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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, August 25th, 2019.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1167.
	This is no agenda.
	Fighting the state of fear and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 on the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's no fires around here.
	Yet.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	Yeah, no fires around there.
	Yet.
	Yet.
	Yes, yet.
	Exactly.
	Now, you know, before we start, I just want to make sure I'm talking to John C. Dvorak.
	As opposed to?
	Hillary Clinton.
	Now, when you said this on the last show, I wanted to call you out and say, hey man, you sound a lot like Hillary Clinton.
	And one of our producers, Gary, I think, he put it together.
	Have a listen.
	What difference does it make?
	I'm afraid of that.
	Well, I said that, of course, I love that phrase from Hillary, but I left out the operative term.
	At this point.
	At this point, if that's not in there, I'm not Hillary.
	What difference does it make?
	I just love the cadence.
	It was so perfect.
	Fantastic.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, yes, fires.
	We've got all kinds of stuff.
	Before we're on that, I do have a deepfake commentary.
	Oh, good.
	Okay.
	So let's play the Not Jordan Peterson site as it currently exists and what's going on there.
	Hello and welcome to NotJordanPeterson.com.
	This is Not Jordan Peterson.
	In fact, I'm a neural network designed to sound like Dr.
	Peterson.
	Unfortunately, for the time being, the site will remain inoperable.
	But please sign up to the mailing list below if you would like to stay informed of future developments.
	The idea of this website is you could type some text in and then the not Jordan Peterson would return an mp3 file.
	Well, those days are over.
	That didn't last very long.
	Which makes me wonder if the whole thing wasn't set up like this.
	And I wonder whether that's really a deep fake if it's not Jordan Peterson himself.
	Interesting.
	It's a mailing list deal going on now, which is like, sign up, sign up.
	I mentioned in the newsletter these mailing list names are worth $10 minimum.
	Wait a minute.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	Stop there.
	Any mailing list?
	Does it have to be a certain type of mailing list?
	It has to be a mailing list that's a usable mailing list.
	I mean, it can't be just some mailing list from the 40s.
	No, but I can just take everybody out of my address book, say, here's a mailing list.
	I can sell them, my friends and acquaintances, for $10.
	You can rent them.
	You don't sell them.
	You rent them.
	Well, even better, I can rent them like a pimp.
	Yeah.
	Well, I've got tons of email addresses that are good.
	It goes to Zephyr, by the way.
	One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten.
	And no added cars.
	Zephyr, zephyr, zephyr, zephyr. Zephyr, zephyr, zephyr.
	Name the movie.
	Thank you.
	Kind of funny, though.
	The Arrangement from 1969 with Kirk Douglas.
	Yes, listen again.
	Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr, Zephyr.
	Yes, sir.
	You got me.
	And I should know that.
	Now, yes.
	If it was substantial, you can't do like you got 10 names and expect anyone to give a crap.
	No, but let's just do the math for a second.
	10,000 names.
	You have 10,000 names in your personal address book?
	Oh, easily.
	And I bet you they all work.
	Sure.
	I got you there, didn't I? Wow.
	Now, if we take your five, hundred, whatever you have.
	Fifty.
	I got fifty.
	Fifty.
	Let's put them together.
	We can rent those for ten bucks a pop.
	I'm digging it.
	No, no.
	You don't rent them for ten bucks a pop.
	That's what their net worth is.
	You rent them for about a dollar.
	Okay.
	I'll take a dollar.
	That's fine.
	Fifty cent.
	I'll take anything.
	I didn't know.
	This is the exit strategy.
	This is renting your names.
	Yes.
	That's right.
	Okay.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't want to interrupt.
	Keep going.
	So this looks like it began and ended with a mailing list.
	Do you remember the guy that, I don't want to call him the nutty professor, the computer professor?
	Hi, I'm the kind of a balding guy with a mustache.
	Hi, I'm the computer professor.
	I'm going to teach you how to use Word.
	I'm going to, you just can buy my CD. Yeah, I do kind of remember that guy.
	Yes.
	Send us, you know, free, the first one's free.
	And so he would sell these CDs for free.
	Now, the CD, if you want to do the math on this, you can find these CD guys who make CDs and ship them to do the whole thing.
	It's about a $4 deal.
	So he's collecting mailing list names at a net of 10 and selling and giving away these CDs at four, making about six bucks a name.
	Where's this guy?
	Did he retire to the Bikini Islands or where is he?
	He probably sold his list off to some broker.
	Uh-huh.
	In the olden days, this used to be a more lucrative business, but it's becoming more and more lucrative with the email mailing systems that are out there.
	And so they can get you names of all kinds of different people.
	You rent them, you send them a note.
	You can only do it once, of course, and you have to have some seeded names in your list to make sure no one's stealing it.
	Yeah, it's a business, and it's a good business.
	It's a good business.
	Do you want the Nutty Professor now, or what are we doing?
	Oh, okay.
	Well, this is the bonus clip.
	I freaked out.
	No, I want to say...
	Oh, I'm sorry, because you just said Nutty Professor, so I'm like, I got this thing queued up.
	Oh, that's funny.
	Yeah, that was a mistake.
	That was a leftover engram in my brain.
	Okay, got it, got it, got it.
	I was just talking about the guy who collected names.
	So I think that Jordan Peterson's up to something, because he announced that he is going to start an online university.
	Okay.
	That will be a great way.
	I'm getting more and more suspicious of this guy's marketing genius.
	Or someone over there is.
	Well, let's see.
	Someone is.
	We'll see how that plays out.
	Then here's an idea.
	I'm going to register a specific email address and then we'll see what I get sent to that email address.
	Everyone should do that.
	Get a non-existent email address.
	Let's see if it's rented out.
	Oh, that's a good idea.
	You know, coded is what the word is, not non-existent.
	I'm sorry, coded.
	Yeah, everyone should do this anyway.
	I guess we never talked about this on the show, but you should code your email address.
	In other words, you have a different middle initial.
	You say, what's your name?
	John, or John with a C jammed up, so it's John C with no space.
	I use that a lot.
	But if you have something specific, I would say...
	Adam Jordan at Curry.com.
	Yeah.
	And then any email you get to Adam Jordan is being rented by these guys.
	Yeah.
	That's a not Jordan Peterson address.
	So, yeah, I do that routinely just to see who's pulling this.
	Who's doing what.
	That doesn't do me any good.
	I mean, ah, those bastards.
	That's all I can do.
	Okay.
	Oh, last night, Tina the Keeper and I had a lovely dinner with Sir Dave, Dame Melody, and Lady Isabella Fuguzotto.
	Oh, the Fuguzottos!
	The Fuguzottos were in Austin, yes.
	And we took them to the Lonesome Dove.
	And, you know, Lady Isabella is the, she's, I think, 11, I want to say?
	And she's the Irish dancing champ.
	What?
	She's the Irish dancing champ.
	You know, the river dance?
	How old is she?
	I think she's 11.
	Is she an Irish dancing champ?
	Did she do a little jig there for you?
	You know, being a guy who hates, like a comedian, you know, say, hey, hey, man, nice to meet you.
	Tell me a joke.
	I didn't want to get this child started off on the wrong foot because that's what everyone does.
	Really?
	Do a dance!
	No, I'm not going to do that.
	I hate that.
	I would never do that.
	This kid is fantastic, by the way.
	The Lonesome Dove is known for its elk, its other venison, and its rattlesnake sausage.
	That's the game joint.
	Yes, the game joint that I took Horowitz to.
	The Horowitzes.
	And she was right there, man.
	Elk sliders, no problem.
	Rattlesnake sausage, loved it.
	It was fantastic.
	And Dave and Melody are fantastic.
	Really nice.
	He's Army, she's Navy.
	So there's a built-in strife that is beautiful to watch.
	Yeah, very good time.
	Very nice to see them here in Austin.
	Of course, Dave is...
	Dame Melody's a dame.
	Lady Isabella has been damed.
	And Dave is a multiple knight.
	Isn't he a baron at this point?
	He's probably up there somewhere.
	The question that comes to my mind is, how did their little girl...
	Get into Irish river dancing or whatever it is.
	God, you know, no.
	Actually, I think Tina...
	Thanks.
	Yeah, right.
	I think Tina was talking to Dame Melody about it, and I think it was the same way I got into fencing.
	We actually did talk about this.
	You get a demonstration at school.
	It's a sales job.
	This is how we're turning it.
	Go on.
	I'm not going to go into that joke.
	Go on.
	Continue.
	I'm sorry.
	So you saw some fencers and you said, this would be cool, and you took a couple of classes.
	Yeah, and you sign up.
	Exactly.
	It's like, you know, they take a couple kids from the audience, teach them a few things.
	Like, you get to, you know, in my case, hey, man, he's holding a sword!
	Which, foil, of course, but sword!
	You get sword fight!
	And, you know, before you know it, it's like, hey, come by for a free lesson.
	Okay, and then you're hooked, and then you're in.
	I did become third in the Dutch National Championships in my age range.
	How old were you?
	I think it was 13?
	12?
	No, maybe 11 or 12.
	Same age as Lady Isabella.
	Anyway, it was a good time.
	Picked up a couple of tips.
	He works in Riyadh.
	Right.
	So he was like, I can't get enough bacon.
	Is there pork on the menu?
	Give me pork.
	He was craving.
	Wild boar.
	Wild boar bacon.
	He was really, really craving it.
	Quite bacon-y.
	So it's nice to see them.
	It's always nice to see some of our producers in Austin.
	If it all works out and we can actually hang out.
	It doesn't always work out, but this one did.
	So great seeing them.
	Okay.
	Why don't we start off with this...
	Well, I'd love to hear your take on it.
	The Amazon fires, which coincided nicely with the G7 summit meeting.
	Yeah, this is being used as leverage.
	And it's also being used by the globalists, you know, to say, this is a good example, man.
	You got this Bolsonaro right-wing nut, you know, and he's burning down the place, and we need world governance.
	Yes, we do.
	We need that.
	So let's take a look at, I've got a couple of clips here.
	Let's start with, this is a clip from a couple of shows, not a couple of shows, maybe last show.
	Amazon Burning Democracy Now!
	In Brazil, public outrage is mounting over massive wildfires that have consumed parts of the Amazon for several weeks.
	The hashtag PrayForAmazonia trended Tuesday as images of the raging blazes circulated on social media.
	The skies over the city of Sao Paulo went dark for around an hour during the middle of the day Monday after winds carried in smoke from the forest fires over 1,500 miles away.
	The fires are thought to be direct.
	She's getting lyrical in her older age there.
	Has winds swept away over the plains?
	Her style is Walter Cronkite.
	Walter Cronkite liked to talk like this, and so does Amy.
	...in smoke from the forest fires over 1,500 miles away.
	All you expected to say, President Kennedy at this hour, he's dead.
	You know, that's almost what you expected to say.
	The fires are thought to be directly caused or exacerbated by agricultural exploitation and deforestation.
	Brazil's Space Research Agency has recorded nearly 73,000 wildfires so far this year, an 83% increase from the same period last year.
	Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has worked to deregulate and open up the Amazon for agribusiness, logging, and mining since he came into office in January, despite international concerns over the environmental impacts of deforestation.
	Recent data shows Brazil lost more than 1,300 square miles of forest cover this year.
	Climate scientists say the protection of the Amazon rainforest is crucial in the global effort to fight the climate crisis.
	It's the lungs of the world, man!
	So what we have is a, I don't want to call it a hoax, a climate hoax.
	But they have these fires every year.
	They do a lot of brush clearing.
	They just have a lot of fires, and they have the number.
	Finding that 1,300 square mile, which is a big number, if you live in California, finding that number is almost impossible.
	If you look at any of the reports, you're going to find, oh, there's 80% more, is what they keep saying.
	80% more, 80% more.
	Wait, wait, 80% more than what, last year?
	80% more fires than last year.
	Okay, got it.
	And Bolsonaro says this is like some sort of a scam to set millions of these fires, or thousands of these fires.
	And if you look at the fire map, they're all over the country.
	They're not just in the Amazon.
	And when you look at the 1,300 square miles figure, you have to realize that the square miles of Amazon forests, specifically Amazon forests only, not the rest of the country, which is woodsy, Yeah.
	And but it's beside the point because this has become a they talk about if you look, mostly European newspapers like the Express is a good example.
	The sky has been blacked out in Sao Paulo.
	And so I immediately went to the webcams.
	Yeah.
	And I sent you one of them.
	Yes, let me take a look right now.
	You can look at this webcam.
	It'll be a link in the show notes, hopefully.
	And it's in Sao Paulo.
	Yeah.
	In fact, I looked at webcams while you're looking at that one.
	Yeah, this is the Sao Paulo Panorama.
	Let me see.
	I should open this up.
	Yeah, it is downtown.
	So you see the downtown.
	It's loading now.
	I looked at Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina.
	I'm clicking on the live cam now.
	Oh, we have a couple of cotton ball clouds.
	Oh, it's beautiful.
	Looks nice.
	Looks like a nice day in Sao Paulo.
	79 degrees in downtown Sao Paulo, everybody.
	It's JCD and AC on the microphone.
	Sorry.
	So if it's daylight here, in fact, it's nicer there than it is here in the Bay Area from when I look out the window.
	Yes.
	But no, no.
	That's not the way the Express has it.
	And now it's turning out that most of the photos you're seeing on Twitter are from 1998 when there was a lot of bad fires.
	Yeah, Twitter's really become quite the cesspool now, hasn't it?
	It's just old photos.
	So this thing is set up so Macron and all these other people can bitch and moan.
	And let me mention this.
	I have a lot of friends in Brazil.
	Yeah.
	And most of my friends around the world, like most people outside the United States, they tend to be left-leaning.
	If not communists.
	Did you meet them on Orcut?
	No, I met them when I go there.
	I was a member of Orcut for a few minutes.
	Anyway, Orcut, that's where you meet the babes.
	Sure, John, they're babes.
	Well, I don't know.
	I never met them.
	But that's where you're supposed to meet them.
	So, you want me to do the report or you're just going to make fun of my report?
	First of all, they all hate Bolsonaro.
	Like, to an extreme.
	Why?
	Because he's a right-wing doofus.
	They hate him.
	They hate him to such an extreme.
	It's like he's a fascist variant.
	Yeah, makes sense.
	And so this whole thing is, you know, and they've been trying to, you know, he's kind of like a, I would say in terms of politics, he's like a middle-of-the-road Republican in the United States.
	But no, in Brazil, which really leans left...
	They like their social programs.
	They have a lot of free stuff for the poor.
	They have a real wealth gap that makes us look kind of like weak sisters.
	And so anybody who comes in there with capitalistic ideas has got to be condemned.
	So let's look at this.
	So they've got this thing going on with these fires.
	And it's like they use it as leverage, and the Europeans are using it more than the Americans.
	There's a couple of reports here.
	There was that one from Democracy Now!
	And I got a second report from NBC, which just came out yesterday.
	Fires raging in the Amazon, outrage spreading around the globe as leaders and activists are demanding immediate action to save the jungle, responsible for much of the world's oxygen.
	NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.
	Tonight with the Amazon burning...
	The political heat on Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro getting hotter.
	At home and around the world, protests.
	In Canada, France, Germany, England.
	I'm just really scared that when I'm older, the world I'm living in isn't going to be as nice as it is now.
	America!
	The demand to Bolsonaro tonight, stop those setting the fires.
	If the Amazon reaches a level of destruction, there will be no turning back.
	And that's your fear?
	Your generation's fear?
	Yes, completely.
	The Amazon often called Earth's lungs because the dense jungle is responsible for 20% of the world's oxygen.
	Now, purposely...
	Sorry, I've got to go back.
	That was so well done.
	When he goes to the lungs and the oxygen, you hear the birds tweeting all of a sudden.
	It's beautiful.
	The Amazon often called Earth's lungs because the dense jungle is responsible for 20% of the world's oxygen.
	Now, purposely set on fire to clear the rich soil for agriculture.
	Bolsonaro blaming the fires on aid groups, stirring up controversy.
	Tonight, a firestorm of rhetoric.
	What's lost will be lost forever.
	Kerry Sanders, NBC News, Miami.
	Alright, so let's start with the bull crap that everyone's propagating.
	By the way, I should mention the Amazonian Basin is not rich soil.
	It's depleted from all those years of producing all those plant matter.
	The Earth, then what you see over and over again, if anybody sees this in any report, Earth's lungs or 20% of the oxygen.
	80% of the oxygen produced in the atmosphere, by the way, which has accumulated apparently over millions of years, and if oxygen production stopped tomorrow, it would take a long time to deplete.
	80% comes from the algae in the oceans.
	That's where it comes from.
	So you have to say that the rest of the 20%, there's no other vegetation in the entire world, all comes from the Amazon?
	This is bullcrap.
	In fact, if you start reading any literature whatsoever, and I could just quote some of it.
	Here's one I can read.
	This Dr.
	Jonathan Foley explained in a lengthy Twitter feed.
	The Amazon represents at most 6% of the world's oxygen production.
	That's a good number to have.
	That 20% number has always bothered me.
	And you're right, the lungs and the 20% meme is rampant.
	It's like 97% of scientists.
	It's exactly the same as 97% of scientists.
	And the net of the 6%, if it was 20 or 6%, The net-net, almost everybody agrees, is nil because there's so much rot in these forests which uses up oxygen.
	As in one nil?
	What's this nil use all of a sudden?
	You said nil, that you excoriate.
	I've been watching soccer.
	And by the way, when I say nil and I refer to soccer, that's typically a game.
	Yeah, exactly.
	There you go.
	So the amount of oxygen is...
	In total, it's pretty much balanced zero coming from the Amazon.
	I remember when I was a kid, we're all the rainforest, the rainforest.
	And by the way, if it's such a rainforest, the Amazon doesn't put out the fires with the rain.
	I'm just wondering.
	It's so wet.
	We should get the rain sticks.
	We should get the rain sticks for the Amazon.
	I bet you we can save it.
	I'll bet you in one year this won't be a crisis.
	Maybe in one month it won't be a crisis if we do the rain sticks.
	So anyone who says 20% are Earth's lungs in a news report is just part of a scheme to, for one thing, defame this Bolsonaro character.
	I need to get in here.
	Are you done with the deconstruction?
	I need to say something that I think you're overlooking.
	Go!
	I only heard one report, and it's similar to something you had in yours, but I knew exactly what was going on.
	Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have sparked a hail of criticism against the country's president.
	Slammed for not protecting the world's biggest forests, Jair Bolsonaro has now accused environmentalist groups of starting them to embarrass his government.
	So far this year, Brazil has had more than 72,000 fire outbreaks, an increase of 84% on the same period last year.
	Regarding the fires in the Amazon, I'm under the impression that they could have been set by NGOs who have been asking for money.
	Alright, that's all I needed to hear, because I have the following.
	I have...
	Elites, Hollywood elites.
	I have the G7, a top summit meeting of world leaders.
	I have NGOs.
	This is Michael Crichton's state of fear.
	Completely, all the way down to the exact scenario, except Michael Crichton's state of fear, in which he predicted NGOs, non-governmental groups, activists, in his case, would set off dynamite to blow up a huge glacier.
	And at the same time, there's this huge conference going on, i.e.
	the G7, so they could finally tip the scales for climate change, disaster, Green New Deal, whatever.
	This is exactly the same game.
	It's the script.
	Yeah.
	It is.
	Go read State of Fear, which Michael Crichton, before he died, got excoriated for.
	In his dying day, he said, you watch.
	I have the clip.
	We don't have to listen to it.
	In his dying day with Charlie Rose, he says, I'm pretty sure I'll be right about this.
	And this is exactly that script.
	Right down to the NGOs.
	The NGOs, yeah.
	As soon as you hear that.
	As soon as I heard that, I'm like, oh, this is State of Fear.
	So go read a synopsis of State of Fear and you'll know exactly what we're talking about.
	And so, transparent.
	And then, as you pointed out, well done.
	I like the 20% in the lungs of the world.
	This was all ready to go.
	They had the talking points set up.
	Macron's probably in on it.
	Oh, Macron's the biggest mouth of the group.
	And by the way, it's the European newspapers that have all these, besides having a lot of fake photos, for one thing, they say, well, we can't, and the newspapers, by the way, in Europe don't tell you this 13,000 square miles.
	They don't tell you anything.
	So we can't measure it.
	It's immeasurable.
	I looked and looked and looked.
	And then they talk, the skies are blacked out over Sao Paulo.
	And so I went to the webcams, and they're all over the world, people.
	And Sao Paulo is beautiful.
	In the show notes, you can go take a look.
	There's no smoke.
	No smoke.
	So this is something of a hoax.
	And it's not like there's no fires.
	And then they say, well, why doesn't he do something about it?
	The Amazon doesn't have a bunch of fire stations all over the place.
	It's a joke to even think that.
	People don't even understand how big.
	Amazon itself is just about the same size of continental Europe.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And it goes into three or four countries.
	It doesn't even, you know, it goes into Peru, it goes into Ecuador.
	This is bull crap.
	Yeah.
	But when you see that, I'm just, my warning is besides the NGO thing, which is obvious, which you picked up on, and I saw that too.
	Is that when you see 20% of the world's oxygen as if there's going to be depletion when there's not, and the Earth's lungs, this is just nonsense.
	This is bullcrap.
	And I saw it mentioned by, you know, Shakira.
	Everybody, John, everybody was saying this.
	Oh, yeah.
	Shakira.
	I got a tweet from her.
	Shakira.
	Well, you follow Shakira.
	CNN is promoting the 20% lungs.
	Do you follow Shakira?
	No, I saw her.
	She was pulled a clip from some other article.
	Oh, okay.
	I don't follow Shakira because I don't believe she has much to say that I'd be interested in.
	Unlike someone I know who does follow Britney Spears.
	Well, she follows me, so that's why I follow her.
	So that's a little different.
	If Shakira were following you, I'd be impressed.
	I should check.
	Well, Ida Auken, Ida Auken, she was following President Trump.
	She is a Danish parliamentarian.
	Is that the woman that's in the photos with Macron?
	I think so.
	Oh my God.
	There's this Merkel, this woman, and Macron, and sometimes Trump.
	No, no, no.
	That's the Prime Minister.
	Ida is a member of Parliament, and she put together a hilarious...
	This could have been Dutch, actually.
	It's like the Dutch are backup Danes and vice versa.
	This was so...
	I mean, she even talks a little bit like the Dutch.
	So, you know, who was it that first, maybe it was, was it the Dutch or the Germans who did that funny video, take off on Trump?
	It doesn't matter.
	This has become a thing for politicians in Europe, and this was all around the G7, of course, to send a message to Trump.
	I'm standing up, I'm a social justice warrior.
	So this is the video she puts together.
	Is it playing?
	Windmills!
	If it doesn't blow, you can forget about television for that night.
	Mr.
	President, I want to present you to the greatest field you have ever seen.
	It is so great that I thought I might actually get your attention by standing here next to this bird-killing, cancer-causing, blackout-generating, wind-energy-producing beast here.
	And look, I'm fine.
	Not heard at all, actually.
	And that's because there is no scientific evidence that wind turbines cause cancer or blackouts for that matter.
	But we'll get back to that.
	And by the way, my name is Ida Augen.
	I'm a member of the Danish parliament.
	And now that you're here, let's talk about the deal.
	Okay.
	It's about...
	You can see what she's doing here, cutting back and forth to Trump.
	Let's talk about the deal.
	Okay.
	Cheap energy and saving the climate.
	Here's an example.
	The North Sea region, that's the sea on top of Europe, can produce twice as much electricity as all the coal-fired power plants of Europe combined.
	And look, it's smaller than Nebraska.
	Imagine the possibilities in all of your great United States of America.
	And what about the price, you ask?
	It's cheap.
	It's cheaper than coal, actually.
	Even in US. I have no doubt about it.
	So stop your plants.
	I know you're thinking about building new coal-fired power plants.
	Wind is cheaper.
	Listen to science, listen to your wallet, and make a new deal.
	It's gonna be great.
	Darling, I want to watch television.
	I'm sorry.
	The wind isn't blowing.
	Oh yeah, the blackouts.
	Don't worry about your TV dinners and movie nights.
	In Denmark, where most of our electricity comes from wind, we have on average 15 minutes of blackouts every year.
	Whereas in U.S., with all your coal-fired plants, you go dark on average two hours every year.
	And now wait for the big payoff.
	Our country is in serious trouble.
	So, Mr.
	President, we all know you can do this.
	Just grab your pen, sign a deal, and let's save the climate.
	You see, grab, like she was making a grab and buy the pussy joke.
	You got that?
	Just grab.
	Trump made a big mistake.
	He should not have offered to buy Greenland.
	He should have said, let's buy Denmark and get rid of this person.
	My goodness.
	That was really bad.
	Now, a couple of things.
	You did an entire, I wish we have a guy that's putting together pieces of our different spiels.
	Somebody's got to go track down your thing on windmill cost effectiveness and the economics of windmills that you did on this show about a year ago.
	Is that only a year ago?
	I don't think Why wouldn't people be doing that?
	You just make more money.
	It doesn't make sense that everyone's not doing that.
	It is also not mentioned is the annoyance factor that people have with these windmills that live in the areas where the windmills exist of the noise.
	It drives them crazy.
	They have to move out.
	I was given a little lecture about that in Holland, of all places, where there's these giant windmills, and they're beautiful, but they're...
	They make a bunch of racket.
	And I believe they don't kill birds either.
	But what was this thing about cancer?
	And she associated that with something Trump said?
	I've never heard anything about windmills causing cancer.
	She threw that right in at the beginning.
	I recall hearing something about that, but I don't know what it is.
	They cause cancer of your wallet is what they cause.
	They're all subsidized.
	They wouldn't be working if they weren't subsidized.
	Take away the subsidies and then they're not so cheap.
	Now, there is one thing Trump is at the G7 for, that he said he was going to fight for, and it was one of his, I didn't clip it, but one of his on-the-grass-walk-into-the-helicopter stand-up moments.
	Like, ah, these people, they're taxing our companies unfairly!
	Oh, yes.
	And I have a report.
	Rule of Facebook.
	Yeah, well, it's a little more than just that.
	Tech leaders are sounding off in a big way at the U.S. trade rep's office today, testifying against a new French tax that they claim unfairly targets him.
	Hilary Vaughn is standing by outside the trade office.
	Hilary, you're right in the middle of everything.
	We're dying to know because we're thinking about retaliation.
	What besides wine, I'm wondering, might they retaliate against for the French?
	That's really up in the air.
	The commenting period ends a week from today, and that's when you could really see the U.S. rollout, retaliatory action, whatever that looks like.
	We don't know yet.
	But what we did hear today was U.S. firms tell the U.S. trade representatives that not only could this tax be passed down to users in France, but it also could have larger implications for the industry.
	Google's Nicholas Bramble saying this in his testimony today, quote, This is a concern for international trade and the wider economy if countries follow the DST model and select...
	Specific sectors and groups of foreign companies for targeted tax policies.
	This new tax means that more data will have to be collected on users specific to their location and their actions online, which could raise more questions about privacy and if the government would then have access to that information through an audit.
	Amazon's Peter Hiltz testified that they have not been collecting the data that they would need to figure out how much they would actually owe France through this DST tax or how much revenue they...
	Our French users bring the company as a whole.
	Facebook says that the tax requires a, quote, massive re-engineering effort at the company to track and then filter revenue by a user's geolocation or their IP address.
	This is a discriminatory retroactive tax that's been gerrymandered to specifically single out successful U.S. technology services that are very popular in the French marketplace.
	The objective is for French authorities to increase their tax base at the expense of U.S. firms.
	So U.S. tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon have to make their first payment to France in November.
	But what's up in the air here is they don't have the system they need to calculate how much money they owe France.
	And a lot of the data they need to figure that out also may not exist.
	That's total horseshit, ladies.
	So you're just an idiot for even repeating those lies?
	Is that Ben Shapiro's wife?
	I have a Ben Shapiro clip, actually.
	But...
	At least France is up front.
	You know, the EU high commission, they like saying, oh, you were unfair here, and then fining our tech companies.
	And I'm not saying that it's not warranted, but at least the French are right up front.
	Digital services tax, DST. You operate here, you pay 3% over your revenue.
	You know, I think we should shut down services to France if that's what they want to do, but I can't blame them for being up front about it.
	I thought that was actually pretty good.
	Well, Trump was just...
	The last time we had a little trade war with France, it was the cheese.
	Oh, yeah.
	Trump said he was going to tax all their wine if they didn't stop this.
	I was thinking of you.
	Because he doesn't drink.
	He doesn't care.
	Make a 30% tax.
	Make him text something he likes.
	At worst, he has interest in a vineyard.
	So he has his own wine.
	He's got Trump wine, doesn't he?
	Conflict of interest, you're right.
	He owns a Trump winery.
	I can't believe they haven't picked up on it.
	Emoluments clause or something.
	Yell something.
	Hello?
	You're absolutely 100% correct.
	Why hasn't the media picked up on the conflict of interest?
	They should have.
	This is what they do.
	They're so bad at even doing their own crappy job.
	Yeah, we could do a call for five minutes every morning with CNN, give them their talking points, lean back and make billions.
	Well, I don't know about the billions part.
	Okay, thousands.
	I mean, they're off the deep end.
	That's why I had to send you this bonus clip to CNN. Here's Brian Stelzer.
	Some woman comes on.
	And she goes on about this book they've come out.
	It's a new book with five or six shrinks saying that Trump's nuts.
	Oh, another one of those books.
	Okay.
	Yeah, they sell to the same people keep buying them and going nuttier.
	And so they brought on this professor, this nutty professor who's the former head of...
	The psychology department at Duke University, which tells you something about the academic standards of Duke University when you listen to this guy.
	No offense, you Duke devils.
	And the guy's supposed to be there to kind of balance the thing, but no, no.
	He takes it to another level.
	This is the funniest clip you'll hear for a while.
	Diagnose.
	Right, without saying, I'm diagnosing, because you've never met the man.
	Exactly.
	You can describe what you're seeing.
	So, Dr.
	Francis, I know you disagree with this view that Dr.
	Lee and a couple other dozen psychiatrists have published in this book.
	You say it's dangerous to be talking this way.
	Why?
	Well, I think that medicalizing politics has three very dire consequences.
	The first is that it stigmatizes the mentally ill.
	I've known thousands of patients, almost all of them, have been well-behaved, well-mannered, good people.
	Trump is none of these.
	Lumping the mentally ill with Trump is a terrible insult to the mentally ill, and they have enough problems and stigma as it is.
	The second issue is that calling Trump crazy hides the fact that we're crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist.
	Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin and Mao were in the last century.
	He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were.
	He needs to be contained, but he needs to be contained by attacking his policies, not his person.
	It's crazy for us to be destroying the climate our children will live in.
	It's crazy to be giving tax cuts to the rich that will add trillions of dollars to the debt our children will have to pay.
	It's crazy to be destroying our democracy by claiming that the press and the courts are the enemy of the people.
	We have to face these policies, not Trump's person.
	It's absolutely impossible.
	You can bet the House that the Congress, that Pence, that the Cabinet will never, ever remove Trump on grounds of mental unfitness.
	That will never happen.
	Discussing the issue in psychological name-calling terms distracts us from getting out the vote.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	That guy is really sick.
	I feel bad for him.
	That guy's off the rails.
	But it's like all Democrat talking points.
	I mean, it might as well have been Maxine Waters up there.
	Jeez.
	It's exactly what Maxine Waters does.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	This is a Maxine Waters bit, and it's like, this is academia at the point that we're at right now, and that people should be ashamed of themselves.
	And these universities really have to...
	Have to deal with this as biased.
	I mentioned something on a tweet, and I'm going to mention it on here.
	The conservatives have to make a change here and stop talking and whining and moaning about them being deplatformed and all the rest as conservatives.
	You're going to have to change your orientation to, I'm a Republican, right?
	And it's not as conservative.
	You're Republicans.
	And Republicans are being deplatformed.
	Republicans are being pushed aside.
	Republicans are being condemned by academia.
	Because the Republicans are an established old party, Lincoln's party.
	And it makes it sound a lot more ominous when you say the Republicans...
	Are being screwed over by the colleges today, by the left and the colleges.
	You can say the left, but it's the Republicans.
	Saying conservative is really not working.
	A couple of things about this.
	The true danger of people psychoanalyzing President Trump is that it's now legal to do that.
	In other words, it is accepted to now look at Joe Biden and say, you know, from a psychological standpoint, if his head's been off a couple of times, maybe they forgot to disconnect the wire when they put it back on.
	I mean, we can do this analysis all day long.
	So I think it's really stupid they're doing this again.
	That should be off the table, unless Joe's not a serious candidate for them, because you get full license to talk about how nutty he is.
	And he's made gaffes, and you can say that's misfiring of his disconnected neurons.
	His brain has been taken out and put back in.
	Top of his head was taken off twice!
	No, they're in dangerous territory, and it's also desperate.
	And they bring this guy on who's supposed to balance the report and instead goes off the defenses.
	whatever they said in this book is minor because it's like Trump is completely insane.
	And everybody who, who is clinically insane is being humiliated because Trump's worse than they ever have been.
	And just this and that, I mean, this is, is not, it's not working for them, but I, but I think the conservatives should really rethink their position and start saying, Hey, you know, we're, it's a Republicans are going after.
	There's a two party system.
	And what's, There's not a three-party system.
	There is no conservative party.
	And the people that get hurt the most are the Republicans.
	The Republicans running for office.
	And so they have to consider that renaming things.
	Nomenclature is important.
	Well, they need to have strategies.
	They don't have any strategies.
	They got none.
	Neither of these parties.
	Especially in California.
	Political parties are full of shit.
	Ben Shapiro did a self-analysis on his show the other day, which someone sent to me, and when he said it, it made total sense.
	Now I know what's going on with him.
	Do you want to wager a guess before I play the clip?
	What's going on with Ben Shapiro?
	He drinks too much coffee?
	He gave himself a psychiatric analysis without really saying, I'm going to give myself a psychiatric analysis, but he just said it.
	He said what ails him.
	Coffee.
	No, that's not a psychiatric analysis.
	That's a dietary analysis.
	He's got...
	I don't know.
	You'll never guess.
	He was talking about mental health.
	And then the truth popped out.
	So much sympathy, you're going to allow them to loiter in public and pee in the gutter.
	And do drugs on the open streets and defecate.
	That's sympathy right there.
	And if you say that you want to clean that up, you want to arrest people who are loitering, that you want their garbage to be thrown away, because it is, in fact, piles of garbage...
	If you suggest that there have to be consequences, that the people who are mentally ill and living on the street need to be put in a place where they can be taken care of without their permission, if they are seriously mentally ill, because many of these people cannot actually make intelligent, rational decisions.
	If you are a schizophrenic, I have schizophrenia, and my grandfather was schizophrenic, and that is not somebody who's capable of making rational decisions.
	If you say that, oh, you're unsympathetic.
	Sympathy and crappy policy matter a lot more than sympathy and good policy, so long as you can castigate good policy as unsympathetic.
	Hereditary.
	Well, didn't he say, I have schizophrenia?
	Yes, yes, he said, I have schizophrenia.
	My grandfather had schizophrenia.
	It's hereditary in his family.
	I don't think he meant to say, I have schizophrenia.
	It was the other guy who said it.
	I don't think so.
	Okay, we should analyze this because I really thought he said, I have schizophrenia.
	That's what he said.
	Without their permission, if they are seriously mentally ill, because many of these people cannot actually make intelligent, rational decisions.
	If you are schizophrenic, I have schizophrenia.
	My grandfather was schizophrenic.
	If you're schizophrenic, I know what he wanted to say.
	He wanted to say, I have schizophrenia in my family.
	Oh, well, this is what gets you.
	You talk fast.
	Yeah, that's the talk fast problem.
	So he said, he wanted to say, I have schizophrenia in my family.
	And my grandfather had schizophrenia as an example.
	Which, if you talked at a normal speed, he could have gotten it out.
	But he said, instead, left out a big chunk of it.
	So he said, I have schizophrenia.
	Yeah.
	My grandfather has schizophrenia.
	Maybe.
	I don't know.
	I don't think he's a functional schizophrenic.
	I mean, it's possible.
	But he sure talks like he's trying to run away from something.
	I mean, that girl that you played earlier that I couldn't stand listening to, she sounded like she was running a marathon and talking at the same time.
	Well, you got to fit all the bull crap into 30 seconds.
	You got to make it happen.
	By the way, Thursday was a long-ass day for me.
	Things happen on show days, and the show just ended, and so after a post-production and everything, it's around 3, 3.30.
	And then I'm like, oh no, what is going on?
	I hear stuff, and it's not like we didn't know this was coming.
	Your No Agenda show told you before it came down, a week before it came down, That the CEO of Overstock was talking some weird stuff, played a clip for you.
	Got a clip of the day, actually.
	And the tease came like this.
	About his involvement with the federal government and a Russian spy, that Maria Butina, that is the wildest story I have ever heard from anybody of any standing in our society.
	And Overstock is a real company.
	And he has a story of being asked to be involved with her by the federal government, by the FBI. That is almost too bizarre to not take seriously, so I'm trying very hard to get him to come on the show to explain.
	I would definitely want to hear that.
	I have never heard anything like what he's saying.
	All right, we'll see.
	Chris, thank you.
	Look forward to it.
	Coming up, Dancing with the Stars.
	Yeah, and we're back to...
	We got some news here.
	And we're back to Dancing with the Stars, everybody.
	That's your CNN Entertainment News.
	I will not bore anyone with the hours of footage that were spent Thursday and into Friday morning on Patrick Byrne.
	I did a very deep dive.
	I want to deconstruct it.
	This got wiped off the map almost immediately by Trump's China situation, which obviously we'll be talking about.
	And that may have been fortuitous timing.
	I'm not sure.
	But I think Patrick Byrne has now already been painted as a kook, a nut job.
	Off to the annals of history with you.
	We don't want to know what you're talking about.
	And whenever I see a guy like Patrick Byrne, I really get interested because it's these people, the ones who talk nutty, who often have some very interesting nuggets of information.
	Now, Patrick Byrne has been involved with the Fed, specifically in 2005 to 2007.
	He exposed the DTCC... I think is what it's called, which is the central clearinghouse for Wall Street brokers.
	And there's a number of ways that what is called naked short selling is being applied.
	But what he uncovered at the time, and this was just before the big recession, is that there were all these failure-to-deliver Stock settlements inside the system.
	Because when you buy or sell stock, you're not actually buying and selling it directly from someone else.
	It goes to this big clearinghouse and everyone's part of that.
	But when everyone's a part of it, they can also sell stock that they don't actually have, and so then you wind up with much more stock in the system than the market cap allows, and the stock will eventually go down, just supply and demand.
	And he exposed this and was called a kook and a nut job and was excoriated by Wall Street, but he did cooperate with I think this is part of what people don't understand.
	This is actually how the intelligence services work.
	They co-opt people all the time.
	Usually to be a front, to be a company that you hire someone and they're doing something and the CEO knows what they're doing or maybe one or two people know and it's accepted and it's accepted as patriotic that you help your intelligence services out.
	So we'll skip past all that history, but if you go to his website...
	DeepCapture.com.
	He has videos that explain that 2005-2007 situation very well.
	And, you know, the guy has been a CEO of a company that's been around for 20 years, so you've got to give him some credit.
	But he's kooky, no doubt about it.
	So here's briefly the history of 2015-2016 and part of why he is now coming forward.
	Because 17 years ago, I helped them crack a murder, and they knew me, and I helped them a bit on Wall Street 12 years ago.
	They knew me, and they called me in 2015-2016 to assist in something.
	And I didn't know who the orders came from, but I assisted.
	It's some very honorable federal agents and very honorable people.
	But they named some names.
	Well, they didn't name the names.
	That's it.
	I didn't know who it came from.
	And I took some orders that seemed a little fishy in 2015-2016.
	Last summer, watching television, I figured out the name of who sent me the orders.
	And this has all now been confirmed to me.
	The name of the man who sent me the orders was a guy named Peter Strzok.
	So, that got everyone's attention.
	That's the only piece of information that he has that the news whores are interested in.
	Oh, Peter Strzok, we have a name.
	Connect.
	Connect the dots.
	What can we do?
	Oh, boy, this is very, very interesting.
	I've also read multiple interviews with Patrick Byrne, his own writings.
	It's remarkably similar.
	It sounds like he's not in control of his thoughts, but the way he says it is consistent almost every single interview.
	I watched all of them.
	He was on every single channel.
	Everybody had the obligatory 15 or 20 minutes with Patrick Byrne, and then it was gone.
	So we figured out...
	That something was going on.
	He was watching TV and he's like, oh shit, these guys asked me to do stuff that relates to something other than trying to do some law enforcement.
	And that's where the name Struck came up.
	And although he keeps calling the other people X, Y, and Z, it's Clapper, it's Comey, it's John Brennan.
	He said that in one or two other interviews.
	And he consistently says the men in black came to see me because he doesn't want to excoriate the FBI. And I also don't think it was just FBI who came to see him.
	and we continue with his tale.
	This is quite an ambiguous situation, but the issue is I realized that these orders I got came from Peter Strzok, and as I put together things, I know much more than I should know, and it's right to keep silent.
	This country's gone nuts, and especially for the last year, when I've realized what I know, every time I see one of these things, somebody drives 600 miles to gun down 20 strangers in a mall, I guess I feel...
	Now, this is the only interview where he broke down when he got to this point.
	He said the same thing.
	It's like, in his mind, the information he has will stop the division that we have in America, and with that, Democrat-Republicans, Trump-Clinton...
	Specifically, that divide is what he's talking about.
	And he really broke down.
	That was truthfully broke down as like, oh, I feel very bad and somewhat responsible, and this is why I have to tell the story, which is, once we understand the story, why it'll be buried.
	I guess I feel a bit responsible.
	So I have to come forward.
	I went to see my rabbi, and you know who my rabbi is, right?
	Who's my rabbi?
	Do you know who his rabbi is, John?
	This was a very awkward moment, as if everyone knows who his rabbi is.
	I don't even know if he's Jewish, but his rabbi is someone else.
	Who's my rabbi, David?
	Tell us.
	Tell us, Patrick.
	It's this guy in Omaha.
	It's Warren Buffett, and he mentioned Buffett in a different interview.
	So he has this information.
	He goes to Warren Buffett, his rabbi, to say, what am I going to do with this information?
	And he said, Patrick, you come forward.
	He said, you can't let this sit with the feds.
	Let the feds do their job.
	You have to come forward to the American people.
	So I am.
	I never heard of the guy.
	I only figured out last summer who had sent me these requests.
	It was a guy named Peter Strzok.
	And he was here on behalf of three officials.
	I'm just identifying now as X, Y, and Z. They were named to me, and I've identified them to law enforcement.
	Now, just for the troll room, Warren Buffett is not actually a rabbi, okay?
	I think it's a figure of speech.
	He's his go-to guy when he asks questions like a spiritual leader.
	So Warren Buffett is a Hillary Clinton supporter.
	So why does Warren Buffett want...
	Patrick Byrne to come clean with this because he has information that the Fed spied on Trump.
	And by the way, this goes back a year before the official FBI spying timeline.
	That goes back to 2015.
	And it was Cruz and Rubio.
	But the true reason this has to come out is not something Trump or Barr or anybody else wants the world to know, which is why this guy is going away.
	And here's the reason why.
	I believe there's a massive federal investigation that is going to turn up that there was political espionage conducted through a number of different venues against Hillary Clinton and against Rubio Cruz and Trump.
	I know for a fact, I know other people who are involved.
	That's what really happened.
	And my rabbi said, you can't go another, you have to do this right now.
	People are killing each other in America.
	That's, this is my sorely agreement is people moment or whatever.
	So, Buffett finds out from Patrick Byrne that they were spying on Hillary Clinton as well.
	This is not the way the message is supposed to go.
	This is worse than we ever thought.
	The messaging is supposed to be the Clintons paid for research against Donald Trump.
	They had all these people colluding.
	They all got in there.
	They tried to stop him from winning, and then they tried to get him out of the presidency.
	We can't have all of a sudden that really the FBI and the CIA are just completely out of control, and they wanted to manage the entire election process.
	And that's why Bill Barr, and I'm really, you look at Bill Barr, man, this guy is cleaning some shit up.
	He is cleaning up shit.
	Not for good.
	He's hiding stuff.
	He's protecting people.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, no.
	I'm not all in on Bill Barr being the great savior.
	The idea was we're supposed to get a couple of people.
	We're supposed to prosecute them, get them out, get them done, move on.
	Bad, bad, bad Democrats.
	Bad Hillary Clinton.
	It was all a hoax.
	Now, what was going on with Hillary Clinton, and this is where Maria Butina, the Russian, comes in, and I'm not going to go too far into this, because who was in jail from this whole Mueller investigation?
	The two key people who have real information.
	Paul Manafort, locked up, locked down, shut up, because he has all the goods on Podesta, they work together, so we can't have him talking.
	And Maria Butina, for a very minor offense...
	The way it's written, is in jail for 18 months.
	We don't want her talking at all.
	And from what I understand, Maria Butina was actually involved in the Uranium One hustle.
	And I think Patrick Byrne, being a crypto specialist, maybe he was...
	Wittingly or unwittingly, to coin a phrase from Clapper, involved in helping some transfer of funds through crypto.
	I'm not quite sure.
	But Butina was definitely involved in the Uranium One gambit, and that was the goods they had on Clinton.
	So there's all kinds of stuff that was against Hillary Clinton that this administration has no benefit to letting come out.
	And I think we're never going to hear from Patrick Byrne again on this matter in public.
	Well, what was the guy's role?
	His role was to manage the Russians, let's just call her a spy, if she is or isn't, is unclear, to introduce her to the campaigns, to the Rubio, to the Cruz, and the Trump campaign.
	I don't know if he introduced anyone, if he introduced her to the Clinton campaign.
	And they came to him and said, all right, you've got to set some stuff up.
	And when he started to notice she was...
	Like what?
	These meetings.
	And when Byrne noticed that she was taking meetings that could be potentially harmful, as in if she's a Russian spy, you don't want her taking this meeting.
	And the feds then said, no, no, no, just let it go.
	We want to see what happens.
	And that's when he became suspicious.
	Is this anything, is a bunch of seal indictments involved in this?
	No.
	Did you not hear what I said?
	Bill Barr is hiding shit, is cleaning shit up for people who are not supposed to be exposed.
	In particular, the agencies have to remain, keep their integrity.
	You can't, if the American public knew that the FBI, not under direction of Obama, but their own...
	We're just manipulating the elections.
	You have a much bigger problem than what they're trying to expose.
	So no, there's not going to be thousands of sealed indictments.
	I'm taking this seriously.
	The FBI and CIA are out of control.
	And they were managing the election.
	Patrick Byrne certainly believes what he's saying.
	And he has no reason to be untruthful about this.
	Well, I mean, if you're going to go back, you're going to take this tact, you can go back to that clip that you have, where Ron Paul says that the CIA took over the place after the Kennedy assassination, and so what else is new?
	Okay, well, I mean, obviously, it's not new to us, but to this extent, I think that would be very harmful if people had this thinking.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the last guy that tried to take down the CIA was Nixon.
	And if you read the Book of Secrets, or what was the name of the family book, the Bush book that Russ Baker wrote?
	Family of Secrets.
	Family of Secrets.
	If anyone reads that book, and they should read that book, it appears as if the entire Watergate thing was a contrivance done by professional...
	Russ Baker summarizes the Watergate thing this way, and it's really worth reading.
	You can also read about people like Woodward and how these guys come in to be.
	But...
	He summarizes it thus.
	He says that this was set up by very high-end CIA professionals to look like a botched job.
	Mm-hmm.
	So it would come into play, and again, Nixon was out to get the CIA. He said so.
	He said the place was rotten, and he needed to be taken out.
	And so they did this Watergate burglary as a botched job, but these guys were too high-ended, according to Baker, to botch the job the way they did.
	They could have gone in and out and gotten whatever information they needed, no problem.
	But no, they did a botched job on purpose.
	To get Nixon out.
	To get Nixon out, and it worked.
	Yeah.
	Well, so that's been a secret since I was a little boy, John.
	It's like, it's not supposed to come out now.
	Certainly not on the internets.
	We can't have this.
	We can't have conspiracy theories floating around.
	Holy crap, Bill Barr shows up everywhere.
	This guy is, he, Iran-Contra, he fixed that shit.
	Yeah, he was the Ron Contra fixer.
	A total fixer.
	Now, Mueller was a fixer.
	Mueller couldn't do it.
	Mueller couldn't fix it right.
	He tried to have it straight down the middle.
	Eh, it's okay.
	You know, well, eh, not this, not that.
	No collusion.
	No, man, maybe it's okay.
	Just let it go.
	That was the track that was supposed to be on.
	Maybe we get a Clinton day in court or something, you know, just for fun, for yucks, to make her look like shit.
	But otherwise, no, nothing.
	And now, oh no, we can't let them know that we're up to the same tricks as from the Nixon-Watergate era.
	We can't let anybody know that.
	That's the damning information.
	That's why Buffett wanted it out.
	What's in it for Buffett one way or the other?
	Hillary.
	He's a Hillary fan.
	He does not want Hillary to go down as having paid for...
	Well, better than she looks, yeah.
	Sure.
	Well, then maybe he should be behind the...
	Did you get the hat?
	Did I get what?
	The red hat?
	No, I still haven't received a hat.
	Oh, there's a red hat that says, Make Hillary Run Again.
	It's a hat.
	Did you send it to me, or is it going straight to my PO book?
	No, no, it's one of our producers sent it.
	Oh, that's fantastic.
	Make Hillary Run Again.
	Well, hey, who knows?
	Anyway.
	She's still on my list.
	So I think Patrick Byrne is...
	Well, we'll see.
	Well, he's gone back to his blog, which he hadn't been writing on since 2015.
	No, I mean, no.
	2007, I think.
	Let me take a look.
	No, it's just pissing in the wind.
	Yeah.
	He is, unfortunately.
	I mean, he knows interesting stuff.
	Obviously, it's my beat.
	I'll follow it.
	But believe me.
	And then we get the China thing, which just blew him out of the water.
	I think we should talk about that in a moment.
	After I thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in China, John C. Dvorak.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all the ships in sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, and while you're getting whatever you were swearing under your breath about because you don't have something handy already, I will say in the morning to the troll room.
	Hello, trolls.
	How are you doing today?
	NoagendaStream.com is where all the trolls hang out live during the show on both Thursdays of the week.
	But you can go there 24 hours a day.
	There's always a show on that's fun to listen to.
	Talk, discussion, music, pod safe music.
	It's dynamite.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Go listen, go troll, go hang out together and participate.
	Also, a big hearty in the morning to the artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1166.
	That was Mike Riley.
	Yeah, this one we have to discuss.
	Yeah, so...
	We have a couple of unwritten rules.
	We have three elements that are post-production.
	One is the opening clip that we choose.
	One is the title.
	And one is the artwork.
	And the title is last.
	So typically we do credits together.
	We do that.
	Then we choose the artwork.
	Then we choose the title.
	No, first we find the opening clip, then we do the artwork, and then we choose the title.
	And I think we both already had in our minds that Taco Rista was going to be the title.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	And we liked that title so much, even before we went to noagendaartgenerator.com, We knew that what would not work is under the unwritten rules, those three have to be separate.
	They are three separate topics.
	And I don't think we've ever really broken that rule.
	I think there was one time we came close to breaking and it was dubious.
	Well, there's always an exception to something.
	So everybody did really interesting taco show art.
	Yeah, almost everybody.
	Everybody did taco.
	And we were just like, well, none of it's really outstandingly funny or great.
	I mean, a couple borderliners that we thought were pretty good, like the Taco Time, the Podcasts.
	Are you looking at the art?
	I'm just trying to recall what we had going on there.
	There's mostly taco stuff.
	Taco time, shell.
	Shell cast.
	Shell, the shell cast.
	And it turns out there's thousands of taco podcasts.
	Who knew?
	Did you?
	Did you know?
	No.
	There's thousands of taco podcasts.
	We're thinking, oh, this is a great exit strategy.
	Taco podcast.
	No.
	So anyway, we looked at all those, and then one of the first ones submitted was this environmental projection agency that Mike Riley did, and it was a beautiful piece.
	It comes from an Al Sharpton flub versus the teleprompter, and it had the green plant and the camera.
	It just made so much sense.
	So that's why we did not go with the taco.
	But thank you very much, Monsieur Riley, for your work on this outstanding piece of art.
	We feel it's very important and a big part of how our Value for Value network operates.
	So thank you very much.
	And we, yeah, it was great.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	Please go and participate if you want to, or you can just look at all of the thousands of great pieces of art that have been put up there, of which only 10% has been used for the actual show.
	A lot of it used on t-shirts, mugs, etc., newsletters.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And now, in our value-for-value moment, where we do not play commercials, we have no corporate interest whatsoever.
	In fact, I like what you said in the newsletter, that there were certain moments of the last podcast where we speak in sometimes borderline terms just to get to the root of a story.
	But the way we do that would probably get us suspended or fired on any M5M channel.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	I don't think there's any doubt about it.
	We can't actually do this show in any other venue.
	I mean, we could, but it wouldn't be the same show.
	I mean, you'd be yucking it up all the time.
	You know, we'd do a lot of jokes.
	Now, John, don't say it.
	Don't say those things.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, like that.
	And it would be dynamite.
	It would be good, but it wouldn't be the same show.
	It'd be a different show, but it would be good.
	And, you know, it's something you can think about.
	So let's thank a few people.
	There's one missing from here, which I do have the note on, though.
	I don't know why it wasn't picked up.
	Starting, we got the top of the list is David...
	What do you think?
	Boda?
	Boda.
	David Boda.
	In Monroe, North Carolina.
	And he came in with 1167, so he's...
	Whoa, whoa, whoa!
	1167?
	He's a show producer.
	The show amount.
	Yeah, duh.
	It's been a long time since we had one of those.
	Actually, we have two.
	After seeing the replies to the vanity tweet about Conan O'Brien driving the podcast revolution.
	That's a good one.
	It became clear to me that you guys don't get enough respect.
	Thus, I felt compelled to step up and contribute.
	This is interesting.
	I wonder why the width on this thing is so high.
	Let me move it over a little bit.
	I felt compelled to step up and contribute 1167 to show 1167 of the best podcasts in the universe.
	Thanks for the double Thursday shot of sanity each week.
	Please keep it up because your work means a great deal to a great many.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Euchre of Sandy Ridge, North Carolina and look forward to the Ever tempting mutton and mead.
	See you at the round table.
	P.S. Adam, do you remember the story behind your smoking melted CDs?
	Yes, I do.
	Was he one of them that sold that to me?
	Yeah, here's the, he's got some, you give us the story after this, but he's got Hey Citizen, Pew Pew, Obama You Might Die, round table.
	He wants to add some Blatt's beer.
	I didn't know they still made that.
	And bacon jam.
	Oh, I need to put that order in for the kitchen.
	Hold on, let me see.
	Let me, hmm.
	Do we have anything like that?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I've got it in.
	I'll put the order in.
	They'll have that.
	All right.
	And he has some jingles that he'd like us to play.
	Anything else that he said there?
	No, but after the jingles, you're going to have to explain the spoken CDs.
	Why is that not playing?
	Come on, Obama.
	Where are you?
	You might not.
	There we go.
	You've got Carmen.
	I was being pew-pewed up.
	No, this was when we were living in Guilford in the UK, and I think we went home and Christina had, I don't know, she had a party.
	Yeah, probably had a party.
	She was very good at concealing that.
	Anyway, I got back and I noticed that my weed was gone.
	I'm like, so this was the mistake she made.
	Also, there was a burn hole in the windscreen in front of my microphone.
	So I'm like, all right, what happened?
	Oh, well, yeah, some friends were over and, you know, they had nothing to smoke.
	I said, my dad won't mind.
	Yeah, but they left me with nothing.
	So then the sheepishly, I don't remember who it was, some boys came over later and said, well, we have some hash for you.
	I'm like, okay, but you guys are a-holes that you did that.
	And so it wasn't the best hash, but it kind of worked, I guess.
	But later I found out that these fuckers, they had melted CDs down and sold that to me as a block of hashish.
	What?
	You didn't notice that it tasted like plastic?
	No!
	It did not taste like plastic at all.
	Yeah, I think maybe the story was bogus.
	That's a true story.
	No, I mean the story that they told you was bogus.
	Oh, well, that could be.
	That could be.
	Hey, you smoked a CD, dummy.
	Yeah.
	They got me twice in that case.
	Thanks, guys.
	And thank you, David Boda.
	I don't know if you were part of that gambit.
	Boda must have been one of the guys.
	I don't think so.
	And thank you so much for your support of the work, the show, and all of the work all of our producers do to keep us going.
	Thank you.
	So the missing donation, which should be right here, I thought it'd be at the top, is Sir Anonymous Dogpatch.
	Ah, I was wondering if he was okay.
	We haven't heard from him in a while.
	Yeah, he came in with $11.62.
	Huh.
	So I believe this was supposed to be the show number 1162 and it just showed up late or he didn't mail it or it got bunced around.
	I have no idea.
	He made me do remailings, which is I have a sense of what he's doing.
	Okay.
	Wait, he's doing what?
	He's doing what?
	Remailings.
	This is an old trick you use.
	When you're overseas and you want to mail, like for example, if I want to mail, I could try it, but if I want to mail a note to Kim Jong-un, I'm probably better off sending my letter to a remailer in China.
	Ah, yeah, so it'll actually get through.
	Who would then post it.
	Yeah, got it.
	And this guy really is a serious, I'm going to be anonymous guy.
	That it's possible that he does remailings, and that's why this came in late.
	So we're going to give him the five bucks and make him the show.
	So we have two guys.
	Oh, okay.
	I like this.
	I like this.
	Yeah, we got two.
	Holy crap.
	But he does have his normal long note, which we will read for this kind of input.
	Yes.
	the show keep supporting even when we disagree at least we aren't snowflakes and melt from the blowback yeah efforts to take freedoms away seems to be running amok in the eastern hemisphere china imposing rule over hong kong and india over cashmere will lead to bad outcomes hong kong news has pushed india's oppression of the front pay off the front page during cashmere's eid celebration hmm
	Fortunately, Saudi Arabia simultaneously used its financial muscle against India, investing $15 billion into India's largest refinery and locking in a long-term oil customer, displacing Iran, who is pushed aside by U.S. sanctions.
	And he says, yes, that was sarcasm.
	Yeah.
	Hong Kong and Kashmir are at risk of becoming Palestine-like with mainland China and Hindu Indians.
	That's a good observation.
	Well, what's interesting, again, is that I've mentioned this on the show, is that I don't have it in front of me, but the population of Kashmir is like 55% Indian Hindus.
	Right.
	35% Muslim.
	No, it's 45%, 35%, and 20% of the population is Chinese.
	Oh, right.
	Yes.
	Exactly.
	People don't realize that the population of Kashmir is 20% Chinese.
	They're the lungs of Kashmir, man.
	The lungs, man.
	It's the lungs.
	My lungs.
	My lungs.
	Settlers buying up property imposing their will.
	Kashmir, which is the Chinese he's referring to, Kashmir has too many weapons and allies, but two nuke powers facing each other is of no concern.
	Hong Kong will use its financial power to resist as long as possible, but China is patient and has greater financial resources plus a military.
	I really hope the U.S. will stay away from both.
	Military use is...
	We're not going to do anything in Kashmir.
	We don't even care.
	Military use, although the Chinese being in there, we might care.
	No, no, no.
	We're on Modi's side.
	We're on Modi's side.
	We've already declared our allegiance.
	To Modi.
	To Modi.
	We're not going to do anything.
	And by the way, the funny thing is Modi was not allowed...
	You know, they talk about, you know, they're banning people from coming in and they're...
	Removing press credentials.
	Modi was not allowed in the United States before he became Prime Minister.
	Huh.
	I didn't know that.
	He was a radically kind of a right-wing nut.
	Anyway, face it, U.S. is only 5% of the world population.
	With economic development in other countries, U.S. military dominance has prolonged In prolonged BOG conflicts is suspect peer-to-peer is different.
	I feel drone swarms...
	Hold on.
	I'm sorry.
	BOG? What is that?
	Go back.
	Go read that sentence again.
	It's what it says.
	Prolonged BOG conflicts.
	Capital B, capital O, capital G. I was hoping you'd look it up.
	Keep going.
	I'll look it up.
	Yeah.
	I fear drone swarms and autonomous car bombs in our future.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Tesla.
	You don't even need to put the bomb in it.
	That's right.
	Just have it crash.
	That's perfect.
	One show comment, John, you suggested having a president with business experience would be valuable in a recession.
	Hoover's successful business experience didn't help and probably hurt, while Truman's failed business experience probably helped.
	Government is not business, but politics.
	And they are distinct professions.
	I agree with that.
	In terms of how and why decisions are made.
	Secondly, the current office holder is less a businessman than a brand manager.
	An important source of his income is royalty payments for the use of his name.
	He will protect his brand over everything else.
	He has successfully made his vision of the U.S. a brand.
	But Americans are fickle.
	We all know brand management is dynamic and he seems caught in his own rut and needs to refresh his brand.
	No jingles, no karma.
	He might have meant B-O-T-G, as in boots on the ground.
	Maybe that's what he meant.
	Boots on the ground.
	Maybe that's what he meant.
	Yeah, that's what he means.
	Okay.
	Prolonged boots on ground conflicts.
	U.S. military dominance in prolonged boots on ground conflicts is suspect.
	Got it.
	Got it.
	Well, Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch, receiving one of your communiques a la missives is always a pleasure.
	And thank you for your unwavering support of the work we do.
	And, yeah, keep that kind of information coming, with or without a donation.
	That's the kind of information that we can use.
	I appreciate that.
	And he never wants anything, right?
	NJNK? Yep.
	I've got to give him a karma.
	Is it bad to give him a karma?
	Maybe.
	Then I won't do it.
	He says, NJNK, NJNK it is.
	But thank you for your courage.
	Luke Mudge in Denver, Colorado.
	1,000.
	After listening, he says, to last Saturday's donation segment, last Sunday's, I knew it was time For me to step up.
	I've lost track of how long it's been since listening to No Agenda.
	How long I've been listening to No Agenda.
	But last time I donated was back when the 6969 donation was still a thing.
	It's been a couple of years.
	Yeah, it's been long.
	Welcome back, Luke.
	We even lost our girl, I think.
	You have kept me sane with your analysis through hours of prep work for my Asian...
	Fusion food truck.
	Oh, so he preps food in the food truck while listening to the show.
	Nice.
	You might find a finger in there, but...
	Unfortunately, the food business has proven to be too much work compared to the income.
	Yeah, I can believe that.
	Yeah, I can understand that.
	I mean, you know, and the food truck to me that I always go to is the taco truck.
	I always fall back to just a good old taco truck run by some guys.
	So I've decided to start looking for a day job.
	This, by the way, is foreboding for the food truck business, so people, if you've got a cool food truck, you should support it.
	Oh, if you're using it, you should use it, yeah.
	Yeah, support it.
	If you've got one, you should get rid of it.
	It's not going to be forever.
	No, for sure.
	This is a depression phenomenon, by the way.
	If I can get a jobs car and possibly a 69 jingle, it would be appreciated.
	I'd like to...
	Bring pork buns and buds to the round table if there is room.
	Now, does he...
	Yeah, so he becomes a knight today, yes?
	I don't see where it says that.
	Well, it's in blue.
	He's on the list.
	And it says Sir Luke of Northern Denver.
	Let me just double check and let me show you what I've got here.
	But it's an instant knight donation.
	There'd be no other reason to do it.
	Yeah, well, he doesn't say he's donated before.
	He said he donated back...
	When the 69, 69, he might have done that.
	All right, put him on the list.
	No, he's on the list.
	He's on the list.
	He already was, so I look forward to seeing him at the roundtable, whether he's been there.
	Are you going to put the pork buns and buds?
	Hell yeah, got him on the order!
	69!
	69, dude!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	I would just soar.
	Thor Maruzic, you think?
	Maruzic, yeah.
	I'd say that's right.
	3033.33.
	First time donor.
	Long time boner.
	Very long time, in fact.
	Been listening to Noah Jenner since episode one.
	Having been a fan of DSC for some time, the weight of douche guilt is just unbearable.
	I don't know if this donation earns me a right to be de-douched or not, but I'll leave it to you.
	Yes, it does.
	He's like de-douching him right away.
	Of course.
	You've been de-douched.
	Of course.
	I'm soaking his guilt.
	As for jingles, I'd like you to play Here Comes the Zephyr, pronounced by Jordan Peterson, sounding...
	Sounding AI by the AI version.
	Followed by Clippity Clop.
	The message is clear.
	And for old time's sake.
	Oh, that's for the message is clear for old time's sake.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe, Thor, the Ukrainian from Toronto.
	There goes the Ziffer.
	Only seven cars, though.
	It's Clippity Clop.
	The message is clear.
	Just Clippity Clop.
	You've got karma.
	Thank you very much.
	Funny when I heard that the first time I didn't hear the only seven cards.
	Are you sure it's Thor?
	Because I have Ihor.
	I-H-O-R. Is that a mistype?
	Because I see it twice now.
	I have a feeling it may be meant to be.
	It might not be Thor.
	It might be Ihor.
	How would you pronounce it?
	Maybe that's what I was asking for the pronunciation.
	I-H-O-R? Ihor?
	Ihor?
	Ihor?
	Okay.
	Well, it's unclear to me.
	It can't be a mistake, a typo twice, because it's also I or...
	The Troll Room is being very helpful with the phonetics of this.
	Yes, thank you, Troll Room.
	I understand.
	I whore.
	Yes, very funny.
	I whore.
	If we're doing it wrong, let us know.
	But thank you so much for your support of the show.
	And yes, D-Douche does, is appropriate.
	Alright, now we've got a couple of email ones.
	I'm going to switch these around because I already looked up Stephanie Whitehead.
	Stephanie says, note in JCD's mailbox.
	And I do have that.
	And she came in with 27788 to be the first associate executive producer.
	We're going to backtrack on this.
	Her email is, while we're hungover and enjoying our weekly No Agenda Sunday brunch, I'd like to say happy third wedding anniversary to Sir...
	Knives of the Providence Plantations this coming Tuesday.
	Our anniversary is on the 27th.
	And Sir Knives, or Knives, I get it.
	Knives.
	With a capital V in the middle.
	They got you on that one.
	Test me that Knives, will you?
	It's got a capital V. I got it.
	He was born on July.
	Okay, he needs to be on a birthday list, I think.
	Oh no, July 1988.
	Never mind.
	27.788.
	Here's another reason for this number.
	Her donation.
	That's the donation number 277.88.
	Which I will explain in a short poem.
	A creative medium I haven't seen on the show.
	Which is unusual because we've had poetry, high-end poetry, on the DH Unplugged show.
	We've had haikus here from time to time.
	The 33s, they are haunting me at the time the price paid my phone battery.
	A sign that it's time for a donation, but also for a celebration.
	As wife of Sir Knives of the Providence Plantations, reaches $1,000 today and becomes Lady Butters of Narragansett Bay.
	Oh!
	Well, she's definitely not on the list.
	Pronounce Narragansett for those unfamiliar with our tiny city.
	Everyone knows how to pronounce that.
	So Stephanie Whitehead.
	Whitehead becomes, what's her name going to be?
	Lady Butters of Narragansett Bay.
	Lady Butters of Narragansett Bay.
	Excellent!
	Well, I'm glad we caught that.
	She continues.
	Not my best poem, but after a long work week of writing, cue Adam's cheesy TV guy voice.
	On-brand creative content for the global markets, I need to return to reality with the help of my smoking hot husband and, of course, the best podcast in the universe.
	So she's a copywriter.
	For the roundtable, I request MDMA and IPAs.
	Now that's a woman right there.
	Nice.
	And if you have any leftover Adderall and LSD from Sir Knives Nighting, we can make it a real party.
	I also brought lots of free Play-Doh for the kids' table.
	Play-Doh for the kids.
	I'm bringing this all to the table today.
	It's funny.
	All right, jingles.
	All right, unprepared.
	Go, hit it.
	Well, I'm going to read you the journal, and then she's got one last thing at the end, so you can have time.
	I'd like to a couple de-douchings, a relationship karma, goat-flavored, please, and a that's true, like the 33 is another thing that perpetually haunts me.
	Which is, that's true!
	Yes.
	She keeps hearing it.
	Of course.
	So she just needs a relationship goat karma, and that's true.
	One last thing, and I'll send out, get out of your hair.
	It seems that there have been meetups everywhere in the world except for New England.
	We're going to do one in Boston.
	Nice.
	I'm going to that one.
	That's where Marty, our joke writer, is.
	I'd be willing to organize one somewhere near the Rhode Island area, but only if Crackpot and or Buzzkill would be willing to make the trip out here in person on a date of your choice.
	This may be asking a lot, but I'd be honored if you even consider I'd recommend the fall because there's absolutely nothing like autumn in New England.
	We'd be familiar.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Happy anniversary to my beloved Sir Knives.
	Hey, are you going to go?
	Did I hear you say that?
	I said I'd go to the Boston one.
	Yeah.
	Well, fantastic.
	Mimi wants to go and see some friends.
	She has a bunch of friends there.
	So it's a double...
	Elizabeth Warren?
	Is she going to go visit Liz?
	Liz.
	Absolutely.
	Well, thank you very much, Stephanie.
	And we will see you at the round table later for your daming turning you into a true lady.
	I love it.
	That's true.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Karma.
	Oops.
	Well, he's anonymous in Redwood City.
	So, so much for Squirrel Meal.
	But anonymous in Redwood City says, it's amazing the feeling a donation to the show can provide.
	Also, there's two extra reward points from my credit card as it is before the Labor Day deadline for extra rewards.
	Everyone make note.
	Almost a night hood.
	Shooting to join the table by the end of the year.
	I'll keep it short and sweet.
	A shot of Jobs Karma would be great.
	For an upcoming interview and a Colombian for...
	And a Colombians, it says.
	For Crump would put a smile on my face.
	I'd also like to gauge support for a meet-up at a brewery or beer garden around northern Silicon Valley.
	Redwood City, Palo Alto, perhaps?
	Yes, we're going to do one down there.
	It's probably going to be in Cupertino.
	John, what day of the week would you prefer?
	Well, we'll be talking about it in the newsletter.
	So, yes, expect something soon.
	And thank you very much for your support of the show.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	By the way, your squirrel mail is getting pretty tight on the old verbiage list there.
	I get people who are resending emails to me because the word poop was in it, and your spam filter blocked it.
	Yes.
	We had a new sysadmin because of...
	The word poop.
	And he has got a word checker, so if the mail consists of anything...
	Poop.
	Anything.
	Piss.
	Anything.
	It gets killed and it gets sent right back to you.
	So don't cuss in your emails to me.
	I mean, Chris Wilson has probably had the most problems.
	Because he can't write it without having something in there.
	Onward.
	Richard Hufford in Tempe, Arizona 233.33.
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	Karma for everyone listening.
	Step up to the plate and help John and Adam.
	Our world will be a lot darker without their no agenda show.
	Love and light to you, gents.
	All things Reverend Al.
	Thanks.
	According to my records, this donation should take me past knighthood.
	Happy to be Sir Richard of the Ludwigs.
	Okay, for the Ludwigs.
	Yes.
	Crown Royal and ginger ale always works for me.
	Perfect.
	The list is getting really long for today.
	Maybe some THC bomb flour.
	I don't know what that is.
	Yeah, I don't know what that is either.
	Yeah, and you would know.
	Love all things Reverend Allen.
	Karma for the No Agenda listeners.
	It works.
	It works.
	Yes.
	Love and happiness to the newlyweds.
	Onward, No Agenda Nation.
	You and John are the very best.
	Yes.
	It's a long version just for you.
	We haven't played it in a while.
	He's getting lunch at Chipotle.
	The tortis in the race.
	Kim Kardashian.
	Siganoi Weaver.
	Rush.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. They're all jitty.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. There's no real conflict.
	Resist.
	We much.
	Resist.
	Justice.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	You've got karma.
	What do you think my favorite word in there is in that little speech, that song?
	Well, I like jitty.
	That's my favorite.
	Well, Chipotle is good too, but tortisse.
	Tortisse and the hair.
	Tortisse and the hair.
	Getting all jitty with it.
	Oh, it's Sir Dave Fugizotto.
	Hey!
	Hey, hey, hey!
	There you go.
	$222.22.22.
	Thanks for your sanity and for your courage.
	He's baron of Kansas City.
	I should have known him better.
	Baron of Kansas City.
	Missouri.
	In Mitchum, Victoria, Australia.
	$200 even.
	This is my second donation, adding $200.
	I previously donated.
	I love the fact you guys are unencumbered in your discussions, but are humble enough to admit when things go wrong or things you don't know, you admit these things.
	Yeah, we do.
	We don't know anything.
	A lot of stuff.
	You can't know everything.
	We certainly don't.
	A great example of the amygdala challenge Insta boys out there.
	Can I have jobs and property selling, if that's a thing?
	Yeah.
	Karma for my brother.
	I will subsequently hit him in the mouth real good.
	I'll do it real good.
	Come here, brother.
	He's in Melbourne, he says here.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yeah!
	Karma.
	Now it appears I have to do another search for Blanco75.
	Well, I'm not going to do the whole squirrel mail.
	No, you shouldn't.
	I'm going to do that again.
	Blanco75.
	I do not have him in my emails.
	So I don't know what happened to his note.
	It's right here, apparently.
	Oh.
	Oh, great.
	More information for you.
	Birthday.
	Okay.
	I'm going to do the end of the email.
	Birthday.
	Ready?
	Got a pen?
	Happy birthday to my wonderful and smoking hot wife, Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake, on August 28th.
	Note.
	ITM, forgive me, podfathers.
	For it's been a while since my last donation.
	I signed on to my PayPal account and found that I had a $140 balance I didn't know about.
	So I decided what better way to spend it than to get one step closer to my knighthood and support the best podcast in the universe.
	And we recommend people go look at if they have a PayPal account.
	Most people just use their credit card when they click on a donation button.
	But if you have a PayPal account, That money sitting in there is languishing.
	Last time I wrote in, Adam called me a hero for working with the millennials that play with kinetic sand and won't look you in the eye when they talk.
	I'm happy to say that I negotiated an independent contractor deal to get out of that place and now work from home so I can concentrate on a real estate investment business.
	I wish homes I even connected with a couple other investors from the No Agenda show and encouraged any others to get in touch.
	Chris at iwishhomes.com.
	Our entire family, my wife, myself, and six kids, yikes, all listened to the show.
	Now that's nice.
	So, happy birthday.
	You got it on the birthday list as you get on there.
	Yeah, I put it on.
	We have to make...
	We love to make fun of the stupid things that kids bring home for social studies homework.
	Oh, did you see...
	I'll wait until you're done with this.
	Yeah, and by the way, if you see some really stupid stuff, scan it, send it to us.
	We like to make fun of it, too.
	Things I like, the definition of...
	Things I like.
	The definition of a law is a set of rules everyone agrees to Or the insistence from teachers...
	What?
	Okay, let me start over.
	Things like...
	These are the things that he gets.
	The definition of a law is a set of rules everyone agrees to.
	Or...
	Okay, that's one of the things.
	Yeah.
	That's not a law, but okay.
	That's why they're laughing about it.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's what I'm saying.
	This is what the class teaches.
	Or the insistence from the teachers that we live in a democracy...
	I'm still waiting for one of them to bring home the question, what is the purpose of government?
	There isn't one.
	I would like our response.
	That's what he'd be, our response.
	Yes, yes.
	I'm sure the teachers love us.
	Anyways, anyways, he says, keep up the good work.
	The whole family relies on you guys to keep us safe.
	Have you noticed that this is now accepted in common parlance?
	Adding an S to anyway.
	Anyways, anyways.
	I mean, I'm tired of it.
	I don't correct people anymore.
	I'm like, you're an idiot.
	Anyways...
	Guys do it as a...
	Oh, no.
	I hear this.
	Oh, get out of the house.
	Okay, I'm gone.
	I'm done.
	Okay, I got one.
	We got to start.
	This is an advance of either one of us using this phrase, which is starting to crop up everywhere.
	And if you should agree with me, this has got to be banned from the show.
	And people, if they hear it, they should boo the TV. Pump the brakes.
	I've not heard this one.
	I'm familiar with it, but I haven't heard this one yet.
	Oh, pump the brakes on that story.
	Oh, pump the brakes on that idea.
	That's a real old one.
	That's an old one, pump.
	That's like from the 60s.
	It's back.
	And I've heard it at least five times recently, and I saw it in one of the articles on the Brazilian fires.
	It says, pump the brakes on the stories about the fires.
	And that's the one that got me.
	Did Christopher need any karmas or jingles or anything?
	Yeah, he had some business karma.
	For I Wish Homes, it would be helpful.
	We can do that, of course.
	You've got karma.
	I did want to say, John, in the category of producers and their kids, I'm sure you saw it, but for those who didn't on the tweeters, one of our anonymous producers...
	For some reason, I guess it was okay for us to play this because he tweeted out a video his wife had sent to him.
	Did you see this?
	No.
	So his wife sends him a video.
	I guess he's on the road.
	And here's what she says.
	Your daughter was playing with one of the little pianos.
	And guess what she said?
	She did this little jingle.
	On the piano, and then she said, you are de-douched.
	Yeah, so you think she doesn't listen to your podcast, but she totally does.
	So, awesome words we're picking up there.
	Let's just let you know.
	Some little kids don't know what de-douched means.
	No, but when I hear...
	A message that starts with, your daughter is like, ding, ding, ding, alarm bells.
	And then, you think she doesn't hear?
	Your podcast.
	And then, interesting words she's picking up there.
	I presume that they're okay with this, otherwise he wouldn't have tweeted out that video, I guess.
	I hope it's an inside joke between them.
	Well, it sounds to me as though the Mrs., Doesn't listen to the show or like us.
	That's correct.
	That's my guess.
	Yes.
	This happens.
	But at least the kids are listening and that's a plus.
	Yeah, that's a good start for our next 20 years.
	Matthew Barr is our last on the list for his associate executive producer and he's in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
	Dear John and Adam from Scandinavia, thank you for the outstanding news deconstruction.
	You guys are awesome.
	I've been listening since 2013, and after a couple of shows, I was hooked.
	It's been a while since I've donated and would request to be de-douched.
	Absolutely.
	You've been de-douched.
	Remember that, children.
	In fact, he goes on.
	My wife sometimes will humor me and listen to the show, but my kids love the show.
	And I've been listening with me since they were 9 and 11.
	They especially love the jingles like, that's true.
	That's true.
	And of course, the I've Got Ants song.
	I've recently started a small business, so I'd like to give a quick plug to Rebels Depot at rebelsdepot.com.
	We sell dark and cutting edge designs in the alternative fashion market.
	Huh.
	Including skull fashion and jewelry.
	Which is popular stuff with the millennials.
	I'd like to offer Noagenalicious 15% off of all of our products at RebelsDepot.com.
	Use the discount code NOAGEN and 5% of all sales will be donated back to the show.
	I'd like to request the I've Got Ant song to be played at the end of the show, and if you can fit it in, my kids love that song.
	Also, if I can get a small business goat karma, that would be great.
	Thanks again.
	This truly is the best podcast in the universe, Matt.
	I'm looking at rebelsdepot.com.
	Cool stuff.
	In particular, there's a steampunk t-shirt that's dynamite.
	It's like Hot Topic, only good.
	Very cool.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	You got your new business, Karma.
	Thank you for your support.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	And that is our nice list of associate executive producers and executive producers for our show 1167.
	Thank you all so much.
	This was big for us, and it really helps now that we're just getting through the dog days of summer.
	I appreciate your support of the show.
	And, you know, I was talking with the...
	Sir Dave Baron Dave last night.
	And he says, it's so weird.
	It's like catching up with family or something.
	I know the feeling.
	It's exactly what it is.
	And that's what we are.
	We're one big family.
	And I have to keep saying, this show would not be what it is without our producers.
	And everybody contributes in some way.
	And we love to thank our financial producers, the execs and associate executive producers, right up front as soon as we can within the show.
	So thank you so much for your courage.
	We will be thanking more people in our second segment.
	And we will be back here for more Deconstruction on Thursday.
	To help out, go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Don't tell me you're not out to speed on what's going on with bogus climate change, friends.
	We're not.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	That's true.
	Shut up, sleep.
	Oh, I do want to do special karma, health karma.
	Sir Chris, not Sir Chris Wilson, but the other Sir Chris, who went in for the electrical cardio version that converted his AFib to sinus rhythm with his heart, has reverted.
	It hasn't depressed me, but it's frustrating me.
	It's not cancer, thank God, but it's disappointing me and keeping me from being like you, Adam, and being a spinner.
	Can't spin with AFib.
	No, that might be bad.
	Love and light.
	Also, karma for Isaac Piggott, who has apparently for reals cancer issues.
	We hadn't heard from Piggott in a while, and actually he came up in conversation just last night.
	Where's Ike?
	So we're going to hand out two karmas for health, and of course we'll add some F cancer here.
	With a taste of goat!
	You've got...
	There we go.
	Karma.
	Karma to you, my friends.
	Okay.
	China.
	This is kind of where we left off before the donation segment.
	What we...
	What?
	I'm sorry?
	Well, before we do that, could you look on the spreadsheet and see if there's a J. Spencer Crustick...
	Anywhere on there?
	Because he did send a note in this morning as if he maybe donated something yesterday.
	It came in too late to do it today if he didn't.
	No, I do not see him.
	Spence?
	He will be bumped to Thursday for his knighthood.
	Oh, geez.
	Okay.
	There's no specific reason it has to be today?
	Well, it could be today.
	But then it might show up again on Thursday.
	Well, cutoffs are cutoffs.
	So we'll put you on Thursday.
	China.
	China, China, China.
	That's where we left off, where the news, what I felt was significant news of Patrick Byrne and the Russia collusion was rudely interrupted.
	This conspiracy theory has been interrupted by something about China.
	And just to get us in the mood for China...
	I think I'm going to play the full clip, but the ISO speaks for itself.
	This was just one of the most dynamite ISOs we'll ever get, I believe.
	This was a protester in Hong Kong.
	We need independence.
	Yep.
	And what's your message to...
	Have you seen Donald Trump?
	Do you think he should step in?
	Donald Trump don't trust China!
	China is asshole!
	So here's the ISO. Donald Trump don't trust China!
	China is asshole!
	Yeah, that's definitely the...
	There's no topper for that.
	I need a t-shirt.
	China is asshole.
	That's fantastic.
	I love the Chinese now.
	Well, the Hong Kong Chinese have always been kind of...
	China is asshole.
	It's A-S-S-H-O, in case you're wondering, the spelling of asshole.
	Well, I have a couple of clips about the tariff mess.
	Yes, I'd like your take.
	Let's play the clips first.
	These are, I believe, from NBC. Trump tariff mess.
	We'll start with that one.
	Tonight, President Trump threatening to hike tariffs on some Chinese products in response to Beijing this morning slapping new tariffs on $75 billion in American-made goods.
	The president unloading a series of furious tweets, including this extraordinary directive.
	Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies home.
	President Trump, who doesn't have the authority to do that, revealing his anger amid recent warning signs a recession could be on the horizon.
	While some U.S. companies have started looking for other places like Vietnam to produce their products.
	Many businesses where to move could be time-consuming and costly, threatening to put them out of business.
	The president also lashing out at his hand-picked Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, tweeting, My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or China's Chairman Xi?
	That swipe after Powell today didn't rule out future interest rate cuts, but suggested the central bank was limited in what it could do to buffer the president's trade policies.
	Mr.
	Trump's repeatedly ignored the longtime tradition that a president respect the Fed's independence.
	Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve have totally missed the call.
	Jay Powell's made a big mistake.
	The latest clash hours before President Trump heads to the G7 summit with allies waiting, already anxious about a slowing global economy.
	Peter Alexander, NBC News, the White House.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	They're framing this in a very interesting way.
	Yeah, well they're framing it in the financial way, saying that because, which is really strange, I mean I've always understood, economy great, you've got to raise the rates to combat that, to slow it down a bit, but now it's great and we're going to cut the rates, which is kind of the opposite of what we've always been told.
	And I guess that's the framing of it.
	Financial policy, that's why they put that in the same story with China?
	I guess.
	Do they know what they're doing?
	Play clip two.
	This is Tom Costello, caught in the crosshairs of America's feud with China.
	Peerless precision near Boston, a defense and aerospace contractor.
	The trade war has sent the cost of steel and aluminum soaring, cutting company profits in half.
	If I have to raise prices, there's a really good chance that I'm going to lose that job the next time around, and possibly the customer.
	Wall Street today went into a nosedive with Apple and automakers hit hard after China said it will retaliate against U.S. tariffs with tariffs of its own on American-made products, targeting American-made cars, farm products, oil and clothing, making them more expensive in China.
	Meanwhile, the National Retail Federation is rejecting President Trump's demand that American companies leave China, writing, It is unrealistic for American retailers to move out of the world's second-largest economy as 95% of the world's consumers live outside our borders.
	The trade war is not working.
	It's doing significant damage to our economy.
	It risks running the economy into a ditch.
	Tonight, U.S. business is holding its breath.
	There's no end date to this, as far as I'm aware, which is even worse.
	Everyone's on the edge of their seat right now waiting to see what's going to happen next.
	And Tom joins me now.
	Tom, put this in perspective.
	Are there any estimates on how much this trade war might cost American families?
	Yeah, J.P. Morgan, for example, says it could cost the average household $1,000 a year with the tariffs taking effect in September, then again in December.
	And if this trade war worsens, that number could grow even more, Lester.
	All right, Tom Costello, thank you.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	Funny thing that's being conflated here we should mention.
	The United States with the, I don't know, 350 million out of a 7 billion population, They keep saying this.
	In fact, actually, Anonymous mentioned it, too.
	But he just did the real number.
	He says the U.S. is 5% of the world's population.
	In that report, they said the U.S. is 5% of the world's consumers.
	We are the lungs of the world's consumers, my friend.
	We're the lungs of the world's consumers.
	That's where we are.
	This is bull crap.
	The population of 7.53 billion are not consumers in the modern sense of the word.
	Somebody, you know, that's pounding rocks in some obscure area of the world in a native environment, or the one million people that live in the rainforest, I got that figure out of the blue, that are pretty much primitives, really shouldn't be counted as consumers.
	The number of Western-style consumers is probably a lot less than 7.53 billion.
	Yeah, you'd think.
	Just mention that.
	But they always try to do this to say, you know, it's a demeaning thing to say, well, you're 5% of this and then you'd show up 20% of the world's resources.
	Well, that is the AOC message.
	That is the message of the world's left.
	America, bad.
	Yes, but it's for the purposes of world government.
	Of course, of course.
	We know what the purpose is, of course.
	America bad.
	America bad.
	So I don't know, to be honest, but I don't know what to make of this.
	Do you have any thoughts on this trait?
	Yeah, I have a couple of things.
	Let's hear it.
	Well, first of all, the president...
	I can absolutely order these companies to do that.
	You should take a look at the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
	Which is indeed true.
	The 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act does give the president sweeping control of economic transactions.
	Is that the Carter administration?
	I believe so.
	I think so.
	A Democrat, yes.
	As of March 1st, 2019, presidents had declared 54 national emergencies invoking IEEPA, 29 of which are still ongoing.
	Typically, national emergencies invoking IEPA, that's what we're going to call it, last nearly a decade, although some have lasted significantly longer.
	The first state of emergency declared under the NEA and IEPA, which was declared in response in the taking of U.S. embassy staff as hostages by Iran in 1979, will now enter its fifth decade.
	So that's been ongoing.
	So this is not atypical.
	But it's Trump, so it has to be dictator Hitler, literally Mussolini.
	So that's what it is there.
	Now, the president also tweeted out something else.
	And I don't have it in front of me, but he said, look...
	Look, these guys aren't playing ball and they promised to stop the fentanyl.
	They have not stopped the fentanyl.
	This is what I think he's signaling something interesting here.
	And it is a big deal.
	And there was a big bust recently of fentanyl too.
	Huge.
	Yeah, and so much fentanyl has been confiscated, it could kill everybody in America twice over easily.
	And so I just wanted to go back in history for a moment.
	I did some diving on China and our relationship, and the first thing I came across was the movie from John Pilger, a movie-slash-documentary, It's called The Coming War on China.
	It came out in the end of 2017, 2018.
	It's a complete...
	I mean, the whole thing is...
	It's good to see something like this.
	It's in the show notes from one-sided perspective.
	It's a very globalist, anti-American documentary.
	The first half is all about...
	The Marshall Islands and how we killed everybody and used people as guinea pigs and blew all the shit up and how we're horrible and we're just encroaching around China.
	That's what it's all about.
	And it's good for background, but there was one bit in there that I didn't know too much about, and that is the opium wars.
	And in fact, I had a conversation with my millennial here at home who corrected me and said, no, this was about silk and stuff.
	And she studied this in school, so she would know.
	But this documentary...
	I'm not going to argue.
	Studying something in school doesn't mean you know anything.
	Correct, but that's not how you approach it.
	What you do is you go and research it and you play some shit on the show.
	For the American elite in the 19th century, China was a goldmine of drugs.
	Warren Delano, the grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the American opium king of China.
	He was the biggest American opium dealer, second to the British.
	He welcomed the first American ship into China to help out with the opium wars.
	Much of the east coast of America, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, were born from opium money.
	The American Industrial Revolution was funded by huge pools of money.
	Where did this come from?
	It came from illegal drugs in the biggest market in the world, China.
	Let me get this right.
	The grandfather of arguably the most liberal president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a drug runner.
	Yes, sir.
	Franklin Delano Roosevelt never made much money in his life.
	He had public service jobs that were very lowly paid, but he had yachts, he had summer homes, he had mansions in New York City.
	The kids went to private schools.
	He inherited a fortune from Warren Delano, his father, who was the American opium king of China.
	If you scratch anyone with the name Forbes in their name, John Forbes Carey, Secretary of State John Forbes Carey.
	That's the present Secretary of State.
	Yes, sir.
	You'll find opium money.
	His great-grandfather was an opium dealer.
	How big was opium money?
	Opium money built the first industrial city in the United States, Lowell, Massachusetts.
	It built the first five railroads in the United States.
	Opium money all over the East Coast, but it wasn't talked about.
	It was called the China trade.
	And if you go to various museums, you can see tees and silks exhibited, and they keep quiet about all that big opium money.
	And so the literature, and I thought that was interesting, the literature that is taught talks about the China trade specifically, but the Opium Wars and all that is kind of pushed over to the Brits.
	The Brits did that, and then of course they colonized and they took over everything.
	But we had American military in Tiananmen Square on horseback riding around.
	And interesting about John Forbes Carey, I didn't know that that was the source of some of his wealth.
	So, taking that into context, there's a new movie that was announced this week called Claws of the Red Dragon.
	I don't think it's going to be slated for a theatrical release.
	It's produced by Steve Bannon.
	Yes, that's Steve Bannon, as we like to call him on the show.
	And he sat down for an interview.
	I pulled three clips which relate specifically to what we just heard, to the tariffs and strategies.
	And it appears to me that he's still on good speaking terms with the president.
	There must have been a lot of posturing to get him out of the White House because, I mean, this is all in, all in from all sides.
	Here he is Talking about the tariffs and, of course, the minor speck that we are as a country compared to China's 4,000-year history.
	Trump's program is a half a trillion dollars in tariffs, right?
	The tariff goods.
	Because he knows the Chinese can't respond.
	Correct.
	And here's why they can't respond.
	People in the United States have to understand one thing.
	The Chinese look at us as a tributary state to them.
	And let me explain that.
	China's been around for 4,000 years, right?
	They've had good runs and they've had bad runs, okay?
	But one thing they know, and the reason they're still organized as a nation over 4,000 years, right?
	They know how to handle allies and they know how to handle bad guys.
	Okay?
	Now what they've done is they've got this system called barbarian management.
	And they know how to manage barbarians.
	The way they manage barbarians is they take the leaders of the barbarians and they give them a taste of the good life.
	And you're going to be something special.
	You're going to get a special deal.
	Now what happens back into the tributary state is whatever happens, that's your problem.
	Okay?
	In the United States, what they have done for 25 and 30 years is played as a barbarian state, barbarian management.
	They incentivize our elites, and our elites de-industrialize, particularly the upper Midwest of this country.
	It's the reason Donald Trump's president.
	J.D. Vance, the great guy from Yale who wrote Hillbilly Elegies, is the best sociological study of the Trump voter.
	And it was J.D. Vance who told me, he says, hey, those studies that come out of MIT and Harvard, Show that there's a direct correlation between the factories that left for China, the jobs that left with them, and the opioid crisis.
	It's not about tariffs.
	What this is about is human dignity and self-worth.
	Those factories went, Wall Street made the money, the corporations benefit from it for lower costs, and devil catch the hindmost on the workers.
	We're Jamestown to their Great Britain.
	That's why the tariffs, at the scale that Trump put them up at, they can't respond to it.
	I don't know if it's in the movie, but I found it kind of interesting that he made that connection.
	He says there is this connection between the manufacturing going to China and the opioid crisis that we have here in the States.
	I don't take anything for granted.
	These are not just coincidences in my mind.
	I think China is very happy to say, here, fuckers, remember that?
	Take this.
	I don't put it past them.
	And why would you?
	Very different culture.
	Well, the opium wars did end, so they can stop the fentanyl.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of course they can stop the fentanyl anytime they want to, but they're not.
	And, man, Scott Adams did a periscope, and he was like, kill him.
	Just kill him.
	He lost his stepson to overdose, and he's like, we should just go in and kill the executives of the companies making that.
	You know, talk to someone who's affected by it directly, you get a different message than you and I might put out there.
	And this is a long interview.
	It only took three clippies.
	And again, going back to this documentary from Pilger about the disputed islands.
	We talk about them a lot.
	In fact, Dame Astrid and Sir Mark, they do reign over the disputed islands.
	And they're in Japan.
	They're not happy at all about what the Chinese are doing there in the South Chinese Sea.
	And I had not heard of where this came from, where they're the Chinese notion that they can be anywhere in that body of water.
	And it's, you know, that's kind of like Malacca Straits.
	This is us.
	You know, this is we patrol that we keep it safe.
	It's open.
	That's the superhighway of all the all shipping lanes.
	Now these guys have got these these bases they're building.
	And it's called the nine dotted lines or nine dashed lines.
	And he goes into it in this clip.
	China considers the South China Sea to be an internal sea to China.
	I know.
	I mean, the Nine Dotted Line of 1949 is a joke.
	They think it's a territorial sea.
	I know.
	They are not prepared.
	The first thing they'll tell you, that the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of China is not to be questioned.
	Not to be questioned.
	And they consider that non-dot line, you know, the more people put it into documents, the more people put it on TV shows, the more people that re-enfer that meme, they want because they believe that that's reality.
	You ask me what's going to happen, the South China Sea...
	The situation in Qatar and the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea are the two greatest hotspots in the world for a global conflict to start, okay?
	Not Korea.
	Korea's a vassal state of China.
	The whole Korean thing is nothing but a Chinese drama, okay?
	And President Trump's doing an amazing job on it.
	My recommendation is I think the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, who to me has been very even-handed with China and really, you know, tried to build a relationship.
	I think you ought to give the Chinese 72 hours 72 hours to take every radar, every offensive thing on the military, all the jets, everything out of the runways, everything off the islands.
	You get 72 hours to take it all off.
	And on the 72nd hour and one minute, the United States Navy is going to go in there and take it off for them.
	And then I think they ought to take those reefs and they ought to dismount them and turn them back into international waters.
	They say the United States is provocative.
	By putting the United States Navy back into the South China Sea to keep the sea lanes open.
	I happen to believe where this relationship is going, and the lack of a real response that China is going to have, that they're going to try to do something provocative in the South China Sea to try to initiate a response.
	And I think the President ought to be proactive on this.
	I don't know if that's going to happen.
	War, war!
	Yes, of course.
	This nine-dash line, it's on the Wikipedia.
	That's crazy.
	It was some map that came out in 1912.
	And it's literally a couple dashes around this entire China Sea.
	Like, that's our borders right there!
	And they believe in that.
	I didn't know about this nine-dash line thing, but that's where they get this territory from, they say, that that is...
	That that is theirs, and clearly Banyan wants us to start a kinetic war over that.
	But this is the most interesting thing he said last clip for this.
	And he explains here how Trump, you know he's a very stable genius, has actually worked with great headwinds without pumping the brakes on it.
	To create an entire manufacturing zone to compete with China.
	Yes, the tariffs in and of themselves on a nominal number, an absolute number, are not huge.
	But we look at the convergence of everything.
	What Trump has done is said, hey, we're in economic war.
	We're going to hit back with the 301s to stop the forced technology transfers.
	We're going to put these tariffs into the scale they've never seen before.
	We're going to have the ability, if we so desire, to liquidate companies like ZTE to basically cut them off from their component parts in the West.
	They'll be out of business in 90 days.
	Also, the new things about investments, about these limitation in investments.
	Sibius reforms.
	The CFIUS reform that people are talking about.
	You bring all forces of government together on that and the stopping of intellectual property, you have something.
	What Trump has done, and this is why NAFTA was so important, the new NAFTA deal that he's created is basically setting up a geostrategic manufacturing base to counter East Asia.
	Okay?
	And Japan is very quickly going to be part of that.
	A bilateral deal, not some TPP deal, we're just one among many.
	A direct bilateral deal with Japan as a partner.
	We've got one with Korea, we're updating.
	And then the EU, Yunker has already told Trump, has already indicated that they're going to be a part of this too.
	What Donald Trump has done in less than two years, Sounds plausible.
	He's got to get some people to sign off on some stuff, though.
	Time to invest in Mexico.
	Yeah, or Canada.
	Scandinavia is a part of that.
	Yeah.
	So, and I don't know if Junker, you know, if any of that power carries over with the new election.
	But, no, anyway, I'm curious to see what this clause of the Red Dragon movie will be.
	Well, we're probably one of the few people to actually watch it.
	Yeah, and who will care.
	Exactly.
	But, the guy's not a dummy, that Banyan.
	No, he's not.
	He's no dummy.
	A little pompous, though.
	This interview was done in a hangar with a jet and a Mercedes and parked next to the jet.
	It's like, oh, brother.
	Yeah, that's a bit much.
	Yeah.
	Undisclosed location, a hangar.
	Very funny.
	Yeah, why?
	What's the point?
	I don't know.
	Man, what else we got?
	Oh, do you have anything on Brexit?
	I hear weird stuff.
	You know, I'm looking for Brexit stuff, and no, because the Brexit thing is kind of like languishing with pretty much what we've talked about already.
	There's some stuff we should at least mention.
	Italy having their tribulations.
	That hasn't been discussed at all.
	Let's play this.
	Okay.
	Italy has been plunged into a political crisis as Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced he's resigning.
	He made the announcement after far-right Interior Minister Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini withdrew support for the right-wing populist coalition in power and called for a no-confidence vote.
	Giuseppe Conte took aim at Salvini as he addressed the Parliament yesterday.
	It is clear who is the person responsible for the government crisis, but if they lack courage, the political courage, no problem, I will assume it.
	I believe this is the only conclusion, the only necessary, transparent, and coherent and linear conclusion.
	I thank you very much.
	Dude, that guy's got like strings of goop when he's talking in his mouth.
	You hear that?
	That courage, the political courage, no problem.
	I will assume it.
	I believe this is the only conclusion, the only necessary, transparent, and coherent, and linear conclusion.
	I thank you very much.
	The outgoing Prime Minister Conte then headed to the presidential palace to formally submit his resignation.
	If a new majority coalition cannot be formed to run the government, the president will likely call for early elections.
	While political analysts say Salvini is unlikely to ascend to the premiership, the immigration hardliner could gain more power as his popularity continues to grow in Italy.
	So what does this mean in your estimation?
	Ugh.
	Well, I think it's just another, you know, it's another falling, it's another takeover by the migrants that have created these situations in these countries that is untenable.
	And they're going to end up having to be run by the central government in the EU. I mean, they already put somebody in earlier.
	Remember, that was a couple of years ago.
	They took over Italy and then they let it pass back.
	Oh, yeah, they had the technocrats come in.
	Yeah.
	Whatever his name was.
	They're going to do it again.
	And I understand Bojo might be pushing for a snap election before the October 31st date.
	Well, you know what that means.
	Nigel.
	In the Netherlands.
	Nigel.
	In the Netherlands.
	It's a Nigel song.
	What's that?
	Making time for Nigel.
	Nigel.
	The Nits.
	The Nits.
	Actually, Chris Wilson can find that song and make it into a Nigel song.
	The Nits.
	Making plans for Nigel.
	There you go.
	Yeah, the Nits.
	Everybody, it's the Nits.
	Yeah.
	The Netherlands, thousands of Dutch have signed up for a beach party for Brexit.
	On October 31st, they will all stand at the beach and wave goodbye to the UK. 52,000 might be going.
	Seven for sure.
	They think it's some sort of a joke?
	No, they're really going to do it.
	They're going to stand on the beach and wave goodbye to Britain.
	The Dutch still has some humor.
	I'm happy to see that.
	Well, let's talk about something a little off-topic.
	Yeah.
	Or not totally off-topic, but vaping.
	Oh boy.
	Okay.
	I've got two clips.
	I got e-cigarettes expose on NBC.
	Let's play that first.
	The safety of e-cigarettes is under increased scrutiny as even more people, including teenagers, are being hospitalized for severe lung disease linked to vaping.
	NBC's Kristen Dahlgren has more on the urgent call for action.
	This was 17-year-old Tristan Zofield less than a month ago.
	I could just feel my heart just pounding out of my chest.
	His lungs so damaged he was unable to breathe on his own.
	The day they intubated him was probably the worst day of my life.
	Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong until they found out Tristan had been vaping.
	He's now one of more than 150 cases of vaping-related lung disease being investigated across the country.
	No one has been able to establish What type of e-cigarette or what flavor or what brand or put any one thing together that has led to this increase.
	The American Vaping Association says the evidence continues to point to street-bought vaping cartridges containing THC or synthetic drugs.
	Tonight, the FDA, which regulates e-cigarettes, says it's working with CDC and state health officials as quickly as possible to gather more information.
	Scott Gottlieb was the head of that agency until April.
	We addicted a whole generation of kids on nicotine through these vaping products, and this isn't like a teen fad that you can just turn off.
	He calls it an addiction crisis.
	We're going to be at a point where we have to ask whether or not some of these products should come off the market.
	Tristan, who's likely to have permanent lung scarring, vows to never touch an e-cigarette again.
	When you walk into high school or whatever, like you walk into the bathroom and you'll see 10 or 12 kids huddling around, either passing one around.
	If the short-term effects are this bad, then, you know, what good can come out of it?
	Questions now facing health officials and millions of kids headed back to school.
	Well, now, as the resident vapor of the No Agenda show...
	Before you do that, I want to play the next clip.
	Okay.
	Because I do want your input on this, and I know where you're going already because of the giveaway that was in the first clip.
	So NBC always likes to do a couple of the same story two or three times, usually at least twice.
	So this was the follow-up story.
	And they brought this one out just because somebody died.
	Next tonight, that alarming headline about e-cigarettes.
	Health officials are reporting what may be the first deaths linked to vaping.
	And the CDC warning tonight that cases of lung disease are rising among people who vape.
	NBC's Kristen Dahlgren has the latest.
	Tonight, the possible connection between a mystery illness and vaping taking a deadly turn.
	Unfortunately, yesterday we received a report of a death of an adult in someone who was recently hospitalized with severe respiratory illness.
	The CDC is on the ground in Illinois as the number of people hospitalized has doubled there in the past week.
	193 cases are now being investigated in 22 states, mostly in teens and young adults.
	The symptoms?
	Cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue.
	Doctors on alert, asking patients if they've been vaping.
	It's not sure whether it is a particular compound, a contaminant, it's nicotine, it's THC, nobody really knows.
	According to the CDC, many patients, but not all, have acknowledged recent use of products with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
	Which vaping advocates say is the real problem?
	31-year-old Sean Bills is in a medically induced coma in Utah.
	His wife has turned over all his vaping paraphernalia to the local health department to try to help find a link in an increasingly dire search to find answers and prevent more deaths.
	Alright, is there something you wanted to know before I start?
	Yeah, I'll say a couple of things before you start.
	This was...
	This seems to be some sort of a setup.
	They're doing something.
	There's something behind this.
	I don't know what it is.
	But I'm always concerned with these news stories where the term they don't know shows up.
	This is like those drugs they sell.
	They say, we don't even know how it works, but here it is.
	We know it works, but we don't know why.
	I mean, these things always concern me, and they don't know.
	I mean, there's hundreds of people that are being hospitalized.
	You'd think they'd know more than nothing.
	All right.
	All right.
	Well, obviously, there's messaging that went out.
	Who knows?
	Maybe even the Hollywood Health and Safety Lear Foundation is in this.
	E-cigarettes, there's no such thing anymore as an e-cigarette.
	Have you seen anyone walking around with a thing that looks like a cigarette where the end lights up like it's a cigarette?
	Yeah.
	10 years ago.
	So this e-cigarettes, this is a positioning word because no one uses e-cigarettes anymore.
	I don't think you can even buy the e-cigarettes.
	What they don't want to say is Juul.
	That's one part because Juul is owned by one of the largest tobacco manufacturers.
	They bought it for $8 billion.
	So in the first story, very, very cautious to point out that these preloaded pods, very dangerous, this street stuff...
	But in both stories, they don't talk about the...
	And I was just recently at the vape store, and I was talking about Vaporista.
	And, you know, there is no more homemade juice that you can buy anymore.
	You can still make it, of course.
	It's all FDA approved now.
	It's gone through the regulatory process.
	Just in Texas...
	No, on September, they will be raising the...
	Age limit for all nicotine-related products from 18 to 21.
	So they really want this market to be fluid, and they want people getting the legal stuff.
	And that's the problem, is when you get these...
	And I've tried many cartridges.
	Justin, the drug dealer, would, you know, like a year or two ago, and he'd be putting it together.
	And it was shit.
	And, you know, I'd like take one drag, and it was THC, and God knows whatever.
	And like, no.
	This is like the CDs that were melted, man.
	I can't smoke this.
	It makes you cough.
	It's no good.
	The approved, produced ones that do go through a regulatory process, including THC from California, are quite good.
	So this is all about getting everybody on the legal stuff.
	It's just like marijuana, like weed itself.
	Out of our minds and gone from the conversation, and I just was thinking of this yesterday, I'm like, oh, look, look, look!
	I found a seed.
	One seed.
	When you used to buy pot, John, back in our pot days, pot, you'd have to get the Peter Frampton Comes Alive double album to separate the stems and the seeds from the weed.
	There were so many seeds, and you could grow your own.
	So it's a trick.
	It's a mind control.
	Don't think about how you can make this yourself or grow this yourself or anything like that.
	Go to the approved stuff.
	And that's all that this is.
	But clues there are they're complaining about the THC preloaded cartridges which have nothing to do with what kids apparently are vaping in schools.
	And I also don't think many of the THC... Cartridge producers put nicotine in there as well.
	So, this is positioning.
	There's big money behind it.
	It was more native ad than anything.
	We'll find out.
	It's all regulatory.
	We've been looking at this for how many?
	Two years now?
	This vape stuff where they're trying to push the little guy out, which they've done successfully?
	Sure.
	That's what you do.
	Of course that's what you do.
	You got the big media on your side.
	They'll take these stories because they're packaged.
	Yep.
	And you give most of the stuff, of course, NBC, the big networks, they have to drop Kristen Dahlgren in there to do a little voiceover.
	Of course, of course.
	So it's not just a straight out video press release.
	They baked her in the deal, sure, no problem.
	Yeah, she's baked in.
	She's baked in.
	She's baked in.
	And that's the kind of stuff you'll never hear on the No Agenda show.
	I'm going to show myself the world by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	We do have a few people who are baked into the show that help us produce it.
	And we're going to start by naming names.
	Yeah, baby.
	First one, Harm Westland.
	Now, this is my first overdue donation, so I'd like to be de-douched.
	Let's start with that.
	You've been de-douched.
	Now, harm is in the Netherlands.
	Is it pronounced harm?
	Harm.
	What kind of a name is harm?
	Well, it's a typical Dutch name, but it's not harm, it's harm.
	Harm.
	Harm.
	Yeah, harm.
	You kind of swallow it.
	Harm.
	Okay.
	Listen to the short donation sections in the last few shows.
	I was ashamed of myself for leeching for as long as I did, thanks to the show.
	Or thanks to the show.
	I've decided not to buy a new smartphone.
	Well, yeah.
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	Why are you still using it?
	As a millennial, this would have never entered my mind without you guys.
	This donation is part of the money I save by not buying a new smartphone.
	Next up, we'll be getting rid of Google services.
	Very good.
	Thanks for keeping me sane in this outrage, hyperinflationary world.
	Keep up the good work.
	Greetings.
	Harm Westland.
	Ermelo, the Netherlands.
	He's in Ermelo.
	Yes, Ermelo.
	I never heard of it.
	John Catalano, and why would I? No message, you guys are wrong.
	John Catalano, $100.
	Sir Vonster, Knight of the Vector Realm, $100.
	He got back from New Delhi.
	Yeah, send us an email describing some of the things you discovered.
	Brandon Hill in Eustis, Florida.
	Got a birthday coming up.
	8.008.
	Derek.
	Hold on.
	He says, Sir Jack Mormon's two douchebag brothers would like to wish him a happy birthday by contributing 8.008 to the best podcast in the universe and humbly request a de-douching.
	Yes!
	They got hit in the mouth and they're doing a birthday call out.
	You get it.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thank you.
	For your courage.
	Derek Johnson, 69-69.
	And he wants to bring back 69-69.
	Michael Birchler, 69-30.
	He's moving from Chicago to Portland, driving a lot.
	That's a good drive.
	Actually, it's a nice drive this time of year.
	Eileen Sauer, Muskegon, Michigan.
	And that's a 69th birthday for her, which is Sunday today?
	The 25th?
	If I'm allowed a birthday wish, I would like to know what the inscription on the no agenda night and dame ring says.
	I strive to make said ring mine someday.
	Carry on with the great work.
	Thanks for all you deconstruct.
	It's just ITM in reverse.
	Yes.
	No, it's hit him in the mouth.
	In Latin.
	Okay.
	Oh, I see what she's talking about.
	She's talking about the little Latin in there.
	Yes, it's the hit him in the mouth in Latin, which is hit him, lorem, epsom, mouth him, something like that.
	John Lopez, 6160.
	Nancy Murphy, 5721.
	I'm sorry, Clay Alchemist.
	That was the credit for the 6160.
	John Lopez is for Clay Alchemist.
	Nancy Murphy, 5721.
	Michael Barkov, Salem, Oregon, 5555.
	John Stelling, Leon Valley, Pennsylvania, 5555.
	Tim Hazel, I believe.
	It's for the Ruth Gator Meinhof Recovery Fund.
	Tim Hazel, 5510.
	Sir Kevin of the Black Knot.
	We should talk a little bit about Ruth Gator Ginsburg, how she's hanging in there.
	Sir Kevin of the Black Knot, 55-10 in Amherst, New Hampshire.
	Matt Davidson, 55-10.
	Todd Rathkamp in Rippon, Wisconsin, 55.
	Chris the Drunkard.
	Sir Chris the Drunken Minstrel.
	He sent a donation note.
	That's Chris Wilson.
	Sir Chris, yeah, he sent a donation note.
	ITM gentlemen, please find my Aussie boob donation of $80.08 dollar a dues, Pinot Colony pesos, or Koala Crypto Coins.
	Regardless of what you call them, they're worth so little at the moment the donation barely qualifies for a mention.
	They even rounded the transaction down to $80.07 as the extra cent wasn't worth the trouble.
	While our boobs may be small these days, the nipples are still pert.
	Sydney Meetup, anyone?
	Hit Sir Ned, Jeffrey, or myself up on No Agenda Social.
	A douchebag call-out for Jeremy in Bondi, just in case you missed Not Jordan Peterson on the last episode.
	Douchebag!
	Old folks minding karma for our Viscounts.
	Sir Baz, man, flu karma for irritable...
	A homeless doco karma to the professor and some cash flow karma my way would be nice.
	Finally, if you're okay with it, there goes the Zephyr.
	Yes, of course, we played that several times.
	Thank you for your courage and my resulting small amygdala.
	Love you all.
	Cheers.
	From Sir Chris the Drunken Minstrel and your karma will be bundled in at the end.
	Thank you very much, Sir Chris.
	You don't have to do that, you specifically, but we appreciate it.
	What I found interesting is 8008 turns out to be 5206.
	Jackson Butler in Leveland, Texas, 5150.
	Sir Phenom, 5090 in Appleton, Wisconsin.
	Another birthday for Kevin Mazenberg, Parts Unknown.
	Uh...
	Dude named Kevin, 5013.
	We got a birthday list on the birthday list.
	Following people are $50 donations, name and location, if available, starting with Sir Crack in Ireland.
	I.E. I'm sure that's Ireland.
	A little Rostov on Don sounds like any place but Ireland.
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	Jambo Joe!
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	Send some sprays.
	Yes.
	What a list today.
	Short on the back half, though.
	Just a short list.
	Actually, the whole list was not long, but we had some good donations up front, so it's more about the amount of donations we need to work on.
	Well, thank you for this.
	Thank you to everyone who donated under $50.
	I see right off the top there, I see $349.99.
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	It is the 25th of August, 2019.
	Here's our birthday list for today.
	First of all, we have a belated wish from Kevin Meisenberg to his niece Ella.
	She celebrated on the 13th of August.
	Eileen Sauer turned 69 today.
	Kevin Meisenberg...
	Happy birthday to his niece, Hazel.
	He's on time for this one.
	Her birthday will be tomorrow on the 26th.
	Brandon Hill says happy birthday to Sir Jack Mormont.
	And Christopher Blanco says happy birthday to Dame Ashley, Lady of the Lake.
	She celebrates on the 28th.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Let me see.
	We have no title changes today, so that's kind of good.
	Let's get into our knightings right away.
	I'd like to do those if I can get your big blade up.
	Big blade.
	There it is.
	Monster blade.
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	No agenda!
	Meetups!
	That's right!
	Snaggers!
	The meetups are going great.
	Quick report from Salem, Oregon, Local 33.
	We had 16 attend our latest Oregon meetup.
	Sent a nice picture, a nice diverse crowd.
	Our meetup included a cover art slideshow, and since there were so many new faces, we had a recap of the No Agenda Jeopardy game played at the Portland meetup.
	Which I have received.
	I guess there's a whole bunch of things that go along with it.
	It's like a trivia game.
	But it is indeed in the vein of Jeopardy.
	We also included another round of the Gitmo Nation National Anthem, which is great.
	People just start singing it.
	They know all the words.
	We collected only a little cash, $25 submitted by PayPal.
	It was in a jar with your heads attached to it marked dollars to reject any exit strategy.
	Contributions directly to no agenda.
	So I guess they don't want us to exit.
	As always, reasonable amygdala sizes prevailed and easy conversation flow.
	Thank you for your courage, Tim, the gentleman of the Manor Executive.
	Now I have a list of the new meetups, the meetups that we have starting today.
	Nebraska at 3.30 p.m., and these are all local times, of course.
	The inaugural Nebraska No Agenda Meetup, a meeting place for great minds and open discussion.
	It's at Cosmic Eye Brewing.
	Tyler is organizing that.
	On Thursday, this is the Burning Man Black Rock City, 2.33pm to 4.20pm.
	Get it?
	At Big Puffy Yellow.
	That's the camp.
	It's at 6 and K. We're called Big Puffy Yellow.
	Ask for the original Jason.
	If someone doesn't know who that is, then ask for the other Jason who's not as good looking as the original Jason.
	You'll be able to figure it out.
	Then we have August 31st.
	That is Saturday, Busan, South Korea, 7 p.m.
	This will be at the Galmegi Brewing Company.
	And that starts, as I said, 7 p.m.
	The 31st on Saturday, the Sao Paulo meetup at 9 p.m.
	This is at the Ranieri Tabacaria.
	If you can find it, because it'll be dark all day because of the fires.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Yes, grab your flashlights and head over there at 9pm.
	Also on Saturday the 31st, the Cottage Country Meetup, Petersburg, Ontario, Canada, 7pm.
	That'll be at Riley's.
	If you're up at the Cottage looking for something to do, meet your like-minded, no-agenda pals for some non-amygla-busting conversation.
	And that is organized by Sir Richard, Knight of the Kawarthas.
	September 5th, that'll be two days after my birthday, Thursday, Canterbury Ale House in Seattle, Washington.
	Patrick organizing that at 7.30pm.
	Friday, the 6th of September, the first Calgary meetup.
	God, I'd love to go to Calgary.
	I went to the Stampede years and years ago and had a good time.
	That's in Calgary, Alberta, the Wild Rose Tap Room, and that starts at 4.30 in the afternoon.
	Sir Michael of Calgary in Vegas is your host.
	September 7th, Zurich late summer meetup, 6.15 Central European summertime.
	Just like last time in April, we'll meet up again.
	Different location.
	It will be the Rivington and Sons Bar...
	Yes, the Rivington& Sons Bar in Zurich.
	Hedge-on-the-stick PDFs are available.
	Okay, great.
	Rolf is organizing that.
	And then we have the rest of September, the 11th in Orlando, the 14th El Paso Las Cruces, the 14th Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the 20th Manville, Louisiana, across the North from NOL. The 20th as well, Nelson, British Columbia.
	There's a date change and a new date, so make sure you look that up.
	The 20th, Oregon Local 33 will convene again.
	The 26th in Luxembourg.
	The 26th also in Vegas.
	The 27th in San Antonio, Texas.
	The 28th in Avra de Grasse in Maryland.
	And Copenhagen Round 2 rounds out the September meetups.
	And we already have four scheduled for October 1 in November if you want to know more.
	Go to noagendameetups.com and if there isn't one near you, start one!
	How about that for an idea?
	And thank you because these meetups seem to be very helpful to people.
	And I'm tickled by the reports.
	I love seeing it.
	We've started something.
	You've started something here that is just continuing.
	It's a legacy somehow outside of us today.
	All we're doing is trying to help you organize it, and thank you.
	And there we go.
	That's what I got for the meetups, and we've done all of the administrative work for today.
	All right.
	Let's listen to some...
	There's this little item they played on NBC, and I kind of want to run it because this is irksome to me.
	That is The Real ID... With the summer travel season almost over, the TSA began warning travelers at airports today they may not be able to fly without a driver's license that complies with the new Real ID law next year.
	Here's Tom Costello.
	Ladies and gentlemen, you have both sides available, please.
	Step down.
	It's the daily crush.
	Two and a half million passengers surging through airport security checkpoints.
	Starting today, TSE officers now offering a friendly warning.
	Next year, make sure you have the star on your ID because if you have to be in compliance with the Real ID Act, you're going to be accepting next year, okay?
	As of October 1st, 2020, you won't be able to fly if your driver's license doesn't have a Real ID star in the top corner.
	With the clock ticking, state DMV officers are bustling.
	I know it's kind of hot outside, but be patient with us.
	It's cool inside, believe me.
	In Virginia, they've even deployed mobile DMVs to handle the load.
	Everybody required to prove their identity with four forms of ID. I brought my passport, so I have a valid passport.
	I brought my social security card.
	And two more, like a current driver's license, a utility bill, payroll stub, birth certificate, or military ID. If you've changed your last name, you'll need proof, a marriage or divorce certificate.
	It's not just flying, you're also going to need a Real ID to enter a military base or even a government building.
	Don't wait till the last minute and absolutely when you come in, be prepared.
	Passed after 9-11, the Real ID law creates a single national standard for all 50 states.
	It doesn't matter when your license expired, by October 2020, it has to be Real ID compliant or you will not be permitted to fly.
	Freedom is freedom.
	Subjugation is liberation.
	Contradiction is truth.
	Those are the facts of this world.
	And you will all surrender to them, you pigs in human clothing.
	That's what's coming!
	Come on!
	Your papers!
	Your ausweis, bitte!
	Now, this was a thing that the right-wingers in this country, conservative Republicans, were all about.
	Bitched and moaned and groaned about it.
	We're not going to do it.
	And a lot of states never took the bait, including California.
	We're not doing this crap.
	But then everyone knuckled under and nobody's complaining about it.
	And let me ask you this.
	To get the real ID, the way they discuss it, you need your...
	You can have a bunch of different ID. You can have a birth certificate, maybe a social security card, a proof that you pay a bill.
	This, of course, keeps any homeless person from getting proof of the bill, passport, military ID. You need four forms of identification that they accept.
	Am I correct on this?
	Well, that's what I heard.
	Don't I get an ID automatically, a real ID, with my Texas driver's license?
	No.
	And my passport is not real ID enough?
	Your passport, here's the joke.
	This is the joke.
	You can use your passport, right?
	You can use a passport to get on the plane.
	Yeah, of course.
	Well, if I can just use the one form of ID, the standalone passport to get on the plane, why can't I use the standalone passport to get my real ID? You must comply.
	Why do I need my passport plus my birth certificate, plus a bill, plus a driver's license?
	Why?
	Why?
	We want you to dance, monkey boy.
	I'm going to ask you again.
	You have not answered the question.
	You're just ridiculing me.
	I'm going to ask you again.
	If I can use the passport to go on the plane, why can't I use the passport to get the real ID? If you keep asking me like I'm a fucking government official, I'm going to keep ridiculing you.
	I don't have a goddamn answer.
	Does this make any sense to you?
	Let me ask a different question.
	Why do I? I just don't, because now I gotta go.
	And by the way, those lines are out the door because you go up there and you say, well, I got this idea and I got that.
	Now, now, now that's no good.
	We need this.
	We need that.
	I mean, come on.
	How many people past the age of 40 have their social security cards?
	I still have a very, not with me, of course, but in a wallet, a very worn out with my signature from when I was in high school.
	Carried that with me.
	Somehow managed...
	It's with my stamp collection, which is not big.
	It's unbelievable.
	It's not big.
	You're the only one.
	I also have my FCC Class 1 radio operator license to be on Z100 in New York.
	I still have that license, too.
	Yeah, but is that ID? No, of course not.
	I've got a collectible.
	It's not ID. I have some real ID. I never thought of using this.
	I have, believe it or not...
	I'm just pulling it down.
	I have it hanging here.
	I have a U.S. Merchant Mariners document.
	Now you're talking.
	Yeah, this is a Merchant Marine document.
	I have a Costco Executive Club membership.
	I have a Costco Executive Club.
	John, this is obviously a scam.
	This is obviously some gambit, and I'm not going to go and get one.
	Here's my passport, if that's what you need, and fine.
	You can take a look at that.
	I'm not going to go stand in line, be part of your slave system.
	No!
	I'm not either.
	In fact, I... And I'm going to do exactly what you're going to do because I always have my passport with me when I travel.
	I have a special slot.
	And you know why?
	Because you never know when you have to travel somewhere else all of a sudden.
	Bug out is the word.
	Bug out, yeah.
	You never know when you have to bug out.
	That's right.
	Panama, here I come.
	So you have to have your passport with you anyway.
	Yeah, I'm going to use the passport to go on an airplane when they get to this point, but I find this whole thing obnoxious.
	Yeah, I'm with you.
	Especially the part where your passport you can use, but you can't use the passport to get the real ID, but the passport's okay if you want to get on the plane.
	Yeah.
	And you need the real ID to get on the plane or a passport.
	And let me just say, all of this, you need this to travel on the plane, is unconstitutional.
	You don't have to accept this at all.
	You have freedom of movement.
	You don't need any ID to get on a plane legally.
	No.
	Now, a carrier can refuse you.
	An airline can say, well, we don't know who you are.
	You don't have proper ID. We don't want to take you.
	You can have a separate discrimination suit if you wanted to do that.
	But the TSA, the government...
	They really have no constitutional ground to force me to identify myself in any manner to them to travel.
	It's unconstitutional.
	And I recommend you from now on don't use any idea and travel that way.
	Okay, so I'll be in Texas for a long time.
	And by the way, the only connective, I think this is a connective clip.
	Because what we just talked about and you played your little thing at the end.
	kind of screwy.
	This is NBC.
	This, by the way, is all because of Trump.
	Nazis in high schools now.
	Oh, no.
	A now viral video showing high school students singing a Nazi song and giving a Nazi salute is sparking outrage ahead of a school board meeting tonight in California.
	Miguel Almaguer has details now on what appears to be an escalating and alarming trend in America.
	This short video, obtained by the Daily Beast, captures high school students in Southern California giving the Nazi salute and singing a song used to inspire Nazi troops.
	The teens reportedly members of the boys' water polo team at Pacifica High School, making the gesture before an awards ceremony last year.
	Shared on social media, district officials strongly condemned the video, saying they learned of the incident in March.
	I'm not surprised, but I'm horrified every single time because I know we're seeing not even the tip of the iceberg.
	The disturbing video in California comes as this image was captured in Florida at Universal Orlando, part of NBC Universal.
	Officials at the family theme park saying, hate has no place here, after four people on a ride appeared to give the Nazi salute while flashing this hand sign, often linked to white power.
	Oh, God.
	The incidents, including this one, also involving high school students in Southern California, part of a disturbing trend.
	Racist propaganda nearly tripling last year.
	And now tonight, on both coasts, another sign of troubling times.
	Miguel Almaguer, NBC News.
	Wow.
	Okay, this is pretty deep.
	First of all, having lived in Europe...
	I could not give you a single Nazi song.
	And I lived in the Netherlands.
	We learned a lot about the Germans and World War II and the collaborators and the Nazis and the NSB. And I do not know a Nazi song.
	What is the song?
	They don't play the song.
	They just say this.
	And they use the other thing which has been bugging me since the fire story at the beginning of the show, which is just the vague, the amount of racist or Nazi propaganda, whatever they said there at the end, has tripled.
	Oh, yeah.
	Does that mean it's gone from one to three?
	Yeah, well, this is a good point.
	This is, you know, this was signaled by the New York Times.
	They said it's going to be about race.
	It's going to be a race hate.
	And I guess this is easy to bring it in because, you know, Nazis are white supremacists.
	Maybe they were singing that, John.
	Oh.
	I It's possible they were singing California Uber All-Ist.
	And end it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's possible they don't give us any details.
	More of this vague...
	Vague, kind of, like, propagandistic news.
	Oh, I know what the song was.
	Of course I do.
	Springtime for Hitler!
	And Germany!
	Jeez.
	Very disturbing.
	Do you know that the Pledge of Allegiance in the United States, before my time, that kids stood there saluting the flag in what looked like a Nazi salute?
	Yeah, that used to be until the 30s and 40s, for sure.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that was the way we did this pledge, Alicia.
	It was a Heil salute.
	Yes.
	Yeah, there's plenty of photos.
	There's an example in one of the Olympic Games where the...
	Where the whole American team gave the salute.
	All you have to do is look it up on the Google Images.
	So I have some information for you.
	1231, 131, and 201.
	All three time codes is where your audio glitched momentarily.
	Ha!
	We have a pattern.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	So you want to call them with that information.
	Adjust accordingly for your local time zone.
	Where did it glitch?
	Who said this?
	Well, I'm listening.
	I have a headphone on.
	Oh, was it the chat room that kept...
	No, no, no.
	You're talking...
	Okay.
	We don't talk much outside of the show.
	Before the show, you said, make time codes of when my...
	Well, let me explain to everybody.
	Time codes of when something happens with the audio.
	We've had some issues in the past two shows.
	And I'm like, oh, great.
	I've got some extra work to do.
	I'm underhand somewhere.
	And so I've been writing it down.
	And it's one past every half...
	Yay!
	We got John C. D'Varque with glitches one minute past every half hour, everybody, right here on the...
	The morning zoo.
	Good, it's getting more interesting.
	Yeah, so there's something going on.
	I wonder if you call me, that's where their next test is going to be.
	Oh, I'm going to do another test when I call you.
	Okay, we'll do that on that.
	Oh, we're going to do the numbering test until we nail this.
	But if we're seeing a pattern, this is like reminding me of the era, I don't know if you remember this, but if you were in the early era of telecommunications with modems, especially the little ones you'd strap the phone to.
	Oh, you mean the acoustic modem?
	Yeah, I love those.
	But any modem, in fact, however you could hook it up, when you're in certain parts of Europe, and I think Switzerland was one of these places, they would spike the line every like 10 minutes or every 20 minutes.
	You know why they did that?
	And this happened in the Netherlands all the time.
	When I was growing up, it was very socialist, and everyone had a phone.
	We had the same phone, the gray phone, and it was illegal to even unplug it, let alone plug something else into that.
	So they'd send these bullets of voltage across the line periodically to blow up your answering machine that you brought from New York if you happened to have been lucky enough to go there.
	Or that cool cordless phone, which was illegal.
	So they'd blow these spikes through and it would fry the equipment if it wasn't the state-sanctioned post-telegraph and telephone issue gray model.
	It was great.
	Good times.
	Just a quick note from me.
	I have lots of stuff.
	I'm moving over to our Thursday show.
	The FDA is about to clear over-the-counter sales of hearing aids.
	And, of course, I have hearing aids, and I've become somewhat of a...
	What?
	Yes, I've become somewhat of a...
	Didn't you just buy them over-the-counter?
	No.
	I will remind you of my experience.
	You can only buy them through an audiologist.
	Interestingly, hearing aids are pretty much not covered by any health insurance.
	The hearing aids are really a $300 product, but they sell them to you for $3,000, and that is because of this insurance.
	And my audiologist, Amanda, lovely, she even said the first time I showed up, our time is limited because they're changing this.
	And it starts with Bose.
	Bose has developed what they call the self-fit hearing aid.
	And they are trying to get approval from the FDA for this, but CVS, it's a big drugstore chain in the U.S., is now already closing their hearing centers.
	Because the thought is, and I want to say something about this, that you will be able to buy hearing aids that come from Silicon Valley instead of the Scandinavian countries where most of the good hearing aids are manufactured, designed.
	I don't know if they're all manufactured there, but they're certainly designed there.
	And there's a lot of incredible advances in digital signal processing technology.
	My life has changed.
	It changed almost overnight when I got these things and the people around me as well.
	But I am staunchly against the idea that Silicon Valley...
	And I've tried many of them.
	I've ordered these...
	There's kind of a gray line between amplifiers and hearing aids, which is total horse crap.
	You could see this coming down Broadway.
	They were going to deregulate this.
	But if you think you can get hearing aids that will self-fit and work without adjustments, without someone who knows what they're doing, you're mistaken.
	And so...
	We'll see what products come out, but you really need someone who knows what they're doing in order to get you perfect hearing, mainly because you don't know what it is anymore.
	You don't know what your ears should be sending to your brain.
	A good audiologist does 90% of the work.
	They do it with your audiogram and audio.
	But it's never there.
	That extra 10% is what gives you the full adoption.
	So I'll bring more information on this as it comes.
	And if anyone wants a consultant for their hearing aid product, John and I are available.
	Hey, I'm the eyeball guy.
	That's right.
	For all your eyeball and eardrum needs, John C. Dvorak and Adam Curry Consultant Group here for you.
	We will take you through it.
	Cataracts and Eardrums.
	There you go.
	Another podcast developed right here.
	And we'll find out there's a thousand of them.
	Yeah, right.
	In advance, thanking Bill Walsh, Tom Starkweather, and Darren O. Along with a tip of the hat to cold acid for the idea.
	That'll be the last mix in this sequence.
	For our end of show clips.
	Thanks to all our producers, executive, associate, and otherwise, also everybody who supported the show.
	It is your show, and we appreciate the opportunity to be able to spend all of our time on it, since you are financially supporting us as well.
	Please keep that up at dvorak.org slash NA. Coming to you from FEMA Region No.
	6 and Opportunity Zone 33 here in Austin, Texas, on the governmental maps in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where, I don't know, I'm not going to get a real ID. I'm going to use my Merchant Mariners ID. I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Up next, the Mark and George show in between vacations on noagendastream.com.
	Take it easy, everybody.
	until Thursday.
	Adios, mofos!
	And such.
	I got ants.
	We'll be right back.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	I got ants.
	I don't know if you had ants.
	We had ant invasion.
	I was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants and then ground them to a powder like a fine grind of black pepper.
	We were having dinner and I got an ant somehow in the meal and I ate it.
	These things are peppery.
	I got ants.
	These ants, they don't need a lot.
	And then you see, you find all the ones that are roaming around you.
	Although I backed them off by doing the burning trick.
	Just torch them.
	And you leave them there.
	The only ant, there are occasional moments where there's an ant that you do not torch, and that's an ant that's carrying one of the dead ants back.
	I got ants.
	Ants.
	you Ants?
	Ants.
	After a morning tweet storm from President Trump.
	And President Trump erupted a few hours ago.
	And via tweet, the President then ordered American companies to start looking for alternatives to China.
	Every day with the tweets made it possible that the tariff rates will change on China.
	It said the cost to consumers this year from higher tariffs on Chinese imports will be $1,000 per household.
	American families will pay an average of $1,000 a year because of the higher tariffs on China.
	Reinforcing his threat to force American businesses out of there, fueling worries about sending the global economy into recession.
	They don't want to be seen as, look, we're hoping for a recession, so Donald Trump will lose.
	Tensions between Trump and the other leaders could throw the world into a recession.
	And if they do that, we'll be taxing their wine or doing something else.
	We'll be taxing their wine like they've never seen before.
	Ah, the French champagne.
	Went back and forth.
	You used the word pinballing in the opening.
	I think that's a very good description of it.
	They're pretty baked when you get there.
	That's true.
	Have another beer.
	You've obviously had a few beers already.
	That's true.
	Tune in to hear the best media deconstruction While the 4X chair gently squeaks I don't know why nobody told him We're
	I look at the world and I can't see it.
	It's his party.
	Still the Borax chair gently squeaks.
	Still the Borax chair gently squeaks.
	Oh, اسomств is a universe.
	Adios.
	Mofo.

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