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	Hang up and hang out.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	And Sunday, December 15, 2019, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1199.
	This is No Agenda.
	Rounding down to 1.2K and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 at 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 don't know, the freeway's out there outside the house.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Now you know why I keep you lower.
	Your levels have to be lower because there's nothing good coming out.
	You're doing what?
	I'm keeping your levels lower, man.
	Hello?
	I have a couple projects.
	Okay.
	I want to discuss.
	Okay, okay.
	One of them, and I'm making this at the beginning of the show so people will say, oh, okay, I can help.
	And they'll send me mail to john at devorek.org.
	Okay.
	No, no.
	What they'll do is they'll send it to adam at curry.com saying, I couldn't find John's email address.
	That's what they do.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Well, adam at curry.com is probably easier than john at devorek.org because you have to actually spell devorek.org, not a com.
	Yeah, you got to think about it.
	There's two things different.
	Mm-hmm.
	So I want to put together, and I think you can help me with this, and I know the audience can, especially any that have millennials in the household.
	Yes.
	I want to put together the definitive list of millennialisms.
	And what I mean by that is the things that they're associated with.
	Top of the list, avocado toast.
	Can I ask you, what would the point of this project be?
	So I can have a definitive list in front of me.
	I think it's going to have some value.
	Okay.
	Dropping tees.
	What?
	Dropping tees.
	I don't know what that is.
	Important.
	Dropping tees.
	Oh, dropping tees.
	Yeah, dropping tees.
	I thought you were saying drop in tees as some sort of PG tips that you...
	I don't know.
	Dropping tees.
	Important.
	Which, by the way, started with racists.
	Someone pointed out to me.
	Hmm.
	That's where the T first started dropping.
	It's no longer racist.
	Okay, let's make this a game then.
	I'll give you one, you give me one.
	Oh, I wasn't prepared, but okay.
	Avocado toast.
	I just gave you racist.
	I gave you dropping T's.
	Next.
	Okay, okay.
	Bone broth.
	Bone broth?
	No.
	No.
	Oh, yeah.
	No.
	I don't know anything.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Small batch.
	I got small batch.
	Well, you didn't call it.
	You didn't get it.
	Okay, uh, artisan.
	Um...
	Damn, I'm stuck.
	Let's just get the show started.
	Oh, man.
	Anyway, let me give the list for the people who won't have to duplicate the effort.
	Yeah.
	What you're hearing here, John, is our meetup from yesterday.
	This is what you do when you get no agenda producers together at the Lone Star Gun Range.
	I'm still hurting from yesterday.
	That sounds good.
	Oh my goodness, it was fantastic.
	We had 12 dudes only, no dames, sadly.
	Sir Scott of the Armory had everything well arranged, including just bags and bags of ammo.
	And we must have had 60 different guns.
	Man, this was great.
	So did you get to shoot anything weird?
	No, no.
	It's a very cool range.
	They've got a guy standing, of course, behind everybody, making sure that we're not killing each other.
	Shooting each other.
	But they're very, very laid back.
	But it specifically said you're not allowed to have any targets with faces of political figures or other worlds.
	I'm not kidding.
	It's actually a rule.
	But they had those splatter targets.
	You know the splatter targets?
	Those are great.
	I don't know anything about a splatter target.
	It has a thin layer of basically like a crayon type substance over the target itself.
	I've seen a similar thing for a BB gun.
	BB gun splatter targets.
	You shoot the BB gun and you hit the thing and it makes a splat look.
	Well, it's just viewable.
	You can see it from a distance.
	So, yeah, it makes a nice splattered little thing.
	So you can see, oh, okay, I hit it.
	Yeah, it was good.
	We've got to do that more often.
	And for the first time, I shot a...
	What is it?
	1911?
	But it's the...
	What's the particular brand I'm thinking of?
	Colt Hammerless.
	No, not the Colt.
	I know they invented it, but the other one, the...
	Ah, come on.
	Springfield.
	The Springfield 1911.
	Wow, what a great gun.
	It always looked so kind of goof-like old and kind of out of style, but man, that thing works.
	And I was shooting left-handed in bullseye.
	Ambidextrous curry, they call me.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we'll talk more about that in our donation segment.
	So what are we doing, John?
	Brexit.
	Brexit, exactly.
	The show was over.
	It took hours after the show until they finally had the official call.
	They don't seem to have what we have in this country because we were, kind of after the last show, irked by the fact we know the election had been underway as the show was going on, but we figured there'd be some preliminary, we predict the winners and all this stuff.
	No, none of that.
	The show was over and we went to look it up and it was zero, there was no votes.
	Nil-nil.
	It was nothing going on.
	Like a soccer game.
	Well, I was getting texts by around five...
	Yeah, 5-6pm my time from my buddies in the UK. Like, okay, it's over.
	But they didn't say Conservatives won or Boris won.
	Universally, they said, we're leaving the EU, which was interesting.
	Because I'm still not sure that's happening.
	I'm with you on this.
	Let me do a quick little Reuters roundup of Brexit, which had its interesting sides outside of the obvious Brexit part, but the election brought with it some other interesting issues which are more domestic.
	Boris Johnson's resounding election triumph will allow him to take Britain out of the EU next month, but could the results spell trouble for the UK and the Union that's bound England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for centuries?
	While the Conservative Party swept the opposition aside across much of England on a promise to get Brexit done, Scottish nationalists I don't pretend that every single person that voted SNP yesterday will necessarily support independence, but there has been a strong endorsement in this election.
	Of Scotland having a choice over our future, of not having to put up with a Conservative government that we didn't vote for and not having to accept life as a nation outside the European Union.
	So that independence referendum that was very much at the heart of the SNP's campaign, there is a renewed, refreshed, strengthened mandate for that.
	In Northern Ireland, supporters of a united Ireland won more seats than those who want to remain part of the UK. And anti-Brexit parties took a majority of seats in the province for the first time.
	Nationalists said the result paved the way towards a vote on whether there should be a united Ireland.
	Throughout the election campaign, Johnson said he was committed to the union and denied accusations that his Brexit deal would create an economic barrier between the British mainland and Northern Ireland.
	But the result has given Scottish and Irish nationalist leaders hope that the United Kingdom is headed for a breakup.
	So, they want to break up with the EU, and then right away, Scotland and Ireland are like, well, we could probably do without those guys altogether.
	We should stay in the EU. Northern Ireland.
	Yes, but there's also talk of a unified Ireland.
	There's all kinds of agendas at play here.
	Well, the main agenda at play is Scotland.
	Yes, and in Glasgow, they took to the streets...
	And, of course, came up with nothing original.
	In fact, I claim this as my millennial trait on the list.
	The constant hey, hey, ho, ho, fill in your item has got to go.
	That would be a millennial chant.
	Well, since I heard that chant in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, before the Millennials were born...
	You're disqualifying me now?
	I will put it on the list in a special category.
	You should allow this.
	You should allow this.
	Special category.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	I'm going to call it what it is.
	Plagiarism.
	No, what is it when you steal from another culture?
	No.
	Oh, cultural appropriation.
	Yeah.
	I will call it what it is, cultural appropriation.
	They stole this from the boomers.
	That's not cultural appropriation.
	It's generational appropriation.
	There we go.
	New term.
	New term.
	There you go.
	We got it.
	All right.
	That's a trade market.
	Got to trademark everything these days.
	Okay.
	Generational appropriation.
	Appropriation.
	Appropriation.
	Very good.
	Well, what did you have from Brexit?
	Because all I heard was Boris saying...
	I didn't clip to Boris, but I heard to Boris.
	Well, the Boris was saying, we deserve a break from Brexit.
	Does that mean they're not going to talk about it anymore?
	Or they're not going to do it?
	I just thought he sounded like...
	If Oxford had a cheerleading squad of men, he would be the guy.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	He's pointing, he's pointing, and he's saying, yes, we're going to add more money to the NHS. Oh boy, we're going to do this.
	So he's going nuts.
	Which is the big question, you know, because of the leaked documents from Jeremy Corbyn, is that apparently once we have Brexit done, then the US is going to steal the NHS from the UK. I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but that's kind of what they're saying.
	Apparently nobody bought into that.
	Okay.
	I have a couple.
	I go in a different direction.
	My analysis is focused on why this happened because this is the worst defeat of labor and the lowest number of people in that party in parliament since 1936.
	With a big turnout.
	Right.
	And the biggest conservative win since Thatcher.
	Right.
	So it was a lopsided slaughter is the only way to describe it.
	So this seems to me to be what you really want to focus on.
	Absolutely, because what could it mean for other countries in the EU or the United States in our 2020 election?
	I think it means a lot for the United States.
	And so I dug around to try to figure out what element was the missing element.
	But first, before I do that, I want to make sure that we're still on board with the way we're going to always look at these things if we're the progressive socialists in this country.
	Bring on Amy!
	So I'm going to play little Amy Goodman wrapping things up.
	Yowza!
	Conservative Party's sweeping victory all but guarantees Brexit, Britain's departure from the European Union early next year.
	The party won resoundingly despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson being accused of Islamophobia, xenophobia, and sexual harassment.
	What?!
	Oh my god!
	Whereas, it's actually, people in the UK were saying, well, the problem with labor is because of the anti-Semitism of Corbyn.
	Yeah.
	No, that's not it.
	It's misogyny, xenophobia, whatever else is on Trump's list.
	Yeah, and I also heard that, you know, the Russians meddled in their election.
	Oh, of course.
	Well, that would come up later.
	And they need a Mueller report.
	Why don't we just give them our Mueller report?
	Just do a search and replace.
	Trump, replace Boris.
	Yeah, it'll work fine.
	And so Mamie also decides that she's going to bring in her experts to analyze this.
	She brings in George Bonbiot.
	Oh, no!
	Unbelievable socialist.
	And then some woman who is, unfortunately, I didn't get any clips from her because she was on some Skype link from India.
	Isn't Monbiot also the Greenie, the Green New Deal guy in the UK? Oh yeah, he's a Greenie.
	He's all over that, right?
	He's a famous columnist from The Guardian.
	I thought he was so left, The Guardian kicked him out.
	The Guardian didn't even want him.
	At some point, I think, yeah.
	Well, he's annoying.
	But let's listen to Monbiot on what he has to say.
	If you can just respond...
	Wait a minute.
	Is Amy there?
	Is she on site?
	It sounds like she's in the UK. No, she's at COP25. Oh, of course.
	Wrapping up the COP. If you can just respond to what took place in your country.
	Well, it is a very dark day for everyone who believes in injustice, for everyone here who wants a kinder, fairer, greener nation.
	Arguably the darkest day that we've had since the end of the Second World War in this country.
	And we've now stepped into the same political arena as the US has with Trump.
	India has with Modi, as the Philippines have with Duterte and Brazil with Bolsonaro.
	These are very dangerous times, just when we need to confront the greatest predicament humankind has ever faced, which is the collapse of our life support systems.
	Our governments are in the hands of giant toddlers who just want to smash up all our public protections, our public services, any means by which the power of capital and those who accumulate it can be restrained.
	He really pulled out all the stops, didn't he?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	End of the world.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Now, I did get an ISO from him, even though I was hoping to get something better, but I did get this.
	Okay.
	Let's see what you got.
	Darkest day.
	It could have been longer because the full quote was a little...
	What was it?
	I played with the full quote.
	And it didn't work that way?
	Darkest day.
	Darkest day.
	It's not bad, but the full quote was...
	The full quote would have been better, but he pads when he talks.
	So it was long and I had to cut, cut, cut.
	And then it still was...
	I ended up just pulling this little ditty.
	Darkest day.
	It's doable.
	I have another one.
	I want to just see what the competitor is.
	Oh, the competitor I'll talk about later.
	Well, I got some competitors, but we can definitely talk about it later.
	Okay, let's talk about it later.
	Let's go to LBC. Meeting adjourned.
	LBC. Yes.
	And so, uh, this is, uh, Nick Ferrari's on.
	He's right after the victory, and he brings a Tory guy on to discuss the win.
	So this is the Ferrari on Tory win.
	49.
	It's difficult to know.
	Where do the superlatives and the supposed labor red wall is?
	Holy crap.
	Where can I buy a voice like that?
	That's the voice I'm looking for.
	49, it's difficult to know.
	Where do the superlatives end?
	The supposed Labour red wall is just a pile of rubble.
	The Conservatives now, you can make your way virtually from the south of the country up to the doors of Edinburgh, never having to get out of Conservative territory.
	It's an extraordinary picture, and let's explore that further with James Cleverley, who is Chairman of the Conservative Party and, of course, MP for Braintree.
	First off, Ms.
	Cleverley, congratulations to you and your team.
	You must be feeling very happy, but, of course, there is work to be done.
	Yeah.
	When the Prime Minister says, people want change, we must change, we must not let them down, you're the chairman, how is the Conservative Party going to change?
	You know, just to interrupt, I heard Johnson say this as well, a couple times, and he said, you know, they're going to have to adapt what we must change as well, and therein for me lay the rub, that something with this Brexit thing is not going to be clean.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I felt it.
	I smelt it, and I felt it, but Boris dealt it.
	Well, what we have got to do is make sure as politicians of all political persuasions, we need to make sure that the people who voted over and over again and don't feel that politics has worked for them, that they can actually feel that this time it is different.
	And what the Prime Minister has made very, very clear is that a big part of that is delivering on the referendum result that they voted for.
	But that's not it.
	You're not going to fight the next election on that respect?
	No, exactly.
	And this is the point, Nick.
	This is why that is necessary but not sufficient.
	What we also have to do is make sure that the investment that we've said that we're going to put into the NHS reaches the front line so they can see it and they can feel it.
	They see the police officers on the streets.
	They see transport infrastructure in their towns and cities.
	The government is seen demonstrably.
	I've got to say something here.
	I lived in the UK. And I was in the NHS, the National Health System, and I saw the issues, I saw the problems that were potential or were there already, and it sounds like somehow they're going to pin all of this on Boris and Trump and anybody else, whereas the system is kind of fundamentally broken.
	I mean, the waiting lines, just waiting for procedures where the hospitals and the equipment is just waiting, not being used.
	I mean, I've witnessed this.
	You know what I mean?
	It sounds like, oh, well, it's broken.
	Let's just make it this guy's fault.
	Well, I'm not sure what...
	I mean, this guy is representative of Boris, so I don't think he's trying to do that.
	He's a Tory.
	No, but he's responding.
	He's responding to the general claim that, you know, this is already before the election.
	Oh, selling out the NHS. And no one really knows what that means.
	But I think what will happen is...
	Boris starts now.
	Let's just say as of January.
	Oh, well, the NHS is broke.
	He broke it already.
	I'm telling you, there's something about that that smells bad.
	Well, the whole thing smells bad, and we'll get to that.
	But this analysis is...
	I'm dubious.
	I think the next clip...
	And it's important for us, because that's what Medicare for All will be.
	The model is kind of that.
	Medicare for All is in the future, but it's not in the near future.
	And, uh, the NHS seems to me to be kind of an, I'd say an isolate of the VA. Similar in style, the VA is always perpetually broken.
	Yeah.
	No matter who they put in charge, they can't fix it.
	And then somebody makes a big fuss, and then everyone scrambles around.
	Yeah, they fix a couple things, and then it's all hunky-dory.
	And there's still this long wait, some guys dying in the hall, and all the rest of it.
	And meanwhile, other people go to the VA and think it's great.
	So there's something about...
	There's certain types of socialized medicine other than France that don't work well.
	And a lot of it has to do with, I think, some cultural issues.
	But anyway, is that the end of that clip?
	Yes, that's the end of that clip.
	Okay, so now we bring in the guy from the other side.
	But in this case, it's a labor guy, but it's not Corbyn camp.
	It's the Gordon Brown camp, and this guy's an old hack, an old labor know-it-all who's probably got a handle on why they had their asses handed to him, besides the fact, well, nobody listened to me.
	And he brings something up that nobody's discussing, so I looked into it, and I can see the analog over here in the United States, and I can see what this guy has to say to me portends nothing.
	If the analog's correct, and if what I think is correct is correct, which is...
	Is correct.
	Democrats will have their asses handed to them.
	Well, the first step is that Jeremy Corbyn has to stand aside as leader, I think, as quickly as possible so that the process of recovery from the Labour Party can begin.
	I mean, his leadership, his management of the party, the policies into which the party went into this election, the leadership that he provided through the election campaign has What now is the momentum movement, Mr Diamond?
	Well, I think the momentum movement is many things, clearly.
	It's both a policy, ideological agenda, it's also a grassroots organizing machine.
	No doubt momentum will try to continue, but the political approach, the strategy that sits behind momentum, which is about trying to mobilize groups of, you know, left activists in some parts of the country, has just been shown not to work.
	It does not connect with the sorts of Britain that Labour needs to connect with in order to win an electoral majority.
	But how would the next Labour leader, whoever he or she may be, how would they unlock the grip of the activists on the party?
	Well, under the rules which were introduced under Ed Miliband's leadership, it's certainly true that the membership has a much greater say in our leadership elections and needs to be the case.
	That's probably a good thing.
	But the activists and the membership of the party need now to have the argument put to them.
	If they want to...
	Do you think they'd listen?
	A conservative government, if they want to challenge the conservatives and become a serious party of power again, the Labour Party is going to have to change.
	It's going to have to change its leadership, it's going to have to change its policy agenda, it's going to have to change its strategy.
	If it's not prepared to do those things, then it will continue to lose.
	And that argument has to be put to the activists and the members.
	Okay, I'm interested.
	I don't know.
	Thank you.
	Well, nobody talks about the momentum movement.
	Yeah, what is this?
	The Momentum Movement is the analog of the Justice Democrats.
	Oh.
	Okay.
	And they took a hold of the Labor Party and they have driven it into the ground.
	And these are the people that have these meetings where you want to do...
	This is the same crowd that is into pronoun, mispronouning, deadnaming, bringing up all these social justice issues.
	Huh.
	Jazz hands instead of clapping.
	You name it, it's in there.
	But they're really good at organizing.
	They're all young.
	They're all millennials.
	They go out there and they beat the Bushes.
	And they're all socialists.
	And they're just like the squad.
	And the squad would be in momentum if they were over in the UK. And I'll just read a couple of paragraphs.
	There's a good entry in Wikipedia.
	You just look up momentum organization.
	It first showed up around the same time as the Justice Democrats about this In 2015, at the same time that Bernie Sanders, who would be a hero to this crowd, showed up on the scene to run for president in 2016, was booted out by the Democratic machine, and Hillary was given the job.
	But it's about the same time, Perry.
	We're not missing too much.
	It could be even the same organizers.
	With its formation, according to the listing here, with its formation, momentum drew inspiration from Syria.
	Syriza, another similar movement in Greece, and Podemos, another similar movement in Spain.
	This is international.
	Both of which were fed by practical grassroots organizing to counter the effects of austerity cuts.
	from ideas from other campaigns that operate on a left-wing or progressive platform, such as in the United States with the Bernie Sanders campaign.
	Right.
	Or to become presidential candidate for the Democrat Party and in 2016 and 2020, or Beto O'Rourke's campaign to become the Democrat senator for Texas.
	He's grouped into this crowd.
	Yeah, but this is not...
	Obviously, this is not grassroots.
	This is, you know...
	Soros!
	I hate to say it, but yes, this is the Soros funding of all these little groups.
	And you saw the riot...
	The riots...
	Okay, 500 people is not a riot, but you saw people demonstrating, and there's signs, all professionally printed, socialist workers of the world.
	Well, let me continue with another paragraph deeper into the story.
	Members of the Parliamentary Labor Party, PLP, had raised concerns that groups including the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition...
	Left Unity and Socialist Workers' Party, SWP, the Socialist Party and the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, AWL, might attach themselves to momentum as a means to join the Labor Party.
	In November 2015, Left Unity was looking into the possibility of cooperation with momentum and the Labor Party became, because it's looking into the possibility of cooperation with the momentum and Labor Party because it shares Corbyn's values.
	The SWP and the Socialist Party have denied having any intention to be involved, but they're all involved.
	And what it amounts to is a socialist undercurrent.
	Grassroots is a term they like to use, even though it's bogus, like you said.
	But they're out there pounding the pavement, and that means grassroots.
	If somebody comes to your door and pounds on the door and says, vote for this guy, that's considered grassroots.
	And that's really all grassroots means.
	But if Soros is paying him or not paying them, it's besides the point.
	This is an international movement that's taking place, that took place in England and it ruined the Labor Party.
	It's taking place in the United States and it's ruining the Democrat Party as we can witness by just seeing how much influence the squad and the progressives and the justice Democrats and all these have a very small organization.
	But they've got more influence and they've got Nancy Pelosi to knuckle under to impeachment.
	And they're irking the public at large with all their activism.
	Nobody wants half of these things that they're promoting.
	Jazz hands.
	No, you can't clap.
	I mean, come on.
	Victor David Hansen, who I know you like from the, is he the Hoover Institution?
	He does a lot of talks at the Hoover Institute.
	Oh, Hoover Institute.
	So he summed this up in like a minute 15 beautifully in this interview he did.
	And this, of course, is regarding the United States and the Democrat Party and how this exact same thing is happening to them.
	Which is kind of, well, it's over-socialization, as was predicted by Professor Ted Kaczynski.
	Look him up.
	Cory Booker is now saying, you guys are all racist because no black people are on the stage.
	Yeah, this is for the next debate.
	It's like everyone's been cut.
	They're like, oh, well, wait a minute.
	And now, of course, as Cory Booker says, there's no more black people on stage for this Democratic debate next week.
	Cory Booker is now saying, you guys are all racist because no black people are on the stage.
	And then what are the white people saying?
	They're saying, wait a minute.
	It's a free poll, and fundraising is free, and if you really like Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, black people and white people should vote for them and get higher in the polls.
	Our only crime is we're beating them, and then...
	We watching this said, no, no, no.
	You're guilty under your own ideologies of disparate impact.
	Because according to your own philosophy, if the proportions of a particular profession are not reflective of the actual numbers in the population, and even if racism doesn't exist, it does exist.
	It's implicit.
	Therefore, there are six people on that stage.
	They're all white.
	Somebody is racist.
	Why do we know that?
	Because you told us that.
	And that's what happens in these revolutionary movements.
	Yesterday's Revolutionary is today's counter-revolutionary and tomorrow's enemy of the people.
	And they get into that Jacobin phase, and that's what happened to the Democratic Party.
	Now, nobody can be pure enough, and what happened?
	They're all white, elite, wealthy people on this stage, and they stand convicted by the hypocrisies of their own ideologies that they impose on all the rest of us.
	And we get to watch it.
	It's theater to see this in action.
	Yes, it's called show prep for us.
	It's called money in the bank.
	It's great.
	What is this Jacobin phase?
	Do you know what that's about?
	Jacobin?
	Yeah, I can't give it to you off the top of my head, but it's very well described in the Wikipedia.
	Jacobin.
	Okay.
	I'll look that one up.
	But there is a...
	And then the Democrats know this.
	There's something to be learned from this one-sided slaughter that just took place in the UK. And yeah, you can be Amy and mom beyond and moan and groan as the darkest days, what the public wanted.
	Because the public is fed up.
	And the public gets fed up and they do come out to vote.
	And the public is getting fed up with the Democrats in this country.
	And what they've done, they voted him in.
	In the midterms, they put a bunch of them in that shouldn't have probably gotten in in the first place.
	And instead of doing any work for the locals or doing any work at all, all they did from day one was vote to impeach Trump.
	When Trump got elected, and this has been pointed out a million times, I'll point it out a million times plus one.
	The Washington Post, on the day after he was inaugurated, said that impeachment has begun.
	The guy hasn't even done one thing.
	And they're going to impeach him.
	And they made it clear they were going to do this.
	And so they voted these guys in.
	And they were voted in.
	They weren't voted in, I don't believe.
	I mean, there's probably a few people that did vote him in for this purpose.
	But impeaching the president is getting nothing accomplished.
	And I think the public at large is fed up with this crap.
	It is crap.
	Yes and no.
	Some people are fed up with it, but I like Victor David Hansen's assessment better.
	And it's that everyone's flawed, so you're going to make mistakes.
	It's just like Chunk Weger, you know, he's running for Katie Post's slot, I guess, whoever was the Democrat.
	Katie Hill, I think was her name.
	Katie Hill, the one who was...
	Naked.
	The naked congresswoman.
	I don't care.
	I do.
	And, you know, whatever.
	So, you know, he's taking her spot.
	Bernie endorses him.
	And then immediately the guy gets canceled because eight years ago he, you know, because he does a lot of YouTube stuff.
	He did something stupid like, oh, let's rate women by how good they appear to be able to give blowjobs just by looking at their face.
	Okay.
	It's a bit.
	Eight years ago, I didn't even hear it.
	In context, it might have been funny.
	But now, of all people, Chunk, who is insane, he does have a legitimate right to run for something because he's been a part of the Justice Democrats.
	He's been a part of...
	Before he was the founder.
	Yeah, he's a former Bernie bro.
	And the cancel culture goes to work immediately and Bernie has to renounce his endorsement.
	That's what's happening more than the people are fed up with it.
	The people, if anything, are just tuning out.
	Tuning out.
	I think they're fed up.
	Well, yeah, they're fed up.
	They weren't tuned out with this high turnout.
	I'm just reflecting this based on what happened in England.
	There was a high voter turnout.
	I mean, it wasn't the highest in history, but it was not a bunch of people tuning out.
	But tuning out is not the same as not showing up.
	You're saying that people are fed up.
	It doesn't matter.
	It's semantic.
	I think they're fed up.
	You're talking about the UK. I'm talking about the US. Maybe not exactly the same.
	The momentum movement and the Justice Democrats and the social justice warriors, I agree that's the problem.
	But I think what's happening is people are seeing that their own leaders, as they like to call them, suck.
	The first thing everyone says, well, Jeremy Corbyn, he lost because he's an anti-Semite.
	That's the number one thing I hear.
	Well, that wasn't reflected in any of the LBC stuff I listened to.
	Yeah, well, that's why there's two of us.
	Now, the latest thing with your buddy Chunk, as you like to call him.
	Excuse me, do not call him my buddy.
	He, apparently, there's a video, I didn't listen to it because I didn't want to ruin myself for the show, but it just showed up.
	Apparently he's advocating people ejaculate horses for kicks.
	I think this is not a new video.
	I think this is an old video that got turned up.
	And so what's your problem with that?
	You got a problem with that?
	This guy's running for office.
	I mean, if you don't think Katie Hill being naked and massaging one of her staffers is a bad thing.
	I think we need more politicians massaging their staffers naked.
	This would be much better for the overall harmony.
	Hey, Anthony Weiner did that.
	No, no.
	He was sexting little girls, John.
	Big difference.
	Oh, I thought he was massaging his staffers.
	Oh, ding, ding.
	All right.
	Geez.
	Well, I have some more examples of this taking place because we're about to see the cancellation of Greta.
	She made a misstep that everyone's trying to fix.
	Unless you have some more on Brexit, then I'll just move on.
	No, I think we're good with Brexit.
	I think we've got it covered in at least...
	At least we covered it without just saying, well, you know, these idiots, an elected madman, Boris Johnson, who's a misogynist xenophobe.
	No, you get paid decent money to do that on Democracy Now!, on television.
	We are podcasters.
	We suffer.
	We have a different angle, a different take, which is probably a lot closer to reality.
	Truth is poverty.
	So COP25, the big elite climate change negotiation, because it wasn't a meeting, it wasn't a summit, it was continuously billed as the negotiation, kind of fell apart in the last few days with Poland being the problem child.
	Poland has been left out of a 2050 climate neutrality agreement by the EU after hours of summit haggling with three poorer eastern member states.
	The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland had demanded more funds for economic transition and support for nuclear power.
	The former two eventually conceded, having won a guarantee that nuclear energy would be recognized as a way for EU states to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
	Poland remained steadfast, though German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was satisfied with the outcome.
	We had intense discussions and we can say that we know where we're going, namely that we want to reach climate neutrality by 2050.
	One member state, that is Poland, could not commit itself today to how the implementation of this goal should take place.
	Warsaw said it needs to reach climate neutrality at its own pace.
	Poland still relies on highly polluting coal for some 80% of its energy and demands more specific guarantees on how the phasing out of fossil fuels would be financed before taking the plunge towards more ambitious climate goals.
	This drama came a day after new European Commission leader Germany's Ursula von der Leyen proposed an $110 billion investment plan that would push for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, something she called Europe's man-on-the-moon moment.
	So that Europe's man-on-the-moon moment is not even correctly reflected in this report.
	But what you're hearing is that Poland clearly said, well, we need more money than you're offering for us to change our entire infrastructure.
	And that's why it's called the negotiation, because I think this is what people are finally starting to see is, okay, I live in the Netherlands, and I will have to pay extra Green Deal tax.
	It's called Green Deal in Europe.
	We have the Green New Deal, which is nothing.
	The Green Deal is very real.
	We'll get to that in a moment.
	And there's dissension amongst the ranks.
	They want more money.
	And if you're in the Netherlands, they say, well, why am I going to give my money to the polls?
	Oh, because you're the European Union.
	You're all part of the same family.
	So Greta gets accosted upon returning home, and she says something very unfortunate.
	The COP25 meeting, which is happening in Madrid right now, is almost over.
	And we unfortunately probably already know the outcome.
	World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities.
	But we have to make sure that they cannot do that.
	We will make sure that we put them against the wall.
	So, Greta's saying, we must make sure we put them against the wall.
	It has been interpreted as if we need to put the leaders in front of us.
	And here's what's funny.
	Because everyone who's defending Greta is coming out and saying, Oh, no, no.
	It's swanglish.
	It's swanglish.
	It's in Sweden we say this, but it doesn't really mean that.
	Well, turns out swanglish is a lot like dutchless.
	Because in the Netherlands we have the same saying.
	And it means one thing and its etymology is one thing.
	Firing squad.
	So she said it and it means put them in front of the firing squad.
	But of course, Greta didn't really mean it that way.
	Sure she did.
	Of course she did.
	People have to do their job and to protect our futures.
	Bravo!
	Yeah, bravo!
	2019 is almost over, and we must make sure that 2020 is the year of action, is the year when we bend the global emissions curve.
	I love bend the global emissions curve, because that's how 15-year-olds think.
	They come up with this kind of stuff.
	Now, there was another episode with her.
	And by the way, I'm trying to decide whether I should go back to this Polish thing because there was an incident or something said within that clip of yours that the Polish were kind of wanting to move toward nuclear energy.
	Yes.
	There was some mention of that.
	And then it was kind of shoved aside and then they were condemned because whatever.
	Yeah, the media won't talk about it, but more countries are actually lining up nuclear as a part of their Green Deal plan.
	What's going on?
	The Germans shut down their plants and the French are being told to shut down there.
	This is why it's a negotiation.
	Oh, my God.
	By the way, Aaron, producer Aaron, he has two daughters who are Swedish, and they were kind enough to give us the official.
	So, you know, this is how these Swedish kids pronounce Greta Thunberg last, or just pronounce her name.
	Here we go.
	Her name is Greta Thunberg.
	Greta Thunberg.
	And we have another one.
	Which is the way Amy pronounces it.
	That's how Amy said it, yeah.
	Her name is Greta Thunberg.
	Greta Thunberry.
	Okay, I got it.
	I think I can do that.
	Greta Thunberry.
	So the other thing that just took place was she's on her way back, and she was sitting in the luggage arena.
	She was sitting on the floor on the train with the luggage.
	Yeah.
	And so they took a bunch of pictures, and this became a big – everyone made a big stink about her.
	She says, well, I couldn't get a seat on the – Oh, but yeah, the trains were full, and all Germans were like, yeah.
	The trains were overfull, and then they called her out on that saying, wait a minute, you're a big promoter of the trains.
	They're going to be full if you're going to make everyone go on them.
	And oh, yeah, I'm sorry.
	I made a mistake there.
	And then somebody else dug up the fact that she was with an entourage.
	Yeah.
	Of her pals and they were all sitting in first class and one of them was sitting in her seat.
	This is why also Greta will get cancelled.
	It's for all those same reasons.
	The revolution eats itself.
	Now, there is some real concern that I have about the Green Deal and the EU. And that's because the brand new Starfleet commander, I forget her name, the woman who will be the big kahuna, she has created a position...
	Which is the European Commission Executive Vice President for the Green Deal.
	And this commission has eight subcommittees with deputies.
	I mean, there's 150 people at least in this Green Deal department that has been created.
	And guess who's running it?
	My buddy, Franz Timmermans.
	So this is the Dutch guy who was a deputy secretary of state for the Netherlands when, in fact, it was the radio station where they got burned down.
	And he came in, and at the time, he was traveling all over the world with the queen, the former queen.
	Going to Bilderberg.
	And I really bonded with the guy.
	Like, hey, Bilderberger, let's hear what you have to say.
	And he is really...
	It turns out, the guy, he looks like he's 65, but he's only three years older than I am.
	So Franz Timmermans has received this role from the new Starfleet commander.
	And he released his plan and his roadmap, which calls for 260 billion euros of investment every year from the European Union.
	How about investing in a podcast?
	Well, I think I may have my chance to finally get this guy on the show to interview him because he's a sales guy.
	And now he's not selling himself to be president of the EU. Now he's selling a deal.
	And I think I think this is I can get in with him, particularly after listening to his interview with Christiane Anampur on CNN, where he explains exactly, exactly what is needed.
	And the first thing we need is young leaders like Greta Thunberg.
	What do you make of Greta Thunberg, who said that?
	Let us do that again.
	You are doing this all wrong, lady.
	Her name is Greta Thunberg.
	What do you make of Greta Thunberg, who said that, you know, she wrote a list of the things that people aren't doing and the sort of, you know, sneaking around their commitments.
	Well, we are so lucky to have her.
	Isn't this amazing that a 16-year-old young lady could get...
	Oh, please.
	I'm telling you, Franz is a sales guy in brown shoes.
	He is a brown shoe salesman.
	Young lady could get Person of the Year awarded by Time magazine.
	Okay, I've got to stop it there.
	Now, we all saw the Person of the Year cover, which I don't think the magazine is even actually printed anymore, but that's the cover.
	But did you notice that they're sexualizing her now?
	And I think it's a huge mistake.
	They took out the braids, the Pippi Longstocking, and they have her with her hair flowing backwards.
	Big mistake!
	This is not the image of Greta Thiem, dearie.
	This is like a young 16-year-old woman who's coming into her own.
	Big mistake.
	...year awarded by Time magazine.
	I'm really, really very excited about that.
	And she's sending a very powerful message.
	And I think we should listen very carefully to what she says.
	That is why the Green Deal we are presenting is a roadmap that can lead us to a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.
	But to go there, we will have to take quite a number of measures, legal measures, to make it happen.
	And Greta can watch very carefully what we're doing in the next months and years and see whether we can actually deliver what we promise.
	It is my firm belief that we can do that.
	We'll need the support of all our member states and the European Parliament.
	But we can achieve this because we have massive support of more than 90% of the European population.
	Oh yeah.
	Okay.
	So these guys are so delusional.
	They believe that in the countries, the Netherlands, Germany, France, I think Ireland.
	Poland.
	Poland.
	Especially the farmers with thousands of tractors.
	Yeah.
	And who the population support the farmers in these...
	And these road blockages.
	Now, according to France, the brown shoe sales guy, 90% support.
	And you heard, oh yeah, we will need a lot of help from our member states.
	Yeah, every member state, there's 26 of them, will have to pony up at least 10 billion euros.
	Not all of them can do that.
	And they have these keys as to who pays what according to size and GDP. And it's going to be very interesting for them to get people to pay for this.
	And all it is is just to say, well, we'll hit our Agenda 2030 goals, which means we'll have total neutrality, which is interesting in the context of another failed neutrality, net neutrality.
	They're pushing 2050, though.
	That's right.
	So Agenda 2030, which is a defined goal of Agenda 21, not making it up, no conspiracy theory, no Alex Jones.
	No, you can go print it out.
	It leads to, and this is their new mantra, is a carbon neutrality by 2050.
	And of course, the question is, can you do it?
	How realistic is this?
	Well, if people don't understand that we need to make a paradigm shift, that we really need to transform our economies and our societies to face this challenge.
	Yeah, which means giving stuff up, slaves, means it's going to be cold in the winter and hot in the summer.
	That we really need to transform our economies and our societies to face this challenge.
	If people don't understand that, we won't get there.
	But there's an increasing understanding in society, also in business, that this is something we need to do.
	And that's why we present this roadmap, which would give us the tools What does that mean?
	We need to reset our economy on a circular basis.
	Didn't he say...
	Did he say circular or secular?
	No, I'm pretty sure he said circular.
	Let's listen again to the end.
	Jobs, if we reset our economy on a circular basis.
	Circular.
	I don't know what he means, circular.
	He's just making that up.
	I think so, too.
	Anyway, I'm getting this guy on for an interview.
	I know I can get it.
	Well, I got a circular basis where a reset economy amounts to it.
	Well, that'll be my first question.
	How does the circular economy work?
	What is it?
	How does it work, and how can we profit off of it?
	Because that's what's going to happen.
	I think what he means is, I'm just thinking...
	You know the recycling logo where the arrow goes to this place and then goes back and comes around like a circle of arrows?
	Yes, the circular, yes.
	I think that's what he's talking about.
	He wants an economy that's self-sufficient and is circular in that way, where everything gets recycled.
	Could be, but taking into account the Secretary General of the United Nations, we played him just two shows ago when he was with Greta Giuneri, and he talked about we need to move from taxing income to taxing carbon.
	And I think the European Union is on its way.
	They have an office.
	It was more complex than just taxing carbon, quote-unquote carbon.
	It was Something else, carbon use or carbon something?
	Wasn't it carbon something?
	Was it carbon with another word?
	Well, hold on.
	I think we have...
	Let me just listen to this clip for a second.
	This is the guy.
	This is Antonio Guterres, who is the UN Secretary General.
	What is still lacking is political will.
	Political will to put a price on carbon.
	Political will to stop subsidies on fossil fuels.
	Political will to stop building coal power plants from 2020 onwards.
	Political will to shift taxation from income to carbon.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Of course I'm right.
	That's right.
	That's the fossil few fools.
	Fossil fools.
	I think the way they, and you said correctly, is how can you tax someone on carbon unless you track them and know exactly what carbon they're using?
	And this may be part of the circular system France the brown shoe sales guy is thinking of.
	This comes from the OBFCM. The European Union's new light-duty CO2 standards require the European Commission to monitor the real-world fuel and electric energy consumption of vehicles.
	The data will be recorded by onboard monitoring devices and needs to be transferred to the Commission.
	This graphic shows four possible ways of transferring the data.
	The three methods shown at the top are not suitable for efficient monitoring of real-world consumption.
	The first option, periodic technical inspections, is for new vehicles only mandatory after four years, The second, roadside spot checks, would be prohibitively labor-intensive to perform.
	The third method, collecting data from managed fleets, such as rental companies, is not likely to produce data that is representative of the market.
	Automatic over-the-air transfer would allow for regular fleet-wide collection of the data.
	Automatic transfer would also shift compliance responsibility to manufacturers, minimize the risk of human errors and could make use of existing vehicle telemetry hardware.
	Furthermore, it would be suited for future applications like onboard emission monitoring.
	Yeah, so that's where 5G comes in, everybody's happy, and we know exactly how much carbon you are polluting or using or wasting, whatever term we want to use, and you will be taxed accordingly.
	And in fact, I think it will be done automatically and deducted straight from your bank account.
	Well, that's the way to do it.
	That's clearly where it's going.
	And you drive around and you've got a monitor, just like having a little bracelet around your ankle.
	That's next.
	That's also coming.
	That would be next.
	And the car is your spy.
	It's your personal spy.
	It's spying on everything you do, telling everyone where you're going, how much you're spending.
	Did you start the car up too many times?
	Which, by the way, which reminds me, is anybody else but me annoyed by these idiotic cars that start Every time they stop at a stoplight?
	Well, that is a...
	You know why this is, right?
	This came from your...
	Because it saves so much gas to keep starting your car over and over.
	Well, it does save on emissions.
	I wouldn't say it saves on gas.
	The reason why that is in luxury vehicles but also in the Netherlands in small vehicles is that is the only way these companies can get their cars to the required emission standard.
	You cannot disable it.
	It turns on every single time you start.
	You can turn it off, but if you don't, then you're at the stoplight or wherever, at a standstill, it'll turn off.
	And they assume that there will be so many turn-offs per vehicle, per drive, and it's a numbers game.
	They deduct that from their mission.
	It's kind of like the diesel scam, only now it's affecting you because the car turns off.
	I think it's very annoying.
	I had first encountered this technology probably 10 years ago or maybe longer, maybe 15.
	When I was on the mailing list for all these auto companies, I was writing about stuff.
	And so General Motors shows up with this truck that they wanted me to test that had this feature and it was like a big deal.
	And the guy was going on and on.
	Really?
	They promoted that as a big deal?
	Really?
	Oh, it was fantastic because it did all these great things.
	And so I said, really?
	I said, let's drive it around.
	I drove it.
	It seemed, you know, it drove normally because it started pretty quick.
	So as you touch the pedal, it was starting when you were on your way.
	Or even if you just touch the brake again or pressurize it.
	It starts pretty quickly.
	But I said, well, let's take this thing up Marin.
	There's this hill in Berkeley called Marin.
	And it's pretty much like the worst hills in San Francisco.
	Straight up.
	To Grizzly Peak with stop signs that got you where you're on an angle and you got to hold on to the brake for dear life so you don't slide backwards.
	So I said, let's go up.
	I took these guys up there driving.
	And so we go up to the first stop sign and then as soon as I let go of the brake...
	Hit the gas.
	I hit the gas.
	Let go of the brake.
	And I slid about 30 feet backwards.
	If there was anybody behind me, we would have plowed into them.
	And so then when I finally caught it, then it burned rubber trying to get back up the hill, back to the stop sign.
	And so I kept saying, this is great!
	Do you remember I had the Trinity?
	I had the biodiesel Mercedes station wagon from 1985?
	Yeah.
	And I was on one of those hills, and the whole transmission dropped out.
	Were you not in the car with me when that happened?
	No, I was not.
	I would have remembered that, believe me.
	It was a similar thing, only downtown San Francisco was a little more scary.
	I dropped my tranny!
	I can't say that anymore.
	Yeah, you can.
	So...
	So these guys, this idea, anyway, it just galls me, but this idea of tracking, I've been predicting this for 20 years or more, that the smog checks are part of this scam.
	Eventually, they'll be giving you posthumous tickets for all the speeding you did and all the illegal moves you made based on that.
	I'm sure the software is being worked on as we speak.
	It's already there.
	Tesla has all of that.
	It's all in there.
	They're tracking everything you do.
	They just haven't given it up yet.
	No, they will.
	Well, and I think this is a part of a, you know, certainly for the European Union...
	This is a part of the New World Order.
	And I got to tell you, amidst all of this impeachment and FBI, FISA, spying, and this, of course, as we know, in the United States is Gitmo Nation.
	There's no other news.
	But there was news.
	And I'm concerned because it goes back to a very old theory that we talked about in the beginning of the show, which was the You know, the roll-up of the New World Order, we'd have the European Union, which has basically happened.
	They're still trying to bring in a couple other countries into the European Union.
	Then we'd have Eurasia, and then we would have the United States of North America.
	And then those three would come together in the Trilateral Commission.
	And then above that, we would have the New World Order global government.
	And, you know, it was laughable until the European Union actually did that, and a couple other things started to happen.
	And amidst all of this, we had a...
	I'm not even sure where...
	I think it's a bill was signed...
	A resolution, yet not ratification, but there were amendments made to the USMCA, that is the United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal, which is meant to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, yet just looking at how...
	How jitty all the Democrats were when they said, oh, look at what we've done.
	We've done it.
	We've done it.
	We've created this fantastic...
	This is something that President Trump has been calling for for years.
	He says that he created it.
	The Democrats then all of a sudden say, well, we passed this in the House and we're great and we did everything.
	And that everything is a whole bunch of amendments, which I've only just started to read.
	But I did find this podcast, thank goodness for the podcast, from New America magazine, no doubt right wing outfit.
	But this guy at least gives us some idea of what is in this document.
	And it, by the way, is marked up already in the show notes, along with Franz Timmermans' Green Deal.
	So we can all look at that together.
	But listen to this guy who talks about the USMCA. Negotiated by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on behalf of the Trump administration, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, purportedly intended to replace the two-and-a-half-decade-old North American Free Trade Agreement as part of a much broader agenda that will end the sovereignty and independence of the United States and eventually submerge the U.S. along with Mexico and Canada into a regional integration
	scheme similar to that of the European Union.
	On Tuesday, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Cristia Freeland, and Mexican Deputy Prime Minister Jesus Said met in Mexico City along with Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to sign new amendments to the USMCA. Officially titled the Protocol of Amendments to the Agreement between the United States of America,
	the United Mexican States and Canada is a 27-page document of amendments to the USMCA that were negotiated and added to the agreement at the insistence of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to garner their support in order to fast-track the trade scheme in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.
	This new agreement...
	Pushes an agenda that is progressive, as Freeland described it, using the guise of trade to enact progressive policies across the continent that will somehow make North America more competitive as a region.
	And therein lies the true intent and purpose of the agreement to merge the economies and policies of all three countries into a single North American region, much like the European Union.
	Now, I believe this to still be the actual plan.
	I don't know if we'll get the Amero.
	I'm waiting for that.
	Remember that?
	Remember a couple years back, it's like, we're going to wake up one day, the dollar's going to be gone, it's going to be the Amero.
	I had a picture of the Amero in the last newsletter.
	Really?
	Excellent.
	Well, so the Democrats change stuff, and I love it whenever they call it the protocols, because that's the stuff that I found in the Lisbon Treaty that was the so-called constitution of the European Union, but it had all these protocols where you can be arrested and driven out of town and tar and feather you and whatever else they want to do.
	And where is our president?
	Is he on board with all this?
	Is this the idea?
	Is it just about trade?
	Because I'm starting to read it, and there's a lot of protectionisms.
	Well, you know, we can do this with cheese.
	We can't do that.
	And there's a lot of different things, very similar to the European Union's documents.
	Also, not dissimilar from TPP or any other global arrangement.
	And I'm skeptical about how great this is going to be for America.
	Well, maybe that's the whole idea.
	Maybe Nancy Pelosi and the boys put this together, threw something together, and then did the impeachment thing to keep Trump distracted.
	It's like, you know, look at this shiny object, shiny object, look, look, look.
	That is absolutely...
	I did this in the background.
	You know, you're right, because I'll give this president a lot.
	But I, for that kind of detail, no.
	I mean, unless someone's there saying, hey, this is what they're doing, he's not going to read it.
	He's not going to sit down and read this.
	I don't trust it.
	I think it's a problem.
	He's not supposed to.
	It's Wilbur and Ross and all the other boys that are supposed to read this.
	Wilbur's supposed to look at it.
	Wilbur.
	Wilbur.
	Well, with a name like Wilbur.
	And that's the most New World Order name I've ever heard, really.
	Who else is named Wilbur?
	So I will be looking into these 28 protocols to the amendments because I'm very skeptical as to how great this is going to be.
	I'm sure there's a couple of gems and there's a couple of gems.
	With that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, Mr.
	John C. Dvorak, the man who put the C in the USMCA agreement.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	Well, in the morning, you and Mr.
	Adam Carell, so in the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, sobs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	And in the morning, to Le Troll Room.
	Hello, trolls.
	Good to have you here at noagendastream.com, which is very much alive, contrary to some Dutch tweets I saw.
	I was like, you guys are nuts.
	This is very much alive.
	The No Agenda Stream is kicking ass.
	It's where we have shows 24-7, and you can find out what's playing.
	What the shows are, I think GitmoList.com has an overview of that.
	It's where the trolls hang out in the troll room.
	Troll each other, troll the shows, but there's never triggering.
	It's just trolling.
	Trolling, no triggering.
	It's all good.
	NoagendaStream.com.
	Also, are you mumbling about something?
	Yeah, I just kind of denied that Zephyr just went by.
	Nine cars?
	Economy is...
	Well, I think more important than nine cars, it's an hour late.
	In the morning to Thorin.
	Thorin, who had a change of job, so he has not been able to do art for the show for quite a while, since he no longer can listen live.
	But we just didn't find anything particularly super compelling in the last round of art for 1198.
	The title of that show was Self-Certified.
	And we just went hunting through the evergreens, and that's where we found No Agenda, Donating is Love, in a beautiful 8-bit rendering by Thorin.
	In fact, this was, I believe, one of the oldest images.
	Let me take a look here.
	Of late.
	Yeah, but I mean, we're talking seriously like...
	I think it's in the 300s.
	Yes, and we're up to 12,000 by now.
	So we really went back.
	But it's a beautiful piece, and I don't know why we never used it before.
	But thank you very much, Thorin, for participating at the time.
	And it just goes to show how great the Art Generator really is, because we can pull stuff from it, even when we don't have the right submissions.
	But we do love seeing what you artists do.
	Go to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	We're very happy to fawn over you when your artwork is chosen for the show.
	And it really helps us, especially now that iOS 13 updates album artwork.
	People are seeing it, and children all over the world are happy.
	There's some truth to that.
	Yes, particularly the children.
	Alright, so let's start off with a couple of donations here.
	We have a pretty good showing for the executive and associate executive producers for today's show, $1,199.
	Starting with Anonymous, who came in with $3,333.33, a lot of threes.
	Wow!
	Wow!
	Oh my goodness.
	Yep.
	Hopefully you have a note, I hope.
	A note?
	Yeah, big note.
	Damn.
	He wants to get the jingles in order so Adam can cue them up.
	Okay, I'll go.
	You read, I'll look.
	He wants to, that's true?
	Mm-hmm.
	Oh, you can look them up on your own.
	Okay.
	Well, no, I mean, you, okay.
	I don't have to read.
	You're going to look at this and then read it yourself.
	Okay.
	Now that it's out of the way, you mofos ruined my life.
	We need to ruin more lives, apparently.
	Here I was consuming the crap coming from the M5M in blissful ignorance.
	Then, bam, you hit me in the mouth.
	Now that comfortable cocoon is gone and I realize how easily it is to control the population by giving them what they want.
	Thank you for opening my eyes and bringing some much needed perspective.
	Wow.
	You have restarted the part of my brain that is responsible for critical thinking.
	and my amygdala is starting to shrink.
	And thank you for your courage.
	Holy crap!
	Well, Anonymous, thank you very much.
	And this is probably a great example of the value-for-value system.
	And the value that Anonymous put on us ruining his life is quite high.
	But he was consuming crap.
	And when he says we hit him in the mouth, I wonder who hit him in the mouth, but then once you're hit in the mouth, then sometimes there's no going back.
	So he's out of the comfortable cocoon, and thank you very much, and apparently looking for jobs, so we'll give you the most powerful one we have, along with your requested jingles.
	That's true.
	Atlas Drugs.
	By Ayn Rand.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	Wow.
	Great kickoff.
	From a corporate job to self-employment.
	Oh, there's nothing better than that.
	In fact, may I recommend podcasting?
	It's nothing like being your own boss, starting when you want to.
	It works out for so many.
	Sir Patrick Coble, our...
	He's pre-Grand Duke Patrick.
	He's an Earl, I think, of Tennessee.
	$1,199.
	This is the show number, which means he's the show club member.
	Oh my goodness, that's right.
	That has not happened in quite a while.
	No, and it's going to happen less and less in the future, I believe.
	You could probably figure that, yeah.
	So he says, I know the show 1200 is a big one, but I needed to upgrade my donation on $1,199 because it has more threes.
	Thank you both and all the producers for what we all do for the show and our community.
	Thanks, no agenda meetups.
	Title upgrade from Earl of Tennessee.
	To now, I don't know if he's in the upgrade list.
	I don't think so.
	Oh, he should be.
	Let me double check.
	He should be Duke of the South now, yeah?
	He's Duke of the South.
	And I'll work with Foley and Nussbaum as I head to Arch and Grand Duke one day.
	Can I get a jobs deal, Karma?
	What's a jobs deal, Karma?
	I guess jobs or deal.
	Maybe he has a deal.
	Oh yeah, for the pending 2020 season and he's a random Sharpton.
	Thanks again for all the producers out there.
	He is a computer guy, one of the top guys in the country.
	He's a penetration tester.
	And he's a penetration expert.
	I had a long chat with him about this once.
	He's the kind of penetration expert you have to pay a lot to because it includes breaking, I hate to say this, But it includes, even though it's legal if it's contractual, it includes breaking into the facility.
	Yeah.
	He's the kind of penetration expert you have to pay up front.
	So we've got your change noted, and I'll throw out a nice Sharpton for you because, hey man, you're the Duke of the South.
	And we will much about that be committed.
	So there's no real conflict.
	Michael Druniski, Druniak, including Lincoln himself, Daniel Days-Lewis.
	We're behind Monica with Lewinsky.
	The one and only Trey Song is here.
	Allison Lundgren, Grimes, Gina Dejus.
	When Gina Dejus.
	Tea Party challenger, Matt.
	Matt Bivitt.
	People don't want to have their social security overall.
	The Republican savior, Mark Rubio's big night in evolution and Galileo.
	I mean, this whole thing of Galileo.
	America's changed.
	Wow.
	Changed.
	Unless IT and skillets, President Putin doing something similar back in, it won't change this fundamental fact about the GOP. Just how absurd these attacks is.
	Nearly six months after the dangerous traffic jam, the Thai military says, my friend for many years, Ilyana Vanzant, Vanzant.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Fresh Sharpton.
	Nothing like a little Al Rev Al on a Sunday morning.
	It's a gift that keeps on giving.
	It sure is.
	Next is circumvent the law in Brisbane, Queensland at $500 in dollar roos.
	This one came in earlier.
	This is not really for this show, but this was a wire transfer company called WeTransfer, and it went right into the bank quite effortlessly, which is a surprise to me.
	No, no.
	It's not WeTransfer.
	It's something else.
	It's wire transfer.
	It's not WeTransfer.
	That's something else.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, let's see what it says.
	Well, I'll just read his notes and see if there's anything in here about it.
	I think it was wire transfer wire or something.
	Transferwire.com.
	I'm so good.
	You're the best.
	Thanks for the information.
	When I selected bank at Dvorak.org slash NA, it actually opened the email instead of taking me to the link you gave.
	Anyway, anyway.
	Anyway!
	Oh, he didn't add an S. Nice.
	No, I don't understand why.
	I have sent $500 in dollar ruse, and he goes on with the details.
	I will send a note for Thursday's show once you confirm it has arrived.
	If I miss the note, I would like a jobs karma for the most amazing Dame G money.
	I need an anti-Alzheimer's karma for the drunkard minstrel brown knight Sir Chris as he keeps forgetting that I attend sessions and talk to him.
	So in other words, he doesn't really have Alzheimer's.
	I should hope not.
	I should hope not.
	The donation, if credited, in didgeridoo dollars, it will also take me to Baronet.
	But I will keep the nomenclature of circumvent the law, protector of privacy, pronounced circumvent.
	For jingles, I can have a you-are-going-to-love-President-Trump.
	Hold on one second.
	Let me first...
	I'm going to do this title since we're doing it anyway.
	Circumvent the law and he becomes a baronet, he says?
	No, no.
	He says, it'll take me to baronet, but I will keep the nomenclature of circumvent.
	Yeah, that's the nomenclature, but he gets the title.
	Okay, well, if you want to give it to me.
	Of course.
	I don't think he's going to bitch about it.
	And what are these jingles?
	A lot of people have written in saying they do not want the baronet title.
	It's just in title only.
	He can call himself whatever he wants.
	Just crossing the T's and dotting the I's.
	Two T's the way he has it.
	For jingles, can I please have a, you are going to love President Trump.
	What is that?
	I don't think we have that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Crazy JCD, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And it's true.
	Thank you for your courage.
	You're going to love President Trump.
	I don't remember that either.
	Well, I have the yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's not something we play.
	I don't think so either.
	It's just wishful thinking maybe.
	And a jobs karma as well?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Check out that one.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	That's true.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	And I'll throw in a goat!
	You've got...
	Not messing around, man.
	Throwing in a good...
	So wetransfer.com, if you want to check it out, does work.
	Wire transfer.
	I don't have all the details.
	I'm still going back and forth with him on how to make it work well.
	It's wiretransfer.com.
	Wiretransfer.com.
	Why get wetransfer on the brain?
	Because there's a real wetransfer service, but do not try to send your money through that.
	That will not work well.
	All right.
	Onward.
	Thank you, Circo Ventolo.
	I'm glad we got that straightened out, too.
	And cool that it does...
	You know, there is crap going on now.
	I was just reading Venmo, which is PayPal, is fighting with banks because banks won't...
	For some reason, they're saying, oh, there's a technical issue.
	We can't let you connect your Venmo account to your bank account.
	Obviously, the banks are setting up all these free services amongst themselves to circumvent, the coin of phrase, These other services, such as Venmo, and then there's Cash App, and a number of other ones, but they're doing this internal transfer between the banks, which is, as far as I can tell, almost free.
	That international transfer was not free, but I believe it's like 0.9%.
	If I read correctly, I did look through this.
	For wiretransfer.com?
	Yeah.
	For some of the...
	It's pretty low.
	It's very low.
	Generally speaking, it's like a hundred buck fee just at the top.
	And then you have to, and the other side has to pay $20 or $30.
	It's a total, that Swift is extremely expensive.
	All right.
	Anyway, thank you.
	Because it doesn't, it's like, it's expensive to someone sending $500 or even $100, or $100 in particular, but $500, because they don't, they discourage it.
	They want wire transfers to be $5 million.
	Yes.
	Whereas we all know, really, that Bitcoin is the way to go, but...
	I digress.
	Joshua, anonymous in Virginia is next on the list, $420, and he sent in a he or she, and I can't tell, actually.
	Okay, $420, you have my attention.
	Please keep me anonymous.
	On this Giving Tuesday...
	I decided to donate to the best podcast in the universe and give myself a...
	Ah, it is a woman.
	A damehood.
	At the same time, I would like to be Dame Anonymous of Colonial Place.
	Okay.
	I do believe she's...
	I do believe she is...
	I do believe she's there.
	I do believe.
	No requests for the roundtable.
	I would like home renovation.
	I would like home renovation karma.
	Well, you know, that's a very good request.
	You've got karma.
	What was it?
	I mean, I know we have the big 1200 coming on Thursday.
	This is an interesting influx of executive producers.
	Do you think there's a reason for this, besides another outstanding newsletter?
	Well, the money came in before the newsletter went out, for the most part.
	So it must just be for the work.
	I think Cobalt hit it.
	I think it's because of $11.99.
	There's something magical about $11.99.
	Good point.
	Good point.
	Well, thanks.
	And thank you, Anonymous.
	We didn't really have to do much work.
	It's just magical.
	Magical!
	And where in Virginia is this game?
	In Virginia?
	Mm-hmm.
	I don't know.
	Okay.
	I'm just thinking.
	Langley?
	No.
	Definitely not Langley.
	Okay.
	All right.
	I know that much.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	See you at the roundtable, anonymous dame-to-be.
	Joshua Landon is next on the list of $400.
	And he's at a birthday coming up.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	Today is Friday the 13th.
	Today, this Friday the 13th, is my 40th birthday.
	So please give me a birthday shout-out.
	That was Friday a couple days ago.
	Please play a couple of Al Sharpton jingles, Adam's Choice.
	Also, shout-outs to Carl from the WATP, who are these podcasts.
	I don't believe it was mentioned on the show, but that podcast can be heard on the No Agenda stream.
	Yes, I knew that, but I didn't know it when we talked about it.
	That's right.
	Yes, we have a lot of great shows on the No Agenda stream.
	It's a fact.
	I wish they would do, I've said it before, and nobody's really taking it too seriously, except as a joke.
	I wish they'd do identifiers at some point in the show.
	So if you're listening to the show, maybe every 15 minutes of the show, you might mention what the name of your show is.
	Because I've listened to that stream a number of times and I'm just going on and on and on.
	I said, this is a great show, but I can't listen for hours.
	I've got other things to do.
	What's the name of the show?
	I can never find out.
	So, we solved this.
	There is now a link so you can find exactly what was on the streams on noagendastream.com.
	Just an FYI, if you're in the troll room while you're listening, which a lot of people do, you can go in anonymously.
	You just type exclamation mark NP for now playing.
	So I'll do that now.
	Exclamation mark NP in the troll room and it says now playing, no agenda live.
	So it'll tell you what's playing upon request.
	So if I'm driving around in my car streaming the stream in my radio, which is what I see as the future...
	How does that help me?
	If you, I think if you listen to the stream in your car, it actually will have a metadata readout that plays continuously.
	Okay, now if that works, I'm happy.
	I think it works, yeah.
	I think it does work.
	All right.
	Anyway, he continues with his note.
	If not, it'll work by next week.
	He continues with his note.
	I do not believe it's mentioned on the show.
	Check it out.
	All the best.
	Baron Foxbats of the Cook Islands.
	He's the man with the tan.
	He's the man with the tan.
	We got to go.
	We got to go hang out with him.
	Cook Islands.
	It's got to be...
	How does it take 20 hours to get there?
	Horrible.
	Horrible.
	Yeah, it's horrible.
	Horrible.
	Let's see.
	I got some new Sharpsons.
	Let's see if there's anything good here.
	Though one candidate who made a big splash entering the race last month will be notably absent from the event.
	Okay, that's one.
	And does that really matter if you are compromising the future of this democracy that we call how we run this country?
	I mean...
	I like that one.
	This democracy that we call how we run this country.
	All right, nice.
	Did he want a karma as well?
	I don't think so.
	Didn't say.
	There's no request.
	Okay.
	Onward.
	Thank you very much, Joshua.
	$350.33.
	As an executive of episode 1146, and so on and so on, This donation, give me a seat at the round table.
	Please knight me Sir Rudolph Vesely, the knight of the open source.
	All right.
	For my nighting ceremony, I like some, some, some, some, some, some, no, some, I can't, there's a lot of Unicode here.
	I can't tell what it is.
	No, no, no.
	I can kind of read it.
	And someone else can correct me?
	If not, that's how it's going out within about an hour and a half.
	Okay.
	Sounds like some kind of ruski thing.
	It could be.
	It sounds Eastern European more than Ruski, to be honest about it.
	And he continues.
	R.E. Slack.
	Adam.
	You're absolutely right about working outside of working hours.
	And John isn't.
	John has never worked in the current environment.
	I'm working now!
	Hello?
	Do we have Slack?
	What do you call this?
	Chopped liver?
	We don't have Slack.
	This is what he's talking about.
	The Slack environment.
	The Millennials who are being worked to the bone day and night by continuously being on Slack.
	Should I put it on the Millennial list?
	Oh, yes.
	Slack?
	Oh, yeah.
	Slack.
	We need a term for it.
	If you're over Slack, if you're Slack...
	Yeah, people that are going to help us on this list.
	And by the way, I got at least five other emails from people who say, absolutely, it's horrendous, we are expected to be online all the time, working whenever, and Slack is the culprit!
	So when I'm at dinner and I got the millennials over, I have JC, who's the tech guy.
	He works at a company.
	And he is of constant.
	I'm serving the meal and beep, beep.
	And I always, bitch, get off your phone!
	No, the phrase is, hey, millennial, hang up and hang out.
	That's the phrase.
	Hang up and hang out.
	I'm using it.
	Now, while we're on this anyway, just stop the donation segment for a moment.
	And I don't know if it was Rudolph who sent this to me, but this Slack thing has gotten so bad, they now have extra plug-ins, extra features you can purchase to upgrade for your millennial workforce experience, and it's called Disco.
	And our friend Veronica Belmont is happy to promote it here.
	Jessica here is doing an awesome job.
	But I don't want to always have to wait for our one-on-ones to be able to tell her.
	Good thing we just got Disco.
	It allows us to give positive feedback in our Slack channels right when and where great work is happening.
	Jessica just squashed a major bug that we've been working on for weeks.
	So I'm going to give her a star in our engineering channel.
	That way the entire team can kyle on with emoji reactions, animated GIFs, and other words of encouragement.
	This is what's happening, John.
	Wait a minute.
	I've nailed it.
	I've nailed it.
	They're taking these teenagers and young adults back to kindergarten with a little star on your forehead when you were peaceful and quiet during quiet time.
	Yeah, that is pathetic.
	You know what the problem is?
	You can tell that she's screwed up because she said gif.
	Instead of obsessing about that, this is really interesting.
	There's something going on, and you're seeing it in your own household.
	Ask JC, ask him if he got a little disco slack, if he got a disco slack star, and did he feel good about it?
	And did the rest of the dev team pile on and send him all kinds of animated GIFs?
	That is pretty pathetic.
	I told you.
	And it is very kindergarten.
	I think that ended...
	I think that ends, if I'm not mistaken, I can remember my grammar school years.
	I said grammar school the other day in front of me.
	What's a grammar school?
	What?
	It's like getting stickers.
	Like, good job.
	Here's a sticker.
	You used to get a couple.
	You could see the stars and stickers.
	Or a lollipop.
	And then I think by the fourth or fifth grade...
	I think by the fourth grade...
	This is my experience.
	Yeah.
	By the fourth grade...
	It went to a lettering system.
	A, B, C, D, F. And then it stayed that way.
	It never went back to stars.
	So why is it going back to stars now that people are in their 20s?
	Are they that pathetic?
	And maybe that's the projection that we keep hearing, that you always, because of that Dutch saying, whatever I say, you or I am, is the projection we're getting when we hear George Monbiot Mention all these world leaders and saying they're all in diapers.
	Because this group is the ones that are in diapers.
	George Monbiot's in diapers.
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	But it's...
	I'm telling you...
	Oh, there's no winning.
	We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot.
	Now everyone hug and share a secret.
	And let's give everyone a disco slack.
	I don't have time for my one-on-one, which is scheduled through the scheduling system.
	Oh, no.
	So I'll just hand out a little disco.
	Sad, John.
	Sad.
	Hey, kids, keep...
	I mean, I've got emails from people at Ring.
	Ring is apparently the worst environment for this.
	Curiously, I have a Ring clip today.
	Good.
	Well, let's continue with Rudolph, because we...
	Rudolph!
	Let's get back.
	Okay.
	For my...
	He's okay.
	We got that for Slack.
	Adam, you're absolutely right.
	John's wrong.
	Wrong!
	Wrong!
	He doesn't know what he's talking about.
	He's never worked in the current environment.
	This is not about working hard.
	This is about being stressed all the time by Slack slash phone slash MS teams that is always active and beeping in your pocket.
	Beep, beep, beep.
	There you go.
	Your own son has this.
	As a director within...
	The thing is...
	Here we go.
	I know.
	We can't get off of it.
	It's mind-boggling.
	The thing is, it's not like he...
	I don't know if it's lack of self-awareness...
	Because he doesn't seem annoyed.
	No, it's called training.
	He's been trained like this from the get-go.
	And it's like, I say, hey, hey, get off the phone, or whatever that phrase I should be using.
	Hang up and hang out.
	Hang up and hang out.
	Hang up and hang out!
	And that sounds dopey.
	So anyway, he says, oh, it's work, it's work.
	And he gives me the brush off, the hand in the air kind of thing, you know, the slapping air in front of yourself, you know, you hold your hand up and slap a little bit, slap air.
	It's work, it's work, it's work.
	Does he mutter under his breath, okay, boomer, does he do that?
	No, no, he doesn't do that yet.
	It's coming.
	It's their own anger at being slackified that they have to say this.
	Oh, slackified.
	Slackified.
	That may be the word we're looking for.
	It just, it falls out like diarrhea.
	It's great.
	Slackified.
	Slackified.
	That actually might be both a good word for the list.
	Slackified!
	Yes, good one for the list.
	All millennials are slackified.
	They're slackified, dude.
	As director within a large IT corp, he continues in the UK, I always tell people in my org, turn off your phone and don't work outside or working hours, outside or working hours, since I need you fresh and well-rested.
	If you really need or if you're asked, escalate to...
	Escalate to me.
	There's a term right there.
	Escalate to me.
	I'm going to try this on Tina.
	Baby, if you need some food, just escalate it to me.
	Escalate to me, and I'll make sure that you get more than just thank you.
	I appeal to all managers that are listening.
	Tell your people the same.
	And be transparent and tell them that this is not better for them.
	It's also better for you, since a good culture and a happy employee give better results.
	This will differentiate you as a leader, not just another quote-unquote boss.
	And I really appreciate Rudolph writing in with this, or should I say Sir Rudolph to be the Knight of Open Source.
	Yeah.
	What I'm seeing is an abundance of, and I think it's typically, all new companies or most new companies are really technology companies.
	Even WeWork, I'll give them some of that because it's the scheduling, but it's also how the employees are handled or mishandled.
	And I think it's a combination of open office plan where everyone has their headphones on.
	No one's communicating in this groovy open office space, which, you know, John, you and I knew this really didn't work a long time ago.
	In fact, you're the king of building a fort out of your little section of the open office plan.
	You should see Dvorak.
	He's got stacks in front of him, got stuff on the side.
	You know, he can sit there.
	No one can see what he's doing.
	You were really the king of that.
	But everyone's got...
	It's an open office.
	No one says hello when you walk in.
	Everyone has their headphones on and all communication is completely outside of any context because it's only in Slack.
	And just like today's modern communication where these kids have been taught in WhatsApp and text message, the only way to show the context of which you are writing is with fucking pictures, with an emoji.
	Otherwise, no one will know if it was a joke.
	Is it meant lovingly?
	No one will know.
	In fact, I think if it doesn't have an emoji, it's always considered to be borderline negative.
	Well, no disagreement from me.
	All right.
	Thanks, Rudolph.
	You brought up some good content in this segment.
	It's appreciated.
	Gary Thompson is next on the list from Simpsonville, South Carolina, $350.
	I was just hit in the mouth on episode 1163.
	I like people that were hit in the mouth within 30 shows and they're already executive producers.
	And I've been hooked ever since.
	Your value for value model and the way you approach the deconstruction of the M5N as happy warriors.
	Yes, that's us!
	It is unfortunately all too rare in today's world.
	For 17 years, I've passed the time during my 40 minutes one-way commute by listening to the various M5Ms, but now I listen to your podcast and it's greatly improved my time in the car as your roughly 360 minutes of weekly podcasting content fills up almost all of my 400 minutes of commute each week.
	My first donation of $350 is in honor of the PPM level of atmospheric CO2 that was supposed to destroy the world.
	Eventually everyone will realize what a gigantic fraud this climate scare was and folks like Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt will be shown to be nothing short of criminals.
	Until that day comes, keep hitting us folks in the mouth.
	Clip request, L Sharpton.
	Wow, it's L Sharpton day.
	L Sharpton, resist we much.
	Shut up already, it's science.
	And Obama, you can die, and that's true.
	Yes, what I would like to do first is go back to Rudolph.
	He actually requested a jobs karma, so I'll give him that one first.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	But resist, we must.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	Shut up already!
	It's science!
	You might die.
	That's true.
	There we go.
	Nailed him.
	Yes, the jobs karma we did.
	I should have.
	That's all right.
	We took care of it.
	Another anonymous donor in Chicago, $333.33.
	Okay.
	Let's see if somebody's balancing their budget.
	I'm a first-time donor, $333.33.
	I need a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	I'd also like to call on my buddy, Rebel Pundit, for being a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	He introduced me to the show a few years ago, and to my knowledge, he's never donated beyond recruiting listeners for the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you both for everything you're doing to expose the M5M, let alone for inventing the whole damn medium of podcasting in the first place, Adam.
	I plan on becoming a knight, but figured, why do it all in one shot when I can force you to play around...
	play...
	sound drops of my choosing at least three times as EP along the way.
	That's right.
	I love how he slips in EP.
	It's slick.
	Very slick.
	Very, very, very industry of you.
	Yes.
	Very industry.
	EP.
	EP.
	And if you're in banking to be EVP, after all, it's not the destination as they say.
	Anyway, anyway, I was slow to your show at first, mostly because my introduction to your program involved me listening to you criticize my work.
	More on that when I become a knight.
	Oh, okay.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	It would be.
	But it also took time for me to catch on.
	And appreciate the brilliant media deconstruction that was taking place.
	As my amygdala returned to its normal healthy size, it all became clear to me and I fell in love.
	That's all for now.
	I'll share more information about myself and how I came to listen to your show in future donation letters.
	Please play Obama.
	Hello, everybody.
	Two to the head and boom shakalaka.
	Hello, everybody.
	Hello.
	We got a couple of them.
	Hello, everybody.
	You remember this?
	I do.
	It's old.
	Hello, hello.
	Boo, chocolate.
	I love when people remember the old stuff.
	Richard Kicklier probably does.
	He came in with $333.33.
	He needs gold karma and a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Even though John snubbed me at a tweet recording in 2012, I have decided to move past that and donate for the incredible value you provide.
	Oh, I'm not sure what he's referring to, but it was in 2012, so it was seven years ago.
	And that's how long it took him to get over that snubbing.
	You have real impact.
	Imagine what I go through.
	Every show. Every show. Every show.
	You've got karma.
	Ha ha.
	Uh...
	Niels Denboer.
	What?
	Job.
	John who snubs is a job.
	Job.
	Niels Denboer.
	33333 from the Netherlands.
	ITM, John and Adam.
	It's my magic number, 33rd birthday.
	Okay.
	On a 12-12 show day.
	Wow, it's amazing.
	Had to donate.
	No deduce yet.
	Climate change is slowly killing my old 90s Toyota with E10 fuel they're starting selling at most pumps in the lowlands.
	Yeah, you can't get away from it now.
	You can't even buy old fuel.
	Yeah, it's all the ethanol stuff they're throwing in now.
	And I have a 69 jingle for my smoking hot wife and a karma.
	Thank you for your courage for the best podcast in the universe and a gruten ut brabant.
	Something.
	Nils and Breda.
	Breda.
	Lowlands.
	69!
	69, dude!
	You've got karma.
	You got it, man.
	You got it, Nils.
	Now we have a dispute coming here.
	Uh-oh.
	It's from Robert Fittler.
	Uh-oh.
	Dispute.
	333, 333, period, in Pittsburgh.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	As always, No Agenda is an amazing podcast.
	The quality of No Agenda is so obvious that when you try to listen to pretty much any other podcast out there, it's better.
	I thought I'd give my night layaway program a kick in the seat in the pants.
	No, I'm still not quite there.
	While doing a little plugging for my company, Copperline Consulting, copperlineconsulting.com, We're just a couple of dudes named Ben who firmly believe in value for value model.
	Well, John will likely cringe at this.
	I came firmly to believe in the model after reading Atlas Shrugged about 30 years ago.
	No agenda has proven the model so explicitly showing that if you offer an exceptional product, people will willingly pay to be part of it.
	And if there was ever an example of this in action, it's the fact that I still donate even after John insists that And making irritating analogies with my last name, I can stand with rhymes with comments, but my smoking hot Jewish wife, for some reason, takes offense to that kind of thing.
	Gee.
	Wow.
	Thank you, Robert Fittler, for sending this in, because I, of course, totally agree with you.
	It's always a rhymes with.
	It's like an old DJ tick.
	Anyways, he writes.
	Boy, in all caps, I might add.
	A quick shout out to Sir Ryan Brady and his smoking hot girlfriend, Caitlin, for the great couple of evenings at the local shooting range.
	Ryan also did a great job with the meetups here in Pittsburgh.
	That's my best friend, Tony...
	Who turned me on to the show back around show 100.
	I would like some fear is freedom, AOC, goat scream, F cancer for my lymphoma.
	Nice.
	And some of the Trump-Pelosi jobs karma.
	I'm likely to be approaching the end of my 11-year contract here in Pittsburgh and will need some sweet, sweet karma to keep paying the bills.
	Here's looking for many more years of no agenda.
	Robert...
	Fittler, Doug, in Pittsburgh.
	Okay.
	Thank you very much, Robert.
	And thank you for this wonderful note.
	It's interesting that people always say fear is freedom.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	This is the AOC revolution.
	That's what it is.
	That's the fear is freedom one.
	We got that one.
	Well, thank you.
	And we'll gladly hand out some F-cancer for you.
	I hate that shit.
	Who here is ready for the revolution?
	Fucking cancer!
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Alrighty.
	Was that the appropriate jobs karma?
	Yes.
	Ask for a Trump-Pelosi jobs karma.
	Okay.
	I pay attention.
	Now, uh, did he want Fear is Freedom and then?
	No, it's the, what he means is the Fear is Freedom AOC. That's the one that I played, which is...
	Who here is ready for the revolution?
	Oh, you know what?
	I'm sorry.
	I think you're right.
	This is the one he wanted.
	I fucked it up.
	Sorry.
	We'll do it again.
	Why is it not playing?
	Okay.
	Who here is ready for the revolution?
	You pigs in human clothing!
	That's the one.
	Okay, you're right.
	We got it.
	Sorted.
	Sorted out.
	Okay.
	Uh, well...
	Viscountess Dame Patricia Biscayne Bay.
	She wrote a note.
	Let me find it.
	And she's our first associate executive producer for...
	And she will be the associate executive producer.
	11-9-9-er.
	No, she comes in a lot.
	And here she comes in.
	She sends a card, a nice card.
	Always.
	And then she always puts a very small note in.
	I'm going to celebrate my birthday, 12-6, by contributing to...
	I think she's on the list.
	You should check, please.
	I will.
	By contributing to my main...
	I don't know what that means.
	So both of you and your families.
	You two are invaluable.
	I would love job karma for my two daughters.
	No jingles.
	By countess.
	Dame Patricia of Biscayne Bay.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Let's follow it up by another note.
	From Sir Donald of the Firebottle, actually technically Sir Donald of the Firebottle's Count of Eastern Washington's Spokane Valley.
	Correct.
	This donation...
	The sun in my eyes here.
	Sun's out.
	Sun's out?
	What's this?
	What's that bright spot in the sky?
	Don't you have your green visor on?
	It must be global warming.
	This donation marks five years of listening to the best podcast in the universe.
	Sir Atomic Rod hit me in the mouth back via his Atomic Insights podcast.
	Adam, please give delivery drone karma to the dames and knights for all the Christmas packages they are sending and receiving.
	Sir Donald.
	Okay.
	Karma, it is...
	Here it is.
	The drone's off, and hold on, and here we go!
	You've got karma.
	Delivered by a drone.
	The future.
	Ha!
	Sir Shyster, destroyer of cones in Moses Lake, Washington.
	Just on the street from our buddy Sir Donald.
	$233.33.
	Howdy!
	I found myself in these jobs, Carmen, my wife, and I embark on a journey of economic refuge from Connecticut.
	Unfortunately, my wife has already secured an excellent job opportunity across the country.
	In contrast, I'm going to struggle to transition away from the career I've loved for over a decade.
	Well, if you loved it for over a decade while you're transitioning from it, but okay.
	In favor of escaping from the state that's becoming increasingly inhospitable as it attempts to solve every problem with increased taxation.
	Connecticut.
	I would also like to ask for some karmic intervention to get rid of those two senators you've got.
	I'd also like to ask for some karmic intervention to help offload our house so I can sever the last of my ties to Connecticut and join my wife in Washington.
	Oh, he's still stuck there.
	Yeah, because of the house.
	And the taxes in Connecticut are insane.
	Thank you.
	Well, a lot of this has to do with the fact that they know that New York taxes are worse, especially in the city.
	Yeah.
	And Connecticut.
	It's where all the hedge fund managers live.
	They all move to Connecticut because they think it's nicer than Jersey, even though it's not necessarily true.
	And so they decide to gouge them.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep.
	Thank you so much for the BPITU, Sir Scheister, destroyer of Cone, soon to be resident of Moses Lake.
	Adam, please stop saying important with the missing T dropped.
	It's like nails on the chalkboard.
	Well, I understand it is important.
	We need to keep pointing this out.
	It's everywhere.
	It's rife.
	Or do we just give in?
	I'm okay with just giving in.
	Well, you've already given.
	I still say important.
	Let me give the guy...
	Let me give him some jobs, Karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got Karma.
	Thank you very much, Sir Seister.
	I hope that works out soon.
	John Helmers.
	Next in line in Shawnee, Kansas.
	2-12-12.
	Sending a hearty Christmas and season's wishes to both of you and all the slaves out there.
	I prefer the numerology of the show.
	There you go.
	Here it is.
	Yeah, you're right.
	I prefer the numerology of the show, 1199.
	But also donating 12s for the upcoming show, 1200.
	Can I get some ACT test taking goat karma for my youngest human resource, Andrew?
	Of course.
	Also, any L... Oh, man.
	Any L Sharpton...
	Tell a Sharpton Day, $11.99.
	It is.
	And a Sandy OC. Are you ready for the revolution again?
	Mm-hmm.
	Keep up the excellent deconstruction.
	Adam, thank you for your patience when John is in one of his cantankerous moods.
	Love and light.
	I like that word.
	Yeah, I like it too.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T. Who here is ready for the revolution?
	You pigs in human clothing!
	You've got...
	Cantankerous.
	It's alright, you know.
	It's love, baby.
	Steve Denton in Kennesaw.
	Hold on a second.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, Stevie Denton in Kennesaw, Georgia.
	Kennesaw.
	Kennesaw.
	I think he has a note.
	Kennesaw.
	Says JCD has note.
	Yeah, JCD has note.
	There it is.
	A lot of notes today.
	A lot of donations.
	We want to thank all these folks for helping us to an extreme...
	Because we really weren't pushing for a big show.
	No, and since it was on a downward slope, this is fantastic.
	It's amazing.
	It's astounding and always surprising.
	It's stupendous.
	How the roller coaster evens out.
	But it's still a roller coaster, which makes life interesting, which keeps me, at least, on my toes.
	So I'm happy for it.
	After a considerable bit of time as a new agenda lurker, I've decided now is the moment to, for my inaugural shipping in, please find and close the initial donation of 205.
	Consequently, I shall formally request a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	205 is a donation amount significant in that I'm a career radio industry employee, and this amount is the sum of the simulcast frequencies of one of my stations in Atlanta at 107.5 and 97.5.
	Oh, nice.
	Combined-o.
	Combined-o.
	Nice.
	Let me say how much I appreciate the steadiness and enlightening work you both provide in media deconstruction.
	It's stunning to be shown an example of the subtle phrasings that reveal hidden and even subconscious agendas of so many talking heads and pontificators.
	That's right.
	Observe that one never knows the depth and breadth of skills and experiences of the no agenda nation.
	Case in point, many shows back for a baffling reason of some sort.
	The topic of Rick D's disco duck surfaced.
	Yes.
	I started my radio career in high school as a junior achievement participant, though I have been in sales and sales management for decades now.
	My first 10 years were spent as an air talent music director and program director.
	One of the markets I worked was in Bowling Green, Kentucky at an AM station that may have been the smallest market in America with a billboard reporting point.
	So...
	As a program director, when I needed the new 45 that came in the mail from the RSO label, it was widely reported in the trades as a station making an early ad, quote-unquote, to its playlist of this musical car wreck.
	What can I say?
	I know a teenage listenership magnet when I hear it.
	The end result...
	It's pictured on the next page.
	It isn't a gold record for Disco Duck, mind you.
	It's a platinum record.
	I have a few other gold records, but this is my favorite award for its sheer improbability.
	As I head into my 49th year in radio, here's my best to you both.
	And here's encouraging other douchebags to chip in.
	Steve Denton in Kennesaw.
	I gotta tell you, I wouldn't mind having a piece of the disco duck.
	That was classic.
	Very nice.
	Now, does he need a karma?
	Did he request that?
	Because I've forgotten about it.
	I'm giving him one.
	There you go.
	Thank you very much, Steve.
	You've got karma.
	All radio pros, we do appreciate that.
	Of course.
	Alright, what do we got here?
	We got T. Olsting.
	Now this came, this is like an anonymous note.
	Came in a card, no address, no return.
	I don't know where he's from.
	Postmark was unintelligible.
	Crackpot and buzzkill.
	I would like some of the sweet Pelosi jobs karma to help me close a possible job offer.
	Thanks, T. Olsting.
	Total sting.
	Okay, we got that for you.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	We've got karma.
	And finally, last on the list, Poppy and Foxglove.
	I'm sure that's some Cockney rhyming slang that we don't get yet.
	Well, that's from Australia, so it's not Cockney.
	That's what I mean.
	Poppy and Foxglove means something.
	To Adam and John, dear lords of the best podcasts in the universe, thank you for your courage.
	We, Poppy and Foxglove, have recently started listening to The No Agenda again after a long absence.
	We used to listen quite a lot in the first days, but never sent you any money.
	Sorry.
	We must ask that you grant us two overdue dedouchings at $100 each, please.
	Okay.
	You've been dedouched.
	That's the one.
	And here's the second.
	You've been dedouched.
	We live on the south coast of Australia, facing Antarctica.
	When we get a hot day predicted, the Weather Service reports, quote, there will be a catastrophic weather day this week due to climate change, unquote.
	Helps keep the slaves fearful.
	Yes.
	We retired boomers ponder the questions of origins of humanity and Well, thank you, Poppy and Foxglove.
	I wonder if they know any of the other producers around.
	Because, you know, I don't know if a lot of our people are on the South Coast.
	I don't know.
	They did send pictures of themselves.
	I don't know which is Poppy and which is Foxglove, but one of them is a photographer.
	That's got to be Poppy.
	Or Foxglove.
	And that's it.
	Wow.
	That is the producers and executive producers and associate executive producers for show 1199 that really helped us a lot this week.
	And we do have the famous show 1200 coming up.
	It'll be a special.
	And you can get a special executive producership for that if you want.
	But this was pretty phenomenal for $11.99.
	Who knew?
	Yeah, surprising and incredibly appreciated.
	Thank you, executive producers and associate executive producers.
	A lot of you already know this, but we did see a couple of new people coming in.
	These are credits that are very valuable because, go ahead, look at Hollywood.
	If you can say I'm an executive producer or an associate executive producer, it means something.
	Use this where it's recognized.
	LinkedIn seems to work.
	Job postings on Indeed, for some reason, it seems to work there.
	But also just put it in your Twitter profile or anywhere else online and people will take note of it, especially us.
	Because that is a clear signal that you are a producer of the best podcast in the universe.
	And we'll be thanking more of those producers later on in our second half.
	And you can participate.
	There's still time for the special episode 1200 coming up on Thursday.
	To learn more about it, go to...
	And we're going to come up with some solutions for all of you millennials who've been slackified!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water. Order.
	Shut up, flame.
	Oh.
	I think...
	I can't get out of my mind this slackification of the millennials.
	There's got to be some tips that we can give them that are based on very old inter-office principles.
	When someone sends you a star or berates you through the slack, there's got to be some...
	Nobody gets berated.
	Yes, they do.
	That's exactly why the CEO of the Away Luggage Company was kicked out.
	She was berating her employees on Slack.
	You just proved my point.
	You berate, you're out.
	Yeah, but you know...
	Okay.
	Now, I have a feeling that's only one company where it happened to work out.
	I'm not so sure that's going to work in other organizations.
	But there's got to be...
	You know, the first thing I'd say is set up a private Slack group where the only thing you discuss is what time you're going to meet everybody outside the office for lunch or something.
	Stop.
	Stop just chatting around.
	It's unhealthy.
	It's unhealthy.
	I think the solution is more technological.
	Bots.
	Well, Slack is good for bots.
	You can do a lot of cool bot stuff.
	Write some scripts.
	Right.
	And parse the incoming message.
	Here it comes.
	And just send out, have a bot send back an appropriate response of any sort.
	You don't have to pick up the message.
	And then if it turns out, because once in a while you're going to send out the wrong message, like somebody died and the bot's going to make a mistake and say, oh, well, that's too bad, but you have to...
	Still meeting me at noon tomorrow.
	Let's work on it.
	I don't care.
	I won't be there.
	Something like that.
	You don't want that when somebody died.
	And then you can apologize and then you can describe what happened and you say, I'm so into this company that I've been writing these scripts for these bots so we can all use them and just, you know, technologically kill the thing.
	That'll do it.
	It needs some work, Josh.
	It's like a cover your ass memo.
	It's a cover your ass bots.
	Mmm.
	It warrants some more thinking.
	Well, I've been thinking about this for a while.
	In fact, that's what I'm going to do.
	What was that phrase I needed?
	Hey, millennial, join the group and be cool.
	What was it again?
	Just say, hey, millennial, join the group and be cool.
	That's exactly what it was.
	Hey, millennial, join the group and be cool.
	Or hang up and hang out.
	Hang up and hang out.
	I'm going to challenge JC to write some bots for these things.
	All right.
	Good.
	The response bot.
	One of our producers is a big fat liar.
	I mean, really, a huge liar.
	Well, we've had this before.
	We had the guy on the oil rig was my favorite.
	Well, we...
	But we've had...
	We've been tracking the Secret Santa layaway payoff for years.
	No sooner do we remind everyone it's about to happen, does it happen...
	And then our producer comes in and says, no, no, I've been in corporate marketing here in Arkansas for 20 years, whatever he said.
	Never has this come up.
	I'll probably pitch it, though.
	This is so much more.
	I've seen nothing but Walmart payoffs all week, and it's never any other store.
	It's always Walmart.
	Yeah.
	Hannah Haynes knew Monday was the deadline to pay for her items on layaway at the Anniston Walmart.
	She walked in on her lunch break to pick up her children's Christmas gifts.
	I said, I just want to check and see how much I owe on my layaway so I can get it off and, you know, in time for Christmas.
	And she said, okay.
	So she pulled up my account and she said, you don't owe anything.
	And I said...
	Excuse me?
	Haynes had heard the cashier correctly.
	Someone had come in earlier that day and paid for all of the items on layaway.
	And she said, yeah, he come in and he paid off everyone's layaway, totaling $65,000.
	The only thing he asked was that each person receive this paper.
	It reads, God loves you, Jesus paid the price.
	Every day I wish I could thank the anonymous person for being so obedient.
	For some shoppers, this gift came at the right time.
	I'm grateful.
	I'm extremely blessed, shocked, but I'm happy.
	I'm about to start.
	Haynes says she is sure to pay it forward in honor of this Christmas miracle.
	Every day I'm going to wake up like, how can I bless someone?
	How can I show someone that type of love?
	So this was Alabama.
	We had it in Florida.
	We had it in Michigan.
	It's everywhere.
	And it's always, the story is always Walmart.
	Okay.
	I brought this up with Mimi.
	And I also said that we had predicted this, you in particular, about a week before the whole deluge of these stories, which...
	Came the next show, which was great timing.
	Because most of the time, the stuff we predict so far in advance, years before it happens, and we never get the credit we deserve.
	So she said, that's only because Walmart's the only place.
	She refuses to shop there.
	She hates the place.
	Walmart's the only place that does layaway.
	And then I said, no, that's not true.
	There's plenty of places to do.
	So right now, I just looked up.
	You just could lay away in Google or Bing.
	I Binged it.
	And Rowlington Coat Factory, Big Lots, Baby Depot, TJ Maxx.
	Yeah, they all do it.
	Marshall, Sears, Kmart.
	Sears?
	Don't do a layaway at Sears, boy.
	There's nothing left of Sears.
	Well, I'm just saying.
	It's on the list.
	The point is that it's always Walmart.
	These stores.
	And they run these stores.
	And they're all feel-good stories.
	Two things.
	One, is it a native ad in all cases?
	Or is it just good publicity, good marketing, good PR? Or is it native ads in many situations?
	And I have to say, especially when somebody's name crops up, there's a pastor, one of them was some preacher, paid $10,000 worth of layaways for some of his people.
	And I'm wondering if...
	$10,000 is nothing to Walmart.
	You give the church $10,000, use the guy's name, he's not going to complain.
	We're somewhat dishonest.
	They run a native ad.
	Boom, you got some publicity.
	Everybody feel good about Walmart.
	The thing that bothers me inherently, and I understand that Walmart and Target, these are very important stores for poor people.
	I'm not dropping it.
	For poor people, because that's where you can get cheap shit from China that you essentially need for your life to continue.
	However, what I take issue with is this is always for the Christmas shopping, which means these people are buying, you know, they put on layaway, cheap Chinese crap as gifts.
	And especially around this time, we've got to think of a number of things and what you're doing with your money and who we're helping with that.
	And the backdrop of this local story for me here in Austin, I really can't get all too jacked up and happy for these people who got their layaways paid off.
	Bill Bryce from the Downtown Austin Alliance says the Sprung Shelter is still on track to be built by around March.
	And I think that's still realistic if things continue to come through.
	And right now we're starting to narrow down potential sites.
	The ATX Helps Coalition, that includes the Alliance and the Austin Chamber of Commerce, needs three million dollars for capital costs to build it.
	What they have now is fifty thousand dollars from individuals, far less than they hoped for.
	We are talking to a number of six-figure, seven-figure potential donors.
	We have had some commitments made that we're just trying to button down, and so things are rolling along.
	A specific site for this shelter has not yet been determined, but the Downtown Austin Alliance tells me that as a default backup plan, they could look at using the state-owned property where homeless people are currently being sheltered along 183 and Montopolis.
	But what about homeless donation fatigue?
	With funding funneling through the city, ECHO, Salvation Army, the state, and ATX Helps, will the charitable dollars dry up?
	I really think that the opposite is probably more likely.
	Once we get some momentum and once the community sees that what all of us are doing, working together, state government, city government, all the non-profit partners, private sector together, No.
	Clearly no.
	People are much more interested, for some reason, in paying off cheap Chinese crap gifts on layaway at Walmart than even one Walmart donor, Secret Santa, gave more money to that than the $50,000 they've raised to build a shelter in Austin for the invisible homeless who were shipped out of downtown.
	No one gives a crap, you hypocrites!
	Well, I mean, when you make that accusation, you're actually assuming that these donations, or not donations, but these layaway payoffs are not a scam.
	Nobody's doing that.
	It's just Walmart getting publicity.
	Walmart could help out with the homeless.
	Walmart could help out with the homeless.
	Instead of moving inventory.
	But I guess it's an overall issue where everyone gets a real feel-good feeling for the holiday.
	Oh, that's so nice.
	A secret Santa paid off the poor people's layaway.
	Oh, I'm so happy.
	But no one cares.
	No one cares about other people.
	It's all commercialism.
	You almost sound like Seinfeld there.
	No one cares.
	I can't do it now.
	No, you can't.
	It was too natural.
	Damn it.
	I could have a career.
	I could have a career.
	It would be good.
	Well, while we're on the topic of these sorts of things, I do have the native ad.
	I believe a native ad.
	Another feel-good story.
	These feel-good stories are getting on my nerves.
	Mm-hmm.
	Because I'm cantankerous.
	Yes, which one is it?
	Which native ad is it?
	Well, this one is, I believe it's a native ad.
	I have no proof, but apparently if you listen to some of these guys who are publishers nowadays, almost everything's a native ad, and most of the television's stories are nothing but native ads.
	This is the native ad for Ring.
	What?
	Zarek and Petrula de Kranz are pretty excited to have their hero dad home for Christmas because touching base wasn't so easy last year.
	There wasn't a lot of Christmas cheer when he was gone.
	Last fall, Army Major Peter de Kranz left for Kuwait.
	It was his third deployment, but his first away from the kids.
	By the time they'd wake up to go to school, I'd be in a secure building and there'd be no way to be able to call them.
	So, his kids started giving him a ring.
	My dad was like, one day, why don't you guys go tell Heidi or Dad you can use this function.
	He can see it over there.
	And it, like, blew their little minds.
	It blew Dad's mind, too.
	Bye, Daddy.
	Daddy, I'm going to go to school to learn a lot.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, my daddy.
	Oh my god.
	It's adorable.
	Yeah, and Peter is back for good.
	He retired from the Army just a little while ago, 20 years in.
	Wow.
	Well, we sure thank that entire family because service members are serving right now.
	It's a good reminder.
	We're grateful for his service.
	And they're a bit of celebrities now because this video has gone national, right?
	Thanks to Ring.
	Oh, national!
	Thanks to Ring, yeah.
	Well, they had to.
	Actually, this is not brand new.
	It's about a week and a half or two weeks old.
	It kind of competed with the other story, which has not stopped with these hacks of specifically the Ring devices.
	This morning, two families say their Ring camera systems were hacked, essentially allowing people into their homes without ever stepping foot inside.
	In Mississippi, this chilling video from inside Ashley LeMay's home shows her 8-year-old daughter Alyssa frantically searching for an invisible intruder.
	Who is that?
	I'm your best friend.
	I'm Santa Claus.
	You can hear the male voice ask the young girl to destroy her own stuff.
	You can do whatever you want right now.
	You can mess up your room.
	You can break your TV. Alyssa, scared and confused, cries out for help.
	I can't even put into words how violated I feel.
	It really is my worst nightmare.
	I was keeping scared.
	I was even scared of my room for a few days.
	I'm still a little bit scared of it.
	Hello, Doogie Doogie Doogie.
	Come here, Doogie.
	And in Georgia, a stranger hacked into the Ring camera in this couple's bedroom.
	I was terrified.
	The couple, who has asked to remain unidentified, says they purchased the camera so they could watch their dog while they were at work.
	The couple, shaken by the ordeal, reported the incident to Ring.
	The home security system company releasing this statement.
	While we are still investigating this issue and are taking appropriate steps to protect our devices based on our investigation, we are able to confirm this incident is in no way related to a breach or compromise of Ring's security.
	The LeMay family in Mississippi has since filed a police report.
	Ring suggests using their two-step verification system, using strong passwords, and creating shared users on your account instead of sharing login information all to keep your home a little bit safer.
	Now listen to these idiots at the end.
	Oh, that little girl had to be just frightened.
	I know.
	She seems to be handling it okay.
	Yeah, I know.
	Good thing she called for her parents.
	Absolutely.
	Oh, brother.
	They have no other commentary than, oh, good thing she called.
	She's a good doobie.
	Good thing she called her parents.
	What we're seeing here is the beginning of the end.
	This is exactly what we deserve to have this happen to us.
	There was actually a podcast.
	Let's stop and make an even deeper analysis.
	For one thing, thinking you're violated because you put a camera on the internet in your house.
	Yeah, you are violated now.
	You feel so violated.
	You know, by the way, I think a lot of this started, this whole idea may have started, or some of it at least.
	And I think they've taken this commercial off the air.
	It was the Allstate Mayhem commercial.
	Ah, yeah, yeah, where the guy's breaking in, breaking into his car, driving over his motorcycle.
	Yes, he goes up to the guy's ring doorbell.
	He says, hey, I'm going to steal your car.
	And the guy says, wait, wait.
	And he goes and he busts up the car and he runs over the motorcycle and drives off as the guy watches from a distance.
	I don't know, but it seems to me that that could have given somebody a good idea.
	Well, I believe that there was a podcast that had...
	And I forget the name of it.
	I was looking through my notes.
	Maybe I have it in the previous show notes.
	And they encouraged...
	I think there's also some software that will allow you to rapidly try different email, username, password combos on the Ring system.
	Maybe someone developed that.
	It's hitting the API somehow.
	Yeah.
	And now they keep claiming that it has nothing to do with the breach, although interesting that we're not hearing this about any of the Google or the FaceBag or the Apple products.
	You're only hearing this about the Ring doorbell.
	Is it possible there's a backdoor hack?
	In other words, there's a master password.
	That's very possible.
	It's possible.
	A master password will do the trick.
	And that gets into the wild?
	Well, there's lots of technical analysis of how the Ring system actually can expose your Wi-Fi password when you're setting it up.
	That may not necessarily be the same, but people use the same passwords.
	I saw a survey in our Duke of the South with No Better.
	Patrick Coble, but I'm sure it's up in the 70% range.
	People who change their passwords use the same password and add a 123 or something.
	We have not even succeeded in educating our human resources in basic password management.
	If schools did that, I would be a little more pleased, but we can't even do that.
	No, because it would interfere with gender studies.
	How many people use their pet's birthday or their birthday or their kid's birthday?
	Or password.
	Now, I'm going to defend people who use password because, and I've noticed this before, in the olden days of DOS, It says, somebody's never used a computer before.
	They're an idiot.
	No, you don't have to be an idiot.
	You just never use a computer before.
	You're going to make a very good point here.
	The woke, slackified people will scoff, but you're about to make a good point.
	You go, and you're actually one of those people, because you've never used a computer, so you look at the manual.
	You actually go follow the instructions, and it says, type password.
	Yeah.
	And so you type password, P-A-S-S-W-R-D, and then you hit the button and it opens the thing.
	Oh, okay, well, that's interesting.
	I typed password because they told me to type password.
	Correct.
	If you're going to be a literalist and it says type password, then you type password.
	It's not because people are stupid.
	No, it's just what it is.
	Again, there's an element of what's stupidity, but if you're told to type password and you type password, Yeah, people type passwords.
	Anyway, let's do a little bit of local color.
	And when I say local, I mean local for Gitmo Nation.
	So I do have some things I'd like to share regarding the impeachment of the 45th president and the potential elections for 2020.
	I think we need to do some of that.
	And what happened on Thursday, what we didn't cover, of course, was the approval of the articles of impeachment.
	And it's gotten very complicated for people.
	Well, first of all, they weren't really approved on Thursday.
	Correct.
	They were approved on Friday because they shut it down at the end of the evening.
	Because they would get no news coverage.
	Right.
	Right.
	Because all the deadlines had closed for the newspaper, so they wanted to get news coverage.
	But, oh, big little guy, what's his name?
	Slamming the gavel.
	Nadler.
	Oh, Nadler.
	Nadler, right.
	Says, oh, well, I want everyone to think this over.
	So we're going to reconvene tomorrow at 10 a.m., and they did it at 10 a.m., so we get into the news cycle.
	Good work.
	Well, so the evening before, we did have a couple of good little yippers.
	Hank Johnson, who's the representative from Georgia, what is under his chin?
	He used to have a little beard.
	Sometimes he still has this little white beard.
	And then he also has some skin issues.
	So he's got white spots on his skin.
	Oh, it's like vitiligo or something?
	Because I can't really see it.
	Yeah, whatever you call it.
	Anyway, it doesn't help him when he's talking this kind of unbelievable crap.
	Well, I tell you, that brings to mind the picture of President Trump and President Zelensky meeting in New York.
	In September at the UN, and a big chair for President Trump, little chair for President Zelensky, big six foot four President Trump, five foot eleven Mr.
	Zelensky, President Zelensky, and they're standing there and President Trump is holding court and he says, oh, by the way, no pressure.
	And you saw President Zelensky shaking his head as if his daughter was downstairs in the basement duct taped.
	I mean, I've heard some good stories during this impeachment, but I like this one.
	The guy looked like Trump had his kid in the basement duct-taped.
	You'll say what I want you to, won't you, Zelensky?
	That's some pretty good prose he put together there.
	Yeah, that was quite funny.
	I think it was a good job.
	Now, what we are able to do in this age of the internet is use it as collective memory.
	Certainly in the United States of Gitmo Nation, we forget everything about everybody.
	And look, eventually OJ will be at the Heisman Trophy ceremony again.
	Trust me, it's just a matter of time.
	Americans forget everything.
	And we love a comeback story.
	And so, you know, these things just come and go.
	In the last three years, we've heard certain things from the media that turned out to be not true.
	And they, without a doubt, colluded with government officials, mainly in this case, the intelligence community, which would be John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, And so now we can lay side by side what we've heard in the past three years from your government and their collusional sources in media and the actual truth because now we also have testimony from the
	Inspector General Horowitz who was very clear about what was and what was not going on with the FISA warrant and we call that a supercut.
	There is nothing that the FBI did that was wrong in the Carter Page surveillance warrant, correct?
	I think they followed all the correct procedures.
	We found that investigators failed to meet their basic obligations.
	Nonetheless, I think it's important that the American people see the actual facts that were presented to the FISA court and understand that the FBI was acting appropriately.
	You did find that an FBI employee doctored an email in order to support the Carter Page FISA application, correct?
	Correct.
	I think the notion that FISA was abused here is nonsense.
	Certainly our findings were that there were significant problems.
	There's a lot that the FBI knew about Carter Page that had nothing to do with Christopher Steele's reporting.
	We concluded that the Steele reporting played a central and essential role in the decision to seek a FISA order.
	A lot more there than simply the Steele dossier, which is what the Republican memo would have suggested to the American public, was the key element of that FISA application.
	That of course is not true.
	The FISA applications relied entirely on information from the primary subsources reporting to support the allegation That Page was coordinating with the Russian government.
	The court was told and given evidence that demonstrated the underlying political motivations.
	Christopher Steele, is it fair to say that he had a political bias against Donald Trump?
	Given who he was paid for, there was a bias that needed to be disclosed to the court.
	It was all nonsense.
	And the FBI finally has its day with the American people, and I hope they pay attention to it.
	You know, I think the activities we found here don't indicate anybody who touched this.
	So it's kind of nice to hear that they were on the news for years, talking absolute shit.
	I mean, we have to believe someone's report somewhere.
	And then we have the...
	The steel report itself, which, and I don't think anyone argues that the steel dossier was just a bunch of, oh, let me use the word, malarkey.
	Is there any argument about that at this point?
	I mean, I've heard everyone say, well, you know, the discredited steel report.
	Is that an across-the-board agreement now?
	Yeah, but that doesn't mean that's the meme.
	No, but we can still compare what was said then to what we now know to be true.
	Parts of the now infamous dossier on Trump have proven to be true.
	I know the history of the dossier, but it hasn't been discredited.
	In fact, it's been the opposite.
	It's been corroborated.
	Much of the dossier has been corroborated.
	It is discredited dossier which was paid for.
	It hasn't been discredited.
	Your intel community has corroborated all of the details in there, the meeting.
	All of the substance content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our intelligence community assessment, which from other sources in which we had very high confidence.
	We know that with the FISA application, the relevant parts of Christopher Steele's dossier were corroborated.
	Say that if the application included information from the dossier, it would only be after the FBI had, in fact, corroborated information through its own investigation.
	We also know that as time goes on, more and more parts of the Steele dossier get corroborated.
	So when the president just refers to it as fake dossier, that is false.
	I don't think that's the accurate characterization for the entirety of the dossier.
	Investigators have corroborated part of the dossier.
	The dossier has been corroborated by the intelligence community.
	U.S. investigators have corroborated some of the allegations in that dossier.
	We do know that parts of it have been corroborated.
	It's not been corroborated, but it hasn't been disproven either.
	Is there anything in the dossier that has been disproven?
	But not one thing has been disproven.
	No major thing from the dossier has been conclusively disproven.
	To date, none of it has been disproven.
	And whole big parts of it are holding up.
	The dossier holds up well.
	None of it has been disproven.
	All of the allegations in it, I don't know that anything has been disproven.
	It's a fact that none of it, not one word has been disproven.
	In fact, a lot of it turned out to be right on the money.
	Former high-ranking intelligence officials have told us on the record that there is nothing in the Steele dossier that they know to have been disproven.
	Much of the dossier has been corroborated.
	Do you not accept that they...
	I don't agree with that, Allison.
	This is our reporting and this is what crime-fighting agencies have said, that the FBI would not have just taken a dossier to the FISA court and used that as their predicate for the surveillance.
	They had to corroborate it themselves.
	That's how they operate.
	So those are your news prostitutes telling you that it was not disproven, it's completely above board, everything checks out, and of course it did not.
	And while I was looking at these little factoids, I came across our classic clip that we've been looking for for quite some time.
	This is the 2010 interview, just to show you how smart our intelligence community is.
	A 2010 interview with Janet Napolitano, known as Lucy, with John Brennan, known as the douche head from CIA, and Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper.
	And they were doing an interview about how scary the world is, and Diane Sawyer, when she was still on ABC, refers to a big story that had just broken that morning, and this was done in the early afternoon, this interview, Where 12 terrorists had been arrested in London.
	We all remember the story, 12 terrorists arrested, and this is how it went down during that interview.
	We wondered, how did they stay in control with so much information coming in every day?
	For instance, the afternoon of our interview, the day's news had been filled with the terror arrest, 12 people in London just that morning.
	But when we asked the director of intelligence, London...
	How serious is it?
	Any implication that it was coming here?
	Any of the things that they have seen were coming here?
	Director Clather.
	The arrest of the 12 individuals by the British this morning.
	Yes.
	This is something that the British informers about early this morning as it was taking place.
	Later in the interview, I came back to the director.
	Did he really not know?
	I was a little surprised you didn't know about London, Director Clapper.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I didn't.
	Well, you referenced London, but you didn't talk about the arrest.
	That's our genius intelligence community.
	I didn't know.
	Didn't know anything.
	Yeah, I remember that clip.
	These are the crime-fighting agencies.
	Crime-fighting agencies.
	Crime-fighting agencies, I tell you.
	Yeah, the thing about the dossier, which we played extensive clips about it in the last show, about the thing being a complete fraud, and the only way it even got to FISA is because one of the lawyers of the FBI illegally changed a note from the CIA, and he's going to be in, well, if he's not in jail by the time this is over with, it's going to be a surprise to me.
	Of course, he won't be counted as, you know, Paul Manafort.
	It's the guy you want to talk about because he's in jail.
	It's really pretty disgusting.
	And it just never ends.
	And all those clips that you played, I could hear, I knew most of those voices of all the people pushing the dossier.
	And they're all MSNBC and CNN. Pretty much.
	I think there may have been a couple of outliers, but mostly those two networks.
	Or NBC News in general, I would say.
	Anything on NBC side, Comcast, NBC. NBC, ABC, all of that.
	But mostly MSNBC and long, long rants by Rachel.
	Rachel, yes, of course.
	For the 2020 election, well, we were waiting for it to happen.
	Mayor Pete was getting...
	Getting some traction.
	They made a big joke about him.
	I think last night on Saturday Night Live, you know, that he has no black people who will ever vote for him.
	That's the meme.
	But now they have a new name.
	Now, I've been calling him by his gay name, which is Mary Pete, which is, I'm not saying out of disdain, but I call Elton John Sharon.
	I've done so for years.
	But now we have an actual new name for Pete Buttigieg, and here it is.
	Watch three feet!
	Wall Street Pete is his new name.
	This is what the activists are yelling at him, who I'm sure are Bernie's, but it's the Wall Street Pete.
	I like it.
	Yeah, this is a bunch of this going on.
	There's a lot of these, some of these activists are quite, they're training to be dirty tricksters.
	They're pretty good at it.
	Very good.
	They had this thing that went on.
	The Bloomberg thing went on where they did a takeoff.
	It was again another attack on Pete.
	They set up a bunch of guys to make it look like it was a Bloomberg rally and then they played some song and they yelled Bloomberg.
	I have a clip of this song.
	I missed this.
	Oh yeah, this is pretty funny.
	They're doing the dance, but the only difference between the Pete Buttigieg and the Bloomberg dance, besides the Bloomberg thing being set up by some dirty trickster, probably a Bernie guy, was that out of the blue they yelled Bloomberg in the middle of the...
	Here, play the Bloomberg Bloomberg clip.
	Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Bloomberg.
	Thank you, guys.
	So the whole clip...
	Was this some disco song and then this guy yelling Bloomberg every so often.
	And they're doing the pointing and the lousy dancing.
	It's all a mockery of the Pete Buttigieg dancers.
	Ah.
	Except the funny part was this droll Bloomberg.
	Bloomberg.
	Bloomberg actually is under a little bit of fire for his own news organization.
	Two clips.
	Yeah.
	Bloomberg News is a global media giant.
	2,700 journalists around the world, a TV network, a magazine, all of whom will now be handcuffed in covering their boss's presidential campaign.
	But does that trust extend to the company Mike Bloomberg built, which limited coverage of its founder when he ran New York City?
	Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwaite told the staff yesterday, we will continue our tradition of not investigating Mike and his family and foundation.
	That prohibition extends to Bloomberg's rivals because we cannot treat Mike's Democratic competitors differently.
	But, and this raises the appearance of partisanship, the company will continue to investigate President Trump.
	It's not clear whether Trump's family would also be fair game as opposed to Joe Biden's son.
	The company will largely limit its coverage to Bloomberg's speeches, policies, and polls.
	An initial story said he's offering his own mix of moderate policy stances and experience in business, government, and philanthropy as a way to beat Trump.
	So the way that he explained this is quite interesting, although I don't necessarily disagree.
	It's not a good look for someone running on the Democratic ticket.
	I think it also goes without saying he's no fan of yours.
	He recently said...
	Mini Mike Bloomberg has instructed his third-rate news organization not to investigate him or any Democrat, but to go after President Trump only.
	Well, you've got a nickname already.
	What's your response to what you said?
	Well, I don't know that I would accept the nickname.
	I think people have said to me, how can you investigate yourself?
	And I said, I don't think you can.
	But even your own news reporters have complained.
	They think it's unfair that they're not allowed to investigate other Democratic candidates because they're bosses in the race.
	Okay, we have...
	You just have to learn to live with some things.
	They get a paycheck, and it comes from the company that I started, not running at the moment, turned it over to somebody else to do that.
	But with your paycheck comes some restrictions and responsibilities.
	Shut up, Noodle Boy!
	You're not reporting on me!
	Very few people would say that.
	Ha!
	I love it.
	No, I think he's just being honest, but I think he's being naive.
	Very naive.
	This is not something you can just say like that.
	Will not work.
	Tracking the swoop, we have a few more interesting data points that Hillary still may be entering the race.
	Witness the new documentary.
	I want to vote for a woman, just not that woman.
	Her greatest strength is her greatest weakness.
	She's unlikable because she's unlikable.
	She's so smart people always believe there is some deviousness.
	I provoke strong opinions.
	What you see is what you get.
	I said, I really want to marry you, but you shouldn't marry me.
	Chelsea put herself between us and held both our hands, trying to keep us together.
	You know, you do me better than I do be.
	I want to push the envelope as far as we can push it.
	If I said, back up, you creep, would I sound angry?
	One of the most admired and one of the most vilified women in American history.
	Somebody asked me, what do you want on your gravestone?
	I said, she's neither as good nor as bad as some people say about her.
	It's a Hulu documentary that is directed by the same woman who did The Kid Stays in the Picture, one of my favorites.
	What's interesting, the release date is March 6th.
	And I don't know where that puts us in the timeline of Hillary still running or not, but is March any, is there anything of consequence in March?
	Well, what you want to look at, you've got to take Bloomberg's approach, because he's the one, Bloomberg is the one who has got a clue here.
	Let me just find the date.
	You want to look up Super Tuesday, and if it's before Super Tuesday...
	This is a good one.
	Still got a potential here.
	Super Tuesday.
	Super Tuesday is March 3rd.
	Well, this is coming out March 6th, I think.
	So this is coming out two days, three days after Super Tuesday.
	That seems wrong.
	Well?
	Let me just double check and see if they've changed that date or not.
	No, I think it's still March.
	That's really...
	So she would expect to have a sweeping win or something going on on Super Tuesday and then hit it, follow it up with the doc.
	Afterburner.
	A Hillary afterburner.
	Possible.
	Possible.
	Banyan, Steve Banyan, was on The Money Honey.
	I know, it's not a pretty picture.
	And he reiterated what he keeps saying.
	Just assess the field for us, because Bloomberg is now in.
	You call that, obviously...
	Hillary Clinton, you saw the Howard Stern thing.
	Hillary Clinton is waiting for her shot to come in and say, I'm going to save the Democratic Party.
	That Michael Bloomberg is a liberal or moderate Republican.
	He's not a Democrat.
	She's going to come in.
	This whole thing's going to come down to Super Tuesday.
	I don't think anybody can win it right now in the primary process.
	Bloomberg's going to drop a money nuclear weapon on Super Tuesday for all the big states.
	I think Hillary Clinton is waiting in the wings to come in and say, I'm going to save the Democratic Party for Michael Bloomberg.
	You think she still comes in?
	Michael, the Howard Stern interview tells me more than anything that she's coming in.
	Unbelievable.
	All right.
	And Bloomberg has been a factor.
	Kamala Harris is out.
	He's already polling.
	He's already spent more money on ads than she raised the entire time.
	Back in a minute.
	Steve, great to see you, Steve.
	I heard from my LibDev friend that he also is seeing only Bloomberg ads in New York.
	So they're playing in California, where you're seeing them, and in New York.
	I'm not seeing them in Texas, I might add.
	Oh, no, you're out.
	What do you mean I'm out?
	You're out.
	Texas isn't important to Bloomberg.
	He figures that's going to go into the Republicans.
	I mean, he's not Beto.
	He's not going to appeal.
	And Bloomberg's not going to appeal to Texans, even though there are a few.
	I mean, in Austin, they'll probably get some votes.
	But no, he was going to big guns.
	He's got these ads.
	I see them every day.
	And they're not that good.
	I'll record a couple.
	He's not setting the world on fire with these stupid ads.
	It's not what appeals out here.
	He's a New Yorker.
	He has no clue how to trigger, in a good way, the Democrats from California.
	I've seen some of the ads, and all I see is Mike Bloomberg with a lot of black people.
	That's what I see.
	In fact, Mo pointed that out to me.
	He said, count the black people in Bloomberg's ad.
	It's all black people everywhere.
	So he's pandering big time to the one group that actually needs pandering.
	Because I think the black vote is in play.
	I think it is too.
	Not the whole, all the black vote.
	There's still way too many locked down black voters.
	No, the black men.
	Black women are the ones being catered to.
	The black men, I think there's possibilities for the Democrats to actually lose some of that.
	But...
	Yeah, these ads are not, they're just not going to, I don't think he's, no.
	He has, this is a pipe dream.
	I've made this prediction before and I get ridiculed for it because in 2017, 2015, I didn't think Trump would get the nomination.
	Yes, we know.
	But, because there's a number of people out there that keep mentioning that in the mouse comment from 1984.
	But, I'm going to say that Bloomberg hasn't got a shot at this.
	Where's the route?
	I don't see it.
	Well, who's going to vote for this guy?
	He's a rich billionaire from New York.
	We already got one.
	He's in the White House.
	We don't need another one.
	I mean, this is what the competition is?
	A bunch of billionaires running for president?
	I don't know.
	I don't get it.
	Well, I don't care.
	What's the appeal to the Democrats?
	It makes no sense.
	I don't care about Bloomberg.
	I only care about Hillary.
	And I think that her new face, which has destroyed her look, is another sign.
	I'm convinced that's not her.
	That's the double.
	It's possible.
	And does Bill really schlep his saxophone everywhere with him?
	He doesn't carry a saxophone with him.
	Just in case he needs to pose?
	I've never seen him with a saxophone for the last decade.
	Now he's got a saxophone.
	That picture, man, of Hillary, that close-up, someone sent it to me in photographer 8,000 megapixels?
	I have that picture and other pictures in the newsletter.
	Yes.
	And I very carefully point out that this is pretty much...
	Now, somebody sent me a note.
	I will relay the note.
	He says, Well, you know, if you shoot with an 85mm lens, you're going to get one look.
	And then when you shoot with a 35mm wide-angle lens, it's going to distort.
	And yes, to a point.
	Not to this point.
	This is a goofball woman.
	It doesn't look anything like Hillary as far as I'm concerned, if you look at the gestalt of it.
	Eyeballs bugged out.
	I mean, the whole thing is wrong.
	It's not Hillary.
	Well, so is this just a test?
	Let me point something else I didn't put in the newsletter.
	I might put in the next one.
	I might write a paper about this.
	I have, and this was, I don't care whether it was 35 or not, I have a profile shot of her and the profile that was run in the Daily Mail.
	and you can really see the differences with the profile shot.
	Plus, and by the way, her mouth naturally has a little uptick on the side on a profile shot.
	It's very distinctive.
	She doesn't have it and the fake Hillary doesn't have it.
	The second thing is she's in New York going to a big party and she's going to let her hair look like that?
	No, never.
	Thank you.
	And I cannot believe that people, I don't know if they're people or bots, were tweeting, oh my God, she looks so good.
	I'm thinking, oh my God, what a disaster.
	The filler shifted.
	Something went wrong.
	This is horrible.
	And yes, thank you for the hair comment.
	Atrocious!
	The people have become blind in addition to completely moronic.
	And was this the same body double who wore the purse on the wrong shoulder?
	I'm pretty convinced that it is.
	So is this then a setup to get us prepared for this look when she can't make certain appearances and sends the double?
	Well, I don't know.
	The double's no good.
	They're going to have to do some more work on her.
	One phrase that pays is the Curry Devorak Consulting Group.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	We have a few people to thank for the show 1199.
	I do have a thing that first I got to get out of the way.
	I forgot to do this during the first segment.
	And that means you have to get your pen out.
	Okay.
	Our $3,300 donor, anonymous donor from Parts Unknown, actually sent another note in.
	He sent one to you.
	No.
	You got the jingles in, but we missed somehow, we missed this part, which is his knighting.
	He's an instant baron, actually.
	Okay.
	And I want to read this part.
	By the way, he also continues, he felt like a douchebag for never contributing before this is his first donation.
	On my drive home from No Agenda Meetup, I looked down at my odometer and it read 33,000, 333,000 miles.
	What's he driving?
	Yeah.
	I knew I had to do something.
	He needs a de-douching.
	Oh, of course.
	You've been de-douched.
	And does he have a barren name?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I'm continuing to read.
	Please dub me as Sir Lily of the Valley.
	I would like to claim the territory of the Santa Ynez Valley east of 246, including the surrounding mountains.
	Now, he thinks he's got a beef with D.H. Slammer.
	D.H. Slammer.
	He needs that resolved if there's an issue, so he doesn't know.
	But he does say, for the roundtable, he has a request.
	Okay.
	And it's Ebleskiver and Aquavit.
	Eble?
	Eble?
	A-E-B. A-E-B. L-E-S. K-I-V-E-R. And what it is, it's a round Danish.
	I'm sorry, K what?
	A-E-B-L-E-S-K-I-V-E-R. Yeah, Abelskiver.
	And Aquavit.
	I do have the pronunciation guide here.
	I have on the list of the clips pronouncing Evelskyver pastry.
	Evelskyver.
	Do you want to play the clip?
	Oh, you have a...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I didn't realize you had that.
	Where do I find this?
	Pronunciation is the word, keyword.
	Got it.
	Evil Skiver.
	That's very helpful.
	What is it now?
	I'm saying Evil Skiver.
	Evil Skiver.
	Evil Skiver it is.
	That's what you get.
	And Aquavit.
	And Aquavit, yes.
	Got it.
	Okay.
	Excellent.
	He also wants some eggnog, but he's not making a point of it.
	Oh, shit.
	I'm throwing in the eggnog.
	We'll do eggnog on Christmas.
	Anyway, so that needs to be clarified so he gets his full nighting and credits and he needs to be on the list.
	Okay, good.
	I'm glad.
	I'm glad.
	He just sent that in.
	We're Johnny on the spot here, making it happen.
	Making it go.
	Very good.
	Now we have, we actually sent it in earlier.
	Robert Doland starts off our list of producers, regular producers, $120.90 in Shelby Townsend, Michigan.
	There's a long, we're in peace note here.
	Yeah, we're very behind and we read notes 200 and above.
	I'm just going to remind you.
	David Nixon comes up with $112.
	We'll read through there and see if there's anything.
	Tommy Barnes in Midland, Texas, $100.
	This list is not that big.
	The big list was the first one.
	Richard Hufford, $100, and he's going to be knighted today.
	Joseph Salishauer something, $100.
	Kurt Kubel in Wyzata, Minnesota, 99.11.
	This is interesting.
	That used to be the home of one of the early CD-ROM producers.
	Oh, really?
	Big time.
	Ronald Shule, 8008.
	Wait a minute.
	That's why we've never heard of it.
	We've never heard of Wyzada.
	I've heard of him.
	Took the whole place down with that CD-ROM stuff.
	He says he wasn't getting credit for his boob donations.
	Who, Robert?
	No, Ronald Shule, 8008.
	Huh.
	He says he sent two previous boob donations to Pop Money.
	With no credit on the show.
	That's not necessarily true.
	I do look at the Pop Money.
	I do believe...
	Boy, man, second time in this show.
	You're really slipping.
	I'm on a roll.
	I do believe that I saw that donation.
	I didn't see two of them, but I saw one of them come through on Pop Money, and I thought it was mentioned on a later show.
	Well, I expect boobs to be mentioned, so I'm disappointed if we're screwing that up.
	I'll take note.
	David Knauss in Petrolia, Ontario, 75-16.
	Brandon Foster, 75.
	Sam Van Hoor.
	Can I just stop you for a second?
	Because it's going to go fast.
	David Knauss, we'll have a birthday call out on the list for Oma, best grandma.
	Oma Naus, December 15th.
	She has seven siblings, five children, 16 grandchildren, hence the 75-16 donation.
	And that's to be credited to her for the Dame Drive.
	And she is tracking them.
	Excellent, Oma Naus.
	We are on the list.
	Brandon Foster, 75.
	Sam Van Hoer in Amsterdam, 64, 64.
	Sam Van Hoeren.
	Sam Van Hoeren.
	Hoeren.
	I think there's an N. Hoeren.
	It's Hoeren.
	It doesn't say that on here.
	I know.
	Okay.
	I like it.
	He'll be 32.
	All right.
	You're on the list, Sam.
	Anonymous in Austin, Texas.
	Keep me anonymous.
	6006 small boobs.
	Kim Burden, 60.
	Christopher Dechter, 5678.
	Thomas Miller in Naperville, Illinois, 5555.
	Lucas Zua, 5533.
	He's in Deutschland, I believe.
	Sir Christopher Barron of Brown County in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
	Go Packers!
	5510.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Gary Marquardt.
	5520.
	Now we should read this one because something's happening.
	I see by the blue attached my accounting showing my final approach and touchdown at the No Agenda Roundtable this week.
	I'm retired and after sporadic larger...
	Larger.
	I'm like already in beer.
	Larger.
	Larger.
	Larger donations a few years ago just canceled my subscription to the Minneapolis Tribune affectionately known as the Pink Sheet in these parts.
	And started donating the money to No Agenda.
	For listeners with limited resources, it's all about prioritized allocation of resources.
	Find your value and pay for it.
	I've added a double nickels on the dime this week to make sure I've flared over the threshold.
	That's a nice aeronautic term.
	I've cancelled my weekly subscription to get away from the PayPal skimming and will be sending a check each week from now on.
	Also a belated thank you for the F cancer karma from last year.
	My daughter Jenny is now cancer free.
	We're not taking credit, but I'm just very happy.
	Please knight me Sir Gary of Casco Point on Lake Minnetonka and give a shout-out to my son John who hit me in the mouth years ago.
	You can also call him out as a perennial douchebag as I don't think he's ever coughed up a single farthing.
	He's got a good gig now and it's time to man up, my son!
	At the round table, I'd like banana bread warmed with butter to go with my mead.
	Okay, please play.
	Hillary, don't eat me, Hillary.
	Hillary, cackle.
	Yes, we'll do those.
	We'll get those rolled for you.
	I got to do an emergency order for the roundtable.
	Keep going, John.
	I got to get this order in.
	Otherwise, we'll never make it.
	By the way, I think millennials are also cheap.
	We have a few that donate to the show, and they make a point of letting us know that they're millennials.
	I think it's because they're signaling us that, yay, these guys are cheap.
	Cheap.
	Not me.
	Totally cheap.
	Michael Burlett in Odessa, Florida.
	The following people are $50 donators, starting with Michael.
	Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	Sir Chris Lewinsky to you.
	Andre Pichow, Pichow, Pichow, he's in Holland.
	You have to pronounce that one.
	I'll never get it.
	Pichow.
	Pichow in...
	Reiswijk.
	Reiswijk.
	Weik.
	Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington.
	You know my daughter can't do a trill.
	No, it's a millennial thing.
	Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington.
	Patricia, Dame Patricia.
	Good old Dame Patricia Worthington.
	There she is again.
	There she is.
	She's a Viscountess in Miami.
	Mark Johnson in Aurora, Colorado.
	Adrian Ramos in Parts Unknown and Last but Not Least.
	Sir, I believe Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia.
	I want to thank all these folks for producing Show 1199.
	And we also want to thank everyone under their donation amounts that also contributed to keeping this show going.
	And it's really you that keeps the show alive.
	Well, because you're producing it, and that's the big difference between this podcast and every other single podcast out there that I'm aware of.
	Maybe Grimerica is one or two who are in some ways connected to the best podcast in the universe.
	Briny, yeah.
	But Briny does the Patreon gig, too, which is pretty anonymous.
	That's disappointing.
	Well, it doesn't matter.
	But this is how radio works.
	This is the future.
	We are the post-modern version.
	You're living it.
	You're not just living it.
	You're a part of it.
	One day when you're our age, you'll be able to say, hey, I was a part of that.
	And you'll have, some of you will have something to show for it.
	If not, a piece of audio, maybe a ring, maybe some other things, maybe some peerage, maybe a whole piece of the world after the Armageddon and the collapse comes.
	We are the Bauhaus of the era.
	Oh my God, I love you when you say that.
	Please remember us for our next show, which will be episode 1200.
	It's on Thursday.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. We're good to
	As do we to Oma now.
	She just heard what a grand family she has spawned.
	Today is her birthday.
	And Sammy Van Horn, 32 today.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	Let's see, what should we do first?
	Let's do titles.
	Title changes.
	Turn and face the slate.
	Title changes.
	Don't want me to do it.
	Here we go with our title changes.
	Sir John Helmer, thank you for your additional $1,000 support for the best podcast in the universe.
	He becomes a baronet today.
	Earl Patrick Coble becomes Duke of the South and circumvent the law, although he will not use the title, is hereby bestowed with a peerage title of baronet.
	And thank you, gentlemen, for your courage and for supporting the best podcast in the universe.
	Now we have, let's see, one, two, three, four...
	Well, four knights and one dame, so we need some bladage.
	There's mine.
	Here you go.
	Get the other one.
	I like the other one better.
	I'll put this one back.
	Here you go.
	Careful, don't cut yourself.
	Anonymous, Gary Marquardt, Rudolph Vesely, Anonymous in Virginia, and Richard Hufford, please gather here on the podium.
	All of you are about to enter the very coveted roundtable of the No Agenda Knights and Dames thanks to your contribution to the amount of $1,000 or, in some cases, much more.
	I am very proud to pronounce the KB. Insta Baron Sir Lily of the Valley.
	We'll be looking over Santinay Valley.
	Sir Gary of Casco Point on Lake Minnetonka.
	Sir Road of Vesely.
	Dame Anonymous of Colonial Place.
	And Sir Richard of the Lugwigs, who is a black knight.
	For you, hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, evil skiver and aqua beef, banana bread, warm with butter to go with my mead, eggnog and rum, swikova nas metane and slivoffy, and mutton and mead.
	I ran out of time.
	That's how much it was.
	But look at the feast we have at the round table.
	And you, gentlemen and lady, head over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	There's a place where you can hand out all of your information so Eric the Show can get you your well-deserved night ring, your sealing wax, as well as your certificate.
	And thank you.
	Bless you.
	And thank you for your courage.
	I have many other bits of business to do here.
	Jeremy sent in an emergency request.
	My dad just had emergency open heart surgery to have an LVAD, I don't know what it is, I don't want it, surgically implanted after he was waiting for a heart transplant because he was having kidney and liver failure thanks to his heart and medicine.
	Jeez.
	He had the procedure on Tuesday and is still not fully out of sedation because of his liver and kidney failure.
	I've been playing his favorite podcast and music and he responds to commands just after he listens to such.
	My dad hit me in the mouth back around episode 250.
	I can't afford to give any money, but could you give Gerald Haig some wake-up karma so I can play it for him?
	Maybe it would help him become more aware.
	Cheers from Jeremy.
	So, let's do this.
	Gerald Haig.
	Gerald Haig, time to wake up.
	Wake up!
	Wake up!
	We got you, go!
	You've got karma.
	That could go either way, honestly.
	It's meant well.
	We mean well.
	Yes, we meant it well.
	Exactly.
	We had a couple of meetups over the last two episodes.
	By the way, alert the affiliates.
	We're going a little long today.
	Obvious reasons.
	So first of all, big thanks to Sir Scott who organized the No Agenda sheet up here in Austin, Texas.
	Actually, it was in Lockhart at the Lone Star Gun Range.
	Fun was had by all.
	I don't even know if I got to meet everybody, but he had the table with the heads, and everyone had a badge, and he had his reloaded ammo, which sometimes wouldn't even fit in the chamber, but...
	Just bags and bags of ammo.
	As long as you gave him the brass shells back, he was happy.
	It was good.
	I would do it again.
	And I encourage this activity for all no agenda meetups if possible.
	Then we had the MCO number three meetup.
	MCO. This would be...
	What was MCO? Colorado.
	I think it's Colorado.
	Colorado.
	Good turnout tonight.
	Nine people can't wait to meet in February.
	Sir Loin of New Smyrna and Baronet Sir Don of Taintsville from Oviedo joined us slaves at Deadly Sins Brewing and it was a very fun time.
	They sent a quick little sound snippet.
	From the third local MCO meetup, you're listening to the No Agenda Show.
	In the morning!
	And there was also a meetup in North Carolina.
	East of North Carolina shills.
	Everybody say hey!
	Hey!
	In the morning!
	Alright, let's pass it around.
	We gotta speak?
	You don't have to.
	Tyler, this is Tyler, and I'm enjoying my small amygdala.
	Hey, this is Jim.
	In the morning.
	Hey, camera.
	Shut up, slaves.
	In the morning, Adam and John, get my nation.
	Don't eat me, Hillary!
	You can see in the morning, citizen.
	All right, not as tight as I would have liked to have heard it, but it looks like everyone had a good time.
	It was actually a video.
	We just played the audio of it.
	Sometimes it's good if you introduce yourself and then just say whatever you want to say.
	Love these meetups.
	This is good, and we have some more on the books for Thursday.
	This coming Thursday, Charleston, South Carolina Holiday Meetup.
	That will be at 5.30 at the Edmonds Cast Brewing Company.
	On Friday, the 20th, The inaugural meetup of the Southern Shilinoisons that will be at Quattros in Carbondale, Illinois.
	Join us as our amygdala shrink in untriggered conversational bliss.
	The 20th, the Valley of the Sun Slaves, Scottsdale, Arizona.
	That will be at Whiskey Row at 5 o'clock.
	Jenna Tolles organizing.
	The Saturday, San Antonio area meetup, 6 o'clock at Big Hops on Bitters.
	Then we go a whole week from now, but it is a new one.
	I'll mention it.
	December 28th, it'll be the Coffins Christmas in Orlando event.
	This apparently is going to be something special.
	Christian Coffins will be arranging.
	Also, not this Saturday, but next Saturday, Gitmo Lowlands Utrecht meetup at 6 o'clock at 4th Trajectum.
	This will be the, how many, this is the, I don't know, Sir Hendrick organizing that.
	And then more coming in January.
	Noagendameetups.com is where you can find all the information about the meetups, where you can put in your meetup report.
	Also, if you don't see one near you, well, for God's sakes, woman, go make your own.
	Set one up.
	Get it going.
	Noagendameetups.com.
	Have we done everything?
	I think we've gotten through all the business.
	Paperwork.
	Paperwork, exactly.
	All the paperwork.
	I do want to thank your buddy Horowitz.
	He sent us cookies?
	Did he send you cookies?
	Yes, he's a big fan of this one cookie company out of New York.
	The Bang Cookies?
	Bang Cookies, they're the size of a landmine.
	Hockey puck.
	They're bigger than a hockey puck.
	I usually keep a hockey puck in the freezer.
	Let me tell you.
	Everybody loves these cookies.
	They're tasty.
	They're tasty cookies.
	There are lots of chocolate in them.
	Yeah, it's Sir Gene.
	And he's a very...
	He's discriminating, man.
	He will not eat something he doesn't like.
	These are probably the best cookies he's ever tasted.
	So, what do you think?
	That's an expensive cookie.
	I think they're 20 bucks a pop.
	Yeah.
	I think I'm joking.
	Yeah, that podcasting over in Florida is going quite well, apparently.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	We told the affiliates we'd be going long, but I feel like we should still...
	Oh, yes.
	I want to do this Taylor Swift thing just for a moment because we followed Taylor Swift ever since you introduced her to the show.
	How many years ago now...
	10 maybe?
	We caught her when she was a kid.
	No, you.
	No, you.
	Not we.
	You.
	You caught her.
	Yeah, I caught her when she was a kid and she was noodling around.
	She was being promoted.
	She was being promoted in a very odd and professional way that looks rigged to me.
	And so I figured that she, you know, she had something going on.
	Then we looked into her father who was a super major investment banker with Merrill Lynch and they moved the family to Memphis or Nashville.
	They moved the family to Nashville.
	Next thing you know, she's getting all these deals.
	And I figure since his job was a, he was a money manager, a big shot money manager for the high-end guys, he goes to Nashville, picks up a few big clients, Chuck brings his daughter and funnels her right into the system.
	She goes right in there and has the talent to maintain the position that she's in.
	Yes.
	The only thing that is pretty much impossible to do as a budding artist is to get a record deal with distribution that includes you owning your rights.
	Owning, in this case, specifically the publishing rights.
	That's how record companies operate.
	They give you an advance and Which you will pay back every penny with interest in advance to record your record, every cab you take, every hotel you stay in, everything you will have to pay back will be recouped, as we call it.
	And on the other side of that is the publishing.
	Publishing is a very specific right, which means you can determine when this album will be pressed, when it will be made into a CD, a cassette, a record, or an MP3. You will determine if it can be used in advertising.
	You will determine how it can be used on television, in what way.
	When you say you, are you talking about Taylor Swift?
	The owner of the publishing.
	The publishing right, so I'm talking about the record company.
	Every person gets that deal.
	There's no exceptions.
	And later in life, when you become extremely rich, then you have an opportunity to buy it back.
	Paul McCartney tried to buy his publishing back, but Michael Jackson had already purchased it.
	Of course, that's why we had to kill Michael Jackson.
	That's a whole other podcast.
	Taylor Swift wanted to buy back her rights, and she didn't like the deal that she was given.
	The deal that the owner of her publishing rights gave was, well, I'll let you buy back one album for every album you give me a piece of.
	Which is one way of doing it, but she clearly was not in a position to negotiate for the price that they wanted for her catalog.
	And by now she owns her own publishing with this new record, but her old work, her very successful work, was up for sale and she just couldn't afford it.
	In fact, the people who purchased it have a lot of money.
	George Soros, the Carlyle Group, and some other bunch of jamokes.
	And they saw the opportunity of making money on this money in the future.
	So Taylor Swift goes on the Billboard Women in Music where she receives some accolade for being fabulous, which I completely agree with.
	I'm a Swiftie in heart.
	I love her songs.
	I love what she does.
	But what she did here...
	It's bullshit.
	My entire catalog was sold to Scooter Bronze Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I'm told was funded by the Soros Family, 23 Capital, and the Carlyle Group.
	Yet, to this day, none of these investors have ever bothered to contact me or my team directly to perform their due diligence on their investment, on their investment in me.
	Which is where she's just completely off.
	They know the investment.
	They know what this is worth.
	They don't even do due diligence on her.
	This is nonsense.
	This is like you take out a mortgage at a bank, and then the bank sells the mortgage to somebody else in New York, and now they bundle the mortgages.
	Very good analogy.
	You're still paying.
	I don't have the bankers coming over to the house doing due diligence on me.
	Because she's lying.
	To ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art.
	We don't care.
	You don't own it, Taylor.
	The music I wrote.
	The videos I created.
	Photos of me.
	My handwriting.
	My album designs.
	And of course, Scooter never contacted me or my team to discuss it prior to the sale or even when it was announced.
	I'm fairly certain he knew exactly how I would feel about it though.
	And let me just say that the definition of the toxic male privilege in our industry is people saying but he's always been nice to me when I'm raising valid concerns about artists and their rights to own their music.
	You don't have a right to own anything in this life, Taylor Swift.
	And this is so disingenuous, it almost makes me want to turn in my Swifty card.
	I'm very disappointed that you then also had to disparage men...
	And I know a lot of women in the music industry who are just as shit.
	Well, the whole Empire TV shows can be said to be about women.
	The gratuitous disparaging of men just to get a couple extra pops on the charts was gross.
	And we have supported Tay-Tay from day one almost.
	How do you feel about this, John, being a Swifty of the First Order?
	I've never really been a Swifty.
	I personally think that she's maybe done maybe five decent songs that are kind of okay.
	And the rest of her stuff, I'm not a big fan of her stuff.
	I think she's a talented marketing person.
	And this is part of her marketing that she's doing now.
	This is a marketing scheme.
	She's working an angle.
	Well, I'm very disappointed by it.
	And I just want people to understand how it works.
	And she's pretending that she has some rights in this.
	No.
	Not true.
	Alright.
	Sorry I wanted to take us out on a high note, but I can't because I'm just so angry.
	Okay, well I've got two things I wanted to get out of the way, but before we do that, I would like to get this Al Green clip out of the way so people know that this whole impeachment thing is a scam.
	And this is Al Green if the Senate does not convict.
	So I do believe...
	You've said it twice so far this show, so that's why you probably clipped this and you just couldn't get it out of your brain.
	So I do believe that if the Senate does not convict, other articles of impeachment may be considered.
	Currently we're considering two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
	But there's much more.
	Much more to be considered.
	And it is my opinion that we will still have work to do if the Senate does not convict.
	Now, what the hell is he talking about?
	What is he saying now?
	They're going to re-impeach.
	So if the Senate does not convict, they'll just impeach him again.
	Because the House actually impeaches when they vote.
	That's the impeachment.
	So they're just going to keep impeaching?
	Well, this brings up the question about, in England, the parliament had, used to have a king, there used to be kings that would reintroduce bills.
	This is kind of what the EU does with, you know, you vote again.
	Yeah, you vote again.
	You didn't do it right.
	Vote again.
	Vote again.
	You didn't do it right, idiot.
	They may have to enact legislation because this group of creeps, I'll call them, They're just going to re-impeach him.
	And there's been two or three people that have said that this is going to happen.
	They'll just re-impeach him.
	And they'll keep doing it.
	So the whole house is going to be tied up.
	This is why you've got to vote these guys out.
	The whole house is going to be tied up for the next five years impeaching Trump over and over again.
	Gosh.
	Isn't that...
	I mean, I guess they're that tone deaf.
	I guess they really think that's the way to go.
	Well, Al Green sure does, and a lot of the other black, the blacks, it's mostly blacks in Congress that are pushing.
	This is another woman plus Waters.
	And they're just pushing and pushing and pushing.
	They want to impeach and impeach and impeach over and over and over again.
	All right.
	So whatever you're going to do.
	Now, the other thing I have, I do have the two Miss Universe clips, and then they still have a little bit on the Afghanistan papers I want to discuss.
	Let's do Afghanistan papers.
	That's much more important than anything else.
	Really?
	Yes, yes.
	We promised to talk about it on the last show.
	We didn't get to it.
	Here we are.
	We're going to bump it again.
	First over, we got the overview clip.
	This came from a WAPO podcast, because you can't find anything except for a podcast.
	And she kind of explains what happened, and then we have the second clip, which includes some of the stuff they uncovered, which are old recordings.
	The war in Afghanistan is now entering its 19th year, making it the longest-running war in U.S. history.
	I covered the Pentagon for several years as a beat reporter.
	That is Craig Whitlock.
	And I was a foreign correspondent before that.
	I would go to Afghanistan sometimes.
	And one thing you would always hear commanding generals say is, we're making progress or we're turning the corner.
	The past eight months have seen important but hard-fought progress in Afghanistan.
	Since I spoke to you almost 16 months ago, we have made much progress.
	2011 was a real turning point.
	But we are at a crucial turning point.
	I think it's possible that by the end of this year we will have turned a corner.
	This would happen month after month, year after year.
	Now last night I gave a speech in which I said that we have turned a corner.
	I wouldn't suggest to you that we have turned the corner, but I will say we've come a long way since 03.
	You never hear the commanding general say, we're losing.
	First let me just say that we're not losing a war out here by any means.
	Or the war is not going well.
	I feel like, you know, we're making some steady progress.
	I think we have turned the corner.
	And I think also that the Taliban recognize that that corner has been turned.
	Are you telling me that the corner has been turned?
	Yes.
	Turn the corner.
	Now looking ahead to 2018, as President Ghani said, he believes we have turned the corner, and I agree.
	Some lawmakers, like Senator Warren, noted this.
	General Miller, we supposedly turned the corner so many times that it seems now we're going in circles.
	Since the start of the war, that has been the official line from the government.
	But now Craig has obtained a collection of secret recordings and documents that completely unravels that official narrative.
	It's so disappointing that the only place you can hear about this on a podcast that is playing a clip from a podcast is pathetic.
	Two trillion dollars, two and a half thousand American lives, 5,000 wounded.
	How many dead in Afghanistan?
	The wounded is way over 5,000.
	U.S. Yeah, I'm saying the wounded, the U.S. wound is way over 20,000.
	Oh, really?
	Geez.
	Now, this guy spent three years because he knew about these recordings and they're all debriefings.
	Of all the generals and everybody that passed through and all the recordings are the same.
	They're all, no, we're losing our ass.
	This is stupid.
	We're just wasting money.
	This is not going anywhere.
	We're not changing anybody's opinions.
	This is dumb.
	And they can't get this into the public domain.
	And now they're going to play 30 seconds of some of the recordings.
	The main player that you hear and the first voice you hear is General Flynn.
	My assessments weren't good.
	It wasn't things are going well.
	Never, ever.
	We are participating in conflict.
	We are not really here to win.
	Thousands of pages, documents, and recordings like these, laying out in private what was never said in public.
	They really do bring to mind the Pentagon Papers, which were the Defense Department's top secret history of the Vietnam War.
	To me, this is kind of like the Vietnam effect.
	After 15 years and counting in Afghanistan, I don't think we're any better organized than we were back then.
	Oh, no wonder we had to get rid of Flynn.
	He was making trouble.
	Flynn was definitely one of the loudmouths.
	Making trouble.
	Yeah.
	Will anything come of these Afghanistan papers?
	Can we throw anybody in jail?
	Can we string anybody up?
	Can we impeach an old president?
	Can we do anything about this?
	Does anybody care?
	No.
	No, no, no and no.
	I mean, we care on our show.
	Yeah, we care a lot, actually, but it's really disgusting.
	And people should look into this being downplayed because, oh my God, we've got to impeach the president, who wants to get us out of Afghanistan, and maybe that's part of the reason they want to impeach him, because if you get out, then they start doing the analysis, and then all of a sudden it turns out that everybody was a screw-up.
	So you stay in.
	You stay in forever.
	Nobody gets busted.
	We will be here once again with you on Thursday, episode 1200.
	1,200 episodes of your best podcast in the universe.
	Could not be proud of the work we've all done together, producers.
	End of show mixes, we've got Sir Chris Wilson with a jam-lee-o-le-puke and a nice little punk thing, a little ditty.
	Grumpy Old Benz will be talking about operating systems on No Agenda Stream next, and coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33, here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, FEMA Region No.
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	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're an hour late, just like the Zephyr, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Remember us at dvorak.org slash na.
	Can't wait to meet you all for episode 1200 of the show you produced.
	Until then, adios mofos and such!
	Thank you.
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