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	Oh, okay.
	Adam Couric, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, December 30th, 2018, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1099.
	This is No Agenda.
	Looking back on Absolutely Nothing and broadcasting live from the Capitol and Drones Star State here in downtown Austin Tayhouse in the Cludio.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm looking back on all kinds of things.
	Hey, hey, why are we working?
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	We're working because we're true artists.
	you Thank you.
	Okay.
	We need the money!
	We're working because people want to have some real information when everybody is gone.
	Well, all the substitutes are in.
	Yeah, but the substitutes typically are no good.
	They're doing retrospectives.
	Look back.
	They bring in the B guests.
	That's the worst.
	Yeah, they do bring in the B guests.
	Michael Moore was on, speaking of B guests.
	Michael Moore was on Chris Hayes for an hour.
	What?
	Yeah, B guests.
	We'll get you in at the end of the year.
	Don't worry about it.
	He'll get on.
	I'll tell you, Michael Moore was on with Chris Hayes for an hour.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	I couldn't even pull a single clip from it.
	It was just like...
	Yeah.
	So that's what's going on.
	So Chris Hayes worked?
	Yeah.
	Not today, as far as I know.
	But yeah, he was working.
	And that's a good point.
	It wasn't just an old show that was taped.
	No, it might have been a recording.
	Could have been.
	Anyway, that's what M5M does here on the best podcast in the universe.
	Everything's so important.
	Trump's such a horrible person.
	Everything's so important.
	Let's take some time off.
	We're all going to die.
	Climate change is going to kill us in 10 years.
	Trump is literally ruining the country and the world.
	Time to...
	Look back at the...
	Kick back.
	Kick back and relax.
	Take a little look at what's been happening in our little media world.
	And in the morning to the troll room.
	People showing up though, John.
	People can't put two and two together about that.
	No.
	People showing up today for the live stream.
	That's always nice to see.
	That's good.
	Well, today I'll just kick it off.
	Today is kind of partially somewhat election day in the Congo.
	I actually have a recording of a report.
	Ah, well let's kick it off with yours and then I'll jump into my beat.
	In the Democrats.
	Democratic Republic of Congo, political unrest is growing ahead of Sunday's planned presidential election.
	On Wednesday, the Election Commission said voting in three cities would be postponed until March due to the threats of the Ebola virus spreading and ongoing violence in those areas.
	Protesters took to the streets in response to the news, with many saying their votes may not be counted if election results are announced as planned in January.
	President Joseph Kabila was due to step down in 2016, but elections have been repeatedly postponed.
	This comes as the government ordered the European Union ambassador to the DRC to leave after the EU extended sanctions against a group of officials, including Emmanuel Ramazani-Shadri, the ruling party's presidential candidate for their violent response to protests and for repeatedly delaying elections. the ruling party's presidential candidate for their violent response to The DRC is experiencing one of the deadliest outbreaks of Ebola, with health officials reporting over 350 people dead.
	And again, they're missing all of it.
	Well, and you were expecting better?
	Well, yes, if you go to a local African reporter, which is what I did, because there are some interesting things.
	We've got a name.
	We've got some other details.
	I'll start off with, as I said, this is a...
	Yeah, but did you get to see this Chaudhry guy with that crazy goatee?
	Yeah, but he's not interesting.
	A different guy is interesting.
	The Independent National Election Commission, Sene, via its president, on Wednesday, made the announcement that elections will be postponed in these three localities.
	We are talking about Beni, Butembo and...
	Now, we know that Beni is where all the cobalt is mined, where also, sadly and coincidentally, all the Ebola is located.
	Let's not forget that these three localities are considered stronghold for the opposition.
	And of course, Sene says, like you mentioned, that fears of more Ebola outbreak and insecurity underpinned this decision.
	And I want to say that this decision has been hugely criticised By a couple of persons, I want to begin with the opposition stronghold, Martin Fayulu, who via a tweet, and I would like to borrow his words, he says, Bemi Butembo as well as Yumbi are an integral part of the DRC, which is one and indivisible.
	And to that effect, the opposition leader has called for a dead day, otherwise called in French, Wilmot, today, the 28th of December, out there in the DRC. So Martin Fayulu...
	Hold on a second.
	I don't understand this.
	If the stronghold is all the opposition, why isn't Amy Goodman and her communists pointing this out?
	Her communists?
	Well, she actually would have a good time if she did three seconds of research.
	Martin Fayulu...
	Who has been picked as the opposition.
	And again, it's the opposition strongholds where the voting has been postponed.
	She did point out that they're going to announce the winners in January, despite the voting in March.
	Who gives a crap?
	Nobody cares.
	Nobody cares what they're doing.
	What's his name here?
	Faiulu, are you ready for this?
	There's a couple things they have in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	They have diamonds, gold, cobalt, which we'll get to in a moment.
	Very important cobalt.
	I think two-thirds of the world's cobalt, which you need for your technology gadgets and really anything battery-related.
	Well, this guy used to work for Exxon, ExxonMobil, educated in America.
	He's a total oil guy.
	They just brought in an Exxon guy, and he is the one that's running.
	Listen to an AFP report.
	Outgoing president, Joseph Kabila, casts his vote in the election to choose his successor as head of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	After 17 years of rule, Kabila was not allowed by the Constitution to stand again, creating the prospect of the first ever democratic transfer of power in the former Belgian colony.
	Of the candidates to succeed him, Kabila's own choice, the country's former interior minister, is said to be trailing in opinion polls behind former ExxonMobil manager Martin Theulu.
	The opposition accuses the government of failing to distribute the fruits of economic growth, I've never heard the pronunciation Ebola.
	Ebola.
	That's new.
	So Fayulu is the guy.
	Yeah, Fayulu is the guy.
	And he actually was arrested several times during opposition demonstrations in Kinshasa.
	He was shot in the head with a rubber bullet at one point.
	This guy is pretty tough.
	But he's a big-time oil executive.
	Actually, I think he owns a couple of hotels.
	And he's one of these elitists who has probably been hanging around for a while.
	And now it's his turn to go in and take over since this kind of sham government has been in power for 17 years.
	And I'm pretty sure that cobalt is really the main issue, although he's the oil guy.
	Oil guys know minerals.
	I'm sorry?
	Oil guys know minerals.
	Yeah, they know minerals.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Just today in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo has declared cobalt a strategic substance...
	And they are now tripling the royalty rate miners' pay of cobalt to 10%.
	So the 10% royalty rate also applies to coltan, which you would know better.
	They use that in transistors, maybe chips, coltan?
	Never heard of it.
	I don't know what that is.
	It's probably...
	Probably the mineral something else is extracted from.
	I'd have to lock it up.
	And so if you start looking a little bit at what's happening in this area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it's pretty disgusting how these miners don't think that these guys have a hat on with a light and they're going down in an elevator and a tunnel.
	No, they're sitting on railroad ties being lowered on ropes down.
	Yeah, it's pathetic.
	There's kids groveling through whatever's brought up to try and separate the cobalt, and everybody knows that this is going on.
	I mean, you would kind of presume that Apple would have looked at it.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Apple's going to look at it.
	But I found a report, just a short report, that explains to us why we're no longer hearing about children working in the mines, in the cobalt mines for your cell phone, and unsafe working conditions.
	And it's all in the words, of course.
	Tech companies around the world are trying to clean up the way they source cobalt, a key ingredient in batteries for smartphones, laptops, and electric cars.
	But conditions remain hazardous in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is where about two-thirds of the world's cobalt is mined.
	We traveled to Kowezi, the cobalt boomtown of Congo.
	These guys are climbing into these holes, straddling railroad ties and hauling up tons of cobalt with makeshift rope and no proper safety equipment or support whatsoever.
	In January 2016, a human rights report alerted the world to how cobalt is often dug up by hand under unsafe, sometimes deadly conditions by subsistence miners, including children.
	Pressure began mounting on the businesses that use the metal in their products, since even suppliers that mine cobalt industrially often buy ore from so-called artisanal miners, also known by the French word cruzeur.
	So, artisanal miners.
	Small batch.
	Small batch.
	Ha!
	It's fantastic.
	I didn't have time to go look at Apple's annual reports, but I'll bet you somewhere they'll say, because it sounds great.
	Yeah, we at Apple, we are very concerned about the health and safety of the people who work with us, our partners, and that's why we source our cobalt only from artisanal miners.
	I can't even say it without laughing.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Right, so there's a lot at stake.
	Somebody has to introduce the idea of blood cobalt.
	Yes.
	So they can twist that blood diamond thing around.
	Oh, mon, mon, mon.
	Well, gee, Amy kind of missed the boat on the whole report.
	Now, you think if cobalt goes up by 10%, Or, yeah, it's up 10%, so it's tripled.
	Okay.
	The cost of mining cobalt...
	No, no, they say that the cost of their, the tax of the government was tripled.
	That means it was 3%, it went to 10%.
	No, no, it tripled to 10%.
	Yeah, well, how do you triple to 10% if you don't have a base of around 3.3%?
	They do.
	It's 3%.
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	Yeah, so they tripled it to 10%.
	We're saying the same thing?
	Okay, good.
	So if the basic cost of cobalt goes up and that price has got to get passed along, will our phones get more expensive?
	Will our battery cars?
	Well, 10% would probably add...
	It's just going to add 10% to the...
	It's going to go, no.
	That's $1,500.
	Well, yeah, they're going to get more expensive, but not because of the cobalt.
	Yeah.
	They're going to get more expensive because you're getting ripped off.
	Exactly.
	Strategic artisanal cobalt, everybody.
	Look for it in an iPhone near you.
	I'd love to see the videos of those kids digging away.
	Oh, it's in the show notes.
	They just have it.
	It's no secret.
	Just call it artisanal and everything's okay.
	Yeah, small batch.
	Yes, small batch cobalt.
	Beautiful.
	All right.
	Okay, well, there's our first depressing story to end the year.
	We're not looking back.
	No retrospective.
	We're showing you the future.
	So my wife was bitching and moaning and groaning about this, about the downage of the 9-11 lines all over the country.
	Yes!
	Yes, I had some clips.
	And I had a short clip, and I was listening to this, and I said, ah, now I know it.
	She says, why does one competition say...
	Why does one company have such control of all the 9-11 outlets around everywhere?
	CenturyLink, by the way.
	So let's play the CenturyLink clip and we'll get a little background on it.
	Telecom giant CenturyLink said today it's still trying to restore internet and 911 emergency services in several states across the country.
	The outage began early Thursday, affecting millions of customers from coast to coast.
	Louisiana-based CenturyLink says the outage was not caused by hacking.
	The FCC is looking into this.
	Oh, well, I'm glad you set that up with that clip.
	It's a perfect setup because I have a little more detailed story and I have a CenturyLink spokeshole.
	Unless you wanted to say something about this.
	No, I'll say something and we're all done.
	For the second day in a row, potentially millions of Americans dialing 911 would not have gotten this.
	911, what's the address of the emergency?
	An extensive outage at telecommunications company CenturyLink knocked some emergency call centers offline for certain callers around the country, highlighted in this map from the website DownDetector.
	In a series of tweets beginning late Thursday...
	By the way, I love that the news is using such...
	Artisanal tools as down detector, get a reading on the health of the 911 network.
	It's sad.
	CenturyLink said its engineers had, quote, identified a network element and that the problem would be restored within four hours.
	But today, more than 14 hours later, the company reported technicians were still working to restore services, announcing a fix an hour later.
	The head of the FCC announced an investigation, calling the outage completely unacceptable, its breadth and duration particularly troubling.
	Centrelink has not provided details on what caused the disruption, and it's unclear if the outage prevented anyone from receiving emergency assistance.
	Many of the affected emergency response agencies suggested people call their local police department's 10-digit phone number if they need help.
	With its 911 system out, Boston Fire tweeted a picture of its old street fireboxes, operational since 1852, in the case of an actual emergency.
	Yes, those things apparently still work.
	Yeah, well, that's the old days.
	Nothing works now.
	So, did you find out anything about why CenturyLink has the monopoly on this?
	Nobody's talking, but I looked at the map.
	It's all over the country.
	It's big blotches all over the place.
	Nobody...
	I know what this is.
	This is an example of microservices architecture.
	I don't even know if it's...
	Some code broke.
	That's all it takes with MSA to ruin everything.
	They apparently sold us.
	Look, you can do this.
	You can just use this.
	Plug this into your system and everything will work fine.
	It routes the calls.
	It does all these things.
	And a piece of code didn't work.
	Something weird happened.
	Who knows?
	There's a million things.
	It happens to you all the time.
	Artisanal code.
	Artisanal code.
	And this is the problem with MSA. This is the doomsday problem.
	Problem with microservices architecture.
	Yeah, this is Professor Ted's territory.
	Now, if you were the spokeshole for CenturyLink and you had said that and said, well, microservices architecture, you know, we have to reevaluate.
	There's some things, you know.
	Nobody knows that.
	Nobody.
	In fact, I even think half our audience doesn't know what I'm talking about when I'm talking about microservices architecture.
	Then why don't you speak to the other half of the audience?
	The normal people, as you tech journalists would say.
	No, I don't think they're abnormal.
	I just think they don't give a crap, or it was never presented to them.
	That would be the problem.
	Because who's going to tell anybody about microservices architecture?
	Because it's a well-kept secret that everything runs using this technology or architecture.
	And you can start a company up right now.
	Anyone can.
	And find pieces of microservices architecture.
	In other words, little things.
	Somebody who'll take your credit card.
	Somebody who'll create a database of names and addresses.
	Somebody who'll do a mailing list.
	In some ways, my using of MailChimp is microservices architecture.
	I think in this case, you may not be right.
	I think this was a network issue, is networking, and they run some kind of network.
	Well, let me defend myself.
	Okay.
	Microservices architecture also depends on quality network connections.
	Microservices architecture goes down, not because of code, but because there's a break in some network link.
	And the next thing you know, nobody in the country can do a credit card processing.
	Right, right, right, right.
	Okay.
	That's what this was.
	This is the end of civilization as we know it.
	I'm sorry.
	You're wrong.
	That is not what this is.
	I have the answer from the spokesperson of CenturyLink, from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
	You're wrong.
	I bet you do.
	You're wrong.
	Here is what actually happened.
	We are not concerned about the reliability of the system.
	This was a technical glitch that was not able to be identified in advance.
	But now we will be able to put in systems to make sure we can in the future.
	I got 99 glitches.
	Glitch.
	Glitch.
	It's just a glitch.
	And put a Goatsy on there, will ya?
	I really despise this.
	And this was for journalists.
	This was a press conference statement.
	A glitch, everybody.
	And you know what all the press did?
	Would you look at the time?
	I'll find my story.
	Sounds good.
	Now it's about something that could actually hurt somebody.
	It's not acceptable.
	It's not acceptable reporting.
	It's not acceptable.
	I mean...
	Do you still have the old Adam Curry pet peeve of the day clip?
	I don't see Curry's Petty of the Day.
	Glitch.
	Glitch my ass, people.
	It's so unacceptable.
	And everyone's like, oh, okay.
	Put a time code down.
	Yeah, I think I have to.
	Oh, man.
	The point is, the point is that people should look into this.
	It is, I didn't even know about it until maybe four or five years ago when, uh, I was explained the whole thing by the guys at one of the...
	What's that patchy competitor?
	I can't think of their names.
	Ning?
	Nginx.
	Yeah, Ning.
	Nginx, yes.
	Yeah, NGINX, they have, they rely on it.
	They use it.
	I mean, everybody's doing it.
	This show relies on it, Jeff.
	We rely on it to some degree.
	We have some reliability on microservices architecture.
	We do.
	We use buckets from Amazon.
	Yeah.
	So, that's part of it.
	You can't get around it, because you could do it all in-house, but you would be burdened, and it would cost more.
	Internet, interplanetary file systems, the future.
	IPFS. I use it.
	I did my feed, and it worked.
	People got the...
	How many dozens of people got the feed that way?
	Probably just about that.
	The ones who subscribe to it?
	Yeah, well, hey, it worked.
	I just put it on my laptop and people were able to download it and I had my laptop disconnected.
	It was fantastic.
	Anyway, digressing.
	This needs to stop.
	Now it's important.
	I would really like to know what's wrong.
	I'm sure there's some networking dudes named Ben out there who are also interested.
	There's a couple networking dudes named Ben.
	And I'm sure if you look at that map of all these outages all over the place, I'll bet you there's a single point of failure.
	That's the problem with all microservices architecture.
	There's a single point of failure where some one thing, one little connection somewhere crapped out.
	There's some guy on a bicycle, you know, using the bike lane.
	Rolled over a cable that was exposed and busted it.
	Something like that.
	Yeah.
	I hear you.
	Anyway.
	All right.
	We got everyone straightened out on that.
	I'm glad you did.
	It was just a glitch.
	I don't care.
	Microservices, smurvices.
	It was a glitch, everybody.
	Just so you know.
	Glitch.
	I was watching the news because it was a commentary I made on the last show.
	About, you know, it's too early to deal with the 2020 presidential election.
	But not the case with NBC! My goodness.
	I don't think it's a smart move, but that's up to them.
	I think people can't do it.
	But this does give us the foundation for what we can look forward to complaining about.
	You might play the 2020 prelims.
	This is Holly Jackson wearing a big red dress.
	What?
	That's unbelievable.
	What?
	They had her...
	She's a substitute host.
	She's normally the White House correspondent.
	You look at her, she looks like kind of a...
	She's got kind of a thin, gaunt face.
	You don't know that she's actually a big woman.
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh.
	So she's a big woman and they put her on the, and I don't mean any offense to that, there's a lot of big women.
	But they put her in an unflattering dress.
	But you don't put her in a red dress and make her stand up.
	Oh, geez.
	Not too early to talk about 2020.
	Many potential Democratic candidates spent this holiday huddling with their families about a possible presidential run.
	And in some cases, even starting to look for staffers.
	NBC's Kelly O'Donnell explains.
	Tis the season for Democrats to decide.
	Over the holiday, I will make that decision with my family.
	During the holidays, I'm going to sit down and take a lot of stock.
	Ringing in the 2020 race.
	That's the first of the year.
	It will be a family decision.
	The new year will usher in what is likely to be a gigantic field of Democratic challengers, competing for staff, resources, and voters' attention.
	I'm going to reflect on whether this is something that I should do.
	But all that thinking turns into action as early as January, some forming exploratory committees, formal announcements likely within a few months.
	The nomination is up for grabs from the most recognizable and experienced, like Joe Biden.
	It's all about Donald.
	It's not about anything else.
	Or Bernie Sanders wondering if he can capture lightning again.
	Based on my past.
	By the way, that was a very odd clip they threw in there of Joe Biden.
	Why would they do that?
	I mean, if Joe Biden is one of your guys, why would you make him sound like he's only focused on Trump?
	Is that truly what the Democratic voter wants?
	I found this whole package, which I believe Holly produced, because she voiced the O'd it.
	I'll wear the dress, but I have to produce the piece.
	And she had a lot of good stuff in there.
	She had the continuation.
	Everyone was saying, I'm going to go over the holidays.
	I'm going to talk to her with my family.
	I'm talking to her with my family.
	She had a lot of good, consistent...
	It was a very well-produced package.
	It did seem not to like Joe Biden.
	Yeah!
	Yeah, it's probably slanted.
	Well, no, the package and everything on NBC is terribly slanted.
	Let me finish it up because I want to hear the rest of it.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Since you're going to finish it up, go all the way.
	If you look at it from the perspective of a propaganda piece, I think the way it ends kind of gives us a little indication of what we're going to be witnessing in the upcoming year.
	Okay, good.
	And experienced, like Joe Biden.
	It's all about Donald.
	It's not about anything else.
	Or Bernie Sanders wondering if he can capture lightning again.
	Based on my past, based on my ideas, that in fact I am the candidate that can defeat Trump.
	Or will Democrats make a generational shift?
	A USA Today Suffolk University poll finds 59% of Democrats and independents surveyed say they would be excited about someone entirely new.
	At least six senators could run for the first time.
	You have to decide that you would be a good president, that you could bring the country together, that you would be able to beat Donald Trump.
	A November Senate defeat has not dampened buzz around Beto O'Rourke.
	Not to rule anything out and just to be open.
	While former Obama cabinet secretary Julian Castro has a date picked.
	On January 12th, I'm going to make an announcement about my plans.
	Of course it's early and the path unpredictable, but the process is getting underway, with many of these potential candidates trying to position themselves in what will be a costly and competitive quest for the nomination.
	Democrats also have to decide among three cities where they will hold their nominating convention.
	And it will go fast.
	Iowa Democrats will be meeting to caucus in just about 400 days.
	Hallie?
	Almost here.
	Kelly O'Donnell in Washington.
	Kelly, thank you.
	So you think Beto?
	That was Kelly O'Donnell, not Holly, that did the report.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, Beto.
	Beto.
	Huh.
	You know, it's coincidental.
	The Keeper and I were out yesterday.
	We were looking for a place to move to in April-May time frame.
	And so, you know, we also went to some open houses of places we can't afford.
	But everywhere you go, South Austin, South Austin in particular, the Beto signs are still up.
	One of our, James, I think, Fitzpatrick.
	I believe it's the last name.
	One of your Texas producers sent me a Beto sign from one of the big ones.
	Oh, the really big ones?
	They're cool.
	They're not really, really big, but it was big.
	Yeah.
	No, but everyone has their yard signs still up.
	The yard signs are everywhere.
	Yeah.
	That's very interesting.
	I'm reminded of Pia Zadora for some reason.
	And when the rain begins to fall.
	Yes, Pia Zadora.
	Let's talk about her.
	I interviewed her.
	Did you now?
	Yes.
	You tell me what you think.
	Well, all I know is that she had a rich husband.
	He has a rich wife.
	Her dream was to be a superstar, and so he just spent a lot of money on her.
	Let me tell you exactly what he did.
	I think he's dead now.
	I think he's long gone.
	But Pia Sedora had manipulated her guy's money.
	And I want to say that they seem very much in love, so that's fine by me.
	To make this song, they produced a movie and a soundtrack, and she did the soundtrack with Jermaine Jackson, which is like, you got a lot of money, but you didn't quite have Michael Jackson money, so we got Jermaine Jackson.
	And when the rain begins to fall from...
	Now, I'm doing this off the top of my head.
	Something about the something in the alien.
	Now I gotta know.
	P.S. Adora movie.
	The something in the alien.
	I'm gonna go watch it now.
	No, you don't.
	Was it The Voyage of the Rock Aliens?
	It was something like that.
	Man, she did a lot of movies.
	I mean, her husband paid for a lot of movies.
	Yeah, Voyage of the Rock Aliens, I believe it was.
	She was kind of a cutie.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Boy, did you think?
	You met her and talked to her?
	No, I didn't think...
	No, no.
	No, she was alright.
	She was very tiny.
	Very, very tiny.
	Yeah, well, so is...
	But yeah, so your point is well made because Beto's wife is heiress to a large fortune and her daddy-o probably still has some influence.
	But I was thinking about it.
	And while he seems kind of good on paper, you know, white Obama, let's just call him that.
	Ooh, I like it.
	Wow!
	You can call him Wobama, if you want, to shorten it.
	I think we have a winner!
	Wobama.
	Yeah, he reminds you of it.
	I mean, how many reports have we not heard?
	Wow, very reminiscent of Obama.
	Okay.
	Yeah, no, he steals Obama's style.
	Wobama, yes.
	He doesn't, well, I don't know if you steal it or if it's just, you know, there's lots of people.
	He studies it and steals it.
	Obama was influential, impressionable on young people like Wobama.
	Like little Wobama.
	Like little Beto.
	And I see that people dig that part, but he's much younger than Obama was.
	I think he's 10 years younger than Obama was when he ran.
	I don't know.
	I think so.
	And you just look at the guy and you can see him running, you can see him debating, but do you really see him running the country?
	I don't think any American sees that.
	They'll be like, eh, he's just not, you know, he doesn't have enough.
	JFK was the same way, dude.
	It's the same way, man.
	Yeah, man.
	JFK was like a young guy and they didn't like him because he was good looking.
	I think if you're old enough to vote for JFK, then you can vote for Obama.
	You can do whatever you want.
	I just, I don't know.
	It would be great for the show.
	Well, it's going to happen.
	I mean, they're going to run him.
	He's not going to get through the primaries.
	Hillary's still going to come in and swoop in.
	Yes, as per your newsletter, I want you to reiterate this because it's important where we were hearing wall-to-wall Hillary up until about six weeks ago.
	She was everywhere.
	She was with the women in tech, the lesbians in tech.
	I'm not making that up.
	It was the lesbians in tech conference.
	She's doing interviews everywhere.
	She's hamming it up.
	She's got her paperback version with a prologue.
	And then she starts this fateful tour, a three-hour tour.
	And that apparently...
	I don't even know if the tour has been canceled.
	No one's reporting on it other than...
	No, this has not been canceled and no one's reporting on it.
	Right.
	And you know there's material in there.
	Hell yes!
	So, if you don't mind, there's a lot of people who foolishly do not subscribe to the newsletter.
	I think it's good that you explain again just what's happening here.
	Well, to sum it up, Hillary's being blackballed by the media.
	Yes.
	And she has been left out when they talk about polls.
	Well, here's the news poll, says this, that, and the other thing.
	There's no mention of her.
	When they did this rundown that Kelly did on this, or Kathy or Kelly, whoever it was that did that report we just played, she has all pictures, she has screenshots of one, you know, All the potential candidates from, including Amy Klobuchar, who even have a soundbite of Amy Klobuchar talking about how she's thinking of running.
	And so you have, you know, screenshot after screenshot of people in a big, you know, murderer's row shot.
	And no Hillary.
	There's no Hillary.
	She's not mentioned.
	She's not shown.
	She's been completely blackballed when they do polls.
	She'll show up in the poll, but they will leave her out when they present it to the public.
	So, what do you think her strategy will be?
	She's not taking this lying down.
	I mean, she's clearly lying in wait.
	No, no, no.
	This is not going to happen with her.
	Yeah.
	She is going to...
	She's taking names, for starters.
	Right.
	I think what she's going to do is lay in wait.
	She knows she's been through this enough.
	She lost to Obama and then she lost to Trump.
	She ain't going to lose to Beto.
	No, no.
	She's not going to lose to Beto.
	But what she's going to do, she knows the rope's enough now and she still has the same people that she's going to lay in wait and let these guys kill each other off and she's going to come in late.
	She's going to swoop in.
	Risky.
	Risky strategy.
	She'll have to wait for some...
	Well, not as risky as you think if you consider the field being so big and everybody wanting to run.
	Yeah.
	We're talking 40 people.
	I know, but the media is strong.
	She clearly doesn't have CNN on her side.
	MSNBC seems to have waned.
	Is she counting on Fox News, the Democrats at Fox News, to help her?
	No, she's counting on the news cycle to help her.
	You know, when she swoops in, it'll be like a big deal, and what can she win again?
	It'll become the center of attention.
	She won't have any trouble getting ink.
	I'm just wondering what the catalyst will be.
	I'm not disagreeing with the strategy, although I don't know.
	She's nuts.
	She really thinks she can do this.
	Maybe she can.
	I don't know.
	Maybe the numbers do add up against her, but I don't think we'll see a repeat of Trump-Clinton.
	It just doesn't sound right.
	It doesn't sound right to me either.
	Yeah.
	But this is, I think, going to be what she tries to do.
	And I think she could pull it off.
	It's not even going to be a Trump in 2020.
	He's going to jail.
	He's going to jail, I tell you.
	Impeachment imminent.
	That's all I see on television.
	It's imminent.
	Any minute!
	It's not, as the New York Times, the worst offender, by the way.
	Any minute now?
	It's not if he's going to be impeached.
	It's when.
	It's when.
	Well, just on that for a second.
	I guess somewhere Christmas, right after Christmas, a report came out that there was a Prague ping from Michael Cohen's cell phone, which would mean he lied and that he was in Prague colluding with the Russians.
	And this report came from McClatchy, which I don't know why, but I think I know the name, but everyone seems to be saying this is a very reputable outfit.
	Tell me who McClatchy is.
	It's one of the oldest...
	Old syndicates, it's very established, not some newbie.
	It's not like whatever you pointed out earlier about the downtime.com or whatever it is.
	So they have chops.
	Really?
	They're a dying operation, but it's, you know.
	Oh, then you will like these two clips I have.
	From the man himself, Greg Gordon, who is the person who wrote and filed the story for McClatchy.
	And when you're, you know, even though you're old school, I mean, they have standing.
	Is that what you're saying?
	They're reputable?
	They're seen as, they have standing?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Well, so the best they could do is get on the Joy Reid show, for some reason, over at MSNBC. Well, the standing is it doesn't include having a good agent.
	Oh, well, they definitely need an upgrade, an agent.
	And the question is, you know, who exactly were your sources?
	Now it's okay.
	I guess we're in the era of everything is anonymous sources.
	Well, you know, I can imagine seeing some of these old school operations having to stoop to new age tactics to get some air time because they can't do it with their legitimate reporting.
	That's a possibility.
	Do you have any idea about their sources?
	Have you heard any?
	No, I don't even know this story.
	Oh, well, this is part of this sparking up of the It's All Over forum because it turns out that there is evidence somewhere from someone, from sources, that have a ping in Prague from Michael Cohen's cell phone.
	Yeah, that would have to be the NSA... Well, let's listen to McClatchy defend his reporting, or Greg Gordon from McClatchy defend the reporting and the sources.
	If there are intercepts that put Michael Cohen's cell phone in Prague, one would think those would be fairly specific.
	But the reporting of McClatchy is that they were either in August or September.
	How would they not be more specific if these are actual intercepts that show the phone pings?
	I think they are more specific, but unfortunately we weren't able to pry that out of our sources who were getting information from foreign intelligence agencies.
	This is a counterintelligence investigation, closely held.
	Did your sources see the intercepts for themselves, or are they passing along information from other people?
	Some of the sources have government sources, and some of the sources are people who have told us that they have trusted intelligence-type sources that they get information from.
	We don't know the specifics, but we have used these sources on many subjects, and they have been very accurate.
	I'd say that not only stooping to the modern tactics, I'd say he's holding his ankles.
	He's so stooped over.
	I would find this to be very sketchy.
	And then he started off by saying that the sources were foreign intelligence sources.
	Yes, he did.
	Not our boys, not the NSA, CIA. It gets better.
	You know, that sounds a lot like the Steele dossier.
	I reread the Steele dossier today.
	I told you that today.
	Listen to him laugh as she basically rubs it in his face.
	I'll give her a point for that, saying, yeah, this kind of sounds like the Steele dossier.
	And he just cracks up laughing.
	True.
	You know that sounds a lot like the Steele dossier.
	I reread the Steele dossier today.
	I told you that today.
	Because the reality...
	What the hell is...
	Why?
	Why?
	What was so funny about that?
	I'm wondering myself.
	I mean, I'm kind of befuddled by this.
	Again, McClatchy.
	And it wasn't like a nervous laugh.
	It was a guffaw.
	Yeah, there wasn't a tell.
	It was like...
	I don't know what that was.
	So if she says, I re-read this, it sounds like the Steele dossier, so either he thinks the Steele dossier is total crap, or it's a complete breakdown of his system, like, ha ha ha ha, you got me!
	Something is very strange.
	You know, that sounds a lot like a Steele dossier.
	I re-read the Steele dossier today, I told you that today.
	Because the reality is, if your sources didn't see the intercepts themselves, did they let you see them?
	Did they let us?
	Did they pass?
	Have you seen the intercepts?
	No.
	So what we have then is the sources have been used before, and they're saying they were told that these intercepts exist.
	That is true.
	So what kind of evidence did they provide you for you to feel confident that this was something that you're willing to put McClatchy's name on?
	Well, for one thing, we've got numbers.
	We have four sources who've told us about this.
	Oh, four.
	For another, we have read the beginning of our story to some of these sources to make absolutely certain we've gone over it and over it and over it.
	We worked on this story for really four months.
	No, they went over it and over it and over it, and yeah, he has four sources, so he's got numbers.
	I like how he said that.
	Hey, first of all, we got numbers.
	I like the numbers.
	Is that a thing you say in the news business?
	Like, we got numbers here, okay?
	I got numbers.
	I got sources who know government sources.
	I got numbers.
	I'm a clatchy.
	Did your sources come to you and say, hey, we have this new information, or did you go to them asking?
	Well, it's been a dialogue for a long time.
	So, you know, and my partner Peter Stone did some of this sleuthing, but we both are...
	Sleuthing?
	Sleuthing?
	What is he, Nancy Drew?
	Yes, I'm here in Prague.
	Maybe there's something behind the bookcase.
	Some of the sleuthing, but we both are well acquainted with the sources.
	And we, I would say we developed some of these, some of this came from foreign sources, and those people, one of those people talked to us over a long period of time before he provided a drop of information.
	And The guy is going to come, he's not unglued, but everything's unwinding before his very eyes, and he even admits to it in this.
	It gets kind of sad.
	I mean, I guess the reason that I'm asking is because we know that there is a possibility that sometimes sources have motives for putting things out, and one of those motives might be to get McClatchy to run a story like this, even if it isn't true.
	Is there any concern at all that people might have had a motivation to try to get you to run a story that was sort of an Ada and Prague situation where it didn't happen?
	What is Ada in Prague?
	I've heard the expression.
	I've never heard that expression.
	Oh, now we have to look it up.
	Ada in...
	I think it's a movie reference.
	I think Alpha Delta Alpha.
	Ada?
	Maybe not.
	Ada in Prague.
	I don't know.
	At a restaurant?
	That's just a promotion for some restaurant.
	Even if it isn't true.
	Is there any concern?
	And one of those motives might be to get McClatchy to run a story like this, even if it isn't true.
	Is there any concern at all that people might have had a motivation to try to get you to run a story that was sort of an Ada in Prague situation?
	Ada in Prague?
	Maybe I'm not hearing it right.
	ABBA in Prague, maybe?
	No.
	Dancing Queen!
	I don't know.
	It didn't happen, but they want it printed.
	Well, that's not the kind of dialogue we've had that would create that kind of suspicion because of the people that we've been working with.
	But you always have to be wary of disinformation.
	What I would say about disinformation is just think about the dossier of Michael Cohen because...
	This whole Cohen episode, the reason it's got so much attention is that it goes...
	Mueller has not yet charged anybody with collusion or any crime equating to collusion.
	And so what this...
	Meeting, or purported meeting, in Prague.
	Quidmein is the first strong evidence of some sort of collusion.
	Beyond the fact that his cell phone appeared to show up in the Prague area, we don't even know if there was a meeting.
	But this is coupled with some intelligence from an Eastern European intelligence agency that picked up this conversation.
	Now it's a conversation.
	Yeah!
	So, now, the conversation, they picked it up, and somehow it came from Prague, and, you know...
	Any collusion?
	It's...
	Now, the last 20 seconds, very, very sad thing this man is about to say.
	Michael Cohen is in Prague from a Russian official, we believe a senior Russian official.
	And I guess my answer to you would be, is there anything that you were able to actually physically see for yourselves that corroborated what these four sources were telling you?
	Anything that looked at the intercepts that would give you some further evidence beyond their work?
	I wish we had.
	We held out for a while for that, and we, you know, there came a time when we thought we had a critical mass.
	It is a competitive business.
	Yeah, it is indeed.
	Greg Gordon, thank you very much for your time.
	It's a competitive business.
	We had to get the story out there.
	I think that's very sad to hear this from a so-called reputable old-school organization.
	Well, it's a shame.
	Well, that's why you never heard of him.
	They can't cut it.
	Sad.
	It seems to me that the CIA, the NSA, somebody would know if this cone was floating around Prague ever.
	So, I mean, this is not a story.
	It's a bullcrap thing just to excite the public.
	Well, and it's McClatchy.
	That final nail in the coffin sounds like to me.
	Done, those boys are.
	Done, I tell you.
	Um...
	Let me see now.
	Okay, that's the second little downer here for the final...
	No, it's not meant as a downer.
	It's meant to entertain.
	We've had glitches.
	We've had pings.
	What else do we have going on in the news?
	Well, I got a series of clips.
	Let me change these either.
	Oh, I did, I was going through my, I was going to do the, I did again the whatever happened to.
	Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	I have two clips on the same topic because it turned out to be, this was in 2015, just a few years ago.
	It turns out to be, this was the news item of the year.
	It was, there were every channel, I have the two clips about it.
	It was going on and on.
	Everyone was just up in arms and they were just, everyone was in a tizzy.
	Over this whatever happened to story.
	And I have the PBS version and I have the ABC teaser on this thing.
	Let's start with the teaser.
	The eye-opening new cancer warning.
	Hot dogs, processed meat, and bacon now put in the same category as cigarettes and asbestos.
	Whatever happened to that story?
	Whatever.
	That's a good...
	That is bestness.
	Let's listen to the PBS report.
	This new report released today by the World Health Organization found that often beloved meats like sausage, bacon, ham and hot dogs can cause certain types of cancer.
	Prior studies had established similar connections, but the WHO was the most prominent health organization to specifically say...
	Processed meats can cause cancer.
	It looked at more than 800 studies around the world.
	It also found that eating freshly prepared red meat like steak or pork or lamb probably can cause cancer as well.
	Now, is bacon processed?
	Well, it's cured.
	It's sliced up.
	It's not really smoked.
	Well, processed to them means anything other than just shooting the animal.
	It's still on the pig.
	It's still on the pig.
	It's unprocessed bacon.
	It's smoked and treated sometimes with nitrides to protect it.
	Are we dead yet?
	No.
	Well, I can follow that up with a story.
	You know, in the United States of Gitmo Nation, we have the Food and Drug Administration running around, trying to, or not trying, writing up regulations to stop children from the evil vaping because it leads to smoking!
	It's a gateway drug to smoking.
	We don't know the effects of nicotine.
	You could die.
	And meanwhile, kids are vaping up a storm, but they're not smoking cigarettes, which is why the company formerly known as Philip Morris bought Juul for some ungodly amount.
	Was it 60 valuation?
	$60 billion?
	So crazy.
	And for real sales.
	And real forward-looking stuff.
	So there's a very big future.
	In the UK, Gitmo Nation East, they haven't quite caught on to that.
	Did they no longer have...
	I thought Philip Morris was...
	Wasn't that British originally or at some point?
	Do they no longer have a stake in cigarettes, in tobacco products?
	Of course, I think they do.
	I wonder if the UK has any relation to tobacco anymore.
	Because the Public Health England, which is the government's public health propaganda arm, has launched a campaign to show...
	Well, I'll play the...
	Hold on.
	Philip Morris, I'm looking on their wiki page.
	They are still in tobacco.
	They were founded in 1847.
	Their headquarters is in New York.
	They're not a British company.
	I thought they were...
	You had British American Tobacco.
	There was a number of companies.
	There was a bunch of them.
	Anyway...
	They won't if they do because they're really trying to get rid of cigarettes and they're doing it by showing the kids vaping is good!
	And what we are going to do is we are going to have one bell jar set up to smoke the average number of cigarettes smoked by a smoke each month.
	I need to give you some visual aids here.
	So they have three bell jars with cotton balls in them.
	One is the control bell jar, which just has cotton balls, just air.
	Then they have one with a vape stuck on the top, and they have one with a cigarette holder.
	And they drew in the equivalent amount of cigarette smoke and vape, vaporizer, condensation.
	As to a month's worth of smoking each product.
	And I'll say smoking in...
	A month's worth of nicotine in one puff?
	No, a month's worth...
	It's not the nicotine.
	A month's worth of whatever you puff from a cigarette, a month's worth of whatever you puff from a vape, and then a just nothing plain old air...
	With the same, you know, just the control jar.
	The bell jar through which we draw vapor from an e-cigarette for the same amount of time.
	And then as a control condition, we have clear air to demonstrate not smoking or vaping.
	So let's see what's going to happen.
	Here is the bell jar with cigarette smoke.
	I mean, it just is so revolting.
	Look at this.
	That's just the inside of the jar.
	Here, a lump of tar.
	So that's what's going on inside your lungs.
	There's loads of it.
	And this is only after one month.
	So now let's have a look at the e-cigarette.
	Let's just see.
	A little bit of vapour.
	That's the only one that's really got much in the way of colour.
	It just feels wet.
	My research shows that e-cigarettes are significantly less harmful than cigarettes.
	A big reason why this is the tar, which you can see here, which is not produced by e-cigarettes, but produced by cigarettes, which are linked to diseases such as heart disease, stroke and cancer.
	Well, there are six million smokers in England, and we think about half a million of them will try and stop smoking in January.
	The best thing a smoker can do for their health is to stop smoking, but don't try and do it on your own.
	We ask people to search smoke-free and get some help so that they can be more successful in quitting smoking.
	So I don't know, but to me it sounded like they were telling the kids vaping is good.
	Well, it doesn't produce a lump of tar.
	No, it doesn't.
	It doesn't.
	And there was zero talk of nicotine.
	Nicotine is not the issue.
	Tar and whatever, you know, whatever other cancer is crap.
	Well, nicotine is the addictive issue.
	So they say.
	Tar is not.
	No one's addicted to tar.
	Hey, I've become a roofer.
	No, right.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You get the point.
	It's like someone's not on board.
	Of course, this is what these guys do.
	They've been in the business of these guys must be beside themselves when they were banned from advertising.
	They owned one of the NASCAR races.
	They were advertising on TV. They had Ronald Reagan smoking Chesterfield.
	Do you remember Johnny Player Special?
	No, I don't remember.
	JPS, the black with the gold letters.
	It was all the racing cars had it.
	Yeah, JPS, Johnny Player Special.
	And the cigarettes, I remember as a 15-year-old, hey, man, I'm going to smoke some Johnny Player Specials.
	Well, it was like smoking a dog turd.
	Like, unbelievably crap.
	Good times.
	Most of the cigarettes are, well, I never smoked, so I can't really, I'm not a connoisseur, so I can't say.
	No, I can't.
	These guys have to be beside themselves because we're talking about some of the greatest marketing people in the world that have to sit down and come up with schemes because they can't really just, you can't just cut them loose.
	It's got to be very frustrating.
	Right.
	Right.
	So this is their latest.
	So these are doing, they're keeping busy.
	Yeah.
	Well, I see a bigger future for vaping.
	It's big.
	I think you're right.
	Well, if only we had...
	I think it's dorky, especially with the smoke.
	It is dorky.
	It is...
	It's not smoke.
	I know.
	It's vapor.
	But my favorite is the guys with those souped up things.
	They fill a room.
	You know, it's vapor.
	But the vape goes...
	It dissipates pretty quickly.
	Yeah, but it's...
	But I do remember going to visit...
	I remember visiting Dexter at the vape conference in Dallas a couple years back, and the whole hall was just one cloud.
	It was just hanging there.
	It was smelling of popcorn and cotton candy.
	I'm not a big fan of the cotton candy.
	Where was this event?
	In Dallas.
	It was big.
	It was at the convention center.
	A lot of people vaping.
	That's when I got the hoverboard, remember?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Whatever happened to that thing?
	Yeah, I gave it away.
	It's a flying bomb, man.
	I don't want to be on that thing.
	That battery.
	Just waiting for the battery to ignite in my house.
	I don't need that.
	All right.
	Yesterday I saw some guy go buying a one-wheel Segway.
	Yeah.
	Between his legs?
	Well, yeah, but you're riding like a skateboard, so you're sideways.
	It's between your legs, but you're sideways, and the wheel is parallel to the skateboard.
	That's all we need.
	More of that.
	I was thinking about the dockless mobility, which is what we're talking about.
	And here's what I don't know.
	The companies that are big in this are Uber and Lyft, and they've purchased pieces of the big frontrunners, Bird and Lime.
	And knowing that...
	The Uber model itself only is working because they're severely undercutting the actual price of...
	I mean, they're selling rides below cost in most cases.
	Unless I use the app I used to use on my phone, they go, ha-ha, it's Curry.
	Just do times five because that's how they price their rides.
	Tina will use an app and she'll get the same ride for less.
	Same with Airbnb and all that stuff.
	But they're really not making any money on any rides.
	I think they're losing about a billion dollars a quarter.
	And the reason they're still around is because they've been able to get some new group of idiots for the fifth round of investment to put money in.
	It is a bit like a Ponzi scheme.
	Or at least it's a scheme where they just need to keep pumping money in to keep afloat.
	You agree with this assessment?
	Because I want to make sure I'm seeing it right.
	No, I don't.
	You think they're making money?
	You think they're profitable?
	There are reports around that float around the investment community that show that if you set up one of these bullcrap operations, you're in the black within 60 days.
	And I'm talking about cars first, not about the bikes.
	I'm talking about the cars.
	Oh, I don't know anything about the financing of that.
	That's where they're losing a billion dollars a quarter, is my understanding.
	So they've bought into this what you believe is a profitable or you've heard can be a money-making operation.
	But I'm just going to go, you know, whatever happened to or whatever, yeah, whatever happened to We had the big bike-sharing startups in China.
	It was exactly the same thing.
	They had $2 billion initially in venture.
	Then 18 months, they started to really catch fire, and then more people came in, and then more money, and they started to acquire each other.
	Then they had an IPO, one of them, raised $4 billion in IPO. Now these companies are all done, broke.
	There's huge mountains of these bikes.
	That are just, you know, just piled up because they're out of business.
	They're not used.
	Are you giving them to the homeless?
	I don't think they have homeless in China.
	Oh, that's true.
	No homelessness.
	Yeah, no job.
	No homelessness.
	So, I mean, wouldn't invest...
	And, you know, what happens is investors just stopped investing and said, well, you don't seem to be able to make a return.
	And this was on the scooters and the bikes.
	So, I don't know.
	It just doesn't seem like...
	I mean, you've got a lot of people in China.
	If you can't make it work...
	I remember...
	Pictures of China, there were more bikes than we thought in Amsterdam.
	It's like, oh, these people really have a lot of bikes.
	You remember the video, the old film footage of, oh, here's Beijing and people on bikes everywhere.
	They couldn't make it work.
	I'm not so sure.
	Every time I, you know, if there's an Uber involved...
	Well, my advice is don't invest in this.
	Well, no, but also, you know, I think the whole system just, it doesn't seem sustainable.
	Well, if you think about it, it doesn't seem right to have all this crap laying out, you know, buying all these things and then having them laying all over the place.
	It just doesn't seem like I happen to pick them up and charge them.
	Yeah, it's expensive.
	GPS, that's got to cost money.
	And now downtown Austin, they have a new problem.
	Whenever one of these bikes or these scooters is parked in the middle of the sidewalk, there seems to be someone going around and putting his boot and bending the disc brake on the back.
	There's a disc brake on the back?
	Yep.
	Exposed disc brake.
	Very thin.
	And it's apparently, if you put your boot on it while it's lying down, you can bend it and then the wheel won't go, rendering the whole thing inoperable.
	Someone is doing that in downtown.
	Some vandal.
	Some vandal is doing that.
	I have no idea.
	And I bet you the police aren't interested in catching him either.
	No, no, no.
	We have other things to do, sir.
	Yes.
	I'm not sure what.
	We got to go protect the ground for the soccer stadium.
	Make sure no one's peeing on it.
	Something like that.
	Wow.
	It's always something.
	That's awesome.
	That's the thing that's always overlooked in these great utopian schemes is the preponderance I'm not talking about just occasional.
	I'm talking about preponderance of vandalism.
	That's why we have the police.
	We have way, I mean, just humans in general, especially in freedom-loving countries.
	We have a preponderance of vandalism.
	Just go, you can drive through any city and look at all the graffiti.
	It's all vandalism, even though there's a lot of art in there.
	In Austin, we have a, we call it graffiti, a graffiti park.
	And we call it art, where it's really just a bunch of, you know, it's a place where there's some run-down buildings where kids are smoking dope and drinking and spray-painting the wall.
	But in Austin, it's art.
	Well, there are pieces I've seen, I've collected some actually, of graffiti that is art.
	It's a very specific style of art.
	And it's very pretty.
	But that's not what most of it is.
	Most of it is these, you know, what they call throw-ups and just tags and just a mess.
	Well, clearly it's beatniks who are doing this in Austin, so they're taking the law into their own hands.
	And with that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to the man who put the sea in cobalt, John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all ships and sea.
	Boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning to our troll room and all the trolls taking refuge there at the time being, which seems to be more than I expected, actually.
	We must have some finger-snap and beatnik freaks in the troll room, but we appreciate you guys showing up for this end-of-year show.
	And you can join our troll room at noagendastream.com.
	Also, in the morning to Darren O'Neill, brought us the artwork for episode 1098.
	We titled that one Climate Grief, and he made a no agenda gift card with everything that goes along with it.
	And it was a nice piece, and it was something that came up in the show.
	We were talking about the gift card scam, and we already used the Climate Grief title.
	And so it really was the best piece of art, although I think there, again, were some other good ones.
	Yeah, it was, yeah, yeah.
	laughs Usually you remember.
	Usually you remember.
	Let me see.
	There was something really good that we liked in the last show.
	All right.
	Well, let's thank a few people, meanwhile.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	We appreciate it, Darren.
	Thank you so much.
	Sir Neville James of Bray Park Hill in Australia came in with no note.
	And I sent him an email asking if he could get a note in, but he couldn't get it.
	I don't know what he's doing.
	What time is it there?
	Anyway, $710.
	We'll read his note when he comes in later.
	He did have a note for the last time he donated a substantial amount.
	And it was, he did want to, let's just rerun his old one.
	Yeah, hold on a second, John.
	I'm having some spreadsheet issues here.
	This is very funny.
	What happened?
	Well, this is very odd.
	So it's just a...
	I can't even explain it.
	It's a Windows thing.
	The only way I can view the spreadsheet is if it's completely filled the screen.
	Because if I click the little shrink, you know, go back to regular size, then it's just a teeny, teeny...
	Oh, wait, here, I grabbed it.
	Okay.
	My goodness, Windows is a trip.
	Alright.
	I'm here with you.
	What do you need?
	What do you need?
	He needs just a Putin jingle, don't worry, be happy.
	And just keep up the good work.
	Okay.
	We have...
	We have that.
	And no karma?
	Give him karma, too.
	I mean, this came in in August, so this is not his real note.
	Oh, okay.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	Don't worry.
	Be happy.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Hopefully that's sufficed for him.
	Yeah, he may come in with a note later.
	Joe Wagner, he came in at $710, so we'd say whatever he wants.
	Hell yeah.
	Joe Wagner, 390.80.
	Happy New Year, John and Adam, and to all the woke-ass No Agenda listeners, if my math is correct, this donation makes me a knight.
	Accounting attached.
	Your show is worth more than every penny that got me here, and I hope more people support it and support this model in general.
	Please knight me a surface replacer, replacer of faces.
	There's a backstory there, I'm sure.
	I would like to know what it is.
	If it's not too much trouble, please add candy and astroglide to the roundtable.
	And it's candy with a small c.
	Okay.
	Throw some health karma toward the NA community after a Maxine My Millennials and an Obama You Might Die as my jingle request.
	I look forward to another year of shows.
	My Millennials!
	Stay woke!
	You might die.
	You've got karma.
	This is a good one from Sir Robert Gusick, High Point, North Carolina, $333.
	I'd like you to read this because I have to sort through something.
	I am very pleased to let you know that the karma I requested for my back surgery worked awesome!
	Yes.
	I only had a very minor infection, but other than that, my incision has healed beautifully.
	It's been two months since my surgery, and the actual surgery results are absolutely amazing!
	Before the surgery, I had such severe leg pain I could only stand for about 30 seconds and walk about 20 feet before I collapsed.
	I've been in a wheelchair for nine months.
	After the surgery, right when I woke up in the recovery room, I could tell the pain was completely gone in my legs.
	I've been slowly recovering, getting my strength back very carefully until the fusion sets in.
	Then I'll be able to start physical therapy.
	So now, not only has no agenda helped me with my mental well-being and strength, the karma has also helped me get through a very rough spot in my life.
	I'm proud to make a donation of 33333 and will continue to donate regularly.
	With this donation, I've now reached the barren level and request the title, Baron Bob of High Point, accounting attached, yes.
	I'm steadfastly hitting people in the mouth and I'm learning which slaves are beyond recovery.
	Yeah, it's sad when you see that, isn't it?
	That's terrible.
	And those who still are receptive to logic and clear thinking as provided by the No Agenda Show.
	I may not always agree with everything that's said, which you don't have to say because we know, but I no longer am a slave to the M5M and instead I'm doing my own thinking for myself and it feels amazing!
	I am so happy to hear this, Sir Robert Gusek.
	That is fantastic.
	We can't take credit, but I know somehow when a lot of people are thinking about you, things do happen.
	So I'm glad the karma, at least you feel good about it, your mental health is saved, and you will become a baron.
	Did he give a protectorate that he wants to?
	Yeah, it was in there.
	You read it.
	High Point?
	Yeah.
	Where's High Point?
	North Carolina.
	Oh, High Point, North Carolina.
	Got it.
	Okay.
	Well, I'm going to give them just a follow-up karma dosage here.
	You've got karma.
	Onward to Baronette Tess, Susan Johnson in Hillsborough, Oregon, 33333.
	And she sent us a check with a note.
	Happy New Year to you both.
	It's been a while since you've heard from me as I have been busy sitting in my new place.
	I'm finding other times to listen to you as I know...
	She's in the long hand, by the way.
	It's pretty.
	And as I no longer have the long commute...
	This really hurts us, by the way, people that lose their long commute.
	Yeah, it does.
	Thank you for being steady, faithful, and important voices in this crazy world.
	Many times an associate executive producer.
	I am happy to finally be an executive producer.
	Here's to 2019.
	Cheers!
	Thank you very much.
	Susan Johnson from Hillsboro.
	She got some jingles I should have given to you earlier.
	That's okay.
	What do we got?
	Pew Pews.
	You can get that.
	Boom Shakalaka.
	Adam, you found the little girl one, have you?
	Found the little girl one?
	Boom Shakalaka.
	Yeah, you know what?
	Here's the problem.
	I don't think it was a little girl.
	Yeah, it was.
	I haven't.
	It was Nick's kid.
	That's what I got.
	Okay, boom.
	Yeah, we got pew pew, boom shakalaka.
	And it was just a little girl, yay, and then karma.
	Oh, just a yay.
	Yeah, just a yay.
	Yay!
	All right, we'll do that.
	Pew!
	Boom shakalaka!
	Pew!
	Boom shakalaka!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	You found it.
	I did.
	That is a little girl.
	It's the new search thing.
	It's everything.
	It's what it's called.
	Yeah, play that again.
	I just like that one.
	You haven't played it for so long.
	Which one?
	The little girl yay?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, sure.
	Yay!
	No, no, not that.
	I mean the boom shakalaka.
	What was I thinking?
	Oh, the boom shakalaka.
	Okay.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Hold on.
	Here it is.
	I can play it for you.
	Boom shakalaka.
	Boom shakalaka!
	Give me a little boy.
	I do have something I want to interrupt.
	I have a, when I was going through this, whatever happened to, I ran into an old ISO that I don't think we've played for years and years and I don't even know if we ever played it at all.
	But it's hands clapping thumbs up.
	Hands clapping thumbs up.
	Yes, we definitely played that.
	It's a good one.
	It's a classic.
	It's a classic.
	Hands clapping thumbs up.
	What was that from again?
	I think it was from a screen reader that was looking at emojis or emoticons.
	Could be.
	Ah, yes, yes.
	Hands clapping thumbs up.
	Yeah, that would be the emoji read.
	Yeah.
	Sir Roderick Velo in Amsterdam.
	Well, here we go.
	255.55.
	Wow.
	Our sister podcast over there in Gitmo Nation Lowlands, TPO. In the morning, John and Adam, my level of year-end donation for the best...
	Actually, can you read this one using your Dutch voice?
	I don't want to insult our royalty, our peer, Sir Roderick Velo.
	Velo.
	Wouldn't probably think it's funny.
	No!
	For the best podcast in the universe, thanks for the sometimes hilarious deconstruction work and your valuable and funny insights twice a week.
	I heard you in show 1098 about nuclear as an ignored exit toward less CO2. A very clear voice on this matter is the American author-activist Michael Schellenberger.
	He explains the fear propaganda and his pro-nuke views in a great TED Talk.
	We don't like TED Talks.
	Yeah, but...
	And he says in an interview he did with him in Amsterdam.
	Okay.
	And he's got a link, which we'll put in the show notes.
	Have a great 2019 with all of us.
	Yes.
	Thank you, Sir Roderick Velo.
	And definitely, if you're in the lowlands, check out the TPO podcast.
	And I will take a look at this interview.
	I'm looking forward to it.
	And thank you for your support of the show.
	You guys have been great.
	Sir Finch is an associate executive producer, $234.56.
	Thank you for the excellent year of shows in 2018, some of which is your best work.
	Wishing you both a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.
	Need some pea club karma, please.
	Cheers, Sir Finch.
	Not sure what it is, but I'll load it up.
	You've got karma.
	To 3333.33 from Rochester, New York, comes Sir Carl with a K. Your friends over here at WhoAre, it reminds me of the cake somebody puts...
	Please put happy birthday Carl with a K. And you get the cake back and it's written out.
	Happy birthday Carl with a K. Yes.
	We've seen these.
	Please put a USB stick on it.
	Your friends over here at Who Are These Podcasts are still listening to every episode.
	This is one of the Who Are Your Podcasts or Who Are These Podcasts, which is really, really, really I think it's a very interesting podcast to listen to, especially when they go after someone.
	And who does this podcast?
	These guys.
	They do this.
	We were highlighted.
	Oh, that's right.
	Right, right, right, right.
	I think you were talking about it.
	People should look it up as, who are these podcasts?
	It's a podcast review.
	It's a podcast review, which is something that I hinted at doing, and it didn't seem like it was going to work out.
	No.
	Because we really have nothing good to say about anything.
	That was the problem.
	The problem is it sounded like two podcasters making fun of podcasters.
	Two old white podcast douches.
	Yeah, no good.
	Yeah, it wasn't going to work.
	No.
	So these guys have taken the role, and they sound like the douches instead of us.
	But I'm telling you, it's definitely worth listening to.
	Okay.
	Some of it's quite hilarious.
	Anyway, keep it a good workout.
	I like to hear chemtrails followed by don't be a denier.
	The science is in.
	Thanks for all you do.
	Happy New Year.
	Sir Carl with a K. Let's see.
	And what is it called again?
	The podcast?
	Who are these podcasts?
	Who are these podcasts?
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	We got this here.
	Chemtrails.
	The science is in.
	You've got karma.
	It's a potential podcast for the stream.
	William Stodd in San Antonio, Texas.
	$210 straight up.
	Actual name is William Stodd.
	I'm going to send an email to Adam in case this gets cut off.
	I hail from San Antonio, Texas.
	$210.
	I'm a relatively new listener.
	Listen to about all of 10 or 15 episodes now.
	Yet still, I feel the need to apologize for being a douchebag for not donating.
	Hopefully this makes up for all the valuable time and content you all have given me thus far for free.
	Well, let's give him a de-douching then.
	He's not asking for it, but it seems warranted.
	You've been de-douched.
	I don't have to worry about it anymore.
	I'd like to also call out my dear friend and co-worker Travis Wilborn for being a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	This man has been listening to the show far longer than I have, and even introduced me to it, yet has not donated a penny.
	He's like the outraged citizen.
	I gotta tell you, Mr.
	Policeman, this citizen has been listening to the show far longer than I have, but has never donated a penny!
	I'd also like to request that R-E-S-P-I-C-T to my smoking hot wife, Madison, who's all on board with my road trip to knighthood.
	Woohoo!
	Again, that's good.
	You're all on board with this.
	You got a good one.
	That means we'll be listening more.
	You got yourself a good one.
	And I can read these notes like this.
	Yes.
	Again, thank you for all the wonderful laughs.
	And news and deconstruction and valuable content.
	I wish y'all a Happy New Year.
	Happy New Year, San Antone, William Stodd, and Smokin' Hot Wife.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. You've got karma.
	He's such a gift.
	How?
	He's a gift.
	Brown.
	Randall Brown.
	Now, I have to look in my email box.
	I didn't see this was empty.
	Randall Brown.
	Brown.
	Randall Brown.
	I don't see nothing.
	Shall I take a look?
	Yeah, I take a look.
	I do not recall.
	R-A-N-D-A-L-L. Randall.
	Let's see.
	No.
	Nope.
	I'm sorry.
	I do not have any.
	One more time.
	I have nothing.
	R-A-N-D. Random liars.
	Randall, Randall, Randall.
	New Randall Brown.
	Okay.
	Then we'll just assume that's an N-J-N-K. I don't think it came in as a check.
	Boing.
	So, Randall Brown, uh, 2-0-1-90 in Providence Village, Texas.
	We've got a lot of Texans coming in today.
	They're all itching for a meetup.
	They, yes, they want.
	A big Texas meetup.
	You could top the numbers we've had.
	We're going to have the big Texas meetup.
	In the new year, it's in the planning stage.
	It's going to be more than that.
	It's going to be huge.
	Huge.
	Huge.
	Now we've got an interesting situation.
	Well, no, this is Ed Boutelier, $200.
	Happy Yuletide and Happy New Year.
	Keep it the good work, Ed.
	Pronouncing La Boutier.
	La Boutier.
	Thank you very much, Ed.
	Appreciate that.
	Now we have Sir Hashtag Null and Sir Dragonheart, who both came in in the same envelope with two separate $100 or $200...
	Postal money orders.
	Nice.
	And they sent this note in.
	So you're thinking that maybe Sir Hashtag Null and Sir Dragonheart are living together or in collusion?
	It could be in collusion.
	Yes, I'm thinking it's a collusion.
	They sent a very nice card.
	Some dancing naked guy on it.
	Okay.
	$200.
	Crackpot and Busk.
	And the card is printed with a...
	Now, whose card?
	Is Sir Hashtag's?
	Very nice font.
	What?
	Is Sir Hashtag's card or Sir Dragon?
	No, no.
	Both of them signed the card.
	Oh, it's one card, two guys.
	Yeah, one card, two guys.
	Two girls, one cup.
	Yeah, I got it.
	Two guys.
	It's a Trader Joe's card.
	So, you know, that's another kind of a giveaway here.
	Clue.
	Yeah, clue.
	Although this is...
	I want this font...
	Sir, hashtag Null or Dragonheart, send me what the, give me the name of this font.
	Happy holidays to you, fellow knights, names, and other titled members of the round table, producers and artists, and even those of you who don't think the cause is worthy enough to warrant supporting truth, justice, and the insert justification way.
	Please forgive my son and I. Oh, it's a sign.
	Ah, there we go.
	Son combo.
	Mm-hmm.
	For not pitching in for a while.
	This is dad's $400 donation is what it is.
	Months to it, I think.
	But credit to his son.
	And they were separate.
	Two separate money orders.
	Please forgive my son and I for not pitching in for a while.
	But this has been a complex year.
	Not to mention...
	We lost someone very close to us earlier this year.
	Please find a homage from both of us and closed.
	We wanted to make sure...
	I love this font.
	John, is there such a thing as font porn?
	Because you need to start the website.
	Just gorgeous.
	We wanted to make sure we sent some form of support before the calendar flips and help bridge the gap before the big 1100 show, which is the next show of the year 2019.
	We are honored to be part of a community that wishes to see beyond the smoke and mirrors, and especially what is behind the curtain number three.
	Adam, your attention to detail and professionalism is inspirational!
	Woo!
	Foam figure!
	I have been listening to podcasts since 2006.
	Before it became a thing.
	And no agenda is without doubt the most sophisticated experience I've ever had.
	And not just for the content.
	The presentation and audio quality is top shelf.
	Thank you.
	We do work hard on that.
	John, do you believe in divine intervention?
	That is when you and Adam somehow came up with the idea to do a talk program.
	And the metamorphosis is what we count on every week to keep sane in this padded world.
	As the elder statesman of the duo, your insight, wisdom, and broad-range knowledge really gives us a perspective that is definitely absent from the general media.
	Elder statesman.
	I like it.
	Including top-of-the-list podcast.
	Well, you do it with one arm behind your back.
	I'm going to be honest.
	I'm dribbling, too.
	But pretty soon it's from my mouth.
	Make no mistake, folks.
	History is riddled with instances of information suppression and conflagration, which is why now, probably more than ever, we need a resource like No Agenda.
	Do your part to keep the lighthouse flame a-burnin'.
	Yours respectfully at the table.
	Respectfully.
	Hashtag no Sir Dragonheart.
	No jingles, but we appreciate some karma.
	Well, you guys are getting some karma, and thank you for checking in again.
	Good to hear from you.
	And please, please, send me this font as well.
	I'm all jacked about it.
	I'm getting all jitty with it.
	Thank you, guys.
	Really appreciate it.
	You've got karma.
	Sir Hashtag no and Sir Dragonheart.
	Very nice.
	And is that it?
	That's our list?
	Is that it?
	I believe it's probably it.
	Yes, it is.
	Our executive and associate executive producers for a show.
	1099, the last show of 2018.
	Yes, and we thank you.
	So sincere.
	All of our executive and associate executive producers.
	These are the credits you want to have because you can put them anywhere.
	They help people in all kinds of situations.
	It also just sounds cool.
	I'm an executive producer for the No Agenda Show.
	If only I could find an unknown for something I'm working on.
	I'm just saying, you should try it.
	And we'll be thanking more $50 and above in our second segment, the last donation segment of 2018.
	And you can support us for our show 1100, which will be coming up on Thursday.
	And do that at dvorak.org.
	Slash N-A Lots of hittin' in the mouth over the holidays.
	You've got all the deconstruction.
	Now propagate!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water!
	Water!
	Blue chocolate!
	Shut up, sleep!
	Yowza.
	All right.
	Listen, I got a question for you.
	Sure.
	Anybody out there can explain to me why there is this obsession with Mumia Abu Jamal.
	What?
	Otherwise known as Wesley Cook.
	Free Mumia.
	You ever seen those stickers?
	You go into any, like, Philadelphia or Baltimore where you see these Stickers on poles is free Mumia.
	No.
	I don't know anything about this.
	Well, I know about it.
	Mumia Abu-Jamal is who?
	He's a guy who shot a cop in Philadelphia and got life.
	How long ago did this happen?
	I've been trying to get him out ever since.
	But I would challenge anybody to go to the wiki page and read about it.
	First, let's play this clip.
	clip.
	I got a clip on here they are again, because Democracy Now! would be one of these operations that would be trying to free Mumia.
	And those are some of the headlines.
	This is Democracy Now!
	Democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report.
	I'm Amy Goodman.
	We begin today's show with an update on a major development that could be the path to freedom for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, the award-winning journalist who was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, but has always maintained his innocence. the award-winning journalist who was convicted of the 1981 murder On Thursday, a Philadelphia common pleas court judge
	Ruled Mumia Abu-Jamal can re-argue his appeal in the case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court because then-Chief Justice Ronald Castile failed to excuse himself from the case due to his prior role as Philadelphia District Attorney when Abu-Jamal was appealing his case.
	Abu-Jamal's lawyers argued that statements Castile made about people accused of killing police officers indicated he should have recused himself.
	They cited campaign speeches and letters he wrote that called for the death penalty in such cases.
	Abu-Jamal spent nearly three decades on death row before his sentence in the shooting death of Officer Daniel Faulkner was thrown out over flawed jury instructions.
	Prosecutors then agreed in 2011 to a sentence of life without parole.
	Judge Tucker's decision on Thursday was split because he denied Abu-Jamal's claim that Castile had, quote, personal significant involvement in the case while he was in the district attorney's office.
	For more, we're joined here in New York by Johanna Fernandez, a professor of history at Brewer College CUNY, the City and University of New York, and one of the coordinators of the campaign to bring Mumia home.
	She has been in the courtroom for part of this case and is the editor of...
	Writing on the Wall, selected prison writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
	Professor Fernandez, welcome back to Democracy Now!
	Can you talk about the significance of Thursday's ruling?
	Well, this is a case that is important for Mumia Abu-Jamal, but also for dozens of people sitting in prison in Pennsylvania.
	Essentially, the judge established that if there is prejudice In a hearing, the defendant has the right to a new hearing.
	You can kill it.
	Yeah.
	Alright, so this guy, the story, to make it short, I can read from the wiki page, but I recommend people go there and look at it.
	Just type in Mumia, you'll get it.
	There's like witnesses, what happened, he was a cab driver, he became an award-winning journalist when he was in prison.
	He did some kind of reporting for a couple of local radio stations, gotten fired by one of them.
	Became a very staunch Black Panther during that era.
	And he was driving his cab at 3, 4 in the morning when apparently his brother was pulled over by a cop for something.
	And the two of them got into an argument.
	Mumia got out of his cab, walked over, and shot the cop in the head.
	Well, that's a day wrecker.
	And this was witnessed by numerous people, including a hooker.
	Sex worker.
	He was taken in, and his gun had five rounds missing from it.
	He had, you know, passed all the obligatory, you know, tests.
	Powder on his hands, all that stuff.
	And he still had the gun.
	They had the gun.
	They had a murder weapon.
	Anyway, it goes on and on and on.
	He admitted it to somebody in prison that he did it.
	There's all these things.
	But for some reason, and I don't know what it is, I can't believe it's just because he says, I'm innocent, that this has been a left-wing cause.
	I mean, it's possible that he could have been framed.
	I've never seen a frame like this.
	It's just too much.
	Too much.
	Too many people.
	No one's come forward saying that they lied.
	It's just outrageous.
	And this continues.
	This has gone on since the 70s.
	This guy's been in jail for 30 years.
	And the left wing keeps...
	Bringing it up as some sort of a cause to lair, and I don't even know why.
	I don't know why.
	Well, I can wager a guess as to why it's cropping up now.
	As we just had prison reform, President Trump has been working with people of great importance, like Kim Kardashian, and also entertained some input from Kanye about certain prisoners who've been in for a long time.
	Maybe they're trying to hitch onto that bandwagon, just bring it back again.
	Maybe just to say, Trump, you hate Muslim-sounding people because you didn't help this guy.
	I mean, who knows?
	It could be that.
	It could be any number of things.
	Well, I don't think this guy's getting out.
	But to me, this has been going on for way too long, and it's just...
	Yeah, maybe it explains why it's coming back into the news at this point in time.
	Yeah, right now.
	But this has been continuous.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, we got lefties out there.
	Somebody can explain it to me.
	I looked up...
	And I don't want to hear, oh, he's innocent.
	He's not innocent.
	I looked up Mumia Abu-Jamal on the wikis, and I got, hi, reader in the U.S. It seems you use Wikipedia a lot.
	That's great.
	It's a little awkward to ask, but this Sunday we need your help.
	We depend on donations.
	Of course I'll donate.
	Just because they make a lot of money doesn't mean we don't use it a lot.
	And just because I don't always agree with what they say doesn't mean we shouldn't support them.
	I would send them a nasty note.
	No, I always send them money at the end of the year.
	Of course.
	It's an invaluable resource.
	Whether it's right or not, it's valuable.
	Well, it is a valuable resource, there's no doubt about it.
	You said this guy became an award-winning journalist in jail?
	Yeah, he wrote a book about being in jail.
	Well, it was kind of, you know, gee, just like...
	Which I think, by the way, there is some left-leaning idea of the literate mind.
	So if you can, you know, this happened with Norman Mailer.
	He found some guy in jail who was a...
	remember his name Henry or something like that Henry something and he got an early release pretty much in Norman Mailer's recognizance and that guy went out and killed somebody or raped somebody did something that got thrown right back in jail and it was a huge humiliation for Norman Mailer gotcha well speaking of journalists odd journalists the Washington Post on just between Christmas and New Year's on the 28th released a little bit of news it
	It was very, actually very, it reminded me a lot of the climate change report, you know, just pushed out on a Friday, kind of hush-hush, which is something the Washington Post yelled and screamed about.
	They put out a news report admitting that they had discovered text messages between their star columnist, Jamal Khosuji.
	That became very clear to them that the chief executive at the Qatar Foundation International, Maggie Mitchell Salem, had been texting him and shaping his columns, proposing topics, drafting material, prodding him to take a harder line against the Saudi government.
	And this was below the fold even in the article that they admit to this.
	So we were right.
	The guy was a shill.
	And he wasn't even...
	I mean, who was writing these columns?
	It looks like Qatar was writing them.
	Or this Qatar Foundation International.
	Yeah.
	Qatar and Turkey, they're buds now.
	They're all against Saudi Arabia.
	And I think it's disgraceful that the Washington Post didn't just say, hey, you know what?
	We really messed up on this one.
	Because they did.
	It doesn't work.
	There's no anti-Trump angle.
	The Washington Post.
	Well, that's my point.
	It is the Washington Post that discovered this.
	That they're big, you know, they're big columnists, they're freedom fighter.
	Oh no, we love him.
	He's great.
	He was just a shill for the Muslim Brotherhood.
	And they have every right to be journalists as well, but don't tell me that you're the Washington Post and you're holier than all that.
	You've got the same problems everybody else has.
	Only you didn't catch it.
	What did you?
	Well, when they finally caught it, they did it sheepishly.
	That's very, very, very, very low.
	Yeah.
	Especially for...
	Let's put it in below the fold on page 40 and then on a Friday night, the bulldog edition or whatever.
	It's exactly what they did.
	The final.
	It's exactly what they did.
	It's disgusting.
	Okay, well, since we're in that part of the world a little bit, let's talk about the Sudan riots because there's a funny thing that happened on the way to the Sudan riots, which are going on as we speak.
	It's not being covered by the media, of course.
	There's too many retrospectives of the great 2018, whatever happened then.
	But let's play this.
	In Sudan, scores of people have been killed in anti-government protests that erupted last week.
	Government officials put the number of dead at 19, though Amnesty International said earlier this week the number of dead reached 37.
	The government has declared a state of emergency and reportedly censored or shut down newspapers that were covering the demonstrations.
	The protests, which were triggered by a sharp rise in the price of bread, are taking aim at the worsening economic situation of the country and the military regime of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, with many calling for the overthrow of the ruling National Congress Party there.
	Now, the code words came into that story.
	And I realize that we haven't really talked about it much.
	We did it when the first, when the Arab Spring began.
	Yeah.
	The severe rise in the cost of bread.
	Bread.
	In Egypt.
	Bread.
	Egypt.
	I think Tunisia had bread.
	Tunisia had a bread problem.
	Syria.
	Everybody has these, it's always in there.
	They got bread problems.
	Yeah, bread problems.
	It's a bread problem.
	The cost of the, the huge rise of the cost of bread.
	For one thing, we're never told what the rise is, ever.
	Was it from 10 cents a loaf to $5 a loaf?
	Was it from $1 a loaf to $2 a loaf?
	What is the severe rise in the cost of bread?
	And this happened before.
	I think that's code.
	I think the CIA code or somebody that gets into the story to let everyone know that, okay, we've got to mobilize over something here, so let's...
	Meet your handler and let's talk about it.
	Who knows?
	Typically after the bread code goes out, someone lights himself on fire, but they popped that too early this time, and it wasn't in Sudan.
	Would we have a guy light himself on fire?
	I don't know if the chronology is correct.
	Somebody's always lighting themselves on fire, but I don't know if that's in relation to the bread announcement.
	No, I don't think so, but that's why I'm saying that we get bread and then we typically get lightened on fire.
	Or the other way around.
	Could be.
	But the bread thing is the one that stood out when she gave this report.
	Yeah, I agree.
	They've gone nuts!
	Over bread.
	That's because everyone goes under the streets and starts wrecking the place because of the price of bread, really?
	Well, bread is important to some people.
	It's easy for us to say.
	No, I know, but some people make their own bread.
	They said the price of wheat, if that's gone up, that would be different.
	It's a different story.
	It just doesn't...
	There's something about it.
	It's just something about it.
	It doesn't...
	Oh, yeah, the price of bread has gone up, so I'm going to go riot and wreck the town.
	Yeah, here, bread price hike starts violent...
	Sparks violent protests.
	Let's see if we can find out the actual bread price increase.
	Yeah, that'd be neat.
	Neat to know.
	Sudanese police fire tear gas on people protesting higher bread prices.
	Wow.
	Hmm.
	So it sounded like a color revolution thing?
	Is that what you're thinking?
	Well, we haven't had a color come out of it yet.
	No.
	Sudan would be beige.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	I found a good podcast, a drone podcast, called Droning On, which kind of attracted me.
	I'm like, that's funny if you have that kind of humor about yourself, about being a podcast.
	And this guy is...
	I think we've talked about this.
	The actual vocation of journalists is just invalid.
	Let's just go to someone who actually knows what they're talking about.
	We don't know much about drones.
	There's people in our network, in the Value for Value network, who know a lot about drones, but no one offered anything up.
	This guy, he does a drone podcast.
	He's in the UK, and he has a couple of theories about the phantom drones at Gatwick Airport.
	So a very quick recap of the incident at Gatwick.
	Thousands of flights were cancelled or diverted.
	The military was called in.
	Multiple police forces involved, not just Sussex.
	Five million pounds spent on anti-drone systems.
	The international press and media camping on site with telephoto lenses looking for a drone.
	And all based on eyewitness accounts, but yet not a single video or photo of the drone.
	So if it wasn't a drone, what exactly happened?
	Well, there's been a lot of speculation.
	People have suggested eco-warriors complaining about additional wrongways being built at the airfield.
	Other speculation has been a major systems failure at Gatwick.
	Shortly after the Gatwick incident, Birmingham reported an air traffic control error, which led to grounded flights.
	Such a failure of the airport would have resulted in them paying millions of compensation to airlines and to passengers, and of course the airport would not want that.
	But the bigger news for me is the announcement yesterday that Vinci Group are buying 50.1% of Gatwick.
	Vinci are a French company that currently own 46 airports around the world.
	And in October 2018, analysts estimated the value of Gatwick at between £7-10 billion.
	The sale to Vinci of 50.01 at only £2.9 billion puts the value of the airfield at just less than £6 billion.
	Which is far less than the estimation of the analysts earlier this year.
	So the big question is, did the drone crisis at Gatwick devalue the airfield, therefore making the sale to Vinci more economical?
	I like all of those.
	Wow.
	The one I like, I think it could be more of a combo, though.
	I don't know enough about the air traffic control mistake, but I'll tell you, when it comes to millions of dollars in aviation and airport, yeah, I'm pretty sure they'd do anything to not have to hang for that.
	And maybe that would be the catalyst, you know, the acquisition.
	They didn't want that getting out.
	It sounds like a cover-up.
	I think the guy's got a couple of good ones.
	Yeah, that was a great analysis.
	Yeah, the eco-warriors.
	Your new beat.
	All 67 of the sighting reports were all airport employees.
	No passengers.
	Hello.
	Yeah, that's dubious.
	Yeah.
	That's podcasting for you, people.
	Yeah, that's where you have to go to get the real information nowadays.
	You get nothing from the mainstream, that's for sure.
	Those guys are pathetic.
	Let's go to Saudi Arabia leadership update.
	Get back out of the country.
	Leadership updates.
	In Saudi Arabia, King Salman has consolidated power for his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ordering a reshuffle of the cabinet nearly three months after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which caused international uproar and brought Saudi leadership under close scrutiny.
	Notably, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was demoted to the position of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
	Al-Jubeir blamed Khashoggi's killing on rogue Saudi agents.
	He also previously characterized the international outcry of Khashoggi's murder as fairly hysterical.
	The Cabinet shakeup is seen as a boon for the Crown Prince by placing loyalists in key positions.
	Ben Salman will retain his roles in the government, including Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister.
	Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate Passed a resolution saying it believes the crown prince is responsible for Khashoggi's murder.
	Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and columnist for The Washington Post, was killed by Saudi agents after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2nd.
	Okay, so where does that leave everybody?
	I'm a little confused.
	Well, all our reports are confusing.
	I don't know where it leaves anybody.
	Nothing's changed.
	The guy's got more power.
	He's got consolidation.
	He's going to go on with his project to build a Dubai clone out in the middle of nowhere.
	Also, he said he would rebuild Syria.
	This is part of the deal.
	Saudi Arabia is supposed to rebuild Syria, whatever needs rebuilding.
	How's that going to work with the Turks?
	The two of them don't get along very well.
	Well, some deal has been done.
	Maybe the Turks will clear out the place and the Saudis will come in and rebuild?
	Possibly.
	The Turks are on the border now.
	They've given the Kurds enough heads-up leeway, lead time, also for Trump's deal, I think.
	He's like, get out, get out.
	Yeah.
	So, they're on the border.
	They're about to go in and do whatever they think is necessary.
	Yeah, well, that should be very amazing.
	Woo!
	More bloodshed.
	I'm sure they work well with the Russians.
	It'll be fine.
	So, Amy is working.
	She's working.
	That was from Friday, I think.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, still.
	No, they never work on Sunday.
	But she's working the week.
	Yeah, she's working the week.
	The other people, no.
	It's not a retrospective.
	Mainstream guy.
	Because one of them takes the week off and they all take the week off because people think less of them if they had to actually work.
	So the president has been at the White House over the holidays.
	He's made quite a point of it.
	I'm sitting here.
	Everyone's at home.
	Nancy's in Hawaii.
	I'm here.
	He's doing what we're doing.
	Yeah.
	He is.
	Milking it.
	Yes, milking it like a podcaster he is.
	But he did do a couple of interesting things.
	First, he stock whispered the market up a thousand points, which I have a backstory report on.
	I'm told.
	We'll be right back.
	I'm also told that the investor who was called told the administration official to get President Trump to stop criticizing Jay Powell on Twitter, the Fed chair, to stop all the turnover inside the White House, Mattis, the latest to depart, the defense secretary, and of course to strike a deal with China.
	Well, sounds like he got part of that right.
	The word came out, like, oh, no, no, the Fed chair is no danger, no problem whatsoever.
	And then he also said, well, buy the dip.
	And that worked out reasonably well.
	As for China, yes, it seems we have some deals.
	It looks like we got a rice deal, which is new and huge.
	We may have a soy deal.
	There's something going on.
	And here's...
	I think the soy meal deal is bigger than the rice deal.
	Well, we've never had a rice deal.
	So it just depends on...
	It may be size, but I think the fact that rice...
	How crazy is that?
	We're sending rice to China.
	The Japanese won't take our rice.
	You know that.
	Why won't they take our rice?
	Because they feel that they start...
	The Japanese, unlike us...
	They start importing rice and it will ruin their artisanal businesses.
	Of children in the rice field.
	Artisanal is now code for child abuse and child labor.
	Well, here's a report on what the president is doing with China.
	Is there any promise that they could make about snooping or not stealing our technology that could be believed?
	Well, what the president has been writing about in his books and saying in his campaign speeches is he's looking for a verifiable agreement.
	He's looking for things that we can actually make sure the Chinese do.
	But can you verify from people like this?
	You can have verification measures, yes.
	This was done in the case of previous trade agreements.
	The trick is going to be seeing performance actually take place.
	So if they buy 100 airliners, we can see that happen.
	If they actually shut down intellectual thefts, I'm
	looking forward to that.
	Well, there was an NBC report, which was largely a propaganda piece on Cummings Diesel.
	Okay.
	Oh, the famous diesel manufacturer.
	Yeah, they're in Indiana, I believe, and they're a very famous diesel maker.
	They have a lot of the modern technology for diesels comes from them.
	But let's play these clips, and I got them chopped up to a lot of small pieces.
	Just to show you how the NBC slants things.
	And let's go with the...
	And it also drops in little propaganda bits.
	Come in Diesel 1.
	Columbus, Indiana is thriving.
	There's a new brewery not far from a century-old ice cream parlor.
	Many towns like this have struggled with jobs moving overseas.
	But in Columbus, one company has held it all together because of trade with China.
	Our economy would go down the drain if Cummins wasn't a part of our community.
	Cummins is the world's largest independent diesel engine maker, employing 10,000 people in Indiana alone.
	We export about 65% of the engines that we produce here.
	But this American success story, founded here 99 years ago, faces soaring costs and $200 million in losses this year because of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
	Tariffs are harmful, they're a tax, and they create additional costs that will eventually be borne by all customers.
	This summer, the Trump administration imposed tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum and on key parts Cummins' needs.
	We have no suppliers available in the U.S. In fact, there are not foundries that operate in the U.S. Look at your list up there.
	Uh-oh.
	There are thousands of foundries that operate in the U.S. There's three in my area.
	And I can see two of them from the house.
	Well, one of them.
	Well, she's lying.
	She's lying.
	She's the spokeshole for Cummins.
	Ah.
	And now the thing about this, there's no foundries.
	And there's a lot of them make big products.
	They make, I don't know which ones make the engine blocks.
	But the Chinese aren't the only people in the world that make an engine block.
	We have a producer whose dad has a foundry.
	He sent us foundry stuff.
	He made us an ice cream scoop.
	That's a foundry.
	Yes, it is a foundry, but it doesn't make engine blocks.
	Engine block foundries are big, but they're around.
	Now, so, I'm listening to this report.
	This is on NBC. It's packaged.
	And this assertion that the U.S. has no foundries goes unchallenged by the reporters.
	Oh, jeez.
	NBC, you mean?
	Alright, let's go to two.
	The tariffs are on components like these engine blocks.
	They're essentially the skeletons of the engines, making up 40% of the final product.
	But the only place that Cummins can get them?
	China.
	President Trump's leadership is working.
	And China wants a different American president.
	Tough talk, but here it's more personal.
	After all, Columbus is Vice President Mike Pence's hometown.
	Are the potential consequences on places like your own hometown worth this fight with China?
	The United States of America today has faced more than a $600 billion trade deficit.
	And the better part of half of that is with China.
	It actually engages in forced technology transfers of American companies and even outright theft of intellectual property.
	But his tone was far different when, as Indiana's governor, he visited a Cummins plant in China.
	He cited the immense potential for the creation of more great jobs for Hoosiers through the strengthening of ties with our Chinese partners.
	Cummins workers like Steve Engel have counted on that partnership.
	If we don't have globalization, we don't have no growth, right?
	Right?
	Right?
	No.
	Who said that?
	Here's a guy, worker, a guy's union guy.
	Yeah.
	And he somehow, this guy's a man on the street.
	He's a man on the street.
	And he says that we have no globalization.
	We ain't got no jobs.
	Right?
	Right?
	Well, that's what he's been taught.
	That's what he's been taught.
	So what he's saying, in essence, is that throughout history...
	There's no such thing as growth unless there's globalization.
	That's what he said.
	Let's listen again.
	Cummins workers like Steve Engel have counted on that partnership.
	If we don't have globalization, we don't have no growth, right?
	Right.
	Right.
	Poor guy.
	Mind control.
	This is a propagandic piece of crap that they threw into this report.
	NBC is pro-China, anti-American.
	Clearly.
	I'm making that assertion.
	It's pretty obvious.
	NBC presents everything like that.
	And if something Trump wants to do, it's Trump's.
	It's not the United States.
	It's always Trump.
	It's Trump's wall.
	When Mike Pence was in charge of Indiana, he was protecting Indiana's interests.
	And that's how the state and federal model works.
	So that doesn't always align.
	Now he's a federal guy.
	He's a Fed.
	You know, a different issue.
	Make him sound like he's a flip-flopper.
	Well, that was the idea.
	Of course.
	So, I got a three-second little kicker at the end of this.
	Part three.
	Now, they find themselves caught in the President's trade war.
	Yeah, Trump's fault!
	It's the president's trade war.
	It's not America's trade war with China.
	Oh, no.
	It's the president's.
	It's Trump's.
	It's his personal thing.
	It's just hurting everybody.
	It's hurting us because you have no globalization.
	So they're pro-global.
	They're anti-Trump.
	Pro-China.
	Anti-Trump.
	So now, here's the way they finish the thing when he does his sign-off and throws it back to Halley.
	Halley.
	Vaughn Hilliard, NBC News.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	I've got to set this up.
	This, to me, is the segue of the year.
	There's a big deal with the way people segue things.
	We do it every once in a while.
	We have a really good segue.
	It's kind of cool.
	Sometimes we stop the show.
	It's a showstopper.
	That segue was great.
	Because we are globalists, for our global production audience, a segue is when you transition from one topic to the other.
	And if you can do it smoothly, it's called a great segue.
	lot of things called awkward segues where you go from you know talking about some burn victim to somebody promoting fire or eating but you have like this this possibilities existing actually the this hour has 20 minutes 22 minutes whatever it is up in canada has a whole segment of awkward segues this
	i consider to be a just an anti-trump segue because of the way they present the story this uh the globalist positive globalist thing here with the with the engine blocks that apparently before China existed, Cummins couldn't make.
	I don't know how they did it, how they existed.
	But listen to the way this segue works.
	Another painful reality we saw play out this year.
	A record number of school shootings.
	Wow.
	Oh, wow.
	Yeah.
	So apparently the Cummins report was a painful reality.
	Very painful reality, people.
	And very much in common with school shootings.
	It's just as bad.
	Which we find out now.
	Oh, I have the report.
	Oh, I have a report too.
	Whose report do you bring?
	I have the CBS version.
	All right, let me do mine first.
	What's the length of yours?
	The length of mine is 52 seconds.
	Okay, I got 154.
	You do yours first.
	All right, the Florida Sun Sentinel publishing a bombshell report tonight on the Parkland school shooting massacre in February this year.
	It's headlined this, unprepared and overwhelmed.
	The paper goes on to report that two decades after Columbine and five years after Sandy Hook, educators and police still weren't ready for Parkland.
	Surveillance video in the report shows killer Nicholas Cruz in the beginning moments of the massacre telling another student, quote, you'd better get out of here.
	Things are going to get messy.
	Then pulls out the AR-15 and begins shooting.
	The video also shows Deputy Scott Peterson, the school resource officer, the only armed lawman on the campus, as he reportedly, the paper says, fails to go inside the building despite shots being fired.
	He ordered a school lockdown instead of ordering deputies toward the building, later revealed in this report that officers, quote, may rush toward gunfire rather than shall, according to policy there in Broward County.
	Ha ha ha!
	That was a terrible report.
	Who was that?
	I think that was CNN, which makes sense that it was terrible.
	Yeah, they're terrible.
	Well, for one thing, we saw the video of the kid walking in on the guy with the gun, and he didn't pull it out afterwards.
	He's not shooting.
	He pulls it out as the kid walks past him.
	No, he had it out, and he was loading it as the kid came in.
	The kid looked at him, and he looked at the kid and said, you better get out of here.
	Something bad's going to happen.
	And he told the kid to get lost because he was loading the gun.
	And that's not the same as telling the kid to get out of here and then pulling out a gun.
	No.
	This is a little longer report.
	It's pretty much the same thing.
	I think it's a little better.
	This is CBS. And ten months after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, we're seeing for the first time video from the school's interior security cameras.
	The Sun Sentinel newspaper obtained the video as part of its investigation into the mass shooting that killed 17 students and staff members.
	The Sun Sentinel says the video shows moments where opportunities to end the chaos may have been missed.
	Manuel Borges has our report.
	The just published video shows the moment shooter Nicholas Cruz entered a stairway in the school and while loading his semi-automatic rifle, warns a student who happens to walk by.
	According to a draft of the official report by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission, Cruz told the student, you better get out of here.
	Something bad is about to happen.
	The report says the freshman student fled and immediately told a football coach who did not issue a code red.
	It was one of three missed opportunities, the report concluded, to warn the school there was an active shooter.
	Cruz was left to make his way through the school to the third floor, where students were gathered in a hallway after a fire alarm went off.
	The shooting lasted eight minutes, leaving 17 dead.
	For the first time, we see Cruz running away from the school.
	At the same time, deputies believed he was still in the school because they were watching surveillance videos that were on a time delay.
	Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed in the shooting, reacted to the new video, tweeting, This minute-by-minute playback with so many missed opportunities for intervention is heartbreaking and calling for the resignation of officials in charge.
	The commission's draft report calls for improved training of deputies and educators and recommends a controversial policy of arming school teachers who undergo proper training and background checks.
	A final version of the report is set to reach the governor's desk next week.
	Wait a minute.
	Yeah.
	What?
	They left that out of the CNN report, didn't they?
	It sure did.
	That's Trump's horrible idea.
	Yeah.
	And now that's something they're considering.
	Yeah.
	Fantastic.
	It's the only time, only report I know that mentioned it.
	I've never heard that.
	It's in the report if you sat down and read it, but nobody does that.
	Well, no, we just copy what the other guy said.
	It's a really good report from CBS, especially when contrasted with that piece of crap.
	Oh, yeah.
	Good work on finding that one.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	I know.
	I got the biggest kick out of its conclusion.
	Awesome.
	Armed teachers.
	I have some New World Order news.
	Because we have Davo coming up in January.
	Davo.
	It's the winter jam where all the elites jet off to the World Economic Forum.
	And they have a title now.
	They're all set up.
	They've announced what they're doing.
	This is the title.
	Of the World Economic Forum for 2019 will be Globalization 4.0.
	4.0!
	One more time!
	We can do it!
	This will be Hillary Clinton 4.0.
	Here's, what do they have?
	Global Economic Leadership.
	Okay, globalization is being redefined simultaneously by four major transformations and this will be the topics.
	Global economic leadership is no longer dominated by multilateralism but characterized by plurilateralism.
	What does that mean?
	Well, pluralism, let's look it up.
	I kind of know what it means.
	I don't have the definition off the top of my head.
	It's pluralism.
	Yeah, but pluralism will stem from the word pluralism.
	You need to be an elite just to pronounce it.
	Pluralism is a condition or system in which two or more states groups Principles, sources of authority, etc.
	coexist.
	The practice of holding more than one office or church.
	So plural lateralism would mean, like unilateral means you do it yourself.
	Bilateral means you do two people.
	Plural lateralism means you have three or more parties involved.
	Well, how does that differ from multilateralism?
	I don't see that it does.
	Okay, multilateralism, according to the Book of Knowledge, refers to alliance of multiple countries pursuing a common goal.
	And here they say global economic leadership is no longer dominated by that, but is characterized by plural lateralism.
	And so they're saying there's a difference?
	Yes.
	Well, what is it?
	I don't know, but they're going to have a big...
	I just read the pluralism definition.
	It sounds the same to me.
	They're going to have a chat about it in the snow.
	Okay, so we don't understand that one.
	The next topic, the balance...
	We don't understand what they're talking about.
	This is gobbledygook.
	They're just trying to confuse us.
	Well, wait for the next one.
	The balance of global power has shifted from unipolar to multipolar.
	So that means it's shifted from unipolar, which would be us.
	I think what they're saying is, hey America, screw you.
	Put your foam finger down.
	There's China, and they probably think Europe.
	They probably think they're the other part of the multipolar.
	Yeah, it would be Europe for sure.
	Europe, China, us.
	And then, of course, they would just ignore Russia, even though Russia should be worried about that.
	Well, Russia's not that big.
	Then we have the next topic.
	Ecological challenges, including, but not limited to, climate change, are threatening socioeconomic development.
	Let's think about that.
	It's threatening socio-economic development.
	Is it?
	Well, it's threatening.
	I don't know.
	It's threatening, but it's not doing anything.
	Well, what is socio-economic development?
	What is that?
	It's growth.
	It's the improvement, growth of a society and its economy.
	And finally, the fourth industrial revolution is introducing technologies at a speed and scale unparalleled in history.
	It is?
	Well, I guess if you go back to the 1300s, yeah.
	I think they're talking about technology.
	I'm sure they're talking about technology, but I think the growth rate is, I guess, I don't know.
	I guess it's unparalleled in some ways.
	Well, so is the inflation of the money supply.
	That's also unparalleled.
	Now, to go along with this, Angela Merkel, she will be in attendance.
	She is right on board.
	You know, she's on the way out.
	She's not looking too good, actually.
	I think she's looking...
	I'm just looking at this picture, and she doesn't look as jolly as she does.
	No, she's starting to look hangdog.
	It's a little more...
	I don't know.
	I hope she's okay.
	Anyway, she did a little speech.
	Where was this speech?
	It was at the...
	Where was it?
	It was for her own party.
	But she said, and I quote, nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty.
	In orderly fashion, of course, she joked, attempting to lighten the mood.
	There were politicians who believed that they could decide when these agreements were no longer valid because they are representing the people, but the people are individuals who are living in a country.
	They are not a group who define themselves as German people, she stressed.
	I don't know what that's all about.
	But, there it is.
	Europe must be stronger and win more sovereignty.
	Nation-states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty.
	And this is shaking the European Union.
	This is being reported quite broadly, as you can imagine.
	I can imagine, but I guess she couldn't.
	No.
	I mean, it's like Hillary, when she made the commentary years ago, that she sees a day or once a day where there's no borders from the tip of South America to Alaska.
	No borders.
	Yeah.
	No countries.
	Party time.
	Party time.
	It's like, what kind of thinking is this in this society?
	I mean, yeah, it's kind of an interesting idea.
	Yeah, well, you know, the wall, the fence, whatever it is we have, it's not going to make any difference.
	It won't change anything.
	We've got this stuff in place now, but these migrants, these economic migrants, and some of whom are asylum seekers, they got tricks, man.
	They got tricks.
	They know how to get past any structure.
	We have a problem, and the problem is the fact that the border, we saw it on your newsreels a few weeks ago, how people coming up to the fence could simply melt through the fence.
	The wall is important.
	Melt?
	The president understands that.
	Wait a second, I want to make sure...
	The people understand that, and that's why it will be done.
	Wait, is this like a Marvel Comics book situation?
	They melted through the fence?
	Yeah, you saw them.
	You saw the films.
	People just literally were under the fence.
	Wait, they literally melted?
	They were sliding, sliding in between the slats.
	The shapeshifters, John, they're melting.
	No wall can stop that.
	Well, luckily they like to do gardening.
	That's Texas Congressman Burgess.
	We got some real cards here, don't we?
	We got some good guys.
	Well, you had the one guy, just the one smart guy, just died.
	And he did leave at least help us.
	The oldest vet in the world, he's in Austin.
	He's an Austinian.
	Um...
	Old black guy was in Pearl Harbor, or he worked out of Pearl Harbor, but he's the last vet.
	He's 212.
	Yeah.
	And he left with some...
	There's a good little report here on CBS. His oldest vet dies.
	He gives us some good...
	Kind of a good...
	Advice?
	A roadmap to long life.
	Oh, a roadmap to...
	And he died 112 years old, you say?
	Yeah.
	I'm paying attention.
	America's oldest veteran, who also happened to be the oldest man in the country, died yesterday from pneumonia at the age of 112.
	Richard Overton of Austin, Texas was the grandson of a slave, and he attributed his longevity to whiskey and cigars.
	Yeah!
	And vape!
	I'm going to show myself all by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	And bacon!
	Bacon. Bacon. Bacon.
	Olsters who have shown up and extol the virtues of bacon.
	Bacon!
	Hey, it's got preservers.
	It preserves me too.
	Norman Pearson is at the top of our list for the producers of show 1099, leading up to show 1100, which will be our first show of 2019.
	Coincidentally, I think not.
	Norman Pearson, 16332, from Macon, Georgia, a pleasant little village in the state of Georgia, which I visited once.
	And I reported on.
	Thanks for the analysis and entertainment, he says.
	I have to read this.
	He says that this is $163.32 is $129.99 for his wife's New York Times subscription.
	Oh.
	So you have to pay $129.99 for a subscription to the New York Times for one year.
	Apparently.
	Which he says is fake news.
	And he added $33.33 for real analysis.
	He wouldn't mind a goat scream at the end.
	Yeah.
	For devoted listener Jay Lewis, whose first nanny goat is getting ready to kid.
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	I can't hold back on a good goat scream request.
	He says he's from Macon, Georgia, which Dvorak calls the land of bugs.
	Hmm.
	And may soon be another city with those infernal scooters.
	Yeah.
	Good luck.
	Cesar Baptiste, $101.01 from...
	Sogerties.
	Sogerties, New York.
	Sogerties.
	Sogerties, New York.
	101-01.
	Sir Chris Gray of the Isle of Wight in Covington, Louisiana, 8888.
	He's got a double birthday request there.
	I think it's on the list.
	Yep, sure is.
	Sir Stephen McConnell in Cortland, Ohio.
	Gavin McMahon, 8008.
	Also known as Sir G-Man.
	Sir G-Man, yes.
	Sir G-Man.
	Thanks for another year of fabulous deconstruction.
	Brian Sikorski, probably, or Sikorski, one of the two, had a loss of his house, 8008, and they had a family home in paradise that burned to the ground.
	Oh.
	There's some karma at the end for some insurance payback.
	Yes, definitely.
	Andrew Brown, London, Ontario, Canada, 6789.
	He needs some F karma request.
	For his friend Marilyn, who has breast cancer.
	Avinash Persaud in Port St.
	Lucie, Florida, 6666.
	Robert Bruckner, 5555.
	This is really not a short list, so I'm reading a lot from it.
	Sir Robert Bruckner, 5555.
	Sir Eric Hochul in Mulrose, Deutschland.
	Sir Rob, $50.43 in Leiden, and it's a birthday for him.
	Jonathan Reisman in Maplewood, Missouri.
	These are all $50 donors, including one...
	I don't know if it's on the list or not.
	Sir Paul from Horseheads.
	I'm going to tell people not to do this.
	Wishes you a Happy New Year, your first...
	Footer isn't 15 stone.
	What?
	I'm not sure what that means.
	What did he do that he's not supposed to do?
	What happened?
	Well, he put his note on a check from weeks ago saying, I want this to be delivered on the last show.
	Oh, no, that doesn't work.
	We don't have that kind of system.
	It's a miracle this works.
	It's partially run on Microsoft Excel and John's desk drawer.
	Well, it's not a desk drawer.
	It's a drawer and a cabinet.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	It is a miracle.
	Let's just be happy if something works.
	So it's a really fightful kind of thing.
	In and out and in and out.
	You don't really sit on things.
	Jonathan Reisman, I said Maplewood, Missouri.
	Ginda in Seattle, Washington.
	David McClain in Cuba, Missouri.
	Johnny Culver in Parts Unknown.
	Happy Birthdays to me.
	He's got it on the list.
	Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Ralph Johnstone in Lake Isabella, California.
	And Ihi Kitagawa.
	I think it's Ihi Kitagawa in San Francisco.
	50.
	That's all we got.
	We didn't really do that well today.
	No, but...
	We got some good guys at the top.
	Yeah, and it's end of the year, so I understand.
	I did get a note from one of our producers saying, he says, this $4 a week thing is not working.
	He says, I want to see $10 or $15 a week because I think I'm not the only one that feels this way.
	We don't want our names mentioned.
	We don't care about that.
	But we like to donate more than $4 a week.
	And can you give us an additional option?
	Oh, okay.
	So what did you come up with?
	I don't know.
	I'm going to put in the next newsletter, but it'll probably be...
	I think I'm going to do 1111 a week because it's the show 1100.
	Right, right, right.
	But I think 10 and 15 are good.
	I just have to do the math on what it amounts to per show.
	Okay.
	I like the 10.
	I'll do 11-11 a week.
	11-11 is good.
	It's good.
	Then I'll do maybe 15.
	We've got a lot of magical numbers coming up.
	1100 will be our next show.
	That'll be Thursday.
	The first show of the new year, 1100.
	And...
	Thank you very much to our producers who came in today.
	We thanked our execs and associate executives earlier and want to thank everyone who is on this list with a number of birthdays and we have two nightings and a title change.
	And thank you to everyone who is under 50 for anonymity or if you're there on one of our other programs, it is highly appreciated.
	Thank you for getting us through another year.
	And you can do it again.
	Yes?
	And I wanted to just mention one of our, I just want to read one more note before you go into the jingles.
	This is shortly after mailing my last check.
	This is from Matt.
	No, not his name.
	I got two separate emails from recruiters looking to hire me.
	I've applied for one of the positions and I'm hoping this donation can provide me enough information.
	Good karma to land the position.
	So, another example of people feeling bad.
	I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that their amygdala is not swollen up.
	It's easier to hire somebody like that.
	I agree.
	I mean, you can see a swollen amygdala coming down Broadway if you're hiring.
	You're like, no, this person can't have that.
	In fact, we'll talk about some of those after we do the knightings, etc.
	So we have, well, for the new year then, I'm going to throw out Jobs Karma, some F Cancer Karma, and just for good measure, I'm going to make it all blessed by the goat.
	And thank you again for 2018.
	We look forward to 2019 as show 1100 is on deck!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	Yay!
	What a game!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Dvorak.org slash NA.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm so happy.
	And for today, the 30th of December, 2018, we have Brian Mickey saying happy birthday to his wife, Eric Kiaragi.
	Sir Chris Gray of the Isle of Wights says happy birthday to his son, Ryan, who turns three today.
	And...
	He says an advance happy birthday to his daughter, Brianna, who is due on January 2nd.
	So congratulations, and we look forward to welcoming the new human resource.
	And Sir Rob celebrates along with Johnny Culver.
	And we say happy birthday to all of these producers from your friends here at the best podcast in the universe.
	It's your birthday.
	T-T-T-T-T-T-T-Tidal changes.
	Turn and face the slate.
	Nice changes.
	Don't want to be a douchebag.
	We had another donation come in today from Sir Robert Gusek, who gets his title change and upgrades to Baron, and he will now be known, henceforth known, as Baron Bob of High Point.
	And thank you, Baron Bob, for your support of the No Agenda Show.
	Then we have Jeff and Joe.
	We need to get them up on the podium here, so if you grabbed your blade for the last time.
	We need to sharpen these things for 2019, by the way.
	Also, how about your rain stick?
	We don't need them now, but we will.
	Is yours in good working order?
	You check it recently?
	I had it overhauled.
	Oh, good.
	Okay.
	I gotta get my lubed.
	Alright.
	Where's your blade?
	Oh, here it is.
	Okay, got it.
	Jeff Zellin, Joe Wagner, step on up, gentlemen.
	Both of you are about to join the No Agenda Roundtable of the Knights and Danes for your contributions to the No Agenda show.
	Any amount of $1,000 or more, I am here by very proud and privileged to pronounce the KB, Sir Jeffrey Zellin of Oakland, Michigan, and Sir...
	Face replacer.
	Replacer of faces.
	Gentlemen, for you, we've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, candy and astroglide, cookies and vodka, warm beer and cold women, pog and poi, dame elise, limoncello and salmon, harlots and handle, pepperoni rolls and pale ales, organic macaroni and plasticizers, vodka and vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, geishas and sake, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum and...
	Mutton and Mead over here at noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Eric, we'll get that off to you as soon as possible.
	How about Sir Face Replacer?
	Do you think he's a plastic surgeon?
	Replacer of faces?
	I would have to imagine that he is, or he's maybe some sort of a guy like Psycho.
	And he likes to take faces off people and wear them.
	Silence of the Lambs.
	Yeah, he wants to wear people's faces.
	Hey, Joe.
	Possibility.
	Joe, I'm very interested.
	Replacer of faces.
	I'd love to know what you're doing.
	You want your face replaced?
	Maybe.
	Maybe I got some things I want to look at.
	Oh, I have...
	That's what he's doing.
	This is our show.
	Yeah, I have no shame.
	Because I tend to go out looking good.
	Like Dick Clark, man.
	I'm going to be America's teenager.
	Maybe.
	So here's a, you know, I like the way they've turned the New Year's celebration into something about Khashoggi.
	At least, this is, nobody reports this, because it's not, this is dumb.
	But this is Democracy Now!
	is reporting on the Times Square celebrations now.
	It's going to be dedicated to dead journalists.
	Ha ha!
	Apparently, Amy did this before the Washington Post reported that he was a shill for Qatar.
	Yeah.
	Times Square New Year's Eve celebration will honor the Committee to Protect Journalists this year.
	Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, said the group chose CPJ to, quote, celebrate the free press and journalism and those who work to protect, preserve, and practice it.
	Journalists will join in the celebrations, hoping to kick off the anticipated ball drop countdown to the new year.
	In its recently released annual report on murdered journalists, CPJ found at least 53 journalists were killed on the job this year, 34 in reprisal for their work, almost doubling the number of targeted murders against journalists in 2017.
	Okay, Amy.
	We don't hear about any of them, by the way.
	No.
	No, it's only...
	Can't name one of them.
	No.
	And he wasn't a journalist.
	He was a columnist.
	Sorry.
	Exactly.
	It's a little different.
	By the way, Sir Hashtag Null has emailed us the font, the font porn, the pornado of fonts.
	Yeah.
	It is the noteworthy font.
	Now, is that the original name?
	Because most fonts have been renamed and then stolen.
	He says, the font you loved is called Noteworthy and is a Macintosh Standard font.
	I'll look into it.
	Sad, John.
	Sad news.
	Or just sad things taking place.
	I've been following the climate grief...
	Where, surprise, surprise...
	Oh yeah, this is your beat.
	Well, I'm going to swerve a little bit on this.
	The point I'm going to make is that we have been telling the world, and I'll say we because it's our generation, the journos, news, whatever, starting with, of course, Al Gore.
	We have been telling the world we're going to die.
	You and I have heard it for decades.
	We've heard we're going to freeze to death, the population bomb, the tipping point, peak oil.
	We're going to die for a million things, and now climate change, global warming, with the most recent report, we have 12 years, really effectively 10 before we died.
	And young children are being affected by this.
	They hear it.
	They read it.
	They hear their parents talking about it.
	And even though there's a high likelihood a lot of parents don't really think we're going to die, they forget to put the disclaimer in.
	So people hear things, and it affects them.
	It affects their amygdalas.
	They become enlarged.
	You're all going to die in 10 years.
	Well, so I have some examples, and this is not just kids.
	These are young adults.
	And to show you what has happened with the political correctness, social justice warriors, just what's going on in our universities.
	And there's two, I don't know if you saw either of these clips, and I don't know how much I can play of each of them, but they really show what society has become.
	And the first takes place in a convenience store with a transgender woman who is very...
	If you see the clip, she's clearly still in transition.
	Because you can tell that she's a woman by her hoop earrings, her mid-longish hair, a pink purse, and that's about it.
	And quite a beefy transgender woman.
	And that's...
	I don't care.
	I really don't...
	It's fine.
	However you want to be, dress whatever.
	But...
	The guy who's behind the counter, I guess, says, yeah, could you guys wait a second, to a female and the, well, whatever he thought it was, and the transgender woman went apeshit over this.
	And because he made a mistake.
	And this is the problem I have.
	And I think this is the issue in society in general.
	We have that now in the UK where you can't misgender or deadname.
	You can get in trouble for it.
	What's the dead name?
	Oh, if you use a transgendered person's previous name, which usually would reflect a name of the opposite gender than they are today.
	That's called dead naming.
	That's probably why there's this new trend in non-specific namings that we did on the show.
	I had that list of them.
	That neither men or women, so you can name your kid that, and then you can keep the name.
	So it's less paperwork.
	It's not so much of a hassle if you want to change.
	Okay.
	But I think when you listen to it, you'll hear that, you know, here's someone who has problems with this, and this is...
	This is not the way it's supposed to go, I don't think, in society.
	Motherfucker!
	Take it outside!
	If you want to call me sir again, I will show you a fucking sir!
	Motherfucker!
	Kicking stuff.
	Ew.
	Ew.
	Yes.
	Yeah, it's sad.
	It really is.
	Because, look, when I was growing up, 13, 14, 15, I had weird hair and I looked like a girl.
	And it would happen often.
	Someone would say, what's your daughter's name?
	Or what do you say, young lady?
	And it's uncomfortable and it sucks, but I didn't go nuts.
	It's like, okay, accidents happen.
	It needs to work both ways.
	And that's clearly not.
	And I think that somehow we have this...
	What is the word I'm looking for?
	You know, this righteousness.
	Like, I have the right...
	I have the right...
	Hostility.
	Well, it is hostility.
	It's almost looking for trouble.
	First of all, you don't look like a girl, period.
	From the sounds of it.
	We'll just go with that.
	Doesn't really, no.
	And you want to be called...
	Just because you've got some hoop earrings on nowadays doesn't mean that you're a woman or a trans or anything.
	Guys wear those.
	At least around here.
	And so you go in there and then you just want trouble.
	Why don't they just get the police or the security guard?
	Throw the guy out.
	I don't think she was looking for trouble.
	This was really a triggering.
	This was a complete triggering.
	It's not going in looking for trouble.
	You call me ma'am.
	They call you a douchebag.
	That would have been better.
	Now, the next one, which interestingly also involves the term, I'm going to call corporate, which is, I think that's a new thing.
	They have so many noodle boy type operations that everything's a chain and we'll call corporate on you.
	It seems like the threat du jour.
	But this happens in a vape shop.
	And this is different.
	What happens here is a guy comes in, baseball hat, big hoodie with Trump on it.
	Not even like an official thing that you've seen, but just big, big letters.
	Trump, red, white, and blue.
	And he comes in, he's looking for some vape juice, or e-juice as I would call it, and the guy behind the counter, and I've seen, this is just a piece of the video, he says, okay, I'm going to get this for you, but then he sees this guy's wearing a Trump sweater, and he refuses to serve him and wants him to leave, and here's what ensues.
	Here we are at Exhale Vapor City in Tucker, Georgia, and I have just been asked to leave the store.
	He greeted me.
	That was nice.
	I did find the item that I wanted, and the next thing he said was that he'd like me to leave.
	If you do not stop recording in my store, I'm going to call the police and ask you to leave now.
	That would be awesome.
	That would be awesome.
	We can call Fox 5 and all sorts of stuff.
	I would like to purchase something here.
	Please do call your boss, because I will be calling corporate.
	Go for it.
	I am looking forward to releasing this video, because I just want to purchase something.
	Fuck off, dude!
	Fuck off!
	So this is the guy behind the counter.
	He absolutely goes insane.
	He cannot separate...
	He just can't separate anything in his head from what's in front of him.
	And he believes that this guy embodies evil Trump and everything evil about him.
	Fuck you, Satan!
	Fuck you, Satan, you're racist motherfuckers!
	Racist?
	Yeah!
	That's true.
	Right?
	I'm not a racist.
	I got a fucker in my store.
	where he won't leave.
	He's wearing some Trump bullshit.
	He's wearing some Trump bullshit.
	He's got some racist bullshit on his head and shit.
	I'm not serving anyone that has to do with that fucker.
	He's a treasonous asshole.
	I don't have a problem with you, sir.
	Whatsoever.
	I don't.
	All right, see, guys.
	Okay, here's where we're at.
	Leave the store!
	Leave the store!
	Let the store!
	Fuck!
	Fuck!
	Get out!
	Dude, go ahead.
	Take another swing at it.
	Make contact with me one more time.
	I'm going to make a deal with you.
	I want to purchase that bait juice.
	If you sell it to me, I won't call the police.
	What you did was assaulted me.
	What I need is that for my wife.
	If you sell it to me, I won't call the fucking cops and press charges on you for assault.
	I won't call corporate and get you fired.
	Just sell me the fucking product so I can leave.
	Get the fuck out of here, dude.
	Oh my fuck!
	God bless America.
	Capitalism wins again.
	Fuck your capitalists and fuck your fucking president.
	He's a racist, stupid piece of shit.
	You're a racist, stupid piece of shit.
	Just ring the shit up, fuck boy.
	Fuck off!
	Man, fuck, get out!
	No, no, no.
	Sell it to me.
	Sell it to me, folks.
	It's your job, your freedom.
	Sell me the shit.
	No, no, no.
	Sell it to me.
	Sell it to me.
	Fuck off.
	Come on.
	Help your customer!
	Fuck off!
	Fuck off!
	Oh, man!
	Now, we're laughing, but I find it very sad.
	This guy is insane.
	He's been made crazy.
	He's been made crazy by the mainstream media.
	Yes.
	Let's just tell it like it is.
	CNN, MSNBC, all those people responsible for that.
	Put them all in there.
	And the schools.
	Well, thank you for leading into my third and final clip.
	This is an open Madison Board of Education session.
	Where everyone gets five minutes, you can come up and say whatever you want to the board.
	It's kind of like a town hall.
	And our next speaker is a university educator, and she's going to educate us on white liberalism.
	Hi all.
	So I'm an educator at the university and recently I've been teaching my students about the connection between white liberalism and white supremacy and I'd like to offer just some working definitions here so that we've been coming up together with my students.
	What is white liberalism?
	White liberalism means valuing law and order and protocol above the lives of people.
	In this room we see white liberalism, and this is just from my students' reflections, embodied through the timer, the please finish up, the numbers, the sign-up process, the stage, and the barrier.
	All of these signs suggest that the law and the decorum and the civility of this conversation is actually more important than what is being said.
	Finger snaps.
	Finger snaps.
	Another aspect of white liberalism is policing people's tones of voice.
	The obsession with civility, refusing to hear black and brown people when they aren't following white cultural norms of communication.
	For young people speaking today to you, what they're saying is a matter of life and death.
	And I'm not sure what it means to you, but I imagine it's a combination between a sense of duty, being able to put a line on a resume, feeling like someone needs to take charge, and feeling like you're the best person for the job.
	And that's actually where the connection lands, between white liberalism and white supremacy.
	Get ready.
	Because it's by maintaining law and order and by maintaining civility, by keeping your front lawn nice and tidy and by putting that...
	All are welcome in our communities sign on your front lawn.
	You are denying the fact that all the while you are, with the other hand, passing money to a deadly institution that polices with great disparity and causes tragic, tragic harm to the communities that are our neighbors and the communities that we actually should be building forward with.
	So, telling black and brown people to please wrap up suggests that their voices, their pain, and their stories are less important than the rules.
	And that, in and of itself, is the place where white liberalism turns into white supremacy.
	It's because white supremacy is the accumulation of these aggressive messages that say, stay off the grass, mow your lawn.
	Act respectable.
	Pull your pants up.
	Right?
	So if I was to raise my voice and start using, God forbid, some swear words to you, I don't believe that it would be received in quite the same way as it would be if a black or a brown youth were using those swear words.
	So here's what I have to say.
	Fuck white liberalism and fuck white supremacy!
	Thank you for your time.
	There you go.
	Now you understand.
	Now you understand why our children are going insane.
	This is teaching them.
	This is teaching them.
	Yeah, yeah.
	These people are all over the place.
	By the way, it was Bill Cosby, a black man, who said, pull your pants up.
	Right, it was.
	But he's a victim of white supremacy.
	This woman, I'd like to know what school it was that she teaches at.
	Was she white?
	Yes, of course.
	Oh, okay.
	Hello.
	That makes sense.
	Hello.
	Wouldn't make any sense if she wasn't.
	But, I mean, to say, keep off my lawn, that is white supremacy now.
	Yeah, mow your lawn is white supremacy.
	Don't mow your lawn!
	And meanwhile, from the same people who will give you this in packaged form, I'm talking about Vice.
	First of all, they're an advertising agency.
	They're not really a news outlet.
	But if anything, they are a very left-leaning news outlet.
	And they skew a lot of things, and I find them very untrustworthy.
	They artificially create situations.
	So they have a...
	A series on YouTube, which I don't understand.
	Well, I understand what it is, but no, actually I don't.
	It's called Kids Telling Dirty Jokes.
	And they take five and six-year-olds, and they have them tell dirty jokes, and it's hilarious, they think.
	And it's a series, and it's on YouTube, half a million views.
	It's a series.
	This is child abuse.
	Why don't they just have kids smoking?
	Are you ready for it?
	You want to hear this?
	Sure, I'll hear one or two of them.
	I don't want to hear the whole series.
	It's only 30 seconds.
	Oh.
	Six-year-old girl.
	How do you know if a police officer is gay?
	How?
	The smell of his mustache.
	What was Clinton's favorite game?
	What?
	Swallow the leader.
	How do you pick up a Jewish girl?
	How?
	Go to Auschwitz with a dustpan.
	Do you get a nun pregnant?
	How?
	Dress her up as an older boy.
	Why did Hitler kill himself?
	Why?
	Because the Jews sent him a gas bill.
	And this is on YouTube.
	It's a future Sarah Silverman.
	Yeah, it shouldn't be on YouTube.
	YouTube should be taken off immediately.
	De-platform Vice immediately.
	Immediately.
	They won't do it because this is another liberal operation.
	The whole thing's a scam.
	Yeah, but this is child abuse.
	You can't do this to children.
	No.
	No, it's horrible.
	I'm speechless over this.
	Apparently, yes.
	I mean, there's a lot of things you can do.
	Anyway, look, my kid is going to be kind of okay.
	You know, it should be all right.
	But your kids may not be.
	So look out.
	Start in 2019 thinking about what's happening with your kids.
	Yeah, and your kids, especially if they're going to public schools.
	Any school.
	Yeah, any school.
	It gets worse.
	Yeah, the whole thing is ridiculous.
	I mean, the schools have...
	I mean, we talk about how the whole school system in the United States has just fallen...
	It's because of people like that woman.
	These imaginary hobgoblins out there.
	White supremacy, you know, and it's a rule, you know, you want to mow your lawn, it's white supremacy.
	Black people like a clean lawn?
	Oh no, the only reason they do that is because of white supremacy.
	A normal black person, this is really insulting to blacks by the way.
	Yes, of course it is.
	A real normal black person can't speak without cussing, doesn't want to do their lawn, they live in hovels because that's the way they like it.
	They're just a bunch of bums.
	It's so racist and so...
	Wrong.
	Just wrong.
	And we're just two voices blowing in the wind.
	That to me is like, there should be congressional hearings over what's happening here.
	There should be something.
	Alright, well, I think we're wrapping 2018.
	I don't know if I have anything else on my...
	I have two throwaways.
	Throw one away.
	Okay, I'll throw two away.
	One is a cyber attack that took place...
	Big news.
	Times and several other newspapers across the country fell victim to a cyber attack.
	The attack caused printing and delivery problems, which led to delivery delays today.
	The L.A. Times reports a suspected virus from outside the U.S. is what caused the problems.
	The newspaper says the cyber attack created issues for all publications within its former parent company, Tribune Publishing, as well as some papers printed at an L.A. Times plant.
	No!
	Attacked from outside the U.S. I like how they phrase that.
	Yeah, so I guess they're trying to say the Russians are trying to now stop our newspapers from being printed.
	Really?
	Well, I guess, which is somehow going to stop our world from turning.
	It sounds like the whole thing is just a glitch, if you ask me.
	Yeah, it sounds to me like someone messed up.
	I'm just waiting for one thing to happen.
	And it will happen.
	And it's either going to be with Apple or it's going to be with...
	Microsoft would be even more fun.
	But someone's going to get in and is going to mess with the updates.
	Once someone gets into the update, if you can get into the update sequence, that's going to be a lot of fun.
	Yes, but the code you have to implant has to be timed so it doesn't start crashing machines right away because they don't do all the updates in one minute.
	Exactly.
	We don't want Mary Jo Foley figuring it out.
	About a 30-day cycle.
	Well, no, it has to be shorter because they might discover it in time.
	Maybe like a four-day, three-day thing.
	Start updating and then three days later they all start going off.
	I do have one last little thing from Hallie Jackson because I thought it was funny, her phraseology.
	This is the Hallie Jackson Trump politicizing border deaths.
	For the first time, President Trump is acknowledging the death of two migrant children in government custody.
	But he's blaming Democrats, politicizing the loss of life, tweeting the death of children or others at the border is strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies.
	Really?
	Bye.
	Really?
	Well, he sent a tweet out bitching about something.
	But the thing is...
	She makes it sound as though this issue has not been politicized until Trump came along.
	Well, yeah.
	Alright.
	Alright, well then, I just need to...
	I don't have any good one-liners.
	You had the little girl telling jokes.
	You couldn't understand what she said, and then these guys giggling over it.
	That was sick.
	You might as well just be poking her with a stick.
	You didn't hear what she said?
	You couldn't hear her jokes?
	I could only hear a couple of them.
	They were not good.
	I have stuff that is...
	I think we should just do one last one.
	Nah.
	What do you want?
	Do you want the...
	Okay, we end the 2018 season with the future for our children.
	Bill Peacock built his San Francisco dog walking business through a series of branding schticks, most of them cowboy-themed.
	Hi there, I'm William Peacock, wild Bill Peacock, the dog wrangler, aka the cowboy poop fairy princess.
	After more than 15 years in the business, Bill now has competition from on-demand walking services.
	This is your dog.
	He needs to walk while you're at work today.
	That's where WAG comes in.
	At Rover.com, we're the dog care second only to you, dog people.
	The success of on-demand services like Uber and Lyft has investors pouring millions of dollars into these pet apps.
	WAG alone recently got $300 million from Saudi Arabian investors.
	These companies run the typical gig model, hiring contractors who are paid per walk and ordered on a phone.
	They take single dogs for 30 to 60 minute on-leash walks.
	I see them walking around the block with their cell phones out, taking video of their leash walk around the block.
	Bill does not send his human clients videos of their dogs.
	But a few years ago, he tried to grow his business with the same kind of contractor model that the app companies use.
	We sort of exploded.
	I had six vehicles with steer horns on the roof.
	Then he says some of his workers complained to California's Labor Department.
	Like many gig workers, they felt they were employees, not contractors, which means they should get overtime, pay breaks, and protections like workers' comp.
	Bill says he couldn't provide that.
	They fined us $18,000, and we got hammered, and it folded the business, and we were, you know, the kind of business America supposedly wants.
	Husband and wife.
	While the independent contractor model backfired on Bill, it's helping WAG and Rover expand into cities around the country.
	They've been able to shield themselves from the kind of problems Bill ran into by making their workers sign mandatory arbitration agreements.
	Standard practice in the gig world.
	These obligate the employees to handle complaints behind closed doors.
	There you go.
	Well, Jay has done some work for WAG for her little book on dog walking.
	Yeah.
	And the stories are pretty horrendous.
	It's the future.
	It's the future.
	You sign away your arbitration.
	That's right, everybody.
	Let's try to be better in 2019, shall we?
	Not going to happen.
	Nah, probably not.
	But we will see you and the entire Value for Value network in just a few days' time.
	Show 1100 on deck.
	Happy New Year to you, John.
	Happy New Year.
	Happy New Year to you and all the listeners and producers.
	Yes, Happy New Year to everybody.
	And remember us at Dvorak.org.
	Thank you to our Gitmo Nation's Men's Choir.
	Men's Choir featuring Sir John Fletcher, Sir Ned Jeffrey, Sir Abel Kirby, and Sir Chris Wilson for their rendition of Auld Lang Syne coming up.
	And I'm coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas.
	FEMA region number 6 on the governmental maps in the 5x9 Cludio and the Common Law Condo.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where the traffic goes by smoothly.
	And I expect it to be smooth on the 1st and maybe forever.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday with show 1100.
	Until then, adios, movos!
	And such.
	and such.
	The kids will still be drawing those pictures of fire and everyone will be dead.
	We are calling for a...
	There are a couple things.
	The moon is criminally complacent in the mass murder.
	All of life on earth was my freshman year of college when I took a sustainability class.
	All life.
	Now there's a name for what she's feeling.
	And Laura started working in a 10-step program.
	The money's growing in the days.
	Things like mass shootings and climate change.
	Grown at home in our energy system.
	Large government investment.
	All life on this planet.
	What is that?
	It's like winterizing homes.
	Gradualism.
	Winterizing homes.
	Farm our lawns as needed.
	Step eight.
	Farm your lawn!
	Climate grief.
	Can farm our lawns as all life.
	Develop awareness of brain patterns.
	Yeah, listen.
	Again, the question.
	Another session at the conference.
	One, accept the problem.
	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.
	You have to accept that you're going to show up.
	Transition.
	Nine, show up.
	And just transform our energy system.
	Nine, show up.
	We're slugs.
	Nine.
	Nine, show up.
	Security lawns at...
	You are not mature enough to tell it like it is.
	News these days?
	Like, no one ever told me that we were, like, rapidly going towards this catastrophe.
	Totally.
	So is this the climate depression session?
	Okay, so, um...
	Feel my feelings.
	Breathe.
	Looked outside, there's a dead bird.
	A terrific news report.
	Boy, working at Noodle's restaurant.
	Sounds cool!
	Internally, inside myself, I'm saying to myself, I need a break.
	And so I need a break.
	Some individuals are comparing this to Watergate.
	Why am I seeing this ad?
	Your boy's gonna be talking like a girl.
	Someone makes a statement, but it sounds like I'm asking a question.
	The New York Times.
	The New York Times.
	I feel my feelings.
	Feel my feelings?
	How do you not feel your feelings?
	In the morning.
	Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?
	For acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne.
	For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne.
	We'll talk a cup of kindness yet for old Lang Syne.
	And here's a hand, my trusty friend, and guys, a hand to the aid.
	We'll take a cup of Godness yet for all my sight.
	For all my sight, my dear, for all my sight.
	We'll take a cup of kindness yet for old Lang Syne.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios.
	Mopo.
	Dvorak.org.
	Slash.
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