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This is not an opening segment, by the way.
Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
It's Sunday, April 7th, 2019.
This is your award-winning Get My Nation Media Assassination Episode 1127.
This is No Agenda.
Preparing for another Boyle Mandate and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star, staying here in downtown Austin, Tejas, in the Cludio, in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm referring the old squirrel males to the new squirrel male.
I'm John C. DeVore.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
No, no, no.
No, wait.
You can't tell me there's a new squirrel mail.
This is simply not possible.
A new squirrel mail.
Yeah.
I told you this last time we reported on squirrel mail.
Oh, okay.
I wanted to debunk the bull crap that you've been feeding the public on this particular show saying that the squirrel mail system is dead.
Not quite what I said, but okay.
Yeah, so it's good.
What are the differences, John, between the old squirrel male and the new squirrel male?
Well, you'd have to experience it.
You'd have to be a squirrel male connoisseur to actually appreciate it.
But there's nothing I can explain.
I think we're going to go into another boil mandate, water boil mandate here in Austin.
Yeah, we've had torrential rains the past 48 hours, and I've just looked at the...
Just now?
You've just had rains?
No, the past 48 hours.
Really?
Torrential, yeah.
I haven't heard about this.
Last night was the 30th annual, the big Ronald McDonald House charity thing, the bandana ball.
That's outside under a big tent.
Oh, this is not good.
Yes, it happens almost every single year.
And the funny thing is, the MC this year was a guy from Fox News, local Fox affiliate Scott.
I forget his last name.
He's the weatherman.
And he's on stage.
He's like, well, people, we're going to wrap this up because this doesn't look good.
Boom, everyone out of the tent within five minutes.
You know, mayhem.
Wow.
It's really harsh because they have auction and stuff.
Oh yeah, that's terrible.
Can they redo it?
No.
No, not really.
I mean, they got through it, but it's not the same.
If you kind of rush, then you can't jack people up.
Into spending more on some trip to Argentina to go dove hunting.
Jeez.
Which was a serious prize.
Was it really?
Yeah.
They got some money people.
You know, Austin.
Texas, baby.
Texas.
So yeah, so just looking at the town lake here, which is part of the Colorado River system, and it has the exact same brown silt stuff floating in it as the last time we had, or when we had our boil mandate for a week, because the, what is it now, $700 million purification plants don't work.
What they used before the $700 million purification plant.
What were they using?
Oh, the old ones that seem to work.
These are new.
These have been built in the past five years.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
I'm just prognosticating because I don't really know, but just looking at it like, uh-oh, I've seen this before.
Yeah, we've got flash floods, everything.
It's very Texas.
Very, very Texas.
And today is GPS-ageddon!
What happened?
I guess it was yesterday.
Did we miss it?
We missed GPS again.
Remember when the older GPS systems were supposed to not be able to roll over with a new date?
Why?
And so they wouldn't work.
We went through this on the show.
Oh.
You don't remember?
No, I don't because this is the sort of thing I totally ignore because I know it's always bull crap.
Yeah, exactly.
We talked about Y2K and the whole thing.
Yeah, exactly.
Hold on.
Where was it?
There are always scams to get some consultants to make some extra gigs.
Yeah.
Well, as far as I know, nothing happened.
Except wherever Putin's flying.
There's a big article I was reading today.
Whenever Putin is flying somewhere, that GPS never seems to work right.
Yes, that's exactly right.
That's why the Russians are putting their own system up.
Yes.
It's up, I think.
It's up and running, isn't it?
Well, maybe it's the Russian system that's not working.
No, they jam it.
They jam whatever they can.
Because, you know, that's what missiles work on.
It's kind of handy to have that GPS thing.
Anyway, so it seems like everything is still working.
And what did we see?
What did we say this past couple of days?
More stupidity.
Like what?
Well, Trump was pretty stupid.
What did he do this time?
Well, so he went to the wall, or whatever...
He's been going to the wall for the American public for the last two years.
Whatever refurbished fence we've got going on there.
And let me just see, where is this?
Trying to find my...
Huh, how did I miss this one?
And he was quoted as saying something.
Hold on a second.
I think I have the quote.
Yeah.
Let's see what we got here.
Okay, here I go.
Well, I have two quick examples.
One from ABC. Good morning, when President Trump visited a small border city in California to tour the first piece of his border wall.
And he came with this blunt message to migrants that this new, taller border wall means stay out.
Our country is hoped...
Our area is full.
The sector is full.
I can't take you anymore.
I'm sorry.
Can't happen.
So turn around.
That's the way it is.
And here's the CBS version.
The president said he has a message for those coming or thinking about coming to the U.S., including those who say they are being persecuted in their own countries and are seeking asylum.
We can't take you.
Our country is full.
Our area is full.
The sector is full.
Can't take you anymore.
I'm sorry.
So that's pretty much what the headline is.
Trump says, our country is full, which has shades of anti-Semitism, hating Jews, you know, all kinds of...
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's everywhere.
Oh, you say your country is full.
This was a thing in the Netherlands when the migration started to happen around 2000.
Pim Fortin had not been assassinated yet.
He was saying, the Netherlands is full.
We have too many.
That's it.
We can't take any more.
We had 14 million.
Now we have 17 million.
We can't have any more immigrants.
It's full.
Racist.
It's like, oh, how can you say this?
There's something about saying your country is full that is very offensive to many.
Well, Jim Acosta retweeted the country's full thing on Twitter, and I retweeted him saying, Acosta supports the president.
Well, here's the problem.
This is not the actual message.
Trump gave the message, then messed it up like a doofus with this country is full business because he nailed it the first time.
Here's what he said in context.
It's a colossal surge.
And it's overwhelming our immigration system.
And we can't let that happen.
So as I say, and this is our new statement, the system is full.
Can't take you anymore.
Whether it's asylum, whether it's anything you want, it's illegal immigration.
So it's perfect.
This is our new thing that we're saying.
You just have to listen to what he says.
This is our new thing that we're saying.
The system is full.
So he says the system is full.
It's perfect.
He got it.
He nailed it.
But then...
It's anything you want.
It's illegal immigration.
Can't take you anymore.
We can't take you.
Our country is full.
The area is full.
The sector is full.
Can't take you anymore.
I'm sorry.
Can't happen.
So turn around.
That's the way it is.
What an idiot.
He really...
This is his own doing now.
Eh, he'll blow over.
Let's hear what PBS had to say about this.
This is Trump versus Mexico, PBS. President Trump used a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas today to repeat his claim that there is a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and that asylum seekers should be turned back.
Stop, stop.
I want to make people aware of the use of the term or the word claim.
Yes.
Okay.
And we restart?
When you're reporting, it's a bloated term to say claim.
He claims.
You have different ways of going.
He says that this and this and this, which is legitimate reporting.
He claims blah, blah, blah is slanted reporting.
And Hari...
Usually he's pretty objective, but this was written by somebody else anyway.
Why is this slanted if you use the term claim?
Because it has the implication that it's bullcrap.
Oh, okay.
So you claim you're going to be on at 9 a.m.
I'm quoting Adam Curry.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
You didn't say claim, you said claim!
That's a different word.
Well, if I said Adam Curry says he's going to be on 9 a.m.
to do the show, Adam Curry claims he's going to be on 9 a.m.
Yeah, you're right.
Huge difference.
Yes.
Well, never report that like that about me, okay?
Stop that.
President Trump used his speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas today to repeat his claim that there is a crisis.
That's even better to repeat his claim.
That's a doubling down of, oh, he's full of crap.
I keep saying it over and over as a claim.
...to repeat his claim that there is a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and that asylum seekers should be turned back.
And I told my people yesterday, our country's full.
We're full.
Our system's full.
Our country's full.
Oh, he's doing it again.
Kid, come in.
Our country is full.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
So I didn't even hear about this.
So he messes it up at the border.
The headline is, our country's full.
He's like, eh, I'll run with that.
That sounds pretty good.
Yes, exactly.
That's exactly what happened.
Oh, my goodness.
You're moaning and groaning about it.
Whoa, this is good.
Whoa.
We're full.
Our system is full.
Our country is full.
Can't come in.
Our country is full.
What can we do?
We can't handle anymore.
Our country is full.
Can't come in.
I'm sorry.
It's very simple.
Although the president backed off of a threat to close the border earlier this week, he told the crowd of supporters that he would do it if Mexico does not block migrants.
Unfortunately, Democrats have refused to close immigration loopholes.
That's really what it's all about.
And again, Mexico has apprehended 1,400 people yesterday, 1,000 people the day before.
They've never done this.
Never to the extent.
And I appreciate it.
I appreciate it.
I'm going to close the border or I'm going to do tariffs on the cars made in Mexico.
They took 30% of our car business.
By the way, I wasn't here when that happened, okay?
I used to complain about it as a civilian.
I'd complain.
I'd say, what the hell is going on?
The president spent part of yesterday at the U.S.-Mexico border pointing out a rebuilt section of wall completed last fall and claiming it as part of the wall he's been demanding be built since his 2016 campaign.
For more on the president's visit and what's next, Michel Marisco, senior editor for public radio station KJZZ's Fronteras desk, joins us now via Skype from Tucson, Arizona.
Thanks for being with us.
You know, right now we have the president kind of backing off of the let's seal the border completely threat.
But what happens each time the president says something like this to the local businesses, the residents that actually live along the border?
Two things happen.
First, there are partial shutdowns.
Let's start there.
Those started at about the same time that he initiated the first threat about a week and a half ago.
What's been happening is they have been partially closing down certain shipping lanes between the U.S. and Mexico and Otoy Mesa and, let's say, in El Paso and Juarez and then here in Nogales.
Those are already adding hours of wait time, for example, in El Paso, upwards of 9 and 10 hours of shipping just waiting in Mexico.
I've always wondered about this.
There's this claim that many people traverse the border daily to go to school, to go to work, to pick up their kids.
Is there some fast lane or is it just not that bad or do the people get up really early?
Is it true at all?
Well, that's a question I never even considered, because I know people have to go there daily, so they have to wait nine hours to get to a job.
Yeah, that sounds unlikely.
That's why I wonder, is there a fast pass, you know?
Is there a quick way in?
I don't know.
We must have somebody out there that listens to the show that knows exactly what's going on in that regard.
Thanks, by the way, for slipping that Windows alert sound in the clip.
That's pretty cool.
That was you, wasn't it?
No, that was in your clip.
With your machine acting up?
No, that was in your clip.
Huh.
Yeah, and I, as I'm sure hundreds of others, you know, did an alt tab to see what the hell was...
Wait, what's going on?
Huh.
Yeah.
Huh.
It's true.
It's true.
Why don't you play part two of this clip?
Okay, let's see.
What about the Mexican government's response to all this?
So, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador has...
Has played a very careful role.
In the first case, he's been somewhat dismissive.
He said that he didn't believe President Trump would actually shut down the border.
He was right about that.
But he has also...
Been boxing himself into a corner where even though he continues to give small concessions, for example, there is at least a suggestion that Mexico has been increasing deportations of Central Americans on behalf of the U.S. Every time that they give a little bit of acquiescence there, the criticism has been coming in that the U.S. just demands even more from Mexico.
KJZZ in the front terrorist desk with Michelle Marisco joining us via Skype today from Tucson.
Thanks so much.
So what did we learn from this?
Well, I didn't learn much, but I did learn something, or at least it triggered a thought.
Do you remember during the Obama administration, when Mexicans were pouring into the United States?
Mm-hmm.
There was this claim that, well, when Mexicans see the coming over from Guatemala and Central America, they beat them up and kick them in the nuts and then throw them back and deport them.
They don't even let them get to Mexico.
And that was during the era when it was Mexicans that were sneaking into the United States, not any of these Central Americans.
Mm-hmm.
Whatever happened to that old policy?
They're not beating anybody up and kicking them in the nuts and throwing them back across the border.
But who was doing that?
Who was beating them up?
The Mexicans.
The Mexicans supposedly had the harshest penalties for border jumpers.
Huh.
And it was used by the right wing.
All the talk show guys and everybody else were using that as, this is what Mexico does, this is what Mexico does, as some sort of, I don't know, we're supposed to do that too, I'm not sure.
But it was like exemplified.
The Mexicans were harsh with anybody who crossed the border.
And what happened to that?
That probably ended when George Soros pulled out his wallet.
Oh, it could be.
I mean, he partnered with MasterCard to hook everybody up who needed one with a credit card or debit card.
And he's been handing that out to migrants.
He, one of his Open Society Institute subdivisions.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
I don't know.
It's possible.
I don't know.
The whole thing is...
Trump looks pretty sad.
He looks sad in front of whatever...
I mean, was that a wall or was that a screen in front of some slats?
I have no idea what that was.
What the hell was it?
It's like, this is not...
My favorite thing is this.
There's another little ditty that goes across.
Oh, well, he's showing off Obama's wall and claiming it's his own.
Then I'm thinking to myself, wait a minute, why is Obama, what was he doing building a wall?
What was the point of that if it's no good?
No, we all know.
We all know the history.
We all know that everyone said yes, put in a...
Well, it wasn't wall, it was fence.
I guess wall was all troubling back then.
Wall, fence, fence.
These people are all full of it.
Well, the Trump rotation spins around very quickly, and I guess we're now back to taxes.
So now it's, oh, we have to get his taxes, his taxes is key, it's really important.
I mean, it started with taxes.
So now we're back to that.
But now there's another little thing going on.
I didn't connect it until I heard this report this morning.
What do we not have, or what avenue have we not yet explored in proving that Trump colluded with the Russians?
We have not explored the most obvious route.
He is at the center of one of the biggest counterintelligence investigations in the United States, the Russian attack on the 2016 election.
But up until now, Julian Assange, the mercurial founder of WikiLeaks, has been untouchable, holed up in a couple of rooms inside Ecuador's embassy in London.
So, you know, we've heard about this now for the past week that Ecuador might be kicking him out of the embassy, but it's really, it's not about anything that he did.
It's about how they might be able to connect...
The Russian Hillary emails to Trump and that's why they need to extradite Assange.
Almost seven years living under asylum, only seen publicly via video or when occasionally holding news conferences from the embassy's balcony.
But his welcome may be wearing thin.
On Tuesday, Ecuador's president complained the 47-year-old has repeatedly violated protocol at the embassy.
Last night, WikiLeaks tweeting, claiming a high-level Ecuadorian official told them Assange could be kicked out of the embassy within, quote, hours to days.
If that happens, I think he'll be in custody in quick order.
British authorities are expected to immediately apprehend Assange, either to charge him themselves or extradite him to the United States.
And what I can't find is who and how is the pressure being applied to Ecuador?
I don't believe that it is.
I think this whole thing is made up.
Yeah, it's very possible because it just started all of a sudden.
It's like, you know, oh, it could be out in hours or days or more or weeks.
Yeah.
But that's the most recent avenue.
Well, a couple of things.
What would the British grab him for?
Specifically, what did he do against the law in England?
Go into somebody else's embassy and stay there?
I don't recall.
Is that something against the law in London?
I don't recall if he had any charges against him.
He may very well have charges against them.
But I don't remember any charges from England.
I remember some in Sweden, and they dropped those.
Yes, the Swedish ones.
So then they're going to extradite the United States?
What authority does the United States have over this guy?
He's not an American citizen.
He didn't do any crimes in the United States.
He's just a journalist and he's working against American interests.
Maybe you could perceive that, but you can't arrest every journalist outside the United States.
Well, now you've hit upon the magic point.
Is he a journalist?
Is WikiLeaks a journalistic institute?
I know that you and I think so.
It's post-modern.
It is.
Well, good luck.
I don't think he'll get that luxury.
Even if it isn't, so what?
What does the United States have authority?
Zero.
This is an Australian citizen living in England.
What authority does the United States have that they can arrest some guy in England who's not even an American citizen?
How does extradition work?
If someone needs to stand trial for a crime, and that would be his being complicit in the Snowden docs, which of course he was only publishing, but okay, let's just forget the journalistic point for a second.
Can you extradite someone because they violated a U.S. law?
Is that how it works?
Let's take a look at Spain.
And violating, what's a U.S. law?
U.S. law, for example, there's a U.S. law, some guy recently was busted for this, some guy was, I don't know, hammering 14-year-olds some country that was where it was legal, and they arrested him because the United States, if you're a United States citizen and you go overseas to have sex with a 16-year-old,
it's against the law because United States citizens, although you can have sex with a woman in the United States who's 16 in certain states, but as a General precept, if you're a U.S. citizen, 18 is where you cut it off.
So if you go overseas and have sex with somebody who is 16, you can be arrested and thrown in jail.
Really?
Yes.
Huh.
Absolutely.
In fact, this happens about two or three times a year.
Some schmuck signs up for one of those sex tours.
Oh, in Thailand.
And he ends up in jail.
Oh, God.
So that is a...
A law that applies to U.S. citizens, that you can't have sex with anyone under the age of 18.
Well, if you're in Spain, I think the age of consent in Spain, I think in general is 14 perhaps.
Oh, I doubt that.
I don't think it's 14.
You're thinking of the Vatican.
Yeah.
The Vatican was 13.
I think they raised it.
So, I believe Spain is 14, but let's just say most of the countries in Europe are 16.
So, can you start arresting Spanish citizens for having sex with girls that are 14 or 16 years old?
So, it's because you've broken a U.S. law?
No.
No, of course not.
So, what does Assange do?
It's 16 in Spain.
Okay, so you're having sex with a 16-year-old in Spain, and you're a Spanish guy.
Yeah.
Can the U.S. arrest you?
No.
Well, then what's the beef against Assange?
What's he doing?
He's not breaking any U.S. law.
He's not in the U.S. Yeah, but he's being charged, or not charged, but people call him treasonous or whatever.
Treason?
They have treason against someone that, did they sign Adolf Hitler?
Was he treasonous because he declared war on Europe and the U.S.? Listen, I'm in agreement with you.
I'm just exploring all the avenues.
I just want to understand, legally...
I have heard, by the way, I've heard the treason charge.
And it's absolutely ludicrous.
But how about espionage?
Espionage against the United States in connection with the Snowden theft and the Bradley Manning theft.
Well, let's take a look at the definition of espionage using the book of knowledge.
Oh, well, that's always a good one.
Consult the book of knowledge.
No, I agree.
The treason doesn't make any sense if he's not a U.S. citizen.
Yeah, but it's dumb.
But, you know, maybe it should just happen.
It would be a good thing.
At least we'd learn how the New World Order is truly functioning if he steps outside of the embassy, is arrested by the Brits, apparently for no reason, although I'm pretty sure he has some charges against him in the U.K., skipping bail or something like that.
He did something.
No, there's nothing.
The practice of spying or using spies, typically by governments, to obtain political and military information.
Which is exactly what it was.
What government is using him?
Russia?
Oh!
Yeah, that's why they're trying to make the Russian connection with Assange.
Assange himself has hinted that it was...
What's his name?
The guy they shot in the back and killed.
Seth...
Seth Rich.
Yeah, Seth Rich.
Who got him the information.
Because it was locally obtained.
It wasn't obtained over the internet.
But we'll drop all that information and just go on with...
Well, the Russians had something to do with it.
Yes.
That's the claim.
That's what we've heard for two years now.
WikiLeaks published it.
They're a tool of the Russian Empire.
They're Putin's puppet.
Roger Stone!
Something like that.
Yes, that's exactly what it is.
I'm looking at the extradition laws.
I'm pretty sure the U.S., and of course they can, I'm sure they can ask for anyone they want.
Hey, rouse that guy.
Send him over here.
Well, yeah, if you want to look at it from the perspective that we're...
Hello, foam finger number one.
You do what we say.
Yes, foam finger number one, baby.
Yeah, that's an interesting question, though.
Yeah, I think you can.
I think you can extradite.
We have extradition requests all the time, although we don't get them, for instance, with Russia.
They're usually for escaped criminals, people who have escaped the U.S. justice system that are Americans.
Hmm.
You just can't randomly...
Oh, no?
Hold my beer.
I mean, you can't with the CIA and the black hoods, but sure.
It's exactly...
Which is illegal.
It's exactly what we can do.
Yeah, but they've been busted for that time and time again, especially in Italy where they were doing the black bag operations.
Yes.
Black bag them, I'm sorry.
Well...
So we'll just have to see.
It seems extra legal.
It's bullcrap.
Well, it fills another five minutes of airtime talking about it on CNN. They seem to have plenty of people to weigh in about it.
They never talk about the argument that this guy's not even an American.
Yeah.
Can't start arresting foreigners willy-nilly because you don't like them.
Again, hold my beer.
We're America, baby.
We can do whatever we want.
We just call up the Five Eyes guys and say, hey, we're taking your Aussie citizen.
Shut up.
We need him.
He's bad.
He's bad for business.
I mean, they get themselves in enough trouble with that character...
Mega Upload.
Yeah, Kim.com's been very quiet.
I haven't heard a lot from him.
He's on the Twitters yakking about one thing or another.
He's still irked about the fact that they took his whole business from him and they didn't pay him back or anything.
Yep.
Well, come on.
We all know what Mega Upload was doing.
Yeah.
How about proving it?
Well, they had all the proof.
They had emails and chats and they're going like, ha ha, we got this one up.
Nah, come on.
They got busted fair and square.
Well...
I mean, the helicopters and the raid was a bit much, perhaps.
Yeah.
Send the American Armed Forces into New Zealand.
Go ahead!
And now you're starting to see my point.
Of course we can expedite whoever we want.
Everyone will play along with this.
No one will even question this.
They tried to expedite that guy,.com, and they couldn't do it.
Luckily, they had some courts in New Zealand with a backbone.
They said, you're not grabbing our guy.
He's a New Zealand citizen.
He doesn't belong to you.
Right.
Well, okay.
So we know...
Now, thank you.
There we are.
Again, the U.S. will request.
The U.K. will gladly comply.
Oh, yeah.
That's the bottom line.
All right.
Well, poor Julian.
I hope Pamela Anderson visits him more often.
Well...
He deserves it.
Meanwhile, Snowden's still stuck in Russia.
Well, since we're on that, there's a new group, a new initiative...
It's called Media Freedom.
This is being organized...
I think this is in the UK, even though it may be a UN initiative.
Here's Jeremy Hunt talking about the mission.
The UK, together with Canada, has decided that democratic countries need to stand together To make it an international taboo of the highest order to murder, arrest or detain journalists just for doing their job.
And we can only do this if we work together as countries with shared values.
Yes, so this would pertain to Julian Assange, seeing this as a UK and Canada and Canadian initiative, is we have to protect journalists, and guess who they brought in as their superstar special envoy for this media freedom outfit?
Come on.
Clooney?
Which one?
Who?
Amal, of course!
Targeting journalists undermines democracy.
It impedes their ability to hold the powerful to account...
And it allows countless human rights abuses to take place in the dark.
So I welcome the leadership that the UK, along with Canada, is showing by spearheading this new campaign for media freedom.
And I'm honored to be asked to contribute legal proposals on steps that governments can take to improve the protection of journalists by being the chair of a new independent legal panel.
Well, I hope the panel will immediately take Julian Assange's case under review.
What the heck was this all about?
You caught me off guard with this little clip.
Isn't that cool?
Yeah, this media freedom.
It's kind of like the press freedom thing that we have here that started in New York and all those Jamokes were a member of it.
You remember that?
No, not really.
Yes, press freedom.
See, in the UK and Canada, it's media freedom and it's press freedom.
Well, that's good for us podcasters.
Well, let me see if I can find out who that group was.
Press Freedom.
Sure, it's not Freedom of the Press Society or something like that.
No, Freedom of the Press, they turned it around.
To Press Freedom, I'm pretty sure.
It's just a drinking club, if I'm not mistaken.
Well, they had a little drop box.
Who's the other woman who worked with Glenn Greenwald on the Snowden Files?
Come on.
The one that's always on Democracy Now.
The Elite.
Yes, that one.
What's her name?
Maybe it is the Committee for Freedom of the Press.
I'll have to look into that.
But at least we know that there's a watchdog out there.
Laura Poitras.
That's who it was.
Laura Poitras.
Those guys.
That group of elites in New York.
And I'm sure some of the WAPO guys joined.
Yes, media freedom.
So they're going to protect journalists, which I think, even though we're kind of...
They haven't done a very good job.
Well, no.
I don't think it's really about...
The job they're doing is terrible.
I don't think it's really about protecting media.
I think it's about protecting the sources who feed the media through media.
Podcasters.
Podcasters are the future, baby.
We're the ones that are going to save the world.
Right?
Right.
Meanwhile, we're rejecting all other forms of international law.
The United States has revoked the entry visa for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Fatou Bensouda had been investigating allegations of war crimes by U.S. forces and their allies in Afghanistan.
Ms.
Bensouda's office insisted she would continue her duties without fear or favor.
I always like how the International Criminal Court doesn't get the message.
No, we don't recognize you.
You're not a part of this.
Go away.
And no visa for you.
That's fantastic.
Well, I don't know.
Okay.
Yes.
Enough of that.
Well, I was kind of hoping for a report from you, and I'll kick it off with an example clip of the release the report demonstrations that took place across the United States of Gitmo Nation.
Here is Senator Blumenthal giving us an example.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
Thank you for giving us hope and energy and inspiration.
And thank you for coming out today to show us what America looks like.
This is what America looks like.
This is what democracy looks like.
Full transparency and public disclosure.
The American people paid for that Mueller report.
They deserve to know everything that is in it.
You know, I really like this meme, and it spread, and people, I heard it last night.
There was 800 people at the bandana ball, so I chatted with a few people and overheard some conversations.
And this is a well-launched meme.
Hey, man, we paid for that report.
We should be able to read everything that's in it.
Well, the funny thing.
So I go to this event.
It's in El Cerrito.
And that meme never showed up.
But they had the script there.
I looked it over.
Well, hold on.
Let me finish Blumenthal.
Then you tell me if he was on script or not.
So...
My message, your message, America's message is release the report.
Release the report.
Release the report.
This guy, did no one clue him in to how the mic check works?
You know, mic check, mic check, and then people will automatically follow what you're saying instead of this old school.
Now I have...
I have something to tell you.
There is at least one person who doesn't want America to see that report.
And since my mother told me if you don't have something nice to say about someone, don't say anything.
Really?
My mom's not here today.
Oh.
So I'm going crazy.
...message to the President of the United States.
Release the report.
And release the full Mueller report.
How pathetic did this get?
Can he really look at himself and say, hey, that was great.
I really rocked it today in that crowd.
It's just lame.
All right, so you went to the El Cerrito release the report resistance movement.
It's part of the moveon.org thing.
So I made some observation.
There's a lot of little chants.
We want action, no redaction was the one that I heard the most.
Oh, that's a nice one.
Action, no redaction.
I like that.
Yeah, that was a good one.
But I saw the sheet that had all the beams on it, and it was already scripted, and the person who ever had the megaphone usually had the sheet.
Can I just stop you for a second and ask a few questions?
Yeah.
So I'd like to know, you went there.
Now, did you have a disguise on so people wouldn't recognize you as John C. Dvorak from the No Agenda show?
Did you have like a Bernie button or something?
I was looking for my Bernie button.
I couldn't find it.
But I wore a red flannel shirt, very similar to what the Tech Grouch wears.
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Very good.
And, you know, just some beat-up jeans.
Did you have any resist stickers or anything?
Beat-up loafers, and I... Didn't stand out, even though I was taking everyone's pictures.
And I had a sign made.
This is one of those events where they didn't have the printed signs.
They had two people.
Making signs?
Making signs as fast as they could.
Oh, that's interesting.
Yeah, and so all the signs looked like they were made by the individuals when they weren't there, made by these two people.
One guy in particular was really good, and I grabbed one of his signs.
And released the Mueller report, you know, said something like that.
I kept it.
I have it at the house.
It's in the box marked collectibles?
It's in a collectible box.
Wow, I hadn't actually thought about that, the people making signs on the spot for you.
Did they have wood attached to them or was it just signed?
You could staple a wood thing on there if you wanted.
They ran out of the wood sticks.
So people were just holding the signs.
They didn't bring enough sticks.
You should have just had a stick with your head on it.
Just walk around.
Yeah, I could do that.
So I got in there and I've got some, you know, the main signage was impeach Trump now.
And then there was this episode that happened, I recall, was besides the impeach, honk if you want to impeach Trump.
And they're standing in the road and there are people going by honking, including an AC Transit bus honking away and impeach Trump.
And so I found that to be amusing.
And then there was some guy, some doofus next to me when this chant came, what do we want?
And the guy would yell, shoot Trump.
No!
Yes.
Did you record this?
I tried to, but I guess I didn't catch it because I wasn't recording everything.
And so I looked at the guy after he said it the second time and I said, I gave him this awkward look like, what are you doing?
He says, hey, everybody's thinking it.
Wow.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Wow.
I should have just taken this picture and called it to Secret Service if they cared to do anything.
But I thought that was pretty abhorrent, and everyone's thinking that's funny.
And the whole group, oh, that's great.
You got a lot of nerve there, Bill.
So that's pretty much, to me...
That's pretty nuts.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Yeah, what do we want?
And then she'd say that, and then they would say, when do we want?
And they'd yell, now!
Jeez.
That chant was pretty screwy.
Now, the other thing I have to say, the place was filled with mostly Bernie supporters.
Huh.
Who are the troublemakers?
I was the youngest guy there.
Wait.
The demographic of this group was older than you?
Yes.
If they weren't older than me, they looked older than me.
Wow.
Kind of that beat up Berkeley look, you know, where you just don't have, you know, you're like, I don't know why I'm living.
Disheveled.
Disheveled, yes.
Disheveled and like that.
You know, and your typical, you have a shirt, you're wearing a flannel shirt.
And it's off by one button, so one side's hanging a foot lower than the other.
Nothing's tucked in.
And a lot of angry women, Hillary Hillbots, obviously, and they're screaming and screeching and they're yelling.
With any message you could...
Impeach Trump is almost what most of the messages were.
Well, something...
Are you done with your report?
It sounds like you're kind of at the end of it.
Well, there were a couple of young people there who were overweight.
That's the only thing I can say.
Also, Bernie supporters?
I didn't want to talk to them.
By the way...
I did talk to a lot of these people.
Yes?
Did you learn anything both?
Well, I did get a hold of the number one Bernie guy there.
He looked like Bernie.
And he's roaming around trying to get people to sign up to be volunteers for the Bernie organization.
And I started yakking with him.
He says, what do you think you could do?
He said, I would have voted for Bernie last time, I said.
He said, well, you're going to vote for him now?
And I said, you know, ever since he sold out after he didn't get the nomination and turned his votes over to Hillary, I'm done with him.
Ooh, ooh, fighting words.
And it bothered him.
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, that's just what bothers him.
And he drops his head and he dramatizes.
He says, yeah, I know.
But if it wasn't for that, this is their argument, by the way.
If it wasn't for that, he couldn't be running now.
Oh, that's a great way to put it.
Yeah.
And then I said, here's the second layer.
So I say to him, well, you know, the problem with Bernie's message, you know, Is that all the other Democrats stole all of his IDs.
Every single one.
Every single one.
And he's got an answer for that.
He says, well, that's true.
But we know that Bernie's the only one who will actually do those things.
I didn't really have a counter to that.
And you said, oh, because he'll be king?
No, that wasn't in the cards, to use the snide approach.
Hmm.
Well, did anyone mention or was there any talk about, once again, Bernie being completely ignored by the media?
Does anyone see this repetition?
I didn't bring that up.
I haven't noticed it that much.
Oh, my.
I probably should.
They'll talk about him saying, well, he's raised more than anybody else, $17 million.
But Beto is hot.
Beto on a skateboard.
Biden, Uncle Joe, creepy.
The focus is on many different things.
By the way, I saw...
Kamala Harris was on Seth Meyers.
Nothing interesting, so not clippable.
But all of a sudden, I figured there was something bothering me about her hair, and I couldn't figure it out.
I'm like, it's too much hair.
It's unprofessional.
The volume and the cut of her hair.
I know it sounds very superficial, but I've just been around a lot of women, a lot of hair.
And I was like, what is she masking for?
And then I figured it out.
She's bald.
No.
Because my first wife was like this.
Kamala Harris is 5'2".
Oh, I didn't know this.
No, I know.
And I was like, hold on a second.
This is what wife number one used to do.
And she even had hair pieces on.
It's some kind of compensation that puts you into your body in a different proportion.
And women know this, the ones who are doing it.
And then on camera, you just don't look like you're a dwarf.
Huh.
Yeah, 5'2", that's tiny.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's small.
So she can never be president.
We don't have any 5'2 presidents.
We don't do that.
I think Chester Alan Arthur may have been 5'2.
Yeah, well, you know, they buried the idea with him.
Meanwhile, there was a very encouraging, I would say, encouraging interview on Friday night on the Bill Maher show.
And it was one of the most unhinged Trump haters, Chelsea Handler, the comedian slash talk show host.
And she has a book out now, and she writes about her most recent experience.
And when I heard this, you know, it's at first pass, like, okay...
But then you really start to think about how many people have just issues, you know, issues from your youth.
Just everyone has an issue.
Everyone's got some kind of stuff going on, you know, that's tucked away.
And the, I guess what we call Trump derangement syndrome...
Just brought this out in everybody.
I'll let her explain.
I thought it was very revealing.
I mean, I'm reading your book and I'm feeling like a bad friend because I didn't realize you were suffering so much.
Everybody took the 2016 election hard.
But I didn't know it really knocked you down like that.
And you came back stronger.
That's what the book is about.
Yeah, I had a midlife identity crisis once Trump won the election because I had never had my world feel so unhinged, I think.
And I had to pay a psychiatrist to listen to me bitch about Donald Trump for about the first three weeks.
And then once we got past that and we got to the real stuff, I realized the parallel there was my world becoming unhinged when I was a little girl.
My brother died when I was nine years old.
I had never related the two.
But for me, as I can imagine, it must have been for so many people.
It was a huge emotional trigger of everything being destabilized.
And I realized just how spoiled and privileged I'd been all my life to realize to be this upset and this out of 10 every day and the outrage and the anger.
I just wanted to fucking fight people, you know?
And I was like, I gotta go see a psychiatrist.
And now I'm thinking, oh, this is the artist.
You know, the one that the Obama bought dinners.
This is all these people who I know well enough to know they have severe traumatic issues in their past with family and relationships.
And somehow, this destabilizing feeling of Trump, which is completely media-made, just triggered people into oblivion.
And now I'm like, well, I really, you know, there's a couple things you can do with this.
One is you just say, wow, man, you must have some, if someone's just going nuts.
You must be screwed up.
You must have some stuff in your background.
It's like that woman in the green on her knees screaming at the top of her lungs.
Yes, yes.
No, no, no, one of my favorite images.
Yes, and a newsletter fan favorite, for sure.
Yes, everybody loves it.
Yeah.
She must be really screwed up.
And at the same time, you know, you can also say, well...
Well, let's stop before you continue.
I know where you're headed and I want to hear more, but why is it a triggering mechanism?
Well, some doofus getting elected president, whoever it is.
Well, in general, I would say most human resources in today's race durats are stressed, overworked, worry, financial issues, you know, you can't ignore inflation, you know.
You just have less money to spend.
Nothing really changes.
Everything coming out of the television is negative.
The world is going to shit.
You're sick.
Look at all this stuff you're not taking yet.
Call your doctor.
Yeah, then other stuff just sits there.
I went into therapy for a couple of years.
It was fantastic.
But of course I was never deranged about anything or never really freaked out because I understand how media works and it didn't affect me.
But now I have a new compassion for people who are tripping out over this stuff.
Like, okay.
And you know what?
And it reminds me, whenever we get an email from someone, how many times have you seen this happen?
They'll email us, you guys...
This is not an opening segment, by the way.
I'm not using this.
But that is the...
And we'll go back.
We'll do a couple rounds of emails.
You'll say something smart.
I'll say something I think is smart.
And then you'll be like, okay, I'm dropping off.
And then I'll go.
And then usually within four or five exchanges, well, yeah, my wife left me and the dog is sick.
And so I just freaked out.
And it's a media illness, I think.
I really think that, although it's triggering stuff that's underlying in your psyche, and we all have some stuff, and this was an interesting example.
I felt like there was no control.
She said it felt like I had no control over my life.
Okay, let's go back and look at this again.
So Trump gets elected, and all these people, especially in California, It presupposed that Hillary was going to be elected and then we'd just be marching along.
Yeah.
And that single...
And also, all Trump provided was a disruption.
It's disruptive.
It was disruptive.
This is a disruption.
Yeah, but no, hold on.
Hold on.
Let me give you an example.
Hold on.
I have an example here.
Where did I put that?
Um...
Damn it.
Keep talking.
I'll find it.
All right.
So I'm assuming that when you have your worldview and everything, and we're talking about your old hillbots back there in Austin, you have everything is smooth sailing and everything is plugged into place.
Road signs are where they belong.
The left turn is where it belongs.
There's no big chuck holes that's going to break your axle.
Your engine's not going to blow up.
Nothing crazy is going to happen.
And so everything's expected to go as planned.
And Hillary was part of that.
She was going to be the first woman president.
Right.
So status quo.
Yes, status quo.
We'll be okay.
We're just rolling along.
And then the worst happens.
Remember, the rug was pulled out from everybody, just like your brother dying.
All of a sudden, we went from 95% certainty New York Times Clinton is the next president to, uh-oh, it's Trump.
So the rug was just pulled and then immediately it was Russia.
Now, people believe the media, John.
They believe it.
It's the same if you just repeat this over and over again for years and years about this is horrible, Trump is going to ruin us, the republic is dying.
It's no different from what people say about climate change and why children are all indoctrinated.
It really does work.
Just repeating the same thing over and over again.
And yeah, I think the shock was too big.
It was a shock to the system.
To many people.
And I think it's pretty good that Chelsea Handler at least recognized it.
And she wasn't very disparaging about Trump throughout the rest of her...
Although this conversation, they went immediately, you kind of heard it there, into a white privilege conversation.
Like, whatever.
Okay, fine.
But then...
Besides no agenda being the true solution to this type of media illness, Chelsea Handler hopped on another train.
What I discovered was alcohol and outrage are not a good mix.
It's like a hat on a hat.
So I pivoted towards weed and cannabis.
And for me, who's a very active, kind of high-strung person, the cannabis was a gateway drug to meditation for me.
I couldn't meditate because I was always like...
And then with cannabis I was like okay I think I can maybe meditate now.
And then I had my awakening and I'm like wait fuck Trump we've got so many other beautiful things going on.
Of course we can't.
But there is optimism.
There's beautifulness.
There's beautiful things happening and while terrible things happen beautiful things are being are happening as well.
Now I don't know exactly what those beautiful things were but no.
She's just as bad as she ever was.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm giving her another chance.
I'm giving Chelsea Handler a shot now.
I'll read this book.
I'll see a troll room comment.
Sounds stable to me.
Yeah That's true That's true Well, maybe she can help some people.
But yeah, therapy.
Therapy is a good idea.
For sure.
I don't know.
I felt it was a small...
I thought it was a small trace of light that I just got, oh, that's really nice.
It was actually a good, very good clip, and I think it did.
I think you may have hit the nail on the head.
It's just to me, as a cynic and a podcaster, I can't see how that can be so triggering, Trump's election.
And what gets me is that from a comedic perspective, why wouldn't you want Trump to be president?
And it seems as if the comedians, most of them, she was one, by the way.
She's a comic.
They're all triggered much the same way.
They can't do funny material anymore.
All it is is Trump, Trump, Trump.
I mean, our kids bitch about it.
You know, these funny, one-time funny people are now just Trump-obsessed.
And the material's only appealing to other obsessed people, so they're losing half their audience.
Mm-hmm.
It's baffling to me.
I'm baffled by it because I never saw this as that disruptive.
I thought it was an opportunity.
Well, again, you know comedians much better than I do.
I would say 97% of all comedians are in consensus that they're all severely broken people to start with.
That's why you become a comedian.
There's that element.
That element exists.
And, you know, but then to take...
Look, I don't know.
I don't know enough about comedy.
I have not a funny bone in my body.
But I see this.
And I'm understanding, because now the people who are the worst, who are really the worst at hate and vile, just always Trump hate...
They're the ones that have really horrible events in their past.
Bad family situations, just bad situations.
So, yeah, the humans are pretty simple.
And, wow, the media, it just works.
It's a great system.
I love this example.
I got this from Sir Drusifer here in Austin.
Just to give you an example, now it's not about Trump, but about climate change.
Now to a dire warning about climate change.
Dire.
A dire warning.
A dire warning.
Dire new warning.
Dire warning.
Another dire warning.
The situation is dire.
A dire warning.
Dire consequences.
A dire warning.
It sounds dire.
What prompted this warning?
We have a global emergency.
It's here, it's man-made, and there are going to be dire results.
The government issued its most dramatic report yet about climate change today, and it came with a dire warning.
A stark warning.
A warning to humanity.
An existential threat to human civilization on this planet.
Experts say that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophe.
And we, the scientists, also tell us, have 12 years in which to answer that question.
12 years within which to answer.
The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.
We have 12 years to turn this around.
By the year 2030, that's just 12 years from now.
The future is closer than we think and is not good.
There will be irreversible damage to the planet.
Time is running out to prevent global warming from reaching a catastrophic milestone.
Sea levels rising.
Extreme drought.
Severe storms.
Widespread fires and extreme flooding.
Dangerous heat waves rising sea levels.
Raising sea levels and forcing millions from their homes.
Crop failure and mass population movement.
As well as food shortages.
Millions around the world faced future disaster.
Pretty serious.
People are dying.
President Trump has frequently doubted its existence and has called it a hoax.
I don't believe it.
I don't believe it.
The world is going to end in 12 years.
We're all going to die!
Do you see?
And you put a little bit of that music under it, and it's dire.
And it's great!
So, this stuff really works.
Well, wars sell papers.
This is true.
This is very true.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, John C! I have nothing.
Dvorak!
In the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships to see boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the dames and all the knights out there.
And in the morning to the trolls in the troll room, noagendastream.com.
Thanks for being here, trolleys.
We love you.
It's good to see everybody on your Sunday morning.
I'd also like to send...
That's noagendastream.com, by the way, if you want to join in.
And there's a lot going on on No Agenda Stream these days.
It's kind of a 24-7 operation.
It's well worth checking out at any time of day.
And then I also want to say in the morning, too, Martin J.J., And he brought us the artwork for episode 1126.
We titled that one Truth to Podcaster.
And this was the whistleblower experiencing midgetism.
Yes, it was a very rude cover.
By the way, your first and only choice, I believe.
You loved it.
Well, that's because I was so offended by it.
There was something, yeah.
It was a very Martin J.J. piece, I guess would be fair to say.
Yeah.
Along the lines of the old George Bush piece.
Or the Jeb Bush piece with the big glasses.
Oh, I don't remember that one.
With the big glasses?
Yeah, he had these Coke bottle glasses on.
That's all he had.
Oh, yes.
Oh, my goodness.
The piece was very simple, but it hit the spot.
Yeah.
Well, Martin J.J., good to have you back on the Art Tip.
He's always around.
He's everywhere, Martin J.J. He's on NoAgendaSocial.com.
By the way, go check that place out.
The whole network seems to hang out.
You can get an invite from somebody somewhere.
As long as you're in the system, you can hand out invites.
So that's our art for 1126.
Martin, JJ, thank you again.
Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can check out all of the artwork that's uploaded for every episode.
You can upload yourself.
In fact, why don't we just take a look and see if anyone has put something in already.
We did that last time.
That was pretty funny.
Oh, yeah.
We already have you as a Bernie supporter.
That should be good.
Well, yeah.
I guess not.
So people are doing it on the fly.
Fantastic.
Thank you very much.
This is our value for value system.
Everyone contributes one in one way or another, even if it's just hitting people in the mouth and getting them to listen, but we...
Very much appreciate the financial producers, and we'd love to thank the top ones above $200 and $300 per episode in this segment, where we bestow upon them the titles of executive producer or associate executive producer.
And how's our list for today, John?
Yeah, a good list.
Starting off with...
Baron Sir Anonymous of the ADF-C. He wrote a very long note.
The ADF-C. Yeah, and he has been knighted as Sir Anonymous Baron of the ADF-C. This is the 11th, and by the way, we are forbidden to explain the title.
The 11th time I've contributed monetarily to the show, I'm still unwilling to allow my true identity to be revealed on the show.
So, anonymous.
I typically donate once annually.
My tax refund rolls in.
I'm donating annually.
My title and tithing are only...
Mentioned once a year because of this.
I feel unworthy, unsightly, unsightly douchey.
Please dedouche me.
Okay, hold on a second.
I remember who it is now.
I know exactly what he does, yes.
You've been dedouched.
When I hear all the knights contributing more frequently, I feel a pain of angst.
And I think that I should simply break up my annual contribution so that my name is mentioned more frequently.
As a solve for my conscience.
As a placebic way to obtain moral self-licensing and virtual signal to my fellow knights and the dames.
So here I am, donating again.
As I have stated before, you must continue your work.
It is vital to our nation's interests.
and the American people are better for it.
As the peerage grows, the knowledge spreads.
And as I hit people in the mouth, they are illuminated by the light that is the No Agenda Show.
Nice.
As tax return rolls...
rolls in over paying like a good little slave that I am, I return a small sum in kind, paying back the value for value in any small way that I can.
I have donated before and I've managed to rise amongst my peers to the level of barren.
Hopefully I can continue to contribute throughout my wage-earning years, which are diminishing rapidly.
This particular donation, in the amount of $369.99, is a special contribution that I call the Triple Intel Threat.
This donation celebrates the power of three, and the almighty EO12333, pronounced EO333. Yes, that's Executive Order 121333.
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The Intel triple threat is 1-2-3-3-3 times 3 equals 369.99.
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Surely you can see the power of 3 and thus the mystical power of EO 1-2-3-3-3 in this contribution.
From this day forward, let this donation amount to be coveted, be called the coveted Intel triple threat, triple Intel threat.
Okay.
All producers who claim to be members of the U.S. Intel community should certainly give preps Props.
To the power of three and the power of EO. And he goes on.
He humbly requests an F cancer and a karma for the families who are saddened by the passing of our sister.
She was recently taken by a deadly gliastoblastoma.
Discovered less than a month before her death.
Terrible.
All hail to the gardens of reality.
Stop it!
Stop it!
You've got karma.
I do want to mention that we have a new peerage page, which neither you or I have promoted properly, if at all.
And now I have it in my notes, because I guess the old peerage page was kind of bogus, just dropped.
It wasn't maintained.
And here's the new one, which is, I believe, up to date.
And it's nicely done.
Noagendahr.org, which makes sense, part of the Human Resources Department of the network.
Noagendahr.org slash peerage.
And it's a really nice map.
Let me see if I know what happens if I go to noagendahr.org.
You'll crash.
No, no, here it is.
Noagendahr.org.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, it's the whole peerage thing.
Oh, beautiful.
And there's the interactive peerage map.
Oh, this is great.
Noagendahr.org.
We can remember that, can't we?
Noagendahr.org.
This is what noagendahr.org looks like.
Dynamite.
Okay.
And we thank you.
Thank you, everybody.
Onward.
Darren O'Neill comes in next.
Darren O'Neill, a triple threat.
Holy moly.
He's an artist, he's a producer, and he's a contributor.
And he's a podcaster.
And he's also a writer, because he's written a war and peace.
He's written something, a nice little piece for us here.
Yeah.
All right.
This donation at 333.33 is my first donation, so I will need a dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
I was a casual listener of the show up until the end of 2016 when I went through a bunch of retinal surgeries on my right eye.
Ouch.
I was face down for seven weeks, including having to sleep in that position.
Your podcast is one of the things that helped me keep sane over that time period.
I'd love to know how that works.
You have certain kinds of eye surgeries.
Obviously not cataract.
No, I want to know how our podcast helped keep him sane.
I mean, I don't think anything could keep me sane from lying down, face down for seven weeks.
You have to eat that way, too?
Yeah, you suck through a straw, I think.
Oh, my God.
And I think you have to do some exercises where you're down like that.
You think they can fix this?
I mean, there should be no reason in the world that you should be face down for seven weeks.
I'd like to request some health cover for both me and my dad who spent most of last year in the hospital and in rehab after an infection nearly killed him.
And for myself in the hopes that technology advances quickly so I can have some vision back in my right eye.
Wait a minute.
So seven weeks retinal surgery, seven weeks face down and it's not working?
Apparently not.
Jeez.
All right.
Since my surgeries, I've become pretty active doing artwork for the show.
The $333.33 donation is an honor of the fact that I've had 33 pieces chosen to this point.
About that.
Although my first chosen piece was for episode 980, and it was wrongly attributed to Mike Riley.
That's right.
My mistake.
Yes.
It's okay, all of us Irish guys sound alike.
Well, that's true.
I remember the Mike Riley incident.
It was a big stink.
Big scandal.
My 49th birthday is tomorrow, April 8th, and my birthday gift to all the No Agenda artists is that I won't be submitting any artwork for today's show to give them a fighting chance.
Ha ha ha!
Oh, yeah.
Hey, hey.
Oh, yes.
Come on, you peons.
Make some art.
I do it with one eye!
Well, that's what J.J., Martin J.J. did that one time.
He says, I'm sick of winning.
Yeah, but Martin J.J. has two eyes.
Of course, I do have pieces in the evergreen section.
Hint.
The Noagent Art Generator really is the World Wrestling Federation of Artwork.
It's time for Mike Riley, Nick the Rat, CSB, Martin JJ, and the rest to step it up and beat the guy with only one good eye.
The competition is fierce, but the combatants are quite friendly.
I can assure Adam that there is no need for concern.
I'm a long way from being burned out on doing the artwork for the show.
Adam is concerned that he's going to burn himself.
I'm concerned about everybody.
I just see it.
I know how it works.
I feel the burn.
I feel the burn.
He feels the burn.
I truly enjoy contributing in any way.
I can't always get a kick out of hearing you both ask about the artwork no matter who won.
Talk about the artwork, sorry.
Talk about the artwork.
This is great.
We got a guy with one eye making art and then a guy with one eye reading his note about it.
This is fantastic.
One good eye.
The other eye is good too, but it's just a little less good.
When you get that other one worked on, we're going to get that eye fixed.
I said, I don't need it.
It's fine.
I'm good.
I got the one good eye and the one eye that is 90% good.
You know, it's got a cataract, but it's not killing me.
Hey, John, the thing is, I'm the podcaster who has hearing aids.
I mean, this whole show is a mess.
We got artists with one eye.
One-eyed artist.
Thanks to Void Zero and Sir Bemrose, I've had my random thoughts podcast running on the stream for a while now, and I'm about to launch a brand new show with Sir Bemrose called Grumpy Old Ben.
Sir Bemrose is a very talented guy in his own right, and I know the No Agenda fans will enjoy hearing him rant regularly on the stream.
Yeah.
If the No Agenda listeners want to help celebrate my birthday, they can subscribe to my podcast at randomthoughts.com and bookmark grumpyoldbends.com for its impending launch.
Of course, they can also donate to the No Agenda show.
I'm happy to be finally joining the ranks of the de-douched.
And that's all I got.
And he says, happy belated birthday to JCD and keep up the good work, Darren O'Neal.
And also, just to add insult to injury, Darren has a great voice.
He has a really good mic voice.
Just big and booming and it's nice.
I haven't heard him.
Well, that's what you get.
You get half, you get one eye, you get a better voice is how it works.
That's the way it works.
What's going to happen with you and those two ears?
What?
Couldn't hear you.
Let's see.
And he wanted a...
Something's getting bigger.
He wanted a karma.
There's a health karma, I believe.
Let's do this.
You've got karma.
Thank you very much, Darren O'Neill.
Man of many trades and expertise is...
Kevin Strange in Norwich, UK. $293.19.
And he sent an email in which I will open and read.
Somewhere.
Baronet Sir Kevin Strange.
Here's the jingles he wants.
FDEU followed by two times that's true.
So that's the EU. That's true.
That's true.
Thank you both for your courage and service.
Please accept my value for value donation to 29319 to commemorate the 29th March date that we find British people were supposed to take our first step away from the global centralization of the power and leave the EU. That's true.
That's true.
Our No Agenda show has helped me navigate these apocalyptic times and chuckle Chuckle, I say, at the incompetence of our rulers instead of getting Ramona or Brexiteer derangement syndrome like many of my fellow UK slaves.
It also gives me lots of opportunity to smugly say that my No Agenda show prediction was right about the ongoing do-over.
This couple with a recent visit to the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.
I'm in the area.
Heads up, yeah.
Heads up.
Help me reaffirm the value for value the show has on my amygdala.
I was very well prepared for multiple experiences.
One, navigating the human feces on pavements.
Why do they put the show in San Francisco if everyone's crapping all over the place?
Defusing the SJW millennial who I reassured that AOC would win after another inevitable four years of Trump.
You meanie.
Wow.
Winning two debates that Trump is not a racist homophobe with our Cali co-workers by being able to quote what he really said in context, debunking all their examples.
How'd that go over, I wonder?
I don't know.
He says he then confused them by encouraging them to be outraged by his regime change, Venezuela, and not actually pulling out of Syria.
They never experienced non-binary party fluid politics before.
For them, your either red or blue team, always blue if in Silicon Valley tech company, and want to keep your job.
Okay, did something there.
I couldn't follow that myself.
A very detailed dangers of 5G discussion with a friend who is now at Samsung Mobile and knows a few of their 5G expert who he plans to speak to about my concerns.
Oh, good.
Future Boots on the Ground report when I speak to them next year.
Yes, looking forward to it.
All right, thank you very much.
Is he into karma with these jingles or just the jingles?
Oh, you might as well drop a karma in there.
That's true.
That's true.
You've got karma.
Onward with Sir Nick of the Bar, the Southside Baron of the DMV, $203.45.
Oops, I have, sorry, I missed Victor Bosquez.
No, you missed Patrick Comer.
He's in San Antonio.
You missed Patrick Comer.
Oh, I missed Patrick Comer.
I just jumped.
Patrick Comer, $267.67.
It's for celebration of John's birthday month and to help Adam in his pursuit of getting a mailbox...
No positive updates on that yet.
In Austin, please play the Andrew Lang intro clip from the last show performed by Al Sharpton.
He is running Democratic primary for president.
He's an entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and one of the first to say yes, let me come and speak to the National Action Network, and we want to hear from him.
Mr.
Andrew Lang, give him a hand.
Thank you.
Way to go, Rev.
Lang.
Victor Busquets.
He's Busquets, I think, in San Antonio.
San Antoon.
San Antoon.
Yes.
Oops.
No, I'm not looking in the box.
I have a written note.
Here's my first time donation.
The first check is...
Oh, he sent three checks.
Okay.
That amounted to the 250.
Oh.
First check is based on Super Bowl score, 41-33 from 2018.
I'm a huge Cowboys fan and hate the Eagles, but I hate the Patriots more.
I was delighted when the Eagles beat the Patriots and wanted to share my cheer.
You'll get nothing from me from this year because the Patriots won.
The second check is for $70.07.
If $8008 is for boobs and $6006 is for small boobs and $909 is perky boobs, then $707 is for deformed, deranged boobs like the Hillbots, lesbians in tech, and social justice warriors.
Oh my gosh.
The third check?
Victor?
It's for $138.60 to round the total out to $250.
It's like he's throwing curses on people with these things.
I need a de-douching and jobs karma for my fiancé who lost her job on $131.19.
Screw Accenture!
You've been de-douched.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
We finished with thank you for my sanity.
You're welcome.
I think we're doing a stellar job.
Screw Accenture.
Sir Nick of the Southside Baron of the DMV. Okay, here we go.
20345.
Good to have him back.
It's been a while since I donated.
What inspired me to donate was the terrible phone audio on another podcast.
It really made me appreciate how much work you guys are doing making the show sound great.
The content is spot on as usual.
I'd like some karma for my upcoming travel and for all the other producers.
Rev L would be nice too.
Thanks, Sir Nick.
Of the South Side, Baron of the DMV. Well, we just did the...
The Andrew Lang.
I have a new one.
I have a new owl, which is a shorty.
Yeah, I got a new one.
Here it goes.
They sit out on the sidewalk sipping mint tulips.
Could you hear it?
He's just sitting on the sidewalk sipping mint tulips.
Yeah, instead of mint julep.
Yeah, but it kind of breaks up in a funny way.
Yeah, well, then maybe I should just do a different Reverend Al if it's falling flat.
Let's try this.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
He's got karma.
I do have a couple clips from his big meetup.
Oh, good.
And of course we have the famous clip.
I have a copy of that.
So let's...
I want to thank all the folks for being the producers and executive producers of the show 1127.
It makes a big difference when we have executive and associate executive producers holding up the fort.
Yes, and I need to mention our meetups.
You can stay up to date with all the meetups at noagendameetups.com.
This is where you can meet people who also have been hit in the mouth, where you can feel safe to talk about everything you want, like-minded people, smart people, interesting people, people who you may never have spoken to before in your life just at face value, and you will have a fabulous time.
We certainly enjoy it when we attend these meetups.
We won't be at these, but let me list the following.
We have today, this evening, or this afternoon, Michigan Local 1.
On the 20th of April, the Greater Atlanta Meetup.
Again, all the details for this is at noagendameetups.com.
April 20th, there's simultaneously two meetups happening.
So one in Greater Atlanta, the other one in Portland, Oregon.
Then on the 27th of April, we're bad we're nationwide.
Zurich checks in.
Oh my God, wouldn't you love to be at the Zurich meetup?
I wonder who would be there.
Then we move into May.
May 18th, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 25th, Eastern North Carolina.
And then also on May 25th, Pittsburgh.
Oh, wow.
Pittsburgh.
I wonder if we can get Mike to go there.
Mike Malaro.
Used to live in Austin.
I wonder how those guys are doing.
Mike and Jane.
So those are your meetups.
These are fun.
They're worth checking out.
It's very loose.
It's low-key.
And I think you'll have a good time.
That's noagendameetups.com.
And thank you to our executive and associate executive producers for today's program.
These valuable credits are valid wherever they are accepted.
And that's, you know, Hollywood-type places.
So you can just say, yes.
I'm an executive producer of the No Agenda Show, 1127.
Or whatever you need to do to get that next gig.
Accenture might even recognize it.
And we'll do another one on Thursday.
Dvorak.org slash NA. You've always got the latest deconstruction, so you can go out there and propagate it.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
So you went to the big, you saw the big Now Action Network, which pretty much the only person who got any real attention from it was AOC with her black scent.
And I have that clip for people who haven't heard it.
All right.
Well, why don't you give us your report?
What do you have?
Well, so we had the big AOC thing, or the AOC thing.
It's funny.
They had the...
Now Action Network.
Action Network, and everybody went and spoke.
I think I maybe have two clips from that thing.
But the main one, the super clip, was this one where AOC decides to speak with a black scent, and she's roundly hounded.
I got notes from our friends in Australia about this.
By the way, I disagree.
I don't think it was a black scent.
To me, it was Rosie Perez.
You know, it was a brown scent.
It was not a black scent.
Well, they called it a black scent.
You know, I think that's a misnomer.
Well, you might be right, but all I noticed was the following, because there's Sarah Harrison in Odeon.
Oh.
And she's, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah about this, you know, she's about, because apparently it's a news story in Australia.
Huh.
And AOC has followed around the world.
And I said, the funny thing is about this is that no black people or anybody bitched about it except white people.
Ah, that's not true.
Oh, okay, good.
I'm glad you said that.
Yeah, what's the guy, Gerald Green, what's his name on YouTube?
I don't know who Gerald Green is.
Yeah, it's this guy.
He's a very popular YouTuber.
Oh, okay, so some YouTuber did.
Okay, well, that's good.
All right, well, let's listen to her go on with her...
How about your black friends, John?
I'm sure you have one.
I have more than one and nobody said anything to me and they don't care.
I'm proud to be a bartender.
Bartender?
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy.
There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat.
There is nothing wrong with driving the buses that take your family to work.
There is nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America, and there is everything dignified about it.
I, in fact, am encouraged when people remind the country of my past, not because of anything about my story, but because it communicates that if I could work in a restaurant and become a member of the United States Congress, so can you.
So can you.
I didn't really hear the clip in that full context.
What is it about it now that you've heard it in full context that it interests you?
That she says that no matter who you are, what you do, you too can be in this position of power, whatever she calls it.
Let me just cut that last bit here.
Because of anything about my story...
Back a little bit.
I, in fact, am encouraged when people remind the country of my past, not because of anything about my story, but because it communicates that if I could work in a restaurant and become a member of the United States Congress, so can you.
I like that.
So can you.
I had not heard it in this context, and now it's like, oh, all right, well, now you're making sense.
Because all I heard was the black scent, and they cut it off after, you know, drive your family to work with the bus.
Yeah.
But now it ties in.
She says, hey, you know, I'm just a waitress.
Not true.
She's a trained operative.
But okay.
That's her cover.
I'm just a waitress.
And if I can do what you can too.
That's a very pro-American message.
I have no problem with that.
I agree.
It's a good message.
The way she delivered it with that corn pone kind of thing.
Talking funny.
She wasn't.
She was talking like Rosie Perez.
Bronx.
What you just did was Southern.
Well, I know it's Southern.
What else would it be?
But just saying it...
It reminds me of Clinton.
My comment to Sarah was, this is something you learn...
I've talked to, I have mixed feelings about it for the following reasons.
I know Clinton, Hillary talks black when she's in a black church.
She talks southern when she's in a southern venue.
She learned that from Bill, who used to do that.
And I'm still remembering the day, and I kind of talk Canadian when I'm in Canada.
I talk a little bit flatter than I normally talk.
And I adjust myself.
I don't put on a southern twang when I'm in the south, but I do talk a little slower, maybe a little more like this.
Because it's easier for people.
This is warmer.
And I got the idea from Mick Jagger.
And I'll tell this story.
I told it before on the show.
I just so happened to be going to England a day after I watched Mick Jagger's on The Tonight Show with somebody.
I forgot who the host was at the time.
And so then I go to England and I'm in England and I turn on the TV. I catch the morning show.
There's Mick Jagger again, coincidentally.
And I can't understand a word he's saying.
Right.
He adjusts his English just slightly to sound a little more American when he was in the United States so we could understand him because I'm telling you, I'm listening to them and the BBC, one of the...
So here's why I don't care about how someone speaks, how they speak to a certain audience.
I think, especially now that I've heard what AOC actually said, which I thought was a very pro-American message.
I have no problem with that.
I encourage that.
But let's not forget, I am Tina Turner.
All of a sudden, I cannot speak any like any made butler from Mississippi.
Or, I'm Madonna.
I'm Madonna.
I speak with accents.
Exactly.
Come on!
And we ridiculed them, too.
So let's just be fair.
Well, okay, then let's just ridicule everybody.
That's what we do.
This is the New York TV show.
We can do what we want.
My daughter speaks Dutch, Flemish, American English, and British English.
And when she's with her friends, it's British accent.
Her British friends.
She's in Belgium, which is very similar to Dutch.
She's actually speaking Dutch and does it in a Flemish accent.
Yeah, so it's who your audience is.
I got no problem with this.
I found it a big waste of time.
People...
Wow, she's so phony!
By the way...
It was pretty phony to cut off the actual message there.
That, I think, is lame.
And thank you for bringing that, because I wouldn't have known otherwise.
I'm bringing it, baby!
You are bringing it bad, boy!
So I had brought up AOC at a dinner with the Millennials.
And Jesse...
She gristles.
You can just see her.
She starts shaking.
She gristles.
You know, I'm using my normal pitch about AOC. I think she's an idiot.
I think she's stupid.
She's a good actress.
And all that just got her.
She wouldn't say anything.
But I can tell.
Now, I'm home free.
I can just get her to go anytime I want.
I'm terrible.
So...
I got it.
Here's a little side clip.
Ready?
Well, what happened?
You got grizzled?
She never said anything, but I could tell she was gritting her teeth.
I'm surprised they didn't break.
You see, I... Okay, fine.
Just wait.
I know.
You're a big fan of AOCs.
She is a potential presidential candidate.
Hey, you want me to play the clip about Trump where you say, no way, it's going to be Jeb?
Do you need to hear that again?
I don't care what I said.
It's got nothing to do with her.
That's then.
This is now.
These are my presidential picks.
Remember, I also picked the Pope.
You did pick the Pope.
I'll give you that one.
Now, I got some very odd clips here that are necessary to listen to.
They're not about the current news.
It's all backgrounder.
You remember the show Family Ties?
Yes, of course.
Michael J. Fox.
Oh, Was that on Family Ties?
Wait a minute.
No, that was J.J. Walker.
Yeah, he was in Family Ties and he would say Dynamite all the time.
On Family Ties?
Pretty sure.
Okay.
Oh, Good Times.
Good Times.
Oh, okay.
My brain is frying like, that's not Family Ties.
Ah, Good Times.
You're right.
It's Good Times.
Okay.
I saved you.
Yes.
So that was a Norman Lear show.
Huh.
And apparently Norman was, you know, he had his, you know, Norman Lear.
I mean, this guy's, you know, changing the world.
One script at a time.
One script at a time.
So there's a recent interview with John Amos who was fired from that show for butting heads with Lear.
And it was done by the broad, you know, one of these broadcast museums.
Very interesting.
John Amos.
The dad on that show, and we had a number of differences, as evidenced by my early departure from the show, was I felt that with two other younger children, one of whom who aspired to become a Supreme Court justice, that would be Ralph Carter.
Or Michael.
And the other, Bernadette Stennis, I think she aspired to become a surgeon.
And the differences I had with the producers of the show was that I felt too much emphasis was being put on J.J. and his chicken hat and saying dynamite every third page.
When just as much emphasis and mileage could have been gotten out of my other two children and the concomitant jokes and, you know, humor that could have come out of that.
But I wasn't the most diplomatic guy, like I said, in those days.
And they got tired of having their lives threatened over jokes.
So they said, I tell you what, why don't we kill him off and we'll all get on with our lives.
Life's too short.
So that taught me a lesson.
That I wasn't as important as I thought I was to the show or to Norman Lear's plans.
And he was not about to have a disruptive factor.
That wasn't a disruptive factor.
I got the call.
We were on hiatus when I found that I was no longer to be a part of the show.
And Norman's secretary at that time, a very nice young lady by the name of J.D. Joe, called and said, John, Norman would like to speak to you.
That was the end.
So Norman's plans.
Yeah.
What was his plan to popularize, you know, some guy wearing a chicken hat and yelling dynamite all the time?
And why would he do that?
I mean, he's kind of the ground zero of social justice warriors.
I know.
I found this clip to be fascinating for that reason.
Very odd.
Very odd.
I need to give a little update on the 737 MAX situation.
Oh yes, please do.
The report has come out from the authorities, and a lot of...
I think you can probably find this...
There's a couple of good reports, certainly on YouTube, where people explain this with some graphics, etc., to explain.
But at this point, we need to take all of the blame off of the aircrew.
But also, I mean, what fundamentally is at fault if it's the original design change, if it's the software that doesn't work as expected or has unexpected behavior or happens in an unexpected situation?
But following the rules of the procedure, should this happen where your aircraft is automatically pitching its nose down by a computer program that thinks it's time to do that, the procedure is to switch off the motors that control the pitch attitude, just to keep it simple.
And then manually, there's big wheels.
If you've ever seen a cockpit, certainly a major airliner, there's two wheels in the center console that you'll see spinning around.
And sometimes they have a ridge on it.
Sometimes they have a little crankshaft on it.
But that's your trim.
And like in a Cessna, you have just that wheel.
You don't necessarily have the automatic trim, although you can buy that as a very expensive option.
You can do it from your yoke, from your yoke column.
The problem is, if you have come into the situation as these two previous, or at least this is the Indonesia, or the, not the Indonesia, was it the Indonesia flight?
No, it doesn't matter.
If you come across this situation and you are in a nose-down attitude and you're pretty low to the ground, so within, you know, 10,000, 15,000 feet...
You start to pick up speed pretty quickly with not a lot of time to trim it out.
And the problem is the forces on the airfoil is so intense from the speed that you have at that load altitude, which is much heavier air density.
You physically, because you've disabled the motors, you physically cannot trim that by hand.
It won't work.
It's just the force is too much.
So the only way you can do it is to pull back on the yoke, then initiate the motor, quickly try and trim it, then click it off, do the yoke thing again, and kind of rollercoaster your way into a positive nose attitude.
But if you don't have the altitude, you're a goner.
So it's a fundamental design flaw of not having a triple redundancy on the trim operationally, In the aircraft.
And the problem is that at higher airspeed, you cannot operate the manual trim, and then the two motors are working together, both left and right, so you can't independently use any motor to change that.
So these things should be grounded for sure until this is sorted out.
Did that make any sense?
Yes and no.
Okay, what part not?
Well, the part about the Indonesian flight the day before where there was a third guy sitting in the jump seat who identified the issue when they were having their problem the day before, which would have crashed the plane.
Yes.
And jumped, supposedly.
I'm just telling you what's reported.
Yeah.
And so he had them turn off the autopilot system that was doing this whatever it was.
It was creating this issue.
And then they got out of it and they finished the flight.
Yeah, they caught it in time.
They caught it in time before too much airspeed had been built up.
That's the difference.
And that could be a difference of five seconds, one second.
I'm not quite sure.
But once the airspeed is up too high, you cannot do that.
You can't use that trick.
So they got lucky.
Somebody got lucky.
A whole plane full of people got lucky.
A whole lot of people didn't get lucky, too.
So...
I'm seeing very little follow-up on this from the authorities in public.
Well, you know, Boeing, you know, they got a lot of money.
They got a lot of...
Well, they've already dropped production of the 737s from, I think it's 50 a month to 40 a month.
But really, they should really say, okay, we really, really screwed up and they should just fix all of this.
Because I don't know if it's, you know, it's a real issue.
This thing should be recertified with triple redundancy on the trims.
I wouldn't want to fly it now.
Me.
I'll fly almost anything.
Onward.
When you say onward, you've got to have something, yeah?
I have a bunch of things.
I have Steve Bannon.
This is part two.
I'm going to do two of these.
I have two clips here, but I'm going to also do another segment of this speech that he gave.
This was his speech in Hokkaido, Japan, which you can look up and you can listen to the whole thing.
And he's got some errors in here, not in this particular clip, but he does have some later that I will emphasize.
But in this case, this is just worth listening to.
He talks about the, and he calls him Emperor, the Xi, the guy who runs China, head of the Communist Party, who's given himself lifetime...
He's there for life, so he calls him emperor, which is probably accurate.
Talking about his speech in Davos, and here he goes, banning on Davos I. Of Emperor Xi, and Donald Trump a few days later was going to give his inaugural address.
Xi's address is one of the most important speeches of the 21st century, and if you have not had a chance to see it or read it, I strongly recommend you do.
Because he lays out...
In quite a bit of detail, the Chinese strategy of world domination.
And it is world domination.
It starts with domination of East Asia, then expands out with the South China Sea and the East China Sea for the control of the Pacific.
Then with One Belt, One Road, it goes to the control of the Eurasian landmass and then through sub-Saharan Africa.
And the Caribbean and South America and then back around.
With China at the center of that as an advanced manufacturing empire in the tributary states of Japan and the United States and the industrial democracies, all essentially administrative units.
Xi lays this out in pretty good detail.
Talks about globalization, how successful globalization has been, how it works.
The scientific, managerial, engineering She's the hero.
Well, they're all in his pocket, aren't they?
Isn't Washington, D.C. just filled with money men bagging money on everybody from China?
It seems so.
But the standing ovation part is the one that got me.
The guy gets the outlines, I'm going to take over the world, and they give him a standing ovation.
Mainly Europe, I think.
The Europeans are the ones welcoming him with open arms.
Hello, Italy!
So let's play the second part of this.
She's the hero.
He's the spokesman for globalism.
In this speech he actually points to where all the world's problems come from.
I see where the world's problems come from.
It's these nationalists.
Right?
It's these populists.
That's the descending voice.
That's all these grubby folks.
You know, it's the followers of Abe.
It's the followers of Trump.
It's the followers of Salvini.
It's the followers of Orban.
It's the followers of Le Pen.
It's the followers of, ultimately, Bolsonaro.
Or Modi.
What...
They worship in Davos, because Davos is high church.
Remember, this is theology.
This is a new religion.
They have no moral authority.
The Financial Times and The Economist and all the smart investment bankers and all the smart commercial bankers, they understand what's going on in China.
Everybody understands what's going on in China.
They understand the camps of the Uyghurs.
They understand the persecution of the Christians.
They understand that the democracy movement, what's happened to them.
They understand what's happened in Tibet.
In Davos, they worship the dollar.
The world's economic and financial elite have no moral standing.
They have...
they detest...
The social and moral underpinnings of 5,000 years of civilization.
Is he just figuring this out?
I mean, yeah, these guys, yeah, they worship money, and that's the only place left where there's expansion is China.
That's where the money is right now.
So everyone, Hollywood's there, they got big, nice studios.
Oh, they got some dynamite studios.
You know, Google, Apple, everyone, oh, gotta get in China, gotta get in China.
It's all about money.
Yeah, I'm not.
That's okay.
So what is the point of Bannon saying this?
Eh, I have no idea.
Just to jack up the Japanese, I guess.
Well, let's talk about some of those damn nationalists who are ruining everything.
Clashes in Nantes on the 21st Saturday in a row of anti-government protests in France.
Thousands also took to the streets of other cities, mostly peacefully, although 21 were arrested in Paris.
Even so, many of the protesters remain defiant and determined.
The message is that we'll release nothing.
We want to finish all this to obtain our RAC, the Citizen Initiative Referendum, because if these guys are still in place, we'll not be able to install our new system.
So it's a war of attrition.
We think that if we make everything fall down, we reconstruct something, we'll have all the time necessary to rebuild afterwards, because it will be for us, you see?
We continue until we have victory.
We release nothing.
Because today, nothing has been obtained.
We still have a corrupted system, an elite that governs against the people.
As long as the people's opinion is not taken into account, As long as the people are not the priority of this government, we will fight.
The quieter nature of the demonstrations should be a relief to President Emmanuel Macron.
Only this week, he ended two months of town hall meetings across the country to hear people's grievances.
So if I understood, and by the way, Euronews, what a crap mix you made there.
If I understand correctly, there's a referendum they're working on?
I don't know any of this, because this has been suppressed.
Yeah.
Anybody, including, you know, even the, where's the story in The Intercept?
I see nothing.
Where's Salon?
Where's Slate?
Where's all these guys that should be talking about this or giving us some insight?
Where's democracy now?
Let me see.
I have one article I found.
After months of Yellow Vest protests that have sapped the popularity and patience of French President Emmanuel Macron, the embattled head of state is considering taking his problems to the people in a referendum.
Such a referendum would address the concerns of French citizens about unfair taxation and other key issues.
Said Macron, these referendums work really great.
Great.
Just look at Brexit.
He didn't actually say that, but I added that in.
At a recent town hall meeting with young people.
Oh, that's always good.
Young people.
In a southern suburb of Paris, Macron hinted that he might consider a referendum to order in order to address people concerns about the French government.
Yeah.
So that's that's interesting. .
Okay, Charles de Gaulle, the architect of the current French Constitution, included referendums as a form of direct democracy to give citizens a say on controversial issues.
But French governments have been hesitant to use referendums, having done so only five times.
The last time, in 2005, was when citizens rejected the European Constitution, which was the Lisbon Treaty.
And it just got ignored.
They didn't even get a do-over.
Nah, it doesn't matter.
Just forget about it.
Yeah, whatever you think blows.
Yeah.
That's poor French.
So much for the referendum.
Well, we have the same thing in California.
We have referendums of direct democracy.
Yes.
And they, you know, it's been pretty much, they do work.
I mean, low taxes, property taxes are part of that.
Came from one of the old referendums from years ago.
And, you know, they fix property taxes.
But they had one recently where it was this, do you want to split the state into three?
Yes.
And some judge says that, I don't care, you got the right number of signatures, you got this, you got that, no.
And they wouldn't even put it on the ballot.
Yeah.
So there's that issue.
So the governments are getting arrogant about just letting the people decide anything.
They've already assumed that people are idiots.
The only hope we have left is France.
The only guys in relatively recent history who can do something about it.
Well, keep hoping.
The way they're playing this, the media is doing a great job of putting...
I've got to say it...
Putting the clamps on this movement so we don't know anything.
Well, meanwhile, we have, I guess, some kind of Hail Mary coming from that other referendum country.
British Prime Minister Theresa May claims reaching out to the opposition Labour Party was the only way to avoid either leaving the EU with no deal or not leaving at all.
She has just days left to come up with a solution before the latest Brexit date due on April 12th, although she has asked Brussels for an extension to the 30th of June.
Leading Brexit supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg says the Prime Minister's difficulties are of her own making, and if the UK is forced to stay in the EU, it should make life difficult for Brussels.
When the multi-annual financial framework comes forward, if we're still in, this is our one-in-seven-year opportunity to veto the budget and to be really very difficult, and I hope that any British Prime Minister would take that opportunity.
Wait a minute.
Did she say, did he say, if they haven't Brexited, they want to still work on the EU budget?
Was that what he was saying?
Let me check that again.
When the multi-annual financial framework comes forward, if we're still in, this is our one in seven year opportunity to veto the budget and to be really very difficult.
And I hope that any British Prime Minister would take that opportunity.
That's an interesting idea.
You can really mess with the budgeting and then get out.
Well, that's an interesting idea.
That's Reece Maug, that guy.
Talks between May's ruling conservatives and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party are ongoing, with the government insisting a compromise can still be reached.
But the mood music coming from the Corbyn camp, while positive, is not quite as optimistic, and they're saying it's down to the government to move.
If May can agree a compromise deal with Labour, then she'll have something new to take to an EU summit on April 10th.
If not, she'll have to come up with a new plan if she's secure an extension from EU leaders who are rapidly losing patience with the United Kingdom.
They've been rapidly losing patience for three years.
How rapid can it be?
You never give me your Brexit.
You only give me your lame excuses.
And in the middle of negotiations, you break down.
That's Tim Kiernan, full mix at the end of the show.
We've got some good ones.
Now, I do have a clip of Brexit related from David Lammy, Lammy or Lammy or whatever he called his name.
He's a remainer to an extreme black guy from Tottenham.
He's, I think, one of the Trump's buffoon guys.
And I think he hates Britain and he would love to see this lose the borders and become just part of the EU. Because he lies in here on a number of issues.
But this is a classic Remainer pitch in Parliament to stay in the EU.
Most MPs now recognize in private, but do not say it in public.
Brexit is a con, a trick, a swindle, a fraud, a deception that will hurt most of those people that promise to help.
A dangerous fantasy which will make every problem it claims to solve worse.
A campaign won on false promises and lies, vote leave and leave EU, both broke the law.
Russian interference is beyond reasonable doubt.
And by now every single campaign promise made in 2016 has become unstuck.
Brexit will not enrich our NHS. It will impoverish it.
Our trade deal with Donald Trump will see the US corporations privatise and dismantle the NHS one bed at a time.
And even those promises on immigration, which has so greatly enriched our country, are a lie.
After Brexit, immigration will go up, not down.
When we enter into negotiations with countries like India and China, they will ask for three things.
Visas, visas and more visas.
And they will get them because we will be weak.
Friends on this side of the House tell me to appease Labour voters in industrial towns.
The former miners, the factory workers, those who feel they've been left behind...
I say we must not patronise them with cowardice.
Let's tell them the truth.
You were sold a lie.
Parts of the media used your fears to sell papers and abuse viewing figures.
Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson exploited the same prejudice to win votes.
Shame on them.
Immigrants have not taken your jobs.
Our schools and colleges fail to give you the skills.
Hospitals are not crumbling because of health tourists, not because of decades of austerity that ground them down to the bone.
You cannot afford a house because both parties fail to build, not because of Mohammed down the road who moved in.
And wealth was hoarded in London when it should have been shared across the country.
Blame us!
Blame Westminster.
Do not blame Brussels for our own country's mistakes.
And do not be angry at us for telling you the truth.
Be angry at the chancellors who sold you a lie.
Contradiction is liberation.
Contradiction is truth.
Those are the facts of this world.
And you will all surrender to them.
You pigs in human clothes!
Shut up, slave.
I think the message is clear there.
Pretty much.
Wow.
What a mess.
My British friends won't even talk to me anymore because they have nothing left to say.
They don't even know what to say anymore.
Like, eh.
They really have just, they've given up.
Which I think is the point.
Oh, yeah.
Don't you think?
Just wear them down.
Wear them down.
Beat them into submission.
People can be worn down.
They have other things to do.
They do.
Before we take our break, unless you have something else about Brexit...
I'm good with Brexit.
I want to talk a little bit more about vaccines because we've been tracking something interesting of late.
This is the MMR vaccine.
At least one product going off patent and very interesting to see this resurgence and the worst outbreak ever.
We had measles.
We had mumps.
But what were we missing?
German measles, rubella.
Rubella, exactly.
Number four, thousands of people possibly exposed to rubella at the auto show.
Someone who attended the show has been diagnosed with the illness.
This is the Detroit auto show.
Seven Action News reporter Alan Campbell is live at Kolo Center with what doctors are saying, Alan, about this health scare.
Health scare!
Health scare!
Scare!
It's a health scare!
What is German measles?
A week?
You sit at home?
A little fever?
Okay.
Health scare!
The North American International Auto Show wrapped up last weekend at Kobo Center.
It's a popular event for thousands of people.
But now those who attended between January 13th and 15th may have been exposed to rubella.
Most people don't know what it is, but it's really a viral infection, and so a virus causes it.
A recent article in the Washington Times is sounding the alarm during a current measles outbreak in both Washington State and New York, saying communities there are among the most unvaccinated, including some here in Michigan, and it could be a reason the illness is spreading.
We have to stop calling measles a disease.
It's a 10-day infection.
And I encourage everybody to look at facts.
So for those parents who choose to not vaccinate, that's their choice.
The article also highlights some of the...
I'm not quite sure who that guy was, who they popped in there.
He had a lab coat on.
But he had a very contradictory message to what I think they're trying to communicate.
I forget what the message was in the context of the story.
No, the message was, well, if you don't vaccinate, then this is what you deal with.
It's a 10-day...
Infection.
Yeah, but not disease.
A very odd story.
10-day infection.
And I encourage everybody to look at facts.
So for those parents who choose to not vaccinate, that's their choice.
The article also highlights some of the anti-vaccination hotspots throughout the country listing Troy, Detroit and Warren as problem cities.
I fully realize that those who believe in the value of vaccines will probably not be persuaded by the facts which anyone with a computer and internet access can verify from U.S. government sources.
Doctors say if you think you may have been exposed, see your doctor.
Safest things, go talk to your doctor, make sure that you've not had the infection.
But most of us should be okay because we've been vaccinated.
What a crock of crap that this report is.
Give me the, play the beginning of it again when they tell about the dates you could have been exposed.
The number four thousands of people possibly exposed to rubella at the auto show.
Someone who attended the show has been diagnosed with the illness.
7 Action News reporter Alan Campbell is live at Kobo Center with what doctors are saying, Alan, about this health scare.
The North American International Auto Show wrapped up last weekend at Kobo Center.
It's a popular event for thousands of people.
I don't think they have a date in there.
Did you hear a date?
I thought they said a date earlier, but now you're playing again.
No, I don't think so.
Why?
Well, it sounded like the date was so far away.
I didn't know it wrapped just last week, so I guess it's not that I was misled.
So when the guy was like, oh, look it up, check it out, vaccines on the internet, I said, you know, I'm going to go to the...
To the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and look that up again and see how that's doing.
Do you know how much money the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out to people who have been injured by vaccines?
Oh, it can't be much because vaccines are harmless.
How about $8 billion?
$8 billion has been paid out for people injured by vaccinations?
Yep.
Yep.
What happened to them?
Well, if you look at the VAERS database, which is the adverse reaction to vaccine database, everything from sore shoulder to, you know, death.
And it's all in there.
What it doesn't say is, oh, here's how you get your money, here's what it's worth.
But if we look at, let me see the monthly stats.
Does it tell you which vaccines are causing the problems that are getting all this money?
Well, it's a database, so you can just look at it and each entry says exactly which vaccine it was.
Data and statistics.
Being awarded compensation for a petition does not necessarily mean the vaccine caused the alleged injury.
This is even better.
In fact, approximately 70% of all compensation awarded comes as a result of a negotiated settlement between the parties in which Health and Human Services has not concluded, based upon review of the evidence, that the alleged vaccine caused the alleged injury.
I mean, how does this system work?
Are you just throwing money away?
Yes!
Yes!
And what I'm seeing in this database with, you know, my arm hurt, you know, had neck pain through my back, my back hurt after a vaccination, people are getting money.
I think this is more scandal than we realize because...
Again, the pharmaceutical companies are, what's the word I'm looking for?
Indemnified.
They can't be sued if you have injury from a vaccine.
So this is where this vaccine injury compensation program came from.
But apparently, they're just kind of handing it out.
Attorneys are eligible for reasonable attorney's fees whether or not the petitioner is awarded compensation by the court.
So you need a lawyer to do this.
Oh, that's if certain minimal requirements are met.
In those circumstances, attorneys are paid by the vaccine injury compensation program directly.
So you get a bunch of ambulance chasers.
Yeah!
We should be in this business.
Yeah, anything.
What reasons might a petition result in a negotiated settlement?
Here's your question.
The consideration of prior U.S. Court of Federal Claims decisions, it's always that way, both parties decide to minimize risk of loss through settlement, a desire to minimize the time and expense of litigating a case, so if you're a problem, if you're a troublemaker with a lot of noise and media attention, and, of course, the desire to resolve petitions quickly.
According to the CDC, from 2006 to 2017, over 3.4 billion doses, oh, here's their statistics, 3.4 billion doses of covered vaccines were distributed in the U.S. for petitions followed the same period, 6,253.
So what they're trying to say is for every 1 million doses of vaccine that were distributed, one individual was compensated.
So I'm trying to make it sound like a one in a million.
But there's a lot of money going out.
A lot.
So, Wendell, I think I speak for you.
We're not anti-vaxxers.
I've had my shots.
I don't want polio.
I didn't have an MMR. I don't think it existed when I was a kid, and I'm not so sure that's a huge...
I have a smallpox vaccine.
I don't think they gave us smallpox by the time I came around.
Yeah.
Supposedly eradicated it, so now it can be weaponized and used to kill off the youth.
And you'll be safe?
I will.
Sweet.
Sweet deal.
You can do the show by yourself.
We're just going to pick up all these bodies!
So do you have a POC, what do they call it, a POC inoculation mark?
Yeah, it was one of those.
It wasn't a normal thing.
It's like a gun.
Like a high-pressure gun.
Like a million little needles, a bunch of puncture wounds, and then they...
They dip it in some goo and then they pound your arm with it and it makes a big scab and then you're inoculated.
It was very old fashioned back then.
Yeah, extremely.
I remember we didn't even have to get the polio shot after a while.
We got the sugar cube treatment.
Remember those?
The sugar cubes.
Like, oh, this is pretty good.
Anyway, I think that when the Gardazil came around, the HPV vaccine, which doesn't really prove to be 100% effective.
In fact, there's a lot of issues with it.
A lot of girls have had severe issues after this.
The marketing programs of this particular drug was insane.
All the way to boys need it because you'll get throat cancer from cunnilingus.
It just keeps going on and on and on.
Robert Kennedy Jr., bless his heart, is not having it, and he's really making a lot of noise.
And I have a clip.
Now, remember, he has a throat issue, so you have to take a second to get into how he speaks.
But this is specifically about the Gardasil HPV vaccination program.
So this is a hoax.
It is a canard.
It is a boondoggle for this company.
It's an easy sell for them because they say, we're going to give it to you when you're 9, and when you're 58, usually...
Cervical cancer kills at the age of 58.
So 50 years from now, you won't have cervical cancer.
And of course, Merck knows that the executives who are making billions of dollars in years on this are not even going to be around in 50 years to answer the questions when all those girls do get cervical cancer.
It's one of the biggest boondoggles in history.
I'm representing a girl, Jennifer Robey.
Who's been in a wheelchair since age 15.
She has seizures every 90 seconds or so.
I've met girls who've been blinded at age 15 by this terrible, terrible vaccine.
But there's good indication also a vaccine is causing infertility across the board.
Of course, women were seeing the infertility levels in people who got clean.
The generation of Gardasil dropped dramatically.
We're seeing depression and suicide levels increase dramatically.
And those were all things that happened during the clinical trials.
They saw that this was going to happen during the clinical trials.
There were suicides among the girls, and there were deaths.
Among the girls that were four or five times the background rate.
So, this is a dangerous, dangerous vaccine.
It's loaded with aluminum.
Do not let your little girl ever take this vaccine.
No matter what happens, don't let her take this vaccine.
I wish the guy had better pipes.
His communication is so difficult.
You could write these out, too.
Well, he writes a lot.
He writes a lot, of course.
It's much more exciting to hear someone speak.
Yeah, this is the worst stuff ever.
Now, who is the politician behind this stuff?
I don't remember.
One of our famous Republican politicians is somehow involved with this upgrade, this Gardasil crap.
I'm trying to think who that was.
I do know that, you know, now that this is sort of coming to light through...
Somebody in the chat room might remember.
Yeah, I got my eye and see if they come through.
The United States...
I'm sorry, UPS has just made a...
Rick Perry.
It was Rick Perry.
Rick Perry, remember?
He was taking money in Texas to have the girls in.
Yeah, Rick Perry, that dick.
Ugh, yes, Rick Perry, exactly.
So now Merck has cut a deal with UPS, the package delivery company.
And according to Reuters, workers in UPS's 1.7 million square foot health care complex at Worldport will package and ship the HPV vaccine to one of the more than 4,700 franchised UPS stores.
A home health nurse contracted by UPS's clinical trial logistics unit known as Markin will collect the package, transport it the last mile to the patient's home and administer the vaccine.
you Does it get any better?
To what?
Their home delivering vaccines?
Yes, yes.
Bringing a nurse and giving you a shot?
Your kids, not you, your daughter.
How about that, huh?
I'm not a fan of this.
Over the years, we've had a lot of different doctors chime in and say that this is not necessarily a good product.
I've seen it with multiple women in my life.
Here's how it goes.
Yes, we did your pap smear.
We think you're precancerous.
I always say precancerous.
Dysplasia.
Yes, you're precancerous.
We have to do a biopsy.
Not a fun procedure for a woman.
Sometimes two biopsies.
You know what?
Good news!
You don't have cancer.
We recommend you try this shot, though, because that'll definitely guarantee you don't get it.
That's their sales pitch.
I've seen it.
I've seen it happen to women around me.
It's disgusting how they do this.
Yes, you have talked about this many a time.
Yeah, and it's scary.
It's really scary.
Pre-cancerous.
Give me a break.
Yeah, precancerous.
That's a funny gimmick.
It's a funny gimmick until you realize...
Everything's precancerous.
Yes.
As I think we've said before, you and I, we are definitely pre...
You're pre-dead.
I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
And we do have a few people to thank for show 1127, starting with Tim Kilkenny in Linwood, Washington.
Yeah, $111.11.
He says he just had a banner month selling Range Rovers.
Really?
He sells Range Rovers.
Nice.
That's got to be good money.
Well, he's sharing some of his bounty with us.
Yeah.
Well, thank you very much.
That's great.
Go Range Rover!
Go Range Rover!
So we drop immediately.
We have a very short list today, but we drop immediately to my birthday, well-wishers.
6767 comes from Sir...
Slardy Bartfast.
Slardy Bartfast, yeah.
And Hope, Rhode Island.
6767.
Happy birthday.
The rest of these are $67 even.
The final list...
Starting, and just name and location, Paul Dubois, Mr.
Dubois.
Danny Haynes in Australia.
Jonathan Ferris, parts unknown in the USA. Lee Jones in Jacksonville, Florida, 67.
Syrup, Syrup in Seattle.
John Foley is someplace.
Sir Baron Patrick Coble.
Isn't he Earl by now?
I think he's Earl.
And I just wanted to say something because I keep forgetting.
Sir Patrick Coble at the Iowa meetup gave me a bottle of Willett.
I think it's Willett Rye Whiskey from Tennessee.
Yeah, Willett.
Very famous rye.
Holy crap!
That's gold, brother!
Well, now that you brought this up, I can bring up another product that you would just interrupt this list.
Costco has a Costco recommendation.
People, get your pens out.
Get your member card, everybody.
Here we go.
Costco has bullet Rye and bullet bourbon in the embossed bottle.
And it's the rye and the bourbon.
The rye we've been drinking recently.
It's delicious.
It's de willet in the different styles.
Who's we?
You and the millennials?
Everybody.
We just plowed through this.
But here's the kicker.
Here's the kicker.
These are in giant 1.75 liter bottles.
This is bigger than a Magnum.
Oh, wow.
$35.
Oh, my goodness.
And does it have a little eye on it, like a hillbilly, you can pour it over your shoulder?
Like a jug?
They don't have that.
Okay.
But you have a giant 1.75 liter, which is a specialty of Costco, 1.75 liter bottle of rye and about 1.75 liter of bullet bourbon for $35.
Come on!
So when you're bitching about AOC, is that before you guys are drinking or after?
No.
Yes, I love the Kirkland brand whiskey.
It's fantastic.
This is a brand bullet.
This is not the Kirkland.
And I want to thank Sir Patrick Coble again because that is some dynamite stuff.
Rye is the American whiskey.
Sir Morgan, defender of the Hershey Highway in Hershey, Pennsylvania, $67.
Happy birthday, he says.
Dame Patricia Worthington comes in at $67.
Jeffrey Fields, Stephen Hightower.
James Murray in Huntington Beach.
Sir Paul from Horseheads.
Timothy Brashears, I think is a sir, if I'm not mistaken.
Survive of the virtual reality.
Simon Leibuzowski.
Leibuzowski.
Leibuzowski.
I think it's Simon.
Surveiled.
Surveiled, that's a good one.
In FEMA Region 4.
Valerie Steensland.
Patrick Seymour in Clayton, Ohio.
Kevin Niemeyer.
Baroness Monica.
Hello.
Hello, Baroness.
Genoa.
Genoa.
Genoa Osborne in Anchorage.
Sir Doug of the Channel Islands.
Richard Riley in Loomis.
William Alston in Baltimore, Maryland.
Alexander Mercuriev.
Mercuriev.
Sounds like he might be in the Soviet.
He might be a Soviet.
Russia.
Roy Tenhala.
Somewhere in Holland.
Alex Loach.
Carlos Pacina.
And that concludes our list of well-wishers.
Birthday wishers.
Well-wishers.
I want to thank every one of them.
Onward with Jeff Gibbs for 55 double nickels on the dime.
He has a birthday call for Jeff for his brother that's on the list.
Michael Gates is 5280.
Alexander Braddy in Houston, Texas 5001.
Miguel Saramento, $50.
These are $50 donations, name and locations.
Victor Munoz in Miami, Florida.
Andrew Martin in Sydney, New South Wales.
Edward Mazurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
Heather Rodriguez in Stockton.
Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
Todd Moore in Arlington, Virginia.
And last but not least, Jason Deluzio in Shadsford, Pennsylvania.
I want to thank all these folks for Producing and supporting this show 1127 No Agenda series.
Yes, and thank you in our 11th season of the series.
And thank you all very much for supporting the show.
This is how the Value for Value Network works.
And just to again say it, that we have this network of producers, not listeners, not audience, not just the meat puppets.
It's your show.
We are at your beck and call.
And I think it's working out pretty well.
We're still doing it.
11 years and counting.
I also want to thank everybody who came in under $50.
That's our magic and very harsh cutoff for anonymity.
That's why we see people always coming in $49.99.
I do not want to be known.
Anyone under there is not mentioned on the show.
But these are people who are very important and are subscribing to some of our ongoing program subscriptions, which kicks in a little bit every week or month.
We've got a couple of fun numbers.
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The birthday birthday music came up very, very slowly, but here is what's going on for the 7th of April of 2019.
Two birthdays.
We got Jeff Gibbs, who said happy birthday to his brother, Rick, who we'll be celebrating on the 10th.
And tomorrow, turning 49 years old, our very own Darren O'Neill.
Happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
And we have no nights, no title changes, no nothing.
But that doesn't mean that we won't be happy to see you back here again on Thursday.
Thursday.
So it wasn't enough to take away the vaping industry from the kids who created it, like my boy Dexter, who created the e-liquids and all the great brands.
It wasn't enough.
The FDA is now going to get rid of all that and make it all part of the Juul system.
It was all about Juul.
Because jewels, you know, they're bought by the Marlboro people.
But it looks like there's some other people out there trying to do stuff with vaping.
Tonight, another cloud of controversy over e-cigarettes.
The FDA calling possible seizures an emerging safety issue.
Kelly Kynard says her 15-year-old son, Luca, had a seizure after a heavy night of vaping.
We followed up with pediatrician, cardiologist, neurologist.
We couldn't get anyone to listen to us.
When I told them the seizure was preceded by juuling.
The FDA is investigating 35 seizure cases over the last 10 years, telling lawmakers today they're also looking into whether other factors may be to blame.
We want to be clear that we don't know yet if there's a direct relationship between the use of the e-cigs and a risk of seizure.
Public health officials are now asking e-cigarette users to report seizures immediately.
One e-cigarette company saying they will vigilantly monitor for any evidence of safety issues and work cooperatively with FDA. Over the last few years, e-cigarette use has exploded with 3.6 million middle schoolers and high school students saying they've tried vaping in the past.
But teens like Luca say they don't want to be addicted to nicotine.
I don't need that to be me.
I don't need anything to be me, no.
I'm myself.
He went to vaping rehab and hasn't touched an e-cigarette in months.
Oh, rehab now.
We've got vaping rehab, apparently.
I find this story to be confusing and not sure who the messenger is behind it.
Well, they did get in a plug and a new kind of a meme by saying vaping.
They said juuling.
So that was a good PR then?
I think so.
Brazen.
And they have rehab just in case you go.
I mean, rehab.
For what?
For nicotine?
I guess.
Or just sucking on something because you're sucking too much.
I guess.
Well, I got a screwball clip here.
This is what's wrong with the universities today.
Uh...
This is the UK. It says UK, which means University of Kentucky.
Knuckles under the student demands.
Students from the University of Kentucky who embarked on a hunger strike last week are celebrating after their demands were met by the school's administration.
Over 350 students joined the campaign and at least six had refused any food starting last Wednesday as they demanded the creation of a basic needs center to support students who are food insecure and otherwise struggling financially.
As of Tuesday night, University of Kentucky administrators agreed to create the center and establish a basic needs fund.
In a parallel action, students from the Black Student Advisory Council who launched a campaign to increase diversity and better support black students at the university also had the majority of their demands met.
Among other things, they've been demanding the removal of a racist mural from campus which depicts African slaves and Native Americans attacking white women.
Well, they showed the mural.
I didn't see that, but okay.
So some people went on a hunger strike demanding food, which I thought was ironic.
A hunger strike to demand food, okay.
And it's just the...
These universities have got to...
I don't know what they can do about this, but these students...
This is not home away from home kind of...
You know, it's not like you're...
You're not like in grammar school anymore where you have to have the free school lunch.
It just seems to me these kids are immature.
Tucker Carlson, which I don't like to clip, for some reason is on a rampage against Trump.
Oh!
Finally something interesting from him.
And so he's decided, so he did this crazy piece, he does these little hello I'm This was started by O'Reilly.
I forgot what it was called.
The Word or something like that.
Oh, yeah.
It's his little editorial thing.
Yeah, a little editorial at the beginning because it's basically got O'Reilly.
Everybody does these.
O'Reilly, he called it the Talking Points, I think.
The Talking Points Memo.
Talking Points Memo, yeah.
Yeah, and I think Colbert mocked it and he had the Word when he did his O'Reilly clone show when he was acting as O'Reilly.
So, this is Carlson going on the scolding Trump for I don't know what, to be honest about it.
I mean, if you read enough Ann Coulter, I mean, there's issues to scold Trump about, but he's, Tucker's come up with this theory, at least in this one moment, that Trump doesn't want to get re-elected.
This is one of the elite things that's going around in elite circles.
This crops up from time to time.
Yeah, well, here's Tucker's version.
The 2020 presidential campaign is already well underway.
On the Democratic side, there are dozens of candidates in the race and possibly dozens more to come.
On the Republican side, there's just the incumbent president.
Everyone assumes he wants to be reelected.
Most presidents do.
But what if Donald Trump had decided he's had enough?
Too many investigations, too much nastiness, too few upsides.
It wouldn't be a crazy conclusion.
How would you like to spend your 70s locked in the White House?
So let's say Trump had decided he wants to lose in 2020 and get back to his old life.
How would he do that?
Let's see.
He might start by proposing more than half a billion dollars in Medicare cuts.
That's something that nobody outside the libertarian symposia circuit really wants to see.
So you do that.
Then he'd slash funding for the E-Verify program.
That would allow companies to keep hiring illegal alien labor in violation of a key campaign promise.
After that, he'd announce for bringing in even more low-skilled workers.
That would push down the wages of the people who voted for him, the most vulnerable group in the country.
Finally, he'd release a bunch of drug dealers back onto the streets, right in the middle of the worst drug epidemic in history.
And he'd continue our pointless military intervention in Syria, which in no way benefits the United States.
If the president did all that, the message would be very clear.
He has no idea what he ran on in 2016.
He just wants out.
But let's say voters still didn't get the message.
Maybe they were too distracted by the Russia hoax to notice.
At that point, you'd have to do something really extreme to get their attention.
Something so mindless and counterproductive that there's literally no way you can get re-elected after doing it.
You'd raise gas taxes.
And in fact, the administration is proposing just that.
According to news reports, the White House is negotiating with Democrats to height taxes on gasoline in order to fund, quote, infrastructure.
This is one of those ideas that everyone in Washington loves.
It costs them nothing.
They're too rich to care what gas costs.
And by the way, they don't drive.
You know, I think I did hear him talk about this, and I had probably a similar reaction to you, like, huh?
But he also says, according to reports, what kind of source is that?
Yeah, this is not good.
But the thing is, the way this worked out, because this is a show, you have to remember this hour show daily is a grind.
And so what he saw – and I can tell you how this developed, how this whole bit, this whole – and this is part two coming up.
The whole bit evolved from seeing the gas tax proposal and then developing the thesis.
So the gas tax was first.
He saw – I said, what is – what maniac is going to increase the price of gas tax?
And then he came up with the theory after that.
But I agree with him on the part – the gas – what – we don't need – in California, they keep jacking up the gas tax.
It's ridiculous.
I don't even want to get into the price of gas.
Well, if I can just give you my own anecdote.
When Prime Minister Koch...
K.O.K. was Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
He added 25 cents to the cost of a liter of gasoline.
It was called the Kortje van Kork.
Kork's quarter.
Sounds better in English, doesn't it?
And they were supposed to get that back.
It's like, well, we're just going through this period now.
We just need a little bit of money from everybody.
But we need to get that back.
And that must have been, what, 25 years ago now?
Maybe longer?
I can't remember when he was still in office.
And from time to time, someone will still say, I want my quarterback!
But this is exactly how it goes.
Once it's in, it's in, and you never see it again.
Oh, that's absolutely true.
It's like the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge.
I have copies of the newspaper articles about the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
It is going to cost five cents.
Just for the first year and then it's going to be toll free because we can maintain it with whatever.
Gas taxes.
They're already in play.
And so, no, it went from $0.25 to $0.50 to $1 to $2.
Now it's $6.
Well, like, you know, Manhattan now, for the first time, we have a congestion charge in Manhattan.
Yes.
In certain areas, you've got to buy a license.
I don't think it's ever been implemented.
I don't think any city has ever really done it in America.
Singapore.
Yeah, in America.
Oh, no, not in America that I know of.
Austin could be next with that.
That'd be funny.
Yeah, and you have...
The way it's done in Singapore is they have cameras.
Yeah, London has it too.
London has it.
And there's England.
I think London has it.
Yeah, London has it.
London has it.
They record your license plate and you get a bill.
Shut up, slave!
That's exactly how it goes.
It's beautiful.
5G will help this.
A lot.
So...
Onward with part two of this rant.
And by the way, they don't drive.
But if you live outside the coastal cities and you're not rich, higher gas prices are a disaster.
They hurt you immediately.
That's always true.
Anything that raises the price of gasoline, whether it's the Green New Deal or some new tax scheme promoted by a fake conservative think tank, crushes the weakest in our society.
Normal people hate it.
Many of those people voted for Donald Trump the first time.
It's nuts.
And it's not like there aren't other smarter, less regressive options if you want to raise money.
There are many of them.
We could roll back some of those 2017 tax cuts, which went overwhelmingly to high earners and big companies.
We could tax the billions in remittances flowing from the United States to the rest of the world.
Remember that idea?
We could tax carried interest, like the income it so obviously is.
We should do that anyway, just on principle.
We can even tax capital gains like we tax salaries.
Mitt Romney might finally pay the same rate as your dentist.
And that would be satisfying.
And then we can get creative.
How about an 80% tax on all lobbying produced by former members of Congress?
That's a good one.
How about an iPhone tax?
Or how about a tough new tax on a trillion-dollar Seattle-based internet retailer whose entire business model depends on using public roads to deliver their packages?
Companies like that have put an awful lot of American businesses out of work.
They clog our roads.
Why aren't they paying for infrastructure?
We could go on.
Plenty of obvious ideas out there.
Hiking taxes on working class rural people is not on the list, unless you secretly want to retire early.
In that case, if you're really sick of the job, go with the gas tax.
I think I can deconstruct this.
There's something else going on with him.
This stems from a segment that did not air on his show.
In fact, I'm almost positive this is where he's overcompensating for something that he feels kind of bad about, although he doesn't have to.
And you may have seen this.
We didn't play it on the show.
There was the guy at Davos who said, hey, he was on the panel.
He said, hey, how about you guys?
Why are you dodging taxes?
You all need to pay your taxes.
This whole thing is just about you not paying taxes.
And I think we even played that clip on our show.
So Tucker had this guy on.
The guy, by the way, is Dutch.
He's a historian.
He claims he's a historian.
He also works for The Correspondent, which is very disappointing because I supported them early on before this America bull crap that they pulled.
Anyway, so Tucker wants to talk to the guy.
And the guy immediately...
Oh, yeah.
The guy's a dick.
Yeah, he goes, he's like, well, you're just a millionaire being paid by billionaires, don't you?
And he just attacks Tucker while Tucker was saying, you know, this is kind of good what you said.
And the guy, he was a dick, and he just kept on going in that typical Dutch dickish fashion until Tucker said, you know, fuck you.
I think he literally said that.
Killed the segment.
Yeah, killed the segment.
But it's bothered him.
Because it made him, it did make it to a whole group of people, made him look like a shitheel.
And he is, of course, a millionaire paid by a billionaire.
And so this is his way of over-accentuating and over-compensating by saying, well, the rich people don't pay taxes.
They're always putting it on the poor people.
I think that's what's going on here.
Maybe it's an element.
I would agree with that.
Yeah.
I forgot about that.
This guy, yeah.
In fact, I had that clip, too, and I never introduced it to the show.
Well, the audio was also very poor.
You couldn't hear Tucker very well, so it didn't work well for my money.
It was a bad clip.
Attention all human resources.
No entry.
Second half of school.
Oh, yeah.
Brace yourselves.
It's back.
Second half of the show.
Are you excited?
Oh yeah.
Have you ever heard of the 9-11 nuclear theory?
Not yet.
I had heard of it, but I was talking with Mark Van Dyke, Void Zero, over the weekend.
And this comes up and says, you've got to see this YouTube video that features the Russian.
He's a former Russian military guy who was in the 12th unit of the GRU, but he was in the nuclear division.
And his name is Dmitry Khalezov, K-H-A-L-E-Z-O-V. And it's a five-hour YouTube video.
And I watched all of it.
So you don't have to.
Yeah, five hours.
You watched a five-hour video?
I did.
I did.
In chunks.
The sorrow and the pity.
I actually watched that once.
You watched that whole thing?
Yeah.
So you do know what this is about?
No, I watched the sorrow and the pity.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Geez.
I'm sorry, I got you.
Well, yeah, I watched it in little steps, you know, where I can.
Commercial breaks, I just pick up a little bit.
He has a very well, very, very well thought out, well documented, and if you look or if you bing this bitch, you'll find that the more people have documented this, And the basic theory is, in the 60s, there were building codes in New York City.
If you wanted to put up these big skyscrapers, you had to have, and this is, by the way, this is the flimsiest part of the whole theory.
You had to have a way to demolish it built into your plans for building it.
And apparently, the plan for World Trade Centers 1 and 2 was to have a nuclear device.
And this is what he goes into great detail about, the difference between a nuclear explosion underground and above ground.
So the same nuclear device that explodes, if that explodes at 1,000 feet above New York, all of New York is dead and gone and blown away.
If the same bomb explodes 77 meters underground, or really 50 meters underground, then if it's placed in exactly the right spot, it will blow upwards up to about 300 meters and it will pulverize Everything in its path.
And when you watch this video, because of course it's not just the interview, they put incessant footage in there continuously, the concept of where did 200,000 tons of steel go to kind of becomes more explainable as you see that a lot of it just vaporized.
And this is a mind-blowing theory.
And it doesn't explain anything as to why or who exactly was behind it, other than that, you know, I mean, it just goes so deep into granite missiles that were on the Kursk, you know, the Russian nuclear sub, and they stole these missiles, and then one of those was the one that went into the Pentagon.
It's just fantastic!
And...
Watch this if you have any time.
I know you probably won't be watching all five hours, John.
Maybe you will.
I doubt it.
If you go through this and you watch it, you'll say, wow, it makes a lot more sense than the thermite theory.
It is, of course, a demolition.
It's just not the kind of demolition that is typical.
And I'm not a nuclear physicist.
I am going to send this to Sir Rod Adams.
Ask him about...
Are you going to make poor Rod watch five hours of this?
I think it'll be...
Well, there's a white paper on it.
All the links are in the show notes.
And there's a lot of theory, nuclear theory, about how the blast works.
How does he explain WTC? TC7. So TC7 was the command center.
And these bombs, of course, are not just sitting under 1 and 2 for 30, 40 years.
There was tunnels from 7.
And so 7 had two tunnels, one going to the explosion point for Tower 1, one for Tower 2.
And then they detonated those.
And he shows exactly where they were detonated and why one part of the building didn't come off because of the blast radius.
He has an answer for everything.
And of course, because Building 7 was the command center, they might as well cover everything up.
So they did the same with that.
Same depth, same type of nuke, same power, and says that's why, because Building 7 was pretty tall.
It was about 70, almost 80% the height of Towers 1 and 2.
I don't think so.
That's what he says.
Okay, I just don't think so, but I'll look into it.
That's why you see really the pulverization of Building 7 happen right at the top, unlike 1 and 2 where you had that large section that came down with the antenna on it into the dust underneath.
It's a very interesting theory.
I have to say, again, not explaining who, but it does explain the collapses, which is the most annoying thing, particularly Building 7.
So you like this theory?
I like it very much.
You know why I'm so happy now?
Okay.
Because now that eliminates your...
Your electronic beam pulse energy weapon coming in off the shore that shot the buildings.
That's done.
Yes, the directed energy weapon from the top is done, and now it makes even more sense, particularly if the blast came from underneath, it will blow the same type of holes through certain buildings.
A theremin, please.
I won't go away.
Now entering second half of the show.
Now exiting.
Exiting!
Well, I have a clip that matches that spiel of yours.
Okay.
As a shorty.
This would be normally the end of show clip.
We're getting close.
So, this is a clip.
If you met someone from the Netherlands clip...
If you met someone from the Netherlands, what nationality would they be?
Netherlindian.
Hello, America.
Yes.
Netherlindian.
Yes.
Netherlindian.
They speak...
Well, it's the same as...
What language do people...
They always say Dutch?
Oh, you speak Deutsch.
It's German, isn't it?
No.
Deutsch.
No, not even close.
Who asked this dumbass question?
This is one of the series of these, you know, if you go on the line, you want to just start watching dumb man on the street stuff.
Ooh, yes, love it.
Well, there's probably a thousand videos.
They're all, you know, accumulations.
This is some guy I've never seen before, but he goes and asks stuff like this.
What do you call it?
A person from Denmark, and the guy would say something like Denmarkian, you know.
Hey, you know, I just realized you had something about Was it Kansas University?
University of Kansas?
Is that what you had?
No, that was Kentucky.
Oh, Kentucky.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
No, I had...
I'm sorry.
Well, I can play it if you want.
Kansas University has a new course that you may want to consider enrolling in.
This time of year, if students at KU aren't talking basketball, they're focused on finals or summer vacation plans.
But today, the fall course offerings, and one class in particular, seem to take over students' social media.
It's called Angry White Male Studies in the Humanities Department.
The course description says it charts the rise of the angry white male in America and Britain since the 1950s, exploring the deeper sources of this emotional state while evaluating recent manifestations of male anger.
Though many students I spoke with feel the course's name could be viewed as inappropriate, few took offense with the subject matter.
Zachary Coakley says from what he can tell, the course will delve into subject matter he studied on his own.
He thinks any student, but especially white males, can gain perspective from it.
I don't think it's supposed to make white people mad.
It's just supposed to be like an educational course to kind of learn something from.
Like, if you're not taking stuff from yourself and learning from it, then what's the point?
According to the online course offering for that three-hour class, it only has room for 15 students.
And though it's obviously created some opposition, I'd say based on what we heard on campus here today, it actually might fill up quite quickly.
I can't wait.
Wait a minute.
It's a three-hour course and it's online?
If it's online, why is there a maximum of 15?
That doesn't make any sense.
This is a gimmick.
It's a publicity stunt.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Enrollment is up.
Everything's good.
Yeah, get off my lawn.
Nothing new.
All right, you got anything else before we go, mon frere?
Well, let's see.
There's an old domestic terrorism story.
It's kind of interesting.
I'm going to move these to Thursdays.
I have one that takes a little discussion, and we're going to push that to Thursday.
On what's going on in Haiti.
Oh my god.
Okay, well then I think we have nothing left.
I think we're good.
Okay, I think we're good too.
Well, that is good because we have a nice little run of mixes.
All topical stuff.
Fabuloso.
So I need to thank...
Let's see.
Jesse Coy Nelson, Tim Kiernan, Sir Seatsitter, Stein Strauss, and Tom Starkweather.
All of them bringing the mixes to the end of show here on the No Agenda Show.
And of course, we'll be back on Thursday.
We'll have a full, almost a full week to find out what's going on.
Try and help you keep our sanity while we keep our own.
And with that, coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, wet as it is, capital of the drone, Star State, here in FEMA Region No.
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We will follow them to the gates of hell.
Joe, you got to let us know.
I'm Joe Biden and Thank you for taking the time to listen.
If you say that you're still running, I'm Joe Biden.
For you, the candidates will be gunning.
Thank you for taking the time to listen.
So you gotta let us know.
Or should you stay or should you go?
It's always hug, hug, hug.
You're happy when you're smelling hair.
One day you're drunk, one day you're not.
Come on Joe, let's have another shot.
So you gotta let us know.
Or should you stay or should you go?
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Should you stay or should you go, Joe?
Gates of Hell!
Canada stares quite a lot!
Gates of Hell!
They want to see creepy Joe drop!
Gates of Hell!
So already got to know!
Those Joe Biden shoulder massages, they're like magic.
At just what have they been hinting?
At least you're not like Bill Clinton.
These allegations are false.
Exactly who's behind this press?
Was it Bernie who made this mess?
I apologize.
I apologize.
Nothing left to do but shrug.
Or give Pelosi a big hug.
He's an affection first to children, to senior citizens, to everyone.
That's just the way he is.
Just pretend you have a cold and I have a cold.
I'm Joe Biden and thank you for taking the time to listen.
Let's say you want to call a restaurant, but maybe it's a small restaurant which is not easily available to book online.
We have pizzas, we have 300 hamburgers, many, many french fries.
Ever wonder how clean your favorite restaurant is?
What's really going on in the kitchen?
What happens if somebody like me wants to take a bite out of the burger before I bring it to the room?
Is that acceptable?
It's not a good idea.
It's not acceptable.
Not good?
There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat.
Done by a young bartender, 29 years old.
I'm proud to be a bartender.
Young bartender.
Wonderful young woman.
It is obviously important to know the status of the reservation at the time.
Can't take you anymore.
Sometimes the private dining and the alcohol will already be booked.
Area is full.
The sector is full.
Can't take you anymore.
I'm sorry.
Can't happen.
So turn around.
That's the way it is.
Again, that was a real call.
We have many of these examples where the calls quite don't go as expected.
Are you going to eat all that?
Kids had like Furbies and like...
Furbies and like...
Right?
We need to occupy every airport.
We need to occupy every border airport.
You need to occupy every ICE office, ICE office, office, border, right?
Office, right?
Airport, right?
Well, unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs.
Because everyone has two jobs.
Well, unemployment is low.
Well, well, well, you know, we look at these figures and we say, say oh unemployment is low everything is fine right right um class
um this like upper middle you know class like is probably more moderate um but that upper middle class doesn't exist anymore Like, their heyday was in the 90s when, like, kids had, like, Furbies and, like, parents, yeah, like, soccer moms, like, two vans.
That's not America anymore!
The power of the atom, greatest source of energy man has ever discovered, is now serving in many ways, from atomic submarines and ships to nuclear fuel generation of electric power.
Now we're building a much larger atomic electric plant.
The plant has reportedly lost control.
Mr.
Burns, people are calling this a meltdown.
Oh, meltdown.
It's one of those annoying buzzwords.
We prefer to call it an unrequested vision surplus.
The Fukushima plant is releasing 770,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
Nuclear, uh, reactor?
Radiation inside one of its nuclear plants is 1,000 times its normal level.
It's not like people are dead there.
Nearly 16,000 people lost their lives and more than 2,000 remain missing.
Who would have thought a nuclear reactor would be so complicated?
You never give me your Brexit.
You only give me your lame excuses.
And in the middle of negotiations, you break down.
We don't like tyrants in Brussels.
That's why we listen to.
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