet.
And to these yahoos, these jamokes, there's two things.
It's regulating the internet and making sure that they can also become president with $46,000 because they're that stupid.
And listen to the conversation with Brolf and Philip Mudd, former CIA douche, and Jeffrey Toobin, current New York Times douche.
With what they want to happen because of this horrible, horrible event.
Wolf, CNN has obtained a copy of Facebook's written testimony.
This is the testimony that they will present to lawmakers in a series of public hearings this week.
It includes a very significant detail Content generated by the Russian troll farm, known as the Internet Research Agency, that was seeking to meddle in American politics through social media.
That content was served to 126 million Facebook users in the United States, according to Facebook.
Now, did that come out in the hearing for the $46,000?
You can get 126 million impressions for $46,000.
What's that CPM? Come on, what's that CPM? Calculate it at like 70 cents or 50 cents.
No, it can't be that.
No, it's got to be.
No, no, no, no, no.
At the 100,000 rate, not at 46.
It's probably about a quarter.
That makes no sense.
In the United States, according to Facebook estimates, that is more than half the total U.S. voting population.
You can reach more than half the total U.S. voting population with $46,000.
I'm supposed to believe this?
Because I want that campaign.
Yeah, me too.
I'll resell it.
That is more than half the total U.S. voting.
I can use it to push no agenda.
Yeah, we'll take a tenth, please.
We're okay with the 12 million people.
Just give us that for four grand.
Population.
That is a significant number.
Now, of course, one ad, one story promoted or created and generated into somebody's timeline doesn't necessarily mean that they saw it.
It doesn't necessarily mean that it influenced.
Oh, shh.
Can't talk like that, man.
Same goes for TV ads.
We can't tell if they really were watching.
The way that they voted in the 2016 campaign or the way they felt about American politics.
But that is an extraordinary number and it is so much higher, Wolf, than the reach that Facebook had previously disclosed.
And it's so much cheaper than our ad rate card.
We're in real trouble, Brolf.
Remember, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially said it was crazy to think that Russian meddling had any influence in the 2016 election.
Then they said ads bought by the Internet Research Agency may have reached more than 10 million voters.
We're now looking at a number of 126 million Americans who may have been exposed to content generated by this troll farm, which is backed by the Kremlin.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
Dylan Byers, thanks very much.
It's pretty amazing, I'm telling you.
For that, Phil Mudd, what does that say to you when you hear those kinds of numbers and the success of this Russian troll fund?
I'm in the wrong business.
I can't overestimate the significance of this.
Let me tell you why.
This is good.
You're getting clip of the day.
Put it on at the end.
What did Trump advisors do?
What's happening now in terms of these revelations about Facebook have to twist government on its head.
When we go forward two years, the question Congress should be asking is, how do we ensure that the U.S. intelligence community Which is going to be very nervous about cooperating with a bunch of techies out in Silicon Valley, is passing information about Russian activities on the Internet.
So Facebook real-time, I'm not talking about 30 days, I'm talking about real-time, can take stuff off the Internet.
What I'm saying, Wolf, is we need a war room where the National Security Agency and the CIA and the FBI are together with Facebook, giving Facebook top-secret information to react to.
The government just doesn't work that way today.
They've got to get this stuff off the Internet.
But Jeffrey, it does raise all sorts of legal questions, right?
Oh, it's, you know, this is a real brave new world.
And, you know, we often talk about media bias and, you know, what does Fox do?
What does MSNBC do?
The real news source for so many Americans is their Facebook feed.
Uh-oh!
There's almost no quality control into what goes into Facebook feed.
Facebook doesn't tell us what the algorithm is that chooses what stories we get.
They don't tell us, now they say they are going to start telling us, it's like who's paying for everything that people see in their Facebook feed.
So it goes to the whole idea of how voters are persuaded of their views now.
And, you know, Facebook is making a very slow and very cautious start, but they have a big responsibility for how American politics works now, and they really haven't stepped up.
Yeah, that's right.
Just take stuff off the Internet.
First Amendment, be damned!
One of the news organizations, I don't have them, where's my clip sheet?
Notice no one's calling for 90 ISIS videos to be taken off the internet or be taken off YouTube.
No one's calling for that, but oh, the Russian collusion ads.
Yeah, they gotta go!
In real time, we need a war room!
Yeah, that's a good point.
Yeah, where's this guy that just ran over all these people and they found all this stuff on his phone?
Where do you get it from?
Yeah, and believe me, it's not downloaded videos.
So ABC went to the troll factory.
They got a guy in Moscow.
They went to the troll.
Or St.
Petersburg.
And they went in and tried to bust into the place.
He's knocking on the door trying to get in.
It's a very funny story.
I'm actually stunned, you know, because we always hear all Putin's got a lockdown on all this stuff.
They just walked right in?
They tried.
They didn't get very far.
But it's beside the point because some of the other stuff that comes out in this report, they found a woman who worked there and she's now working for an alternative newspaper.
And I don't understand why this wasn't shut down by Putin, by the way they talk about Putin.
Yeah.
But it's just a very funny report.
Why didn't they throw this guy out of Russia, this ABC reporter?
But here we go.
And if you ever had any doubts about Russian meddling, their efforts to influence Americans, tonight Dan Harris and what he discovered inside a nondescript building in St.
Petersburg, it is safe to say they were not happy to see him.
I'm from ABC News in the United States.
We're in St.
Petersburg, Russia, trying to get inside a building known as the Troll Factory.
Here we're told dozens of internet trolls are hard at work trying to exploit America's division.
Like the Keebler elves!
Security guards push us out, threatening to call the police.
Not far away, we meet Lyudmila Savchuk, a journalist who went undercover in 2015, working in the troll factory for about $700 a month.
What was your job when you were working there?
What did you have to do all day?
She tells me she would invent fictional characters and then post under their names with topics carefully selected by her bosses.
She says she and some of her fellow ex-trolls shot these undercover videos inside the building showing tight security and rows of trolls typing away.
I want a new t-shirt.
I want a t-shirt that says Russian troll on the front and fake American on the back.
It's a beautiful, no agenda shop.
There's more on the clip.
There's some she said I have to comment.
I'll roll it back.
I got it.
Didn't roll it back.
Are you there?
Yeah, you said you got it, so I'm being quiet.
I'm listening.
Never mind, I know what happened.
I kicked the keyboard.
Hang on, hang on, let me unkick it.
Jeez.
Okay.
All right, let me mention what she said there.
They show the video, the underground video, supposedly.
Heavy security.
The heavy security, for one thing, all the doors are these glass doors you find in like Old-fashioned office buildings.
Yeah.
And the heavy security consisted of a key going in the lock and opening the glass door.
Oh, man.
That's the heavy security.
And then the video went into the troll factory showing these.
It's just a bunch of typical dudes named Ben, or not even that level, at terminals.
And there's about, I'd say, maybe 20 of them, maybe 20.
A dozen, you know, to 20.
What happened to 150 or, you know, how many they're supposed to be?
They work up to death.
I think they make them work 12 hours a day.
You can get a lot of action.
It's also a great name for a bar.
Come on!
It's Ladies Night at the Troll Factory!
But this is a very funny report.
I... Well, play the rest of it, and I do have a comment.
Says she and some of her fellow ex-trolls shot these undercover videos inside the building, showing tight security and rows of trolls typing away.
This man, Alan Biskayev, told an independent liberal Russian TV station he worked in the unit that specifically targeted America.
One minute, he said, you needed to be a redneck from Kentucky.
And then later, you had to be some kind of white dude from Minnesota.
And then in 15 minutes, you need to be from New York, writing something in black slang.
Racist trolls.
Today, lawmakers are releasing several of the thousands of ads bought by Russian trolls.
And just look at this tweet from during the election.
Hold on.
Stop.
This is very interesting.
I'm going to roll that back again.
Because the Russians have no scruples and are not, I'm just taking the side of how effective this is.
And because they have no political correctness and don't have to present something the client might be offended by or everyone's worried, they're just playing about it.
Yeah, I'm going to sound like a redneck from Kentucky.
I'm going to sound like a white dude from Wisconsin.
And then I'm going to sound like a New Yorker with black slang.
And you know what?
Guess what, people?
It works.
New York writing something in black slang.
Tonight, lawmakers releasing several of the thousands of ads bought by Russian trolls.
And just look at this tweet from during the election, falsely telling fans of Hillary Clinton they can avoid the line and vote from home.
The trolls even using an image of the comedian Aziz Ansari.
No wonder they didn't want to let us in to see their work.
And Dan Harris with us tonight.
Dan, you're also learning that these Russian trolls went to extraordinary lengths to learn about America?
That's right, David.
One ex-troll tells us some of his colleagues actually traveled here to the U.S. in order to better understand our culture.
Another tells us the boss has made all of the trolls watch the Netflix show House of Cards.
Oh, my.
You know what?
You're getting a clip of the day for that one.
That was beautiful.
Clip of the day.
John, John, rows of trolls.
Yeah, I know that's the show title.
Totally.
I like ex-trolls.
Ex-trolls.
What did you used to do for a living, sir?
I was a troll.
I'm an ex-troll.
I used to be a troll.
What do you do, Adam?
An informed troll.
I'm an ex-troll and a podcaster.
I was thinking about this, and this building, this notorious building.
Yeah, you were an ex-troll, now you're a podcaster.
This building in St.
Petersburg, they have pictures of it, and the guy trying to get in the front door and all the rest.
But if anybody thinks for a minute that we don't have similar operations in this country...
Run by public relations agencies.
What are you talking about?
It's called Voice of America, and we're not hiding it.
It's the broadcast board of governors.
We're not hiding it.
I'm not talking about that group.
I'm talking about public relations agencies that will do the politically incorrect stuff, like you talked about them doing in Russia, that they're not going to do on Voice of America.
Yeah.
I don't, and let's face it, what was Clinton up to in what was the election, 2012 election of Putin when she had her trolls over Russia causing trouble, running NGOs in and out of the place?
She had troll schools throughout Eastern Europe where they were schooling their trolls.
Yeah.
Camp, summer troll camp.
Troll summer camp.
Troll camp.
That's a good one.
Troll the camp.
You know, you couldn't write this.
Even if Netflix gave you $100 million, you couldn't write this.
This is too funny.
It'd be a comedy show.
In fact, House of Cards...
It might be an interesting sitcom.
Listen, House of Cards, there's no wonder it has to stop.
Not because Kevin Spacey might be a molester or a masher and gay.
No, not because of that.
It's because it's not like reality anymore.
They need trolls!
The Russians are watching House of Cards as a documentary.
They have a new one coming called House of Trolls.
I'm going to write that one down too.
This is just ridiculous.
Yeah, House of Trolls.
Troll is the new black.
And on Zsazari, are they using his image?
Yeah.
It's too delicious to believe.
Yeah, this is hilarious.
Oh my goodness.
But we're making such a fuss about these clowns.
And it's just like, and I didn't get this clip on the hearings, but one of these guys, Angus, or one of these jokers on the House Intelligence Committee, filled with nutcases, went on and on about, this is war!
What are we going to do?
This is the same as an information war.
We've got to have a special division of the armed forces.
It's just unbelievable how they're taking this.
Well, but if it's the understanding that our intelligence services do not already have entire information war-based rooms and rows and rows of trolls, then we are really behind the eight ball.
So that's got to be just a bunch of crap.
It's got to be a bunch of crap because we're not that stupid.
We have, and again, I'll throw it back to the public relations agencies.
I know for a fact that some of them have troll houses, and I'm sure that the spy agencies have a bunch of trolls in those big giant buildings.
There's probably whole departments dedicated to it.
Sure.
And if there's not, why not?
It wouldn't make no sense.
I would throw out everybody that's supposedly in the intelligence community if they're not doing this To a maximum scale, unlike the troll house in Russia, which is small potatoes.
Seriously.
I'm at a loss.
I'm at a loss.
I mean, these people really take themselves seriously when they're talking about this stuff on the TV. Yes.
And do they go home and think, good job, I talked about the trolls?
I don't know how they can even do this report with a straight face.
I would be on my Facebook, on the ground on my Facebook, just off my face.
It's crazy.
Well, great segment.
And it has spawned several businesses and t-shirt line.
I'm very happy with it.
Wow.
Even a PR agency, you just could call it House of Trolls.
You know, I would be stunned.
I don't know how you advertise.
I suppose you can go from CEO to CEO. But I discussed this exact topic with a CEO of a major advertising company.
About doing this.
Not about me doing it, but about anybody doing it.
And this is years ago.
This is probably around 2000.
And she said that they're all aware of this issue.
What you could possibly do online if you had just a bunch of bullshit artists just typing away and getting themselves in forums.
For instance, how about if I were Samsung and I want to discredit the iPhone X? I could hire the House of Trolls agency, HRA, and they could start putting all kinds of memes out there about just lies about the facial recognition, what's being done with that.
You could do all kinds of things.
And I'm sure that's happening.
It could be.
Well, it's the only way to go.
I think Samsung wouldn't surprise me.
I would think that Apple does the same thing because there's all these, who's blowing up all these, you know, making a big scene about these galaxies that were blowing up to Note 7 or whatever.
Sure, sure.
That is a troll agency's dream, that story.
But I would think that what you'd want to do, we could do this.
I've got another business site.
Okay, I'm writing it.
I'm taking notes.
We could start the Troll House, or House of Trolls, I think we could call it that.
House of Trolls.
As a subcontractor.
Yep.
All the contracts would be private and under non-disclosure.
Yep.
By us and by them, so nobody could say who we're working for.
Yep.
Total black box.
Black box.
And so we would get an assignment from some advertising company, or say the advertisers for General Motors.
And we would go and we would start to...
It would be a triple-edged approach because you'd have the PBR people maybe planting stories about Ford, those little SUVs, killing people with their carbon monoxide.
Yes, yes.
So that would be your target.
It would be Ford and the utility and the carbon monoxide problem with the SUV. That would be our troll target.
That's the troll story.
And what we would do, they would do the straight-up stuff.
Just say, hey, you know, you guys should cover this story.
It's pretty interesting, and maybe we can give you some information.
And they're working for General Motors, but they're looking like public servants.
We, meanwhile, go on the internets, and we just go after them.
How come they don't cover it more?
You know, just tons of really nasty tweets and trolls.
And we would also set up a troll farm.
Of tweeters, and you'd get maybe a hundred of them.
You'd get a hundred people, and then they could create maybe 200 accounts.
That's a low number.
They could do much more.
Our trolls can do much more.
Let's say a thousand accounts each.
And there'd be 100 guys doing 1,000 accounts.
And 1,000 accounts would all follow 1,000 accounts.
And so they'd all immediately have 10,000 followers.
Right.
Yes, yes, of course.
And because you'd be multiplying it by that many, then you'd do another 1,000.
You'd just be...
a fake bunch of followers.
So instead of having, and then you'd buy followers.
So everybody, some of the main accounts would buy followers for nothing.
So you have, every one of these accounts would have 30,000 followers, at least, minimum.
And so they don't look like, you know, you see this when you go on the Twitters.
You see a guy, he's slamming you about something.
You go check him out.
He's got two followers.
This guy just signed up yesterday.
Who cares what he says?
But we've got 30,000 followers, and you look like you're powerful, and you have 1,000 of these accounts, And they started going after somebody, you know, in a very concerted way.
And by the way, they're always creating new accounts because you know you're going to get busted here and there.
Yeah, I think you can make serious money.
And this is a very interesting idea.
As a retirement plan for us and the audience, if you look at the infrastructure of the No Agenda show, we have the perfect house of trolls set up.
Here's how it works.
We start doing a phony baloney story on the show, and ultimately it'll all just be clients that we're talking about.
And we'll talk about the carbon monoxide problem.
And we have our war room, our trolls, the troll room.
That's the chat room.
And they'll be hearing this.
And we have great artists.
They'll make memes of, you know, there's the Ford, you know, people dying inside the Ford, you know, the heads flopping down, crashing into stuff.
Everyone's dying.
Enhanced Ford logos.
Yeah.
And, you know, we have an audience that is very...
They're digital natives.
That's what we're going to put in the pitch deck.
Our audience, our troll farm, consists of digital natives.
So they don't know no better.
And they'll just, you know, everyone's just going to start posting that everywhere.
And we got dudes named Ben who can fire up some bots.
We have the infrastructure and we could then give money back to our audience as our retirement plan.
Now you're talking.
I'm telling you...
And we just keep it the no agenda show.
We've got a great cover.
We've got 10 years worth of cover.
And we can just slip stuff in.
Yeah.
And we'd have a little signal.
Dicks or die.
Yeah.
And we'd have a little signal so everybody knows that, you know.
A good one might be the triggering sound, this thing.
Ooh.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I don't think we should do that.
Too harsh.
How about, why is that not working?
Hmm.
Yeah, that's too harsh.
We have to come up with some methodology to make the insiders know what we're up to.
Yeah, it could be.
I think it's a huge moneymaker because these accounts, these public relations accounts, the retainers are like $30,000 a month before you do anything.
And there's plenty of $300,000 a month retainers.
I know the signal.
It's obvious.
We'll give it a little test.
So, John, have you been seeing all these reports about Ford?
All right.
It's very doable.
This one is on the table.
This is much better.
Well, we could always do our, you know, our Bitcoin derivative, troll coin.
But, you know, that's all secondary.
I think that this is a very feasible idea.
You and I are certified marketing experts.
I don't want to say we're the best, but we're pretty darn good.
I think we're good, and I think we have enough experience in all media.
Yeah, and we can come up with a payment system for everybody.
You know, based upon whatever.
Or maybe just do it like, you know, you remember the club and everyone gets a cut?
I mean, there'll be plenty.
We'll be rolling in dough.
There'll be plenty of money to go around.
I don't mind sharing.
I'm very excited about this.
Not just happy to see you.
Actually excited.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for Colluding Trolls, Dvorak.
In the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
In the morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the names of knights out there.
In the morning to the troll room.
We need a new domain name.
You can find them at noagendastream.com.
That's where the trolls hang out, and they're practicing for our retirement.
And I also want to say in the morning to Nick the Rat, who had just a fabulous piece of artwork for episode 9 or 7-7.
The title of that was 63 Genders.
This was George Herbert Walker Bush as Sir Copophile.
With, you know, pulling the queen out of the deck of cards.
That was a beautiful piece.
Nick totally got it.
He just nailed it.
Just nailed it.
Fantastic.
Yeah, it was cute.
All right.
Noagendaartgenerator.com.
I should say.
Noagendaartgenerator.com.
Sorry.
Noagendaartgenerator.com.
Just so everyone knows where they can upload the art.
We appreciate what everyone does.
We have a number of people to thank and notes to read, and it's another big day, so it'll be at least whatever the last show was, probably a little longer, because this was the last hurrah for our offer, two-for-one offer, which does end at midnight, so there'll probably be a few laggards, but no more laggards after that, because I'm actually shutting down those links.
So let's start with Dr.
Ben Hewlsbergen?
Hewlsbergen?
What do you think?
Yeah, I think it's Hewlsbergen sounds about right.
Hewlsbergen.
Who came in with $1,500, 43 cents, 21, 43, is it $1,500, 40, 15, 43, 21.
Okay, I'll get it eventually.
All right.
And this is actually kind of a funny note.
After listening to six hours of producers or programming from, he says, Indeed.
Time after time after time after time and time again for the official 10th anniversary show, I felt a desperate need to step up and pay for my freeloading.
Indeed, I figured I had absorbed close to 1500 hours worth of no agenda in my eight years of listening.
So at one buck an hour, here are some of the cheapest edutainment money can buy value for value and still come out of hand.
Here's your $1,543.21.
I hope this donation can absolve my eight years of douchiness.
He needs a de-douching.
Yep, we got that on deck.
You've been de-douched.
I'd like to receive double credits and claim an instant barony.
Yes, I would do it.
That's good.
I'd like to be knighted to Sir DMV, Healer of Pets, Baron of Southwest Michigan.
I beseech Sir Sean Connolly to grant me the small territory of Southwestern Michigan under his protectorate of the Federal Reserve District 7.
The best podcast in the universe has forever changed my reality.
You've lifted the scales from my eyes, exposing truth in this world that sometimes can be quite jarring to my decades of dimension B programming.
Uh-oh.
Thank you for providing the number of Dimension B folk.
Yes.
Of course, it took him eight years to realize it, maybe.
Thank you for providing some of the best news analysis I've come across in my 48 years on this planet.
It's always fresh, often funny, and mostly correct.
Dr.
Ben.
Oh.
You get the mostly correct thinkers.
Mostly.
A Dimension B person will never say we're always right.
No, no, no, no, no.
Can't be done.
And we got an email.
Wait, wait, wait.
What was he asked for here?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Dealer's Choice Jingles and Karma for All.
Okay.
Woohoo!
You've got karma.
Peter Reiter.
Email from...
I do have it.
I printed it out prematurely.
Whoops.
Here it is.
Here it is.
Proof that it's there in my hand.
We can also change our peerage system.
You can add head troll, upper troll, you know, service troll.
You have all different kinds of levels, instead of knights and barons, etc.
You're still thinking about that thing.
Oh my god, I mean, I'm going to be dreaming about this.
This is my dream job.
Yeah, we're not going to.
Well, maybe.
At some point we could, yeah.
Although I'm a donor, I feel like a boner having only donated $10 here and $15 there in the past, but a twofer.
How can I not make it up today?
I also, and he came in with $1,500.
Wow.
The note is going to get read in full.
It would be a great time to tell him my interpretation of value for value.
Instead of value being money given in recompense for valuable knowledge received from you and Adam, why not switch it around?
Use a donation to create value for your contribution.
Got a great tip for the show.
Send it in with 15.
I'm only reading this because he sent so much money.
I would have skipped this normally.
Send it in with a $15 donation so John and Adam know it's worth their time to look at it.
Awesome clip that it might be to hear.
$40 along with an MP3 genius theory about the M5M is up to.
$75 to let them know you haven't really thought about it.
Okay.
It won't work.
It won't work under any circumstance.
Because sometimes people send stuff with great intentions, but it's just no good.
Yeah, and if they put money attached to it, then we'd have to maybe give it more attention than it deserves.
That's pay-for-play, man.
Yeah, that's no good.
Pay-for-play is not the same as value-for-value.
Also, you can't attach an MP3 to any sort of donation, to money.
Anyway, so as an act of complete self-aggrandizement, I've decided this idea is worth $1,500.
And that's in my included donation.
There you go.
Here's the problem.
$1,500.
When anyone wants to send in $1,500, we will read your note, which would have this great idea in it, which I just did, and that would work.
Yeah.
I think.
Yeah, that would work.
Yeah.
But we're not going to do it.
And that is, well, we're going to do it for $1,500.
Well, no, read the note, but we're not going to do the attaching.
No, we're not going to do anything.
No.
But we appreciate you thinking along with us, Peter.
Yeah, with the doubling, without going back and doing any special record-keeping, this should make me an insta-baron.
Well, it would, naturally.
Boom, count two.
As an anarchist, I agree with Hendrik Spruit that the feudal system is an alternative to the sovereign state and is contractual and volunteerist in nature.
So in that vein, I would like to be knighted, Anarchy's Knight.
Okay.
You gotta pencil it out because it gets worse.
With a slight stylistic difference.
You mean he's not on?
Okay.
So he's not on it.
Hold on.
He wouldn't be because I got the note in my hand.
Yes.
I'm quite aware.
I'm going to...
Difference to Tyrol.
Difference to my Tyrolean grandparents in hope that this fracturing of the European experiment, my brothers of Tyrol, can be free from Austria and Italy.
For my baronet to see, I would like to use the language of the Kaisertum Ostreich and be Freiherr Reiter von Bonneville, adjudicator of the land of the ancient Lake Bonneville.
Okay, let's do that again.
He's going to go down as Anarchy's Night.
Yes, Anarchy?
Well, no, we can be Freiherr Reiter von Bonneville.
Well, you just have to give it to me again so I can hear it.
Freiherr.
Freiherr.
Reiter.
Reiter.
Which is his last name.
Von Bonneville.
B-O-N-N-E-V-I-L-L-E. Von Bonneville.
Adjudicator.
Adjudicator.
Of the land.
Of the land.
Of the ancient lake Bonneville.
Of the ancient...
Lake of Bonneville.
Okay.
No jingles.
Just a shout out to my smoking hot girlfriend, Adrienne, who has made me happier than anything for the past four years.
Don't worry, baby.
This donation hasn't sent me back too much on that engagement ring I keep promising.
And karma for everybody.
You've got karma now.
Onward, down the list.
Down the list we go, hopefully.
Sir Kobe Hung.
He is $1,117 flat out.
And he...
He says, John Adam finally caught up with the 4 plus 7 plus 4 hour celebration shows and want to take advantage of the Bogoff deal to become a Viscount.
Counting below.
I am claiming my protectorate of Hong Kong.
I think that might be taken.
I don't know that it is.
Okay, if my Viscountness allows it to expand my protectorate to cover the province of Guangdong, mainland China.
Yeah, you definitely can have that.
Okay, thank you for your courage.
Show me some therapy goat karma.
Yeah.
You've got karma.
You know, your veto on the goat is just not happening.
People are way too happy with the goat.
Yeah, well, they gotta get over it.
There's a radio station called the goat, apparently.
Is there?
Yeah, that's what the jingle I just played.
The goat.
Sir Hank Earl of New York City.
I'm having trouble with my cursor.
Here it goes.
I got it.
I think I got it.
Sorry, here in Manhattan, remind him.
No, not opening.
Not opening.
Let's see.
I got it.
Credit, Sir Hank, Earl of New York.
Thanks for 10 years of excellent deconstruction and helping me keep my sanity instead of being sucked in by the M5M's breathless coverage of events.
coming in late to the 10th anniversary party, but the wall to wall coverage of all the terrorist attack right here in Manhattan reminded me of what the best podcast in the universe and its deconstruction means to my sanity.
Wishing you a happy 10th.
Looking forward to many years to come with this bug off donation.
I will, it'll bring me to the next title upgrade accounting attached.
Henceforth, I would be further expand my territory and claim the title of Sir Hank Duke of New York.
That's a big deal to get to do.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
Jingle request, stop the hammering, followed by house renovation, goat scream karma.
Stop the hammering!
You've got karma.
And onward, Ryan Zanger, parts unknown it looks like.
A overlords finished my knighthood right before the 10th anniversary show but didn't get knighted due to a glitch in the process.
Not sure if this specific incident qualifies me for black knight.
Actually, it does.
Either way, John seemed annoyed on Sunday's show by the number of people donating via PayPal not adding their notes at that time.
Felt like John was speaking directly to me.
You're talking to me through the podcast thing.
So I figured I'd take advantage of the double credit one more time and buy my way back into his good graces.
Thank you.
Good.
It worked.
This $1,000 double to $2,000 along with my soon-to-be knighthood status should make me a baron.
Yes, it does.
So he needs to be knighted.
Yep.
Well, he's on the list.
Okay.
Then please dub me Baron Ryan.
And he wants to be the barony of Black Hills and Forgotonia.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
All right.
Adios.
We'll be done.
We'll be done.
Adios, mofos, to you.
Yeah.
Needless to say.
Andrew Bentley.
Let me just turn this monitor side so you can read it.
I don't know why.
I'm not centered.
I've been a listener from near the end, which everyone says to me, yes.
Yes, understatement.
You had a line you could have used to say, just your giggle.
Andrew Bentley, $1,000 from Tacoma, Washington.
I've been a listener from nearly the beginning.
Thanks to my son, Zach, I am making this donation with our company credit card.
And we'll file the expense under marketing.
As we are DF Electric, an electrical contractor in Washington State.
I figured that I would love to do electrical work for another No Agenda producer.
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to send the message because, honestly, it's not clear on the website.
And I've obviously not been paying attention if it's explained on the show.
Well, you did the right thing.
You got the message in there.
It worked.
Anyway, thank you both for you and John for my twice-weekly shot in the arm of honesty and clear-headedness.
And there's an offer there of you or me.
Yes, I see.
Once he says, you get a little electrical working.
We can always...
We don't think we need him right now, but we, yeah, we could probably use him.
It happens.
Well, it's great.
Thank you very much for your courage and for your support.
Yeah, give him a karma.
He's electrical, but nothing else.
You've got karma.
Black Knight Sir G978. Greetings.
With this donation, it will reach the status of Baron.
Counting in the email, $978.
Okay.
Request the Mississippi Valley up to Memphis.
Some service gear karma for all those who support no agenda.
Some service goat.
Oh, you need some service goat.
Of course.
You've got karma.
It's a beautiful thing.
Jordan Goodfellow, $800.85.
This donation represents one of two things that has never let me down.
Boobs.
Boobs.
The second being the best podcast in the universe.
He doesn't say that.
We got it.
We get the gag.
I debated on waiting until the week following the 10th anniversary, but the deal was too good to pass up.
Time to blaze past neighborhood and straight to Baronet.
I would like to be known as Sir Goodfellow of the Rockies.
Business has been great this year, and some more jobs karma can never hurt just seeing how I can't.
I can't the of a good combo right now.
I can't.
Think of, probably.
Think of.
Maybe.
It's an iPhone mistake.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's probably...
Yeah, you bitched about this.
Give out a nice dealer's choice and a douchebag check for all the listeners that still have never donated without no agenda.
Way too much time arguing and worrying about unnecessary things would happen.
No agenda saves me a ton of time.
He wanted a douchebag check.
A douchebag check.
A douchebag check.
Excuse me.
What was it that you said?
I pointed it out.
It was...
The spell checker on your iPhone.
Yeah, because that's a...
You were bitching about it on Twitter.
On Twitter, yeah.
And people agree with me.
And I can see it.
When Tina's typing, too, there's mistakes.
And she rarely has any kind of mistake in what she tweets it.
Because it's changing really strange stuff.
It's like they reset the algo and has to relearn me.
Or maybe it...
I don't know.
It's apparent.
And I think other people are seeing it as well.
I can tell you what it is.
Mm-hmm.
Whatever cheap microservices architecture they were using to begin with, they changed vendors.
It feels like that.
That's what happens with Google and their damn maps all the time.
Oh?
Oh, Google on the Android phone?
Yeah.
If you don't pick it up for a month or two, the interface has changed.
Where do I go to the place?
Where's the directions?
Where do you slide down to turn on the voice?
It's outrageous.
Yeah.
Who did that recently?
Uber changed the whole interface?
Very confusing.
Why do people do this?
Because they're idiots.
PayPal did the same thing.
PayPal changed all the stuff they had.
Everyone's used to using what they got.
In fact, they get to the button, change and manage buttons that we use to create these different donation levels.
They changed how to get to it.
Now you have to go to the easiest way now.
It used to be right on the front page.
Boom, change your buttons.
You don't have to deal with it now.
No, it's buried.
So what I have to do is go to sitemap.com.
Site map, which is just a plain HTML file, right?
Just a tree.
They actually have, no, it's a normal page.
But you click on site map and then you can find the thing to click on, which is manage buttons.
And when they were making these changes, and you go back to the legacy interface or the new interface, I kept bitching about this.
I can't find the buttons.
And, you know, you have to click, click, click, click 10 times to find the buttons.
And now I finally found the site map shortcut, but they didn't listen to anything I had to say.
Well, I mean, I'm talking about, you know, the feedback.
Feedback!
Give us feedback!
Feedback is bullcrap.
Nobody listens to feedback.
And I know you don't have one, but people who have Sonos will know exactly what we're talking about, because that is the most egregious change which happened maybe two weeks ago.
I still can't remember where everything is where it used to be.
They put some kind of abstraction shell on top of their old menu, and if you hit three things, there's the old menu that I recognize.
It's shit.
Why do they do this?
They're idiots.
They don't know what they're doing.
Our interface is old-fashioned.
I think we should upgrade.
It should be more modern.
Yeah, man, we got to use JavaScript.
Okay, let me get the douchebag check out of the way.
We need douchebag check!
No douchebag check!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
I think that they don't really...
There's a thing about...
You never take features away from people.
It's the worst thing you can do.
They're doing it for the purposes of looking good.
They're doing it for job security.
I don't know.
Everybody does it.
They're just not doing it right, that's for sure.
And this is the worst, because while we're just on pet peeves, I'm very slow to upgrade to iOS 11 because I'm not a moron and I've been on this rodeo a couple of times.
I'm very slow to do anything.
But then, all of a sudden, this app no longer works.
You have to upgrade.
And so you update the app.
It won't work unless you have iOS 11.
So you just cut me off.
I had lunch with our Black Knight of the Armory.
He was in town with his wife.
Oh, cool.
Scott?
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
And so he was bitching about this, and he said that, you know, he didn't want to upgrade, and his wife is not upgrading.
He's kept her from upgrading, but they do.
He says they trap you.
They find something else that you absolutely have to upgrade, but they won't upgrade you unless you upgrade the iOS.
Yep, yep.
And he says it's a piece of crap.
He says the iOS 11 is terrible.
Well, I wouldn't know yet, but...
And that's kind of the egregious part.
It's like, hey, there's a new feature in iOS 11.
We're updating our app and take advantage of it!
And then who gives a crap if you're not updated?
We'll just force you to update.
Otherwise, you can't use our app.
It's a very, very poor business decision.
Well, one of these days, they're going to upgrade into a black hole.
That's what's going to happen.
They're going to upgrade everybody right into a brick.
It'll be the great brickening.
Yeah, and everybody will get bricked.
Everybody.
Millions and millions of people will get bricked, and it's going to be a nightmare, and it has to happen.
Yeah.
It has to happen.
It must happen.
And it will.
No, it has to happen.
I'm not saying it has to happen because it's a good thing.
I just say, just logically, it has to happen.
We've seen this with these other guys who do these automatic upgrades.
They upgrade and they make some mistake because they can't really test it well.
And boom, everybody's bricked.
And now what do you do?
Don't worry, because the machine learning in the iPhone X will figure it out and just fix it.
Yeah.
Won't fix it if it won't boot.
That's right.
Gary Blatt's next on the list with $750 from Wayne, Pennsylvania.
ITM, thanks for the best analysis of the M5M. It's been a while since my last donation, so I need a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
I'd also like some Trump job karma from our wife who just started a new position.
Finally, for my new title, I want to be called Sir Gary Blatt, Baron of Pensil-tucky.
Pensil-tucky?
Yeah, Pensil-tucky.
That's Pennsylvania and Kentucky area.
It's like Jefferson, I think.
It's like part of two states.
Thanks for everything.
It was another 10 years of the best analysis.
We are going to stand up.
That's not the one I wanted.
Sorry.
A small mistake.
I thought this was it.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
And jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
That's the one.
That's the one.
Sir Francis of SRQ, $750.
ITM gents, congratulates on 10 years.
Should not be obvious to anyone that as Valley for Valley System really works, so I'm so glad to rid myself of watching any M5M broadcasts except for the occasional viewings of Brett Baer's show on Fox, so as to see the CIA messaging coming directly through the pixie chick.
What's her name?
Catherine Herridge.
Catherine Herridge.
Who's looking harsh.
Is she?
No, she needs a new haircut.
She needs a new makeup artist.
Yeah, and different lighting.
Yeah, the lighting has a lot to do with it.
I, too, am going to cash in on your two-for-one offer before it runs out, and this installment will take me up to Viscount.
Good.
I'd like to expand my territory to include all of Sarasota, Charlotte, Hardee, and DeSoto counties in Florida.
Please extend service goat karma to all and need to once again call out Tim Gross of St.
Petersburg, Florida as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
This time as a triple D bag.
Douchebag!
Douchebag!
Okay, well you got the three.
Yours truly, Sir Francis of SRQ Viscount of all things good in Southwest Florida.
Very fine.
Okay, onward to Sir...
Oh, Sir Roadwolf.
I do have...
I actually printed out a note from him.
North Tonawanda, another $750 donation.
But he actually...
Let me see if I have it here.
It's easier to read off the sheet.
It's a long note.
You know, I got a lot of paperwork here.
Sean, Susan, Josh...
And that's our reader from this.
So much for my trying to do this.
There we go.
Get this thing to open.
There we go.
So here's what I'm doing that's causing these issues.
These notes are so long that they make a big box that can't be fully expanded in the spreadsheet, so I have to double-click the box and boom, out it pops.
But for some reason, double-clicking the box doesn't always work.
It depends on where within the box you're clicking, it seems.
And it's like a bug.
It's like a bug.
It's a big bug.
It's not a big bug.
To most people.
It's a bug to me.
And you.
Because it bugs you.
It bugs me.
Hey.
Sir Roadwolf, thanks to the 5750 for this show with my previous 250, which will bring me up past Baronet and make me a full Baron.
He wants to be the Baron of Western New York State.
I'd like to request at the end of the show a song that was often played during the election.
It included Hillary spouting bigoted remarks, Obama going on about the lines of race and religion, and Trump talking about his wall.
She'll never find it.
I've been looking while you've been fumbling around.
The key message was Trump saying that the wall is now 10 feet higher.
Did you just say I have the rest of the show?
Like I'm not doing anything?
Like I'm just here?
I'll take the rest of the show to find it.
Don't worry about it.
That's what I was thinking.
I haven't heard in a while.
I would buy CDs of the show's music if they were available.
Yeah, we can't do that.
It's a nightmare.
Licensing nightmare.
Yeah, probably.
I don't know.
I really don't know what song it is.
I am at a loss.
What you have to do is find that clip in an old show and send it to us.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Because we can't do it.
But thank you very much, sir, Roadwolf.
Yes.
And congratulations.
We'll be making you a full Baron later on.
MichaelPage, $506.05.
Find my email from...
Minamanner.
I think I may have actually done that already.
Let me click over to the other sheet, which is the mail.
I got the thud.
No, it's not him.
Minamanner.
Nope.
Sorry, I have to look it up right now.
M-I-N-A-M-A-N-O-U-R? Uh...
Oh, yeah.
M-A-N-O-R, yeah.
Oh.
M-I-N-A? Yeah, A-M-A-N-O-R. Oh.
A-A. I'll find it there.
Minimator.
Donation for show 978.
I printed this out somewhere.
Johnny, yeah, I did print it out, but apparently can't find my printout.
Here's my donation.
Five cents for the leave a penny, take a penny tray.
Six dollars for the PayPal charges.
And so he gave us five hundred six dollars and five cents.
Leaving five cents in the tray for other people.
$500 with a twofer.
Insta Knight.
If not, here's $500 for my...
No, this is good.
You can be the Insta Knight.
If you can write this down.
He'd like to be knighted as Sir Round Sound.
Sir Round Sound.
Okay.
So that's not taken.
He's got an alternative.
But as far as I know, there's nobody named Sir Round Sound in the group.
So he wants a douchebag call out for himself because he's never donated.
Douchebag!
A de-douching for finally donating.
You've been de-douched.
Non-goat karma plus squirrel and hot pockets.
And one last thing.
I'll give you that back.
I'll give it back to you in order after you put this other...
You gotta get your pencil out again.
He wants a birthday shout out to my two Whose birthday is today.
Okay, this is not at all confusing.
And let me just see, where are the damn birthdays?
Oh my god.
Okay, something, the whole birthday list is missing.
Is it?
What the hell happened here?
Hold on, let me see, what did I do wrong?
I must have done it.
I got it here.
Oh, no, I got it.
No, no, I just, it's the way I put, yes, I know you got it.
Well, I don't know.
It might not have been in the email.
I just checked.
Yeah.
Okay, so this is Daniel Blake to who?
Anna.
Sister-in-law.
Anna.
There's some descriptor.
Read it again.
Yeah, she's too cool for school.
Too cool for school.
Sister-in-law.
Anna.
Okay.
Do we know when?
Is that all the info we need?
Today.
Okay.
Okay.
And then we need...
I'll give them to you again.
Yeah.
A douchebag, a de-douching, and then a karma without the goat.
Yeah.
And then a squirrel in Hot Pockets.
Okay.
Okay.
You've got karma.
Hot pockets.
That was not the right one.
I don't even know where the original is of that.
It's funny.
Not very funny.
It's funny to me.
Okay.
Oh, there you go.
I think it's definitely as good as it gets.
Today, yes.
Daniel Blake in Woodford, Virginia, a $505.05.
And he sent a note in, I believe I have this one up, Dan Blake.
Guys, I don't think you fully realize how great a service you provide to the United States of America.
Well, and worldwide.
You've been instrumental in returning my amygdala to proper proportions, thus allowing me to assist others with their amygdala rehabilitation.
Very good.
Please allow me to take advantage of the BOGOF with a donation of 50505.
I got a kick out of everybody going all in on this BOGOF phrase, which I never heard in my life.
Or BOGO. To become a Sir Dan.
I don't know if he's on the list.
Probably not.
Sir Dan, protector of underwater criminal investigators.
Okay, Daniel Blake.
Sir Dan, investigator?
Protector of underwater criminal investigators ensconced at the cat ranch.
Of underwater...
Do it again, please.
Well, this is interesting.
Protector of underwater...
Sir Dan, protector of underwater criminal investigators.
Okay.
Just leave it at that.
What was interesting?
Well, it was interesting.
He says, ensconced at the cat ranch, 65 miles south of the five-sided playpen in Fijin region three, this bogoff opportunity will allow me to unburden myself of the increasing heaviness of douchebaggery that is keeping me down.
Divers hate being kept down.
Yes.
I understand that, yeah.
Hillary, don't eat me.
Get out of my vagina.
Pew, pew, pew.
Two to the head, goat.
Don't eat me.
Hillary, get out of my vagina.
Did you ever think at your age you'd be saying that?
I didn't think I'd be being a podcaster at my age next to the internet.
I can't make anybody as a writer.
Thanks, internet.
Yeah, thanks, internet.
And he wants the karma with that as well?
Give him a goat karma because he wants the goat.
Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
Get out of my vagina!
You've got karma.
He also has some funny pilot stuff.
It's just for you.
I'll send you this note so you can read it.
Maybe be amused.
Patricia Crosley Peterson.
And she doesn't have a note here.
And I think I got a note from her.
She's from Manchester.
In Gitmo Nation, GMT. Very nice.
Yeah.
Jeez, this is not working out.
This idea of mine just doesn't have any...
You're not really smooth.
Well, you know, it's tedious.
And people just don't want to use the right box for their notes.
They want to send email in.
Once you separate one from another, somebody wants to send MP3s?
How's that going to ever work?
You know, so not going to be grouchy.
Not going to be grouchy.
Pearson.
Let me see if I can find her here.
I already looked.
I got nothing.
Okay.
I'm going to just look up to see if there's a Susan.
Well, while you do that...
I will...
What you should do is read the next note as I'm stalling from this note.
I was just going to do a little...
Okay, I'll read the next note.
Brian Olson, $500, Overland Park, Kansas.
Congratulations to you on 10 years I heard about your show just before the election last year and have been hooked ever since.
Even going back to listen to episode 700 and up.
I wonder why 700.
While faithfully hitting many others in the mouth, I've failed to send money to date.
So when I heard about the two-for-one extension, I had no excuse to continue in my douchebaggery.
Please give me a thorough de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
My 11-year-old son Sam thinks the service goat bit is one of the funniest things he's ever heard, so I'd like my night name to be Sir Vygote LeFoe.
Sir Vi-Goat-Lafo, please play The Screaming Goat, followed by Best Podcast in the Universe.
Okay, we, uh, and I guess he wants, oh, just the goat or some, well, some karma, maybe.
He wants a karma.
You've got...
Karma.
The Best Podcast in the Universe!
Here's to ten more years.
So I can't find anything from anyone named Patricia.
Okay.
So that is out.
Susan Claycamp.
Yeah, go on.
Susan Claycamp, who I just skipped over.
$500 from Dakula, Georgia.
Dakula, Dakula, Dakula, Dakula.
I hope your two-for-offer is still valid.
Yes, it is, Susan.
Congratulations.
I don't know if she becomes a dame or anything.
Do a no-note from Susan.
Well, that's the note.
I hope you two for one still valid.
Yes, you can send us a note later.
We'll dame her when she wants it.
We'll put it in abeyance.
Yes, dame in abeyance.
Brian Olson in overpower.
No, we're at Brandon Gamache.
What happened to Brian Olson?
I just read it like you told me to!
Ah, I told you to read the next one.
I'm going in order.
Don't get irked.
I did the next one.
The next one was Susan Claycamp.
I know, I skipped over it, went back.
Yeah, okay, well I'm trying to do other stuff here like you do, and so I missed that part of it.
I don't need to be screamed at.
Brandon Gamach.
ITM, lads.
I'm excited to donate for the first time in a double value donation extravaganza.
Still applies as John claimed it would for one extra week.
This donation makes me a knight.
Therefore, I humbly request a dedouching a claim to title.
Sir Tin Death, Knight of the Power Slave.
Ugh.
I would like to call out Ken Short and Sander Barton as bags of douche.
Douchebag!
Douchebag!
Bags of douche.
I don't know if that's really the way to do it.
Thank you guys for your razor-sharp analysis and honest and unbiased construction of the world in which we live and deliver an indescribably important product.
And I encourage you to keep up the great work.
Hey, John, I apologize.
I apologize.
For what?
For screaming.
I've already forgot about it.
So we do.
Yeah.
Lance Fisher, 500, Mint Hill, North Carolina.
Besides that, you've been traveling.
North Carolina, 500.
This donation brings, along with my previous donation of 100, this will officially make me a knight.
Yay.
Well, actually...
With or without the donation.
Yeah, you got it.
You're knight plus.
He wants to give a call out to Sir Grant Siner, whom I hit in the mouth years ago, and now finally follow into knighthood.
We don't want to.
It's a call out, not a douchebag.
It's just a call out.
A call out.
It's friendly.
Is there another word we're supposed to use instead of call out?
Douchebag, but he's not, so it's good.
Yeah, I know, but didn't we have a term that we wanted for people to not douchebag and then call out for douchebag?
No, you can say call out, shout out, shout out, and call out.
There's your difference.
You should have said shout out.
Yeah, you should have.
Send him back his donation.
De-douche me, he said.
You've been de-douched.
Okay, now he has this request.
Play a Leo Laporte clip of your choice to honor the show Slow Death.
Okay, I'm not going to say these things because it's just rude.
But we do have a clip that I think is probably appropriate, which is I'm a follower.
Yeah, that's what I was looking for.
Yes.
And what else do we need with that?
Nothing.
Nothing?
I'm a rule follower, right?
What do you do?
Are you a rule follower?
No.
No.
Frank White in McPherson, Kansas.
Please knight me so suspicious of the meatloaf.
Thanks for the bi-weekly brain exercise.
New Jersey, but a little goat-free karma would be appropriate.
You got it.
Goat-free.
You've got karma.
This karma is goat-free.
Jonathan Reisman, Maplewood, Missouri, 500.
Thanks so much for all the work and the twofer offer.
I'm very grateful to be able to become a knight of my 33rd year.
Code.
I would like to be dubbed Sir Jonathan of the Double Bladed Paddle.
I would also use the Jobs Karma if you're feeling generous.
73s from KE0IHT. 73s, Kilo 5, Alpha, Charlie Charlie, with some Juliet, Oscar, Bravo, Sierra.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got Karma.
Ben, Clevmoan, I think, 500.
Forgive me, Father, if I'm a douchebag.
I've been listening for about eight years and I've been participating in the chat room for about four.
You guys are great and have made my life better.
Thank you.
I'm taking advantage of the twofer like so many others to become a knight of the round table.
Please accept my measly 500.
Please de-douche me.
Also, I'd like to give a birthday shout-out to my one-year-old human resource, Mason.
And JNK, keep on truckin'.
Nightmare, sir.
We got him on the list, sir.
Benny, 33.
Yeah, and he has for Sir, S-E-R, which is apparently the Game of Thrones spelling, and he follows up by saying, mutton and mead is acceptable.
That's good, because I've got a table full of it today.
Not sure we should accept this other spelling.
Game of Thrones.
We're not Game of Thrones people.
It's not about Game of Thrones.
We need to make a decision.
There's a meeting.
That's something for the peerage committee.
I'm not on that committee.
Thank God.
I don't like the peerage committee.
It's a drinking club.
No.
I think you might be right.
Sean Hamilton comes in, he sends a note, and he's also at 500 bucks, and his note, which is on the email, which is right here, is very simple.
Just want to be known, you have to write this down, obviously, because Eric didn't get this, because he didn't put it in the box.
Want to be known as Sir Hammy Hambone of the Big Red One.
Okay, Sean Hamilton, Sir Hammy, what?
Hammy Hambone.
Hambone of the Big Red One.
Okay.
Thank you for all the hard work and dedication you guys put into the show.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks for your return in value.
Chris Novak in Reno.
500.
I don't know what I'd do without no agenda in my life.
Keep up the great work.
I'd love some screaming goat karma for myself and all the fellow producers.
Signed, Chris.
You've got karma.
Okay, you're going to have to read this one.
Thanks for doing...
This is from Dave McPherson.
$500, parts unknown.
Thanks for doing the tedious work of showing the many ways the media uses to control our minds.
I often spot these, but they go by fast, so I don't fully catch them.
They just give me a sense of frustration, potentially inflating the amygdala.
I've been driven nuts by the media before, but John's sharpness on catching and explaining them is a kind of genius.
Somehow being aware of the agenda, seeing the ruse, and knowing others are seeing it and even laughing at it avoids the amygdala swelling impact.
You're creating an army of healthy, skeptical media watchers that will bear fruit for generations!
Fact.
And somehow in an entertaining and humorous format, carefully cultivated by Adam's incredible combination of skills.
Not mentioned what my skills are.
So I can get others to listen, too.
You've been a great encouragement in tough times.
Please like me, sir.
Dave the Reformed.
Only request is the Bob Dylan version of the title changes song at the nightings.
Well, it's the title changes, not the nightings.
It's folksy, like the whole NA family is gathering around the campfire.
So I will do that.
Thank you very much for your support.
Chirag Patel in Lauder Hill, Florida.
Another 500.
We have a lot of 500s today.
In fact, this is probably the most.
Last week and this week's Instanite support, what title is this?
Make Me.
Your immediate deconstruction is the best medicine compared to the most modern healthcare.
You don't know what it makes you, but probably barren or baronet.
But you're in abeyance until you tell us.
Yeah.
Tommy Horton in Havana, Florida.
I can find no note.
He's in for 500.
Anthony True...
Trust...
As long as I made it for double donations, I would put me a baron.
I would like my protector to be the Philippines.
So can I get a Trump jobs karma as my wages are lower than I would like?
Yes, you can.
We are going to stand up.
I got to get rid of this one.
This one is a thorn in my side.
Every single time I want to do it.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
You've got karma.
Like a random Trump job.
Yep.
Anonymous, Crestview, Florida.
500.
Please keep me anonymous.
I humbly request a de-deutching and some relationship karma.
If this makes it in time for the double dollar promotion, I request the title of Sir Midnight of the Rivers.
Thank you for your courage.
Yes.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma.
Okay, now this is signed Billy.
And it comes from Herbert Passauer.
500, again, doesn't have a location, so I'm assuming it's Florida.
Keep it short.
Congrats on the 10 years.
I'm not sure when I started listening, but it's been a long time.
Please de-douche me and keep going with the excellent deconstructing.
Could I get a little karma and a goat scream?
I'd like to be known as we got his name on the list.
Sir Plausible Rays.
You've been de-douched.
You've got...
Okay, I gotta look this guy up.
And this is Charles Massey, also 500, and I just opened up my squirrel mail and see if there's a Charles Massey in here.
I'm not seeing anything.
Neither am I. It says email from charlesmassey.io.
Midgeville, Georgia.
Okay, well send an error message to us and we'll make good on the next show.
Don't know what it's...
I have...
No, I have it, but it didn't come...
It came from his Gmail address, so this is not helpful.
Greetings, John and Adam.
Thank you for 10 years of TBPCITU. I'll keep it short today.
Please knight me as Sir Charles, knight of the old state capital and surrounding lands, including Central State Hospital.
John, my hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, 45 north of Macon, Was the antebellum state capital of Georgia until the Civil War and home at one point to the largest lunatic asylum in the world, now closed and mostly abandoned.
This is the new headquarters.
It was the largest?
Lunatic asylum.
Huh.
Which I think would be a perfect location for the House of Trolls.
I went to the military school.
Probably cheap.
GMC that still houses the original state legislator chambers.
If you were Adam or ever on the side of the Mississippi, I'd love to give you two regards.
And it says, P.S., the email address I gave in the PayPal note wasn't working this morning.
This shows you the problem.
Yes, please put these notes in where they belong in the box.
Now, just to stop this for a second, you know, there's a lot of cheap and abandoned and really cool buildings in the South.
And they need employment.
If we could do the House of Trolls in one of these...
Oh, we could get subsidy.
Subsidy and a tax break.
Like, a huge tax break and a subsidy from one of these states.
I'm thinking Alabama, which is a beautiful place.
Mississippi, for sure.
Louisiana is probably not as amenable, but...
It's doable.
And in fact, they're doing the same thing as even the northern states.
I think they have subsidies going on in North Dakota, South Dakota.
And you go to these little old towns and you go through these towns, if you drive through them, if you're traveling there and you're driving around, you see some of these pathetic...
John, we could do like Dolly Parton.
We could buy a whole town and call it Troll Town.
Yes.
and we can employ the whole town as trolls.
Girls can dream.
Hey, I just looked up Joshua O'Brien, who's next on the list from Mission Hills, California, $500.
I don't have an email with the note.
Oh, you don't?
No.
I do.
Joshua O'Brien.
Joshua from Mission Hills.
I hope this donation gets in time for the awesome deal.
I wanted to thank you for 10 years of the Best Podcast Universe.
I've been listing, it says, but listening, I think.
Since the round show 100, I'm a boner for not donating before.
I was a college student and I'm still working on trying to pay off all those years of loans.
I have wanted to be a knight since you started the program and after hearing the long donation segment from episode 976, I decided now to be a good time.
I do hope to pay the other half one day and keep you going for another 10 years.
I would like to be known as Sir Joshua of the Sequoias.
I have worked at a camp in the Sequoias for 14 years, and your podcast has been a great listen over the years, keeping me informed of everything going on in the world when I had very little news.
So I'm sure this isn't on the spreadsheet.
No, of course it can't be.
What was it?
Joshua of the Sequoias.
Joshua of the Sequoias.
Okay, got it.
Okay, good.
Onward.
Chong Lu?
Suong Lu?
I don't know how to pronounce it, but let's see if he's got an email.
I couldn't find anything.
C-U-O-N-G. Kuong Lu, maybe?
Kuong Lu?
Let me try Lu.
It says from USA, but sounds China to me!
Yeah, a little bit.
Maybe Trollberg is a better name.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Okay.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you for the thoughts.
Yeah, let us know.
Steven Jaffe in Palos Verdes down in California here.
Congratulations and kudos on your decimus anniversary.
Yes.
Please attribute this donation to my son, Spencer Jaffe.
Let's see if he's got that straight on the list.
Rhymes with taffy.
Let him be known as Serge Edgewise, Knight of the Border Wall.
Excellent.
Jobs, karma.
You got it.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
From Waterford, Michigan, should be part of the Michigan Local One, Sean Snyder joined it today.
Thanks for the opportunity to stop being a douchebag.
It's a knight I would like to be known as Sir Snyde, a knight-erant of the OT networks, the latest front from the cyber wars, otherwise known as an industrial dude named Ben.
Excellent.
Mutton and mead, please.
Some karma for the whole family.
You got it.
Big mutton and mead.
You've got karma.
Okay, we got anonymous with a donation.
Anonymous donation note.
Okay.
Yes, the donation notes on PayPal you mentioned is not a major problem.
Some people use old links that really should not be used in the newsletter.
They're not in the donation page.
Sometimes that might do it.
This one is very interesting.
Anonymous says, I sent an email with subject donation, then he has a donation number.
Yeah.
If you get this but no email, please just keep it honest with no message.
Okay, I didn't see an email.
Do you have an email with that donation?
No, I don't have it, no.
I probably got shuffled to the ever-evil spam box.
Yes.
Eric Zweiker.
By the way, some people will be writing in notes and stuff for today's show.
We're not going to read anything under 200.
I'm sorry.
We'd just be here all day.
Which is our no more policy anyway.
And maybe I'll go to 150, but the point is that if you have, we'll go through all these notes and all the really cool ones and you have something really interesting to say, we'll get back to you.
Eric Zweeker in Wagnum.
Okay, wait a minute, this Dutch, let me do this right.
Eric Zuiker.
Zuiker.
Zuiker in Wognum.
Zuiker, which is sugar.
Eric Zuiker in Wognum.
Wognum.
Wognum.
Perfect.
$499.99.
I've been following Adam for many years now and he hasn't noticed.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I've been following Adam for many years now and enjoyed listening to his radio show, The Wake Up Call.
Very much.
When this was forced to shut down, I tagged along to the best podcast in the multiverse.
For me, the show is besides my twice-weekly dose of entertaining, also training in critical thinking, Not at all what it seems to be.
And with the knowledge you provide me, I try to hit the people in the mouth around me.
Why don't you read this as a Dutchman?
My intention was to wait until episode 999 and become a member of the 999 Club.
Then this wonderful opportunity passed me by and I could not resist to donate.
I hope Adam can spare me a penny.
Times two.
Okay, wacht even.
Here's a penny one.
Here's a penny two.
So I can join the notorious roundtable of the No Agenda show.
I also want to be known as Sir Eric, and if the title is no longer available, could you add the prefix Lord One Hope?
This is Dutch for Lord Despair.
Lord One Hope.
Get it?
I humbly request the dedouching and the jobs karma since I'm in the middle of a job application.
Clips for me.
33 is the magic number.
New World Order.
Dvorak, you will obey.
And Charlie Chaplin's 999.
If you know what I mean.
So here we go, Dan.
You've been de-douched.
That's the magic number.
It's the magic number.
New.
World. Order.
You will obey.
I feel it.
I don't know what the hell that is.
What just happened?
What is this?
Wow!
Holy moly!
you've got karma The bigger machine's been taken over by those demons.
I'm playing that at the end of the show.
You don't even know it was there?
I can't remember this.
I've never heard it either.
I should mention my column this week in PC Magazine discusses just a little bit.
You said that you sent a column.
I said I don't have a column, but I ended up doing it anyway, so you were right.
About the little circle missing.
Yes, I heard you even talking about it on DH Unplugged.
And so, but yeah, but yes, and the column discusses the circle missing, is that the circle, I believe, was a symbol that Steve Jobs used to capture a demon.
Okay.
You wrote about this.
Yeah, I wrote about this.
You know, I make, I believe, I kind of vet myself in this because it sounds nuts, but I said since I was raised a Catholic, we're trained to believe in such things.
Demon.
No.
So I did the demon thing.
Yeah, there you go.
Theremin.
And so I made the assertion, which I think was, because I had to insult the audience somehow, that the demons in the Apple products are why they're such fanatical Apple users.
I looked into a little bit of that myself.
And it's really, interestingly, it's not just a circle, but also the X. And the combination of the circle and the X, that's when the really powerful magic with a K comes out.
So they're making the mistake of unbundling the circle with the X and just having the X. And I think that's where the mistake is.
Because they're just unknowledgeable.
Well, it's too late now.
They've just released the demons.
The demons have been released.
It's known as the iPhone X 10 something.
So I made the assertion that the iPhone X will be the Vista of Apple.
The Vista.
Well...
You think this will irk a few of my followers?
But did you hedge it?
Did you couch it by saying, you know, there is some evidence that it may become the Vista?
Or did you end it like the New York Times with, we'll have to see...
I never end a column that way, ever.
Okay.
My column ended because the demons have been released.
Take cover.
Well, it's ironic that you say this, just as Microsoft, in my book, is getting pretty good.
Yeah, I think they got some of the evil spirits working for them.
I don't know.
I'm very suspicious of all this.
It's Apple's Vista moment.
Very good.
Yeah, I like it.
Yeah.
Nobody will like it.
I get blasted.
I already got the tweets.
Ah, been wrong for a hundred years.
Wrong again, Dvorak.
Wrong again, Dvorak.
Yeah, well, what are you going to do?
Eagle, I know.
$466.67.
ITM, Jensen, in the mouth on the road trip, buddy.
Exploring America.
D-bag call out to Marconius Fish.
Douchebag!
Marconius Fish, do something for us.
Please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
And he just wants a travel karma for his buddy named Fish.
Donald loves Nazis 999 and Trump's job karma for me.
I'll take the night name Sir Eagle Eye Null of the RFSS. Well, it's kind of an odd sequence he wants here.
He wants the travel, he wants the karma, then he wants Donald loves Nazis, Trump's job karma.
So, okay, if that's what he wants, here's the travel karma.
You've got karma.
Donald loves Nazis.
Donald loves Nazis.
CNN say that he's KKK and he shall sing hail with it.
Wow.
Jobs, jobs, jobs!
And jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Michael Lopresti for 1082.
I found no agenda through Young Dvorak's time on Twit, but started weaning myself from the Twit when it became this week in phones and stuff altogether when JCD was unceremonious removed.
Hence my first donation during that time.
Please accept this donation at 41082 to top off my knighthood for the best podcast in the universe and take advantage of the wonderful double tap bonus.
I would like to be knighted as Sir Miguel Miguel Sir Miguel Of the order of 50-pound heads.
Of the order of 50-pound heads.
And dudes named Ben.
And dudes named Ben.
The 2017 has its share of ups and downs, but I'm glad that no agenda is there to keep me sane when the M5M and face bag are out of control.
Please hook me up with the following.
Oh my god, that is amazing.
Little girl yay, and human resource and service goat karma.
Oh my god!
Shut up already!
Science!
It's amazing!
Wow!
You've got karma.
Sometimes you get lucky.
Was that a mashup that was on there?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was pre-mashed.
I don't know where that came from, but there it is.
It's magic with a K. I think you've got a demon in your machine.
Yeah.
David Bevers, 40988.
Please pass along my thanks to the owner of the NoAgendaBingo.com.
I printed a game sheet before going on duty to help pass the time, and you know what this is, right?
You know about this?
Yeah, the bingo?
Yeah, I've heard of it.
Yeah.
It helps keep me sharp.
I know it's there.
I just don't know what the sheets are.
It's a drinking game.
Yeah, it's one of those things where you get bingo because we keep saying the same things over and over, like goat.
It would help keep me sane all night.
The show goes on and on and on and on, but in a good way.
Please, for the love of all that is conspiratorial through, update your lists.
I can't think of the last time I heard a Stargate reference or a Codex Alimentarius, whatever that is.
On the other hand, we could always use more alcohol.
Oh, we could always use more alcohol recommendations.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yeah, bad prompt to read.
Yes.
Exactly.
Also send me a podcast license and someday I'll come out with a Night Watch podcast.
Somehow I've managed to stay sane and keep my large family in one piece and I figure I could give folks a tip, but just the tip!
God.
Please play Don't Look Over Here, You Will Obey and the End of the Day and Knight Me...
We had the end of the day is too long.
And Knight Me, Sir Dave Knight, Knight of the Night Watch.
Don't look over here.
Nothing to see here.
You will obey.
You will obey.
But at the end of the day, they're backing him.
You know, they're backing him.
Come on.
At the end of the day.
Richard Dominelli.
See if I skipped anybody because I jumped the whole page on the sheet.
You're good.
Richard Dominelli in Clifton Park, New York, 400.
Thanks for the 10 years.
If the BOGO is still running, it should get me over to the knighthood.
I would like to be Sir Geek Heretic.
No jingles, but if you'd like to say why John is no longer on Twit, it's because Leo kicked me off it.
It's just that simple because it was...
Come on, John.
Let's be honest.
Why don't you just say the truth that you were sexually harassed by Leo?
He's got enough trouble.
Sir John Hogarty, 370.
To hope this third time is a charm, as my previous notes were, failures.
Total donations, he's got it here.
If I'm correct, I'm now a baronet.
Prefer Hoji Hong of Mong Kok.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Okay?
You're wrong.
Hoji Hong of Mong Kok?
I don't get it.
There's a pun in there or something.
It's dirty.
I see hung and cock and I guess there's something I'm missing.
Yeah.
Holy crap!
What?
Dropbox just charged me $238.
For what?
I don't know.
The PayPal just came in.
What the hell?
I didn't even use Dropbox.
Oh, that's probably a scam.
Check your, you know, put your password in here and we'll see what's wrong.
It's probably bullcrap.
No, it was a notification from the PayPal app.
You sure?
Yes.
You sure it's not a scam?
No, I'm sure it's not a scam.
Well, just refuse to pay it.
They deducted it already.
No, you can kick it back.
Yeah, just protest it.
They're pretty good about it.
Well, the money has already left my account.
Well, you can get it put back.
What is it?
I'm just trying to think, what is it?
I don't use Dropbox.
I don't know.
I had one drop...
I mean, I've used free Dropbox.
I've never signed up for Dropbox Pay.
Okay, keep going.
Did you sign up for Dropbox?
Are you a Dropbox customer?
I don't know.
Not for $238.
Huh.
I have no idea.
Alright, well don't worry about it.
Let me just continue on.
Well, I'm not worried sick.
You should be.
Sir Jordy Ramirez, because this hurts the show.
Yeah.
What are you doing going through your bills while we're doing these reads?
It popped up as a notification on my phone.
Just popped up?
From the PayPal app.
Hey buddy, you just got scammed for $200.
Bye!
Yeah, but I think it's...
Sir Jody Ramirez, they shouldn't do that to you.
Sir Jody Ramirez, he's going to get his name mentioned more than anyone.
In Cancun, $361.20 in Mexico.
Hi John and Adam, Sir Jody here with this donation, the second 2X promotion.
I get to 4X night.
Not sure what that makes me.
It makes you barren.
And on your way to Earl, I think.
Please send karma to all my family and play boom shakalaka.
Brother with a shut up already is science.
Keep up the great work.
Boom shakalaka.
Yeah.
What was the other one?
Science.
Boom shakalaka.
Shut up already.
It's science.
Okay.
Bingo, boom shakalaka.
Shut up already.
It's science.
You've got karma.
Here, your plan now has all the features included with Dropbox Professional.
I'm reading this notification on Dropbox.
I click on it, and I get error.
We can't find the page you're looking for.
This is fantastic.
It's a scam.
Well, PayPal could have been scammed.
But Dropbox is saying that they...
Okay, just don't worry about it.
We'll figure it out.
I have no idea what's going on.
It's very frightening to me.
If it was $2,000, I'd be a little more frightened.
$238 makes a difference.
Well, I know $200 is nothing to sneeze at, but it's the point, especially being scammed.
I just want you to understand.
I got a notification from PayPal and Dropbox.
No, I understand.
Okay, all right.
And then you went to your Dropbox account, which you apparently have, and sought to see what was going on, and it turns out they sent you to a dead page, which is not a good sign.
No.
Maybe they're cleaning house with all these late-minute, last-minute charges to everybody, and then they're going to close shop.
Hey, that's our trick.
Yeah, we're done.
No more shows.
Actually, there's a number of people that are worried about that.
So Dan Builder, believe me, is not happening.
Here it is.
I'm sorry to interrupt, and then I'll quit.
Dropbox Pro 2TB plus extended version history for $238 for a year.
Damn.
Well, apparently, you must have signed up for it.
I guess.
Okay.
At least we know what it is.
Did you?
That seems pretty high to me.
See, now it doesn't seem like something I would agree to, no.
But I'll check it out later.
I'm surprised.
It sounds like 2 terabytes for $230 seems a bit steep.
I can buy a 2 terabyte hard drive, not for one year, but for the rest of my life at Costco for $49.
I'm in total agreement.
Sir Dan, I'm getting sick of these deals.
Yeah.
You know what else happened to me?
I had this log me in.
You ever hear of log me in?
It's kind of like a VLC. You can control other computers.
Yeah.
And then I said, well, you have too many.
You have to sign up and click here and we'll bill you later.
It's like VLC. You can have it for free.
$500!
They charge me.
What?
Yeah.
It's scammy.
All these companies are shite.
I'll tell you, this is going on to an extreme.
And even the guys who are giving away freeware or shareware or whatever it used to be called, It's not even, it's all a scam now.
You download, whatever you download, you get some crapware that you have to take to two or three different programs to get rid of.
It goes into your browser, starts giving you extra advertising.
I mean, the whole thing has become a disaster.
Yes, it has.
Yeah.
Dropbox.
I think you got scammed.
I think you clicked on the wrong box.
You can just tell them to get your money back immediately.
All right.
Or all you're going to do is bitch about it on every show.
All right.
Sir Dan, builder of the battery cars, $354.81.
Congratulations on 10 years.
I rise to the level of Baron.
I humbly request a title change from Sir Dan, builder of battery cars, to Sir Dan Baron of Kekistan.
That's a big change.
Keep up the great work and thank you for your courage.
Shadalé, my dudes.
I don't know.
He has a couple of jingles there.
He has Trump Jobs, John's Shitty Flute, and Service Goat, Carmine.
Why don't you do Shitty Flute first?
Yeah, let me get it.
I gotta...
You gotta get the shitty one.
Don't get the good one.
Get the shitty one.
Do you want me to play...
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!
And Jobs.
Let's vote for Jobs!
You've got karma.
*phone rings* Now stop.
It's a small, small world.
Yeah, I heard it.
It's spot on.
Yeah, I nailed it.
Keith Lawsett.
Yeah, Keith Lawsett.
He came in at $335.33 through the mechanism of pop money.
And I want to, I think I have to go look him up.
While you're doing that, I'll do Daniel Collins with 334.
Daniel, parts unknown.
Thanks for making this great show twice a week.
Been a while since I donated.
I have no clue if it makes me a night.
Just felt I should chip in.
Some karma would be appreciated like an Obama A-team.
Oh, God.
Yes.
A-team.
Obama A-team.
And what else does he want here?
No conflict and LGY. And was there a karma as well?
Yes, he wanted karma.
So we'll add in some of this.
If there's a need for a rescue mission, when the world is threatened, the world needs help, it calls on America.
And that's the story.
There's no real conflict!
You've got karma.
Yay!
Pop money donation, John.
Here's another.
I want to mention this too.
It's on here, but I'm going to mention something anyway.
The other problem with emailing instead of putting a note.
I mean, you can email the donation accounting, put the note in the box where it belongs.
You can't do that with Pop Money, so this doesn't really apply here.
But I'm going to mention...
People send a note by email, and then they send another note, and then they send a third note correcting the second note, which was correcting the first note.
I've seen those, too.
You know, luckily, Squirrel Mail has this feature called threading.
My donation to 33533 is multiplied by 100 is a prime note.
This is very interesting.
Now, I want somebody to check this out immediately.
Pay attention, troll room.
My donation of 335.33, if multiplied by 100, is a prime number which, by generally accepted definition, cannot be divided by 100.
That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
It also, of course, a palindrome, which is a couple of 33s tossed in for good measure.
Though by no means intending to impugn the recently heavy contributions by producer slaves using deflated dollars, dollars Tom Brady would find quite pleasant to handle, I'm pleased to earn my knighthood using only regulation-inflated normal-strength dollars.
I respectfully request to have the title of—you have to write this one down, obviously— Certificate of Authenticity.
Okay, Keith Lossett.
Good one, I like it.
Certificate of Authenticity.
That's a good one.
It's a great name.
I like it.
He says if it's unavailable, the default title is quite adequate.
Of course, it's available, and you get it.
I'm humbled to be part of the roundtable, though after the 10th anniversary show, I'll be lucky to find a seat in the mezzanine.
No, the roundtable is infinite, my friend, and it's equal spots for everybody because it's round.
It's a circle.
It has magic.
And by the way, most people won't show up for the meetings anyway.
Please keep up your excellent work in the field of mental health.
We're all better for it.
We all know it's just a drinking club.
He says NJNK because he figures he's going to hear whatever everyone's on this show the way it's going.
Yes, thank you.
And he's right.
You did, Daniel.
Sir Robert Bruckner.
Yeah, do him.
ITM, happy 10th to the guardians of our sanity.
This donation bumps me up to Baron status.
As the Baron of the Dead of the Sprawl, I pledge to hit people in the mouth at every Circle K, Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, Target, and the multitude of strip malls sprawling across outer Phoenix that peddles mass market crap.
I will be busy, but the cause is noble.
Resist me much, and a jingle, and extra karma for the producers and those that donated to celebrate your first decade.
3-3-3-3-3.
Gilbert from Arizona, thank you very much, Sir Robert Burnham.
But resist, we much.
We must, and we will much about that be committed.
You've got karma.
Uh...
Bing!
Alex McGillivary in Ketchikan, Alaska, 333-333.
Please accept this donation from FEMA Region X. More specifically, Ketchikan, Alaska.
I was hit in the mouth about three years ago by my good friend Travis Olson.
I'm fairly sure it was before being hit in the mouth was a thing, though, which is nice.
I don't know.
It goes pretty far back, which is nice since I hate being smacked around.
That being said, please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
Call out Travis for being a douchebag.
He's not a douchebag in real life, but calling him one in front of a global audience is just too juicy to pass up, especially since he hasn't donated to the No Agenda show like forever.
No nose.
Thank you for your untiring talents which have expanded my cranial vault and fortified my tower of intellect, making me invincible.
You two have helped me see through the media shit show, which is like knitting fog with your fingers.
Please send me some...
The master of the small ditty.
Please send me some small business karma to help boost up my fledgling brewery, Baleen Brewing.
Okay.
We've got a lot of brewers, by the way, on this show.
I'm sure the karma will work, and when it does, I'll be naming one of the flagship beers an alcoholic oatmeal stout, no agenda.
Please play the drunken donor jingle, since it's grossly apropos.
And he's got it here.
Yeah, no, I got that.
I got that.
I got that.
Lastly, I own a vacation rental called Cabin Balene over here in Ketchikan, Alaska.
And he's got cabinbalene.com.
C-A-B-I-N-B-A. Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
It's cute.
It's some beautiful photos.
I'll offer a 10% break to all your groupies as long as they mention the new agenda.
That 10% will be redirected back to you guys out of my own profits.
If that doesn't make me a good slave, what will?
The other slave needs to book with me.
And the rest is cut off.
Book with me and go fishing.
Best regards, Alex.
Thank you, Alex.
What will we do with the drunken donor?
I'll lie in the morning.
We'll be right back.
I forgot all about that one.
Yeah, me too.
Tim Worth, 3333.
I would love to hear some of your old stories about Dr.
Pornell.
That would be my stories.
Also curious why JCD quit appearing on Twitter.
This came up again.
Honestly, this show sucks, he says, without me.
Don't eat me, Hillary, and two to the head.
Thanks.
Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton!
Okay.
Anonymous, 33333 in Denver.
Keep up the good work.
Anonymous in Denver.
Dieter Archer in Beaver Creek, Ohio, 33333.
Thanks for your dynamite continued insight.
Sadly, due to school, I've been a borderline man overboard.
However, I plan on changing that with this donation.
All I need is one penny thrown in.
Got it for you right here.
I'll be able to join my friends Mark and Kevin as a knight.
We will protect Beaver Creek, Ohio from douchebaggery and ignorance.
As such, I would like to be called Sir Dieter of the Nightlife, with a K. I have wanted to be a knight ever since I was young, and thanks to your special offer, I will be able to do so.
Here's to another ten years.
You guys are young enough to make it.
Can you read what he wants here?
To get out of my vagina.
Yes.
Seems to be very popular today.
Yes.
Two to the head and drone again naturally.
Okay.
And karma or...
Uh...
Specify?
No.
Get out of my vagina!
And he needs a de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
There you go.
Thank you very much.
Matthias Carlson in Sweden, 333.
Long-time listener seeking dedouching.
Yeah, dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
Thank you for your courage, Jigo Request.
IS in America, the Korean news lady.
Both these have been perfect as alarm clock noises during the periods of heavy work and overtime.
You have been a true savior for mental hygiene.
Well, thank you.
We feel like we are as well.
I'm just looking for the Korean news lady.
I think it's Korean lady is what it's called.
Yeah, this would be it.
ISIS. We will follow them to the gates of hell.
ISIS. I feel good!
Okay.
Sir Xenonymous in Liverpool.
333.
Slightly belated, congratulations on your tenth over many years to come.
Karma for all and a drone song at the end of the show, please.
Okay, karma for all.
You've got karma.
Okay, you're going to have to read this one, but this needs to be cut down.
This is way too long of a note.
It takes up the whole page.
I can't even open it.
Sir Tyler Fox, Baron of Aviation from Cedar Park, Texas.
Good morning, gents.
Wish I could drop the cash right now to kick me over to Viscount territory.
That'll have to wait for another six months.
Thanks to the anniversary promo.
This donation will get me closer.
NJNK. And then he has a very long comment about the Dr.
Oz poop on phone segment.
And he happens to know a lot about it.
So I'm going to take this in and discuss it on a future show.
Yes.
So Sir Tyler Fox, Baron of Aviation.
It's definitely worth discussing and he's got a lot of information.
But it's too much information for this segment.
Yeah, and I'm going to give you some tailwinds, Karma, personally.
You've got Karma.
He's the one, he's the knight who got the Mooney.
So we're going to go flying.
Oh, the Mooney guy.
Yeah, the Mooney Knight.
Yeah.
Oh, that's going to be fun.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I think his manifold pressure broke or something, so it's U.S. momentarily.
Unserviceable aircraft.
I took a ride in on Mooney only once.
They're fast.
They're like rocket.
I know.
The guy did this.
I was in Iceland, and the guy says, he's going to give me a moony ride over Vesman Island.
He didn't say, watch this, did he?
No, he didn't say anything.
He just, he kind of virtually said, because he goes to the, he takes it to the beginning of the runway, and he's off the runway about, I don't know, 40 feet before he even gets to the runway as he's coming around.
So he just guns it, and before he actually gets to the runways in the air, It was a pretty unbelievable takeoff.
I guess those things could take off in 30 feet or something like that.
Well, he called it a rolling start.
So he probably was already revving up as he was turning onto the runway.
Yeah, well, it was just boom.
Yeah, boom.
Boom count three.
Well, no.
No, I've done two.
Robert Alter, 333, Parts Unknown.
I do not have any note from Robert, so why don't you look that up while I take a look at Nicholas Robinson, 325, from Redwood City, California.
Please knight me, Sir Karras, a nomadic knight.
All I ask is some moving karma to drive cross-country for the sixth time.
Yes, special one for you, sir.
You've got karma.
Robert Alter?
Did you get Robert Alter?
No, I didn't get it yet.
I'll do Rich Ballard, 321, from Alberg, Vermont.
321 Knighthood, I was trying to wait until you finished your Bogolf offer so I could lord it all over those cheap skates, but you had to keep it going.
Is it still a real knighthood with the push to a cheapskate barony?
So thanks.
I would like to be known as Sir Richard the Lionheart if possible.
Congrats again on 10 years.
The show is great.
Last time I asked for house buying karma, not only got that, but two more, a three-for-one deal.
Not sure what he's saying there, but something worked with the karma.
Oh, okay.
This is a portion of some of the rent income from the first place, but I could use some more karma to find new tenants and renovation karma for the new houses.
Otherwise, NJ and K, and my son Justin is still a douchebag.
Can't believe you didn't take advantage of the Bogov, you cheapskate.
Rental karma.
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
Okay, Larry Pelham.
So you didn't get Robert Alter, nothing for Robert?
No, I should say this, yes.
Robert Alter, no note.
Thanks, Robert.
Larry Pelham.
You did Ballard.
So this is Pelham.
He's the other Pop Money guy with $317.95 and he did send an email and there's no other choice with Pop Money.
Can't leave a message.
I love the show and the sanity it provides to my life.
Thanks again.
You are always welcome in the Huntsville, Alabama, if you're in the area.
Thank you.
I just got a place in Huntsville.
Please humor me with Obama chicken dance, goat scream, and little girl yay.
I don't know what the chicken dance is.
I do.
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Yeah, I had the wrong one.
Obama.
I think it is called chicken dance.
Yeah.
And what was the other one?
Goat scream?
Yes, and little girl yay.
Oh, and a goat scream karma?
Is that the idea?
He didn't say karma.
Okay.
He just wants a goat scream.
Just a goat scream.
Okay.
Appropriate.
I'd say.
Sean Reiser, parts unknown, 305.
I've had some health struggles, which keeps me from donating regularly, but I couldn't pass up this outstanding opportunity of the BOGO special, so I'm donating 305.
Which would push me over the top for knighting.
Please knight me a Sir Sean.
Can I get a knight of the second decade?
Can I get a random manning clip followed by some karma?
And he also says, John, since you're reading, say this, say the following quote.
I really love the mouse.
It is the greatest invention ever.
Otherwise, you're going to have a flame coming out of your butthole!
You won't be able to sit down!
You've got karma.
There's your random manning clip, as requested.
That's pretty dubious.
Sir Ralph Barron, Viscount of the Natural Moors Net something.
In Germany.
In Aachen, Deutschland.
Yes, Aachen.
Do we have a note from him?
Yes, we do.
He says, congratulations, keep going, all the best from good old Joymany.
Yeah.
That's the note.
We are very happy, pleased that we have so many Deutschlanders.
Duncan Martin in Canyon County, California, two or three hundreds of Canyon County.
Hey, guys, belated congrats on the 10th of the most entertaining podcasts in the net.
Congratulate me as well for doubling this $300 donation brings you to well over the mark from my knighthood.
I would like to be known as surprisingly refreshing.
Surprisingly, I get it.
Surprisingly refreshing.
Yes.
If somehow that's taken, I'll go with just Sir Duncan.
Another note, I'm trying to figure out how to call you guys out on a big screw-up without sounding like a douchebag.
Ah, screw it.
Here it goes anyway.
I cannot believe you guys did not catch this.
Literally cannot believe it.
Now, I'm not saying you guys believe what Billy Corgan said, but it should have been obvious that he's full of shit.
He gave himself away.
When someone telling a true story follow up questions and are dealt with strenuously from memory, when someone is making up a bullshit story, providing details is a big problem.
He literally refused to provide details without ever providing a reasonable explanation why details are a problem.
Why is he wasting our time in the first place with his BS if he won't go into details?
Anyway, what are we talking about here?
You can't believe we didn't say that.
I don't know.
We're laughing at Billy Corgan.
It was your clip, you remember?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know, Duncan.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying.
But...
But you're right, Duncan.
We screwed up.
Yeah, thank you.
He wants...
Don't be a denier.
Shut up, science.
Two to the head.
No.
The science is in!
Science!
Shut up already!
Science!
Sir Hononymous, 300.
He's in parts unknown.
I've been a little reluctant, reticent, to make a donation ever since John revealed the name source of my last donation on show, 895.
I'm currently known as Sir Hononymous.
I would like to change my title to Sir Reginald Van Gleeson III. Otherwise known as Reggie Van Gleeson III. I made a $300 donation today on the donations page.
It will show up as someone.
I'm not saying your name.
With this donation, I will become a baronet.
Previous donations, and he's got it all here.
I know you're extremely busy with the twofer offer, but it possibly, please do not announce my name.
Meanwhile, he slips it into the copy.
Yeah, very dangerous.
Without saying this.
Very dangerous.
Very dangerous.
Please use my new name, Sir Reginald Van Gleeson III, which is a Jackie Gleeson character, of course.
As usual, great show.
Keep up the great analysis, Sir Reginald Van Gleeson.
All right, NJNK. Sir Lucas of the Lost Bits, $300, Tacoma, Washington.
Sir Lucas of the Lost Bits here.
I'm donating to celebrate the birth of my first human resource.
Congratulations, Roxy Nying Lundy.
How do I say the middle name?
Nguyen?
Nguyen?
Well...
Oh, it's a pre...
Oh, today!
She's scheduled to be born on November 2nd, one way or another!
Alright, well, congratulations.
Welcome to Gitmo Nation.
Roxy?
It's got that swallowing, because the Vietnamese swallow their words.
Little girl boom shakalaka, little girl yay and karma.
Boom shakalaka!
Boom shakalaka!
Yay!
You've got karma.
Sir Andrew Harms, K-C-O-W-I-I-73s.
Happy anniversary.
This double credit will top off my fifth knighthood, bringing me to Viscount.
I realize that I never requested a barony, so I'd like to claim the Viscount of Omaha.
Yeah, you got it.
You're going to have to...
You're going to get Buffett, but you got it.
You own it.
Yeah.
Thomas Clayson, congratulations on 10 years, just karma requested.
You've got karma.
Simon, Simon, Simon, and he's UK. Well, see, it's British, so it's got to have a British sound.
Thanks for ten years of the best podcast in the universe, one of the few, if not the only media outlet where I actually feel more intelligent listening to it.
I particularly enjoy John attempting to say my surname and completely mangling it.
I would henceforth like to be known as Sir Neb of the Unpronounceables.
Good idea.
Yes.
I didn't see Adam do a better job, but I'm the one who gets condemned.
Sir Brian Knight of the Northern Connecticut, West Hartford, 282.
You know the state's going broke?
Hartford, Connecticut, yeah.
Connecticut's going broke.
Yeah.
It'll be something to see.
Thank you for your courage.
Getting on the final days of the double credit promotion to push across the line to Baronet.
Some of the richest people live in Connecticut, oddly enough.
I know, isn't that funny?
It's ironic.
It's a former member, eventual ringleader.
All the rich people that don't want to live in Manhattan, they all live in Connecticut.
Some live in Jersey.
Oh, this is a good note.
As a former member, eventual ringleader of the Much Maligned Gitmo Nation Roundtable, I had to donate after the shout-out, albeit derisive, on Sunday's episode.
We did this show for just about two years and did pivot away from complaining about no agenda, but admit we never came close to being the best podcast in the universe.
Hey, listen.
Sir Brian Knight of Northern Connecticut becoming Baronet Brian of Northern Connecticut.
And we welcome you back with love, my friend.
There is no love lost.
Really.
Welcome back.
You've got karma.
You probably never left.
Keith Hausner.
Yeah, we'll deal with the economy.
269.69.
Thanks for all you guys do.
Congratulations on the 10 years.
It would be possible to hear the Obama crazy cockroach song and to add my daughter Emily and myself to the birthday list.
She will be one on the 19th.
Okay.
And he'll be 35 on the 17th.
Yes, you're on the list.
Hey!
Hey!
Listen.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You're in my house.
Hey!
Hey!
Come on, guys.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Shame on you.
Hey!
Hey!
Okay.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm up in the house.
Hey!
Hey!
In the booth.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
A programming note for those of you new to the program.
This is not the typical length of our donation segment.
This is a special 10th year anniversary, a celebration in extended format.
Yes, yes, and it takes longer than usual.
Yes.
And we're going to do our normal thing and read these notes, at least most of them.
Gregory Keir in Langley, British Columbia, 265.
I'm hoping that you can make a special case and allow this to be a twofer donation.
On October 21st, my four-week-old grandson suffered a head injury in a household accident.
Yikes.
Oh.
And ended up on life support in the BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
The little guy has come through like a champ and is being discharged tomorrow.
Needless to say, this has been a week from hell for the family.
We're still not sure whether we'll have any long-term problems, but so far as recovery has exceeded the expectations of the medical people every step of the way, I've been a bit distracted.
My donation of 265 have doubled and added to the total of the most.
You know, these little kids, you know, they get into trouble, especially when they first start to crawl.
Yeah.
And they think it's cool that they can move themselves around and they run all over the place.
They try to climb.
They're morons.
Their house is dangerous.
Totally morons.
They're dumb.
Yeah, these stupid little kids are stupid.
Stupid.
But we feel bad for it.
And happy that he's on the mend.
That's good.
Yeah, he'll be smarter eventually.
But yeah, hopefully you don't have any after effects.
My donation to $265 double adds a total of mostly $4 a week subscription over the last year.
It pains my knighthood.
If not doubled, I'm going to claim my Canadian privilege and take your other generous...
So yes, we do accept this deal.
Yeah, the dollar at equivalency.
Where the dollar at's worth a dollar.
Dollar at equivalency.
So I've got either way.
Accounting's attached.
She's got the accounting here.
Thank you for what you do.
And a shout-out to my older millennial son, Braden, who hit me in the mouth in 2015 and opened my eyes to the BS I was getting from the mainstream media.
I'd also like to be knighted Sir Gregory of the Brookswood.
Please give a long overdue de-douching and no jingles, but a great big dose of karma for my family, especially for the little guy.
73s.
You've been de-douched.
You've got karma now.
Okay.
Newsflash!
Country Music's top publicist accused of propositioning intern for sex showing employees porn.
This is a great time to be a podcaster.
It sure is.
And, more breaking news, Trump just nominated Jerome Powell to lead the Federal Reserve.
Ah, I lost the bet.
I know you did.
You thought Yellen was just going to stay in?
Yeah, we had this, you know, we discussed this on this show and Horowitz's.
You know, I was thinking, Yellen has been doing such a great job of keeping the economy from crashing, which should have happened technically last month in October.
And she's been hanging in there with her, whatever she does.
And I figured it's just risky to put a new person in there with a different thought process.
And Horowitz, or was it you?
I think it was Horowitz, who made the argument, it was you, that made the argument that Trump puts his own people in there.
That was Horowitz.
He wants his own people.
He doesn't want somebody else making it all happen.
Because then he's incredible Obama.
But I think Horowitz was happy with that idea.
He liked it.
He thought Powell would be good.
No, everybody on the street thinks that.
On the street.
I personally don't like to see things change.
and I don't like it when I'm working for a magazine or a newspaper and the editor goes and the new editor comes in, I know it's not going to be pleasant because it's not, you know, there's other guys persons.
It's happened to me a number of times a new guy comes in and he doesn't want anybody to, you're done.
Yeah, yeah.
So So I don't like these changes like this.
And I think this is good.
This may be a trigger of the collapse that we're looking for.
Christian Borsa, $250 from Austria or Australia?
Australia.
First-time donor, listener since John upset the apple cart at Twit.
Can I please request a dedouching, jobs karma, new human resource karma, and house-building karma?
Why, yes, you can.
You've been dedouched.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Yeah!
We've got karma.
Sir Dean Baron of the Gold Coast.
Thanks for 10 years of an outstanding product.
All the best.
I believe with this donation I now become a Viscount and would like to add the island of St.
Marie to the protectorate.
Done.
Long live no agenda.
I'd like to call out Brian and Jillian as douchebags.
Brian and Jillian is being called out a douchebag by Eric Wessel Dyke.
This is just the way this thing spreads.
It may look like it was the same note.
Okay, onward.
Bruce Schwalm.
He got his douchebags in.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
I believe this should make my knighthood a reality.
De-douche me since I'll be knighted.
Give me three shouts of one goat.
Please long live the best podcast in the universe.
You've been de-douched.
Oh, sorry.
Okay, 250 bucks is...
Hold on, I didn't get his goats.
I'm sorry.
Oh, I thought you did.
I'm sorry.
I messed it up.
I had the service goat karma.
I was the wrong one.
So we'll just do...
He wanted to triple goats, so one...
I got a line...
I got a...
Come here, goats.
Come here.
Come here.
All right, good boys.
Good job.
I discourage people in the future from requesting that, please.
How about some content right here?
Let me get one.
First, no, we have to skip at least to this because I just did Wessel Dyke's douchebag call out, so I need to read his note.
Eric Wessel Dyke in Portage, Michigan, 250.
Congratulations on 10 years.
Nightmare Sir Eric Knight of West Michigan, Dutch.
Also, I need to call out Brian and Jillian as douchebags.
We just did that.
I hit them in the mouth during the 2016 campaign and had not heard them donate yet.
Sorry guys, you knew this was coming and it did happen.
Alright, now we can do it.
Oh, I had a little bit of service goat content.
Oh, God.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, here we go.
So those guys back there and gals, they are from Split Creek Farm in Anderson, and they are working with Ashley Addiction Treatment in Maryland for this new initiative therapy, innovative therapy, I should say.
The Anderson Farm donated five goats, there they are, to the addiction facility, which is located in Maryland.
There's Bubba.
He's going to be helping out.
The treatment facility says the goats provide love and companionship and purpose to these young people who may have nothing else in life to live for.
Now, one of the employees of the Split Creek Farm is an alumni of Ashley Addiction Treatment, which has been in operation for more than 30 years.
So Bubba and his four other friends will be heading up there and changing lives.
That's right, changing lives.
We are from the future.
The service goat is a reality.
So we got a note from someone who was discussing some incident that took place, which I didn't...
We don't have time to read it this show next time, or the show after.
And it talked about these women getting on a plane or going someplace with a service bird.
Yeah, nice.
Well, you know, a service bird.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah, I know.
I think people are just taking advantage of things.
Michael Oakes, 240 bucks.
And if you can read it, because I can't open it.
Yes.
Michael Oaks says this donation with generous discount should push me above knighthood.
Please knight me Sir Charles Pronson and NJNK. I'll provide accounting in a separate email.
Thank you very much.
I got Brian Nani.
And you have an email from him?
$240?
I am looking as we speak.
Alpha Husky came in.
And again, here's an example of three emails.
Exactly the same.
It's always three.
It's not five or two.
But I'll read his last one, which usually they usually keep the other one in there.
Did you accidentally say my name?
Don't read this note.
Okay, well, we didn't say.
You said his name.
Yeah, I said his name, so we can't read the note.
Sorry.
Sean Dempsey, $237 from Hamburg, Deutschland.
I do not have a note from him.
By the way, I think that another clarification or clerical thing should be mentioned here.
You could put anonymous in that little box that PayPal provides, which has notes.
And that usually would prevent what just happened, which is that if you say my name, you can't read this note.
Although, it seems to me that that was a benefit.
Thomas Hagan, H-A-G-A-N. H-A-G-A-N. I got Kelly Hagan.
No, I don't think that's the one.
Well, Thomas Hagan did say...
No, I was saying Sean Dempsey.
Oh, Dempsey, I'm looking up the wrong guy.
Sorry.
Let's try it again.
Shawn.
Meanwhile, I can do Thomas Hagen, 23456, Irvine, California.
Congratulations on 10 years.
Jingle requests.
Whoopi, get out.
Somebody's getting cornholed.
Scream, we came, we saw, he died.
Get out of my vagina!
Someone's getting cornholed today.
Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
So, I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed.
Yes, we came, we saw, he died.
Ha ha ha!
No Sean Dempsey at all.
There's a Seb Dempsey from April.
SirRacerNate, Nathan Hodge, 225.
Gentlemen, today's donation is now put in Barron.
Only one year.
I'd like to ask for a Yoko Ono cut short by two shots of the head.
I will mention that this is a very difficult, this is worth 10 points, very difficult attempt, because Adam has not yet skipped, stuck the landing on this one, but we'll see if he can do it.
But this two, Yoko Ono, shot to the head, and a little girl, yay.
Thanks for the wine suggestions, Johns.
I tried the Kirkland 2014 Payek.
I was impressed.
It went back to the last, hit the last three bottles.
2015 Beaujolais is what I'm telling everyone now.
Okay.
I'm holding up a seven.
Oh.
Michael Oaks, $240.
This donation with a generous discount should push me above knighthood.
Hold on.
I don't know why you're doing that one.
We've done that one several times.
We're now at Bill Bean.
How did I get this thing done?
I don't know.
From Oklahoma.
So it's finally here.
I'm a knight at the round table.
You guys have been hitting me in the mouth since 2014.
Your insight is second to none and I always find myself saying the words, well, John said or Adam said.
Then I get a strange look from someone like, who is John?
Who's Adam?
And then I proceed to hit them in the mouth.
Congratulations on ten years.
Quite a feat in modern broadcasting.
Some folks can't make it ten episodes without getting cancelled.
Here's to podcasting.
Here's to value for value.
Here's to another ten years.
Douchebag call out to Tyler Mann for not donating.
Not even a freaking buck.
Come on, man.
Give me three chemtrails in a row and I'm out, bro.
Bill Bean from Oklahoma.
Okay.
Chemtrails.
Okay, Spencer, I found where we are.
Spencer Sumner, 205-51.
I have no idea why I jumped to that spot.
Credit donations to Spencer Sumner, not Tyler.
We did.
Here is a donation to $274 Canadian dollar S. Please knight me, Sir Spencer Sumner, that thanks for the double credits.
I am only $300 away from Baronet.
NJNK. Our go-to guy.
Chris.
Chris of Alexandria, 200.
Please use my first name.
Congrats on 10 years.
I've been listening since the single-digit show days.
Back when I first heard John on Twitter mention trying out doing a little podcast with Adam Curry, I thought the guy from MTV? I had to give it a listen.
I've been with it ever since.
Anyone who's still with this show and actually listens since those days, I congratulate you.
As it evolved into the best podcast in the universe, it's been a while since I've donated, so please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
And because of the random number theory, he'd like, of course, chemtrails.
Yep.
It's science, little girl, yay, and a goat karma.
Okay.
Chemtrails.
Shut up already.
Science.
Yay!
You've got karma.
He'll be the knighted as Sir Chris of Old Town, Alexander, which is a beautiful area of the country.
Anyone hasn't visited, they should.
And we're now into the 200s, and we're doing all these, we're doing, yeah, these 200s, and then we're going back to our regularly scheduled program.
Yes, Chase McCarthy at the top of the list, along with Chris.
Thanks for 10 years of better thinking and good laughs.
You got the next one.
Thank you very much.
Christopher Madding, Parts Unknown, $200 in the morning, gents.
For the past 15 months, I've been telling myself to donate and send it in a witting, well thought.
In a witty, well thought.
Well, I hate to say you're only getting the money.
I'm not witty.
May I get a dedouching?
Yes, you can get a dedouching.
You've been de-douched.
Gayanne Chichakan and new business karma.
Love and light from Jerome.
Yes, you can do that.
Chichakan.
Karma.
Well, I just thought I said, whatever happened to her?
Yeah, good question.
She's off the list, I guess.
Chris Jennings, Mesa, Arizona, 200.
Thank you for the opportunity to accelerate achieving my knighthood.
This promotion encouraged me to do a douchebag check and get myself back on track giving regular donations attached.
You'll find a PDF of the records of blah, blah, blah.
If you need additional information, let me know.
Thank you so much for the consistently excellent program you turn out every week.
It has truly improved the quality of life and mental hygiene for my whole family.
Nice.
Please know that the work you do is appreciated.
Keep it up.
Chuck Jennings in Mesa, Arizona.
Thank you very much.
And that concludes this first portion of people we will be thanking.
We'll do a little bit of show now, although we've kind of been doing consistently show during this, which I think is good.
I like that.
This is how Value for Value works.
It's been 10 years and the response and the value that's been given is just, it's highly appreciated.
It's really nice.
I feel very, very good.
I'd like to do more show, for sure, but you only turn 10 once.
And who knows?
Who knows?
Another big celebration when you graduate from high school.
And it's such an important way to do this, because we can say anything we want.
Actually, here's an example.
This is a Jen Briney from Congressional Dish podcast who is, I would say, somewhat of a protege of yours, certainly, John, but ours.
She posted a note she got from Amazon from the Associates program.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Just to give you an example.
Yeah, that's a good one.
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This is the same thing that I got banned from Google for.
When I had the big book show, the big app show.
I say, hey, yeah, I said, you know, I got advertisers.
You were using Google Ads, or what were you doing?
Okay.
Well, I don't remember this story.
I know you got banned, but give us the story again.
I had an app, and it was a big app show, and I had angled the video in a way that I was doing a screencast so you could see.
This is the beginning of apps, when apps were just getting hot.
It was like a best of apps, top 10 apps.
Yeah, I thought this was a really good idea.
You went through a lot of work so it would play right in the right direction.
This was a good idea.
Thank you.
Why it failed is, I have no idea.
Well, it failed because I was making a couple grand a month in ads from the app because people were liking it, you know, and then they were clicking on ads, and then Google said...
Right, your app cannot go link into something else.
No, because I said to people, hey, click on the ads.
And then people would click on the ads, and then Google said that's a violation.
It is a violation.
Yeah, Google has its strict rules.
Well, Amazon as well, apparently.
So if you say, hey, you'll help out the show by clicking on the Amazon links, you'll get banned for life.
Yeah.
What sense does that make?
Well, I think it makes some sense.
But the Amazon is for product.
If people buy the product, why do they care how it happened?
It doesn't make sense superficially.
And I agree that it's dumb from the perspective of just making money.
And I'd say the same thing about Google.
People are clicking and clicking.
But the thing is, I get the sense that these guys...
It's like, you've worked for these companies.
In fact, every company I've worked for recently when I go to actually get a job.
I do once in a while.
You know, sometimes you get bored, you've got to get a job.
Yeah.
And these companies, this is, I'll tell my tech TV story.
Tech TV decides that they're going to do a website blog, something like that.
It was early in the early days when it was CDTV. And so meanwhile, in the process of doing that, they had Leo Laporte working there, who was already running his own blog, Leoville.
And then they hire Chris Perillo, who probably at the time was the top blogger in the country.
I don't think there's any doubt about it.
And I was dabbling in it, but I wasn't the superstar.
But Leo and Chris, definitely.
Did they ever even ask them once to try to extract something they might know?
Please, don't be so crazy!
No, no.
They just went off on their own merry own way doing their own thing because they brought somebody and some guy who claimed to be an expert who has no numbers or nothing, just another guy that says, I can do it.
This is the kind of thing that this is what I think is going on here is that Amazon has these experts say, here's how we want to be able to analyze these numbers so we can use our AI and we can recommend machine learning.
And if somebody is there pushing, they say, hey, push this button because it supports the show.
That screws up the algo.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah.
Because there's no other reason.
And, of course, it makes so much more sense to have people click on the product they just bought.
I mean, your algos are really doing a kick-ass job, Amazon.
Fire everybody who helped make you big when you were begging for affiliates.
Begging, I tell you.
Begging.
And then, oh, you're not doing it right.
We need the algos.
And then the result of those algos is I buy a product, I see all ads for the same product.
We're doomed.
I think your experience with Google, which I use Google Ads every so often on a blog, and I looked over their stuff, and they make a big deal about it.
Oh, whatever you do, don't draw attention to the ads.
Don't...
Tell people to click on the ads.
Whatever you do.
That's the worst thing you can do is telling people to click.
Or don't trick them into clicking.
Because you could do that if you...
It'd be very easy to do.
Well, anyway...
Click.
Thank you again, everybody.
And we'll be thanking more people at the end of the show, which will include the nightings and the birthdays, etc.
That's the format.
And then I guess we'll be back to kind of more normal-ish show length, maybe, by Sunday.
It doesn't matter.
Look, I got nothing better to do.
I enjoy it.
I think the notes are funny.
And it turns out that the two of us have the skill to go seven and a half hours yakking.
We got stamina, baby!
Nothing but stamina!
And another show on Sunday!
And although a lot of you said you do it, and you have done it, and are doing it, continue to do it!
Do it!
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Water! Water! Tempail!
Shut up!
Shut up, slave!
Slaves!
Woohoo!
The beaches are open!
Now, I don't know if you want to go straight into my thesis compendium or you want to play something as a little break.
Play something, but, you know, let's go into the thesis and I'll play something afterwards.
All right.
So a couple of things I learned while on my trip and I was listening to people.
And again, this is a thesis.
It's in process, as usually is.
And I do have a map, which I will give you in a moment.
But it kind of started...
How come all your theses always involve a map?
Wow, man.
Because it's very easy to understand huge geopolitical moves if you take a look at the frickin' map.
Okay.
This is not taught in schools.
This is not taught in schools.
They don't teach geography anymore.
Of course they teach geography.
No, I don't think so.
I think all they teach is sexual...
Gender studies.
Gender studies.
Let's say gender studies.
And racial studies.
Yeah, racial studies.
Social justice studies.
Social justice studies.
Great.
I was thinking about, you know, Catalonia and possibly other, you know, Scotland and then maybe the Walloons and there's, you know, was it, I think the, in Germany, the, not the Dresden, not Dresden, Anyway, there's all these little regions that could break off.
And I'm thinking, you know, there's something about this.
And let me start first here with the European leaders, what they have to say to the Catalan separatists.
There was no support of Catalan independence from European leaders.
EU Council President Donald Tusk tweeted, For EU, nothing changes.
Spain remains our only interlocutor.
I hope the Spanish government favors force of argument, not argument of force.
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said it was important to avoid any splits and fractures in the European Union because there are already enough of them.
I do not want a situation where tomorrow the EU is made up of 95 different states, Juncker said.
French President Emmanuel Macron also said that he was fully supportive of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
In Berlin, Angela Merkel's spokesman, Stefan Seibert, said the German government does not recognize such a declaration of independence, adding that Berlin supported the clear position of Rajoy in his bid to restore calm and order.
Charles Michel, the Prime Minister of Belgium, who faces Flemish separatism, tweeted...
A political crisis can only be solved through dialogue.
We call for a peaceful solution with respect for national and international order.
Finally, Johnny Pitella, the head of the socialist group in the European Parliament, tweeted, On this sad day for Europe, we show our support and our solidarity with the Socialist Party in Spain and all the Spanish people.
It's obvious that this is not something the EU mothership is happy about.
And as I was talking with one of my drivers, an Uber driver, maybe it was a cab driver, and this guy was, he was from Ankara.
Hadn't lived there, he lives in Holland 16, he's a Dutch citizen, but always has a fun Turkish accent, and you've got to tune in, you've got to tune in to what he's saying.
And we're speaking English, and he says...
You know, this is all too fast.
It happened too fast.
He said, why is no one seeing the obvious?
What do you mean seeing the obvious?
This is like Arab Spring.
This is something going on.
This is European Spring.
Look at what's happening.
We're talking about it everywhere.
It's popping up.
It's popping up.
I thought, huh, well, that's very interesting.
Because I will say, although Catalonia, of course, has been brewing for a long time, It has some similarities with the Arab Spring.
Remember, it started in Tunisia, and it was clearly, you know, provocateurs at work everywhere.
And the price of bread.
Yeah, and there were all kinds of reasons.
Well, there was Egypt.
All kinds of reasons that this happened, and look where we are now.
We're in Syria with God knows how many people.
All kinds of stuff just started popping off.
We killed Gaddafi, and a lot of things happened.
So I said, what if we view this in that light?
What if we view...
What's happening with these European breakoffs as something that's being provoked, provocateurs at work.
And I'm thinking, what could be going on?
So I start looking around at YouTube videos, and I find this conference, the Kranz Montana, which is a big EU conference.
Not just EU, I guess the economic conference which was held in Barcelona earlier this year.
I'm just going to play a clip from it and then I'll start to give you a thesis about what I think might be happening.
The far-reaching aspiration of Chinese foreign policy was one of the main issues discussed at the Kranz-Montana Forum in Barcelona.
Hundreds of political and economic heavyweights debated the new Silk Road.
This is a macro project launched in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping, which aims to unite Asia, Africa and Europe by land and sea, bringing a new dimension to the global economy.
The initiative includes some 60 countries accounting for 60% of the world's population, 30% of its GDP, and 75% of its energy resources.
The main investors want governments to cooperate to help secure their money, some of which is already filtered down.
There are a lot of smaller economies on this corridor with a lot of natural resources.
So for these economies, rather than transporting raw materials, We see that due to this new Silk Road, the producers will come closer to where the raw materials are and they will help these economies to create a value-added chain by developing their raw material resources into finished goods.
Many of the countries along the route could improve deficiencies in their infrastructure and transport, which currently make trading difficult.
Last May, the Beijing government announced a further injection of about 110,000 million euros.
But how will alliances between governments and companies benefit citizens?
Now, this is something you, I think, initially brought to the table, the New Silk Road, also known as the Belt and Road Initiative, or also known as One Belt, One Road.
Yes, O-B-O-R. And there are different initiatives with different meanings, as we'll find out.
So, and we talked about this, like it's a train that's going from northern China or eastern China all the way into Europe.
And I'm like, you know, I'm just going to take a look at this again and see if I can connect anything with, you know, reason why there may be some provocateur stuff going on with this European spring.
And it wasn't until I came across the following map, which you can find at silkroad.noagendanotes.com, Are you going there?
I'm going there now.
That I understood the full impact of this...
Silkroad.noagendanotes?
Yeah, silkroad.noagendanotes.com.
And this map shows not just the train route, which you'll see interestingly enough terminates in Madrid, goes through the province of Catalonia into Madrid, and that's the termination of the entire route.
You think there's a problem, maybe?
Something going on?
Because the Chinese have a very clear statement.
If there's crap going on in the country, we're not a part of that.
We don't want that.
So there's an issue getting the tracks all the way to Madrid, as it is currently planned to run straight through Catalonia.
Well, yeah.
I have to ask you questions as you go along.
Without jumping ahead of your theory.
But...
I just want to mention, what's interesting is that I think what you're getting at is Catalonia is a bottleneck.
It's like one of these things that you find on Rubicon, you know, where there's this little spot.
And if you could screw it up, you could have some leverage.
But the way I'm looking at this, the map you got here, which is a good one, And it's got the southern shipping.
What's most important here, beside the train, that's why I started with it, is the maritime route, which you can see all of the ports they have all across Africa.
But look what else is happening.
The maritime route goes through Myanmar.
Problems in Myanmar?
Yeah, you betcha.
Well, I'm seeing this.
I'm looking at this train ride that you're talking about.
And here's what I want you to conclude.
I think I have a backup piece of information.
Oh, no.
Again, this is just starting.
This Catalonia thing, and not to mention the other spots, they're blaming Russia.
Mm-hmm.
For the Catalonian thing, the Russian troll farm, this has been done, this came out in different conversations and in different news stories.
The Russians, because they've been screwing with elections, they're behind this Catalonia mess, which is exactly the way we do it.
We would point the finger at Russia as we cause the trouble.
I think we're behind this.
Well, you did just jump ahead.
Thank you very much.
But I'll roll it out anyway.
I was afraid I was going to do that.
All right.
So I'm going to roll it out for you, and it'll become apparent why I think, indeed, we're behind it.
So again, now you also have the economic belt.
And the economic belt, which I have a definition for you, and this page also has, well, economic corridor, I should say, has all links to stories, etc.
From the Wikipedia, economic corridors are integrated networks of infrastructure within a geographical area designed to stimulate economic development.
So this corridor is not like one road or anything, but it's a belt of money, and the Chinese are lending countries the money to participate in the project.
This is what becomes very spooky.
The economic belt runs not only through Afghanistan, but it also runs through Pakistan.
Have a listen.
- Pakistan coast guards keep a watch on fishing vessels and smugglers, while a naval task force patrols the sea lanes, protecting the new port.
Pakistani and Chinese flags drape the new port authority building.
Gwadar in Balochistan will now rank as one of the most strategic ports in the region.
- We've heard of Balochistan.
We've heard of Gwadar.
With Jabal Ali and Bandar Abbas, it's been leased to China overseas port-holding company for 40 years.
Gwadar, too, will become the gateway of prosperity for the province of Balochistan and Pakistan as a whole.
Gwadar port has a very important strategic position where investments have been poured in by China, and soon industrialization will kick off, which will not only create jobs for thousands of people, but will also change the whole country.
Goadar cuts distances by thousands of kilometers, reducing travel time and opening up a new trade corridor.
Goadar is a vital link in the China-Pakistan economic corridor.
Not only will it provide a shortcut for Chinese goods to reach the markets of the Middle East and Africa, it will also help Pakistan economically, and beyond that, help the people of Balochistan, one of Pakistan's least developed provinces.
Just a few months ago, 100 Chinese trucks traveled more than 2,500 kilometers through Pakistan to offload their containers at Gwadar for the first time.
The new port will provide untold benefits to one of Pakistan's most underdeveloped provinces.
Okay, so the Chinese trucks are already building in Pakistan.
That creates a problem for India.
And do we not see in the news our president?
Siding up to India?
Choosing sides?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, India.
We're with India right now.
China has revived two major infrastructure projects in South and Southeast Asia in which India would be a vital player.
A move that could potentially act as a counter to China's ambitious Belt and Road initiative.
The new Silk Road project would be a public-private initiative in which India would be a key player.
The U.S. State Department said the budgetary request of its South and Central Asia will support the two initiatives.
The New Silk Road focused on Afghanistan and its neighbors and the Indo-Pacific Economic Corridor linking South Asia with Southeast Asia.
We have a project called the New Silk Road that we're doing with the Indians.
This is going to be epic.
Now listen to other countries, John.
Venice is on the list for the corridor.
Athens, which is already a complete crapshoot there.
All of these places have been disrupted, either economically or culturally, just destabilized.
We have to be behind it.
Well, besides you calling me a horrible name.
What did I call you?
For deconstructing what's obvious to a no agenda lister, which includes me.
Oh, you know I didn't mean it.
I know, I'm just kidding.
But it's funny, because you can't not have me see it immediately by looking at this map for two seconds.
I know, but I wanted to roll it out.
You know, I had supporting clips.
It's just like a jaw-dropper.
It is.
It is a jaw-dropper.
There can't be anybody else that has the ability.
To do this.
Because it's not the EU. The EU is a bunch of boneheads.
They don't know what they're doing.
So it has to be our intelligence services behind it.
But the giveaway, again, I'll go back to it, is blaming the Russians.
Yeah, well, the Russians are definitely a part of the project.
Yeah, the Russians are on the Chinese side of the project because they're getting screwed by us and our sanctions.
Right, so we blame the Russians for what we're doing.
Yeah, that's an old trick.
It's a cow-co-intel trick.
It's very common.
There's books written about it.
The Russians tried to do the same thing with all these phony baloney operations they set up to do their $40,000 in high-end advertising, which the whole thing is a joke.
Yes, I'm looking at this, and I think it's, yeah, it looks like the Chinese want to go, they want to go west.
Well, I have a quick little refresher on the One Belt, One Road Initiative.
It looks like it goes through that Flemish area, too, in Belgium.
Oh, yeah.
It's going, all these, we can predict where there's going to be destabilization.
You can just look at the map, and it's like, oh, It's just going to happen.
How about Djibouti?
It's going to happen everywhere.
China is hosting a major international conference, the One Belt, One Road Initiative.
The move, announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, mimics the historic Silk Road trade route that will link China with Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Jinping has already pumped US $1 trillion of government money into the project.
This is a time of interdependence where global threats are breaking out all the time.
No country has the ability to remain unaffected, nor can countries solve problems alone.
The geopolitical project is seen by some as a repositioning of the global economy, with China as a dominant player in world affairs.
For the EU, a beneficial trade deal at both ends of the new Silk Road is a key consideration.
In order to materialize what President Xi has said, let's speed up investment negotiations and let's have a good result as soon as possible.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank says it will support the plan if it promotes growth, is socially acceptable and environmentally friendly.
It's a big-ass project, and they're putting the money out there.
Well, they got all of Africa.
They have all of those shipping lanes, all the ports.
They got Gwadar, which is way too close to India for comfort.
Sri Lanka, another place that will be a part of the economic corridor.
And now I finally understand Afghanistan.
That makes nothing but sense.
Yeah, we've got to block that.
We'll block it right there.
Yeah, we just stay there.
And you hear Balochistan?
Because we got those drug dealers out to have them take over, but we decided that's not going to work.
Right, exactly.
The Bergdahl guys.
I'm thinking something, just taking it to the next level.
I'm sure you've got more to talk about, but...
I've been waiting for this economic collapse, which technically should have been in October.
But I really like to think that if we have that much control, and I think there's a lot more control than people like to imagine, and we do have to do an adjustment, because our debt is way too high, and we've got all these issues with the municipalities that are all broke, technically.
And the states, like Connecticut and other states, are technically broke.
I think New York and California fall into that pattern.
The idea would be to let China, make sure China is all in.
Because our economy is what really keeps China going.
Yes.
No matter how much we have our domestic economy...
They clearly want to ship the goods to Europe.
I mean, they see Europe...
Yeah, they want to go to Europe.
But if we...
Pull the plug on the economy.
This is like taking arsenic for syphilis, which is what people had to do.
Arsenic for syphilis.
That's like pearls for the swine?
Is that what?
Arsenic was used as a syphilis cure, and it didn't kill you.
It killed the syphilis, and then you could make a recovery.
You know, kind of knocked back by the arsenic until penicillin was invented in the 40s.
So, we're going to go to...
This is a theory, but if you remember this, you might see it happen.
You get China, so they're so all in.
In other words, they've invested everything they can.
They're already up to a trillion.
Maybe it's going to go higher.
We pull the plug on the economy.
Our own economy is kind of the cure for this, what amounts to syphilis as far as we're concerned.
Yeah.
And we just take it, we take the poison pill and just gut our way through a real nasty economic downturn which will slow down everything worldwide, including Europe, and everything China wants to do.
It should sink the Chinese economy and disable it to such an extreme that as we recover, during that moment of recovery, this should be a couple-year project, We can then, you know, we have screwed China big time in this process.
I like this a lot, and it's now officially a part of the thesis.
And I think it's a compounding effect if you can have destabilization in the exact regions that China is targeting, the exact cities.
And then kick in the economic collapse.
Yeah.
But they might even want to wait a bit because we might be able to purchase some of those assets cheap.
It's possible.
I mean, that's the way we would do it.
You know, crash the economy, then buy low.
While the Chinese are panicking.
Because you have to remember, there's something that everyone has to always remember about the Chinese and this system that they're running, this half capitalism, half communism, half whatever.
Imperialism.
Run by a bureaucracy.
They're new at this.
Yeah, they don't know shite, man.
We're going to teach them a lesson.
Well...
That's the theory.
I think we can teach them a lesson.
Because I don't think they know what they're doing.
So far, they're thoughtful enough that they've done a pretty good job of everything.
But they've never played with...
And it's like this.
This map everyone should look at.
It's frightening what they're up to.
They're trying to take over the world.
And I think it's very good that we're stopping that.
Well, we haven't yet.
Well, we're trying to.
Well, I think we are.
Here's another example.
In March, the end of March this year, China and Madagascar agreed to deepen belt and road cooperation.
There's a photo of President Xi Jinping with President Madagascar, Harry...
At the Great Hall of the People, and he was in Beijing.
And they're shaking hands, and so they've got a deal going on.
And what is the news from today?
Yesterday, health chiefs are desperately trying to contain a deadly outbreak of the airborne plague in Madagascar.
Oh, I missed that.
Yeah, 1,300 cases have been reported.
No coincidence.
Coincidence, I think not.
I don't think so at all.
Coincidence, I think not!
And that's one of our go-tos.
That's what we did in West Africa.
Ebola.
All done, all gone, nothing to see here, no worries, it's all over.
Whatever we were doing, it was covered up by Ebola.
Madagascar, yeah, we got a problem with you, Madagascar.
Here, here's the plague.
Yeah.
I don't put it past any of these people.
Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mauritius, also on the Silk Road list.
One Belt, One Road.
Yeah, they're all targeted.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, that's the way we do it.
And I think it's...
The way whoever's organizing this...
Tillerson, man!
This is Tillerson.
I think this is the stuff he can do.
This is Tillerson.
Yeah, and they're deciding, they look at the situation, and I will say that this decision is made on behalf of the Americans.
Yep.
And we have people that listen to this show overseas, and they all know that we do this kind of thing, so they listen to this show.
It's being done for the benefit of the Americans.
They can't really talk about it as such, which is what you want to do, and you've got a bragger like Trump in office.
You'd think he'd be bragging about all this sort of crazy stuff.
He may not know what's going on.
But one of his main election points, his campaign speeches, was China's.
China's.
Now, I doubt he's going to say, oh, they're coming up with it, they're going to take over the world.
That's not how Trump would do that.
No, but the other point is you can't really even let it be known that any of this is going on if you're going to sink the economy for the purposes of saving the economy.
Well, remember...
When you get a bunch of people, you kick out 30% of everybody working and you get what looks like a depression and you're behind it.
You can't really say, well, this is for everybody's good.
So this is all hush-hush.
Only no agenda listeners would even have a clue about any of this.
That's what we're talking about.
And what you just said, damn, it just popped out of my head.
About sinking the economy to save the economy?
Oh, no, no.
Powell.
Powell is a part of it.
The new Fed chair.
Yeah, that would be true.
There it is.
We've got the trifecta.
It's set up.
Maybe it's going down, bro.
Bro.
So I think this is something we need to focus on and pay attention to, and it's going to be relatively easy.
Just look at the map, silkroad.noagendanotes.com, and you can look at all the names.
And I will say, you also have tons and tons of backup notes on this page.
So this is a good page for you students out there who are looking for some really crazy paper to write for your naive teacher slash professor.
It would be this good.
This right here, Adam, I don't know why you did this, but you put it all together in a very concise, useful way.
And like me, I just talked.
But even for you, I don't even know why you did this.
you I don't.
There's a lot of too much.
I'm looking at the top, what is this, Reuters.
India's new Silk Road snubs highlights Gulf with China.
Snub highlights Gulf with China.
China invited Indian Prime Minister Modi and six cabinet colleagues to its new Silk Road summit this month.
Wait, no, this is not what I thought it would be.
India's snub to the Belt and Road project is the strongest move yet by Modi.
Okay, yeah.
New Delhi rebuffed Beijing's diplomatic push in sense that a key project in its massive initiative to open land and sea corridors linking China and the rest of Asia runs through Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.
It looks as if they would love to run one of these systems right through the gut of India over to the other side.
Yeah, Baluchistan, which is where we have all the drones...
There's also another area where they should run up the gut, which is...
Is this Iraq or Iran?
I can't see this map.
I can't blow it up.
Yeah, you gotta zoom in.
It doesn't zoom in.
No, I just...
Yeah, okay.
Well, there's a whole bunch of maps.
I put a whole bunch of maps underneath.
Okay, we'll put a map that blows up this top one.
So you can see that there's little problem areas that...
The Chinese can't break through.
The Russians are all in.
They don't care.
No.
Because they're going to benefit somehow.
Oh, China.
Gas.
Let me see.
Selling gas to China.
But also, there's a Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic corridor that's been planned for years, and now that's in peril.
So, pay attention.
And we need your help on this.
Well, we have an economic hitman out there who might have some insights if he's listening.
Even if he doesn't listen to his long shows.
A number of them.
But just from this map, you can just see where stuff's going to happen.
So I'm looking at you, Djibouti.
I'm looking at you, Venice.
Venice is very important.
It's a key spot.
Why is Venice a key spot?
It's a tourist town.
Well, it's on the map.
Is there a harbor there?
Well, yeah, it's all water.
Yeah.
There's a harbor there.
Yeah, there's Venice.
So everything that comes past Djibouti, the Gulf of Oman, I think.
Is that Oman?
No.
No, no, no, no.
It's Djibouti and then through the Suez and then up, yeah, up to Venice.
Well, again, I can't blow up this map, so I can't see that.
But there's other good maps underneath.
It says maps if you expand that node, you can see them.
Another map.
Bestest map.
And also, just some historical context, and I think that's in one of these stories that I put in there, about Catalonia.
Historically, That region, right across the top of Spain, has been a bridge.
It has been an economic corridor for hundreds of years.
Once you put that all into perspective, you see that they are saying the 6,200 mile train is literally terminating in Madrid.
Yeah.
Through Barcelona.
Recently we had some election issues in Kenya.
Oh yeah, that's right.
That's part of the cycle.
We should just make a list of these cities that are key and then look for action.
And at the same time, action is the right term.
Yeah.
Be fun.
Yeah.
So...
To be continued.
Yeah, we'll track this like a dog.
Okay, good one.
Thanks.
Oh, let me see.
I do have the little ditty here.
What was it here?
Yeah.
About your hepatitis A in San Diego.
Yeah, what about it?
Well, there's a report that could explain some other or companion reasons for this outbreak.
Officials in Imperial Beach said that sewage flowing up from the coast of Tijuana fouled miles of shoreline over the past weekend, sickening surfers and other beachgoers.
Mayor Serge Dadina, who also fell ill, said he received no advance notice from officials in Mexico about the pollution.
At a Wednesday news conference, he said, quote, We are doing everything we can to build our relationship with Mexico, but if they are going to be continually dumping sewage on us and making our council members and our community sick, it's hard to continue that positive, protective approach.
What do you think?
Possibility?
Yeah, big possibility.
Blame the homeless for what the Mexicans are doing.
The state agency that operates the Tijuana sewers and water delivery system did not respond to a request for comment.
Officials with the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission, or IBWC, said they received word from the agency's Mexican counterpart that there was no report of a spill.
Spearheaded by Mayor Dadina, an effort is building throughout the community to take the IBWC to court to force the federal agency to ramp up the pressure on Mexico to stop the sewage spills.
Imperial Beach and Chula Vista, as well as the city, county, and Port of San Diego, have now all filed an intent to sue the agency.
Hmm.
Satellite imagery can track this stuff pretty easily nowadays.
Too bad they didn't specify what kind of ill they got.
Like, oh, they all got ill.
Hepatitis.
Detective Dookie.
Detective Dookie.
Poop Police.
SPU. Special Poopers Unit.
That's right.
We're always on the case for you, ladies and gentlemen.
Special Poopers Unit.
So there was a beauty pageant, Miss Peru.
I think only CBS covered this story.
I just think it was hilarious because it's in the right, you know, where we got the Dustin Hoffman thing and this other guy, some other director is a douchebag.
It goes on and on.
And some of these guys are total douchebags.
It's apparent as these stories come forth.
But Miss Peru beauty contest is the clip.
And what it's about is that they...
I'm actually surprised that this hasn't happened in this country or something like it.
This is a fantastic story.
In Peru, contestants at a beauty pageant defied tradition to speak up about violence against women.
Each Miss Peru contestant is expected to announce her measurements.
But the figures they cited included 82 murders and 156 attempted murders of women in Peru this year.
The winner, Romina Lozano said her vital statistic was more than 3,000 women registered as victims of trafficking.
So instead of going, I'm 33, 32, you know, 33, 22, they went up, each one of them went up and read off some statistic, not their own shape, but some statistic, some negative statistic about women being abused and what the number was and how many women are murdered, one after the other.
And I just thought that was so inventive.
They should have also just held up magazine covers and shown, you know, women are being objectified.
Stop the objectification of women while they're doing a beauty pageant.
Yes, especially during the bathing suit.
It's correct.
I think it's a new format.
Man, we are the end of all of podcasting.
We're just coming up with formats left and right.
Yeah, they could do that, and it would be, I think, very profound to be walking with the Some image of a brutalized woman and then bitching about it.
The whole thing is fantastic.
Good, yeah.
Very good.
But good for Peru.
Oh, man.
Just as an aside, I have this clip, and I want to ask you, this gets on my nerves.
I've watched the right-wing talk show guys, or listened to them on the right-wing shows, and I get material sometimes.
Usually I don't, but I get the perspective of what they're thinking.
But there's this one guy, Mark Levin, who comes on, and this is Hannity.
Hannity has him on a show.
Nobody else will book this guy.
I can't watch Hannity.
Hannity's annoying, but let's listen to Hannity's.
This is Hannity announcing that Levin's going to be on a show.
Thank you all.
We have a lot more coming.
Rare interview.
The great one.
Mark Levin, straight ahead.
The great one.
Why is he the great one?
Well, because it's like I'm the podfather, you know.
You think it's a dad?
Great.
But still, okay, the reason you're the podfather is because you co-invented, minimally, podcasting, and it's a good pun, godfather, podfather, ha ha ha.
But there's some connection.
What does Mark Levin have to do with being the great one?
Why is the great one?
It just baffles me.
This has been going on for years.
Whereas really he should have been the greatest of all time, which is code for the GOAT. G-O-A-T. Yep.
Greatest of all time.
The GOAT. All right.
Quick note from the troll room.
ITM, one of my buddies who's married to Catalan and who has a lot of friends from all over the world told me yesterday there's a drive to employ Ukraine nationalist mercenaries to side with Spain to, quote, manage the Catalan breakaway.
Well, that's a Soros deal.
Yeah, that's what Soros did in Ukraine.
Yeah.
So then this could be a Soros op.
I don't think the breakaway thing would be the Soros op.
Soros doesn't want the breakaway.
No, that's what I'm saying.
To manage it so it doesn't happen.
Oh, so you get a guy like Soros and he brings in his goons?
Yeah, the same Nazis he brought into Ukraine with John McCain.
Keep your eye on McCain, people.
McCain.
Let's see if McCain has anything on the New Silk Road.
All you have to do is do McCain.
McCain has to be...
Yeah, do it.
McCain has to be in with the Chinese.
Yeah, I would think so.
Yeah.
Ooh!
New Silk Road could open up massive investment opportunities, and this comes from the McCain Institute.
Remember that thing that was funded with a lot of money?
Yeah, it's a good thing.
Yeah, Chinese money.
Yeah.
McCain, John McCain's foundation funded with Chinese money is trying to, you know, Push the new Silk Road.
Just make us all slaves to China.
Fantastic.
That may be one of the reasons he's so anti-Trump.
I don't believe it's because of Trump's casual comments about not being a hero.
The guy's an old man.
Why would he be concerned?
He's not that thin-skinned.
Yeah.
There's a wealth of information out there, and we're going to start tapping into it pretty quick.
We're going to start finding or start uncovering this.
Yeah.
Well, somebody's got to do it.
Yeah.
The journal is on.
It won't be on ABC. It won't be on NBC for sure.
Yeah.
They're probably all in.
That's right.
We'll do it live.
That's right, Eddie.
We'll do it live.
So one thing that doesn't fit into this scheme is what's going on with North Korea.
And I do have some clips because Mattis is shooting off his mouth on PBS quite a bit.
And I want to get these clips out of the way.
Okay.
And this is Mattis in North Korea, PBS 1.
New messages today to North Korea.
The U.S. Secretary of Defense delivered one of them at the heavily fortified demilitarized zone that divides North and South Korea.
His unannounced visit came at a moment of extreme tension.
John Yang reports.
Standing on the world's most tense and dangerous border, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke to U.S. and South Korean troops about diplomacy.
Our goal is not war, but rather the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
With North Korean soldiers looking on from their side of the demilitarized zone, Mattis reaffirmed full U.S. military support for the South.
It is an alliance designed to ensure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the strongest military defense of our shared democratic values.
Madison, his South Korean counterpart, warned against North Korean provocations like new missile and nuclear tests.
The nuclear weapon and the missiles North Korea is developing are not something usable.
And if they were to use it, we want to make clear that the alliance of South Korea and the United States will punish North Korea for such intention.
The warning is underscored by the impending arrival in the region of three U.S. carrier strike groups for what the Navy calls long-plan maneuvers.
North Korea has been issuing warnings of its own that it plants nuclear tests in the atmosphere over the Pacific.
You know, it's pretty odd to hear Mattis say, not denuclearization, but complete disarmament What's that about?
Let them have the little goose steppers.
I don't know, and I'm not sure what the...
Then they bring up this new point of information, which is they want to do an atmospheric test in the sky, which is what we used to do in the 50s.
Besides blowing up a bunch of islands, we also did some massive testing in the sky, which was causing all kinds of issues.
I think the big...
If you look up Atmospheric nuclear testing on Wikipedia, you'll find it was one unbelievable massive burst.
I think it was done in the 50s.
It was like one of the biggest bombs ever invented.
Which is questionable why they did this, but they did.
Anyway, I'm kind of baffled by this whole thing.
I'm not sure where it's going, but I might as well play part two.
I'm just looking to see if I can find the massive one in the 50s you were talking about.
I don't really see it.
60s?
Series of 50 tests?
I thought it was the 50s.
I'll find it.
And I do want to say that just looking at the news articles, I see here there were a lot of different articles about here.
This in May.
Exclusive.
U.S. complains to China about North Korea's attendance at Silk Road Summit.
What was that?
I was gargling.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
So I don't know how they would be involved, but just an interesting of note that there was a problem with that.
I'm thinking they must be.
Yeah.
I'm cruising through the notes to see if I can find anything, but we'll play the second clip.
All of this follows on the fiery war of words between President Trump, who's threatened to destroy North Korea, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who's called Mr.
Trump mentally deranged.
Mentally deranged.
Yeah, there's a mini-clip.
I put that in there because these guys can't resist taking this as an objective story and then dropping a little Trump needle in there.
There's no reason to report that.
How about this?
China opened on Sunday a summit to promote an ambitious global trade infrastructure project at New Silk Road.
But the news of this was distracted by North Korea firing a missile.
This is May 14th.
So maybe they were using North Korea as a foil, a cover.
Distraction, yeah.
Because they know that we'll be all over that.
Oh, they're going to bomb us.
They're going to bomb Hawaii.
Hawaii, protect Hawaii.
They're going to bomb Hawaii.
They're going to bomb Guam.
I'm going to bomb anybody.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
It's a good catch.
OK, let's play the last part and we'll be done with North Korea for now.
Next week, Mr.
Trump makes his first trip to Asia as president, including a visit to Seoul to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Seoul today meeting with his South Korean counterparts.
And Vice President Pence made a pointed visit to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, home to nuclear bombers and missiles.
Anyone who would threaten our nation should know that America always seeks peace.
But if we are forced to defend ourselves or our allies, we will do so with military power that is effective and overwhelming.
Meanwhile, the administration is using other tools to increase pressure on North Korea, this week imposing new economic sanctions.
For the PBS NewsHour, I'm John Yang.
Okay, here's a thought.
First, I've got to mention what Pence was wearing.
Pence had this really nice bomber jacket, kind of made out of, like...
Blue felt or something.
It's very pretty.
Nice blue color, little epaulette things on the shoulders.
And then he had a big giant badge, big round thing, like on those, you know, like, you know, service badge or whatever.
Not a badge, but a circle patch, big patch.
And on his left side, it said, Michael Pants and, you know, Vice President.
And on the side with the big patch, it had some stitching, some embroidery that said Air Force 2.
And I just thought that was the rinky-dinks thing anyone could do.
Oh, yo, a proud member of Air Force 2.
I fly the second jet.
I find the old 707.
I'm Air Force 2.
I just thought that was hopeless.
My other plane is Air Force 1.
Yeah.
Air Force Two.
But if we think about this as part of this scheme, and they're using North Korea as something just to distract us, does that mean that the military...
We're going to take no agenda thinking to all these extreme points where the military...
Intelligence is running the White House, and the CIA has been kicked out.
And that makes nothing but sense for the Silk Road project.
It's a total military operation.
Well, that makes me wonder, can the military intelligence people pull off what seems like CIA operations, like disrupting the Catalonian system, getting those guys...
Right, right, right.
I don't know that they have those skills.
Well, we're gonna find out.
Well, maybe there's something else going on.
Maybe the military people who are distracted by Korea so easily...
That they're out of the way.
They've got nothing to do with any of this, and it's still being run by the CIA or other groups together, CIA, NSA, whatever.
And the military guys are just, they're stupid.
They don't know what's going on, and Trump's got nothing to do with it.
Well, for sure, Afghanistan has something to do with it, because that's a massive block of the whole project.
Yeah.
And that's a military operation.
That is.
But...
that was in Afghanistan was CIA.
There were CIA guys that were always getting busted over there.
There were CIA guys that were calling the shots.
There was a CIA guy here and there.
I mean, do we know that for a fact?
I think these intelligence groups need to get their act together.
Yeah.
They do.
I just don't know.
They do.
They need to get together to combat Facebook's trolls.
That's what they're focusing on.
That must be a huge distraction as well.
They must be laughing.
Look at these idiots in the media talking about $46,000.
Look at the idiots in the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Burr's operation.
You've got to remember that Senator Burr, who's a Republican who runs that show, he didn't even want to look at the torture report.
wanted to release to the public that everyone backed.
Oh, no, no, no.
You don't want to release that to the public, as you recall.
And Burr, then so they buried it.
So anyone in that committee can actually go into a room and look at the report and read the report.
Burr refuses to.
Yes.
And he heads up the committee.
Now, that brings us back to another old anecdote where we had one of our economic hitmen talk about his little girlfriend who was in the State Department.
She couldn't go to the computer if he had a page that had anything to do with such and such.
So these agents, you know, they're told you can't look at that.
Yeah, they're excluded from the information of the world.
Yeah, everyone in the world could be looking at a document that's been smuggled out by WikiLeaks, but if you're in one of these agencies that has something to do with the document, you can't look at it.
No service for you!
Because they'll lie detector you to see if you even looked at it.
So is it possible that Byrd just works for the CIA and that's why he doesn't want to look at this document?
Could be.
He doesn't want to talk about it?
Could be.
I just don't like it.
Well, we're going to stay on this, and this is indeed a prime example of no agenda thinking, and I'm sad that I was in Europe.
Probably, if I was here, I would have been triggered by it and would have remembered to bet on the surefire winner.
Go Astros!
Yeah, I felt the same way.
It's obvious.
Houston, we knew it was going to happen.
Did we not even mention it, maybe?
You don't like talking about sports.
Yeah, but I've been talking about the Astros.
I've been talking about the Astros a couple of times.
The Astros, right.
The Astros would have been our pick based on geopolitics.
But didn't we predict that when we were talking about it?
We always predict it.
Yeah.
Based on the storm, the Astros should win because that's the place that needs to feel good.
And meanwhile...
The Dodgers, they both had the same, pretty much the same team.
The Dodgers is a place where there's horrible sex predators and it's part of LA, it's part of Hollywood.
They can't win, they have to be disappointed.
Yes, yes.
No service for you!
It was a great World Series.
I'm sad I missed it.
Yeah, it was great.
All the games were good.
The last one was a little less good because it was just lopsided.
But the rest of them were dynamite.
Now, finally, before we go into our final donation thank you segment, which will be lengthy as well, but we're not going to read as many notes.
Still, it'll take us a little bit.
This was, to me, the absolute...
Epic fail from the Trump administration.
It's just sad.
I don't know who came up with this.
I don't know who's in charge.
But it's so sad when Sarah Huckabee Sanders tries to explain the tax system in the United States using journalists and beer as an example.
Suppose that every day 10 people, for our purposes, we'll say reporters, go out for beer, and the bill for all 10 comes to $100.
If these 10 reporters paid their tab every night the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this.
The first four, the poorest, would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.00.
The sixth would pay $3.00.
The seventh would pay $7.00.
The eighth would pay $12.00.
The ninth would pay $18.00.
The tenth, the richest, would pay $59.00.
So that's what they decided to do.
The ten reporters drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until one day the bar owner threw them a curveball.
Since you're all such good customers, he said, I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.00.
Drinks for the 10 reporters would now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes.
So the first four were unaffected.
They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six?
How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get their fair share?
These are the reporters after all, so they're concerned with fairness.
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33.
But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth reporter and the sixth reporter would each end up being paid to drink beer.
So the bar owner suggested it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by a higher percentage than the poorer he was.
By doing that, he explained, they'd continue following the principle of the tax system they'd been using.
So he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should pay now.
And so the fifth reporter, like the first four, now paid nothing.
He got a 100% saving.
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3, a 33% saving.
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7, a 28% saving.
This goes on for another minute.
What is she doing this for?
This is nuts.
I think the cuckoo clock is perfect.
If she had a whiteboard with visual depictions, which is something Trump actually could do, it might be semi-understandable.
This is an embarrassment.
And somehow, here's what I think, here's how the meeting went.
Well, you know how the president, he speaks just, you know, truth to the people.
So we're just going to make it real easy for the stupid slaves to understand, because they understand beer.
And, oh, I know, we'll get coverage if we make it journalists drinking beer.
Embarrassment.
I mean, stunning.
Stunning to me.
She should be pooping in her pants over that one.
I'm going to show my school by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on no agenda.
In the morning.
And before we continue with our donation palooza, in celebration of 10 years of the best podcast in the universe, a couple of make goods, corrections, Sir Baz, he may not have been mentioned, but he became a Viscount.
Sir Baz, Viscount of Svalbard.
Also missed a note from Chris Swimley, who says, Happy 10th anniversary.
You guys are my absolute favorite form of entertainment and education.
Your Vegas deconstruction was awesome!
And I'm dying to hear about the Kennedy Files.
I'm on a monthly subscription, but I had to take advantage of your double credit to call my brother Nick Swimley out as a douchebag!
Douchebag!
And by the way, we're dying to hear about the Kennedy Files, too.
Yeah.
He hit me in the mouth about a year ago, and I've been hooked ever since.
I have yet to hear his name in the donations, but I admit, I just love calling him out on the show.
It's worth every penny.
Love you guys, NJNK. And Chris Wilson requested that his son Felix be deduced.
You've been de-douched.
And then one last note from Andrew Gusek.
Last night on October 30th, I was listening to the 10th Anniversary Show and heard my brother Bob, knight of the dude's name Ben, ask for jobs karma for me.
I texted him my thanks.
I had an interview on October 11th, 20 days ago, and was waiting for a response.
Today I received messages from two people I listed as references that the interviewer contacted them.
Karma works, and I thank you and congratulate you on 10 years.
I'm on a monthly subscription and will definitely donate on the spot when the position is mine.
Congratulations.
I have a note, a funny note from, I think, from Athena Manolopoulos.
additional data.
After screwing up my donation amount last week, I had to try again.
Turns out my boyfriend and I had the same idea for our anniversary except I turned out to be the cheap Jew.
Hopefully this donation gets my note on the end.
Now, I don't know if she's Jewish, so this could be very offensive.
Could As she goes on.
You see, our one-year anniversary is last Thursday, October 26th.
I could not think of a better way to say, hey, baby, I love you, with the best podcast in the universe.
Not only did I get to share an anniversary with No Agenda, but also got to do well on a hilarious and romantic road trip from California to Austin, Texas.
Alex, I fell in love with you over and over again.
Thank you for the No Agenda note and all the rest.
And thank you, John and Adam, for your clarity, humor, wit, and uncanny ability to bring two crazy cats such as ourselves even closer together.
Please send my shockin' hot boyfriend Trump job karma, chemtrails, and any clip of your choosing that is offensive to Jews.
Now see, now I'm really worried.
Yeah, I am too.
Maybe she's thinking, we only have the one Jewish clip.
It's not necessarily offensive.
Well, it might be.
She wants two to head as well, or what was the other one?
Let's start over.
Job karma, chemtrails, and any clip.
Okay.
That's offensive to Jews.
Okay, we'll do that.
I don't know about that note, but I read it anyway, just to see.
She may be Jewish and just be funny or hate Jews.
I don't know.
And that's not offensive.
It's the only one we got.
I mean, you could probably say that I could think of a million.
But that jingle is a Jew favorite.
Jews on the show requesting it.
So I'm going to presume.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
There's a few others.
Here's what we're going to do because we have too many things, too many people to name.
We're just going to name and locate people at different levels of contributing.
We can't read all these notes.
It's impossible.
There's 200 of them.
And again, most of them are too long.
We hope you understand.
I mean, we're now in hour five, so I hope you understand.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
And so what we want to do, we'll take a look at some of these notes later, and if there's anything in there that we should be reading, because there's some people with content in the notes as opposed to just telling us how great we are, we will bring them into another show.
It's not that these are going to get erased so that we have all kinds of opportunities here for that.
And if there's something right here that shows up that's really noteworthy, Adam will be reading along as I thank people, and I'll be reading along as he thanks people.
And I'll start.
I'll start with Ryan Benson, who came with $185.65.
He starts off with huge congratulations.
Anonymous comes in at $176.00.
0-0 from Frisco, Texas.
And she said she received a damehood in error during show 976.
She wonders if that means she's a white dame.
She signed Future Dame Firecracker.
I don't recall, but...
I do.
Did I damed her?
I think she asked for a daming.
I think I'm pretty sure she deserved one.
She had a big donation.
Okay.
I remember the note with her Dame Firecracker.
Maybe she didn't do the double count.
Anonymous, 173-37, Rockaway, New Jersey.
Thank you very much.
Sean Cavanaugh, Parson 166-70.
Joseph Green in Stevenson someplace, California.
Stevenson's Ranch.
Stevenson's Ranch, 16667.
Charlie Hendrickson, 16667.
A lot of these.
Jerry Zack, 16667 in Electra, Texas.
Ah, F cancer.
We have to do that.
These are important things.
I can't wait until I get rid of this Mac.
I'm having real problems with it lately.
Okay, here we go.
You've got karma.
Tani says prior, but it's Kali from Estacata, Oregon.
16667.
Congrats, she says.
Rolf Otten.
He's in the Netherlands.
He's in the Netherlands.
16666.
Jeffrey in Stockholm, Sweden.
16650.
Kenneth.
Is it Kenneth?
Wojtek.
Wojtek.
I have Wojtek.
16650, Harvey Lee, 159.
That's for his wife, the love of his life, who is finishing graduate school in December.
And she wants to use the executive producer credit for her LinkedIn page.
Okay.
Okay, we'll have to remember that.
That we won't get.
Dane Bezos, you're going to have to send us an error.
If you have a problem with this, send us a message that says ERROR in the subject line in all caps.
We can easily find them.
Oh, Cesium-137 did come in.
I'm not going to read his note right now, but he came in with $153.43.
Harvey Lee, $159.
And I'll read Cesium's note some other time.
But it was interesting.
He's one of our best artists.
Yes.
Andrew, 155.10 in Webster, New York.
Mark Carter, 150.01.
Christopher Wilcock, 150.
These are all 150s.
Nick, the Halleck, parts unknown.
Gordon Walton.
Sir Craig Kuttner, Baron in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Seth Harper in Ripley, West Virginia.
K-Nonymous, who's complaining that we weren't getting his right name.
David Bailey, 150.
E.A., And David Bailey becomes a knight today.
Okay.
The knight list is long again.
And he also needs an F cancer.
I'll do a big one at the end.
Okay.
Ashley Ladisher in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Gene Morphus in Bellingham, Massachusetts.
That's Frederick Leaders.
A person known.
Doc Bateman in Madison, Alabama.
73s, WB5RZX. 73s.
Steven Snyder, Round Lake, Illinois.
Steve Fisher, Sir Fish, as a matter of fact, also 150.
Ray Murano, Murano, in Dusseldorf, Deutschland, 150.
You want us to mention the German non-commercial podcast, die Weltraummuffen.
Done.
He says it's good.
Okay, we're good to mention him.
Robert Newby, as opposed to any WBY, as opposed to the other way.
Danny Haynes in Graystains, New South Wales, Australia.
David Russell in Aurora, Colorado.
Mike Williams.
Matthew Gebhardt in Colorado Springs.
Brian Thomas.
Brock Reinhold.
He's in British Columbia.
He's requesting some clips for the end.
Chris Beggio in Albuquerque.
Anonymous in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Michael Anson.
Thomas Novak in Hickson, Tennessee.
Lawrence Bailey, I think.
We're the best they woke.
Richard Adams in Orem, Utah.
Barron Ladekin in Houston, Texas is going to be knighted or barronized.
Steven Bussinger in Erie, Colorado.
That was the 150s.
Now we're at 127.
He said more exposure should be given to gitmolist.org.
Yes, gitmolist.org.
A lot of good sites.
And we have done that in the recent past.
A lot of great no-agenda sites listed on there.
gitmolist.org.
Steven Buzinger in Erie, Colorado, 127.62.
Graying Geek, 12345, which is funny.
You only have one.
Adrian Archer, 11633 in Ottawa, Canada.
Dunedin in Dunedin, Florida.
What's his name?
Well, anyway, we do have a call out here.
I must call out a dude named Glenn Bukowski again as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Glenn and all your other freeloading douchebags out there, donate.
You'll feel much better about your lot in life.
Onward, serve Jeffrey of the battery cards, battery cars, $111.11.
Or Tom McRod Adams came in, Baron of Blue Ridge, 101.
Yeah, he sent me a note, a nice note.
About subs in the water and stuff.
Yes, yes.
We'll get to that when we have some time to talk about subs in the water.
That was a good note.
Brian Roediger in Elkridge, Maryland.
$100.33.
Amanda Stewart.
$100.01.
Jeff Moricky in Heartland, Wisconsin.
$100.
Lon Baker, $100.
Sir Paul in Twickenham.
Great Britain, $100.
Poison.
Crazy name with a P and all kinds of stuff going on.
100.
Bert Breves in Maplewood, Minnesota.
Scott Dexter in Rockford, Michigan.
John Prebaz in Washington, D.C. Benjamin Ross in Parts Unknown.
Athena in FEMA Region 2.
100.
Mail a note to us.
We'll check it out.
David Oliver.
100.
These are all 100s.
Sorry, just read them.
Randy Holcomb in Lake Forest, California.
Dave Fugizotto, Baron of Kansas City in Gladstone, Missouri.
Abhilash Kumar.
It's actually probably Kumar Abhilash, I think, in Thane, India.
Ah, thank you from India.
Or to India.
Indian guy?
Wow.
Red note.
I'm in India.
Over the years, I've heard names of about two other Indians in India who donate to the show.
I like to call out Indians in America as douchebags.
They're cheap.
These guys listen to the show and make a lot of money.
Doctors in suits.
And we're helping them, you know, against China.
Yeah.
We're on your side, bro.
Thanks, Kumar.
Gilles Pavot in Paris, France.
Hey, I haven't heard from Gilles for a while.
Yeah.
Thanks, Gilles.
Merci.
Dustin.
Still with the hundreds.
Dustin Jones, Gary Plumeridge, and Bexley.
There was an error.
I donated show 975 of Bogoff.
Instant night at 500 US dollars.
Was not knighted in the ceremony!
It was a crazy knighting ceremony.
Understand how it could be missed.
Is this Gary?
Yeah.
Okay.
So, he says, does this make me a black knight?
Yeah.
Yeah, it does.
And you will be knighted today as such, Blackney.
Indeed.
Matthew Varney in Black Lick has a call-out.
There's a town.
He says, Ben Duran attempted to call me out as douchebag if I had not donated by the 10th anniversary show during the note.
Adam incorrectly recalled that I did donate.
So I was not awarded a proper douchebag call-out.
I've now donated the amount of $100 in the hope that this note will be read on the air.
Please give Ben his requested douchebag call-out.
Douchebag!
Followed by de-douching, yes.
You've been de-douched.
Taken care of, Matthew.
Thank you.
Michael Padinich in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania.
No jingle, no nothing.
Scott Singer in Waka...
Waukesha.
Waukesha, Wisconsin.
He'll be knighted today as Sir Scott Knight of the Lake Country.
Peter Kammerer.
Sir Munchnuts finally came in.
He says he hasn't been donating much, but now he's showed up.
Because he loves the best name we got.
Naveed Khan, Parts Unknown, 100.
Mike Bateman, 100.
He becomes Sir Bates today.
Huh, well, I used to be master.
Ah, yes.
Chris Durkin, no.
Morgan Neck, also knighthood today.
Sir Morgan, defender of the Hershey Highway.
Chris Durkin, $100, parts unknown.
Chuck Jennings, Mesa, Arizona, $84.
This donation will top off his knighthood.
He will be known as Sir Chuck Jennings.
Sir Istvan.
Istvan.
Sir Istvan in the Netherlands.
Hey, Peppy and Cocky, he says.
I don't get the reference.
Yes, I do.
Thank you very much for your 10 years.
And he ends with 10 more years, Sir Istvan Voorendal Holland Kut.
So there you go.
Boobs.
Go on, continue.
Sir Joel Blazek from Reno, Nevada.
Boobs, this gets him to Baron.
Please make my protectorate in Northern Nevada, and henceforth my title should be Sir Joel Battleborn Black Baron of Northern Nevada.
Dame Pamela Hag, Allegheny, New York.
This takes me to Baronet Test.
Boom, NJNK. Boom, count four.
Yeah.
Three to one.
James Briscoe, 7677, Somerville, Massachusetts.
Hey, rec.arts.noagenda.show.
Night, James Briscoe here.
Okay, thank you very much.
Jason Aubrey, Texarkana, Arkansas, $75, and becomes a night today.
Sir Aubrey of Lower Arkansas.
You got it.
Anonymous, $75, parts unknown.
Thank you, sir.
Got Nate, Sebastopol, California, $69.69, dudes.
Bradley Ledden, $69.36, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Ivar von der Felde.
From Holland, apparently.
No, the U.S., double nickels on the dime.
Also double nickels on the dime from Dane Coleman, Dayton, Ohio.
Isaac Young, $5,177.
That is $66.66 in Canadian dollarettes.
Couldn't pass up the BOGO offer.
NJNK. Ryan Kiefer, $51.50, also NJNK. Then a couple of, I guess, checks that came in.
John B. Tennis, $51.25.
Chris Sundberg, $51 from Mercer Island, Washington.
And Scott Nelson from Melbourne, Florida, $50 and a penny.
Did you get Jeffrey Sewell back there in San Jose?
I might have missed him.
Jeffrey Sewell.
56.76.
Yes.
Yes.
Also, Isaac Yang.
Okay.
Thank you.
51.76.
Yeah, that was the 66.66.
Yeah, I'm just saying it because you said Yang.
Oh, Yang.
I'm sorry.
Want to take the 50s?
Yeah, let's do the 50s and it will be good.
Paul Albers, these are all $50 donors.
They wrapped the show for today.
Paul Albers, they get double credits, so it's worth $100.
Paul Albers, Omaha, Nebraska.
Tyler Schimpf in Bothell, Washington.
Gene Quiggle, You're going to quiggle about an inch?
50.
John Smith in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Sir Howard Gutnest up there in Seattle, Washington, a regular.
Dennis Brown, Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
Dean Kostenko in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
Mary Krenzel, I'm pretty sure.
Ipwich, Massachusetts.
Sir Joshua Defabo, our buddy over here in Oakland.
I'm pretty sure he's a sir.
Nicholas Aristavi in San Bruno, another Californian.
Sanford Stab in Kuskia, Idaho.
Yeah, he's a sir.
Sir.
Yeah, right.
Sir Stanford Stab.
You already know that.
Matthew Stevens in Watauga, Texas.
And last but not least, Robert Wilcher in Tampa, Tampa, Florida.
And really, yeah, and really last but not least is everybody who came in under $50, for which we are also very grateful.
A lot of these are ongoing donations.
You see, people doing $4 a month have achieved knighthood.
Actually, the $4, when you usually see it, it's usually the weekly donation.
Oh, is it the weekly?
Okay.
Well, still.
I mean, that's less than a latte, isn't it?
Well, nowadays...
When I was a kid, it was a nickel.
Yeah, because the saying was, yeah, that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee.
Yeah.
When I was growing up.
That's not a nickel anymore, I can tell you that.
Oh, no, no.
Anyway, I was just going to say thank you again so much.
You really helped even out the year.
It's been a tough year.
It's been a tough year for the show because we have tried to stick to our guns as best as possible, and we've lost a lot of people along the way, accusing us of being the Trump defense squad or whatever.
Trump defense squad.
And, you know, we didn't pander to it.
We do what we do.
We deconstruct news stories and then we make analysis and then we come up with crazy ideas every so often that a lot of the stuff going on may not be what you think it is.
Nobody's reporting it.
And boom, number five.
That's mine.
That's on me.
And Adam comes up with this thing, this map and this idea that the China's We're just doing this to block the Chinese.
And actually, if you think about it, that makes more sense than anything.
There's no other reason for some of this activity.
Why are the Catalonians all bent out of shape about nothing?
And so quickly.
It just was there.
Organized.
Done.
Yeah, it's on that page.
What's the page again?
Silkroad.noagendanotes.com Yes.
So thank you again, everybody.
We do have another show on Sunday, and I'm sure people will be coming in for all kinds of...
It's probably a good time to get an executive producership.
Not on the 2-4 anymore, but I'm sure donations will yo-yo down a bit.
But really, it's been a fantastic 10th anniversary, and this ends our official Bogoff 2-4-1 promotion.
Again, thank you so much.
Sorry, what?
It ends at midnight tonight.
Midnight tonight.
Dvorak.org slash NA. Everybody needs the following.
Jobs.
And jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got...
Harmless.
Here is your official No Agenda birthday list for November 2nd, 2017.
Sir Bradley Seltzer says happy birthday to Dame Karen.
Sir Mark Tanner to his lovely wife, Beverly.
November 6 is her birthday.
Sir Mark Tanner to his daughter as well.
33 on November 21.
The women are celebrating in the Tanner household.
Daniel Blake, too cool for school, sister-in-law.
Anna, she celebrates today.
Happy birthday.
Sir Mark Tanner himself is celebrating his birthday tomorrow.
Ben Klebmoon...
Happy birthday to his son, Mason, who turns one year old.
Sir Lucas of the Lost Bits.
Happy birthday to his human resource, Roxy Nguyen in Lundy.
Born today, come hell or high water.
Keith Hausner.
Happy birthday to his daughter, Emily.
Celebrated first birthday.
We will celebrate first birthday on November 19th.
Keith Hausner also himself will be celebrating on the 17th.
He turns 35.
Baron Craig Kuttner celebrating today, I think.
Happy birthday.
Ryan Rudiger says happy birthday to his wife Jennifer.
She turns the magic number 33.
Amanda Stewart congratulates her husband Tyler Stewart.
He celebrates on the 18th.
And Amanda and Tyler congratulate their son who will be turning three on November 23rd.
And finally, Benjamin Ross says happy birthday to the douchebag Jose Fontao.
And we say happy birthday to all of you from the best podcasts in the universe.
Oh wait, I wasn't supposed to do that.
I'm going to do that later.
I almost forgot.
Ah, okay.
Nightings.
It's quite a list again.
Let me see if I can get the ratchet.
Get that ratchet loaded.
Oh, shit!
What happened?
I think I might have left it in Holland.
Well, they're going to probably be after you now.
Shit.
All right.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I got it.
I got it.
Poor woman.
We're good.
We got it.
Poor woman.
Poor woman.
I'm talking about Rose McGowan.
Hold on, I'm rolling up the ratchet.
Two more twists here.
I can do one more for the swords.
Perfect.
Yeah, you're going to break the spring.
What happened to Rose McGowan?
Apparently she was traveling and somebody, they found traces of something in some luggage she left behind her, a book or something, and they put out a warrant for her arrest.
This is bull crap.
Yep.
That's how it goes, man.
Don't touch the pedo bear.
Before you know it, you're like Corey Feldman getting arrested on drugs, drug charges.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, I am ready for some knightings.
I need your blade, sir.
Here it is.
Stick it in there.
All right, here we go!
Ladies and gentlemen, very, very happy to welcome just a slew of brand new knights.
To the No Agenda Roundtable, you know how the deal works.
You contribute to the best podcast in the universe, the No Agenda Show, in the amount of $1,000 or more.
You get a seat at the table.
You get your ring.
You get your ceiling wax and your official certificate and our undying and forever our gratitude.
We really do appreciate this.
So I'm going to get everybody up on the stage.
Feed in a little bit?
Yeah, you've got to be on the stage here.
Okay, and we say the following people are knights and dames.
Peter Ryder becomes Anarchy's Knight.
Sir DVM, Healer of Pets.
Baron of Southwest Michigan, Ryan Zanger.
Sir Ryan, Baron of Black Hills and Forgotonia.
Matthew Olmstead becomes Sir Matthew, Black Knight of the Ice Giants.
Eagle Eye Null becomes Sir Eagle Eye Null of the RFSS. Jordan Goodfellow becomes Sir Goodfellow of the Rockies.
Gary Blatt now.
Sir Glary Batt, Jonathan Reitzman.
Sir Jonathan, double-bladed paddle.
Frank White is Sir Suspicious of the meatloaf.
Daniel Blake, Sir Round Sound.
Joseph Greenby comes tonight today.
Sir Mean Joe.
Jason Aubrey, Sir Aubrey of the Lower Arkansas.
Scott Singer, Sir Scott Knight of the Lake Country.
Anonymous.
This is Sir Midnight of the Rivers.
Andrew Bentley.
Sir Andrew Bentley to you.
John Davis.
Surveillance with a Y. Dieter Archer.
Sir Dieter of the Nightlife with a K. Bill Bean.
Sir Bad Bill of Beanville.
Eric Aschendorf becomes Sir Plus of the Consumer.
Chuck Jennings, Sir Charles the Red, Kirk Beckner is a knight, Sir Cepheus of the Celestial Plain.
Jason Lane becomes Sir Jason Lane of Clear Creek Canyon, and that'll be a black knighting for him.
Ben Cleve Moon, Sir Benny 33, Sean Hamilton, Sir Hammy Hambone of the Big Red One.
Simon Nesbik becomes Sir Neb of the Unpronounceables, we knew it.
Gregory Keir, Sir Gregory of the Brookswood.
Marta Kahlstrom becomes Dame Serenity.
Richard Dominelli becomes Sir Greek Heretic.
Dave McPherson, Sir Dave the Reform.
Tristian Banning, Sir Tristian Banning to you!
Chad Nelson, Sir Chad, Black Knight of the Noah Jenner Roundtable.
Gary Plumbridge, Sir Gary, Knight of the Scarecrow.
Mike Kammerer, Sir Michael of the Dude's Name, Ben.
Brian Olson, Sir Visgoat LeFoe.
Brandon Gamache becomes Sir Tin Death Knight of the Power Slave.
Lance Fisher, Sir Larry M.F. Jenkins.
Herbert Passer, Sir Plausible Rays.
Stephen Jaffe, Sir Edgewise, Knight of the Border Walls.
Scott Snyder, Sir Snide, Knight Errant of the OT Networks.
Eric Zouker becomes Sir Eric, Michael Lopresti, Sir Miguel, David Bevers, Sir Dave Knight, Knight of the Night Watch.
That would be Bevers, probably.
Nicholas Robinson, Sir Carice, Richard Ballard, Sir Richard the Lionheart, Daniel Blake, Sir Dana, Protector of Underwater Criminal Investigators.
Sean Reiser, Sir Sean Knight of the Second Decade.
Sean Hamilton, Sir Hammy Hambone of the Big Red One.
Had that one already.
Joshua Bryan, Sir Joshua of the Sequoias.
I'll take that one blade back from you, sir.
Keith Lawson, Sir Tificate of Authenticity.
Duncan Martin, Sir Prizingly Refreshing.
Duncan Sumner, Sir Spencer Sumner.
David Bailey, Sir David Bailey.
Trevor, Sir Trevor the Good.
Baron Lataquin, Sir Baron of the...
Sir Beeren, it says, of the 21st Streetie Co-op.
Stephen Bussinger becomes Sir Stephen Bussinger.
Adrian Archer, Sir Adrian Archer.
Randy Holcomb becomes Sir Andy Holcomb.
Isabella Fugazato becomes Dame Isabel, care of Sir Dave Fugazato, Baron of Kansas City.
Mike Bateman becomes Sir Bates.
Morgan Neck becomes Sir Morgan, defender of the Hershey Highway.
Those are our Knights and Dames, and we thank you so much.
We invite you to sit here at the round table where we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay.
For this 10th anniversary, we also have beer and blunts, Brazilian hotties and cachacha.
We got cowgirls and coffee varnish.
We have cheap cookies and cold coffee, carabiners and cores.
We got Blanton's bourbon, straight tea and soba, buckwheat cakes and Jim Beam black label.
We've got three geishas and a bucket of chicken, breast milk and pablum, ginger ale and gerbil, sparkling cider and escorts, bong hits and bourbon and...
Mudden and Mead!
And for you new knights and dames, head on over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
It's the only way you can get your ring properly.
You have to input all your information, like where we can send it to, and your ring size.
That's pretty much it.
And congratulations again to all of you on your knightings and your damings.
And we have a couple more people to congratulate.
Go get around, douchebags, producer and slave.
Is we all thank your brothers and sisters who gave And some of them nights, some of them days Here's our title changes.
Black Knight, Sir G becomes Baron of the Mississippi Valley.
Sir Andrew Harms becomes a Viscount today.
Sir Hononymous, Sir Reginald Van Gleeson, number third, Baronet.
Sir Brian Knight of Northern Connecticut becomes Baronet Brian of Northern Connecticut.
Sir Ryan Benson, Baron of Tampa Bay.
Dame Pamela Hagg, Baronetta, Sir Blake, Sir Blake Baron of the Bourbon and Rye, Sir Hank Earl of New York City becomes the Duke of New York City, Sir Racer Nate becomes Baron today, Sir Kobe Hung, Bicon of Hong Kong in the province of Guangdong, Mainline, China.
Sir Francis of SRQ, Vicon of All Things Good in Southwest Florida.
Sir John Hogarty, Baronet today.
And Sir Dan Builder of Battery Cars becomes Sir Dan, Baron of Kekistan.
Sir Robert Bruckner, Baron of the Desert Sprawl.
And Sir Joel Blazek, Sir Joel Battleborn, Black Baron of Northern Nevada.
And finally, to round on our list, Peter Reiter becomes Anarchy's Knight, Freireiter von Bonneville, Adjunct, Ad, Educator of the Land of the Ancient Lake of Bonneville.
And those are our changes for episode 978, closing out our 10th anniversary celebration.
Thank you for producing.
Thank you for being a part of it.
Thank you for...
You know, the only thing we were missing on our list, just because I saw him, you know Baby Driver?
That movie?
Yeah, Baby Driver, the movie.
You know, executive producer?
Who is the executive producer?
Steve Mnuchin.
Oh, Steve Mnuchin?
Mnuchin, he should be on our list.
You know, he could say, you know, happy birthday to my spoiled wife.
Yeah, yeah, spoiled wife.
Mnuchin.
Check her out on Instagram.
Come on, check her out on Instagram.
Exactly.
Honey, I got your promotion on the internet.
Yeah, that'll work.
All right.
Thank you all very much.
A reminder that this Saturday is November 4th, the Antifa rally.
Full page ad in the New York Times.
That's not cheap.
That's a hundred grand, at least.
Yeah, something like that.
At the minimum, I can't imagine it being...
Well, they may have a special deal for groups like that.
Did you see it?
Did you see the thing?
I did not see it.
You should send me a picture.
Huge!
Huge!
This nightmare...
Big, like, you know...
Big chocolate letters.
This nightmare must end, colon.
The Trump...
What are they supposed to do about it?
The Trump-Pence regime must go.
November 4, it begins.
Be there.
Join the thousands.
Who will gather in cities and towns across the country, a movement of protests that continue every day and night, growing until we become millions, determined not to stop until this regime is driven from power.
Refusefascism.org, paid for by George Soros.
Does it say that at the bottom?
No, but I added it.
It's true.
I wish it said that.
For that would be dynamite.
But no.
Yeah.
No, it doesn't say that.
Well, we got more stuff to talk about.
We're pushing off to Sunday, and there'll be a lot of good stuff.
More about Mueller.
Yes.
Mueller!
Mueller!
I want to thank Leo LePuke.
Let me see.
Chris Wilson, Sir Ned Jeffrey.
Producer Matt from Gitmo Nation East.
For our end of show mixes, because yes, it's not over yet.
We'll take it to five hours.
Thank everybody in the troll room, listening on noagendastream.com.
And thank you, John.
You know, if those guys were con men, they'd be the con troll room.
Coming to you from downtown Texas.
Downtown Austin, Texas, that is.
Capital of the Drone Star State, FEMA region.
What am I at?
Sixth?
On the map?
You don't remember anymore.
I've been brainwashed.
7, 6, 5.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, we're supposed to rain tomorrow.
The rain stick fell over.
Maybe it had something to do with it.
Not sure.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
Until then, adios, mofos.
This is a bunch of scumbags.
That's what they are.
Hello?
You are out of order.
You are out of order.
Shut up!
Though she started down south, her charm was left behind.
Every time she opens her mouth, proves she's lost her mind.
Her palms been greased so often, is like a jar of masolene.
Her kind of rotten, there is, there is no vaccine.
Maxine Waters, got crazy in her eyes.
Maxine Waters.
His arms around Putin, while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea.
His arms around Putin while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea.
She won't live in South Central.
She won't live in South Central, cause she gets too uptight.
The seat is too uptight.
She don't like the ghetto.
She don't like the ghetto, so she moves where everybody's white.
So she moves when everybody's white.
About a million dollar mansion.
Where'd she get the cash to put down?
She took affirmative action.
Can't swim and now they're gonna drown.
In vaccine water.
In the morning.
So full of lies.
Vaccine water.
The top wall.
No, it's classified and we can't tell you anything on it.
All I can tell you is, the FBI Director has no credibility.
Steiner...
Steiner konnte nicht mit den Kräften für einen Angriff massieren.
Steiner ist nicht erfolgt.
Thank you.
Thank you.
She got that money.
That's a shoulder money shot.
That's a money shot.
Kellyanne Conway is a money shot.
The reason why she got into that money shot without being asked is that Kellyanne Conway has gotten jungle fever.
Jungle fever.
Jungle fever.
Get down!
that made my morning Wow, that was fantastic.
You've gotta have boobs If you wanna impress Tycoons and Roots You need boobs To fill out a sweater, you need two, but three might be better.
And that's one in the back for dancing.
Woe to you, Gitmo Nation, for the M5M sends fake news with wrath, because they know their time is short.
Let him who have understanding reckon the number of the goat, but it is a magic number.
Its number is thirty-three.
I heard a goat My mind was blank I needed time to think To get the memories from my mind What did I see?
Can I believe?
That's the best goat I saw What's real and not just fantasy Okay, I gotta say something here.
The goat scream is banned from this show.
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