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Sept. 5, 2019 - No Agenda
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1170: Generational Justice
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Boom!
His eyeball blows out.
Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, September 5th, 2019.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 1170.
This is no agenda.
Still fighting dark mode and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33, the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star.
Stay in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
The last show, it was so long, it took us three retakes to do it, and now it's done.
One and done.
It got a laugh.
Yeah, yeah, for me.
Yes, it's true.
Woo!
Oh, man.
What's been going on?
Hong Kong Blues.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's been going on?
I'll tell you what I did yesterday, and then you tell me where you'd like to start, because I watched a lot of that climate change town hall.
I watched very little of it.
Every time I turned it on, I watched it.
Why am I watching this?
By the way, can Elizabeth Warren gesticulate more?
Gesticulate?
What is gesticulating?
Throwing her arms all over the place when she talks?
No.
She's at the whole globe and then she makes a huge circle with her arm.
And she's throwing her arms left and right and left and right.
I mean, it's like if she pokes somebody's eye out if they were standing near her.
Yeah, it's...
The whole thing, from a television production standpoint, what a losing piece of crap.
Why would anybody want to watch that?
Well, I watched a little bit of Elizabeth Warren.
I watched very little of Kamala, the giggler.
Yeah.
And I will say this, that Scott Adams had an interesting take on Kamala Harris.
He says that she has the personality of a submissive.
Huh.
Interesting.
Because I have a clip where that kind of comes out.
And just looking at this, obviously the audience was stacked.
It wasn't really a town hall.
It was a CNN studio where they had, you know, the...
It was bogus.
Changing images of Hurricane Dorian on the big screen.
Because, of course, you know...
We know that this is all due to climate change.
And really, I just...
Because it was 10 hours, and everybody got a turn, and it's easy to grab the gaffes and the dumbness, but I just took two examples of how set up and scripted this was.
By the way, I'm disagreeing with you right away.
It's not easy to pull out the gaffes out of a 10-hour document.
Yeah.
I just needle-dropped and found stuff.
It was that easy.
But what I'm saying, what I was interested in is how it was set up.
And, you know, if you and I were to produce this, I think someone had some humor.
To be like, okay, Elizabeth Warren, now let's get some questions for her.
Oh, I know.
Let's get an American Indian to ask her a question.
Ha!
That'll be great.
Yeah, let's do that.
Chantelle Commerdale.
She's from a narrow island of land in Louisiana known as Isle de Jean Charles.
It's rapidly disappearing because of rising sea levels.
Just leave it.
We'll deconstruct it in a minute.
Coastal erosion.
Chantelle, thank you very much for being with us.
What's your question, Chantelle?
Thank you.
So, as you said, I'm from the Islander Gene Charles Biloxi Chittamacha Choctaw Tribe.
We've been dubbed as many as...
It's really...
This is great.
The Chungcha Choctaw Pride.
I didn't even hear what you said, but...
Something something Choctaw.
She's right out of central casting.
She's perfect to ask an American Indian, which is the preferred way to categorize them, an American Indian to ask a question of the fake American Indian.
It's a great idea, CNN. The first American climate refugees.
We're the first American climate refugees.
Mm-hmm.
We had a front row seat to climate change for the past 20 years.
I had to move my home from my island home when I was little due to mold-induced asthma from repeat flooding.
So my question to you is, if president, what changes would you make to support communities like mine who face community-wide displacement and cultural erasure?
Oh, man.
I love that.
Did you say cultural erasure?
Because it should be climate erasure.
She said cultural erasure.
Erasure.
How about cultural climate erasure?
I'm just looking for a term here.
Now listen to the submissive Liz go into her spiel.
And she knew this was coming.
So, let me start by saying how very sorry I am for being alive.
It's going to be hard to watch your homelands disappear like this.
And know that you've done everything you can do, but that the force is bigger than you have taken over.
And so I see it this way.
When I think about climate...
Now, this was interesting.
She was so ready for this, she took that, and when she says, Now, let me tell you about this.
When I think about climate, she turns to the camera and goes into a pre-rehearsed spiel.
It was slick.
And so I see it this way.
When I think about climate, it is the existential threat.
It is the one that threatens all life on this planet.
Every day we're losing species.
It's changing.
The oceans are getting more acidic.
So when I first started thinking about how to describe what I will fight for when I run for president, I decided I wasn't going to do one climate plan.
No, no, not one.
No, no, no.
Not just one plan.
I decided I was going to try to look at climate in every part of the plans I'm working on.
So that means I've got a lot of places where this comes in, because that's how I see it.
It's not going to be a one and done that's all confined.
It's that it hits in different places.
So, for example, on the policy...
Yeah, I know.
I can't.
Actually, it ends funny, but I can't listen to it.
Here's the problem.
Isle de Jean Charles has been, quote-unquote, sinking for decades because of the levees in Louisiana.
The levees stopped the silt.
And this is...
You can find all kinds of articles here from the New Orleans lens.
The people of Isle de Jean Charles aren't the country's first climate refugees.
No, there's all this oil and gas drilling.
It's erosion.
It's not because the sea level is rising.
Actually...
We have one of our producers who sent me a long document describing this whole thing.
Fabulous.
And he goes on and says the island wasn't even known until 1935, even though it apparently existed before.
But they finally started mapping it, and it turns out the thing hasn't been even eroding that much.
The problem...
The problem is that there's one road going in and out that's very poorly supported, and they don't want to keep this road going, and then there's a bunch of oil and gas that they think they can drill there.
So they're rousting the people.
Yeah.
This woman hasn't lived there for most of her life.
But, oh, cultural...
What was it?
Eurasia.
So the whole thing is bull crap.
Bull crap.
Now.
The island is bull crap.
The climate...
Immigrants is bullcrap.
And Elizabeth Warren is bullcrap.
Let's move on to Mayor Pete.
So, Mayor Pete, if we're in the meeting...
That's why I turned it off, by the way.
Oh, no, man.
If you and I were in the meeting, what do we want to do to have a little fun with Mayor Pete?
Have a gay guy ask him a question.
Yeah, no.
Have a gay guy ask him a question about children.
This is even funnier.
Yeah.
And let's make sure the gay guy is into solar power.
Bill Jordan, Troy, New York.
He's the founder and CEO of Jordan Energy.
They do solar panel installation as well as being the co-founder and board president of the Let's Share the Sun Foundation, which installs solar panels in poor parts of the world.
Bill, thank you for being a part of this.
What's your question?
How do you and Jason think about leaving the world a better place, particularly around the climate change issues discussed here today, to the next generation and any children you may choose to raise?
Well, we're hoping to have kids one day, and I want to know that our kids can thrive.
When I got into this campaign, I talked a lot about the idea of generational justice.
Woo!
There you go.
The first people looked at me funny, because I don't think it's something that's been talked about.
Generational?
I shouldn't write that one down.
Generational justice.
Yeah, that goes right to the top of the list.
Yeah, that's a good one.
We talked about it much, but each of us has an obligation to do our part not only to be just to those around us, but to those who will come in the future.
And I think, you know, when we're on the campaign trail now, and more and more, the questions I get from kids are about climate.
They're almost always either about gun violence or about climate.
I wonder why.
Remember, children have been abused, have been abused by abusing other children to make them all afraid and just abuse the crap out of them.
And Mayor Pete seems to be good with this.
These are personal questions.
They're asking about whether they're going to be able to thrive.
He hates kids.
Again, it's why I think this isn't just saving the planet.
This is saving the future for specific people who are alive right now.
I also, frankly, think of it a little more selfishly, because when we're talking about whether we hit this target of 2050, decarbonizing our economy, you know, Lord willing, I plan to be here.
Now wait for some stats.
Be in my 60s.
By the time we know whether we have succeeded and can look back at 2020 and be proud of what we did to begin getting on the right track or realize that we're the ones who blew it, these are the years.
You know, we talk about 2030 as a deadline.
But in many ways, 2020 is the deadline, because if we're not underway by the time the new president takes office, we really have lost our last shot.
It's why there is so much riding on this election.
Wait, so he's saying, we have to be underway by 2020, otherwise, forget about it.
So vote for me, because we have to get it done by this election, so vote for me!
Talk about 2030 as a deadline.
But in many ways, 2020 is the deadline because if we're not underway, by the time the new president takes office, we really have lost our last shot.
That's why there is so much riding on this election.
Lost?
Wait, wait.
And for me and everybody I know, for the children that we hope to have, for the people who will be alive at the turn of the century, when if we don't change what we're doing, we could lose half the world's oxygen because of what's going on in the oceans.
There it is!
What?
There it is!
We could lose half the world's oxygen!
How?
Ladies and gentlemen, please put your oxygen mask on if they should drop from the ceiling of your house because we're losing the world's oxygen.
And remember, this is for the children.
That's why there is so much riding on this election.
And for me and everybody I know, for the children that we hope to have, for the people who will be alive at the turn of the century, when if we don't change what we're doing, we could lose half the world's oxygen because of what's going on in the oceans.
That is unthinkable.
And we owe it to, we just cannot look...
In the eyes of a child right now with a straight face.
And say we're doing right by them.
We owe it to them to get this done before it's too late.
Oh yes!
Oh Pete!
Oh yes!
We can't look in the eyes of our children.
We can't do that.
Let me...
We just need to go through this briefly.
Now there's a script.
There's a script to abusing children and getting this meme, this message going.
And in this case it's being abused and children are being abused for climate change.
A group of producers of the No Agenda show put a couple things together to help me explain this exactly.
How this not only works, but is extremely effective.
So first of all, if you want to put together some campaign with kids, you've got to start by showing the kids playing grown-ups.
Have them interact with adults.
Making the adults obviously sound stupid and unaware of what's going on.
This is an example.
Climate change, climate change, you're a threat.
How many years do we have left?
Excuse me, do you guys have a moment to talk about climate change?
Okay, so that's how you'd start off a campaign.
Then you have the kids, you've got to have them pitch the issue to the viewer and the audience, address them in a little bit of a patronizing way, showing them they're ignorant, stupid, or you're not doing enough.
Point out the deadline like 12 years or 2020 as Mayor Pete said and then you have to have some authority like scientists and you know say that they say it has to happen.
We polled kids across Canada and asked them to rank election issues in order of priority.
74% writes climate change as the issue most important to them.
Climate scientists are now saying we only have 12 years left to act if we want to avoid catastrophic damage.
That's why we're lobbying the federal government to lower the voting age from 18 to 8.
So, then you've got to wrap it up.
You've got to have a catchy hook.
So, you know, like, let the kids vote.
These clips are from something we played on the last show.
Let the kids vote.
I love it, by the way.
Put it to music, kind of like a We Are The World vibe, if you can.
Get the kids to sing in a choir, a melody that sticks in your head like cheap chewing gum.
They are the future.
They deserve to sing.
You like this song.
If we were to sing.
And this song has been in my head since the last show.
These kids are not here to get around.
Let the kids vote.
Let the kids vote.
Right, so there you have it, the Let the Kids Vote campaign done expertly with all the elements you need.
Yeah.
So let's see this in real time with the No Agenda Show.
Amygdala, Amygdala, overload.
How long till it will explode?
One, two, three...
Excuse me guys, do you have a moment to talk about Exploding Ambiguous?
Excuse me, it's ma'am!
It is ma- I think we're too late for that one.
There's a piece on your cheek that looks like Rachel Maddow.
Ew!
We polled 33 kids across Gitmo Nation in the morning and asked them to rank issues that affect them in order of priority.
They said stuff like douchebags camping on Fortnite, friends cheating in Pokemon, and parents hassling them about screen time.
But when we gave them a list, they all chose exploding amygdalas as their number one concern.
Because it sounds funny.
Scientists say that we only have 12 years of schooling as children before we irreversibly turn into adults.
That's why we've been exploited now for cheap laughs and to get donations for the No Gender Show.
Felix, why are we doing this again?
My dad bribed me and gave your daddy beer.
Oh, I guess that's how the rest of the world works.
Here comes the tune that gets stuck in everybody's head.
Hit it, Sir Ned!
We'll help keep you safe.
Stop your amygdala exploding in your brain.
Value for value, so donate to us today.
Dvorak.org slash NA.
Dvorak.org slash NA.
I'm crying right now.
Those kids being exploited.
Special thanks to Sir Felix Wilson and Jenny Pham, that's Felix's friend, Mick Schwang, Jenny's dad, Sir Ned Jeffrey, who wrote and recorded the song, co-wrote the lyrics, and Squire Arlo Jeffrey there at the end.
But that's how it works!
And you're all now going to donate to the show.
Let's hope so.
Now, you have more on the climate thing?
Yeah.
I have some clips.
I have one other thing.
There was an interstitial that ran of a CNN weatherman.
By the way, the weatherman, and they called him the weatherman, not even meteorologist, just weatherman.
Weatherman.
Weatherman.
He got to ask questions, everybody.
It's like, okay.
Okay.
And here's CNN weatherman Chad Myers, a little interstitial, saying, I used to be a climate skeptic, but then it changed.
I was once a climate change skeptic.
I get it.
Years ago, I didn't think the world's climate would actually change due to global warming gases.
I was convinced that at some point the Earth would reach a greenhouse gas equilibrium, where the ocean and plant life would absorb the excess CO2 that humans produced.
This would acidify the ocean, kill the coral reefs and destroy the ocean food chain, but leave the climate intact.
Then in 2013, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere passed 400 parts per million.
That's when I knew the oceans and the plants couldn't keep up the demand we were placing on them.
There would be no equilibrium.
And the climate would change first.
So I went out to learn as much as I could about these climate-changing gases.
The science, the facts, and the myths.
When you sort the facts from the fiction, you may see things as I do now.
So this fool is using the 400 parts per million as the tipping point, which we've passed!
Well, 360 was the tipping point.
Right.
No, wasn't it 350?
I think it was climate change 350.
I thought it was 360.
No, it was 350.
360.org.
350.org.
But okay.
Sorry.
Okay, one of the two.
360, whatever, we're way past that.
Temperatures haven't gone up in response that much.
It's 350.org.
Everything's a record.
I checked it.
So there's something fishy about this whole thing because this was going on.
You think?
You think there's something fishy going on?
Do I think there's something fishy, Captain Obvious?
Yes, really.
Okay.
So I noticed there was a bunch of stuff going on all over the world.
There are all these climate things, but there was a beef going on in Australia.
I don't know when this was, but it seemed to be recent.
And it's with Alan Jones and Old Fart that's one of the presenters on ABC, Australian Broadcasting Company.
And he got into a beef because they did a climate thing the night before his show and they condemned him and all the rest.
It's really worth following because this guy is pretty funny.
And this is Alan Jones versus The Professor.
This is the setup, part one.
I was accused of downplaying the human impact on climate change.
Of course, no attempt was made to contact me so that I could offer a defence.
That's the ABC. But one of the guests was Professor David Caroli, referred to as an Australian atmospheric scientist based at the CSIRO. And a questioner asked Professor Caroli the following.
I saw the radio commentator Alan Jones on TV recently and he said that 0.04% of the world's atmosphere is CO2. The questioner went on and 3% of that is created by human beings around the world and of that 1.3% is created by Australians.
The questioner said, is that correct?
And if so, is human activity really making a difference?
A pretty good question.
Professor Corolli replied, not everything Jones says is factually correct.
No wonder he stumbled in seeking to repudiate me.
He went on to say that while it is correct that 0.04% of the world's atmosphere is carbon dioxide, quote, Jones' statistics around humans, I think he means human beings, causing climate change and the role Australians specifically play is completely false.
Yeah, I think I've seen this bit.
It was very interesting.
I'm glad you pulled clips from it.
Yeah, I pulled the whole thing apart.
So this was because the night before there was a bunch of climate people on it.
This is like the PBS News Hour.
They're obliged to toe the line.
As you remember, we had that clip with Al Gore and Judy.
And Judy made some allusion to somebody doubting these numbers and stats.
Heresy!
Gore jumped all over her for even suggesting such a thing.
And then she relented.
Anyway, so this goes on, and you heard the numbers, which 0.04% is 400 parts per million, so you get that part right.
So let's listen to Alan Jones, I don't know, I let the S off, versus the professor part two.
He said 0.04 of a percent of the world's carbon dioxide was correct.
The other numbers that the question referred to were 3% of that is what human beings create around the world.
And 1.3% of that 3% is created by Australians.
Caroli said, though, all his other numbers, they must have been those last two numbers, are wrong.
Well, on the 25th of May 2011, I interviewed Professor Caroli on radio.
Let me just play you an extract, very brief, of that interview.
It was very courteous and very friendly.
Just listen to this.
Professor Crowley, good morning.
Good morning, Alan.
How are you?
I'm very well, thank you.
Can I just begin firstly with a little bit of maths so that we can agree on a couple of things?
Maths!
Would you say it's unarguable that the level of carbon dioxide in the air is less than 0.04 of a percent?
I make that point because nitrogen, we know, is about 78, oxygen about 21, and then there's argon and things like that.
But CO2 in the air, about 0.04 of a percent?
Yes.
OK. Do you agree that the UN IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that of the Earth's annual production of carbon dioxide, this 0.04 of a percent that's in the air, nature produces 97% and human beings 3%?
Of the annual fluxes that go in and the annual fluxes that come out, yes.
That's it.
So I just want to get this clear on maths, because you're the scientist.
I'm not.
0.04 of a percent of the air is carbon dioxide.
And of that 0.04% of a percent, 97% is produced by nature and human beings 3%.
Now, of that 3%, all Australian human activity, transport, industry, agriculture, mining, power generation, that stuff, we produce 1.3% to 1.5%.
Yeah, Alan, you're absolutely right.
Hmm.
Okay.
You're absolutely right.
Yeah, it was the same guy the night before that said he wasn't.
Right.
So this is, and by the way, people should pay attention to those numbers because we kind of lost track of the fact that that.04% of the carbon dioxide, 97% of it is produced by nature.
We got nothing to do with it.
Damn nature.
So we're just a tip of a tip.
So anyway, so let's listen to some Jones bitching and moaning and making some generalities.
This is part three, which says, I left it to you.
Alan, you're absolutely right.
That ends that.
Let's just put that aside.
I stand by what I've said for years.
We are talking about a global warming hoax, demonising carbon dioxide, demonising coal-fired power, which has led us into this economic suicide mess.
Business can't afford the energy bill.
People at home can't afford the electricity bill.
Why?
Well, we export our coal so that others can have cheap electricity, but we're not prepared to use it.
So that we can have cheap electricity because carbon dioxide is destroying the planet.
That's what Caroli and the mob on Q&A would have you believe.
Now, which brings us to the point, if people are coal producers, like Australia, and they're exporting the coal, they should just stop producing coal 100%.
Just stop if it's that bad.
But okay.
Now, Jones did continue, because this was really part of a show on something else, which was he brought another guy in to talk about sea levels, who is one of the world's experts on sea level rises, which kind of plays into your clip about the little island there in the middle of the swamp.
And this is where I end it with this, but I just would throw this out there because I'm looking at it.
And there's the big mud flats out there, which is not silt by any means.
It's mud.
Oh, silt, it becomes mud if it gets wet.
So let's just listen to this and I'm done with this segment.
Well here in this country in Australia, children are being taught at schools that Bondi Beach could finish up at Bathurst.
You've been tracking sea levels at various parts of the globe, have you not, for 50 years.
Are sea levels rising worldwide, which the climate change apologists keep telling us is happening?
No, certainly not.
In the northern And especially in the European, we can prove and test that absolute sea level is not rising more than about one millimeter per year.
If we go to the equatorial region and now we come closer to Australia, it's not even rising at all.
Amazing.
And it has been stable for the last 50 to 70 years.
There you are.
And that is a fact.
There you are.
Sorry, I heard a walkie-talkie somewhere.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I will take us out on an up note, on a laugh.
Heaven forbid we present these facts.
Yes.
We have Hurricane Dorian, which made some very interesting moves, but of course devastated most of the Bahamas.
It's pretty bad.
And we really don't have any...
we just have that helicopter footage, which it really never does it justice.
You know, you think, wow, that's a lot, but you have to get down to the ground to see how bad it really is.
But this thing was supposed to come careening into Miami.
Then it was going to be further North.
Then it looked like it was going to be the power, the nuclear power plant, St. Lucy.
It was headed straight for it.
And then it bops up.
Here's Emory College professor Tiffany Yannick.
It's interesting.
Tiffany spelled T-I-P-H-A-N-I-E. Wow.
That's cool.
I mean, my sister's name is Tiffany, but she has the traditional T-I-F-F-A-N-Y. That's a new one for me.
I think the best one is T-I-F-F-A-N-I with a heart over the I. That's a perfect one.
I'll suggest it to Tiffany.
Here she is talking about the Hurricane Dorian.
Professor Yannick, you have said that the Caribbean is ground zero for the climate crisis.
And I want to say in the non-stop coverage in the networks, and of course it should be non-stop coverage of what's happening with this hurricane, there is almost no mention of climate change.
I don't know what she was watching.
Good morning, Amy.
Good morning, Juan.
Thank you for having me again.
The truth is that these storms that are hitting the Caribbean with this intense magnitude are historic, unprecedented, and these storms are man-made storms.
I love this!
I love this concept.
Man-made storms.
But here...
Yeah, this falls into the conspiracy theory that it's a man-made storm so it could go out and wipe out Jeffrey Epstein's island.
Yeah, that was one of my favorites.
There's this guy on YouTube, Mike, who does all the weather charts.
He has like 3 million followers.
Insane.
This guy's been doing it for years.
And I've watched him many times, but I usually give up because most of the time it's like, hold on, that's the wrong chart.
Oh, why didn't it work?
It just takes forever for him to get the charts working.
But he had this radar image, which was a recorded image of about 35, 40 seconds.
I put it in the show notes.
And you see Dorian...
And he has a whole bunch of comments about the winds at the top and different altitudes, which I won't get into.
But then you can see, clear as day, shooting across the southern part of the Florida Peninsula, a black band that shoots right into the bottom part of Dorian and kind of starts to whip it.
Almost like if you had a top and you wound a rope around it and pulled it, so this was kind of whipping it, as if it was to steer it in some direction.
I don't know what it is.
He doesn't know what it is, but you can really...
It's very clear, and I don't think he's a faker.
It's very clear that something was pushing this thing.
So, in a way, I don't know if it was man-made.
It could be.
I mean, we've been under...
The weather modification and weather as a weapon is nothing new.
And then to see this thing bop straight towards St.
Lucie Nuclear Power Plant was interesting.
And that was the path Trump thought it was going to take, and he even drew a little extra on his map.
But then it just careens and goes up the coast.
It was interesting.
So when she says man-made...
I believe her!
Only not in the context she's saying it.
When I was growing up in the Caribbean, we would get really dangerous storms once a decade.
And now we're beginning to see them regularly.
The Virgin Islands was hit by two Category 5 storms.
Only two years ago, while President Trump indeed was our president.
Category five storms, Irma and Maria in 2017.
And to see now that the coverage is saying things like, Dorian is going to hit the United States later today, is incredibly insulting, an ongoing insult to the people of the United States Virgin Islands because Dorian hit the United States Virgin Islands We're
good to go.
In all cases, are not the contributing factors to the carbon emissions that are causing these storms.
These storms are being caused in huge part because of capital, U.S., North American capital, and places like the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas are the ones that are most vulnerable to these things.
Orange man bad.
It's capital.
It's capital.
Man-made.
Though the big term now amongst the climate change deniers, who of course also deny the Holocaust.
You know, I'm still befuddled by that clip.
This was Amy Goodman?
Yeah.
On Democracy Now!, if I'm not mistaken, right?
Yes, correct.
And she has this nutcase come on and talk about this.
Yeah.
And she doesn't say anything like, where did you get this information?
What makes you think so?
Why would she do that?
It's on brand.
It's on message.
You're going to mess it up.
It's just beyond me.
Well, you watch Amy a lot more than I do.
People listen to this crap is the problem.
Yes.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, go on.
Well, I was just going to say the term now amongst the climate change deniers is thermodynamic equilibrium.
I never used that term.
I think I would be in that category.
Well, you're behind the times, my friend.
There's been several scientific papers showing that the Earth at this very moment is in complete thermodynamic equilibrium, meaning we have the right temperature for what we need.
Don't ask me how they arrive at this.
Where does this come from?
This is like a man-made hurricane.
Science!
Science!
No, it's a real thing.
It's got a wiki page and everything.
You know it's real then.
Then it must be real.
Yeah, well, I'll read it to you.
Thermodynamic equilibrium is an axiomatic concept of thermodynamics.
Sounds legit.
Concept.
Keyword.
It's an internal state of a single thermodynamic system or a relation between several thermodynamic systems connected by more or less permeable or impermeable walls.
Oh, there you go.
I'm just telling you what the term is.
Yeah, well.
So you don't have to go looking at it yourself.
Sounds like a bogus term, if ever.
But when I, just to finish it, when I saw those, that 10 hours, I mean, they were like the high priests of the Church of Climate.
You know, it's the green religion.
And people are really, I don't think they're acting, they're really all in.
Well, I don't think they're acting either.
There are it does happen at some levels where some people do act, but I don't think any of these people, these weak sister candidates for the Democratic Party nomination.
I think all of them are all in with the possible exception of Biden.
And then Biden blew his eyeball out.
You know, that's it.
And I think that was real, that he got a bloodshot eye.
And it's a symptom of all kinds of other stuff.
And medication can cause it.
Well, somebody suggested my suggestion.
To get his energy up a little bit.
They gave him some speed balls.
A couple of shots of this and that.
And he got his blood pressure up and blew out an eyeball.
Oh, yeah, that would be it.
It would be.
He's all jacked up on something.
Benny's jacked up and talking like a madman.
He's talking about climate change and going on and on.
Boom!
His eyeball blows out.
I mean, this can happen.
Yeah, it's not very healthy, though.
And it's not being addressed.
I don't think so.
I'm getting so much blood pressure that it blows out your eyeball.
It's not healthy.
I mean, holy, it probably doesn't have a spring on it.
It's unbelievable.
It's not healthy at all.
Then again, they could have just drugged him to get the eyeball to blow up to make it make, you know, I think he's, this guy's not going to be the nominee.
What did you think of his performance overall?
I didn't watch it.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Unless the eyeball blew up.
Yeah.
He was not good.
He was just not good.
He's not good.
That's sad.
He doesn't want a nomination.
He's just doing it as kind of like a favor to his one son who died.
But that's a horrible way to go out.
You know, he could have been, you know, the man who stood by Barack Obama's side.
Now he's the guy with the blown-out eyeball.
Sad.
I'm sad for Joe.
I don't like this.
At all.
Well, he's not...
And he's doing, like, he doesn't even...
He's not even kempt.
He's unkempt.
You know, he's bald.
He used to have fake hair, and now he's just bald.
You know, if you had any...
Thing going on, he'd be wearing a wig, and he would have started wearing it years ago when he had his plugs.
The cool thing is that he has the same sickness that Trump has, is, you know, saying things wrong, getting them wrong, repeating things that were wrong, saying something opposite of what he said yesterday.
It's kind of a thing, and maybe that's just age.
I don't think so.
I think it's a style mixed with age.
It's a style.
You have to remember.
I'm going to be full of shit.
It's my style.
Yes, that's it.
So Biden, if you recall, did run for president.
I think it was...
A couple of times.
Did he run a couple of times?
Way back before Barack.
Right.
Back in the 80s, I believe.
Right, right.
And he was the same full of shit guy back then.
Yeah.
Before he was old.
He's kind of...
Yeah.
You're right.
He's kind of back where he was now.
It hasn't really changed that much.
Yeah, he was a plagiarist, and he also said he got some degrees he never got.
He was actually humiliated out of one of the races for lying about his college education.
Oh, I remember that, yeah.
He should be canceled for that.
He should be canceled for that.
Cancel him.
They're letting him do his own thing, I think.
I think everyone knows he's not going to make it.
And we all know who the nominee's going to be, and it's starting to appear, I think.
It's starting to very slowly move into the public consciousness.
Hillary!
Yeah.
I've been saying this since day one, and I haven't changed my shtick on this.
I've stuck with it.
I agree.
And if you look at my list of the nominees and who's running and who's going to win, I keep Hillary on there, whether she's on the podium or not.
Timing is everything.
If Joe pulls out, she swoops in.
We already removed Gillibrand, which is good.
You can't have someone else coming from New York.
Yeah, she's the Hillary clone, so that's an obvious spot, so it does free up some space.
But a biggie would have to go, and Joe would be obvious.
I think Elizabeth Warren, there's a lot being put on her by the media.
Oh, the media, I think, have picked her up as the leader.
Because they don't...
Kamala's a loser.
She can't pull it off.
And she's not going to...
And she's giggling, giggles and giggles, and she's got a super...
She doesn't know what she's talking about, about anything.
So she's done.
And, I mean, somebody may still think she can win.
I mean, including Scott Adams, who's predicted her some time ago, and he's sticking with it.
Well, he's pretty good at these things.
Warren is the new chosen one by the media, but if Hillary comes in, Hillary would just blow Warren out of the water.
But Hillary is still not well.
You know, there's pictures of her out and about, and you can see she's retaining water.
Her ankles are incredibly swollen.
No, they're not cankles.
She has swollen ankles.
It happens when you have illness.
It happens.
Yeah.
Anyway.
I'm sorry.
I was going to follow up on the shootings we had in Texas recently.
And I do that for a number of reasons.
Mainly on my birthday, my buddy in Holland called me live on his morning radio show.
So we're yucking it up.
And then he's like, well, I've got to ask you the question.
Everyone wants to know what's going on with all the guns and killing in America.
I'm like, damn, it's my birthday.
You want me to answer this question?
So it's really worldwide.
And I wanted to give a response to that and then follow up with what's going on here after the, well, we had El Paso, we had Odessa, so a lot of shooting going on here.
First part, I've lived in many countries, and the only country I've ever lived in where the citizens had a right and also owned guns, and we have hundreds of millions of them in the United States, is the U.S., and I've lived in the Netherlands, I've lived in Belgium, I've lived in the U.K., and I'm going to make it very simple for people who are outside of the U.S., Our country was founded on kicking a government's ass with guns.
The Brits.
We said, look, we want to go here, leave us alone.
They didn't leave us alone, so we fought them and we shot at them.
And they shot back and we won.
So it's founded on the concept of having guns as a good idea if the government's a problem.
We have the Constitution, and in there it says very specifically that the people, if they're tired of this shit, then they can form a new government.
Well, how do you do that?
Well, you can't do it without guns.
Because in every country I've been in, The grasp, the closing in, the notices, the letters, the forms, they keep pushing you down and down and down.
And in the United States, we have one ultimate deal, which is we have guns.
So if you really push us too far, you, politician...
We'll not be able to walk anywhere because we're everywhere.
And that's the only reason we really have the guns.
I'm not going to bullcrap anyone about it.
It's to be ready to be against our own government.
Does that come with risk?
Yes.
Does that come with crap?
Yeah, absolutely.
It's not the biggest pool of people dying, but it's really effed up.
It's no good.
That's just so if anyone says, why do they have guns?
Second Amendment, fine.
I'm telling you the basics of what we're about.
Would you agree, John?
I would not disagree.
Okay.
That's your standard bullcrap answer.
I appreciate it.
Thank you for the many who emailed, although I wanted to know if the AK-47 was sold in the United States as a semi-automatic.
Yes, indeed, and it is called the AK-47.
There's a lot of copycats.
And we may not have mentioned it, but we're very aware, and people should be aware as well, that you can own a machine gun, a fully automatic weapon in the United States, but most don't because it's very expensive.
You need a Class 3 permit.
You have to get it through the national, you know, tax stamp.
Through the NFA National Firearms Act.
It can cost $10,000 or more just to go through this process.
So it's friction.
That's why we don't have them.
It's probably a good thing.
Although, I don't know.
I don't know what difference it really makes.
But...
You know, if you're a criminal, or let's say a gangster.
Yeah, you can create one.
You can also jerry-rig them.
Of course.
But these are just facts.
People send me reams of text in an email explaining that I'm wrong, even though we know this.
We've been through this for 10 years, and we appreciate it.
Yes, it's legal to have an automatic weapon.
You have to go through a lot of hoops.
Most people don't do it, but there's plenty out there.
And people, since you're talking to the overseas audience, there is a difference between an automatic rifle, weapon, machine gun, and an automatic pistol, which everybody owns.
Yeah.
An automatic pistol is not a machine gun.
It's just a pistol that cocks itself.
Yeah.
The same as an automatic.
It's called an automatic, but it's semi-automatic.
So now we have this topic of background checks.
Let me see, I have a clip here that I wanted to play.
This is Governor Abbott of Texas with some information that I think it's been underutilized by the M5M, but it's good.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Monday that the suspected gunman who killed at least seven people and injured 22 others in a shooting over the weekend had failed a gun background check.
So, he had failed a background check at a store, which is how it's supposed to work, but he had received a weapon from a friend.
And this is what they mean by comprehensive background checks.
But of course, if it's a private sale, the only way you can really enforce background checks on private sales is to have a guaranteed registration of every weapon and having lists of people, lists of It's not a very loved idea, certainly not lists of people who have guns.
So that's where the problem is.
And obviously, if this guy, because there's all kinds of reports that he was shooting at animals from the roof of his house with a gun, whether he had or not, someone should have gone and looked in on it and checked to see if he ever failed a background check.
And so none of this is done.
So it's a lot of lip service, and we certainly could do a lot better.
Sadly...
The Washington Post reports today, and they only quote sources, sources familiar with it, that HARPA, the Health Advanced Research Project Agency, Is working with,
of course, the President, the White House, the complete administration, and I'm reading the wording now, in considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon, and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior.
In other words, a form of social credit score.
Ta-da!
And obviously, if this is true, this is a huge problem.
But the Washington Post doesn't tell us who said this to him.
But the Post is literally calling it a social credit score such as China.
I'm flabbergasted.
I mean, surely this cannot be a true story.
They could be making it up to you.
I don't trust the Washington Post anymore.
Well, that's the problem I have, is I don't trust any publication, really, but USA Today is writing about it.
Well, if they quoted somebody, maybe, and used some names instead of just anonymous sources, well, they're doing something like this.
The concept was advanced by the Suzanne Wright Foundation and first discussed by officials on the Domestic Policy Council and senior White House staffers in June of 2017.
So this is maybe very old.
But the idea has gained momentum in the wake of the latest mass shootings that killed 31 people in one weekend in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio.
The Suzanne Wright Foundation re-approached the administration last week and proposed that HARPA, Include a safe home of the stopping aberrant fatal events by helping overcome mental extremes project.
Oh God, they came up with an acronym, you dicks.
Safe home.
Officials discussed the proposal at the White House last week, said two people familiar with the discussions.
These people and others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the conversations.
But you read through this whole article and they're talking about having some kind of either an app or using data directly from the big Silicon Valley companies to track you and see if your behavior is aberrant and if you need to be looked into.
I... That would be half the people that use these things.
So, I'm a little flabbergasted.
I mean, I think, maybe let's look at a simple one.
And I know I'm not happy about saying this, but if we just took one simple example.
Who's on antidepressants?
Here's a question.
If someone is depressed, should they have a gun?
No.
Okay.
Problem solved.
There's your list.
Yeah, go to the drug companies, get a list, or the pharmacies, get a list of everyone on antidepressants and take their guns away.
That's a start.
Yeah.
That would do it.
Well, let's check in, by the way.
Since we're on the topic, let's check in on China.
It's China's social credit score update.
Xi Yanying's company has developed a social credit app.
It gives China's youth a taste of the benefits one can have with a good social credit rating.
Wait, is this Sargon of Akkad speaking?
Sounds like it.
I'll say this.
This is, again, almost what you just talked about, which is this is an app that helps you get...
This is the Google stuff.
I mean, this is just a disgusting story, and it is, yes, exactly who it is, our cod.
Xi Yanying's company has developed a social credit app.
It gives China's youth a taste of the benefits one can have with a good social credit rating.
The Beijing startup collaborated with the Communist Youth League of China to gather personal data from over 70 million young people.
The app is called Unictown.
It gives each user a score based on six criteria.
Personal information, volunteer work, social connections, credit history, consumption history, and track record of honoring contracts.
The lowest score is 350 and the highest is 800.
Users with high scores above 650 can benefit by getting discounts on online courses or even be parachuted directly into the second round of job interviews.
But China Youth Credit Management has more ambitious goals when it comes to capitalizing on social credit.
It wants to build a system to cover all Chinese citizens between the ages of 18 and 45, an estimated 460 million people.
Yeah.
Yay!
Yay!
That's the future right there.
Well, we need to fight that.
Maybe a quick...
Well, we didn't fight it with credit scores.
No, but we didn't know.
And now Credit Karma and other companies of the like are owned by Google.
Yeah, we should know.
We should know what's going on.
This is why you don't want to install these apps.
I was watching TV last night with The Keeper, and I said, you know, John and I predicted this at least 10 years ago.
Because every car insurance company now has an app.
You get extra savings for good behavior.
So the app sits on your phone.
You're required to be a part of the discount program to have the app.
The app tracks your...
The app will even know if you're holding onto your phone in the car with use of the accelerometer.
It knows how fast you're going.
If you brake suddenly, it has all this data.
And, oh, I'm sorry, you're...
You're exhibiting some unsafe behavior, so your premiums are going up.
And it's here.
And there's no one outraged about it.
Oh, this is great.
Discount!
Discount!
Best price!
Best price.
Marshall McLuhan.
I've heard the name throughout my life.
I never really knew who the guy was.
He's a Scandinavian.
Did you ever follow anything that he said?
I've read everything he has ever written.
I used him as a basis for a lot of my college papers.
Holy crap.
What's the best book that he's written that we should read when it pertains to...
Understanding Media.
Understanding Media.
Someone sent me a link to a documentary about him.
And so this is from 1967.
And just three topics, but all kind of around the same idea when we talk about off-the-grid OTG. I wanted to play that.
He's also the guy that came up with the medium is the message.
Was that his quote?
Yeah, that's in the book Understanding Media.
Okay, so that's definitely...
We have not discussed this book on the show ever that I can recall.
I don't think so.
It should be on the No Agenda book list for sure.
Yeah, it should.
Here he is, talking about...
Now, this is before the internet, but not really before satellite.
Oh, satellite was out there, and he saw new communications and satellites, and how this would affect news.
A satellite system of broadcasting permits, for example, an immediate participation in events anywhere in the world, ending all news reports.
What we call a news report is a verbalized...
Substitute for participation in that event.
With satellite broadcasting, you just go to the place and participate directly in the sufferings or the events of that area, floods or whatnot.
Whether this will tend to create a new kind of news, I don't know.
For example, at the present time, what we automatically think of as news is just bad news.
If it isn't bad news, it isn't news.
If it's good news, it's likely to be PR or advertising.
And it takes an awful lot of bad news to sell All that good news that we have to carry in our newspapers and magazines.
So, just think of what he's saying here in relation to what we're seeing with news today.
So, this is 1967.
I was three.
It was 52 years ago, this guy was saying this.
He was deconstructing it perfectly before it even happened.
And now, he's going to give us insight into what we're witnessing today on social media, which back in the day was called the global village.
The electronic global village.
Does that go back to the 60s, that term?
Yeah, that's where it all came from.
You guys were smart back then.
Here he is, and listen...
Yeah, but they made us get stoned so he couldn't remember anything.
Well, here's a little jiggling of your handle.
Global Village is not created by the motor car or even by the airplane.
It's created by instant electronic information movement.
The Global Village is at once as wide as the planet and as small as a little town where everybody is maliciously engaged and poking his nose at everybody else's business.
The Global Village is a world in which you don't necessarily have harmony.
You have extreme concern with everybody else's business and much involvement in everybody else's life.
It's a sort of Ann Landers column writ large.
And it doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet, but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.
And so the Global Village is as big as the planet and as small as...
The village post office.
For example, in the age of the information explosion, all the walls go out between age groups, ethnic groups, between family groups, national groups, between economies.
The walls all go out.
people suddenly have to adjust themselves to this new proximity, this new interrelationship.
And merely to tell them that this has happened isn't very helpful.
What they need to know is, if it is happening, what does it mean to me?
For example, in the matter of, say, automation and jobs.
Screwed.
Screwed!
Well, by the way, by the way, that little commentary there reflects on an earlier segment of the show where you got your call from Holland about the shootings in Texas as if they should care.
Yep.
They're buttoning in.
And they witnessed it as if they were there because they witnessed the video.
They witnessed firsthand.
Exactly.
That's what he would call satellite.
Now, final clip, short.
This was very astute when I heard this, and it made me start to think, okay, what exactly are we looking for?
The medium does things to people, and they're always completely unaware of this.
They don't really notice the new medium that is wrapping them up.
they think of the old medium because the old medium is always the content of the new medium as movies tend to be the content of TV and as books used to be the content novels used to be the content of movies and so every time a new medium arrives the old medium is the content and it is highly observable highly noticeable but the real roughing up and massaging is done by the new medium and it is ignored yes
So what exactly is being ignored?
That is being built with the new medium while everyone obsesses over the old content in the new medium.
And with that I mean cable news clips, Netflix even.
Netflix, to a degree they're creating something new, but not really.
They're still doing the old content on the new medium, repurposing and producing in similar ways.
So maybe podcasting is an example of something that was completely new?
I think what we do, which is a post-modern form of old medium, is exactly what he's talking about.
Yeah.
Which is why we're doing it.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm doing it to stay alive.
Well, it's just part of it.
You get to stay alive, but it's just like you fall into it.
Somebody's got to do it.
I have a feeling everyone who's a part of this value-for-value network is in one way or the other a part of something much bigger than the individual parts.
And maybe that's a good time for me to...
Thank you for your courage.
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In the morning to you, Mr.
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I'd like to say a hearty in the morning to Darren O'Neill, hat trick!
How could we not give him the hat trick?
Three album arts in a row for episode 1169.
That was titled Hockey Stick Hoax.
It was just a great collage of buttons, including the discussed Better Dead Than Red, the My Other Job is a Podcast button.
You trigger me, I'm scared, and never reboot.
And there was good art.
But let me just take a look.
There was a lot of stuff, but we did have a debate over a couple of pieces.
Oh, oh, oh.
So a lot of people did the unhoused or the homeless experience, which was like a Disney ride.
Yes.
And I think it was Mike Riley did a very good version, but it was so...
Once you look at it in a smaller format, there was just so much going on.
Mike Reilly, that was the competitive piece.
I thought Mike Reilly had a piece.
It was very good.
It was the fun house.
Yeah.
It was horrible, actually.
It was a gruesome piece.
But it was all original art, very nice piece, make a great poster.
Yeah, if you blow it up really big and you're just looking at it, it's like, holy crap, what is this?
It was too busy, it didn't pop.
And the difference was that the Darren O'Neill buttons, which were simple by comparison.
Popped like a mofo.
Yes, like a mofo.
That's right.
And there's some other stuff.
A lot of it was...
Well, I thought Nick the Rats...
We had this comment.
He had the scooters flying through the air for Scooternado.
Oh, yeah.
But we decided to use Scooternado as the opening, and then we had to title it something different.
It was very complicated.
When you think you're done, you still have a lot of work after the show.
Everyone's off partying, drinking, smoking weed.
You and I, we are just choosing art and coming up with the perfect trio of bits to...
I want to say that one of the pieces from the show, the camping one...
Yes.
...by...
Oh, that was also very good.
Yeah.
I thought that was really a wonderful, incredibly great piece.
It wasn't going to look as well as a cover.
It wasn't going to pop so much.
But I used it for the newsletter so I could at least push it out there.
Good.
Good.
Well deserved.
Because it's a dynamite piece.
Yes.
It's got all those little posts, those signs that you see when you go camping.
It was a lot.
Yeah, it was a lot.
It was good.
It was very good.
So thank you for that.
And these things really help the show.
That's why artists do it.
We have 10 times as much artwork as if we've done episodes.
We're over 14,000 pieces of art at NoAgendaArtGenerator.com.
But when something like that just pops out, it helps.
People listen.
It reminds people, oh, something changed.
We're one of the few podcasts that adhere to the spec of As invented, where you change the album art.
And I understand it's hard when you don't have producers, but we have thousands of producers.
Many of them do things like that.
Many of them help the show in other ways, such as supporting us financially.
And we'd like to stop in the first hour and pay some respect to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
And this is for episode 1170.
That is 70.
$11.70.
Let's thank a few people, starting with Sir Dreb Scott of the ELB Express, who tops everyone with $1,170.55.
Woo!
Woo!
I love the consistent deconstruction you guys bring.
RE, last episode commentary on Disneyland experiencing homelessness ride.
They already have a walkthrough ride.
All you need to do is stay at one of the non-Disney off-property hotels.
You walk by people sleeping under the streets, on the streets, behind benches, people asking for money, etc.
Sorry it's been a while since my last donation.
Anyway, that's the end of that moment of humor.
Sorry it's been a while.
I haven't been to Disneyland down there and stayed in one of those facilities for some time.
Sorry it's been a while since my last donation.
I'm coming off a long or coming off of the fog of war of new twins.
Twins.
You got twins to go along with our two-year-old.
Three kids under three at 40.
It's no joke.
Partay!
Thanks for the sanity.
No, thank you.
He didn't ask for it, but I'm going to hand out a karma here for that.
You've got karma.
Gracias.
Another big couple of big donors celebrating your birthday with 55, 55, 55, 55, 55.
James Anderson, $555.55 from Vancouver, Washington.
Which is nowhere near Vancouver, Canada.
Forgive me, well, since it's near, but not real near.
It's all right.
It's 400 miles away, or something.
Forgive me, Father, for I have bonered for far too long.
My contribution of 555.55 is the tithing that I can offer to the BPITU today.
Best podcast in the universe for people who are unfamiliar with the code.
Happy birthday, Adam.
John, you are my idol of technology.
As a dude named Ben, I strive for the same amount of skepticism of tech as you, the cranky geek.
I even have the t-shirt.
It's a collectible.
Yeah.
I would like to...
I don't even have one.
I would ask for...
Don't send one.
I would ask for jobs karma, but I think it's more important to send goat karma to my son in the army currently stationed in Georgia.
Here you go.
You've got karma.
Thank you, James.
And I'm assuming it's Georgia the state, not Georgia the country.
Yeah.
Sir Dwayne Melanson.
Oh, where's our team?
Oh, no, I didn't.
I'm sorry.
I was sleeping.
Melanson!
I'm sleeping on the job.
Hold on.
Where is...
555.55 from Tigard, Oregon.
ITM, gents, and happy birthday, Adam.
Even though you forgot my jingle, I love the hockey stick expose.
Loved it.
In the last episode, as two-thirds of my offspring are up in arms about climate change is real, it seems...
It seems only the podcasts are able to get me or get the word out about the long-term climate cycles.
No new jobs karma, please.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Grand Duke of the Pacific Northwest, Sir Dwayne Melanson.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Sorry about that, Sir Dwayne.
I will be better.
Christopher Nolan.
Dolan.
Christopher Dolan, 333.55, which is to commemorate, obviously, your birthday.
Nice.
And he's in Cambridge, Massachusetts, nuts.
Just a happy birthday, Adam, and jobs, karma, please.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Roger that.
Honor of Cynthia Cabrera in...
Hallandale Beach, Florida?
I didn't know there was a Hallandale Beach.
Looks like it.
$3.30 is probably a cute place.
$3.33.33.
I've recently been listening to your podcast three or four or so ago.
Three or four so far.
Oh, wait.
She's up to $333.33 after listening to four shows.
Hello, people.
Hello, de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
After hearing Adam's comments on vaping and the insane media coverage of the alleged lung illnesses, I felt it was necessary to set the record straight.
I've worked on regulatory and legislation vaping issues since 2011.
I led what was at the time and still holds the record for the largest vapor trade association in the space.
And since departing the organization, I've consulted to companies larger and small.
They're large and small.
I speak routinely at meetings like all the annual tobacco conference hosted events by the Food and Drug and Law Institute.
She goes on and on with her background.
The vapor industry is regulated, but no vaping products have been approved by the FDA. In fact, there's no battle going on.
No, they said a large battle.
A large battle.
Do you want me to read?
This is very small here.
Well, the problem is that this is the one moment that you pick to do the thing where the sun...
It's hitting the base of my monitor.
Of your shafts.
And right into the flat base.
And slamming me in the face.
Okay, so let me pick it up.
In fact, there's a very large battle going on whose likely final outcome will wipe out all vapor products on the market.
As of May 10th, 2020, any vaping product that is not submitted at PMTA, pre-market tobacco application, will be considered an illegal product.
Okay.
This is actually some interesting news.
This is content here.
I don't work for Juul.
Altria took a 30% investment in Juul to the tune of $13 billion and they don't own the company.
Oh crap!
$13 billion, they only have 30%.
Can you believe that?
In fact, they don't even have a board seat and direct no activities at Juul, including their media coverage.
The vaping illnesses being poorly reported on are largely attributed to synthetic THC or backroom type stuff.
Yes, we did say that.
Not vaping products like nicotine containing liquids in them.
For a very good overview and more, read this article from Vaping360, and there's a URL. Let's see.
The same data claims Juul is responsible for the epidemic of teen vaping lumped in together nicotine-based products with marijuana-based products, which are used quite a bit amongst teens.
It is true that THC cartridge producers do not generally add nicotine to the mix, although such product does exist.
If you ever want factual information about the regulatory shitstorm that is about to destroy the vaping industry, please feel free to contact me.
You know what?
Cynthia, first of all, thank you very much for this.
We've been following vaporizing for a long time.
I went up to the Dallas convention with Dexter, which was a couple of years back.
And so this is good to know.
And even correcting us on the $13 billion for only 30% of Juul.
What a monstrous company.
What a monstrous product.
Well, the thing that's in there is that there's $13 billion invested in the jewel, and then the company that did the investment isn't helping with their PR, which is dreadful.
Yeah.
That's an issue that somebody should address.
Yes.
And the fact that they haven't got anybody on the board, which is probably a bad idea.
Yeah, what kind of investment is that?
If you've got somebody that's throwing $13 billion around, you put somebody on the board, maybe two people, because they've obviously been successful.
Yeah.
But she thinks that the whole thing's going to go down the tubes.
Well, what we're going to wind up with is just a few companies who will have sanctioned products.
And we kind of figured this out early on, is that it's going to cost them a million bucks to go through FDA approval per flavor.
So, anyway.
So, a lot of this is just virtue signaling.
There's no regulation yet.
So it's all just media, you know, manipulation.
Making it sound like there's all kinds of stuff happening.
But it's all voluntary.
Well, somebody's behind it.
Well, I'm going to say the competitors.
She didn't say anybody was behind it, but when I see the media keep picking up these same exact stories, and so it's like a press release about the lung damage.
Well, I would say this company is behind it, because what they're trying to do is...
Rejeweled?
Yes, why not?
Of course.
But bad publicity.
They're going to be the only guys doing it legally when all this is over.
Maybe.
Put that in the book for me.
Anyway, Cynthia, thank you.
Welcome to the No Agenda Producing family, and thank you so much for your support.
Let me hand you a karma.
Oh, hey, this is new for you, so you might enjoy it.
A little goat karma.
It's a little something special we do here.
You've got karma.
Feels good, right?
Sir Johnny B. comes up next with 265 bucks.
From Sir Johnny B. I love...
What?
I love New York.
No Cuomo?
I love New York.
Isn't that a reference to some sort of a phrase?
Yeah, it's I love you, no homo.
Oh, no Cuomo.
Okay, I get it.
Happy birthday, Adam.
This is my yearly $5 a week donation and $55 for your birthday.
How much did he give?
$265.
Okay, well...
$5 for your birthday, like the card from...
Hold on a second.
I did find a way to deal with this reflection.
I just put a...
Now I notice I moved over and it's coming.
It moves as the sun moves.
I'd like a Obama, you could die, that's true, two to the head, Hillary Cackle, and a karma for good measure.
Sorry not to...
Not for keeping it to the three rule.
Thanks for Johnny B. Link for...
Link for I? Ilo?
Ilove?
Oh, Link for I Love New York.
No Cuomo Shirt Shop.
Blathercast.com.
Product slash shorts.
Well done, sir.
Sex dash t-shirt dash shirt.
Okay.
You might die.
You've got a car.
I don't know.
Whatever came up, came up.
I can't help it.
I love New York No Cuomo shirt shop.
Blathercast.com.
You're going to have to dig.
Okay.
Because this is not a URL that's readable.
Right.
Okay.
Sir Dave Fugizotto, though, is here.
Viscount of America's Heartland and Saudi Arabia.
Checks in at $256.19.
These are our buddies who were just here, the whole family.
Yes, you just had the dinner with them.
Yep.
Donation of 55 simoleons for Uncle Adam's birthday from each of us, Dame, Isabella, and Melody, and Sir Dave, me, along with the palindromation to celebrate 9-1-19.
Ah, one of the two guys who's done that.
As they say, family who no agenda together hits people in the mouth together.
Request some travel karma as they head back to Riyadh this week.
And Adam, thanks again for having supper with us last weekend.
The ladies got a kick out of hearing your coverage of the evening on the following show.
I'll bet they did.
Yeah, I'm sure they were.
We're amused.
It was a real gasp.
Jingle request.
Been a while since we had heard the Gitmo Nation National Anthem as well.
Play at the end.
Mind queuing that up?
Thank you for your courage for Dave Fuguzotto, Viscount of America's Heartland, Saudi Arabia, Dame Melody, and the lovely and talented Dame Isabella.
Of the flashing feet.
Flashing feet.
Of the river dance, I tell you.
Of the river dance.
She's a pro.
Yeah, we saw a video of her dancing.
It's cool.
Yes, well, let me just throw them a karma, and we'll get that Gitmo Nation athlete anthem for you.
You've got karma.
At the end of the show.
That was the travel karma they needed.
Kevin, I don't know, Kuberna?
Kuberna, yeah, Kuberna.
Kuberna, 255.
He just says, happy birthday, Adam.
Well, thank you, Kevin.
Bill Watterson in Pentraith, Isle of Anglesbury, Great Britain.
You ever heard of that?
No.
No.
250 bucks.
That's a long ways from here.
A little over a year ago, whilst going through a period of frustration with the M5M, a work colleague, Niels van Kujic smashed me in the mouth.
It's Niels van Kuyk.
Niels van Kuyk.
Well, since then, my newfound clarity of thought and reasoning has nearly gotten me beaten up by what I formerly considered normal people, and my friends are astonished that my apparent overnight switch to an extreme far right.
Oh, God.
Welcome to the family, Phil.
I'm glad you're here.
Yeah, you say something.
Yeah, global warming's bullshit.
Hey, yo, mother!
Far right!
Far right!
I've, uh, since, uh...
I've since learned enlightenment is dangerous and careless talk costs lives.
Probably your own.
It's a symbol of my great gratitude to one of the finest men I have had the fortune to meet.
I would like my donation to be added to Neal's account, which will bring him to knight status.
I hereby pledge allegiance, Sir Jack the Neals of Enstone.
Corey Dvorak, you're doing a great thing.
Phil Waterson.
Okay, well, this is not on the list.
No, I got a note from Eric about that.
And he says, happy to do it, but we just need the...
Because, you know, we don't track everyone's accounting.
It's the honor system.
And why wouldn't we?
We're one group.
So we just need Niels to send his numbers in.
Not that we don't believe you.
We just want to make sure that we do it right.
So if Neil's been sending...
Yeah, and we give him a title.
If that's the title he wants.
We have no...
Yeah, I also don't know if that's the title he wants.
Exactly.
Second reason.
It's in abeyance.
Yes, but thank you very much.
It's officially in abeyance.
Thank you very much, Phil.
Karma for you.
Welcome, my friend.
You've got karma.
Be careful with him.
John Foley out of Chicago comes with $232.55, which is a tribute to the birthday.
Jingles.
He's got some jingles.
Reverend Al Respect.
Goat Karma.
That's true.
In the morning.
Happy belated birthday to Adam and happy actual birthday to me.
It's my first time in the first half of the show.
In other words, first executive producer.
Excellent.
I want to say thanks for keeping me sane and such.
A little unconventional and a bit brash, but I can't.
But can I call out Sir 10T? I guess it's 10T as a douchebag.
Yes, you can.
Douchebag!
Sir, you can't be a douchebag.
Gotta be careful.
He can do whatever he wants.
He has to deal with him tonight.
If only for the fact that tonight he'll be cheering for the...
Oh, okay.
There's a football game on tonight.
Because he's gonna be...
Okay, hold on a second.
Stop the show.
We have talked about this before.
He's cheering for the Packers over the Bears.
So this guy's a Bears fan.
The Bears.
He says, this is suboptimal.
John, any early Super Bowl predictions?
Yeah, the Rams will be in the Super Bowl and this time they'll win.
That's an early prediction.
I haven't seen one game.
Wait, wait.
Don't I get to predict anything?
Well, you can predict all you want, but he didn't ask you.
But let's back up a second.
We're not doing douchebag call-outs for sports teams one way or the other.
Yeah, I didn't realize that.
We made that a policy some time back.
I didn't realize that.
You hit the button because you didn't realize what the follow-up was.
Yeah, I don't blame you.
But I'm just telling everyone out there, let's don't start douchebagging the different football, baseball teams.
It's not part of what we're doing it for.
Because for one thing, douchebagging the Packers isn't going to drive anyone from the Packers, oh, I got douchebagging, I've got to donate to the No Agenda show.
They don't do that.
Because nobody at the Packers, the Green Bay Packers, not one person on that team listens to this show.
Which is abhorrent when you think about it.
It is.
It's ridiculous, but true.
They don't want the rings.
Well, thank you very much, John Foley.
Yeah, you're on the list for birthday.
And he has the jingles.
He's getting lunch at Chipotle.
The Tortoise in the race.
Kim Kardashian.
Siganoi Weaver.
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.
Just a little bit.
We much.
Just a little bit.
and we will much about that be committed you're the president and you're sitting across from me right now I produce more than I promised true it's true it's true that's such a true story sorry Bye.
I like that bit.
Something kind of craps out.
Yeah, it ends poorly.
I should have faded it out.
That's a good one.
Sir Lucas of the Lost Bits comes in for $225.22 from Tacoma, Washington.
Sir Lucas of the Lost Bits, not overboard, just trying to get a down payment on a house together.
However, it is a three paycheck month jingle request.
It's Trump, it's Trump the president.
It's Trump, you know what that means.
It's a song.
Any Obama, no, no, no.
And Putin, don't worry, be happy.
Okay, and Putin.
The president.
What?
That's the song.
He's Trump, he's Trump, the president.
I've been watching you.
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.
No, no, no, no.
Come on, where was I?
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.
No, no, no, no, no.
Hey, listen, I love you back.
Don't worry.
Be happy.
Don't worry.
Be happy.
David DeGuis.
Goose.
The Goose.
The G-E-U-S.
I don't know how to pronounce that necessarily, but I do know how to pronounce Ypsilanti, Michigan.
That's where he's from.
$204.20.
Cyborg Dave is his real name.
He needs a random Manning and a random Fletcher.
Thank you for providing sanity in this insane world.
Shout out to the troll room.
Big ups to Nick the Rat and Sewer Chat.
Hash Brown's Sewer Chat.
Tip of the Hat to Hog Story.
P.S. Adam, did you get the mix I sent?
I don't know which mix that is.
I've gotten a lot of mixes.
So I'd need to know what the mix was.
Probably.
He's a Mac Daddy!
Donald!
You've got karma.
You ask, we play.
I like that, Donald.
Last on the list.
Dude named Craig, FEMA Region 5 in Warrensville, Illinois, which I assume is FEMA Region 5 in 200 bucks.
John and Adam, ITM, please dedouche me.
You've been dedouched.
He needs his jingles.
There's another guy doing the jingles at the beginning.
This is really interesting that on this show, the theme, he's looking for a That's True triple.
That's true, that's true, that's true.
I've been listening since the end of 2017 and have since hit my brother Scott in the mouth.
Please call him out as a douchebag.
Okay.
Douchebag!
That's for you, Scott.
But also give him a jobs karma as he continues to seek out his dream job that I know he'll get because he has an upcoming interview.
I'm a 30-year-old millennial and hate being called as such.
I don't want to hand out.
I'm not attached to my social media or smartphone.
Just know that there are some aberrations out there.
Or outliers, as we'd call them, out there, and they're proud and living life in a better way.
No, no, no, stop.
They're not out there.
They're here.
They're in this group where you are.
The ones that are not crazy and all in are here.
Most of them.
But I do enjoy making fun of us.
It's too easy.
What we do, too.
That's true.
Everybody does.
It's true.
My consistent listening has finally, I don't know, finally turned into an atomic habit and gives my life a, what's an atomic habit?
And gives my life so much balance, so I sincerely thank you two for your courage.
Also, I constantly tell my smoking hot girlfriend, Kristen, about subject matter from the show.
So give her a shout-out just to say that means a lot to me that she keeps listening to me vent.
Is she listening to the show?
I don't know.
Shout-out to Kristen.
Hey, Kristen.
When we met on our first date, I told her about the show.
Oh, God.
Okay, let's stop here.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
Okay, hold on.
Let's give some dating advice here.
Yes.
We need to do something, Dvorak.
Come on.
Do not discuss the show on a first date.
Ever.
Ever.
This is a bad idea.
I mean, you might get enough clues by the end of the evening.
Unless she's some, like, Hillary hater that is just maybe a right-wing gun nut.
There are certain women out there that, yeah, you can talk about the show immediately.
And they'd be very happy to hear about it.
But generally speaking, that's not the normal person you run into.
No, this is bad policy.
It's bad policy.
Yeah.
Anyway, I told her about the show and she seemed intrigued and not triggered or annoyed.
Is that possible that she would just go, okay?
Maybe you're just a sexy man.
Who knows?
So I knew it was something to definitely pursue.
You're like, this guy's got money.
I don't care what tinfoil hat stuff he's talking about.
She passed the NA sniff test, so to speak.
Yeah, you're doing that wrong.
Here's to hoping you do not find an exit strategy.
Dude named Craig, FEMA Region 5, Chicagoland.
Oh, my goodness.
Okay, and also a jobs karma for your brother Scott and the...
That's true, that's true, that's true.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
All you gotta do is ask.
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World. Order.
That's true.
Shut up, slave.
Boom.
Yes.
Boom.
Okay.
Yes.
Okay.
Well, I've got some stuff that I, this was a, there's a guy that does a kind of a financial, I don't know, it's a video podcast.
It's for investors mostly.
It's a guy named Kyle Bass.
You know, I saw, this is the guy in the hangar.
Yeah, the guy in the hangar.
The unknown hangar.
I thought it was interesting that you went back to the Bannon interview we played clips from, and you pulled more clips from it.
Well, I went...
The Bannon one, the one I sent to you was this Chinese guy.
But it's the same interviewer, right?
Yes, same guy.
And the guy's an expert in...
Banking.
Chinese banking and...
Chinese banking, currencies, banking, currency exchange, currency trading, that kind of thing.
He's a very interesting guy.
He's not quite...
He took on Bannon, Steve Bannon.
And Bannon has a very interesting hour-long spiel that he gives.
And I've talked about it before and I've kept wanting to get clips from it.
But in this case, this guy's...
Was better at drawing Bannon out.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
You do know it's Banyan.
Banyan.
To draw Banyan out in concise ways.
Either that or Banyan has been doing this bit long enough that he's polished his act.
Uh-oh.
Mike fall?
Mike came out of his little holder.
Hold on a second.
Okay.
Ah, yes.
You okay?
You need to shove back in the hole.
There we go.
It's back in.
All right.
So let's play...
I got a bunch of clips.
A lot of them are...
I don't know how long are these things.
A minute, half a minute.
There's one that's pretty long.
But it's good.
Let's start with a little summary overview.
This is Bannon bitching and moaning.
Bannon is the number one guy complaining about China.
And I believe within these clips there will be at least two or three things you've never known about before and you'll find interesting.
Not necessarily at the opening.
This is kind of a background.
Party of Davos, the people on Wall Street...
What I call the IR departments of China, which are the investment banks, particularly Goldman Sachs and some commercial banks, the lobbyists for China, which is basically the 25 or 30 largest corporations that deal in China today.
They're lobbyists in Washington, D.C. The big private equity guys like Schwartzman and these guys, they're all going to have to be held accountable for what went on in China.
What China was able to do in basically coordination with the elites in the West was deindustrialize the industrial democracies of the West, both Europe and the United States.
That's why Brexit in 2016 are inextricably linked.
What it is is the exporting of Chinese overcapacity and Chinese deflation and basic industrial goods.
And so China has, from the Chinese point of view, it's been quite brilliant.
They've essentially taken 350 million of their people from kind of working poverty to middle class and 400 million people from abject poverty to working poverty.
So essentially two-thirds of their population, because their population I really think is closer to 1.3 or 1.4 billion than what they say in 1.1.
So what they've done is heroic in 30 years, okay, from a strategy point of view.
But that has been exacerbated by the elites in the West who basically kind of financed it and brought it along.
In fact, what Trump, the reason Trump was, I think, so special, he said, hey, this is not the way the world has to be.
And just for those who may have forgotten, Steve Bannon, on the show known as Stephan Bannon, was Trump's right-hand man when he first got into the White House.
And for a while, of course, during the campaign.
Yeah, and mostly he's just kind of an intellectual cheerleader.
And he's irascible and he never shaves and he's kind of a mess looking guy.
He doesn't keep care of himself despite his Hollywood underpinnings.
And he owns a big piece of the Seinfeld show and he has Breitbart.
The guy knows.
He's been around.
He's got a lot of money and he's been around.
He doesn't care.
But he does hate the Chinese situation and his claim in general is that it's our bankers, our people that were all part of making China what it is and he thinks it's a house of cards that's going to collapse and it's going to take...
Luckily, because if you listen to these other guys, we're not so linked to the banking system over there because apparently the banks are all, according to Bannon, insolvent and the whole thing is a mess.
But meanwhile, they're kicking our ass in different kinds of ways.
Now, here's the various different little aspects to this.
This one is, and these are all different discrepant clips that don't really connect.
There's just one different one after another for informational purposes.
Let's try this one.
Bannon on Chinese students.
Defense Department report on the infiltration of China into our research universities and our labs.
And our weapons labs.
Weapons labs funded by DARPA, the Air Force.
Why haven't we put into place a proper people management process?
I want you to go back because I don't think people understand these reports.
These reports are essentially declassified reports that show that the 300,000 students that are here on student visas, right, and the 10,000 contractors that we have in the weapons labs Up to, I think it's two-thirds could be intelligence assets, right?
And some percentage are intelligence officers or agents.
And they're working in our labs.
They're working in our labs.
On weapons technology funded by our government.
This is political correctness and greed and avarice writ large.
How did...
Second time we've heard writ large on this show.
Isn't that interesting?
Marshall McLuhan used that in one of his clips.
Yeah, he said writ large.
We don't use it.
What does this mean?
It means to an extreme.
In greed and avarice...
We're at large.
How did contractors, and let's call them out Booz Allen and McKinney, all these contractors, how did these contractors on these big government programs get so many Chinese nationals working into our weapons labs?
Our weapons labs are at the cutting edge of national security.
How did it happen?
And so this has got to be done right away.
I don't know why.
It's been a huge, I think, bone of contention inside the administration.
The political correctness of it.
Stephen Miller, the Financial Times of London, leaked the other day that my colleague, Stephen Miller, He's a terrific young man, actually had the plan in place to get all 300,000 Chinese students out of the country, right?
A way to cut the visas off right away.
Not that we're going to execute on it, but it was even in the thinking, and obviously it got leaked.
In the times it goes around the State Department, etc.
Look at all the appeasers.
I am so glad.
I take great pride that someone like Susan Thornton now owns a farm up in Maine because she was part of this kind of rational accommodationist, this kind of softness in the Defense Department, in the State Department, in our intelligence services that basically went along with what China wanted to do and looked the other way.
Donald Trump don't trust China.
China is asshole.
So that's a little tidbit we don't really think about.
No.
Let's listen to Bannon talk about the South China Sea.
This is kind of interesting, too.
Oh, this is about the dashed line.
Yeah, a little bit.
One thing I found that was shocking is that the South China Sea, when I was a young naval officer, we went through the South China Sea, guns up, radars up, everything moving.
It's called free navigation.
We did in international borders what we want to do, when we want to do it, because we're the United States Navy.
Okay, we keep the sea lanes free.
What I found out now is they got these reeds and everything like that.
In China, we only go through in what's called safe navigation.
You go through with your radars off, no fire control solutions, like a good little boy.
Just kind of go and you're basically asking their permission to go.
Really?
I was unaware.
They consider when they lost the international court, China considers the South China Sea to be an internal sea to China.
Right.
I know.
The nine dotted line of 1940.
I think we played this exact clip, actually.
The nine dotted line is a joke.
They think it's a territorial seat.
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, I said on my radio show five years ago, we're in a shooting war.
Shooting war.
Okay.
Okay, let's go on and listen to this one.
This is kind of interesting.
This is another thing I didn't know anything about.
The Confucius Institute.
I thought we talked about this.
It's big on tinfoil hat shows.
This is an Alex Jones topic.
One more issue is the Confucius Institutes.
The Confucius Institutes are on many of our colleges.
They're funded directly by the PLA. Why do our colleges allow Confucius Institutes on campus?
It would be like in China, having something funded by the CIA that was directly...
Or the Catholic Church.
Or the Catholic Church.
Well, not the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church has cut a deal that lets China...
No, no, no, but this is a huge issue.
Pope Francis just cut a deal that lets the atheists that run the regime in Beijing actually pick our bishops.
So the Catholic Church would not be a good idea since they've already caltoed.
It would be equivalent to having CIA and DNI have a student center that promoted CIA culture in China.
Okay, that ain't happening.
Okay, you know why it's not happening?
Because the Chinese say, hey, that's kind of...
That's not going to happen.
That's not going to happen because that may affect our sovereignty.
So give me a practical...
You've got to unwind them.
How?
I think you just sit there and you've got to shut them down.
Okay.
I don't think there's any way...
Under what law?
I think, hang on, this whole thing about people are saying, oh, well, they're not that bad.
They're pushing culture and they're helping students learn Mandarin.
Hey.
They're financed by the PLA. They have server rooms in the Confucius Institutes.
What the F's going on?
All this is going to be a shock to the American people.
Here's why the American people don't know this, because nobody reports it.
No, some people do.
In fact, I do want to counter that.
Although not completely in China, the National Endowment for Democracy, which is what he should have used as an example, is all over Hong Kong.
And we've spent millions of dollars spurring Hong Kong freedom on, particularly in the most recent events.
So it's not like it has to be CIA. I mean, I'm going to call you out on this.
That's Hong Kong.
I said it's not China proper.
And by the way, we should be doing that.
Really?
The only good work we've been doing is getting these, if we have.
I question whether we really have much influence on these riots.
Or protests, and they're not riots.
I got a couple of notes from producers.
Who said, you know, yeah, okay, the extradition bill, which now has been canceled, won't make any difference.
This is something else.
Rents have risen 300% in five years.
People are starving.
It's shit.
It's all kinds of corruption.
This whole extradition bill was really about getting corrupt bankers hauled back home to take care of them.
Because all of Hong Kong is one big scam.
It's a big financial scam, the way I read it.
Well, they do talk about the liquidity issues with the banks and the big banks or all the big Chinese banks are in Hong Kong.
China's a complete scam from the sounds of these guys.
Yes, but when you're living in Hong Kong, you're getting a taste.
You're getting a taste of what it's really like.
You know, you were born and you had nothing to do with the agreement.
Go away!
I understand the problem in Hong Kong.
Well, the last clip is another obscurity, and this is a little interesting one.
Just play the Alaska's Bannon on the bat tax.
The most elegant idea was the border adjustable tax, which is immediately killed by you and I both know who.
I love that one.
That was perfect, in my opinion.
Absolutely.
By the way, I am a huge believer that, and Paul Ryan and I have had our differences.
When he first walked me through that, I said, that's the solution.
Exactly right.
That's the solution.
It's It's kind of an egalitarian way of going at it.
I think, and we all know why it got crushed, I think that that is something that should be brought back up very quickly in future years.
We could do away with tariffs if we imposed a border adjustable tax.
You've got to explain the border adjustable tax.
I'm not quite sure.
I knew you'd ask.
Yes, I don't understand.
More importantly, it seems to me who crushed it, so I'd do a little research to figure that one out.
Because it has been suggested.
It's really called a border adjustment tax, is the B-A-T. And I'll read from Investopedia.
Border adjustment tax is a short name for proposed destination-based cash flow tax.
On imported goods, also referred to as border adjustment tax, destination tax, or border tax adjustment.
In this scenario, exported goods are exempt from tax, while imported goods sold in the United States are subject to the tax.
So there's no tariffs.
It's just the tax.
It's the same thing.
It's the same damn thing.
No, it's not.
No.
Tariffs are...
Tariffs are before you pay.
In this case, the difference is you go to the store and they have one of these products and you have to pay this tax.
You pay.
Oh, with the VAT tax?
Yeah, border adjustment tax, deficit tax, depending on where the good is consumed.
Oh, so it's like a VAT tax only for certain products.
It's exactly like a VAT tax for imports.
Oh.
Well, that's an interesting...
For example, if a corporation's ship tries to...
And then it gets complicated when you go back and forth with car parts and stuff like that.
But it's pretty much been worked out.
And it was first introduced in 1997 by economist Alan Auerbach, who believed that the tax system would be in line with business goals and national interests.
This thing was killed by the Koch brothers.
Duh.
Of course.
That doesn't behoove them.
Well, it doesn't behoo a lot of people, but it was a bunch of, there's some politicos and the Koch brothers.
And you know, the Koch brothers don't come up in the conversation much because everyone still tries to, you know, they try to bring this, the Democrats try to bring this nonsense about Citizens United and the Koch brothers into the picture when neither one of those groups, the Citizens United thing, or the Koch brothers, the Koch brothers were sending all their money against Trump.
And since you can't associate Trump with the Koch brothers, because they don't like him, and they've never supported him, and they've never given him their money, even though apparently whatever they give their money to, they win, but they didn't.
And all this stuff about Citizens United, it didn't affect Trump one way or the other, and so the conversation has dropped a little bit about it, but they'll bring it back in.
Koch brothers!
They're not working in good faith with the American public, even though they're Libertarians, and they have all these high ideals.
And then David Koch dies two weeks ago.
There's no retrospectives.
There's no thank you from PBS that I saw for supporting.
I think he was the big PBS supporter.
Yes, yes.
But now it's just Koch bro.
We don't have Koch brothers.
There's actually a couple other brothers.
Yeah, but that's not funny.
So it's Koch bro.
But, yeah, yes.
In fact, the Koch brothers are huge supporters of PBS, the NewsHour, and everything in between.
And, yes, they should have given him a tribute, but no.
No, of course not.
I mean, but the guys are, like, questioned sketchy.
But, okay, whatever.
I don't care.
But now, just for a second, back to the BAT. Instead of a value-added tax, it would be a border-adjusted tax.
I think automobiles, they do know exactly what percentage is German.
If you look at a Mercedes, for instance, parts of it's American and some of it's Chinese.
And those are broken down on new vehicles.
I do know that.
And so those bits are taxed differently.
But that is before the consumer sees it.
So it's an interesting idea.
Should I be against this?
I kind of like the idea.
Well, you can buy this product or buy this imported product and here's where you have to pay extra because it's imported.
Yeah.
That's an interesting piece of friction to add to the mix.
Well, it adds a little barrier to entry for the product.
But at the same time, it gives you a realistic look at how value is this product going to be.
For example, you know they're going to...
Put the tax on cheese and wine from France at some point.
Of course.
Yeah, of course.
So you got your bottle of wine and you look at the price and the curious thing, I bet you with the tax added to the bottle of wine, it's still going to be cheaper than you're going to get it in France.
In Europe, the prices advertised always include the value-added tax.
In fact, it's very uncommon in the United States where you buy something and there's $0.05 sales tax or $0.08 sales tax, and it gets added on at the end.
It would just be more expensive, and they could specify, oh, this includes X percent of BAT. Yeah, well, BAT, yeah.
Apparently, a lot of people like this, and it's been...
It sounds good to me.
I don't know.
I am drawn to it.
I'm sure I'm wrong somehow.
It sounds good to me, too.
Now, we're promoting it.
You and me.
You and me.
Yeah, right on.
Anyway, so Banyan, if you're going to get to see these long lectures, if you can find this one, this is a good one to watch.
It's an hour, and it's with this guy Bass, and it's online.
It's from about a year ago, a year and a half ago.
Kyle Bass, I think his name is.
Kyle Bass, yeah.
Well, let's take a brief break here and go to KTLA's reporter on the spot.
We tried to reach out to the man who died in this pursuit.
They were unavailable for comment.
Micah, back to you.
What?
Yeah, isn't that great?
Who sent you that?
Well, it's a single piece of video.
It's a YouTube video, and it's not edited that I can tell, so it makes total sense.
We tried to reach out to the man who died in this pursuit.
They were unavailable for comment.
Micah, back to you.
KTLA on the scene, everybody.
All right, you're going to get a clip of the day for...
Oh!
I didn't recognize I would get that.
Thank you.
Just to stay on...
Sorry?
You knew you'd get...
Actually, no.
No, no, no.
I did not expect it to be clip of the day.
But I'll take it.
Alan Greenspan made a rare appearance on CNBC and he had some comments.
Who is that guy?
How old?
Look at Andrea Mitchell.
He's older.
They're married.
Aren't they married?
Oh yeah.
Conflict of interest seems to me.
But he was always a mumbler and just...
Well, she's on CNN. This is CNBC. So there's not a conflict of interest in this case.
So he's on the CNBC shows and they're talking about You have to pay them to keep the money.
If you borrow money to buy a house, they actually pay you, or you don't have to pay the whole thing back, which is just a phenomenal concept.
I saw a headline that...
Sorry.
Yes?
I'm going to say he's 93.
Then he's still pretty chipper, actually.
I'm all in.
Good for him.
This is a gimme, then, for Mr.
Greenspan.
I saw a headline that you were talking about the idea of negative interest rates potentially happening in this country.
Do you think that's something possible?
And if so, what would it signify?
Well, first of all, what it signifies really is that the world population is aging and that people are recognizing that they're dying off at a much later date than they originally contemplated when they started to save.
And as a result of that, there's been an endeavor to pick up fairly quickly.
Like, the U.S. Treasury 30-year yield is...
It's a terrifically useful, I would say, offset to the other things that are going on in the market.
It's a real-time answer.
Answer the question!
One of the reasons the gold price is rising as fast as it is, $1,500 per ounce, that's telling us essentially that people are looking for, basically, resources which they know are going to have How
far, Chairman Greenspan, do you think it could go?
Do you think it could actually visit our shores as well?
Well, hardly likely that it's been, you know, for example, take a look at Japan.
You can see it, you know, quite visually as the population goes down.
And you can see pretty much throughout the world, it's just a matter of time before it's more in the United States.
And I think the issue here is watch the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield.
That's going to tell you what's happening.
All right, I'd be all for it.
Pay me!
We have a pretty low interest rate on our house, but it can only get better.
I'm thinking, refi!
Refi, pay me!
Pay the points!
Yeah, well...
Well, Greenspan said it.
He thinks it may not even take that long.
The problem is liquidity drops like a rock as you approach zero interest.
What does that mean?
That means the banks aren't going to give you that loan that you can do your refi with.
You're just not going to get it.
I mean, ideally...
Well, between where I am now and negative interest rates, there's going to be someone giving me something cheaper, I presume.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
You might be surprised how hard it is to get refi.
Well, then that's no fun.
It sounds good on paper, and it always was a very simple process, but more recently, you know, they talk about, oh, the interest rates of housing should do this and that, but you can't shake the money loose from these guys.
You're definitely not going to shake it loose if there's negative interest rates because the banks are making money.
Because, you know, they take in X amount, say $100,000, and then there's a negative interest rate, so they're just chipping away at it and putting it in their own coffers.
They're not going to loan it to you.
So that would cause a housing crisis, because no one can get a loan to buy a house, and then we get stuck.
Yeah, definitely cause a housing problem.
And then we...
Oh, I know the answer!
They're saying that all hell is going to break loose, and you're going to need a Bitcoin.
You're going to need a Bitcoin, son!
I stay with CNBC for a moment.
Joe Kernan, who is kind of the older, well, he's not even that old, but the older host on that morning show, who seems a little befuddled from time to time, he's become a Bitcoiner.
Well, I'd say he's believing it.
Okay.
What, you don't think so?
No, I watch this show.
I have no idea whether he believes it or not.
But I can see people doing it.
I mean, there's a lot of true believers on the Bitcoin.
I mean, I think Max is...
Well, Max.
Max is...
I think he's sincere.
We all know Max is Satoshi.
Let's leave it where it is.
So this is Mark Mobius, famous investor, and he gets into this short exchange about Bitcoin and, you know, is it worth it?
And what happens is they both end up realizing that, holy crap, Bitcoin is not that much different from anything else that we're peddling on this channel.
Do you think that there are cryptocurrencies that have inherent value, like digital gold?
Do you think Bitcoin, for example, has inherent value?
If there's a cryptocurrency that is really backed by gold, and that is, there is a meaningful agreement and some kind of monitoring of this connection, then this could be quite interesting.
That would be...
But I don't see any of them yet.
That would be a no then, is what you're telling me.
Because there are people that think that blockchain itself imbues the asset with inherent value, which is why they call it digital gold.
I mean, we seem to be okay with a lot of fiat currencies that aren't backed by gold.
You know, I don't know.
I guess it's the full faith and credit of the government, but nothing's backed by gold anymore except ETFs.
I don't know.
I mean, why would...
If you needed something, why would you have any faith in any fiat currency then?
No, the bottom line is that there's a whole generation of people who have faith in the Internet.
They have faith in these cryptocurrencies.
That's all it takes.
The reason why people believe in the U.S. dollar is because they have faith that with dollars in their hands they can buy something.
So the degree to which a cryptocurrency can enable you to buy something and you believe that to be the case, then it's fine.
But I think people are going to begin to realize that these are very, very risky situations.
And by the way, I believe blockchain is a very high risk...
A lot of people say, oh, blockchain can't be broken into.
No, it can be.
Anything that's created by man can be broken into, and it could create a big crisis.
So I think we have to be very careful with blockchain.
Okay, Mr.
Techno Wizard.
I think this is a seminal clip.
Both of those guys realized while they were talking, that's why he threw in some blockchain nonsense at the end, that they're full of shit.
The dollar's no more or less dependable than Bitcoin.
In fact, I would argue it's less dependable because a bunch of Yahoo jabronis in charge of stuff.
So I like that clip.
Well, if you really honestly believe that, you should take all your money and put it in Bitcoin.
I have been stacking sats for quite a while.
Okay, good.
Ever since I proclaimed to be a maximalist.
I do that.
You and I have an agreement.
We don't take Bitcoin as donations.
But I certainly convert a little bit every month.
A little bit I convert into Bitcoin.
So I started doing it around $3,900 when I maximized.
And look at where we are today.
So that's triple the money.
Yeah, it's true.
I got 50 bucks.
It's true.
I got 50 bucks now.
So I'm very, very happy.
But I think it's a seminal clip.
I was supposed to go a little better than that.
Here we go.
I'm going to show myself by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
Well, we got a few people to thank for show 1170.
I want to start, and I'm going to give you, I'm going to turn it over to you when we get down to the thanks, happy birthday, Adam.
Okay.
All right.
Because it's a pretty good list.
We got a lot of people that came in with 55, 55, or 55, usually 55, to say happy birthday to Adam.
But not Dame Andrea.
She came in with $110 from Rocky Mountain House in Alberta, Canada.
There's a bunch of people, I will say, that tried to get in.
They had different kinds of monies, and then it turned out to be a birthday included, but a lot of these I'm not going to get to.
I just want to read her note quickly.
She's a dame after all.
Dame Andrea and Sir Kelly are driving 300 kilometers to the Calgary meetup.
We want more Southern Alberta producers at this Friday's meetup.
300 kilometers.
Nice.
Good.
Good on ya.
John Robinet, 100 bucks.
No comment.
Paul Arseneau.
And he says, please help Darren O'Neill become a knight.
Fellow knights, pitch in and help Darren to rise to knighthood.
So we assume that this $100 is for Darren O'Neill's knighthood.
Although he never says that.
Someone else has to track it.
comes in with $100.
Richard Hillenbrand, $91.19.
And I believe it was either him or somebody else who tried to spin off $55 for your happy birthday.
So he's a happy birthday guy.
It was either that or...
Yeah, I think it was Richard.
Sir Salverin.
In Silver Spring, Maryland.
What is this?
He says, I haven't listened or donated much lately.
Wanted to make up, like, some work.
Okay, he's got some karma coming at the end.
Sir Brent, the trusted integer, 91.
And he's also, this is the one where he says, okay, this guy was saying, happy birthday to Adam, happy birthday to me, and this total is wrong.
Well, but he has 55 for my birthday and 46 for his birthday.
Yeah, which doesn't come to 91.
It comes to 101.
Oh, you're right.
Well, there you go.
Math?
Everybody came with a later note saying, oops.
Sir Brian Lawson, White Knight of the Rainbow Nation, 5569, so it's kind of a happy birthday thing, and so is Chuck Barnett, 5555 from Weaver Hill, North Carolina.
The Wi-Fi Knight on Shiphole.
Shiphole.
I wonder if he still does anything there.
You probably would know.
Paul von Kordelar.
Kordelar.
Kordelar and Aymoudin.
Aymoudin.
Aymoudin came with 5555, which is a happy birthday.
Astrid Klein came in out of the blue late.
Dame Astrid.
Dame Astrid.
Dame Astrid, yes.
And she comes in with a happy birthday.
She's actually the...
Baroness of the South China Sea.
Yes, of Japan and all the disputed islands of the Japan Sea.
Don't say China Sea.
The Japan Sea.
The Japan Sea.
Japan Sea.
Japansies.
You're a bunch of Japansies.
Can't stand ya.
Sean Thorpe, 5555.
Michael Astflok.
Aspholk.
Stephen Schnabel.
A 5510.
Double nickels on the dime, but it's also a 55, so it's got that in there.
And now we have all the $55 donors, and you will thank them for saying happy birthday, because you're taking it from here.
Yes, I will.
Dror Bana from Illinois.
Thomas Hithaler.
These are all 55s.
I believe he's in Austria.
Edward Chidjdy.
In the United Kingdoms, Raymond Poort.
And he says, van harte gefeliciteerd met je geboortedag, Adam.
Or as they say here, gratulere met der.
He lives in a dialect part of the Netherlands.
We have Ralph Massaro, Parts Unknown.
Hey, by the way, stop.
For your birthday party, did you sit in a bunch of chairs against a wall and stare at each other like they do in Holland?
I didn't have enough people to make a full circle.
It was more like a semi.
Ralph Massaro, I mentioned him.
Thank you.
Stuart Fawcett, Sir Xenonymous.
He is in Liverpool.
Thank you very much.
Peter Chong, Lakewood, Washington.
And he wants some karma as well.
Arthur Gobetz from the Netherlands.
Christopher Sharabarak from Ontario.
55 for the Podfathers 55th from Sir Acid of the Scandinavian Woods.
And it probably cost him 200 bucks to send that, so it's appreciated.
Miguel Lopez, happy birthday.
Miguel is from the U.S. Lloyd Brower, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jean Leclerc from Luxembourg, happy birthday.
Long live the best host of the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you very much.
He is known as Sir Quijibu.
Ryan Benson, thank you for the constant infusion.
Happy birthday.
Infusion of sanity into my and my family lives.
William Geffen, is it Geffen?
William Geffen from New York.
Sir Jeffro of the Rock Wall, happy birthday from a fellow September baby.
Oh, we figured out why so many people celebrate a birthday in September.
Try this on for size.
Happy New Year.
That kind of explains it.
So now I know what my parents were doing.
Sir Eric VM of the Valley.
He's a baron.
He says, happy birthday and awe kittens.
Yes, they always work.
Jonathan Ferris from Liberal, Kansas.
Thank you very much.
Andy Watts.
He says, thank you for your courage.
Carolyn Blaney.
This is from the Hogcast, I believe, from Toronto.
Please read on air.
From the friendliest podcast in the universe, Hog Story, hosted by John Fletcher and Carolyn Blaney.
Happy birthday, Adam.
We love you.
Way to get a plug in.
You're doing well.
Brad King, 55.
Vasant Damaraj.
September 3rd, my birthday too.
Turning 42.
Add me to the birthday list.
Yes.
Post-birthal.
We'll put you on.
Lady Dane.
Happy birthday.
Love and light from Lady Dane.
Ty Glander from Kirkland, Washington.
Sir Josh Mandel.
Greenville, South Carolina.
Anonymous.
Please keep me anonymous.
We'll do Sir Ongai.
Happy birthday, you talented...
Oh, one guy.
Happy birthday, you talented mofo.
Dave Bozeman in Willington, North Carolina.
Sam Godwin in San Jose.
Mason Berryman in Marietta, Georgia.
Roland Ruth, parts unknown.
Ray Fleischman, Coral Springs, no jingles, no karma.
Miguel Ortiz, have a wonderful birthday.
Baronet Chris of North Austin, happy birthday.
Almost three years ahead of you with mine in October.
Please pass karma to my worthy citizen.
Will do.
Baronet Chris of North Austin, thank you.
Phil Coburn, Warimu, New South Wales, 55 years.
Yes, indeed.
Thank you very much.
James Gilkisson from Parts Unknown.
Sir Christopher Barron of Buckeye from Buckeye, Arizona.
Of course, Matthew Januszewski, Chicago, Illinois.
Sir Trofer of Tarporlee?
Topher.
Not Trofer.
Oh, Topher.
Yes, like Sir Tofu of Tarpoly.
Yes, indeed.
Cheshire, Great Britain.
Thank you.
Baron at Large, from the Baron at Large.
Menno Tushenbrook in Heimstader.
Thank you very much.
Roy Strahan from Australia.
And that was...
Okay, Mike Rinker.
Rineker.
Rineker in Dubuque, Iowa.
Sir Other Brother from Norman, Oklahoma.
Joseph Finley, parts unknown.
Scott Moore, also parts unknown.
Ara Dadarian, Sir Ara Dadarian from California.
Melissa Chastain from Graham, Washington.
Larry Hay, Mooresville, North Carolina.
Clark Wallace, St.
Thomas, Ontario.
Sir Knight of the East.
Holy crap, how long is it?
Dude, this goes on forever.
Oh, my goodness.
Sir Chris from Arlington, Virginia.
Yes.
Sir James, Kilo Fox 7, Hotel Victor, Quebec in Las Vegas.
Did you get Sir Chris?
Yes, Sir Chris, Arlington, Virginia.
Sir James did that.
Michael Henry in Snellville, Georgia.
David Walsh, Carrara, Queensland, Australia.
Nicholas Hanna in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Karina Catania?
Karina Catania?
it's a serena isn't it serena i don't know serena this is hard serena catania yes serena catania drew sample 55 as well john tennyson eric huff brian newman michael greer at shikshini i believe thank you very much michael levin or levin in brooklyn new york chris willis henders hendersonville I don't know.
This is hard.
Yancey Summerer in Houston, Texas.
Greg Oleksiak.
Kyle Blank in Houston.
Jason Dolan.
John Tierney.
Dame Gina in Providence Village, Texas.
Thank you, Dame Gina.
Sir Tom, the Minuteman Knight.
Then we have Sir Timothy Brashears, $55.
And with this donation, he will become a baronet.
And he has a title change coming, appropriately.
John Hall from El Paso.
Sir Craig Porter, Portland, Oregon.
73's to you, November 7.
Foxtrot, Sierra, November.
Sir Ducifer.
Hey, Rob.
Thank you.
Happy birthday, he says.
He's living in Norway.
But with a Dutch message.
Jamie Landry, St.
Louis, Missouri.
And she turned 43 years old on my birthday as well, the September 3rd.
So we share that and put her on the list with belated.
Sir Malinowski from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Michael Halby, $55 again.
Pedro Gonzalez-Arellano.
From España, 40-hour job week karma, please.
Yeah, I'll add that at the end for you.
David Wynn in Rockville Center, New York.
Gabriel, what do you think that is?
Crihalmin?
Not quite sure.
Anonymous?
I have no clue.
Anonymous, thank you.
Crihalmin.
Marco Castellano from Guatemala.
Anonymous.
I did Anonymous.
Marco Castellano.
I did!
I didn't hear it.
I did it twice even.
Well, it's because there's another one.
Here's anonymous.
There you go.
There's another one.
Sir Morgan, defender of the Hershey Highway.
Happy birthday to you.
Deborah Siegel in Cleveland, Ohio.
John Carlson, Van Jackson, James Rivers in Junction City, Kansas.
Sir John, a.k.a.
Red.
Another anonymous.
Sir Rob, knight of the Philanthropic Shareholders Federation.
And that completes the 55 donations for my birthday.
I feel loved.
Thank you.
This is what I do.
Go and act it.
Go.
What do you mean?
What do you mean act it?
I'm really happy.
What did I do wrong?
What did I do wrong now?
I don't know, but next on the list is Francisco Tejeda, 5432.
Michael Gates follows him with 5280.
Scott E. Knight in Lost Wages, Nevada is 50.
And the following people are all $50 donors, pretty much all wishing Adam a happy birthday.
Andrew Owenham in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dame Jamie in...
I don't know where she is.
Another Matthew Januszewski, which comes in obviously from Chicago, so he came in twice.
It's blowing my own horn.
Play it, play it.
Villarreal, Villarreal.
Michael Januszki in Lindora, Pennsylvania.
And finally, last but not least by any means is Bradley Ledin.
And we want to thank all these people for helping this show in particular because this racks up a, it keeps the show going, fixes last month's mediocre efforts.
It does, it does.
It really balances out.
And it makes Adam feel better because obviously this was one of our bigger birthday donations.
Yes.
Well, it's a special, it's double nickels on the dime, you know, it's a little, it's special.
It's kind of, yeah, it's a 55er.
I even, you know, I forgot about that.
I had a...
Yeah, I got my special, my own little jingle here.
I had a...
55.
Woo!
Dead love!
And as every year goes by, Adam gets more and more...
Nutty.
Devolved.
Devolved.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you also to our execs and our associate execs who we thanked at the beginning of the show.
Thank you again.
This is very kind of you.
You know, birthdays, I don't know.
Thank you for that, and also thanks everyone who came in under $50 and wanted to be anonymous without putting their name anonymous on the list, which is also appreciated.
And for those of you on our regular donation subscription programs, your help is also available.
It's appreciated.
After all, it is your show.
It's your podcast.
It is the No Agenda Show.
And everyone can support for our next program, which takes place on the second Thursday of the week on Sunday.
Dvorak.org slash NA. A couple of karmas as requested.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
It's your birthday, birthday.
Oh, don't watch it.
Yeah, oh, today is the 5th of September, 2019.
Birthdays we're celebrating.
John Foley today, Sir Brent the Trusted Integer, turns 46.
Michael Asfalk says happy birthday to his mom.
Hey mom, 84, not bad.
And Kazanth Dharmaraj, 42 on my birthday.
We share it, 42.
Thank you very much and happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
Let's do our knighting here.
We have one, because we're not so sure exactly.
There was one contribution, and we'll get that for someone else's knighthood.
We'll get that squared away.
So, one blade for one knight today.
Perfect.
Okay.
Scott!
He's already got the name knight in his name, which is kind of cool.
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In a weird way, it's a safe space, but it's not, because you're going to see people you never have met, you have no idea what the background is, any age, creed, religion, it's crazy, and they all get along.
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Yes, it was long, but there you go.
Long, but worthwhile.
And somehow we're still ahead of schedule.
It's crazy how that works.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, let's see.
All right, well, we got a couple.
There's some news items going on.
By the way, I want to do a call back to the earlier part of the first donation saying we talked about vaping.
We did have a vaping in school report locally.
Tonight, with rising health concerns over teens and vaping, Michigan has become the first state to ban the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes.
And tonight, we show you how schools across the nation are cracking down hard as students get back to class.
Here's NBC's Ann Thompson.
They are back to school at Milford, Connecticut's Jonathan Law High and back to locked bathrooms.
Principal Fran Thompson showing us one of the four facilities off limits to students.
To stem what he calls the epidemic of vaping.
In the girls' room like this, they would literally, I can't believe I'm saying this, they would literally set up like blankets.
It would be like a little tent city where they would just hang out in the bathroom.
Teachers monitored the other four bathrooms, signing kids in and out.
And you think it's made a difference?
I think it's made a difference in monitoring where the kids are.
The kids aren't going for 20 minutes out of class.
So that's helped.
Do I think it's cut down on the vaping?
I don't know.
It's a nationwide problem.
In Texas, some schools make kids roll up their long sleeves so they can't hide the devices.
In Fairbury, Nebraska, they are randomly testing students in extracurricular activities for nicotine.
There are vape sensors in Illinois and New Jersey bathrooms.
Like, lungs have collapsed.
Back in Connecticut, these students don't vape, but they know who does.
It sounds like a smoker's cough.
Yeah.
And it's disgusting.
It's disgusting.
They go here during their sports practices where they're like, they're wheezing and eating and like, you know, everyone's doing laps.
What was once high school cool, now with an increasingly high cost.
Hmm.
smoking cigarettes in the bathroom back in the day?
Well, when I was a kid, I think this has gone through a series of changes.
This is different because it's always different.
When I was a kid, there would be a few bad actors that would go into the bathrooms and smoke cigarettes.
Oh, bad.
And there were always the punks, you know, and they were still smoking cigarettes as far And they're in the bathrooms.
And then when I got, you know, actually beyond college and being in the workforce, I heard of the same school.
Oh, yeah, no, the kids, they all go in the bathrooms, they smoke dope.
So all the kids, there was nobody smoking cigarettes in the bathroom, I was told.
They're all in there smoking joints, which I thought was a change.
And then it went on and then now it became they're all vaping and I don't know what they're vaping because the report doesn't say.
Are they vaping nicotine?
That's the problem.
Are they vaping marijuana or are they just vaping smelly stuff?
Well, that is the problem.
There's so much...
And this is why I believe that all this disinformation is being thrown into the market so one can emerge victorious.
It's got to be the $60 billion beast because that's about what they're valued at based upon the $13 billion 30% acquisition.
30%!
$18 billion!
It all comes down to who's making what.
If you get your THC cartridges made by some dude, and believe me, I've tried them, I gave it back.
It makes me cough the minute I try it.
So I don't know what it is, but go away with this stuff.
Vaping?
No, I haven't had a problem with that.
But I get reputable e-juice.
And I'm not a big believer in just accepting whatever Juul jams into their ready-made cartridges.
I'm not a big fan of that.
E-juice.
It's E-juice, baby.
E-liquid.
Well, it's E-liquid, but I prefer juice.
Because if you can see that juice...
Wait, where is it?
There's a lot of ways you can go with this material, but I'm not going to go anywhere.
Well, let me just get the...
It immediately goes to Israel.
Oh, let me get the...
Oh, my gosh!
Can you see that juice?
Yes, it's lovely.
Before you go any further, I would like to do a quick update on the Austin unhoused situation.
Oh yes, that's a high priority.
You can do that at the beginning of the show as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, it just didn't work out that way.
We started with, God, climate change.
What were we thinking?
We blew the lead.
So there was another public forum on Austin homelessness, which we call unhoused, on this show.
And this was at St.
Edward's University.
And there was another panel of jamokes and the mayor.
But this one finally got rowdy.
And this was right after the show on...
Was that...
I think it was Sunday, wasn't it?
Yeah, I think they did this on Sunday.
And people are now pissed.
And now they're yelling, they're hooting and hollering.
Some InfoWars reporter came in and just...
I don't have a clip of that, unfortunately.
Hijacked everything and he got kicked out.
So when you hear in this report from local station KXAN, one person was removed.
That was the Infowars guy who had a megaphone, is yelling at everybody.
Was not really productive for the conversation, but it didn't matter because it was pandemonium.
A lot to digest this morning after another heated public hearing when it comes to changes to the Austin Homeless Ordinance.
More than 300 people showed up last night.
Some of them were very vocal, both with the council and with each other.
What will it take for this board to repeal the lenient changes they made in June that can lead to a shantytown?
We cannot normalize shantytown.
That doesn't help anybody.
It doesn't help the homeless.
Ma'am, the farmers are here to lose it.
You're not here to lose it.
Our city council members and integral care were at the forum at St. Ed.
Edwards University.
Those people that you heard yelling there in that video were actually some of the calmer ones.
At least one person was kicked out.
Yeah, last week the city manager recommended restrictions on where homeless people can camp.
One guest at the meeting said that he wants to make sure the watershed area behind his house is included in that plan.
We were told by APD that it's probably not a good idea to go back there right now.
that there's a couple individuals that might not be safe.
Adler, are you doing tapering?
Are you doing tapering?
You're going to go back to a $4 million condo now?
You criminalize people for standing up for their community?
And the disruptions continued at a post-forum press conference with Mayor Steve Adler.
Mayor Adler says City Council will consider increasing the funding for the homeless at a budget meeting next week.
He says the city has to act now because next year they will be constrained by new property tax restrictions.
He also said revenue from any expansion of the convention center could be used on the homeless issue.
And there you have it.
That's always the answer.
Don't reverse the dumb ordinances that you removed two months ago.
No.
Just say, oh, we need more money.
And yeah, we're going to charge everyone the max tax rate this year because we won't be able to do that next year.
So let's charge.
You're going to pay for it.
We need more money.
Oh!
Thank God there are people getting pissed off now.
We need a lot more of that.
Because this is almost old Austin versus new Austin, and it's glorious to watch.
And people...
I would assume old Austin wants to get rid of the homeless.
Yes.
Well, they at least want to turn back the go-ahead-and-camp-anywhere, and everyone uses the same argument.
You're doing exactly the wrong thing.
You're doing what every other liberal city has done, and look at their results.
Yeah, the results are always bad.
Well, we can do it better.
Well, we know the mistakes were made, but we can do it better.
We can make bigger mistakes with more money.
We just need more money.
You know, the shantytown thing did come up in the conversation.
I'm of the opinion that you're just going to have to bite the bullet in these towns, these liberal towns, and let a shantytown crop up.
It goes on in South America.
I don't like your idea.
I know you don't.
Nobody does.
But it's the most realistic thing you can do.
Let's be honest about it.
But you have shanty towns in multiple cities in California, and it hasn't produced any...
Where?
There's no real true shanty town.
Every street corner!
No, that's not a shanty town.
Well, okay.
I mean, how many...
That is just a bunch of people hanging around and, you know, hanging out with tents.
Yeah.
No, no.
Okay.
I'm not talking about camping, which is what they call it now.
Homeless camping.
Yeah.
You're not homeless.
You're just camping.
Oh, yeah.
Just people camping, yeah.
No, I'm talking about you get a couple of acres.
You put some acres together in an area that's really some places you can get water to.
Usually a water truck that would work.
Bring it in once in a while and everyone have their own buckets.
And let people build little lean-tos.
To have its own government.
It's like in Brazil, the favelas.
They have their own governments.
That's my point.
The favelas are a huge issue.
Yeah, also with shantytowns, but I don't see any other solution.
They can't seem to address the problem correctly, so you might as well just let it fall into third world style.
It works.
Outside of Africa, all of these little towns in Africa, there's little shantytowns outside the cities, might as well be all South America.
There used to be Romani encampments all over Europe, and it's similar to a shantytown where they move.
I mean, you can't do anything about it because they're not doing anything about it.
Well, go to a fallback position.
So what you're saying is designate an area where the shanty town can prosper.
You make it sound like it's a joke.
No!
No!
That's exactly what you're saying.
A designated place.
This is not your idea alone.
People are saying, hey, make a designated camping ground.
Yeah, well, it should be a shantytown.
A camping ground is no good.
Those tents are no good.
You want the kind of thing that people can go and do reports about.
Oh, look at these people.
They're living like horrible.
And then they show that there's this open sewer.
You want an open...
Okay, you have to design these things.
Scott Adams has got something like this, but he's more...
It's not going to be like my thinking.
You want an open sewer...
So you can be aghast at the open sewer and the turd going down the sewer.
You know, it's just open.
You want kids that are half-naked wandering around, you're all dirty, you know, sucking their thumbs.
Barefoot, barefoot.
Barefoot.
And then you want, you know, lots of dogs.
Playing with a rusty can.
Lots of dogs barking at everything.
We had a quasi-shantytown here and...
In the East Bay, over on the Bulb, it was called, an old ex-garbage dump that's over by Golden Gate Fields in Albany.
There was this big area that was in the very far reaches of this.
It's like a peninsula that is built of garbage dumps from the 20s and 30s.
So it's green now and they got trees and everything's growing on it.
But there was a huge shanty town out there.
It was a A genuine one.
You couldn't even go out to it because there's too many pit bulls, you know, guarding the place.
But it was a shanty town, and they let it go for years and years, and they finally went in there in the middle of the night and tore it down.
Well, go back to what else we need in the shanty town.
I was kind of enjoying it.
We were at Barefoot Children playing with the...
Barefoot Children, open sewers, a lot of lean-tos.
Lean-tos, yes, yes, very good.
Leftover, you know, the kind of stuff that you make for...
It's kind of a galvanized corrugated steel.
Yes, very good.
Chunks of that and corrugated fiberglass that's just got this little curvy thing and then it's pounded in.
And you always need to have a boat trailer with half a boat on it?
Oh, there's definitely a bunch of boat trailers with half a boat, people living in the boats.
Open fires, burn barrels everywhere.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Especially in the winter.
And yeah, we can speck it out.
I know the perfect spot.
Tarrytown.
We can speck it out.
We're going to do that in Tarrytown here in Austin.
There's a joke in there, right?
Oh yeah, if you're in Austin, then you're loving it.
It's where all the rich douchebags live.
It's Tarrytown.
Oh yeah, well you put it right next to them.
Oh, and what's before Tarrytown is...
I've got to think about it.
Yes, that's a good neighborhood to do it.
There's lots of trees to connect the lean-tos.
Oh, the trees are good.
They clean the air.
Well, we're headed that way, so we're laughing about it, but it ain't all that funny.
While we're on that topic, though, there was an article I wanted you to read.
It was about how some cities like Amsterdam have...
Oh, over-tourism.
Over-tourism, they're trying to limit the number of tourists that come in.
Yes.
Well, I was looking at the numbers, and that article didn't talk about...
I mean, it had San Francisco as number two, where they have too many tourists, considering the population.
The population of Amsterdam is about a million, with about 18 million tourists.
Yeah, that's 18 million people in the whole country.
Yeah, and they're all in Amsterdam touring.
There's 18 million.
Do you know that the Netherlands is, at this point, I believe, more densely populated than Japan?
Yeah, it could be.
It's possible.
It's an easy calculation to figure out.
Yeah, because it's just room per square meter.
So there's 18 million people in the country and 18 million come through as tourists.
And I think we talked about this.
They're doing active tourist management to steer them away from Amsterdam, get them to go to the north, which is a total shithole.
It has nothing to do with old...
I mean, it's beautiful if you want to live there, but it's all new.
I mean, it's brand new.
Yeah, wouldn't you want them to go to the south?
Go to Rotterdam.
Go to Rotterdam.
Well, Rotterdam would be better for...
Outstanding world-class architecture, old and new.
And they got good restaurants.
Rotterdam's a good place to go.
But yeah, Delft.
And they got that big gate you can look at.
They have the giant dam or whatever you call it, the dike that moves.
The Delta Works.
Yeah, you go there and they have a little museum.
You can look at how the thing works.
It's a different Dyke in Amsterdam, but you can look at that too.
Yeah, you go look at some Del's Blue.
You go look at how they make cheese.
But still, the problem is, people don't go to Amsterdam, but it's like, oh yeah, I'll go to the Anne Frank House, which is complete shit shit.
The Anne Frank House used to be the Anne Frank House on the canal.
You'd go in, and when I was there, the walls were just the walls.
Now they have plastic, not plastic, but what's the word I'm looking for?
Lucite or whatever.
In front of the walls, because people were writing their names, graffiti, so there's all this shit graffiti.
And they've built this huge modern front and gift shop.
Yeah, it's all modern.
The gift shop.
Shop.
Shop!
And the lines are outrageous.
And it's nothing like a bad Disneyland exhibit.
You know, when you walk past, like, I'm not going in there.
Let's go to Space Mountain.
And so that's ruined.
And people are just there to party.
They just went there.
Oh, because I'm drinking.
I'm smoking.
It's annoying.
Yeah.
Well, now that same article talked about San Francisco.
San Francisco's population is a little less than Amsterdam's.
It's smaller.
Traditionally, it's always been about 750,000, but it's up to 900,000, they say.
But it has the same number of tourists, pretty much.
It has 16 million.
And they're stepping in poop.
Yeah.
I don't know what 16 million people in a town of less than a million, which is San Francisco.
It's a lot of tourists.
I don't know what they do.
I mean, I go to San Francisco to shop at different places there that I get certain things specifically.
Did you say population or population?
I don't see these tourists.
They're all on Fisherman's Wharf.
Yeah.
What did they do there?
I remember as a kid going to San Francisco and And my parents said, oh, Fisherman's Wharf, Fisherman's Wharf.
And I still don't remember, where was it?
What the hell?
Was something great that I missed?
No.
I just remember getting trucked around the city and like, I don't know.
And the only thing I remember was, what's the Windy Street?
Lombard.
Which is now, I guess it's over, you know, every moron is on it.
You make a reservation to drive on the road.
When we were kids, it was better!
It was.
But, whatever.
Hey, just a couple quickies.
Looks like there are thousands of names that will be unsealed from Epstein documents.
Oh, yeah.
Another unsealing.
Oh, sure.
Well, this one actually might happen.
The judge, Presta, and this is from a separate lawsuit from Geoffrey, one of the victims, and they want to unseal a lot of information, and people are really kind of freaking out because your name could be in there even though you didn't do anything wrong.
There's going to be lots of names.
You might have been to some party or whatever.
I'm just saying this for your benefit, just so you got a heads up.
Yeah, well...
I'm pretty sure I'm not on in those lists.
I'm pretty sure.
And I think we would be remiss if we did not mention Brexit, the latest.
I have a Brexit clip.
Yeah, we need to update everybody on Brexit.
Not that there's any actual change, it's just some more bullcrap went down, but kind of in Boris Johnson's disadvantage.
Yes, there's a move afoot to, of course, extend the date, of course.
And they're trying to...
Pro-rogate or whatever it's pronounced.
Pro-rogue.
Even though they tend to take this time off anyway, according to all the experts.
And Farage is, you know...
Wait, did you get the latest?
What happened yesterday?
What?
So what Boris Johnson said, the way I understand it, is, listen, we're going to get this done on time by October 31st, and if there's no deal, we will do a no-deal Brexit, and any threatened.
Otherwise, I'll call for an election.
And they voted yesterday on this piece of legislation which effectively blocked him by some crazy number.
It's like the parliament doesn't appear to represent the people.
They don't want to leave.
There's some corruption.
Some?
Hello, Casablanca.
There's a bit of corruption in the British Isles.
So what does Farage have?
So Farage comes on, and yes, they block Johnson from doing much, and then they're going to maybe have an election, maybe not.
No, there's no election because they voted it down.
There's no election.
No, I mean, after Brexit.
Oh, okay.
All right, all right.
Farage was talking about it turns out they did a pre-poll on if they were going to do election before the Brexit and Farage's party wasn't going to make any inroads.
And so Nigel has accused Boris in this clip, you'll hear it, of doing double dealing and actually going over and trying to sneak a deal past everybody that is not going to be acceptable.
Remember what I said?
Remember I predicted?
I said Boris Johnson is not going to get it done.
He will not get a Brexit done.
I think he's doing sneaky deals, but they're sneakier than Farage may think.
Joining us now is Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.
Good morning to all of you.
So when we look at those latest poll results, 13-14% doesn't translate into any seats at all.
This is a lot of effort.
Bearing in mind that your motivation, your raison d'etre, is to see Brexit through, would you not be better, therefore, supporting Boris Johnson and the Conservatives to make sure that Brexit does happen, rather than flitting that vote?
Nineteen weeks ago we launched the Brexit party.
Why?
Because we trusted Theresa May, we trusted the Conservative Party to deliver Brexit.
They didn't do it.
So I formed the Brexit Party.
We won the European elections.
We reset the agenda.
I mean, if we hadn't been formed, Theresa May would still be Prime Minister.
Now, Boris Johnson has picked up all the lines we used in that campaign.
You must be pleased about that.
Yeah, because we're winning.
We've completely reset the British agenda.
And of course now, no deal, leaving with a clean break Brexit is the most popular option.
However, we now find ourselves in a very similar position to that with Mrs May.
Boris has won the leadership, telling us he will take us out on the 31st of October.
But what he's done in the last week is he's gone back to Brussels and clearly he wants to reheat the failed withdrawal agreement that was, you know, three times rejected by the House of Commons.
And if we leave...
But without the backstop.
Even without the backstop, it's still the worst deal in history.
Even without the backstop, it costs us 39 billion.
It makes it virtually impossible for us ever to leave the customs union.
We will not be a free, independent nation.
So we are standing, and we will stand in every seat in this election, and we're saying to Boris Johnson, if you sell us out on Brexit with this awful withdrawal treaty, we will fight you in every seat.
Nigel, if you're right in that analysis, why is it that your poll figures are dropping and his figures and the Conservative Party's figures are rising?
If he's actually pulling a fast one and he's going to give us Theresa May's reading...
Because people haven't realised yet.
Oh, so we're too stupid to see it.
Yes!
No, because it's too early.
This only began to happen last week and you've got the loud noise...
says we'll leave with no deal on the 31st of October.
Actually look at what is being said by Macron, Merkel, by Boris Johnson.
Boris in a letter last week said it was his highest priority to get a withdrawal agreement.
We want a clean break Brexit.
Yeah.
No, he's not going to get it done at all.
At all.
This is not the European way.
This is not how the EU functions.
Vote again, slaves.
You did it wrong.
It's about right.
There was a funny moment, though.
I was watching just before the vote, which came around.
It was late for them in the UK. It must have been four or five in the afternoon here.
And there was a pretty funny one.
Some member of parliament who is, I think, Pakistani and had the appropriate outfit on.
Boris Johnson at some point wrote in an op-ed article, I think, and this was a long time ago, I believe, maybe it was just this year, but I thought it was longer ago.
He was talking about how the British, I'm paraphrasing, how the British street scene had changed to, when he said something, because he called Burka's letterboxes, or he had some really derogatory term.
And this guy stands up and calls him out on it.
Let me see, here we go.
That might entertain some, but Boris Johnson is a leader that repels as well as attracts.
A Labour MP demanding an apology that never came for a controversial column he wrote a year ago.
Those of us who from a young age have had to endure and face up to being called names such as Towelhead or Taliban or coming from Bongo Bongo land, we can appreciate full well the hurt and pain felt by already vulnerable Muslim women when they are described as looking like bank robbers and letterboxes.
I never heard coming from Bongo Bongo Land.
I never...
I think he made that up.
I don't know, but I need...
Some you throw in.
Bongo Bongo Land?
Bongo Bongo Land.
Made me feel good.
And let's leave it on that high note.
Yeah, okay.
Bongo, bongo land.
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the Straight Pride Parade.
Whatever it is, I'm against it.
Count me out, cause on this fence is where I won't sit.
Cause I'm against it Says pride and masquerades as hate Now it's a crime to be straight Straight fight parade I'm against it Read the bylaws Get your permits to commence it But I'm against it We're against it.
Pride masquerading is hate.
On Marxist principles, I'm opposed to it.
He's a host to A virtue symbol To the proletariat On the day my son was born Amongst the pronouns I was taught But the paperwork I have sent it And a reassignment Is a gift that lasts forever Once you commence it Oh my goodness We're against it.
The homelessness experience in Disneyland, this is an exit strategy.
I think we could create this ride.
Now, do you sit in the ride, or do you, I think you should also experience for a brief moment, you stepping in human feces.
I think the most enjoyable Disney rides are in a cart, you know, and you got music going on, you're like, you know.
There's two ways of going about this.
There's one is you're in a little car, a little car, a little thing, and it's going through a homeless encampment, and people are all animatronic.
That's like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Yeah, exactly like Pirates of the Caribbean, only you're not, maybe you could be in kind of a river of peace.
You know, if you had the kind of stinky pee, that would be okay.
But I think, generally speaking, it would be better on rails, and you go through these things, and you'd see all these different people.
Do you have you go through the section where there's a bunch of politicians trying to come up with good solutions, and they finally say, we just need more housing, and then they come out.
You can do, and here's Los Angeles, and here's Austin.
You can have a couple that show some differences.
Oh, yeah.
Right?
Yeah, you could take the car through one place or another.
You come out the other end of it and you feel real good about yourself and now you understand.
You understand.
Now you have evolved.
That's what it is.
Now the other one, which is the cheaper way to go, is you wear some VR glasses or you're in a VR......situation.
You experienced the whole thing, only now it's even more realistic.
Because it's not animatronics, it's not dummies and things like Pirates of the Caribbean.
It's actual videos that you're seeing, surrounded by the real stench and filth, and fans blowing the smell of crap in your face.
And you go through the whole thing and you come out the other end pretty much with the same message, but it's just a cheaper way to do the ride.
Now you understand.
You understand.
Now you have evolved.
Poor people used to live in slums.
Now the economically disadvantaged occupies substandard housing in the inner cities.
And they're broke!
They're broke!
They don't have a negative cash flow position.
They're fucking broke!
They're not homeless.
They are neighbors who are camping.
The people that are camping in your neighborhoods are your neighbors too.
They live in your neighborhood.
Do you notice a trend here?
You're not homeless.
You're camping!
It's completely different!
Which also is going to really help people that are camping currently to live in more sanitary conditions and be healthier themselves.
People just be in a place because they have nowhere else to be.
It's not a crime.
It's really starting to focus...
Really starting to focus on...
We wouldn't expect that from our communities, from our house communities.
We don't expect people experiencing homelessness.
I'm still not going to see the movie.
So we're talking people who've been homeless, unhoused, experiencing it for 8 years, 9 years, 12 years.
They live effectively outdoors, and now they're all just coming into the city.
Hey, we can camp there.
Why not?
It's a lot closer to everything.
We're here.
Where I can get drugs if I want them.
We ain't going nowhere.
We're moving right next door to you.
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood.
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
I'm still not going to see the movie.
It's a neighborly day in this beauty.
Would it be a neighborly day for a beauty?
I'm still not going to see the movie.
Let go the neighborhood.
Back, back, back.
Let go the neighborhood.
It's one hell of a day in my neighborhood.
A hell of a day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
I hope I get to move in your neighborhood.
Someday, the problem is, is when I move in, y'all move away!
Rows are blazing.
A nation is being torn apart.
With weasel words hiding blame.
This game is a lark.
Theresa May's plans, they came back from the dead.
Just how many strange fellows can you fit in one bed?
Parliament is on the brink of wrecking any deal that we might be able to spend.
The smirk on her face, showing such sweet schadenfreude.
Now Boris has been charged to get this heist in order.
The sleight of a hand, oh, the illusion.
You will obey your master's beck and call.
And that would mean more...
So, forgive me when I say, they want no Brexit at all.
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In the morning, Gitmo Nation, we are all charged up to peace.
Human resources and servants in all lands and all ships at sea.
From the east to west, down under to the lowlands and beyond.
We are happy and distracted slaves.
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