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	Climate chaus.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, December 1st, 2019.
	This is your award-winning Game on Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1195.
	This is no agenda.
	Dropping the Ts, counting 33s, and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33, the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone, Star State.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm now a big fan of Weedabix.
	With a little maple syrup.
	I'm John C. Dubois.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Weetabix.
	What's next?
	Marmite?
	Weetabix.
	Kids grow up on that.
	That's what kids in the UK grow up on is Weetabix.
	Weetabix.
	Weetabix.
	Yeah.
	Funny story.
	Weetabix is also made in Canada and sold here once in a while.
	I don't know.
	I've only found it by accident.
	Or as the kids would say, on accident.
	I still don't understand.
	The kids.
	So I looked into it.
	It's actually an Australian product.
	Huh.
	Called Wheat-Bix.
	Yeah.
	That was the two guys who invented it.
	It was sold out from under them.
	They moved to South Africa, started up a company called Wheat-A-Bix, and then they moved that to England eventually.
	Oh, really?
	Oh, and so...
	Standard product.
	This goes back to the 20s.
	Wow.
	I would say that there's a Lanomac issue with Wheat-Bix and Wheat-A-Bix.
	It's too close.
	It's too close.
	And you know what you should try that with?
	Some of that Shanksville maple syrup.
	Well, I use maple syrup, but I don't open every maple syrup that comes along right away.
	I had to.
	That's next in line.
	I had to.
	I had to.
	That is outstanding.
	I'm sure it is.
	It wouldn't have said it to us otherwise.
	It's too small.
	Pennsylvania probably makes a distinctive maple syrup because these different areas make the trees taste different.
	Yeah, well, yes.
	I've licked many a tree, and I can agree.
	They taste very different.
	Anyway.
	I've licked some bark myself.
	Yeah, you know, that's where DMT comes from, from tree bark.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	The DMT tree?
	Yes, and you've got to have a druid who knows how to do it, but that's where the good stuff comes from, from the tree.
	Hey, thanks for the newsletter.
	That was really nice.
	You're welcome.
	I thought you were going to be in Holland today.
	The newsletter was kind of misleading.
	Well, not really.
	I mean, I would have corrected you.
	It made sense.
	I guess it was just confusing if you didn't know exactly what's going on.
	Yeah, I leave this week and I arrive Thursday morning.
	I sleep early.
	I think I explained this on the show.
	Maybe I wasn't clear.
	So I fly Wednesday, arrive early Thursday, sleep, prep, then do the show, sleep, and then Friday we have everything going on.
	Okay.
	And then I have to stay the weekend, otherwise it's $6,000.
	Right, you can't afford not to.
	What is that?
	What is that weekend thing?
	Why are they still doing it?
	Well, it started a long time ago.
	Well, if you stay a Saturday, you get less, cost less.
	What is up with that?
	Well, it was load balancing, obviously, but on the backs of the passengers, I don't know.
	It doesn't make sense to me.
	Well, we might as well start with my unsafe airline clip then.
	Hold on a second.
	Since I'm flying anyway.
	The FAA's tests are designed to replicate the real-life panic of an onboard emergency.
	Smoke fills the cabin as the lights suddenly go out.
	Now, under orders from Congress to set minimum seat size standards, the FAA is looking at whether smaller seats actually pose a threat.
	We want to see if varying seat pitch and width has any influence or effect on the time it takes to evacuate an aircraft.
	But critics say the tests up till now have been flawed.
	No one grabs for an overhead bag.
	There are no children, elderly, or disabled participants, and very few are obese.
	The dilemma?
	Three out of four Americans are now overweight.
	Yet the airlines have been shrinking seat sizes for years, from 35 inches down to 31 inches and less today.
	A lot of it comes down to playing in simple comfort, but number one should be safety.
	If we can't get out during an emergency evacuation, then people are really in trouble.
	The new FAA test involves 60 volunteers at a time, ages 18 to 60.
	Still, no children disabled or elderly.
	But the FAA promises the test should better reflect America's weight demographic.
	Aircraft manufacturers must prove that every passenger can get out of a plane within 90 seconds with half the exits blocked.
	The question tonight is whether too close for comfort is also too close for safety.
	So there was a couple things I hadn't realized thinking about that.
	Or listening to that clip.
	One is children, disabled and elderly...
	Wow, they will hamper my exit.
	Probably.
	We should put them in their own section.
	Well, that's an idea, but I've got an idea that I've floated a few times, which Noah likes.
	You should, and I think this is the most logical thing to do with airline fees, is you should charge by the pound.
	Yes, I have heard this in the past.
	But still, that doesn't mean that I won't have a child hampering my emergency exit.
	Get out of the way, kid.
	You can pick the kid up and move him.
	You can cage the kids.
	Put them downstairs.
	Everybody wins.
	Parents win, too.
	Yeah, well, see, you're just being flippant.
	I'm actually serious about my by-the-pound thing.
	Because it's all calculated by the pound, how much fuel it takes to move X number of pounds.
	Yeah, you're not enthusiastic.
	No, I'm thinking about it, but no, I mean...
	No.
	On little flights, and some of these little puddle jumpers you get on that go from here to there, they do weigh you on some of these flights.
	Sometimes, yeah.
	Sometimes.
	I don't know.
	I think the way we charge is just fine.
	The fact that they're overcharging is not so fine.
	It's just nice.
	And then we're charging for a weekend.
	That's what I want.
	I want someone to tell us why that is taking place.
	It's load balancing, I'm telling you.
	I just told you.
	So I neglected to say or to mention something, which I think I do every year on the last show, Thanksgiving, is Black Friday and how in recent years the anti-American United States of Europe has picked this up, Black Friday.
	I have clips.
	Very good.
	I'll finish my statement.
	Has picked this up and actually in every language they call it Black Friday.
	It's not Zwarte Vrijdag in Dutch.
	You hear...
	That's one way to hear it.
	And it's in the media.
	Everyone calls it Black Friday.
	And I think what happened is...
	Everyone is so wrapped up in the commerce of it and the fact that it's Black Friday that they forgot to warn people.
	There'll be a lot of people out there, a lot of people congregating, and it could be nefarious actors roaming around trying to cause, to wreak havoc.
	There were no warnings.
	Well, no.
	Well, this Black Friday thing first showed up on our show two years ago when I was in England for Thanksgiving.
	Yes.
	Ah, that's right.
	That's right.
	I thought I was reporting it, but I reported it back.
	Because I was stunned.
	There was Black Friday.
	Because the day after Thanksgiving, it was Black Friday.
	I'm thinking, what's Black Friday?
	What?
	This is an American thing.
	And then, if I recall, the report was that it's Amazon that was behind promoting Black Friday in Europe.
	Oh, that would make sense.
	And you had to get everyone to get people jacked up so they can have Cyber Monday.
	I think that's the long-term goal, but...
	I didn't realize at the time that this had been going on, and when I reported on it, this had been going on in many parts of Europe, and this report from DW describes the whole situation.
	This is a Black Friday DW report.
	Love it or leave it, Black Friday is part of the calendar now.
	A day of over-the-top deals and big retailer hopes.
	This year has been no different, although some participants are in a less-than-festive mood.
	Santa Claus in Los Angeles makes it obvious to one and all what Black Friday is about.
	Christmas is just around the corner, so buy mountains of presents or just spoil yourself.
	But buy, buy, buy.
	Black Friday arrived in Europe years ago, like here in Paris, where consumers are also scrambling for bargains.
	But this year in Paris and many other European cities, climate activists have joined the throngs.
	They're making sure everyone gets to hear their protests against consumerism, wasting of finite resources and packaging.
	Some shops shut their doors to stop the activists from protesting inside.
	Many customers were suddenly locked in, and only a few were allowed in at a time.
	The climate activists are calling it Block Friday, the idea being to block the shopping spree to publicize their environmental concerns.
	We're protesting against overconsumption today.
	We can consume, but more fairly, more ethically.
	So when you buy a handbag, don't get a new one every year to change the color.
	Keep it.
	It lasts 10 or 15 years.
	From Block Friday back to the U.S. and Black Friday, shoppers are more interested in finding bargains than worrying about climate change or the downsides of consumerism.
	We got up at 1 a.m., so you know the anticipation that you can see behind us.
	There's a lot of people online, so you want to be the first person to get what you want on Black Friday.
	Traditionally, Black Friday is the most important sales day of the year.
	The U.S. retail sector depends on it being a success.
	Nice climate change insertion.
	I love this.
	Can you imagine what would happen with a bunch of climate change nutballs in front of one of these Black Friday things at Walmart or something?
	It would be unbelievable.
	They'd get the crap beat out of them.
	Yeah, they'd be trampled.
	But this is the European way, of course.
	But it's been going on forever, apparently.
	Paris is a big Black Friday operation, I guess.
	I don't know what it's like in Holland.
	They didn't report on that.
	Although the French members of Parliament did come out with a statement.
	They're right in line with XR. They want to ban Black Friday because of resource waste and overconsumption.
	Which, to be honest, is just some fairness to that.
	This is the kind of mentality that you have to wonder about some of these governments.
	You need consumption in an economic system like we run.
	If everybody just stays home and just uses old purses, it's just really not going to be good for the economy.
	They're wondering why they're always struggling.
	Get your glad rags in your handbags, ladies.
	Old purses.
	And then what does global warming have to do with consumption?
	I mean, I can see...
	Overconsumption.
	No, overconsumption.
	Everything you consume has a carbon price attached to it.
	Don't you realize this?
	That would have to be it.
	That would have to be it.
	So here's the Black Friday report.
	Now this one, here's another one.
	This is the NBC one.
	And I have to, this is a local.
	This one here, they were looking, this is like, I think this is a native ad disguised as a news report.
	And they lead, this is one of the most, I'd say heinous, Reports on Black Friday.
	Because it's a report on Black Friday and the retail and get out there and buy stuff.
	But they couch it as a Homeland Security warning.
	Ha ha ha!
	And then they drop the whole storyline of the Homeland Security and just get into the native ads selling stuff.
	While you're eyeing the sales, tonight, a new warning.
	Keep your eyes peeled for scams.
	The Department of Homeland Security wants you to beware of fake websites while shopping online, sharing two examples and red flags, websites that have unusual addresses or lack contact info, adding, if the price is too good to be true, it probably is.
	But for many consumers, there's no stopping their shopping, much of it coming online.
	Black Friday saw a record high, $7.4 billion in online sales, nearly $3 billion of that coming from smartphones alone.
	Flying off the shelves this season, in kids' toys, Paw Patrol, LOL Surprise, and Frozen 2 merchandise, and electronics, including laptops, Apple AirPods, and big screen TVs.
	Experts say this year, when searching for those deals, the calendar will actually work in your favor.
	There's only 22 days between Cyber Monday and Christmas, which is six days less than there were last year.
	Consumers are going to reap the benefits of that because retailers, you're going to see them offering more sales starting sooner.
	So the sales have been worth it?
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	But not all shoppers are leaving with a full stocking.
	On social media, complaints that Walmart, after advertising a marked-down Apple Watch, abruptly canceled orders, saying they were out of stock.
	Walmart calls it a technical issue, saying those customers can reorder at the same Black Friday price.
	For shoppers in Atlanta, there's only one measure of success this season.
	If I can leave with some Steeler deals, I'm going to try to find some deals that knock our socks off.
	So Walmart had this overstock issue of these damn Apple Watches, and they're like, oh man, what are we going to do?
	Buy a native ass.
	Yeah, that is pretty...
	What was the word you used?
	A news report disguised as a...
	No, no.
	You said, hmm.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, I do.
	It was...
	Okay.
	It'll come back to me.
	He used a good word in the intro to that.
	That's exactly what...
	Piece of shit, I think we could have said, too.
	Piece of shit is what I said.
	Very obvious.
	But it's like, it goes on and then they drop this Walmart story, which has got nothing to do with Homeland Security.
	And they dropped this Walmart thing at the end about, oh yeah, they ran out of the Apple watches.
	They're discounted.
	They're selling these watches for $124 something, $75 offer.
	It's still an expensive product, but It's cheaper than buying it from Apple, and I'm wondering why Apple has to run stuff through Walmart.
	They also have a Costco operation now.
	No, but they've gone all in, man.
	They're selling everywhere they can.
	The ads that they're doing on TV now, the co-ads with the telcos, they're doing a lot.
	By the way, before I forget, probably in the next 14 days we'll have our annual Secret Santa who pays off everybody's shit on layaway.
	We'll have that one coming up.
	Will it be for Walmart again?
	Because usually it's Walmart.
	Yeah, probably Walmart.
	Walmart's Walmart.
	Yeah, so they have that.
	You get the news report.
	Oh, everyone's on layaway was paid off by a secret Santa.
	Yeah.
	Or maybe Target.
	Maybe Target.
	That's coming just as like, you know, these other things always come.
	Let me see.
	News story you can expect year after year or month after month or every six weeks or whatever.
	Yeah, it'll be some.
	And it'll be Walmart.
	Oh, somebody paid...
	Oh, this man's such a great guy!
	I'm trying to find one of those older reports.
	Lay away now.
	And he's Mr.
	Anonymous.
	No, it's always some anonymous person who pays everything off.
	But what would we have named a clip like that?
	That's a tough one to outguess.
	Walmart is offering new incentives to attract high school.
	No, that's not it.
	Damn, I know we have this.
	I know we have one of those.
	If it's not under Secret Santa, you're going to spend too much time looking for it.
	Okay, there's not a lot in...
	Okay.
	Anyway, we'll have a new one in a few weeks.
	It'll be coming shortly.
	It's on its way.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think, what was it, $5.4 billion done online in the U.S.? That's pretty good.
	No, 7.7 something.
	No, I think that was all of last year, wasn't it?
	I don't know.
	This report was pre...
	Well, anyway...
	But Tina and Elise went out shopping in the afternoon and said it was okay, but it wasn't crazy.
	People weren't killing each other.
	I think more of it's just online.
	I think Amazon is right.
	They pushed this.
	And Walmart, of course, also has their online whatever they bought.
	Didn't they buy something for a billion dollars and they're trying to catch up to Amazon with it?
	Okay.
	Yeah, I bought some company.
	Well, good luck.
	It's even better if we had two of these companies really competing instead of just Amazon dominating everything.
	Yeah, they bought Jet.
	That's what it was, Jet.
	Anyway, I like the climate change angle.
	I do have a couple of updates in the Green New Deal corner.
	And the first would be that there was an article in AdAge.
	AdAge is still meaningful for the industry, isn't it?
	I believe so.
	Advertising.
	Advertising age, ad age, or is ad week and advertising age?
	Yes, those two.
	Yeah, ad week and ad age.
	And their advertising age tends to be the more old-fashioned, more traditional, and I think better done publication, personally.
	I agree.
	Back when I was in the industry, you would look forward to ad.
	Ad week was more like who's moving where, who's got a client, who's pitching.
	But ad age, yeah, I agree.
	It's a little deeper in the industry.
	Well, Aaron Hall, who I don't know if he writes for them regularly, but he's the group director of naming at global brand strategy firm Siegel& Gale, who I don't know, but sounds impressive.
	Two names.
	He wrote an op-ed In adage, renaming climate change, can a new name finally make us take action?
	And he starts off by saying, oh, as a professional namer, I create names for companies, products, and services.
	After the global climate strike this past September, I found myself thinking about the terms climate change and global warming.
	Are these scientific terms, which I think is funny by itself, are these scientific terms too neutral?
	Do they do enough to grab attention and inspire people to take action?
	Well, I don't need to read the rest of the article except for some of the highlights because obviously he's looking at rebranding climate change and getting his cohorts along for the ride because there is a lot of climate activist advertising going on.
	It's what we do.
	It's money.
	It's good money.
	Good money.
	And if you have the right brand and the right branding, whether it's for a product that you want to intertwine with climate change or you just want to get some of that sweet, sweet government dollars, you've got to have some good names.
	So he set himself out a little strategy, you know, the way you do it in advertising.
	For Reach, the new name needs to speak to a global threat affecting 7.5 billion humans.
	As such, our global team of namers from London, New York, San Francisco, and Shanghai developed these new names.
	The audience.
	I'm trying to give a little advertising spin to it.
	This is his briefing.
	He's pitching to the community.
	Before you continue, I have not read this, so this is all news to me.
	Now, did he address the fact that they've already tried to change global warming to climate crisis and climate emergency?
	He's completely ignored that because he actually has some of that in his pitch names.
	He's actually not keeping up.
	No, I think he ignored it purposefully, and he has a number of names, and he probably threw in some stuff just to make it, you know, like, oh, yeah, I've kind of heard that, but we want something better.
	I think it's something they do.
	If you want to sell a pair of shoes, you show someone the sandals, the boots, and then the shoes you actually want them to buy.
	Audience.
	The brand needs to reach an audience that isn't trained in scientific terms.
	It's like climate change.
	That's a scientific term.
	We need these folks to understand the severity of what's happening to their planet and inspire them to make more eco-friendly life choices and pro-climate choices at the ballot box.
	And the message...
	There are many possible themes, tones, and styles of names to explore.
	The name could signal hope, fear, or change.
	It could be a call to action, be more descriptive, or use familiar metaphors that emotionally connect us to the issue.
	With all of this in mind, our team of wordsmiths developed the You can't charge for a name like Wordsmith.
	Never call your global name branding team Wordsmiths.
	Anyway, with all of this in mind, our team of Wordsmiths developed the following new names for climate change.
	Now, I'll just give them to you if you want a little further explanation.
	I can go into the pitch paragraph.
	But we'll start with the first two.
	Global Meltdown and Global Melting.
	Wow, what a lip smack.
	Well, let me tell you, this is interesting.
	Both of those are terrible, by the way.
	So this guy I would fire on the spot.
	He has more.
	He has more.
	You're fired!
	But the reason I say that is because I was talking to the Lib Joes in a little roundabout on the chat messaging thing.
	Yeah, the RCS, yeah.
	And I was ridiculing this stupid picture of Greta.
	This has been put on the side of a building in San Francisco and it's just a huge head that's just a monstrosity and it's just frightening.
	I think people should protest the city council as scaring kids.
	And I said, why don't you put somebody else up there?
	And I mentioned Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King.
	There's a million people.
	You want to paint a big head.
	It would be more appropriate.
	I can't wait for the comeback.
	And I said, why did they do this?
	And so one of the Lib Joes writes back, because the earth is melting.
	Okay.
	So...
	So this is in the lexicon.
	Yes.
	Well, these options are subtle brand shifts from global warming.
	Subtle?
	Yet they deliver a more negative image.
	These names signal that ice caps are melting, but also create a more visceral image in the mind, that real feeling of melting when it's too hot outside.
	We'll move on.
	Climate collapse or climate chaos.
	Well, climate collapse, I think, is they've tried that.
	The problem with climate collapse is, oh, well, we're done.
	We're done.
	We're over.
	Let's go back to work.
	Well, he personally likes the alliteration.
	A naming trick.
	Yeah, you would, too.
	A naming trick proven to enhance memorability.
	So, I don't like either one of them.
	Then he goes on to boiling point or melting point.
	Again, with the melting.
	Yeah, it's just...
	Were they all just done during the winter where they're all bundled up outside?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, we're complaining about the boiling point.
	It's a boiling point!
	Let me tighten my scarf.
	It's time to take the gloves off and stop pretending.
	Sometimes a brand name needs to be hyperbolic to truly capture hearts and minds.
	If we don't take massive action now, Earth will be uninhabitable, an irreversible barren wasteland.
	Plants and animals will die.
	Humans won't be able to survive extreme weather like floods, drought, and fires.
	If we don't change, we won't even be able to spend time outside.
	This term paints the direst picture of what's to come and what we must avoid and is likely the edgiest brand name from our exploration.
	Care to guess?
	By the way, for anyone to write that in adage, that paragraph, you're pretty far out there.
	Scorched earth is his term, which of course is not anything new, but he feels that would be really good to get people's attention.
	Terrible.
	All right.
	Now he has some other...
	Scorched Earth is a specific...
	It is not a scientific term, but it's a historical term.
	Yes.
	And it means where you're in a war and then you decide to burn down everything behind you so that anyone chasing you cannot get supplies or live.
	I think this...
	And the Scorched Earth policy, I mean, you can't put that word because it assumes somebody's actually doing something.
	I'm trying to think, did this Aaron Hall, did he come up with the New Coke name?
	It seems like he might have been on that team.
	He has a couple other honorable mentions.
	So that was it.
	That's his pitch.
	Those are his names.
	He has a couple of honorable mentions.
	Emission critical.
	Planet critical.
	Emission critical is a pun.
	Listen to this one.
	Pre-extinction.
	This I like.
	You and I could use this.
	Climate change, yes, I believe we are in the pre-extinction phase, which of course is true.
	That's actually pretty good.
	Because we are in the pre-extinction.
	Rebellion is exploiting that.
	Yeah, but we can actually say this.
	Because of course we're pre-extinction.
	We always are.
	We're perpetually in pre-extinction.
	That's why I like it.
	Pre-extinction.
	We have to come up with this little slogan.
	Well, here's the Great Collapse, which I think is an interesting...
	No, the Great Collapse sounds like an economic thing.
	Yeah.
	It's no good.
	And then Earth Shattering.
	Ugh.
	That's no good.
	No, none of these are good.
	Except pre-extinction.
	That's kind of cool.
	It's kind of cool, but, well, it's not going to get the job done.
	Sir Gene weighs in.
	He says, why not just call it Earth Cancer?
	That'll give everybody the right idea.
	That's actually, that's what Gene said is better than anything this guy said.
	It's better than the rest.
	Here's the latest from Extinction Rebellion.
	We're here outside YouTube headquarters because...
	Oh yes, they're protesting outside YouTube headquarters in London.
	We're here outside YouTube headquarters because Guardian reporters found that the majority of YouTube...
	By the way, it's Guardian reporter.
	Reporter.
	It's a reporter.
	It's their fault.
	Is she bundled up?
	Of course!
	We're here outside YouTube headquarters because a Guardian report has found that the majority of YouTube videos go against the scientific consensus about the climate crisis and we're asking them to tell the truth about the climate crisis and not let this misinformation be spread.
	Once you've watched one video which promotes misinformation, it feeds you a stream and it keeps going on with just more and more and more misinformation because that's the way this algorithm works.
	People do what they do because of the stories that they're told.
	The majority of the videos about climate science on YouTube are telling lies.
	People in charge of this company know that we are in an enormous emergency.
	If people understood the reality of the crisis that we faced, that they would be here in the streets with us.
	There you go.
	Extinction Rebellion.
	Pre-extinction Rebellion.
	See a picture?
	They got a picture of that guy who heads that thing up.
	He's just a horrible looking person.
	He looks like Satan.
	In the UK, they had a...
	I guess they had some kind of climate debate.
	And neither Boris Johnson or Nigel Farage decided to show up.
	So on the TV... I don't know if they decided last minute or they said, we're not coming.
	I think it was more like, we don't want to do this.
	And so they had three or four different party leaders.
	And then on either end, it would have been Boris or Nigel.
	And instead, they had melting busts of them, of ice melting.
	Very funny.
	It was fair, by the way.
	This is the typical unfairness of the whole thing, to do that.
	But they could have brought a spokesperson in that said, you know, the way you're supposed to do it for people who want to do campaigning, the way you're supposed to do it is you have someone who doesn't show up.
	Well, he didn't show up, but we do have another representative, self-proclaimed UKIP or Brexit Party member, Bill Jenkins here, and you bring some stooge in that's got nothing to do with the party, doesn't believe in anything over there, and just makes a fool of himself.
	Or he's a stutterer.
	Right.
	You bring people like that, and you don't pull this other stunt, because it's too obvious the other way.
	This way, the way I'm describing, is never necessarily obvious, except to the fine-tuned folks who listen to the No Agenda show.
	There was quite the fracas over the past couple of days as Bolsonaro of Brazil, Brazilian President Bolsonaro, claimed that a group that supports, I guess works in an NGO, Amazon forestation NGO, received money from Leonardo DiCaprio and that they're the ones that set the Amazon on fire.
	Yes, I have this clip from NBC. Oh, you do?
	Of course.
	I love this.
	I'm covering your ass today.
	Yeah, well, thanks.
	Which one is it?
	Every topic.
	I got a clip.
	Well, here's how it works.
	I sit down.
	I'm going to do clips.
	If I see you have the clip, I'm just going to get the set dressing.
	I'm going to get the window stuff.
	Yeah, you're getting all the credit.
	Oh, please.
	Which clip is it?
	Bolsonaro.
	It was the segue was so beautiful.
	Thank you.
	By the way, before you segue out what you're going to do, I do have a couple other screwballed climate change things.
	Well, let's listen to Bolsonaro.
	This thing looks like, I don't know who this is a publicity stunt for, but it's for somebody.
	Tonight, a war of words between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
	President Bolsonaro blaming the star for the devastating Amazon wildfires earlier this year.
	DiCaprio is a cool guy, he said, giving money to set the Amazon on fire.
	Bolsonaro has accused certain non-governmental environmental organizations of deliberately setting fire to the Amazon, all to get donations.
	Não vai ser nada marcado, não.
	It contacts Leonardo DiCaprio, he alleges.
	He donates $500,000.
	You are contributing to the fire in the Amazon.
	Investigators have not found any evidence so far to support the accusations.
	And now the actor and avid climate activist is hitting back, saying in an Instagram statement, while worthy of support, we did not fund the organizations targeted, adding that he remains committed to helping secure the Amazon for the future of all Brazilians.
	The fires so far have helped destroy millions of acres.
	Now, hold on.
	Before this concludes, How can this not be a problem for the XR folks when he's saying, well, while it's worthy of support of burning down the Amazon, we didn't do it this time.
	Isn't this whole thing like, wasn't everyone all out of their minds because of these fires and it was going to create more carbon dioxide and less plants?
	Where did I miss the change here, that it's okay for him to say, oh, it's good that they do that?
	Well, we discussed this in great detail, as I recall, from all kinds of perspectives, and they do burn the forest quite a bit every year as part of a process that they use to...
	Oh, I'm not disagreeing with it, but how come the Extinction Rebellion aren't up in arms that he would actually support that activity?
	That Bolsonaro would support the burning?
	No, DiCaprio supports the burning of the Amazon.
	Oh, well...
	I don't know.
	Don't you remember?
	Amazon is burning, we're all going to die?
	Yeah, because it's the lungs of the earth.
	Yeah, yes, the lungs of the earth.
	Did we miss this report?
	And now, but, oh, Leonardo said it's good, and then we just don't talk about it?
	I'm sorry, maybe I'm misinterpreting this.
	You might be misinterpreting something, because I don't know that's in there.
	Can you play it and tell me the specific part you're referring to?
	Yes.
	$500,000?
	You are contributing to the fire in the Amazon.
	Investigators have not found any evidence so far to support the accusations.
	And now the actor and avid climate activist is hitting back, saying in an Instagram statement, while worthy of support, we did not fund the organization's targeted, adding that he remains committed to helping secure the...
	While worthy of support, the NGO that burned down the Amazon, we didn't give them money.
	Oh, I see what you're saying.
	Okay.
	Yeah, well, there's two things in that clip that are bothersome.
	That's one of them.
	The other one is in an Instagram announcement.
	When are people starting to do their announcements on Instagram?
	Isn't that just for photos?
	No, man.
	If you're Leonardo, that's your platform.
	That's where you go.
	The Amazon, for the future of all Brazilians.
	The fires so far have helped destroy millions of acres of the ecosystem known as the lungs of the earth.
	Governments around the world, including Brazil, need to work together to make sure this doesn't continue.
	For the president of a country to claim that an actor is actually trying to hurt the environment that he's trying to protect, it just shows how little Bolsonaro has in his pocket.
	Did you listen to that last part again and really understand the implications of what he said?
	I want to hear it again.
	The last 10 seconds here?
	Yeah, that guy.
	Some joker comes on at the end and says something.
	Oops.
	For the president of a country to claim that an actor is actually trying to hurt the environment that he's trying to protect, it just shows how little Bolsonaro has in his pocket.
	It sounds to me like he's implying that actors in general...
	Have no power.
	Well, there's that.
	But he's saying that actors in general would never, never...
	No actor would ever, ever...
	Oh, right.
	Just as all creative people are Democrats.
	Yeah, according to John Legend.
	So there's this kind of arrogance amongst the ranks...
	That, you know, if you're an actor, you're an artist, and therefore you'd want to do this and you want to do that, you wouldn't even think of voting Republican.
	Who was the guy at the end there?
	Who said that?
	It was some guy.
	It was some stooge.
	I don't know.
	They may have had a lower third with his name on it.
	It was not an important person, but he was making commentary.
	But I just was, what?
	That's why I left it in.
	No actor could ever, ever do that.
	How dare you?
	We're all against climate change, us actors.
	You want to hear the John Legend clip for refreshing?
	Yes, please.
	Well, we've always been liberal.
	Musicians, actors, it's almost by disposition.
	We deal with the gay and lesbian community all the time.
	So we're going to feel like They should have the right to get married, just like we do.
	We deal with people of all colors and all races, and we travel to different countries all the time to perform.
	So we're going to have a more global view and a more inclusive view.
	It's almost by nature and by circumstance of the things that we do.
	So if America doesn't want to consume the art of people who are liberal-minded, there's not going to be a lot of art for them to consume.
	As simple as that.
	Because the best artists, most of them are liberal.
	Sorry.
	There are some country artists that I know that are conservative.
	I have a lot of country artists that are friends.
	And believe me, some of them are liberal.
	But they don't make a big deal out of it because they know it'll alienate their base.
	I'm telling you, most creative people are liberal.
	To say I have a lot of country people who are my friends, is that not the same as saying I have black people who are some of them my best friends?
	I have black people who are my friends.
	I have country people who are my friends.
	Exactly the same.
	And then we also reintroduced the secret vote thing, which is that, well, you know, if you got them in a secret vote, they'd vote against them.
	Yes.
	there.
	He says a lot of country western singers.
	Ah, yes.
	Did you hear that in there?
	In the closet.
	They're in the closet you see.
	They can't really say anything.
	Yeah, they can't say anything, but if you actually could get them to say what they really meant.
	They're all liberal.
	Oh, yes, of course.
	Obviously.
	DiCaprio continues to be a good shepherd or steward, I should say, of Agenda 21 as he has now officially announced his investment in the Beyond Meat Vegan Burger Company.
	Chemicals are us.
	Now, is that true?
	Do they have chemicals?
	Better living through chemistry.
	Yeah, well, I thought it was just all beans.
	I don't have the package in front of me, but there's a lot of additives and things to make it work.
	And it's peas, I think, right?
	Now, did you want to do some more climate change?
	Yeah, I got a few since we were on the climate change thing, and it's pouring rain here, and it's freezing cold.
	Oh, man.
	I think it's more thematic.
	We had a couple of dreary days here as well.
	Cold, wet.
	Where I am, it's actually not as bad as it is everywhere else in the Bay Area.
	But...
	Yeah, we got an invasion of purple urchins.
	This is an NBC report.
	This is Purple Urchins Invasion 1.
	With an environmental emergency impact, an unexpected predator is disrupting a fragile ecosystem off our west coast.
	Gotti Schwartz went under the sea with a group trying to make a difference before it's too late.
	You'd never notice from along the coastlines of California, but below these picturesque waters, an ecological emergency is unfolding.
	We're going to show you underwater.
	To see this hidden crisis, you have to go deep.
	With the small scuba armies of volunteers all the way to the sea floor, where purple sea urchins are invading and destroying what were once vast kelp forests.
	So these act almost like lawnmowers?
	Exactly like lawnmowers.
	They'll actually form feeding lines that kind of sweep across an area.
	The sea urchin's just one piece of a catastrophic trifecta devastating the ecology of California's sea life.
	Warming waters from climate change and a disease wiping out starfish, the sea urchin's natural predators, have led to a purple urchin takeover.
	Two years ago, these kelp forests stretched all up and down the Northern California coast, but they have been decimated.
	They are known as the redwoods of the ocean, and this is one of the last patches left.
	So only 10%.
	That's not too bad, I guess, if it's been decimated.
	The California coast, but they have been decimated.
	They are known as the redwoods of the ocean, and this is one of the last patches left.
	Which is why volunteers like Joshua Russo are spending their weekends trying to remove as many purple urchins as they can bag.
	So this is one of the last stands.
	Yeah, we've lost over 90% of our kelp beds in Northern California.
	Experts say the kelp forests are the foundation for countless food chains from plankton, abalone, fish, crabs, sea otters, all now replaced by a barren seabed of urchins.
	Now, where do these come from?
	Sea urchins?
	Yeah, are they indigenous?
	Yeah, I think so.
	I think they're native.
	Here's the real problem.
	Global warming kills the starfish.
	The starfish died of some mysterious disease that they've never identified.
	And they could be replenished because the starfish love these urchins.
	And anyone who eats uni...
	Knows what they're going for there.
	Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, can't we...
	It sounds like a good supply of food.
	Yeah, of uni.
	We can do a lot with these urchins.
	The fishing trade should be up.
	There's like a billion of them right now, they estimate.
	Yeah.
	And they're all over the bottom.
	They're just pointy.
	They're horrible looking things.
	And they're trying to...
	I don't know even what they're bothering.
	But when you listen to part two, you can get kind of a clue.
	And then we'll talk about it after you listen to this part.
	What's changed out here?
	We have a crisis in the making.
	The ocean is dying because we've got a billion sea urchins and they're eating everything.
	But on shore, solutions are limited, with regulations restricting how many urchins can be harvested and only by hand.
	If that's all the law will allow us to do, then we'll do the best we can, but it's futile.
	So for now, volunteers are plucking them out one by one.
	Purple drops in a bucket for a problem growing every day.
	I think we need emergency legislation.
	Well, it seems to me what happened here was that sea urchins, these little purple guys, were being harvested.
	Being protected by some bullcrap legislation and they grew out of control.
	Yeah.
	Hello?
	Yeah.
	And this is a Democrat state.
	They could change the legislation easy enough.
	I don't think it's a federal law that keeps you from just taking a plow.
	Because you could see, you could go down there if you had some mechanical stuff because you have to...
	By law, you can only pluck these things by hand, and you can't even count to a billion, let alone pluck a billion of these things out of the bottom.
	You know, it's obviously the sushi restaurant owner's lobby that is keeping these regulations in place.
	They're probably killing all these things, and they're running short, and then they said, no, no, no, you can't do that.
	You know, you guys are...
	Killing all these damn things.
	And so they legislated to let them grow.
	And so now they're taking over the place.
	And there's a lot of this story that needs to be further investigated.
	But the starfish is one of the problems, which may have been, for all you know, poisoned to keep the sea urchins going so they can have more uni.
	The Japanese love uni.
	Well, now you're talking some trade with Japan.
	Yeah.
	Apparently we're selling rice to China now, so why wouldn't we sell sushi to Japan?
	Well, yeah.
	I don't see why not.
	I don't know.
	Now, somebody out there who's an expert, we have people.
	We have people.
	We definitely have people.
	This is not the edible sea urchin, but I don't know.
	Why would it be protected in such a way if it wasn't?
	So I'm sure it's the edible one.
	And starfish apparently loved eating them.
	Hmm.
	So it's a mess.
	But global warming is not the problem.
	No, but it's always fun to mention it.
	Yeah, it just keeps hounding and hounding and hounding.
	Because it works.
	It does work, as we know.
	I don't know if I get any more global warming stuff here.
	Well, no, but we do have this.
	This is something we probably at least should get out of the way.
	At least so we can feel better.
	We're doing this show, we did it on Thanksgiving, we're doing it today, we're doing it while you're in Holland, and let's listen to what's going on around the country, the Thanksgiving weather report.
	Good evening.
	Dangerous, deadly weather is slamming much of the U.S. right now.
	Blizzard conditions crippling parts of the Rockies, Midwest, Great Plains, even Arizona.
	And this is just the beginning.
	More than 70 million people will also be hit with gusty winds, flash floods and tornadoes.
	Treacherous conditions for the 55 million traveling home from the holidays.
	Airports are on alert.
	Canceling flights.
	Thousands more already delayed.
	We're tracking multiple storm systems this hour.
	Kathy Park starts us off.
	Tonight, powerful storms creating chaos for post-Thanksgiving travelers as snow, heavy rain, and strong winds barrel across the country.
	In Colorado, hurricane force wind gusts whipping snow in all directions, creating whiteout conditions.
	We're really whipping through here.
	Tough even for this meteorologist to stand and dangerous for those daring to drive on the roads.
	In Arizona, a massive pileup on the interstate with trucks stuck for hours.
	And a snowy Grand Canyon town declared a state of emergency with no power, stranding a thousand tourists.
	Tornadoes even touched down in Phoenix, and floodwaters turned deadly in nearby Gila County.
	An RV got swept into this creek.
	Only six people made it out alive, as water quickly submerged the vehicle.
	Listening to this in audio is probably even better than watching this on television.
	I think it is, except for one thing.
	What's that?
	They had a photo or a shot or a video of the Grand Canyon covered with snow.
	Yeah.
	Wow, is that something to look at.
	It's just a Grand Canyon, but there's snow all over the place.
	It's very pretty.
	Well, we should do our own little report.
	I think you should toss to me.
	I'm at Austin Bergstrom Airport.
	And we've got a report from Adam Curry.
	He's in Austin Bergstrom Airport as we speak.
	Adam!
	Yeah, John!
	John!
	It's really messing up a lot of travel plans for the holiday travelers.
	We've got this one.
	You see, the wind here is just...
	Oh, hold on a second.
	My cameraman is falling down.
	As you can tell, it's really horrible for Thanksgiving.
	And that's it.
	Be safe, everybody.
	Back to you in the afternoon, John.
	Thanks, Adam.
	That's Adam Curry at the airport.
	Be safe, buddy.
	People in the troll room are like, hey, man, sounds like there's some static or something.
	What am I hearing?
	That's the wind blowing on the mic, you fools!
	I'm going to put all this time into production.
	You think you'd have a bit, you know, to use some...
	Actually, if you listen to that report that I had the clip of, they put that sound into the voiceover, which is the sound of a reporter in a hurricane out in the wind, and he's got a dead cat, whatever he's using to muffle his sounds, not helping.
	That's my favorite kind of report.
	Love them!
	So now they're just using that sound to make it windy sounding.
	Yes, exactly.
	Bad micing.
	Very funny.
	Yeah, it's the same thing.
	Speaking of the holiday, Thanksgiving...
	I'm sorry, I have one more global warming clip.
	Well, that has precedence, of course.
	Well, we're on the topic.
	Sea level rise, shorty on Deutsche Welle.
	If you live in coastal areas of China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam or Thailand, you may have to move within the next 30 years.
	The reason?
	Sea level rise.
	A new study predicts that by 2050, increases in sea levels due to melting ice sheets could affect more people than previously estimated.
	Yeah, I think what they're trying to create is some kind of panic selling moment so that the elite can come in and get some nice beachfront property.
	Well, they brought this guy on who did this report for some climate change operation.
	And he admitted that there was no difference in the numbers that they've ever been, except now they're perceiving the possibility that the landmass is getting lower.
	Yes, it's sinking.
	It's sinking.
	Yes, instead of sea level rising, actually the land is sinking.
	And a lot of that is happening.
	There's a lot of erosion because of sand theft, primarily.
	A lot of these islands, sand is being stolen and it helps make that country sink like the Maldives.
	Stealing sand.
	So we laughed on the last show a bit about the Newsweek report that Trump, oh, he's spending his Thanksgiving holiday golfing and drinking, golfing and whoring and eating turkey, whoring around.
	And of course he went to Afghanistan, which was somewhat unexpected.
	Now that Newsweek reporter was fired.
	And now the reporter is retorting, saying, hold on a second.
	I called the editor who was on duty, and I told him, hey, something's going on, and he filed my report anyway.
	It's his fault!
	Yeah, that's a good way to go.
	Yeah, they're pointing fingers at each other.
	I like it.
	Yeah, running scared.
	But it just shows how phony the news business is.
	Everything you saw on television, pretty much, maybe your local live newscast, but even that had a lot of pre-roll packages, because that's what happens.
	They stop with news, they go home, they have their own, public be damned, and they just file their reports and make it up as they go along.
	And it's not just Thanksgiving.
	It happens with many other things.
	That's why I like being here.
	I like being live.
	Oh, I thought you were going to have a clip that was going to exemplify this.
	Oh, if only I did.
	I have other fun stuff to talk about, but I don't have any of that.
	Yeah, I kind of followed that story with that woman and her false report.
	She was told to file it days early, and so she had to kind of guess what was going to happen.
	Hey, give us your Thanksgiving report early.
	Just tell us what Trump is doing.
	A lot of people don't realize that when people die, their obits are already on file.
	Good to go.
	That's how they sometimes slip out by accident.
	Yeah, every so often somebody accidentally prints one of them.
	Yeah.
	Very well prepared obit.
	There's a big revelation in the Jeffrey Epstein case that was detailed in the New York Times.
	Apparently, some hacker named Kessler has come out of the woodworks and has been, in fact, has been talking to different parties for several months, saying that he has an entire server full, encrypted, etc., etc., of...
	Prominent people from Jeffrey Epstein's recordings.
	That he set up the secure server, or a secure server for Epstein, and that he had access, and he's now created a replica of it.
	He went to some lawyers.
	I just got it this morning, so I haven't really...
	Yeah, because he's going to get killed if he doesn't do this right.
	Yes, but what's worse is he went to some lawyers and said, okay, I have this, what are we going to do?
	And the lawyers actually wanted to, as per this hacker, wanted to take that information and use it to blackmail the people themselves.
	Right?
	Geez, think about who your lawyers are.
	Well, here, I have a clip from the weekly podcast.
	Because, of course, if it's Jeffrey Epstein, we've got to move it off the front page to a podcast.
	This story really began for us the day in July that Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and criminally charged with sex trafficking of minors.
	Suddenly, he was...
	I'm just going to say up front, I am...
	As much as I love this invention, podcasting, what they've done...
	With reporting, it's like they're trying to all be Scorsese.
	You know, Phil Spector, the wall of sound.
	Look at these edits.
	I've got these little music beds and these hits.
	Just get to the damn story.
	They're trying to make an Emmy award-winning, or what is it, Marconi award-winning stuff every single time.
	It's so dramatic.
	This story really began for us the day in July that Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and criminally charged with sex trafficking of minors.
	Suddenly, he was someone we were thinking about.
	One of the big questions was where his money was from.
	How does someone like that come up with hundreds of millions of dollars?
	And we were tantalized by the fact that he seemed to have influence with a lot of powerful people.
	These weren't models and Hollywood people.
	These are some of the biggest names in business and finance.
	There were Nobel Prize winners, Wall Street bigwigs.
	The list goes on and on.
	And we wanted to figure out why people had gravitated to him, even after he had become known as a sexual predator.
	And then in September, our reporters met a man who claimed to have a secret trove of information from Epstein's properties.
	This is someone who had extraordinary, probably unparalleled, inside access to not only Epstein, but his, Epstein's digital archive.
	If what the informant was saying was true, it had the potential to unlock Jeffrey Epstein's most important secrets.
	See, that's what I mean.
	It's like, here on the No Agenda Show, as we think about the most important things Jeffrey Epstein might have done, it could be something nefarious.
	Yes, exactly.
	I've needed that in there.
	We should just do the show like that.
	Just overproduce it.
	Yeah, I should be playing music in the background.
	Yeah, it could be useful.
	Yeah.
	Well, if you read the reporting on it, though, this is interesting.
	Of course, you know...
	Of course, this is...
	They were reading from a script.
	Yeah, obviously.
	That could have been a clip that could have been a lot shorter.
	I just love...
	Because they've taken forever to say what they wanted to say.
	I just love that they have...
	You know, there's this guy out there who says, hey, I've got it.
	And apparently he showed something on his phone.
	That guy should set up a dead man's switch and make sure that stuff goes to WikiLeaks if anything happens to him.
	Yeah, well, I don't know if you want it to go to WikiLeaks, but...
	Well, someplace.
	Yeah, well, he has said this, yes, that he has a...
	WordPress blog.
	What?
	No Squarespace for your dead man's switch?
	Oh, sacrilege.
	In the MeToo arena, a very important study has come out.
	In the Springer Evolutionary Psychological Science section of their publishing system, so it's an official one.
	I can only get the abstract because I don't have any way to purchase this.
	Springer Verlag?
	Yes.
	Sexual strategies and the perception of sexual advances.
	Oppression or opportunity?
	Here we go.
	And remember, this comes originally from Eliza Schlesinger, as highlighted by the No Agenda show.
	From an evolutionary perspective, the perception and interpretation of sexual advances depend on sex-specific mechanisms, individual differences in the perceiver's mating strategies, and the actor's attractiveness.
	In two studies, participants evaluated hypothetical situations of sexual advances from a co-worker varying in attractiveness.
	Can you imagine this study, John?
	I would love this study.
	Can you imagine?
	Hey, we're in this study.
	Can the No Agenda show help choose the participants?
	Right, it's like doing a casting call.
	Varying in attractiveness, that was study one, and physical appearance or status in study two.
	That's a very slight difference.
	That's another one.
	But he's rich!
	Here's the thing, though.
	In both studies...
	Men perceived sexual advances as less negative than women, especially when the advances arise from a physically attractive actor.
	Wow, first stop the presses!
	If you read that again, I had no idea.
	Who could have thunk?
	In both studies, men perceive sexual advances as less negative than women, especially when the advances arise from a physically attractive actor.
	Now, mind you, men are the horndogs, so it's less than women.
	I think, since I don't have the study, I'm pretty sure they put it in there to make women sound less douchey.
	But it's amongst, it's really equal as we continue to read.
	Furthermore, the higher the socio-sexual orientation of the participants, what the hell does that mean?
	Socio-sexual.
	I have, you know, generally speaking, I could probably like, from some perspective, answer that question like that.
	I have no idea what you're talking about.
	Socio-sexual.
	Sociosexuality is the individual difference in the willingness to engage in sexual activity outside of a committed relationship.
	Oh, cheaters!
	How did you say cheaters?
	Sociosexual doesn't even imply that.
	That's a crazy term.
	But anyway, keep reading.
	It's science, man!
	Shut up!
	up it's science furthermore the higher the socio-sexual orientation of the participants the less harmful these sexual advances are perceived oh okay finally the same behavior from an attractive or physically attractive actor is perceived as So, it's a scientific fact.
	That if you're hot, you can harass all you want.
	Well, I think that's borne out by reality.
	And then poor Harvey Weinstein must really feel like a crap head after the biggest man in the world, apparently.
	Well, Billy Joel already proved to us that as long as you got talent or money, it doesn't matter how you look.
	You got Christie Brinkley.
	Yeah, but then she left him at the drop of a hat.
	That was the alcohol.
	That was the problem.
	There's no staying power.
	Staying power.
	I just thought you'd be happy about that.
	I thought you'd be chaffed, chuffed about that.
	Chaffed, chuffed, chubbed?
	I don't know what the term is.
	I don't know what that means.
	Well, I'm not really happy about it.
	It just confirms reality.
	It's just like the whole thing.
	And now you've got Because, unfortunately, it reopens the, well, she's too ugly to have a boyfriend kind of argument.
	No, it's going to be...
	The heartless right-wing girls, the good-looking heartless right-wing women are always condemning the ugly women for being ugly.
	They do.
	No, the logical outcome is, why didn't you sexually harass me?
	Because I'm ugly?
	Is that why?
	Oh, that's a great way to go.
	Of course it's going that way.
	Yeah, then you got just the opposite.
	The pendulum swings in the opposite direction.
	I mean, already, if you're in the social justice circles and someone says, well, would you date a trans woman?
	You have to say yes.
	If you don't say yes, then you're transphobe.
	So, would you date an ugly woman?
	Of course you have to say yes.
	Yes, of course.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's part of the laws they keep trying to pass in California, where you can't discriminate on account of looks.
	Right.
	Literally on account of looks.
	And this was put forth by a bunch of people who are all, you have their ears gauged.
	They got face tats.
	They got horns that have been embedded into their head.
	Their face is red.
	They literally look like the devil.
	They got canine teeth that have been implanted.
	So they look just horrible looking people.
	They're just gruesome.
	And you have to hire them.
	All right.
	Do you want to do a 2020 politics here?
	You want to do something else?
	We have a couple minutes if you want to.
	I have some...
	You want to do a little Brexit?
	Oh, yeah.
	Brexit would be good.
	Yeah, we're getting into this.
	We're getting into some action here.
	Yeah, we're getting pretty close.
	Yeah.
	First of all, I have a man on the street report that's kind of interesting.
	They're talking about Brexit and the upcoming elections.
	How important in this election do you think Brexit is?
	Very important.
	That's what I think.
	I think it's going to be the most important question.
	Brexit's a really important issue for...
	It's a lot of important issues.
	...Britain at the moment, and so it's hard to separate it from the election.
	But dig deeper and things get more complicated.
	Is there anyone in particular that you think is better placed than anyone else to sort Brexit out?
	So I don't want Brexit to happen, so whatever outcome of the election makes that more likely would be good for me.
	Well, Conservative would get it over their line, I would believe.
	Is that what you want to see happen?
	No, not necessarily.
	Opinion polls indicate that the number of people who will base their vote on Brexit has more than doubled since the last election, from 18% to 40%.
	Now, add the prominence of Brexit as an election issue to the huge divergence of views on Brexit, and what you get is bad news for a settled result.
	Vote for the party that wants to stop Brexit.
	Labour has a clear plan to get Brexit sorted within six months.
	We can get Brexit done now.
	One way or another, almost everyone you talk to wants Brexit over with.
	What if the voters are so bored with Brexit, they screen out the issues around Brexit?
	What if the voters screen it all out and they decide to vote on the domestic issues that worry them, whether it is the NHS or housing or all those other issues?
	And those are areas where, by and large, the opposition party, the Labour Party, have got the strongest policies and the biggest support.
	That's one among many variables in the coming election.
	The country's issues have been put to the back foot whilst they're talking about Brexit, Brexit, so I don't know if anybody's competent enough.
	I'm a bit confused with it all, to be honest with you.
	See, you know, it's too difficult.
	The polls do point to a Conservative victory, though, and if Boris Johnson wins a majority, that could mean the UK leaving the EU, he says, by Christmas.
	By Christmas, it just never ends.
	Now, there's some irregularities that took place.
	we had this stabbing on London Bridge, which enabled the prime minister to be interviewed and speak, because, you know, they have a two-week dark period where there's no campaigning, there's no political messaging, there's really nothing they have a two-week dark period where there's no campaigning, there's no political messaging, there's really nothing on I don't know exactly what the rule is, but you can't campaign, I think.
	I don't know.
	It's a rule.
	It's some kind of stupid rule.
	So they had to get special permission for the prime minister to speak on television about it.
	But also, this knife attack itself, I mean, when you have an important election coming up, which will be very determining for the outcome of Brexit, with, you know, either stays the same or goes away entirely, or, as many would hope, there's either stays the same or goes away entirely, or, as many would hope, there's a majority for the conservatives, and they can go ahead and ram everything through through
	to all of a sudden have an immigration-based tragedy take place is always handy!
	This is beyond handy.
	In particular, because both the guy who did this, he was out on special circumstances at a conference for early prisoner release, and the guy who was with the Tusk, I think...
	There was a guy with...
	I love these guys who are all of a sudden out there battling a guy with an IED belt with a fire extinguisher.
	Very heroic.
	But the guy with the tusk was also out on some special program for killing a 15-year-old or something.
	The whole thing stinks.
	This is way too convenient.
	Let's stop and deconstruct it.
	I do have one report that we could at least play for background, which is the stabbing.
	Stabbing makes sense.
	Police at work at the site of Friday's attack.
	One of the victims has been named as Jack Merritt.
	He was attending a conference on prison rehabilitation at the time.
	And 250 kilometers away, extensive searches at the home of the attacker, 28-year-old Osman Khan.
	He served time for terror offences, but was released early, subject to an extensive list of conditions.
	And it is this revelation that has stirred the bait in a country in the middle of a general election campaign.
	We want to toughen up sentences for serious and violent offences, and I've said for a long time now that I think the practice of automatic early release, where you cut a sentence in half and let Really serious violent offenders out early simply isn't working and I think you've had some very good evidence of how that isn't working, I'm afraid, with this case.
	I think we need to look at what happens in the prisons, what happens with the probation service and what happens with the role of the parole board in this.
	And make sure that the sentences are appropriate, but above all, it's what happens inside the prison.
	If prisons continue to be understaffed, overcrowded, and a lot of prisons not being properly supervised, then I think there is a danger to everybody in the future.
	And a correction, it wasn't the guy with the tusk, it was a different guy, James Ford.
	Now, a couple of funny things here.
	And let's just go to the conspiracy side.
	This is all staged.
	Now, there was somebody that was stabbed, and it probably wasn't staged, but let's just say if it was staged, here's some elements I thought that...
	Yes, okay.
	I have an element or two as well.
	Yes, okay.
	Some guy in the middle of the bridge has got a norwall tusk.
	Which I'd never heard of before in my life.
	I'd never heard the term norwall.
	Never heard it.
	Norwall is like a giant sea otter.
	It's like a sea lion kind of animal.
	It's like a...
	A big giant one, a big thing.
	And apparently it's a tooth that grows into a tusk.
	And it sticks straight out and you can stab things with it.
	But this guy's got this thing which apparently was at some fishmonger's hall.
	Yeah, on the wall.
	Which he grabbed off the wall.
	Which is what I think I'd do too.
	Like, oh, let me think of a weapon.
	There we go.
	So let me grab this Norwall tusk and run down the Brooklyn Bridge and have this thing and be poking him with it.
	A little suspicious to go through all that trouble.
	Well, the Brooklyn Bridge would have been very interesting.
	Another guy's got a fire extinguisher where I don't know where he's lugged this thing from.
	That was my favorite.
	He lugs this fire extinguisher and he's spraying the guy.
	That was great.
	And I think he conked him in the head with it, which is typical of if you have a fire extinguisher and you can do a headshot with it, you'll knock the guy out.
	And so then some cops show up.
	And the guy is pretty much subdued, it seems to me, and he's taken to the ground.
	But they said, clear away, and the cops put four slugs into him.
	Yeah, this was the part that, especially when you're doing it at close range, and why?
	I mean, you're afraid he's going to blow himself up, and then you're going to shoot in the area?
	And you're going to shoot from that angle and blow up yourself.
	Yeah, that angle as well.
	Yeah.
	If you're going to take this to the conspiracy side, wouldn't it be possible if this whole thing was staged and these boneheads had to be getting out of there?
	Who knows about the guy with the tusk?
	I don't know about that.
	But the whole thing could have been just a crock of shit.
	And he was carrying a fake bomb vest.
	Well, stop.
	Here is the most annoying part of this.
	When the story broke, everybody was not reporting a fake bomb vest.
	It was reported as a hoax bomb vest, which means something very different.
	Fake versus hoax is not the same thing.
	And why were they saying hoax, hoax, hoax?
	I don't know, maybe it was code.
	It must be.
	The guy's got a fake bomb vest.
	Is it possible that the fake hoax bomb vest was actually a bulletproof vest?
	Very likely.
	A good one.
	Not a, you know, one of those kinds that they use in battle.
	But you could cover that up with some fake bombs.
	And so you pump the four bullets carefully into the bulletproof vest and haul the guy off.
	I like it.
	Job well done.
	I like it.
	But that's why I think the term hoax was code.
	Yeah, could be.
	Let me just see if it was the BBC as well who were reporting that.
	Let's see.
	USA Today hoax.
	Telegraph reported as hoax.
	New York Times as hoax.
	And then that kind of went away.
	But to me, I've never heard that reported as a hoax.
	Because a hoax means intentionally tricking people.
	But, well, actually, what is the difference between hoax and fake?
	Well, a fake bomb vest is just a fake...
	It's just objectively what it is.
	A hoax...
	Bomb, this would be one in...
	Ah, I'm sorry.
	Well, hoax, the actual definition is a humorous or malicious deception.
	So, if it was hoax, the guy meant it as a joke?
	No, malicious.
	That wasn't the term, though, was it?
	No, malicious deception.
	You just read the definitions in there.
	Okay.
	A humorous or malicious deception.
	Right, malicious.
	Yeah, you're right, malicious.
	Okay, well, I just found that to be odd.
	And I like your theory, though.
	None of it made sense.
	It made zero sense to be shooting the guy from, what was it, maybe four feet?
	Yeah, right there.
	Boom, boom, boom.
	And maybe, as you say, it had to be some kind of...
	I mean, that would really hurt if you hit someone, even with a vest...
	From that distance.
	But you want to aim perfectly at the vest.
	So maybe that's why it was so close.
	But regardless, very convenient for the election.
	Let's just put that out there.
	Whether it was real or not.
	Very Trumpian.
	Very Bushian.
	George Bush, they always jack up the alerts.
	Oh, we're up at red alert.
	We're at orange alert.
	Remember the alert system?
	Oh, yeah, I missed that.
	And just before the re-election of George Bush, they jacked it up to orange because we're under threat from the terrorists.
	I miss the old alert system.
	It was so much fun.
	The one that never changed.
	It was just printed on everything.
	No, it was just permanently orange.
	Permanently orange.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in climate collapse alliteration indeed, John.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning, all feet in the air, ships in the water, subs in the water, ships at sea.
	Boots in the air and all the dames and knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to the trolls who are in our troll room.
	It's where you belong, right there in the darkness at noagendastream.com.
	Let me see how many trolls we got hanging out today.
	We've got, oh, 1,161.
	Not bad, almost as high as our episode number.
	Fantastic.
	Well, that's going to be cool when you hit episode and trolls.
	Epitrol.
	We are at Epitrol 1195 today, but NoAgendaStream.com is a good spot to go hang out.
	I did also want to promote Animated No Agenda, which you can find in the show notes as a link to it, direct to the YouTube, or just put in your search engine, Animated No Agenda.
	The magic number is the most recent episode.
	Fantastic job by Jennifer once again.
	Also, a big in the morning to our artist for episode 1194, our Thanksgiving special.
	So that artist can actually say that he was the artist for the Noah Jenner Thanksgiving Day special 2019.
	And Darren O'Neill did it.
	It was perfect.
	It pops like crazy.
	It was the no agenda turkey with the Epstein didn't kill himself on his chest.
	Everything about it was perfect for our Thanksgiving special.
	I really liked it.
	It worked.
	Well, you could be a little more positive, just it worked.
	It was like, good job, Darren!
	It popped.
	It popped.
	It was good.
	It was the clear winner of the group.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find all of this and where you can create an account, hopefully, if it works, and upload some yourself.
	We always look forward to, right after the show, to see what everybody has done.
	It's kind of the dessert for our No Agenda meal twice a week on Thursdays.
	So let's thank a few people, starting with Anonymous Duke, executive producer, 56789 from Michigan.
	Oh, there's no location, but Michigan's good enough.
	I've been donating anonymously since 2011.
	Zoomed past Duke status sometimes years ago.
	Woo-woo!
	Thank you, boomers, for all that you do.
	Love and light for Curry's dad.
	Happy Thanksgiving.
	And such.
	A day late, but not a dollar short.
	Shout out to Gramerica and MoFax and No Agenda Social.
	The book Dark Alliance by Gary Webb.
	As long as hell, but is so good.
	Adam and Mo brought it up on episode four.
	Not that I can remember.
	Years ago.
	Yes.
	All right.
	Gary Webb is the guy who broke the story about the Iran-Contra scam going on with the CIA. That's right.
	Broke it out at the San Jose Mercury News.
	Yeah.
	They got pushback from the government, even though the story was completely true and everybody knew it, but they got pushback.
	It ended up getting fired for being a bad journalist.
	Ended up going, you know, living out his life and I think then killed in Sacramento and it was like, you know, this is an example of doing good work.
	Two to the head, gun in the left hand.
	A lot of it had to do with the fact that he was working for corporate media.
	So, we don't do that.
	Andrew Brewer.
	Yeah, and you can thank Knight Ritter for the whole thing.
	Good work, boys.
	Andrew Brewer in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, $500.
	ITM, gentlemen, and thank you for your courage.
	JCD mentioned patterns on the Perfect Thanksgiving show.
	He thought the Thanksgiving show was perfect.
	A lot of people like that show.
	Yeah.
	It got me thinking about my donations to the Best Podcast, and I realized that I give some value for value every 300 episodes or so since the beginning of the No Agenda show, which means...
	It is time to chip in again during these breaking bombshell beginning of the end times.
	The donation finally catapults me to knighthood after all these years of normal amygdala development.
	Nice.
	Shamborsan and dark chocolates would be a perfect addition to the round table.
	What is that?
	Shamborsan.
	Why don't you look it up and then add it?
	No, I've already ordered it, but I don't know what it looks like.
	I don't know if I'm going to put it in front of the right seat.
	Could be a gob of goo for all you know.
	Where I would like to sit is the savor of the Yadkin Valley grapes.
	Hmm.
	In recognition of a surprisingly spectacular vintage being produced in the region.
	This is a wine.
	This is a type of grape.
	You should know this.
	I should know it, but I don't.
	Where's Yadkin Valley?
	I don't know that either.
	How do you spell it?
	Y-A-D-K-I-N, Yadkin Valley.
	Yeti Etkin.
	North Carolina.
	Oh, it's a North Carolina product.
	No, it's a French product.
	North Carolina.
	I'm going to tell you on the side here.
	I noticed when I first went to Bordeaux in 1973, and a lot of the vineyards that weren't the great vineyards where every grape was worth thousands of dollars But in many of the small vineyards, they had side by side, growing with the grapes in Bordeaux.
	I don't think you can see this anymore, and I don't think I've seen it since.
	Tobacco.
	Ah.
	So you have a little vineyard and a tobacco field.
	Mm-hmm.
	All in the Bordeaux area.
	Interesting.
	And I've always said, well, that's interesting that you can grow tobacco where you grow these grapes.
	And I've always had it in the back of my mind.
	So I went to North Carolina, which is a tobacco-growing state, and found that they were switching a lot of these tobacco fields to grapes, and I visited a lot of wineries there.
	I visit more barbecue places than wineries, I will admit.
	But I went to a lot of wineries, and the wine was quite good.
	And it was, you know, it was made with kind of a lot of...
	Lack of self-assurance, low self-esteem.
	Well, you're from California.
	You must know about this.
	So here, try this and try that and try this.
	And as if everyone from California is a wine expert.
	And in fact, the wine was very good.
	And I think they can grow some good grapes up there in North Carolina.
	I think eventually it would be seen as one of the great wine growing areas of the world.
	I think the tobacco has something to do with it.
	It's in the earth.
	It's in the earth.
	Very nice.
	But I don't know what this Chamborsin is.
	Well, Chamborsin is a grape from France originally.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	It's probably a wine they're making in some of the areas.
	I noticed this when I was in Texas.
	I hate to keep going off the track, but people will appreciate some of this.
	So I'm in the hill country going, they've got a bunch of wineries there.
	They're all over the place, and vodka distilleries.
	Yes, we have a lot of D-Betty vodka.
	Yep.
	Yes, one of the best in the world.
	And so I went to all these little wineries.
	I didn't buy anything because, for one thing, they're overpriced and they're not that good.
	But it's interesting that they've taken a liking to growing Tempranillo outside of Austin, Texas, and every winery made some of it.
	And it seems to take well to Texas.
	And Tempranillo is the grape that's mostly grown in Spain to make the great Riojas and other wines.
	But, so Texas has potential for that particular grape.
	Anyway, onward.
	Sorry.
	I like it.
	Everybody loves it, John.
	Don't listen to what...
	I'd like to host a Noa Jenner producer meetup at one of these more established wineries in the spring of summer 2020 and, of course, host ACD and JCD to tour any time.
	A de-douching, please.
	You've been de-douched.
	And some karma producing, some career boosting karma to take me to the next level professionally.
	The Get Laid karma I received about three years ago and continues to be amazing.
	Wow!
	Send pictures!
	Finally, if you could be so kind as to play the following jingles.
	Jordan Peterson, that's wrong.
	Reverend L. Sigourney Weaver, can you see the juice?
	And oh my god, that was amazing.
	And finally, don't eat me Hillary Clinton.
	Too many.
	Keep up the great works, gentlemen.
	Yours in deconstruction, Andy Brewer.
	Winston Salem, At Ultra Star on the tweeters, Sir Savor, Savor, Savor or something, of the Yadkin Valley grapes.
	And he says the swoop is coming.
	That's wrong!
	Siganoi Weaver!
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	Oh my god, that is amazing!
	You've got karma.
	I got him on, Richard.
	Earl of Luna, Sir Kevin McLaughlin in Locust, North Carolina, 33333.
	Jingles request, F Cancer Karma, Ice Luge Goat Scream, Jobs Karma, F Cancer Karma for my Uncle Huey Willett of Locust, North Carolina.
	We've got two North Carolinas in a row here.
	This is my decree.
	Everyone is just to be happy and healthy.
	Sincerely, the Earl of Luna, Sir Kevin McLaughlin.
	Ah!
	You've got...
	I love it!
	Tom Whitaker in Redwood City, California, 333.
	Important donation note here.
	Important.
	I work at Google, and no agenda is sometimes the only thing that keeps me sane amongst probably the largest group of swollen amygdalas on Earth.
	If you could play a family guy, I'm a douchebag for me.
	That would be great.
	I don't think we have that one, though.
	You know, I remember clipping it years ago, but I don't think you're going to find it.
	Oh, that sucks.
	I'd really like to, but I have no idea.
	Uh, no idea.
	Well, I'll just...
	Sorry, Tom.
	Give him a regular douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	That's not for Tom, that's for Google.
	No, no, of course not.
	That's for all the Googles, whereas amygdala is fighting sizage, and I'll give him a goat scream karma.
	You've got...
	Thank you, man.
	It's good to know that they're sane people on the inside.
	I'm sure it's not easy.
	Apparently, Microsoft's filled with these folks, too.
	My daughter's fiancé and her went to Vegas to visit his grandma, and his parents were there.
	And their amygdales are swollen to an extreme.
	And apparently the old man...
	Was driving down the road, according to Nick.
	To reports.
	Yes, reports.
	People familiar with the situation.
	He hits a pothole and starts cussing about Trump.
	He promised us infrastructure!
	Okay.
	He says all he wanted to do was get into political fights at the Thanksgiving table.
	Oh, really?
	That still actually happens, huh?
	Yes.
	And the kids had to put the kibosh on it.
	Oh, my goodness.
	So he was really baiting everybody, trying to kind of get them all riled up?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	He wanted to argue.
	He just couldn't not do it.
	Onward to Sir J.D. Barron of Silicon Valley, 333.13.
	Yo dudes, upgrading greetings from Silicon Valley.
	Love and light to Adam and family.
	Safe travels and hope you can celebrate fond memories.
	I give thanks to original show with no agenda.
	I give thanks to original show with no agenda.
	The crackpot and buzzkill and the no agenda nation and the knights and the dames out there.
	Okay.
	I think you just forgot the word the, the, the word the.
	It's like hospital.
	Okay, could be.
	I hope that you had university.
	I hope 33.
	I hope that you had just as much or little turkey and or family as you desired this Thanksgiving.
	Please give a shout out to the cast and crew up the upcoming.
	Sounds like a hiccup.
	No, he dictated this into his phone.
	That sounds like.
	Up to upcoming of Trigger Warning, opening soon here in Silicon Valley.
	This play, the Dame Phynonymous will be in, features the soon-to-be anthem of the current generation, OK Boomer.
	Okay.
	Read next in a cranky old geek's voice.
	Cranky old geek's voice.
	Just be yourself.
	Hey!
	JCD and Grand Duke Foley, we need to get a meetup down here soon, in the real Silicon Valley.
	This is not Northeast Silicon Valley, berserkly.
	Yeah, yeah, I know.
	NoagendaMeetups.com.
	Finally, a Noagenda hot tip for all those dudes named Ben and dudettes named Bernadette that are doing tech support for their parents and or families this holiday season.
	Please put in show notes.
	I could have been read as a drunk donation.
	Now, put in show notes as he has a promotion.
	Oh, he's got a promotion.
	He's got a promotion going on.
	Get the best deal of the year at the end of the year protection of software for your family from Malwarebytes.
	The promo ends on Monday, 12-2.
	He wants me to add the link to the show notes.
	Is this regular practice?
	No, it's not regular practice, but go to Malwarebytes slash promotions.com.
	And you'll find something there.
	Yes.
	I'm shocked!
	I'm shocked!
	He wants to put it in the show notes.
	There's important stuff in there, like Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
	Malwarebytes.com slash promotions.
	There you go.
	And then you can put slash PC or Mac or Android.
	And I'm going to give him some karma.
	You've got karma.
	Get your pen out.
	Oh, bro.
	Okay.
	Eileen Sauer in Muskegon, Michigan.
	She's now going to be a dame today.
	And I think she's on the list.
	I'm pretty sure of it.
	Yes, she is.
	But there's some additional information.
	Yes.
	Roundtable requests?
	Yes.
	And let me read the note.
	Okay.
	Listening to No Agenda has become part of my weekly agenda.
	With the enclosed check of $250, I now reach the goal of Damehood.
	To be at the round table is a great honor.
	I wish to be known as Dame Zelda of the Turtle Realm.
	I would like to have strawberries and cream horns.
	Strawberries and...
	Is it C-R-E-M-E or E-A-M? She's got a C-R-E-A-M horns.
	Cream horns.
	Okay, got it.
	Not sure what that is.
	No, I don't think you want it.
	But we'll have it at the round table.
	Your deconstruction has been invaluable and has encouraged me to look deeper and take nothing at face value.
	Ah, this is good.
	Your insight, that's what you want.
	Another win.
	In other words, think everything's bull crap.
	Another win.
	Your insights and unique styles of delivery provide both enlightenment and the entertainment needed to expand my horizon and keep my sanity at the same time.
	Thank you, Adam and John, for all that you do.
	Eileen Soar, Muskegon.
	Hey, and I want to thank everybody just briefly for all the nice notes I received and quick emails and people with similar situations and experiences.
	It was very, very, very nice, and I just want to thank Gitmo Nation for doing that.
	Sushant of Slovakia.
	He's in the U.S., it says, but he's in Slovakia.
	He's from Slovakia.
	23456, one of my favorite numbers.
	I'm answering the call for the dame drive.
	Yay!
	With this donation, I am able to surprise and bring my smoking hot wife, Bara, to the round table.
	Or Bara.
	Bara.
	It looks like it's B-A-R space A is the way you pronounce it.
	To the round table.
	She is not a fan of the moniker dame.
	So you should please knight her, sir.
	Yeah.
	Not at Dame Bar and give her some goat karma, please.
	As for me, humbly I ask for some health karma as I go into a deviated septum surgery on Tuesday and could use the healing power at the No Agenda community.
	I truly believe in everyone who hears this and thinks a happy thought makes a huge difference to my recovery.
	Karma works, people!
	Yeah, there's a lot to be said for that.
	Thanks to the both of you for keeping us all together.
	That's why the bigger audience, the better.
	Thanks for the both of you for keeping us all sane and producing the best podcast in the universe.
	Oh, yeah, I forgot.
	F cancer for anyone who needs it.
	Sir Sean of Slovakia.
	Dame drive, Dame drive, it's a Dame drive, and baby you can be a Dame.
	Fucking dance, fucking dance, I don't want to dance, fucking dance.
	You've got karma.
	Karma.
	So on the list, do we have it as a sir for her?
	Oh, that's a good question.
	I think so.
	Let me check.
	I don't know.
	You would hope.
	I'll keep going.
	Yes, yes.
	Sir Barra.
	Sir Barra.
	Okay.
	Fine.
	No, it's supposed to be Sir...
	No, it was something else.
	Hold on.
	You have to do it right.
	Sir Not-A-Dame.
	Sir Not-A-Dame.
	Yes.
	I'm glad I checked.
	Sir Not-A-Dame.
	Okay.
	Barra.
	That's good.
	Got it.
	Knight Bruce.
	$222.22.
	Adam and John, I thank you for the show as always.
	On the last show, I'm very happy to see you also debunking this Game Changers vegan propaganda.
	Please also do some research on some of the work of Dr.
	Sean Baker has been doing in the carnivore diet.
	It has saved my life.
	Love and light, Knight Bruce.
	All right, Bruce.
	Thank you.
	And last but not least is Chris G, $200.
	ITM, Gent's first donation was hit in the mouth by a co-worker.
	Oh, hold on, hold on.
	First donation, we got a dedouche.
	You've been dedouched.
	I am going to make it clear that I disagree with this policy.
	Really?
	I think it has to be requested.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	I thought we had treated this differently in the past.
	I must be remiss.
	No, I just don't think it's ever been expressed.
	Okay.
	I don't think it's come up that often.
	Most people ask for the dedouching.
	And some people have said, I don't want a dedouching because I haven't given enough money.
	And we didn't dedouche.
	Okay.
	I will no longer douche without permission.
	Unrequested dedouching is off the table.
	Okay.
	Vetoed.
	But his dedouching has been put into the wild, so he's been dedouched.
	It did happen.
	Yeah, so there's nothing we can do about it.
	He was hit in the mouth by a co-worker one year ago, did not get much of the show at first.
	That's interesting.
	But appreciated the deconstruction in humor.
	Now I get it.
	Oh, stop, stop, stop.
	Did not get much of the show at first, but appreciated the deconstruction in humor.
	What else is the show?
	This is like our two main points.
	That's a good point.
	What else is there?
	What else are we doing?
	What is it you like so much?
	Please, we'll do more of it.
	Huh.
	Now I get it and love it.
	Requesting Jobs Karma for my youngest human resource on her upcoming interview.
	Also, goat scream and your little girl yay.
	Thanks, Chris G. Absolutely.
	And thank you for your courage and for your support.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	You know, I wonder what the mechanism is that you listen to the show and you don't get it.
	But you keep listening because there's something about it that you listen...
	There's some reason you keep...
	A lot of people listen to this.
	These guys are nuts.
	They're a couple of jerks.
	No, I think it goes more like this.
	And this is a problem.
	Admitted it's a problem.
	But anyone who is told, hey, this is a great podcast.
	There's no agenda.
	They have no political agenda, but they deconstruct the news.
	And it starts off with...
	Hey, everybody!
	It's like the morning zoo format, everybody!
	I can understand it's jarring.
	We have had that complaint early on.
	Because you guys make it...
	And the complaint was that the show is trivial because you started off like a morning zoo.
	Right.
	So nobody takes it too seriously.
	That's part of the problem, I think.
	But there was reasons to do that, and those reasons are still valid.
	Right.
	Oh, yes, they're valid, but then I'm also always amazed when we do 14 minutes of talk about Linux Mint distros, and people still show up, and actually, a lot of them appreciated our biannual Linux talk.
	Well, I said at the time, after the show, I said to you, I'll bet you some people will check out this Ultimate Linux 19, And they will get back to me and say, that's really it.
	I'm glad you told us about that.
	And guess what happened?
	Nothing.
	Nobody got back to me.
	I got, well, I got a lot of email.
	A lot of, you know, and of course a lot of it is Well, you know, that's downstream three levels.
	You don't want that.
	You want Arch Linux.
	That's what the bad boys have.
	So there's a lot of that.
	But it's appreciated.
	There are some questions that I had and people would answer.
	But anyway, the point being, at what point is it?
	And maybe people could email us this.
	You listened to it.
	You probably didn't get it right away.
	What was it that was either holding you back or what was it that made it click?
	Because I think you're right.
	There's something that happens that people say, oh, I see.
	And I don't know what it is.
	Twelve years.
	I've held this job down longer than any job I've ever done in my entire life.
	I just want you to realize that.
	Almost three times as long as any job I've had.
	And it's a job.
	It's an actual job.
	We actually talk for six hours a week, which is non-trivial for...
	Generally, broadcasters talk for an hour a day.
	Well, that's just the talking part.
	Forget the rest.
	And it's talking, talking, talking.
	Yeah, it's interesting.
	There's no doubt about it.
	There's something magical.
	Well, magical for sure.
	And a lot of that magic is directly attributable to the people we just heard from, our executive producers and associate executive producers for this episode, 1195 of the No Agenda Show, because it is your podcast.
	That's the big difference that we put in.
	We don't have listeners.
	We have producers and then everybody else.
	And of course, you start to call these people douchebags.
	That's on you, but that's what producers get to do.
	That's the big difference.
	That's why it's working.
	And we'll be thanking more of these fine folks in our second half, our second donation segment.
	But for this, please recognize that these credits are valuable and you can use them in places that can do good for you, including putting them in your LinkedIn description.
	And if you are so inclined, if you would like to be an executive or associate executive producer of No Agenda Show 1196, please go to...
	And I promise you, no more Mint Linux talk on this show.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Order!
	Order!
	Shut up, slave!
	Shut up, slave!
	I had to back you off on that because I do have to say one more thing.
	Oh, about Linux?
	About this Mint Linux Ultimate.
	Really?
	You're really going to do this?
	Okay.
	Just because I forgot to do it last time.
	So I've got this Mint Linux and I'm just playing around with it.
	And so I type a document, you know, LibreOffice document.
	I say, what happens if I go to the printer?
	And so I hit print.
	It worked right away.
	It worked right away.
	I know.
	I know.
	I didn't have to go find a printer.
	I didn't have to load any drivers.
	It's an Epson printer.
	It's an XP950. It just worked.
	And that was what stunned me the most.
	Okay, well, since you brought it up, I, too, am still on Lubuntu.
	I'm very happy.
	Please forgive me.
	Yes.
	Now, not about anything about Linux, but I was thinking...
	Maybe this does exist.
	Maybe I'm so out of touch.
	Could be.
	But when I was growing up, we had classes in school.
	We had woodworking.
	We had shop.
	We had home economics, which meant cooking and stuff.
	There should be a class, and maybe there is, I would just call it tech or technology class, and you enter this class, you're given a laptop and a CD, and you're told, okay, you're going to create the perfect computer for you, and you're going to learn how to do that in this class.
	And of course, it starts with choosing a distro of Linux and then customizing it.
	Because the more I realize how incredibly shackled I was by the two predominant operating systems, and Linux is now finally the place where I can actually use it.
	And I'm not saying this lightly.
	I've tried many, many times over the past years.
	And in fact, I would say the way to do it is just get your virtual box for free and try it, because you can't break anything.
	You don't have to boot anything on your drive, and it'll work just fine, at least for testing, and probably even better than that.
	But we should be teaching kids the actual basics of how this stuff works because they're dealing with it in their everyday life.
	And when I look at a smartphone, I can see all the things that are taking place and how the information eventually comes back onto my screen.
	And there's tremendous benefit to that.
	There's tremendous benefit to the creativity you'll have in the future if you really understand how things work.
	But this is not being taught and the only way to learn it.
	And boy, is Linux a great way to learn how this stuff works because you actually have to get your hands dirty to make it work.
	It's just a thought.
	Maybe it exists.
	Maybe classes are doing this.
	We would have heard of it.
	Well, in fact, what you said, which is the same when I was a kid, they had wood shop, they had metal shop, they had auto shop.
	Yeah, auto shop, sure.
	And all the kids would learn how to tune cars and do whatever you wanted.
	And they had home economics.
	Right.
	And it was a room full of ovens.
	Now, the problem is, while I'm saying this, of course, we're about 30 years too late because Apple and Microsoft and now Google with Chrome OS have completely swamped the educational system and are eating your children alive, literally.
	Because you are a slave to how they want you to do things.
	Just try and install Windows 10 out of the box these days.
	They try to suck you into creating an online account with Microsoft no matter what you try.
	I think they should take this computer shop class and actually extend it so you actually build your own box.
	That's what I just said.
	Well, you said take a laptop.
	You gave them a laptop.
	No, no.
	You can't build a laptop.
	You give them a...
	Oh, you mean the actual build.
	Okay.
	Yeah, why not?
	Yeah, get a CPU. No, no.
	How about just a Raspberry Pi?
	This is fantastic.
	It's cheap to do.
	I think that's an option, but I'd like to see a real computer come out of this.
	Yeah, but you're old school.
	Well, Raspberry Pi and those little nudnik things and some of these other little devices are also fun.
	Yeah.
	Arduinos or whatever the hell they're called.
	Yeah, and let them strap stuff onto it and learn, learn about this stuff.
	They teach none of this.
	For Christmas, please, for Christmas, give your child one of these Raspberry Pi startup kits for kids.
	You will not regret it.
	Maybe you will.
	But anyway, I think that this whole idea of learn to code...
	No!
	You've got to understand how this stuff works.
	Make it work for you.
	Learn to code is a scam.
	Of course it's a scam.
	Well, a scam.
	Do you want to be an obedient tech worker or do you want to be the next genius to wear a turtleneck?
	So, while we're talking about Brexit a minute ago, I do have this little sub-clip, because we've talked about this on the show, and we've always been baffled by it, and I was baffled by it with my friends in England.
	Ah, yes, I know exactly what this is about.
	This is about the leaked documents, isn't it?
	Well, this is, in this case, the clip is a very short one, but it's a WTF clip.
	Yep.
	Jeremy Corbyn also says he's obtained documents that reveal Britain's National Health Service could be up for sale in a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States.
	Yeah, this is the big scandal.
	Apparently, a trade document between the U.S. and the U.K. leaked out.
	And that's where they...
	And we already heard this rumor.
	Like, they're selling out the national health system.
	A year ago.
	Yeah.
	Selling out to the NHS, Trump's going to take it over.
	Well, no.
	It has to do with the pharmaceutical industry.
	And they feel like it's not advantageous.
	I do not know what's going on, but it is not advantageous for the UK, according to the socialists.
	Well, while we're on this topic of trade and dirty dealings and big industry, I had a little bit of a chance to go back and look at some of the vaping roundtable that the president had.
	He was about to sign a document or some regulation was going into effect.
	I don't think there was a law, per se.
	But, of course, they do want a law to ban the flavored vape liquids because, oh, it's how the children, how they're getting addicted to nicotine.
	All of this on the heels of the great vaping disaster of people dying from vaping went away pretty quick, as you can tell.
	We cured it, I guess, somehow.
	And only in America.
	No one died anywhere else.
	Don't vape in China.
	Don't vape in Europe.
	Don't vape in the UK. But they only died here.
	And the first sightings in North Carolina of the iQuas store already popping up.
	Oh, the test market, North Carolina.
	Well, very important.
	Important because this is still all about tobacco.
	And the reason the vape industry, I'm just going to recap for people who haven't been along for the ride.
	The vape industry was kneecapped.
	That's a good one.
	Kneecapped.
	Because the tobacco industry, which is quite big in billions of dollars terms, makes no money on nicotine.
	They need to sell leaf.
	They need to sell the plant.
	They need to sell tobacco.
	That is necessary to generate revenue.
	The states need to get that revenue because they've already written bonds against it.
	That revenue is taxes, but it's also...
	For death, there's extra special money that the tobacco companies pay.
	They're trying to get nicotine to be taxed.
	But that's really not what it's about.
	It is big tobacco beating down the innovators, beating down the little man who just wants to inhale water vapor.
	And here's what Romney at the roundtable.
	Romney.
	All of a sudden Romney's in the room with Trump and he's got a big mouth.
	Joel removed mango in September of 2018 and used rose.
	It was the number one most popular product on the market.
	Flavors are an issue.
	They are attractive to you.
	How about the children?
	Yes, sir.
	We've got almost six million kids addicted to nicotine.
	And they're getting addicted to nicotine because of flavors.
	Sixty-six percent of the kids addicted to these products are saying they didn't even know it had nicotine in it.
	They thought it was just a candy type product.
	It's the flavor that's drawing the kids in.
	It's a health emergency.
	I salute the fact that Juul has said, we're taking these products off the market because we care about our kids.
	The adults have access to menthol products through Juul.
	They have tobacco-flavored products.
	Putting out cotton candy flavor and, what is it, unicorn poop flavor.
	Look, this is kid product.
	This is kid product.
	It's horrible.
	The children, this is no good because children are getting addicted to nicotine.
	The flavors, this is just nasty.
	What did Romney's firm Bain Capital do in the past?
	Let me think!
	An explosive new report by the Huffington Post sheds new light on Romney's time at Bain& Company, the Boston consulting firm.
	It describes how the firm made millions on big tobacco by helping Philip Morris increase its revenues in the U.S. and aiding two other tobacco titans to dominate the Russian market.
	Omni's consultants helped foreign firms and aspiring oligarchs decide how to quarrel Russia's riches, including writing an official manual that outlined how best to navigate the process.
	At the same time, Bain leveraged its contacts with senior Russian officials to arrange sweetheart deals for its tobacco clients.
	Of course, he's always been a shill for big tobacco and he's in the room as a senator shilling for his former clients.
	I'm somewhat outraged.
	Oh, you are not outraged.
	You respect us from that guy.
	He's a douchebag.
	Yes, let me douche you.
	Douchebag!
	One thing in there I just kind of chuckled about, which was he said 66% of the kids smoking these things, vaping.
	Didn't even know there was nicotine involved.
	I know.
	These kids know nicotine's involved.
	That's why they're doing it.
	And then he goes, I applaud Juul.
	Kids aren't this dumb.
	I applaud Juul for taking the flavors off the market.
	He's in cahoots with Juul.
	The whole idea was to strangle Juul, to buy them and smother that shit into the ground so we can bring our new smokeless tobacco.
	Iqua Smokeless Tobacco.
	Coming to a store near you, people.
	Kids will love it, John.
	Oh, they're going to ram it on everybody's throats.
	We'll see.
	Apparently, John, apparently.
	There may be a comeback to the vape.
	Apparently.
	Well, okay, so first of all, apparently people who have vaped and have smoked love the Iquos.
	It is apparently a great hit.
	Oh, okay.
	So that I don't know.
	I don't know either.
	I'm just telling you what I've heard.
	So the product is supposed to be good.
	But that could be propaganda you're hearing.
	But listen...
	Look.
	Here's the deal.
	Here's the deal.
	Trump was about to sign some kind of regulation or legislation.
	He stopped and said, well, hold on.
	We need...
	And it was after this meeting.
	We need to think of...
	You know why?
	Because he hates Romney so much.
	He sees what's going on.
	He's like, I'm not going to give this to you, Romney.
	I'm not going to give this vaping to you.
	I'm pretty sure you might be right.
	Of course.
	Because he doesn't like Romney.
	Romney's a pretty much of a horrible person.
	He's a slime ball.
	He's a slime ball.
	He's swarmy.
	He's in with the tobacco guys.
	And he's a Mormon and they should be doing everything to stop all tobacco products.
	So that doesn't make any sense.
	It's like the drug dealer who refuses to use the drugs he sells.
	I hate drugs.
	These drugs are terrible.
	Would you like to buy some?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	Since we've already joked about it several times, I do have a couple of dropped tea clips that I wanted to share.
	Now, this was from a recent protest in Greenville earlier this week.
	A problem which I will say that I believe feminine hygiene products should have a lower or no tax rate.
	I'm all for that.
	You know, the cost of feminine hygiene products are an outrage.
	And I feel bad that women have this secret tax, really just a tax on their life.
	But okay, men have other things.
	But there's the pronunciation issue which came into play in this clip.
	Three quarters of women think the tampon tax should be a thing of the past, with 67% of them saying it's a form of sexism.
	One poll conducted a study of 2,000 women who have had periods on behalf of Intimina.
	And it's not just financially where women feel like they're cheated.
	Three in five women said their school sex ed class did not prepare them for their periods.
	And they're not here for the stigma surrounding menstruation, with 37% saying talking about it is still taboo.
	In fact, a quarter said they've seen or heard someone say women shouldn't come to work when they're on their period.
	Somewhat surprisingly, women 18 to 24 were most likely to think society still sees it as, quote, shameful, according to the Intimina study.
	And it affects the way women talk about menstruation, too, with more than half saying they're more comfortable using a euphemism like, quote, monthly visitor when discussing it.
	So even though 8 in 10 women said discussing menstruation openly and honestly is important, it seems we have a ways to go.
	Finally, I'm like, was this the right clip?
	Yeah, where is this coming?
	It's important.
	Well, here's one from a Trump rally.
	Why are you so fired up to support Trump?
	I'm a big Trump supporter.
	I didn't really get into voting until Trump became president in 2016, and I'm just excited to be my first rally.
	I just wanted to come out and support him.
	I'm really proud of everything he's doing and hope he's able to keep it up four more years.
	Support him.
	Support him.
	Yeah.
	So it's partially, it sounds partially like there's a southern thing to it.
	There's also a British thing.
	I think Love Island UK has not been helpful.
	And I had a clip...
	Now I don't know what happened to it.
	This is kind of unfortunate.
	I had a clip from South Park from 1998.
	Let me just see.
	What the heck happened to this?
	Yeah, do another one of my great setups, John.
	Yeah, I didn't do it so much.
	You should have this clip lined up before you begin your soliloquy.
	Here's the thing.
	I have the whole...
	I have everything opened up.
	I'm ready to...
	Oh, it's like my...
	It's like a running gag on the show now.
	It's not even that funny.
	I've done it a couple of times.
	Really, I'm pissed at myself.
	My favorite one is where I have this great clip I want to play, and somehow I mis-edited it.
	You have like the last three seconds.
	That's the best way to go, but...
	Oh, man.
	Okay, well, and then I have, let's see, and that was kind of my payoff going into, well, I'll go into this bit then.
	God damn it.
	South Park apparently had an episode in 1998 where this was discussed.
	I'll look for that while we play this clip, which is from a Netflix special The Keeper and I watched yesterday or the day before.
	Was it Mike Birbiglia?
	He's a comedian.
	And all of a sudden, he rolls into this bit that is something that we really have taken issue with on this show, and it shows up in donation notes all the time.
	The instructor was like, what's the most exciting thing?
	About having baby.
	Which is a new thing for us, where they don't say the baby, they're just like, baby!
	We were like, we just want baby to live!
	We don't have high hopes for this thing, because we went to hospital, and we spoke with doctor, and she did tests, and it's touch and go at moment, and that...
	That's good.
	So I found the clip, but for some reason it doesn't show up in my...
	Let me see if I can play it directly from the drive.
	I knew I hadn't forgotten it.
	Will it play?
	Yes.
	Here we go.
	South Park, 1998.
	Hello, children.
	My name is Dr.
	Adams.
	Welcome to the Planetarium.
	I thought it was planetarium.
	Well, it is.
	But I have a bone disease which impedes my ability to pronounce the T in planetarium.
	That's a pretty weird bone disease.
	Yes, perhaps someday I can get a bone marrow transplant.
	So they were doing it back then.
	Yeah.
	Well, I think it's been installed.
	I mean, you listen to these linguists, a guy who berated us.
	They think it's some sort of a trend, but I don't know that it's a trend any more than saying university.
	I was thinking about that the other day.
	Oh, I went to university.
	You can say I went to college.
	You say I went to the university.
	I'm in the university.
	I'm not in the college.
	You can say I'm in the college in certain situations.
	Most of the time I... Oh, he went to college.
	He went to university.
	It should be the same.
	I'm so upset about this misuse.
	There's one other minor gripe that I have that I'm hearing more and more is anyways.
	I love anyways.
	You love it?
	That's second to any who.
	But anyways is said with sincerity, not as any who is, all right, well, fine.
	It's mocking.
	But, you know, talking about bad language, talking about people that kind of talk funny out of class, let's talk about Joe Biden.
	Oh, yeah!
	This is clip of the century.
	I had to go back.
	This has got to be a deepfake.
	This cannot be true.
	It could be a deepfake.
	I thought about this, too, because I don't know.
	There's no real documentation for this, but it's been going around.
	And it's the kind of thing he would do.
	Yeah, well, did you see, there's a clip running around of him being introduced on the stage, and this old woman has her hands out, and then he nips at her finger?
	That's his wife, isn't it?
	Is that his wife?
	Oh, it's Jill?
	Well, whatever the case is, she's standing there, she's throwing her arm out.
	It's almost like a comedy act, where she says, and then we get Mr.
	Byton, and she puts her hand out in the air right in front of his face, like somebody in a cheap Benny Hill skit.
	Oh, if it's his wife, then it's okay.
	Then, whatever.
	Yeah, I think it was his wife.
	It's still kind of odd.
	The whole thing was funny.
	It was funny, but, you know, you give the guy something.
	But with this particular clip here, which...
	Weeks should play is the worst.
	I saw that made me aware when I was in law school, proudly for Holloway, proudly for your dad, first African-American state senator in the state of Delaware.
	Everything about...
	And by the way, you know, I sit on the stand, and it get hot.
	I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun.
	And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight, and then watch the hair come back up again.
	They'd look at it.
	So I learned about roaches.
	I learned about kids jumping on my lap.
	And I've loved kids jumping on my lap.
	And I tell you what, the men, they're now all men, the guys I work with down here, and they're all guys at the time.
	They're all good men.
	Most of them made an awful lot of themselves.
	And Earl Larkin had a rough time.
	And some of you knew Earl.
	I came back as a public defender.
	He just rambles like this.
	Now, this could be a deepfake and it wouldn't surprise me.
	Well, I've seen...
	But it's one of those things that's believable.
	Well, yeah, I've seen full-length versions of this.
	And it's part of his corn pop speech, which is why it's surprising and it's only showing up now.
	Because this was part of the corn pop and the chain and whoop his ass.
	I did get an ISO. Of course.
	Okay.
	I'm putting it right into the ISO slot, already knowing it's going to win.
	I got hairy legs!
	Yeah, beautiful.
	Wait a minute.
	I have an ISO from the New Orleans thing, too, which I sent as late clips, which today was breaking news.
	They had a shooting in New Orleans.
	Play the ISO from that clip.
	Wait.
	Oh, New Orleans.
	Yes, here we go.
	Please, no.
	Do not drink and drive.
	No.
	Are you kidding me?
	Hairy legs beats drinking and driving any old day.
	I got hairy legs!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Hairy legs.
	Oh, yeah.
	There's no doubt about it.
	Back to Biden.
	We do have a Biden campaign rundown off of NBC, which we should play.
	And it's got a little Kamala Harris thing at the end, which I want to comment on.
	We're investigating the motive.
	Now, presidential candidates are back on the road, crisscrossing the country, among them Joe Biden, hoping to make a splash with a big push in Iowa.
	Here's Kelly O'Donnell.
	Today in Iowa, the Joe Biden campaign bus on an eight-day, 18-county tour of the first caucus date, trying to rev up his lagging poll numbers, beginning in council bluffs.
	I promise you, I promise you, we're going to win this race.
	His new ride, branded, in Biden-speak, as the No Malarkey Tour, he says to contrast President Trump.
	The reason we named it No Malarkey is because the other guy's all lies.
	Many, but not all, Democratic hopefuls hitting the trail across the country, with stakes high for early state voters.
	Anything anyone says could make or break what I feel about them as candidates.
	I haven't committed yet, but we have so many good candidates running.
	Also in Iowa today, Kamala Harris at a Des Moines house party.
	We have the ability to unlock the promise of our country.
	We have the ability.
	She's never said anything of substance.
	We have the ability to unlock the promise, whatever that is, of our country.
	A, what does that mean?
	And B, why didn't Obama do it?
	He was in there for eight years.
	At a Des Moines house party.
	We have the ability to unlock the promise of our country.
	Yeah, I mean, they gave Obama the key.
	We have the ability to unlock...
	What is the promise of our country that needs to be unlocked?
	Well, Harris is done for.
	I'm sure you saw the resignation letter from one of her campaign managers.
	No, I did not, actually.
	Oh, she resigned, saying the leadership's not there.
	I think she bolted to...
	Where did she go to?
	Did she go to Buttigieg?
	She went to someone else's campaign.
	Think Buttigieg.
	Oh yeah, it's a mess over there.
	It's a total mess.
	Kamala Harris cannot organize her own campaign.
	She's no good.
	She's just no good.
	We knew it.
	She had a pretty face.
	You know, the ha ha ha.
	She kind of had the Hillary wave and it fell apart.
	And I thank Tulsi Gabbard for ripping that apart within...
	Was that debate two?
	Or was it the first one?
	No, it was debate two.
	Tulsi Gabbard brought down Kamala Harris.
	Because Kamala went after Biden for being a racist or something.
	She really went after him hard and it was unexpected because everyone was really happy with each other.
	So then the next debate, Tulsi goes after her and And everyone's like, oh, I'm glad somebody's doing it.
	You know, I'm glad somebody's going after her.
	And Biden was probably very happy.
	And that was the end of Kamala.
	The defector went to Bloomberg.
	So she went to Bloomberg's campaign.
	So Kamala's campaign has fallen apart.
	But there was some interesting news in the New York Times about a group, a dark money group, With a $75 million ad campaign, the group's name is Acronym, and they also have a...
	Now, that's a 501c3 corporation, so we do not actually know who the donors are.
	So we don't know who's providing the $75 million.
	But they also have a political action committee, which is a 501c4 company called Pacronim.
	And we do know some of those donors, but everyone's trying to figure out who's put the $75 million together, which is going to be spent specifically on winning seats and elections for Democrats.
	So for local elections, for state elections.
	And they claim on their acronym website, anotheracronym.org, they claim that they already have been responsible for 65 Democrats winning elections in the past, I think, year or two, whatever they say here.
	So we're not quite sure.
	So it's a shadowy group.
	Very shadowy, but we do know because of the, the, the acronym, they do have to publish their donors.
	And I'll tell you, two million came from the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
	That's a political nonprofit run by Eric Holder, Obama's first attorney general.
	$300,000 from Dollar Shave Club.
	Let's see.
	What else?
	Well, the fun here, the list, Newsweb Corporation, $1.5 million.
	Fred I. Chainer, do you know him?
	Yeah.
	United Food and Commercial Workers Union, $1.3 million.
	At the top, $2.6 million is Soros Fund Management.
	So you kind of get the idea who's probably in on this big ad.
	Yeah, I did hate to start off with him every time.
	But I did pull a couple of these ads, and I think they're worth discussing because I find them to be highly racist.
	So the idea is these ads are supposed to get you to knock the vote, knock the dot vote, And to get Democrats out and voting, but not just any old Democrats.
	No, no.
	This is the white Democrats, because you guys are dumb.
	We start with the scene.
	Two children with a lemonade stand in front of their house.
	Black man comes along.
	Fresh lemonade!
	One dollar a cup!
	Fresh squeeze!
	Right here!
	Oh, hi sir!
	Would you like lemonade?
	Would you like another two years?
	You got a permit for that?
	I'm just playing.
	You guys voting this November?
	Um, I'm sorry.
	We're actually quite busy right now, but can I get you a gluten-free cookie or maybe some organic?
	911?
	I'd like to report a suburban educated white woman out here selling lemonade with her kids.
	They talking about they're not voting.
	I need you to get down here and investigate because this is ridiculous.
	And could you hurry, please?
	I feel threatened.
	So does the rest of black America.
	I thought there's a lot of powerful stuff in this.
	There's a white woman who doesn't want to vote, and I feel threatened, and so does the rest of black America.
	Next commercial, three clearly...
	Is this supposed to impress somebody or get them to...
	I think other than the fact this is like a douchebag operation?
	Well, let's continue and we'll decide.
	I've only picked three of the series.
	There's quite a few of them.
	And these are professionally produced, by the way.
	Another 30 seconds.
	We see three young women, white, with Lululemons on in the park, posing for selfies in the traditional manner you would see.
	Black man walks by.
	Excuse me.
	Have y'all made plans to vote in November?
	No.
	911?
	I'd like to report an emergency in the park.
	There's three white women just taking selfies.
	Triple selfie in progress.
	They're using filters, emojis, the same picture over and over again, wearing pajamas.
	And they literally have no plans of voting in November.
	Excuse me?
	That's not illegal.
	Please hurry.
	I can smell the avocado toast.
	So just be very clear, it's a black guy calling out the white women.
	But they also do some ageism, which is kind of cool.
	What you'll see here is all boomers, all in their, I would say, 70s.
	These faces are close-up, beautifully shot, very nice, beautiful, characteristic faces of people, yeah, I'd say 65 to 75-year-old range, but close-up, looking right into the camera.
	Dear young people, don't vote.
	Don't vote.
	Everything's fine the way it is.
	Trump.
	That was us.
	He's our guy.
	Tax cuts for the rich?
	Hell yeah.
	I'm rich as fuck.
	Climate change?
	That's a you problem.
	I'll be dead soon.
	Sure, school shootings are sad.
	But I haven't been in a school for 50 years.
	I can't keep track of which lives matter.
	Sure you don't like it.
	So, you'll like some meme on Instagram.
	If the weather is nice, maybe you could go to one of those little marches.
	You might even share this video on Facebook.
	But you won't vote.
	You young people never do.
	But I do.
	I do.
	I do.
	Midterms, primaries.
	Every single election.
	We'll be there, but you won't.
	Because we're a generation of doers.
	Not whiners.
	We're doing great.
	Very ominous music at the end there.
	Hell?
	Yeah.
	I like the one line in there, the woman.
	For one thing, they make them all sound senile, which is probably not going to vote, but that's okay.
	But the woman says, I can't even keep track of what lives matter.
	Well, it's very aggressive.
	75 million is not going to get you very far, but it's a valiant effort.
	And creatively, I think they're pretty funny.
	I mean, it's racist, ageist, everything you do.
	Everything the Democrats play in.
	And a couple more things here.
	Nate Silver, from 538 Media, the genius, the statistician that everybody is all jitty about.
	Yeah, once upon a time.
	He completely missed the entire Donald Trump phenomenon.
	He says on the tweeters, keep in mind that the subtext, hell, maybe just the text, of the Bloomberg campaign is to facilitate a brokered convention.
	It's not competing in the early states.
	Instead, it's hoping for a chaotic outcome there.
	Then it hopes to have a brokered convention.
	Now, we've posited this ourselves.
	Posited we did.
	And it still could be, and it could be in combination, that Bloomberg's in there to pave the way for the swoop.
	I don't know.
	It could be getting ready for the Hillary swoop.
	It seems like something is kind of up...
	With Hillary, now, if there was an inkling of her re-entering the race, every television and media organization is going to be somewhat careful with disparaging her, since she will hold purse strings if she swoops in.
	She'll have...
	A lot of money to spend and the political season is when mainstream media makes their money.
	It's bigger than Christmas.
	It's a lot bigger than Christmas.
	It's Christmas every two years or four years for your market and election appropriately.
	And Fox News is clearly feeling something is possible.
	They had Anna Paulina on.
	She's from Turning Point USA. So, you know, these are very anti-leftist people, anti-democrats specifically.
	This is just a kind of a chopped up version of what happened recently when she said something about Hillary Clinton and then listened to what the Fox News host said.
	Of course she should be investigated.
	There's plenty of evidence that Hillary obstructed justice by destroying evidence in a gross and massive way.
	Joining us now, Anna Paulina, Director of Hispanic Engagement at Turning Point USA, and Doug Schoen, Fox News contributor and former pollster for President Bill Clinton.
	Good morning to you both, and Happy Thanksgiving.
	I think it's only fair.
	I'm all for starting a Clinton investigation.
	I'm just amazed that with everything going on in the world, we still have Hillary Clinton in the headlines.
	Well, she's come back up.
	She won't go away.
	She's like herpes.
	Okay.
	That's news that we're breaking here.
	We're going to wrap this segment a little early, Doug, because some of the language that was used in this segment, and we apologize to our viewers for that.
	So because the girl says Hillary Clinton won't go away like herpes, they cut the segment short.
	Throw her off completely and then in the next hour...
	We want to reiterate that we do not condone the language that Anna Paulina just displayed here and we apologize to Secretary Clinton for that.
	Fox News does not condone her sentiments.
	This is the strongest evidence we've ever had that she's coming back into the race.
	When Fox is sucking up to her for that...
	Holy crap!
	That's Clip of the Day.
	Well, thank you.
	I agree with you.
	Clip of the Day.
	That was a great catch.
	Especially the second one.
	No, it has a one-two punch.
	It's obviously not just one good clip.
	But it was part of a process.
	So she says that she won't go away.
	She's like herpes.
	She won't go away, which is, I don't know.
	It's not even a funny joke.
	Is that off color?
	It's like 1980s Paul Provenza material.
	Yeah, it's not, you know, contemporary.
	Hold on a second.
	How about my comedy reference?
	Yeah, I don't even get that.
	But, you know, it's like a bad penny, she could have said, or whatever.
	That doesn't make any sense anymore.
	It's archaic.
	Like bad Mexican lunch?
	Oh, that would be racist.
	I'm sorry.
	Like herpes.
	It keeps coming back like bad Mexican lunch.
	I mean, I would have said, well, that's...
	I mean, there's a lot of ways to handle that, but it's not obscene.
	Well, they thought it was really inappropriate.
	So Hillary's still being protected, even by Fox.
	Buttigieg...
	Well, Fox is really hopeless.
	Buttigieg, Mary Peet, got a huge hit job from the root.
	Because, of course, we know the problem with the elections in general will be the black American vote.
	The black vote is what's going to make this happen.
	And the fight is on now with blacks for Trump...
	And, you know, who actually has the blacks with the Democrats?
	And Mary Pete, no, got butt slammed by The Root.
	The article was really related.
	It was a total hit job.
	It was something that Buttigieg had said in 2012 or 2013.
	And Michael Harriot from The Root had said, Pete Buttigieg lies like an MF-er.
	I won't say the word because we try not to use that on the show.
	So this warranted a quick explanation on the Joy Reid show, which is always fun to have two black people talking about a white guy who can't attract black people.
	It's just a beautiful fest over there that MSNBC... After Michael Harriot of The Root penned a scathing response to comments that Buttigieg made back in 2011 about black children and education.
	In a roundtable interview with no people of color present, Buttigieg opined that kids in minority neighborhoods haven't seen the education system work and they lack role models who can personally testify to the value of education.
	Harriet's response was scathing.
	He wrote that Buttigieg knowingly failed to address the structural and institutional factors which create education inequality, instead placing the blame on the black community itself, a kind of Paul Ryan-ish culture critique.
	Buttigieg, to his credit, responded to the trending piece by calling Harriet to have a discussion.
	But the article landed right in the middle of a larger problem for the young mayor, who's become a media favorite and boasts growing support from mainly older white voters in places like Iowa, but who has struggled to gain support from black voters, which is a big part of the media.
	Without Rich, it's real hard to become the Democratic nominee.
	And joining me now is Michael Harriot, senior writer at The Root.
	Michael, it is great to have you on the show.
	Welcome.
	So let's talk about this piece that you wrote that went everywhere.
	I got texted by about 400 people.
	To be honest, I love that.
	I got texted by about 400 people.
	I don't think so, Joy.
	Everywhere.
	I got texted by about 400 people.
	To be honest, everyone in this race, and especially someone as educated as Pete Buttigieg, knows why these problems exist.
	And so the fear of black voters is that when they get into these annals of power and they get into these rooms, And they'll start talking about, you know, fixing the education problem in America.
	This is what will happen.
	They'll say, well, you know, they need some role models or maybe they just need some, you know, some after school programs.
	And we know it's a problem of institutional inequality that fits into the history of racism in America.
	So when you frame it like that, there's no white person who will be allowed to even enter the race because that is a hit job.
	I have nothing with Mayor Pete, but what a nasty thing to do.
	Pull a clip from eight, nine years ago and then say this guy is shit.
	It's abhorrent.
	It's really shameful.
	They want to get this guy marginalized a little bit because the race right now is for vice president and Cory Booker is targeting it.
	And so you want a black guy in there.
	So let's go after anyone who's a possibility.
	I mean, you have the opportunity.
	You're going to have whoever's nominated president is going to be a white guy.
	And from what we can tell, it's going to be Bloomberg.
	It's going to be Biden.
	It's going to be Sanders.
	The white guy Hillary.
	White guy Hillary.
	Well, Hillary's going to come in late.
	But So you want to start moving things around a little bit to get the right vice president candidate.
	So what do we have to have?
	We have to have a candidate that's contrasty.
	So you could have Warren, which no one wants to deal with her, so she's done.
	But you could have a woman.
	Any woman would do.
	You could have a gay, male, white guy.
	guy, that's because he's actually a minority so far as these guys, the way they think with their way of identity politics.
	Or a black guy.
	So Buttigieg is the target to get out of the way, so you can get a black guy, and this one can get maybe Cory Booker, and the idea would be, of course, you're going to either have Biden or Sanders, let's say, as the president, or Biden is the front runner, although he can be taken out, or Bloomberg, but Biden is probably not going to last the four or Bloomberg, but Biden is probably not going to last the Well, of course.
	Yeah, so you're right.
	But Stacey Abrams, wouldn't it be her?
	Wouldn't she be a perfect VP pick?
	Well, you're the only one that's pushing this, by the way.
	When was she mentioned in that piece that you just ran?
	Ah, she's just as swoopy as Hillary.
	She's not going anywhere.
	Well, I do have a nice piece to understand Mayor Bloomberg's thinking, just in case anyone was interested in him.
	This is from last year.
	This was the IMF Spring Meeting 2018.
	This was when Fifi Lagarde...
	This is a great clip.
	Fifi Lagarde was still the ruler over there at the IMF. She had this little presentation where she does one-on-one with Lagarde.
	And she has a one-on-one chat on stage with Michael Bloomberg.
	And they're talking about taxing people and really taxing the poor.
	Because, of course, no matter who's coming in, certainly on the Democratic side, Republican side probably as well, they're coming after you.
	They're going to raise taxes.
	Something has to happen with their system.
	At least with this old thinking, this elitist thinking.
	So here's two of the most elitist people I could think of, Christine Lagarde and Michael Bloomberg, talking about taxing the poor slaves, and listen all the way to the end.
	Taxes are regressive, but in this case, yes they are.
	That's the good thing about them.
	I'm sorry, what does it actually mean when they say taxes are regressive?
	Progressive taxes means that the tax rate goes up.
	Right.
	As you make more and more money, your tax goes up, and it increases.
	That's progressive.
	Somebody low gets 10%, somebody up gets 50%.
	But that's progressive.
	That's progress.
	A regressive is the other way around, where everybody either gets taxed the same or there's no progress.
	Or the taxes actually go down as you make more money.
	Okay.
	Taxes are regressive, but in this case, yes they are.
	That's the good thing about them, because the problem is in people that don't have a lot of money.
	And so higher taxes should have a bigger impact on Well, we want the poor to live longer so that they can get an education and enjoy life.
	And that's why you do want to do exactly what a lot of people say you don't want to do.
	The question is, do you want to pander to those people Or do you want to get them to live longer?
	And there's just no question.
	If you raise taxes on full sugary drinks, for example, they will drink less.
	And there's just no question that full sugar drinks are one of the major contributors to obesity.
	And obesity is one of the major contributors to heart disease and cancer and a variety of other things.
	So it's like saying, I don't want to stop using coal because coal miners will go out of work.
	Well, we'll lose their jobs.
	We have a lot of soldiers in the United States and the U.S. Army, but we don't want to go start a war just to give them something to do.
	And that's exactly what you're saying when you say, well, let's keep coal killing people because we don't want coal miners to lose their jobs.
	The truth of the matter is there aren't very many coal miners left anyways, and we can find other things for them to do.
	But the Taxes or life.
	Which do you want to do?
	Take your poison.
	So it's regressive.
	It is good.
	Now this is my favorite part.
	It is regressive.
	It is good.
	So they're going to now justify taxing poor people so that they can tell them how to live their lives because you're stupid and you're poor.
	You should want to live longer and listen to us!
	Which do you want to do?
	Take your poison.
	So it's regressive.
	It is good.
	There are lots of tax experts in the room, and fiscal experts, and I'm very pleased that they hear you say that.
	And they all say the two things in life which are absolutely certain.
	One is death, the other one is tax.
	So you use one to defer the other one.
	That's correct.
	Okay.
	That is exactly right.
	Well said.
	Genius!
	This is essentially the king...
	Taxing the peasants to save their lives, because if they don't pay their taxes, these peasants will kill them.
	Exactly.
	This is good for you, peasant.
	Here, peasant, give us what little money you have.
	There we go.
	And now we will take the sword away from your throat, and we will return next year to collect more money.
	You have just gotten one year of extra life.
	Congratulations, stupid poor person.
	I'm going to show myself all by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	Ours is a volunteer system.
	I'm sorry, I'm very late.
	I'm very late.
	I completely lost track of time, just so you know.
	Yeah, I saw.
	Okay, apologies.
	I always look at the clock when we go to this last segment.
	I say, oh, I only got one clip left to play.
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	Alexander, we're on to that.
	We're also coming up on show 1200, ladies and gentlemen.
	Yes.
	Alexander Bortok, 80, Texas Dragon, Louisville, Texas, 7936.
	He also sent me a box.
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	Ooh, nice.
	Which includes some rubs and some very unusual barbecue sauces, which I will report back on.
	Okay.
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	That's not where he's from, though.
	My first donation, I enjoyed listening to the podcast.
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	What is this?
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	Hey, get closer to the mic.
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	Yeah, but they're going to die before you, so they're on the way out.
	Don't worry about it.
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	Robert Bruckner follows up with 5555.
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	Well, he's in Ozark, Missouri, which is a town I have been to.
	Yes.
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	It's a beautiful little town, and there was a bookstore in that town that had a bunch of Nazi books.
	Nice!
	What the hell are these books doing here?
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	They mock their own hillbilly kind of...
	Way of life.
	They mock it in a funny way.
	It's a beautiful little place.
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	Hold on.
	First time donor.
	Got hit in the mouth about a year ago.
	Live in China.
	Can confirm that it can be asshole.
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	Keep up the good work.
	And can I get a deduce?
	You've been de-douched.
	Now that we have the rule, I'm looking for them.
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	But China, that's a big jump from Corpus Christi.
	Is it?
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	A lot of condolences.
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	I think he's going to come in very handy.
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	Is this Josh?
	Yeah, Josh Cox.
	Well, he's actually Sir Toth of Tyhia.
	I should have known.
	We just talk as Adam and Josh on the emails.
	Sir Sean, black knight of the dude's name, Ben.
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	I'd like to give myself a birthday shout-out for Monday, December 2nd, turning 30.
	No one else who loves me listens to the show.
	Aww!
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	Well, they don't really love you, then.
	I'm sorry.
	I hate to break it to you.
	Yeah, they don't love you, then.
	They don't love you.
	These people don't love you.
	But he does say, I, uh...
	I have the newsletter set up to an email address which forwards to another email address.
	They're both Gmail.
	I have a rule set up to tag all of the emails forwarded this way in Gmail.
	I've never missed a newsletter in over two years.
	I have to understand what he's saying here, because that sounds like an interesting hack.
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	But of course, if you've missed an email, how would you know?
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	Nice.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	Yeah, who knew?
	I did not figure that out.
	The meetup reports need to be shorter or they need to be accompanied by some audio just because people are going to get pissed off when they start, hey, you didn't read my meetup report!
	I'm going to do this one from The Hague.
	This was from Robin from the Dunes of The Hague.
	Last Friday, a successful first meetup in The Hague.
	Great location, a bit dark, good beer and nibbles.
	Interesting people and interesting stories.
	We produced some no agenda signs to lure our producers, but they were not sufficient.
	Luckily, Samuel, the Beastmaster, wore his slave shirt and acted as a beacon once in a while while chatting in the morning did also help.
	Twelve producers showed up.
	Among the deucebags were knights and even barons and almost barons.
	A good crowd.
	We had guests from Sydney, Australia, Harlem, New York, Roermont Ousges, The Hague.
	Distances were not important.
	Most attendees have IT-related professions.
	There was also someone from a national intelligence service, a smash cart salesman.
	What's a smash cart?
	I'll tell you something, by the way.
	At all meetups, one spook appears.
	Oh yeah, you have to spot the spook.
	You've got to play the game.
	And they're also keeping tabs, making sure we're doing everything right.
	And many of them are very conversational.
	It's very, very conversational.
	Yeah.
	Smash cart salesman, several government and travel industry professionals.
	If we book our travels through the last one, we can get cheap tickets.
	There you go.
	While our inside contact saves up credits that she will donate fully to the No Agenda show.
	I will say it's a win-win.
	And there's a lot more to this note, which is a little too much for today's program.
	But thank you very much, Robin.
	Great work.
	It's interesting.
	Producer Chris sent me the No Agenda Sydney Meetup Gitmo Nation National Anthem again.
	I save this file.
	I then put it into my system.
	I check that it works.
	I check it before the show, and now I go to put it into the player, and again it says, error, unknown format.
	I do not understand.
	Unsupported file.
	This is the weirdest thing.
	It worked.
	And now it doesn't work anymore.
	There was that intelligence guy.
	That's very frustrating.
	It allowed you to play it once.
	Yes, it's self-destructed after one play.
	This is very odd.
	Okay.
	Well, I can't play it again, Chris.
	I don't know.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm going to have to re-record my own version.
	Yeah, so we got that.
	And then for everybody who requested it, we've got some jobs and travel and health karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got...
	And remember, go to NoAgendaMeetups.com for more.
	Last month of the year, we start with a big bunny bunny to everybody, or rabbit rabbit, depending on where you're from here.
	The birthday is for our list today.
	Jean-Paul de la Haya, celebrating today, December 1st.
	Sir Sean will be celebrating his birthday tomorrow.
	And we say happy belated birthday to Susan Verity and Boca Raton, who celebrated an undisclosed age.
	Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the Best Podcast in the Universe.
	One, two, three, four, five people to join us here at the roundtable of the No Agenda Knights and Dames, so we need a good blade, a good bladage for today.
	Look at this one.
	Whoa!
	Up on the podium, please.
	Eileen Sauer, Barra, David Orcutt, Andy Prowse, and Andy Brewer.
	You all are about to join the ranks of the Noagenda Knights and Dames for your contribution to the show in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	And I am therefore very proud to pronunciate all of you in the following manner.
	Dame Zelda of the Turtle Realm.
	Sir Not-A-Dame-Bara, care of Sir Sean of Slovakia.
	David Orcutt becomes Sir Rupinwaffles, Sir Shins, and Sir Savor of the Yatkin Valley Grapes.
	Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys, and Chardonnay for you at the round table.
	Also, uh, Shambursin and Dark Chocolates, and Strawberries and Cream Horns.
	And of course, some mutton and meat, if that's what you want.
	Go over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	And grab yourself the opportunity to have that shipped out to you by giving Eric your details.
	And a special note that David Orcutt, who becomes Sir Rupinwaffles today, he is responsible for two new best...
	Best of shows, which he has put together.
	One of John's stories and one of my stories.
	So that's why he becomes a knight for this incredible work that he's done.
	Imagine going through over a thousand episodes of the show and pulling out the stories.
	All of your favorites are going to be in there.
	And the first one will air on...
	Just before Christmas.
	So that would be, I think, the 22nd?
	Sunday the 22nd?
	Is it the 23rd?
	22nd.
	22nd.
	That's when the first one will air, and we are giving him his well-deserved knighthood for that Yeoman's work in advance.
	Of course, we already have the files.
	Yeoman's.
	Yeoman's.
	I like saying Yeoman's.
	I like Yeoman, but it's Yeoman's.
	Yeoman's.
	Oh, man.
	And with that, I'm sorry.
	This reminds me of my mispronunciation when I was a kid.
	Of Chaus.
	Chouse?
	Yeah, chouse.
	I'd read it and I'd say, oh, chouse.
	I don't know what the hell it means.
	Was that chews?
	Chaos.
	Oh, ha!
	Chouse.
	Chaos.
	Chaos to you, but climate chouse.
	Now we finally got it.
	Climate chouse.
	Climate chouse.
	I'm writing that one down.
	Yes, that's a good one.
	Climate chouse.
	How old were you when you...
	In high school, I was still...
	When I read, I still said Shouse to myself.
	Really?
	Oh, my goodness.
	Yeah, it wasn't until college until I realized it was chaos.
	All right, do you want to roll us out with one last clip before we do end-of-show mixes, which are nice, I might point out.
	That's some good ones.
	Oh, by the way, what was the last...
	The last end-of-show mix, I think...
	There was a song, Epstein Didn't Kill Himself, a punk rock and a classic 80s style punk rock.
	Beautiful song.
	I said to you, that song is commercial or we're going to have to pay ASCAP fees.
	But then you told me it's one of our guys.
	Written by Sir Ducifer, Rob Dew, and performed by the False Flags.
	Outstanding.
	It was very good.
	Very, very good.
	Well, I've got a couple of things.
	I've got the...
	Well, a lot of these I can push off, but let me think if there's one here that...
	Well, let's catch up with...
	Well, I could do a riots report.
	There's three short clips.
	Well, I can't do the music anymore.
	I'm afraid to do that because we get pushback and complaints, so...
	Well, we don't want to do this music.
	Just play the riot...
	Let's do the riot reports to get them out of the way.
	This is riots in Colombia.
	All right.
	Uh...
	In Colombia, anti-government protesters have called for another national strike today after talks between a protest committee and right-wing President Ivan Duque failed.
	Massive protests have rocked Colombia for six straight days.
	Last week, hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets for the largest national strike Colombia has seen in decades.
	Four people have been killed so far, including 18-year-old student Dilan Cruz, who was shot Ouch.
	Riots in Chile.
	Riots in Chile!
	In Chile, President Sebastian Pinera has sent a bill to lawmakers that would allow military troops to be ployed to the streets of Chile amidst ongoing anti-austerity demonstrations.
	This comes as Human Rights Watch has condemned police and military brutality against anti-government protesters.
	At least 26 people have died in the 40 days of Chilean protests.
	This is Human Rights Watch America's director, José Miguel Viganco.
	There are hundreds of worrying reports of excessive force on the streets and abuse of detainees, such as brutal beatings and sexual abuse, that cannot be left unpunished and should be quickly and vigorously investigated and punished by the Chilean judicial authorities.
	And what's your third?
	And the last one, unfortunately, is mislabeled.
	It's just under Iran.
	Iran Internet.
	In Iran, videos of the Iranian security forces' violence against protesters are emerging online as Iran has partially restored Internet access, which was almost entirely blocked, for over a week.
	Amnesty International says over 100 people were killed in the crackdown against demonstrations, sparked by a sharp rise in gas prices earlier this month.
	U.S. sanctions against Iran have contributed to the economic crisis.
	Iranian officials now say Internet access in the country could be curtailed indefinitely.
	And here's a question for our NAMS, our No Agenda amateur radio hams operators.
	With this going down in Iran, has anyone made contact with a ham operator from Iran?
	Because when the internet is out, when the apocalypse comes, don't the ham radio guys have to stand up and save the world?
	Yeah, that's their job.
	I would like to know if anyone has actually had contact with an Iranaham.
	An Iranaham?
	An Iranaham.
	You just saved the whole show for that.
	You mean we have a title, finally?
	No, we have plenty of titles.
	Iranaham is good, though.
	Yeah, I'm keeping it.
	I'm going to try myself, see if I can get Iranaham on the line.
	Good.
	All right, everybody, that does it.
	I will be traveling, but we'll be here on the box for our Thursday show, the first Thursday of the week.
	Look forward to that very much.
	Please remember us, not just in your prayers, but also at dvorak.org slash na.
	It's a fun little place to go check out to support the show, which, after all, is yours.
	And we've got end of show mixes.
	It's Christmas time, so I'm rolling them out.
	We have plenty of them.
	We've got Jesse Coy Nelson, we've got Chris Wilson, and a classic from Joshua and Jessica Pettigrew.
	I love that one a lot.
	Grumpy Old Ben's up next on NoAgendaStream.com.
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	33, what they get away with.
	Wow!
	He's just throwing in the 33.
	You know, the thing is, it was so well done, I didn't catch it the first time, as we point out on the show endlessly.
	33 dead in Pakistan bus collision.
	South Africa flood death toll rises as government declares 33 disaster zones.
	33, what they get away with.
	Robert De Niro.
	It's like living in an abusive household.
	You feel, you don't know what's going to happen next, what crazy thing is going to happen next, what's going to make you say, what the hell's going on?
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	Right now, here out in California, when I'm here for less than 24 hours, you've got to be f***ing kidding me, you split up, Brad.
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	So quit whatever you want.
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	How could you f***ing say you don't answer?
	You're upset.
	You're living in space.
	You're spoiled f***ing brat.
	33, what they get away with.
	Eaton, profit jumps 33% in fourth quarter.
	Guinea seeks 33% stake in mining projects.
	Pub sells 333 million fewer pints year over year.
	South Africa, 333 rhinos lost to poaching.
	This is ridiculous.
	Our listeners know that we're on to this because we keep bringing it up.
	33, what they get away with.
	But when you talk about apology, I think the one that you should really be apologizing for and the thing that you should be apologizing for are the 33,000 emails that you deleted and that you acid-washed.
	Donald Trump has just tweeted, and it's a huge one, specifically in the context of India.
	Let me read that tweet out for you if you can't read it very clearly.
	He says the United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.

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