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	Why you like him?
	This is no good!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, August 22nd, 2019.
	This is your award-winning Get My Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1166.
	This is No Agenda.
	Now available in streaming stereo and broadcasting live from the Opportunity Zone 33 in Austin, Texas, capital of the Drone Star Stadium.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we're surprisingly balmy today.
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Balmy?
	Balmy!
	Really now?
	Hmm.
	It's not supposed to be balmy there.
	That's probably just a cloud of steaming poop.
	It could be.
	And will you please stop tweeting?
	What did I do?
	You keep tweeting.
	Send people, send the homeless to Austin.
	I'm doing them a favor.
	And Austin too, because let's face it.
	Austin is opening its arms.
	Why are you such a grumpy Gus?
	It's opening its arms to the poor homeless and they welcome them.
	So I'm just trying to get the word out.
	We do not want your homeless.
	And by the way, come here and you'll bake on the street.
	You.
	Hey, there's a glimmer of hope in Austin.
	You know, a slight glimmer of hope.
	You know, if you live in Texas and you're anywhere but Austin, someone says, hey, where are you from?
	And you say, I'm from Texas.
	They say, yeah, we're in Texas.
	You say, Austin.
	They say, that's not Texas.
	That's exactly what they say.
	But...
	I think the liberal Austin local government, mayor, and the city council, I think that they're just not as, when we say liberal, they're not like California liberals.
	They understand, and maybe it's not even them, maybe it's the people of Austin, they're revolting against what's going on here.
	As you recall several weeks ago, The council voted unanimously, I believe, to remove all city ordinances of camping, except for, of course, in front of City Hall or the Capitol building, but you can pretty much camp anywhere else, not in a city park, but anywhere else you want to, on the median, on the right side of the road.
	You can do whatever you want.
	You can panhandle in front of bus stops, school grounds, anywhere you want.
	Freedom, man.
	Freedom.
	Actually, that was 50 days ago.
	It's longer than I thought.
	But now, things have changed!
	Two months after voting to allow sitting, lying, and camping in public places, city leaders are tweaking the rules.
	No one wants anybody camping anywhere in our city.
	Today Mayor Steve Adler and council members sent out a six-page proposal aimed to solve problems of people experiencing homelessness in the city.
	I've lived in Austin my whole life and my beautiful city is a mess.
	And I hate it.
	It's funny you say that.
	I heard this the second time I played it and it does sound like her, doesn't it?
	But no, it's not.
	My whole life and my beautiful city is a mess and I hate it.
	Kim Vonser Mullen is one of hundreds of outspoken Austinites asking counsel to change the sit-lie camp ordinance.
	She says it's caused a public safety risk and health hazard.
	Where is it that people should not be camping and sitting and lying?
	In the report, Mayor Adler answers those questions, proposing increased restrictions on people who camp adjacent to roadways or medians, on sidewalks, near creeks, or in front of the arch.
	He also suggests a renewed focus on creating new housing options, but says the changes won't be possible without community input and support.
	Are we really ready to do what it takes to actually solve this problem?
	This guy gets my goat.
	You know, all he ever says, are we all ready to solve the problem?
	Can we come together?
	Fuck you, Adler!
	Go do something!
	This guy is so annoying.
	Can we all come together?
	You're supposed to lead, dipshit.
	This won't be possible without community input and support.
	Are we really ready to do what it takes to actually solve this problem rather than just chasing it around the city and hiding it?
	And in the next couple weeks, city council is expecting more concrete proposals on changing this ordinance.
	Also tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, there will be a public town hall right here at the Austin Convention Center.
	It is open to the public.
	It's your chance to ask city leaders questions directly about this homelessness issue.
	So I look at this six-page proposal, and they're clueless.
	Outline.
	Proposed Principle and Goals.
	What is this you're playing in the background?
	What are you hearing?
	I'm not hearing anything.
	Oh, it must be on my machine.
	I'm not playing anything.
	What the hell are you playing?
	Oh, no.
	Do we need to stop tape?
	Are you okay?
	I'm good.
	I stopped it.
	I thought it was you.
	I thought you were just playing a little bed for some reason, just to kind of liven things up.
	Hey everybody, it's the morning zoo here.
	Let me hit a little drama bed there.
	Proposed principles and goals.
	Proposed community agreement direction.
	Our community needs multiple housing types and services for individuals experiencing homelessness.
	Next bullet point.
	We know what works.
	Yeah, I call bullshit on that.
	No, they don't.
	We have no clue what works.
	Oh, here it is.
	New programs, expansions, and increased housing capacity on the horizon.
	Possible places from among which to increase restrictions on camping, seating, and lying.
	Ordnance standards, interpretations, and applications.
	Rules regarding camping where it occurs as we build out more housing and services.
	Non-policing tools to encourage people to go to better and safer places.
	This whole six-page document has nothing about mental health, nothing about substance abuse or addiction until the very, very, very bottom under those non-policing tools.
	Help people get assistance to the bullet point one sobering center, mental health assistance, shelter slash bridge home navigation center, and community court.
	And everything else is about appropriating apartment buildings or old hotels to turn into affordable housing.
	This is not going to work.
	So what's your solution?
	Well, there is one.
	I talked about this.
	There's one solution that seems to be working.
	That's the Community First Village, September 9th.
	I'm going to go over there, going to see what they're doing, and I shall report back, and maybe I'll do an interview with the CEO who's running it.
	This was recently featured in People Magazine.
	It's gotten a lot of attention as something that seems to be working.
	But, jeez, they have nothing here.
	Just nothing.
	We've got a new idea here in San Francisco.
	No, no, no.
	Not shipping him to Austin.
	Besides that, that's a standing offer.
	Gee, thanks.
	No, we're going to just redefine everybody.
	Oh, yeah.
	I read something about this.
	Oh, yeah.
	What you got?
	Well, let me read you some of this stuff.
	I don't have any clips, but according to the San Francisco Chronicle, from now on, a convicted felon or a Or other offender or release from custody will be known as a former incarcerated person or a justice-involved person.
	Or just, and they prefer this, a returning resident.
	No, they're really going to use that?
	Returning resident of justice?
	That would be even better.
	No, just a returning resident.
	Oh my goodness.
	A juvenile delinquent will be now called a young person with a justice system involvement or...
	Or a young person impacted by the justice juvenile system.
	A young person impacted by the juvenile justice system who is experiencing homelessness and just happens to be gay.
	And drug addicts are now substance abusers, which we've been using for a while.
	Meanwhile, we'll become...
	Oh, actually, they're changing that whole thing to a person with a history of substance abuse.
	Ooh, nice.
	And somebody was quoted, one of the supervisors was, we don't want people to be forever labeled for the worst things they've ever done.
	So we just give them labels.
	So we give them new labels.
	Just give them a new label.
	A new yellow star.
	Good work, everybody.
	Thanks.
	That's nuts.
	Be nice.
	It's hard to be nice.
	I went to dinner with my Jamaican friend.
	Ah.
	And he smoked the ganja?
	He smokes the ganja, but he don't eat the meat.
	So he's a pescatarian, and I'd selected this cool restaurant on the east side that's a butcher shop.
	He's like, uh, don't you remember?
	I'm like, oh, crap.
	Yeah, all right.
	So he selected the corner bar at the JW Marriott, which is actually a kind of nice location, but you've got to go into town.
	So I'm in town and I walked three blocks up and three blocks over, three blocks down near Congress.
	It's gotten worse.
	Oh.
	Yes.
	Since we've left, I see congregations now.
	It used to be, you know, one or two homeless people.
	I'm sorry, people experiencing homelessness in a doorway or on a bench.
	But now there's four or five of them sitting together with lawn chairs.
	No tents out yet.
	And then, you know, just like in Chicago or San Francisco, on Congress, like the corner of second in Congress or third in Congress, there's people just sleeping on the corner.
	I don't understand how people can just step over it.
	It bothers the crap out of me, as you can tell.
	To step over them?
	Yeah, I find that very challenging.
	I mean, it's better than jumping on them, but you know, you understand my dilemma.
	It's not cool.
	Not cool.
	Anyway, keep everybody updated.
	We were right on a lot of things, or ahead of the curve on a lot of things that have been taking place over the past couple days.
	Sure.
	Well, it's always astonishing to me how sometimes how far ahead of the curve we are, but this one...
	Sometimes we're too far ahead of the curve.
	It's problematic.
	Well, a story of my life.
	Oh!
	This is absolutely true.
	I should be a billionaire, but I'm always 10 years too early with everything.
	Well.
	Oh, well.
	So I had the interview with...
	I talked to Pachenik.
	And who did he say would be on deck to be exposed in the Epstein scandal?
	Do you recall?
	No.
	Bill Gates?
	Part of the baffling history of Jeffrey Epstein is how he was somehow able to surround himself with some of the world's most powerful people even after he pled guilty to soliciting an underage prostitute and became a registered sex offender.
	For example, Prince Andrew was photographed coming out of Epstein's Manhattan mansion in 2010, two years after Epstein served jail time.
	And now we're learning Microsoft founder Bill Gates not only spoke with Epstein on more than one occasion about philanthropic spending, but also flew on Epstein's private plane from New York to Palm Beach, though Gates reportedly refuses to say why.
	And we should note the plane was not the so-called Lolita Express, which allegedly was used to fly underage girls to Epstein's private island.
	But still critics wonder why one of the world's richest men would need to take philanthropic advice from a convicted sex offender, especially considering what Melinda Gates and the Couples Foundation does for young women around the world.
	Separately, a former science advisor for Bill Gates was named as one of three executors of Jeffrey Epstein's $577 million will.
	49-year-old Boris Nikolik says he was shocked to learn that Epstein named him and says he has no intention of fulfilling the duties.
	Meantime, Attorney General Bill Barr gave an impromptu news conference today where he maintains that there were numerous irregularities in the death of Jeffrey Epstein, but Barr says so far He has been given no reason to question the findings of the medical examiner who ruled Epstein's death a suicide.
	Though Barr says the investigation is moving forward.
	There you go, Billy Boy.
	That's guilt by association again.
	Yes, but I'm...
	If he went to the island, I'd be more suspicious.
	All I'm saying is this is what Pachanek predicted.
	He said Bill Gates has a problem.
	He says he took a known...
	A known sex offender of girls with him to the girls charity he and Melinda maintained.
	Was this after he was convicted of a sex crime?
	Yes, 2013.
	This happened all in 2013, 2014, 2015.
	That's the part that's problematic.
	Ah, okay.
	Well, that is a problem.
	Yes.
	Now, how about...
	You should be untouchable after that.
	You shouldn't be dealing with him.
	No, of course not.
	And it wasn't on the Lolita Express to the island, but it was to Palm Beach, where Gates also has a house.
	And it was on the Gulf Stream, not the 727.
	Anyway, it just found that interesting.
	Now, more interesting to me, and perhaps to you, because this is a guy I've met a couple times, I'm sure you have, Joey Ito.
	Do you know, have you ever met him?
	I know Joey, yeah, quite well.
	That's Joey.
	Okay, well good.
	He posted a public apology.
	He's now the director of the MIT Media Lab.
	Yeah, he's always, yeah.
	Yeah, I mean I met him with, who was the French guy who ran, Gasset, the French guy who ran Apple?
	Yeah, Jean-Louis.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I was raising money for Podshow, and I remember we had a meeting with him, and Ito sat in on it.
	I had a meeting with Jean-Louis Gasset during the same era, a friend of mine.
	Mm-hmm.
	And somebody else who I know very well said, why did you have a meeting with him for?
	He said, well, he gave us a bunch of tips and stuff.
	He said, you know he has zero money in that whole operation, right?
	I said, no, I didn't know that.
	He said, yeah.
	When I saw Ito, I'm like, I'm in the wrong room.
	This is not we're going to get money.
	So he had posted a public apology for taking money from Epstein for research projects at MIT and for his personal funds.
	Two scientists have now resigned or have publicly announced they are leaving the Media Lab.
	They may not leave MIT but want to leave the Media Lab because they find it untenable.
	So I think that they probably...
	Well, don't forget one of the...
	One of the guys in the papers in the 2000 page document, 2000 plus pages, is Marvin Minsky.
	Big shot at the media lab.
	Major, major guy.
	I remember running into him.
	In fact, he personally threw me out of a meeting.
	Do tell!
	We need to hear this.
	Tell us first who Marvin Minsky is and then how you got kicked out of the meeting.
	One of the famous artificial intelligence guys from the 80s.
	The first go-round and maybe even the one before.
	Every 30 years or so, this artificial AI. Didn't he kind of write the book on artificial intelligence?
	He wrote a book.
	Hey, at least he published it.
	Well, you got me on that.
	So I got invited as a lark by Will Hurst to go into the media lab with the executives of the Hurst Corporation who are getting a tour where you didn't have to sign a nondisclosure.
	Uh-huh.
	And I was like, Hurst and I were just wandering.
	We're kind of just wandering.
	We're just in the group.
	There's about one, two, three, five, maybe eight, nine people, including the CEO and Randy Hurst and all these other people.
	And we're going through this thing and we're getting to see the dog and pony show that they put on, which is where I found out a number of interesting things that I used later in certain columns because I could.
	I didn't have to worry about being non-disclosed on any of it.
	And so we're going from meeting to meeting where these guys are just full of crap and they're showing us everything in the place.
	Got a great tour.
	And I had a few ribald comments to make.
	And so we go into this final meeting and there's Minsky in there with the guys ahead at the time whose name is deluding me, involved with Wired Magazine.
	And Minsky sees me.
	He knows who I am.
	And he says, what's this guy doing here?
	What's Dvorak doing here?
	Pretty much.
	This guy.
	And everybody's looking left and right, and I'm sitting there with a stupid smile on my face.
	And they asked me to leave.
	Yeah, so Will, actually Will left with me, the two of us left.
	Oh, that's cool.
	At least he was showing some solidarity.
	From what I could tell.
	And so we left, it was at the end anyway, so who cares, and we went out and did something in Boston somewhere.
	And then as you left, like, that's the mouse guy.
	Well, screw those guys.
	Guilty by association, I say.
	Well, there's a lot of that going around, apparently, with MIT Media Lab.
	Oh, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Whoa, stop!
	What do you mean there's a lot of that going around at the MIT Media Lab, Guilty by Association?
	What do you mean?
	Your report.
	You got Joey Ito's the Media Lab.
	Oh, okay.
	You got Joe Scientist Quincey's the Media Lab.
	You got Minsky's the Media Lab.
	There's a lot of Media Lab guys, seems to me.
	Yeah.
	Well, you know, one of the theories, this may be an amazing polytheory, one of the theories is...
	Amazing.
	That Epstein...
	Connect the dots, people.
	Yeah, man.
	Well, Epstein was into transhumanism and all this weird stuff and implanting things and hybrid.
	I heard he was really big into implanting.
	Yeah, we got it the first time.
	And hey-o.
	And that he, you know, because he also said he collected humans that he might have been supplying...
	Supplying humanoids for testing to many of these more esoteric research projects at MIT and Harvard that he was apparently funding.
	There's now also another interesting connection.
	You probably read about or saw the video of Prince Andrew at Epstein's house in Manhattan with a young woman leaving.
	Did you?
	No, I didn't know.
	What was the picture?
	Describe it again.
	So it's the Epstein house in Manhattan.
	It's the mansion.
	And the door opens up and a young woman walks out.
	And then in the door opening, waving her off, is Prince Andrew of the Germans over there in England.
	So that turns out to be the daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating.
	Just to make it a little worse.
	I can't remember.
	Wasn't Paul Keating a problematic Prime Minister for Australia?
	I don't know.
	This is not even in the memory banks.
	It's possible.
	Well, she is now a sustainability campaigner who works for a show business talent agency that represents, among others, Sir Paul McCartney and U2. And she also previously partied with Ghislaine Maxwell and presented a fawning interview with the alleged procurer, calling her a philanthropist.
	So that just makes it that much more juicy when we can add those tidbits in.
	I'm not saying anyone's guilty.
	However, Dutch former model, Thijsje Huisman, who was...
	Discovered by Jean-Luc Brunel.
	This was one of the...
	You know, this was the big fashion...
	Yeah, Brunel's really...
	He's a douche.
	They've been throwing darts at him.
	Yes.
	So she says that she was drugged and abused, sexually abused, when she was in...
	She doesn't know where the apartment was, but she does say she thinks she also remembers Epstein being there.
	People are just coming out.
	A lot of this is just people coming out and just saying whatever they remember.
	My favorite, though, is Kerry Kennedy.
	And she is the Robert Kennedy daughter who...
	Do you remember?
	You do remember this story.
	She was arrested for driving under the influence and her defense, successful defense, I might add, was that she had accidentally taken Ambien instead of her progesterone or something like that.
	And so she was all whacked out and she crashed into a trailer tractor.
	So she has always been good friends with Ghislaine, as she offered her lawyer, Lefkort, when the trouble started between Epstein and the law.
	And Lefkort, of course, is someone who worked on his defense.
	But it's even more juicy to know that Carrie Kennedy, at the time, was married to Andrew Cuomo.
	No!
	Which puts the Cuomo quid back in focus, which is really always fun if we can just accuse him of anything.
	So do you have any clips from the Wendy Williams show?
	Gee, I forgot to watch and I forgot to record.
	Why?
	Did you have any?
	No, I'm just thinking of where you're going here.
	That's all I got.
	I will say something else when it comes to things that we've been out ahead of.
	And this comes back to pipelines.
	I don't remember exactly which episode it was when we discovered how important pipelines are to the geopolitical state of the world.
	And of course, this was when a lot of pipelines were being built.
	We were discovering the old ones.
	Things were changing.
	Ukraine was changing.
	Russia was changing.
	The stance towards Russia, it quieted down a little bit.
	Then we had the big Leviathan field, which we'd known about for at least eight years.
	And that started pumping.
	So we've tracked that.
	We've been tracking the Nord Stream 2, which is a secondary route from Russia that is intended to pump just a whole lot of natural gas into Europe, which once again will go through Ukraine, but it goes along the coast of several countries, and it kind of came into view what has been going on the past week when I read this report from Reuters.
	That the Nord Stream 2 Russian-led gas pipeline project across the Baltic Sea to Europe could be delayed by up to eight months and cost an extra 660 million euros due to hurdles in securing the necessary permits from one particular country.
	And this is the last country that has to sign off on these permits and they've been wishy-washy about it for a while.
	And that may make sense that we had someone come out of the woodwork to perhaps delay their decision a little bit longer, because this is Denmark.
	So now you can understand why Trump was going to Denmark.
	Now you can kind of understand why he wanted to make a big deal about Greenland owned by Denmark.
	Because they are in direct competition to the natural gas we are now exporting.
	This pipeline in particular is in competition to the gambit we have running, which is more expensive, of course, for Europe.
	But we are going to be the net exporter of natural gas.
	And maybe you want to cause a ruckus around Denmark and then if they decide that they are going to approve the Nord Stream 2 in their territorial waters, maybe you could then call them out as Russian stooges or something or, you know, enemy of NATO. I think that may have been the play all along.
	It's a good theory.
	I think he actually wants Greenland.
	There's that.
	We did get a boots-on-the-ground report from one of our producers, which I don't mind sharing, from Wouter.
	He says, for the Danish government, he feels it is indeed absurd, and he agrees with the new prime minister's assertion of Trump's offer.
	And he has the following points.
	One, for the Danish government cannot sell any part of Greenland without the approval of the Greenlanders.
	I think we knew that.
	This is determined by UN rules, passed after World War II. So why ask Denmark?
	He should have made an offer to Greenland directly and let them negotiate with the Danish government.
	Well, and again, I think my theory works here because it's not about Greenland per se.
	It may be about stopping the Russians, you know, with the final link in the chain.
	Two, the Danes are very sensitive about every square meter of what is left of the realm of Denmark.
	This is some good history here.
	Denmark lost the southern part to Sweden in 1660, a peace to Norway in 1814, and the northern part of Germany, which also used to be theirs, they lost that in 1864, which they didn't even manage to get back after World War I. On top of that, they sold, of course, St.
	Jan and St.
	Croix in the Caribbean in 1970 to us for $25 million.
	And thirdly, Denmark may be small and relatively insignificant in the greater scheme of things, but they're not stupid!
	There's a great potential in Greenland, and they will never just sell because of short-term perspective.
	The political leader of Greenland, Kim Nielsen, probably had the best response saying he could be interested in buying the USA because, quote, it was the Vikings, Leith the Happy, who discovered America and his father, Eric the Red, who discovered Greenland and stayed there.
	Therefore, it is only logical that we get the USA back again.
	He has not yet decided on the price, but expects it to be quite low, taking the deficit of the USA into account.
	And if Trump will be part of the deal, if he is, then the offer will be lower.
	All right.
	Well, I love having producers everywhere in the world.
	I'm sure that's exactly what everybody feels.
	Well, the point is that they have already sold us something.
	In the past.
	Yes.
	St.
	Croix and St.
	John and St.
	Jan.
	And so they could, you know, so it's not outside the realm of possibility.
	And it's been done.
	I mean, Truman asked to buy Greenland after World War II and was rebuffed.
	Yeah.
	And somebody in the 1800s, I believe, made the offer.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So it's not completely nuts.
	It's not absurd.
	Well, but here's what bothered me.
	So she said, this is absurd.
	Now, it's not absurd, but his response is, she's a nasty woman, which I've been looking for.
	He never said that.
	He never said she's a nasty woman.
	Oh, what did he say?
	He says it's nasty.
	He used the word nasty referring to her comment.
	But he never says, I don't believe unless somebody can show me a quote.
	Well, that explains it because I thought he said nasty woman and I went looking for some connection between this new prime minister and Hillary.
	Maybe he was making that connection.
	Maybe I just misheard it.
	But his response was, well, you know, if you're just going to respond like that, then screw you.
	You're not nice.
	I mean, what is that about?
	I'm telling you, I think the Russian pipeline thing is number one, or that's what he's going to use now.
	That's why he didn't go to Greenland.
	That's why he didn't ask them.
	This is all about Denmark.
	Well, let's play a couple of Greenland clips.
	We got one from Democracy Now!
	Greenland.
	On Sunday, Trump confirmed to reporters his interest in purchasing the autonomous Danish territory and did not rule out trading a U.S. territory for the island.
	Trump said essentially it's a large real estate deal.
	Danish politicians across the political spectrum expressed disbelief over Trump's sudden cancellation of the state visit.
	The Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, called his idea to purchase Greenland absurd.
	She also told reporters, thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over.
	Actually, I had an idea.
	Why don't we sell California to Greenland?
	Eh, the commute's too far.
	No, then you can put all your homeless on a bus.
	Oh, well, no!
	Austin!
	They're with open arms.
	Greenland, the people up there, they freeze their death.
	Let's listen to number two.
	There's a bit of new information in clip two.
	On Monday, Trump tweeted a photo of shiny gold Trump skyscraper photoshopped onto an image of a Greenland town and wrote, I promise not to do this to Greenland.
	Trump is said to be interested in Greenland's abundant natural resources and geopolitical importance, but the island is also at the center of the climate crisis.
	Earlier this month, Greenland's ice sheet experienced its largest single day melt in history.
	In July, the hottest month ever recorded, Greenland's ice sheet lost 197 billion tons of ice, the equivalent of around 80 million Olympic swimming pools.
	Experts say in addition to rising sea levels around the world, the receding ice could expose toxic nuclear waste left at U.S. military sites during the Cold War.
	John, John, John, John, look out your window.
	Quick.
	The mudflats.
	They're still there and nothing has changed.
	So there's a little tidbit at the end.
	Well, we're dumping nuclear waste?
	Yes.
	Well, that's not exactly true, but in 19...
	Well, that's what she said.
	Yeah.
	Well, I actually got this on NoAgendaSocial.com.
	Some guy is like...
	That's exactly what he sounded like.
	Yeah, a lot of guys sound like that.
	And we had a secondary base there, and we did have some so-called secret nuclear testing, so I don't know anything about the secret nuclear testing, but apparently there is waste and other toxic shit from just having a base there.
	And they just let it all snow under, because it was hard to keep it clear anyway.
	And then they abandoned it so it's just hidden under this layer of, I don't know, ice that's now melting and it's going to expose that and the woolly mammoth and bacteria, the smallpox, the black death that we haven't seen since 1918.
	All of that's going to come when the ice melts.
	Surely you know about this.
	Science, man.
	Science, science, man.
	Not to mention the amount of methane that has been accumulated by the ice somehow.
	Yeah.
	That's from the woolly mammoth farts.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It just sticks in that ice for some reason.
	Well, on the topic of the nuclear waste, so there was an explosion.
	A nuke went off in Russia.
	Yeah.
	It hasn't been reported as much as it could be.
	A little bit.
	I mean, it was all kind of the same.
	From what I remember, the Russians said, oh, don't worry.
	And then they said, maybe we should leave.
	And then come on back.
	And it's okay.
	It was very unclear.
	Well, I have the clip from NBC that kind of explains it.
	Not completely, but it's not really a nuke.
	There were testing, and I thought it was interesting because we've done this in the past.
	I think in the 50s or 60s, there was some.
	Oh, wait, an anti-gravity weapon?
	Well, maybe, but that wasn't what happened.
	Nuclear engines.
	Oh.
	Nuclear jet engines.
	Nice.
	And they work.
	Because we've tested them, but their problem is they're very dangerous.
	You have to have a really long garden hose for the water turbine, I hear.
	But they have, they go, you know, like It seems as though if you get one going, you can fly it around the globe two or three times.
	They just keep going and going and flying and flying.
	So you can have these things just flying all constantly.
	Oh, yeah.
	And the fear, of course, is you shoot one down, it becomes a bomb.
	It keeps flying on the ground.
	Boom!
	It blows up.
	So...
	This is kind of what happened.
	This thing blew up, and I don't know what's going to happen with this program, but they kind of explain it here.
	And on another global front tonight, Russia is facing new questions over the recent explosion at a missile testing site after telling a nuclear monitoring group to stay out of it.
	We get more from NBC's Bill Neely.
	A growing mystery tonight about exactly what happened days after a nuclear explosion that killed five Russian nuclear scientists.
	At least four radiation monitoring stations nearby went silent and stopped transmitting data.
	Russia told an international nuclear watchdog today, mind your own business.
	Russia admitted radiation levels did spike briefly after the accident, which was tied to the testing of a nuclear missile engine.
	President Putin said yesterday there is no threat, no risk of increased radiation.
	But the Kremlin is also furious.
	An international nuclear watchdog tweeted this map of a potential radiation plume spreading across Russia.
	The Kremlin calls that absurd, warning the watchdog to back off, claiming it can withhold any data.
	Nuclear experts say Russia's real aim is to hide secrets about this A nuclear-powered cruise missile that President Putin boasts could evade American defences.
	Russia concealing from the US exact data on its nuclear fuel.
	Two of the Russian radiation monitoring stations are now working again, but Russia has proved once again that when it comes to its national security, it will hide what the world might want to know.
	I don't know, man.
	We got Russia with the nuclear engines.
	We got France with the hoverboard.
	We don't have any cool shit anymore.
	No.
	I dropped the ball.
	Except the Tesla.
	They got troops on hoverboards.
	They got nuclear engines.
	We got Tesla.
	Oh, well.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Thanks.
	I don't know.
	I think I remember spending $760 billion last year.
	What are we doing with it?
	It's just boondoggles.
	It's annoying.
	Meetings.
	The president finally caught up on his No Agenda episodes.
	It's about time.
	Well, you know, there's a lot of people always talking to him, so he can't always get some time to himself.
	And this was three days ago.
	A tweet.
	Wow!
	Report just out!
	Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
	This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump supporter.
	Google should be sued.
	My victory was even bigger than thought!
	So thanks.
	We did quite a detailed dive on this research.
	Well, the guy got into a beef after this, the Elliott guy, or whatever his last name is.
	Epstein.
	Epstein.
	Yeah, Robert Epstein.
	Robert Epstein.
	With Hillary, because Hillary says, ah, this is part of a debunked study.
	Let me read it.
	The debunked study you're referring to was based on 21 undecided voters.
	For context, that's about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted.
	Yeah.
	So I knew that this was the messaging that went out immediately.
	And I just flipped to CNN. Actually, it was on MSNBC. They didn't have the story yet.
	Flipped to CNN. And yes, sir.
	And there's another conspiracy theory, Jeffrey, that he's on to.
	He took to Twitter today to accuse Google of manipulating votes.
	He said Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 election.
	This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump supporter.
	Google should be sued.
	My victory was even bigger than thought.
	In a day of wackadoodle claims, this is the most wackadoodle of all.
	And, John, we went through this research.
	And, you know, there's 21 undecided voters.
	Yes, and I'll talk about that in a second.
	But there was thousands of pages and people underneath all that research, which flowed up until this final test.
	So, you know, I thought the research was pretty solid and has been published and has been replicated.
	The guy's been put in as a...
	It's a definitive work.
	It's very important.
	Because there's not even any claim that Google manipulated votes.
	They didn't go in there and change votes.
	No one claims that except Donald Trump.
	You see what he's doing there?
	What the hell is he talking about?
	He's trying to make it...
	Now, first of all, Trump was wrong.
	He says Google manipulated from 2.6 to 16 million votes for Hillary.
	Well, it's a very poor way of stating what happened.
	What happens is that bias in their system, or bias within the people, we don't know, put more Hillary-favorite links at the top two positions.
	And that swayed the 2.6 to 16 million, according to Robert Epstein's research, into voting for Hillary.
	They were indeed undecided.
	But it was very important, and the research is very conclusive and has been replicated.
	But this jamoke, the first woman says, oh, this is blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Then Tubin comes in, he's saying, well, they didn't go in and manipulate votes.
	What he's implying here is they didn't go into the voting machines and manipulate them.
	That's literally what he's implying, which is such a douche move.
	Votes.
	They didn't go in there and change votes.
	No one claims that except Donald Trump.
	The idea is that searches were ranked in certain ways that helped Democrats rather than Republicans.
	This, too, has been long discredited, but it's all part of this incredible nervousness about his political standing.
	No one.
	They're just saying it.
	How are you saying it's long discredited by whom?
	No, by Slate Magazine.
	Specifically, who discredited it?
	That's what I'd ask.
	If I was sitting there, I'd ask Toobin, who's just a stooge, I'd say, Toobin, who discredited it?
	Sources, man.
	Is there one report you can show me?
	Studies and sources, okay?
	Shut up.
	I was wrong about 2016.
	I don't know if he's going to win or lose in 2020.
	But what today's spate of craziness tells us is that he's really worried about losing.
	That's the real message, not any of the substance.
	Now listen to the final woman on the panel.
	You're nodding here, Sabrina.
	Well, look, I think that it's no coincidence that he picked out this 2.6 million number from the range that was provided in this unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
	It's a conspiracy theory now.
	Unsubstantiated!
	This is...
	This is not news.
	This is election TV. It's terrible.
	It's a disservice to the public.
	They are misleading the public.
	6 million number from the range that was provided in this unsubstantiated conspiracy theory because that's also very close to the margin by which Hillary Clinton won the national popular vote.
	And we've seen the president on multiple occasions throw out Again, conspiracy theories that nearly 3 million votes were stolen from him in the 2016 election because then that helps him push back against the notion that Hillary Clinton, in fact, won the popular vote, which is a big sore sticking point for the president.
	So Robert Epstein actually posted a very long thread regarding this and his battle.
	He even included a picture of him and Hillary.
	And he's very disappointed with Hillary Clinton.
	And he even pulls out...
	Wiki leaks emails to show how Google's Eric Schmidt offered to run Hillary's tech campaign.
	And, of course, he funded the Groundwork, which was this little tech company whose only purpose was to put Clinton in the White House.
	And after all that...
	Last night I saw late, he posted a picture of a beach and written in the sand was, I love life.
	And he posted, I'm not going to kill myself.
	I don't want to die.
	I'm very happy with everything.
	I guess the Clinton body count got to him.
	Well, if you looked at his thread and the response to it, 90% of the response is related to, be careful, you're going to get killed!
	I mean, that meme...
	It's great!
	The meme of the Clinton assassination squad is so entrenched in the public consciousness, I'm actually stunned by it.
	There's always just...
	Something that, like, ten years ago was just some sort of a running gag that a few people referred to.
	We talked about it.
	We talked about it pretty early.
	But now it's like, geez.
	I forgot to mention on the other Epstein, I'm pretty sure that looking at Bill Barr's connections through his dad to Epstein, which is very clear, I think Barr is cleaning up He's not going to unseal the thousands of sealed indictments, but he's got to have a couple people who go down, and I just feel like all eyes on Bill.
	Because the Clintons go down, all you have to do is step back and watch everyone else who matters tumble.
	You don't think it's going to happen?
	No, no.
	He's...
	Immune.
	Is that where immune or he's protected?
	It's not going to happen.
	They're not going to do that to any president.
	Well, let's check in with the Lou and Joe show.
	Let's see what Joe DeGenoa says.
	If we've gotten any closer to any information about the sealed indictments, thousands of them.
	After three years of investigation, we still know so little.
	And guess what?
	If it hadn't been for the corruption at the top of the FBI and the Department of Justice to swing the election toward Hillary Clinton, we would have all of these answers.
	But when you have the world's premier law enforcement agency, the FBI, become so politically bankrupt and corrupt that it cannot run an investigation the way it should have, that's That's why it's important that they clean house, and that's why it's so sad that Christopher Wray has never addressed any of these problems.
	And as Bill Barr said when he was Attorney General for a couple of months, he says, I have more questions now than before I became Attorney General.
	Boy, that tells you something.
	No, it tells me nothing.
	It tells you something, man.
	No, it's so disappointing.
	It was three weeks ago.
	It was going to be any day now.
	Wednesday.
	No, three weeks ago it was going to be Wednesday.
	I can't even get Tina on board anymore.
	I'm like, ah, she's like, I don't believe it for a second.
	I've heard this all my married life with you!
	Which was three months a few days ago.
	Yeah, she's finally wised up.
	I'm sure everybody heard it, but since we've had this exact same issue, back in the day, I'll say, we haven't had this happen in many years, the Bill de Blasio Skype fail was pretty fun.
	Oh, I don't know this.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Yeah, it was the Iowa, I think the union workers, and de Blasio had missed his plane or whatever bullcrap excuse there was.
	Um...
	And so he came in on Skype, and we knew it was Skype, because do you remember what used to happen sometimes, only on your end, I might add, with Skype?
	What was happening on my end?
	You'd get the helium voice.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, that would happen.
	Here's Bill de Blasio calling in.
	Hey, thank you, everybody.
	I'm so happy I'm with you, and I apologize if I couldn't be there in person.
	I had a canceled flight and could not get to you by my time slot.
	But I want to just say, before I get into anything about why I'm running for president and what we have to do in this country, I want to thank you.
	And the audience is laughing and he has no clue.
	His whole statement is just hilarious.
	And last night, Tina said it.
	Who does he sound like?
	For the fight you're waging every day.
	Organized labor in Iowa.
	Who does he sound like?
	Well, he sounds like one of the female candidates.
	No, man, listen.
	Has been fighting a really, really difficult battle.
	No.
	But you've been doing it in a way that shows so much.
	He sounds like Ben Shapiro.
	They know you're a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe who hates the poor.
	Right?
	That's what they know about you.
	And it's not they think that about you.
	They know that about you.
	Passing so much strength.
	That's why she's a Ben Shapiro fan, so she'd pick that up.
	Yes.
	It's a bit like Ben Shapiro.
	Yeah.
	More than a bit.
	Yeah.
	Plenty.
	Maybe Ben Shapiro's on helium.
	That would make sense.
	He's on something.
	Let's see.
	I have a couple other 2020 things.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, Elizabeth Warren finally apologized to American Indians.
	Kind of insincere, quasi-heartfelt.
	I know that I have made mistakes.
	I am sorry for harm I have caused.
	I have listened and I have learned a lot, and I am grateful for the many conversations that we've had together.
	It is a great honor to be able to partner with Indian Country, and that's what I've tried to do as a senator, and that's what I promise I will do as President of the United States of America.
	That was pretty good.
	People thought it was me.
	Do it again.
	I want to hear it without Elizabeth.
	What?
	You're crying.
	That was pretty good.
	I didn't do anything.
	Oh, okay.
	But here's a groovy one from another guy I got my eye on, Andrew Yang.
	He's all spiffy on that stage, man, but he's a little pompous Silicon Valley ass in the background.
	However, he went on a podcast.
	It's always very dangerous when you go on a podcast.
	I'm not talking Joe Rogan.
	I'm talking on a podcast where you're chilled and you're relaxed.
	And this is the H3 podcast.
	And you feel like you can kind of say whatever you want.
	No, surprise, surprise.
	The debates are rigged.
	It's still so filtered and removed.
	And even the debates, like you pointed out, just feel like you're watching a reality and not actual anything.
	And not even a good one.
	No.
	The debates really are such a nightmare.
	I mean, they ask you complex questions and expect you to answer in, what, like 30 seconds?
	And then they cut you off?
	And they focus so much on the drama.
	It's like they want it.
	They want you to get into an argument with Joe Biden.
	Yeah, and you know one thing I'll share with you all is that some of the campaigns are in touch with the TV network ahead of time to talk about what sort of attack they want to level on the stage.
	An attack on Biden around this question would play really well.
	Yes.
	The campaign says, hey, we're going to make this attack against Biden.
	And then the network goes, okay, we get it.
	And then they help create that opportunity.
	What a nightmare.
	I mean, what a farce.
	Yeah, it's quite a disaster.
	And I want to share with you the perspectives.
	I think I'm a layperson who happens to find himself on the presidential debate stage being like, what the hell is going on here?
	You know what's happening?
	I'm not on this conference call.
	So, that's quite the accusation.
	Wow!
	That's a clip.
	That's a clip.
	That's a clip of the day.
	Give it to yourself.
	Thank you.
	Yeehaw!
	Clip of the day.
	That took some effort.
	I could tell.
	Somebody sent it to you.
	Um, no.
	No.
	I found this myself.
	Well, it's a gem.
	Although, let me just say...
	As a part of our value-for-value system, it's not just the money.
	Yes, that enables you and I to do the work, but I was thinking just again this morning, without our producers, there's no way.
	No way we would get the amount, the quantity and the quality of clips and information.
	Yeah, insights.
	I got a note to read then from one of our guys.
	It's a little long, but I want to read it.
	It's a Hollywood guy.
	In the morning, keep me anonymous.
	I had to share an event that happened this spring, and it will be an annual event, and he's got some link.
	It's called the Social Impact Agency.
	I saw this.
	I saw this.
	Organizations such as Color of Change, Define Americans, and Harness, which has been offering story consulting and script integration services to Hollywood for years.
	We only know of the one we've talked about, of course, is the Lear Foundation.
	Lear Hollywood Health and Society Foundation.
	Right out of the U.S.C. They're participating in this event, and this event was called Unreasonable Conversation.
	People can look it up on Google.
	It will be available during interactive sessions for writers who want workshop-specific storylines or characters they're working on.
	Proper says it's all participants will be provided with a resource guide and contact information for these groups so they can develop deeper relationships with them on an ongoing basis, is an unquote.
	This is an extravaganza of mind programming and insider training with the top producers, directors, and actors messaging and coercing the new recruits to learn the new narratives for all genres of entertainment.
	Think Lear Foundation.
	I don't think this would pop up on your radar if nobody sent it to you.
	You might be able to deconstruct it in a novel way.
	Hollywood is no fun anymore.
	It's just virtue signaling and the CNN agenda at every job.
	I'm struggling hard as a middle-aged white guy in the entertainment industry and trying to escape this whole mess before they put me out to pasture.
	This gathering makes my skin crawl and it's a clear virtue signaling attack on everyone but the triple disgruntled status people.
	I would contribute again today but I'm in a bad place financially and says, great show, keep up the good work.
	So there's a bunch of these things going on.
	Yeah, I took a look at...
	Where's the right?
	I took a look...
	Yes, well, I took a look at unreasonableconversation.org.
	It's usually 501c3s, but there's a lot of money pumping through them.
	There's a couple of them.
	Another one he mentioned I also looked up, and that was...
	Let me see, who was that?
	What was their name?
	Define America.
	Define America.
	Anyway, in March they had their big meetings where they get together with showrunners, with producers.
	And what's great about it...
	Is, you know, Hollywood being the virtue signaling community that it is, they do not want to make any mistakes.
	So, for instance, there was an article linked to one of these sites, study immigrant TV characters portrayed as criminals and less educated.
	So, just like you don't want to get caught up in some kind of bullcrap controversy as an advertiser, you certainly don't want to make a misstep if it comes to DACA kids or if it comes to racial issues, whatever it is.
	You want to bring in the experts who look very expert, and we'll get to that in a moment, and it should be a non-profit.
	And by the way, I don't think it's free.
	They may be paying them or into the non-profit.
	But it's like hiring IBM. You know, you can't go wrong.
	Hey, look, I brought in the Unreasonable Conversation people.
	I brought in the Define America people.
	I brought in the Lear Hollywood Health Society people.
	I brought in all these people.
	So you can't blame me, and they will be very careful that they advise you properly.
	So on the Unreasonable Conversation program this year, speaking or as panelists, America Ferreira, you remember her as Ugly Betty, Andrew Sullivan, Uh, who is, uh, credited as a contributing editor at New York Magazine.
	Of course, a very famous blogger.
	Uh, Andy Puddycomb.
	Who I don't know.
	Uh, let's see.
	Baratunde Thurston.
	People who, uh, have seen him before on Twit will know that he is, uh, who he is.
	Uh, Bassem Youssef.
	Dubbed the Jon Stewart of the Arab world.
	Let's go down some more here.
	A lot of names I don't know.
	Let's see.
	Gina Davis.
	We know her.
	Heather Ray, very famous Hollywood producer.
	John Legend.
	Well, when John Legend's in anything, you know that that has to be a completely left organization.
	John Legend is famous for saying there's no such thing as a creative person of any sort who's not a Democrat.
	Yes, I think this was the clip.
	I'm hosting a virtual phone bank for Swing Left this weekend to help get out the vote ahead of the special election in my home state of Ohio.
	That's right.
	I'm from Ohio, and Ohio has a very special election on Tuesday.
	We're working to elect Democrat Danny O'Connor to the House of Representatives.
	Danny is campaigning on expanding health care, and he proudly promotes his F rating from the NRA.
	His Republican challenger is State Senator Trump.
	Maybe it was something else.
	Yeah, that's okay.
	Call voters from anywhere.
	All you need is internet access and a...
	Well, anyway, we had a clip somewhere where he said creative people can only be Democrats.
	So John Legend is in it.
	Kerry Washington, very famous actress.
	Who else do we have here?
	Marsha Gessen.
	You know her.
	She's the troublemaker who hates Russia and, of course, therefore also hates Trump.
	She's written 10 books.
	She's on staff at The New Yorker.
	Megan Smith.
	Hello.
	We know Megan, don't we?
	Oh, yeah.
	She used to be on my Silicon Spin show all the time.
	Yeah.
	Isn't she a spook?
	It's possible.
	I don't know that.
	Okay.
	Let's see.
	Who else do we have?
	Mayor of New Orleans.
	Rashid Robinson.
	Makes sense that he's in there.
	Stacey Abrams.
	General Stanley A. McChrystal.
	They've got the military guys in there to advise on the proper way to show anything.
	Steve Levine, the future editor at Axios.
	Yeah, you know, you're so right.
	Valerie Jarrett.
	Oh, hello, Val.
	She's in there.
	So, that is what is polluting your Hollywood products.
	That is what is happening to MCU, is these people have their fingerprints all over it.
	How'd you like that little comic book reference, huh?
	I didn't get it.
	MCU, it's the Marvel Cinematonic Universe or some shit like that.
	Oh, the Marvel Universe.
	Yes, MCU. I'm sure it's heavily influenced by these folk.
	That's why the creativity is kind of leeching out.
	People aren't watching so much stuff.
	I mean, there's too many shows on Netflix and half of them are no good.
	A lot of this stuff is just garbage.
	And just when we finished up the Roger Ailes Loudest Voice six-part miniseries, now there's going to be a movie with Nicole Kidman.
	What's her name?
	The little blonde from Suicide Squad.
	Robbie, Margot Robbie.
	She's one of them.
	Yeah, and then the other one, the Dior woman.
	What's her name?
	Charlize Theron.
	Theron, girl.
	She plays Megan Kelly.
	And everyone says, oh, she looks just like her.
	I don't think so.
	I thought she did too.
	Really?
	No, I didn't.
	I was like, yeah, it's okay.
	She did a pretty good job.
	But the thing is, I saw the trailer and it was just a piece of crap.
	Yeah, in an elevator.
	Like, okay, this is not exciting.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
	I mean, it was just a junk trailer.
	You know this movie's gonna suck.
	I love how you do trailers.
	Boom, boom, ba-boom, ba-boom.
	Totally.
	Yeah, I don't know if that's going to be any good or not.
	I mean, the Roger Ailes thing seems like it did the job.
	It was a pretty good series.
	Yeah.
	It was fun.
	And then, you know, Russell Crowe did a good job.
	That was fantastic.
	Oh, yeah, he kind of looked like him.
	Yeah.
	But no, now they're going to try to do jazzing it up with some legs.
	Well, I'm not against that.
	Think about how meta that really is.
	To do a drama about Roger Ailes that has more legs than the other one so they can beat it out.
	That is very meta when you think about it.
	Do a little twirl, movie girls.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you...
	The man who put the sea in crying Pocahontas, John C. Dvorak!
	And good morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Kree.
	In the morning, all ships in the sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
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	That is where we congregate twice a week.
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	And not just for No Agenda.
	There's many shows that you can find at noagendastream.com.
	It is well worth your time to go check it out and hang with the trolls.
	Also, a big in the morning to Darren O'Neill.
	Back with a very sophisticated piece of art.
	We loved it.
	This was the Greenland Chop Suey.
	It was a good piece.
	We had no argument over that one.
	It was just nice.
	And for added bonus, the fortune cookie had the fortune America bad.
	I think it really had all the elements we're looking for and a great piece of art that will draw attention and get people engaged.
	And it worked.
	We not only got people engaged, people also showed up to support the show.
	This is the other important part of what our producers do.
	And we love to thank our associate executive producers and executive producers up front, just like Hollywood.
	Like Hollywood.
	We do have a lot of people to thank.
	In fact, an extraordinary number, which makes up for the last show, which was terrible.
	Yes.
	Top of the list is Chris Eisbach from Cheshire, Connecticut.
	It was 666.66.
	I think any disconnect would have to do with those numbers.
	With this donation, I... I make it to the rank of Viscount.
	I've been a listener since the show was in double digits, and it's been a great ride.
	I've noticed that you two, you no longer have the Dimension AB segments.
	Well, not as much.
	We did one, I think, a month ago.
	Well, quite honestly, it's sickening.
	It's very sickening to go into B, and it gets dizzy and nauseous.
	You know, I've never said this before.
	But when I snap into dimension B after that crazy device you've got to make this happen, I actually throw up.
	Oh, wow.
	Well, you're a trooper.
	Yeah.
	I have this little...
	Stinks to high heaven, but it's a large coffee cup.
	All right, all right.
	You're really stretching the gag.
	It seems that this may be because they've become much more than different dimensions, but different planets with very little in common on how they see the world.
	This makes things particularly painful for those of us somewhere in the middle, at least somewhere.
	I knew I needed to donate when I saw my page a day calendar, a description of the founding of podcasting by Adam and Dave Weiner.
	Woo!
	Wow.
	He's got it on his...
	You get some sort of royalty for that?
	I'd like to see...
	Show me that page a day calendar.
	He's probably throwing it out already.
	Oh, damn it.
	It even mentioned that this was an addition of audio files to the RSS format.
	Wow.
	So your legacy is not completely obscured by the likes of Adam Carolla and Joe Rogan.
	Well, there was an article, I think, was it People Magazine or someone put Conan O'Brien on the front and here's the inventor of podcasting, pretty much.
	Yeah.
	Go podcasting.
	As Viscount, I plan to...
	Extend my protectorate to FEMA Region 1 and pledge to honor my duty to promote good amygdala health throughout the region.
	Also, I'm up for a big promotion in September and I'm asking for some jobs karma to put me over the line.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	The suburban Mennonite.
	Comes in next with $606 in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
	Let's see if there's any jingles here.
	I don't see any.
	I stumbled across your show several years ago attempting to find something to lull myself asleep while battling insomnia.
	Podcasting is your choice.
	That's interesting.
	I quickly found your show to be completely useless for this purpose.
	Instead of getting bored and quietly falling asleep with my headphones on, I would laugh or continuously yell out, Exactly!
	Only to annoy and wake my wife up as well.
	After a little research on the show, I was surprised to find out that I knew both of you from being an early consumer of both MTV and PC Magazine in the mid-80s.
	Please keep up the good work and grant me a major de-douching by accepting this check.
	You've been de-douched.
	The initial amount is 606, which represents the Mennonite National Anthem.
	I look forward to...
	I don't know what that means.
	I look forward to someday achieving knighthood.
	Thank you, the suburban Mennonites.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest, Sir Dwayne Melanson.
	Woo-hoo!
	There he is, everybody, the Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest.
	Oh, that's pretty good.
	You caught it.
	Sir Dwayne, it came in with $440.
	ITM gents, this donation...
	440 brings me over the line for my 40th knighthood.
	Thank you, as always, for the value for value in your analysis and the consideration of so many sources of information.
	I'd love a lone wolf and a karma to all producers past and present.
	Okay.
	You've got karma.
	Roy Tenhava in Pynocker at $400.
	You nailed it.
	Pynocker.
	In the Netherlands.
	ITM, gents.
	I'm running a bit behind on listening due to vacation and a spotty internet connection.
	But on reading one last and...
	One last sad puppy newsletter.
	I felt the need to step up and show some extra support.
	Your hard work, analysis, and contributions to my mental health is much appreciated.
	The donation probably pushes me to knighthood, but as I haven't thought up a witty name yet, Sir Roy will suffice.
	No jingles needed.
	What?
	I said, we'll take it.
	We'll take it, I said.
	No jingles needed, but a large dose of cancer karma for several people next to me will be much appreciated.
	Thanks again, Roy.
	You've got karma. . .
	Craig Kuttner, Atlanta, Georgia, 38866.
	Baron Craig here.
	Upgrading to Viscount.
	We got two Viscounts today.
	It's two.
	That's weird.
	ITM to the No Agenda Nation.
	Sure, I'm tough into M5M manipulations, but a sucker for the puppy eye groveling on the newsletter.
	The show is consistently outstanding.
	I look forward to election season 2020 for you.
	For you, hit it out of the park.
	I'd like to expand my protectorate from Northeast Georgia to include all of Georgia, if I can, just because.
	Jingles, please.
	Club 33, Raven.
	Double speak of the week.
	And Obama, you just might die karma.
	Straight from Reseda, here she is, Raven.
	Give it up!
	It's the double, double, double, double beat of the week.
	The double, double, double, double beat of the week.
	You've got karma.
	Huh.
	Brian Martin, $350.
	You don't have to say high, you can just say slick.
	I never, I don't remember the doubles, I mean the doubles speak thing I probably haven't heard for over a year.
	Oh, it's been, oh, longer than that, maybe years.
	Yeah.
	Dear John and Adam, let's back up and start over.
	Brian Martin, 350.
	Dear John and Adam, I'll start with my jingle requests.
	Four-parter requires some queuing, and he's got a list there.
	You have them.
	Thank you for everything that you do.
	Thank you for everything that you...
	We know what he means.
	Read that sentence for me.
	Thank you for everything that you...
	What's the matter?
	You can't read?
	It's what it says.
	Thank you for everything that you...
	You're welcome.
	I was hit in the mouth a little over a year ago, and no agenda has become a fixture in my life.
	It is apparent that the two of you are pros.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, baby.
	You pull together relevant and thought-provoking content without massive production budgets.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	It's a testament to your talents and to the producer network.
	I'm happy to provide my second annual contribution and request a de-douching.
	You got it.
	You've been de-douched.
	I'm truly dismayed at the state of the news outlets and the supposed journalists that work within them.
	It is now close to impossible to know where the truth exists.
	Doctors and first responders treat an attempt to save the lives of those that have committed such foul acts that one could legitimately question whether they are worth saving.
	Lawyers provide legal services to defend those who have conducted acts that are seemingly indefensible.
	Each does so because they are committed to the principles of their practice, that all life has value, that each person has rights that are to be defended.
	This is what our media is supposed to be.
	An organization that's committed to the principles of honesty and truth regardless of the consequences.
	Think about what kind of society it would become if special political interest inserted its money and control to emergency rooms or to public defender offices to define what was acceptable.
	It's a scary thought.
	In the last episode, you made mention of the New York Times meeting where the editor-in-chief as well as the staff were actually discussing how to shape the news.
	I could not help but Shake my head in disgust.
	Here's a group of people who have been unwilling accomplices to one of the greatest news misfires ever, the Trump-Russia collusion.
	Time and time again, they pushed stories that found no support when the evidentiary report finally came out.
	Their response was, well, we were just caught flat-footed.
	And time and time again, they pushed stories about...
	And they won Pulitzer Prizes for their flat-footed work.
	Recall a movie, Inception, where the characters needed a totem to tell whether one's self is actually in a reality dream.
	It's a spinning coin.
	Or not in another person's dream.
	Journalists have been wrong about so much for so long, I'm convinced that they have lost themselves.
	Several layers deep in someone else's dream.
	They need a totem to bring themselves back to reality.
	Your gentle sirs are my totem.
	Kindest regards, Sir Brian Martin, Parkland, Florida.
	Thank you very much.
	That's very kind of you.
	Yeah, well that's exactly why we don't take corporate money.
	You can't be any form of truthful.
	We just can't.
	Self-censoring.
	And I think it's pretty clear we're not very self-censoring.
	People are innocent until, you know, alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity.
	That's true.
	You've got karma.
	And there's his sequence.
	Thank you very much, Brian.
	Joe Trenchel, Trenchel, Trenchel, I think, in Pueblo, Colorado.
	333.33.
	But, please credit Carol Ann Chase, affectionately known as Mima, for this donation to show 1166.
	Mima is celebrating her 60th birthday on the 23rd of the month, and I would think of no better gift than to support the best podcasts in the universe in her name.
	Mima is an awesome mom and a grandmom who's raised...
	Equally awesome family that practices kindness and generosity on a daily basis.
	I've been lucky to have been adopted into the family and it's my privilege to make this donation to wish me my happy 60th.
	All right.
	Please send her some respect and karma followed by a that's true in celebration of the occasion.
	She wants some respect.
	We'll give grandma some respect.
	We got that.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. That's true.
	You've got karma.
	Michael Conti comes up next with 33333 again.
	Hello, John and Adam.
	You're taking the time to put together a great show.
	Your blend of humor and analysis along with the bannering gives the show a unique character that is very enjoyable to listen to.
	Nice job.
	I would also like to shout out to my smoking hot wife.
	Happy 35th anniversary.
	It was blessed the day we met with my best friend and soul mate.
	I am looking forward to many more years ahead, but another 35 years may be a bit tricky.
	Mike, respect.
	Mike, respect.
	No, you know, you really bought this one.
	You made me play those jingles for the previous donor, for Mima, and I didn't question it because I didn't see it on the spreadsheet, but it was actually for Mike who wants respect that's true and goat karma.
	You see what happened?
	No?
	Looking at the one that I gave you, please send her some respect spelled differently than this other note, if you haven't noticed.
	Well, I don't have that on my spreadsheet.
	Is it at the bottom of the yellow?
	Oh, it doesn't fit in the cell.
	Huh.
	So this is random number theory and it's the exact same request two in a row?
	No, goat karma was not in the first request.
	Okay, it's a topping of goat, but still, it's pretty amazing.
	That's random numbers.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. That's true.
	Goat karma.
	You've got karma.
	It's no longer a theory.
	That's an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
	Ah, yeah, yeah.
	Or disproven.
	Mike Poplis in Sterling, Massachusetts.
	That's $333.30.
	Please de-douche me.
	You got it.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thanks for all you two doing and keeping us all sane.
	We must all pitch in and donate for the children.
	I would like to call out Jeff H. and Will S. as douchebags.
	Douchebag!
	Double up.
	Douchebag!
	I would like an Obama no-no-no, Adam's Family Edition, and little girl yay with some goat karma.
	It's kind of flat-footed.
	Wait, people ask you to call for goat karma.
	Let me see.
	Obama.
	I don't think I can find that anymore.
	Obama.
	No, no, no, no.
	I know which one it is, but...
	Well, I feel really bad because I don't know which one it is.
	I'll just play one.
	Some different ones.
	I'll make good on one of these days.
	Sorry.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Hey, listen.
	Hey, you're in my house.
	Hey, shame on you.
	You shouldn't be doing that.
	Yay!
	You've got...
	That was great.
	It wasn't the one he wanted.
	Yeah, but he probably forgot that one as I did.
	It's a good one, right?
	That was excellent.
	Robert Sharp in Holly Springs, North Carolina, 319.92.
	This donation brings me halfway to knighthood.
	Thanks for your efforts.
	Thank you.
	Holly Springs.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Baroness Whack-A-Mole in Hillsboro, Oregon.
	$250.
	And she becomes our first associate executive producer for this long list.
	Dear John and Adam, in the morning.
	The last you heard from her, she writes in longhand that is extremely readable.
	Nice.
	It looks like she took penmanship when she was in school.
	I had just adopted the name Whack-A-Mole for all the troubles I had been experiencing with my recent home purchase.
	John seemed disappointed I had not given specifics as to my trials, and Adam was moving at that time, too.
	Here's my story.
	I purchased and moved into my new house last August.
	Unpacked, purchased furniture, hung pictures, and made it a home.
	Then in February, I found out that through a postcard in the mail and a subsequent city open house, that road construction was planned for the road directly in front of my home.
	Oh, no.
	This...
	This will include adding a turn lane, bike lanes, made possible by taking homeowners' land and increasing the speed to 35 miles an hour, creating a direct thoroughfare between two major roads.
	Doing a bit of research, I discovered that the homeowners affected had been received a letter of explanation in the spring of 2017.
	So the seller sold the house to me, not disclosing...
	By the way, it's illegal in California to do that, this information, and you could sue them.
	And my realtor did not do the due diligence to discover this project, though I had clearly stated I desired a quiet road with a nearby green space.
	Oh, no.
	I found out April 18th in another city, meaning that the nearby green space will be the future site of a 19-home development.
	Uh-huh.
	Uh-huh.
	Whoa.
	Of this house.
	Whoa.
	And have a pending offer on a new one on a dead-end street.
	This whole process has been one challenge and a difficulty after another one.
	I hope you didn't go through the same real estate person.
	Thank you for keeping me sane through it all.
	Yes.
	Please include a Sir American Carnegie on the birthday list.
	Oh, I think...
	Oh, I didn't put this...
	I didn't send this to Eric, I don't think.
	Okay.
	Or maybe I did.
	Let me see.
	Sir American Carnage on the birthday list.
	Turns 29 on the 18th.
	I'm checking...
	No, so this is from Dame...
	No, Baroness Whack-A-Mole.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	Baroness Whack-A-Mole, Sir American Carnage.
	When?
	Turns 29 on the 18th.
	Okay, got it.
	We are good to go.
	And she says, we close find an amount close to 1% of the realtor and title fees I paid.
	Wow.
	There you go.
	Thank you.
	Is it deductible now for her?
	Can she deduct the donation?
	Is it just 1% of the fee?
	I guess not, huh?
	Probably not.
	But that's not the idea.
	It's to help support the show.
	I know, I know.
	But thank you.
	Thank you very much, Baroness.
	And congratulations.
	Well, you should get the story out of her.
	That was nice.
	Yeah, congratulations on the new digs.
	Yeah, of us kvetching and boom, story.
	Good story, too.
	David Fugizotto.
	Yeah.
	234 Sir David.
	23456.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Sir Brian Ferguson, the Baron of Costa Mesa.
	23333.
	The sad puppy got to me.
	Sad puppy.
	Sad puppy.
	Score one for the pup.
	The pup does its job.
	The broke people.
	In the morning, Baron of Custom Make-A-Job Karma and Residence Karma looking for a new place.
	Oh, and my favorite son, Reverend Sharpton, too.
	Oh, it always cracks me up.
	There's no real conflict!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Paul Dorton in San Antonio, Texas, 22222.
	The San Antonio NA meetup was my first, and brimming with interesting people, my wife, who is expecting human resource number four, didn't attend because she thought it'd be a sausage fest.
	What?
	What, like a bunch?
	What is that?
	Hey, what is that?
	Well, hold on, hold on.
	She's pregnant, so maybe she just was not feeling it.
	Oh, yeah, she needs pickles.
	John at Dvorak.org.
	Hey.
	Pickles.
	Pickles and ice cream.
	Anyway, sad.
	I learned about Mastodon, hams, guns.
	Wait a minute.
	I'll leave this straight.
	You learned about Mastodon, ham, radio, and guns.
	Okay, she's right.
	It's a sausage fest.
	Can't wait for the next.
	At least they didn't talk about hot rods.
	Reverend Manning, please.
	Time to talk about that!
	And thank you very much for sending that one in.
	That's funny.
	I like that.
	Cesar Baptista in...
	What do you think?
	Sogerties?
	Sogerties, New York.
	Sogerties.
	It must be a job sheet somewhere.
	Sogerties.
	20202.
	Hello, John and Adam.
	My swollen amygdala feels less inflamed.
	And with every installment of No Agenda, thanks to your hard work, please accept this installment towards my knighthood in exchange for some jobs karma and that clip montage of Sharpton tongue twisters.
	Cesar Baptista and Sagista's son.
	Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin, a national drive to push back, or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance.
	But resist, we much.
	That's not the montage.
	I'm sorry.
	I want to do the montage.
	Here we go.
	But resist, we much.
	We must.
	They're all jitty about a shutdown.
	There we go.
	The tortis in the race.
	Then co-author of Hubris.
	YouTube lead singer Bono.
	Fran Drasher.
	Siganoy Weaver.
	Suspect Jahar Sanaev.
	Rush Limbaugh.
	The show Rush Lombard host, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
	Is Mike, is Mike, uh, Mockery.
	Yesterday, Antonin, Antonin Scalia.
	Kim Kardashian and the Republican candidates.
	Both Cairo and Benghazi.
	We rank behind Latvija, uh, La Vita.
	First up.
	Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan to college students in Beijing.
	He's getting lunch at Chipotle in Iowa.
	Bain is appropriate.
	The GOP's tax day giveaway to millionaires.
	Why was traffic problems email sent?
	The Environmental Projection Agency and what sequestration has done.
	I could not stop it.
	It's just so beautiful.
	Once in a while, you've got to roll out the full Reverend Al.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	So that's a rather healthy list of executive and associate executive producers for 1166.
	I want to thank each and every one of them for helping produce this particular show.
	Healthy is right, man.
	That's fantastic.
	And since we're here anyway, let me welcome a new human resource to the No Agenda Nation.
	This is from Richard, your road slave.
	Just thought I'd let the family know we have a new human resource.
	His name is Artemis Kandon Johnson, born 8-19-19, 4-57 p.m.
	and coming in at 6 pounds, 10 ounces.
	He was born after a sudden C-section in Temple and is currently in the NICU for a stay as he is four weeks early.
	Oxygen and feeding tubes are in.
	We are struggling, but they're for him every day.
	If you get a chance, we could use some karma for the little one in the hopes that he gets healthy and out soon.
	Picks below.
	Yes, Rich, I think he actually tweeted me.
	This morning he says we're about to go into the Ronald McDonald house.
	What should I know?
	Well, I can tell you what you need to know.
	You're going to be close to your child.
	You're going to be well taken care of because the motto is keep families together.
	So you will be just fine and let us know when you guys get out.
	Congratulations.
	And thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	I mean, like, really thank you.
	This evened out the seesaw.
	It's always sickening when we go through these rollercoaster moves.
	But I always have faith, and it paid off once again.
	Thank you for supporting the show.
	And we have more people to thank.
	$50 and above in our second segment after more deconstruction.
	And, of course, you can support us by going to this website.
	Well, you've learned a lot already, particularly how much Papa Hondas likes to cry, so go propagate!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	I probably should play this.
	We got a deepfake.
	Deepfake.
	Deep, deep, deep fake.
	There was a deep fake machine out there and people like to do stuff.
	I hear it.
	If you tell me, listen, is this the person?
	Is this the real person?
	I can hear no because it still sounds a bit choppy and not completely natural.
	But when it comes to this particular guy and his already interesting cadence, you get this.
	Hello!
	I'm not Jordan Peterson.
	Like the news you get from the M5M, I'm a deep fake.
	I am an all-go, made up of skipped logic and the odd glitch that requires you to jiggle the handle, manipulated by a nameless douchebag producer seeking cheap laughs.
	It is more important than ever that you donate to No Agenda.
	Unlike me, where man made climate change, causing the mudflats to disappear, there goes this effort.
	The No Agenda show is real and needs your support, especially from you, Jeremy and Bondi, you douchebag.
	Please go to dvorak.org and donate now.
	I may be fake, but this shit is real.
	That's pretty good, isn't it?
	Yeah, a couple of glitches in there, but I liked it.
	And it sounded exactly like him, except for the little glitches.
	Don't say glitches.
	Well, those were glitches where something goes like, makes a glitch.
	Yeah, you're right, it was a little glitch.
	My favorite part was this.
	There goes the Zephyr.
	There goes the Zephyr.
	Yeah, I heard that.
	I was just thrown in there for no reason.
	There goes the Zephyr.
	That made it really feel real to me.
	That was a beautiful thing.
	Oh my goodness.
	So who was our producer that did that?
	Oh, well, it's Sir Chris Wilson put it together, but there's the Not Peterson, NotJordanPeterson.com deepfake.
	Isn't there people selling deepfake algorithms?
	I didn't know that.
	I didn't know that was available.
	Yeah, you can just enter in anything you want.
	Sounds like Jordan Peterson.
	It sounds pretty, well, yes, I would say it sounds pretty good.
	Pretty good.
	Yeah, I thought you'd get a kick out of that.
	Oh, you know, I thought I had dreamt this, and then I went looking for it, and indeed I had seen it, and it did happen, but it kind of passed over with the shootings and God knows what else, just the election news channels.
	It's so hard to get news, like actual news, even news from the president, who, by the way, I think Trump has done something very smart.
	He noticed he never replaced Sarah Sanders as far as I know.
	He certainly didn't replace anyone in the briefing room.
	So his new shtick is fantastic.
	Whenever he's walking to the helicopter, out of the Oval, across the lawn, he's got a news pool camera set up.
	No journalists on camera, which is why you never see Jim Acosta anymore.
	Just no journalists on camera, only him answering, going back and forth, bantering.
	And I think at this point he must have spoken to the press more than any president ever in history.
	He comes wandering out.
	Sometimes he wanders over the grass.
	Yeah.
	A lot of grass in these shots.
	Yeah, well, it's the White House.
	Yeah, he's coming from the grass and he's coming out from a chopper and he's going to a chopper.
	It's always something.
	He's on the move.
	Yes, he's on the move.
	That's right.
	Yeah, it's good.
	But I like that he's taken away the whole idea of the briefing.
	It's just gone.
	Now it's just him.
	And it's probably the best way to do it.
	Although, holy crap, man.
	No matter what he says, it's just another scandal of the day for the election TV channels.
	It's despicable.
	But anyway, one of the things that we always talk about when you have these mass shootings is were there any pharmaceuticals involved?
	Now we know that the Dayton, Ohio shooter had Xanax and cocaine and alcohol.
	Not a great combo.
	Not an SSRI, but not a great combo.
	But you never really hear about this and it's never discussed on the news channels because the election channels are sponsored by Big Pharma in general.
	They spend most of the money.
	Silicon Valley doing pretty good as well.
	And as we've talked about several times on the show, but going back many years, the closing of the mental institutions in the United States.
	Now, could you do like a brief reminder?
	Because this was the Reagan era, was it not?
	When we closed what we used to call the nut houses?
	Well, yes, but I'll give the briefing because this was an era that I was, this was my era.
	And what had been going on, I was a Democrat during this era, of course, because I was a Democrat.
	Of course, because you were a Democrat.
	So there was a constant carping by the Democrats, mostly, the left, if you want to call them that today, but the Democrats, just the Democrats.
	And it was in the schools, when you're in high school, even grammar school, they always discussed, oh...
	The horrible thing they do, they look at these insane asylums, it's not the way you treat people, they don't need to be locked up, and they made a just...
	It was the beginning of the social justice warrior movement.
	I believe maybe it was.
	And they just moaned and groaned and moaned and groaned and moaned and groaned and it was never going to end.
	And what was the main complaint about these mental institutions?
	They were locking people up, man.
	Oh, man.
	They don't need to be locked up.
	And so they were looking these people up, and it was bad.
	They should be out and about.
	Most of them weren't even nuts anyway, as far as they were concerned.
	They just needed some counseling.
	And so it was just this idea, and they kept harping on it.
	And it was just like, and this One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was largely about written by Ken Kesey, and he was a functionary of the moment.
	And he wrote a book about it, and it was just horrible.
	They just lock people in, and they give them electroshock therapy and drug them, and so they're zombies.
	It's horrible.
	So Reagan comes into office and he says he didn't want to have anything to do with all these people moaning and groaning for his whole six years or however long he's going to stay as the governor.
	And he just closed all the places.
	He did what they wanted.
	And now, of course, looking back, they blame him.
	Were these federal institutions?
	And Reagan had the power to close them?
	All of them got disappeared.
	We had Agnew State Hospital down in San Jose locked up.
	We had Nuthouse in, see how I refer to it?
	Nuthouse.
	Nuthouse in Napa.
	It's a Nuthouse in Sonoma.
	Both of them were pretty much shuttered.
	I think one was kept, I think the one for the criminally insane, whichever one that was, I think was kept It would be worth going back and looking at some articles from that period and see if people are talking about the equivalent of people experiencing homelessness, people experiencing mental issues or some crap like that.
	Well, the homelessness thing is something that has been written about, has been studied a little bit, and it really relates back to Jimmy Carter.
	When he changed some federal rules about subsidizing housing.
	Let's not go there.
	Let's stay with the nut houses for a second.
	And I remember growing up, hey, what's wrong with Timmy?
	They took his mom to the nut house.
	Yeah.
	That would be the way it would be referred to.
	Well, President Trump heard it.
	We're going to be focusing very strongly on mental health because here's a case of mental health.
	Part of the problem is we used to have mental institutions.
	And I said this yesterday.
	We had a mental institution where you take a sicko like this guy.
	He was a sick guy.
	So many signs.
	And you'd bring them to a mental health institution.
	Those institutions are largely closed because communities didn't want them.
	Communities didn't want to spend the money for them.
	So you don't have any intermediate ground.
	You can't put him in jail because he hadn't done anything yet, but you know he's going to do something.
	So we're going to be talking seriously about opening mental health institutions again.
	In some cases, reopening.
	I can tell you in New York, the governors in New York did a very, very bad thing when they closed our mental institutions, so many of them.
	You have these people living on the streets.
	And I can say that in many cases throughout the country they're very dangerous.
	They shouldn't be there.
	So we're going to be talking about mental institutions and when you have some person like this you can bring them into a mental institution.
	And they can see what they can do, but we've got to get them out of our communities.
	So the problem with doing this today in 2019, and if it hasn't already started, it will, is mental health and the definitions of that have changed.
	Mental health is, I mean, now at school you can take a mental health day.
	At work, you can have a mental health day.
	John, you and I don't know this, but this is a fact.
	This is something that is a part of your benefits package.
	You get this many sick days, PTO, and then here's your mental health days.
	Mental health is described very differently, and it is much more inclusive than you're ripe for the funny farm or the nuthouse.
	And with the SSRIs, and I learned a new one, SNRIs, which you'll hear in a moment, These two people who are depressed, who are really seriously depressed, they have been lifesavers.
	So, you know, you've got to tread very carefully in today's media landscape of what you call mental health and mentally insane, etc.
	And as if on cue, NPR had an hour-long special celebrating 30 years of Prozac.
	And I put a link to it in the show notes.
	It's worth listening to, although at the end, it comes all the way around to, well, they're pretty good, we should keep taking them.
	The woman who did the piece, did the interviews and hosts the piece, has also been on Prozac for most of her adult life.
	And I just wanted to play a clip from this.
	We've had 30 years of Prozac, so why are we still depressed?
	Which I'd like to have as an ISO candidate for the end of the show.
	I think it's a very valuable statement.
	We've had 30 years of Prozac.
	So why are we still depressed?
	I have this almost physical memory of the first time I opened the bottle and shook this tiny green and cream-colored capsule out into my hand.
	I remember being scared because at the time I thought it was going to make me somebody else.
	And what did you think?
	I vividly remember, you know, the first time I took it.
	But I remember better the third and fourth time I took it because I was stunned.
	I was absolutely stunned.
	At first, I thought this couldn't be.
	I'm just having a good moment.
	But that moment turned into a day.
	And that day turned into a week.
	And that week turned into a month.
	And I'm someone who lived with psychiatric symptoms lately.
	Since I was 10 years old and probably even before, all of a sudden I was better.
	And I had to reckon with what it meant that this pill was making me into a new person.
	I came to believe it was what I called a psychotropic Drano.
	It cleared my mind of all of the gunk of obsessions and the gunk of depression.
	And underneath was the person that I was.
	The most miraculous thing that's ever happened to me, and I've had two babies, and that's supposedly miraculous.
	And it was miraculous, but it wasn't as miraculous as being cured in a matter of days by a pill.
	What's been the long-term effect on you?
	Prozac stopped working for me.
	It wasn't like it's kind of dwindled down.
	It just stopped.
	So I had to switch to Effexor.
	I'm permanently on an SSRI or SSNRI booster.
	I can't get off.
	I've tried to get off, and it's not possible for me to do.
	I don't see that I'll ever be able to get off of it.
	In the meantime, no one knows, no one really knows what the long-term side effects of the SSRIs are.
	I've been taking them, you've been taking them for 30 years.
	We're walking experiments, but the scarier thing than that is that no one's experimenting on us.
	They should be looking towards us.
	Our bodies carry the signatures of these drugs, but no one's asking us or looking at us or looking in us to find out what might be the long-term effects.
	Why are they so hard to get off of?
	And what happens to the brain if you do get off of them?
	And what happens to the brain if you don't get off of them?
	I mean, something is happening to the brain.
	And after 30 years of marinating your brain in a serotonin booster, clearly the brain has changed.
	But no one knows how or why.
	And apparently no one gives a crap.
	Apparently not.
	That's outrageous.
	Wow.
	That is outrageous, and these women have a point that I think is well made by that one woman.
	Yeah, what gives?
	Yeah, it's like 30 years.
	As long as you're paying the bill.
	Yeah, I mean, this is just like Shantix.
	Just say, hey, are you smoking?
	No, it works.
	Who cares if you tried to kill yourself or your neighbor?
	Who cares if you woke up naked rolling around in horse crap with a gun?
	Who cares if you're a celebrity chef and you kill yourself while in France?
	So yeah, I find that to be immediate grounds for halting sales until...
	Well, that wouldn't be fair.
	These people really need it.
	And it stopped working.
	I mean, isn't that reason enough for the makers of Prozac to go find out why?
	I don't know if that's a competing manufacturer, but she went to a different brand and had to add a booster.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	It's very distressing.
	Yeah.
	And I'm sure lots of people will send me emails about their experience, and I appreciate that.
	It'll be interesting to read.
	And of course, in this case, Prozac only.
	Well, okay, well...
	Well, let's see if we got something a little more exciting.
	We got tons of things that are exciting.
	Sometimes I got to put something on blast, you know?
	Let's see.
	We got, uh, what is the interesting odd with Cuomo and the Ray?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, this is interesting.
	Now, this is, this is, this was something I recorded.
	I knew about this, and I thought it was, as a topic, it was, this woman calls out whitey, you know, it's just some screeching woman that's, that's giving some guy crap for being white.
	Mm-hmm.
	But that's not what I ended up with.
	This clip was not about that.
	This clip turns out to be about something completely different.
	It has nothing to do with the message of the clip.
	This has to do with the pitch of the woman's voice.
	You know how someone would like to drop their register down and talk deep because, you know, like...
	You mean like when you're running a blood company?
	I'm Elizabeth Holmes.
	I'm the new Steve Jobs.
	There is something...
	This woman who is bitching about...
	She was talking over two people.
	The tones and the pitches and the frequency response of her voice...
	Or the frequency of her voice, not the response.
	The frequency of her voice...
	Pretty much wipes everything else out, and I'm wondering if this is not the most effective person to have as a spokesperson in a broadcast or televised argument, just because of her voice.
	Let's listen to this clip, and the clip's been around, but just listen to how her voice dominates.
	This isn't, unfortunately, about politics.
	Politics is about elections.
	This isn't about terrorism.
	Let's talk about terrorism.
	This is about the fact that these four women, particularly these two, have taken over the Democratic Party, hijacked it from their own speaker.
	You think they've taken it over, Angela?
	That is so interesting.
	It's so interesting.
	This is Angela Rye.
	Is that who it is?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I have the same clip, but the setup would have been very different for me, but okay.
	Let's listen.
	Well, let's listen.
	Because I don't care about this bull crap.
	This is just a bunch of people bitching and moaning at each other.
	I don't care about the message she has to say, but I do care about her voice.
	And how it easily steps all over both Cuomo and the other guy.
	If they're all talking at the same time, you can hear her.
	The only two Muslim women in Congress, the term you chose to use, sir, is hijacking.
	Oh, really?
	You chose to use the term hijacking.
	I beg to differ, and I absolutely condemn your remarks.
	That's a real interesting word choice, and you understand why.
	You can talk over me all you want to, but the bottom line is the greatest terrorist group in this country are white men.
	White men who think like you.
	That is the greatest terrorist threat in this country.
	You're absolutely right.
	It's all because of guys like me.
	That's silly rhetoric.
	It doesn't get us to where I think the show started.
	No, it's not.
	You know what's silly?
	The fact that you're on here knowing how dangerous times are right now, defending this nonsense, calling people these folks, talking about how they hijacked the party.
	Hold on one second.
	Let's reset the table.
	Hold on.
	Angela, hold on.
	Just to be clear.
	Patrick, give me a second.
	It's not silly.
	There's nothing silly about this conversation.
	Whose show is it?
	Calm down so we can have a rational conversation.
	That was my favorite part.
	Yes, she has a great voice.
	She's a very annoying person.
	She is full of crap.
	She is boule.
	And she's been on CNN for a long time with this annoying voice.
	And I think you should hire her as your personal spokesperson.
	It's astonishing, her voice.
	I mean, I didn't, just because I was listening for the message, that's why I didn't clip it for that.
	I mean, the idea that you can't use the word hijack because it's somehow demeaning to the Muslims.
	And just to add to that, I mean, you did hear the point where she keeps saying that white men are the problem.
	I mean, you heard that, right?
	Of course.
	Okay, that pisses me off.
	Yeah, that's what she does.
	She's racist.
	But it's the way it cuts through everything else.
	That's what I was impressed by.
	The screechy voice of hers is perfect.
	It's the perfect voice.
	That's why she's there.
	They have selected her specifically forward.
	She was just a runner at the Black Congressional Caucus.
	She wasn't anyone's important.
	And then she got on CNN. She's good at yapping over people and she's good to go.
	She's got a career.
	I love this part.
	Reset the table.
	Hold on.
	Angela, hold on.
	Just to be clear.
	Patrick, give me a second.
	It's not silly.
	There's nothing silly about this conversation.
	Whose show is it?
	Now, I don't know today's television standards, but back in the day when I was on the television, if you were an interviewer or you had a panel of people and you resorted to, hey, whose show is it?
	You got a talking to.
	Oh, that's very amateurish.
	It shows you have no control.
	You don't know what you're doing.
	And it's pathetic.
	Maybe it's okay these days, I guess.
	But, you know, do you get a talking to?
	I think it's done on purpose.
	There's no reason.
	Because the control room can cut people off.
	They can do a lot.
	But because she is getting hurt.
	She's the one who's dominating the country.
	She must have given her the show.
	Oh, well, she's been wanting her own show for a long time.
	I'd say, Don Lemon, be on the lookout.
	Watch your back.
	Watch your index finger.
	That would be a good person to replace.
	Lemon would be good to replace with her.
	I get the sense that she's stupid.
	I'm sorry, Don Lemon is the shining light?
	Hello, let's get back to the programming meeting for a moment.
	But I get the sense that she's a dummy and probably couldn't do a show.
	Or she's a prima donna that would be horrible to be running a show.
	Well, I'll tell you this.
	She would be a good hate watch.
	People would be totally into it.
	More hate watching than Lemon.
	Lemon is too, is, you know...
	He's namby.
	Yeah.
	He better watch his index finger.
	She's coming for him.
	Speaking of old white guys being the problem, this carries over into the business news, Fox Business News.
	If you can just carve out those that are good for the environment, social, and governance, that don't have board members or a bunch of old people, guys, white guys sitting around the table falling asleep, we need an upgrade.
	We need a facelift.
	And I think to some degree this is what they're saying.
	But they're not going to shift away from profitability for sure.
	Investors today, especially millennials, are looking for this type of representation in their portfolio, and you can get that in ETFs.
	Sir, you're saying there is a genuine shift on the part of society which wants capitalism to be less gung-ho for profit.
	No, I'm not saying that.
	It's profit number one, as you say.
	However, we're under more scrutiny.
	If you have been running a Fortune 500 for a long period of time, and your board members on average are 78 years old, and they're all white guys, and they don't have diversification, they don't have younger thoughts, you're going to come under scrutiny from investors.
	Okay, fair point.
	Fair point.
	Tom, hold on a second.
	I'll get back to you in a second.
	Yeah, I guess we're screwed.
	We'll be under scrutiny.
	Well, this is a bogus argument, too.
	Of course it is.
	What you want is the most experienced people you can get, and you just randomly throw a bunch of diverse people onto the boards of various companies.
	Don't you know that most companies do better when you have women in senior management?
	Where's the A-B comparison?
	Where's the proof of that assertion?
	Oh, oh, oh, false equivalency!
	Whataboutism?
	Yeah, find the proof of that assertion.
	Do you like my libtard?
	False equivalency, man.
	Back off with your whataboutism.
	You know, you have a better voice to do that character.
	I do?
	Oh, I kind of like that.
	That's too dumb.
	That's too dumb.
	Dogs are people, too.
	That's right, everybody!
	We get shit for it, but dogs are indeed people, too.
	I cannot stop being on this tip.
	We have replaced children with dogs, certainly here in Austin, Texas.
	We've replaced them not only in the...
	What?
	Somebody wrote in and said the reason our donation was done on the last show is because you condemned dead dogs.
	I did not condemn dead dogs, but I did make fun of the constant comparison of dogs to children, specifically babies.
	You never hear, this is my toddler.
	You never hear, this is my teenager.
	No, it's always my baby.
	How old is your baby?
	Oh, eight years.
	Stinky old poodle.
	And I love dogs.
	I have no problem with dogs, but owners...
	Oh my god.
	Anyway, I could go on forever.
	It's fine.
	It's fine, but I am right about this.
	We are replacing children with dogs, and Channel 4 in the UK has made a show about it.
	One more time, you're going to go and sit on the stairs.
	Okay.
	Top British dog trainer Jo Rosie is coming to the aid of desperate parents with a controversial approach to parenting.
	I'm putting my neck on the line, but I believe in the concept, I believe that this will work.
	It is almost like giving a dog the treats.
	Using dog training techniques.
	You have to say it a little less like he is a dog.
	On kids.
	Whether or not I'm looking with a dog or a child.
	They all want to be good boys.
	Are you ready?
	Sit!
	But can you really train your baby like a dog?
	Tuesday at 8 on Channel 4.
	There you go.
	What?
	Yes.
	Can you train your baby like a dog?
	Yes.
	And they brought in the dog trainer.
	And this is one time when video wouldn't have been good.
	She says, sit.
	You hear it in the clip.
	Sit.
	And the dog and the kid both sit down.
	It's phenomenal.
	That's just, you know.
	Wow.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's here, I think.
	Whether or not I'm like a dog or a child, they all want to be good boys.
	Are you ready?
	Six.
	But can you really train your baby like a dog?
	She said eight on Channel 4.
	Woo!
	Well, when I see a choke chain around some baby, then I'll wonder.
	Well, you're no stranger to the leash.
	No, that's true, but that's not for training.
	It's to keep them from running on the tracks.
	It's life-saving measures.
	Yeah, it is a big difference.
	Brexit!
	This would fall under the header of, I don't know, but we were talking about this.
	I'm pretty sure I said...
	What are you laughing about?
	What are you ho-humming about?
	Well, I didn't get a clip this morning from this network, Joe.
	And I'm glad you brought up Brexit, because now I can talk about it.
	I didn't clip the clip, but I can talk about the latest scheme.
	Okay, well, here's what I heard.
	Boris was hanging out with Angela.
	In fact, I have the clip.
	And he's like...
	And she goes...
	And then he goes, yeah, I think we can still come up with a deal in 30 days.
	It's aggressive, but I think we can do it.
	This guy is not taking the UK out of anything.
	Yes, of course.
	I think there is ample scope to do a deal, and I've explained, I think, pretty clearly what needs to happen.
	We need to remove those elements of the withdrawal agreement that simply don't work.
	But once we get rid of it, if we can change it, Then I think there is the real prospect of making progress very rapidly indeed.
	Oh yes, the backstop is a backstop.
	We can do the backstop.
	That's no problem.
	We can take care of that.
	I think we can probably do a deal.
	Maybe two years, maybe a little bit faster, maybe 30 days.
	I think it would be possible.
	I think we can do it.
	What do you think, Bojo?
	I think what we need to do is remove it whole and entire, remove the backstop, and then work, as Chancellor Merkel says, on the alternative arrangements.
	And there are abundant solutions which are proffered, which have already been discussed.
	Gus, I don't think, to be fair, they've so far been very actively proposed over the last three years by the British government.
	But I may say I'm very glad listening to you tonight, Angela, to hear that at least the conversations on that matter can now properly begin.
	And you've set a very blistering timetable there of 30 days, if I understood you correctly.
	I'm more than happy with that.
	Oh, please.
	the You know what's going to happen?
	You're probably right.
	They're not going to Brexit.
	They're going to kick him out, and Nigel Farage will become Prime Minister.
	They're out of control.
	What Boris Johnson is.
	If Nigel Farage becomes Prime Minister, I would love to go back, I think, probably 10 years, 9 years for sure.
	And find the notes that we got from our British listeners back then.
	Because we were big fans of Nigel Farage just for his polemics.
	Oh yeah.
	He's racist!
	He's a dick!
	Why do you like him?
	This is no good!
	He's going to go nowhere.
	He's going nowhere!
	No one cares about him!
	These are all good bits.
	And we spotted him early and we stayed on the train and we were correct, as I think we are often.
	So I'm watching this clip.
	You know the latest they're going for, and it wasn't concise enough, so it wasn't really clippable.
	I would have sent it this morning.
	The thing they're pushing now is the catchphrase, freedom of movement.
	They seem to be really hounding on this freedom of movement thing.
	And so the odd man on the street, do you think it's going to be okay?
	Because with Brexit, you'll have no freedom of movement.
	Yes, this is a big thing.
	Yeah, I know.
	Yeah, as if now you've got the lead boots on and you can't move, you can't even leave their town, you're locked down.
	That's what it makes it sound like.
	In a straitjacket.
	Straight jacket, you can't move, you can't do anything.
	And this is the same thing with this Ireland border backstop nonsense.
	What difference does it make if they put a stupid border guard on the road?
	Well, hold on a second.
	Now, you're wrong because the Republic of Ireland and the Northern Ireland people...
	They have a real problem with the border.
	They're happy they finally got rid of all the problems and they are worried, they say, they, that the problems will come back if we have a physical border.
	Do a pass-through border.
	Just have it there as...
	You've flown into Europe where you go into the customs thing and there's two doors.
	One is green, one is red.
	You've got nothing to declare.
	You walk off the plane.
	Boom!
	You go through the green hole and you're now in the country.
	It took that long.
	The United States, they stop everybody, scan the bags, they do all this stuff.
	You don't need to do that.
	You could just have a green, you know, have the border there, have a big green and a red, and just have people go back and forth as fast as they want to through the green hole.
	I don't see this being a huge impediment or it's going to re-trigger the Irish Republican Army or anything in between.
	I don't know, but I'd like a t-shirt that says the green hole.
	That's all I want.
	Yeah, well, that probably is all you want, but that said...
	I just don't.
	I mean, this freedom of movement thing, they got everyone saying, oh, God, I don't know what I'm going to do.
	Okay, well, hold on.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Too bad for the British.
	Hold on.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	This is not entirely correct.
	The freedom of movement thing is also mentioned on the EU side, and it is not just about the backstop and the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
	It is about the freedom to go work.
	No, I never said that.
	But I'm telling you, that is...
	I just mentioned the backstop being an element.
	Okay.
	I'm expanding.
	I'm expanding, okay?
	I'm expanding.
	It's all right.
	I'm not attacking you.
	It's just, they always send the emails to me.
	So I'm trying to thwart that.
	Adam at curry.com is easy to remember.
	Yes.
	The freedom of movement, in my experience, the way people mean it is, now I can't go and work in Amsterdam.
	Now I can't go work in Frankfurt.
	Now I can't go work in fill in the blank.
	And that's true.
	Until, you know, something is worked out or if that's worked out immediately.
	That's really, and I see that more as people who don't want to be in the UK. They're the ones bitching, oh, not on freedom of movement.
	You basically want to personally actually Brexit to go work somewhere else.
	They should just move there.
	Yes.
	The UK. If you want to work in Amsterdam and Holland because you like it better than you like Liverpool, just move there.
	Become a citizen.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, they don't want to do that.
	This is like temporary marriage.
	Boris Johnson as a guy is a nut job.
	But you know what?
	I'm happy the UK has someone like this now because I got a little tired of Trump bits.
	Here's Boris Johnson who is an anti-anti-vaxxer.
	At the same time, the World Health Organization stripped the United Kingdom of its measles-free status after it declared the disease had been eliminated just three years ago.
	Complacency on the part of parents about the need to get that second vaccine.
	But also, I'm afraid, people have just been listening to that superstitious mumbo-jumbo on the internet, anti-vax stuff, and thinking that the MMR vaccine is a bad idea.
	That's wrong.
	The British government's inviting social media companies to a summit on how they can better promote accurate vaccination information.
	Oh, there you go.
	Colluding with the government.
	It's called censorship.
	But okay, you can call it a conference if you want.
	Gotta love that.
	Yeah.
	Gotta love that.
	Hey, let's go figure out how we can tell people how wrong they are.
	They need to...
	And this is not a pre, a pro, or anti-vax statement.
	It's just, you've got to be careful when the governments are telling you what to do.
	Telling you what to do.
	There were two...
	Yeah, I'd like to play these two clips.
	There's a lawsuit against Google for their YouTube subsidiary from PragerU.
	And they have filed...
	Yeah, it's...
	This is something that we've been talking about when it comes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which of course is what spawned the commercial internet services known today as the social media, etc.
	And the idea, just briefly, it's explained in this clip, That you could host someone's user-generated content, it was referred to at the time, UGC, user-generated content, which is free, you know, they do it themselves as fucking idiots.
	Can you believe they're going to make a business out of this?
	So you could not get sued for libel.
	But, of course, you have to adhere to the exact words of the statute.
	And PragerU is taking Alphabet to court.
	They did a full six-minute video.
	I've shortened it down just to give you the basic of what their lawsuit is about.
	The most important lawsuit in America right now, and perhaps the free world, is Prager University.
	I don't know about that.
	The world's freedom depends on YouTube!
	The most important lawsuit in America right now, and perhaps the free world, is Prager University versus YouTube.
	YouTube was infringing on our right to free speech.
	We filed in federal court in late 2017 and thereafter in California State Court.
	Wait a second, you might say.
	YouTube, which is owned by Google, is a private company.
	Can't they do anything they want?
	The answer is yes and no.
	Yes if they are a publisher.
	No if they are a public forum.
	So what's the difference?
	This gets right to the nub of the matter.
	Right to the nub of the matter?
	That's a typical lawyer, I guess.
	He has no heart.
	Can't say heart, the nub.
	So what's the difference?
	This gets right to the nub of the matter.
	A publisher chooses the content that resides on its site.
	The New York Times is a perfect example.
	You can't write a story and just expect the New York Times to publish it.
	The Times chooses what appears on its pages or website, and if they publish a story that contains a malicious lie or violates copyright law, they can be sued.
	PragerU is also a publisher.
	It decides what material gets placed on its website.
	Most sites are publishers.
	In contrast, a public forum, which can be a physical location like the classic town square or a shopping mall, YouTube is an example of a public forum.
	In fact, YouTube describes itself as a public forum.
	You make a video, YouTube hosts it, and anyone with an internet connection can watch it.
	Facebook is also a public forum, and so is Twitter.
	Here's why this is so important.
	A public forum under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law co-sponsored by Democrats and Republicans and passed by Congress in 1996, is not subject to liability for content placed on its site.
	If someone posts a video about how to build a bomb or writes a threatening comment, the public forum website cannot be held legally responsible for that content.
	That's a good thing.
	It gives YouTube and other public forums the chance to host a wide variety of material, from nature videos to political diatribes, without fear of being sued.
	And it worked.
	And then it didn't.
	A few years ago, the social media giants, Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, started to behave not like public forums, but like publishers.
	They stopped following Section 230, which specifically requires that these websites promote a true diversity of political discourse and began to judge content by their own political and social criteria.
	And by the way, I pulled out every three-second gap between every sentence he read, so that was painful as it was.
	It was much more painful before I chopped it down.
	And I think this is interesting, this lawsuit, because it goes after a different part of the statute, which is a light description, but it is a description of some of the responsibilities, and I think they can argue it.
	Yeah, I've always believed this.
	I wrote a column last year in PC Magazine that said that by Facebook and Twitter, I said they're publishers.
	And one of these days something has to be done about it because they're not acting like publishers.
	I mean, they're acting like publishers in that they cull products.
	They take out terrorist stuff.
	They take out stuff they don't like.
	And they have buildings full of people that look at things and decide whether it should be removed or not, including some of these very lame videos that PragerU has been – had pulled, including an Alan Dershowitz explanation of the founding of Israel.
	Why would you pull that?
	Because, man, it's like BDS, man.
	Hey, where are Israeli knights, by the way?
	I don't hear from them anymore.
	That's a good point.
	A little worried.
	I don't see him on Twitter.
	We never had a lot of Israeli listeners.
	But we have Sir Jono.
	We have a couple of knights in Israel.
	I have not heard from him.
	Anyway, sorry.
	Continue on your...
	Good point.
	Anyway, so I've written about this, and I sent a column over to that law firm, and...
	I don't know how they're going to handle this whole thing, but it's about time because if somebody put – here's my concern, and I've seen it.
	Somebody on YouTube or anywhere, any of these systems, publishes something libelous, you should be able to sue the publisher.
	Yeah.
	But you can't because it's Section 230.
	Supposedly, these are forums.
	Like a bulletin board at your local Taqueria.
	You can just stick something up there and there it is.
	I don't think so.
	It's international.
	I mean, the Germans don't...
	YouTube and all these guys, they make them take down any Nazi stuff.
	They'd gladly do it.
	Yeah, you can have separate...
	Before I do say anything, I could not resist.
	I went to try out the new Burger King taco.
	Since you said taqueria.
	I did.
	I left myself open for the cross-examination.
	Now you can go to tacos as a subject.
	No, I just wanted to say that I love me a hard-shell taco, and the commercial, they look so good, and the people eating them look so happy.
	Let me tell you, this is a piece-of-shit product.
	It comes flat, and it looks like a quesadilla.
	It gets soggy almost immediately.
	That's the way the Jack-in-the-Box taco comes.
	Oh, and it looks nothing like the pictures, nothing like the commercial.
	It has the taste.
	You can't even...
	I am right now.
	I'm putting my blast.
	I could not even see what was in there.
	Oh, what a piece of crap.
	Have you ever had a Jack-in-the-Box taco?
	No.
	I'm not a big jack-in-the-box guy.
	I'm not a big jack-in-the-box guy.
	In fact, I'm not a fast food guy.
	I'm telling you this right now.
	You should do this.
	Okay, I'm going to do it.
	Because now that you've entered the realm of taco reviewer.
	Taco reviewer, yes.
	You have to go to the jack-in-the-box and get a jack-in-the-box taco to compare it to the Burger King taco.
	Yes.
	Am I then not a taco-rist?
	You're a taco-rista.
	A taco-rista.
	I nailed it.
	Yes, thank you.
	All right, back to YouTube after this slight detour.
	Dave Rubin...
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Since you brought up the taco thing, I'm going to bring up mine.
	I'm sorry.
	Yes, because you are also a taco restaurant.
	The french fries at Taco Bell, because they try to get into the french fry game with some dip, and they're coated with some god-awful powder, are the worst.
	Yeah.
	French fries, you can buy anywhere.
	I have a feeling Taco Talk may be a whole segment just by itself.
	Taco Talk, with your taco...
	Is there a podcast?
	There should be a podcast.
	Taco Talk, with your taquerises, Adam and John.
	Hey, John, how are your beans?
	All right, back to Google.
	Dave Rubin, who is, of course, he's a leading warrior on the front against censorship and what YouTube is doing and the deplatforming and the cancel culture because he's witnessed it firsthand.
	And I applaud him for doing that.
	So he had a panel that he pulled together with a number of people talking about deplatforming.
	And on that panel, former Facebook guy who had been at Facebook for seven or eight years, I'm sure he has his money and he's fine, he's doing other stuff, Brian Amarish.
	And he's asked, and wouldn't you know it, the guy inside the companies is saying exactly what we've been saying about deplatforming on this show since the word deplatforming was invented.
	Just a little insight on how...
	In terms of what makes it hard to be transparent and a little bit about how these algorithms work, whether it's ranking in newsfeed or demonetization on YouTube.
	So what they don't have is some sort of ban list of if you talk about these topics or you use these words, whether if you're an objectivist or you're on the right, that you're going to fall into this category and we're going to treat you this way.
	That's not how it works.
	So what's essentially happening, and this is true for both YouTube and Facebook, is Let's talk about demonetization, for example.
	What they're trying to insulate advertisers from is the risk of their brands being tarnished by controversy.
	That's the thing that advertisers are worried about.
	They're worried about the fact that if they're associated with something that's considered hateful or hate speech or politically incorrect, that that's going to blow up.
	It's going to tarnish their brand.
	They don't want to be associated with that.
	Is that a very strange thing, though?
	Because I don't think, say, before the internet, if you were watching any NBC sitcom, you weren't thinking that whoever, you know, Tide endorsed that particular episode of The Cosby Show or something like that?
	Yeah.
	I think people have become a lot more sensitive about it and they've become much more activist-like about it and saying, oh, you're right next to that ad, therefore we're going to try to punish you and control you in this way.
	And so what I've understood from the advertisers, and I didn't work on that part directly, but I've spoken to folks inside Facebook about this, is that That's essentially their concern.
	It's not that they're against objectivists or they're against people on the right.
	It's that they don't want to be associated with something that could become controversial.
	And so the problem for these companies becomes, how do we predict what's going to become controversial?
	And the way you do that is not that you have a team of human beings who are deciding what's controversial and what's not.
	The answer is that you build fairly sophisticated models using artificial intelligence and machine learning that essentially try to predict what's going to be controversial and what's not.
	Okay, so without going too matrix right now, aren't the humans the flaw in the system there?
	I mean, these systems are built by humans who have their own biases and all that.
	I mean, I look at it from a higher level than that.
	I think the flaw is what you were saying in the sense of like...
	You can't be that sensitive about being associated with content that's controversial.
	Because it is impossible to build models that are going to predict this stuff accurately.
	What those models end up predicting, nobody can even tell you.
	You might look at it from a very human perspective and say, oh, it kind of fuzzily looks like they're biased against conservatives or objectivists or whatever it is.
	But In practice, the way these models work is there are hundreds of thousands of levers.
	Nobody knows what they all are.
	They're trained, essentially, with data sets that are...
	And again, they're trying to reduce controversy, essentially, with them.
	And that's the advertiser concern, at least.
	And that's where it's coming from.
	But there's no sort of ban list on far right or...
	Exactly.
	And that's the whole problem.
	It's what it's always been.
	Now, are there biased people pulling the levers?
	Absolutely.
	There's something in there that was funny you can catch.
	Okay.
	And why did he keep saying it?
	Objectivist?
	Yeah.
	Because he's an Ayn Rand guy, I guess.
	That's got to be it.
	Or somebody is at the company.
	Maybe he was always a Randian and that's why he had to leave.
	Or maybe Facebook is Ayn Randian.
	I haven't heard that word for decades.
	No.
	Even when we talked about Ayn Rand, who you're a big fan of.
	Yeah, we talked about objectivism.
	I've never heard you ever use the word objectivism.
	Well, you're wrong because we went into...
	In fact, you went into great detail about the bullcrap objectivism.
	After I said, hey, I read this book, I kind of liked it.
	Atlas Shrugged.
	Bullcrap objectivism.
	Remember?
	That's not me.
	That's exactly you.
	I am nailing your...
	You dreamed it.
	No.
	No, we did talk about it.
	Yeah.
	Vivid dream.
	Okay.
	All right.
	We have archives.
	I just found in that clip, it was very peculiar that he kept bringing that up.
	I agree.
	I'm glad you did catch it.
	Okay.
	Yeah, of course.
	And the troll room caught it, too.
	People do listen.
	And they also listen to their customers.
	It looks like Gillette has figured out that their idea of causing controversy with the best man can be, which backfired spectacularly with a $5 billion write-down on the Gillette property...
	So they've gone back.
	Yeah, they've gone back.
	They've now changed.
	They are now going to stop talking about toxic masculinity and they're going to local heroes as we see a firefighter in Australia wake up in the morning getting ready to shave.
	I've been a firefighter for 19 years.
	People sometimes ask if it's scary.
	It can be.
	But like anyone who has a job to do, you prepare.
	Not just in terms of your equipment, but also mentally.
	And physically.
	In urban environments, it's mandatory for Australian firefighters to be clean-shaven.
	So that our face masks keep an airtight seal.
	Sometimes, it's total chaos.
	But you're trained to control your stress response.
	Like lots of guys with sensitive skin, shaving every day can cause redness and irritation.
	But not anymore.
	Honestly, it's not the fire you worry about most.
	It's more the constant reminder of who you might leave behind.
	Music Yeah!
	I'm a man!
	I'm a Gillette man!
	Gillette Skin Guard.
	The razor designed to stop skin irritation.
	What?
	After playing that, I'm taking away your clip of the day.
	We used to have something for that, didn't we?
	Worst clip of the day.
	We don't have anything.
	Maybe Christy can come up with something.
	I thought we had a thing that reversed.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	Yes, I'm correct.
	Gone.
	You should.
	Took it away from me.
	Now, can I bring it back to tacos?
	Because I planned this.
	You want to talk about Gillette?
	I don't know how you're going to do that, but I'm listening.
	Do you want to talk about Gillette first and then go to tacos again?
	No, I don't want to talk about Gillette.
	I don't care about Gillette.
	Well, I'm going to bring it back around to an article in the New York Times which shows exactly what stage we are in in the podcast revolution.
	The taco stage?
	Yep, we went through this.
	I've said many times, you can't monetize the network.
	It doesn't work.
	This is not going to end well.
	And there's this whole article about fast food companies doing podcasts.
	And according to the New York Times, what's more surprising, people are actually listening to them.
	Oh, bullcrap.
	Now, the thing that got me, though, and it's a whole article about...
	So Gizmodo is producing the McDonald's The Sauce podcast.
	But then I got to Gimlet.
	Gimlet is working for New Balance, creating a show about clothing and sneaker culture.
	This is the death knell of the podcasting network.
	The minute the podcast network, take it from me, I had one.
	The minute the podcast network resorts to getting in advertisers to make a show for that advertiser's product, you're on the brink of another round of finance.
	This will not work for Gimlet.
	It doesn't ever work for anybody.
	No, any of these podcast companies that are going to make payroll by making podcasts for their advertisers who should be advertising on their outstanding podcast is going down the tubes.
	Yes.
	I can't agree more.
	And in fact, the whole thing, there's some thought I had and I'd lost it.
	I'm sorry.
	We did that at Mevio.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We did the RDX7. We did...
	Right, we had a bunch of sketches.
	Oh, we unboxed motorcycles.
	We did all the unboxing podcasts.
	Oh my goodness, yes.
	So...
	Yeah, this is worse.
	What I was going to say, this is worse.
	Worse.
	Yeah.
	I tell you.
	The native ad.
	It's worse than a native ad.
	It is the pits.
	It is the pits.
	It is really bad.
	We, on the other hand...
	The New York Times is in on this somehow because there's no way that people are flocking to a taco podcast done by Taco Bell or whoever the sponsor is.
	Let's talk a little bit about the shell.
	We got Bill in here from the shell manufacturing facility outside of Nashville, the taco shell makers.
	Bill?
	Howdy.
	Bill, introduce yourself.
	Tell us what you do, Bill.
	What do you do at the taco manufacturing taco shell company?
	I thought I was going to be Bill.
	You played both roles.
	No, you're Bill.
	Okay, I'm going to interview you.
	Bill, I've got Bill here from the taco shell manufacturer.
	Hi, Bill.
	How are you doing?
	I'm good.
	We got Bill on Skype.
	I'm sorry, Bill.
	How long have you been doing the taco shells, Bill?
	Well, first of all, thanks for having me on the Shellcast.
	I really enjoy talking about the different kinds of taco shells that are out there.
	So far, we've found that the one that looks like a quesadilla stuck together, where you can't see what's inside, seems to work the best for our tacos.
	Well, that's not the way Taco Bell taco is, Bill.
	Are you sure you actually work for Taco Bell or are you just a generic shell maker that Taco Bell buys from your contract?
	Oh, hey, this is the shell cast.
	I got all kinds of shells, big shells, small shells.
	I got wacky shells, zany shells.
	I got colored shells, got hard shells, soft shells.
	I got shells.
	So who's the inventor?
	I was very fascinated by this, by the way.
	Who is the inventor?
	I think El Paso makes these.
	And the shell has got like a bottom.
	So it's like it goes down, it's a hard shell, and it's got a bottom that's about an inch wide, and then it comes up on the other side.
	So you can actually stand up the shell?
	Yeah, yeah, that was...
	Is that patented?
	Yeah, we...
	I think we should stop while we're ahead.
	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.
	You just weren't up for it.
	No, we had to end it somewhere.
	No, I could have gone on.
	I know, I know.
	I'm a conversationist.
	Yes, you are.
	There's a lot to be talked about.
	Maybe there is something to that.
	But let's start by...
	Somebody please register shellcast.com and the taco show with your taco-ristas.
	Taco show.
	Taco show.
	The taco show.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the tacos.
	I think I could talk for hours about tacos.
	You should bitch about them, that's for sure.
	Once you get into Taco Truck tacos, it becomes more interesting.
	But let's thank Terry Rulick out there in Niles, Ohio.
	Oh, and it says John C. has a note.
	Uh-oh.
	Is this right?
	It says JCD as in notage.
	Let me see if I can find a Terry for you.
	Let me see if I get lucky on this.
	All right, here it is.
	You got it?
	She's at a...
	I want to wish my smoking hot boyfriend, Chris Hanton, a happy 46th on August 22nd.
	Do you have your list there?
	I have to add it.
	Yeah, okay.
	Hold on.
	So it's from who?
	Terry.
	Terry, what's her last name?
	Terry Rulick.
	Rulick.
	R-U-L-I-C-K. Yeah, and to smoking hot boyfriend?
	Chris Hanton.
	Okay.
	46 on August 22nd.
	46 today.
	I'm sorry, you got it?
	Yeah, I do.
	He punched me in the mouth a few years ago and I can't think of a better birthday gift than donating towards his knighthood.
	That's very sweet.
	Thank you both for keeping us sane.
	Or thank both of you for keeping us both sane.
	And...
	So she says the thank you note.
	It's actually a card that says thank you on the front.
	It's a thank you card.
	Yeah.
	I should mention this, though.
	There's another one that just comes up in the conversation somewhere.
	But the Baroness of Kendall County sent a note about them.
	Actually, I'll do this.
	Remind me to read her note when you do the meetup rundown.
	She's got a meetup thing that she's doing.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Nils Bonnaker in Hamburg, Deutschland, $111.11.
	Brian Mann in Burlington, Wisconsin, another birthday, $102.08.
	Sir Jeff Yerke over here in Concord, California, I need to get back with him on, he needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	We've been doing these Red Fox things and I haven't done anything for like two years.
	Oh, is that your Red Fox guy?
	I think it's been longer than two years.
	That's ridiculous.
	Nicholas Formoso, $100.
	John Patrick in Decatur, Illinois, $100.
	Leah...
	Balancio, I think.
	Yeah, Balancio.
	Balancio.
	Now, wait a minute.
	She has $50 of the donation towards Jessica Stobie's knighthood, or damehood, in honor of her 28th birthday.
	Best friends who listen to No Agenda together stay together.
	Aw.
	Probably true.
	Yes.
	Sir Sean.
	After her best buddy.
	That's very sweet.
	It is.
	Sir Sean in Moyak, North Carolina, 100.
	Trevor...
	Malkinson.
	100.
	He wants a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	He's a minister in a progressive church in Scandinavia, long-time member of the left, but had to walk away after the left went insane.
	I now consider myself politically homeless.
	That would be people who consider themselves politically experiencing homelessness.
	Say it right, especially in Canada.
	After a certain anonymous person began posting on 8chan in October 2017, began a relentless program of research into the wild and weird and the hidden, and I heard John on the Grimerica podcast during that research.
	I still want to hear Adam on Grimerica.
	Yeah, since it's getting us listeners and producers.
	I listened to No Agenda after that and became hooked.
	It's now an integral part of my week.
	What you do is not only astute and very often hilarious.
	Well, it is a comedy podcast after all.
	But absolutely crucial in this time in history.
	Keep up the good work, gents.
	Much appreciated.
	Thanks again, Rev T. Thanks, Rev.
	Put in a good word for me.
	Ian Field, Great Britain 100.
	Anonymous 100.
	Another anonymous 100 from Bonham, Texas.
	Nicholas Campbell in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
	Another birthday and another...
	And finally making my first donation after my brother, Matthew, turned me on to your show a couple of years ago, so he needs a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Listen to this.
	We both listen to your show live on Sundays and Thursdays and we'll chat back and forth during the show.
	This works out well as we rarely get to see each other these days.
	I hope this small donation helps.
	Of course it does.
	Thank you very much.
	And he also says, send a douchebag to Matthew Campbell for letting me be the first to donate.
	Douchebag!
	This is indeed an outrage.
	Yes.
	Inexcusable.
	Sir Gator of the North Texas Swamps in Providence Village, Texas 9999.
	Sir Patrick Coble.
	The Earl of Tennessee, 9999.
	He's got a birthday to his son, James.
	Ryan Brady in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 9140.
	Can I just read Patrick's note?
	Sure.
	Happy 9th birthday to my son, James.
	I'm so proud of the little man he is becoming.
	He will have to join Sir Felix Wilson at the roundtable very soon.
	Thank you for all that you do.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for what you do, Sir Patrick Coble.
	You the man.
	Ryan Brady in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 9140.
	Taylor Cozella, the Sir Sin City signer in Alpharetta, Georgia, 8086.
	A Sir, a dude named Ben in Los Angeles, California, 8086.
	Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Earl Fultz.
	Earl Foluna.
	Is that right?
	I don't know.
	Earl of Luna.
	The Locust, North Carolina.
	8008 boobs.
	Sir Paul Webb in Twickenham.
	Middlesex, UK. 8008 with a birthday coming up.
	Alex Campbell, a birthday caller.
	Tampa, Florida.
	8008.
	There's a lot of these.
	Big boobs.
	Big boob day.
	Michael Ninemine.
	In Spokane, Washington, 8008.
	We also did a mention from Sir Josh that the sad puppy is what got to him, of course.
	Jeffrey Anderson, Stewart, Florida, 75.
	Sir Charles of Wyoming, 7373.
	Jonathan Williams, 7377 in Penrose, North Carolina.
	Bruce Johnson in Edina, Minnesota, 7250.
	Jonathan Williams with 7317.
	You guys are the lens which brings the world into focus.
	He is November 4, Victor X-Ray, and he is no longer a douchebag, so I'm going to de-douche our fellow ham.
	Sounds like he's an extra.
	You've been de-douched.
	Which is not the kind of extra in a movie.
	Charles of Wyoming is a ham.
	Does he have his call letters there?
	Oh, yeah.
	November Juliet 7 Victor.
	All right.
	73's.
	Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	You don't even know your call sign anymore.
	You don't.
	Yeah, it's Kevin Johnson 6 Liquid Natural Gas.
	Okay.
	Good.
	You saved me.
	Eric Makarwitz in Socorro, New Mexico, 6969.
	I did do Bruce Johnson and Adina, yes I did.
	Sir Jake Hernandez in Kennewick, Washington, 6666.
	First major donation after being knighted.
	Welcome back.
	Sir Kalishtikoff, 6611.
	Scott Wallace, Scott Wallace, 60.
	He was at the San Antonio meetup, apparently.
	So that's the San Antonio meetup contribution.
	Adam Adler, Rolling Hills, 59, 73.
	W6, Victor Alpha.
	Oh, yeah, we do have Adler's, another W6VA, 73s.
	Aaron Garcia, Tempe, Arizona, 5555.
	Sven Eric Jansen in Austin, Texas, your buddy.
	Thank you for your courage, Adam.
	You mentioned in the post that you didn't have enough something.
	Austin friends.
	You mentioned in the past you don't have enough Austin friends.
	We'd love to try and scrounge together a no-agenda dinner sometime if you're interested.
	Yeah, we call those meetups.
	We'll do another one.
	Definitely, Sven.
	Looking forward to it.
	Adam is a loner.
	Anna Merkuriev in St.
	Louis, Missouri, 55.
	She needs interview karma for upcoming MD, PhD interviews.
	We'll do it at the end for you, Anna.
	Sure, Reddy Kilowatt, double nickels on the dime, 55.10.
	He needs to be on the birthday list, and I don't think he is.
	Okay.
	Who do we have now?
	A huge birthday list today.
	Yeah, it is.
	Read it to me.
	I wonder why that is.
	Read it to me.
	Okay, August 22nd, he's going to be 48.
	Who?
	Oh, Kerry Colton, sorry.
	Kerry Colton?
	Corey.
	Corey Colton.
	Corey.
	Corey Colton in Cleveland.
	Cleveland Heights, actually.
	How old will he be?
	48 on the 22nd.
	That's today.
	He says he started listening to his friends, listening to the show, he's starting to hear it's true at meetings.
	Y'all bet.
	It's annoying.
	Y'all bet again.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	Stan Gomberg.
	Stas.
	Stas.
	Luke Rayner in London, UK. Collective karma does work, he says.
	And he donates double nickels on the dime.
	Nancy Murphy in San Bruno, California.
	52-44.
	Where's she at the meetups?
	Surveillance in Brentwood, Tennessee.
	$52.
	Dedicated to de-douche Lisa as a reward for feeding Tilly, the dog of No Agenda's very own B-52 pilot.
	Yes, I saw the picture of her next to the B-52.
	Big de-douche.
	You've been de-douche.
	So the next...
	Actually, she was not standing next to a B-52.
	Oh, I thought there was...
	What was she standing next to?
	Some small plane.
	I guess she also flies, I guess.
	But it wasn't a B-52.
	Here's the ask.
	Can I pretty please fly along sometime?
	Oh, I'd love to be taking one flight in a B-52.
	Are you kidding me?
	Uh-huh.
	Yeah, they got all kinds of seats in that thing.
	Sir, yeah, let's do it.
	Let's take a flight in a B-52.
	Not together.
	Sir, dude named Jim 5150.
	Robert Umberger 5150.
	Jonathan Evans, 50-50.
	Matthew Repko in Leesport, Pennsylvania, answering the call to arms with $50.01.
	Thank you.
	Yancey Summerar in Houston, Texas, 50.
	The following people are $50 donators.
	Name and location if available, starting with Robert Marsh.
	Actually, starting with Yancey, but Robert Marsh in Hartsville, Alabama.
	Robert Case in Millspring, North Carolina.
	Cassidy Eastwood.
	Daniel Laboy.
	Patrick Macomb.
	Sir Patrick in New York City.
	George Wuchette, who's also a sir in Universal City, Texas.
	I didn't know a place like that existed.
	Andrew Gusek.
	Hold on.
	Restart to install Windows 10 update.
	No!
	No!
	Hold on.
	Hold on.
	No, I've got to change it to restart later.
	Now I have to go to restart options.
	While you're doing that, I'll retreat back to Robert Marsh, who says, Hello!
	I reached the donation threshold of knighthood one donation ago.
	I would like to be known as Sir Robert of the Limestone Creek.
	You will be.
	And request that the musical stylings of John C. Dvorak be played during the ceremony.
	Bongos are preferred, but any instrument is welcome.
	Yeah, that's not going to happen.
	But we will put slide whistles and bongos at the round table so you can...
	Bongo and whistle yourself.
	Are you back?
	Now, I should mention this.
	So it says restart options.
	I said schedule a time.
	And then it has an on and off switch so you can just turn this stupid feature off, right?
	Right?
	It doesn't work.
	It's just a button that doesn't do anything.
	It's just there for show.
	Right?
	Are you caught, though?
	This is another gem.
	And so then I say, I set it to Wednesday, August 28th.
	Pick a time, I got it.
	And then, as I'm talking to you, it resets to today by itself.
	You know why?
	It's that vulnerability they discovered, so they're really forcing everybody to update in the remote desktop protocol.
	Yeah.
	Because you could get hacked, man.
	It could take...
	The Russians...
	Russians.
	Onward.
	Robert Kaye, and these are the $50 donors I've got, and sorry I was interrupted by Microsoft.
	Robert Kaye's in Middle Spring, North Carolina.
	Cassidy Eastwood, I already did her, and Macom, and then Wuchet, and then George Wuchet, I think, in Universal, Texas, that's when it happened.
	Andrew Gussick in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	Robert Newby.
	Baskar Dadana in Birmingham.
	Luciano Mose in Valla Beach, Australia.
	Thomas Tollette in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
	Eric Von Marter in Van Nuys.
	Oh, that's it.
	There you go.
	Wow, what a list.
	What a list.
	It's a very good list.
	He says, I missed a segment intros.
	Maybe others do too.
	Yes, even the alternate universe.
	Is the view still on TV? I miss the village idiots.
	He's bitching.
	He's bitching at us.
	He's bitching.
	But we did Dogs Are People 2 jingle and other things.
	And now I know what's been going on with your sound all day.
	I was going to bitch at you after the show and said, if you don't call up your damn ISPs and tell them to stop throttling you, I'm going to throttle you.
	Because it's ruining the show.
	It's bad for the show.
	Because ever since you switched networks, it's crackling.
	But I know why, because damn Windows is downloading all of Windows 10 in the background.
	Look at your performance meter.
	I'll bet it's spiking.
	I wouldn't be surprised.
	If anyone could make drivers for Linux, I would use it.
	And that would suck too.
	There's no Skype for Linux worth of crap.
	That's right.
	Discord, please don't send me emails about how I can do the show on Linux.
	It's not going to happen.
	It can't.
	Sip. Sip. Sip.
	Hey, thank you to our producers who graciously supported us today.
	This perfectly makes up for the last show.
	Let's try and even it out so we have a consistent amount of show every single time.
	That would be great, but I'm not complaining.
	The broke beagle did his job.
	And again...
	There are so many people who help with this show.
	And we don't have listeners, we have producers.
	And we have producers who can give us info.
	We have producers who can do artwork, who can do clips, who can do jingles.
	Some people just don't have the skill to do the technical work, do clips, etc.
	Some people have no talent.
	But that's okay.
	You can still produce and participate by joining one of our monthly programs.
	What are you laughing about?
	I'm doing a great pitch here.
	You need insulting people who have no talent.
	People have no talent in making clips, picking great clips.
	You know, it's okay.
	People see things, they send it.
	That's fine.
	But if you really want to help, that's how you participate.
	If you can't do the other things.
	Like Chris Wilson, like, oh, I'm going to get back on my monthlies.
	Dude, you don't have to donate ever again.
	You've done so much for this show.
	So that's what I'm trying to make a distinction of.
	It's like everybody can help.
	Everybody can pitch in.
	And as I said, under $50 is for reasons of anonymity.
	We don't talk about it because that's the first rule of the donation club.
	And also it's people who are on our monthlies or some weekly or episodic programs.
	Hey, chip in, everybody.
	What have you got to lose?
	I'm throwing it all out now.
	Seriously, please help us.
	Go to the following website.
	That should help us with support for our Sunday show.
	Dvorak.org slash N-A. Karma's as requested.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Yeah.
	No agenda!
	That's right!
	And I have a note here to say John has a note here before we do a quick rundown of the meetups that are happening in the next few weeks.
	This is Baroness of Ken County.
	She's looking forward to the San Antonio meetup next Saturday, August 17th.
	I have plans to give away the first 10 guests, one of these Trump 2020 bills.
	Hey John, stop!
	You're reading a note for a meetup that happened.
	Oh.
	I thought you had a meetup report.
	Oh, oh.
	Oh, well, she gave away these bills.
	By the way, these bills are dynamite.
	You can get them on Amazon.
	No Agenda!
	Okay, everybody.
	Massive fail.
	Here's meetups.
	You can attend these meetups.
	Just go to NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	Today in Charleston, South Carolina and in Toronto.
	Tomorrow there's a meetup in Salem, Oregon.
	On the 25th, Lincoln, Nebraska.
	The 29th, still on deck, Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada.
	The 31st, Busan, South Korea and Sao Paulo.
	Two separate ones, obviously.
	The 31st of August, Petersburg, Ontario, Canada.
	And moving into September, the 5th of September, Seattle, Washington.
	The 6th in Calgary, Alberta.
	The 7th in Zurich.
	That should be a good meetup.
	The 17th, Pittsburgh, PA, and El Paso, Las Cruces.
	The 20th, September, Southeast Louisiana, and Nelson, British Columbia.
	The 26th of September, Las Vegas, and Luxembourg now on the list.
	Hello, Luxembourg.
	And Copenhagen checks in at the 28th of September.
	Go to noagendameetups.com to find out more about where you can meet like-minded people of all ages, all backgrounds, race, creed, color, religion, but you'll all have something in common.
	Small amygdalas...
	When will Liechtenstein show up on the list?
	AgendaMeetups.com.
	Yes, it was just discovered today is the 22nd of August, 2018, 2019.
	Belated birthday, Sir Paul Webb celebrated on the 16th.
	We say happy birthday to Sir American Carnage who turned 29 on the 18th.
	Lisa says happy birthday to her daughter Olivia May.
	She was born on the 18th.
	New Human Resource.
	Congratulations.
	Brian Mann.
	Happy birthday to his son who turned 10 on the 20th.
	Joel Trenschel.
	Happy birthday to Carol Ann Chase.
	She turned 60 on the 23rd.
	That's tomorrow.
	Leah Bilanzio.
	Happy birthday to Jessica Stobie.
	She is 28 today.
	Sir Patrick Coppola says happy birthday to his son James.
	He's turning 9.
	Baroness Whack-A-Mole says happy birthday to Sir American Carnage.
	Turn 29th on the 18th.
	We did that one.
	Terry Rulick.
	Happy birthday to her smoking hot boyfriend, Chris Hanton, 46 today, and Corey Colton in Cleveland, also 48 today.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	Quite the list.
	And we've got a couple of knightings as well.
	If you can grab your blade, Monsieur Dvorak.
	Yeah, I got it right.
	Robert Marsh!
	And Roy Tenhava!
	Gentlemen, step right up on the podium here with the expanded roundtable, the No Agenda Knights and Dames.
	It's rather large, but you belong here thanks to your support of the No Agenda show and the amount of $1,000 or more.
	And I'm very proud to pronounce the KB, Sir Robert of the Limestone Creek, and Sir Roy, gentlemen, for you.
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	Title changes.
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	Nice changes.
	Don't want to be a douchebag.
	We got one title change today, but it's well deserved.
	Sir Craig Kupner now becomes the Viscount of Georgia.
	All of it.
	He's taken over all.
	You can find out more as you go to itm.im slash peerage and you learn where all of our knights and dames are of no agenda nation who will be in charge of those protectorates during and after the Armageddon.
	And thank you again, Sir Craig.
	And thanks to everybody who supports the show.
	Gracias.
	My friends.
	Well, I have an actual deconstruction which I like to run.
	Alright.
	NBC, which I'm trying to get more clips from them because they always run these whipsaws or whatever I call them.
	I keep changing the name.
	And there's a good example.
	They ran this.
	I'm not going to run both these clips, but they did this Essentially, the clip I'm going to play, which is the Wednesday Trump rundown, was almost identical to the Tuesday Trump rundown.
	But in the Tuesday Trump rundown, they didn't have any whipsaws.
	So we'll just run the...
	Whipsaws where they say one thing and then they clip something else.
	So here's the Wednesday Trump rundown and then I will take two whipsaws out of it after we hear the whole thing.
	Also making headlines this evening, President Trump sparking new confusion on gun background checks, pulling new tax cuts off the table, and feuding with Denmark over his rejected offer to buy Greenland.
	All while doubling down on his controversial remarks about Jewish voters.
	NBC's Peter Alexander is at the White House.
	President Trump tonight delivering mixed messages about enhanced background checks for gun buyers.
	Oh, I have an appetite for background checks.
	We're going to be doing background checks.
	At the same time, after another call with the NRA chief Tuesday, arguing the existing system is already strong.
	We have background checks, but there are loopholes in the background checks.
	That's what I spoke to the NRA about yesterday.
	The president also appearing to reverse course amid concerns the economy may be weakening, an outlook he disputes.
	After floating the idea of a tax cut Tuesday...
	Payroll tax is something that we think about.
	...today saying it's not on the table.
	I'm not looking at a tax cut now.
	We don't need it.
	We have a strong economy.
	The president again defending the ongoing trade war with China.
	This isn't my trade war.
	This is a trade war that should have taken place a long time ago by a lot of other presidents.
	Delivering this self-aggrandizing assessment.
	Somebody had to do it.
	I am the chosen one.
	Somebody had to do it, so I'm taking on China.
	President Trump also digging in, again painting Jewish Americans as disloyal if they support Democrats.
	I think that if you vote for a Democrat, you're very, very disloyal to Israel and to the Jewish people.
	Many Jewish groups have condemned the comments, accusing the president of echoing an anti-Semitic trope that Jewish people have dual loyalties and are more devoted to Israel than to their own countries.
	And tonight, the president's found another target, blaming the prime minister of Denmark, a longtime ally, for the abrupt cancellation of a state visit there next month, after Xi ridiculed his desire to buy Greenland.
	It was nasty.
	I thought it was an inappropriate statement.
	All they had to do was say, no, we'd rather not do that, or we'd rather not talk about it.
	Don't say what an absurd idea that is.
	The President's decision to pick a fight with an ally comes as he's advocating for a traditional adversary just days before heading to the G7 summit, calling for Russia to be allowed back into the group.
	Before you continue with the deconstruction, this is only possible because of his new format of the grass, the chopper, and just Trump.
	Yeah.
	That's interesting.
	Okay.
	So I heard a lot of, I mean, he's also making it easy for him to put this together.
	Well, they still can't do it without cheating.
	Yeah.
	They can't.
	They just can't do it.
	They can't bring themselves to it.
	If you listen to the Tuesday version of the same thing, it was pretty straightforward.
	There was no cheating in that one.
	Same exact report.
	But somebody obviously at NBC, really one of the worst of these networks, MSNBC being the epitome of it, Somebody said, hey, can we do this again?
	But let's, you know, give the guy a little, some needling here because it was like pretty soft.
	Yeah.
	And so they threw everything in they could in the second report, but it's the same thing.
	But here's two examples of the whipsaws that were in there.
	And I will listen to both of them and then you'll see how obvious it is.
	But let's play Whipsaw 1.
	Arguing the existing system is already strong.
	We have background checks, but there are loopholes in the background checks.
	And that's what I spoke to the NRA about yesterday.
	Okay.
	He says that...
	The quote says that he's called the NRA to tell him that the existing system's already strong.
	That's not the clip.
	Hold on.
	The clip says the background checks have got loopholes in them.
	Let me hear it again.
	How is that...
	How does what Peter says...
	In his analysis says that he called the NRA to tell him that the background checks are already strong.
	That is not what he said in the clip.
	Arguing the existing system is already strong.
	We have background checks, but there are loopholes in the background checks.
	That's what I spoke to the NRA about yesterday.
	To be fair and not cheaters, they would have used the other one where he said, we got great background checks, but he doesn't have that.
	And he never said they were strong.
	No.
	The NBC correspondent asserts that Trump said they were strong.
	Lies!
	Trump does not say that.
	Lies.
	All right.
	Lies.
	Lies.
	Okay, let's try, we'll talk to another example.
	After floating the idea of a tax cut Tuesday.
	Payroll tax is something that we think about.
	Today saying it's not on the table.
	I'm not looking at a tax cut now.
	We don't need it.
	We have a strong economy.
	What?
	Hold on.
	Hold on.
	I want to play it again.
	After floating the idea of a tax cut Tuesday...
	Payroll tax is something that we think about.
	...today saying it's not on the table.
	I'm not looking at a tax cut now.
	We don't need it.
	We have a strong economy.
	Where in there does he float the idea?
	He says he's looking at them.
	We're looking at tax cuts.
	We're looking at tax cuts.
	That's a float.
	To be specific, he says...
	Payroll taxes is something we think about.
	Who doesn't?
	You get payroll taxes.
	You think about it.
	Thinking about something is not the same as floating an idea.
	He specifically says, yeah, we think about it.
	And then he says, well, he contradicted himself.
	He never contradicted himself.
	He never said the first assertion was a false assertion.
	This is what NBC does constantly.
	This is what they do.
	You're officially on the Trump Defense Force.
	Ha ha ha ha ha.
	I'm not defending anybody.
	I know.
	I'm just condemning NBC's poor reporting.
	The reporting is bigoted biased.
	It's biased and slanted.
	It's terrible.
	It really is terrible.
	It is.
	It is.
	The best part of all those clips that you played, for me personally, was the end of show ISO. I am the chosen one!
	I just can't get enough of that.
	Let's go over that part of it.
	That was pretty funny because they condemn everybody, all the networks.
	He thinks he's God now.
	Yes.
	If you watch the video, Trump's out on the lawn.
	And he's mocking the whole idea.
	And he turns to the left and looks up in the sky and kind of throws his arms out and says, I am the chosen one as a joke.
	What he should do...
	And nobody takes...
	What he should do...
	He's done...
	He's already done I Am the Chosen One.
	He tweeted a quote from the rabbi who said he's king of the Jews.
	So, of course, now Trump says he's king of the Jews.
	What he should do now is I am the god of hellfire.
	Yeah.
	Now that will be great.
	That will be fantastic.
	I heard his voice.
	Well, we went way over time.
	The affiliates are pissed, but that means we have some good stuff to carry over to Sunday, the second Thursday show of the week.
	And we look forward to seeing everybody there, everybody who supported the show today, financially or otherwise.
	Thank you so much.
	It is, after all, your No Agenda show.
	Well, and the Broke Beagle dog is that dog's show, too.
	Thanking today we have Tom Starkweather with end of show Diddy.
	We have Ruloff Productions.
	And Chris Newbold with a great song about Al Gore.
	Great song.
	So...
	Looking forward to that.
	Coming up on NoAgendaStream.com after the show is MoFax with Adam Curry.
	The facts and fallacies.
	Enjoy that.
	And coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 in Austin, Texas, we are in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	For the governmental maps in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's still balmy, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash na.
	Until then, adios mofos and such!
	We choose science over fiction!
	We choose truth over facts.
	Of course, they're all over the place, right?
	In major chain restaurants and at thousands of grocery stores across the country.
	Wow!
	Hopefully we learn what was going on there.
	I have all the answers.
	I've been sitting on them.
	Waiting for America to get there.
	I know that people love to embrace conspiracy theories.
	Let me give it to you in a nutshell.
	In a very strange way, by a weird fluke of history, I ended up in the center.
	You've got to look at who's going to win this election.
	And maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, okay.
	I'm not impacted by who advertises on my show.
	I don't know who advertises on my show.
	We choose truth over facts!
	Wow!
	A Clinton spokesperson calling the tweet ridiculous and of course not true.
	All right, just look out the window at what's going on.
	If you were writing a thriller, you wouldn't put in anything this obvious where he just gets whacked before the Trump.
	Sharing an unfounded conspiracy theory speculating.
	It is determined after years and years to find out what the truth is, but I think that the truth is, at its core, probably something...
	If my company hadn't been successful, we wouldn't be here today, so enough with this stuff.
	So is it healthy?
	Probably not.
	I say this, uh, this train's on a roll.
	Of them all, most modern, most beautiful, most thrilling to ride is the California Zephyr.
	Sorry.
	Mm.
	Sorry.
	Mm.
	Sorry.
	Mm.
	Sorry.
	Mm.
	Sorry.
	Mm.
	You got a topper?
	Oh yeah.
	I'm sure he's a leetist.
	This committee about U.S. policy in El Salvador.
	Wait for it.
	Sorry.
	Maybe we could do it.
	It actually wasn't that bad.
	I think we could.
	There goes the Ziffer.
	Al Gore tells lies.
	He needs to laugh.
	The times he lies about.
	Climate change or crisis, force it counts.
	It feels good when it gets the same.
	500,000 A-bombs every day.
	Al Gore Tales Lies Al Gore Tales Lies Al Gore Tales Lies It's global warm With snow still falling down It breezes my poopers and hits the ground I'll go
	The debate now is about the best ways to move as fast as we can to solve this crisis.
	We all know that best way is to pay Al Gore.
	Now he lies beneath the money tree.
	97% of scientists agree scaring kids.
	You know they do blind.
	Telling all of them that we're all gonna die.
	I'll go Tales Lines.

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