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1098: Climate Grief

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	Well, Al Gore's the worst.
	He's a demon.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, December 27th, 2018.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1098.
	This is No Agenda.
	Rubbing your feet with CBD and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in downtown Austin, Tejas, in the Cludio.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where people have mistakenly put their garbage out for collection, even though it won't be collected.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	I think we should stop the show right now.
	You should go out and knock on everyone's door and inform them of this issue.
	What happened was the waste management operation, instead of giving a phone call with an automated message about the change in delivery, they sent out an email.
	I read the email.
	It says it'll be picked up tomorrow, but no.
	Hey, there's some weird sound in the background you've got there.
	Yes, that's the disconnected phone during his first...
	I disconnected a little late.
	Do you want to go hang it up?
	Was it just sitting there going...
	No, if I hang it up, someone will call asking me if I want to change my credit card relationships.
	Okay.
	It should stop.
	I don't know why I say it so much.
	It's actually louder than it's ever been.
	The only guy I know who still has a phone that you can take off the hook so that people won't call you.
	We have this...
	It's called a landline, I know.
	It's so weird for when you even understand that these exist.
	This do not disturb mode, but no, no, no, no.
	Is it rotary or is it touch tone?
	I don't even know if rotary works anymore.
	Oh, that's a good question, actually.
	I bet it does.
	I think in some areas it doesn't.
	Huh.
	I hadn't even considered that.
	It's been deprecated.
	Well, or whatever.
	What's this starting up again for?
	I don't know.
	Let me go move.
	We never have this problem.
	Well, regardless, welcome to the No Agenda Show.
	This is the best podcast in the universe.
	And unlike everywhere else in media, no retrospectives here.
	No best funny news stories of the year here.
	No counting down to the new year here.
	No, just media deconstruction for whatever that was out there.
	Seems like everybody's on vacation.
	We, as two podcasters, we weather the storm to bring you something.
	I actually have a couple of retrospective clips.
	Wait, before you go...
	No, wait, before you go anywhere, I'm going to lecture you a little more.
	It was...
	Interesting, surprising to see you on Twit last Sunday.
	Yeah.
	A lot of people noticed this.
	How was it?
	I had three goals.
	Get my Twitter followers up.
	Okay.
	Plug the hell out of the No Agenda show.
	Yes, which you did.
	I did.
	Thank you very much.
	Very good.
	Yep.
	And a pathway to promoting some upcoming books.
	I know, it sounds ludicrous.
	Wow, okay.
	I watched most of the show.
	I do have two comments if you're interested.
	Just two comments from one executive producer to another.
	What?
	One, in general, I think that it is time for people on podcasts who deal with technology to keep referring to the audience as normal people, regular people, who quote dot dot dot won't understand, won't get, won't care, won't...
	Did I do that?
	No, you did not.
	I'm not saying you.
	I'm saying in general.
	I'm so tired of hearing regular people.
	They won't do this.
	It was a very common theme on that show.
	Okay, next.
	Your hair.
	What about it?
	Well, because of the lighting, it looks normal.
	It thins out a little bit as you get older.
	The lighting is so harsh there, Twit, that it kind of...
	Yeah, and half the time I look bald.
	It's more like you're in chemo.
	No, it's not.
	It's nothing to joke about.
	The downlighting is extreme.
	It's ridiculous.
	So there is makeup for this, which I was going to recommend.
	They don't use makeup on the show.
	No, but you should have your own little kit, bro.
	If you're going to do that anymore, you need to look good.
	Yeah, yeah.
	There you go.
	Hey, nothing personal, just a general television observation.
	90% of the people that listen to Twit do it on audio, so I'm not too concerned.
	But I understand.
	I agree with you on both these points.
	Then I have one household question.
	Was that you in the newsletter?
	Where?
	So you sent out a newsletter, a very good rundown about Mattis leaving, which is why people should subscribe to this product.
	It's fantastic.
	It's a bonus, just like the show notes.
	There's all kinds of things you get outside of the No Agenda Show podcast itself.
	You had funny computer ads, many of which are just lovely to look at.
	Oh, no.
	There was none with me in there.
	Oh, because the guy with the two chicks?
	Yeah.
	A little bit.
	It could have been.
	No.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	That was too funny.
	It's like one of these two women going to bite him?
	Well, just the times, man.
	The things that you could get away with back in the day versus now.
	Has anyone doing it, the newsletter, missed out on the kind of a rundown of just part one?
	I think I have about three of these I can do.
	Of all these old computer ads from the 70s.
	It's very interesting.
	They're great.
	A lot of celebrities.
	Dom Deluise was in there.
	Bill Cosby.
	What I like is you see the Apple.
	Everyone's advertising about their 10 megabyte drive.
	Their 4800 baud modem.
	And Apple...
	Back then already, it was like, oh, you will be able to solve your business problems.
	You will be able to do this.
	Nothing about what was really inside the box, which was quite interesting.
	It was fun.
	Yeah, they were selling benefits, not features.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And markedly different from the rest.
	They actually had a real advertising agency that knew that rule.
	Right.
	Was that Leo Burnett back then?
	No, I think it was.
	Shy Day?
	I think it was, yeah.
	Those guys were good.
	Anyway, so Art, you set us all up that there's no news because no one's working.
	There is no news.
	There is actually just, you know, not being discussed on the news.
	There's events happening in the world.
	But there was some stuff discussed on the news, mostly how, you know, here Trump goes to Iraq.
	I think I have one clip of it.
	Yeah.
	Trump goes to Iraq, and the whole news story is about how he went after The date that Bush went, or after the date, Obama went three months after he became president.
	What kind of a comparison is this?
	He's late!
	He's late, I tell you.
	He's late!
	He's late.
	He didn't go until we shamed him.
	When did Reagan go first overseas to the war zone?
	Oh, wait a minute.
	We didn't have a bunch of war zones then.
	So now they've normalized war zones.
	Yes.
	Yes, of course.
	Unbelievable.
	Do you have a clip, you said?
	Do I? I don't know.
	You said you might have a clip.
	I'm looking.
	I don't see one.
	Oh, probably don't have one then.
	Well, you want to talk about Mattis just for a second?
	Yes, sure.
	I thought your rundown was quite good that you put in the newsletter.
	I had a call with Pchenik.
	And, you know, he's all about the military intelligence.
	Yeah.
	And he had a couple of interesting things to say.
	I'm going to pick up my notes here.
	You've got to write down this stuff when Pchenik calls.
	Okay.
	So he says, well, it's very sad two generals are out, Kelly and Mattis, because, you know, we really counted on them.
	Kelly hung in as long as he could because he just could not handle what Pchenik calls Woody Woodpecker, which is how he categorizes Trump.
	Okay.
	And he gave me this concept, I don't know if it's a psychological or mental concept of idealization and realization as a personality, well I guess you should say trait.
	And what he means by that, and I recognized this immediately when he said it, is Trump does the following.
	When he meets somebody who he obviously wants, or even if he doesn't, oh, I'll give an example.
	Oh, Dvorak, oh man, you're the best!
	Oh, I can't believe it.
	It's so great to have you here.
	I love what you've done with your computing books, and I love what you do with your columns.
	Oh, this is, look at this, look at this guy.
	Is he the best ever?
	Is he the best ever or what?
	But then down the road, two weeks, when you do something he doesn't like, it's exactly the opposite.
	Oh, why did I even hire that guy?
	What an idiot.
	He sounds like a classic Silicon Valley CEO. Well, it's interesting because I said it sounds like every New York Jew I've worked with.
	Well, that too.
	He's a Jew, and he said, yeah, that's exactly it.
	It's New York attitude, but he calls it the idealization and realization personality trait.
	Yeah, that makes nothing but sense.
	I like it.
	But it is difficult.
	He believes that the new guy, the chief of staff, what's his name?
	Shanahan?
	No, no, no.
	That's the Department of Defense.
	Oh, the Chief of Staff guy's name is unmemorable.
	Yeah, that guy.
	Pachenik says he will not last through 2020.
	It's impossible.
	No one can deal with that.
	Now, the new guy, Shanahan, he likes him a lot for a number of reasons.
	Um, he says this guy, well, actually he said, you know, Mattis, Mattis also hung in as long as he could.
	And then he just gave up.
	It was just, he just like, and he didn't have to really do, you know, we had a couple more months left, but yeah.
	Well, according to some reports, which I put, I hinted at in the, in the rundown that I did, uh, Pompeo told Mattis that he was, that Trump was going to fire him.
	And that's when Mattis wrote the note and quit.
	Right.
	And nobody.
	So and the media picks it up as the media likes to twist it in their way, which is, oh, Trump pulled out of Syria.
	And of course, that's important to us, the media, because we're all warmongers and think we should be in Syria of all places with our troops.
	Who cares about I mean, as long as it doesn't hurt me.
	Right.
	So Trump pulls out a Syria, thus Matt has quit in disgust.
	Yeah, well, that, of course, is the story.
	And it looks good.
	You can read it that way.
	And it may be exactly that.
	But Pachanik is very happy with Shanahan coming in, and he believes Trump understands this.
	He is MIT, Boeing, cyber guy.
	He understands a lot more than an old dog like Mattis who understands kinetic warfare, force structures, going out, blowing shit up, tanks, troops, etc.
	That is all shifting and Shanahan will shift this big responsibility and maybe focus, I'd be interested, on the Geospatial Intelligence Agency because it's all about, I quote, cyber satellites and missiles.
	That's what warfare is.
	Cyber satellites and missiles.
	Everything else is pretty much unimportant.
	And of course, the Russia supersonic missile comes into play here.
	The hypersonic.
	The hypersonic, since the U.S. appears to be not able to deter that.
	It's all kind of like demo-ware, as far as I can tell right now.
	I do have a report you can play.
	Okay.
	What you got?
	Hypersonic.
	Hypersonic supersonic.
	President Vladimir Putin testing a new intercontinental missile and President Donald Trump's medal.
	From a Moscow command center, Putin watched the hypersonic missile leave its launch tube and, according to the Russians, Strike a target 3,700 miles away, declaring it invulnerable to intercept.
	Russia says it can be armed with a nuclear weapon and travel up to 20 times the speed of sound.
	Without confirming the results of today's test, the Pentagon has acknowledged that America is vulnerable.
	We don't have any defense that could deny the employment of such a weapon against us.
	Adding urgency to the Pentagon's own plan to develop an American version.
	The hypersonics is a game-changing technology.
	And that's why it's so important for us to embrace.
	And how far are we from actually fielding that technology ourselves?
	So I think we'll put a hypersonic system in the field before 2023.
	Russia first touted their hypersonic missile and marched with an animation showing warheads flying towards Florida.
	Both offensively and defensively, the United States military is working very hard on hypersonics.
	We are in an arms race.
	But for Putin, his new missile is a perfect New Year's gift for the country.
	Hans Nichols, NBC News, the Pentagon.
	Here's the thing about all that.
	First of all, after supersonic, when you have hypersonic, you know that whatever Trump comes up with, it'll be warp speed.
	I guarantee you.
	Warp speed is how fast we fly.
	Space Force.
	The thing about these missiles is if you can control the cyber side of it, if you can get into systems, then you don't need to be able to shoot the thing out of the sky because it's going so fast.
	So it's really moving towards a whole new battlefield.
	I think the whole thing is bogus.
	First of all, hypersonic is nothing new.
	I remember, and I'll give you the story.
	I first heard of, and I think they experimented with a hypersonic missile, the Air Force, I believe, in the 80s.
	And the reason I say that is because when I wrote the book Hypergrowth with Adam Osborne, that's where I got the term from.
	I coined it based on, I saw a hypersonic missile test in the 80s, and I said, that's a great name for something super fast.
	And so I took the term.
	So this is something, there's something basically bogus about this whole thing.
	It looks like some sort of an excuse to spend more money.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	I think we've discussed this before.
	If Putin and Trump are just talking to each other, all right, man, do that demo that you have of that hypersonic thing so we can both start building some more and get some more money out of our government coffers.
	It would make nothing but sense.
	And the other thing is when they showed that hypersonic launch, if you looked at it, they actually put the camera on the missile.
	I have seen missile launches from our silos that That missile is out of range of the camera immediately.
	It's got to be, yeah.
	It goes like a rocket.
	So there's something screwy about this, and it sounds to me like a scam.
	I hate to keep saying scam, but there's a scam here.
	Yeah.
	Oh, we're way behind.
	How do we, wait a minute, stop here.
	We got the $700 billion budget.
	How are we two or three years behind the Russians?
	How does that happen?
	Don't look at the audit.
	Please.
	Whatever you do.
	And there's the other thing.
	Now, going back to Shanahan, he is an MBA and he might, and he did work for Boeing and it was part of the 787 and some of these other major projects.
	He might be able to do the audit.
	He's the kind of guy that would be able to do it, or at least clean up the books.
	I mean, I don't think anything...
	The Pentagon cannot get through an audit at all.
	So maybe just clean it up and kind of bring in some accountability.
	Speaking of which, I was reading one of those government IT blogs that I like to scan.
	And there's a procurement system that is out for tender...
	Oh, yeah.
	I get one of these things, too.
	The list, sir, is a mile long of stuff.
	Well, the General Service...
	No, this is a little different.
	The General Services Administration is in the process of creating an acquisition platform as mandated by Congress from the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.
	So this stuff is, you know, it's done on PDFs, it's done on, you know, Word docs, whatever the hell it was, SharePoint.
	I don't know what they're using, but there was this mandate in the NDAA for an e-commerce acquisition.
	Guess who's been doing all the work on this e-commerce acquisition platform?
	You tell me.
	Amazon.
	Oh yeah, Amazon's got their fingers in everything.
	No wonder they're there in Virginia.
	This is why now it starts to become clear what's going on.
	Amazon is the government.
	With the CIA cloud services, now with all the procurement platform...
	Yeah, which would be just a rewrite of the Amazon code that the shoppers use.
	They just take the white label.
	There you go.
	Plug in your products.
	Seems pretty good.
	They already advised on the portal, just on the RFP. They advised.
	It's a shoe-in for these guys.
	Well, if you advise on the RFP, you're advising for yourself.
	You're pointing the finger at you.
	That's how our process works.
	It's the beauty of government contracts.
	I did want to...
	He's becoming more like an evil Bond character.
	Yeah.
	Just on the pull-outs of Afghanistan and Syria, I do have a bit of a retrospective.
	If you just want to listen to the news from 2011, the world is exactly flip-flopped.
	Please hear how, as we know now, Trump's pulling out of Syria, Afghanistan.
	Oh, we're screwing our partners.
	ISIS is going to be horrible.
	More war, need more war, need more stuff, more missiles, hypersonic.
	It was exactly the opposite with the two parties in 2011.
	The US president has been accused of ignoring the advice of his top military commanders on troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
	Barack Obama announced that 33,000 troops will be home by September next year.
	Military chiefs say that plan is riskier and more aggressive than the one they recommended.
	Republicans believe Barack Obama's Afghanistan decision has more to do with politics than military thinking.
	Were there any of the joint chiefs or any of the commanders on the ground that recommended this plan?
	Particular action that the president is taking.
	I'm not going to talk about individual recommendations.
	The chairman of the Joint Chiefs did acknowledge that withdrawing 10,000 US troops this year wasn't his choice.
	And it was more aggressive and it has more risk than, you know, I was originally prepared to, than I recommended.
	And Afghanistan commander General David Petraeus told a Senate hearing it wasn't his either.
	The ultimate decision It was a more aggressive formulation, if you will, in terms of the timeline, than what we had recommended.
	The US military leaders say it's their job to salute and execute the president's order.
	Senior Republicans are worried the coalition allies won't hang around.
	France and Germany plan to follow the US lead.
	I predict to you now that our allies will accelerate their reductions The president was at Fort Drum thanking Afghanistan veterans.
	Our job is not finished.
	Many Democrats wanted Barack Obama to go much further and are still hoping the drawdown will only accelerate.
	My, my, oh my, oh my.
	Wait a minute.
	This doesn't make any sense.
	The Democrats wanted Obama to draw down even faster?
	Yeah, I guess so.
	And now they want us to put people back in?
	That's crazy.
	It's making no sense to me, these Democrats.
	And then in 2014, the President, Obama at the time, came out to the Rose Garden.
	Bringing America's longest war to an end.
	President Obama called reporters to the White House Rose Garden to lay out his plan for pulling out the 32,000 U.S. troops now left in Afghanistan.
	America's combat mission will be over by the end of this year, starting next year.
	I just noticed, in the first report, they talk about 33,000, magic number, we're always looking forward in reports.
	And then in this one, we've lost the thousands.
	Now left in Afghanistan.
	Hold on, where was it?
	It was 32,000 instead of 33.
	I don't know if it has any significance.
	To lay out his plan for pulling out the 32,000 U.S. troops, now left in Afghanistan.
	America's combat mission will be over by the end of this year.
	Starting next year, Afghans will be fully responsible for securing their country.
	Next year.
	American personnel will be in an advisory role.
	We will no longer patrol Afghan cities or towns, mountains or valleys.
	That is a task for the Afghan people.
	Afghan forces have been in the lead against insurgents since last year, and the 9,800 U.S. troops will stay to continue training them and to support counterterrorism operations.
	And of course that pullout also didn't happen.
	So, that's what it was when Obama was president and everyone was on board.
	And I think we were also like, yeah, good.
	Get him out.
	Draw it down.
	Stupid.
	Stop.
	We're staunch anti-war.
	Especially these bogus wars.
	Yeah.
	For the poppies.
	It was a poppiece, mostly.
	But it feels a bit like there may be...
	No, we'll get to that in a moment.
	There's war starting everywhere.
	I'm not quite sure why this was thrown out there and why the script has been replicated, but it has.
	Absolutely.
	People can be seen lighting things a fire.
	This has been taking place all throughout this week.
	There have been numerous clashes and numerous people who have been arrested.
	And they are revolting against the poverty in the country.
	And this all started after a journalist said that he was going to light himself on fire.
	He posted a video that I'll bring up here where he talked about how he had been trying to find a good job for the last eight years without any luck.
	This is in Tunisia where the Arab Spring started.
	In this video you can actually see him holding a bottle of gasoline.
	He says he's going to light himself on fire and he's calling on the unemployed to take to the streets to revolt.
	We later see in another video that he is lit on fire and he ended up dying.
	It's unclear whether he lit that match himself or if someone else did.
	But what we have seen are these mass protests in Tunisia as a result.
	And some people say that this is actually reminiscent of what we saw in 2010.
	Remember this man, the Tunisian street vendor, who set himself on fire to protest against police harassment, and that led to revolts not only in his country, but of course all throughout the Middle East?
	Well, in the eight years since that happened, in the eight years since the Arab Spring began, This journalist says that nothing has changed in his country, and in his words, that everything is lies.
	And that is why he has called his fellow Tunisians to take to the streets to revolt against the economic conditions in his country.
	Now, this was a report from AFP, a French international outfit.
	Right.
	And they have lots of, what do you call it, interests in the region.
	It was a French outpost, actually.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But they have interests in the region as well.
	And so now we have an out-of-work journalist who hasn't been able to get work for, what do you say, eight years?
	What he says.
	Yeah.
	We don't know who he is.
	We don't know who he worked for.
	We don't know if someone lit the match or if he did it.
	I don't even know if it's him in the video.
	But someone's trying to get something started.
	Yes, this looks like a provocation.
	And what's interesting about this, and this is, of course, you're right, it's a fractal of the earlier event which started the Arab Spring, is that Muslims aren't the ones who self-immolate.
	It's the Buddhists that do that.
	Yes, fractal.
	So, I find the whole thing suspicious and interesting.
	Well, there's stuff going on in Africa.
	First of all, the Congo was supposed to have their election today.
	Yeah, I have a clip.
	Oh, good.
	I do, too.
	What do you have?
	I have AFP again because they're all over this.
	I got that.
	I got a network.
	No, I think it's PBS.
	I see PBS.
	I want to listen.
	Also today, Congo delayed elections in three cities where a deadly Ebola outbreak is centered.
	The cities are considered opposition strongholds and the delay will affect some one million voters.
	They will now wait until March to cast ballots.
	The rest of the country votes on Sunday.
	That's their entire report?
	Yes.
	That's PBS. That's all they're going to give you.
	That is your PBS news?
	That's all they didn't even mention?
	What's going on?
	Oh, this is incredible.
	This is my beat.
	I got the mainstream.
	To review...
	Give us the real story.
	Yeah, to review, I've been following the election.
	We've been following the Congo in general.
	Whenever Ebola shows up, that's usually when troops follow.
	We haven't seen that happen yet.
	But in this particular region is where very important minerals are mined for everyone's cell phone.
	It's the most oil in all of Africa, apparently, comes from the Congo.
	There's always strife there.
	The Chinese are running rampant.
	The most oil actually comes from Nigeria.
	I thought that they have the most oil.
	It may not all come from there, but I think they have the most.
	It's not as...
	It needs research.
	Go on.
	But they definitely own the minerals.
	They own the minerals, gold, diamonds, and there's 50 militia groups running around killing each other.
	It's all about power to get these minerals as cheaply as possible.
	Whoever leads the country will be the king, and whoever funds the king rules.
	And they had the voting machines, which they wanted to bring in.
	The population, staunchly against it, called them the lying.
	What do they call them?
	Maybe in this report.
	They see them as not real.
	That's not the way to vote.
	And, of course, you don't want touchscreens anywhere.
	There's Ebola.
	But there's also that the reports from Agent France Press about the election doesn't even mention Ebola, if I can recall.
	Start in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where opposition leaders have slammed the postponement of elections.
	The country had been due to vote this Sunday in a poll it was hoped would end the two-year-old crisis over the future of President Joseph Kabila.
	On Thursday, DRC's Electoral Commission ordered the poll be put back a week in order to replace voting equipment lost in a warehouse fire.
	Alliance of Parties backing opposition.
	Wait for it.
	Kick her at the end.
	So that any further delay will not be accepted.
	We know very well that this delay has nothing to do with the reasons put forward by the electoral commission.
	They give us excuse after excuse, but one day they'll run out of excuses.
	And December 30th will put a stop to their excuses.
	Felix Cisiquetti told his supporters to remain calm in the next few days, but the 30th of December is a red line, according to the UDPS, a red line that shall not be crossed.
	Otherwise, the militants would take the matter in their own hands without waiting for the party's instruction, according to the Secretary-General.
	Meanwhile, on Friday...
	Joseph Olengankoy, the president of a government commission charged with monitoring the elections preparation, urged the authorities to accept the UN help to deploy voting materials across the country so that the election can be held on the 30th of December.
	Thank you.
	There have been varying accounts of the number of people on board and the number of casualties.
	So while PBS omits the fact that two-thirds of the voting machines burned in a fire and that people from the election committee died in a fiery plane crash and they had election forms on board, oh, it looks like they'll just vote on a march!
	Unbelievable.
	Yes.
	Really?
	That is PBS nowadays.
	I don't know what...
	Completely happened, but they've turned into a very, I think it's like not even on par with NBC News.
	Well, if they were NBC, at least it'd be something to laugh at.
	This is not even funny.
	Now, this may have something to do with China.
	This is what I keep referring to, but I really can't find anything that points to them directly or who the key...
	I mean, we're obviously a player in this fight.
	I don't know who we're with or what side we're on.
	But China is now moving into the next phase of their no-road, three-belt strategy.
	And because Kenya could not repay an infrastructure loan the Chinese had given to them, they now have taken possession of Kenya's main port.
	Economic hit, man.
	This is huge.
	Oh, they just do it differently.
	Yeah, no bloodshed.
	I mean, people will be hurt by this, but in general, just give them an offer they can't refuse, that they actually can't even fulfill, and then take over whatever you need.
	I didn't know they took over the pork.
	Yeah, it just came out over, yeah.
	Wow.
	Well, that should be interesting.
	The geopolitics in China and Africa is just fascinating.
	Yeah.
	So anyway, so maybe now is the time to send in troops for, you know, the Ebola issue?
	Yeah, it's not close enough to Kenya.
	Unless it's going the way we want it.
	I mean, it would have to be.
	Not for Kenya, but I mean for the Congo, for DRC. It probably is going the way we want it to go.
	I don't know what to put.
	The troops are probably just to serve some other function.
	I don't know.
	All right.
	Well, at least we're on it.
	Yeah, somebody is.
	Unlike PBS. PBS, man.
	Unbelievable.
	Then we have Wesley Clark showing up in the news again.
	He's probably going to run for president again.
	Well, that's an interesting point.
	A reminder about Wesley Clark, he told this story a few years after 9-11 about something that happened to him in the Pentagon two weeks after 9-11, where he received the following briefing.
	We call it the Wes Clark Seven.
	So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
	I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
	And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
	He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper, and he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meeting the Secretary of Defense Office today, and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
	So that was the plan.
	That plan is probably still on the books.
	But here he is, speaking of the pullout, which of course he would be staunchly against, although Syria wasn't on his list.
	He understands how the neocon war machine works, and he's a part of it.
	General, let me start with you.
	CNN reporting that the abrupt decision to withdraw from Syria that started this cascading event occurred after the president spoke with Turkish President Erdogan and essentially said, take it.
	It's yours.
	We're out.
	Turkey is part of the NATO coalition that you once led.
	How concerned are you about this process, or lack thereof, and the essential giving, seeding of influence to Turkey and presumably other actors in Erdogan's orbit?
	Well, I'm very concerned because there doesn't seem to be any strategic rationale for the decision.
	And if there's no strategic rationale for the decision, then you have to ask, why was the decision made?
	I can tell you that people around the world are asking this.
	And some of our friends and allies in the Middle East are asking, well, did Erdogan blackmail the president?
	Was there a payoff or something?
	What is it?
	Why would a guy make a decision like this?
	Because all the...
	Did Erdogan blackmail the president?
	Was there a payoff to the president?
	Recommendations were against it.
	And it looked like that all the facts are against it, too.
	We're not quite finished with ISIS. We're not taking a lot of casualties over there.
	The Kurds have been reliable allies.
	It's costing us billions.
	Millions!
	We're taking huge casualties.
	The American taxpayer.
	Right now.
	And this is the matter that's of most concern, or should be of most concern to us, is what does this say about the foreign policy of the United States?
	That we're not reliable?
	That we make strategic decisions based on no strategic logic?
	What kind of person's driving the helm?
	That's the issue.
	But this is a political issue, not a military issue.
	Jim Mattis took a political post in this administration.
	His job was to support the President of the United States when all the chips were down.
	He couldn't do it.
	He left.
	Trump's now replaced him.
	All that is in accordance with the way it should be.
	The odd man.
	What?
	Everything's in accordance with the way it should be.
	What's your complaint?
	You see, I wasn't quite sure exactly.
	I mean, is this the truth wants to come out?
	Let's just listen to that last bit again.
	I found it incomprehensible.
	Not a military issue.
	Jim Mattis took a political post in this administration.
	His job was to support the President of the United States when all the chips were down.
	He couldn't do it.
	He left.
	Trump's now replaced him.
	All that is in accordance with the way it should be.
	Interesting.
	That must be a truth should come out thing.
	I'm not quite sure.
	Okay, what he may be saying is Mattis is out and that's the way it should be.
	We need him out of there.
	For something else, or we needed the other guy in?
	No, Mattis is not getting any work anywhere.
	I mean, I made it very clear in the newsletter, and I'll reiterate this.
	One of the points, he was a board member and made a big point of being a board member, of getting on the board of Theranos, perhaps the biggest scam In Silicon Valley history.
	And he's on the board of directors, this guy.
	And that's because, and I kind of accused him of being a sucker for the blondie that ran the place.
	It was an eye batter, you know, with the big, you know, I have a deep voice in what that means.
	I'm sexy.
	And so, and on top of that, you know, you have to remember, this guy is a bachelor.
	He He proposed to one woman ever, and she, at the day of the wedding, or just before the wedding, she called it off.
	What?
	I didn't know this about Mattis.
	Yeah, he's never been married.
	Eternally heartbroken.
	Five foot nine, so he's got a Napoleonic complex.
	And he is not a guy that you should just assume not have him even working in a position of authority like that.
	Because he's unstable?
	Because he got dumped?
	Yeah.
	Well, he got dumped on his wedding.
	He got run around by Elizabeth Holmes and made a fool out of himself.
	He should have never gotten a position of any sort after that experience.
	Right.
	What's he doing there?
	I couldn't see through this scam that he was dealing with.
	Well, the problem with Theranos is that a lot of guys like that got scammed, including Colin Powell.
	He was in that group as well on the board.
	Yeah, guys who were susceptible to some blondie.
	You know, bleach blonde, let's make that clear, who likes to manipulate men.
	Hey, middle-aged men, very susceptible to this if they're, you know, any bit, you know, feeling their oats, as it were.
	Let's see who else.
	Let me just look at this board again.
	Let's see who was on.
	Let's see who else is unfit.
	Yeah, I believe anyone who was on that board is unfit to have any position of authority.
	It's a mark of the devil.
	You're out.
	Riley Bechtel of the Bechtel Group, Economic Hitmen.
	David Boies.
	The lawyer.
	Boyce, Schiller, and Flexner.
	Yeah, old, older guy.
	William Fouge, former director of CDC. Richard Kovacevic, Wells Fargo, another crook.
	No, you can't call him a crook.
	What?
	I said you can't call him a crook.
	No, okay.
	I can't call him a crook.
	Was running a crap organization.
	Yes.
	Can I say that?
	Yes.
	Okay, thank you.
	Don't want to get sued.
	Fabrizio Bonanni?
	Amgen?
	Well, that makes sense.
	And then Mattis.
	So he was really, the board is much smaller than I thought.
	At least that was the 2016 board.
	Yeah, it may have been bigger earlier.
	Because I was quite sure that Colin Powell was on there.
	Well, I think he has some association.
	You know, Tim Draper did.
	He was in love with her.
	Was.
	Was.
	He still thinks she can make a comeback.
	I know he does.
	This is true.
	Guys, a little out of it.
	What a character.
	Fantastic.
	Meanwhile, the Washington Post is doing their job to make Trump look bad in this.
	A headline in Syria, Assad's government is doubling down on executions of political prisoners.
	Of course.
	Atrocities!
	We need another Doctors Without Borders chemical attack.
	Well, the last time there was a Doctors Without Borders thing, I think it was our troops that blew one of their hospitals to the smithereens.
	Remember that?
	Yep.
	The big...
	One of the big planes that has a lot of guns on one side.
	Kept circling it and pounding it.
	Ah, the old big plane gun.
	Big plane with guns.
	Gunship, also known.
	Turkey also now making all kinds of moves against Greece, making noise.
	There's so much going when it comes to the...
	We don't even know how much of this is accurate, though.
	Of what?
	Of all these news reports.
	Turkey's doing what with Greece?
	Well, here's the issue.
	The issue is, and I think, as always, it's all about the energy and the pipeline.
	So we know that Israel wants their pipelines to come up through Greece.
	They're, you know, they're Leviathan Field.
	Turkey is in bed with Russia for all of this, and they want their Turk stream to be, you know, the thing that brings everything in.
	They want to stop at all costs.
	And some of them are talking about, you know, airspace, who owns Cyprus, you know, all this crap.
	It's just It's the same stuff they always do, but they're making noise and they'll probably position ships in the region.
	Or blow up a pipeline.
	Meanwhile, Poland, I don't know if we talked about it, Poland has now signed their third agreement with U.S. liquefied natural gas for their country instead of taking gas from Russia through Ukraine.
	I don't know what the...
	You know, the polls do anything to get a better visa deal with us, I guess.
	I gotta tell you, that's the one thing that Trump really...
	I don't understand why he won't let the polls be a part of ESTA. You can just visit the U.S. with a quick online form.
	He promised it.
	Yeah.
	But somehow...
	He's getting pushed back from someone.
	A lot of people say it's the Israelis.
	Mm-hmm.
	That would be Pachenik's conclusion as well.
	But, hey, Trump's done enough favors for the Israelis.
	He can do this favor for the polls.
	Who's going to tell?
	Are the Israelis going to turn on us if that deal's done?
	Come on.
	No, I don't think so.
	So what I have seen in the mainstream...
	By the way, how was your Christmas?
	Was it good?
	Were you guys all together?
	Were you up there?
	Were there people down there?
	What did you do?
	No, everybody's scattered around, so our Christmas is coming in about five days.
	Oh, yes.
	The Dvorak's always celebrating on a different date for every occasion.
	You guys kill me.
	Merry Christmas.
	Go and get some sales.
	Will you have the tree up and everything still when you all get together?
	Yeah.
	Oh, great.
	Interesting.
	The news is, and I think it's a mistake, but they believe it's the way to go for ratings.
	They're now all pivoting, after our end-of-year retrospectives, all pivoting to 2020.
	It's all about who's going to be running for 2020.
	They believe that political news, and I'm talking about the three big mainstream M5M news channels, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox, that's all they seem to be able to talk about.
	Three bees and a camel toe.
	That's right, everybody.
	That's who's running.
	Bernie, Biden, Beto, and Kamala Harris.
	Yeah, well, that's four of them.
	In fact, of course, we have dozens of people running on both sides because people think they can take out Trump.
	So we have losers like Kasich.
	Who's going on about how he's going to run because he doesn't think this president's doing well and the public wants him.
	I mean, these guys, I've never seen so many delusional people.
	The only person that really, if we're going to go, you know, it's the, well, if Trump can win, anyone can win.
	I can win.
	You don't realize that Trump has been, has a high profile character that can win.
	He gets votes because he's so high profile.
	The only person like that is Oprah.
	And people say, well, Oprah can run and beat him.
	There's another one.
	Tom Hanks?
	I think he could do it.
	I think he could do it.
	Well, here's the problem with Oprah.
	We know of Trump wanting to run for president since the 80s.
	He's always talked about it.
	Interestingly, with the same agenda about China, it has not wavered when it comes to that.
	It doesn't waver much.
	Oprah was never shown any interest in it at all, so she'd be forced into it.
	So she's not going to do it.
	Tom Hanks, it's a lark.
	He doesn't want to go through the grind of it, especially a Hollywood character with all the luggage those Hollywood people have.
	It would be miserable.
	right But what I'm saying is the media has already chosen on the Democrat side.
	They've chosen.
	They had to take a stand because it's part of the strategy to block Hillary.
	Yeah, and every story I've seen is followed by 70% of Democrats don't want Hillary anywhere near the word run.
	Yeah, which is a lie.
	That's a lie.
	People who are screaming in the streets after Trump won and were gathered at Javits and were in tears afterwards, they don't hate Hillary now.
	Right.
	Rand Paul...
	They're just...
	This is a scam...
	I'm not going to use it again.
	This is a fraud.
	Yes.
	Hillary is probably the leading candidate, if you ask me.
	Hmm.
	That's interesting.
	Well, she has yet to raise her ugly head.
	Look how long it took the first time, because if she doesn't raise her ugly head for a long time, she gets to gather a lot of money, and that money goes in a different account.
	So if she doesn't win anything, that money still is hers.
	Yeah.
	I agree, though.
	I have not seen the candidate that would make it work.
	Biden...
	Four years ago.
	I mean, it's all about appearance, and I'll say it again.
	That's how we elect our presidents.
	We buy our soap.
	It's all the same way.
	It's got to look pretty, make you feel nice and white afterwards.
	Give you a nice smile.
	Well, if you remember the guy, the CIA, ex-CIA guy who wrote that behind-the-scenes book in the White House.
	Yeah.
	Biden during the waning years of the Obama administration slammed Biden for being wrong on every single topic.
	Biden hasn't got a prayer.
	It doesn't really matter.
	The president doesn't have to be right, especially if you're running.
	You're a sales guy.
	It's a sales guy and a poppy or a mommy.
	Yeah, you have to sell past the media.
	It's a real problem.
	Rand Paul, I think, is going to make another run.
	I think he just does that to keep his profile high.
	Well, he's changed something.
	He's now honing his tweeting skills.
	I'm not kidding.
	Look at his Twitter feed.
	He's standing on a beach next to a bunch of sticks.
	Looks like a bonfire, but I guess you could say it looks like a teepee.
	And his tweet is, I came to say happy festivus to my friend Elizabeth Warren, but I can't find her.
	I mean, he's trolling.
	He's going after Warren.
	That's a direct hit.
	Let's see, what was the other one?
	That's Speaking of criminal justice reform, I have to give Jared Kushner credit.
	He was great on this, and I'm glad I got to know him because before that I was a bit suspicious he was the kid from the Omen movie all grown up.
	I mean, this is...
	That sounds like it's professionally written.
	He may have a writer.
	He has a writer.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	So he's making fun of Ted Cruz, posting memes of Cruz with a crazy beard.
	I think he's testing his Twitter skills.
	That is where the 2020 election will be fought, of course, or whatever.
	On the Twitter field.
	Yeah, on Twitter.
	That's where you win.
	Rules are changed, and he at least seems to understand that I don't think he has it in him.
	I've always liked him, kind of.
	Well, he's such a passive as the public will never go for it.
	We've been sold, the American public has been sold on a bill of war.
	Here's Gillibrand on the Van Jones show on CNN. Yeah, she wants to run.
	Oh, she does, but she kind of cuts herself out in an odd way.
	I have a vision for America about what's right in the world.
	I do believe we should fight for each other's kids as hard as we fight for our own.
	I do believe that we should restore the...
	Let me ask you a question.
	What is the issue with saying, I do believe?
	What's the difference between you saying, I do believe, and saying, I believe?
	Someone would say that because they have the feeling, idea, or perhaps proof that someone thinks you don't believe that.
	But there's no evidence of that.
	She's just saying, I do believe.
	The reason it galls me, I see a lot of professional athletes, many of whom are borderline, if not illiterate.
	Despite their college degrees.
	Rarely.
	Most of them quit college because they go to the pros and make all these millions, unlike the suckers who stay in school.
	There you go, kids.
	There you go.
	There's Uncle John telling you like it is.
	So they're borderline illiterate.
	They say, I do believe.
	Well, so does Jill Brand.
	I have a vision for America about what's right in the world.
	I do believe we should fight for each other's kids as hard as we fight for our own.
	I do believe that we should restore the golden rule and actually care about one another.
	And I do believe no matter what block you grow up on, you should have a chance to live up This is a big thing.
	This block you grow up on or zip code you grow up in.
	And I hear this everywhere.
	This poor kid.
	You'll hear the music.
	This poor child, if only were born in one zip code over, would have had a very different life.
	As if the physical place...
	My sister was born in Uganda.
	On January 1st, 1967.
	So you tell me.
	That's a bad zip code.
	That's not a good zip code to grow up in, for sure.
	So anyway, there's a lot of that.
	You should have a chance to live up to your God-given potential, and that means good schools, better public schools, debt-free college, things that really make opportunity possible.
	Debt-free college, another zinger.
	I missed that the first time.
	Oh, that's a good way of putting it.
	That's a great campaign line.
	I believe in debt-free college.
	Because you kind of just, yeah, hell yeah.
	I believe in debt-free homes.
	I believe in a debt-free car.
	Debt-free college, things that really make opportunity possible.
	So I have that vision.
	And so the question is, do I do that from a presidential platform or do I do it from the U.S. Senate?
	And that is the question I will decide very soon.
	We got a poll we should put up at some point.
	I did notice in that poll that the top three were, I think, Biden, Bernie, and Beto.
	Three Bs and all white guys.
	In a party as diverse as ours, does it worry you to see the top three being white guys?
	Yes.
	I hate white guys.
	Why?
	Why?
	I aspire for our country to recognize the beauty of our diversity at some point in the future.
	And I hope someday we have a woman president.
	I love the fact that Barack Obama was our president for eight years.
	I hope more people of color not only aspire and win the presidency, because that's what makes America so extraordinary, that we are all of that.
	We are everything.
	And I think a more inclusive America is a stronger America.
	What is interesting to me is here's Van Jones on CNN, the actual organization who has pre-chosen the three B's.
	It's not like there's no one else running.
	All we hear about is the three B's and the camel toe.
	That's all we hear about, three B's.
	Instead of saying, oh, it's the party.
	No.
	Yes, CNN, maybe you should include some other people on your list to give them some exposure.
	Yes, it is.
	I agree.
	WAPO, Times, CNN. CNN just, I mean, they went all in very quickly.
	And they seem to have dropped Kamala Harris.
	Two years before, give me a break.
	It's ridiculous.
	I'm telling you, even the MH17 flight that was lost, after a year, CNN finally just had to give up.
	I mean, this is too much.
	You can have too much of one type of programming.
	The public will not...
	Look, we've been in television a long time, John.
	If you switch and every channel you go to is election this, election that, it's going to get old.
	Ratings will slip.
	Yeah.
	I agree.
	But maybe it's all just a deal-making stage for the ads.
	Yeah.
	Hey, look, we've been really good to you guys.
	We've done the three B's.
	You know, you might be right.
	It's almost like the network news people.
	I've said this before.
	We've talked about it on the show.
	Oh, those network news.
	It's only old people who watch those news things.
	It's a dying audience.
	Although nobody takes into account that new people are getting old, but that's okay.
	It's a dying audience.
	It's terrible.
	No, the network news folk, Appeal to the oldsters because they have ads for them specifically.
	Yes.
	Lots of drug ads, aches and pains ads, you know, incontinence ads, all the stuff that old people need.
	So it's not like they're doing it, they're screwing up.
	And what's interesting is that the derivative of the audience they're talking to is And what I mean by that is little clips that show up on social media.
	That's kind of a bonus.
	You know, they know they can't with a straight face say to any ad agency or media buyer, yeah, we got 18 to 24.
	We're right here in the pocket.
	They can't say it because no one will believe them.
	It's not true.
	They can say, look, we got 55 plus and it's a big market for pharma.
	And the derivative is just what is posted online and circulates around.
	The people who are looking at this are not watching those channels.
	They're just taking the snippets and throwing it into the outrage machine and feeding back.
	It's part of the big loop.
	It's really quite genius.
	That's how they make money.
	They make a lot more money than we do.
	Now, before we take a break, I'd like to get your take on the gyrations in the financial markets, because the funniest thing I saw over Christmas was a tweet from the president after we closed Christmas Day with, you know, two days, was it three days down in a row, and oh, horrible, worst Christmas close ever.
	The president said, After Mnuchin has called the Working Group on Financial Markets to see how they're doing with cash, last time we used that name, we called them by their nickname, the Plunge Protection Team.
	Oh, that's right.
	I forgot about the plunge protection team.
	The working group on financial markets.
	That is the plunge protection team.
	Yeah.
	So he called them.
	Oh, this is everyone into a, you know, no Santa rally.
	Let's put it like that.
	And then the president the next day tweets, if I were you, I'd buy the dip.
	My mind exploded.
	He's doing BTFD. Buy the dip, everybody.
	And it shoots up 1,000 points the next market day.
	I think 1085, something like that.
	It was the most in history.
	That was fantastic.
	He is the stock whisperer.
	Of course, you had to sell at the end of the day.
	Otherwise, you get screwed.
	I'm sure it's down today.
	No doubt.
	Look.
	I'm sure it is.
	I'm sure it is.
	I think it was down 300 or 400 points at open this morning.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Did you find it?
	Well, the best I've heard, the best commentary I've heard was down 396.
	396, yeah.
	The best commentary I've heard was from some real old-timer who was on one of these financial station shows, and he says, this is...
	It's computer trading.
	It's just the way it works nowadays.
	You have a downward trend for a little while.
	The computers all jump on it and they position themselves that it's going to go down.
	You know what it is?
	It's algorithmic amplification.
	This is exactly what it is.
	He says it's gotten exaggerated.
	It's more exaggerated than ever because the computers will push it way down and then it starts to go up.
	And then they all go nuts, the computers, in a matter of form.
	They all go nuts and things skyrocket.
	And then it goes down, it goes up, it goes down.
	It's crazy.
	This is like, seems like the perfect time if you have any clue about how the How it's actually working.
	As a day trader, you should be able to make millions of dollars a year.
	But you get off cycle, you're done.
	Yeah, you're done.
	I think you can do it on indexes, but individual stocks is a little more complicated because there's probably five basic algos.
	I've studied some of them.
	And some really dumb that'll just go on a certain time of day if they're in upward motion.
	But obviously, they will suppress true pricing.
	I think algorithmic amplification may be the only thing today's algorithms are really good at, no matter what it is.
	That's what we've seen on the social media networks.
	Like, what do the algos do?
	This is a good point, because this actually stems from the fractal of semiconductors.
	And one of the greatest things semiconductors could do is amplify.
	Yeah, it is a fractal.
	It's either compression or amplification.
	They could do that, too.
	Yes, because the world...
	And you're Mr.
	Compression.
	Yeah.
	Well, there's different kinds of compression, but compression in time, abstraction of operations, anything that can be compressed, it's in our human DNA, almost, to want to compress things.
	But the amplification part...
	Yeah, that is truly what computers do.
	Amplify.
	Compress, decompress.
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	Modulate, demodulate.
	Well, here's Rick's...
	Binary, man.
	Binary.
	Hey, baby.
	Up, down.
	Up, down.
	It's binary, man.
	There's nothing else to it.
	Rick Santelli from CNBC had his own take on this.
	Paulson is the Treasury Secretary during the crisis.
	You know, at first they were going to borrow three-quarters of a trillion dollars to buy toxic assets.
	That never materialized.
	It morphed on the fly.
	Things could get messy.
	I can't believe some of the nuances, though.
	Really, they can't understand that anybody would be worried about liquidity.
	I'll tell you what.
	Go visit any major FCM in this business and ask them how many hours a day they're putting in.
	When markets are moving like this.
	Or talk about margin and leverage.
	Or how many times Treasury Secretary Mnuchin was concerned about market structure.
	All the articles beginning in December.
	Listen, I understand every nuance is the wrong nuance because the message isn't really any of these individual thoughts or what the Treasury Secretary is saying.
	The issue is quite simple.
	The central banks of the world propped up the stock market to a point where it can't sustain itself during normalization.
	And normalization of only a few of the participants in the grand liquefied scheme of things.
	That is the main issue the markets have to contend with.
	And they can point blame at whatever they want.
	There's an old industry that does that.
	And this president certainly doesn't get the benefits of much of that.
	What did he actually say?
	I have no idea.
	I mean, I kind of was catching it.
	And then at the end, he talks about the president doesn't get something.
	And I don't know what he meant by that.
	I don't know.
	I think our thesis here is actually quite a good one, because at the end of the year, there's always stuff going on.
	There's pension, institutional rebalancing.
	Thank you, chat room, troll room.
	There's a number of things, but it's the algorithmic amplification that gives you these wild swings.
	And we can probably look to see, this is something we need to be on the lookout for.
	Anywhere an algorithm is running, let's see if we can find the amplification, or over-amplification, Because eventually something has to break.
	Yeah, amplification for amplification's sake is not the way to go.
	That's why audio amplifiers need a preamp with a volume control on it.
	You can stick your stuff into the amp straight up and then it just gets blasted.
	You blow your house up.
	But if you have a preamp, which is a little controller that says, hey, I'm going to give you a little bit of this juice, not all of it, then it calms it down.
	We don't have a preamp for the economy.
	Interesting.
	The Fed, I guess, would want to be the dial-turner?
	The dial, the volume control.
	Yeah, the volume control.
	I guess that's what they feel their role is, you know, turn up interest rates, turn them down, or inflate the money supply.
	There's no tone control.
	There you go.
	And with that, I'd like to say in the morning to you and thank you to the man who put the C in compression, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, I want to thank you.
	And I want to thank all the boots on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water, and all the names of knights out there.
	Eight in the morning to the troll room.
	Let me see how many trolls we got here today.
	Let me just do a quick little scan.
	Wow!
	896!
	That's not bad for a Christmas week.
	Welcome to my show!
	And, again, lots of art.
	We chose this one because it was a nice illustration.
	It was the White House and a bunch of protesters in comic strip blogger True Form with his comic strip drawing.
	And they were holding up protest signs such as, Peace sucks!
	Stop peace!
	Trump, do war not!
	More war!
	Let's do war!
	And it was very appropriate, I think, for the episode.
	There was other art, I think, that...
	There was some art that was okay.
	It was good.
	It wasn't great.
	But I personally like this one because it had the tone that we're bitching about, which is all these Democrats, and you just proved that with some earlier clips, all these peaceniks that want war.
	Six for war was the only sign he left out.
	Yeah, he's not American enough to know that one.
	But it was good.
	We appreciate it.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	We always love looking at all the art.
	The art is available for anyone to see.
	It is a part of the value-for-value system that we started here, and we appreciate the value that Comics Your Blogger brought to the show with his art.
	Well, we do have a few people to thank, including three Whoppers at the beginning of the list that came in with $1,000 plus.
	Whoa!
	Yeah.
	Let's start with Sir Anonymous China.
	Wait a minute.
	Do I know the Anonymous China?
	I don't think so.
	I don't think I've ever heard of the Anonymous China.
	No, he's a knight.
	He's a knight.
	He's been a knight.
	Yes.
	But we don't know who he is.
	I haven't heard from him for a while.
	I don't think he was at the meetup, but he's in San Ramon, California, so could easily become a member of the meetup.
	1098.
	Whoa!
	We have not had an episode club member in a long time.
	It's been a number of months.
	This being episode 1098.
	I also noticed, by the way, I did the pre-stream art.
	It is 1098.
	As we count down the year, 1098.
	Ooh, 7654321.
	Yes, exactly.
	Anyway, back to our anonymous China.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	Sir, anonymous China here.
	I've been a long time, believe it or not, I'm still a loyal listener to your show since twice a week after seven years.
	This donation is for show 1098, but besides the obvious reason, another way to think about the amount is that it's almost tax time again, and form 1098 is Is the taxation form the IRS slaves like me need to submit to deduct some of our mortgage interest from our income?
	Well, I'm crazy.
	Well, I'm working hard every...
	Oh, I see crazy in the next line.
	While I'm working hard every day to support my family and the house we bought, your shows really help me stay mentally healthy and have a sense of humor dealing with this crazy world.
	Wish you both a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
	Title change for me, Knight to Baronet.
	Wow, Sir Anonymous China.
	Thank you very much.
	This is fantastic.
	What a great Christmas present.
	It's appreciated and we're happy you are mentally healthy.
	The second big donor is Anonymous with $1,000.
	He says, anonymous Christmas donation, first time donation from one of the many anonymous Aussie listeners.
	Huh.
	So I humbly request a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Huh.
	No jingles, no comment.
	Anonymous Aussie listener.
	This brings up an issue.
	Okay.
	He's now a knight, if he wants to be, but he says nothing about it.
	So...
	Do we just ignore this knighthood?
	What have we done in the past?
	I thought the Peerge Committee had worked this out many years ago.
	I thought they did too, but I've lost the memo.
	All right, well, we'll just let it slide.
	But thank you.
	But thank you very much.
	If he comes up with the title he wants.
	Yes.
	Or it could just be Sir Anonymous.
	The trouble is there's too many of those.
	Sir Mark Milliman in Longmount, Colorado, 1000.
	He wrote an email, and he donates all the time.
	Yes.
	Let's see if there's anything here we need to know.
	Oh, yeah.
	I have it.
	I've loaded it up on the screen.
	Morning, gents, from the high stoner lands of Boulder County.
	It's in Colorado, of course.
	Yeah.
	coming through today.
	It should be in the box by Christmas Eve at the latest.
	And it's in memory of my father who passed away on November 9th from complications due to colorectal cancer.
	Oh, geez.
	F cancer, he says.
	I think I'll take the executive producership, but this donation is for my father.
	Okay.
	I think I hit him.
	I think I hit barren, but I cannot find all the receipts and I really don't pay that much attention because it's more important to keep the show alive.
	Uh, Also, I receive tremendous value from it.
	So the value for value model works.
	The show means so much to me because it embodies what my father taught me about questioning what I see and hear and not to take things at their face value.
	Technically, I guess I'm a baronet since I know I'm a knight, and this doubles the amount.
	The other thing is, I like the way he's kind of frustrated by his knowledge.
	He slips it in and out.
	He's in and out of consciousness.
	That's great.
	The other changes given since then was 100 here, 100 there.
	No jingles, no karma.
	I don't waste time with the jingles or note.
	Well, I'd like to do an F cancer.
	Yeah, we'll do that for sure.
	Let me do it now.
	Everyone's talking about it.
	You've got karma.
	For anyone who needs it.
	Thank you very much, Sir Mark Milliman.
	Why don't you let us know if you have a protectorate, if you are a baron, and we'll gladly upgrade you.
	There's no rush.
	No, it goes on.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I do not need karma, but I do need karma because I need this satellite deal to come through or else I'll need job karma.
	Your last Sunday show was right on target with my assignment of the Huawei, with my assessment of the Huawei situation.
	I already explained another component of the Fuck Trump in China plan from the deep state.
	These elitist assholes don't care who they ruin, but Boeing, SpaceX, Hughes, and the others are involved in it, so they are messing with the big boys, except for Elon, who is just a little boy.
	He's in the business.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	He's up in that area, you know.
	Yes.
	I hope you two have a Merry Christmas with your respective families.
	Thank you for covering these beats so I don't have to.
	My amygdala can't handle the M5M at all in its current form, including Fox News and WSJ. I always see so much more when I read or watch anything from the M5M. Yeah.
	Thanks to us.
	Adam, I hope your theory about AOC is wrong.
	I know she provides great source for the show, but she is an idiot.
	There is no simpler or nicest way to put it.
	The problem is that many of the millennial idiots think she's a genius.
	Let the fucking of Hillary began.
	I know Bernie recognizes that his political life is ending, so he will pump up AOC. It should be entertaining.
	It should be an entertaining ride.
	We need to give him satellite karma.
	Yes, and that, of course, is the bottom line.
	As long as it's an entertaining ride for the No Agenda show and our network, we don't care.
	Sir Mark Milliman, I know exactly what he does.
	I know why he wants the satellite karma, and I really hope it works.
	Here you go.
	You've got karma.
	We have some of the most amazing people in our audience.
	Did you see the great Twitter thread?
	The no agenda selfie thread on Twitter?
	No.
	Oh man, I think, who started off?
	Two of our producers, I think in Colorado, and then everyone was doing really close-up selfies of half your head, and we got some interesting looking people.
	Well, that's a fact.
	Oh, my goodness.
	It was great, though.
	You know, Sir Chris, of course, with his, you know, his washed up on the beach, you know, been on a desert island for 30 years.
	Everyone jumped in on it.
	Look at this thread, because people, we got good lookers.
	You know, Illuminatia in her lab coat.
	I mean, it was just fun to see everyone working on the day after Christmas and where they were and what they were doing.
	I don't know.
	It was something about...
	What people would call community, but what I call our Valley for Valley Network, or the network.
	It was fun.
	Yeah.
	Okay, now we have an interesting one.
	Kyle from Cincinnati, 799.88, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
	Ah, right.
	He actually...
	Let me reach over.
	Hold on a second.
	Yeah, reach around.
	I'm reaching around, reaching around.
	Always good for the dirty little jibe.
	That's what you do.
	Okay.
	I don't think...
	You know, he sent a check-in.
	And he has some...
	I don't know.
	I don't really have anything.
	Shall I go back to my dirty jibes then again to entertain people?
	Go back to your dirty jibes.
	While you look, why don't I read a quick note?
	We're moving on.
	He just sent a check with, I think, just no jingles or something along those lines.
	I got a kick out.
	He's Kyle from Cincinnati, but he's in Chapel Hill.
	It's all right.
	If he wants to say something, he does.
	Thank you very much, Kyle.
	Michael Halby.
	I'm sorry.
	Michael Halby.
	Michael Halby in Marion, Louisiana, Iowa.
	Marion, Iowa.
	33333.
	These are all executive producers, by the way.
	This donation completes my knighthood.
	Joining my father at the roundtable.
	Been listening to the best podcasts in the universe since episode 50.
	Also a listener of the Daily Source Code way back before iTunes had podcast support.
	And when I was still in high school, I even remember John on Silicon Spin way back in the ZDTV days.
	I've been extremely fortunate this year, so it seems only appropriate to cap off the year completing my knighthood.
	Merry Christmas.
	Happy New Year, Michael.
	Oh, Michael, thank you so much.
	You know, it's interesting, those old days, the old days back in the...
	I guess it's kind of a theme, you know, with the old advertisements that you put in the newsletter.
	Oh, yeah, if you didn't see the newsletter, you missed out.
	That's for sure.
	But someone sent me...
	I'll just play...
	You tell me when you want me to stop.
	A clip of you, which I think is from the 80s, and you were being interviewed about viruses...
	Can I play a little bit?
	Just as a...
	I'm interested.
	Now why do hackers plant viruses?
	What kind of guys are these?
	We visited computer columnist John Dvorak to learn more about...
	Whoa!
	Where's the C? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
	What's up with that?
	Yeah.
	The psychological profile of the virus hacker.
	They're young, they're mostly male.
	They probably like pizza and Coca-Cola.
	You can probably find them at a 7-Eleven.
	And they probably have weird hours, you know, they stay up real late.
	That may sound like the description of a typical teenager, but beware, because it may also be the picture of a typical computer hacker.
	According to the Computer Virus Industry Association, some 60,000 PCs across the country are infected by viruses every month.
	Hackers try to infiltrate the systems for a variety of reasons.
	For some, it's just a practical joke.
	Others may have a score to settle with a former boss.
	The real reason may be a whole lot simpler, but just as harmful.
	Here it comes.
	There's two things that make people create viruses.
	One is some peer group pressure.
	They're in a group that does this kind of stuff.
	The other one is boredom because maybe these people were employed.
	And actually, there are some people who are employed that create viruses.
	And there's just a cheap thrill of doing it and seeing what happens to your creation.
	It is a little bit like graffiti art in that regard.
	You know, throwing something up on the wall and then taking off before the police catch you.
	You know, it's not your wall.
	John, I love hearing this stuff.
	That's it, man.
	That's why hackers do what they do.
	Yeah.
	That was the hackers then, and then they decided they figured out they could make money, and that changed things.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, it's a very different situation.
	It's just funny.
	I mean, if you play some clips for me from MTV, I'll sound very stupid.
	Believe me.
	I'll get them.
	Yeah, you should.
	Hey, people out there, I know a lot of you have collected Adam's old MTV stuff.
	Send me some of the better stuff.
	There we go.
	It's not your wall, man.
	It's not your wall, man.
	Not your wall, man.
	It's pretty good.
	Randall, meanwhile, Randall Scheibel in Somerville, Massachusetts, came in with $333.
	I've been listening for the last nine months and I've decided to donate.
	Can I please get a de-douching?
	Yes, you can.
	You've been de-douched.
	I would also like to call out two of my friends, Mary and Brandon, who I've punched in the mouth and they still haven't donated.
	Oh, no.
	They need a douchebag.
	Yes.
	Douchebag.
	A double douchebagger.
	Douchebag.
	Can I get a two to the head?
	Respect from Al Sharpton, and thanks, Hillary.
	I appreciate all the work you guys do for the greatest podcast in the world, the universe.
	ITM, Randy from Somerville.
	Thanks, Hillary?
	Oh, I think I know what it is.
	Here we go.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T Thanks, Beyonce.
	You've got karma.
	Thanks, Beyonce?
	What was that?
	It was Hillary saying, thanks, Beyonce.
	Where did that come from?
	Let me play it again.
	I don't know.
	It's my new search system.
	It's bringing up interesting results.
	Thanks, Beyonce.
	What?
	That's our ISO right there.
	Thanks, Beyonce.
	Christopher Beattie, or Bede, 333 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to John Adam and the No Agenda family.
	I just read an article that joy from giving lasts much longer than joy from getting.
	Let me read that again.
	Joy from giving lasts much longer than joy from getting.
	So...
	I'm sorry to have to do this, but it's been far too long since my last donation.
	I know these podcasts don't make themselves.
	Many thanks, Chris Bede from Indianapolis.
	Thank you very much, Chris.
	That's so kind.
	Now we need a somebody's jingle.
	And you know what?
	I even looked ahead today just to make sure that I had everything lined up.
	Noose Bob!
	Noose Bomb!
	Noose Bomb. Noose Bomb. Virginia. 3-14-59.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	By the way, it's Van Steenbergen is our guy, our Marine.
	I mispronounced his name on the show.
	Archduke Nussbaum, happy Christmas and happy holidays to one and all.
	Make 2019 a rockin' great year.
	Love to all of the No Agenda Nation.
	Boom on the boners.
	Hugs for Adam and JCD. Now let's drink so we awake in 2019.
	I think he's already started.
	Random jingle, goat, no karma.
	Random jingle, goat, no karma.
	And boom shakalaka, brother!
	You got it.
	Oh, he said no karma, right?
	Hello?
	David Drew is in Henderson, Nevada.
	23456.
	And he emailed something to us.
	It's Uncle Dave on the old Dvorak blog.
	Oh, is that who that is?
	Yeah, Uncle Dave.
	He loves the show.
	Sir Uncle Dave, Knight of the Retired Old Farts here with a New Year's donation at 23456 and a personal thank you for what you two did for me this year.
	What was that you say?
	Actually, it should be what was that you ask.
	If you remember, at the beginning of April, Ouch.
	out of the car, I was airlifted to the hospital where I stayed for over a week.
	Holy crap.
	In the following months, I healed my battered body at what some of my doctors considered an amazing rate, which I attribute to the No Agenda Show.
	Wait a minute.
	Well, I don't always agree with your conclusions.
	By the way, people don't have to mention that to us because we know.
	Your studied analysis and commentary against the insanity of the M5M belches out quieted my amygdala so much so that I could concentrate on healing.
	That's an interesting theory.
	So he never got the swollen amygdala, and that could heal better instead of being all freaked out.
	There may be something to that.
	I think so, too.
	And I'm not normally buying into a lot of this, but I kind of think that's probably true, ever since we found out about the amygdala issue.
	Since I bet there are others who have been mentally healed by you, by the power invested in me, by me, I pronounce you doctors of deconstruction.
	Unlike my doctors, listeners can partake of your services without buying insurance, although a listener donation prescription is recommended.
	Of course, don't forget to list your doctorates on your LinkedIn profiles for when you find you need to get real jobs.
	Thanks, Dr.
	John and Dr.
	Adam.
	Keep up the needed healing work.
	No jingles, no k, because you've always supplied me with enough already.
	Thank you.
	Well, Dave, I think they're...
	This is very interesting.
	Doctors of...
	Hmm.
	Doctors of Deconstruction.
	Yeah.
	Next time I do a business...
	It's very similar to the way medicine used to work in the old days.
	The doctor, the town doctor, no one would pay him.
	He'd get value in return.
	Here's a chicken, I'll help you build your barn.
	It's a very similar system.
	They paid him.
	Not in Little House on the Prairie they didn't.
	The doctor was always out of money.
	Well, so are we.
	That's what I mean.
	So, exactly.
	It's the same.
	My point exactly.
	Thank you.
	James Williams, $220.46.
	Should complete my knighthood, may I be granted the title of Sir James Knight of the Paradise Star.
	I am thankful for the discussions of lesser covered topics, research performed for the show, and overall value of this product.
	Yes, this product is great.
	Jingles.
	Dark Side Yoko and Lone Wolf.
	Will do, and I'll see you at the podium later for your nighting.
	It's been too long.
	It's been too long since we played that one.
	Thanks for bringing it back.
	It's perfect with the wolf.
	Yeah.
	Roy Tinhava in Peenocker.
	Peenocker.
	Peenocker.
	$200.33.
	John and Adam, no long note, just a short thanks for all the awesome work you guys do and the entertainment and sanity you provide.
	Merry Christmas.
	Regards, Roy.
	Thank you, Roy.
	Thank you, Will.
	Pardon me, Roy.
	Is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?
	I've heard it differently.
	Is that the cat that shit on your shoes?
	That would be, again, the dirty version.
	Fakeologist!
	Our last associate executive producer is just fakeologist.
	And by the way, he obscured everything.
	I have no idea who this person is.
	He's fakeologist.
	I think I blocked him on Twitter.
	You did?
	I think so.
	I mean, there's a guy named Fakeologist who I... Yeah, I think I blocked and unblocked and blocked.
	He gets some people...
	Well, whatever.
	It doesn't matter.
	Does he have a note?
	Do we know anything about him?
	Yes, I have a note here.
	My blog, Fakeologist.com, is all about exposing media fakery.
	Every major media event...
	You can go check it out.
	...is a hyper-realistic drill portrayed as real, including 9-11.
	It was inspired by the least promoted video of all time, September Clues.
	Which shows that every bit of 9-11 video is prefabricated like a movie, including the 9 and 11 second collapse from footage of Towers 1 and 2.
	You can watch it on YouTube or on fakecollegist.com.
	Meanwhile, can you call out douchebag Simon Schack?
	Douchebag.
	Hoy Palloy.
	Douchebag.
	And Napoleon Wilson.
	Douchebag.
	Thanks for your great work and have a good 2019.
	Fake colleges.
	He wants the following jingles.
	Oh, yay.
	Yeah, I should have told you this earlier.
	Sorry.
	Obama stuttering.
	If.
	Stuttering if.
	If, if, if, if, if.
	Beautiful yum, which is going to be harder to find.
	We haven't used that for a while.
	I'm a rule follower.
	And Adam's favorite, WTC7 won't go away.
	And we, we!
	Okay, I think I have most of these.
	Let's give it a shot.
	If we fall for...
	Beautiful!
	Yum!
	I'm a rule follower, so if the rule is that we have to do it, then I'll do it.
	You've got karma.
	Excuse me?
	Debbie Doubter?
	Well, you didn't get the wee in there.
	Oh, I didn't hear that.
	I didn't understand he wanted the wee.
	Yeah.
	But that was fantastic.
	I'm surprised you could find those that fast.
	I bet you did.
	That's our last associate executive.
	There it is.
	There's the wee.
	I could have done the wee.
	Wee!
	Um...
	That's our last associate executive producer.
	I want to thank all these folks for being executive producers and associate executive producers and supporting the show, show number 1098, headed toward show 1100, which will be a special event.
	It's the first show of 2019.
	Yeah, that's coincidence?
	I think not.
	Well, I'm very happy with the gifts we've been given for the end of year, for Christmas.
	Anyone showing up at all, we never really know when you...
	Well, actually, we do know.
	This is very difficult to get people to do stuff in this Christmas break, and not only do we have people listening...
	We have people supporting the show, also with the other elements of our value-for-value system, with artwork, with jingles, with clips, with knowledge.
	It's also highly appreciated.
	And we'll thank more people in our second donation segment.
	Of course, just before the New Year's, we will have another show on Sunday.
	Remember us and support us at...
	Well, it's pretty easy today.
	You've got so much deconstruction, you can beat anybody.
	Just propagate it!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	I'm going to do something new today, a test, which won't affect anything before you get worried a test, which won't affect anything before you get worried about it.
	I'm not worried about it.
	Well, it's something with the publishing of the show.
	Believe me, you're worried.
	But it's completely separate.
	I've been following IPFS for a couple of years and have been messing around with it.
	IPFS stands for the Interplanetary File System.
	Yeah.
	And yesterday I did the ultimate test.
	Isn't this something that one of these, like...
	Tim Berners-Lee or one of these types of guys came up with?
	No.
	No, not at all.
	Who did it?
	I think the main guy is a kid from Stanford.
	Okay.
	And it's not in anyone's interest except us to have something like this running.
	I revisit these things from time to time to see if they're useful, and I've come to the conclusion that IPFS, the Interplanetary File System, is almost useful for large podcast distribution.
	Now, I'm not going to get into the way it works, but very nicely, Cloudflare has set up a gateway.
	In order for this to work, and it's a distributed file system, and of course, the internet is the cloud, and everyone's hosting your files, and a lot of stuff that you've heard before, but this one seems to be something that can get legs because they've incorporated it into blockchain.
	In fact, it's very similar to what GitHub does.
	It's a very similar type of systemology or system.
	So if you don't have the software running to basically a little local server to use the...
	Because it's just a hash instead of a full URL. You can use a public gateway and Cloudflare set up a public gateway for this.
	They did?
	Yeah.
	They said it's to stimulate, to stimulate.
	Now, in all these cases...
	Having a main front end or like a distribution network, even if you can distribute between other peers that are hosting the file that's being requested, it's not bad to have a system that can rotate amongst these public gateways for people who don't have them.
	Anyway, long story short, I've started a second RSS feed.
	It's completely separate.
	I've tested it.
	It worked.
	It'll be in the show notes, nashownotes.com or noagendashow.com.
	And if anyone wants to try it out, because pretty much I'm uploading a 120-meg file, which is the average size for our show, and it's going into the IPFS. I'm not hosting it.
	I'm hosting one original copy on my laptop.
	And everyone who subscribes to that should be able to...
	Receive it.
	And I'm just interested to see how well that works.
	It's a test.
	But I think it's an important one.
	Who's hosting it?
	Well, no one's hosting it.
	It just floats around as data in the cloud and then it gets picked off?
	Yeah.
	So in other words, it's freeloading.
	Well, it's no different, the freeloading, than torrents.
	Only you don't have to have a central tracker.
	As long as you have the hash of the file you're requesting...
	And that's what pushed me over the edge.
	I tweeted just a hash, not a URL, just a hash.
	I said, can anyone see this?
	And it was a hash for an image I'd drawn that said it worked.
	And a lot of people got it, and they knew how to retrieve it.
	I was like, okay, so there's enough out there to start testing.
	I know, just with all this deplatforming going on, there is stuff that's working.
	And I love trying to lead that charge because there's no money in this.
	There's no money anywhere.
	So somebody can't screw you.
	It's like podcasting.
	We've got to platform these guys because we're losing money because we're associated with them.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, can't do that.
	Well, good.
	I'm glad you're doing this.
	It's the last thing in the world I'd do.
	I don't trust any of this stuff.
	Yeah.
	Well, and there's interesting, because it's created with a blockchain, there's interesting ways you can add in payments for either hosting or storing some of it or for content.
	I mean, I'm not too interested in that part, but I am very interested in the ability to just share a file with anybody by dropping it into a folder on my...
	You know, it's the ultimate...
	Goal.
	It's like Dropbox.
	I was thinking Dropbox when you said that.
	Yeah, and it just came to me as well.
	It's pretty much like Dropbox.
	You throw it in, you copy the location, which is not a URL, and then anyone can go and get it.
	Now, the issue, of course, is you put something up there, there's no way for you to ever get it off, or it's unlikely.
	Because once copies are made, you're removing it, unlike Dropbox is not going to remove it, so you want to be careful what you put up.
	Anyway, that'll be a test, and I'd love to hear back from our dudes and dudettes named Ben and Benjamina and see if they had any success with that.
	And we'll continue to look.
	Huh.
	Well, good.
	Yeah, yeah.
	How about this drone story?
	This Gatwick drone story is something I'd like to talk about.
	Yeah, I have a long version of it.
	Because this...
	Now, as I understand it, Gatwick was shut down for at least 24 hours.
	36 hours.
	This is an outrage, an aviation outrage.
	It makes no sense.
	Someone is lying.
	I mean, there's a million ways to detect.
	They couldn't find it.
	There's no way to find a signal that was controlling the drone.
	I don't think there was even a picture of the drone.
	Well, it's going to sell some new products.
	Yes.
	I've noticed this as well.
	The drone dome security.
	Well, there's a couple of them.
	There's one domestic.
	There's one in Israel.
	Both of them are discussed in the drone threat.
	At airports report from NBC. With millions of Americans flying over these holidays, US officials tonight are growing increasingly concerned that our airports could face an illegal drone disruption like the one that shut down a major airport last week.
	NBC's Pete Williams now on the push to protect the skies.
	After struggling with dozens of drone sightings by shutting down operations twice, Gatwick Airport south of London finally brought in a system designed by an Israeli company to detect drones, according to British media.
	The challenge of keeping drones and planes apart is growing more difficult, and even accidentally bumping into a plane could be disastrous.
	A larger format drone, 10 to 15 pounds, could do a significant amount of damage to an airplane, and if it were close to the ground, it could result in loss of the airplane.
	Even more worrisome is the prospect of an intentional attack.
	ISIS terrorists overseas have been using hobbyist drones to carry explosives or drop small bombs.
	Congress has been slow to respond to the drone threat.
	It only recently gave the federal government authority to disable drones that fly into restricted airspace.
	And security experts say most airports are not prepared to deal with them.
	Salt Lake City's airport is monitoring two of its runways with a system to deal with potential drones made by a Utah company.
	It uses radar to detect them and dispatches a drone hunter to bring them down.
	The company's CEO says it's not just airports that are unprepared.
	When we go into stadiums, when we go to airports, there's fences, there's all sorts of checkpoints.
	And what we're learning now is that America needs to invest in airspace security just like ground security.
	It's a rapidly growing threat with two million drones estimated to be in the hands of American hobbyists by the end of 2019.
	I'm still not buying it.
	The drone killers are these drones that have nets and they just go get to the drone and throw a net on him.
	The one company I have is Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
	They make the drone dome.
	It has now been ordered by the UK. First customer for the counter-unmanned air system equipment.
	Yeah, that's the one I think was discussed.
	And of course they did find some saps and blamed it all on them and the media went wild and it turned out, oopsie, no it wasn't them.
	The couple arrested and later released without being charged for a drone disruption at Gatwick Airport in London last week.
	They are now speaking out for the first time.
	Paul Gates says they were treated very badly.
	As you can probably imagine, we're feeling completely violated.
	Our home has been searched and our privacy and identity completely exposed.
	Our names, photos, and other personal information has been broadcast throughout the world.
	See, and even their response was so odd.
	I have a different theory, though.
	Well, I would say, just a superficial theory, the company that makes the drone dome is the one who sent a drone in there, probably one that's not controlled.
	A lot of them nowadays, you can just program the drone to do stuff, and it goes out and does it and comes back home or goes someplace else or whatever you want it to do.
	And you go in there and you mess with them, and then you come in there with your sales guys and say, hey, look what we got.
	That would be the most superficial analysis.
	Listen, John, what's missing from this is evidence of any drone at all.
	What's missing from this is more than one aircraft reporting a drone.
	It did not happen.
	There's no recording of it.
	There's no one saying.
	There's drones about.
	Drones are all over airports.
	People are assholes.
	They fly these things.
	And I say that as an aviator.
	They fly these things everywhere.
	Airports do deal with this.
	And to shut down Gatwick for 36 hours can only be because of one thing.
	What?
	Unidentified flying object.
	Ah!
	Hooray!
	And I'm serious about that.
	I'm not saying it was a spaceship, but I think there was something unidentified.
	They couldn't figure it out, and they had to bring in a whole bunch of people, and we'll never hear about it.
	It was on radar?
	Because if there was visible, there'd be videos all over the place.
	No, man.
	UFOs don't show up on radar.
	Hello?
	Was this visible?
	What are you talking about?
	I think it was visible.
	I've seen a picture, which I don't think is...
	I mean, who the hell knows?
	I've seen a picture where something is flying there that looks like it might be some kind of disc-shaped object.
	I don't know, it could be a Frisbee for all I know.
	I'm saying this type of shutdown for 36 hours is not because we think someone's flying a drone around, which we haven't seen, have no pictures of, no radar, this ground radar.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	This was something much bigger.
	Well, it's not the Occam's Razor kind of analysis I gave.
	But that's not why people come to the No Agenda show, John.
	More will be revealed.
	Yes.
	So I was listening to all the mainstream news, and most of it was about scammers.
	Oh, really?
	You must have felt right at home.
	Sorry?
	You must have felt right at home.
	Yeah.
	Everything's a scam.
	Scam, scam.
	So, scam, scam.
	So, I've got two of these clips.
	One of them is, I think, educational.
	I think people will enjoy listening to it.
	But the other one is just like, what is this stupidity?
	This to me is a native ad for Netflix because the scam they're about to discuss is It's not even anything new or specific to Netflix.
	It's been going on with PayPal for decades.
	But play the Netflix CBS scam for dummies.
	The Federal Trade Commission warning Netflix customers about a new email scam.
	Criminals are posing as Netflix in these emails and asking recipients to confirm payment details.
	Experts say it's a good idea to avoid clicking on links and emails like this altogether.
	Best to log on to your Netflix account on the Netflix site.
	Yeah, that's not the most egregious of them.
	The one I am despising is the Amazon gift card.
	I have the gift card one, but it's not the Amazon gift card.
	This one here was a generic gift card scam.
	And Amazon was never mentioned.
	Oh, interesting.
	So it wasn't a native ad.
	In fact, it wasn't an ad for anything.
	I thought this was actually a...
	Mainly because Andrew Horowitz's father-in-law fell for this.
	Oh, brother.
	Yes, and apparently Andrew is beside himself.
	How bad did it get, what happened to all his stuff?
	I don't know, but it was something like $10,000 or something.
	Here's the gift card scammer.
	This is the rundown of how it works.
	I have more details from that.
	Before we play the report, here's my observation with the Amazon gift card scam.
	It comes in, you see the subject line, and it's...
	Oh, no.
	No, this is not email.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Okay, I have an email issue.
	Yours is different, you can tell us later, but it's not this.
	Gift cards are an increasingly popular holiday present.
	Turns out thieves like them too.
	Federal regulators say in the past three years, gift card fraud has jumped 270%.
	Tony DiCoppo spoke with someone who's been scammed.
	All the steps that were being done and taken...
	Trinidad Gonzalez says a man claiming to be her grandson called saying he was in jail and needed thousands of dollars immediately.
	He then put someone on the phone who posed as an attorney.
	You know, I was hesitant because that's a lot of money.
	But the caller said he would make it easy for the 76-year-old grandmother.
	He told her to purchase gift cards from Walmart and give him the numbers on the back of the cards.
	He warned her not to answer questions from store employees.
	They asked me, do you know where this money is going to?
	And I said, it's going to my grandchildren.
	That night she figured out her real grandson was at home in Virginia.
	By that point, Gonzalez, who had recently lost her husband, was out $4,000.
	And it was too much money.
	According to the Federal Trade Commission, 26% of victims paid scammers with a gift card between January and September this year.
	That's up from only 7% in 2015.
	It's a huge issue.
	Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
	Why wouldn't a scammer just ask for cash or a credit card number?
	Well, typically with cash, you'd have to have a meetup somehow, and so they don't want to create that risk.
	And on a credit card, that's much easier to trace and easier for the bank to shut down the money flowing to the scammer.
	Trinidad Gonzalez says she hopes her story will put others on high alert.
	I hope it helps somebody.
	Somebody who likes me, thinks they're smart enough not to fall for it, and to question things more, because I didn't question anything.
	Yeah, this one that happened with Horowitz's, I think his father-in-law.
	It wasn't his father's father-in-law.
	The kid was in Tijuana.
	Again, a grandson.
	Kid was in Tijuana.
	He just got busted.
	And he's got to get out of jail.
	Otherwise, he's going to have to spend a month in a Tijuana prison or something along those lines.
	Andrew's kid?
	No.
	It's one of the kids.
	I don't know whose kid it was.
	It was one of the grandkids somewhere in the family.
	I don't have the map of it.
	But it was one of these kids.
	Everyone knows who it is.
	And he has to get this money to him immediately.
	And so he went and did the same thing, same routine, and he sent all this money.
	Meanwhile, the kid is, you know, parked in Loveland, Colorado, or Fort Lauderdale or something.
	He's home all the time.
	No.
	And nobody bothered to call him or say, hey, you know, because he wasn't in Mexico at all.
	Wow.
	And so, of course, now you have to eat crap for the rest of your life for being a sucker, but...
	This apparently goes on, and it's a hit.
	Andrew is one of the people that's familiar with it.
	So people should know about this.
	His gift cards are dubious anyway.
	So what's the one you're talking about?
	The one I'm talking about is you get an email, and I get emails from Amazon.
	I still order some things through them.
	I'm really trying to curtail my purchases from Amazon.
	Evil Corp.
	So they'll send something about, oh, get your Amazon gift card.
	And it's something about the wording.
	It's sophisticated.
	The wording, even the return email address, which is what you usually want to look at.
	And I've gone so far as to load images on one of these.
	Because I have my images turned off because that's how they track.
	One of the many ways they can track if you've read their mail.
	And so, of course, the minute I turned on the images and I'm like, wait a minute, this isn't really from Amazon.
	I'd already signaled them that, hey, here's a sucker, send some more.
	And they keep changing the email address, and you don't really want to block the word Amazon, so it becomes a little complicated.
	It's a good one, though.
	I don't know that I've seen this.
	Yeah, it's like a $50 gift card if you fill out their survey.
	Where's this?
	Well, you log in with your Amazon credentials.
	Hello.
	Oh, you don't want to do that.
	You don't actually get a gift card.
	Surprise, surprise.
	Earlier, one of our producers in the donation segment talked about AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and how stupid she is.
	Idiot is the word he used.
	Idiot.
	You said idiot or stupid?
	Idiot.
	No, he said idiot.
	Right.
	Well, I think she's going to be very big in our future.
	I've said this before.
	And her Green New Deal is catching all kinds of steam.
	If she made it the Green Nuke Deal, I could actually get on board with that.
	But I don't know if she'll...
	Nuke's bad.
	Nuke is bad, according to the younger generation.
	But this constant...
	I mean, she is leading the charge of children who have been abused by their parents and by the media their parents consume.
	It's all around us.
	And the message, and I'm just reiterating for those of you who are new, who can come to us from this week in tech, that we're overlooking the children of being told they're going to die.
	You have ten more years before you die.
	The planet will be hell.
	Children in kindergarten are drawing pictures of the world as hell, a fiery hell, and we're all dead.
	And we're surprised by this.
	So to get us into the child abuse, which is, as I see it, This is the 15-year-old girl.
	This was at the end of the Poland Climate Summit.
	This is the 15-year-old Swedish girl.
	Just play that so you can hear the abuse that is taking place.
	A 15-year-old environmental activist from Sweden is scolding world leaders on what she says is their failure to address climate change.
	Greta Thunberg addressed the climate change summit that wrapped up in Poland on Saturday, and she didn't hold back.
	She accused the negotiators from nearly 200 nations of abandoning young people and stealing their future by refusing to commit to measures that will truly halt global warming.
	You are not mature enough to tell it like it is.
	Even that burden you leave to us children.
	But I don't care about being popular.
	I care about climate justice and the living planet.
	Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.
	Thunberg became a hero to many young environmentalists after she skipped school back in September to protest climate change outside the Swedish parliament.
	So this is...
	This is the girl I played the clip of last show.
	Yes.
	The show before.
	I know.
	That's why I said to reiterate.
	Ah!
	It's the key word.
	Now, so this type of abuse of this young girl, which is being propagated onto her peer group, and she's looking for climate justice, which I love that she's looking for that, has resulted in an affliction And the affliction needs to be dealt with.
	It is serious.
	A lot of kids have it.
	And it is called climate grief.
	If you pay attention to climate change news these days...
	This is NBC. It's pretty distressing.
	I don't know if I'm hopeful that we will avoid climate catastrophe.
	It seems like that window of time is rapidly closing.
	Climate catastrophe, another good one.
	Hold on, I gotta write the climate catastrophe.
	Marcella Mulholland is 21 years old.
	She's a college student from Orlando.
	For a few years now, she's been feeling angst over the climate.
	Choosing to pay attention and to be aware in the world at this time is like a deeply painful daily exercise.
	And definitely anxious, like totally.
	Totally.
	And just really sad about the world, but yeah.
	Now there's a name for what she's feeling.
	Climate grief.
	Climate grief is such a thing, and I'm glad that they, there's a label for it now, and people are working on how to process.
	Get that vocal fry out of your voice, lady.
	That's climate grief, because it's so real.
	I asked Marcella, when did she first feel climate grief?
	So the first time...
	John, John, when did you first feel climate grief?
	I felt it when I first saw him.
	I looked outside.
	There's a dead bird.
	So the first time, I became aware of, like, climate...
	Wow, what does that tell?
	Why is she laughing?
	That was interesting.
	Did she?
	Yeah, listen.
	Again, the question, when did you first feel climate grief?
	I asked Marcella, when did she first feel climate grief?
	So the first time I became aware of, like, climate change as, like, a severe existential threat to humanity and to all of life on Earth was my freshman year of college when I took a sustainability class.
	Ah, there it is!
	You got it.
	You nailed it.
	You go to school and then they try to make you feel like you're gonna die.
	And I was really sad for a while and I was just really mad that I had lived in the world for like 18 years and had never, like no one ever told me that we were like rapidly going towards this catastrophe.
	Luckily.
	Now, I don't want to take away from this young lady's experience.
	She may really be feeling that she, clearly, she has climate grief.
	And there is, they do have some solutions.
	There's ways you can deal with climate grief.
	Amy Lewis Rowe and Laura Schmidt are the founders of the Good Grief Network.
	They held a session at the conference on how to deal with climate grief.
	Before the session, I asked Laura, what exactly is climate grief?
	Climate grief is the gut punch that you feel when you realize that your imagined future may not exist anymore.
	When you realize that what we've done to the planet will not make tomorrow look like yesterday.
	I asked Amy what she hoped people would get out of the session.
	Tools and community and reminders that they're not alone.
	So is this the climate depression session?
	That's Kelton, one of the 17 people who showed up at the session.
	That sounds like you or me when we were young.
	Hey, is this the climate depression session?
	Me and Laura set up low-to-the-ground chairs in a circle in the grass.
	In a circle.
	The group was surrounded by tall trees and desert mountains sitting under the clear blue sky, now the cloud in sight.
	It was incredibly quiet.
	The only sound was a little bit of wind passing by.
	Yeah, that's how you go to the Good Grief Network and they take care of your climate grief.
	And I think there's one last term we need to learn.
	A couple years ago, Amy and Laura started working on a 10-step program to deal with collective grief.
	Things like mass shootings and climate change.
	Alright, 10 steps to psychosocial resilience.
	Psychosocial resilience.
	Holy moly.
	What is that?
	They shared their steps at the uplift session.
	One, accept the problem and its severity.
	Two, acknowledge that I am part of the problem as well as the solution.
	Now you're following along because this is going to help you get through it.
	You're part of the problem.
	I'm glad that she's part of the problem.
	I can see that.
	It's so sad.
	It's so sad what these children are being put through.
	So this is the mantra.
	Let's deconstruct them.
	Acknowledge that I am part of the problem.
	What was the first one?
	One, accept the problem and its severity.
	Two.
	So right off the bat, the severity is...
	So they're using the 12-step approach?
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Oh, brother.
	And so they're doing it with...
	The first one is you have to accept that you're going to die.
	Existential problem.
	Two.
	Acknowledge that I am part of the problem as well as the solution.
	Part of the problem.
	Step three, practice sitting with uncertainty.
	Practice sitting with uncertainty.
	These are life skills here.
	Step four, confront my own mortality and the mortality of all.
	Five, feel my feelings.
	John, I feel my feelings.
	Feel my feelings?
	How do you not feel your feelings?
	Step 6.
	Do inner work.
	Step 7.
	What does that mean?
	Inner work is working on yourself, John.
	Working on your mental health.
	Meditate is what it means.
	Meditate.
	Take breaks and rest as needed.
	Ah, there it is.
	Luckily, we can take some breaks and rest when we...
	Take breaks and rest as needed.
	You know, I've thought about this over most of my life.
	I've thought about this idea of taking breaks and resting.
	You know, like going to bed.
	I think it's a pretty good idea.
	It should be on the list.
	But this is more when needed.
	So you can say, I'm sorry, I need to stop working right now.
	I need a little break.
	You nailed it.
	That's exactly what this is.
	More of the noodle boy stuff.
	Yes, I need a psychosocial resilience break.
	Excuse me.
	Excuse me.
	I need a rest.
	I need a break.
	What do you need the rest for?
	What's the problem?
	I just need it.
	I have my inner feelings.
	I understand myself and I know when I need a break and I'm telling myself internally, inside myself, I'm saying to myself, I need a break.
	And so I need a break.
	Step seven, take breaks and rest as needed.
	Step eight, develop awareness of brain patterns and perception.
	Brain patterns?
	What?
	develop hold on step eight develop awareness of brain patterns and perception develop awareness of brain patterns and perception that's deep what Deep?
	It's inane.
	Okay, go on.
	Nine.
	Nine.
	Show up. Show up. Show up. Show up.
	Reinvest into problem-solving efforts.
	Wow.
	This is a 10-step program for morons.
	I give you a clip of the day, by the way.
	Oh, thank you.
	I thought it was a nice little collection.
	This is made the show.
	Clip of the day.
	Woo!
	Foam finger number one, baby!
	Made the show.
	Made the show.
	Now, one of the things, I was thinking about this as you were starting this thing, and you're going to continue, I'm sure.
	No, no, I'm done.
	But I'm thinking about the child abuse thing, is when you have these, I never thought about it quite like this, as I'm going to express.
	So you have these There's kindergarteners and first graders drawing the little stick figures with the crayons of the world on fire.
	And then you, for some reason, how did they get this idea in the first place?
	And then you take the picture and say, look, even the little kids are seeing the world.
	There's a horrible place that's going to be burned to the ground because of climate change.
	We've got to do something for the children.
	It's really sick.
	That's exactly what's happening.
	And parents have zero realization of the harm they're doing.
	And Al Gore up front.
	Oh, Al Gore's the worst.
	He's a demon.
	I mean, it used to be you saw the sad little polar bear and kids could kind of get into that.
	Even though the polar bear can swim very well, doesn't need the little piece of ice.
	Doesn't need ice.
	And the polar bear population has increased substantially.
	Yes, a popular right-wing trope.
	It is a white right-wing trope.
	Alt-right trope.
	There you go.
	Alt-right trope.
	But now we change it to, in particular, this last report, we have 10 years before we die, and that's the way it's being interpreted, even though that's not even what it says.
	That has really pushed these kids over the tipping point.
	And, as we heard in the clip, they all learn about this and all become afflicted with climate grief once they hit college where they're taught, you're going to die.
	Unbelievable.
	What college was this?
	That I don't know.
	I don't know.
	You know, in a good college, well, at least when I was a kid, in a good university...
	The kids are pretty smart, and they question authority, or they used to.
	I don't think they do much anymore.
	They just, I don't know, maybe they just don't.
	John, this climate stuff has been rammed in, and I mean, if you question climate change, you deny it, you're basically denying the Holocaust.
	I mean, where were you where all this has been taking place?
	This is, you cannot question.
	Science is in.
	How many times do we have to tell the children this?
	That's okay if you want to believe, and we believe in all kinds of crazy science, like we went to the moon in 1965.
	You're muddying your own water.
	My point is, when you tell the children you're going to die from something because nothing's been done about it, that's next level stuff.
	And that's where we're at today, and it's affecting children.
	The joke of it to me, and I think in some ways to you and everybody that listens to the show, is nuclear energy.
	Yeah.
	Now, it's a technology that, yeah, I was thinking about this for possibly another book that I'm not going to write.
	Most, every technology that ever shows up is always dangerous when it first shows up.
	I mean, steam.
	All technology.
	All technology.
	Steam is a good example.
	They were blowing up boilers.
	People were dying left and right from boiler explosions from the 1800s, throughout the 1800s.
	And it took a long time to tame the steam demon.
	Yeah, nuke was not very safe the way it was being handled by General Electric and some of these other guys.
	But all those problems have been solved.
	Including the waste.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, everything has been solved.
	So you could use...
	It's the cleanest form of energy, and if you're all in on climate change and you don't...
	I don't have a problem with somebody who's all in on climate change, but the problem I have is that they're all in on climate change.
	Why aren't they all in on nuclear energy?
	Because this was another great campaign.
	It started with the China Syndrome and Three Mile Island.
	Lovely plans right within a week of each other.
	With Hollywood, we're all going to die from nuclear.
	China Syndrome was a fictional story.
	Yeah, and it was released in the same week that Three Mile Island happened.
	I don't know if that's absolutely true, but it was in that same era.
	Yes, it is.
	It is true.
	We've even discussed this on the show, and I think you said the same thing.
	It was like within three days.
	That's what I would say every time I heard that.
	Yes, within three days.
	Yeah, it was.
	But if you look at all of the nuclear disasters we've had, and Chernobyl, I think, really is the worst.
	Because that was a military-grade installation which exploded.
	But it's not that many people died.
	I think, you know, low 20s.
	Of course, all of Europe...
	The entire country of France is run by a whole string of nuclear power plants.
	They're all over the place.
	And they bitch about them.
	Nobody's died from any of them.
	They haven't had any problems.
	They're not the highest, you know, most...
	But they're the ones that are the most practical.
	And they're going to shut those down because of these idiots.
	Yeah, Macron has already announced that.
	Yeah, we're going to start dismantling.
	Well, Germany did the same.
	Well, Germany did.
	And the cost of energy was skyrocketing.
	The economies actually went into a kind of flatline.
	Yep.
	No, instead, we're going to get projects that test aerosols in the air, and let's see if we can reflect the sun in the back, and so it doesn't warm up here, and the chemtrails, basically.
	Geoengineering.
	I've got stuff in the show notes, people can look at it.
	Go watch the movie Snowpiercer.
	That's where it ends up.
	There you go.
	Let's see.
	One last thing.
	Wait, I got a couple.
	Let me get this out of the way.
	Sure.
	Because we were talking about scammers.
	I forgot about this one.
	This was a...
	This is a whatever happened to...
	You have a new thing on the show.
	I have another one.
	Mine is whatever happened to...
	Okay.
	You know, like, these are clips from like two, three, four, five years ago that were scandalous things and...
	I'm asking whatever happened to you.
	They don't even talk about this stuff anymore.
	Let's do charity fraud.
	Four U.S. cancer charities are being accused of massive fraud.
	The Federal Trade Commission says the group's funneled some $187 million into top officials' pockets.
	The charities are the Cancer Fund of America, Cancer Support Services, Children's Cancer Fund of America, and the Breast Cancer Society.
	It could be one of the largest charity fraud cases of all time.
	Whatever happened?
	Whatever happened?
	2015, whatever happened?
	Nothing.
	No follow-up?
	Here's another one.
	Here's another whatever happened.
	This bank scandal.
	Bank scandal.
	...or down right before the end of the closing day.
	So they were actually able to manipulate the currency markets.
	This is actually an antitrust case.
	So these banks are guilty of colluding to manipulate the foreign exchange market.
	And it's very rare that you see a financial institution that actually has to plead guilty to any charges, much less an antitrust charge.
	So it sounds as if there's no question the people involved knew what they were doing was wrong, was illegal.
	What about higher-ups, Kerry Geiger?
	Did they know what was going on?
	And if they didn't, why not?
	Well, I mean, this calls into the question of basically how banks' compliance works.
	And these Wall Street banks are huge, giant operations.
	And it looks like that the senior executive at these banks did not know this activity was going on.
	I'm sure if they did, it would have been stopped because they obviously don't want illegal activity happening in their banks.
	But the larger problem is that it's become virtually impossible, as we've seen over the last couple of years, with all these enforcement actions against Wall Street, to police every individual that's working in these banks.
	No, we just can't do that.
	We can't police everybody.
	No, only for stupid slaves at home we can police you.
	Yeah, whatever happened to it?
	Nothing?
	That's the answer.
	By the way, as I continue this series, that will be the answer to all of them.
	I will have my answer ready for your series.
	I look forward to it.
	And before we take our break to thank some people here, A word about...
	And this is another thing you always put in the newsletter, and I don't think we discuss it regularly enough.
	And that is advertising on the internet and how we made a constant decision not to do that.
	We have content creation decisions, production decisions.
	We don't want anyone to tell us what we can or can't do, which when you bow to the God advertiser, you are locked in.
	You just...
	You cannot...
	Get around that.
	But New York Magazine finally did a little bit of work in their December 26th edition.
	How much of the internet is fake turns out a lot of it, actually.
	And this is a very...
	Actually, whatever happened, too.
	You recall the eight people accused of click fraud, $36 million, with bot traffic that masqueraded as humans.
	It was a couple weeks ago.
	Yeah, it happens all the time.
	So this article...
	Whatever happened to.
	Yes.
	I'll give you just the paragraph headlines that they're dealing with.
	It's worth reading.
	No agenda producers know what it is.
	So a lot of it's fake.
	The metrics are fake.
	The people are fake.
	The businesses are fake.
	The content is fake.
	Our politics are fake.
	We ourselves are in fact pretty fake.
	And it's a good article.
	It explains exactly what is wrong with advertising on the internet.
	And one of these days I'll be able to explain in great detail what I mean when I say you cannot monetize the network.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	You can't monetize the network.
	We can monetize the No Agenda show because we have producers that help us pay the bills.
	Starting with Sir Matthew Black Knight of the Ice Giants in Davis, California, Aggieland, 13579.
	He has, he's a knight, so I thought I'd read his note.
	Got rejected after a job interview today, so figured I'd donate.
	Uh-oh.
	Remember that, everybody.
	If no one's given a name to this donation amount, I thought the oddball might be fitting.
	Well, I'm going to give him some jobs karma right away because he's a knight and we break for knights.
	Jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	1-3-5-7-9.
	1-3-5-7-9.
	That was oddball.
	Alex Loesch, I believe.
	In Chicago, Illinois.
	Illinois.
	1-33-33.
	That came in as a check.
	Sergeant Postol.
	Miami Lakes, Florida, $100.33.
	Brian Herziger in Elgin, Illinois, $100.
	He says, another contribution is my testament.
	No agenda karma works.
	Oh, that's why we did a make good for him.
	John, you should really find a better squirrel.
	My notes to you went unanswered.
	Passive-aggressive.
	I'll look for him.
	Beachview Farm in Oak Harbor, Washington.
	$100.
	And he wrote a long note in.
	He never put his name anywhere.
	He sent all kinds of stuff.
	He sent us a book.
	I actually sent a book that he wants me to read and then send to you and I'm done.
	Okay.
	Hey, by the way, I got a Christmas gift for you, I thought, from you.
	Yeah.
	I got a box and I'm like, oh my God, it's a gift from John.
	It was wrapped and everything.
	Yeah, it was a gift from me.
	No, it wasn't.
	It says it on the outside.
	I scribbled a little note on the outside.
	Oh, I couldn't find a note.
	I said a little note.
	It says, Merry Christmas, Adam.
	Oh, and it was a huge, like as big as my head, no agenda mug.
	Yeah, I had it made.
	It's great.
	Thank you very much.
	And I feel like a heel.
	You should.
	Yeah.
	And it was Jay who did the wrapping.
	It was beautiful.
	In fact, we saved the ribbon.
	Let her know.
	She'll appreciate it.
	We're ribbon savers.
	Mimi and Jay are the most amazing gift wrappers.
	Mimi got into it some years ago, and her gift wrapping is ridiculous.
	In fact, she spent days on it.
	And Jay decided to top it.
	So she's doing all these ridiculous wrap jobs.
	That's funny.
	That's very funny.
	Mimi has this idea, and I know it would actually work, is set up a pop-up store in Beverly Hills during the Christmas season.
	Oh, wrapping station.
	Yeah.
	Mm-hmm.
	Do elaborate wrapping jobs.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Pricing would be an issue.
	How much you'd price these things?
	20 bucks.
	I guess 20 bucks might work.
	In Beverly Hills, 20 bucks.
	I think it could be higher.
	I mean, that package you saw there is how...
	Well, it was very sweet of you, and I missed the note, but the ribbon was noticed.
	The packing job was definitely noticed.
	Yeah, good.
	Cyborg Dave in Ypsilanti, Michigan, 8008, had a blast on the social meds, sharing selfies with the podfather and other producers.
	I don't know what that means.
	That was our tweet thread that I told you about.
	Oh, the tweet thread, which I missed.
	Okay.
	Erky Juras...
	I think.
	He appears to be in Finland.
	808.
	And the Finnish names are not the easiest to pronounce.
	Stephen Hutto in St.
	Petersburg, Florida, 7070.
	Michael Robinson, 5433.
	Ty Robinson, 5335.
	Merry Palindrome Christmas.
	Eric Bird, Baltimore, Maryland, 52-22.
	Chris Abraham, Arlington, Virginia, 51-51.
	Ryan Smith in Raleigh, North Carolina, 51-50.
	Joe Bisesi, 50-38.
	Judy Schwartz, Baroness of Kendall County in Bernie, Texas, 50-33.
	Paul Ring, 50-19.
	John Fitzpatrick in Heber Springs, Arkansas, 5019.
	Hmm, related there?
	No.
	Jeffrey, the rest of these people are $50 donors, name and location, where appropriate, a little more than the last time, to say the least.
	Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland, Michigan.
	Kenneth Lindeberg in Miami, Florida.
	Sir Peter Totes in Sugar Land, Texas.
	Darren Denizowski, Denizowski.
	Dennis Kuski.
	I'm not sure.
	He's in Dubai.
	Dennis Kiewitz.
	Dennis Kiewitz.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, that looks right.
	Send pictures from Dubai.
	Go to the big mall there and make a movie.
	Andrew Gardner of Hitti.
	Joe Winkie in Santa Rosa, California.
	Jose Ferreira.
	Newberry, UK. Louis Pasteur.
	Sir Louis, I think, from Miami.
	Robert Makowski in Rhinebeck, New York.
	Mitchell Kaufman in Hillsboro, Oregon.
	Frank Molinari in Bolvard, Texas.
	And last but not least is James Wolfe in Los Angeles, California.
	I want to thank all these folks for supporting us by producing show 1098.
	Two away from the show 1100.
	Yes, and Judy Baroness of Kendall County, Judy Swartz, added that the job karma worked for her last time.
	She needs it again as this coming month her team is being audited.
	We'll make sure we do that.
	Andrew Gardner, Sir Andrew Gardner...
	Initially wanted us to send new human resource karma to Sir Elliot Gardner for any day now arrival of their new human resource and I got a late breaking email that the human resource has arrived so instead of a human resource karma we say we don't have any other birthdays today so we'll say happy birthday Sir Elliot Gardner's new human resource welcome to the universe let us know what your name is Joe Winkie,
	with $50 from Santa Rosa, this name, some of our older listeners or people who have been around for a while may remember.
	Joe started, I think it was the genesis of this type of product.
	He started the Healthysurprise.com box.
	Yes.
	And he used to send us...
	Yes.
	And he used to send us the healthy surprise box.
	And it had, you know, like...
	There was stuff in there.
	It was a healthy surprise.
	Yeah.
	And it was, you know, like product samples and there was always some kale, which we'd laugh about and we would pretty much eat everything.
	Well, so he switched.
	I don't know if you recall, but he switched because so many people came in on doing this and with big money and they kind of took his business away from him.
	He moved to Colorado and I think he moved to Colorado.
	I think he moved to California.
	Yeah, to California.
	And he started a CBD company, Jumbo Superfoods.
	Yeah, Jumbo.
	Or Jambo.
	It's Jambo.
	Oh, Jambo.
	Sorry.
	And he sent me a little...
	Did you get a care package from him?
	I got a couple of CBD bottles.
	Yes.
	A little bitty ones.
	The rubs.
	Yes.
	Yeah, me too.
	Appreciate that.
	One goes in her stocking.
	In his note, he said, I'm excited to share our latest product, Jambo Superfoods CBD Muscle Balm.
	Rub it anywhere you want to feel better.
	Sometimes you want someone else to feel better.
	My recommendation is for you to give Tina the Keeper a slow, meticulous foot massage with the oil.
	Keep her feet off the ground for 15 to 20 minutes to allow it to kick in.
	you can thank me later.
	That's an endorsement right there.
	And of course, we thank everybody who supported the program.
	We can't mention all, but many of you under $50 are there for anonymous reasons, and a lot are for the subscriptions, which you can all find at dvorak.org.
	Thank you again for the production of 1098.
	And we will be back on Sunday with our final episode of the year.
	Remember us and support us at dvorak.org.
	Slash N-A. So as I said, no birthdays today other than the new human resource, so we can do some titles here.
	Come gather round, douchebag, producer and slave.
	As we all thank your brothers and sisters who gave.
	And some of them knights, some of them dames.
	Our number one executive producer today, Sir Anonymous China, came in with $1,098 upgrades instantly to Baronet, and we appreciate his support of the program.
	Thank you so much.
	Three nightings to do, so I've got my blade there, if you can...
	Yeah, I got it.
	It's right here.
	It's all oiled up.
	There you go.
	I won't make my dirty joke.
	Kevin Smith, Michael Halby, and James Williams, hop on up here.
	Gentlemen, you are about to join the No Agenda Roundtable of the Knights and Dames.
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	It's always exciting.
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	Go to noagendanation.com slash rings, and Eric the Shill will be more than happy to take your deets and get that out to you as soon as possible.
	Thank you for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	And there you have it.
	Just a quick note in this flu season, as everyone's being told to go and get your flu shot.
	Get your flu shot.
	Get your flu shot.
	This didn't get a lot of play, and it's kind of sad because he's quite young.
	Senator Jose Peralta, New York State.
	He was a big proponent of the flu vaccine, flu shot, and in fact, he did a huge push to get everyone to get the flu shot.
	He got his own flu shot on November 20th, and four days later, he died.
	And what happened is he became septic.
	Oh.
	Now, I don't want to blame this on the flu shot, but man, that sucks.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You can blame it on the flu shot.
	Just saying.
	One of those things.
	And there was an update to an old friend of ours, the Smith-Munt Act.
	Well, let's put it this way.
	There's an update in news around it.
	The Smith-Munt Act was brought in the 80s, I believe.
	And what the Smith-Munt Act basically said is, as law, the United States government may not propagandize its own people.
	So it's okay if you have Voice of America overseas and you're broadcasting propaganda to Russia and China or wherever we have all the VOA stations, but you can't do it to your American audience.
	Now, it is true that no matter what, if Americans saw it because they sought it out themselves, that was deemed okay.
	But now there is a congressional issue...
	As it appears, Voice of America, which is completely funded by the U.S. government, the Broadcast Board of Governors, is violating the Smith-Munt Act.
	And it's interesting because I've seen this and it didn't even hit me, but luckily someone in Congress is doing something about it and has turned it over to the Attorney General.
	They have been advertising on FaceBag.
	About their Voice of America services, and actually they pulled out the, you know, there was a request for all of the ads that they've purchased on Facebook, and they're targeting them at Americans, in American states, by American age ranges, and they're in trouble now.
	I don't know what kind of trouble they're going to get in, but at least it's being raised.
	Eh, the trouble is a slap on the wrist.
	Mm-hmm.
	Questionable content.
	Recent Voice of America ads run in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	Mm-hmm.
	Promoted...
	Wrapping the show around.
	I can just stop there.
	You know enough.
	You know enough.
	It's how it works.
	And even though it was repealed in 2012 as a part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, you still, even though if you find it on the internet, it's okay, but it's not okay for them to be targeting Americans to read this.
	So, violation.
	So I have, they were talking about on Democracy Now!, they were talking about Mattis, poor guy, and then Shanahan took over, but instead of putting it in a positive spin, Of course, they won't do that.
	It's the positive spin, which we would put it in, which is now you got a guy who's a big shot from Boeing that can maybe do an audit, maybe get to the bottom of the Pentagon budget.
	Yeah, maybe do some important stuff like cyber satellites and missiles.
	There's a million possibilities that are positive.
	But no, democracy now doesn't see things that way.
	And I want you...
	Let's start with...
	When I talk to you about Boeing, what do you think mostly?
	They make giant passenger planes.
	That's what most people would think of, yes.
	Yeah, okay.
	Well, let's play this clip.
	Mattis, Shanahan, Boeing.
	The break for the richest Americans, and President Trump says he was improving the economy, and now the stock market has plummeted back to the Depression times.
	Explain.
	Well, you know, we've had an economy that never really escaped the crash.
	It's the wrong one.
	It's one.
	No, you're playing Richard Wolff DN1. I'm sorry, what did you tell me to play?
	Mattis Shanahan Boeing.
	Oh my God, I'm so sorry.
	I apologize.
	We'll take it again from the top.
	After growing increasingly angry with his defense chief, Trump said Mattis will leave on January 1st.
	He'd previously been expected to retire at the end of February to attend a NATO meeting.
	Patrick Shanahan will become acting Secretary of Defense.
	Shanahan is a former executive at the U.S. Weapons Manufacturer.
	Why didn't you say aerospace and defense, which would be the actual term?
	Yeah.
	No.
	Weapons manufacturer.
	Weapons.
	Killing machine maker.
	Yes, Judy.
	No.
	What's her name?
	Amy.
	Amy.
	Yes, Amy.
	Amy that with the permanent vocal fry.
	In case you missed it, that's our number one foam finger industry.
	Killing machines.
	Yep, it is.
	So she brought on this economist from one of the schools, and he's a Trump hater, and this is where this clip you just played before.
	The guy, he makes an assertion about, if you were Trump, you wouldn't even pass Economics 101, Economics 101.
	Which is fine, but I want to play two clips from him where I don't think he could pass it either.
	Let's start with this clip one.
	The break for the richest Americans, and President Trump says he was improving the economy, and now the stock market has plummeted back to the Depression times.
	Explain.
	Well, you know, we've had an economy that never really escaped the crash of 2008.
	In a way, the last 10 years have been an economy on life support.
	Vast amounts of money pumped into the economy, record drops in interest rates, inviting everybody, business, individuals, governments, to borrow money, a debt-sustained crisis.
	And after a while, you can't mount up the debt on the basis of an economy that hasn't really gotten going.
	And we're seeing the eventual break.
	You know, the capitalist system has a downturn every four to seven years.
	It's had that for centuries.
	And the last big downturn was 2008 and 2009.
	So if you do four and seven, you add it to nine.
	We're due for one.
	And every major stock market...
	Stop the clipboard.
	It's like conspiracy theory stuff.
	You add the three to the one times five, you get 33.
	He says you have a downturn every four to seven years.
	That's almost double.
	And if you look at 2009 and you add four plus seven.
	He just threw that in there.
	He just makes it up.
	What?
	You don't add the numbers?
	It's four or seven.
	So let's play it out so you have this assertion about not passing economics one.
	And the last big downturn was 2008 and nine.
	So if you do four and seven, you add it to nine.
	We're due for one.
	And every major stock market observer, bank, and so on predicts that we're having a downturn.
	So it's really only...
	A question of exactly when, and the stock market anticipates this, and so we're having, in a way, economic chickens coming home to roost, and the notion that it's just the Fed's policy that explains this is really the kind of remark that would get a student a very low grade in any economics course.
	So you'd get a low grade.
	I guess maybe it's math that he would get the low grade.
	Yeah, get a kind of lowest grade, yeah.
	But he does have an economics issue with the next clip, which I think is just even better.
	Richard, why, if over the last 10 years the Federal Reserve kept interest rates so low and provided so much cheap money, why hasn't inflation increased dramatically in the U.S. over this period of time?
	Well, you know, the irony is it's one of the bizarre ways an economy works.
	There was no incentive to take all that money and go in and produce things that might have driven up prices and so on.
	What?
	If you produce things, you would put a glut.
	It would reduce prices.
	It wouldn't push prices up and such.
	Ah.
	Who is this guy?
	This guy's Richard Wolfe, W-O-L-F-E. And he is like an economist at one of the schools back east.
	And it's like, everything he says is like that.
	It's like...
	Nobody knows.
	Nobody knows.
	It's back to our...
	No, but I'm talking about basic economic theory that you're taught in college.
	Supply and demand.
	Yes, that's it.
	If the supply increases, the price goes down.
	It doesn't go up.
	Not in his book.
	And such, which is another thing.
	By the way...
	And such.
	And such.
	I think we just add that to everything, and such.
	And such.
	You can just end a sentence.
	Listen, I'm not having any of this, and such.
	And such.
	And such.
	Adios, mofos, and such.
	Yeah, it works everywhere.
	You can put it in everything.
	Yeah, it's great.
	It's one of the best.
	Yeah.
	The Mark Levin, the radio guy, he always says, and so on and so forth.
	Yeah.
	He would say, yeah, this pillow's got feathers, and so on and so forth.
	And such.
	And such.
	I think the combo is, and so on and so forth and such.
	I think the combo is the way to go.
	All right, well, we can maybe get a job in radio.
	Dogs are people, too.
	Yes.
	We've got a lot of dogs.
	Britain, United Kingdom, Gitmo Nation East, is now forbidding puppies and kittens from being sold by pet shops.
	What?
	Yes.
	The government said it will roll out the legislation next year.
	There's a 95% support for the ban.
	Here we have a quote.
	There's a 95% support?
	Yes.
	This will mean that anyone looking to buy or adopt a puppy or kitten under six months must either deal directly with the breeder or with an animal rehoming center.
	Animal Rehoming?
	Yes, it's a great...
	It's another show title.
	Animal Rehoming Center with R.E. and such.
	The Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, DEFRA, said this on Sunday as a part of its Christmas Animal Welfare Push.
	Yes.
	People want a dog, a puppy, and a kitten.
	They don't really want it, and they get abused, and they toss them out, and they get mistreated.
	Um...
	This does give me the opportunity to have a generality.
	Well, that's what they, I can't, hey, the Brits.
	I did want to say one thing, is we're, you know, a couple months away from moving out of downtown Austin for a number of reasons.
	You're planning to leave downtown, probably one of the nexus, a nexus point in the universe, and you're living in it, and you're going to leave it.
	Well, I'm not going to move that far.
	I just need to get out of downtown.
	Two reasons.
	Two big reasons.
	This building, just to keep in with the dogs or people too, is what is known as a pet-friendly building.
	And it's something you don't want.
	Well, I think that when you have a building like this and you make it smoke-free, pet-friendly, you probably expect there to be people with dogs.
	But today, I think we have about 70% of the apartments in this building have dogs.
	Usually more than one.
	Oh.
	The problem is...
	Yes, because the dog needs a friend.
	The problem is...
	Every day, everywhere, every entrance, every exit, from the garage, to the elevators, everywhere, there's hair and dog piss.
	Everywhere.
	And of course, they don't clean every single day.
	It's also not feasible, really, to do that.
	So the dogs, the pet owners are becoming a problem because they, I mean, it's really disgusting.
	I'll do a video.
	I'll do a video.
	Oh, that would be fantastic.
	Piss everywhere.
	I'll link to it in the newsletter.
	Yes, I'll make sure you get that.
	The other problem has just been upped once again.
	Is the dockless mobility craze that Austin is ground zero.
	You're right, we're at the Nexus.
	Now the Ford Motor Company, who have spin, a rideshare company, dropped 100 extra scooters into the Austin streets on Friday with hundreds more planned.
	Jeez, a scooter overload.
	How many do you think we have in downtown Austin now today?
	10,000.
	Wow, 9,000.
	The city of Austin allows each, this is from KXAN, our local NBC affiliate, the city of Austin allows each rideshare company to have up to 500 scooters in the downtown area, but there's no limit on how many companies can operate in the city.
	As a result, there are about 9,000 scooters licensed to operate in downtown Austin operated by seven major companies, which sounds kind of wrong.
	Doesn't sound right.
	The math doesn't work.
	If you're allowed to have 500...
	Yeah, there should only be 3,500 scooters.
	Right.
	But there's 9,000 now downtown.
	And yesterday, I threw my first...
	I cast my first one aside in anger.
	Because I'm pretty mellow.
	But it was right in the middle of the sidewalk, and now there's a Torchy's that's opened up near our building, which is upscale shitty tacos.
	It's a taco place.
	A taco place in Texas that's a chain?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, we have tons of chains here.
	Yeah.
	Torchy's.
	And so, you know, someone rode the torch in the lunch hour, parked it right in the middle of the sidewalk.
	I picked it up by its stem and threw it in anger against the wall of Torchy's.
	And I felt, interestingly, I felt pretty good about it.
	But they all have these wires.
	I gotta study them.
	I gotta talk to...
	Our friend.
	Yeah, our friend who does this.
	I'm just gonna carry along a clipper.
	Just clip the wires.
	Oh, that's a funny idea.
	Not if it's the brake...
	I don't know which...
	The brake line, you can figure that out.
	Find out what wire you want to clip.
	It's got to be some electrical thing.
	We've got to clip something, because it's a scourge.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, yay!
	Yay, Austin!
	Woo!
	So you're moving to where, though?
	So you're downtown in the nexus of all the action.
	So there's dog pee, probably poop.
	Oh, yes.
	The library is nearby, filled with homeless.
	Under the brand new bridge between the extension of downtown, the westward extension, there's a foot bridge, bicycle bridge.
	So it really is turning into California.
	Completely.
	Completely.
	California, Uber Alice.
	Exactly.
	So where are you moving?
	We're going to stay in Austin, just out of downtown.
	So you're looking now?
	Did you find a place yet?
	Well, since we'll be renting...
	Don't you buy a piece of property outside of town?
	With what, John?
	With what?
	I think you get credit.
	I have a FICO score in the 500s.
	Oh, never mind.
	Yeah, Tina barely wants to marry me because of it.
	She's afraid that her FICO score of 9,000 will be affected.
	See, she could get anything she wants.
	It's me that's the problem.
	Well, let her do the preliminary work, get the thing set up, and then get married afterwards.
	What are we going to do?
	I don't want a house.
	I want to be able to get out if it gets too bad.
	Set a Quonset hut.
	With your Quonset hut.
	Listen, we're in our 50s.
	Neither of us is going to make this as an investment.
	Yeah, oh, let's invest it.
	Have you seen the property taxes?
	It's worse than California now.
	Californians all moved to Austin.
	Get out of here.
	The weather is better in Austin.
	Yeah, it's a place to go.
	Well, good luck in your happy hunting.
	Yeah, we'll find something.
	We'll find something good.
	I mean, we don't need much, and we'll definitely, it'll be cheaper, for sure.
	Well, that's a plus.
	Austin is, I think, now the most expensive city to live in.
	It's ridiculous.
	Yes, it is ridiculous.
	Why don't you two move to New York City?
	Yeah, it's worth considering.
	I mean, you can move anywhere, but it's not just the cost.
	It's a douchebaggery.
	That's the problem.
	Yeah, well, I think you're adapting to the Texas lifestyle.
	Yeah.
	Yes, I don't want my Texas lifestyle tainted by California goo.
	Yeah, well, or dogs.
	I have one last clip.
	Japan begins whaling again.
	I think that is a story that we need to follow.
	Yeah, I saw big headlines about it.
	Japan says it will quit the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whale hunting for the first time in 30 years.
	Japanese officials say whale stocks have recovered sufficiently, something wildlife groups dispute.
	The new hunts will be limited to Japan's territorial waters and will not extend to the Antarctic.
	Oh, okay.
	So?
	So that's their own water.
	Yeah, they can do whatever they want.
	I think so.
	What do they use?
	Besides that, oh, it's sad, we're killing whales.
	What is so important about whaling?
	They use the fat in a lot of their cosmetics.
	Okay.
	And they eat the meat.
	And they don't care.
	Are whales in extinction mode?
	The Japanese claim they're back on track to propagating, and the whaling authorities say no, they're not.
	So we don't know the facts.
	Okay.
	It does make a lot of people hate the Japanese again.
	Well, yeah, it does.
	A European Union Parliament member, I forget her name, Reese, I think her name is, is on a mission to get rid of the use of single-use plastics.
	This is a European Union mandate that will be coming down the pike to all the national at the national state level.
	You will not be able to purchase or consume single-use plastics.
	She explains what she means and what that means here, but the kicker is at the end.
	The effort to end plastic pollution in our oceans was one of the key themes of 2018, with European Union lawmakers ending the year with an agreement to ban certain single-use plastics by 2021.
	Belgian MEP Frederic Rees is behind the law.
	The balloon sticks, the stirrers, the cotton buds, the straws, I should have started with the straws, the plates, are going to be banned.
	And why are they going to be banned?
	Because they are the articles that you mostly found on our beaches, in our oceans, and because there are alternatives.
	A central issue in the single-use plastic ban is who is going to pay.
	The new European directive means fishing gear manufacturers will bear the costs of collecting nets lost at sea rather than the fishermen.
	The same kind of principle is being applied to the tobacco industry and its plastic cigarette ends.
	An estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in the oceans every year.
	The EU's ban is significant in terms of setting a policy precedent, but it won't change the seas very much, as 90% of the plastic pollution is believed to come from 10 rivers, 8 in Asia and 2 in Africa.
	Wow!
	We are so stupid in the West.
	Wow.
	That is a great clip.
	Africa is polluting the water with single-use plastics, and we get blamed for it.
	And we get shamed, shamed into using a straw.
	Yeah, we have to give them money for global warming.
	Oh, my goodness.
	You know what?
	We're moving to Africa.
	We're going to find one of those elite strongholds where the European leaders are all hanging out.
	We're going to go live there.
	It's going to be safe.
	It's going to be beautiful.
	Yeah, they're going to pee in the rivers and throw your stuff out the window.
	You can go get it in California.
	Here, Dvorak.
	Here's my straw.
	My goodness.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if I can top that.
	I do have...
	I can top with the weather report, which...
	Because a lot of people, I guess...
	I'm surprised we got the kind of great donations we got because of these blizzards.
	Oh, the blizzards.
	They'd be a...
	We had a big storm last night in Austin.
	Yeah, I heard that.
	I was looking at the map.
	They're showing that the blizzards report came out.
	And I saw Austin surrounded by a giant red dome.
	Yes, right downtown.
	And it woke us up.
	And it woke us up and then you got flash boom, a crackling boom.
	So it was right over downtown.
	Millions of Americans could have trouble getting home after Christmas.
	A powerful winter storm is blowing across the country.
	Parts of the Plains and Midwest will get the worst of it.
	Blizzard conditions are possible in the Dakotas tonight.
	Powerful winds, floods, and even tornadoes could hit the Southwest.
	What?
	No mention of climate change?
	Well, it wasn't a democracy.
	Fire that guy.
	Fire that guy.
	It's no good.
	You've got to have your climate change in that.
	All right, everybody, that is your deconstruction for this...
	27th of December, 2018, winding down the year.
	No retrospectives, no lookbacks, just whatever happened tos.
	And we'll do another brand new, fresh episode for you on Sunday, just before we say goodbye to the year and everyone else in media is hanging at home, doing nothing.
	They're having parties.
	They're having parties.
	We're working for you.
	And we appreciate everyone who continues to contribute to the Value for Value system and network.
	Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas.
	While I'm still here, capital of the drone, Star State, and the 5x9 Cludio in the common law condo in the morning, everybody.
	I am Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm still laughing at these garbage cans these people put out.
	Because they don't have email.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios, mofos!
	And such.
	It's Drunken Jingle Take 33.
	Drunken Jingle's for no agenda.
	Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
	While we're on a three-day bender.
	Fa-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
	Drink too much and fall down flat.
	Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
	Then call on in to Nick the Rat.
	Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la.
	I think that's a take.
	Okay, I'll be another way.
	I'll just be somebody walking down the street.
	You get the phone there.
	Hey, man, what's that there?
	Hey, man.
	What's that there?
	Hey, man.
	What's that there?
	Hi, I'm here to take your order. I'm here to take your order.
	Oh, my God.
	What is that?
	It's pronounced jiff according to the guy who invented the word.
	It's pronounced jitty according to the guy who invented the word.
	Al Sharpton.
	Democrats are outright jitty.
	They got all jitty with it.
	Jitty.
	They getting jitty.
	Getting all jitty.
	Jitty.
	They got all jitty with it.
	They getting jitty.
	They're all jitty about a shutdown.
	The wall.
	What does it take for you to realize that we need more money?
	The wall.
	We're going to have a shutdown.
	There's nothing we can do about that.
	Many times you have called for, I will shut down the government if I don't get my wool.
	None of us have said, the wall.
	You've said it.
	Okay, you want to put that in mind.
	You've said it.
	I'll take it.
	Okay.
	The wall.
	Wall.
	The wall.
	I am proud to shut down the government.

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