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Turn off the fountain, Jeeves.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, October 13th, 2019.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 1181.
This is no agenda.
Still yelling, hook'em horns!
And broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone, Star State.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's great!
You had me completely confused with hook'em horns.
I know.
I'm thinking, why is he...
He doesn't even know what that means.
Yes, I do, man.
It was the game yesterday.
The game.
The game.
Yes, we lost.
I know we lost.
You should know that.
OSU. UT. What a great game.
Exactly.
I just want people to know that even at my age, you can still brush up a bit and get into sports, especially if it's local.
By the way, it's not OSU, the game you lost.
What was it?
Oklahoma.
Oh, that's what I meant.
Oklahoma University.
OSU is Oklahoma State.
So I said OSU, Oklahoma State University.
No, it's not Oklahoma State.
That's a different school.
Well, okay, if you think you know better than an Austin resident, that's fine for me.
Yeah, now you sound like a Lib Joe.
Said the man who finally followed me on No Agenda Social.
Wow.
What's up with that?
You checked in.
You checked in for the first time in a year.
I've checked.
I'm on it 24-7.
July.
But I checked myself out.
And so when I rechecked myself in, I realized I couldn't find the right link.
And so I clicked on one of the drop-down links.
It happened to be your page.
Uh-uh.
So he checked me into your page and I said, oh, okay, I can get in from here.
And then I said, what?
I'm not following Adam?
Because there's a little button there.
I said, oh, I'll correct that immediately.
And I clicked on it and then I put myself back in there and I did a clip blitz.
You did.
You did.
A little blitz of GIFs.
Or whatever that is.
A GIF blitz.
A GIF blitz.
That's what it is.
That's one for the records.
A GIF blitz.
Well then, let me just stay with my favorite topic, which is sports.
Yes.
I'm interested.
Well, I was watching my buddy over there on FS1, Jason Whitlock, as usual.
The guy's great.
Jason Whitlock is great.
And he decided to explain to everybody something we kind of already knew.
This is regarding the NBA and China.
For those who have not followed it outside of the United States, the One tweet from one guy who said, hey, I stand behind Hong Kong, sent the Chinese into a tizzy.
Who knew that there's like 300 million basketball fans in China?
Oh, it's very popular.
And Jason Whitlock explains it just a little bit further.
Nike is in control of basketball.
The NBA, college basketball, high school.
Nike is the real...
Person driving this conversation and this thing with China.
If you go back to...
I'm going to connect it to politics.
In 2015, in May of 2015, President Barack Obama went to Nike's headquarters in Portland, Oregon and announced his defense of the TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership.
That's right.
Trade deal that was going to be very favorable for Nike, for China.
Who's the president that came after Obama and walked America away from the TPP? Donald Trump.
Who is the shoe company that employs LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and these other athletes that smear Donald Trump as racists?
Who are the people constantly criticizing Donald Trump?
NBA. Steve Kerr.
Greg Popovich.
The NBA answers to Nike.
Nike's a $40 billion business.
The NBA is an $8 billion business.
President Obama, the basketball president, friendly relationship with the NBA, went to Nike's headquarters to announce his defense.
This thing is very simple.
This is about money.
This is about a president that won't cooperate with what Nike wants done.
Nike is using the NBA and its leverage over the NBA to go after this guy because they disagree with him about his policies as it relates to trade in China.
Yeah!
China owns the NBA! Holy mackerel, you gotta get Clip of the Day for that discovery.
And I want you to credit whoever it was that sent it to you.
I mean, when you really just, you know, when you use your skill at sports, you can, you know, you can figure stuff out.
Now, I did a lot of searching for this show today, going back in our archives.
And it's always fun to see how much we covered.
And I use Bingit.io.
Bingit.io is where all of the show notes, you can even search at the MP3 level.
You can get anything you want from this show.
Going back at least six, seven years.
No, I think nine years on Bingit.io.
And I found a piece of that speech from Obama in 2015 at Nike headquarters in Beaverton.
And it becomes very apparent.
I don't know if we caught it at the time, because we just didn't like the TPP and its secrecy in general.
And it was very, I mean, we couldn't really find any...
Sketchy.
Very sketchy.
But when you hear this, all of a sudden, it will become very clear what it was about.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership that we're working on.
And this is at the Beaverton Nike headquarters on campus.
It's the biggest trade deal that we're working on right now.
Has to do with the Asia-Pacific region.
And it reflects our values in ways that, frankly, some previous trade agreements did not.
It's the highest standard, most progressive trade deal in history.
It's got strong, enforceable provisions for workers, preventing things like child labor.
It's got strong, enforceable provisions on the environment, helping us to do things that haven't been done before to prevent wildlife trafficking or deforestation or dealing with our oceans.
That's always the setup, but actually, before we get to it, who would be in competition with China when it comes to the NBA? It's not that...
China and the NBA? Europe, of course, is the big basketball force.
No, no, no.
And when it comes to manufacturing, it becomes obvious.
And these are enforceable in the agreement.
And Nike operates in the Pacific region, so they understand the competitive pressures they're under.
Nike has factories all around the world.
And let's face it.
Mark, I think, doesn't mind me saying it.
He looks to Mark, the CEO of Nike.
Oh, it's okay if I say this is all right, Mark?
Mark, you don't mind, do you?
They're under.
Nike has factories all around the world.
And let's face it.
Mark, I think, doesn't mind me saying it, that some of these countries, they don't have the standards for wages and labor conditions that we have here.
So when you look at a country like Vietnam, under this agreement, Vietnam would actually...
Vietnam!
The absolute competition to China when it comes to manufacturing.
The little country of Vietnam they're scared of?
Well, they just want to squash it.
Squash them!
Squash those Viet Cong!
So when you look at a country like Vietnam, under this agreement, Vietnam would actually for the first time have to raise its labor standards.
It would have to set a minimum wage.
It would have to pass safe workplace laws to protect its workers.
It would even have to protect workers' freedom to form unions for the very first time.
That's great for China!
That would make a difference.
You can't have unions in China.
No, of course not.
No unions in China.
So...
Wow.
Yeah, there you go.
And Vietnam is very advanced.
People should go visit.
It's a really fantastic place.
China is asshole!
By the way, China is asshole.com goes to noagendashow.com now.
Oh, God.
There goes our visa.
The visa.
Oh, man.
No, this is fantastic.
And so now it's coming out, you know, all of these little bits and bobs about which companies are really at the behest of China.
Apple, of course, who told multiple Apple TV Plus show developers, hey, don't piss off China, man.
Shh.
Riot Games urging League of Legends pros to shut up on sensitive issues.
And let me just give you a list here of 12 companies owned by the Chinese in the entertainment business.
AMC Theaters...
Dick Clark Productions.
Dick Clark Productions.
I mean, they do the Golden Globes, American Music Awards, New Year's, well, New Year's Rockin' Eve, of course.
They don't do the Golden Globes, I don't think.
Yes, they do.
They sure do.
Dick Clark Productions produces the Golden Globes.
STX Entertainment.
Let's see, anything else we'd actually know here?
Well, they also have their hands in all the big Hollywood studios.
Yeah, Cirque du Soleil.
They own all that.
What?
Yes, they own the Cirque du Soleil.
When did the Chinese buy out Cirque du Soleil?
Yeah, they bought them out last year.
They acquired a majority stake for $1.5 billion.
Not bad for a bunch of people running around in tights.
That's pretty good.
But we did have some actual stuff happen.
Before we get to, I'm sure you have a report of the president's new stand-up routine.
I have the Minnesota stand-up routine where he was doing his, I think, a little better than the other one.
His new set.
Yeah, we'll get to that right after we go through the China stuff.
Because apparently it was very underreported.
The president did do an Oval Office presser.
On the matter, that we've reached some form of agreement with the Chiners.
We've come to a deal pretty much subject to getting it written.
It'll take probably three weeks, four weeks, or five weeks.
As you know, we're going to be in Chile together at the big summit.
And maybe it'll be then, or maybe it'll be sometime around then.
But we've come to a deal on intellectual property.
Financial services.
A tremendous deal for the farmers.
A purchase of from 40 to 50 billion dollars worth of agricultural products.
To show you how big that is, that would be two and a half, three times what China had purchased at its highest point thus far.
So they were purchasing 16 or 17 billion at the highest point, and that'll be brought up to 40 billion to 50 billion.
So I'd suggest the farmers have to go and immediately buy more land and get bigger tractors.
They'll be available in John Deere and a lot of other great distributors.
On sale now!
Go down to Honest Joe's Tractor Sales!
Quickly, before we write this all down that it turns out maybe a little different.
But we're taking the purchase of agricultural products from 40 to 50 billion, meaning in that neighborhood from 40 to 50 approximately billion.
And what they've been doing now, I believe, is about 8 billion, right?
Right now it's 8.
The other thing I will say is over the last two weeks, a lot of purchases have started going back to our farmers.
And you've been doing a lot of business with us, which we appreciate very much.
You know, there's nothing like a little bit of fresh Steve Pchenik meat when something like this happens.
In fact, I heard about it from Pchenik's YouTube channel before anyone reported on it.
Washington Post has something on it today, actually from yesterday.
Well, I think it's because you don't have to wait for clearance.
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
Control had not issued clearances yet.
So, Pachenik, a two-parter for him, two clips, because he's always long, but I just cut a little bit in the beginning and then the end.
First, he really was lauding praise over everybody on the team.
This is Dr.
Pachenik, and I want to give great kudos to Trump.
Kudos!
To Mnuchin, to Ross, to Lithgow, O'Brien, to President Xi, to Vice Premier Li, and all the members of the negotiating team on both sides.
It was an amazing moment today.
Phase one of negotiations had been successful, as I predicted.
Instead of going head-to-head in a conflict, which is not what Trump wanted, it's not what I wanted, and it's not what Republicans wanted, We instead went into a negotiation that was very difficult.
And at times he thought and I thought it wouldn't continue.
But I had complete faith in Trump and his team because I knew that historically these were not politicians.
These are businessmen.
Every time you think that Trump is acting irrationally or erratically or he's not appropriate, I want you to think about one thing.
He's a businessman.
He's not a politician.
The people he appointed, and I got to give kudos to Kushner and Ivanka Melania through having brought up the whole team and supporting that team because it was not easy.
This is a business family.
This is a family that deals in numbers and outcomes.
And I want to particularly thank And they resolved it at a propitious time.
The Keeper and I were talking about Trump and his attitude.
I didn't see all of it.
In fact, I had to watch most on the rerun of his speech in Minneapolis.
But truly rich, successful people, you know them too, John.
I'll mention one, Hearst, because you've talked about him before.
These people are typically very crass, very rude, complete assholes, and that's just who they are.
They're the opposite in demeanor of politicians, which is...
Well, I will say, let me say this in defense of Hearst.
He's the least of that type of guy that I know.
I've seen him be a douchebag.
I've witnessed it.
Of course, he was saying something to Ron Bloom, which is, you know, is of the same ilk.
But I've seen it.
I've seen it.
There are guys that are way, way beyond.
The best example of this, I think, there was a 60 Minutes and one of these specials that was done on DeLorean.
Oh, John DeLorean, sure.
Who was married to this supermodel, and he was a big shot, and they did this thing, and it was just profane from the get-go.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just like, oh, and I've run into these guys.
All they do is cuss.
Yes.
Yeah.
But they're just crass.
They don't care.
Or they certainly, they speak like a lot.
Oh, yeah.
In a board meeting or something, it's like, oh, we'll get to fire.
Yeah, well, too bad.
Yeah.
And that's what Pachanek is saying, and most people don't have that experience, but it's interesting to note how we love these big business families when they're dramatized.
You know, the Ewings, you know, in Dynasty.
We had the Carringtons.
We have now, we have Succession, which is a huge hit.
We love these dynastic family business people when they're dramatized and we root for them and hate them at the same time.
And when they're dramatized, they downplay it.
Exactly.
So, just so you know, that's what you're seeing and that's what you're getting, but results are either achieved wildly or failures are, of course, massive.
And that's the same with Trump.
He's had wild successes and massive failures.
Now to the details.
Pachanek knows a little bit more than what the president announced at that Oval Office presser.
Now let me explain to you what elements we've agreed on.
Number one, we've agreed on technology transfer.
That means that the United States and China will work on artificial intelligence, on the 5G, on every other component that we have with various companies, including Huawei.
And other companies where we need to exchange our intellectual property and their intellectual property.
That doesn't sound like a win to me, but okay.
It sounds like, what is Huawei?
That's pretty funny.
That's the Steve Pachanek pronunciation of Huawei.
Our intellectual property and their intellectual property.
So intellectual property comes into the technology transfer.
That means that whatever we have in the narrative and content and whatever we have in science application, we will also share with the Chinese.
Number three, we have an agriculture relationship, which means that we went from five or eight billion dollars in exports from the Midwest to about 50 billion in soybeans and other products.
That means Nebraska.
Minnesota, Idaho, Utah, all the Midwestern countries are going to do exceedingly well, and as Trump says, so will John Deere and our farmers, so they will start exporting a lot.
The important thing to understand, we have financial instruments that will do very well, and we will have transparency.
That means that China cannot Whoa!
That's new!
All the credit card companies?
Hmm.
That's a pretty big deal for the financial sector.
It's going to take a while to break down.
Five weeks to write down the deal, as we heard.
It takes a while to get it written up.
We'll see.
Yeah, figuring out what the good and bad sides of this are.
I mean, there's got to be...
The Chinese aren't stupid.
They didn't sign off on something that they can't benefit from.
And as I was researching some of this and thinking about it, personally, I'd like to make clear that when I say, you know, the Chiners, the Chinese, you know, I'm like any country.
I'm really talking about their leaders.
They're not representatives, but they're leaders.
And, you know, we've talked about differences in Chinese culture, and they, wow, man, they really have a different vibe about personal space, and as has been explained to us, that's because there is no notion of personal space in China.
And I actually...
You find that out when you get in a queue.
Yes.
Yeah, when they cut in line and push you aside.
But today's modern Chinese, or I'd say the Chinese who are leaving, it was really this guy who was in Hong Kong that made me realize that, you know, they're just young people like us fighting.
Donald Trump don't trust China!
China is an asshole!
I mean, that did it for me.
So they got humor.
They got something going on over there.
I don't think the guy was trying to be funny.
Be honest about it.
Quiet now.
Trying to make nice with our Chinese donors.
Getting into so much trouble.
Which one?
Who?
Which one of the one?
Now the joke is who.
When I say who, yes, who?
Who's the guy?
John Hu.
Anyway, so that's it.
I thought a fruitful, interesting update on the Chiners.
And then the president went to...
Now, Thursday night, after the show, I rallied, and I went to the first local 512 meetup in Austin, South Austin.
Oh, yes.
How did that go?
It was actually really nice.
Sir Scott of the Armory had organized it, and...
About, I think, 18, 19 people there.
And it was made very clear to me that it's always going to be on a Thursday because they really don't want me there.
That was the interesting part.
They don't want me to feel obliged that I have to show up to every single meetup.
Well, you would never feel that way anyway.
No, but I kind of appreciate it.
So now when I go, it's like, oh, now it's a super big treat, and I was fried.
So now you could show up as a cameo.
Exactly.
In fact, you don't even want to pre-announce.
I don't even know if people expected me to show up yet.
I have a meet-up report for later.
Well, I read the report, and it seems as though they were unhappy that you showed up.
Despite Curry showing up, the vibe didn't change, I think was the verbiage.
I don't need some two-bit celebrity there.
Yeah, really.
Ex-VJ. Come on, man.
Send us Pauly Shore.
Get us something funny.
Exactly.
I do have a meet-up report later on.
We'll talk about that.
Sandra Bullock also lives in Austin, Texas.
She does have a house here.
I think she may live more in California, but she certainly has a house here.
And she's from here.
Let me think of the reason.
Unlike Jennifer Aniston, she is actually from here.
Aniston has a place.
She's moving there again.
For South Byte.
She's moving there.
And if you think about it, I thought about it.
You're an actress in Hollywood.
Most of your shoots are going to be in Vancouver or who knows where.
Why do you want to pay, especially if you're making like $5 million, $10 million, $20 million a year or more?
Why would you not want to have a place in a personal tax-free state that doesn't pay a state income tax?
Yeah.
You'd be nuts to be a California resident when you can have a nice place in Austin.
That's right.
That's right.
But, you know, Jen Aniston has made some bad choices, letting Brad Pitt go.
So, you know, she's not smart enough to actually own something in Austin.
It was because Angelina Jolie offered him perverted sex.
Sure, that's right.
And he went for it.
Well, then she should have countered.
Well...
Let's be honest about it.
Apparently she didn't have the chops.
So what I didn't get to see, although I saw it later, and I saw it the next day in Louisiana, which I think was similar in scope, but we have a bit of a format change now with the president's stand-up routine.
A whole new act.
Yeah, he's also bringing up local people, not just the politicians, but local, you know, like he had some Boy Scouts on stage.
Nah, it was a little different.
I thought there was something...
Local heroes on stage, I don't think he was bringing them up as often as he has now.
Well, I mean, he has changed, but this act is completely revamped to all new.
All new material!
All new material.
We were watching it get stale.
I mean, he was doing pretty much the same time.
Even Fox wasn't showing it in its entirety.
There was no danger.
You're like, oh, he's already said all this.
We needed something new, and I think he delivered.
I have a bunch of clips from the Minnesota speech.
And the thing is, it's obvious that there's some of this...
And by the way, the Lib Joes, I was going to print out some of the...
They're nuts.
They've gone completely over the top.
They just think that...
You can tell if you read the Washington Post and the New York Times, and that's all you ever read, the first paragraph of all their articles about Trump always start off with the guy's a corrupt prick.
Right.
Of course.
And I mean, it's like, that's your lead graph.
And so they go on from there.
And so these guys have sucked it up.
And they're all...
I'm almost at the...
You know, the one Lib Joe says...
He's quitting.
He's going to be resigning by Christmas.
So I'm putting that up for a bet.
And they both poo-poo my thinking that Hillary's jumping in to this day because they still haven't seen any counter information.
There's money to be made.
It has cooled down a bit around Hills.
So she needs to wait for this debate tomorrow and then strike.
The debate is the kicker.
Hey, I'm with you.
I'm with you.
I'm with you.
First of all, let's start with, not the speech itself, but Chris Hayes, the lesbian who runs that all in with Chris Hayes.
She had on this professor, Fried, who he sets it up.
In his male persona, he sets it up as the professor of some sort of fabulous conservative that is now turned on Trump because that's what they're all doing.
Everybody who's a conservative is turning on Trump.
And so you get to listen to this guy.
So I looked this guy up.
He's a professor, yes, and he used to be a conservative, but he was in the Reagan administration.
The guy's 80-something.
And so he was, I guess, a conservative.
But he was in the Obama administration.
He was a huge Obama supporter, refused to vote for John McCain, hated Romney.
Nothing wrong with that, but this is not a classic conservative you're going to roll out to slam Trump.
But I think what he had to say was kind of very typical of what the Lib Joes are thinking.
And this clip is Professor Fried on Trump.
Mr.
Fried, you're a sort of conservative legal legend, I think it's fair to say.
I mean, you have had many students throughout the years.
You are extremely highly regarded.
You have been part of American conservatism for a very long time.
What are the conversations you have with people that you would consider, you know, for lack of a better word, cheekily fellow travelers, about what is happening with this president and the rule of law?
They are horrified.
It is the very opposite of the great Republicans.
The great Republicans like Ronald Reagan, like Dwight Eisenhower.
Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower speaking the way this man speaks?
Or Lincoln?
Or Teddy Roosevelt?
This man is ignorant.
And foul-mouthed.
Wow!
You know, this guy needs a little lesson on Eisenhower.
Eisenhower was the president who warned us in his farewell speech to be careful of the unmitigated power of the military-industrial complex.
Well, he wasn't foul-mouthed, even though he was to his troops.
Sure he was.
But he didn't do it in his speeches, and I guess everything, it's all, that's what's important, to be disingenuous.
Anyway, this guy, you know, I was thinking, follow him out.
And what Trump has done, he's added ass to And bullshit.
Yes, yes.
As two words to his vocabulary that he uses in the Trump stump speech.
And whereas children who grew up during the Bill Clinton era learned that blowjobs are not sex.
They're not sex.
Now bullshit is not a bad word you can't say in public.
It is an approved word.
But it's foul mouth to grow into this old fart.
Okay, so listen.
There's a variety.
They're all short, except one.
Let's start with...
This is Trump catching himself going off script, and this is where he's a moment of self-realization because he does have a prompter up there, which people should call him out on because he made a big stink about it because Obama uses him.
But he doesn't stick with the prompter with these impromptu speeches.
The audience is...
Really going nuts over everything he says.
And he comes to this self-realization thing.
It was pretty funny.
This is Trump catches self going off script.
But if you refuse to bow or bend to the Washington swamp, which I could do very easily, I'd be much more popular.
Folks, it would be so much easier.
I gotta tell you, isn't it much better when I go off script?
Isn't that better?
So much better.
Yeah.
So he gives a little reaffirmation because he does go off script.
Now here he is talking about Pelosi and he's really irked with her and all these investigations which are really slowing him down.
They're designed to slow him down but he's irked with it.
So he goes right and he gets pretty insulting.
When Nancy Pelosi was on television the other day I have to say, I have to say, I was very proud of George Stephanopoulos.
I was very proud.
It's not often.
She said, no, no.
Shifty Schiff told the truth when he said that.
Stephanopoulos said, no, no, it wasn't the truth.
It was a false sentence.
No, no, it was the truth.
He said, no.
And then she really believes it.
So she's either got one of two problems.
She's either really stupid, okay, or she's really lost it, or maybe there's a certain dishonesty in there.
But they smear you.
They spy on you.
And they target your friends, your family, your staff for harassment, for abuse, for destruction.
Now, I noticed that in that little bit, he does a little bit of little acting, but he started to do more schtick, as I like to call it.
And he'll go into characters, and he doesn't do voices yet.
But that's coming.
I don't know if it's going to get here by the election.
I thought he came pretty close with some things I heard.
I thought he was doing a bit.
Well, he does this bit between Strzok and Lisa Page.
Yes.
Where he's mimicking them having a conversation.
And he goes into them saying how much they love each other.
And he goes on and on.
And he's doing kind of characters, but he's not...
He could take it a step up by adding a little female vocalization going, you know, talking like, you know, it's just in a higher pitch voice to make it a little more obvious what he's up to.
But here is the 34 seconds of part of that little...
I guess it would be a drama.
It's a dramatization of text messages sent between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
I love you, Peter.
I love you too, Lisa.
Lisa, I love you.
Lisa!
Lisa!
Oh God, I love you, Lisa.
And if she doesn't win, Lisa, we've got an insurance policy, Lisa.
We'll get that son of a bitch out.
We got an insurance policy.
And we're living through the insurance policy.
That's what it is.
The phony Russia hoax.
Lisa, I love you.
Now, the do-nothing Democrat con artists and scammers are getting desperate.
The whole bit was really quite funny.
This is a part of the do-nothing Democrats.
I don't know if this is a redundancy or not, but this is...
Trump do-nothing Democrats.
The do-nothing Democrat extremists have gone so far left that they believe it should not be a crime to cross our border illegally, and it should be a crime to have a totally appropriate, casual, beautiful, accurate phone call with a foreign leader.
I don't think so.
Now, the last bit I have here is when he goes after Biden.
I think it can stand from, we can do, we can start with this Where is Hunter clip, which is 16 seconds.
Oh yeah, that's his new thing.
Oops, hold on.
There we go.
By the way, whatever happened to Hunter?
Where the hell is he?
Where's Hunter?
Hey fellas, I have an idea for a new t-shirt.
I love the cups, but let's do another t-shirt.
Where's Hunter?
Now, in general, it's like, who gives a crap?
But I think he's making the point that the news has not done anything with Hunter.
I mean, I think it is.
Has anyone interviewed him?
I don't believe so.
Well, they're talking about him all the time.
Why don't somebody go and interview him?
I think that's what Trump was referring to.
It's like, how come he's just not on the scene?
No one's talking to him.
And you don't see anyone staking out his house.
Now, I have these last two clips, and it's about Biden and Hunter with some very snide remarks.
I can't remember the order now.
Is there a time code on those?
No.
But I think the Hunter is the first one, if I recall.
Yeah, okay.
Well, let's start with the Hunter clip.
This is pretty funny.
Hunter!
Being examined by sleepy-ass Chuck Todd or some of these people.
Hunter, it's so great that you're here, sir.
Hunter, I know they're giving you approximately $168,000 a month.
I hear they paid you a big check of $3 million.
I just want to speak on behalf of NBC, who's absolutely one of the worst.
I just want to tell you.
Hunter.
Hunter.
I just want to tell you, I couldn't be happier for you and your family, and I know you don't know anything about energy, and I know it's an energy company, but I think they made a great deal, Hunter.
And I'm dealing with people right now, they're tough as hell, those Chinese negotiators.
And Hunter, who's not too smart, Hunter.
He goes in, he has a meeting, he walks out.
in his fund with $1.5 billion.
With a B, $1.5 billion.
These aren't the same Chinese negotiators that I'm dealing with, I can tell you.
These are not the same ones, but we are doing very well in that negotiation.
Now think of it.
Where's Hunter?
Okay, get it.
So where is Hunter?
I want to see Hunter.
Hunter, you know nothing about energy.
You know nothing about anything, frankly.
Hunter, you're a loser.
Why did you get $1.5 billion, Hunter?
Hey, where's the hum?
What did you record that off of?
The hum is outrageous.
That was in the feed.
Really?
That's shit.
What a horrible feed.
Somebody screwed up.
It was in Minnesota.
Hello.
You know, once again, we had one of these phony baloney virtue signal statements from Prince's estate.
Oh, yeah.
I've got clips on that.
We'll get to that because I'm going to specifically have you do your bit.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Okay, good.
Good, good.
Yeah, I can hold on to that.
So this is how it fits.
This is the one where he goes from that calling Hunter a loser.
I mean, if you have a sense of humor and yeah, it's unprecedented.
It's unprecedented as well.
Check the calendar, people.
It's 2019.
It's not 1860.
Oh, when they used to duel it out?
Oh, yeah, there you go.
There's that.
They used to actually shoot at each other.
Who did that?
Wasn't that a president who dueled with a candidate?
I think Hamilton got into a beef with someone.
So here we go with...
This is the last clip I have of this, because it's...
They're all short, but he's on a roll the whole time.
He's got the audience in the palm of his hand.
He's getting big laughs.
He's got the same setup.
Behind him, there's always one or two, but usually at least one big smile blonde.
That's the only way to describe her.
Very attractive.
He was kind of fuzzy.
The shot was not good in this particular.
Did you see the multiple jobs, jobs, jobs banners everywhere?
Yeah.
Oh my god.
I just want people to know that we've been saying jobs, jobs, jobs for what?
Eight years?
The day Pelosi first said it.
Yeah.
And yes, jobs, jobs, jobs.
So here he is, and he's just going to give a little needle to Biden.
And I think Biden is suffering from it because he has, he doesn't look, he looks irked.
I mean, he really looks mad when he speaks now.
It's going to be fun to watch him in the next debates.
Because he's going to go off topic completely and go completely after Trump.
And I think a lot of it has to do with this.
And this also got the attention of the deep state.
And your father was never considered smart.
He was never considered a good senator.
He was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's ass.
It's unpresidential, but oh so funny.
He's ruining the country.
I don't know.
It's just horrible.
He can't stand up to make a comeback.
I gotta tell you, I'm old.
I'm 55.
It's old for a lot of people's standards.
I find it beautiful.
I find it very funny.
We used to be the jokers of the world.
We lost our humor.
The Lip Joes are beside themselves.
Yes, I know people are outraged by this.
How can you speak like this?
It's not normal.
No, it's not.
But, I don't know.
It's also not normal to go so ballistic over it.
You know, Obama had really, really, really good, intelligent, sophisticated, deep-digging jokes with fabulous timing.
They were just different jokes.
But he could be just as crass and...
Yeah, but he understated his crassness, which I guess is very British.
It's more acceptable to the elites, which are British in context.
But Obama would do some nasty stuff.
Well, neat, I remind you.
Well, at least I became President Trump when they were doing the correspondence dinner.
Oh yeah, he was blasting Trump with some very nasty material.
Yeah, but it was a justified dig at Trump.
Trump had been a dick about the birther stuff.
So what?
So what?
We're all such assholes in real life, but oh no, this has to be different.
You know what's funny is this lack of presidential.
It's not presidential.
It's not presidential.
And they say that on the one hand.
On the other hand, they say he wants to be king.
He wants to be king.
He wants to be a dictator.
But being presidential and being a big phony, not being himself, is really more...
It appeals to more of the people that would like a monarchy.
There's something, there's a disconnect.
Okay, well, you know what?
While you're on that, this is good.
I told you I was doing some old research.
The thing about Syria really bothered me because this is another huge issue that the Washington establishment has.
Most of the mainstream media, M5M, including Fox, it's like, oh my God, we can't do this.
This is completely wrong.
How could I do that?
And, you know, we've been doing this show for a while, and I have a reasonable memory when it comes to things I've tangibly held in my hands, or I guess not completely tangibly, but I've recorded clips, I've written the titles for clips, you know, you remember stuff after a while.
And there was, and we followed this very closely, and there was a promise, and that's why I don't understand why people are talking about our troops, pulling our troops.
We don't have troops in Syria.
We do not have combat troops in Syria, better known as boots on the ground.
I do not foresee a scenario in which boots on the ground in Syria American boots on the ground in Syria would not only be good for America but also would be good for Syria.
I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria.
I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan.
With respect to the situation on the ground in Syria We will not be placing U.S. ground troops to try to control the areas that are part of the conflict inside of Syria.
The resolution we've submitted today does not Call for the deployment of U.S. ground combat forces to Iraq or Syria.
So then, of course, we sent troops to Syria.
But it wasn't really troops.
It was special advisors.
And the much-discussed Jim Acosta was in the press room making waves back in the day for good old Josh there.
Which is this president, this White House, the officials here at this White House repeatedly...
Over and over again, made it clear to the American people that there would be no combat role for U.S. troops fighting ISIS. That appears to be changing.
Not only is there this announcement that you're talking about today, which you say they won't be involved in a combat role, but you're not ruling out the possibility that they may be involved in some sort of combat operation.
But on the Iraq side, you have Pentagon officials this week saying, we're in combat.
So, I'm just, it would be great if we just have a moment of clarity here, and you can acknowledge that, yes, this mission is changing.
It is not what it was said it was going to be at the onset of this.
I mean, I just think that's clear.
To say that, Jim, would only confuse the situation.
The fact of the matter is, the mission that the Commander-in-Chief has given our military personnel in Iraq, and now in Syria, is a train, advise, and assist mission.
And we've gone to great lengths to make clear that that in no way diminishes the amount of risk that our men and women in uniform will be facing.
We've also been quite clear that there actually have been situations where combat boots have been on the ground inside of Syria.
We've been quite candid about that.
The President ordered a mission involving U.S. military personnel putting boots on the ground inside of Syria to try to rescue American hostages that have been taken by ISIL. That occurred more than a year ago.
But still, there's no combat boots on the ground.
Somehow we have thousands of troops boots on the ground now that Trump, the horrible man, is taking away so the Kurds will get slaughtered.
But we have no boots on the ground.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes, we have to go back to Admiral Kirby, who was answering questions from Matt Lee and Guyane Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-chan.
And there was never this, you know, there was never this no boots on the ground.
I don't know where this keeps coming from.
I'm just curious if this is like part of some kind of devious grand strategy to say one thing and then do the complete opposite of it.
I just, I don't see it that way.
For months and months and months, the mantra from the president and everyone else in the administration has been no boots on the ground.
No, that is not true.
What?
It's just not true, Matt.
It is?
What?
It's just not true.
It's true.
No, it's not.
All options are on the table except boots on the ground.
That was the...
I never said that.
Can the president send any number of special forces without calling them ground troops?
They are not ground troops in the sense that they are not conventional ground troops conducting combat operations on their own.
The special forces being sent to Syria are going to be engaged in combat.
Their job would be in keeping with the original 50, which was advise and assist.
There's no point in arguing the boots-on-the-ground rhetoric.
It's absolutely no point.
I'm not disputing the fact that we have troops on the ground and there weren't boots.
There we go!
Yes!
Now we got to the point!
So I don't know why everyone's all up in arms.
There's no troops there.
There's only advise and assist.
We've advised.
We've assisted.
We can step back now.
People forget very quickly, but not your no agenda show.
We have a long memory, especially when somebody goes...
Ape shit and digs up all this old stuff.
Yeah, it's easy to do.
We have a whole search engine just for it.
Yeah, well, that's actually the benefit of doing something for a long time.
And value for value.
We've got, you know, it's all because Dave Jones started the Freedom Controller in structured XML data.
Because I output the show notes as OPML, it can be pulled into anything.
And it's served us quite well.
Anyway.
These are functional technologies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's our version of AI. Very artificial.
Yeah, it's right.
It's a microservice.
That's the problem.
It'll all fall down if one little thing breaks.
The whole No Agenda show will fall apart.
I don't know.
I just wanted to remind people that...
And, you know, Trump could have easily have said, we're not pulling any troops out.
We got advisors.
Obama said it.
It would have been much smarter, I think.
Yeah.
Trump's advisors...
They're not up to par.
They're all ready for their lives.
I mean, you're going to be stunned when you hear the stuff that the Libjos have written.
Stunned.
Well, I got to say, I read this indictment from the Federal Election Committee of the two Ukrainians.
The two bozos.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, it looks pretty shady, those guys.
They were donating to committees, they're donating to state elections, and mainly to get weed licenses.
That's the funniest thing of it.
No one's talking about that.
There was one clip that mentioned it, but I thought that was funny.
Yeah, they're trying to get weed licenses.
Absolutely.
Want weed licenses.
Okay.
Yeah, and they use a credit card.
This is exactly what every campaign does.
Obama's foreign credit card receipts were astronomical.
So yeah, throw these guys in jail.
Absolutely.
Makes Rudy Giuliani look like a shitheel.
Well, you know, Giuliani's always been a douchebag.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, you know, he's not going to go to jail or anything.
Why not?
Just a good backstory on the Giuliani Associates.
This is the backstory from Democracy Now!
Two associates of President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have been arrested and charged with campaign finance violations.
The men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested at Dulles International Airport Wednesday night trying to board a one-way flight to Vienna where That's interesting.
I didn't really see that spelled out in the indictment.
Well, that's one of the things that they say that...
Well, a lot of the stuff's not spelled out.
Just so you know, the indictment is purely about the election campaign contribution fraud, which is clear from...
By the way, there are three...
I think it's five.
These are only two of the five.
Four of them are U.S. citizens.
One was a citizen or wasn't at some point, but they were born in Ukraine.
Yeah.
But the only thing I could find in this indictment was the illegal campaign donations and the weed licensing.
I don't know anything about pressuring.
Maybe it's in there.
Maybe I'll look again.
Yeah, look again.
But I didn't see that.
Well, the thing, of course, this ambassador, nobody liked her anyway.
And so Trump ended up getting rid of him.
They made a big fuss about it, but doesn't when a new president comes in, don't they usually put their own ambassadors in all over the place anyway?
Yeah, and it's always so.
So why is this a big deal?
Well, because now you get to say out loud, because so-and-so donated a million dollars, he or she is ambassador, which is exactly how every president does it.
That's the whole idea.
For example, a lot of the big donors, massive donors, especially in the Democrat side, they only donate to get an ambassadorship.
And you want Paris, you want London, you want one of these.
That's the ambassadorship you want.
Yeah.
I can tell you a major Silicon Valley guy that you know, I know, we both know, from Kleiner Perkins, who keeps betting on the wrong horse.
Over and over again, millions and millions of dollars.
He keeps doing it.
And I said, what is he giving her the money for?
Why is he donating to this guy?
Well, he expects if the guy wins, he's going to get the ambassador to France.
I saw on the Forbes richest 400 list, which came out this week, John Doerr has $8 billion personally, according to the list.
Yeah.
Eight billion dollars.
That's a lot of money.
Then it all goes to Democrats.
Yeah, well, that's fine.
But he still doesn't have an ambassadorship.
No, he's not going to get one either because he can't pick a winner.
Yeah.
But he's probably all in on Kamala, for all we know.
Who's the worst?
Just play the quick Kamala clip.
Just a quick aside, unless you want to go to donations.
No, no, no.
Let's do a quick Kamala.
We'll see you, Senator.
Thank you for joining us.
Appreciate it.
How are you?
How are you?
Thank you guys.
And my pronouns are she, her, and hers.
She, her, and hers.
Mine too.
Alright.
Big, big props to the Cuomo kid for that.
Very funny.
Mine too.
But what doesn't translate in audio is when she said, my pronouns are T-H-H-H-H-H, and she looked at the audience and she did one of her, uh-huh, yeah, that's right, I got pronouns, uh-huh, that's right, my pronouns, I know, I know we got all the pronouns, just address me with my pronouns.
You know, she hasn't pulled herself far enough away from the black community.
She pulls this bullshit, which is like, oh, well, I'm glad you told us, Kamala, because we had no idea.
I thought you were a guy.
You know, there was something I wanted to play.
Maybe it's appropriate here, because I presume you're not going to do the whole diversity thing, or you want to do that before the break, or do you want to come back?
What diversity thing?
Well, the CNN town hall.
I presume you got some more clips.
Is that all you got from that thing?
No, I got two.
I got the other one, which is the transgender person going nuts.
Well, let's just set this up for a second.
This aired as competing programming to the president's speech in Minneapolis.
And, of course, the next day I go look at the ratings...
I mean, I don't know why they're doing this.
The whole night was the lowest of all the cable channels.
Fox had an average of 3.7 million viewers during the president's Minneapolis speech, and CNN was just around a million viewers, and 325,000 in the target demo.
So, you know, it's...
Why are they doing this?
I mean, they clearly must not care about ratings.
And they had all the superstars on.
It was all the candidates.
They're doing what they're told.
Big celebs.
Yeah, but it's suicide.
I think...
I mean, I picked one or two clips from it because I figured you might have a few.
What do you have?
I have the one good clip.
And I also have a little game we can play.
Okay, well let me play my clips and then we'll go into yours and your game.
How does that sound?
Sounds good to me.
Okay, so we'll start with Joe.
Who just, you know, he has a little bit of the Trump sickness where he's dropping whole words and trying to keep the story flowing and just omits entire sentences.
Trump doesn't do it so much that it's annoying.
You're doing it right now.
You're thinking of Ron Paul.
You're doing it right now.
Well, I'm thinking of Ron Paul in my head, and Ron Paul will just...
He'll drop whole sentences.
Right.
But now Biden is doing the same thing.
And this is just 27 seconds of what went on there.
It's normal.
It's normalized.
It's not anything strange.
It's not strange.
That's the generic point.
And the more people know that, the more they understand it.
Remember, Anderson, back 15, 20 years ago, we talked about this in San Francisco.
It's all about gay bathhouses.
It's all about round-the-clock sex.
Come on, man.
He's looking at Anderson Pooper.
He's like, gay, gay, gay, gay.
Pooper's like backing off each time he says that.
Gay sex bathhouses.
Holy mackerel.
Was Biden in the bathhouse with Anderson?
What's he talking about?
Hey, Anderson, remember?
Remember when we were in the bathhouses in San Francisco?
It sounds a bit like it.
Gay sex, you know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, here we go.
Remember Anderson back 15, 20 years ago?
Hey, remember Anderson?
We talked about this in San Francisco.
It's all about, well, you know, gay bathhouses.
It's all about round-the-clock sex.
It's like, come on, man.
But what is he actually saying?
He's trying...
And I understand what he's...
Because I can decipher him just like Trump.
Why don't you tell me?
Because I have no idea.
What he's trying to say is, it's okay to be gay.
It's okay to be whatever you want.
It's okay to be transgender.
That's what he's saying.
And the way he's trying to say that is...
That's the worst way of saying it.
He's saying it's 2019.
Remember Anderson?
Back in the day...
And I think this is what he really meant to say.
Back in the day is 20 years ago, not 10, 15.
Well, he was...
No, it was 15 years ago.
And, you know, Joe Biden only...
2004, the bathhouses were shut down in San Francisco in 2004 completely.
But the Obama administration, through Joe Biden, he was the one...
It just came out.
I didn't mean anything by it.
Through Joe Biden.
Joe Biden did an interview and said, yo, well, I've reassessed my thinking on same-sex marriage.
The Friday before Obama was going to announce this big change, he stole Obama's thunder from him.
Which pissed Obama off and he's still mad about it.
Of course he is.
And now here's Joe going, hey, hey, people thought gays were just like, has sex and bad.
No, man.
No, man.
It's normal now.
You remember, don't you?
Don't you remember Warren Anderson?
You remember it was just sex and gay bad.
Sad, man.
Sad, Joe Biden.
Okay, then we have this is, oh yeah.
This was Beto O'Rourke, who, and I believe this is in the backdrop of a forthcoming Supreme Court decision over Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which we discussed, the hearing was held on October 8th, and I guess we don't have a ruling yet, and the question is, can a company fire you for being gay?
Now, that is not any question that is addressed in Title VII. It says you can not discriminate between male and female.
So if you fire some guy because he sleeps with guys, you have to also fire a woman if she sleeps with women.
It's that stupid, but I'm telling you that's what the law is.
The law says you cannot interpret this law any differently.
If you want to change it, let's do that.
But the interpretation is not something that can be...
You can't derive that from the actual written text.
It's only about sex, not sexual preference or gender.
And...
Yeah, I think employers need protection too.
The way this is turned around though is, I was fired for being gay!
That may not necessarily be exactly what happened.
But you can easily use that excuse.
And maybe someone was fired for being gay.
I wouldn't visit that business' business anymore, but I think it's still their business.
Anyway, that's what it was about, and Beto has his remarks about companies and organizations.
This is from your LGBTQ plan, and here's what you write.
This is a quote.
Freedom of religion is a fundamental right, but it should not be used to discriminate.
Do you think religious institutions, like colleges, churches, charities, should they lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage?
Yes.
There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone or any institution, any organization in America that denies the full no tax break for anyone or any institution, any organization in America that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights And so as president, we're going to make that a priority, and we are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans.
Congressman, thank you.
Which, I mean...
It would be great if these same organizations weren't ageist and don't hire people based upon age, which is rampant throughout all industries.
Oh yeah.
You can take it from us.
We were already unhirable.
We're not hireable because we're too old.
Especially in the Silicon Valley scene.
What you got on...
Well, I have this one where the transgender woman comes out and she goes nuts.
This was actually compiled by one of the networks.
And this leads me to a kind of a...
There's two different people that were kind of attacked by some transgender that comes out.
And this is the transgender at nine and Warren and Cuomo clip.
Play it.
Oh, hold on a second.
Ah, yes, I got it.
...and his mom, Mimi, who's an advocate for transgender youth and active with the human rights campaign.
Jacob is an elementary school student from Massachusetts, likes to play hockey.
Oh, no, wait, no, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Okay.
This is not what I was thinking.
I have another one here.
This is a good clip, though, and I have to set it up, though.
They bring on this little girl who's become a transgender boy, and the kid is nine, and the mom is there as a, the mom, and we know people that, I know those people around here, She proclaims herself as a transgender advocate.
And the kid is nine.
It's a cute little boy, but it's really a girl, apparently.
But we don't really know the details of that.
And it seems a little aggressive to start doing hormones on a kid who's not fully developed.
But she's good with it.
And apparently so is Elizabeth Warren, who just...
It sucks up this question.
This is the question and answer period.
And this is...
I found it disturbing, personally.
...and his mom, Mimi, who is an advocate for transgender youth and active with the Human Rights Campaign.
Jacob is an elementary school student from Massachusetts, likes to play hockey.
Jacob.
All right, Jacob.
My name is Jacob, and I'm a nine-year-old transgender American.
My question is...
All right, Jacob.
What will you do in your first week as president to make sure that kids like me feel safer in schools?
And what do you think schools need to do better to make sure that I don't have to worry about anything but my homework?
Oh, I like that question, Jacob.
How did she answer it?
She just went on with one of her spiels about, you know, bullying and the rest.
It wasn't really that interesting, but I just found that the appearance...
Of a little nine-year-old that has been transitioned at that age.
Well, here's my thinking on this.
If you're going to...
Help your child transition at this age, prepubescence, and the kid has either been told you're going to be bullied or has been bullied.
I think if the child is old enough for that, for the hormones that will stunt growth, then I also think in order to keep the child safe, you should train this child with a handgun and make the kid carry the handgun, pack in heat, So clearly old enough for all of this stuff, so give the kid a gun.
And that'll change everybody's view.
Yeah, that's gonna work.
I'm just saying.
What's wrong with it?
It's no less wrong than putting a kid on growth-stunting hormones.
And then getting a big round of applause from the audience for doing it.
Yeah, so I would say, hey...
That's what's disturbing.
And open carry.
I'm not talking concealed.
I mean, I want a big holster with a Glock 9.
Yeah.
Okay, so here's the one we're talking, the clip that I wanted to play.
This is complaints of...
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is the black trans woman.
This is from Democracy Now!
She clipped it and put a little package together.
This is the black trans woman.
Democratic presidential candidates attended a CNN-hosted town hall Thursday night focused on LGBTQ rights.
The event was repeatedly disrupted by activists demanding attention to the epidemic of violence against black and brown transgender women.
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was interrupted by activists holding a banner and chanting, Trans Lives Matter, as the openly gay mayor was being questioned by Anderson Cooper.
In another interruption, activist Blossom C. Brown took the mic from another audience member.
Let me tell you something.
Black trans women are being killed in this country.
And CNN, you have erased black trans women for the last time.
Let me tell you something.
Black trans women are dying.
Our lives matter.
I am an extraordinary black trans woman.
And I deserve to be here.
My black trans sisters that are here.
I am tired.
I am so tired.
Not one black trans woman has taken the mic tonight.
Not one black trans man has taken the mic tonight.
Yeah, I saw some of these clips, and I'm not quite sure exactly what the controversy was, other than apparently CNN did not schedule any black trans women to speak or to ask questions.
So that's the only thing.
And so that's why she's mad at CNN for erasing them, I guess.
I think so.
But in that clip, there was actually two that you could feel it spliced together.
The first one was with Buttigieg.
The second one was with another guy up there.
And that's part of the quiz.
I think you know who it is.
But he tried to do his normal thing of trying to assuage.
And he got like one small little bit of his voice in there.
And that was just enough to should be able to tell you exactly who this person was because...
Even when he just goes, uh, it's distinctive enough that you can tell who it is.
So I want you to get...
Now, it was in there.
You don't have to play the whole clip.
You can just play the little...
I clipped the one second where he tries to jump in.
Okay.
Tonight, you're...
Hold on.
Tonight, you're...
No, I know I'm trying to hear who it is.
Tonight, you're...
It sounds like Beto.
Right.
It was Beto!
Alright!
Yeah, it was Beto.
Yeah, I can hear that.
What did he want to say?
Did he actually say anything to her?
I don't know.
He never did interrupt her because she's rattled, prattling on her.
He doesn't like interrupting because it's rude.
It's rude, yes.
I think that, I don't know if it was the same woman, but I caught a funny clip from her, which I just thought was funny.
So I want to know, how is our next president?
No, this is a different one.
Yeah, this is different.
This sounded like a scripted question, and she was in the light in a good spot.
So I think that this was a question that she was allowed to ask.
So I want to know, how is our next president going to protect black trans folks?
That's what I want to know.
19 lives lost is one too many.
America deserves better, and we must do better.
Wow.
19 is one too many.
That's a good one, yes.
19 is one too many.
Well, that's kind of...
Well...
So...
Reverse logic there?
We have several trans women.
Women, for sure.
I know if we have trans men listening to the show.
I'd like to know, what exactly is the issue?
Are trans women, black trans women, being killed more often than white trans women, or more often than straight women?
I mean, I just want to know what the percentages are, and what's going on.
If there's a war against anybody, I want to know.
And who's doing it?
Is it white guys?
I want to know who's killing black trans women.
This is what pisses me off about it, is all this bitching and moaning, but no one tells me exactly what's happening.
It's like, oh yes, that's true.
I don't know.
Oh yes, oh yes, trans women.
Trans women, I want to know what's going on, so help me.
The community, if there is such a thing.
People within the groupings that we're discussing, someone in this audience knows exactly.
Yeah, Allie Jade.
She's the official no-agenda tranny.
Maybe she does.
That's how she labels herself, by the way.
Well, that's what she...
Yeah, she's the one who made a big fuss about us making a fuss about using the word tranny.
Yeah, transgender.
She's fine.
Well...
That's what she said.
Well, if she really had said it was fine, I would have made a joke about Tranny Oakley.
But, you see, it's not fine.
Because she said...
About what?
Never mind.
It was the kid and the gun.
It's a long story.
It's a callback.
It doesn't work anymore.
We'll cut this out of the show.
Put a mark there.
No reason.
With that, though...
I want to thank you for your courage.
And say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in coming out, John C. Dvorak!
Wow.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
Also, in the morning to all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
And in the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
You can join them.
If you just want to lurk a little bit, that's fine, too.
Go to noagendastream.com.
You can listen to our show live.
But there's always something streaming live at noagendastream.com.
We have, oh my God, just so many shows to listen to.
24 hours a day, seven days a day.
Like a jerk.
Say what?
Nothing.
But it really shows you what is possible with just people who are all kind of on the same page.
Like, hey man, let's just keep the amygdala small and let's have some fun.
And it's okay to troll each other.
I mean, I enjoy it to a certain extent.
So why don't you join in the fun?
Join us at NoAgendaStream.com.
Join in the trolling fun.
And a big, in the morning, too, Nick the Rat, who absolutely nailed it!
Not just nailed it on the artwork...
For episode 1180, 1180 shows, Isis in Oz was the title of that, and he made the most beautiful NBA go-away sneaker in the Republic of China's colors.
I thought when I saw it, I said it to you and you agreed.
We should make this shoe.
This is a commercially viable design.
Yes, we should make this shoe and sell it.
That shoe is looking good.
It is looking good.
It is.
It's a great design.
The colors are spot on.
I love the little logo on the tongue that says NBA go away.
Hey ho!
No.
Oh hey.
No, it doesn't work.
No, it would go, hey, hi-hi, hey-hey, ho-ho, the NBA has got to go.
Hey-hey, hi-hi, ho-ho, the NBA has got to go.
Yeah, that would be our entire campaign.
This is an exit strategy if I ever saw one, so if anyone has any friends in Vietnam...
Chinese flag shoe.
They can't even get the Betsy Ross shoe out.
I thought that was all promotion.
What are you talking about, Dvorak?
The time has come.
Yeah, okay, fine.
Hey, hey, ho, ho.
And besides these people, these people who always help us trolling and making artwork, we also have producers in our Value for Value network who send us very much needed funds so that we can pay the bills.
And this experiment has been working.
We've been Hanging in for 12 years.
Almost 12 years.
Yeah, until today.
Yeah, until today.
You're right.
We could have done a little better.
Can I just do the...
Can I briefly do the...
We only had a couple donations at the meetup.
I'd just like to do those real brief.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Because I do want to thank everyone who came up.
This was the local 512 meetup, and we'll have a report in the second segment.
Kevin Roa, who was there, $40.
Baron Gordon Walton.
Donated $140 for Catherine Walton's Damehood for today.
I don't know if Eric put that on the list.
And also, Rob in Jamaica from AwesomeEarns.com.
Remember I told you their story from the last Austin meetup?
Their house burned to the ground in a horrible fire.
And they rebuilt their life and they quit all their jobs and they just decided to do stuff with their hands and they started making custom urns for remains of people.
And they're getting incredibly successful.
People love having custom urns for their loved ones, it turns out.
AwesomeEarns.com.
They gave us a check for $33.33.
Of course, it was a good meet-up.
It's good to hang out with everybody.
I drank a beer.
I drank a beer.
You were wasted.
Yeah, after the show, I pretty much was.
Those are the donations, and we'll have a report later on.
Let's thank our executive producers.
Well, wait.
Only executive producers today?
No associates?
This is the second time within recent memory that we have no associate executive producers.
This is troubling.
This is not something that has happened.
Well, it's better than having nothing.
Well, true.
Bump up some guy who donated $150.
True, true.
Which has happened, but not this year.
Baronet Chris of North Austin, as a matter of fact, is at the top of the list with $333.
And he is in Austin.
Yeah!
So you must know him.
Was he at the meetup?
In celebration of my 58th trip around the sun on Monday, having seen Adam and fellow knights and dames at the South Austin meetup this past Thursday, I'll take some karma.
Two to the head, a smack in the mouth, and a Reverend Al Respict, bearing it, Chris of North Austin.
All right.
The long version.
He's getting lunch at Chipotle.
The Tortoise in the race.
Kim Kardashian, the Siganoid Weaver.
Our ESPICT.
They're all jitty with it.
Our ESPICT.
There's no real conflict.
Resist.
We much.
Resist.
We much.
We must.
And we will much.
About that.
Be committed.
You've got karma.
Alrighty.
And now we have a little, uh, we need a little thing.
Nussbaum!
Nussbaum!
I was ready for ya.
31415 from Grand Duke Nussbaum.
Today is my birthday, he says.
And with the blessing of the peerage committee, I would like to claim the title of Grand Duke Nussbaum.
I thought he already was a Grand Duke.
He was in abeyance.
In abeyance?
Well, now it's for real!
Nussbaum!
We'll place you right up there on the highest pedestal, Grand Duke Nussbaum.
And, you know, I'll bring in some extra hookers and blow and rent boys and chardonnay for you.
Thank you so much.
Sir Dave Earl of America's Heartland and Saudi Arabia.
$310.14.
Michael Angelo and Garibaldi.
He's referring to us.
Yes.
Donation in honor of my second favorite Italian, Signor Columbus, and the annual celebration of Italian Pride Day.
But it is also in honor of my favorite Italian, my old man, David Fugazotto.
David Fugizotto Sr., who shares it with this, with the day of his birth.
Who shares it with the day of his birth.
Is he indicating that Fugizotto's birthday is...
His dad.
His dad, Fugizotto Sr., shares his birthday with Sr.
Columbus.
Well, then, why isn't Fugizotto on the birthday list?
I mean, he has a lot of deconstruction to figure this out.
I think he is.
What do you mean?
I think he is on the birthday list.
Let me see.
He is?
Yeah.
Yeah, Sir Dave to his dad, Dave Fuguzotto.
Ah.
What point don't you get?
Whatever the case, give him a shout-out on his birthday segment.
I made it back from Ethiopia thanks to the travel karma, and alas, the place is apparently ungoverned.
No kidding.
It's completely without Uber.
And therefore, I had no Uber drivers with whom to discuss my entry into earldom.
And since they have a contentious and undecided and decidedly unwoke history of Italian colonization in the past, I feel I must refrain from forced recruitment.
I will, as Maxine says, stay woke!
Grazie a tutti for the sanity.
Keep up the great work.
A little karma, por favor.
Grazie mille.
Ciao.
Grazie mille.
Sir Dave, Earl of America's heartland in Saudi Arabia.
It's so odd to get all this Italian stuff from him being in Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia.
It's a very confusing note.
But that is the nature of many of our producers.
They're all over the world doing incredibly interesting things and have boots-on-the-ground reports from the most interesting places that you just won't get anywhere else.
You know what I'd like...
I agree, and I'd like to get a report from him about the new honoree for the Nobel Peace Prize, who is that character, is the Prime Minister of Eritrea.
Oh, really?
Eritrea, whatever you call it.
But Eritrea, who bumped – apparently everyone's all bent out of shape about this.
He bumped Greta off the podium.
I don't know if Greta had any chance.
Oh, no.
She was second.
I think she ran second.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah, it was pretty pathetic.
Well, Sir Dave, Earl of America's Heartland in Saudi Arabia, thank you.
Thank you, Grand Duke Nussbaum, and thank you, Baronet Chris of North Austin, for keeping us skimming by today.
It is incredibly appreciated, but you can tell it's the guys who have peerage who are coming in to help us.
There is 98.5% of the rest of you that clearly don't assign any value.
But some do, and we'll be thanking more of those later on in the second segment.
And you can join this experiment that we call the No Agenda Show.
It's your podcast.
All you have to do is go to the following URL with a handy jingle so you can remember what it is.
It couldn't get any easier.
Help us out for our next show, which will be on Thursday.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Water! Order!
Shut up, slave!
Shut up, slave!
Aw, super short segments.
Super, super short.
So you know you're getting spam when it's addressed to DNS at...
You got something addressed to DNS at Dvorak.org?
Yeah.
Emergency message from MailChimp.
Oh, no.
I didn't pay or something.
I think they sent three of them.
One to Dvorak.org, one to DNS at Dvorak.org and something else.
And it was, which is not the email address.
I mean, none of those were the email address I used for the account.
But I think they're just, do they assume everyone in the country, they're just mailing this out to everybody and they assume that if you happen to have a MailChimp account, you're going to fall for this gag?
Well, back in the day, when people sent mail and postcards, you could literally put Adam Curry New York and it would arrive at MTV. You were just like Santa Claus in the day.
That's right.
That's just how mail used to work.
Well, it still does to some extent.
I don't know if you can just do Adam Curry Austin.
I don't think that arrives anymore.
Well, that's because you're not a big shot anymore.
Thanks.
Who's this guy, Adam Curry?
You ever heard of him?
Yeah!
Fairly successful podcast.
He's on the best podcast in the universe.
He lives in this town somewhere.
Fairly successful.
Where do you think?
I don't know.
Fairly successful podcaster.
Let's just put general delivery.
Which is another trick that nobody uses anymore.
This I still think does work.
We could test it.
Okay.
The test, I could send you a note and you could have to go get it at the post office.
How do you address it?
It goes Adam Curry, General Delivery, Austin, Texas, and then the Austin, Texas post office and the post office ID. In other words, what's the zip code of that post office?
Okay.
And then you can go to the post office.
And you can ask them, is there any mail for me, general delivery for me?
Okay.
And they will go over to a box, which will be empty, except for one letter, which will be the one addressed to you, because nobody knows this.
I'm pretty sure this still works.
All right.
Well, let's try that out.
So address it to Adam Curry, general delivery, Austin.
I'm not going to give you a zip code, because I could give you a zip code, but that may not be...
I don't know if it makes any difference, so...
If there's 10 post offices in Austin, it's going to go to one of them.
How many are there, do you think?
I don't know.
We'll figure it out.
I will do this if you actually...
I actually would go check.
Yeah, I'll go check.
And for those of you who just want to send me brownies, it's P.O. Box 18209, Austin, Texas, 78760.
Well, there it is, 78760.
That's the zip code I'd use.
But now I made it easy for you.
See, now I have to go to that post office.
I could have said 78701 and it would have been a different post office.
Well, yeah, but isn't that the post office you're going to go to anyway to check your box?
I don't want to inconvenience you.
Yeah, the idea was they could just send it to me.
That's okay.
I'll bet you this.
I'll do two tests.
Now you've made it more complicated.
I'll bet you that if I wrote Adam Curry, General Delivery, Austin, Texas, with 78760, and people can do this.
Everyone can do it.
They would put it in your box.
Oh, okay.
That would be my guess, because your post office, at some point, they get enough mail, you know, it comes through, and they say, oh, this guy, oh, yeah, he's got a box.
Okay, all right, good.
Let's test it.
Yeah, we will.
I'm going to do that.
The post office has lots of features that people don't take advantage of.
Oh yeah, like...
Homeless could use the bug to this trick.
Incredibly fast service.
Only waited three months for a mailbox.
The actual box.
It didn't exist, but let's not go there.
Greta.
You mentioned Greta Thunberg.
She's punching back at people like you, John C. DeVore.
Me?
Yeah, people like you.
I'm a huge fan of Greta's.
No, you're not.
You said this is horrible.
I don't like that child.
You said these things.
You said these things, and here she's just...
Listen up, she's talking to you.
I don't understand why grown-ups would choose to mock children and teenagers for just communicating and acting on the science when they could do something good instead.
But I guess they must...
I feel like their worldview or their interests or whatever it is, is threatened by us and that we should take as a compliment that we are having so much impact that people want to silence us.
We've become too loud for people to handle so they try to silence us.
So we should also take that as a compliment.
She's complimenting her then.
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
Thanks for the compliments.
That's exactly what she said.
But now, after that little entrement, I have a clip from one of the co-founders of the Extinction Rebellion.
And I've been wanting to get some information on this outfit and find out what they're really thinking of.
Now, your general idea...
Of the protests, and some of them have been quite radical.
They like to shut down train stations and airplane terminals, but really shut them down by laying on top of stuff, and it's kind of annoying, and you just can't kick them off easily.
What are they actually protesting for, or what are they against?
What is their mission?
Well, I do have the clip of the founder claiming that a lot of this has to do with that we're all going to die.
Oh, where's this clip?
This is Extinction Rebellion co-founder.
This is the woman.
We have the exact same clip!
Oh, you found it on the website.
On the Guardian?
Oh, no.
I got off their website.
Oh!
Well, let me play mine first.
Okay.
And then see if...
Well, let me listen to yours.
Let me see what you need.
There's a code...
No, play yours first because I have the code.
I have a code in mine.
That really took me aback.
The only reason I made this clip...
Well, then I want to play yours first.
I'm going to go with yours first.
Maybe the same clip, I don't know.
Of all crises means that it's quite possible that all life on Earth, 97% of it, is going to go, and possibly in my children's lifetime.
97% of it?
What?
There's a lot of 97%!
Of all crises means that it's quite possible that all life on earth, 97% of it, is going to go, and possibly in my children's lifetime.
Conventional politics is...
is fucked.
It's finished.
The question is not what needs to happen and what the problems are.
The question is how do things change?
We've got an ongoing tradition of civil disobedience in this country.
When the suffragettes smashed windows, which is what they did, they weren't directly affecting democracy.
They were saying, we are angry and we demand our vote.
And every other form of reformist type of approach for women getting the vote had been tried and they hadn't succeeded.
Our complicity really is our silence and our separation from each other.
And so what we're doing in Extinction Rebellion is saying it's time to really come together and express our power.
Now, a couple of things.
She's advocating for violence.
Mm-hmm.
In a not-so-offhanded way.
And she makes the claim that within her child's lifetime, which means in the next, I don't know, the kid's probably, what, 10?
Let's say in the next 70 years.
Within the next 70 years, 97% of all life, all life, will be gone.
Does anybody in their right mind believe this?
I like the 97% because that's just now become a number you just throw out there because 97% of all scientists agrees.
Consentious, we all agree.
Yeah, 97% has been a provenly good number.
Yes.
Well, I have a very different clip.
I think it's the same woman.
Was that Gail Gadbrook?
Or Bradbrook?
Gail Bradbrook?
So she was interviewed, and she went into a little depth about this.
And what she says here, I believe, is actually the background for a lot of the issues that we're dealing with in our society today, which I shall explain after the clip.
Is it bakes in the insistence that there's a repair of the harm that happens, which includes compensating people, finding homes for people.
And actually, in order to do this repairing of the harm that needs to happen, you've got Sir David King, the former chief scientist of the UK, who's setting up a climate repair centre and saying that actually you can't even go to 1.5 degrees C. I hadn't heard that.
Climate Repair Center.
It's like the Pep Boys.
You just drive through.
Hey, can I have a little climate repair, Don?
Yeah, three guys with huge heads out front.
Climate repairs us!
Come on by, we'll repair that climate for you!
And saying that, actually, we can't even go to 1.5 degrees C. You know, the ice is already melting.
We're already over 410 parts per million.
What really needs to happen is we have to go into drawdown.
We have to be bringing carbon out of the atmosphere, and we can't wait for these magical technologies that are somehow going to suck the carbon out of the atmosphere in the future.
I mean, we can do business as usual.
And so what we have to do, what we're going to need to do is really work with nature to repair the climate.
And that's also going to tackle this evil twin or evil triplet of biodiversity loss.
We've got the evil twin of ocean acidification and how we're wrecking our oceans.
All of this has got to be cleaned up.
And what that means is we need a lot of human labor, so humanity has to rise up in a really beautiful way and tend to the damage that we've done, and that needs all of us, and it needs all of us together in the places of the earth that's going to sustain life, working together.
Yeah, so this is all her gobbledygook spiel, but hold on, it's coming now.
To rewild areas, to restore ecosystems, to clean up the rivers, to plant trees, to basically sort the plastic out in the ocean and so on.
And I actually think that there's so many beautiful innovations out there and humanity could do that together and it needs all of us.
And for me, this is part of reweaving a human family back together again.
It's part of Dealing with systemic racism, white supremacy and the wounds of patriarchy that want to separate us, make us feel powerless.
Okay, so it's that last bit that I just wanted to focus on.
And I will actually bring it down into one little thing.
White guilt.
I'm not even going to bring patriarchy in.
But white guilt, systemic racism, that belief is what is happening with everything.
I was talking with Mo about this the other day.
Who, by the way, finds it incredibly insulting as a black man when people say, well, you know, we have white guilt, so you need to get a leg up.
It's like, I don't want that from you.
But the same with the homelessness.
Even though the majority of homeless here in Austin that I see are white, or they're actually white covered in dirt.
That's true.
They're kind of white if you wash them.
Yes.
The idea that all of this has happened because of systemic racism, who we are, that we cannot change, but we've not been aware of it.
This is how we...
Fix the situation by acknowledging, oh yes, it's our fault, and so go ahead, we can be inconvenienced by your campaign.
It's all about this, and you remember when this got laid on me at the Obama bots dinner, by the professor no less.
Like, you have right, you have right privilege.
And I didn't quite understand where it was coming from at the time, because it was years and years ago.
But this is what it has done.
People have been guilted to feeling so bad and so horrible about being white or being male that they've given up and they're just saying, well, whatever.
Yeah, I guess you guys should do whatever you want.
And I'm all for everybody because I've been part of the problem.
That's what it is.
Yeah, you're leaving out part of that when you go, oh, yeah, whatever.
You're leaving out the, okay, yeah, I'm guilty here to take my money.
Oh, that's the best part!
That's the best part!
You're leaving that part out, which is really what we're up to here.
Oh, yes.
Absolutely.
And...
This is my money.
You can take my money.
And I'll tell you that when it...
So somehow this...
All of this is now responsible for the climate.
And you heard her say it right there.
This is not because of oil or industry.
No, it's because of white and mail.
So if this is what the Extinction Rebellion is about, is because the patriarchy and whiteness has created this, well, you're certifiably insane, lady.
Get back on message.
But you can't, because that is what is being played.
No, that is the message.
That is the message, and she said it right there, clearly.
And it's stupid.
There's lots...
Here, I have...
I gotta tell you...
It's stupid.
It's stupid.
But look, when you get to non-white people who are sick and tired of this shit...
For example, in Queens, I believe that's Sandy Ocasio-Cortez's district...
Who now are doing exactly what we're doing in Austin is, oh, no, we just have to build more affordable housing.
Oh, no, let's do this shelter.
It doesn't matter if the shelter is near an elementary school.
So here's a Hispanic woman, and she's not having any of it because she has no white guilt or male white privilege.
In front of my door.
I do not care about homeless.
I feel sorry, but I don't want them in my backyard.
They are ticking bombs.
They're taking bombs.
I don't want to feel threatened every night I come home.
My little granddaughter goes to school right next to her.
I'm not happy.
I'm extremely unhappy.
I hope somebody's going to burn the place down.
If that's right, I don't care.
Burn the place down.
And she literally said, not in my backyard.
Couldn't have gotten any better.
But she's allowed to say it, you see, because she's not a man and she's not white.
But that's how most people feel because this is so fantastic.
At some part of this whole process, it will be the Hispanics and the blacks.
They're the ones that are going to do it.
Once again, they will save the white man and we'll take all the credit for it.
We were anticipating our brand new homelessness czar in Austin.
Even my friend Alan Graham from Community First Village, who I interviewed, said, you know, we've met with this lady.
We're very excited.
We think that she might be.
Even though these guys get no money from Austin, they do work together to get referrals.
So her name is Pampilo Harris.
She was on the job one day and she quit.
One day!
And she said, this was not a decision I made lightly and I've had previous conversations with my immediate supervisor.
I'm deeply appreciative of their understandings and willingness to work with me in a way that allows me to meet my family obligations and continue the work we've started as she transitions into a consultancy role.
She was recruited from Florida, I believe Orlando.
Big deal made about her.
Oh yeah.
This was, you know, she was going to be the home, it's not the czar, obviously, but the homeless strategy officer, and she quits after one day on the job.
I'd like to know why.
Because I think she looked at the situation and went, mm-mm, no way.
Not me.
I don't want it.
I don't want the aggravation.
Aggravation.
What did I say?
You said aggravation.
That is the reason.
Yes, I don't want the aggro.
It's too much aggro for me.
It's too much aggro.
I get aggro from it.
The aggro.
The aggro.
And she quits.
And there's, I mean, this is, my mind is exploding over this.
What is happening?
Except for the...
Sir Mark Hall sent this to me.
The ID2020 partners are deep in Austin.
ID2020 is scheduled to...
To tag and identify every homeless person on a blockchain.
Yeah, baby.
Now you're talking.
I told you they should do QR codes on them, but no.
No, no.
It has to be pure blockchain.
Okay, that's fine.
I think you could expand that with some QR codes.
So you're going to blockchain the homeless.
Blockchain the homeless.
This is a good title.
Blockchain the homeless.
Blockchain the bums?
One of these.
Let me see.
We can't use bums.
No, because it's not correct.
But, yeah, no changes so far.
Just keep it going.
Same old, same old.
I wish you could come to Austin because you were here just in May.
You would see the difference right away.
And it's proper camping.
It's not just shanties.
People got tents.
Well, I'm seeing the difference.
I go to San Francisco probably twice a month to pick up things I can't get around here.
Hookers?
Hookers.
No, there's no hookers.
I haven't seen a hooker in San Francisco for decades.
But anyway, so I go to San Francisco, and if I just make a wine run to pick up my wine from K&L Liquors, one of the best wine stores in the country...
I just go pick up a couple of cases of whatever I ordered.
I let it accumulate.
I go pick it up and I come back and I always take the same route.
Unless I go into the city or go to the delis out or go to the Russian district and go get some Russian stuff.
I go around and take the same route back and I go past this little phony little park they built some time ago for some reason unknown.
It's a little monument to some World War I vets or something.
And one or two homeless moved in there and then ten.
And the last time I went to the thing was a complete encampment.
I know.
And so I'm in Oakland now.
I'm going down Broadway to take a left on MacArthur to take a certain freeway entrance, which is kind of obscure but gets you on ahead of the pack.
And there's a park that's on the corner of Broadway and MacArthur over by the Kaiser Permanente Centers, and this park is a big park, and it's already out of the blue.
It's half campers.
It's half of the...
Tense.
All of a sudden, Oakland, Libby can't do her job.
She can't get rid of these people.
And homelessness in Oakland was really kept to a minimum compared to San Francisco, but no more.
It's overflowed, and now they're just everywhere, and they can't seem to do anything about it.
Berkeley, same thing.
And I just want to remind everybody, and I totally subscribe to Alan Graham's theory, that the homeless, you can't fix people.
You can't just fix people.
Oh, you're homeless.
You're addicted.
Of course, really what's going on, 100% of homelessness is caused by catastrophic loss of family one way or the other.
And then everything else follows on that.
You can't fix people, so you have to help them into a community.
But that's what nobody wants.
No one wants to do that.
No one wants to get near the smelly people.
Well, these communities are self-forming, though.
The one in Oakland is 10.
Of course!
They can actually form a community.
You need to give them a space with a little bit of guidance and not try to fix them.
I think you should give them a big space.
I hate to say this because it sounds – I don't know if it sounds cruel or crazy or backward or I don't know what it sounds like, what I'm going to say.
But it doesn't sound right.
But it is right.
There is acreage in Oakland that is just abandoned.
There's a bunch of it on 66th Street.
If you go down 66th or the – Out of the airport, there's a bunch of areas where there's just a lot around the Oakland Coliseum, which is going to be abandoned anyway, because the A's are moving out, the Raiders have moved out, and the Warriors have moved to San Francisco.
Tear that area down.
There you go, and there's a parking lot there.
Just give it to the homeless, and let them put their camps and create, here it is, a shantytown, and let them create a community there as a shantytown.
There's no other way of doing this.
Otherwise, it's just scattered little mini shantytowns all over the place that are completely out of control.
And it's just not working.
One big shantytown.
Called, in this case, the Oakland Shantytown.
They could have Oakland Pride, and they could probably get a...
It could be interesting.
Well, for sure...
I don't see the difference.
Well, for sure, proven by this concept that I've seen, is if you add a few things...
I don't know if it necessarily has to be shanty, but the idea is...
Real low affordable rent, like $220 is where they start here, which most people can get if they have social security or disability.
So that's actually almost covered.
And then you still have to go out and make your money and get food.
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
Well, it does happen because it's working here.
So don't say it's not going to happen because it does.
I'm talking about the hardcore homeless.
Yeah.
I'm talking about the same hardcore homeless, John.
Come on.
So you think that those people that you just made the argument that you can't fix people...
Yes, yes.
...can be fixed?
No!
I did not say that.
But now they're in a community and they look over each other.
They're still smoking crack, but they do it in their own house.
And they're smoking a lot less of it.
And they're still doing meth, but a lot less because they have something to live for.
Community.
Yes, but...
The hardcore, crazy nutjobs that you're talking about can live productive lives in a community, not in some facility where they're being fixed.
Go listen to my interview with Alan Graham.
Well, when there's an example of this happening in a way that I see nobody in tents on any streets, then I'll agree with you.
There's people in Seattle that have been offered pretty good deals, but they refuse to go inside anywhere.
They want to stay outside.
There's 230 people now doing this here in Austin, with another 500 coming online in the next few years.
It's actually working.
So I went there.
I saw it.
I had an hour-long conversation with the guy.
It's actually working.
So it's putting a dent in the homeless problem in Austin.
The total amount of chronically homeless in Austin is estimated to be 2,000.
Yes, it's putting a real dent in there.
They'll have 25 to 35 percent within the next year.
I'm not talking about transients who take advantage of the situation and they're the assholes.
They're the ones stealing.
There's a lot of problems, but these people need community, and no one wants to be their neighbor.
So they can be their own neighbors, and that works out just fine when you give them a little bit of structure.
It's working.
Okay, well, you're just proving my point.
How did I prove your point?
That people in San Francisco, Oakland, and elsewhere should all move to Austin, where they will get this sort of service.
I've been saying it for years, and, you know, you get mad at me when I do it, but I think Austin's the place to go.
Yeah, you know what?
Fine.
The thing is, I can't laugh about it anymore because what I'm seeing is that people are getting so aggravated and mad about what's happening, and these are taxpayers, you know, local property taxpayers, that what is actually going on is now being omitted.
Now it's just where do we shove these assholes, not how do we help them.
It's like, I don't want it here, I don't want it there, I don't want it there, I want it there.
While there's perfectly great places...
But that's not what the city is doing.
I was just reading about San Francisco.
They built a billion dollars worth of affordable housing.
It's like literally for every homeless there's a million dollar cost for every homeless they want to put in there.
That's not the way to go.
It is the way to go if you have a corrupt government that wants to feed a lot of money into the contractors.
Yes.
MLF.org and you can go see what I mean by it working.
We'll never fix this.
Speaking of money and how much it costs, I mentioned that the United Nations had a cash flow crisis.
And they had to do a big meeting about it.
It's really bad.
And, of course, this was telecast with the Undersecretary for Management, Strategy, Policy, and Compliance at the United Nations, Ms.
Catherine Pollard.
Please pay attention.
The New World Order is broke.
Thank you, Stefan.
And good afternoon, everyone.
So, earlier today, I spoke to the Fifth Committee and discussed with them the serious financial situation that the United Nations now faces, more precisely, the liquidity situation of the organization in terms of available cash that is very dire.
So, this situation, which, as you know, the Secretary General has described, is the worst cash crisis facing the UN in nearly a decade.
I want to emphasize that it's not a budget crisis.
It is a cash flow crisis.
For the second successive year, we've exhausted all the regular budget liquidity reserves.
Despite several measures, we already put in place to try and reduce expenditures and to align them with available cash reserves.
Just for context...
I've been in corporations, I've run corporations where you have a cash flow problem.
And if you don't have access to capital markets, then there's only one thing you can do.
You can either fire people, which is always the most expensive item on your budget, in the budget, on your balance sheet, or you can start to reduce other things you're doing.
Well, obviously, the United Nations is such a bloated hog of an organization.
They're not going to fire anybody.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
We're going to do it in other ways.
But it's quite telling about the elitist pricks these people really are.
As a result of this cash crisis...
The Secretary General informed Member States earlier this week about a number of measures that are being implemented.
I'll just share with you a couple of examples of some of these measures that will go into place from next Monday.
Interpretation and meeting services will be limited to official meetings of the calendar of conferences.
So, what does that mean?
We will no longer be able to serve and service meetings of regional and other groupings that are what we called I think they're talking about catering mainly.
Oh, here's a great room you can use.
Here's lunch.
Here's some breakfast bagel, service table.
That caught my ear.
That's their regular hours?
They work ten to one and three to six?
We will not be able to support.
There's going to be delays in issuing official documents.
We have put on hold publishing and translating treaties and publications.
We are curtailing official travel of staff to own the essential activities.
We are not going to be able to host events such as receptions before eight in the morning or after six.
Cooling and heating services are going to be reduced, and some escalators to the floors already serviced by escalators will be shut down, as will the main fountain in the circle.
Talk about piddling crap to stop the escalator.
You know, by the way, they could have installed the escalators that have the sensor, so the escalator's not just running all the time.
Right, it stops.
You step in front of it, then it starts.
And then it takes you to the top, and then it stops.
They're turning the fountain off.
That saves money.
They're turning the fountain off in front of the building.
And the fountain, what's the difference?
Back to this other thing you mentioned, because I'm still, I had to write it down.
So you're telling me that they, unlike the rest, let's look at just the way America operates.
We tend to work eight hour days in general industry that maybe has some union influence.
Silicon Valley works 60 hours a week.
Easily.
And up.
And it's not a joke.
So they're working six hours a week.
They start at 10.
I'm in.
I'm here.
It's 10.
And then at 1 o'clock, they take a two-hour lunch every day.
Two-martini lunch, not hours.
Martinis.
It would be a three-martini lunch, but it's two hours.
It's two hours to drink those three martinis.
And then you're back from three to six.
Those are regular hours.
And that's regular hours.
Turn off the fountain, Jeeves.
Oh, my God.
They're not putting any work in at all.
They're not serious.
No, of course not.
And, you know, they could just fire some people, but no.
Anyway, the culprit, of course, is America.
Because we've slowed down our paying, apparently.
And you know Trump's behind that.
Oh, yeah.
But it's not just the U.S. It's 20 countries are in arrears of their contributions to the United Nations.
Even though some journos were at this briefing.
Well, we all know it's the U.S. Have you called the Trump administration?
And the lady said, yeah, we're talking to everybody, but it's not...
She was actually nice about it.
It's not just the United States.
They are the biggest.
So, but this...
We've probably been overpaying.
Yeah, but this...
Well, yes, look at what they're doing.
Oh, Becky!
Shut down the fountain!
We don't have any catering for lunch!
Get out of here.
Get out of here.
I was looking over my clips, and there's an NBA clip that I should have played when you had a little NBA takedown.
Yes.
This was a woman from CNN who was at a press conference with a couple of the top NBA players, both of them who liked to, you know, bitch and moan about Trump, which is all NBA players, apparently, just for the reasons you cited, or that Jason Whitlock...
Identified.
And this is what happens when you bring this question up at an NBA, official NBA press conference.
Hi, Christina McFarlane, CNN. The NBA has always been a league that prides itself on its player and its coaches being able to speak out openly about political and societal affairs.
I just wonder after the events of this week and the fallout we've seen, whether you would both feel differently about speaking out in that way in future.
It's a legitimate question.
This is an event that's happened this week during the NBA. This particular question has not been answered.
Any other questions?
Shut up, Slade!
The joke was that the two players they were talking to were...
Players that worked for the guy who made the one single tweet.
They were Rockets players, and they wouldn't even stand up for their own boss.
And everyone's now, I mean, of course, I don't know shit about sports, but everyone's now calling for Mark Cuban.
Where are you, Cuban?
Say something now, Cuban.
They're goading him.
Oh, that's a good one.
They're trying to get, because he's always, Mr.
I got a big mouth, I know what to say.
Oh, yeah, big mouth.
I sold a URL for a billion dollars and bought a basketball team.
I am somewhat envious of that.
Well, especially when you found it was actually three billion.
Oh, God.
That's how dumb Yahoo was.
Yeah, yeah.
Broadcast.com.
So we sold the name.
That's right.
$3 billion.
I mean, I had MTV.com and I was able to start my business, but no way.
Not quite.
Cuban is much smarter than me.
But he's silent.
He's silent on all this.
Oh, yeah.
They're both mum.
Mum's the word.
We went shopping yesterday.
We went up to the domain, which is the WorkLive Community of the Future.
It's here in Austin.
It's about 20 minutes north of us.
And this, it literally is a, they just built a whole bunch of places for people to live and underneath it's all retail.
So you got Apple stores, you got Windows stores, you got your Macy's, you got your Nordstrom's, everything.
And I'm always paying attention to people and what they're doing and how they conduct themselves.
And the reason I do this is because I do not have a phone that is distracting me.
I like to watch other people as they're on their phones.
My favorite these days is women and their partners, men, and the guys are walking kind of a step and a half behind them on their phone.
Yes, dear.
Mm-hmm.
Yes, dear.
I mean, they're looking at scores or whatever.
This was also during the game, I'm sure.
Yes, dear.
Now, the keeper and I, of course, we're looking at everything.
Let me tell you about the dogs.
There's something new I've noticed.
Uh-oh.
Yes.
Now we saw in succession three, I guess you call them full-bred, thoroughbred, or what do you call it?
Clearly the race of dog that's been uncontaminated, it's pristine, it's like an Arabian version of a dog.
Pure bread is the word you're looking for.
Pure bread, thank you.
Pure bread Dalmatian.
The dumbest dog in the world.
A pure bread Whippet.
And a purebred Great Dane.
And the lady next to the Great Dane, I mean, she should have had a saddle on that bitch because she could ride this thing.
She was not that big.
And it came up to her waist.
She could have ridden this thing.
But what I notice is that all of these people, and particularly we were walking through Nordstrom.
The dogs were in the store?
Oh, yeah!
Oh, yeah.
A Great Dane.
You saw a Great Dane in a Nordstrom store.
And the Dalmatian and the Whippet.
But here's what's interesting.
The owners, they did not...
Shopping.
They are looking.
And the dog is, you know, like...
The dog is on the leash.
And these owners are all looking like...
Wait, wait.
Stop again.
What do you mean the dog is on the loose?
Leash.
I said leash.
Dog is on the leash.
So the dog is on the leash.
And the dog is like, clearly doesn't want to be there.
And this is all three of them the case.
But the owners, they're not shopping.
They're looking stressful.
Like, oh, yeah.
I've got to do my dogs.
Come on down.
And then we're in the Untuck It store, I'll admit.
I buy sometimes shirts from Untuck It.
Never heard of them.
They make shirts that are designed to be not tucked in.
It doesn't matter.
Lady and her husband and their dog, they're in the store, and the lady is scolding her dog in the following manner.
Stop barking.
If you don't stop barking, I'm not going to take you anywhere in the future.
Let me just reiterate.
She's talking to a dog.
Stop barking.
Now, if you don't stop barking, I won't be able to take you anywhere anymore.
I mean, that is the closest I've seen to anyone just being, treating their dog pathetically like a child.
I don't think the dog actually comprehends what the lady's trying to communicate.
Dogs are people too.
And it's gotten worse in our media.
What is the book that when Patricia was pregnant with Christina, we must have received five copies of a very famous book that people love to give people who are expecting their first child.
Nowadays it's definitely not Dr.
Spock.
No, it's the what to expect when you're expecting.
It's a very famous book and every expecting parent is given a copy somewhere.
No one tells you what to expect when you're expecting a new pet.
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Okay.
And I understand people who would prefer to have no children and want a pet instead of the children.
And I'm okay with that.
This is not something new.
I knew couples when I was growing up.
My neighborhood buddy, like his aunt and uncle, I don't know if they couldn't have children, but they didn't have children.
And they had two Great Danes, and these were their babies.
But to completely use the same treatment and articles and clothing and to treat the animals as children...
I think shows a mental blockage that just needs to be addressed.
I mean, I'm not trying to insult anybody, but when you're dressing up your dog with a party hat and saying it's your birthday and then giving it a birthday cake, you know, you're clearly missing something in your life.
And you can have a dog and treat the dog like family, but not like children.
It's just wrong.
Her birthday that we've sort of made up is February the 1st, so we do little birthday things.
I always get her some treats and we have candles on the treats and then we put a little hat on her and we sing happy birthday to her.
You know, it's the society default, having kids.
We decided not to have human kids and rescue dogs instead.
And we don't think of ourselves as childless, but we are a family and she is a child.
I do cook for her.
I cook chicken breast and then raw vegetables are good for dogs too.
You chop up kale too, right?
I chop sometimes kale, snap peas, even lettuce.
I put all the tables back when she spits them out.
I think I'm a hover mom.
People don't even stop to ask whether you have kids.
It's assumed.
So I've had people say to me, how old are your kids?
Before saying, do you have kids?
And so I will reply to that, you know, they have fur too.
They have four legs and fur.
A big impetus for me For me, staying child free is because of the environment and the global population crisis that we're facing and climate change and all of that.
I think that society's views are changing.
I hope they are.
And people are becoming more open to what family means and it can come in different ways, shapes and forms.
No.
No, that's just not true.
You can have a family with pets.
But to say these are our children, and they wind up doing horrible things, really abusive things to these animals.
You heard like, oh, I cook up kale.
This is not necessarily what animals need to be eating.
In fact, I have another clip.
Like many pet owners, Lily Clarkson turned to the internet when her dog Magpie began having digestion issues.
When I first adopted her, I kept reading that grain-free was really good for new diets and for stomach issues.
Grain intolerance is one of the most common dietary concerns that veterinary nutritionist Dr.
Valerie Parker of the Ohio State College of Veterinary Medicine hears from pet owners.
She says food allergies, especially to grains, aren't really a problem in pets.
Very rarely are there allergens to grains and that's a very common misconception.
Parker has heard it all when it comes to alternative pet diets, but reminds her patients that animals have vastly different nutritional needs than humans.
When people try to apply their own diets to their pets, it doesn't always work out so well.
Another common trend, especially for those who are meat-free themselves, is feeding their pets a vegetarian or vegan diet.
Cats are carnivores.
Now that doesn't mean that cats can't tolerate carbohydrates and plant sources of food in their food, but they are designed to eat certain meats.
Pet owners concerned about the ingredients in pet foods may be tempted to make their own, but most homemade pet food recipes just don't contain the nutrients your pet needs and can cause severe health issues.
The worst case scenarios will be significant bone deformities in young animals that don't grow their bones appropriately.
They can get fractures.
They can become paralyzed.
So people, you know, they're like, oh, I'm vegan.
My cat needs to be vegan.
We're a vegan household.
It's abusive.
These animals are being cooped up in apartment buildings everywhere.
I love dogs, contrary to what you say, John.
I've had almost exclusively rescues and strays and dogs, cats, all of it.
But I think it just needs to be addressed.
People are acting psychotically when it comes to their animals.
Just treating them, exactly putting them in baby carriages, taking them into restaurants and putting them in baby seats.
I've seen it all.
Well, this ends the disgusting portion of the show.
Dogs are people, too.
I'm going to show my soul by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
We do have a few people to thank.
It'll be a short segment so we can have more show.
Kevin Cabernet starts us off at $150 from North Olmstead, Ohio.
And he's got a...
Call out here.
This makes me a knight, by the way.
I hope he's on the list.
What's his name?
Hold on.
What's his name?
Yes.
Yes.
He is on the list.
Kevin Cobina.
Yeah.
I would like to be known as Sir Kevin of the Burning River.
As for my table entrees, he'd like to get some absinthe and bratwurst.
I think this has been on the list before.
I know absinthe for sure.
I don't know if we've had it in combo with bratwurst, but it's good.
I've ordered it.
It shall be at the table for you.
He needs general karma.
We'll put that at the end for Seamus of Columbus and a call-out to Dingo of Venencia as a douchebag.
Baron Walkman of Buckeye, $149.20.
Christopher...
Pithood, I think.
Pithood.
Oh yeah, I'm sorry.
Baron Walkman is not from Buckeye.
He's from Parts Unknown.
Christopher Pithood is from Buckeye, Arizona.
1-11-11.
Dame Carol Ann of the East Hatchet Ranch in Pueblo, California, Colorado.
She has something here to say.
Yeah, this is a...
Please accept this donation to wish my second-born, Isaac Chase, a.k.a.
Sir Crypto Knight of Colorado Springs a happy 38th birthday on October 15th.
It's a gift I know will bring a smile to his face.
He hit me in the mouth on 2016, and I've been getting more sane ever since.
Nice.
Probably not after that last segment.
Thank you for all your hard work to bring us the deconstruction of the news and making me laugh.
Also plug Isaac's business, FirearmsTrainingCentral.com.
Oh, nice.
FirearmsTrainingCentral.com, what you call a mouthful for a URL. By the way, Adam, thanks for the Ham Radio 2.0 stuff.
My first bone, Joshua, is getting us hooked up on that.
I gotta tell you, we have noagendahams.com now, which includes a directory and ways to connect to our node.
I won't go into all of it, what's there, but it's quite extensive.
And again, you see how the genius of the No Agenda nation works, where Buford K., Just sent me a link on noagendasocial.com, which was a directory in OPML format.
I sucked it right into the Freedom Controller built by Dave Jones, registered domain name, boom, we got a webpage.
Think what it would take at any radio station.
You need clearance from the legal.
We need to talk to the legal.
Legal's backed up.
We'll get back to you in a week.
You're so right.
There were, I think, three no-agenda hams, or NAMs, as we call ourselves, at the meetup in Austin, including KA6ATN, Paul, Who, I don't know, somehow he had to get...
I think he's been listening for a while, but I met him on the No Agenda Ham thing, and And I guess that he had some kind of excuse for his wife to come to the meetup.
So I said, well, my wife's girlfriend, Beth, has a podcast.
It's called Over65andTalking.com.
Can you plug that?
I said, yeah, no problem.
So our NAMM is very resourceful.
I guess so.
Blessings to you both.
The wind-up of this donation was blessings to you both.
Was it from Dame Carol?
And all the producers around the world, hoping to make the next meet-up in the springs at the end of the month.
Really enjoyed the last one.
Thanks to Andrew for coordinating it, and thank you very much for your support, Dame Carol Ann.
Onward to Phil in Temecula, California, 9009.
He does need a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
He's got his birthday on the birthday list and he wants some human resources for his human resource karma for our first child.
We'll put that at the end for you.
Alexander Solzberger, 8008.
Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Earl of Luna.
6969.
He says he needs emergency swasso neuf karma.
Okay.
I've baked that in for you coming up.
That's in all of the karmas.
Of course.
Baron Mark Tanner in Whittier, California, 6789.
Juan from Harlem, Gitmo Nation Lowlands, 6666 in the Netherlands.
And he will have a title change today.
He was knighted as Chevalier Jean back in 2013.
And after many more years of $33.33 monthly donations, I passed the threshold for barrenhood back in January.
I would now like to be named...
Baron Juan of Granada.
Or do we say Grenada?
Grenada?
Grenada, Grenada.
You say Grenada, I say Grenada.
And I'd like to claim the Spanish city of Granada, or Grenada, and its immediate surroundings as my territory.
All other knights and dames are invited for tapas at the Alhambra palaces.
No jingle, no karma.
Thank you.
You should do a meet-up in Grenada.
Yes, we'll be there.
Beautiful.
Steven Shevlin, 6006.
Ma Loves Columbus Day.
Christopher Dechter, 5678.
A fave.
Anthony Rodriguez, 5510.
Nancy Murphy, $52.44.
Sven Eric Jansen in Austin, Texas, $52.30.
And he needs a jobs comment for a smoking hot wife coming up at the end as well.
John Lopez in Gradon Rapids, Michigan, $50.98.
And this is important because he says it took a little under four years, but he managed to obtain his knighthood.
That's today.
He would like to be known as Sir Clay Alchemist, Knight of the Grand River.
For the round table, some hot orange juice and skillets.
Okay.
And he'd like to mention that karma worked to keep his hands pain-free while he sculpted a chimpanzee in person at the Grand Rapids Community College.
To fill you in, as you questioned about in my last donation, I sculpt characters, then photograph them to make illustrations.
Oh, okay, I remember.
I've been working on a project specifically for my alumnus show called On the Shoulders of Animals, which is about the test subjects leading up to the manned space flight.
For most of the folks who can't make it, you can see it all at clayalchemist.com.
Thanks again for years of keeping me informed.
I look forward to this Sunday's episode.
P.S. Exit strategy.
No agenda singles meetups for people with normal-sized amygdalas and perhaps OTG folk.
There could be an app for that.
The app, yeah.
No one would use it.
No one would use it because they're all OTG. Are you single?
Is your amygdala of normal size?
If you're OTG, yes, you'd never find the app.
No, you'd never find it.
Thanks for the exit strategy.
His sculptures are really dynamite.
Oh, you looked at them?
You looked at them?
Oh.
Dynamite.
How big are they?
He's got a style.
How big are they?
He's a real artist.
Really?
Baronets or Economic Hitmen from Houston, Texas came in with 50.01.
And the following people are $50 donors, name and location, if I have it.
And I seem to have most of them.
Kevin Silverman in Severn, Maryland.
Robert Kerback in Essexville, Michigan.
Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington.
He should be a sir by now.
We got Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
Robert Weber in Lake Forest, California.
Rossen Tachkoff in London, UK. Mark Johnson in Aurora, California.
Joseph Hatch in Springfield, Virginia.
They got a birthday list for him.
Birthday call coming up.
Joseph Ferris in Liberal, Kansas.
He comes in a lot.
Kimberly Redmond in Toronto, Ontario.
Baroness Susan Johnson in Hillsborough, Oregon.
Sir Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia.
And last but not least, Sir Jason Deluzio in Chadsford, Pennsylvania.
I want to thank all these folks for contributing to show 1181 and keeping us going for another show coming up next Thursday.
And I was just looking at clayalchemist.com.
Holy crap, you're right.
This is genius.
It's got this sculpted rat who's asleep on a bed of pharmaceuticals with a little oxy pill bottle open in the back.
It's called American Dreaming.
That's some nice stuff.
Does he sell it?
I haven't figured that part out yet, but he should.
Yeah, I mean, if I could afford it, I'd try and buy a piece.
Yeah, it can't possibly be cheap.
No, it's good.
He's got a pro style.
It's very fun.
He's got the humor, which Art likes nowadays.
Art and humor always goes together well, if you can do it right.
And this is very, seems to me, gallery-quality stuff.
Absolutely.
I should take it further, museum quality stuff.
Really, really, really.
We have artists that listen to our show.
Yes, we do.
Of all varieties, not just fine art.
Musicians.
What else?
And such.
And such, exactly.
Thank you all very much.
You are the ones who dragged us through this week with your support, along with our executive producers.
Remember, there were no associate executive producers.
Very scandalous when you think about it for a show of this magnitude.
But, hey, you're producing it.
You have just as much skin in the game.
And these people helped us out enormously.
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It's your birthday, birthday.
I'm so much.
Yeah, hold on a second.
It is indeed.
I can't hear myself.
Yes, it is the 13th of October, 2019.
Here's the birthday list for today.
Baronet Chris of North Austin, 58 years old.
Tomorrow, Grand Duke Nussbaum.
He will be an official Grand Duke in just moments from now, October 13th, today.
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He'll be celebrating tomorrow on the 14th.
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Sir Crypto Knight of Colorado Springs, turning 38 on Monday on Tax Day.
And Phil says happy birthday to his wife, Chloe, her third annual.
That would be, I guess, 30 times around the sun.
And Joseph Hatch, celebrating tomorrow.
Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
I'll do the meetups real quick, and then we'll get to our nightings and titles, which we have today.
Because the meetups, it's like a party!
Local 5-1-12 meetup.
Sir Scott Morgan was in charge of that to date.
Actually, we had 21 attendees plus me.
The second Thursday of the month has been chosen to actually try to make this meeting all about the attendees.
Multiple nights, as well as other sustaining producers, were in attendance.
Many of us had met others in the group from the wonderfully successful Austin meetup last year, but this time we seem to have even better conversations.
When Adam showed up, The vibe didn't change.
My hope that this meetup will become a solid group of fellow travelers seem to have a wonderful start.
Requests by some attendees to have next month's meetup at another location will be discussed via the No Agenda 512 email distro group.
Right on.
So they're really organizing there, and thank you, Sir Scott, for taking care of that.
There was a meetup planned in Tokyo this past weekend, which was very successful because, hey, Sir Mark and Dame Astrid, anything they do is successful.
But they also, just to show you how good they are, did it in the middle of a 5.7 earthquake and a typhoon.
And they still had, including Earl of Tennessee Coble was there.
The guys from Osaka couldn't come up because they could not travel.
Also, Derek and his girlfriend were in Tokyo.
They were planning on going to the meetup.
But his vacation, he says, well, we didn't go exactly as planned.
They were hunkered down in their hotel room in Tokyo trying to outlast the typhoon.
So they were not able to make it, but it was a very successful event.
They had our heads printed, which is really all we care about.
And there were other meetups this weekend as well, but those are the big ones.
And I just find it fantastic that we have a typhoon and an earthquake in Tokyo, but that will not stop the No Agenda Nation from meeting.
Upcoming meetups, October 19th in Atlanta, Santa Fe, Orlando, and San Antonio.
This is like we're a minor league ball team.
Louisville, Kentucky on the 20th.
On the 24th, Nashville, Tennessee.
So there's two.
They have a regular meetup and an impromptu meetup.
So on the 25th, We have Portland and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Then on the 26th, another Nashville-Tennessee meetup along with Colorado Springs.
And coming up in November, on the 1st in Seattle, the 2nd in Boston.
And looks like they're working on a tri-state.
That would be New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and possibly Pennsylvania.
For November 2nd, November 7th, Newport Beach, California, and Myrtle Beach.
And the 9th, North Charleston, South Carolina.
And that is your meetup calendar for the coming weeks.
These are places where you can meet people who are just like you.
In fact, if you go to a no agenda meetup and you see a table where there's all kinds of people who don't look like they belong together, that's the no agenda table.
Because they're all different, all colors, creeds, backgrounds, religions, race, whatever you want, ages.
But they still have one thing in common, a normally sized amygdala and the willingness to listen and talk because they know that no one's going to trigger them no matter what your opinion is.
NoagendaMeetups.com is where you can find out everything you need to know.
And if there's not a meetup near you, please go ahead and start one yourself.
And with that, it is time to do some nightings.
Here you go.
I thought you might have fallen asleep.
Oh, you brought the big one.
Oh, very nice.
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That was a long one today.
Yeah, it was okay.
Now, I do have a poop report, of course, in the Poop Central.
Oh, do we have a poop report jingle?
I wish we did.
Let me see.
I have...
Of course we've got poop.
Poop report.
Of course we've got poop.
Of course we've got poop.
What is this?
Use that as the jingle bass.
I don't know.
I got this from a blogger and I forgot to put the blogger's name.
Not a blogger, I'm sorry.
A podcaster.
Because I'm looking at more podcasts now.
Same as you.
Because there's good stuff there.
And this is a Berkeley Aquatic Park report.
Now, I want to ask the chat room, if you recognize who this podcaster is, please tell us so he gets the credit for this.
And I left a little bit at the beginning, which is his kind of idealized lifestyle.
I thought I'd throw that in so you'd have a feeling for this guy and his report.
Hey, everybody.
Hell of a stream last night, boys.
We're going to have to limit those beer streams.
I was pissing all through the night.
And speaking of piss, next time you run into one of these California assholes who's telling you...
You stole my future with your diesel-powered boat and your petrol-based car and your hamburgers.
Tell them to eat a big bag of dicks.
That state is completely fucked up.
From San Francisco to San Diego, back to L.A. and up to Oakland.
All fucked up.
Take a look at this.
They're talking about a lake in Berkeley, and I'm sure you're familiar with Berkeley.
Berkeley is full of all those hippies with Birkenstocks and piss-smelling hair.
Well, these people who keep telling everybody that we need to change our ways or we're going to destroy the planet, their lake is so full of poop that they have a warning saying, you know what, maybe you guys shouldn't swim in this lake because it's literally full of poop.
See, there's no safe haven.
In Berkeley, your lakes are full of poop, your streets are full of poop, your sidewalks are full of hypodermic needles and piss.
There's no escape from the lefties.
But they're going to scream about our fucking cows and our cars.
So, here you go.
Let's take a look at this.
We're over at eastbaytimes.com.
City warns public to stay out of Aquatic Park in wake of dangerous contamination.
City is trying to figure out what's causing the dangerously high levels of bacteria.
Well, it's poop.
It's poop.
Wow, and you called my dog segment disgusting.
Holy moly.
Now, I do, this is because I have a personal complaint.
Aquatic Park used to be, it's still there, it's off the freeway, it's a long, it's a It's kind of a man-made lake.
It's designed for crew practice.
University of California crew used to use it in other schools.
You know, there's six guys in a boat going as fast as they can up and down.
It used to be used by the networks for ski jumping.
They have a ski jump thing within this park.
And people used to go bombing around and they'd jump over this ramp and go flying in the air.
Nobody can do any of that.
It used to be a boating thing, you know, Romantic couples used to boat on this thing.
They used to rent boats and go rowboating on there.
No, you can't do any of this anymore because this thing is completely contaminated.
And it's just they shut down the boating rentals.
They don't do any more ski jumping.
It's really pathetic and nobody seems to give a crap about it.
But the one good thing about that last report, it did give me the ISO that I've been looking for.
Okay, here we go.
It's poop.
It's poop.
Yeah.
Perfect end of show ISO, John.
Very well done.
Highbrow.
Always go for the lowest cheap laugh.
Always good.
It's interesting.
I had a clip about San Francisco, which I thought was not quite as interesting as this.
I mean, this really ticked all the boxes for me.
This is about the families that have run San Francisco, and even I didn't know exactly how much intermingling there was between these four families.
The whole video, which it's produced, I don't know who produced it.
It's in the show notes.
It's about eight minutes long.
I'll just take a couple minutes just so you get an idea of how incestuous San Francisco really, but California is, has always been.
Pat Brown's father, Edmund Joseph Brown, was known for running scams and gambling operations in San Francisco.
With the help of businessman William Newsom II, Pat Brown became governor of California for two terms.
During his governorship, he awarded the Squaw Valley concession contract to William Newsom III and his partner, John Pelosi.
The deal was criticized for the state of California paying for everything and getting nothing.
William Newsom III grew up with the governor's son, Jerry, who was training to be a Jesuit priest.
John Pelosi's son, Paul, married Nancy D'Alessandro, daughter of Thomas D'Alessandro Jr., who was known for smuggling heroin into the U.S. with Lucky Luciano and the Baltimore Mafia.
John Pelosi's son, Ron, married William Newsom's daughter, Barbara.
Over ongoing disputes about the Squaw Valley concession, William Newsom Sr.
threatened to hurt the governor politically, just as Governor Brown was running for a third term against Ronald Reagan.
He lost.
But eight years later, the former governor's Jesuit son, Jerry, reclaimed the governorship in 1974.
He appointed William Newsom III to a Placer County judgeship in 1975.
And three years later, to the State Court of Appeal.
William Newsom was an attorney for oil magnate J. Paul Getty, named in the 1966 Guinness Book of World Records as the world's richest private citizen.
And while serving on the appellate bench in the 1980s, he helped Getty's son, Gordon, secure a change in state trust law that allowed him to claim his share of a multi-air trust.
After Newsom retired from the bench, he became administrator of the Getty Trust and provided seed money for his son Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi's nephew, to start the plump jack business that led to a career in San Francisco politics.
As mayor of San Francisco and lieutenant governor of the state of California.
Gavin Newsom was informally adopted by the Gettys after his parents divorced.
And recently succeeded family friend Jerry Brown to be the current governor of California.
For 80 years, these four families have ruled over the state of California politically.
I really despise the creepy porn music that people use for these types of reports because the information is good.
But that was unnecessary.
But I didn't know that Pelosi, Newsom, Brown, for 80 years these people have been ruining the state of California.
Yeah, that's only on the Democrat side.
There's actually a Republican story.
Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure.
It's fallen apart.
Who's in the Republicans who are a-holes?
Well, there used to be this guy, Artie Samish, who used to pretty much run California.
But most of the Republican influence died in the 50s, I think, when Pat Brown Jr., which is...
Jerry Brown's dad, when Pat Brown Jr.
got in, the Democrats pretty much took over the state, except for that small moment when Reagan was governor, and then another small moment when Schwarzenegger was governor, and we also had one other Republican in there.
The rest of them were just staunch Democrats.
It's just a bunch of, yeah, it's old school.
They're connected.
But I didn't know the connection between all these people.
That's very interesting.
Everyone pretty much knows about that.
I have an update and a correction on the California situation.
Starting first with the ham radio repeaters.
It's like, oh, they're kicking them all out.
Turns out...
That the hams were a little bit alarmist in California.
It is one repeater that actually is an out-of-state operation, and one repeater is getting kicked out.
And a couple of these hams made these videos and posts and all freaking out.
It looked more like clickbait than anything.
So very, very disappointed in people who are going to save the world, right?
Right.
Oh, that's disappointing.
Yeah.
I bought into it, too.
There's a lot of local stories about it.
But apparently it's just one.
It's just, okay.
Just one.
We've been bogified.
Very bogative.
Now, I wanted to...
I caught...
No, go ahead.
I caught a new buzzword, unless you're still on that topic.
No, I just want to do one thing about California and I'll be done.
I want to bring this story back.
We have the wildfires in Los Angeles.
Of course, we have the fear of fires starting in Northern California.
And by the way, I got a couple notes from people who work at Pacific Gas and Electric, and they say, hey, we're shutting off the power because we're just getting sued, so we can't afford it anymore.
It's what everybody deserves.
I agree.
But here's the thing.
These fires are not global warming.
This is not something new to California.
And I recite from the 1860 diary from a young botanist raised in New York, schooled in Connecticut.
Who found himself on the payroll of the newly formed California Division of Mines and Geology.
His job, William Brewer this is, was to roam the vast new state of California in 1860, take samples and make observations of plant and animals.
And I recite.
Over four years journeying across California, I have witnessed torrential rains that turned the Central Valley into a vast white-capped lake, intolerable heat waves that made the fats of our meats run away in spontaneous gravy, violent earthquakes and fires I could only describe as great sheets of flames extending over acres.
It has always been hell.
Always.
So don't be fooled that this all of a sudden is global warming because it's just not true.
We had it pushed back a little bit probably in the 70s, I think, when they had control burns everywhere.
They had Ducks Unlimited.
It was a massive...
Kind of a hunting organization of hunters and shooters who used to like to go dunk hunting, and they would burn down most of the brush land and swamp land around Sussoon Valley, and they would burn it every year.
I was at the air pollution district at the time, and they had these so-called controlled burn days.
They had to be on a specific day when the conditions were right.
And they'd torch off these hundreds of acres because they're going to burn anyway.
But if you get them done in the right time, the ducks will come and we can kill some ducks.
So this was a lot of – and the forest management was different back then.
They kept all the brushes.
They culled a lot of trees and they had a lot more breaks.
This all went by the wayside because the duck guys were bad actors because they wanted to kill the poor ducks.
So fuck that.
So let the whole area burn to the ground by itself when it felt like it.
And when it's inconvenient, when there's a windstorm, then it goes up and then it blows, you know, instead of having it burning when there's a day, it was a nice and perfect day for a calm, not going to set the neighborhood on fire.
I mean, this is California, and it's just been mismanaged by these four families you're talking about.
They're the ones who screwed it up.
Well, something should be done about them.
Well, they just get elected and elected.
I do have two clips I want to play before we finish.
Alrighty.
One of them is a quiz.
Oh, for me?
Yeah.
This is from the Pacific Gas and Electric Presser.
Which I never liked that term.
They discussed their website going down all the time.
I want you to spot potentially a new buzzword.
It's a very short clip.
The buzzwords should be obvious.
Okay.
Let me just get centered.
Okay, I'm ready.
Yeah, as I covered earlier, so first of all, thanks for the question.
We do acknowledge there's been issues with the website pg.com throughout the day today.
We are solutioning that.
We have teams dedicated to looking at that right now.
Oh, man.
No more jiggling the handle.
We just solution that shit.
Solutioning.
Please tell me it's solutioning.
Of course it's solution.
Whoever says something like this, we're solutioning it.
I was taken aback by that, personally.
Now, the other one I thought was just a classic disingenuous media clip.
And I believe it's from Democracy Now.
Yes, it is.
And I want, they're going to play, this is about, again, you know, if you're going to do media, you got to complain about Trump.
But there's a moment in here that I happen to have some facts about.
Okay.
That it's just, so it's bogus.
This is bogus.
But play this clip.
Yeah, I don't know which one it is.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's Trump.
Complaints about Trump, of Trump.
He also came under fire for playing Prince's Purple Rain at the rally, despite confirming a year ago the campaign would not use Prince's music.
Prince's estate has refused to give Trump permission to use his songs.
Cities are also complaining that the Trump campaign is not reimbursing them for services provided by local police and fire departments during his rallies.
A study by the Center for Public Integrity says these services total more than $800,000.
Well, half of this has got to do with you.
Yes.
With your little lecture about ASCAP. Yeah.
So, even though it is true that there is a note, I saw it myself, that somewhere someone from a campaign in 2016 said, okay, we won't use any Prince material.
There is no right for them to give.
Prince's work falls under performance rights and as long as the venue has paid their dues, it's a blanket license, they can play whatever they want in the venue.
Now, there are certain things that Trump couldn't do, like use it as an endorsement, etc., but just them playing it, whether he's coming on stage or going off stage, is bought and paid for and completely legal.
So they can bitch and moan all they want, and I wish Prince were around, because I don't know if Prince would be against it.
I'm not so sure.
He might have surprised everybody.
You don't know.
You don't know.
Now, the second part of that clip talks about the moaning and groaning by the cities.
During the Obama administration, and my wife is very involved in politics in the Port Angeles area, it turns out the same thing was going on with Obama because these presidents, whoever they are, Obama or Trump, they don't bring that up.
It was the same thing.
The locals up in the Clallam County were worried sick because Obama had scheduled a big confab up there, a meetup.
He's going to go visit a few places.
And they were worried because their budgets were already stretched thin.
And they knew that the general policy of the president is they don't pick up the tabs for the police and fire and all the people that get involved.
And they were worried sick that Obama was actually going to show up because they're going to be stuck with this huge bill.
And he didn't show up.
And they were so relieved.
Yeah.
And so this is bull crap.
This is a disingenuous report on both halves of that report.
The first half about the music, they should bring up what you just said.
Yeah.
At least to give people some feeling for what's going on.
And they should bring up the other part, which I just said.
So this is what we're dealing with.
And we deal with this week after week.
And we really do appreciate the listener support and producer support.
Well, I could not end it on a better note, John.
You said it.
And what outfit was that that reported that so egregiously?
That was Democracy Now!, the War and Peace report with Amy Goodman.
Oh, people actually make a lot of money to do that crap.
Nice.
Well, we are podcasters and proud of it.
And there's not much else we can do, actually.
So we're just happy.
And we're happy that you are a part of it and supporting us.
And I... I know it's been a bit rocky on the stream today, but I'm sure Void Zero and Bemrose and Darren O and everybody will figure it all out.
They always do.
Coming up after the show, Random Thoughts number 55 on NoAgendaStream.com.
That'll be Thought Crime is the title of that one.
And coming to you from the Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas.
We are in FEMA Region number 6 for all your governmental map lookups.
In the capital of the drone star state, remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. Until next time in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It was a nine-car train today, by the way.
We're back to normal.
We return on Thursday with more No Agenda Deconstruction, thanks to Tom Starkweather, Freddie Hotfingers, and Charles Couch for our end-of-show mixes.
Until Thursday, adios everybody and such.
No agenda.
Yeah.
Talk for you now!
Oh, Mick, I don't think you can say that.
South America!
Australia!
France!
Germany!
UK, Africa.
Calling out around the world.
Are you ready to live on the street?
When to scare your mind's back?
Go living in the streets.
That will be Chicago.
Down in New Orleans.
In New York City.
All we do is banhack and poop.
They'll be pooping everywhere.
They'll be sleeping, praying.
Food's crazy.
Pooping in the street.
Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear.
Just as long as you are there.
Come on, every guy.
Grab a rope.
Everywhere, around the world.
They'll be pooping.
Pooping in the street.
It's an invitation across the nation.
A chance for most of me.
I'll be sleeping and praying, food craving, pooping in the street.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
Crossing China too.
Me and you.
Pooping in the streets.
Don't you know?
Pooping in the streets.
Whoopin' in the streets.
Whoopin', whoopin', whoopin' in the streets.
All right.
And so, so, but I'm just saying, so he, I want you to be able to talk.
That's what I'm saying.
When I came out and I came out, when I publicly stated...
You know, it's really funny.
I see all those red lights on.
or that means you're live, right?
As soon as I start talking about the fake news, I see those lights go off so fast.
But then they come back on.
The president can, in terms of his or her behaviors, show exactly where their heart is.
The greatest thing that any of us has to offer is love.
Well, I'm going to assume it's a guy who said that.
It's a great question, and thank you very much.
It's all about round-the-clock sex.
And my pronouns are she, her, and hers.
She, her, and hers.
Mine, too.
All right.
Pardon?
Yes.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, guys, guys.
Yo, guys, chill out, guys.
Yeah, we've been through it all.
I, I know.
I know.
Yes.
Come on, man.
It's pronounced jiff according to the guy who invented the word.
It's pronounced jitty according to the guy who invented the word.
Al Sharpton.
Democrats are outright jitty.
They got all chitty with it.
Chitty.
They're getting chitty, getting chitty.
Getting all chitty.
Chitty.
They got all chitty with it.
They're getting chitty, getting chitty, chitty.
Chitty.
They're all chitty about a shutdown.
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