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	It's brain science, man.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, December 31st, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gimbo Nation Media Assassination Episode 9 or 9 or 5.
	This is no agenda.
	Guarding reality from literacy leashes and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas, Catwood, the Drone Star State, in the Clunio, in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's about to rain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Short, sweet, simple, to the point.
	You nailed it.
	I did.
	And First Order of Business, congratulations on your award.
	Well, thank you.
	Please clap.
	This was unexpected.
	Yes, I get that impression.
	Yeah, you know, the reason why...
	First of all, let me explain what's going on.
	There is a very strong radio culture in the Netherlands.
	And there's a lot of radio stations, a lot of disco jockeys.
	Yeah, that's because of the Nazis.
	Yes, exactly.
	And I'll remember to mention that in my acceptance speech.
	World War II, where they stole the bikes, everyone got on their radios.
	That's right.
	Hey, I want my bike back.
	I'm going to do a show.
	A little podcast to get my bike back.
	Get my bike back, podcast.
	Anyway, so they do a big gala every year, and they choose the Radio Man, Radio Woman, Radio Show, Radio Station of the year.
	And since, I don't know, like six years or so, they've had the Oeuvre Award, which is a Lifetime Achievement Award.
	Means egg yolk.
	Yeah, the entire egg yolk, I think.
	Yeah.
	And I've never considered myself eligible because the rules...
	You're not that old.
	There's that.
	And the rules clearly state you have to be active in Dutch radio in order to receive this.
	You could hear this show in Holland.
	No, it was radio.
	It had to be radio.
	Radio, radio.
	In fact, last year they asked me if I wanted to come and hand out a prize to one of the DJs.
	And I said, are you kidding me?
	Where's my award?
	I guess they heard me.
	Is that what you said?
	Yeah.
	I'm not going to do that.
	It could be a stupid show.
	I've never received an award.
	So they gave me the award.
	And the nice thing about it was it was, you know, also for podcasting.
	And they changed the rules of the award to now include online radio or as they call it, social radio.
	That's what the Dutch call it.
	Yeah.
	So here's the thing.
	So you gotta get a clue.
	Yeah.
	So here's the thing.
	They desperately...
	This is a pretty big deal.
	And I think it's sanctioned somehow.
	It's related to the NAB, the National Association of Broadcasting.
	Oh, I thought it was the NBA. Yeah, exactly.
	Because they're using the term the Marconi Award, and I think that somehow is trademarked or registered.
	I don't think so.
	Yeah, something like that.
	I don't think it's trademarked or registered.
	The guy's dead.
	It's like 100 years ago.
	The Marconi Award for Broadcast Excellence.
	Here's the thing.
	They desperately want me to be there at the gala.
	Yeah, you have to go.
	Yeah, here's the issue.
	Ah, it's on a Sunday.
	It's on a Thursday.
	Let's make it even worse.
	It's on a Thursday during the show.
	It's on a Thursday during the actual show.
	So what do you want to do?
	I mean, I think I should do it.
	Yeah, you should.
	You have to do it.
	So how are we going to do the show?
	Tell them to change the awards day.
	Okay, done.
	Solved.
	We're all good.
	And while we're on the topic of announcements, I spent most of yesterday in the studio, but I've been really not happy with our sound.
	I've been working on it.
	As you know, I moved to Windows, all new devices, started everything fresh.
	And as I looked at it again with fresh ears and eyes, I discovered that I'd made a few routing mistakes.
	And so hopefully today's show is better.
	It could also really suck balls.
	So I'm just saying I tried.
	And who knows how it'll work out.
	What kind of routing mistakes did you make?
	God.
	I want the specifics.
	I will give you the specifics.
	Or send me a batch file.
	Here it is.
	Specifics.bat.
	No, the out, the recording out, the final signal was not the same signal that I was hearing in my headphones.
	Ah!
	And I was fixing it by putting on compression post-show just to get it to sound right.
	But I think now we're in a better place.
	You're actually hearing what you're getting.
	Yes, and I'm liking what I'm hearing, but it may take another show or two.
	But I'm unrelenting!
	I want this show to be good.
	T-5 to the big 1,000.
	Yes.
	Although I did get a note from our former New York banker.
	He says, geez, you know, show 999 is much more no agenda-like to celebrate.
	Well, we'll celebrate 999, too.
	He's got a point there.
	Yeah, he's right.
	And a programming note right after the show on the live stream.
	Rhino the Bearded will be doing his annual Top 100 year-end show on NoAgendaStream.com.
	I can hear you're underwhelmed.
	I just thought of something.
	Okay.
	I just realized I forgot to get a clip.
	Okay.
	But thanks, Rhino.
	We can also get somebody to do some music around the number nine, number nine, three times in a row.
	A lot of number nine clips we could have, yeah.
	I think it would be nice for people to send some cool stuff in for 999.
	Okay.
	999.
	999.
	All right, it's a show day.
	We have shootings in, I think, Colorado.
	What else do we have going on?
	Hold on a second while I get my clip list.
	Okay.
	While you do that, let me see if there's something I can play that can get us going.
	No, not really.
	Oh, yes, I can.
	I'll play a little bit of tech news.
	This is what constitutes tech news today, ladies and gentlemen.
	This is from CNET. What new phone takes the best selfie?
	We tested the iPhone X, the Pixel 2 XL, the Samsung Note 8, the HTC U11, and the LG V30 to find out.
	Woo!
	What new phone takes the best selfie?
	This is indeed tech news.
	The answer?
	You'll be happy with any of these three phones, though.
	It just depends on your preferences, particularly if you like those beauty filters or not.
	Millions of dollars go into that organization.
	Fantastic.
	No answer, just all of them will be great.
	Just depends on your personal preference of filters.
	Hold on.
	I'm holding on.
	Hey, while you're on tech news, I have some tech news.
	Okay.
	Look up and down the list of the clips.
	There's one on there.
	See if you can figure it out.
	Yeah.
	Apple batteries local story?
	You got it.
	New at 6.
	Apple tells its customers, we let you down.
	The tech giant now saying sorry for slowing down older iPhones.
	Tonight, it's trying to make it right.
	Good evening.
	I'm Alan Martin.
	I'm Veronica Dela Cruz.
	KPX 5's Sharon Chin joins us now from an Apple store in San Francisco with what Apple is giving customers for their trouble.
	Sharon?
	Well, some Apple customers are just finding out about the apology, and some say that they're going to start the new year with a discount on a new battery.
	In the letter to customers, Apple said it would not intentionally shorten the life of its phones.
	But it said a software update that was supposed to prevent unexpected shutdowns in the iPhone 6s and SE ended up causing some phones to work slower.
	So, Apple says, starting in late January and through the next year, it's offering $50 off battery replacements.
	$79 batteries will cost $29.
	That's for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later who needs a new battery, even if the warranty is expired.
	I have an older Apple.
	I've noticed it is slower.
	I don't know if it's my imagination or if it's part of what they did to their software, but does it surprise anybody?
	How do you get people to buy your new product?
	At least they're doing something about it and they're acknowledging that there is a problem and they're trying to remedy it.
	Apple said in a statement, we know that some of you feel Apple has let you down.
	We apologize.
	Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that.
	Now, the company is facing potential class-action lawsuits over the slower phones.
	Now, early next year, Apple also says it's going to introduce a software update that will help you determine more information about the health Hold on a second.
	Hold on a second.
	Just want to make sure we got a little tech news jingle in there.
	Yes.
	Did you hear the end of that report?
	Yeah, that they're going to issue an update so you can see if your phone sucks?
	Well, that's what they could have said.
	Let me listen to it again.
	Why is it not working?
	Hold on.
	Here.
	Lawsues over the slower phones.
	Now early next year, Apple also says it's going to introduce a software update that will help you determine more information about the health of your battery.
	So you can determine, presumably, if it's the battery that's causing problems on your phone.
	Okay.
	Okay, well let's listen to the logic of that.
	Is it your phone slowing down?
	Is it the battery causing your phone to slow down?
	Well, I'll play Apple's side for a moment.
	They say because the battery can't handle the spikes required by the modern OS, that it was shutting down.
	So it's clearly the battery's fault.
	And you're not doing it right.
	Shut up.
	Yeah, well that's pretty much what the conclusion has to be.
	Everyone's saying, oh, big lawsuit.
	I don't think so.
	I don't think there's going to be any big lawsuit.
	I think there's going to, I think there will be.
	Really?
	Well, here's the reason.
	They're going to do a class action, and the reason is that if they can get a class action underway and get it accepted by the courts, one, two, three, four, discovery!
	Ooh, discovery is always fun.
	Yeah.
	Then they get to go into Johnny Ives' home.
	They get to go everywhere and they get to look at all the memos and they get to find just one guy saying, hey, why don't we just screw up the old phones?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	One guy.
	One guy in a million.
	Just says something like that and boom.
	For that reason alone, I think it's worth it.
	Boom number one.
	Yeah, boom count one.
	I agree.
	So that would be why they're going to do that, and they're going to pursue it, because everyone knows what a great...
	It'd be a treasure trove to get into those files.
	Just to have that, I agree.
	I wanted to follow up on the war on Christmas, which we're talking about.
	I was going to say I was going to bring you a couple clips, just so you can see and hear the thinking of why war on Christmas equals crazy religious people, crazy right to Republicans.
	Trump!
	We'll start with CNN's Don Lemon.
	Okay, so Margaret, I mean, this is a line that we have heard from Donald Trump many, many...
	Why does he continue?
	This is a dog whistle to the base, because no one has ever stopped saying...
	Dog, dog, whistle, dog whistle!
	Yeah, except for that if you turn on some of our competitive cable networks, they have entire hours and programming about the war on Christmas, and it is intended directly to go towards that cultural base that feels that other people are taking their America away from them.
	That's That was the law that will make America great again.
	Great from what?
	The people who are taking Christmas away from you.
	The people who are taking all of your teddy bears away from you.
	Whatever it is.
	We're going to make it great.
	We're going to bring Christmas back.
	It's disingenuous.
	It's not true.
	But there is a kernel of truth.
	But you have to understand, there is a kernel to the cultural...
	Lately, these days, it used to be.
	Okay, now let's go to MSNBC. Ari Melberg.
	Who is that woman?
	Who cares?
	Some woman on CNN. Cookie Cutter is the same woman.
	This is Ari Melber, not the same woman.
	And claims of a war on Christmas have been ricocheting around Fox News for many years.
	Fox News.
	But Fox is just one more stop in a long chain of custody that gets uglier the farther back you go.
	Because the first rumblings about a war on Christmas stem back to the fringe.
	John Birch Society, an anti-Semitic pamphlet from the 1920s called the International Jew, the world's foremost problem.
	It's anti-Semitic.
	That's what it is.
	I'm sorry.
	I was wrong.
	Hold on a second.
	Are they telling us that the John Birch Society went back to the 20s?
	That's a good point.
	Hold on.
	That's what they implied.
	Let me hear that again.
	Claims of a war on Christmas have been ricocheting around Fox News for many years, but Fox is just one more stop in a long chain of custody that gets uglier the farther back you go.
	Because the first rumblings about a war on Christmas stem back to the fringe John Birch Society and anti-Semitic pamphlets from the 1920s called The International Jew, The World's Foremost Problem.
	Wasn't that Henry Ford's pamphlet?
	Yes.
	By the way, as today's No Agenda tip, I should mention that there's this Henry Ford book, and I think that's the name of it, but you can look it up on Wikipedia.
	That book is still floating around, and if you can get a copy of it, Ford Corporation will buy it.
	Really?
	For like $1,000.
	Oh, they'll buy it.
	Oh, it's that heavy, huh?
	Damn.
	No, they've tried to retrieve every one of them that's ever been put in print, and they will pay you a lot of money.
	All right, troll room, off you go.
	Go find one.
	Hey, did you receive your e-meter?
	Piece of the action goes to no agenda, yes?
	I received my e-meter.
	Oh, I never got an E-meter.
	Oh!
	I don't know if the producer wants me to mention his name.
	But don't mention it.
	I won't mention it because his dad was a Scientologist.
	I guess his dad is no longer with us.
	And he said he had two E-meters in the garage.
	And so I get this big box.
	And it's a suit.
	John, it's a suit.
	It's a flight case.
	And there's foam in there.
	There's an old one.
	No, it's one of the modern ones.
	John Birch Society founded 1958.
	Boy.
	Well, we have to call a bullshit on that.
	Hmm.
	Still, anti-Semitic Christmas.
	Horrible.
	Even though, wasn't it Jesus, the Jew?
	I'm confused.
	Anyway, back to my e-meter.
	Back to my e-meter.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh my God, John, it's beautiful.
	It has the instruction booklets in there.
	It's got the charging, the wires.
	It's got little cream for your hands so you conduct better.
	Yeah!
	Or whatever.
	Yeah, whatever you're using it for.
	It is a beautiful piece of technology.
	Yeah, I can't...
	Huh?
	Use it on Tina.
	Yeah.
	Let me see if you're clear, baby.
	We gotta check it out.
	Make sure you're clear.
	That's cool.
	Yeah.
	I think he sent you one, too.
	That's why I asked, really.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, I didn't get it yet, then.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Last show of the year.
	Let's see if we can make it matter.
	Maybe we should start with this Iran thing.
	Because this...
	There's a couple of ways to read this.
	Whoops, sorry.
	Are you okay?
	I accidentally pushed the mute button.
	I'm a little annoyed by this keyboard having this button.
	No, it's okay.
	I'm going to start actually with...
	Let me see.
	Here, I'm going to do a little background report from NBC on the Iran protests.
	And we got a note from our dude named Mohammed.
	Then he said...
	Just look at who started the hashtag.
	President Trump.
	Hashtag Iran protests.
	He says, now you know who's behind it.
	On the streets of Iran's capital, days of public protest reached a boiling point not seen for nearly a decade.
	The kindling to this show of anger and desperation is a poor economy with few jobs and rising prices.
	Brewing unrest that drew the attention of President Trump's Twitter feed.
	Iranian government should respect their people's rights, including right to express themselves.
	The world is watching.
	Echoing the president's message delivered at the United Nations.
	The longest suffering victims of Iran's leaders are in fact its own people.
	The volatile conditions today moved many young people to demonstrate against the government spontaneously as word spread through social media posts.
	By contrast, a more organized and scheduled wave of pro-government support turned out to praise the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, as thousands backed the regime.
	The U.S. designates Iran a state sponsor of terror.
	President Trump has refused to certify the Obama-era agreement to blunt Iran's nuclear program.
	This weekend's protest response is coordinated from the State Department.
	The United States strongly condemns the arrest of peaceful protesters.
	The White House press secretary.
	Iranian citizens fed up with the regime's corruption and its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad.
	And the president tweeted excerpts of his United Nations address to amplify pressure and encourage other nations to aid protesters.
	That Iran's people are what their leaders fear the most.
	And demonstrations spread across Iran.
	There are reports tonight of bloody violence towards some of those protesters, but those are unconfirmed reports.
	The Iranian government also responded to President Trump saying his words were deceitful and opportunist.
	So I kind of like that report because she said something in there which...
	was either meant as a wagging finger, I'm not quite sure by saying, clearly all coordinated over there at the Trump administration with everyone sending out the same kind of messaging at the same time.
	Yeah.
	I'm kind of thinking that way, that there's so much coming up in the next week with Iran that I'm thinking we're good at it.
	So maybe we sparked some of this with some agent provocateur.
	I don't know where you get the word maybe.
	Okay, good point.
	This started apparently over eggs and poultry.
	As the cost of eggs rose 40% overnight.
	Yeah, this is the kind of thing, if you remember during the Arab Spring, it was bread.
	It was bread in Tunisia, correct?
	Which was also an obvious setup for the Arab Spring.
	Now, the Iranians, I think 80 or 90% of their diet is poultry, so I can see...
	We need our chickens.
	It's a war on chicken, really.
	Yeah.
	And the reason is because the price of feed went up dramatically, also almost overnight, which, I don't know, is that because of our sanctions?
	They don't have chicken feed?
	They have to import chicken feed into Iran?
	Do you know anything about this?
	I don't know anything about the chicken industry in Iran, no.
	I don't know how it operates.
	I didn't even know until you just told me now that they were a big chicken eater.
	I know they eat chicken like everybody else, but I didn't know that this was a major deal.
	Americans put up with a lot more than this.
	If you go to the doctor or just look at your insurance bill, why don't we have an Arab Spring here about using the medical thing?
	We'll get to that in a moment.
	I got a couple of things that make sense just to show that we're behind this.
	So we have the 90-day renewal coming up of the Iran nuclear deal, which the president has said, I think it was a campaign promise, he wants to get rid of that.
	He wants to pull out of that deal.
	And so now all of a sudden...
	Worst deal ever.
	Now all of a sudden we have a whole bunch of things happening, such as this report from RT, where we apparently have been, our troops have been helping getting ISIS fighters out of Raqqa.
	In quite, I mean, quite a dramatic statement.
	I mean, do you think it was the right decision to allow Islamic State fighters to leave Raqqa?
	Of course it wasn't the correct decision or a right decision, but I think it might also have been a deliberate American-led decision.
	This isn't the first time we hear stories of such an essence.
	The head of the Joint Chief of Staff in the Russian military recently made statements in the same direction, saying that the Americans were actually training or assisting, providing forms of assistance to ISIS.
	And I think that you have to put this within the framework of the aftermath of ISIS.
	We all know that ISIS is losing ground.
	It's basically on the verge of defeat in Syria, already defeated in Iraq.
	So the fact that it's on the verge of defeat in Syria, I think that what the Trump administration might be doing is preparing for the post-ISIS phase.
	What I mean to say is putting together maybe a new group, not ISIS, but a new group, which includes former ISIS fighters.
	ISIS 2.0!
	ISIS 2.0!
	...to take on the Syrian army and its allies, first and foremost Iran, because the Trump administration and also Trump's close ally, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, they have spoken of the necessity...
	To counter Iranian presence inside Syria.
	So I think that this latest piece of news is very closely linked to that Trump strategy and to the Israeli strategy of escalating against Iran in Syria, also against Hezbollah and what they call the Shia axis in Syria.
	I hadn't heard of the Shia axis yet.
	But it's always good to throw an axis of something out there.
	You know, you just keep thinking.
	Of course, if there's no agenda thoughts on this, of course, is that we go along with the theory that ISIS was created by the Americans and the Mossad.
	And one of the rationales that you can use to kind of indicate that is the fact that ISIS doesn't shake its fist at Israel.
	It's just, you know, like the Iranians and everybody else, oh, Israel must go, the place must disappear, and Palestinians, they gotta go, these Jews are terrible.
	No, ISIS never did that.
	No.
	Ever.
	No.
	No, they never attacked Israel.
	No.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and so they went around Israel to attack Egypt.
	It's unbelievable.
	As I kind of dug into this, because what I'm looking for is, you know, is there a new puppet on the horizon?
	No one has showed up on the radar yet as, oh, this will be the Shah 2.0, because that's what we need now, if this is a regime change operation.
	But maybe it's, again, maybe it's just meant to rattle them or to get them all...
	No, I think it's a...
	I think the problem...
	These are all regime change operations, but this one has been extremely unsuccessful.
	And I think that there's a lot of arrogance with this idea that we can just routinely...
	Change these regimes and not leave a mess behind.
	Of course, the other theory is we want to leave a mess behind.
	Rebelize.
	Rebelize.
	So it's hard to say, but I think that the ISIS thing where all of a sudden these guys all disappeared is the operation has been shut down.
	We missed this two weeks ago, but I think this was really the setup.
	You recall that there was a Yemen Houthi rebels shot a rocket towards Riyadh?
	I remember the rocket, but I thought it was shot into Saudi Arabia.
	I'm sorry, Saudi Arabia.
	What am I saying, Riyadh?
	Yeah, Saudi Arabia.
	Well, Riyadh is in Saudi Arabia, but it was just into Saudi Arabia.
	Yeah, but I think it was Riyadh.
	I don't think they got even close.
	The trajectory was, I think it was the trajectory.
	Anyway, so Nikki Haley, your friend, she did a whole dog and pony show two weeks ago.
	I can't believe I missed this.
	I'm a little pissed at myself.
	She had a hangar.
	An aircraft hangar, and she had the actual rocket, or pieces of the actual rocket behind her.
	This is a great report.
	Tonight, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley escalating the administration's war of words against Iran.
	By the way, she's got some clippity-clop going on there.
	Did you hear that?
	She may be a contender for this.
	She may be clippity-clop too.
	Clippity-clop 2.0.
	Tonight, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley escalating the administration's war of words against Iran.
	It's hard to find a conflict or a terrorist group in the Middle East that does not have Iran's fingerprints all over it.
	In an unprecedented step displaying parts of missiles brought to a U.S. military base, what she calls irrefutable evidence, Iran violated U.N. resolutions.
	By supplying weapons fired last month at a civilian airport in Saudi Arabia, launched by rebels in Yemen.
	The missile's stamped with the logo of an Iranian manufacturer.
	Just imagine if this missile had been launched at Dulles Airport or JFK. Oh no!
	Or the airports in Paris, London, or Berlin.
	That's what we're talking about here.
	No, no.
	That's actually not what we're talking about.
	It's actually not a missile that went towards Dulles Airport, so no.
	That's what Iran is actively supporting.
	A dramatic photo op to build a case against Iran, to justify the president's larger goal, finally withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, despite widespread support for the agreement from European allies and the UN. I think Haley was trying to buy him a little political space by underlining for the world that Iran's behavior in the region is very bad, even though it's not directly related to the nuclear agreement.
	And lesser tonight, Iran called Haley's evidence fabricated, setting the stage for a diplomatic showdown next month when President Trump has to again decide whether to withdraw from the nuclear deal, further isolating him, if he does, from most of America's closest allies.
	Here's the problem with Ms.
	Haley's little presentation.
	This was not a Qiyom-1 missile, as she stated.
	This was a modified Scud-B missile, which are manufactured by Russia.
	In fact, it even had some Cyrillic markings on the smaller parts of it.
	You could see that in some of their photo evidence.
	So what these guys did is they took a Burkhan 2H warhead and they jacked it onto this Scud B. And now everyone's saying this is an Iranian missile.
	But it was not.
	Well, the...
	Yeah, no, well, I mean, the Russians have sold that missile to those countries.
	Yeah, North Korea has them.
	Yeah, and they're just junk, but, you know, they break up in mid-flight, and there's all these issues.
	I don't even think they make them anymore.
	But also, the Scuds.
	Yeah, the Scuds.
	It's my understanding that, because these Scuds, you know, they're on mobile missile launchers, and they can, you know, they roll out, they come out of cover, you have to shake the leaves off, launch.
	Yeah.
	As far as I know, our Patriot missiles and our Iron Dome and THAAD has never taken out one of these mobile SCUD rocket launchers, which are not that effective, but...
	Yes, that's what we're told.
	They've never really...
	But they don't...
	Things are useless anyway.
	But I got a kick out of this thing supposedly was used as...
	If it's a bomb, it would have exploded, I think, to a lot of shrapnel.
	Mm-hmm.
	But there's the logos on there.
	Some logo.
	Yeah, it's the Iranian logo.
	Hey, look, there's a logo, man.
	You like the logo?
	It's a Nike swoosh.
	It must be them.
	So I'm thinking they had this all set up.
	Yeah, they probably took an old scud from that old years ago when we were trying to shoot.
	Iraq 1.0.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, and my feeling is Trump loves this stuff.
	I think he, you know, after the Vegas stuff, he's like, oh, this works really well.
	We can trick people into believing anything.
	Ha!
	Yeah, we'll do that missile thing, and, yeah, because we want to get Iran.
	I mean, does he really just want war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and does he want that?
	Well, at this point, because we've sent so many mixed messages and out-and-out bullcrap, I think it's impossible to figure this out.
	At least we haven't been able to figure it out.
	And Trump is...
	If you want to go on to some Trump stuff...
	No, I want to make one more prediction.
	I want to make a prediction.
	A prediction.
	The last time this happened in 2009, that was the failed...
	Was that the Green Revolution, I think?
	Or the Purple Revolution?
	Whatever it was.
	Or the Rose Revolution?
	Yes.
	Or was it the Turquoise Revolution?
	Or the Orange Revolution?
	Maybe Orange, yes.
	And Hillary's techno experts were supposed to propagate that inside Iran.
	Yeah, and they screwed it up.
	And they screwed it up, and they failed.
	And then when they failed, what happened when the news went wrong?
	Big moment in history.
	Okay.
	They killed Michael Jackson.
	And then all the Iran news was gone.
	So you think somebody's going to get offed?
	Bigly.
	Just to pull this off the newspaper?
	Yes.
	If it doesn't go the way they want it, they're going to have to kill a big-ass celebrity.
	I'm thinking Barbra Streisand.
	I don't...
	Okay, let's...
	Well, now that we're on this topic, we should stick with it for a minute and we should predict who it is.
	I do not think Barbra Streisand...
	I think Barbra Streisand's too divisive a character to be useful in this regard.
	Okay, how about Tay-Tay?
	Who's Tay-Tay?
	Taylor Swift.
	Oh, Taylor Swift.
	No, they're not going to do that because...
	If we could have an argument, let's just say we're in a meeting.
	Okay.
	You and I. Order!
	Order!
	You're an a-hole from the CIA, and I'm the a-hole from the CIA who's more down-to-earth.
	Why am I the a-hole a-hole?
	You're the a-hole a-hole.
	I'll be the a-hole a-hole.
	You just want to kill everybody, but you're a newbie.
	You're a millennial.
	Okay, here we go.
	Roger Stone.
	Let's kill him.
	Well, you don't want to do that because he's a part of the community.
	How about Rosie O'Donnell?
	Uh, no.
	I don't think...
	I think a lot of people would cheer.
	How about Tom Cruise?
	We need something really earth-shattering.
	Tom Cruise...
	There you go.
	...is a possibility.
	But it'd have to be...
	Okay, wait.
	Okay, if we're going to go in that direction, Tom Cruise, we can also consider...
	What's his name?
	The...
	The dancer, actor...
	Jennifer Lopez?
	Saturday Night Fever.
	Ah, John Travolta.
	John Travolta.
	John Travolta, yeah.
	Let's take those suggestions and here's the way this works.
	Okay.
	They're both private pilots that fly big-ass jets.
	Oh, yes.
	And they also fly Mustangs and stuff like that.
	And little experimental jobs.
	Well, why don't we add Harrison Ford into the mix?
	Would be perfect.
	Star Wars?
	It's too old.
	And I already killed him off in Star Wars, so his career's done.
	Okay.
	So that's no good.
	The two guys that you mentioned, I think, are good candidates.
	Travolta and Cruise.
	Okay.
	And that's because of the pilot thing.
	Because that's the easiest way to do it.
	Just, oh, poor guys.
	They loved flying so much.
	They have a retrospective on how much they loved flying.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	I think you're right.
	And they're both Scientologists.
	One less Scientologists.
	Okay, meeting adjourned.
	We know who to kill.
	Good work.
	So we'll see.
	That's what the whole thing could result in.
	It's always bad for celebrities.
	It's always bad for them.
	They put themselves in this position.
	They like the job.
	They volunteered.
	It wasn't something they chose.
	I agree.
	I'm in full agreement.
	We got New Year's Eve coming up.
	Actually, it's about to start.
	They're in the United Nations, the Gitmo Nation of Europe, Deutschland.
	Deutschland doing something a little special this year.
	Just like at New Year celebrations in the world, over hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to this place here in Berlin to see out the old and ring in the new.
	You can see preparations are currently undergoing.
	But keeping everyone safe without spoiling the atmosphere is a huge challenge for the authorities.
	And this year, organizers are going one step further.
	Aside from usual safety barriers and alcohol bans, a so-called women's safety area is being set up.
	It's a zone where female guests who feel sexually harassed and just uncomfortable can get special help.
	It's been met by members of German Red Cross and comes in response to events two years ago.
	Back then, hundreds of women were sexually assaulted at New Year carnivals.
	They were groped, robbed, intimidated, and separated from their friends.
	According to leaked police documents, there were more than 1,000 cases reported in Cologne and Hamburg alone.
	More than 2,000 men were reportedly involved, most of them asylum seekers.
	Ixnay on the Apre, man.
	We don't talk about that in Deutschland.
	It's funny they wouldn't mention rape.
	That was the biggest complaint.
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	So, there you go.
	Great.
	It's great over there.
	It's great.
	It's just fabulous.
	One time when you...
	I think we did miss a Thursday show once.
	We did it on Wednesday.
	Yeah, we've done that a couple times in the past.
	Maybe we should just do it on Wednesday.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I think that's the way to go.
	I kind of got to go to this.
	What is the date?
	When is this?
	The 25th of January.
	It's coming up.
	25th of January?
	Mm-hmm.
	Coming up.
	Yeah.
	I wonder if you...
	Okay.
	Well, let's go to Trump.
	There's a couple of...
	I got the kick out of this Mar-a-Lago situation.
	Well, actually, let's start with the weather.
	Because the way they did it on CBS, and I kind of admire the way they're doing stuff, they're doing a lot of weird coded messages for some purpose or other.
	I'm not sure what it is.
	But every once in a while there's a story on CBS, CBS Evening News, the same people that gave us the bullcrap story on the sirens in Hawaii.
	Mm-hmm.
	I'm going to play this coded story here.
	I listened to this thinking, you know, CBS is maybe messaging some people or sending the word out.
	This was a story.
	I'm playing you the entire story.
	The clip is code story.
	I'm going to play you the entire story and tell me what you learned from this story, if anything.
	And we have some breaking news to tell you about now.
	Gunfire broke out today at a law office in Long Beach, California.
	At least three people were shot.
	Two were killed, including the shooter.
	Police say the incident is over.
	That's it.
	What did I miss?
	What did they tell you?
	Let me listen again.
	And we have some breaking news to tell you about now.
	Gunfire broke out today at a law office in Long Beach, California.
	At least three people were shot.
	Two were killed, including the shooter.
	Police say the incident is over.
	Yeah, they didn't really tell me anything.
	I guess a couple people got killed.
	Gun.
	Some people got killed and the police say the incident is over.
	It's over.
	This sounds like a coded message to me.
	Oh, I get it.
	I see where you're going.
	Okay.
	All right, everybody.
	The drill is over.
	I have no idea what this is.
	I mean, is it a coded message that nothing happened or something happened?
	We don't have zero details.
	We don't know the name of the law firm.
	If it was lawyers or secretaries that were killed, was it a woman or a female or a male shooter?
	Was the shooter a terrorist?
	Was the shooter a friend of the family?
	There's absolutely nothing, and the police say it's over.
	It just doesn't seem like a story that you'd tell on any news outlet.
	Certainly not as breaking news you'd have a little more.
	That was 12 seconds.
	Yeah, that was breaking news.
	But anyway, so CBS does a very good, I only have a piece of it, a good thing on the weather.
	I think it should be on here.
	Yeah, I got it here, yeah.
	Yeah, play that, and then they can't get through a story without needling Trump.
	And it's got nothing to do with the weather.
	New York and much of the nation have been shivering from an Arctic blast, and it's not leaving.
	That's the new term, by the way.
	Arctic blast.
	Arctic blast.
	It used to be the polar vortex.
	Now it's the Arctic blast.
	Like a big fart from the north.
	New York and much of the nation have been shivering from an Arctic blast.
	And it's not leaving anytime soon.
	Some cities have postponed New Year's events because of the cold.
	And check out these wind chills projected for overnight.
	26 below zero in Great Falls, Montana.
	Minus 53 in Rola, North Dakota.
	More now from Dean Reynolds.
	2017 is departing with a cold slap across the face.
	People are bundling up as if for a polar expedition and hypothermia has returned to the vocabulary.
	I hate it.
	I hate it.
	That five-foot snowfall in Erie, Pennsylvania is now frozen in place with residents marooned underneath it.
	Record lows were set at New York's airports following bone-chilling naders in 24 other locales this week.
	Icy conditions meant airline cancellations and traffic accidents.
	You can see your breath in the car.
	It's just, it's crazy.
	Homeless shelters in Chicago were jammed with people like Lee Lane.
	To imagine a person without this, I can't even imagine that.
	You would pretty much die in the street.
	You would freeze it out.
	The Salvation Army's Tamika Rogers was making wellness checks on people at risk.
	Checking on seniors, trying to see if we can get them to warming centers, as well as family members who have heat.
	Along Cape Cod, three thresher sharks have washed up frozen since Wednesday.
	And in Boston, Mayor Martin Walsh warned this weekend will be Arctic.
	The only thing that I know to guarantee is that the ice sculptures will not melt in the next three days.
	They canceled the St.
	Louis Winterfest and even its ice skating, along with New Year's Eve fireworks in Omaha.
	Saturday's high in Chicago will be a frosty 8 above.
	Minneapolis will be a meat locker.
	From his resort in Florida, where it was 75 degrees today, the president referred to the freezing millions up here in the north by tweeting, perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming.
	Bianna?
	That tweet definitely garnering a lot of reaction.
	Dean, thank you.
	The science is in!
	Science!
	That report was a let them eat cake report.
	Yes, it was.
	Making Trump sound like a douchebag because he's in 75 degree weather and mocking.
	He didn't mock anybody, by the way, but you could see him mocking them.
	Because they're in all those states who cares about them anyway.
	The number of science publications now are coming out with the following story.
	I will read the headline.
	A mini ice age could happen within the next few decades.
	It might affect global warming.
	You think?
	But what's great about it is they're now using my year.
	I've always said, this is Agenda 2030.
	And here it is.
	By 2030, temperatures could reach low levels that are so low that the River Thames in England will freeze during winter.
	That has happened in the past, hundreds of years ago.
	Similar to what happened in the last Little Ice Age, which spanned from the 13th to the 17th century.
	Temperatures will start plummeting as soon as 2021, according to scientists' predictions, basing them off a mathematical model of the sun's magnetic energy.
	We've been talking about this for years.
	The phenomenon is called the Monder Minimum.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This is a cycle that we've discussed many times, and they're only now figuring it out?
	They always figured it out, and that's why I believe they weren't going to bring this up.
	If we really look at the global warming situation, it's about money, and it's about our money, because we've got to give our money to smaller countries that somehow we've put into the Stone Age because of our burning fossil fuels.
	And that's the reason...
	What this information has to come out eventually, but the reason for, I'm convinced of this, the reason for all the, oh, tipping point, tipping point, tipping point, since 1980, tipping point, tomorrow, tomorrow.
	Wait, wait, Al Gore said that we would not have snow anymore.
	Yeah.
	And that was supposed to have happened two years ago.
	Yeah.
	Everything's a tipping point.
	Let's rush, rush, rush.
	Sign some agreements and then take our money.
	That seems to me to be the only reason for all it.
	And it was rush, rush, rush.
	Tipping point, tipping point, tipping point.
	Every month's a tipping point.
	It's going to be over.
	We won't be able to stop it.
	And that was because this information, which was touched upon in the 70s during the global cooling fad, It now has to come to light.
	And so we need some, you know, we can't just push the global warming agenda as much as we could.
	And I think it's too late for anybody to grab the money.
	I think the money's lost.
	It's not there.
	It's just over.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Well, that's too bad for the green economy.
	Well...
	I'm sad now.
	We got our little ways with it.
	Okay.
	We got some dough out of it.
	We got those giant turbine generators.
	Yeah.
	They go...
	Which generators are these?
	They're big giant props, those three-blade things that are just 10-story buildings.
	You look like a little ant on top of them when you're standing on them.
	And those are also the ones that explode if they get going too fast.
	Yeah.
	You have to have brakes.
	So, I don't know if you caught this, but...
	Everyone's going crazy about this Trump New York Times interview of which there was a transcript.
	I have the story.
	Let me just say, so the Trump rotation is now back to he's clinically insane, but he needs to be impeached.
	That's where we're at because this is a man whose cognitive skills are going racing downhill.
	Yeah.
	He sounds just as moronic as ever when he talks.
	I mean, this is how he talks.
	Is this new to them?
	I guess it is.
	But here's what happened.
	They played the weather report on CBS, and then they put the Trump needle tweet in it, and they used that as the transition to go to their Mar-a-Lago report.
	And let me tell you something.
	Yeah, I got you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Let me tell you something right away.
	Well, no, I'm going to extract it from the report.
	Let's start with Mar-a-Lago Report 1.
	Well, yes, that's right.
	It has been warm here in Florida this week and not much rain either.
	Perfect weather for a presidential vacation, especially a president who likes to spend a lot of time on the golf course.
	Yeah, yeah.
	For the sixth day out of seven, Christmas was the only exception.
	The president was at Trump International Golf Club today, where yesterday he did an impromptu interview with New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, who was there as the guest of a club member.
	We're sitting at a table next to the president, so we went up and started talking to him.
	No staff were present.
	The president was dining alone.
	Okay.
	I'm going to start right away with this.
	This is the biggest pile of crap I've ever heard reported straight.
	Let's go through this just with the two pieces of information.
	One, the president was dining alone Coincidentally, at a table next to the New York Times reporter who was there with a guest, as a guest of a Mar-a-Lago resort member, brings the guy in, sits him right next to the president who is dining alone.
	Alone, alone, in his thoughts.
	And the guy, I know what happened.
	The guy brings him in there, puts him right there.
	It's a setup for the stupid New York Times reporter.
	And the guy, I... There's no doubt about the guy's a friend of Trump's, whoever it was, that brought him there and sat him down next to Trump by himself, which is probably unusual because everyone would love to be with him when he's eating.
	And, you know, where's Ivanka?
	Where's anybody?
	Nobody.
	He's sitting there on the table by himself with, I'm sure, a chair or two.
	With a Big Mac.
	Empty, yeah.
	With a couple of empty seats.
	The guy leans over to the New York Times and the guy says...
	Hey, I'll bet you you could go up to Trump right now and probably get an interview out of him.
	New York Times guy says, oh, I can't do that.
	I can't just walk over there.
	He's alone.
	He's sitting alone.
	He's in his thoughts.
	He's doing important thinking.
	No, no, no, no.
	Try it.
	I've seen this before.
	A lot of people just go up to him.
	This is the club.
	This is why the club is the club.
	You're in the club.
	Well, shall I record him on my iPhone?
	Well, yeah, minimally.
	But just go over there and have a chat with him.
	Yeah, tell him you're going to record him.
	He doesn't care.
	And he's there by himself.
	He'd love to have some company.
	All right.
	Tots the guy into going over there.
	Guy goes over there, and Trump's all ready to do a bullshit interview.
	Right.
	This is bullcrap.
	This is the setup.
	It was really funny, though.
	I like how everyone's, oh, my God, he's unstable.
	It's no good.
	This guy has his finger on the button.
	So instead of tweeting some of this complaining, he'd get the New York Times to write it up, although they had their slant on it, but it's still subtle propaganda that he has to feed through the New York Times.
	So let's go on with that in mind, and I'm pretty sure there's no other rationale for this.
	The New York Times guy was invited down.
	Would you like to come down here, Bill?
	Schmidt is one of the writers.
	He says...
	I got a good table.
	You can sit down and have, you know, it's nice.
	You won't be in New York.
	You'll be freezing your ass off.
	I'll tell you what, I'll fly you down.
	Which, of course, he wouldn't report and the New York Times doesn't allow that.
	No, no, I can't do that.
	The New York Times won't let me do that.
	So I'll pay for it.
	I think it would be a good idea.
	And so he goes down and gets suckered.
	Let's go to part two.
	On the Russia investigation, Mr.
	Trump repeated 16 times that there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia.
	Asked about the special counsel, the president said, I think that Bob Mueller will be fair.
	But he seemed frustrated it's taking so long.
	It puts the country in a very bad position, he said, so the sooner it's worked out, the better it is for the country.
	He ominously suggested he has the power to intervene, claiming, I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.
	But Eric Holder, President Obama's attorney general, replied in a tweet, wrong, dangerous.
	Trump doesn't have absolute rights with DOJ.
	Career DOJ people have absolute right to defy illegal orders.
	And they will.
	I know them.
	Really?
	Huh.
	So Trump drops all these little...
	Easter eggs on this guy from the New York Times who coincidentally sits next to his table and gets an interview for some reason.
	Does Trump just like this?
	He must just get off on it.
	He loves it.
	I don't know who strategized this in the campaign, but it's so obvious to anybody who looks at it objectively that this was a setup to get the guy from the New York Times to go over there and do a quick interview and get it right.
	And it's because it was so outstanding that he could do this.
	They put it right on, damn near, gave it a whole feature section in the New York Times.
	It's not like in the corner anywhere.
	And so this, I think whoever strategized this and got away with it is a genius.
	To me, it's the most obvious thing I've ever seen as a setup.
	So what was the message that Trump wanted to send in this setup?
	The message, I believe, there's a bunch of messages.
	But the one I think mainly was, this is hurting the country that we have this investigation going on, that we're in collusions with the Russians who we have sanctions against.
	It's hurting the country.
	It's hurting the country.
	And I think that was what he wanted to get into the New York Times.
	That certainly worked.
	He got it in there 16 times.
	Well, he got something in there 16 times.
	And so this whole thing is just an outrageous scam that these guys don't even recognize.
	So let's go to the last Mar-a-Lago clip.
	The president also did some unsupervised freewheeling on Twitter today.
	In one tweet asking them...
	Like he's 12.
	Unsupervised freewheeling on Twitter.
	Where is Kelly supervising him?
	The president also did some unsupervised freewheeling on Twitter today.
	In one tweet asking the post office why it's making Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos richer and the post office dumber and poorer.
	Should be charging more.
	Most previous presidents have rarely, if ever, done spur-of-the-moment interviews with no staff present.
	But this president makes clear that he refuses to be reined in.
	Diana?
	Wow.
	So that's the message they get.
	A report for report's sake there.
	So there's a message that he refuses to be reined in when nobody even considers the fact that this is staged.
	They don't even think about it.
	That's how far away they are from reality.
	I mean, I would say half the stuff that we're witnessing with this guy is staged, just like all our foreign adventures.
	A lot of the stuff that we get is news, is staged news.
	And CBS does a lot of it themselves, and they don't even spot this?
	No.
	No.
	I like that you saw this this way.
	But I had not considered that, and it seems very obvious now to me.
	Yeah, I think you really nailed that.
	So that was the New York Times.
	CNN, who are just being creepy now.
	They're just creepy.
	They were all pissed off about...
	Something different happened today.
	What was it?
	You know, our job down here is to cover the president, to tell our viewers what he is doing on a daily basis.
	Over the last few days, we've gotten video of the president golfing at his nearby golf club here in West Palm Beach.
	There is a break in the hedges, really.
	The president and his staff doesn't really tell us when he is golfing, and we have taken to going outside the golf course and filming him as he golfs through a break in hedges near the club.
	Today, a big white box truck parked in front of those hedges trying to obscure Our shot of President Trump golfing.
	Now, this may seem trivial, but it is important to get video of the president as he does these things on a daily basis.
	And it gets to something that is larger.
	The president and the White House have tried to obscure the fact that President Trump golfs on a regular basis.
	According to our count, he has visited one of his golf courses 87 times as president.
	This is a man who ran for president, who criticized President Barack Obama regularly for golfing during his presidency, but that criticism hasn't continued into the Trump presidency.
	President Trump has regularly visited these golf courses that he owns.
	What?
	What?
	Hold on a second.
	You know, Obama played a lot of golf, but no one's criticized Trump for playing golf.
	While they're doing a long report criticizing him for playing golf.
	This is a man who ran for president, who criticized President Barack Obama regularly for golfing during his presidency, but that criticism hasn't continued into the Trump presidency.
	President Trump has regularly visited these golf courses that he owns, and White House aides have been hesitant to ever confirm That he is golfing.
	And this box truck and the video that we have is yet another example of the White House trying to obscure the fact that he's golfing.
	We've reached out to the White House, to Secret Service, and to the sheriff's officers down here to confirm, was this their truck?
	What was this part of?
	We haven't really gotten many responses back so far, Don.
	Yeah, that's not at all like Hillary Clinton.
	Remember when she used the static noise machine in Denver so that the press couldn't hear what they were discussing?
	Yeah, no, there's nothing like that.
	No, it's nothing like that.
	Just a truck parked at a hole in the bushes.
	They're creeping.
	They're creeping on the president through a hole in the hedge.
	And then a truck rolls up like...
	The problem with the truck, it was just a white...
	Not just a problem.
	I see it as a huge opportunity.
	A beautiful white truck.
	Where's my No Agenda logo, people?
	Come on.
	Should be a big No Agenda painting.
	Yes, it was perfect for it.
	Perfect.
	That's what the silver Sharpie's for, people.
	Do you remember Lance Wallenau?
	Is he a pastor, I think?
	And he's the one that said he predicted God told him that Trump was going to be president?
	I don't remember him.
	No, he's back.
	In the name of Jesus, I prophesy that Donald Trump is going to experience a fresh encounter of the Lord in January of this new year.
	And we'll begin to do Bible quoting in public at an unprecedented rate, in Jesus' name.
	Not since Lincoln will we find a president who will be such a quoter of the Bible.
	He's going to find verses and apply them to national Incidents and international situations and I'm praying for him that he's going to continue to drive the diviners mad according to Isaiah 43 and 44 and 45 that the Spirit of the Lord upon him is going to cause the prognosticators to go crazy because they cannot entrap him we call forth the anointing upon him and The anointing, remember this, the anointing is an oil.
	And that oil is an anointing of heaven that makes you slippery in the wrestling match with your enemy.
	You made this man be anointed with fresh oil from on high so that he's so slippery the enemy can't get a hold of him and he keeps on eluding the snare of the fowler and the net that they set, they fall into themselves.
	And the pit that they dug, they fall into themselves.
	For it is not against man that they are fighting, but it's against that he whom God has anointed, and who is man to question who God has chosen.
	Oh, black Jesus, grab the wheel.
	I can't wait.
	Is that a black guy?
	No, but I talk to black Jesus.
	That guy's an idiot.
	We'll see.
	We'll see if the quotes start coming or not.
	I'm not going to say he's an idiot.
	I don't speak to God.
	He does.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to leave everything open.
	I'm reminded of Reverend Popoff.
	Popoff?
	Who was a big anointing guy with an oil he sent you.
	Yeah, Peter Popoff.
	You can look him up.
	Peter Popoff, who was busted a number of times for having plants in the audience that he healed.
	Mm-hmm.
	Or having microphones or, you know, it's a whole thing.
	He's a sketchy dude.
	But he's huge, huge.
	Makes a lot more money than we do.
	Yeah.
	Even after being arrested.
	Always so disappointing.
	So Peter Popoff has this thing.
	Early on when JC was working for this show, we had a subscription.
	To Peter Popov.
	He sent him five bucks to get on the mailing list because it's an old rule.
	Anybody who wants to get into direct marketing of any sort, you want to find one of these guys who likes to send out letters.
	And Peter Popov's one of them.
	And you will get probably a year's worth of email.
	Not emails, but physical letters with crap, with little...
	Doodads inside.
	And sales pitches.
	And different styles of trying to sell you.
	It's an education.
	It's marketing research.
	It's fantastic.
	Black people love this man!
	That's our reverend.
	Yeah, Pop-Up.
	He might have a mailing too that might be worth collecting.
	Well, with that...
	I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	And say in the morning to you, John, say you at the sea stands for Collusion Time 16, Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry from on high.
	In the morning, all ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, substance of water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to Marcus Couch.
	He brought us the artwork.
	It was an evergreen that we chose for episode 9 or 9 or 4.
	The title of the episode was Scrum It.
	And this was a very nice piece.
	It's two goats.
	And as you know, we're big on the goats these days because of our service goat.
	And the...
	The goats are eating the no agenda sign from the wall.
	Yes, as they would do.
	Naturally, that's what goats do.
	That's what goats do, of course.
	Thank you, Marcus.
	You can find Marcus's artwork and every piece that we use for our album art.
	It's different every show.
	Which now you can see in your little podcast app.
	You should be able to see it.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload yourself.
	And thank you very much to all of our artists for the work that they do.
	Yes, we want to thank them.
	We have a number of fabulous executive producers for today's show.
	They came in with three of them, as a matter of fact.
	Three of them with $1,000 each.
	Boom, boom, boom, count two.
	And boom, count two.
	So let's start with Sir Nils Bonnaker, who is also, what's his knighthood name?
	I think you have it.
	Yes, I have it here because he becomes a baronet today.
	Let me see.
	He is Sir Nils of the Hinterland.
	Yes.
	Came in with $1,000.
	He says, hey guys, happy new year.
	New year.
	And happy 1,000 in advance, NJNK. Just happy you're around.
	P.S. Just finished watching the latest Black Mirror.
	I have a bone to pick.
	Oh, the latest Black Mirror?
	I love me some Black Mirror.
	He says it was great.
	Thank you, Adam, for recommending it way back.
	Uh-oh.
	Did you recommend it?
	I not only recommended it, but I recommended it to you.
	Yes, and you told me even which episode to start with, if I can recall.
	Yes, exactly.
	And it came because, I believe, Buzzkill Jr.
	had been watching it.
	Now that my brain starts kicking in.
	So Buzzkill Jr.
	needs the credit.
	Yes.
	So you're like third party in this deal.
	You know, the new season, we've already watched three of them, is very good.
	It's very good.
	But it keeps reminding me of our favorite, and Tina keeps bringing it up, and I know why.
	Our favorite episode of Black Mirror is the one where everyone has a rating that you can see above their head.
	Oh yeah, that one was very funny.
	Yeah, but when you think about it, it's where we're at today.
	We've got ratings for Airbnb, ratings for Uber, which I might add, for some reason, I am 4.98.
	Someone dinged me.
	I had a perfect 5 Uber rating.
	Oh, somebody dinged you?
	What happened, you think?
	When I think, see, I think that Tina wrote on my account and she probably sneered at somebody.
	You're going to blame her.
	That's my story.
	I'm sticking to it.
	That's going to go over tonight.
	Well, you have a doghouse around there?
	I'm in it, bro.
	I did no such thing.
	If anything, I'm riding on her coattails with that amazing FICO score she's got.
	That's what I'm loving.
	That's good.
	Yeah.
	This is a good woman.
	A keeper.
	FICO above 800.
	Keeper.
	Anyway, onward, Adam Dill came in with $1,000 again.
	Of course, we have show $1,000 coming up, so these guys will all get double, triple.
	We've made triple producer credits.
	So they'll be a producer on today's show, executive producer, on next Thursday's show, and on show $1,000.
	It's a three-peat.
	And I think we're also going to give that to...
	Anyway, so Adam Dill, I really love all your hard work on the show.
	You've created a great product that benefits its producers.
	I'd like to request some get well karma for everyone in our office.
	Okay.
	We have a flu season clip.
	Little boy, I'm sick, shut up, slave, and jobs karma is what he liked for his jingles, and he wants to be knighted as knight of the facial hair.
	Okay, I think we can take care of that.
	I'm sick.
	Shut up, slave!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Sir Onimus of Dogpash came in also with $1,000, and he sent in a long note.
	Oh, nice.
	Man, this guy is quite the supporter now.
	He's way up there.
	He's become our patron.
	And is he finally taking a peerage position?
	No, he's just going to expand what he has for his knighthood at the end.
	Okay.
	He's got to get an NJNK, which he's a winner.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Yes, that's correct.
	I would like to extend my nightly title to include both Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia.
	Okay.
	Done.
	He's a fan of something.
	I don't think there'll be any argument from the peerage committee regarding those two spots.
	No.
	Though we're having the dispute currently between Baron Mark Tanner and our new Baron down there.
	Oh, yes.
	Please accept the bonus year and non-tax deductible donation.
	I encourage all listeners to beat the year-end tax change and the 1,000th show rush today.
	Now, this is because your tax-deductible donations will be capped at $10,000?
	No, this doesn't make any difference because, you know, this is not a tax-deductible donation.
	Oh, yeah, I know that.
	But I think that's what he's...
	Okay, all right.
	Well, it's...
	I don't know if charitable contributions go into that same $10,000 pot.
	That $10,000 pot, the way I see it, is state income tax and property taxes and sales tax.
	Oh, okay.
	Just because Tina works at Ronald McDonald House, the nonprofit world is really freaking out about this.
	Well, they're not freaking out about that.
	Actually, the clip I have discusses what they're freaking out about, and I disagree.
	With the reason for the free guy.
	I think that's a left-wing conspiracy, just another jab at the president.
	Well, shit, you want to do that now or you want to do that after?
	We'll do it after.
	We'll do it after.
	Let's do it after.
	No, let's do it.
	We had a lot of guys to thank here.
	Yes, okay.
	This is a long note.
	We'll keep rolling.
	Great, and I mean great analysis and research on the show and in the newsletters.
	I know keeping it to three hours is important for many reasons, so I use show notes even more than...
	do that.
	Thank you and the producers to make that part of the research possible.
	A few shows ago, notes on Jerusalem included the comment of an exodus of Christians from Bethlehem since the Palestinian Authority took over the place, implying their governance may be the issue.
	I'm attaching a picture I took of the wall around Bethlehem to protect Israelis from these terrible people.
	The wall is around Bethlehem and notice the wire is angled toward the town.
	And he's got a picture.
	Welcome to the birthplace of the Prince of Peace.
	Business consists of Muslims selling nativities to the Christian pilgrims.
	Wonder why Christians leave?
	Because they can.
	It is a political blockade and it isn't the Christians or Muslims doing it.
	Personally, I bought the nicest damned Holy Quran you've ever seen, plus some great woodwork nativity pieces.
	It's the economy, stupid.
	I would like to extinguish a wives' tale about traveling to Israel.
	If you travel to Israel, they ask if you want your passport stamped or just put on a piece of paper, leaving your passport untouched.
	That is a political question to reinforce the perspective that Israel is persecuted around the world.
	If you travel to Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Lebanon, you cannot leave and have an Israeli stamp.
	Lebanon is technically at war with Israel.
	Iran and South Africa are just Iran and South Africa.
	I have been to Israel many times and always get stamped.
	I use the same passport for Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Pakistan, Egypt, Morocco and other Muslim and non-Muslim countries.
	Like any Asian or EU country, gives a damn.
	I have a bigger issue getting into India with a Pakistani visa than any other Muslim country, including the ones mentioned.
	With an Israeli stamp.
	I'm glad this guy's not a spook, man, because he's pretty obvious.
	One of my passports had an Israeli stamp.
	I went there a couple times.
	And I went into the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.
	And people would say, how did you get in?
	How did you get into the UAE? You had an Israeli stamp.
	Oh, please.
	And I said, they didn't.
	Even can you say anything?
	I've gotten weird looks when I had Moscow on my passport in 88.
	I never got weird.
	Well, maybe I did one time.
	I got a weird look.
	Oh, yeah.
	So I go to Moscow, and this is, again, this back, like, you're talking about 88, kind of, before the fall.
	Before the Hoffs brought the wall down.
	And so I go into this, because I wanted to collect the stamp, but they put this...
	Like, stapled a piece of paper in my passport at the Russia side and stamped it.
	And so then I go, and when I leave, the weird thing was it was the exact same guy, which I thought was peculiar.
	I remember you.
	And he never really gave much.
	So he tears out this piece of paper and hands me back my passport.
	So then I come into London, and the guy's thumbing through my passport.
	And he says, Oi, Nate!
	Where were you?
	He says, there's nothing in here.
	I said, no, I went to Russia.
	He just rolls his eyes and gives me my passport back and I walk off.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	No, I think it was...
	Where was I going?
	No, it was...
	I had Russia and Moscow in my passport and then I also had Kuwait City because I went to Iraq.
	I don't know if it was, maybe it was that period when I was getting all that crap coming into the country, I think.
	Remember that?
	Oh, yeah.
	It was because of the guy with your name.
	Yeah, but still, it was complicated.
	Sure it was.
	Anyway, let's go back.
	So he goes on, he says, Hell, I've been questioning leaving Israel about why I travel to some of these countries and who I know there and why I'm in Israel.
	All Middle Eastern countries are online with immigration.
	They see where you've been and sometimes put their stamps on the same page as Israel.
	Israel seems to love stamping next to Pakistan.
	They can stamp anywhere they want.
	So, ooh, Pakistan, bang!
	Right on top of it.
	And I don't assume it's because they are both religiously based countries founded the same year as part of the breakup of the United Kingdom or that they were original arms suppliers to Pakistan when they created the Taliban.
	Anyway, no agenda listeners, a concern that an Israeli stamp means you can't visit other Middle Eastern countries is bullcrap.
	A bullcrap wives' tale maintained for political aim based on my experience and the experience is used regularly.
	Value for value this month.
	This month I fell short changing you for...
	So I added the extra total from the earlier this month.
	I hope everyone has a happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and a great new year.
	NJNK. NJNK. And that's at the end.
	So anyway, it's always entertaining.
	Yes, thank you Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch and...
	Dogpatch and...
	Lower Slobovia.
	Where is Slobovia?
	It's another one of those cartoon things.
	I don't know what...
	He's making a point.
	I love it.
	Carry on.
	Sir Francis...
	That's $1,000.
	Sir Francis of SRQ, Viscount of Southwest Florida, Oviedo.
	No, Oviedo.
	Oviedo.
	I always say Oviedo, because Oviedo...
	3333, but he corrects me.
	He gives me crap, actually.
	He says, well, ITMG and something woke me up last night when I looked at the clock.
	It was no shit 3.33.
	I thought that this is the donation note from Thursday.
	I don't remember it.
	I remember this exact language.
	Well, I don't remember doing the Oviedo bit.
	Yes.
	Okay, well, you send me a clip.
	Anyway, it came in today.
	So, looking forward to that 1K, St.
	Francis of SRQ. Troll room agrees it is the previous donation.
	That's okay.
	We've still got to go scream karma for it.
	You've got...
	Whatever the chat room thinks.
	Troll room, my friend.
	John Gaynor.
	I'll bring up the spreadsheet from the last show.
	Okay, Jeffrey Reese.
	See, e-note, mails from Jeffrey Reese.
	That may be an account for some number of discrepancies that I noticed in the totals.
	So it's possible.
	Here it is.
	And it's also number five on the list.
	ITM gents, something woke me up last night.
	That's the spreadsheet from 994.
	I kind of remember that part, but I don't remember going on and on about it.
	Do you still want a clip?
	No.
	Okay.
	Jeffrey Reese, 333-33C. Note emailed from Jeffrey Reese.
	Okay.
	333-333.
	Did you get anything from him?
	Oh, I wasn't looking.
	I can do that.
	I'll just take a gander.
	A little gander?
	I was actually looking to see if he wasn't on the old spreadsheet, but he's not.
	It's just a mistake.
	It happens.
	No, it's probably one that came in close to midnight.
	They get crossed over often.
	Okay, Reese.
	Let me see if I got anything from him.
	I do.
	Jeffrey Reese.
	I saw a late night infomercial that warned if I had an erection lasting more than four hours, I should consult my doctor.
	I've had one for six years.
	My doctor quickly corrected me and said, you don't have a boner, you are a boner.
	He wrote me a prescription to donate to the No Agenda show.
	Please find it enclosed.
	It's actually a joke, I guess.
	Okay.
	Structuring written gags is not the easiest thing in the world to do.
	I have been a long-time fan of the show and never miss an opportunity to hit people in the mouth.
	Several of them have become regular contributors, which may have led to my negligence in donating since I was convinced that I had already been doing my part.
	I only recently realized that while the formula is vitally important, it's only one part of the value-for-value model.
	I now realize that I'm no different than a celebrity, celebrity actually, who spreads the word about a disease in the name of awareness while never lifting a finger or a checkbook to actually help.
	Please forgive me.
	N-J-N-K-N-D-D. No jingles, no karma, no dedouching.
	I don't deserve it yet.
	All right.
	Steve Whalen, John Mondro, and Oliver Aho.
	I'm on the right path now.
	Please stop douchebagging me.
	Boom.
	Boom count three.
	Exactly.
	John Gaynor, 333.
	Adam and John, thank you for your courage.
	But this humble donace have achieved the honor to be knighted.
	Please, this is not on the list.
	Okay.
	Please knight me Sir J-Boy, New Jersey.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	But send some F-cancer karma to several friends.
	I know who continue to struggle.
	Go podcasting.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Let me just get him in the system first.
	So, who is this?
	John Gaynor.
	John Gaynor, okay.
	Sir J-Boy.
	John Gaynor becomes Sir J-A-Y? Or just J? Just J. J-Boy, one word.
	J-Boy, okay.
	J'boy. J'boy. J'boy. J'boy. J'boy.
	You've got karma.
	Yeah.
	Uh, bleh.
	Alexander Van Der Hengst in Springfield, Tennessee, 32118.
	This is my third annual contribution.
	Countdown donation, 321218.
	Ah, yes, that's right.
	He does that every year.
	Thank you.
	I trust you both will have a blessed 2018 NJNK. Sir Alex Vanderhanks.
	Same to you, Sir Alex, in the morning, and thank you for your courage.
	Kayla Nistor in Northville, Michigan, becomes our first associate executive producer with 23456.
	Happy birthday, comrades!
	Happy holidays!
	He didn't say birthday!
	Oh, did I say birthday?
	Yes.
	I'm on robotic mode.
	Would you like a clip?
	Happy holidays, comrades.
	Please call out some major douches.
	All right.
	Mark Comachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachomachom That could have been on the last show.
	Maybe.
	David Boda, Monroe, North Carolina, 22682.
	Can I get it?
	We came, he saw, he died.
	Well, let me open this thing.
	I'm pretty sure this is from the last one as well.
	I remember because I couldn't find two to the head.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Thank you for the 22682.
	We're going to take them off the list when we post it.
	But I'm going to do those jingles again, just for myself.
	So, I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed.
	Yes, we came, we saw, he died.
	Don't laugh.
	Why are you laughing?
	Shut up.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	How am I? Redeemed myself.
	You did it.
	I did it.
	Yeah, I told you I worked on everything all day yesterday.
	Huh.
	Astrid Klein.
	Ah, Dame Astrid.
	Dame Astrid, the Duchess of Japan.
	And the surrounding islands.
	20180.
	Writes in from Tokyo.
	Dear Adam, what about me?
	Screw you.
	Screw you.
	Many congratulations on the Marconi Award.
	I am very happy for you.
	It's the truth always wants to come out.
	And, dear John, like Steve Pachenik said, you and Adam are the future because you care, because you build virtual and real communities.
	I love that he said that.
	Psy-ops or not.
	Psy-ops.
	Psy-ops.
	The guy's a psy-ops guy.
	That's right.
	Next is the Nobel Prize for Guardians of Reality.
	Happy New Year of the Dog.
	Happy New Year of the Dog.
	Thank you.
	I'm going to give her, even though she wants NJNK, I'm sure I'm going to give her a karma.
	Well deserved there.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much.
	Demonstrant.
	Varaness Monica Lansing, $200.80.
	Great interview with Dr.
	P. Karma for Stefan, please.
	Hashgra will change the world and happy 2008, she says.
	Yes.
	Thanks, Obama.
	You've got karma.
	Beautiful.
	And that is our well-heeled community of executive and associate executive producers with the exception of two duplicates, maybe three.
	Who knows?
	We're just inflating our numbers for the advertisers, you see.
	Yeah, there you go.
	And I hope we have another report on that today.
	I want to thank them all and remind everybody else, Dvorak.org slash NA is the place to go to help us out.
	T-minus five to show the big show 1000.
	This is the last one of 2018.
	We hope we can kick it off big on Thursday's show, our first show of the new year.
	We appreciate you thinking of us at Dvorak.org slash NA. And tonight when you're watching Dave Chappelle, why don't you go ahead and tell everybody about our formula?
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	Alright, now we gotta go to the charitable giving clips.
	Ah, yes.
	I have, this has been a big deal in the news.
	We do have one of our, who you're going to meet with, I understand, eventually, Austin, who's going to give us the rundown on a lot of this.
	Yeah, I'm going to try to meet with him tomorrow.
	CPA for the rich in the San Francisco area, and he says that this is not a big...
	Not a big deal.
	Not a big pot of money for the rich.
	He says it's going to make things more complicated and worse.
	Can I get him to do my taxes?
	Well, I don't know if you want him to.
	He's kind of out of the state.
	I don't know if it's not as easy.
	You can't meet up with a guy that much.
	He probably knows some guys nearby.
	I don't know.
	Just ask him.
	Thanks.
	Maybe I'll do the whole shows.
	Really?
	I don't want to take that on.
	I might.
	Okay, where's the charitable thing on this list?
	Charitable giving.
	One, there's two of them.
	So charitable giving.
	There's a couple of assumptions in here, and this is what Tina's freaked out about, is what they're going to discuss.
	Well, it's the season for giving, but nonprofits are bracing for a potential drop in donations next year.
	The new tax law signed by President Trump last week changes the math for writing off charitable contributions.
	Jan Crawford explains.
	In the nation's capital, this charity serves hundreds of meals daily to the needy, operating largely through charitable donations.
	But under the new tax reform law, non-profits like So Others Might Eat could soon be taking a big hit.
	We are absolutely concerned that tax reform and also just confusion about what the new laws are going to be will impact charitable giving.
	Wait a minute.
	She talks like this with charitable giving.
	Charitable giving.
	I know.
	Charitable giving.
	And there is a lot of confusion.
	Then the confusion...
	Here's the way I heard it.
	The confusion stems around that the charitable giving deduction will be capped at $10,000.
	This is what I was told.
	Okay.
	And that, you know, therefore, maybe people will try, kind of like prepaying your real estate tax, like people try to jam, if you remind them of this fact, then maybe they'll donate more, but will it be a problem for 2018?
	This is what's going on.
	So this is why we're doing this show, to help people understand.
	You're typing.
	I'm typing, yes.
	You can hear it.
	Yes.
	I don't believe what you've heard...
	Is true?
	Is true at all.
	Okay, great.
	Well, that's good news.
	But that's not what the problem is.
	Okay.
	The problem is...
	So here, the GOP says, $10,000 cap on property tax...
	Property tax deductions, really property tax, sales tax, and...
	What was the other one?
	Oh yeah, an income tax.
	Okay.
	Here's what the problem is, the way I see it so far.
	They are now offering such a big standard deduction, $25,000 for a couple.
	For a family, yeah.
	But that's only if you don't itemize.
	That's just the standard deduction.
	You get the 25 grand.
	Right, right.
	But now you can't itemize, so you can't take any charitable deduction.
	That's right, because that would be a Schedule C itemized deduction.
	You can't, yeah, you can't.
	You're out.
	You've been taken out of the picture.
	You're out!
	So they believe that because so many people will take the $25,000 because they don't give that much or anything else, it's a lot of money, and they won't itemize, and so they won't give charitable deductions.
	Ah, okay.
	I understand.
	Yes.
	And that's supposed to...
	So in other words, it's definitely going to drop down.
	The problem is people who take that route probably don't give charitable deductions anyway.
	And if they do, they're probably just bags of clothes of goodwill and they get 20 bucks a bag or whatever they write off.
	It's not that much.
	Let's go to part two and then I'll bitch about the whole thing.
	It's a concern shared by nonprofits across the country because the new tax law lowers incentives for people to donate.
	Before, people could reduce their tax burden by writing off charitable donations and itemizing them on their tax returns.
	Under the new law, many middle-class taxpayers no longer will need to itemize.
	It instead offers a bigger standard deduction, doubled to $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for couples.
	But here's the rub.
	If you don't itemize, you can't deduct your charitable donations.
	People will continue to give to charity, they just won't give as much.
	From the Los Angeles Times, before we jump into it, they state the following.
	Actually, the title of this, GOP tax reform will devastate charitable giving.
	And here's how they explain it.
	They say, the...
	Hold on, here we go.
	The problem is...
	That while the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act preserves the deductibility of charitable contributions, preserves, it restructures the system so that millions will lose incentives to give.
	This is where I call bullcrap.
	Bullshit!
	People don't always, I just don't believe it, that people donate only because they can deduct it from their taxes.
	I don't believe people do it for that reason.
	I think people give because they want to give.
	Okay, they have it right, except for the rationale.
	I'm sorry, there's a third sentence.
	Most people, most, this is an LA Times fact check, most people donate from their hearts to causes they care about, regardless of taxes.
	It is undeniable, however, that the reward for giving will go down and the cost of giving will go up.
	I don't think that's undeniable.
	Oh, that's kind of a contradictory commentary.
	It's also not undeniable.
	It's not true.
	If you're getting a $24,000 increase in your money, then maybe that'll actually stimulate giving.
	Yes, because you'll have extra cash to give.
	You've got more money, exactly.
	It's possible they could go the other way.
	And the other thing is that these guys, and Ronald McDonald would be one of them, they really rely...
	It's the Ronald McDonald House Charities, please.
	Exactly.
	Is one of them.
	They're looking for the big boys.
	The big boys.
	The guys who give 10 grand.
	People who give 100 grand.
	People who give a quarter of a million.
	People who give 5,000.
	That, to me, is a high donor.
	And those people usually are rich.
	Yeah.
	And they're deducting everything.
	They're not going with the standard deduction.
	It's not worth their time.
	Right, right, right.
	They have an accountant who can just write off every little piece of anything, except, you know, certain things where there's the caps.
	The caps are on sales tax, income tax, and property tax.
	Right.
	So that's kind of a jip, although you can at least have two pieces of property.
	That's racist, man.
	It's a jip.
	It's a racist jip.
	Yeah, racist against gypsies.
	So, I agree with you, and I think that when you listen to this report, they're all doing the same thing, because they're all left-wingers.
	This is all just anti-Trump propaganda.
	Your numbers are going down because of Trump.
	That's what they conclude.
	And the more I think about it, because you make a big statement, like, you know, all the charities are going after the big boys.
	While, yes, that is true, The majority of, certainly of that particular organization, who are all their own chapters, they don't get anything from the burger place.
	There's no money flowing, except for if you drop some coin in their little box there next to the drive-thru window.
	If you're going to go in, I know where you're going with this, and if you're going to go in that direction, then I will say, if people go to church and they pass the thing around and you put a fiver in there, Half the time, you don't even remember to deduct it from your taxes anyway.
	Exactly.
	But I was just going to say that a lot of charities work on a local level, and it's the people who send 500 or even 50, but, you know, 1,000.
	Or five.
	Or five.
	Those really do add up at the end of the year, and there's a lot of targeting to get people to do that.
	You know, the discussion, I think, is, well, you know, should we remind people that it's, you know, that it's their...
	Tax-deductible donation.
	I personally, I don't think that that matters.
	Because, as you say, the big boys, they deduct it anyway.
	And the individuals, I'm not so sure that they're thinking about that.
	Well, now I'm going to reveal a dirty little secret.
	Uh-oh.
	It's about the show.
	And our tax-deductible, non-tax-deductible status, we pay all of our taxes.
	The money comes in as a simple income.
	Yeah.
	And not a gift.
	Or anything else.
	And it's not, and we don't get a 5013C. It's 501C3 or any of these things.
	And let me just say.
	When Buzzkill Jr.
	was researching, we did a lot of research on how to solicit.
	And we read all the classic books.
	And he looked at all these crazy studies that these people did.
	And I kind of laugh to myself when I see one of the podcasts.
	I'll go on about, oh, we're tax-deductible 50136.
	Why would you want to do that?
	Why would you want the government to be able to restrict what you can do?
	That's part of the reason you don't want to do it, because there's a lot of rules, and you've got to file more paperwork, and we already filed too much.
	And it turns out that you get less money.
	If you're a charitable, tax-deductible donation type of organization.
	If you take A and B, and they're both pretty much the same operation, one is tax-deductible and one's not, the one that's not collects more money.
	Really?
	This was researched.
	And I thought about this, and I was saying, why would that be?
	Because it's kind of a lure.
	Look, look, you can write it off your taxes.
	Turns out, That there's a psychological barrier, and it turns out that people think that if you're a non-profit, you're going to be a low-end.
	I don't know if they think you're going to be low-end, but it's like you're – it's something that's psychological about it that prevents you from donating.
	If you had the same – we're talking about two podcasts that are in the same situation.
	The one that is – no, no, no.
	We don't do that.
	Gets more money.
	Huh.
	That is a very dirty secret, John.
	It is.
	And once I heard that, but we reveal most of our information to our producer.
	Including our income.
	We give you the numbers on the show.
	On the show.
	Get a calculator, you can add them up.
	Anyway, so when I heard that, I said, well, now I thought, there is zero reason to ever get one of these exemptions.
	Because it's not only a pain in the butt, it's not only a lot of extra paperwork, it's not only letting the government in, it is counterproductive.
	I think it should.
	That's our promo.
	Donate now to the No Agenda Show.
	Not tax-deductible!
	I think I should donate.
	That's what...
	Doug Bird of Anonymous was discussing.
	He mentions it.
	Because we've talked about it.
	Because people every once in a while write in.
	I get the kick out of it.
	The guy writes in, hey, can I deduct this off my taxes?
	I said, no.
	He said, why not?
	I said, because we're not a 501c3.
	And he said, why don't you become a 501c3 and I can deduct it?
	I don't care what you, you know, you're going to give us some help or not.
	But very few people have...
	I've heard people way back in the beginning of our value for value system, people were saying, hey, you should make it tax deductible.
	But there you go.
	Those are the same people that said we should have advertisers.
	Yes, and more interviews.
	Guests, guests, guests.
	Donate to no agenda!
	It's not tax-deductible!
	It's version 2.
	That's even better.
	There may be another...
	That actually may be a...
	Psychologically may be, oh, those poor guys aren't tax-deductible.
	It works even better.
	I mean, you don't know what's causing it exactly.
	Maybe you have to do this.
	Donate to no agenda!
	We're not tax-deductible.
	Something like that.
	One of those will work.
	We've got to do some ABC testing.
	So, yeah.
	But anyway, the research has been done and that's what the research has covered.
	So all you podcasters out there, We're looking at this as a business model for, I don't know why, but if you were, that's a little tidbit for you that no other show will reveal.
	Donate to No Agenda.
	We're only in it for the money.
	And by the way, the funny thing is about no other podcast will reveal this sort of information, because no other podcast knows anything.
	None of them know nothing.
	You should have thrown a double negative in.
	That's even better.
	Anyway, let's go to Charitable Giving 2.
	Oh, I thought, didn't we just play Charitable Giving 2?
	Then I lost track of the whole show.
	Well, okay, I'll play it again just to make sure.
	It's a concern shared by non-profits across the country because the new tax law lowers incentives for people to donate.
	Before, people could reduce their tax burden by writing off charitable donations and itemizing them on their tax returns.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So we play that.
	Okay.
	The reason I wanted to play that second part or even have it was I am in total agreement with you.
	I do not think people are donating to anything, including this show, because they're incentivized by the government.
	Thank you.
	That's really, in a nutshell, if I, if there's some cause around here that I feel, it's like you and the five bucks to every bum who says hello.
	Yeah.
	You're not writing that off.
	I should.
	Well, maybe you are.
	Believe me.
	But you can't.
	It's actually not a write-off.
	No, it's not.
	They're not a charitable organization.
	They're not a 501c.
	Although, there's another hook for you guys out there without homes.
	Yeah, make yourself a 501c3.
	See if it works.
	Can you imagine the overhead?
	Oh my god.
	But it's true.
	I mean, I happen to know Ronald McDonald House.
	People donate.
	It's always the same.
	They had an experience.
	They had an experience.
	Someone they know had an experience.
	That's why they do it.
	I've never, ever heard someone say, oh, I'm so happy I can give to them.
	I can deduct it.
	So, anyway.
	There you go.
	We've just debunked an entire talking point.
	Yeah, now if all the charities go down the tubes this next year, we're wrong.
	John at Dvorak.org is what it is.
	But I don't think that we are.
	I think that charity, if it goes down 10%, I'd be surprised.
	You know what?
	There's a Form 990s.
	We'll know.
	We'll be able to see how they did.
	Yeah.
	Oh, man.
	Well, let me get into some social justice warrior stuff here for a moment, because we've got some good stories coming out.
	Then the first one is from two San Diego State University professors who contribute a chapter to a new anthology that argues that farmers' markets are, quote, insidious white spaces where food consumption habits of white people are normalized.
	What?
	Yeah, it's basically...
	Have you ever been to the Atlanta farmers' market?
	But anyway, go on.
	Well, they're in San Diego.
	They're going to some yuppies farmer's market and generalizing.
	Yes.
	While farmer's markets are often established as a way of fighting food deserts in low-income areas, the professors claim that 44% of San Diego's farmer's markets are located in census tracts with high levels of gentrification.
	So they're racist, kind of.
	That's very racist.
	Well, they're saying farmer's markets are racist.
	Yeah.
	Well, let them see what they want.
	I'll tell you this.
	One of the most sensitive areas about this, Berkeley, California has a dynamite farmer's market.
	And they're not giving it up.
	We got a good farmer's market here.
	And my buddy Kevin, the homeless Kevin.
	Yeah, you do have a good farmer's market.
	And homeless Kevin works there on Saturdays.
	You know, they got guys hanging out, working, doing stuff.
	It's all these little farmers.
	They come in with their truck.
	It's not a douchebag type of farmer's market.
	I don't think so.
	Well, maybe in San Diego they have a douchebag.
	It's called the douchebag farmer's market.
	Douchebag farmer's market!
	Okay.
	In my ever-increasing quest to find out why and just what's going on with young couples not having children but having dogs...
	The Wall Street Journal had an article.
	It's disturbing because, you know, we need...
	Because they treat the dog like a baby.
	That's the part that's the most disturbing.
	And here it is.
	This is...
	I want to see.
	What company was this?
	This was a...
	Let me see.
	Okay, this is some outfit in New York City...
	M-Particle, it sounds like a dot-com operation, but okay.
	As Americans increasingly, this is from the Laura Pepino, head of talent acquisition at M Particle in New York.
	As Americans increasingly treat their pets like furry children, employers are responding by extending family benefits to pets.
	The trend is especially strong in New York City, where the closest many come to having a child is buying a schnauzer.
	We offer maternity and paternity leave, and a pet is another member of the family.
	We don't discriminate just because they aren't human, so now we have paternity leave.
	Oh my God.
	Yes, sir.
	So when you get your new dog, you get a pawternity leave equal to that of actually passing a human being out of your vagina.
	Same thing.
	And you get pawternity leave to...
	What about catternity?
	Well, the cat has paws.
	Pawternity.
	What about a bird?
	What about a parrot?
	Well, look.
	Hear me now.
	You get the idea.
	We're off the rails.
	This is really not cool.
	And again, I see...
	These guys, this is a $76 million funded...
	Ah, you looked it up.
	Good.
	...operation that does big data for mobile.
	Oh, jeez.
	So they got to keep the millennials happy.
	Yeah, they got to keep the millennials happy.
	Okay, got it.
	That makes sense.
	But again, on the face bag...
	And they probably, by the way, I would say, because it's a Silicon Valley-style operation, even though it's in Manhattan, where it's even more expensive, they don't want anyone with kids.
	These people, most of these companies are anti-children because you can't work your asses off.
	That's right, that's right.
	Go ahead, have a dog, take a week off.
	That'll keep you really productive.
	Yeah, I think you're right.
	They encourage this.
	They hate human beings.
	They do.
	I see my buddy, Rudy Sarzo.
	He's the heavy metal bass player with his Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays on the face bag with him and the Yorkie.
	Not even his wife.
	It's horrible.
	All right.
	Then I have something new in the UK. It's kind of what we're witnessing here, more political correctness.
	The British military has caused a stir by ordering members of the armed forces to use gender-neutral language.
	Caused a stir.
	I wonder, as a phrase from the Shays, where do you think that comes from?
	Caused a stir.
	Well, it has sexual overtones.
	It does.
	Why don't you look that up while I play the clip?
	The British military has caused a stir by watering members of the armed forces to use gender-neutral language.
	Well, these new guidelines are all about avoiding gendered language.
	So we've heard that special posters have gone up in the toilets of one particular airbase that trains recruits for the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and for the Army.
	Well, RT got in touch with the MOD to find out all about the new phrases, and they have said that they are promoting a modern, inclusive working environment to ensure individuals are recognized and feel valued.
	Now, the guidelines were written by a unit called the Joint Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit, which troops reportedly called JEDI for short.
	But diversity...
	I love that.
	Throw in a Star Wars reference with the Jedi stuff.
	Beautiful.
	...and inclusion unit, which troops reportedly call Jedi for short.
	But diversity and inclusion is a big issue for the British Army right now.
	To put this all into context, last year, women were finally able to take up combat roles in the Army.
	And from the end of next year, women will be able to apply for all the same positions as men.
	In the British forces.
	So the words, you know, you're not allowed to use, you know, man, you have to say person, you know, the typical stuff.
	Not a housewife, but a homemaker.
	Well, I can't find out the etymology yet.
	Oh, really?
	But it seems to, it has a...
	Did you bing it?
	It means get excited.
	Did you bing it?
	Yeah, I binged it.
	Okay.
	I binged it, man.
	You gotta bing it, baby.
	We're going to have the Oxford stuff to try to find something.
	And because the stir tends to be, I'm sure it has something to do with this, literally stirring with a wooden spoon.
	So it would cause a stir.
	Okay.
	It would cause someone to stir with a spoon.
	Stir what?
	All right.
	Alright, I have something from the face bag for you today.
	I brought that to the show.
	Ah, terrific.
	Yes, but I'm not going to read something to you.
	By the way, stir also has the meaning in the 19th century of jail.
	Mmm.
	In prison, for example, it could be used as a noun is, I've spent 20 years in stir.
	In stir.
	I don't think that's what they're talking about with this.
	No, I don't think so either.
	Okay, onward.
	Okay, this is a friend of mine, and not just a facebag friend.
	They're always a friend of yours, or you wouldn't be reading these.
	That's correct, so they are facebag friends.
	But he's a friend.
	I consider him a friend.
	But I think we actually did something with him on Pod Show back in the day.
	This is David Ippolito.
	David Ippolito is also known as That Guitar Man from Central Park.
	Then if you go on a Saturday or a Sunday when the weather's warm enough, he'll be out there.
	He's usually in the same spot.
	He's got his guitar, his little amp, battery-powered.
	He gets a license.
	He's a busker.
	Well, he's really a great entertainer.
	He's beyond a busker because he does it where there's little places people can sit on the hill and he gets everyone to sing along and there's dancing.
	Does he collect money?
	Yes.
	He doesn't ask for it, but people give him money.
	But that is how he survives.
	Value for value proposition.
	I like it a lot.
	But he's beyond a busker.
	People can make a lot of money as a busker if they get the right location.
	It's like location, location, location.
	That's right.
	So at the end of every year, He does a concert indoors.
	I think he did it when it was still around, the Beacon Theater.
	He's at different venues.
	And people buy tickets and it's packed.
	And it's great.
	And it's a really nice musical celebration.
	And he writes most of his own material.
	But he also does funny parody songs.
	The only problem with my friend David is he is the largest Trump hater in the universe.
	I mean, very, very...
	In fact, some of the comments that I've read on the show from the face bag are from his feed.
	I think the Melania thing, remember when she was wearing her high heels?
	And that was a big problem?
	No, don't remember.
	Yeah, she's wearing her heels to go to the hurricane area.
	People are like, ah, she's wearing her heels!
	She took her heels off.
	Okay, but I'm just giving you...
	Okay, fine.
	Sometimes.
	Sometimes.
	So, this is an excerpt from his year-end show.
	And it's a new song that he was working on.
	And just listen to the words and listen to the audience and you will appreciate the power of the bag.
	It's just us.
	I'm exhausted from this year.
	And I... But I have to tell you guys something, and I know it's not popular.
	I'm a straight male.
	I was born this way.
	No, I'm serious.
	I feel like walking down Broadway and just apologizing to people.
	You're starting to understand the dimension he lives in?
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	But, um, lately, and I know I'm not alone, lately I've been experiencing an emotion that is new to this straight man.
	And I have a feeling it might not just be straight men, it's new to me, but I bet women and gay people and lesbians and transgender, I bet you everybody, or a lot of people, are feeling this emotion.
	And I didn't know what to do with it, so I'm working on a love song.
	And it's not done, but I'm going to...
	You might be feeling this too.
	Showing you once again that my parents had five kids, and only four of them had pride.
	laughter Where would I be without your sharp mind?
	I turn on the TV hoping you'll find more collusion with Putin in 2016.
	I swear I've never felt like this before about another special prosecutor.
	Bob Mueller, you know what I mean.
	That man built a bird's nest on top of his head.
	As me and my friends seeing red.
	Now all of us...
	Are hoping you Find each crime and misdemeanor To indict that orange wiener More than all of us Sincerely hoping you Through your investigation Nail that whole administration Cause now a man like me I'm
	getting a crush on you.
	And that's weird.
	And then it'll go on from there.
	There you go.
	I think that kind of sums it up.
	Or in Gener.
	So is it okay to ridicule somebody's appearance?
	Yes.
	No, it's preferred.
	It's the preferred way to do it, if it's Trump.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to make sure.
	So everyone's just so hopeful that Bob Mueller is going to do something.
	So we were watching the thing, Mimi's here, and we're watching the news, and she says, because I didn't know, so we were watching CBS. It was Orange Wiener, by the way.
	Orange wiener?
	Yeah, not eener, orange wiener.
	Even worse.
	Orange wiener, yeah.
	It's penis shaming.
	She says, Mueller?
	It's pronounced Mueller?
	And I said, because CBS, NBC, and ABC pronounce his name Mueller.
	Yes.
	Now, I said that the show, we prefer the word Mueller, so I can do the bit Mueller?
	Right.
	Mueller!
	And I say Miller, because that's how we pronounce that in Texas.
	But it's Muller.
	Yeah.
	So your songwriter should be told how to pronounce his name.
	I'll make sure to tell him that that was the only thing wrong with it.
	Yeah.
	Exactly.
	The only thing wrong is you're not pronouncing the guy's name right.
	You're insulting him by mispronouncing his name.
	Muller.
	Muller.
	Man, you know, we have good ideas on this show, and we had a great idea.
	It was so stupid.
	We didn't execute.
	Surprise.
	Remember the whole idea of no agenda tense?
	Yes.
	It was a great idea.
	Still a good idea.
	Well, we've been usurped.
	Yeah, there's this project in Brussels called the Origami Project, and these guys have foldable cardboard tents for the homeless.
	They're beautiful.
	Cardboard tents?
	Yes, yes.
	So they can't get rained on.
	No, no, no.
	Or they coat it with some plastic.
	Yeah, but they're completely flat, and then they fold out into the, you know, like a tripod-type tent, you know, like a pop tent.
	Yeah.
	And they fold out, and it's like a harmonica.
	And it's perfect.
	We could have had our logo, everything.
	It's cheap to make.
	Like a harmonica?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yes, exactly like that.
	No, like a, what do you call it?
	An accordion.
	Accordion.
	Thank you.
	That's because in Holland you say a pull harmonica.
	That's why.
	It's literally called a pull harmonica.
	Well, it's kind of, it sounds like one.
	Yeah.
	But it's, what a great idea.
	For the homeless.
	For the, here's a tent made out of cardboard.
	I think it'd be funny.
	Well, sad, but I don't think anyone would not appreciate it.
	Because where are these tents coming from, by the way?
	Somebody pointed this out.
	There are so many tents.
	Well, hold on.
	Just because you're homeless doesn't mean you don't have a job or income.
	No, a lot of them do.
	Yeah, you just can't afford a home.
	Okay, here's a couple of things about this homeless.
	Well, actually, I have some homeless clips.
	Let's run...
	Let's get this newest homeless information based on a Guardian wrote a big piece on how we're handling the homeless in this country.
	And one thing I wanted to do, and I didn't do it.
	I'm going to do it now.
	Or you can do it.
	Look, I want to get the date of Hands Across America.
	Oh, that was the 80s.
	Hands Across America was going to end.
	Homelessness.
	Homelessness, yes.
	May 25th, 1986, Hands Across America, when approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for 15 minutes along a path across the contiguous United States.
	I don't think they ever made the chain.
	I don't think it actually worked, did it?
	I thought it failed.
	No, it did.
	It was a fail.
	Not according to Wikipedia.
	Bless you.
	Yeah.
	They had some bull crap stuff they pulled to make it so the chain didn't need to be completed.
	Up in the mountains.
	They should have had like a 9-volt battery on one end and see if it would shock all the way to the end.
	No, they would light up a bulb.
	Anyway, so this is the homeless report and they blame Reagan and I think you can blame Carter or you can blame anybody for this, but it started with some changes in some government policies.
	I think it was exacerbated by Clinton.
	Wait a minute.
	You're telling me that homelessness is because of some government policy change?
	How about rents too high and the wages too low?
	How about that?
	What did the government do?
	They changed some low-income housing loaning requirements.
	Oh, okay.
	And that's what also triggered, because Democrats tried to fix this, even though they may have been the ones causing it.
	They tried to fix it by forcing loans, which became those out-of-bounds loans that brought the economy down in 2008.
	Thanks, Obama.
	And, well, Obama, it happened before Obama got in.
	I know, I'm just kidding.
	But thanks, Obama, anyway.
	Why not?
	It's a mess, and it's not getting any better, and Hands Across America didn't do crap.
	No, it didn't.
	So let's play a couple of homeless clips.
	The first clip is Homeless Bust Out.
	Today, we talk about a new investigation by The Guardian that looks at how cities struggle to solve the problem of homelessness throughout the year and found many have come to rely on an old solution, a one-way ticket out of town.
	Relocation programs that offer homeless people free bus tickets to move elsewhere have been around for at least three decades.
	But as the homeless population rises for the first time since the Great Recession, relocation programs are becoming more common and are expanding to more cities.
	In its investigation, the Guardian closely examined these homeless relocation programs by compiling and analyzing a database of more than 34,000 bus trips or flights taken by homeless people out of their cities.
	They found the journey provided a route out of homelessness for some, but many eventually returned to the city they'd left.
	This is 27-year-old Quinn Raber, who traveled nearly 2,300 miles over three days from San Francisco to Indianapolis by bus.
	I wasn't expecting to come back to San Francisco as soon as I did, but I knew I was going to end up coming back eventually.
	The roughest part about being homeless is the wear and tear from the concrete and the constant walking.
	It's hard to use the restroom because a lot of businesses don't want homeless people in their restrooms and messing them up.
	It really breaks you down.
	I don't know if I would ask Homer Bound for a ticket again, just because I know that you're not really supposed to ask for more than one.
	But if they, you know, if they would be willing to help, I'd ask them, you know?
	So they're busting everybody out.
	We know this.
	Yeah, we've talked about this in the past, I think.
	Yeah, but they've got some more complete information.
	So apparently the Guardian is...
	Doing a lot of research on this is some guy.
	It's actually local here.
	It's in San Francisco, but let's listen to him for a minute.
	This is Homeless 2.
	For more, we're joined in San Francisco by Alastair G., the homelessness editor for The Guardian, the new investigation by the outside and America team headline.
	Do you think they advertise with that job title?
	Yeah, we need a homelessness, a homeless editor.
	No, no, no, I mean homelessness.
	Oh, thanks.
	We're joined in San Francisco by Alastair G, the homelessness editor for The Guardian.
	The new investigation by the Outside and America team headlined, Bust Out.
	That whole sequence of words is pretty astounding.
	The Homelessness Editor part.
	Just listen to that one more time.
	San Francisco by Alastair G. The Homelessness Editor for The Guardian.
	The new investigation by the Outside in America team.
	Headline, bust out, how America moves its home.
	The Outside America team.
	Outside in America.
	Outside in America team.
	Team.
	Let me see your papers.
	Alastair, welcome to Democracy Now!
	Just lay out what you found.
	Thank you so much for having me.
	Well, we made dozens of public records requests and our goal was to really understand what effect these bus programs were having on the homeless population in America.
	Cities, of course, would say that these programs are a really great way to offer people more stability.
	It's a way to reconnect people with family or with friends in other locations and perhaps offer them a route out of homelessness.
	And we found that while in some cases that was certainly what happened, for some people it certainly was a way to greater stability.
	For others it wasn't quite that simple.
	We found cases where people simply became homeless at their destination.
	In some instances they even became homeless again in the city from which they had departed.
	So the story really isn't quite as simple and it really isn't quite as rosy a picture as cities would portray.
	According to a new federal study, the U.S. homeless population, as we said earlier, rose this year for the first time since the Great Recession.
	What do you know about why that is and what the impact of that has been?
	Right.
	That's a really good point.
	Well, the rise has been driven in particular by the trends that we're seeing on the West Coast, and that's to do with a rental affordability crisis.
	Everywhere from Seattle down to Los Angeles and San Diego, it's simply becoming impossible for people earning certainly minimum wage, but even wages above that.
	It's just...
	It's very, very difficult to afford somewhere to live.
	So that's what's really driving the trend.
	And I think the picture that is in the background here, and it's been a constant element of the homelessness crisis in the U.S., is a long-term federal underinvestment in affordable housing, something that was really begun, these cuts in the Reagan era, and in the opinion of advocates, has never really been properly been redressed.
	Oh, that'll all be fixed with Ben Carson.
	Well, it would have been fixed by the...
	So it started during the Reagan administration.
	What happened during the Clinton administration?
	What happened during the Obama administration?
	How come they were in for...
	And Bush?
	You skipped Bush?
	No, I'm keeping with the Democrat side.
	Ah, yes.
	Because this is clearly blaming Republicans, so Bush wouldn't count.
	But you did have 16 years of Democrats running the place.
	Could have done something there.
	And there's a lot of blame to be pushed on all sides.
	When Mimi was running for city council Also solicited the church.
	There's a bunch of homeless issues.
	It's not a big one, but it's a small one, which makes it very manageable in Port Angeles, where there's maybe 20 or 30 people.
	And she solicited the churches to, you know, because there's some certain laws that allow homeless to be settled on church parking lots or something.
	And she solicited all the churches in town, and she got a response from none.
	None of them wanted to help?
	No.
	None of them wanted to help.
	And then Eric apparently pulled something similar with all the churches either in Port Townsend or Seattle and got one response out of, I don't know, 50 or more.
	Thanks, Obama.
	And so these churches aren't doing anybody any favors, and they don't seem to care.
	Although the argument against the...
	I mean, the argument is being thrown at me.
	You're doing stuff for kids in Africa.
	Yeah, that's the argument, yes.
	Ethiopia, that's the money there.
	How about you're doing stuff for dreamers?
	You're doing stuff for everyone but the homeless.
	Everyone hates these people.
	I don't hate the homeless.
	Yeah.
	No, you don't.
	Yeah, but if you had an encampment next door across the street or...
	I have an encampment.
	It's called Second Street.
	It's filled with homeless people asking for money.
	And I'm sure you give each one five bucks as you go by because that's what you do.
	I just don't go outside anymore.
	Oh, well, you're saving money.
	I need the money to pay for my rent in Austin because of all the Californians who came here.
	The rent here is...
	We have, what do you call that?
	A... Rental affordability crisis.
	Yes, I'm sure you do.
	Now, I have this one last clip of another homeless person on this report, which went on for like a half hour.
	And I was thinking, what kind of a situation is this poor woman in?
	Because, I mean, everything that happened to her is just so negative.
	Including, well, play this clip.
	And this is Rose Thompson, a 58-year-old woman who relocated from Florida to West Virginia.
	She told The Guardian she went back to Key West only three weeks after leaving.
	I had a seizure and my heart stopped at the soup kitchen.
	So I wanted to go back to West Virginia and stay with my daughter.
	They were staying and it's like in a three-bedroom trailer.
	And then her little boy slept on the couch where I was sleeping, so they wanted me to go to a homeless shelter.
	All right.
	Well, I didn't want to stay in a homeless shelter in West Virginia because I don't know anybody up there anymore.
	From the time I left here to the time I got back, that was exactly three weeks.
	Was that her own family who didn't want her?
	Yes.
	Oh, God.
	So she goes to live with her daughter in a three-bedroom trailer, which is really a double-wide.
	Double-wide, yeah.
	Which are nice.
	You can live nicely in a double-wide.
	There's nothing wrong with it.
	You can get by until a tornado rips it apart.
	That's what they're for.
	They're props for the weather report.
	Yeah, it's livable.
	And I guess, I don't know, maybe she's irascible.
	The family kicked her out.
	Sad, sad story.
	And then she didn't like the sociology of the homeless place there because she didn't know anybody, she says.
	And so she went back to Key West, which is rousting.
	Key West is part of this report.
	Key West, Florida, is rousting all the homeless.
	And they're just making their lives miserable and getting them out of there.
	So we're not going to do very well there.
	And it's just a mess, these poor people.
	And they get into the cycle and they're screwed.
	I will say in Austin, and there you go, it's Austin, we have this Community First Village, which is underwritten by Mobile Loaves and Fishes, which is a, I think that's mainly a religious group, but they built this 27-acre planned community with tiny homes, And they basically reintegrate homeless people in and around Austin into a living community.
	And they get jobs.
	They have to do things.
	They get paid.
	They have addresses, which is key.
	They have an address, which is a big deal.
	And apparently it's very successful.
	Tiny homeless movement is a big deal.
	We're thinking about putting some on some property we have up in Port Angeles.
	Oh, for homeless people?
	No.
	No.
	For millennials, hey, I got an Airstream I'd like to put up there.
	That's a good idea, by the way.
	That's a great idea.
	I look at the housing situation, you know, the towns in and around Berkeley have, and Berkeley too, You could see that years ago they had a ratcheting system where you can get into a cheap house.
	They had one-bedroom cottages, and there's still a number of them in the area that are in the regular track.
	They're one-bedroom cottages.
	You used to be able to buy them for $15,000 or less in the 70s, and now they're $300,000, $400,000.
	Yeah.
	But it's still not what you...
	The average, the median in the Bay Area is $750,000 for everything.
	Crazy.
	But there's no point of...
	You can't ratchet very easily.
	What do you mean by ratchet?
	Like being on the property ladder?
	No, no.
	Yeah.
	Well, yeah.
	You ratchet by...
	You buy a house...
	Value goes up, you sell it, you buy a new one.
	A bigger one.
	Yeah.
	Ratchet.
	Yeah, got it.
	That's a Leonardo da Vinci invention.
	Yeah, he did that.
	I know he was very big in real estate.
	No, ratchet.
	Boom!
	Count four.
	You're fast.
	That was good.
	I am fast.
	I'm fast.
	You're fast.
	So anyway, so you ratchet up and you get into bigger and bigger places and that's what, I mean, that's what you used to do.
	My parents did it.
	And we always live comfortably.
	But if you don't have the bottom layer, which would be tiny homes, that are not just not...
	We're not talking about tiny, dinky little pieces of crap like those ones they have on the television.
	But, you know, something that's actually reasonable.
	The ones on the TV, these things are $40,000, $50,000.
	Yes, they're overpriced.
	It's crazy.
	And this is like 40 square feet.
	Yeah.
	It seems like the smaller, the less square footage you have, the more expensive they are.
	Yeah, that's some sort of scam I can't figure out.
	But there's no way of getting into the market.
	I mean, you could do it if you...
	I lectured some kid on this, and I might as well just reveal the lecture so anyone out there listening, young or millennial listeners...
	This guy was working in Silicon Valley, and I met him at a Lexus event, a press event.
	Oh, thank God it was a press event.
	I'm like, it's Saturday.
	I can't wait to go to the Lexus swap meet.
	Well, that'd be cool.
	But the Lexus event, they were rolling something out.
	And this guy's a writer, and his wife works in Silicon Valley.
	He's in Silicon Valley.
	And he says to me just casually...
	I'm never going to be able to buy a house.
	And I said, why?
	I said, that's bullcrap.
	You work, your wife works, you don't have any kids.
	And you didn't have student loans, I don't think.
	But it was just like to get into a house, I think at the time, you needed a down payment probably around $40,000.
	And you had to have good credit at that point.
	But I think $40,000.
	So you had to have $40,000.
	I said...
	I'm telling you, you've got to do the following thing.
	Stop going to restaurants.
	Stop buying iPhones.
	Spend two years just starving to death and save 40 grand.
	Get 40 grand in the bank.
	Do whatever you have to do.
	Don't be like a typical millennial throwing money away and dumb crap, which is what they all do, by the way.
	And Just save that 40 grand and get into a house and start the process of ratcheting.
	And then you'll be fine for the rest of your life.
	And then you can actually live on the profits of the house.
	And then you can go buy all this crazy stuff millennials like so much that's overpriced.
	Yeah, that is not the methodology we're being taught.
	We have been taught reverse saving, which is credit.
	Get it now.
	Why save and wait?
	Get it now.
	Get it now on the never-never.
	Yes, and then you end up being the guy standing there saying, I'll never own a house.
	And you won't with that attitude.
	That's correct.
	I own a house.
	My Airstream is a house.
	Yeah, it is.
	After this show folds, after I've given away the store with all this secret information.
	And all of a sudden, all podcasts are taking our lunch money.
	Yes, yes.
	You can live in that thing.
	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 your agenda in the morning.
	And, in fact, we do have some people to thank.
	And?
	And?
	You know, the funny thing is...
	There's a lot of funny things.
	Yeah, the funny thing is about...
	You know, I... But this is something, because you've got the Windows machine now.
	Microsoft has a thing.
	You can find the setting.
	You're supposed to be able to hit the control key, and a big, giant circle pops up on the screen.
	You know about this?
	No.
	Yeah, big giant circle pops up on the screen showing you where your mouse is.
	Well, I have a control key, but there's no circle popping up.
	No, because you have to set it.
	It's under the mouse settings.
	Go to the mouse settings, and it tells you to do this.
	It's a box you click, and then when you push down the control key, a big giant circle Pops up around the...
	Okay, I'm looking at the mouse settings, and I need additional mouse settings, I guess.
	Microsoft is very interesting with how they do everything.
	Oh, they bury everything.
	It's unbelievable.
	Let me see.
	Click lock pointers.
	Um...
	Hmm.
	Enable pointer shadow.
	No, I don't see.
	Pointer options.
	Maybe pointer options.
	Yeah.
	Display pointer trails.
	Ah!
	Show location of pointer when I press the control key.
	Okay, let me try this.
	I've selected this, and I press the control key, and nothing happens.
	Great.
	Oh!
	There you go!
	This is what happens with me.
	It flashed for a moment.
	Just for a moment.
	Yeah, it doesn't work right.
	Oh, it's lame!
	When it used to work on the older versions of Windows, it would be a big, giant circle, and it would come on for a good two seconds.
	No, the circle flashes only once, like, if I hit the control key?
	No.
	It sucks.
	Well, this is false advertising.
	No, it used to work.
	Let me restart the computer.
	It won't help.
	But we do have a few people to thank.
	Let's start with...
	Meanwhile, let me turn this piece of crap option off.
	No, leave it on.
	It might work again when they do an upgrade.
	Okay.
	It's not going to hurt to have it.
	All right.
	We're at Stefan Eretz.
	Eretz.
	He's in Deutschland in Fallbach.
	And 12345, the best regards from Germany.
	Stay strong in 2018.
	He puts a little note on there.
	Oh, but I have a little additional info.
	You need to go to the ease of access settings in the control panel to tweak the features.
	Oh.
	Well, that I didn't know.
	I'm going to try that.
	Go ahead.
	You keep reading.
	Yeah, you keep doing it.
	See if you can tweak it.
	Ease of access.
	Where the hell is that?
	Oh, it's around.
	Gordon Walton, Austin, Texas.
	$110.20.
	Brian Mickey, $100.33.
	He's got a birthday coming up.
	Paul Eaton, $100.
	Lon Baker, $100.
	Pepper Horton, $100.
	Anonymous from the Pacific Northwest, 99.50.
	Sir Phenom of Patriots Nation, Appleton, Wisconsin.
	I thought Patriots Nation was in New England.
	And they root for the Patriots.
	And he should be rooting for the Green Bay team.
	82.50, sorry.
	82.50.
	Gerald Preston, 8008boob.
	Carl Schneider, 8008boob.
	Mark Hall.
	Mark Hall.
	Hey, Mark Hall.
	What does he say?
	Thanks to you both for another information rich year of no agenda.
	Congrats to Adam on his Marconi.
	I'm impressed.
	I've never asked for a jingle, so could I get a year and Adam's porno cornhole...
	Obama, no, no, no, and anything with Alex Jones.
	Yeah, I will put that at the end.
	I'll do a little extra sequence for you, Mark.
	Thank you.
	James Zuckel, 6969.
	Patrick Coble, Sir Patrick Coble to you.
	Thanks for everything he did in 2017.
	He writes $59.95.
	And he also comes in with another $59.95 for some reason.
	Because that's his whole thing.
	He's pushing, pushing, pushing, wants everybody to do that for year's end.
	He's been all over the bag with it.
	It's a nice little campaign he's been running for us.
	He got Cody Holbert to do it, $59.95.
	So you're getting there.
	The bags, guys.
	Yeah.
	Just remember the time that FaceBag was doing a special FaceBag thing, and they were going to make sure that...
	Oh, Mimi was running that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, just like her campaign out there.
	Exactly.
	Give them a plug.
	Just give them a plug.
	Okay, we gave them a plug.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	Zero.
	Might as well be asking for money from the Reddit people.
	Ha!
	Lyndon Schenck, 55-55.
	Eric McCammon, 55-55.
	Alla Doroshenko, 55-55.
	Tommy Lynn Helwig.
	Helwig, Helwig, Helwig.
	First donation after her boyfriend hit her in the mouth a year ago.
	Very good.
	Your boyfriend's on the list.
	55-10.
	Kevin Kelly, Portland, Oregon, 55.
	John Tennis, 55-10.
	51.25 in West Lynn, Oregon.
	Chris Sundberg in Mercer Island, Washington, 51.
	Scott Nelson, 50.01 in Melbourne, Florida.
	Also, Norm Pearson in Macon, Georgia, 50.01.
	The following people are all $50 donors, name and location.
	Starting with Dean Kastenko in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
	Dennis Brown in Rylander, Wisconsin.
	Rhinelander.
	Sir Sloan of the Falls, 50.
	Michael Robinson in North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
	Tyler Schimpf in Bothell, Washington.
	Leon Ruggson in Los Angeles, California.
	Drew Bruner, who's got a birthday to Peggy, coming up.
	Anonymous in Denver.
	Gary Wiley, parts unknown.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Anonymous says, hey, hey all, donating specifically to give tons of praise to Adam for that interview.
	If podcasting doesn't pan out, maybe being the Charlie Rose of kooks like us will work out better.
	Just try to keep your pants on.
	Okie dokie.
	Oh, and he says, if you're ever in Denver, I'll give you a tour of our extensive grow facility and extraction lab.
	Woohoo!
	Denver, here we come.
	Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.
	Jacqueline C. Lay.
	She needs some mortgage karma.
	We'll give her some of that at the end.
	She's in the UK. Sir Alan Bean in Oakland, California.
	And...
	Joshua Defabo.
	Defabo.
	Also in Oakland, California.
	Those are $50 donors.
	And I want to thank them all for their support and help and for helping keeping this show afloat.
	Yes, thank you for helping us wind up the year.
	Yes, we're winding up the year.
	I think it's winding down the year.
	You wind down the year.
	You ratchet up the year.
	And by the way, there were some foreign listeners in the chat room, in the troll room.
	They thought we were not saying ratchet, but rat shit.
	Well, they probably never heard the word rat shit.
	No, no.
	But they thought it was rat shit.
	And they maybe listened to Nick the Rat Show.
	Yeah.
	Believe me, Nick is all over it.
	Well, thank you very much, donors.
	Thank you for all you've done.
	Thank everybody who has ever supported our work, supported the show and our value for value model, especially those who came in today as executive producers and associate executive producers.
	You are, of course, now in possession of credits that are real production credits and valuable and can be used anywhere.
	Your LinkedIn page, your profile seems to work best for people finding that interesting for jobs.
	And everyone who came in under $50.
	A lot of people on the subscriptions.
	We really appreciate it.
	Looking forward to a great 2018.
	We're at least going to do another year.
	And you can remember us for all of that at...
	My requests.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	It's your birthday, yeah I did that again It's your birthday, birthday On Snow White Ah, here we go.
	Belated birthday first.
	Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lakes, says happy birthday to her husband, Chris Blanco, who turned 42.
	Then the list for today.
	Ryan Mickey, happy birthday to Ari Kujaragi, pronounced Ari Kujaragi.
	Thank you.
	January 31st, that'll be today.
	Tommy Lynn Helway to her smoking hot boyfriend, who celebrates tomorrow, January 1st.
	Sir Sloan of the Falls, celebrating today.
	And Drew Bruners, says happy birthday to Peggy in Florida.
	She'll be turning 25 years old.
	Happy birthday.
	It's your birthday from all your pals here at the best podcast in the universe!
	It's your birthday, yeah!
	There we go.
	Nailed it, finally.
	Okay, we got some title changes.
	We got some night stuff going on.
	So let me see if there is my blade.
	You got your blade?
	Blade.
	Oh, hold on.
	Hold on.
	Hello with your blade.
	I got it.
	Sorry.
	Oh, gosh.
	Took you long enough.
	All right!
	Melissa, step on up here.
	Adam Dill and John Gaynor, all of you, are about to enter your seats here at the round table of the No Agenda Night of Names.
	I am therefore very proud to pronounce thee as Dame Janet, Lady of Alliteration, care of her husband, Sir Kilo Charlie Nine, Yankee Juliet Mike Green, Knight of the Hams.
	Adam Dill becomes Knight of the Facial Hair, and John Gaynor becomes Sir J. Boy.
	And we say congratulations to all of you.
	And we've got the hookers and blow, the rent boys and chardonnay.
	We've got hot pants and booze, long-haired heavy metal guys and scotch winches and beer, Rubenes, women and rosé, geishas and sake, vodka, vanilla, sparkling cider, and escort ginger ale and gerbils.
	And of course, mutton and mead right there at the table.
	And if you head over to noagendanation.com slash rings, Eric the Shill will hook you up with a ring of your size.
	And remember to tweet out a picture, which is always fun to see and worth a good little retweet.
	Tonight's title tape!
	Come gather round, douchebag, producer and slave As we all thank your brothers and sisters who gave And some of them nights, some of them days Sironymous of Dogpatch becomes Sironymous of Dogpatch and Lower Shlobovia.
	Sir KC9YJM, Kilo, Charlie 9, Yankee, Juliet, Mike Green, Knight of the Hams becomes Baron of the Ionosphere, Protector of the E-Layer Propagation.
	Which is indeed very important.
	Someone's looking after that.
	And Sir Niels of the Hinterland becomes a baronet today.
	Congratulations to all of you.
	And thank you very much for your support of the program and of the work.
	And indirectly, really guarding everybody's reality.
	This is not to be underestimated.
	It's a big deal.
	Yep.
	I have...
	I think so.
	I have...
	I don't know what you want to do here at the end, but I do have a couple of things kind of Dodd Report education related.
	Okay, we can do that.
	I got a short clip I can play.
	Yeah, let's do something.
	Yeah.
	This is like...
	I'm watching KQED, the local educational channel, and...
	And they're doing it, they got a couple minutes to kill, so they got these stupid promotions in between the hour mark.
	Yeah, throwaways.
	And so I've got this one, and I thought about it, and it was only actually, I thought it was stupid, so I clipped it.
	And then as I thought more about it, I said, oh, okay, now I understand it.
	Play Urbanize Shrink.
	Okay, we'll do that.
	Oh, so big padding at the beginning.
	The planet is in a precarious place, and we need to learn to live more compactly in cities and in a more pedestrian, walking-type way.
	And if we can make urban living exciting and joyful and engaging, then we can save the planet.
	So it's a pretty simple mission.
	First of all, I want to help save the planet.
	What do I need to do?
	You need to jam yourself into New York City in a tenement that burns to the ground because some little kid was playing with matches.
	Damn.
	Now, that's the first thing that came to mind.
	I was going to juxtapose this with that clip, but I didn't even bother with that clip because there's nothing to deconstruct.
	But then I thought about it.
	This is a plug for the Matt Damon movie.
	Oh, what movie is this?
	This is where he shrinks down to...
	Oh, yeah!
	Huh.
	And if you listen to it and think of the Matt Damon movie where he shrinks down and he's a whole new world because they're all living in these little bitty cities and all that sort of thing.
	It kind of looks like a fun movie, I have to...
	It kind of does, but it's kind of creepy.
	I don't know if it's going to do very well because it's like...
	There's these movies that seem like a fun movie and then you think about them and go, that's kind of creepy.
	I mean, somebody could come along and just step on the whole community and kill thousands of people.
	And, you know, what happens when an ant gets in there?
	Damn ants.
	So, but play it again.
	It's short.
	It's only a couple of 20 seconds.
	And think of the Matt Damon movie.
	Oh, it still has that big padding at the beginning.
	The planet is in a precarious place, and we need to learn to live more compactly in cities and in a more pedestrian, walking type way.
	And if we can make urban living exciting and joyful and engaging, then we can save the planet.
	So it's a pretty simple mission.
	Hmm.
	It's a plug for the movie.
	There was someone else who said that we missed a plug for a movie.
	I think we're dropping the ball on a lot of people.
	Yeah, we are.
	We are.
	It was for the new...
	I want to say, was it Steven Spielberg movie?
	What's his new movie?
	Oh, he's got something coming out.
	You're right.
	And there was something...
	No, I'm looking for it.
	I cannot find this email, which is pissing me off.
	Um...
	Hmm...
	It was some big story.
	Well, somebody in the chat room will know the new Steven Spielberg movie.
	Ready Player One?
	Oh, yes.
	I think it was The War on Gaming.
	That's what it was.
	Yes, that's...
	Okay, so the war on gaming is...
	And we received a lot of emails about this, as I expected from our producers.
	In fact, I'll read this first one from producer Daniel.
	He says, Adam, the trashing of gamers has nothing to do with the lack of advertising, and I say that with all due respect.
	I know next to nothing about this world, but I'm a hardcore gamer.
	I can comment on this topic with confidence.
	You have standing, my friend.
	The Trump movement's success could greatly be attributed to gamers due to their online discussion of GamerGate and the influence of social justice warriors on video games, as well as their participation in the MGTOW online movement.
	What is that?
	MGTOW?
	MGTOW.
	MGTOW.
	I have no idea about something in the chat room.
	Multi-gamer something or other.
	The M-G-T-O-W online movement.
	These two movements snowballed into...
	Oh my...
	DC movement snowballed into a full-on troll movement that pushed Donald Trump as a direct response to the SJW bullshit currently infecting our video games.
	TLDR, gamers have been blamed for Trump's election and now the media is trying to paint us as crazy.
	I'll buy that.
	Wow.
	And he has a number of links.
	Rolling Stone, tracing links between Gamergate Trump supporters, alt-right, CNET, Gamergate, Donald Trump, American Nazis, how video game culture blew everything up.
	Motherboard, Vice, under Trump Gamergate can stop pretending it was about games.
	Breitbart, leftists think Gamergate caused Donald Trump, maybe they're right. .
	Interesting.
	That's very interesting.
	I didn't get that note, I don't think.
	Forward that to me, because I'm going to look at those articles.
	They're in the show notes, but I will forward it to you.
	And then the other concept...
	And by the way, it just seems they're blaming everything.
	You know who's next?
	Podcasters.
	We're done for, bro.
	We're done for.
	It's heavy metal's fault.
	Yeah.
	It's the podcast.
	I tried watching that Will Smith movie.
	Speaking of heavy metal.
	Ah, you're talking about the Will Smith brilliant?
	Bright.
	Bright.
	Yeah, as I say, dim it should be the title.
	Dim.
	It's horrible.
	I couldn't get it.
	It's horribly acted as though Will Smith didn't even want to be in the movie.
	It turned into, like, Lord of the Rings, and I'm out then.
	It's like Netflix looked at their algo and said, okay, here's what people like.
	They like action movies with Will Smith.
	They like Lord of the Rings.
	I know!
	Let's put the two together.
	I have an idea.
	They had a meeting about that.
	That was really rough.
	Very, very hard.
	Hmm.
	I will say Mindhunters is a really...
	It's very good.
	I like that a lot.
	And there's this other one Mimi turned me on to, and it is good.
	But the title is It's unmemorable.
	Something is a mischievous Mr.
	and Mrs.
	Molly or something.
	It's about a comedian.
	It's about the era of Lenny Bruce, who's a character.
	You know, I told you about that, and you hated it.
	I told you about that.
	Yes.
	No, you told me about something else I hated.
	Do you want a clip?
	Do I want a clip of me hating what you told me and I said I saw it?
	I'll go find that clip.
	Okay, you'll find it.
	I do remember saying I hated something, but it wasn't that.
	It was just me.
	Okay.
	No, you recommend a lot of stuff, and most of it's really crummy.
	Good.
	Could you do me a favor and set up the face recognition as boarding pass clip?
	Because I'm interested in that.
	Yes, you would be.
	This is a promotion for face recognition.
	A couple of airlines are testing biometrics as full-blown ways.
	No more boarding passes, no more nothing.
	You just use your face.
	Good.
	You can board without presenting your boarding pass, passport, or other travel documents.
	This JetBlue flight leaving Boston for Aruba has passengers taking a trip to the future without a boarding pass.
	I'm just going to walk up and they're going to take a picture and that's it.
	Wow.
	Yeah, it amazes me.
	Every year, things change.
	It just amazes me, the technology.
	In seconds, facial recognition technology can compare a picture taken at the gate against a flyer's passport picture stored in a government database.
	Francis Sadowski is sold.
	It can be faster.
	Yeah, pretty fast.
	Delta is testing the technology in New York and Atlanta and is also trying out a facial recognition bag drop in Minneapolis, part of a larger effort that envisions your face or fingerprint as the only thing you'll need to navigate an airport.
	Marrying all of the technologies at each of the steps in the travel ribbon is a game changer for the experience.
	You can literally go from curb to plane without having To interact with a human being if you so desire.
	There's also Clear, a private company that for a fee will store and verify a flyer's biometrics, allowing people to go to the front of the security line at 24 airports nationwide.
	But a new report questions if it's legal for the government to use facial recognition on American citizens, and two senators are asking Customs and Border Protection to halt expansion of the testing amid security concerns.
	As we consolidate biometric data into big databases and we use it more and more, Those databases will become targets, and the risk of data breach increases greatly.
	The TSA is testing fingerprint verification at at least two airports in the U.S., and here at Reagan National, certain Delta customers can use their fingerprint as their boarding pass.
	Chris Van Cleve, CBS News, Arlington, Virginia.
	Oh, man.
	I love how they put it under the, you know, it's going to be easy.
	It'll be great.
	Professor Ted, we need your help.
	Now, they're showing this process and you go up and you, first of all, you have to have a passport or something with this photo because they verify your face once you're in the system with a passport photo system, which is always going to be a miss, not going to be the way to do it.
	But you can see that they stand there and have their picture taken and they wait for this thing, the database to find them.
	And then, beep, okay, now you can go.
	And they're telling me that's faster than my holding a piece of paper.
	No, no, no.
	The key part was, first of all, it's amazing!
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	You get to go to the front of the line.
	That's how they do it.
	It's like, oh, if you have the facial recognition, you get to board first.
	No.
	If you listen to that report, there is no paper ever...
	So, they're saying that it's fast.
	Yeah, you can go to the front of the line.
	That's why it's here.
	It's faster for you, the individual doing it.
	That's my point.
	It's not faster because I'm saying just...
	Of course it's not faster.
	It's not faster.
	It's bullcrap.
	Yes.
	But they're playing it as if it'll be faster because then you're at the front of the line.
	Yeah, well, when everybody is going through the system and getting their face looked at, it's not going to be faster.
	Is everyone going to go to the front of the line?
	How does that work?
	Well, that's what seems to be happening, specifically with Southwest.
	Because Southwest, before you get to board, and we always buy the early bird for $9.95, which doesn't put you in A group, it puts you in B, B12, B11. The best absolute seat is B1. You mean boarding?
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Because it depends on what terminal you're at or what airport you're at.
	Well, at certain airports, wait, at certain airports like Oakland, okay, we're getting ready to board.
	A group, A, 1 through 15, 1 through 30, A, please line up.
	And you line up I don't do that, by the way.
	I just sit down.
	But you line up and you stand there sometimes for 10 minutes.
	That's true.
	Good point.
	Good point.
	Because you're standing much longer because you know when A is done, B is going right in.
	Good point.
	But that's not true.
	But that's not true.
	Because after the A group...
	Okay, now we'll be boarding everyone who has one leg.
	One leg, please.
	And now we'll be boarding families with small children.
	Small children and families.
	And here's the group where I want to be in.
	If you have a service animal, you can board now.
	The people with the bogus dogs, the comfort dogs, emotional support goat, they get to board before B. It's an outrage.
	What I like to do, if I am in A group, which I usually am because I pay for it, you know, to get it earlier.
	Yeah, the early bird special.
	And so you, early bird special.
	I find a seat that is about where I'd be standing in the A group.
	And I sit down and stay there.
	I'll let all these people stand up and stand in the group.
	You make a good point.
	You make a good point.
	When they finally say, okay, we're now boarding A1 through 15, which is the first class.
	First class?
	What do they call it?
	Business class.
	They don't call it first.
	No, not on Southwest.
	They call it business class.
	Business select.
	Southwest has no class.
	I'm talking Southwest.
	Yes, I know, but 1 through 15, you can buy your way into that, and they call it business select.
	Okay, I understand what you mean.
	Yes, you're right.
	And it costs you $300 more.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And so there's nobody standing there.
	But they board that first.
	As soon as they do that, then I get up and force myself into my spot.
	I had the boarding pass, and I look, are you A-10?
	You're A-6?
	What's your number?
	What's your number?
	Get behind me.
	Get behind me.
	I'm A-23.
	You're A-23, but you're A-24.
	You should be in front of him.
	And so I start organizing people.
	You know, here's a question.
	We were talking about how they have all those funny little things.
	You know, the Southwest, they do the fun little announcements with all the stand-up gags.
	Why don't they do that at the gate?
	Well, that woman that was singing that we had the clip of was at the gate.
	Yes, she was at the gate, yeah.
	But that's pretty unusual.
	And then you've got to use that stupid mic.
	Nobody can understand it.
	You did a good imitation, by the way, of it.
	Somehow.
	It was a good bit.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I got something.
	This whole Dodd report, the Reese Commission, the deliberate dumbing down of education in America, although it's happening everywhere, then how I escaped it.
	Is fascinating to me, especially these big organizations who have grants.
	I'm curious, what are they teaching our children?
	I'd like to know.
	I don't have any children of school-going age.
	From time to time, producers send us stuff that their kids come home with, which is always a head-scratcher.
	This is not necessarily about school, but I'm going to start this package off with it.
	This is about the children's workshop, the people who make Sesame Street.
	Now, they're television people.
	So they should make...
	What should they be doing?
	Making television.
	Depends where the money comes from.
	It's not often that you get a chance to change the world, and that's what this feels like.
	Sherry Weston is with Sesame Workshop, the maker of Sesame Street.
	The MacArthur Foundation gave them and the International Rescue Committee a $100 million grant to develop early childhood education programs for Syrian refugees.
	I asked Sherry Weston what kinds of new Sesame Street characters might reflect the experience of Syrian refugee children.
	So I'm not, you know, giving away any sort of major storyline, but I can certainly imagine that there will be a character who perhaps had to leave their home or lives in a tent or becomes best friends with their new neighbor.
	So we want the characters to be characters that children can identify with and storylines that they can relate to.
	And then, you know, we have a proven track record of the academic basics, the social-emotional skills.
	All of that will be embedded in the curriculum, and it will be through television, but also through digital, through mobile, and then direct services for the most vulnerable children.
	I was going to ask, do most refugees have access to TV programs?
	Yeah, believe it or not, they do.
	The penetration of both television and mobile in the region, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, is huge.
	And I think that surprises people.
	But the direct services, again, is a key component where we'll be creating educational content to reach children through home visitations and learning centers.
	And that's really essential.
	So it's both the mass broad reach and the individual touch.
	So now we're getting out of the television set, collaborating with the International Rescue Committee to do face-to-face work.
	Absolutely.
	And that's so important to address toxic stress.
	Toxic stress.
	You can imagine for a refugee family how stressful it might be.
	But we know from brain science that the impact of stress on a child in those first five years of life can have lifelong repercussions.
	It literally affects their brain development.
	Give us an example of what somebody doing one of these home visits is likely to do with the parents and children that they meet.
	A home visitor would go in to meet with a caregiver, the mother, the grandmother, those caring for young children.
	They would meet with the parents and the children, and they would be training them, if you will, on the most important way to help a child overcome trauma.
	And there's so much proven science on this.
	Literally, that adult-child engagement is the most important thing.
	It's called nurturing care.
	It may sound intuitive, but when you've been through this kind of situation, these parents are very stressed themselves.
	and to give them techniques and tools and strategies to help their children overcome The toxic stress, it's games, it's contents, it's storybooks, it's apps, it's all sorts of things that they will engage with the child with, but also you're giving them the understanding of the importance of that nurturing care.
	And there are, again, so many studies that this is the most impactful way to help children overcome crisis, but it has never been done to the magnitude that we'll be able to do with the MacArthur grant.
	Hey!
	Hey!
	How about taking some of that money for the homeless and the kids living in those tents in Oakland?
	Thank you.
	No, that's not the idea.
	The idea is we need to pre-indoctrinate the children before they come to the West to do whatever they're meant to do.
	Be workers or something.
	And this is a television production outfit who is now doing on-site visits with educational material.
	Well, it's not even educational, but it's all socioeconomic stuff.
	It's brain science, man.
	Didn't you hear her say it?
	We know from brain science.
	The brain, the brain, the brain, the brain.
	Same thing with a five-year-old that lives in a tent with her mom and three brothers in Oakland, and they're never given any attention.
	So my quest led me to Dr.
	George Land.
	That's a familiar name.
	Brain scientist.
	And he was involved in a test for NASA about creativity, or I should say imaginative thinking.
	And again, this is just showing you what is happening in schools.
	And I was lucky enough to find a TED talk from about six or seven years ago where he talked about this study they did with NASA, which initially was only meant to be one test, but they drew it out over 10 years, turned it into a longitudinal study, and here are the results.
	The thing that changed everything for us in trying to understand creativity is that somebody from NASA came to us, the deputy director, and said, look, we have a lot of people working for us.
	We need some way to select the people that are the most creative so they can go on the teams that are facing the toughest problems.
	Can you give us some kind of an instrument, a test or something that we can give to find those people?
	We didn't have such a thing, but we developed it, we applied it, and it was very predictive.
	It worked really well.
	But the idea emerged that, gee, we still don't know where creativity comes from.
	Is it that some people are born with it and others not?
	Or is it learned?
	Does it come from our experience in life?
	And the idea came up, this test is so simple.
	Why don't we give it to some children and see how they do?
	So we did.
	We created a sample of the American population with 1,600 children and started it out when they were about five years old.
	Now here's a question I want to ask you.
	This is a test for the ability to look at a problem and come up with new, different I'm just going to stop it.
	What do you think?
	Well, it would have to be high or the question wouldn't be asked.
	So that's unfair for me to guess.
	But I will say 80%.
	Wow.
	This is a great audience.
	There are some audiences that don't guess quite that high.
	Ninety-eight percent.
	We were pretty shocked.
	Some people like you would probably not be shocked.
	I suspect you've been five-year-olds, so there you are.
	But, you know, the information was so astonishing, we decided to turn that into a longitudinal study, go back five years later and see how it was.
	So we went back.
	They're now ten.
	What would you guess?
	Somebody came on very close.
	Thirty percent.
	We decided to extend it for five more years.
	They're now 15.
	Well, we have some pessimists out there.
	It was all the way up to 12.
	So you can see something of a trend here, right?
	That study ended because so many people got depressed.
	Most of the testing was done by teachers, and they just didn't want to do it again.
	But we have tested a lot of adults.
	And what would you guess?
	You're close.
	Two percent.
	Now, the great historian Oswald Spengler once said in all of his years of studying history, he had concluded it only takes two percent of a population to create the basic ideas and that everybody else applies them.
	And it turned out, gee, he was pretty close to right.
	So, I thought that was pretty interesting.
	It's very good.
	The 2% of adults have a true creative, imaginative creativity and thinking, and all the rest is just dumbed down.
	That's the implication, I guess.
	No, the implication is it's been beat out of them.
	Yeah, beaten.
	Just beaten.
	Yeah.
	With love.
	No, it's beaten out of him by the educational system, and it's getting worse.
	Yeah, you've got to be rule followers.
	That's exactly what he says.
	Be rule followers, I tell you.
	Yeah.
	No, you're thinking wrong.
	That's wrong.
	It's wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
	Well, I have two more clips, and this is about what kids are learning in schools, in their school today.
	It's very distressing when you see the organizations that are being contracted to do this kind of stuff.
	This is what is important.
	Before you play it, I just want to say two words for people out there who are reacting adversely to this.
	Home schooling.
	This was the front page of the Seattle Post intelligence circle.
	Nia Vauconnell's third grade history class at Birchie School is analyzing old news stories, looking for evidence of bias.
	People, if they don't know how to analyze it, will just say, oh wow, that's true!
	Fred Cotton looks at the choice of words used in a story about Japanese internment camps during World War II. Notice how they're wording a Japanese instead of Japanese Americans.
	What was the purpose of that?
	Why did they do that?
	Oh, we're not imprisoning American citizens.
	Well, as they put it, we're not evacuating American citizens.
	We're evacuating Japanese.
	And why did they use the word evacuate?
	Another student also notices the language.
	I saw some fake advertising for the Japanese internment camps.
	They said they were assembly centers.
	So they kind of made it seem really cool, and actually it was.
	Yeah.
	O'Connell uses examples from the past, so these kids can become smarter about media messages in the present, even though they're only eight years old.
	I want to learn how to, like, analyze it myself and have my own opinion.
	They soak up everything around them.
	I think it's important for kids to be able to control the interpretations that they hear and see every day instead of the interpretations maybe controlling them.
	Recognizing bias in news stories is one form of media literacy.
	Spotting when the news is entirely fabricated, like these stories, is something else entirely.
	Often these stories are designed to look as if they come from legitimate news organizations and are meant to be easily shared on social media, resulting in confusion over what's real.
	During the recent election season, there have been reports of a concerted effort to spread fake news in a bid to influence public opinion.
	A recent Stanford University study of almost 8,000 students showed they were easily duped online researchers.
	which has found overall, young people's ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word, bleak.
	The law in Washington state encourages educators to develop policies around media literacy and to share resources.
	It also allows districts access to federal technology funding.
	This new law in Washington is being used as a model by about a dozen other states.
	Advocates want to see media literacy taught in all 50 states.
	There's clearly growing momentum to pass that kind of legislation.
	Sparks uses the play Hamlet to talk about fake news.
	It's about spying and lying and how that creates kind of a ripe environment for the proliferation of fake news.
	Sure, it could be a metaphor, but Hamlet has a shocking flesh-eating illness.
	Could you actually support that with evidence from the text?
	Good luck.
	Fake news is not news you don't agree with.
	Fake news is fabricated news.
	Sparks believes letting her students create their own fake news will teach them how to critically think through some of the information they receive.
	What words are used?
	Who benefits?
	Is there any truth to the story?
	Okay.
	Anything that starts with sheriff you're outraged, that's a bad sign.
	And outrage is just the lifeblood of fake news.
	So this is very concerning to me, that we now have legislation in 16 states working on all 50.
	And this is coming from one outfit, the National Association for Media Literacy Education.
	They already have an industry group.
	And, of course, you want kids to have media literacy.
	This is the big term, but the buzzword, media literacy.
	You want them to have that, but you're pumping bias into them from the get-go.
	Yeah, that's what you want.
	That's what you want, but it's very dangerous.
	And this is what we do.
	We actually teach media literacy in an oddball sort of way.
	But no, you're going to be...
	And what is this with using the Japanese internment camps and the Seattle intelligence as a lesson on how to detect fake news?
	I don't know.
	The whole thing is a scheme.
	Did you look into this group?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, the thing is, there must be a hundred little groups.
	And they all have, you know, media literacy, common sense, weird enough productions.
	Soros.
	Yeah, a lot of it is Soros money.
	Here's one.
	This is Common Sense Media.
	They have, what is this little thing here?
	How to spot fake news.
	Five ways.
	Here are five ways to spot fake news.
	Number one, look for unusual URLs.
	If they end with LO or.com.co, chances are they aren't legitimate news sites.
	That's really interesting.
	I think it's bullshit.
	It's total bullshit.
	What did they say again?
	They say if it's not.com, if it ends in.com,.co, or...
	Did she say I-O? Because we have Bing at.io, which is kind of cool.
	That is just a shrinker, so that's not what they're talking about.
	If they end with L-O or...
	No,.io is not shrinkers.
	This is a real domain name.
	That was a shrinker.
	What do you mean?
	You know, where you put it in, it's a shortened, you know, a URL shortener.
	No.
	Oh.
	No, it's a proper top-level domain.
	.io.
	.com.co.
	Chances are, they aren't legitimate news sites.
	Number two.
	Why?
	Dissect the layout.
	Look for grammatical errors, incorrect dates, bold dates with no sort.
	I know.
	Look for grammatical errors and dates that are wrong.
	...and sensationalist images.
	These are all red flags.
	Number three, dig deeper.
	Find out who wrote the article and who supports the site.
	If this information doesn't exist, or you need to register to get it, then question why.
	Hello, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, New York Times, everybody.
	Number four, cross-check.
	Use fact-checking sites to confirm information and see whether other credible news outlets are reporting similar news.
	Number five, try a reverse image search.
	If the same picture appears in unrelated stories, you may have a reason to be suspicious.
	Or if the image was done by Commerce Trip Blogger.
	Visit us at commonsense.org.
	You're going to get a note on that one.
	Commerce Trip Blogger.
	But I'm going to try and be creative with my 2% brain power.
	And I will try to position this different ways in future shows.
	But they're corralling the kids into actually believing the new speak bullshit.
	Yes.
	This is bad for the kids.
	It's horrible.
	It is.
	It's really bad.
	You're letting the government and other non-governmental organizations with a lot of money tell your kids what is real and what is not.
	They're not really giving them tools.
	These are your tools?
	Like if there's a misspelling or the date is wrong and on the screen it says February 31st.
	Like, okay.
	A lot of the news stories, they sometimes leave the date off and they just run it on whatever day that, you know, they put the date in that's today's date.
	Yeah, exactly.
	No, that was bad.
	And what about with the Guardians?
	Or you look at the Daily Mirror.
	It should be something.uk.co or the other way around.
	So these groups, Media Literacy Now, Digital Citizenship Institute, you know this has our name written all over it.
	This is another...
	I mean, there's $100 million that Big Bird got.
	Yeah, we've got to get on the ball here.
	We should be able to get some of that.
	I would think.
	We just, you know, we just have to, you know, say climate change is real.
	We have to actually do something.
	We need some grants from the ship.
	We need a grant guy out there.
	The guy who knows how to write this stuff.
	You know, what a great donation idea.
	If you, I mean, that's a real value for value.
	You get value from our show.
	Why don't you write in for a grant for our show?
	Yeah.
	I mean, it could work.
	It could.
	You never know.
	We'll voucher.
	We'll do anything you need.
	Yeah, we'll do what you have to do.
	Except do whatever the money says we have to do.
	That we're not going to do.
	No, take the money away and then we can bitch about it.
	Show content.
	Material.
	Absolutely.
	Well, I have two clips I want to get rid of, and they're about the marijuana thing, which is going through in a couple of days.
	Groovy, groovy.
	Oh.
	But I do want to read Eric's personal request.
	He's doing some schooling projects with his wife.
	Ah, okay.
	I didn't realize that this was him.
	Okay, good.
	Yeah.
	Glad you're doing this.
	He's doing a bunch of these things, and he's become like a teacher.
	Like a t-shirt?
	Apparently they have a robotics team of kids, like nine-year-olds, and he says the robotics team that D and I coach made it to the state semifinals.
	Okay.
	I guess they're, I don't know, are these death bots?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	They play basketball?
	I don't know.
	Death bots?
	Death bots?
	You know, the bots that kill each other.
	Oh, Robo Wars.
	Yeah, those are great.
	He says, could you plug, and I'll give him a plug, GoFundMe.com slash Howling Chickens.
	They have a chicken for him.
	Okay.
	Howling Chickens to help pay for nine kids and their parents to attend the event.
	Hmm.
	It can't cost much because the event is at Amazon's HQ in downtown Seattle, so it's a matter of taking a three-hour drive to get there and back, so it shouldn't cost much, on January 20th and 21st.
	And the bonus is, for our benefit, he'll add No Agenda Show to the shirt that the kids will be wearing, and I guess he'll be selling, as a sponsor if the No Agenda crowd can help us out.
	And in his case, not knowing the trick, donations are tax deductible.
	What a dummy!
	No, Eric plays by the rules.
	Less money for you!
	Yeah, well, it is actually, but he doesn't know that.
	He doesn't know.
	He also didn't have to say you could have hooked a brother up, but no.
	You mock him for show content.
	Good job.
	What?
	Well, knowing that you're helping him out by not reading that last line would have been fine.
	Knowing that I'm helping him.
	Oh, you mean that donations are tax-deductible?
	Yeah.
	Well, he put it in here to be read.
	Yeah.
	It's just a coincidence that we talked about it not being effective, so people ignore that last line.
	I'll edit it out.
	I'll edit it out.
	You want to?
	No!
	Of course not.
	This is the best part of the show.
	And, yeah, tax-deductible.
	Well, maybe it works in some situations.
	I'm just messing around.
	Yeah, you're giving me crap.
	So, let's go to the, because we got the marijuana coming in, into play on, I got one story about, that's dumb.
	Okay.
	Followed by another story that's even dumber.
	Nice.
	Let's play California marijuana prices up.
	Reational marijuana will be legal in California in just three days.
	With legalization looming, North Bay Medical Marijuana comes higher taxes on medical pot.
	I'm sorry, something happened there.
	What the hell was that?
	I think they both played at the same time.
	That was not the intent.
	Reational marijuana will be legal in California in just three days, but with regulation comes higher taxes on medical pot.
	KPX 5's Kristen Ayers found a long line that was out the door at a clinic in Oakland.
	Medical cannabis user Mary Gold brought a book and a chair and lined up with hundreds of people.
	I came to be part of the last minute shopping.
	It's like going to Times Square on New Year's Eve.
	A countdown to New Year's Day when state law changes and recreational marijuana becomes legal in California.
	No cannabis card required.
	There is a downside.
	I made my purchase ahead of time because I know that, you know, next week it'll be more expensive.
	Legalization will mean new taxes, higher prices for pot, and strict limits on how much you can buy per day.
	Generally, we're letting people know that they can expect 10 to 30 percent higher prices with the taxes.
	That is what is driving this week's mad dash for marijuana.
	Harborside was running low on some inventory by this evening.
	But there are long lines here today, and you can see just how quickly people have been buying these shelves were full earlier today.
	They've been cleaned out now by people eager to get a good deal before prices go up.
	The rush is expected to only increase after the new year.
	Dispensaries in states like Washington and Colorado saw their customer bases double and triple after legalization.
	And even though customers will take a hit to their pocketbooks, marijuana advocates say they're gaining something too.
	People are elated that they'll have freedom from prohibition, that they'll have freedom from law enforcement, and that they will be able to loudly and proudly come out of the cannabis closet.
	Okay.
	Now, this is dumb for the following.
	Why is California – this is California.
	And all Democrats, the whole House and everything, the governor, why are they raising the taxes on medical marijuana?
	It's not that they don't have to.
	Just because it passes that you can get pot anywhere, why is the taxes on medical marijuana been raised?
	To screw with sick people.
	Yeah, yeah, I agree.
	And to protect the racket of Big Pharma.
	I bet you that's part of it.
	Now, the next one, you have to play the douchebag call out at the end of this story, because this story is really stupid.
	And with legalization looming, a North Bay medical marijuana distributor is complaining about a recent bust.
	Last week, the CHP pulled over a truck in Ukiah carrying nearly one ton of cannabis.
	Two employees of Old Kai Logistics were arrested.
	The medical pot company based in Mendocino County has been busy lately harvesting, testing, measuring, and moving cannabis with the law about to change.
	Opening your doors on January 1st is great, but you wouldn't have any product.
	There's so many different steps in order for whatever cannabis product it is to actually be on the shelf.
	The CEO says the employees had all the right paperwork, but officers arrested them and issued citations for possession and unlawful transportation of cannabis.
	The highway patrol is defending what happened.
	It says transporting cannabis is not legal until January 1st.
	It's two days before January 1st.
	They've got to get this stuff in.
	They could transport it before to the medical marijuana places, but no.
	So some douchebag in the CHP busts these guys just out of spite.
	This is the kind of spite that this state has for small entrepreneurs or even the legalization of pot, which you'd think would be the first state that would want to legalize this stuff.
	Why are you still there?
	So I can bitch.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, if it's for the show, then it's okay.
	All right, everybody.
	Thank you very much for the year of our Lord, 2017.
	Thank you for supporting us.
	Remember, we'll be here next year, starting on Thursday.
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	Stay literate.
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	I'm John C. Devorak.
	Happy New Year, John.
	And Happy New Year to you and congratulations on your award.
	Thank you.
	I share it with you, my friend.
	Just a little piece.
	Just the bass, maybe.
	The bass.
	I'll take the bass.
	Until Thursday, as always.
	Adios, mofos.
	Okay, you know what?
	Na na na ho, na na na ho, na na na ho, na na na ho, na na na ho...
	Listen, you're in my house, drinking the booze.
	Shame on you.
	Our job tonight actually is to scare people to death.
	Our job tonight actually is to scare people to death so the talk isn't as free as it is.
	To scare people to death so the talk isn't as free as it is.
	Our job tonight actually is to scare people to death.
	Our job tonight actually is to scare people to death.
	So the talk isn't as free as it is.
	To scare people to death.
	So the talk isn't as free as it is.
	To scare people to death.
	So the talk isn't as free as it is.
	Our job tonight actually is to scare people to death.
	Our job tonight actually is to scare people to death.
	So the talk isn't as free as it is.
	If we slow him down about 5%.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	If we slow him down about 5% In
	ours, it only exists to protect their freedom.
	Protect that freedom.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Audio.
	MoFo.
	Dvorak.org.
	Slash N.A. Someone's getting corn-holed today.

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