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Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
It's Thursday, October 10th, 2019.
This is your award-winning Kimo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1118.
This is No Agenda.
Brushing up on the Ottoman Empire and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33, the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're all saying, the Dodgers did what?
I'm John C. Devorak.
I'm John C. Devorak.
Well, I guess I have to ask.
The Dodgers did what?
Choked out on the fifth game that they had to win to get to the next level of the playoff games in baseball.
Oh, so your assertion is completely incorrect.
What was my assertion?
You said we all go the Dodgers did what?
We didn't all go the Dodgers did what?
Oh, in Northern Silicon Valley, where we are.
Ah, okay.
Accepted, then.
It's got nothing to do with Texas.
Texas has got the team to probably win the whole thing, so they're happy.
What, the Spurs?
Yeah, the Spurs.
They hit a lot of homers the last time.
I know, right?
I'm so good at this stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, the most frequently asked question in the last three days has been, will John be on the air at all?
Well, if I wasn't on the air, it wasn't because there's winds.
I will tell you.
Explain the situation, boots on the ground.
What are they really saying in the news?
What is really happening?
We have one of our producers in Mill Valley who wrote me and said, hey, they cut my power off.
The winds here are 11 miles an hour.
It's not even anything going on.
And he claims that the city of San Francisco is about to, because PG&E is going into bankruptcy because of the fire situation two years ago.
Right.
And the city of San Francisco wants to buy out all the equipment from PG&E, which they can't legally do without some sort of a new law being passed.
And they want to take over the Pacific Gas and Electric business in the city.
And his idea is that this is going to be a cascade effect where everybody's just going to go local.
And I don't know how that's going to work, but...
Well, create co-ops.
Co-ops, I guess.
Somebody's got to be responsible for the electricity itself and the transmission lines and all the other stuff.
How about the great state of California take care of stuff?
Well, they can't.
This is what happened, and I will repeat this for anyone who wants to hear it.
We had a governor here called Gray Davis, a Democrat.
When the Democrats were running everything, they couldn't get – Republicans couldn't get in over a period of time because of some changes in local political – the way they – the way the Democrats write roughshod over the Republicans because the Republican Party in California was just a bunch of lunatic losers.
And so the Democrats were winning and winning, and they couldn't get them out of there.
And they had this guy, Gray Davis, who was the worst governor ever.
They actually recalled the governor.
Yeah.
And that allowed a special election, which is when Schwarzenegger, a Republican, snuck in.
But if it wasn't for that, he would have never gotten in.
And Gray Davis was the one – this was an era – Of Enron having piece of the action.
And everyone's coming around trying to privatize all the power.
They go door to door saying, yeah, Amway is going to be serving your power.
And it was just, it was unbelievable.
And so we started having these rolling blackouts, which were really created by Enron to create, to get the prices to skyrocket.
Where does Jerry Brown fit in this?
Wasn't he the governor?
Gray Davis.
Okay, so pre-Jerry Brown, or after the first...
Jerry Brown came after Schwarzenegger.
Ah, okay.
He came before, way before, but that was like in the 60s, and then he came back as an old man.
But in the meantime, we had the Gray Davis guy, and the Rolling Blackouts, and this was the news, and all the newspapers and everybody local, and they're doing the same thing with this phony baloney windstorm, which there's no wind, by the way, zero wind where I am.
And so they...
Gray Davis and they started, the meme was, oh, this is your life.
This is the way, there's a, you know, just like Rachel Maddow.
Get used to it, slaves.
Get used to it because we don't have, we have too many people and there's not enough power and there's no way we can service everybody.
So we're going to have rolling blackouts forever and grayouts forever.
This is it.
This is your new way of looking at things.
Get used to it, slaves.
And it continued for like a couple of years, these stupid rolling blackouts.
And for the whole state.
And everyone put up with it.
The newspapers didn't investigate.
Then when the Enron scam broke out and it turned out to be a scam, then, oh, geez, that's terrible.
Meanwhile, they recalled Gray Davis and put in Schwarzenegger.
The rolling blackouts ended mysteriously.
And then when Jerry Brown got in, the rolling blackouts stayed down because Brown is no fool.
And he kept things on the kind of...
From getting carried away.
Now we got Gavin Newsom, and he's letting apparently the PG&E people run roughshod over the public again, and everybody's all in on it.
The newspapers, I'm looking at today's news about this windstorm, and they say, whoa, we had a 65-mile-an-hour gust.
A gust.
And it was at the top of a mountain.
Oh, go figure.
It's just that the whole thing is unbelievable, and their news people are just the worst in this area.
All right, well, a couple things.
One, They are basically bankrupt because of all the claims against them from the Paradise Fire.
And when you go after your utility company like that, it's only logical, I think, that they become overly cautious and don't want to get blamed for anything.
So, on one hand, logically, I can see where they're coming from.
Not that I don't think they're scammers.
And because they've had a very troubling history.
Do people remember Aaron Brockovich?
Wasn't that a chemical thing?
Yeah, from PS&G. And PS&G is what?
Yeah, the Pacific Gas and Electric, the PGE, I mean.
PGE. The same guys.
Was Erin Brockovich had something to do with PG&E? Yes, that was the company she went after.
What was the point of it?
I don't remember it being PG, the power company.
Gas, hello, they were runoff chemicals.
Let me look it up.
Instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California in 1993.
It was against PG&E. Yeah, see, you didn't even remember that.
No, I don't remember that.
That's a fact.
Yeah.
Her successful lawsuit is subject of a film, and when she started, yeah, I know the film, it was 20 years ago.
Yeah, but still.
So this company, their shit heals, and they've always been that way.
It's had to do with asbestos more than anything, it seems.
But it was Pacific Gas and Electric.
Yeah, well, they were a good douchebag operation, but they always have been, but It seems to me if you're doing this as some sort of extortion, extorting the public, I'm not sure what they're up to with this turning the power off on everybody just for no good reason in many cases, in most cases, and then the The media going along with it, it seems to me that why would they do any of the turning the power off unless there were fires in the area?
Then you turn the power off to keep any additional fires from beginning.
If there's a lot of wind in one area, you don't do it in advance thinking, well, maybe.
Why don't you just turn the power off all the time?
You'll never have a problem.
Yeah, so what you're saying is it sounds more like...
And why are they worried about getting sued?
They're already out of business.
Well, you're the one there.
I don't have these answers.
I don't know what's going on.
I think our producer in Mill Valley may have a clue.
There's people who are angry enough to shoot.
CHP confirms that about 7.45 Tuesday evening, a PG&E worker who'd been driving on Interstate 5 in Calusa County notified authorities he'd heard what he thought was a gunshot and that his passenger window had shattered.
That driver was uninjured.
The safety of our employees and our customers is our top priority.
I love the up-talking because that's how you want to address the press when you're talking about these things.
This is our top priority.
A PG&E spokesperson did not directly address the incident.
We recommend that you reach out to local authorities for this ongoing situation.
What's the situation?
Shortly after word spread about the shooting investigation, PG&E brought out barricades to funnel people coming in and out of their San Francisco headquarters through security.
Again, the company not saying whether the barricades were added in response to the shooting.
The safety of our employees is a number one priority as we move forward through this public safety power shutoff, and we decided to put barricades up to ensure their safety here at our headquarters.
Public safety power shutoff?
That's what it is.
The public safety power shutoff?
Sounds more like a Pacific Gas and Electric safety shut-off.
Very wrong.
But there's more messed up.
And this was big news amongst the NAMS. That's short for No Agenda Hams.
The NAMS. The NAMS. Yeah, Cal Fire, which coordinates fire in California.
Hey, you want some fire?
We coordinate it.
Sent a nasty gram, a demanding letter, to all repeater owners, ham radio repeater owners, that are up on the mountains.
And a repeater, for those who don't know, is so that you can use a...
It's basically what the cops use, what fire uses, anybody who has handheld units or mobile units.
You want to all be able to communicate, so you...
There's typically a transmitter up on a hill or some high spot that line of sight almost can be achieved.
And so you can all communicate through this one system.
And without doubt, the ones in California have been used for all kinds of important fire-related community service.
Not for starting them, but for looking out and helping people and warning people.
And now the T&V manager of Cal Fire has sent the following note to all owners of repeaters.
And there's a lot of them.
And you take these away, and all of a sudden, hams go away, essentially.
I do understand and appreciate all the service you have provided in the past.
However, with constantly changing technological advances, there's no longer the same benefit the state has previously provided.
Therefore, the department no longer will financially support ham operator radios or tenancy.
If you desire to enter a formal agreement or operate and maintain said equipment, you must complete and submit attached co-location application along with the fee as outlined on page one of the application." So they're kicking all of these repeaters out.
Now, these are just boxes with an antenna and a power requirement that the hams maintain themselves, and they didn't have to pay any leasing fees because it would be impossible.
It's a public service.
Not anymore in California.
In order to keep their repeaters there, the cost associated with getting an agreement in place is as follows.
In addition to the technical analysis fee, $2,500 per application, There's a DGS lease admin cost, typically between $3,000 and $5,000 with the preparation of the lease, and of course an annual rent charge based upon the equipment and type space.
So they've kicked all the repeaters out.
It's not costing them anything extra, but when you read the constantly changing technological advances, what have they baked up that works so incredibly well?
Or I guess everyone just uses a cell phone because, yeah, that'll work when the power's off.
It's very disturbing.
Not that I think hams will actually save the world, but it seems like there is enough benefit to just leave the stuff there.
Yeah, what's wrong with that?
I don't know.
They're all against it now.
The hams are up in arms!
Who's behind the shutdown?
Cal Fire, the California fire coordinator.
We have to look into this.
It sounds like something else is going on.
Well...
You don't do this out of the blue like that.
I'm thinking they might...
And at the same time, they're having this phony baloney shutdown?
Yeah.
At the same time that's happening, the hams are getting kicked out.
Well, one thing kind of covers up the other.
I mean, the only thing I can really think of is that they sold the co-location space to Verizon or someone like that.
It's an actual tendency.
Oh, yeah, because Verizon has to get rid of these hams because they're such a threat to the cellular mobile system.
The hams are going to put them out of business any minute.
If the no agenda hams have anything to do with it, yes.
We had our first prep net last night.
Yeah, well.
Okay, never mind.
Maybe it's because of you.
The word got out of your scheme.
Yes, to take over the world with ham radio guys.
To take over the world with the ham system and amateur radio.
So they put the kibosh on the whole thing.
Well, we're organizing, baby.
We're organizing.
We had our first kind of semi-meetup last night.
Oh, how'd it go?
We call it the PrepNet.
So we had about 30 hams in there.
Not bad for the first time.
Yeah, I only announced it an hour and a half before I came up with it.
It's like, oh, let's do this.
It's at about 30 hams from all over the country.
I don't think we had any...
Oh, yeah, we had Scandinavia in there.
I don't think we had any other countries.
But it's working, John.
And if there's one thing everybody wants to know, it's when are you going to get on?
Yeah.
As soon as I find my glasses.
We have one ham who's in Berkeley.
Yeah, did he ever show up at a meet-up?
No, but he's going to show up and help you set up your rig.
That's what he's going to do.
Oh, good.
Okay.
That's what you want.
Let me find the rechargers for it first.
Yeah, might as well.
And bring both of them.
The one in the glove box of your car, too.
Bring them both.
We'll get them all programmed.
Noagendahams.com is where you can find out more information if you're interested.
Uh...
Yeah, so nothing more.
Well, I'm glad you're on the air.
I just found my glass so I could read this note from our guy, Nick, over in Mill Valley.
I hope you guys get a chance to talk about the blackouts.
Tonight, Mill Valley is shut off, which is not the place you want to piss off.
It's shut off, but it has a wind forecast of 11 miles an hour.
Something is not right, and I may have found a smoking gun.
A few days ago about the San Francisco proposing to buy PG&E, their San Francisco operations.
Oh, okay, so that's what you were saying.
Well, that makes sense, then.
This is a political, commercial rift they're in.
Could be.
It's bullcrap.
Well, all I know is there's no windstorm here, even though that was shown by the computer models.
And there's not only not a windstorm here, but the last two days have been some of the calmest.
In the East Bay.
There is no wind whatsoever.
So, here's what doesn't make sense.
Because they have shut off power, correct?
They've shut off power.
Oh, yeah.
No, most of the area is shut off.
How come you're not shut off?
I'm in a...
Since I'm pretty much on the coast.
On the coast of the bay.
I'm not on the ocean coast.
Like, I could...
If I had a good arm...
Well, I'd have to have a really good arm.
But...
If I had a gun, I could shoot a bullet.
You have a gun.
You have multiple guns.
But I'm not going to start shooting out the window.
I could shoot a bullet and hit the bay pretty easily.
Could you toss a dwarf to the bay?
That's the real question.
No, I don't think I can.
I'm not that good.
But you mean like Jerry Nadler?
Yeah.
Oops.
John, stop doing that.
Right.
Okay.
Well, if the city of San Francisco wanted to buy it, which makes no sense, then this would be some kind of political action.
Well, then again, why don't they shut down?
San Francisco was lit the whole time.
They never shut them down.
Yeah.
The whole county and city of San Francisco.
I'm in Texas.
You're asking me questions I have no idea what to do with.
Just hold your fist in the air and shake it.
I'm angry.
That's the California way.
I'm angry, damn it.
Alright, well, then the second most important news of the past four days.
It looks like we're coming awful close to the swoop.
As predicted for the past three years by my co-host John C. Dvorak.
Long shot master.
Well, I'm letting you take this.
Oh, okay.
Well, I have a few clips.
Yeah, I figured you would.
I mean, it's bad enough that you...
Hillary's been showing up everywhere, of course, to promote her books.
She always has her daughter with her, and her daughter just sits next to her and nods.
I have not heard Chelsea say jack about anything ever.
She sits next to Mom and she smiles.
No, no, I've heard her talk.
She speaks at the very end of the interview.
Like, well, yes.
And then she just adds some flavor to whatever.
Yeah, Mom's great.
That's pretty much it.
Mom's great.
Like they wrote this book to start with.
As if.
Please.
Yeah, I didn't know that didn't happen.
So she shows up on PBS on the NewsHour with...
Judy.
Judy, yeah.
He's looking bad.
But And so they do a bunch of, they have to talk about one thing or another.
So we have, let's listen to this clip.
This is H. Clinton on PBS1, and here she goes.
Here she starts.
You've both been through impeachment in your own family, President Clinton.
How is this time different from what President Clinton with?
This is a much more serious set of charges than anything that was ever put forward against Bill.
And I think the American people got that.
This is a very different time.
And as a former Secretary of State, I just want Americans to stop and think, why are we allowing this president to, in effect, undermine our sovereignty?
Turning over foreign policy to foreign governments, what he just did with the Kurds, empowering Turkey and Russia against our staunchest allies in the Middle East.
I want to get into Turkey later on, but let's just stick with Hillary for now.
Our staunchest ally in the Middle East is who?
I'm going to ask you.
Israel!
Yeah.
That's our staunchest ally.
And then who would follow that?
In the Middle East?
I would say Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia, yeah, sure.
And then the Emirates.
And of course, not Lebanon, but Jordan for sure.
And there's a lot of them.
The Kurds.
But no, don't go to the Kurds.
Don't go to the Kurds.
Stick with Hillary.
Otherwise, we'll go into the whole Kurds thing.
Well, she's the one who mentioned the Kurds.
That's what she's saying here, that her staunches allies.
She says that, although nobody else agrees necessarily, although the news media is playing it this way, The Turks are going, they're not going in there to shut down Syria or seal the place or grab all those prisoners that were up in the, which reminds me, there's one clip.
You have to look it up.
Holly Williams goes and visits this Syrian prison where all these ISIS guys are.
And it's, oh, I have it on here.
We'll play it later.
Anyway, so this is Clinton going on about this.
Is that the end of that clip?
Yeah.
Now, the second part is the part everybody got all, whoa, Dvorak, you may be right.
This is the good one, though.
As all this is going on, President Trump continues to come after you in his speeches, in his tweets.
You've been tough on him as well.
I think you called him recently a corrupt human tornado.
Well, he's come back at you several times.
In fact, he tweeted just this morning, and I'm going to quote.
He said, I think that...
Crooked Hillary Clinton should try to enter the race to try and steal it away from uber-left Elizabeth Warren.
Only one condition, the crooked one, must explain all of her high crimes and misdemeanors, including how and why.
She deleted 33,000 emails.
Yeah, you know, it truly is remarkable how obsessed he remains with me.
But this latest tweet is so typical of him.
Nothing has been more examined and looked at than my emails.
We all know that.
So he's either lying or delusional or both.
There was no subpoena, as he says in a tweet this morning.
So maybe there does need to be a rematch.
I mean, obviously, I can beat him again.
Beautiful.
It was that that just made me tingle.
Obviously, I could beat him again at a rematch.
She did reply to that tweet from Trump.
Oh, I don't have it.
You have that?
Yes.
Well, it's not a clip.
You can read for the tweet.
She replied, replied.
So again, I think Hillary Clinton should enter the race.
And she replied, don't tempt me.
Do your job.
Oh, yeah.
I just see that.
Yes.
Don't tempt me.
Now, this is being played as a joke and that she's just trolling Trump.
This is what I'm hearing from...
You can say that people can think that.
I think it's a possibility.
It does exist as a possibility.
But let's go over a couple of things here that still crack me up.
Over the years, there's only been a few things that just make you shakier, besides some of the global warming, rising sea levels is one of them.
But the one that gets me is the fact that the left...
Continues to propagate the Trump memes.
Unknowingly.
Because why would you read a tweet that keeps calling her Crooked Hillary?
And then use Crooked Hillary.
They can excerpt out of that.
She doesn't have to say Crooked Hillary.
She can start the thing by doing an excerpt from the tweet.
And saying Hillary blah blah blah blah blah.
But she shouldn't say Crooked Hillary.
But she does.
They'll say Crooked Hillary.
Yeah.
Anyway, it amuses me to no end.
That's pretty much the only Hillary stuff I have.
Yeah, except for the incessant discussion of it by everybody.
They're like, oh, she's running, she's going to come back.
Well, again, she's going to wait for the...
The theory is that the way the map was designed is it's going to be in October, which is this month, but it has to be after the next series of debates.
She has to see...
I mean, Biden's failing because of what Trump has done to him.
And Warren is just hopeless.
And Kamala is being taken out by even the elites.
I have not heard anything from her recently.
Well, you're not going to hear much.
And so we have a...
Last Tuesday's FBI, Dick Wolf.
So we have a story about, and I've got three clips for this, a story about a DA running for president.
This is a fictional FBI. Which TV show is this?
FBI. Okay, so not everybody watches this drivel.
Nobody watches.
That's not true.
They've got ratings.
People are watching.
They've got ratings.
And there's always a lot of political stuff in there, but Dick Wolf is kind of...
He's not really a knee-jerk liberal in Hollywood, so he plays a pretty neutral game.
But in this case, they have this district attorney who is clearly, even though she's a white, kind of a redhead white girl, she's clearly modeled after Kamala Harris.
Running for president and the leading candidate, which is always a possibility for Kamala, but she's not anymore.
But this, you know, these are produced in advance of the, written and produced way in advance of current events.
Probably a month.
Maybe longer.
And so, the one FBI girl officer, call her that, female, who always looks like she's about to break into tears all the time, which is extremely annoying to watch.
And she's a big fan of this woman.
And so here, we're going to play the two of them.
There was a bomb attack that blew up a car that the woman was supposed to be in, and she lived through it, and everything's fine, but now the story begins.
So we've got FBI setup story, Caldwell won.
It should be said, although I'm sure everyone is aware Caldwell's not just a congresswoman anymore, but according to the most recent polls, she is the frontrunner to become the next president of the United States.
White House press secretary is on the line.
She wants an update.
POTUS wants to put out a statement ASAP. Got it.
Okay.
Caldwell came up a prosecutor in the Brooklyn DA's office.
She is currently in her third term as representative of the 4th District.
So was this attack about her past, her home life, or was it indeed about her politics?
Who are Caldwell's enemies?
Extreme right, political groups, militia organizations.
Well, check them out, then let's look at the online chatter.
Holy shit, this is the worst acting I've ever heard in my life.
When you don't see the video, who talks like this?
I've got to go back to the beginning of this guy.
This is horrible.
Hold on a second.
Stop.
First of all, you've heard at least as bad, because every time we used to do these clips a lot about four or five years ago from these shows, and that's when we first know you mainly.
First notice that the acting, when just listened to the audio, is so bad.
But this is not the worst, it's just bad.
Let me tell you, this is how we do orders at the FBI. A prosecutor in the Brooklyn DA's office.
She is currently in her third term as representative of the 4th District.
So was this attack about her past, her home life, or was it indeed about her politics?
Who are Caldwell's enemies?
Extreme right, political groups, militia organizations.
Well, check them out.
Then let's look into online chatter, see if anyone's boasting about this.
Hey, man, check it out.
I can't get over it.
Let's check it out.
Online forums, any chatter, anyone.
KKK, Nazi, Kadoons, if they're talking about it on noagendasocial.com.
Let's dig into Caldwell's social media accounts or texts or emails.
Yeah, right.
Identify the...
Yeah, because that's real easy.
We can just spy on Americans.
No problem.
We can get into your emails without a warrant.
That's not a problem.
This is what he's saying.
Social media accounts or texts or emails to identify the digital haters and harassers.
Expect a long and vociferous list.
She is not just a politician.
She is a progressive female lefty from New York.
To be clear, if this was about her political ambitions, then this was an attack on the United States.
And on our democracy itself, damn it.
Wow!
This is the worst.
How do you sit through these shows?
I have respect for that.
THC spray helps.
So now the woman agent...
I have to try that.
This show is pretty good.
Wow!
So the woman...
This agent is now walking with her partner who's a Palestinian or an Arab.
I can't remember.
Of course.
Of course.
We need more.
Is there a gay guy in there?
Do we need some gay guys in this scene?
I think half the staff is gay in this show.
But anyway, this guy, they're walking along and here she is.
She's very upset.
And they're going back and forth to show us that the female FBI woman is all in on this candidate, which is a double, kind of a double message here.
It's like the Lisa...
Paige thing, it seems to me.
But let's listen to this dialogue.
This is the femme agent.
You okay?
Yeah, fine.
It's about Caldwell, isn't it?
I saw her campaign button on your desk last week.
I'm a fan.
Big fan.
I just can't believe somebody tried to kill her.
Well, actually, I can, sadly.
Which is why I'm pissed.
You know, just when this country is about to move forward and make progress, something like this happens.
People are scared of forward and progressive ideas, especially when they're coming out of the mouth of an intelligent, charismatic woman with a legitimate chance of becoming president.
You sound like a Caldwell fan, too.
No, not really.
I'm not into politics or politicians.
You know, they just say stuff people want to hear.
Yeah, but Valerie is different.
She genuinely wants this country to be better for everyone.
We'll see.
I'm telling you a way.
Valerie Caldwell is different.
If you say so.
This country.
Don't say our country.
Say this country.
Oh, good catch.
Good catch.
Good catch.
It annoys me.
Yeah, that would be the way the dialogue was written.
Because, you know, they're the lefty.
So they do make the woman prove that she's a douchebag over time and she was arresting a lot of innocent black kids and hiding evidence and It turned the female agent against her at the end, and it resolved well enough, even though it still looked like she was going to be the next president.
But there was a moment where they thought that this black girl who was running an online forum, threatening her and doing all sorts of...
Who runs a forum anymore?
That's so outdated.
She was online pestering the woman and doing all those things, and nobody thought much of that after they found out she had nothing to do with the bombing.
What I'm saying is, I'm just saying, in no dialogue in 2019 should anyone be running a forum.
You know, you're on Reddit.
I don't know if that term was used.
Oh, okay.
All right.
All right.
But it was funny, though.
The black girl, they bring her into interrogation, and she reads the riot act to these two agents, two FBI agents, and they use them.
I thought it was pretty gutsy the way Wolf had him do this, the attack by her on the white woman in particular.
I just thought it was a funny back and forth, even though, again, you're going to find the acting to be mediocre.
Although I'd say the black female actress is probably one of the She was very convincing in this particular little scene.
I was at the garage, but I wasn't looking to kill her.
I just wanted to get her on video.
Ambush her.
Get her to say something stupid so I could post it on my YouTube channel.
So you took a job handing out two new rules just to confront Caldwell?
Sure did.
Why?
What were you going to confront her about?
My brother, Wayne Simmons.
She had him locked up for 10 years for a crime he didn't commit.
She was the prosecutor in Wayne's trial.
Made up all kinds of stories and theories just to get a conviction.
Now that she's running for president, I gotta let the world know how evil that woman really is.
Evil?
Senator Caldwell.
Damn right.
Sasha, I know it hurts to see your brother convicted of a violent crime, but it's up to the jury to convict.
That's 12 unbiased people who believe that Wayne was guilty.
You were campaign manager or something?
Okay, I'm just reminding you that Caldwell was just the prosecutor.
All she did was present the evidence.
It was the decision of the jury to convict Wayne.
Yeah, based on Caldwell's lies.
That bitch made her own career maxing out innocent black men.
But now that she's running for president, she's suddenly all woke and compassionate, trying to act like she Martin Luther King Jr.
or something.
And all you suck-ass white people lap it up and worship the ground she walks on.
Damn!
Wow!
I am going to give you a clip of the day for that.
That is fantastic.
Clip of the day.
Oh man!
Assassination by FBI. By fake FBI. That's really good.
Yeah, and somehow we're to blame again.
Suck-ass white people done it.
Damn, Gina!
Holy moly, that was interesting.
Okay, yeah, Kamala's been effectively shut down.
Now, Bernie, isn't it interesting?
And this was an observation made by a sales dude named Ben.
During the previous two debates, twice, Bernie goes after the inevitable advertising of Big Pharma on the debates and excoriates them for that.
And boom!
Heart attack.
I'm just saying.
And now there's the death of his son-in-law, whoever it is.
Oh, I don't know.
Oh, they're killing everybody now.
Yeah, they're taking him out.
Bernie, you're going to keep this up.
This is what's going to happen.
Geez.
Let's see.
Oh, daughter-in-law dead just 46 days after cancer diagnosis.
Oh, my goodness.
So, hmm.
I don't know how to parse that one.
Well, she got a cancer diagnosis and then dropped dead the next day.
I mean, this was...
Crazy.
I don't know.
I mean, it just seems pretty coincidental.
Yeah.
Especially after the heart attack.
First it was just a stent.
And then it said, that wasn't good enough.
Let's make it a heart attack.
Turn up the dial!
Turn up the dial on that old geezer!
Damn.
And by the way, I'm not laughing about the actual heart attack because that's not funny.
No, and Bernie's still Even after the heart attack will have more energy than Biden.
Yeah, but this is not what you're supposed to do.
I'm cutting back my appearances from four a day to two today.
Dude, go home.
It's over.
People won't elect him because they're worried about him.
Tulsi Gabbard has her own strategy for the upcoming debate.
I want to thank all of you so much for your support.
I need to share something with you that's very important.
There are so many of you who I've had the opportunity to meet in Iowa, New Hampshire, who've expressed to me how frustrated you are that the DNC and the corporate media are essentially trying to usurp your role as voters in choosing who our Democratic nominee will be.
I share your concerns, and I'm sure that all of our supporters throughout the country do as well.
The 2016 Democratic primary election was rigged by the DNC and their partners in the corporate media against Bernie Sanders.
In this 2020 election, the DNC and the corporate media are rigging the election again, but this time it's against the American people in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
They're attempting to replace the roles of voters in the early states using polling and other arbitrary methods, which are not transparent or democratic, and they're holding so-called debates, which really are not debates at all, but rather commercialized reality television meant to entertain rather than to inform or but rather commercialized reality television meant to entertain rather than to So in short, the DNC and the corporate media are trying to hijack the entire election process.
So in order to bring attention to the serious threat to our democracy and to ensure that your voice is heard, I'm seriously considering boycotting the next debate on October 15th.
I'm going to announce my decision within the next few days, but I just want to say with my deepest and warmest aloha, thank you all again for your support.
So she's threatening to not appear at the debate as part of the strategy?
Well, this next debate is funny because they've kept kind of the same rules, but they ended up, instead of having 10 people debating, they're going to have 12.
How is that going to improve things?
You'd think they'd be cutting down, cutting down, cutting down, but no, they're putting more people on stage, which obfuscates the whole thing.
Well, that's because the billionaire, he bought a pole, I guess.
Yeah, Steyer.
Yeah, someone else.
Steyer, who's a fool, but...
Okay.
Well, he's a coal guy.
I mean, no one takes him seriously in the Democrat Party.
They don't like him.
You can't be a Democrat and have made billions in coal.
Well, he also has the world's smallest mouth.
Have you ever noticed this?
No, but I will...
Is it like a little pucker mouth?
Yeah.
Yeah, a little bit.
Meanwhile, of course, they have their own Bernie in Canada, and we're headed to the Canadian...
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Too far, too fast.
We got a lot more to talk about.
You're riding roughshod on me, Dvorak.
What more do we have?
Um...
Yeah, never mind.
I guess it's not that important.
Oh, come on.
You had something.
Well, now you've already taken my head to Scandinavia.
Let's go to Scandinavia.
All I had was Elizabeth Warren being an idiot.
Oh, no.
I heard part of that clip in the pre-show.
Play that clip, and then we'll go to Canada.
She was at the MSNBC Gun Safety Forum, and this is the reason why she will never be president.
The first question that I asked you about limiting guns.
So one of the things that helps accomplish, at least as best we can understand the data, is that it keeps people from...
Bulking up in the middle of a crisis.
And serves as a flag.
Look at some of these folks who've gone out and bought a whole lot of guns at once.
I'd kind of like to know about that.
And say there's actually going to be a federal limit on this.
Is it going to solve the problem all by itself?
No.
Does it survive constitutional scrutiny?
Yeah.
Can you limit a...
Yeah!
There you go.
No question.
No question.
It survives constitutional review.
Hey, you're bulking up with your guns.
What's wrong with you?
We should know that.
Put you on a list.
I want to know who these people are.
I know one of them.
Yeah, it bulked up.
There was a ban.
A lot of people bulked up when they said they're going to ban the AR-15.
Um...
Yeah, they bulked up on them.
Of course.
They bought a bunch of them because it's like a great, it's one of the best rifles ever.
It's a collector's item.
It's one of the great products ever.
Yes.
Okay, so Canada has its election.
Mm-hmm.
Coming up on the 21st of October.
Yes.
And they have a 45-day, not a two-year like we do.
They have a 45-day campaign window where they're campaigning and they have these debates.
Is that a legal window that you're not allowed to campaign?
No, I think it's just a gentleman's agreement.
I don't think it's anything legal about it.
Well, no wonder their media is not making any money over there.
They're not abusing the situation.
Are they nuts?
I mean, thank God for this idiotic system.
It gives us all kinds of stuff to talk about.
Well, not as you mentioned.
Yeah.
The media is not up to par.
Mostly, if you think about it, or you read the Canadian media, and I do, the Globe and Mail, mainly, but also the West Coast, Vancouver Sun, and Vancouver, I think it was the province, is the other one.
But anyway, they're just parroting whatever, and the National.
They parrot the New York Times.
And they're all super Trump haters.
It's like, you guys don't even know what you're talking about.
And I'm reminded of the European media is the same way.
Whatever the New York Times says goes.
It's unbelievable.
So they had these debates the other night.
And the Bernie I'm talking about is this guy Bernier.
Oh, yes.
Maxime Bernier.
He's the...
Who was out there supporting him?
Michelle Malkin, I think, was...
Oh, that would make sense.
Well, if you listen to his opening, so they have the openings.
I got some openings here that are interesting, but Bernier is kind of the best, and they go from Bernier, then they go to this guy who's just the opposite, this guy Singh.
Oh, he's the guy with the turban?
I believe he's either Pakistani or...
He's a Sikh, so he could be Indian.
But whatever he is, he's a Canadian now, and he sounds...
He's like a socialist.
And Bernier is like a no agenda guy.
In other words, no chance.
It's between Scheer and Trudeau is the two guys.
But let's listen to Bernier's opening and it's followed by Singh.
Mr.
Bernier, your opportunity to respond.
Thank you.
We are the People's Party and we put Canada first.
The other leaders on this stage are globalists.
They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council and also they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa.
The UN is a dysfunctional organization and we must be able to fight for our country.
Actually, we are the only party that will have foreign policies that are based on our security and prosperity for our country.
Mr.
Bernier, thank you.
The next opportunity for Mr.
Singh to respond.
Thank you very much, Lisa.
Thank you very much, Reagan, for your question.
I know it's tough to ask questions in front of a big crowd, so thanks for doing that.
And thanks to Canada for joining and taking part in this discussion.
To me, leadership is about who you're fighting for, the choices you make, and whether you're doing what's right for people.
And whether it comes to international affairs, standing up to Trump, making sure we fight to build better trade agreements that actually put Canadians first.
For me, the question really comes down to, do you have the courage to stand up to the powerful and wealthy interests, the corporations that are having too much influence over Canada?
And I've seen so far in Ottawa, whether it's liberal or conservative governments, they haven't had the courage to stand up and fight for people.
We're different.
I don't work for the rich and powerful.
I work for people.
Oh, okay.
I'm all in.
Vote for him.
He's going to go after Trump.
I mean, I don't know what that has to do with Scandinavia.
It's Trump's fault.
Somehow he gets Trump into the Canadian involved in Canada.
Well, I think he's drawing the obvious comparison between Bernier and Trump, who's talking about globalists.
So I'm sure there's part of that.
Yeah, well, he's not really running against Bernier.
He's running against Trudeau.
Trudeau.
They're all running against Trudeau.
But he was on the stage with them, yeah.
So let's go with the...
They have more of an open debate here, and here's where Bernier and Singh actually yell at each other, because they actually get to do this a little bit with this Canadian style of debate.
Oh, good.
So let's hear this.
Mr.
Bernier, your opportunity to respond.
Thank you.
We are the People's Party.
Wait, that's the wrong one.
I'm sorry.
This is Bernier versus Singh.
I got it.
The question, you must tell the truth to Canadians if you want to be the leader of this country.
And what I'm saying about extreme multiculturalism, it is not the way to build this country.
Yes, this country is a diverse country and we must be proud of that.
But we don't need a legislation like the Multiculturalism Act to tell us who we are.
We are a diverse country and we are proud of that.
What I'm saying, because it's in line with the immigration, I'm saying that we must have fewer immigrants in this country to be sure for these people to participate in our society.
So it is a great country, but it's time to have a discussion about the immigration.
We don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe where they have a huge difficulty to integrate their immigrants.
And I'm a proud Canadian and that's why I love this country and I'm the only leader on this stage who wants to have a discussion about the level of immigration.
So we're definitely going to have a lively debate tonight because now it is Mr.
Singh's opportunity to debate Mr.
Bernier on that very...
She sounds so excited.
Oh my God, now we're going to have something, have some fireworks because the immigrant guy is going to go, he's going to rip your head off.
Question, the temperament required for a good leader.
I mean, Mr.
Bernie, after hearing what was just said, you could have just said, hey man, I messed up.
Because those are pretty horrible tweets that you made.
And really, for me, I mean, it should come as no surprise to you, I believe a leader is not someone who tries to divide people or to pit people against each other.
A true leader is someone who tries to find bridges, bringing people together.
That's what a leader does.
And a leader works for the people who need help.
Not helping those at the very top, which we've seen with governments in Ottawa for far too long.
They've been working to make life easier for the multibillionaires.
They get massive corporate tax cuts.
Billions of dollars go towards them.
We see offshore tax havens continue.
This is not the way to build a country.
The way to build a future is to help out the people that need help.
It means you've got to stand up for the folks that need help.
It means you've got to stand up for the folks that need help.
Everybody.
It's not going to help anybody.
It's not the way to build wealth and growth in this country.
You must believe in people.
You must give back their money in their own pockets.
That's the Canadian version of a fight.
A spat.
As an additional point of information.
Point of information!
Point of personal privilege!
Bernier was talking about the UN, about how the globalists will take your money and they put it into the UN. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, just came out with a warning that they may not make payroll in November.
He says, this month, we will reach the deepest deficit of the decade.
We risk entering November without enough cash to cover payroll.
How does that even work?
They have a $3 billion budget.
Wow, I didn't know this.
Yeah, I just read it.
It just came out today.
I guess some countries are in arrears of their contributions.
Yeah, so let the USA pick up the tab.
Well, that's what happened.
That's what happened.
Trump went, nah, we're not going to pay on time.
We'll just wait a little bit.
We're always picking up the slack for you douchebags.
And now they can't make payroll.
He says, um...
He told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly's Budget Committee that if he had not worked since January to cut spending, then we would not have had the liquidity to support the annual gathering of the world leaders last month, which I guess they blew the budget on.
Anyway, just an additional little piece of data that you might not pick up everywhere.
You won't pick it up anywhere.
Unless you can blame Trump.
All right, so we have, I'm going to play one more.
I should have played the backgrounder first, which was from Al Jazeera.
I thought it was pretty good background, and I think it's all anyone really needs to hear.
But I do want to play specifically Shears Open, because it's in the backgrounder part of it, but if you hear it in context, it's actually pretty good.
By the way, everybody had 45 seconds to give this opening.
With a clock on screen.
Very nice.
And the clock was on the screen.
Actually, Trudeau was the best at it.
I don't know.
His is just boring.
But he nails it.
Zero last word.
Boom.
And everybody was within time.
And nobody went overboard with their time.
And it was actually...
Refreshing that everyone stayed within there.
They didn't yammer on and on and on.
So here's Scheer with his opening statement.
Scheer, your opportunity to respond.
Well, thank you very much.
And of course, I will always stand up for Canada and Canadians' interests and promote free trade and defend our interests all around the world.
But Justin Trudeau only pretends to stand up for Canada.
You know, he's very good at pretending things.
He can't even remember how many times he put blackface on.
Because the fact of the matter is he's always wearing a mask.
He puts on a reconciliation mask and then fires the Attorney General, the first one of Indigenous background.
He puts on a feminist mask and then fires two strong female MPs for not going along with his corruption.
He puts on a middle class mask and then raises taxes on middle class Canadians.
Mr.
Trudeau, you are a phony and you are a fraud and you do not deserve to govern this country.
Boom!
He was actually under by one second.
Yeah, that was the clip I had too.
Yeah, he did it under 40.
It was 42 seconds.
Yeah, 42.
So let's listen to the overall, and this will be the last of it.
This is the backgrounder which summarizes the whole debates and what's going on and who may win and how the liberals are going to end up.
And this, I could only find a good example.
This is a little longer than I liked, but it was pretty concise and it was on Al Jazeera.
In a battle for his political life, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau absorbed withering attacks from both sides.
Justin Trudeau only pretends to stand up for Canada.
You know, he's very good at pretending things.
He can't even remember how many times he put blackface on.
In the only English language debate in Canada's brief 40-day campaign, again and again Trudeau took fire, first from the right.
Mr.
Trudeau, you are a phony and you are a fraud and you do not deserve to govern this country.
And then from the left...
The problem is that you said a lot of these things in 2015.
So what's it going to take now for Canadians to believe that you're actually going to follow through on your promises?
What's it going to take for you to follow through on these commitments?
Because your words are not good enough anymore.
It's not good enough to have better rhetoric than Mr.
Scheer.
You bought a pipeline.
You can't be a climate leader and spend 10 to 13 billion dollars more on a project that by itself blows through our carbon budget.
Trudeau going with the jab first.
It was reminiscent of Trudeau's charismatic debut on the political scene in a celebrity boxing match.
As in that fight, he struck back, first to the People's Party candidate who was accused of tweeting bigotry.
Your role on this stage tonight seems to be to say publicly what Mr.
Scheer thinks privately.
And then directly to his closest rival, Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer, who arrived to mocking chants of USA. That is a reference to his recently revealed dual Canadian and U.S. citizenship.
And your plan is to rip up the only serious plan to fight climate change that Canada has ever had.
Canadians know how important this is.
Scheer has vowed to eliminate Trudeau's carbon tax, which he calls too expensive.
Polls give only Trudeau and Scheer a realistic chance of winning a mandate in the October 21st election, but the other candidates could become kingmakers.
Analysts expect the Liberal Party to lose seats, possibly even its majority, and that would leave each side scrambling to form a coalition with enough votes to control parliament and the prime ministership.
In the end, political analysts say, the campaign is a referendum on Trudeau's tenure.
The question is, do we want to continue for the four next years with Trudeau, or is it that bad that we want to change and go back to the previous government?
No, I did not.
Gentlemen, one at a time, one at a time.
With a contentious field vying for position just two weeks from Election Day, none of the contenders seem to want to leave a crossword unspoken.
John Hendren, Al Jazeera, Gatineau, Quebec.
I'm kind of sad that this is the only English language debate, and after that it's all downhill.
I mean, I can understand conversational French, but the clips won't really work on the show.
No, not to say the least.
So a lot of climate change stuff there, which is big because of the carbon credit tax.
Yeah, they have a carbon tax that's in play, and everyone's irked about it because it's too much, and they have all the systems to give it back to you somehow.
And it's just part of the giant carbon tax scam, and it doesn't do anything about climate change.
And then Trudeau got embarrassed by the Green Party woman who was condemning him for...
They had a pipeline that pretty much needed to be finished and repaired and finished.
And I guess it costs $16 billion, but it's part of the whole, I mean, the whole economy of Canada is relying on oil.
And so you can kind of fake it, you know, that, well, yeah, I'm all for climate change and I hate oil, but you can't really do anything about it unless you want to put everyone in the poorhouse.
And so she's calling him out on that, which I think was unfair.
And it's just, it's a mess.
I don't think, like they said, I don't think either party is going to get a majority and they're going to have to do some sort of a deal.
And Bernier may actually be the guy that has something to do with...
Bernier is the only guy that makes logical sense, but they call him a bigot because he's against open borders.
If you're against open borders, you're a bigot.
So what are they going to...
I mean, when they do climate protests...
Is it all in French now?
I mean, I thought English was still pretty predominant, but I didn't realize that most of the debates are going to be in French.
No, most of the...
No.
I think they have like two debates.
The number of debates is minor.
This was the first debate that actually had all the candidates, and I think it's the last.
They only got 40 days.
Hey, hey!
Ho, ho!
Le changement climat doit aller!
See, it doesn't work.
You just can't do good chants in French.
The Dutch are doing climate chants in English.
They've got a new one.
English chants are good.
mostly targeting Trump because he's the only one.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The Dutch rebellion extinction chapter of the Netherlands is out protesting.
Everyone's protesting in Holland now.
Everybody.
The farmers, the extinction, of course, the farmers known as the...
Why?
What's the point of protesting if you're going to be extinct?
It makes no sense.
But it's all English.
You cannot get more Dutch than Dutch farmers.
The Dutch people in the big cities can't even understand what they're saying when they speak.
The dialect is so foreign.
But yet, the Dutch on the tractors call themselves the Farmer Defense Force in English.
It's very interesting.
That's because it potentially is the only way you're going to get covered by the New York Times, which means it's the only way the Dutch press will pick it up.
So here's the chant from the Dutch chapter of Rebellion Extinction.
They're repeated three times, and if you can't hear it, I'll help you along.
There's no planet B.
So raise your voice and be.
We are surprising and so are we.
We are surprising and so are we.
There's no planet B.
So they're singing, there's no planet B.
So raise your voice with me.
So raise your voice with me.
Amen.
The oceans are rising and so are we.
The oceans are rising and so are we.
Okay.
Who wrote this jingle?
Was it Joan Byers?
Biggest fail ever!
I mean, the tune is a minor.
You don't want that.
You want to rile people up.
You don't go, talking down to me.
It's depressing.
It's no good is what it is.
It's just no good.
I was flabbergasted that they did that.
It's like a dirge.
A dirge?
Yeah, a dirge.
A song you sing at a funeral.
Well, they are the Extinction Rebellion, so they are kind of presiding over their own funeral.
But I'm surprised that you didn't mention what San Francisco Airport, SFO, what they're doing, what they're planning, with your money up there.
I didn't know what they're planning.
What is it?
You know something I don't know.
Yes.
Because of climate change, SFO plans to surround the airport with a 10-mile wall to protect against the rising bay waters.
What rising bay waters?
I knew that would get you.
Let me see where this comes from.
Who wrote this thing?
East Bay Times.
There you go.
Don't you subscribe to East Bay Times?
East Bay Times.
$587 million plan aimed at reducing flood risk as climate warms.
This is such a scam.
We have a lot of contracting scams in California.
That's one of the main ways that money is distributed corruptly.
They build things you don't need to be built.
There's a lousy job of pavement.
They don't do a good job of their pavements.
There's potholes everywhere.
There's a lot of money flying around.
That just sounds like a piece of it.
That area in particular.
There was one of the more corrupt things.
In fact, the whole...
A large part of the air pollution district, when I was an air pollution inspector, this is the tale.
This is one of those tales that you tell you as you knew me.
We could give people tickets and they could be held accountable.
It would be a misdemeanor.
You could go to the courts.
There's all kinds of legal problems you'd have if you got fined or cited that didn't exist before an event took place after the construction of By the mob of Candlestick Park.
Oh, yes.
Candlestick Park was put in this windiest area in the entire Bay Area.
So it made nothing but fun.
Great idea to put this park there in this windswept little zone for football and baseball.
But it was built there because it was cheap and they profited from it.
But it was all cement.
And so they had all these cement...
These forms, these, you know, this is the structure, the wooden structure that held the cement to hold the thing up.
It was like, I don't know, it was like a couple forests full of wood.
And they couldn't get anyone to take the scraps that they had to pay.
Eh, we're not going to pay.
So they torched it off.
Oh.
They torched off the whole thing and just made this huge bonfire, which was an illegal burn in the Bay Area.
And it was this monster fire and they burned this thing.
But the air pollution district really didn't have any teeth.
But because of that fire, they went to the state and they got these new laws.
Oh, perfect.
So thank you for that.
But it was a classic example of the way things operate around here.
Let's just burn it.
This just in, apparently, there are rumors of an explosive sex scandal percolating the highest echelons of Scandinavia's media establishment surrounding current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
And Trudeau's accuser is said to be a former student at West Point Grey Academy and the daughter of a wealthy Canadian businessman.
And so the headline, and this is the Buffalo Chronicle, he's rumored to be in talks with his accuser to suppress this explosive sex scandal.
They've learned some things from us.
Yeah.
At least they're doing that.
That's pretty good.
Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the Scandinavian elections, John C. Dvorak!
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also, in the morning, all the ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air.
Subs in the water!
And all the dames and knights out there.
And I'll add all the nams, the no agenda hams, who are out there.
And organizing.
The nams.
It's the nams.
Just nams.
Just keep it at nams.
Also in the morning to the trolls.
We got NAMS.
We got trolls.
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people still like to sit in there and comment on them.
I got a comment last night on the PrepNet that Jen Briney, I think the quote was, good to see Jen Briney's got her sanity back.
I haven't listened recently.
Have you?
No, I backed up.
Right.
Well, so apparently something good happened there.
But she's also on the stream.
We've got tons of good stuff.
And we always like to thank the artists who create the artwork, our album artwork, which changes with every episode unless you have installed the new iOS 13 software from Apple.
That has, and it's confirmed, I've confirmed with Apple, that has broken the per-episode album artwork.
I'm not sure how it got broken or why, But it is.
It doesn't make sense.
And, you know, with Apple, they typically, they don't do rolling updates and releases, really.
You know, they just kind of like, we'll fix it in the next release, you know, 13.3 or whatever.
And I think it's a big mistake, particularly when it comes to podcasting, because the alternatives to their app are quite plentiful and good.
I've never really understood that.
I find that to be a critical error, and it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to fix.
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There wasn't a lot to choose from.
Yeah, I'm going back and taking a look.
There was a lot of Nothing Burger fun.
I saw that you used...
You did like the one Nothing Burger I thought was clever.
The one where you had two buns and there's nothing in there.
Yeah, it was also a comic strip blogger, actually.
It was quite the Nothing Burger.
I'd like the No Agenda hams, but not his album artwork, but you used that in the newsletter.
That was good.
Yes.
I thought it was a pretty piece, and it had the 333 all over and all that stuff.
Yeah, I used it as a newsletter art.
Well, congratulations and a word of thanks going out to Comic Ship Blogger for doing the artwork for us.
And you put the nice no agenda at 33 on the side of the ship, as one does, and that puts him back in the running.
So you can participate.
He actually got the newsletter art a couple of shows.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's hitting it out of the park.
I thought that he was boycotting us.
Yeah, I've known him for 14 years, I think?
15 years?
This is the cycle we go through.
Well, we're happy we're on the upswing with Comic Strip Blogger, noagendaartgenerator.com.
It is part of our Value for Value Network, where artists freely provide that, and we use it for the album art.
But also, it's often used by the guys at noagendashop.com, and they'll make t-shirts, mugs, hats, and they give a piece to the artist, keep a piece for themselves, and a piece to the show.
It works wonderfully well.
And thank you, comics, your blogger, and all of our artists.
Go check out their work at noagendaartgenerator.com.
And then we have our producers.
We'd like to thank the executive producers and associate executive producers, just like Hollywood, up front in the show.
Who do we have?
Well, we don't have the art shop, but we do have Anonymous, for starters.
Okay.
$333.34, so we don't have any big donations this week.
333.34.
And he's got some jingle requests there.
China is a asshole.
That's true and no karma.
Not sure if I need to get back what I have been putting in recently.
Recently, I just began a three-year meteorology program and finished a chapter on climate and climate change.
This was loaded with the highly likely, virtually certain, medium confidence, et cetera, language, basically stating everything as fact but still leaving a sliver of it out.
So that they are covered when the climate does what it does and blows their projections up in due time.
And people don't realize that.
Although we read it verbatim every time there's a new IPCC report, they never say this is going to happen.
They say we have high confidence, medium confidence, high likelihood, virtually certain.
They're too chicken shit.
That's not scientific, people.
Yeah, thank you.
That's not an actual scientific thing.
Conclusion.
That is a consensus which is different.
Yeah, this is like what you'd have.
You might as well just go to the betting place in New England.
It's kind of how we choose the album art.
We argue a little bit and say, well, I have high confidence that this will make people laugh and you'll say something else.
Then we come to a very likely scenario and that's the one.
He continues, I knew I was in trouble when the very first line of the beginning of the chapter of the textbook read, quote, have you ever wondered how we know that human activity is changing global climate?
Luckily, I am old and have developed independent thought.
But I do not know how a 20-year-old student can make it out of the program like this without a skewed view.
By the way, every other chapter so far incorporating global warming and climate change associates with just about everything.
It even includes a convenient script as to why climate change is a better term to use than global warming.
Please accept this donation at 33334 secondarily to support the best podcasts in the universe, but primarily to detox my brain for what I just poured into it.
The extra penny is to kick into the give a penny, take a penny dish that seems to be taken more than is given to.
With this donation, along with this 686 donation to make your public benefit podcast designation official.
Yes, we used to call ourselves the Public Benefit Podcast, and we keep forgetting to call it.
I don't even remember that.
I do.
I will join the ranks at the roundtable.
By the way, my 686 was obviously too cryptic.
It is PBP, Public Benefit Podcast, upside down.
I can't believe we missed that, Dvorak!
What's wrong with us?
I will stick to the old, reliable, and universally appreciated boobs.
I would like to receive my old CB handle, Jellyhead, and become Sir Jellyhead.
I would also like to humbly request mushrooms and antifungal cream at the round table.
Thank you.
And, of course, he's anonymous for obvious reasons.
This is the problem we have in this world today.
A three-year course.
A three-year meteorology.
I can't say it.
Come on, try again.
Meteorologist.
Well, that's not what it says.
It's meteorology is what it says.
Okay, meteorology.
See, I couldn't say it.
Thanks.
You got me there.
You know, I've taken a new tack when people say, you don't believe in climate change?
I say, oh no, I totally believe in climate change.
I can't believe that we're not going after China.
And just leave it at that and walk away.
Well, this is good because this is one of your fortes.
And that is a compliment.
I took it as such.
Well, good.
I'm not sure you knew what it meant.
A forte?
And this stems back to your classic, which was, do you believe in peak oil?
Yeah.
Well, then what are we worried about?
Yeah.
Which was actually the best.
And I think that must have clicked or something because they just eliminated the whole idea of peak oil.
I personally got rid of peak oil.
Have we ever heard peak oil for the last decade?
Yeah, so do you believe in climate change?
I don't deny climate change because you don't have to say human cause.
I totally believe in climate change.
I'm outraged we're not going after China.
That's crazy.
And then just let him stew on that.
He didn't want any karma, so we'll do this.
Honey's asshole!
That's true.
Good for me.
Thank you very much, anonymous sir.
Jellyhead on deck on the table.
Later on in the round table, with mushrooms and antifungal cream.
A breakfast of champions.
Mushrooms are a fungal.
Baron Walkman of Buckeye came in with $333.33.
Again, the top donors always have this kind of genteel way of putting the jingle request at the top.
Yeah, that is kind of nice, isn't it?
Yeah, Yoko Ono.
I don't know what that is.
Jill Abramson.
Stop the hammering.
John and Adam, I need to call out an old friend as a mega douchebag.
Dave, a.k.a.
McLeod.
Douchebag!
I hit him in the mouth and he's still a freeloading douchebag and such.
Thanks to Darren O. taking me off the ledge for being low energy and all.
Please give me a Jobs Karma and Darren O's elegant masterpiece rendition of JCD's Chair Gently Squeaks at the end of the show, please.
Chip in, slaves!
Baron Walkman of Buckeye.
Uh, I haven't heard that in a long time.
Let me just listen.
Let me see for a second.
I remember that.
Yes.
This is good.
I need jobs.
Carp, let me hear the beginning of it.
I love this mix.
I tune in to hear the best media deconstruction.
Just need to get to the chorus.
While the forex chair jelly squeaks.
Oh, you couldn't hear Jill.
Stop the hammering!
Jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Close enough.
Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewel, $333.33.
As tweeted to Adam, I have been slacking on donating and serendipity starting the live stream of show 1179 precisely when John said something.
I can't read.
It's all in unicode.
No, I hit it when John said hit it.
Hit it?
Yeah.
Awoke me from my slumber.
I lost my job, so I need some job car.
Please send...
Send belated birthday wishes to my smoking hot wife, Jasmine, 924, and to our latest family human resource, Ryan, 928, third grandson.
Please play a few old school jingles for the slaves, including, yeah, no Beatles.
I don't know that one.
Human Resource Time to Stand Up?
You know that one?
That one I don't know.
I don't know.
It doesn't sound like a title we've ever...
I know what the Beatles Yeah No is, but I don't know about this.
Human Resource Time to Stand Up?
I don't know.
And Mac and Cheese, we got that, and Anne Rand.
Okay.
I got those.
Thank you for your courage, gentlemen.
Please, slaves, donate.
Please, slaves, donate to the No Agenda Show.
AmenFistBump.com.
Sir Weyer of the Hidden Jewel.
Anyway, I'm going to put this up as this is it.
Yeah, no.
I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
Yeah, no.
The mac and cheese life.
Mac and cheese by Ayn Rand.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
He also mentions, by the way, that's a good jingle.
Or that song.
Yeah, no.
Yeah.
No.
He also says, please follow me on at go big guy.
So, I don't know if that's on the social.
No, no.
I think it's go by guy.
I don't know if that's intentional, but it's G-O-B-I-G-U-Y, so go buy guy.
Go buy guy.
Sir Dirt Farmer, Illinois, comes in at $303.03.
John and Adam, keep up the great work.
Your twice-weekly sanity check keeps many of us going, thanks to all the other producers out there.
To those not contributing, everyone needs to chip in I humbly request the following jingles.
Chemtrails, China is a-hole, Little Girl Yay, and I would appreciate greatly some harvest season karma for the farmers in the audience, as this is a critical time of year.
Also, please include some goat job karma.
Sir Dirt Farmer of Illinois, Chemtrails.
China is a-hole!
Yay!
You've got...
You remember on the last show, someone wanted the Ching Chong?
And we couldn't remember what the Ching Chong was?
Yeah, what was the Ching Chong?
Well, I have it.
Hello, friends!
The show just came from China, the city of Chongqing.
China welcomes you with open arms.
That was it.
Oh.
Yeah.
Well, I don't even remember that.
I think that was New Year's Eve that was owned by the Chinese in Times Square.
Oh, Chongqing.
Chongqing.
Yeah, Chongqing.
Yes, that's what it was.
Yeah.
Never heard of it, but okay.
Onward to Samantha.
Samantha Simonon.
$250 to become associate executive producer for show 1180.
I'd like to give a happy birthday shout out to my smoking hot husband.
I've noticed y'all have quite a few of those around here.
Sir Sapien, Knight of the Infinite Night, for his birthday, he wants nothing more than a donation to the No Agenda show.
Good man.
Good wife.
Good man, good wife.
He's been listening for years and years.
I was a captive audience during a long road trip for a while, but this is a story often told.
I was held hostage and made to listen to this during long road trips.
It turns out that many of our listeners are suffering from the effects of Stockholm Syndrome.
But whatever works.
I was a captive audience during long road trips for a while, but not long ago started listening on my own.
He implied recently that my conduct is borderline douchebaggery and while I refuse to concede this point, Oh, I refuse to concede this point, so I threw in 50 bucks for myself.
Okay, well she needs to de-douche again.
Hold on.
You've been de-douched.
She didn't ask for it, but that's the rules.
She deserves it.
Hubby turned 42, the answer to the ultimate...
She said hubs.
Hubs, not hubby, hubs.
So what is a wife?
A wife's...
Well, let me just finish this and then you...
Hubs to Hubs.
Hubs turn 42.
The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything on October 7th.
Please send him an It's True and a birthday wishes.
He's fantastic.
Thank you for continuing to keep us properly informed, Samantha.
Very nice, Samantha.
And did she ask for a karma?
Because I'm going to add one.
That's true.
You've got karma.
Kevin Matz.
Taking it to the Matz in North Saanich, B.C. $200.33.
Thank you, Adam and John, for all that you do.
No Agenda is definitely one of the top ten podcasts in the universe.
Wait a minute!
It's the best podcast in the universe, not one of the top ten.
What, are you doing a list for The Verge?
Come on!
We're number one!
Foam finger number one!
He'll take jobs, Karma.
Okay, we'll give it.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
He's got Karma.
So that concludes our list of executive and associate executive producers for show 1180.
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Yeah, that's right.
I said it.
Now you know how bad those shows really are when it comes to acting.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
New.
World.
Order.
That's true.
Shut up, slave.
For the B Block, I wanted to share something to set the stage regarding impeachment.
For the United States certainly has lost its collective shit once again.
Left and right fighting about what is breaking the law, what is federal election law, what is the value of data or information versus money.
And this is all a complete waste of time.
And I would like to explain, it's very important that people understand what you really can get impeached for, and you don't have to commit a crime.
In fact, we know that the Constitution specifically speaks of bribery and treason, but there's this little high crimes and misdemeanors thing that people just kind of gloss over.
And we have had impeachments in the past, and let me just tell you what the actual articles of impeachment stated so you understand better what is, I think we can explain it to you better, what is happening and why the media is completely out of its mind.
In 1868, President Andrew Johnson underwent impeachment proceedings after he ordered the firing of his Secretary of War.
That would be the Secretary of Defense now.
His opponents charged that this order violated the Tenure of Office Act, which set the tenure of certain officials.
Just so you know, that's the level of misdemeanor that can be used for impeachment.
In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommended the full House of Representatives approve articles of impeachment against Nixon.
It did not cite any impeachable offense.
Instead, it found a broad pattern of wrongdoing that Nixon had conspired with his advisers to obstruct federal and congressional investigations of the Watergate break-in.
And the reason I bring this up is...
The only real thing you need to impeach a president is the United States public.
The voters, the public need to be on the side of impeachment.
And that is what you're seeing.
That's why the transcript of the Ukraine call doesn't matter one bit.
And of course, everybody you hear talking...
I've been...
Several times people have very angrily sent either emails to me or tweeted...
Bro, can you say this isn't a crime?
This is a crime?
How long will you defend that guy?
To which I usually say, well, here's the transcript, and I link to the PDF. Please point out the crime to me.
And they go away.
They don't even reply, because they realize they can't do it.
But it doesn't matter.
He doesn't have to commit a crime.
It can just be unseemly, non-presidential behavior.
Too much tweeting.
Too much tweeting.
They could actually impeach him for tweeting at all.
They could impeach him for his shitty hair.
Really, we hate your hair, orange face, orange hair.
If you're not red, white, and blue, you're not good enough.
Yes, of course.
And this is why it's a beautiful time to be alive, to witness this process where the media, and this is a media's job.
Politicians can be blowhards all they want, and you can have Schiff making up his version of a story, but that really doesn't get anywhere without the amplification of the media.
And they're really all in.
A number of Fox people are also all in on this.
Not all of them, but you can see that there is just this anti-Trump sentiment and they want to get rid of him.
And even if they never file articles of impeachment, I think that this to some degree has got to be damaging.
But that's really what this is about.
In fact, here's another fine example.
We didn't even have this with the Mueller report.
I'm having trouble speaking today.
Okay.
Here is the latest podcast from NPR! I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.
You cannot find any reason to impeach this president.
It really impacts our national security and Congress has to act.
It's a whole host.
The news is rapid, the political cries are loud, and our democracy is in crisis.
I'm Brian Lehrer, and every day we're bringing you the latest in the impeachment inquiry story.
It's Impeachment, the newest and most urgent podcast from WNYC. Most urgent!
For everything you need to know in impeachment news.
Yeah!
Once, it's the most, what did you say?
It was the most urgent?
I don't know, it's the most impeachment news.
What kind of a specialist podcast is this?
Hold on.
I'm Brian Lehrer, and every day we're bringing you the latest in the impeachment inquiry story.
It's Impeachment, the newest and most urgent podcast.
Newest and most urgent.
I gotta write that down.
The No Agenda Show, the most urgent podcast.
Even more urgent than the impeachment podcast.
Most urgent podcast.
That's a very interesting phrase.
I like that.
It's most urgent.
So, it is kind of fun to look a little bit deeper at what's happening with Ukraine and how they're involved in this.
And I'm starting to see some interesting side stories that I think will crop up.
The first one is Rick Perry's involvement.
And there's now a new narrative, clearly coming from the right, though it hasn't really been spelled out properly.
Apparently, this phone call that Trump made to Zelensky was at the urging of Rick Perry, our current Secretary of Energy.
Do we say Secretary of Energy or the Energy Secretary?
I guess we say Energy Secretary?
Secretary of the Department of Energy.
There you go.
And that he wanted the President to call and just kind of, you know, make nice and check in, how you doing and everything.
And the reason for this, and I did not know, is that we have had a deal in place with Poland and Ukraine.
We are exporting our liquid natural gas.
to Poland and Poland has reversed their systems there because they used to receive it from Ukraine from Russia.
Now Poland has literally turned the pipe around which I think is a little more complicated than it sounds and they're taking the United States, liquid natural gas, which is gas liquefied to ship it over the ocean, and they're selling it or they're delivering it to Ukraine.
So this is very important, and you may have noticed that Trump...
He nominated Poland for the visa waiver program, something we've been on looking at for three years.
It was a promise he would do it in two weeks.
Three years later, nominated doesn't mean that anything has happened.
So he's trying to make nice, and there's a lot of deals going on here, but this was really something that Rick Perry wanted to protect.
And I think this goes back to...
Chenier LNG. And Chenier Energy, they are the ones that put, I think, like $18 billion into the Sabine Pass in Louisiana.
Do you remember any of this?
We did talk about it on the show in light of Pipeline.
So the Sabine Gas Energy Facility used to take import gas from abroad and then ship it off through wherever it had to go in the States.
During the Obama administration, there was a big group of investors, and they all jumped in, and they were trying to figure out what to do with this investment, and they too reversed everything for the export, which now people are benefiting from.
So this story about Ukraine, it has to emerge yet, but I think that you'll find out this is a lot more about gas and who owns the gas companies and who were involved also from the previous administration.
Bobby Jindal is one.
All involved in this.
I don't want to call it a scam, but it's a big sales job.
And it makes a lot of sense that Perry is just kind of a...
Doesn't he look like a douchey shoe sales guy, kind of?
Remember when I met him on the airplane?
Tell that story again.
Yeah, the keeper and I were, where were we coming back from?
It was a Southwest flight, and Rick Perry gets on the plane, and he's walking back, and I say, hey!
At the time, he was our governor.
Or had he just been kicked out of that?
I can't remember.
It was like, hey, how you doing?
He's like, hey, buddy, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, buddy.
And he's like tapping me on the shoulder.
Hey, buddy, hey, how you doing, buddy?
He looks like a hey, buddy guy.
Yeah, thumbs up.
Hey, buddy, good to see you.
Yeah, right, great, great, great, great.
So there is something happening that still needs to unfold, but I think it's going to be very interesting because it has to involve big money.
And then it makes a lot more sense when you see that all of these...
I mean, Ukraine, when we were following this, this was a total takeover by the United States government.
We installed a new government.
We have phone calls explaining exactly how we're going to make it happen.
And hey, this is great.
We're getting Biden over here to midwife the deal.
You know, that was his job, was to midwife it, to put all these douchebags in place, including a very interesting douchebag, the ambassador, The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
And her name is Yuri...
No, I'm sorry.
Marie Yovanovitch.
Yeah, Yovanovich.
Yovanovich.
She's a player in this whole scheme.
She is a player.
She was also mentioned in the transcript.
I also kind of just glossed over it and paraphrasing the president said something to the effect of, oh yeah, she's going for a rough time right now.
And that rough time, I think, is explained in this clip from Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko talking about...
The ambassador from the U.S. to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.
How do you gauge the relationship between Ukraine and specifically our U.S. ambassador, Ms.
Yovanovitch?
Ambassador from any country represents this country in our country.
From this point of view, I give my respect to the Ambassador.
From another hand, it is true that I had some difficult personal relationship with the Miss Ambassador.
Unfortunately, from the first meeting with the U.S. Ambassador here, Ms.
Ambassador gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute.
My response to that It is inadmissible.
Nobody in this country, neither our president, nor our parliament, nor our ambassador, would stop me from prosecuting whether there is a crime.
At that time, we had a case for the embassment of the U.S. government.
Technical assistance worth a whole million U.S. dollars.
And in that regard, we had this dialogue.
At that time, this ambassador thought that our interviews of Ukrainian citizens, of Ukrainian civil servants who were frequent visitors in the U.S. embassy, put a shadow on the anti-corruption policy. put a shadow on the anti-corruption policy.
So there's a reason why you'll never see this on the mainstream, because no one understands what the hell the people are saying.
But what it boils down to is that the U.S. ambassador came with a list and said, hey, here's the people you may not prosecute, and every single one of those people had been visitors to the U.S. embassy.
So there's shenanigans going on.
And now, Zero Hedge reporting, for what it's worth, that Biden, Joe Biden Sr.
himself, was also paid money by Burisma, apparently $900,000.
So there is definitely some shady stuff going on.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I went through some of the clips that we had of them setting up the government.
Here was, I think, this one.
Let's listen to this.
What was this?
The only way we'd end up in a joint strategy is if the Russians agreed to the general premise that we have to have a ceasefire, we have to have a transitional government, and we have to have a decision on getting rid of Assad.
That's what the Secretary's been working on.
In the meantime, we're working on ISIS, and they're working in a different part.
That's not the one I wanted to play.
Well, I'll put some in the show notes.
We have all of these calls and Newland, former, I guess she was the ambassador or assistant ambassador from...
No, she was part of the Secretary of State's office.
Yeah, but she had an ambassador title somehow.
She got an ambassador title out of...
Anyway, yes, she was the senior advisor or the...
I guess I'll look it up.
She was a henchman.
She was a bag man for Clinton.
Yeah.
But they literally went over there and installed a whole new government with shills.
I think at the time also the Secretary of the Treasury was a Ukrainian who came from the States.
We installed that one to take over all the finances.
So it was a total shit show.
No one wants that coming up above board.
And then, you know, and then there's just so much that originated from there.
But none of it really has to do with this transcript.
None of it.
If they're really running scared, and with them, I mean, the previous administration, if they're really worried about it, yeah, then it would make a lot of sense to try and distract and get everyone to focus on Trump being a huge D-bag.
Well, I mean, yeah, that's what, actually, that's what Ray McGovern says.
He says the whole thing, he thinks that the whole thing is a complete distraction.
I do have a crummy clip from him on a radio podcast, radio show podcast.
It's just a worse connection.
But before we play that, I'd like to play the talking points exposed, which is not the best of these things, which is where you show that all these different newscasters are saying the exact same thing over and over and over again, which is...
Which is always good for a laugh, at least on our show.
And I think it should be done more often, but this is kind of a short one.
He should be impeached.
A constitutional clash.
Constitutional clash.
Constitutional clash on Capitol Hill.
This morning a constitutional crisis is brewing.
In a scathing letter.
Democratic leadership in the House.
President Trump announced he will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.
Democrats quickly shot back, warning the president that he will be held accountable.
Ooh, that was two different newscasters at the end there.
That was good.
Four.
All saying the same thing.
Yeah, word for word.
Yeah.
You know, after this is all said and done, a couple years down the line, the news, as they call themselves, will have destroyed themselves.
No one's going to believe them, listen to them, watch them.
No one.
They've completely just ruined themselves.
They're ruining their business.
Well, I don't think news is a business.
I don't think it ever was a business.
They turned it into a business.
And cable.
Cable really turned it into a big business.
And that's when you could, because you had a captive audience, you have control, you're a gatekeeper, you can decide what's going where.
And mind you, MSNBC, well, CNN started, of course, but they've been around for a long time.
These are money makers.
Well, they were money makers.
And look, it's not really a business.
We don't have a business.
You and I don't have a business.
If we wanted to make it out of business, we'd be selling ads and we would have the same drivel they have.
Yeah, we'd have the same drivel.
That's the reason we do it the way we do it.
I want to play Ray McGovern, who claims that this...
There's a distraction going on and this is...
There's an element of this clip I really don't like because it harkens back to that character, your favorite guy, the million sealed indictments guy.
You mean Joe DeGenova?
It has an element of that.
And so this kind of concerns me.
But at the same time, if we can hear this because it's very...
It's kind of a...
A crappy connection, but let's listen to Ray McGovern on the felons that are out there.
One question.
Who is Ray McGovern again?
Okay, well, we've played Ray McGovern a million times.
A million times?
A million times, at least.
Now, Ray McGovern is my Joe DiGenoa.
Ray McGovern is the CIA guy, ex-CIA analyst, who became a kind of a radical...
I think he's been a left-winger.
He's really kind of a lefty that has been on and off.
He was on all these shows for a long time, and he used to be on Democracy Now!
constantly.
And the last clip we played from him was about how he got blackballed from Democracy Now!
Oh, okay.
Yes, I do remember that.
Yeah.
Because he's not following the litany of bull crap that these people are promoting.
And so he's been blackballed, along with Professor Stephen Cohen's been blackballed.
There's a slew of them that have been blackballed.
And the smart ones, if you want to call them smart or just douchey, switch like Napolitano, just switch sides Napolitano.
Now they're anti-Trump.
So they still get work.
So McGovern's on this, and I've been wanting to do an interview with McGovern.
He's getting pretty old.
But Ray McGovern, on this clip, he's discussing...
And when you hear him talk, because he has a funny patter that is...
I don't know, it's just very...
Singular.
Let's play them.
Alright, then promise me you get a drink of water.
Yeah.
I see this as a magnificent diversion.
You remember the old movie or book, Magnificent Obsession?
Well, it worked really well before and not too long ago.
Remember, when Assange and WikiLeaks released the DNC emails showing that Hillary Clinton had cheated Bernie Sanders out of the nomination.
Whoa!
How are they going to handle that?
They picked a magnificent diversion by saying, why do the Russians do this?
The Russians, why do the Russians do this?
The act of war right now?
Wow!
And most American people think The Russians did hack, and there's no substantive evidence or technical evidence to that effect.
So what's going on this time?
Well, most people don't realize that the Inspector General of the Department of Justice has been investigating the people who looked into Trump and who violated all manner of laws, including the very sensitive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act law, We call it FISA. And he's been at it for a year and a half.
When's he going to finish?
I got news for you.
He finished.
He finished four weeks ago.
What did he do?
He gave his report to his boss, Bill Barr, the Attorney General.
What's going on?
Why the delay?
Fast forward here.
And we have Bill Barr and the other prosecutor who's working on this case, namely how this whole investigation of Russia, how this whole thing about Russiagate started.
John Durham and Barr go to Italy.
Why do they go to Italy?
Well, because that's where...
Part of the operation started by this very, very shadowy figure, Bitsuit, and they're getting to the bottom of that, and the Italians are cooperating.
So what's going on here?
They're feeling the heat.
And what we have here, in my view, is a magnificent diversion of attention, including impeachment proceedings or, you know, the like, to divert attention to what Horowitz has come up with and what Durham and Bill Barr, they're keeping their peace, but they've got dynamite because...
Really big guys.
James Comey, head of the FBI. John Brennan, CIA. Comey's deputy.
People in the Justice Department itself will be shown to be felons.
Yeah!
Nice.
Really big guys are felons.
I have thousands of sealed indictments.
You've got really big guys who are felons.
Well, what's interesting with that clip is an under-reported story that just broke, which shows up on the web, but I haven't found it in any of the newspapers.
It's definitely not on any of the media that I can clip.
And it's a Bill Barr operation.
This is a headline.
You can do the search on this.
Defense Intelligence Agency worker arrested on charges of leaking top secret information to reporters.
I did see this.
Yeah, I did see it.
And that's part of, I believe, what Montgomery's talking about.
They're starting to pick these guys off.
You've never heard of these people, but this guy's a 30-year-old.
He's been arrested for leaking top-secret documents to reporters right out of the DIA, and this may be the beginning of something.
So maybe both the Genoa and the governor, maybe something is going to happen.
So what do you think will happen sooner?
Thousands of sealed indictments?
Or the end of the world in 2030 due to climate change?
Well, I think there's three choices.
One is, is Comey going to be found to be a felon?
It'd be a choice one.
Thousands of sealed indictments would be choice two.
Climate change, you know, we already wrote that one off as bogus.
Yeah.
I don't know.
None, probably.
But they're going to be picking off these little characters, though, and it's going to change things a little bit.
But nobody's reporting on this.
This is scandalous.
Correct.
Call me, call me, call me all the time.
Call me!
Well, meanwhile, the president started his own distraction, although a very interesting one, since we've been looking, well, we've been looking at Syria and the pipelines.
You probably heard the words Homs and Aleppo two full years before it was even in the world media regarding the pipelines and the involvement of the Russians.
And there's just so many different agendas at play in that region.
And we also looked at the Kurds and the Kurds who have been – this is all part of the Ottoman Empire, you know, and this is a hundred-year-old issue.
And the Kurds, they never agreed with the Turks and they have just claimed this territory, say, hey, this is ours.
We call it Kurdistan.
You can look it up, there's no real country called Kurdistan.
But they also have the PKK who are swapping out their military uniform badges for YPG and commonly known as the Syrian Democratic Forces.
So there's been all this shenanigans going on with what started as a 30-day trip to go fix something in Syria.
But, of course, it was really all about energy issues and who owns what.
And it's kind of the same thing that Ukraine is going through.
So President Trump says, yeah, you know what, we're just going to pull out.
And I'll play a little bit from his speech from the White House, which justifies his actions.
Now, the Kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand.
They're fighting for their land.
And as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the Second World War.
They didn't help us with Normandy, as an example.
They mentioned names of different battles.
They were there, but they're there to help us with their land.
And that's a different thing.
In addition to that, we have spent tremendous amounts of money on helping the Kurds in terms of ammunition, in terms of weapons, in terms of money, in terms of pay.
With all of that being said, we like the Kurds.
This is like Israel and the Palestinians.
Okay?
There's only one difference.
Maybe the hatred's even greater.
Is that possible?
Maybe not.
I campaigned on ending the endless wars.
We're all over the world fighting wars.
Half the places, nobody even knows what they're doing over there.
And I feel that we are doing the right thing, and I think the country feels that too.
We've had tremendous support outside of the Washington, little Washington area, and even in Washington, people are saying you're doing the right thing.
Now, there's no doubt that the Kurds who were fighting with us against ISIS, created by us, never mind, are very brave.
They're very good soldiers.
They're highly respected by the U.S. troops.
But what Trump is saying is correct, and what the narrative, the mainstream narrative from the war hawks and neoliberals, neocons, just everyone who's sucking off the military-industrial complex teat, They are outraged, and they've come up with this idea of saying, well, they're our closest ally, as you mentioned earlier, which of course they're not.
Israel is the closest ally in the region, but they're our closest ally.
How could you let them just be slaughtered?
They're not going to be slaughtered.
They're not stupid.
They've been fighting the Turks for a hundred years.
However, it is interesting to note that there seems to be some strategy behind this.
And by the way, if you're going to say, you know, they're our ally, they helped us, well then what are you doing pissing against Russia?
They won the Second World War for us, and now we hate them?
So shut up with that.
Colonel Douglas McGregor, he's a Fox contributor, so he's paid to say this, but I really enjoyed his analysis of this move by the president, so much so I clipped it from the Tucker Carlson show, which I don't do often.
Well, the swamp is clearly very disturbed.
Which I think that's a candidate for an end-of-show ISO. Yeah, I got a better one.
Well, the swamp is clearly very disturbed because the president has done something that I have not witnessed in the last 30 years.
He's actually injecting strategy back into American foreign and defense policy.
Let me explain.
He's turned to Mr.
Erdogan, who has been trying to carve out a portion of Syria now for a very long time.
Remember, Mr.
Erdogan is also partially responsible for standing up ISIS. Then ISIS turned out to be a Frankenstein's monster, and he decided it needed to be brought under control.
Now he wants to resettle Sunni Arab refugees in northwestern Syria and create a kind of security zone for Turkish interests.
But he's also simultaneously told Mr.
Erdogan, you can do this, but now you are responsible for dealing with ISIS if ISIS rears its head.
If it comes back, it's your problem.
Now, this is a very important point.
The president has shifted the burden of responsibility for something that is clearly regional, clearly goes back to Turkey, to Mr.
Erdogan.
At the same time, Russia has promised to maintain the territorial integrity of Syria, come what may.
How is Russia going to deal with Mr.
Erdogan who has decided to carve out a piece of Syria for his own purposes?
And then we have Iran.
Iran wants to maintain its connectivity to Lebanon and its Shiite allies in that country.
But with the Turks dominating northern Syria, Iran now is going to be unable or at least will find it far, far more difficult to connect with Lebanon.
The point is the president has checkmated all of the key players in the region in Syria.
Now they must confront each other.
I recommend, if possible, to rewind that piece, that clip on the show when you're listening to it, and look at the map while he's saying this, because it makes so much sense.
And taking into consideration that we are energy exporters, we don't really need it anymore, all the douchebags from decades and decades prior who are in all those deals...
And that includes the Clintons and the Bushes and just all these, the Cheneys of the world, they're all in these deals.
We don't need it.
So what I see Trump doing is, man, screw it.
We're out.
We're not going to have any...
He was a campaign promise, after all.
Yes, it was.
And you guys go pound sand.
Go figure it out.
Turkey...
Well, he has made a very specific threat towards Turkey.
He said, if Turkey starts massacring people, he says, I will bring down their economy.
I will kill their economy.
And he can.
Right now, Erdogan is looking at the interest rate.
Well, Erdogan recently, I think in the end of July, he strong-armed the central bank president and said, look, you've got to do something about the rates.
The rate was 24% interest rate.
They got it down to 1975, 19.75.
Erdogan wants to lower this even more.
It would not take much for us in particular to really ruin the economy again.
So that threat is real.
I think that's better than, hey, we're going to stand there, we're going to fight the Turks, our NATO ally.
It makes zero sense.
The whole thing, yeah.
So again, people are just rolling this into more fodder for impeachment.
I did want to play one more clip from McGregor who gives a little background on the Kurds.
Before we arrived, the Maoist communist Kurds in northern Syria who have a long history and a close relationship with Moscow as a result.
We're always interested in allying themselves with anyone that would further their cause when their cause involves independence for themselves in Syria and also attacks against the Turks, whom they regard as enemies.
In our absence, the Kurds now have to make a decision.
Do we make a peace with Damascus, which is what the Russians have told them to do, which is what we have privately told them to do, which is what the Syrian government would like them to do?
Or did the Kurds decide to take on the Turks independently?
I rather think that the Syrian Kurds will decide that it's probably in their interests to side with Damascus.
So once we pull out, I think we'll see that happen.
But here's something else.
Israel benefits from this because Iran is now at loggerheads.
With Turkey, Iran is interested in connecting to Hezbollah.
The Russians have no interest in turning Syria into a platform for attack against Israel.
So the Russians and the Iranians who are checkmated by the Turks, now the Turks and all three of these people have to deal with the reality that Israel and the United States are benefiting from our withdrawal.
Which is great for us, not so great for people who like globalism.
No, it's an anti-globalist thing.
And I have a clip to follow up on yours.
Okay.
Your buddy.
You know, you really have got to stop walking on my turf, man.
It's like I introduced the guy to the show.
Now you're doing clips every time.
The clip was there for the grabbing.
I know, but we're doing double the work.
I get the clips too.
Here's Pachanek, Steve Pachanek, who's got a very interesting background.
from.
People should look him up on Wikipedia.
And he I've got two clips on his and his is his take on this Syria extraction.
It was a little more, of course, different.
It's a little more blunt and a little more spooky.
But this is the way he sees it.
Do leave Syria.
We do not need to be in Syria.
The reason I say that is because I was in Syria before the war just started and I warned the CIA and I warned our military intelligence team Not to go in.
Of course, CIA went in, and during the Obama administration, Biden, Obama, Kerry, Brennan, and others didn't listen to what I had to say.
But Syria, I found to be very advanced.
Number one, Bashar Assad is a physician and an ophthalmologist.
If you want to send an envoy there, I would strongly recommend that you send Dr. Rand Paul, who's also a board-certified ophthalmologist and particularly believes in what you and I believe in, which is no more wars.
He can work with Assad, who's also the ophthalmologist.
Number two, don't listen to your critics.
First of all, Mitt Romney doesn't have any experience in war.
As a matter of fact, we call him a chicken hawk because when he was drafted into Vietnam several times, he refused to serve and ran immediately to Paris as a Mormon missionary.
Now, I happen to like the Mormons.
I worked with Brent Scowcroft.
I worked with a lot of CIA operatives who are Mormon.
I have never met a more cowardly Mormon in my life than Mitt Romney.
And not only is a coward, of course, he's despicable as an individual, as a senator, and as a businessman.
Wasn't there a Mormon war?
Am I imagining this?
No, well, they tried to rouse the Mormons from various states before they settled into Utah.
I mean, I don't know if that was called a Mormon War.
The Mormons were rejected by the Americans in the 1800s, when they showed up.
Yeah, here you go, 1838.
Yeah, the Missouri-Mormon War.
Yeah, I guess that's when they rousted them and sent them.
They all went to Utah.
Okay.
Alright, sorry.
That was the whole clip there?
I thought there was more to it.
You have a second clip.
Yeah, well, let's play that.
Then let's talk about the other critics.
Liz Cheney, the daughter of the most treasonous, cowardly American I have ever met.
And the one Nixon couldn't stand, the one Kissinger couldn't stand, the one I couldn't stand.
None other than Dick Cheney, the biggest coward and treasonous individual in the history of the United States.
He was drafted not once, but 11 times to go to Vietnam and 11 times.
Mrs. Cheney, Liz Cheney's mother and Dick Cheney were able to avoid the draft.
Yet nevertheless, he sent us to Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and all the wars.
But he was too cowardly.
So I wouldn't listen to Liz Cheney.
So the key aspect here is to do exactly what you said.
The Kurds will not be killed.
First of all, Erdogan...
It's receiving $6 billion from us and from the European continent because we do not want any North Africans to go into Greece.
And guess what?
Erdogan is doing our bidding.
At the same time, you give Erdogan some more money and he will not get involved with the Kurds.
The Kurds will be safe.
If you fear that anything is going to happen to the Kurds, then allow them to establish themselves in Europe, in Norway, Sweden.
Exactly.
England, France, Spain, Italy, there's a lot of places to go.
At the same time, if everybody's afraid of the 10,000 terrorists that were held in Syria, then let us concern ourselves about another place where they can be placed and no one is in danger.
That could be Australia.
Australia is so large.
Guess what?
It's one of our closest allies.
And they can easily absorb 10,000 ISIS members in the middle of their country.
And by the way, we have more camels in Australia than we have in the Middle East.
So I think the...
Terrorists will be very comfortable in Australia as well as New Zealand since they're our good allies.
But in fact, what you said is correct.
We spent the fortune in that war.
We spent a fortune to get the Kurds on our side.
Now it's time for the Europeans, Russia, Iran, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, the Saudi Arabians and Israelis to handle this problem because that's their regional concern.
It's not our concern.
Yeah, a lot of people I know in Europe are all up in arms.
Ah, now we're going to get all these a-holes over here.
Yeah?
So?
That's your policy.
Yeah, it's your policy.
You want them.
You said to open our open borders.
There you go.
I think this Pachana giving the needle to Australia and New Zealand, though.
Let's ship all the ISIS prisoners.
And Holly Williams, I do have this clip.
We might as well play it.
That is pretty funny.
And by the way, yes, Australia does have millions of camels.
When I visited, I was surprised.
They have a lot of camels, and they've got that wide open area between Sydney and Perth.
It's just a big, giant desert.
Well, there are some cities in between.
Hey, send them to that rock.
So they can go there.
Send them to Ayers Rock.
So there is an encampment of a lot of ISIS prisoners in northern Syria.
And Holly Williams, and it's really funny to listen to this.
She goes into this.
Holly Williams is the foreign correspondent for CBS.
And she, I think it's CBS.
And she goes into the camp somehow.
And she interviews a couple of these characters.
And it's actually quite entertaining and creepy, too.
This is the first time they've allowed a camera crew inside this high security prison, home to 5,000 ISIS captives, including ISIS leaders and the men who built their deadly bombs, according to the guards.
Hi, are you American?
Of course.
It was not where we expected to find a 22-year-old from Minneapolis.
Abdelhamid Al-Madyum agreed to tell us his story, but we can't know for sure whether he was speaking freely.
He told us he was recruited to ISIS through a contact on Twitter.
He said, do you want to speak to someone in ISIS? I said, yeah, of course.
He was bombarded with ISIS propaganda videos, he told us, not the ones showing gruesome beheadings, but explaining that ISIS was helping Muslims.
He says he entered ISIS territory in 2015, hoping to become a doctor.
How did they treat you?
Pretty much.
They gave me a blank check to buy whatever I wanted.
Did you not know that it was a terrorist organization when you joined it?
To be honest, I was kind of a conspiracy theorist a little bit.
Yeah, but it's a terrorist organization, Abdel.
It's a terrorist organization that's carried out attacks.
Here's the thing.
People like me that see this, that, first of all, don't really believe the news.
You heard him right.
He thought ISIS terrorism was fake news.
Like many in this prison, he claims he was never an ISIS fighter.
Instead, he says he was a victim.
He told us he lost his arm in a U.S. airstrike.
Others here also have terrible injuries.
Some are children.
But there's no question this is a dangerous place.
The guards showed us this attempted prison break from just four days ago.
They want foreign governments to take their citizens home so they can't escape and rejoin ISIS insurgents Abdel claims he was interrogated here by FBI agents who said he could face 15 years in prison in the US 15 years a very long time for mistakes you made Come in Syria.
So you feel you deserve to be forgiven?
I would say that okay I should be forgiven.
I should be forgiven.
I think this is a callback to your comment about the news organizations losing credibility completely and probably their business because this guy is a candidate for mainstream media news and he thought the whole ISIS thing was bullcrap, didn't exist.
They're just a bunch of good guys helping kids.
Doing Allah's work.
So, that to me was like, what?
Wow, okay.
Good work, news media.
No matter what.
Because you're so full of crap half the time that, you know, this is a crying wolf problem.
This is what they had with the Mueller investigation.
We listened for two years that Trump was going down when the Mueller report came out.
And all we found out was that No Agenda Show is the best podcast in the universe.
It's right there in the Mueller report.
That was a plus.
Alright, even if this president never shows his face again, even if our president is gone from the world stage, what he did in bringing China into the conversation in the United States, I think has been very, very good and very healthy for us.
Donald Trump, don't trust China!
China is an asshole!
Of course, most of this is now playing out in Hong Kong, but some big things are happening.
The police force in Hong Kong is completely under the command of the Chinese Communist Party.
It's the tyranny, which is the existential risk of humanity.
Understand this.
It's not just the bill.
The bill has been withdrawn.
If you have not mistaken.
But the thing is, Hong Kong has changed.
Hong Kong...
We are fighting for freedom and survival, okay?
And the world should know, if Hong Kong falls, the whole world falls, okay?
Because the Chinese Communist Party is the existential risk of humanity, period.
And I agree with this protester in Hong Kong, but maybe not in the way he intended.
If China falls, yeah, the entire West falls.
Hong Kong.
If Hong Kong falls, yeah.
But the United States is so tied to China...
And we've been looking at China's, for many years, we've looked at China's investment and involvement in the entertainment industry.
This is why Richard Gere has zero work.
It's not because of the gerbil story.
No, no.
It's because he's pro-Tibet.
Yeah, if you're pro-Tibet, you might as well give up your career in Hollywood.
Yeah, and we're now finding out that even just saying stuff like that will get you banned.
And as if it was coordinated, South Park comes out with a Dynamite episode called Banned B-A-N-D in China.
And to make a long story short, who's the guy?
Is it Cartman's dad who has the Tegrity weed farm?
He's gonna go sell some Tegrity.
He's gonna go sell some Tegrity to the Chinese and he's on the plane and he thinks that he's had this genius idea to go sell something to the Chinese and it turns out he's not the only one.
First time going to China?
No, not really.
It's my first time.
I'm going out to try and drum up a little business.
What are you heading out for?
I work for a clothing company.
We're trying to break into the market and get the Chinese people as customers.
Oh!
Hey!
Fuck you!
Huh?
I had that idea like three days ago.
So what?
So when did you come up with it?
Hey, Mitchell, you're on this flight?
Yeah, that's so funny.
I'm working for Google now, overseeing the expansions into the Chinese user base.
Key hat still with the NBA, doing some press with the players to try to get more Chinese viewers.
Oh, for Christ's sake!
You have a good idea and everyone wants to copy you.
Fine, I can handle some healthy competition.
Who else wants to go to China and get some of their money?
Oh, for crying out loud.
Let me guess, you work for a company trying to get Chinese people as customers.
Wow!
Where'd you get that idea?
It's okay!
It's okay!
I'm sure there's plenty of Chinese people for all of us.
So, what you, of course, couldn't hear is that the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe is on the plane.
Everybody's going to China.
And we learned that one tweet, one single tweet of support...
For Hong Kong, i.e.
a bad message for China, has blocked this.
And I don't know shit about this, about sports.
I had no idea that this is one of the biggest sports in China.
I had no idea as to what is really going on between our National Basketball Association and China.
But as I'm perusing through Fox Sports 1, as I usually do, I caught my buddy Jason Whitlock with an explanation.
China's influence over a great sport, a great American sport like basketball, is just now being exposed and just how dependent the NBA is on the Chinese economy and Chinese money to put on the appearance of how great the league is doing.
Without the Chinese money and without, because you really have to understand the shoe companies, Nike, Adidas, they run American basketball from the high school level all the way to the pros.
And the shoe companies are dependent on the China market.
And that's where all of this is coming from.
You see NBA players constantly over the summer during their off season running to China, To do the bidding of their shoe companies and to sell their shoes in the China market.
And so the NBA is really being exposed as not nearly as much of American business as it is a global business with China perhaps having more influence over it than even America.
Not just that business, another huge industry, the video game industry, Activision Blizzard.
Has banned a championship player because in some post-game interview he showed his support for the people of Hong Kong.
Boom.
Gone.
Done.
Everyone is so afraid, and I believe a lot of our politicians here in the US, but probably everywhere in the world, are on the fucking payroll.
They're all in bed with the Chinese.
And that's why you see people doing just stuff that's not in their own country's best interest.
China is ruling.
And it's all about money.
Now, of course, that's who we are in America.
We're all about the money.
But I like this.
I like pulling this scab off.
Let's see what's really going on underneath there.
Look at all these companies.
Apple.
Oh, well, we've got to pull this app now because they could use it to track police movements.
Well, that's gone from the App Store.
And there's already been the, which we recall from over a year ago, where somebody mislabeled Taiwan.
And the next thing you know, because the Chinese objected to this, they had to go jump through hoops to get everything straightened out.
I mean, this is a tail wagging the dog in many ways.
And it's like, it's embarrassing.
But Hollywood is the worst example of what you started with.
I mean, they have these studios now.
They have sound stages.
They've built and put a lot of money in Chinese production.
Didn't the Chinese buy AMC? Wasn't that their deal?
The AMC movie theaters?
It's a possibility.
Mm-hmm.
But the Chinese have way too much influence on the American movie business.
And any movie that doesn't kind of parrot Chinese norms so far as...
Thoughts on communism, even.
You know, the movies have to have...
If the message isn't right, it won't get distribution in China.
They'll lose all the foreign money.
And the foreign box office, I was reading just recently, is higher than the domestic box office on almost every successful movie.
Yes.
All these companies that you built up...
Not you, John...
I wish.
People buying the video games, people buying the movies, renting the movies, going to the movies.
Yes, indeed, the Dali and Wanda group from China bought AMC movie theaters.
You basically helped them build it up, and now they're pissing on you.
Just taking it all away.
We should boycott all of it.
Every single bit of it.
You know, who cares?
If we don't need the NBA, go away.
NBA, go away.
NBA, go away.
The only thing you can count on that is not influenced by Chinese money is the No Agenda show.
I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In fact, the money we get from China is almost nil.
Including Hong Kong money.
Nil, nil.
Start off today with show 1180.
With Greg Oleskiak.
Oleskiak, I'm guessing, in Charleston, South Carolina.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Shout out to Charleston.
NA meetup group and Dame Jennifer Buchanan.
Okay, there was a meetup they had there, which I would have gone to.
I mean, Charleston is one of the great cities of the United States.
Sir Greg of Parts Unknown, 101.
Ellen Sauer in Muskegon, Michigan, 101.
Sir Andrew Harms of Icon of Omaha, from Omaha, $100.10.
Rob Van Dyke from the Netherlands, $100.
Gordon Gibson from Dallas, Texas.
100.
I've got a birthday with Mohamed El-Bawani.
Mohamed El-Bawani.
Boobs!
It's his birthday 10-10, which is today.
Wait, wait, wait.
Very important.
He will see me at the South Austin meetup today, and I'm going to be there.
Woohoo!
Make sure that all of you attendees, you put donations in an envelope with a note clearly identifying who you are.
All you can put anonymous.
And seal the envelope and give it to Adam.
Yeah, well I'm just going to hang out and have a beer with everybody.
You're not going to collect the donations?
Well, if anyone has donations, of course.
But this is going to be a monthly.
I hope they can move it away from Thursdays.
Do you know how tired I am after the show on Thursday?
Let's just do this one.
Collect a few donations.
This was a short show today.
You're worse than the Chinese.
No.
Nobody's worse than the Chinese.
Matthew Mongan.
Sorry.
Matthew Mongan, 69.
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Looking for some baby karma.
We'll put that at the end for you.
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And now the following donors are $50 each.
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Finally, somebody from Fairfax.
Hello.
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And last but not least, Andre Klaus from the Netherlands.
I want to thank all these folks for helping us.
I think there'd be more Canadians in here today, but we got none.
We get the Saskatooner.
Well, Saskatoon's good, but that's not enough.
So we did a huge report on Canada politics today, so note that.
That should work.
I want to thank these other producers for show 1180.
Yeah, and if you're wondering how can you support the best podcast in the universe, spend a little less money on China.
One movie less, perhaps.
But really, for us, it's just whatever value you get out of it.
If you're in Scandinavia, the coverage was valuable to you, then how much was it worth?
Was it the same as reading a newspaper, buying a book, watching a documentary?
That's all we asked for.
For 98.5% of the production of the listening audience, apparently no value.
But for that 1.5% to 2%, they find it valuable, and we find their contribution extremely valuable because we can pay our bills.
Thank you very much.
Also, thank you to everybody under $50, mostly for anonymity, but we do have a lot of programs you can check out, which you can get on monthlies, 3333, 1212s, 1111s.
And I saw our guy...
Or whoever it is.
At the very bottom here.
Hold on a second.
I thought it was funny.
Because I like reading all the notes when they come in.
The guy from Arizona who gave us 32 cents.
And his note was 11 weeks to knighthood.
He must be very, very close if he's down to 32 cents at a time.
I really doubt it.
Please consider supporting the show.
It is yours, after all.
It is your No Agenda podcast.
We all do it together.
And to find out more, if you've never done it, or as a handy jingle reminder, go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Some karmas as requested.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Yeah!
You've got karma.
Dan, I got a note here from Dave Corbinu, who we knighted on episode 1178 of Sir Dave and Dimension B. He couldn't be happier, he says.
However, he noticed his $99.99 donation, which put him through the knighthoods not read out on the show, even though he was knighted in the knighthood segment.
Now, John, would you like to explain the general guidelines of donations?
Yeah, the notes, generally speaking, are, not generally speaking, but by rule, we only promise to read notes of donors that are in the executive, associate, executive, producer side of things.
In other words, over $200 your notes get read.
Under $200, your name gets read, but your note does not get read.
Except if it's interesting or Adam stops me.
We can read the notes, and we read those notes randomly.
So out of maybe 20 notes in that segment, we read maybe two.
But what he asks us for, because he did write his war and peace, if you recall, is he asks for a dedouching for the war and peace.
If you're going to ask for dedouching in the lower amounts, put it right at the beginning.
Yeah.
Anyway, I want him to know.
We're reading through this.
We can't sit there and read it.
And let's back up.
Let's do a little background.
We used to, when we started doing donations, which was 10 years ago...
We read everything.
And then we commented on the numbers and how they were kind of numerological.
Everything.
Donate five bucks your name got read.
Then after a while it was taking up too much of the show.
It was taking up half the show.
So we stopped doing that and we put it at $50 and above.
And then it got to the point where we are now.
It's pretty much the same as it was when we made this rule, which is that Now we're not reading all these notes because there was too many of them and too many people were donating, you know, $51 and writing a long note about their spouse or about the politics of the country and they expected us to read the whole note.
So we stopped it and we only read the notes at $200 and above.
And even if those are way too long, which is most of the people have gotten their act together, they write concise notes.
Uh...
And it'll get edited.
But generally speaking, that's the rule.
And that's the way we've stuck with.
And every so often, noobie comes in and they haven't heard this lecture.
And they just assume, because you see it a lot.
You see somebody donates 55 bucks and has a huge jingle request.
And it's like, well, we don't do that.
It's not what we're doing.
Jingle requests should all be up at the top.
Well, Sir Dave in Dimension B asked for a de-douching, which I'm going to give him right now.
You've been de-douched.
He says, I really just want to be blessed by the Podfather.
This is the first time asking for this.
I did not think it was appropriate until I was knighted since I've been a listener since the single-digit episodes and only started donating in 2017.
If you could find a second to do this.
Well, of course.
He also wants some house-buying karma.
I'll add that just to make sure everything's all copacetic.
You've got karma.
And, Sir Dave, thank you very much for your courage.
Today is a special day, the 10-10.
That's what the Chiners think.
We've got a couple of birthdays.
Samantha says happy birthday to her husband, Sir Saipan, who turned 42 just a couple days ago on the 7th.
Sir Wire of the Hidden Jewels says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Jasmine.
That's belated back to the 24th of September.
And his grandson, Ryan, who also celebrated in September on the 28th.
And finally, Muhammad Ali Bawani...
He's celebrating his birthday today, October 10th.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
It's your birthday, yeah!
We have no, uh, let me see, no title changes, but we do have one nighting.
That, of course, is our anonymous donor, so, uh...
Yeah, I got it.
Yeah, there you go.
Very good.
Anonymous!
Step on up, Anonymous!
You, sir, have supported the No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000.
We cannot be more grateful.
In fact, we are grateful, and that's why we gladly bring you up here onto the podium.
And we'd like you to join all of our knights and dames here at the No Agenda Roundtable.
And I have the honor of pronounciating the...
Sir Jellyhead, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable for you.
We have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, mushrooms and antifungal cream, copper's pale ale and kangabangers, kebab and Persian wine, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pavlin, vodka and vanilla, and...
Yes, mutton and mead.
It's a No Agenda Roundtable favorite.
So, Sir...
What was it?
Sir...
Jellyhead, head over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
Hand over all your information that is important, such as your ring size and a place where Eric will contact you, and we'll get that out to you as soon as possible.
The beautiful No Agenda Night Ring, which is a signet ring, comes with its own sealing waxes certificate.
And we love it when people receive those and they tweet out pictures or even better, put them on NoAgendaSocial.com.
No Agenda Meetups.
It's like a party.
It's like a party.
Well, today is the South Austin Meetups.
This is going to be monthly.
It's the first one of the monthly varieties, so I'll be there for that and looking forward to seeing everybody.
Tomorrow is the big meetup in Tokyo.
This is the one where the Earl of Tennessee is going to be joining Sir Mark and Dame Astrid and a cast of tens who are coming up from Osaka all over the place.
That will be tomorrow the 19th.
We have three meetups, one in Atlanta, one in Santa Fe, and one in Orlando.
The 20th of October in Louisville, Kentucky.
October 24th, I'm just guessing that Sir Patrick Coble will be back in Tennessee because it'll be a Nashville meetup.
The 25th, we have two, one in Portland, Oregon, one in Charlotte, North Carolina, and on the 26th, Nashville, Tennessee.
Oh, that's a two.
I'm still trying to figure out why there's two so close together.
And another one in Colorado Springs.
Now, if you would like to know more about any of these meetups, an opportunity to go meet people in person, have an actual conversation with somebody you have never met before but will fit in with just perfectly, go to noagendameetups.com.
And if there's nothing in your neighborhood, why don't you start one?
It's a lot of fun.
All the kids are doing it.
Noagendameetups.com.
And also, I'd like to remind everybody, the NAMs, the No Agenda Hams, are congregating.
Go to noagendahams.com for more information.
If you're a ham radio operator, an amateur radio operator, if you're licensed and would like to participate in our system where we chat and talk and hang out, or if you'd like to become a ham, Which more and more people are doing.
Noagendahams.com Woo!
Yes.
A little OTG seg?
A seg?
A seg?
OTG seg?
OTG seg?
We've been talking about Scandinavia.
Yeah, go for it.
Scandinavia has a new app from the company Onlia.
And Onlia is mainly a provider of insurance, insurances for automobiles, for driving.
So they have a new app out, which they say will modernize auto insurance.
And they're doing that, well, the way they're promoting it, and I do have a minute long, not really an ad, but an online ad.
I guess it wouldn't work on television.
Where they are promoting this app, which actually helps you become sane and not have as much road rage by bringing you comedy podcasts.
Oh, man.
You're just in that moment where you're just like...
I mean, I've given someone the finger before.
I am a road ragey person.
Oh my god!
Let's talk about some techniques to take you from peeved to relieved.
Has this ever happened to you?
Oh no!
I once screamed so loud that a fire engine came...
The comedy segments actually relaxed me.
It kind of just really mellows you out.
Once the comedy podcasts were introduced to my driving, it did calm me down.
Comedy always helps.
I think laughter is the key to a lot of things.
You're so into the content that you just kind of forget that you're in traffic.
100% I'll be using comedy.
I feel that while I was driving, this was a good relaxer.
It was so calm and steady that it stayed through every altercation, every frustration.
I wasn't aware of just how bad my road rage is.
Laughing while driving does calm down my road rage.
It's better to try to de-stress the situation and have fun with it rather than just be angry for the whole day because of traffic.
Because it's going to happen.
Okay, so that is kind of the hook to get you in.
It's like, oh, you know, do you have road rage?
Apparently a lot of people have road rage.
Do you have road rage ever?
Do you have any kind of, you know, you get mad and you yell and scream like these people are doing?
Well, not to the extent.
I mean, I have gotten irked by some people doing some crazy things, but not to the point where I want to ram them.
Well, it sounds like people are really angry and yelling at the time.
Well, we've already identified this as a part of the whole political scene.
They hate our president.
So here is the app.
Driving safe comes with perks.
So it's not just about keeping you calm with road rage, but you can earn rewards, and you can get free coffee, and you can get all kinds of gifts.
Now, here's what they're saying.
Let's make Canada's roads the safest in the world.
Only a Sense gives drivers a fun way to drive safe and distraction-free and help everyone on the road stay safer.
Get the app and have your phone with you when you drive.
Simple as that.
Hmm, I wonder why.
Two, get personalized coaching.
Only a sense uses your phone's sensors to score you on key driving factors like speed and cornering.
And from there, you earn rewards, complete safe driving challenges to earn perks like cash back and Starbucks gift cards.
And they have some screenshots here of this app.
And they have a dashboard.
Ooh, a dashboard!
Oh, yeah.
You can get up to 100% your drive score, and it shows everything, how you're cornering, how you're braking, how you're accelerating, staying within the speed limit.
So go ahead, slaves.
This is a really good idea.
I recommend everybody go and get that app.
That is fantastic.
Or, if you're an important person, like you're running a political campaign, or maybe you're a politician, or, I don't know, something really important, you know, you should get some advanced protection for your privacy.
You know, so people can't hack your shit.
Who can give that to you?
Some of us need to protect so much more than ourselves.
A cause, a platform, a message, a movement...
Protect your sources and your story.
Protect their story.
Protect your partners.
Protect your team.
Protect what matters.
If you're an activist, journalist, executive, thought leader, public official, or part of a campaign team, or anyone who feels vulnerable to highly targeted online attacks, Google's Advanced Protection Program is our strongest level of account security, and it's designed for you.
Turning it on is straightforward and only takes a few minutes.
That's who I'm going to go protect my stuff from.
Google!
Yeah, Google protects you.
Don't worry.
Don't worry about it.
It's all good.
Now, luckily, this off the grid...
What is that?
Oh, yeah.
They give you all kinds of...
The funny thing is it was almost done in the same tone, tempo, voice of the other thing, and I thought it was part of the same ad campaign.
This is how you speak to the millennial set, I presume.
You talk like this?
Yes.
Hey, do you really want to have a good live?
Yeah.
Yeah, don't be triggered by my voice.
So the OTG lifestyle, which I've been propagating for several years here, is finally seeping through to some mainstream media.
NPR did a 17-minute segment about going off the grid.
Is it even possible, they ask?
It's interesting because on the one hand, the law itself is very much behind the times.
But on the other hand, police departments are very much with the times.
And so they're interested in social media.
They're interested in...
Amazon Ring footage are interested in next door and citizen.
Police departments are turning right at the same pace as Amazon.
I think we're a little bit behind.
And I think that the law itself in terms of regulations around data collection, particularly in the U.S., is the furthest back.
They're the slowest.
My question to you then, I guess that the last question would be, is it possible for anyone to be, quote unquote, off the grid?
No, that's a great question.
I mean, not That's not a great question.
...to be, quote-unquote, off the grid.
No, that's a great question.
I mean, not if you opt into any of these online services, certainly.
I think it's just getting harder and harder to accept the conveniences of that, or to avoid accepting the conveniences of that, rather, offered by all these modern technologies.
In a lot of cases, it's the only way to fully opt out, and With that smart oven.
With that smart oven.
What idiot owns a smart oven?
Oh, it's the big Amazon product now.
The microwave oven that has Alexa built in.
Oh yeah, that's a big push.
Now, I've done some...
Turn on high one minute.
No, no, no, no.
That's not how it works.
Now you say, Alexa, I want to make, you know...
Chili.
And then your microwave will start telling you what to put in the bowl, and then how much, and then it'll automatically set the time.
It's stupid!
It's so stupid.
So what they're doing is identifying the morons in the audience that can be culled?
What are they up to?
Well, the thing is that people think that all of this tech, as that guy said, this tech...
That it's somehow really improving your life, but it's not.
And I have an example.
We're in the opportunity zone here in Austin, which means if they ever gentrify this place, we'll be golden.
But it might not happen.
So, there's things that, you know, it's not...
It seems gentrified already, if you ask me.
I've been there.
Well, did you look at the back...
Right in the back of our house is all Section 8 housing.
It's Section 8 housing right beyond the forest.
It's not that far.
It's, you know, like 50 feet and then it's...
But that doesn't mean that that's necessarily where criminals live.
But something happened.
The other day, someone rang the doorbell.
I wasn't home.
Keeper opens up, and it's this really vague guy asking about, you know, something.
Did you order something?
And Satine's like, no.
And she closes the door.
Now, here's the problem.
We don't have a peephole, and it didn't come with the house, and we want a peephole made.
Unfortunately, the way our door is constructed, it takes some work to drill the peephole in the right spot and not crack the glass.
Long story.
But I found the glass door.
Just look through the glass.
Hello?
It's...
Okay, thanks, John.
You remember you were at my house?
You can't look through the glass.
It's milky glass.
So you can't actually see what's on the other side.
We have no windows to look out of.
There's no way to see who's at the door.
Yeah, you know what that means.
So here's a woman alone, and she doesn't want that crap.
So I found...
I get a ring.
Shut up for two seconds!
Okay!
So I found a guy who's going to do the peephole for us.
We agreed peephole.
But then this happens.
I'm like, okay, until we get the peephole, you're right.
I went out and got a ring just to see what the experience was like.
And believe me, in two weeks it's gone.
And they were on sale for like $69, the old version.
So that's fine.
But here's the experience.
So it works as advertised.
You can set it for motion.
It'll alert you.
Or if someone actually rings the bell, it'll alert you.
But this app, you open up the app, and where is it?
No, I don't have it.
It's on Tina's phone.
And right there it says Neighborhood.
So you have your little video window and then it says neighborhood.
And it shows you all the crimes that have taken place in your neighborhood for the past month or two.
It's like, oh, it's all this crap happening that now I have anxiety because of this stupid app which is supposed to give me a sense of security.
None of this is good.
It's all a very bad idea.
We've got firearms.
That's all we need.
I need a firearm and a peephole.
Always come to the door with a gun.
I'm not going to let you forget a review of your brand new phone.
Johnson Dvorak, quickly review the phone.
What?
I'm going to have to review the phone because people are bitching at me saying it's a scam.
I don't have a phone and blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah, blah.
Really?
Blah, blah, blah.
So tell us about your phone.
I got myself a Blue X5 smartphone.
Big.
It's big.
It's clear.
It's got all the apps that you want.
Who makes this?
Who makes this?
Blue.
B-L-U. It's an off-brand.
One of the two or three off-brand phones.
These guys are out of Miami.
So there's something fishy about it to begin with.
And this thing is...
75 bucks on sale.
Brand new.
Google has got Google Android 9, the absolute newest of the new.
It has the maps.
It does everything any other smartphone does.
I even get Pluto TV on this phone.
Yeah?
So I'm showing it to the kids.
I'm showing it.
Okay, look at this.
Where do you think it is?
I want you to guess where it is right at this moment.
The kids have it.
No, no, it's turned off in the drawer.
No, it's in the drawer where it belongs, yes.
Now, it comes with one of those cover cases and a thing for the screen if you want to put it all free.
It's just an unbelievable product for the price.
And so I'm showing this, and meanwhile, everybody at the table, JC's got the newest Apple, and everyone else got the newest Samsung, and nobody could show me how my $75 phone is...
Any less a phone than their phones.
It takes good photos.
It has HDR on the camera.
The pixels are probably only 12, I think, megapixels, which is more than enough for a phone.
And it does all the...
It's got everything.
And so JC says, because he's got this ridiculously expensive phone, which is probably superior, but it's $1,000.
And I'm a company phone.
And...
He says, you know, because you're always ahead of the game, you might be the inflection point.
We're a $75 phone, and this is not the only cheap Android 9 phone out there.
There's about two or three of them out of China that are pretty cool looking, and they have a lot of features.
He says that it's possible that people will begin to realize that you don't have to spend $200, $300, $500, $600, $1,000, $1,100 for a functional phone.
And by the way, a kicker, the back comes off and I can take the battery out.
Very nice.
Yeah.
Now, how do you use said device?
You use it only when you're going somewhere?
I rarely use it.
But if I'm going somewhere I need the navigator, for example, or if I'm worried that, you know, the car is going to blow up or I take it to the store.
Sometimes I have to call back home and ask them if they want this brand or that brand.
I mean, I don't I seldom use it.
I mean, I don't use these phones constantly.
I'm not constantly on it.
I do most of my work off the phone.
I'm not glued to this phone.
You have discipline.
You have old school discipline.
Yeah, so I don't use the phone all the time.
But this phone does.
I can't see anything it doesn't do, including Pluto TV, which these other guys can't seem to get on their phone.
It's just a great product, and it's $75, and it's got a long battery life.
It boots real fast.
I do not see why anyone would pay more than $100 for one of these things.
And a reminder that when it comes to being off the grid, of course, you still need to be able to function in normal life, but the main thing is to keep the tracking.
Have you installed the Privacy Pro?
It's called something different on Android.
No, I don't care.
I keep the phone turned off.
In a drawer.
Right, but they still know, the Googles know exactly where you're going and what you're doing, so they know what store you're going to.
If I have the phone with me, yeah, they probably do.
But it's pretty rare.
Well, doesn't it have anything cool?
Pluto TV seems cool.
all right uh anytime You can put any Android Apple run on it so whatever cools there you can find.
I got the thing that makes a fart noise.
I mean, if that means anything.
It's always good to bring out in a meeting.
Pushing off a couple of segments until the Sunday show.
It'll be well worth it.
This has been your No Agenda show for October 10th, 2019.
The Lucky 1010 show.
We would love to see you help out with your support for the 1181.
For that, go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Coming up after this program on NoAgendaStream.com, Hog Stories, Operation Ice Cube.
And we have end of show mixes from Hugh Allison, Jesse Coy Nelson, and Matt Lazari.
Coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here at the frontier of Austin, Texas.
That is FEMA Region No.
6 and all the governmental maps in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I sense a slight breeze.
Which I suppose is part of this horrible windstorm.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Sunday right here with another edition of No Agenda.
Until then, adios mofos!
And such.
Hey, citizen.
I'm back!
In the morning.
Let me ask you about China.
I love China.
Don't rap.
You know, I love him.
I love China. Space Force.
You know, I love him.
I love China. Space Force.
Don't rap.
Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Don't trust China.
China is asshole.
Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Don't trust China.
China is asshole.
Go for it.
We go into the door.
China is asshole.
Papu tada ching ching.
Ching chong chong chong chong chong.
Big league China.
I love China.
China all the time.
China now.
Are you talking to me?
Are you talking to me?
Let's say China. China. China. China. China. China. China now. China. You know. You know.
I love them.
I love China. Space Force. You know. You know.
I love them.
I love China. Space Force.
Don't put up.
Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Don't trust China. China is asshole.
Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Donald Trump. Don't trust China. China is asshole.
So don't tell me about China.
I know China.
People from China, they love me.
People say, oh, you don't like China.
I like China.
Buy toys from China.
Chongqing China.
China.
Chongqing China.
Asshole.
Don't drop.
I have to have my China.
How can I dislike China?
I go to China.
I love them.
China now.
Bing, bing, bong, bong, bing, bing, bing. China. China, asshole.
Don't laugh.
Why are you laughing?
Shut up.
This is a bunch of scumbags.
Zelensky begins by ingratiating himself.
He expresses his interest in meeting with the president and says his country wants to acquire more weapons.
And what is the president's response?
This is the essence of what the president communicates.
We've been very good to your country.
No other country has done as much as we have.
But you know what?
I don't see much reciprocity here.
I hear what you want.
I have a favor I want from you, though.
And I'm going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good.
I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent.
Understand lots of it.
I'm going to put you in touch with people, not just any people.
I'm going to put you in touch with Attorney General of the United States, Bill Barr.
And I'm going to put you in touch with Rudy.
You're going to love him.
Trust me.
You know what I'm asking, and so I'm only going to say this a few more times, in a few more ways.
And by the way, don't call me again.
I'll call you when you've done what I asked.
This is, in sum, in character what the president was trying to communicate.
Little pencil neck Adam Schiff.
He's got the smallest, thinnest neck I've ever seen.
I know you are, but what am I?
I know you are, but what am I?
Adam Schiff, Schiff, Schiff, Schiff, Schiff, Schiff, Schiff.
Adam Schiff was caught in a pedophile trafficking ring somewhere in Los Angeles.
He has been highly compromised.
Adam Schiff is a stone-cold, stomp-down liar.
I don't want to beat him running the bush and say, oh, he's being deceptive, he's being deceitful.
No, no, no.
I don't want to say that he is a liar.
That, what he just did, was a lie.
I think it's immoral.
I think it's unethical.
I think it's unpatriotic.
And yes, I think it's corrupt.
A person with low EQ might say something to the effect of, everything is great, right?
Now, let me give you an example of what I mean there.
It might be that I'll say, hey, you've got that new job.
Everything's great with it, right?
And when I throw that word right on the end of it, the implication is there's a certain way that I want to hear you respond.
I want you to tell me that things are going well.
And then if you come back and say, well, it's not all that great, then it makes you look like, well, then you're doing things wrong.
And you're not getting the right reaction.
And so you're more of a negative kind of personality.
I, of course, am being positive, right?
And it has a real subtle put-down towards the person who might not give the correct response.
It has a real subtle put-down, subtle put-down, put-down.
Right!
You're bloody well right.
You got a bloody right to say.
It has a real subtle put-down.
Right!
You're bloody well right.
You know you got a right to say.
I don't care anyway.
The best podcast in the universe.
Mofo.
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