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	Subpoenas!
	I'm not gonna be subpoenas!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, December 29th, 2019.
	This is your award-winning Gambo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1203!
	This is No Agenda.
	I'm growing burger boobs and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here 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'm wondering if this bird poop is a gift from North Korea.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning!
	Alright, two places to start from.
	Bird poop or burger boobs.
	Your call, sir.
	Well, I don't have much for it.
	The bird poop was a one-shot.
	Although it was referring to the...
	It was referring to the meteor...
	That broke up over the Marianas that everyone thought was maybe the Christmas gift.
	But meanwhile, of course, in the middle of the, I think Guam was hit by Typhoon YouTube.
	Typhoon YouTube?
	I don't know anything about this.
	Look it up.
	I know there was a typhoon, but I didn't know it was called YouTube.
	I'm pretty sure.
	I could be wrong.
	In fact, I was...
	I think it was called...
	I heard the report.
	I never read anything.
	But she said, YouTube.
	I found that...
	I did write that down, that story.
	Look, here's a story where lots of people died and no one's attributing it to climate change.
	Yeah, because they don't have the right reporters.
	And it's also brown people.
	Who gives a shit?
	This is not important.
	Not important.
	I did want to start off our last show of the year just with a little simple deconstruction, a reminder what the No Agenda show is here to help you with.
	And I'm just a little bit disappointed that one of the most emailed articles over the past few days, it started Thursday, was the estrogen in the Impossible Burger.
	Which apparently is so much estrogen that it will make men grow breasts.
	Now, you saw this.
	Yeah, I did, of course.
	And, of course, everybody...
	It was pretty quickly debunked.
	Well, but that's not the...
	Well, the debunking is, I guess, you'd have to eat four Whoppers a day for five years, and then maybe, maybe you'd have an A cup.
	I think if somebody ate four Whoppers a year of any sort, they'd get an A cup or a B cup by then.
	What I was disappointed in is that, you know, where was the no agenda thinking cap, people?
	This is such an easy one.
	We're too obsessed with headlines and little synopses, and we're not really doing the work anymore.
	It's disappointing.
	If you look at all the stories, there's a source for this report, and the source comes from the Tri-State Livestock News.
	Of course.
	Also known as the newspaper that ranchers read.
	And it came from a veterinarian who published this.
	Not even a researcher.
	No, I just want people to understand that it's worth looking for two seconds.
	And they think, oh, okay, now I understand what's going on.
	Instead, everyone is online, at least.
	I don't think it really made it much to mainstream, because why would any television station or newspaper do a negative story about Burger King?
	That's not going to happen.
	But online, it's just...
	No.
	No.
	No!
	Simple deconstruction, people.
	Can you do that voice again?
	I can't do it.
	I can't do the voice.
	It's a natural talent.
	I can't force it.
	Welcome, those of you who were just told this morning by Scott Adams on his Periscope that you must listen to the No Agenda show.
	That was nice.
	Did he give us a plug?
	He did.
	What, did he finally listen to a show?
	Here's what I think happened.
	I'm going to think I'm going to go listen to the interview they did with me.
	Was it last week?
	I can't remember.
	That's a pretty good show, now that I think about it.
	No, I believe what happened.
	I have not heard it yet.
	I have not looked at it because it happened just before the show started.
	I think Comic Strip blogger, at least he's taking credit for it, put something into the chat and said, oh, no agenda show.
	And Scott apparently responded to that and said, oh, yes, no agenda.
	It's a great podcast.
	You should go and listen.
	That's what I heard.
	So, good work!
	Well, thank you, Comic Strip Blogger, if it was indeed you.
	Very good work.
	Yeah.
	That's what you have to do.
	I'd like to remind everybody the No Agenda Christmas album, Sir Chris Wilson's EP, is going to be online for the full 12 days of Christmas, so you have a few more to get it.
	Link in the show notes.
	You can find it at nashownotes.com.
	And it's well worth it.
	I have a great end of show I'm glad you got it, because I ended up getting...
	Caught up in a number of retrospectives, and I ended up with some old clips, and I'll do a thing later.
	What is this?
	Like, you're going mainstream on me now?
	You're going to do, like, all the M5M boys?
	No, I'm going meta-mainstream.
	Oh.
	So I took a listen, for example, on the media.
	Yes.
	They did a retrospective of 20 hours.
	That's right.
	Yeah, the worst.
	Yeah.
	I only listened to the first minute and a half, and I was like, no.
	And someone emailed it to us and was very enthusiastic about it, I think.
	Or did I just misunderstand the email?
	Oh, my God.
	Really?
	Is it that bad?
	Well, I mean, if you want me to get into a couple of clips, I didn't clip it too much, but I made my whole list of what they talked about because the clips are not really that great.
	If you want to, we can do news or we can start off with you slamming the mainstream for this.
	I think I'd rather start slamming.
	Okay.
	I'm with you, boy.
	Let's start slamming.
	Here we go.
	OTM. These are all the ones that say OTM as opposed to in the morning.
	They have OTM on the morning.
	It's on the media.
	On the media, yeah.
	Well, the first clip is that this is what they've learned a lot.
	Now, hold on a little bit.
	Let's back it up.
	On the Media is a radio show produced in New York City, WNYC, I think.
	It's part of the NPR public radio spectrum.
	I've been on it.
	When podcasting first kicked off, they had me on.
	They interviewed me for a little bit.
	Oh, does anyone have a clip of this?
	Oh, I'm sure it's out there.
	I'm sure they have it in the archives.
	I doubt it.
	Anyway, so it's...
	So the guy, the kind of the Faye producer comes on and he talks about what we've learned.
	We've learned a lot.
	And by the way, this is really a prelude for him begging for money for the podcast.
	They have a podcast.
	Aside from the huge amounts of money they probably receive from whatever that station is, plus the underwriters, all the underwriters they have.
	Yes, whatever you want to call it.
	But here we go.
	OTM learned a lot won.
	Hey there.
	This is John Hanrahan, OTM producer.
	At the end of the year, we like to comb through our archives.
	Okay, stop.
	This is the exact moment where I turned it off.
	I remember hearing this guy come on as one of the producers.
	I'm like, can you imagine any no-agenda producer talking like that?
	And the enunciation he puts in his voice.
	And we'd like to do a little retrospective at the end of the year.
	Enjoy this.
	Hey there, this is John Hanrahan, OTM producer.
	At the end of the year, we like to comb through our archives and pull out some of the new words we've learned.
	And this year, we had a bumper crop.
	Telos, some place we are bound to end up.
	This is where this HistoriVox complex gets us into trouble.
	VSCO Girl comes from an app, a photo editing app called VSCO. Technical debt is doing the quick and dirty and not really figuring out what things need to look like in the long term.
	Clearly we all learned a lot this year.
	What the hell did they just talk about?
	What did they learn?
	They learned nothing, apparently.
	They didn't learn anything about broadcasting.
	I'm still stuck at combing through the archives.
	Bless these words that you never heard of that were important somehow.
	And then, by the way, they continue with more of these.
	He went into a pitch.
	Oh, okay.
	I didn't believe me.
	The rest of it was indecipherable.
	But then they went into a pitch for money, and then they went to more words I'd never heard of, as though this was all sort of some sort of thing.
	So I gave up on that part and moved into their big story.
	They decided they're going to look at what the real big stories were and the big trends for the year in media and all the rest.
	We asked University of Chicago historian Kathleen Ballew to lay out some of the ideological fundamentals of the white power movement, the notions that motivated that shooter, and also the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
	Virginia.
	We will not replace us!
	We will not replace us!
	You will not replace us.
	What does that even mean?
	People in the white power movement see a whole number of social issues as fundamentally being about a threat to white reproduction.
	Abortion is a threat because it might kill white children.
	Immigration is a threat because of the threat of hyper-fertile populations of color overrunning a white nation.
	LGBT rights and feminism are a threat because they might encourage white women not to bear white children.
	All of this is felt not as a soft demographic change but as a real apocalyptic threat.
	Now, this one, by the way, should have been the third one, but this is fine.
	They don't really have to be in order.
	But white power is one of their big themes.
	And it turns out, by their logic, the only reason that all these women or people, anybody, men, women, blacks, Hispanics, whoever, Catholics, doesn't matter, the only reason that they're against abortion...
	It's not because of some fundamentalism or some religious reason.
	No, we need more white people.
	Yes, because of the white thing.
	Even though it's probably more babies of color who are aborted.
	But who cares, right?
	It makes total sense.
	This is better logic for their purposes.
	Brother.
	That was an eye roller.
	Nice one for Christmas, guys.
	Great.
	Yeah.
	Mm-hmm.
	So they actually believe this.
	So that's one of their big issues.
	They had other ones, but let's play a couple.
	I got two other clips, and then we move on.
	But here's another big story.
	This is the one on conspiracies.
	Even apocalyptic.
	We all crave explanations for things we don't understand, so some of us fill in the blanks with conspiracy theories.
	We dug into that with Anna Merlin, author of Republic of Lies, American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.
	How come we weren't interviewed?
	What the hell is that?
	There's a whole book.
	American Conspiracy Theorists.
	Did you get a call?
	Did you get an email?
	Memo?
	Nothing?
	It used to be that far-right conspiracy theories went from fringe sites, some of them actual disinformation sites, to eventually places like Fox News, and that's sort of where they stopped.
	And now they have another stop, which is they go from Fox News to the president, or from fringe sites like Infowars straight to the president.
	Again, again, again we're being snubbed.
	Hello?
	Hello, Crackpot here.
	I'd like my props.
	To the president or from fringe sites like Infowars, straight to the president.
	And this problem continues to get worse and worse.
	What is the logical extension of all of this...
	Oh, this is so good, John.
	What do you think is really happening in the world when it comes from Infowars straight to the president?
	Out of control tinfoil hattery.
	So one thesis is that, especially state-backed disinformation sources like the ones we've seen in Russia, like the Internet Research Agency, that one of their goals is to make the information ecosystem so chaotic and so unstable and so unreliable that people start believing that the actual objective truth is not knowable and that they should stop looking for it.
	Oh, success!
	Wow!
	Can you believe this?
	So conspiracies, by the way, only right-wing.
	There's never been a left-wing conspiracy.
	They're all right-wing.
	Wait, stop.
	Clip of the day for that one.
	Just definitely clip of the day.
	Clip of the day.
	And Chiep talks through this whole thing.
	They're all right-wing, and it all culminated in Fox News.
	That's right.
	And the other route is from Infowars direct to the president.
	Alex Jones, hotline to Trump.
	Hey, listen up.
	Wait until you hear my update on Seth Rich.
	Maybe we can get in next year's retrospective.
	So, now we have some other ones that are kind of interesting.
	From Russia?
	Russia?
	Russia?
	This is the big story.
	Now, this one's a little tougher to kind of grasp.
	But it's called, this is another major trend, according to these guys, on the media.
	They're media deconstructors.
	Inversion.
	We're going to return to a couple of the year's biggest themes, for us anyway.
	And let's start with one of the first episodes of 2019, which we called Everything is Fake.
	I spoke with New York Magazine senior editor Max Reed about the endlessly innovative ways the internet messes with our sense of how the world works.
	We know that about 60% of traffic on the internet is human.
	Of the remainder, that's bots.
	And then there's this huge portion of bots that are pretending to be humans, saying, hello, I am a user and I would like to see this advertisement and click on it, and then I'm going to walk away from here.
	So what happens when a facsimile internet, where fake people visit fake websites and generate fake data, begins to rival the size of the human internet?
	When the two become so enmeshed, they're indistinguishable.
	Max introduced me to the term the inversion, which is a take on what can happen.
	So the inversion was a name that YouTube engineers gave to an event in 2013 when the site was under attack from fraudulent bot traffic.
	YouTube, like most platforms, has pretty sophisticated fraud detection systems, but those systems work by identifying real and fake traffic in part based on the percentages on the site.
	This attack was so large that it was brushing up against about 50% of the traffic, and the engineers were genuinely worried that their systems would start to regard real traffic as fake and fake traffic as real.
	How?
	Why?
	They work with machine learning.
	So they take samples of behavior and they can say, the majority of our users act like this and the minority act like this, and so this minority is likely robots.
	So if the majority, at least on a given day, is robot...
	The machines say, well, that's the legitimate traffic.
	That's the traffic that's supposed to be here.
	All these bots and all these silly humans who are trying to watch videos, we need to kick them off the service.
	Oh, this is a good story.
	I like this inversion.
	Because, of course, in the advertising internet, the inversion is complete.
	It's been going on for years.
	For years, people have been fundraising, ripping off advertisers with nothing but fake traffic.
	This is not new.
	You call the company called Monopoly.
	Wasn't that the name of the company?
	Like Monopoly...
	No, I know what you're talking about, but no, it was in Florida.
	Yeah, you call them up and you say, I need some traffic, I need some traffic.
	The only reason for this story is to say, don't advertise on the internet, advertise with us.
	You can trust us, you can't trust that YouTube thing.
	There was that element.
	But they did mention that this story dates back to 2013, so it's not really a 2019 anything.
	Right.
	So it's kind of a fake.
	So anyway, they went on with other things.
	The white power was a really major, major theme.
	Yes.
	Well, as you know.
	I noticed all these left-wing operations, white supremacy, white supremacy, white supremacy, all these left-wing operations, without exception, including these guys, all overlooked one of the really great events of 2019 that was media-related.
	In fact, it was media-driven.
	Jussie Smollett.
	Not a single one brought it up, huh?
	Nope.
	Huh.
	Go figure.
	No, you're stunned.
	Kind of stunned.
	If you're white, you're a racist.
	If you're male, you're a pig.
	I should play that at the end of the show again.
	Yeah, so they missed that one entirely.
	It wasn't a big story, John.
	No one really talked about it.
	It wasn't on the news at all.
	We didn't have newscasters crying.
	I see you, Mika Brzezinski, crying.
	He put a nooser on his neck.
	Well, while those guys were jacking off to themselves, WikiLeaks released some actual newsworthy information.
	It's been going on for a few days, but they finally got what I consider the motherlode of this document dump of the Office of Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW, which is a big UN outfit, and their report...
	Well, actually, they're independent, I believe.
	Oh, they're in The Hague, though.
	They're...
	Okay, independent of what?
	I think they're more closely aligned with the EU than they are the UN. Could be.
	Could be.
	There's the documents and emails where the chief of cabinet at OPCW instructs that an engineering report be removed from the secure registry, which is their archive, and here's an email.
	Please get this document out of the documents registry archive and please remove all traces, if any, of its delivery, storage, or whatever in DRA. And it just keeps on going on that these cylinders that were found at Duma that apparently were the chlorine gas that killed all these children,
	there was a big fat hoax and their own reports stated very clearly, symptoms observed were inconsistent with exposure to chlorine and no other obvious candidate chemical causing the symptom could be identified.
	We...
	We dropped bombs over this.
	Yes.
	We launched a bunch of missiles over this because Trump was upset about the little children.
	Yeah.
	And of course the No Agenda show.
	Thank you.
	Oh, that would be you and me.
	Yes.
	We identified this as a hoax from the get-go because it was illogical.
	Didn't make sense.
	And remember you had those...
	You had, like, the rocket stuck in the ground, headfirst in the ground, unexploded, like, thing with tail fins on it.
	It just looked bogus.
	All the reports we got from people in the field said it was bogus.
	And this is years ago.
	Two years?
	Three?
	How many years ago was this?
	It wasn't that long because it was early, within the first year of Trump's administration.
	Okay, so years ago.
	More than two years ago.
	Yeah, a couple years ago.
	But why paying attention to that?
	That would be crazy.
	That would be just nuts.
	White supremacy.
	So let me lay the smack on you about Seth Rich.
	When the din dies down in media land around this time of year, when everybody's off doing white supremacy and inversion retrospectives, sometimes stuff comes bubbling up.
	I found out about this really late last night, and I got up this morning early.
	I was trying to listen to a couple of podcasts, understand what's happening.
	There are a number of journalists who claim Seth Rich...
	Who was the DNC staffer who was shot and subsequently died in DC, which I'm pretty sure we still believe, based on reporting from people like Seymour Hersh, that Seth Rich was probably the person who exfiltrated the data from the DNC server and looks like he was killed over it.
	Which, oh, I mean, how could you even think this?
	How could you even be so stupid?
	I mean, there are actual people on Twitter who register new accounts every day just to come after you and I about our opinion about this.
	So it's important to somebody that we get shut up about that.
	And the family was gagged.
	Well, more interesting, the brother of Seth Rich...
	is suing a number of independent journalists.
	Not even, like, non-main.
	Matt Couch, I think he appears on Fox from time to time.
	A number of different journalists about...
	Now, but it's a civil suit, and really, all it's for, as I understand it, is for discovery.
	So this law firm, Wilkie Farr...
	Has filed civil suits, which are kind of specious.
	I haven't seen them, but I'm just telling you what I've heard, and I'm trying to distill it down into understandable information.
	Have sued a number of independent journalists, or alternative, or whatever you want to call them, to invoke discovery and get information about what they know.
	What do you have?
	What did you know about Seth Rich?
	And there's audio of Seymour Hersh saying that he heard from an FBI source that this is what happened.
	This firm, Wilkie Farr, represents CrowdStrike in a criminal suit, which of course is ongoing regarding Ukraine, etc., So, and I guess we could have known this, but it seems like this is the way that some of these big law firms work.
	When you have a client, an important client, and you're defending them, certainly in a criminal suit, if you want to get any kind of extra information from players who are ancillary to it, you just file a nonsense civil suit against them and go into discovery and get as much as you can.
	And some of these journos, these alternate journos, are not falling for it.
	Here's the main thing I learned.
	That it wasn't just the emails which were exfiltrated from the system, which we have on authority from people like Binnie and others who've looked at...
	Yeah, Binnie did the research on the...
	He used math to figure out that you couldn't get this information over the internet at the time of the...
	Considering the connection they had.
	But you have to back up a minute, because you're going on as if we are expected to know what the source of this information is.
	You have not really...
	Is it a podcast, you said?
	Yeah, it was one of these journalists.
	Whose podcast was it?
	It's Lori Says, and I've never heard of her before.
	She's, I guess, she may be...
	It seems like she's...
	I don't know.
	Podcaster.
	Yes, podcaster, please.
	Very credible.
	I think she may be friends with Laura Loomer, who I don't deem incredible.
	You know, she definitely has done journalistic work in the past.
	But she was talking about her experience.
	And there's a link in the show notes to her podcast, about an hour.
	And she's talking about, she's reading the discovery demand she's received and she's laughing about them.
	And she explains some of this.
	But the thing that I was going to get to is that according to her and others who are in this lawsuit, the thumb drive did not contain just the emails.
	It contained an image of the server, which is a pretty damn big thumb drive or a very small server.
	It's possible, though.
	I've done a lot of work with VirtualBox and all that.
	You can definitely image a server on a USB drive if it's 128 gigs.
	That might be enough.
	I don't know the state of the server.
	But that it was not just the emails, which of course put Hillary Clinton and Donna Brazile and what's-her-face, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, put them all in a big pickle with the Democratic, with the preliminaries, with the nominee, where they screwed Birdie and it came out in these emails.
	But apparently there was voting software stuff on it.
	Algorithms for the voting machines.
	Documents about deployment of this software.
	That's all I know.
	It doesn't mean anything more or less than that.
	If true, it has very different...
	And it makes a lot of sense.
	If it wasn't just emails.
	I'll give you a couple.
	The one part of it that makes kind of sense, even though I don't know if she even knows what an image is.
	No, she's very non-technical.
	For example, if you're sitting there and you have access and you're putting stuff on the thumb drive, I don't know about you, but I know kind of the way I do things.
	If I have, let's say, a 500 gigabyte thumb drive, And I download 100 gigabytes of emails.
	I've got 400 gigabytes left.
	I'm going to just put stuff on it.
	Well, so how about this?
	I mean, you're the one that introduced me to Acronis, and there's multiple types of software.
	You install the software package, you plug in a drive, and you say, mirror the drive.
	Right.
	In fact, an Acronis will mirror a drive.
	Because I back up my terabyte SSD, which is what I use on my main machine.
	I back it up.
	I'm not a great at backing up.
	I back up once a month.
	And I use Acronis to mirror the drive.
	So if the thing ever blows up, which SSDs will do, I can just plug the other drive right in.
	I'm back in business.
	I may be a few weeks, lost a few weeks of material.
	But...
	It will do, because it's interesting to try to back up a lot of files onto a thumb drive.
	It takes a long time.
	It's not going to be fast.
	But with Acronis, using a USB 3, to back up a terabyte takes about an hour and a half max.
	And who knows the size of the server, but I'll tell you, if I'm going to steal something, it would make more sense...
	Was it a Windows server?
	I don't know what it was.
	Was it a Unix server?
	If you're just going to steal emails, I don't know if you've ever messed around with Exchange server, let's say it was Windows, or even with SendMail or something like that.
	You go in and get the mail spool.
	No, none of that's going to happen.
	You just want to mirror the drive and get out of there.
	I think that would make a lot more sense than, I'm just going to copy these emails.
	That would take forever.
	Just to remind us.
	Yes, it would take longer than mirroring the drive.
	So just to remind us.
	Let's assume that these guys, I mean, they're running a terrible, I don't know, at that point in time, I doubt if they had a big drive.
	I mean, probably, you know, some minimal.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	But, you know, regardless, even if it wasn't a thumb drive, it could have been a USB SSD drive.
	Yes.
	It's too long to play the whole thing, but just to remind everybody...
	You can buy those little drives, those little plug-in drives from Costco.
	Plug it right into a USB port.
	In fact, Seth Rich was spotted at Costco just two weeks before his untimely death.
	Seymour Hersh is an award-winning journalist.
	I didn't clip this podcast where I got this information from, but the woman, who was Tori, T-O-R-E, She's like, well, there's a couple other people who are also being sued by this law firm who represents CrowdStrike.
	And she goes to Matt Couch.
	I guess she knows him.
	She's like, here's some other guys.
	I know Seymour Hersh.
	I don't know who that is.
	She just runs by Seymour Hersh.
	She's never heard of him.
	Just give us a quick background on Seymour Hersh.
	Seymour Hersh is the guy who outed the U.S. government for the My Lai Massacre.
	That's how he got started.
	He became the number one of the top investigative reporters in the country and has continued to work until this day.
	When he has been sidelined by the media because no one wants to talk to him because he's got too much good stuff.
	They kicked him out of the New York Times because his stuff was too revealing.
	Then he was writing for the London Review of Books, but then they couldn't take it anymore because somebody came knocking at the door saying, hey, you know, you can stop writing this guy.
	And he's award-winning, right?
	He has multiple awards.
	Oh, yeah, he's won Pulitzers.
	And he's incredibly well-respected by the Lib Joes, and so there you have it.
	Ah!
	Well, I'm going to play a bit of this clip, which was audio of him explaining that the FBI told him what happened with Seth Rich.
	I'm going to play a little bit of it so you can swallow whatever you had in your mouth.
	...about the kid, and I'll tell you what I know.
	What I know comes off an FBI report.
	Don't ask me how.
	You can figure out.
	I've been around long enough.
	The kid gets, I don't think he was murdered.
	I don't think he was murdered because of what he knew.
	The kid's a nice boy, 27.
	He was not an IT expert, but he learned stuff.
	He was a data programmer, but he learned stuff.
	And so he's living on one street.
	He's living in a very rough neighborhood.
	And in the exact area where he's been, there's been about ten, I'm sure you know, there's been about eight or nine or ten violent robberies.
	Most of them with somebody bandishing a gun.
	And if they hit his hand, I'm telling you, I'm sure you know, his hands were marked up.
	up the cops concluded he fought off the people tried to run and they shot him twice in the back with a 22 small column and then they the kids that didn't ran they got scared didn't take his wallet okay so what the cops do then and here's what nobody knows what i'm telling you now maybe you know something about it when you have a death like that dc cops if you're dead you generally don't just go you have to find out what the mode what's going on you're You have to get to the kid's apartment and see what you can find.
	If he's dead, you don't need a warrant, but most cops get a warrant because they don't know if the guy has a I'm just telling you, there is such a thing.
	They go in the house and they can't do much with his computer, his password.
	The cops don't know much about it.
	So the DC cops, they have a cyber unit in DC and they're more sophisticated.
	They come and look at it.
	The idea is maybe he's had a series of exchanges with somebody who says, I'm going to kill you motherfucker over a girl.
	And they can't get in.
	The cyber guys do a little better, but they can't make sense of it.
	So they call the...
	They call the FBI fiber unit.
	The D.C. unit, the Washington field office, is a hot shit unit.
	And the same warrant.
	They call in the feds.
	The feds get through.
	And here's what they find.
	This is according to the FBI report.
	What they find is, he makes...
	First of all, you have to know.
	You have to know some basic facts.
	One of the basic facts is that there's no DNC or Podesta email that exists beyond May 22nd, May 21st, 22nd.
	And so what the report says is that he makes contact with WikiLeaks.
	That's in his computer.
	And he makes contact.
	Now, I have to be careful.
	Okay, so it's worth listening to the whole thing.
	So there was actual proof, according to Seymour Hersh, who has some believability and credibility, that the FBI discovered that he had been contacting WikiLeaks.
	They had a Dropbox.
	The passwords had been exchanged.
	And it seems like this is a story that gets so much better when you think of it being an imaged server, which could have much more data on it that was problematic,
	and that the law firm who was representing CrowdStrike, who apparently Well, actually, who installed the anti-hacking software, which, you know, two days after they installed it, that's when apparently the Russians were in the server.
	So it's a quagmire.
	And, you know, when the din dies down, this is popping up to the surface.
	Do I think it will go anywhere, ultimately?
	No, probably not.
	Well, now with these guys who are doing the media coverage and the liberal media itself...
	When they're concerned about white supremacy, and that's the reason they're anti-abortion, that kind of logic.
	I mean, they're completely scrambled.
	There's also another piece of very disturbing news kind of along these lines.
	Do you remember Dr.
	Robert Epstein, or Epstein, I should say?
	The name rings the bell.
	Yeah.
	Here's actually your clip, which will remind you, remind all of us exactly who Dr.
	Robert Epstein is.
	The number one financial supporter of the Hillary Clinton campaign in the 2016 election was the parent company of Google, Alphabet, who was our first witness.
	They were her number one financial donor, and your testimony is, through their deceptive search methods...
	They moved 2.6 million votes in her direction.
	This is the professor who showed with deep research, which was immediately discredited, of course, but the research stands by itself.
	We did a very deep dive on the research at the time, I think, on the show.
	This was one of the stories of the year that, again, along with Jussie Smollett, nobody covered.
	His wife was killed December 23rd.
	Really?
	In a very freakish car accident.
	Somehow she lost control of her Ford Ranger.
	The truck, quote, slid out of control, slid across four lanes, jumped the median into the path of a Freightliner Semi hauling two dump trailers.
	Jeez.
	Right?
	Yeah, it sounds like it's one of those things you see in these spy films when they try to assassinate somebody.
	It's always overkill.
	Well, remember, who was the, oh, it's been so long ago, before Andrew Breitbart died after drinking a wine at a local Hollywood bar, Michael, who was the reporter who hit the tree?
	Oh, Hastings.
	Michael Hastings.
	Yeah.
	With his ex-spy wife.
	Right.
	I mean, this, look, we'll just call it coincidence, that's all.
	Yeah, the Hastings story was the most disturbing of the group because of the nature of that particular wreck.
	But this sounds pretty bad, yeah.
	Yeah, and this professor, he kind of came and went.
	He made his statements.
	Cruz made a big deal out of it.
	We saw clearly that if you have the ability to manipulate the top two choices on Google search...
	Which Google, of course, has that ability.
	Those are the only two that matter.
	Anything else is just going to be noise underneath the noise floor when it comes to clicking on stuff.
	And that's how information is managed into people's brains.
	As I recall, Epstein proved that you could sway a large amount of people to think differently.
	Yes.
	Huh.
	Well, that's...
	I know!
	Yay!
	It's happy end-of-year news, everybody!
	We could be doing a retrospective about white power, or we could just tell you what's actually happening in your world today.
	And the more I think about you bringing those OTM retrospectives to the show, the more I like it.
	It just shows you how lame, how lame it all is.
	You can't trust any of these fuckers, any of them, on any station.
	And I'll do my own retrospective here.
	I have one retrospective clip.
	I saw that you had your retrospectives.
	You titled them R.E.T. So I have one R.E.T. clip just to remind everybody exactly how it works when it comes to messaging to citizens.
	Nancy Pelosi explaining the wrap-up smear.
	Of course, it's great that she's explaining it because I think she's very good at it.
	It's a self-fulfilling problem.
	You demonize and then you...
	We call it the wrap-up smear.
	If you want to talk politics, we call it the wrap-up smear.
	You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest.
	And then you merchandise it.
	And then you write it.
	And they'll say, see, it's reported in the press that this, this, this, and this.
	So they have that validation that the press reported the smear.
	And then it's called the wrap-up smear.
	Now I'm going to merchandise the press's report on the smear that we made.
	And it's a tactic.
	And it's self-evident.
	What she omits here in this part of the story is you create the smear and you go to your friends in the media who then will report it for you so that you can then say, look what my friends over there reported in the media.
	That's the only part she missed in her explanation.
	Yeah, she was not explaining it well.
	But it's a trick that is in the books.
	I mean, it's a known trick and the CIA is a master of it.
	The way it was initially explained is that they would go to the point of placing these articles or these smears in foreign publications.
	Yeah, although that's the best.
	You put it in the Uganda Times, then the New York Times can say, according to the Uganda Times...
	Yeah, and then they report it, and then you say, look!
	And then you report what the New York Times reported.
	And the New York Times just reported whatever the Uganda Times reported, which was done by a CIA guy working at the Uganda Times.
	And this is why it's so important to have so many people placed in all the publications that are agents, and that's why you need all this drug money to have this black budget.
	The CIA's budget is, who knows what it is, but they have a lot of people working for them At the newspaper level.
	Yes, not just that, but I am willing to say anybody who appears on television on a news show, which is never about news, if the station has the word news in the name, you know it's not news.
	So if they show up and they have a book, they're CIA! They're immediately suspect they probably didn't write the book.
	Very few people write their own books.
	And very few people get to go on expensive book tours.
	I've been looking at this business for about a year or so.
	You don't just get a book tour.
	I have been on a book tour, and I will argue that a bit.
	And I'm not working for anybody, except no agenda listener.
	But now that you bring that up, we might as well play this...
	R.E.T. clip.
	This is a William Arkin guy, and this is a Spooks' Pundits clip.
	So, you talked about the people who populate the networks as pundits, and you've been a fierce critic of the national security state, or at least understanding who it is who is explaining things to us.
	Reading from Politico, former CIA director John Brennan laid a super spook, they said, to be reborn as a TV newsie.
	He just cashed in at NBC News as a senior national security and intelligence analyst served as first expert views on Meet the Press.
	The Brennan acquisition seeks to elevate NBC to spook parody with CNN, which employs former director of national intelligence James Clapper, former CIA director Michael Hayden, a similar capacity.
	Other lesser-known national security veterans thrive under TVs, grow lights.
	Almost too numerous to list.
	They include Chuck Rosenberg, former acting DEA administrator, chief of staff for FBI Director James Comey, and counselor to former FBI Director Robert Mueller, Frank Figliuzzi, former chief of FBI counterintelligence, Juan Zarate, deputy national security advisor under Bush at NBC, Fran Townsend, Homeland Security.
	And it goes on and on and on.
	These are now the pundits.
	And so when you have a situation like President Trump announcing he will immediately withdraw U.S. troops from Syria and have the troops that are in Afghanistan, you have this massive attack on him that's actually led by the permanent national security state under the guise of pundits on television.
	Well, I think that you've, I mean, what you said stands for itself, Amy, but I would add to it that I think the real crisis is that when we have a panel discussion on television, in the mainstream press, and even in the mainstream newspapers, we don't populate that panel with people who are in opposition.
	We have a single war party in the United States and it's the only one that is given voice.
	And so really the crisis is not so much that there are experienced government officials speaking out.
	The problem is that there aren't critics who are sitting next to them saying that you're full of it.
	They're also spokes.
	So to me, we need to balance that.
	And I think that probably because of the phenomenon of Donald Trump, let's just be honest about it, really what we see on TV now is former Obama administration officials masquerading as analysts who are nonpartisan, when really what we see on TV now is former Obama administration officials masquerading as analysts
	And indeed we see fewer retired generals and fewer retired admirals who sometimes are useful in terms of explaining the profession of arms and the conduct of military operations in favor of these political figures who have a partisan view.
	I just don't think the American public gets well served by the fact that there isn't a broad range of opinions on those panels.
	I want to see peaceniks.
	I want to see academics.
	I want to see historians.
	I want them to as much have a voice in terms of understanding what's going on as I do see a former Obama administration official.
	We have to break.
	Yeah, please, break away.
	So, for sure, if...
	You ever come out with that vinegar book, then we know you've been compromised.
	That's a given.
	Yeah, because the CIA is going to have to write that vinegar book.
	Okay, while we're in this topic...
	I do have a Hirsch clip that kind of backs that other clip up, and this is when he was on Al Jazeera being interviewed, Seymour Hirsch.
	Oh, this is another ret.
	Yes, gotcha.
	I think it's going to hell.
	Now, what you have is, if you don't like Trump, you read the New York Times and Washington Post and watch certain cable shows, CNN. If you like Trump, you watch Fox News and you read other papers.
	They're not equal, though, are you?
	That's buying into a Trump narrative.
	Fox News is not the same as the New York Times.
	New York Times still does good journalism in the way that Fox News doesn't.
	But the credibility of the New York Times, because it's so hostile to him, maybe legitimately, but over the top, I think.
	They've gone way over the top in terms of, like, writing an anonymous letter.
	Yeah, okay.
	How long ago was this?
	Because it was one of his last...
	The anonymous letter.
	This was in January of this year.
	Yeah, well, that was definitely one of his last appearances ever.
	Well, it was on Al Jazeera.
	Oh, Al Jazeera, of course.
	Al Jazeera.
	Just to do another thing from this exact same theme, just to stick with the R.E.T. theme, again from this year in January, and what we just heard about the New York Times and the guy, well, the New York Times, the New York Times, blah, blah, blah.
	Here's Jill Abram slamming the New York Times to her former employer.
	The former executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, criticizing that newspaper in her upcoming book, calling the Times news coverage unmistakably anti-Trump.
	Let's bring in Howard Kurtz, Fox News media analyst and host of Media Buzz.
	She's not going to be making a lot of friends among her former colleagues at the New York Times with a lot of what she has to say in this book, Howie.
	Absolutely not, John.
	But this is an extraordinary rebuke by Jill Abramson, the former executive editor, as you say.
	She not only calls the news coverage unmistakably anti-Trump, she says the younger staff there, the woke staff members, as she puts it, are so concerned about what they see as the dangers of Trump's presidency that they want to throw out the old journalistic standards.
	She also says that given the paper's mostly liberal audience, there's a financial reward for the Times in running so many stories about Trump, almost all the negative, and that is, Soaring traffic.
	Whoa!
	You got butt slammed!
	Ah, yes.
	That's why people come to the No Agenda show.
	This is true.
	Yes.
	I have two observations about something the President is doing, which is not, I don't think being, well, I'm sure it's not being analyzed by news.
	So this is just, you know, one VJ to an old columnist.
	We're pulling out of a lot of different areas, and Trump is making some very interesting moves that is obviously not being reported on very broadly at all.
	Japan is now, and I think at the invitation of the president, moved into the Strait of Hormuz.
	This is where, what is it, like 60% of the world's oil passes through this 20-mile road.
	This is a nightmare, this creative horror movie.
	Yeah, and of course Iran has been making trouble.
	We had a drone shot down or shot our own drone down.
	Just a big quagmire.
	But what I think is happening is Trump is pulling completely out of all of these regions.
	Turkey and Russia are now messing around in Syria.
	Libya.
	You know what?
	Just leave everything to those guys.
	And mainly because we don't need to get our oil from the Strait of Hormuz.
	In a brief breaking report on Friday, Japan's Asahi Shimbun said Tokyo had decided to send its own troops to the Strait of Hormuz instead of joining the U.S.-led coalition tasked with safeguarding commercial shipping in the Middle East.
	It said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told his ministers in a National Security Council meeting to review the mission specifics.
	It also said that because Abe had visited Iran in June, possibly to serve as a mediator between Iran and the U.S., this could be a move to avoid clashing with Iran and at the same time stay on board with Washington's plan for the defense shipping.
	The Strait of Hormuz is a crucial area in terms of international trade because it's the route taken to transport 20 percent of the world's petroleum.
	So I think Trump made some kind of deal with Abe and said, look, you go park over there, I'll take care of those disputed islands that we all know are really yours, but China's are trying to take them over, and that will be the new theater for us.
	So that's the oil part, or petroleum.
	Another thing always important when the world is, you know, just in the world in general, is gold.
	Where is a lot of gold mining done?
	It's a place we've all heard of, but my eyes certainly always kind of glaze over when I hear Burkina Faso, like, eh, whatever.
	But where is it?
	Well, it's in Africa, and this report from France 24 says, Tells us that maybe Trump is not so interested in everybody having any more gold or mining it or whatever.
	This attack did not come out of nowhere even if it is the worst attack in Burkina Faso's modern history.
	We have seen a sharp increase and I mean a very sharp increase in attacks since Burkina Faso as a whole became sort of dragged into the broader conflict and the broader sort of jihadist insurgency that began in this whole region around 2015.
	It's perhaps no accident that France, just last month in November, announced that they were deploying more troops as part of their Barkan operation throughout the Sahel region to Burkina Faso.
	I always love that you never hear about any other countries messing around in Africa.
	Finally, we hear about the French.
	And more specifically, right to the region where these attacks happen today.
	It's the so-called Three Borders region.
	It's where Burkina Faso's border meets up with Mali and Niger.
	And as these attacks are escalating, another military presence in the region, the U.S., is reportedly planning to withdraw troops.
	Yeah, and what I could tell you comes with the big caveat.
	This is according to a report that actually appeared in the New York Times a couple of days back.
	Saying that the U.S. military is now weighing proposals for a major reduction or even a complete pullout of American forces from West Africa.
	Not just from Burkina Faso, but from West Africa in general.
	And that this is part of a broader Pentagon sort of rethink of its entire global deployment strategy.
	So drawing West Africa would be the first in line, but there could also be American troops being drawn down from regions in Latin America, Iraq, Afghanistan.
	Is this not the story of the year?
	I mean, we covered the West African withdrawal recently, but why isn't the media covering any of this?
	Some report in the New York Times somewhere mentioned it, but this is huge pulling out of everywhere, and it makes so much sense.
	Go ahead.
	You have the next 20 years of bullcrap.
	Whoever wants to go in, China, have at it.
	Burkina Faso, gold really is mining.
	The two major exports are gold and children who mine for gold.
	Small batch.
	A small batch.
	Artisan gold mining.
	That's really what they do.
	And there's other mining around Burkina Faso and the countries surrounding it, West Africa in general.
	But again, we always put more troops in under some bullcrap ruse of, oh, Ebola, we've got to go protect everybody or our interests.
	So that's done with.
	And I think that this is part of the overall Trump strategy of no, just no.
	A lot of it may have to do with the outrageous squandering of funds.
	Trillions of dollars that could go into our own economy.
	I just lament every time I was driving in Oakland a couple days ago, just some street to go from here to there.
	And it was like, I mean, it was like pothole city.
	I'm surprised they didn't break an axle.
	Yeah.
	For 12 years, you've not broken an axle yet.
	But the complaints have been there.
	Hey, it's borderline in some situations, believe me.
	Luckily, I drive a car that hasn't been well-made.
	Yeah.
	But, I don't know.
	Yeah.
	Now, where's the coverage on this?
	No, no, no.
	Let's just talk about impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach.
	Well, you bring up a good point about the squandering of funds.
	And this is where it gets a little difficult.
	And I've just had a lot of time to think about this.
	If you look at, just take Ukraine as the example, you know, where, you know, One America News and Rudy Giuliani and they're going to uncover thousands of sealed indictments, seven and a half billion dollars transferred back to, you know, everybody everywhere.
	A lot of it's in the actual government documents themselves.
	If you look at money that was intended for Ukraine...
	It's, you know, $300 million was earmarked, government money, our money, tax money, $300 million for AIDS education in Ukraine.
	And that's going to NGOs and others.
	And that's how it works.
	You set up, you know, it's like, hey, John, we got a buddy over there, you know, they make it in Congress and...
	You know, they got some chips in with somebody else.
	So why don't we start a little non-governmental organization?
	We will educate podcasters how to be free media, something like that.
	And then we'll get an earmark and we'll get $25 million.
	We put together a class.
	No, this is what it is.
	This is what we should be doing.
	I know!
	This is the exit strategy.
	We're available.
	Yeah.
	You need a good grantsmanship person, somebody who knows how to write grants, and you can make a lot of money off of this thing that they're trying to put an end to, and I think it's wise to put an end to it, because it's squandering taxpayers' money.
	It's not going toward jets.
	It's not going toward anything, you know...
	But wait, wait, wait, wait.
	This will make you laugh.
	Grease.
	What do we know about Grease?
	Grease is broke.
	It's broke.
	It's broke.
	However...
	The finance minister, the defense minister, Nikos Panagyapalopoulos, told parliament earlier this month that they needed to upgrade their Viper class F-16 fighters.
	And so they're going to spend $280 billion dollars On upgrading their F-16 fighter jets.
	Who even knew Greece had fighter jets?
	Do they really need them?
	No, because it's for us.
	It's us.
	We give the Greek money through IMF and other mechanisms, and it came right back to us.
	Not us, per se.
	Okay, Lockheed.
	Is that not us?
	Well, I'm not a shareholder.
	You know what I mean.
	It comes right back to the U.S., to Lockheed, but others.
	The maintenance contracts, the shipping, the logistics.
	It's all economic hitman stuff.
	And it's not really behooving anybody but assholes who are already rich or their kids.
	And One America News is, I mean, we played this months ago about Paul Pelosi, her son.
	They've now wrapped it up into a little news item.
	We were quite a bit ahead of this one.
	As the Ukraine scandal backfires on the Biden family, the Pelosi's may be the next to come under scrutiny.
	An old promotional video resurfaced on Thursday, more than six years after it was uploaded by an energy company which does business in Ukraine.
	The video starts out with Nancy Pelosi speaking about her efforts in office to push for clean energy.
	Her message is followed by a promotional statement from her son, Paul, who is a board member of Visc Oil and an executive at its related company, Energy Lab.
	My name is Paul Pelosi.
	Of course, I'm on the board of Visco Oil.
	And Visco's here today to talk about accelerating the future.
	And that's what Visco Oil does.
	It uses technology to maximize the use of natural resources, like oil and other resources.
	Just two years after this video was uploaded, Pelosi led a congressional delegation to Ukraine to discuss issues like energy security.
	Anderson traveled to the country as recently as 2017 on behalf of the Corporate Governance Initiative, where he now serves as executive director.
	So you run a court, you have a corporate governance business and you're here in Ukraine speaking with representatives from the government, investment bankers discussing certain things related to the soccer.
	Exactly.
	This comes as Hunter Biden faces similar allegations.
	They used his father's position to make lucrative business deals in Ukraine and China.
	So there you go.
	Just, you know, give the kids some money.
	Well, you know, that way you can spread it out a little bit.
	By the way, you know that One American News is suing Rachel Maddow.
	No, I did not know this.
	It looks like they have a case.
	Tell me!
	And so Rachel is going on saying, well, you know, whenever I say something, it's not really a fact, it's just something I think.
	But what happened?
	She had to hire some hotshot lawyers.
	What was the case about?
	What did she say?
	Did she disparage me?
	She said that One American News was a Russian front bought and paid for by the Ruskies.
	I hope someone says that about you and I. Well, you'd have to sue them.
	But, uh...
	Yeah, well, that's the whole point.
	You said they have a case and now she's all freaked out about it.
	Well, she should be because she's got a big mouth.
	Yeah.
	Someone, yeah.
	It's about time someone took her down a notch.
	Well, it'd be more than a notch if One American News has its way.
	Yeah, we'll see.
	That's good.
	I didn't know that.
	Yeah, it's pretty fun.
	I got a kick out of it.
	All right.
	I think we've kind of...
	Well, with that, at the one hour mark, exactly, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in Christmas, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Anchor.
	In the morning airships, sea boots to the ground, feet in the air, subs to the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls.
	And let me see how many trolls do we have here today because it is still...
	Oh, wow!
	Nice!
	1,071 trolls on deck and all there to serve and to troll, which is what they do so well.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, trolls, for being there.
	Noagendastream.com.
	Got big plans for that website this year.
	We're finally going to try and get something together, make it a little more cohesive.
	We'll be reaching out to you.
	That's noagendastream.com where you can listen to all of our live shows.
	There's 24 hours a day.
	There's something running, a podcast, which you can later subscribe to.
	But it's really a cool place to hang out and exchange information or just troll other people and yourselves.
	Also, in the morning, too, our artist for episode...
	It's 1202.
	We titled that one Invidious Phobias, which I think is the title of 2019.
	I really liked it.
	I still have to look up the word Invidious every time.
	I think it means scary or something like that.
	Yeah, I have to look it up.
	Mike Riley.
	Mike Riley brought us the perfect Boxing Day artwork.
	Santa Claus, Saint Nick, boxing with a kangaroo.
	And not only was it just perfectly done, it pops because it was yellow background and...
	Yeah, it's a pro.
	Like I say, the guy's a pro.
	We found it at noagendaartgenerator.com where you can look at all of the art, ten times as much art as we have episodes.
	There was a lot of good art, and so we had to make a decision, and we generally swing a little bit toward original art if we can find it.
	In other words, the guy draws something.
	Yes, well, of course.
	And...
	And O'Reilly's pretty good at it.
	I mean, he...
	Well, he's a pro.
	He does one piece usually.
	He's not like...
	Darren O'Neill gets more hits because Darren O'Neill's a productive guy.
	He's like, bam, bam, bam, bam.
	He's like, I got five pieces.
	He does five pieces a show.
	Easy.
	Yeah, with one hand tied behind his back.
	What are we talking about, too?
	We say, oh, this piece, I really like this piece.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	You won't like it.
	I won't like it.
	Somebody won't like it.
	Well, you know what we should actually...
	Well, let me finish this way the story goes, because this is kind of the way it works.
	You say, oh, you know, you look at this Darren O'Neill, and you say, well, I hate that he did nice.
	Then you find another piece that's, okay, we'll pick that.
	It's also Darren O'Neill.
	And I always say, well, I don't feel so bad about rejecting his other piece.
	I'm just looking at the page.
	It would be an idea, although I don't think I have the bandwidth, but it would be an idea.
	You can literally take what the artists are doing while we're doing the show and you could put that into a timeline that would switch when we switch topics.
	I mean, it goes from Kevin Spacey to Trump to Jane Fonda to the boob-growing burger.
	It's almost in a timeline.
	It's very interesting.
	Yeah, there is that.
	Project for yet another day.
	And a lot of times the guys, like in the last show, there's somebody who tried to outguess the show.
	There's always one artist, and by the way, I don't recommend doing this because it's pretty hard to do, is say, I know what they're going to talk about.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, that's the burger.
	We didn't talk about the burger last time.
	No, people already, they did art for the last show about the burger.
	We never talked about the burger.
	I wasn't actually, until you brought it up on today's show, I was never going to talk about the burger.
	Well, but I'm a burger kind of guy.
	You are.
	You're a burger kind of guy.
	I'm not a nothing burger kind of guy.
	The point is that trying to out-guess what we're going to talk about is not to...
	Because we don't...
	Just because it was in the news or it was some sort of gimmicky story doesn't mean we're going to talk about it.
	And generally, we don't.
	No, and generally, the things that we think, oh, we really got to talk about that, we forget to talk about.
	That's a continuing issue.
	That's the weakness of the show.
	Yes, it is.
	That's when you only have thousands of producers outside the studio.
	There's not actually someone there to kick you and say, hey, hey, remember to talk about this.
	Well, let's thank a few people for being executive producers and associate executive producers for show 1203.
	1203, yes.
	Now, is this our year-end special?
	Or is this a...
	This...
	No, everybody's...
	Well, the year-end special is actually going to be on the 2nd of January.
	That is the special.
	But anyone who contributed $33.33 or got an executive producer for this show will be...
	They can claim executive producership for the No Agenda New Year special.
	Ah, okay.
	Okay.
	And then we're not going to do another one of these special executive producer things until July 4th, which is the 4th of July for you.
	I know you don't remember that date, but...
	Just because you wrote a shitty sentence in the newsletter draft doesn't mean you have to try and tell me that I don't know what July 4th.
	And then you called me a communist, you McCarthyite.
	I'm reminded of Stalag 13 or that movie where the guy comes in and somebody tries to talk about the 27 Yankees and the guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
	And so they figure he's a Nazi.
	Let me just mansplain this, okay?
	John always sends me the newsletter to look over, and there's usually some typos.
	There's usually some typos, one or two.
	It's not a big deal.
	And then I'll copy the line and I'll paste the line with a correction.
	And this first line was like, you know, I just didn't understand it.
	And so I copied and pasted the line about you won't have another chance like this until July 4th.
	I'm like, wow, we're not going to have any special shows until July 4th.
	I know what July 4th is.
	So I just replied July 4th, question mark.
	He'll come back with, yeah, comrade, like I'm some kind of commie.
	Jeez.
	So I'm thinking, I'm going back to Stalag 17 or 13, wherever that movie was, and they beat the crap out of this guy who doesn't know anything about the 27 Yankees.
	And I'm thinking, poor Adam, who doesn't like sports, he shows up in a Nazi concentration camp or a prisoner of war camp.
	Who won the 2019 World Series?
	I'd be like, put me up against the wall.
	I'm dead.
	I'd still say Astros.
	There's got to be more people that don't follow sports.
	I mean, more so today than back in the day.
	Kolditz.
	Was it not Kolditz?
	Stalag 13.
	Kolditz, I think it was called.
	I don't remember.
	I don't remember.
	Escape from Kolditz.
	Escape from Stalag 17.
	That's what it was.
	Okay.
	Anyway, let's take a few people who helped us here.
	Wait, wait, wait, stop.
	Who won the FA Cup?
	Wasn't that Liverpool?
	You know, this is another thing that bothers me.
	Let me stop again.
	Okay, so I'm watching ESPN, which has just deteriorated.
	I mean, they're okay during the football playoffs, even though they don't have good sound engineers, it seems.
	I'm looking at the scores underneath and they're showing all these British club sports soccer scores.
	And it's just one after another.
	I'm thinking, why are they doing this?
	Is it because Americans are all into British?
	They're all Manchester United fans?
	No.
	They know that nothing goes better with avocado toast than some soccer scores.
	Then I think to myself, well, if that's true, why are they so racist about it?
	Racist?
	Where's the soccer scores from Brazil?
	Where's the soccer scores from Mexico?
	Where's the soccer scores from Africa?
	Where's the cricket scores from India?
	It was kind of a big championship.
	This is week after week, day after day.
	We're talking about the regular season.
	They're just showing British scores of soccer games randomly.
	It's a plot.
	But they don't show Brazilian scores.
	They don't show Mexican.
	They don't show any other scores from any other countries.
	Just...
	They don't even show the stuff...
	Well, they do show...
	They'll show Madrid, some of the scores in the continent.
	Well, here's the thought.
	I'm going to answer this for you.
	Maybe they've figured out that by only showing the British scores, they will keep old white coots like you engaged wondering why there's no Brazilian scores.
	Because you're clearly yelling at the TV. I am.
	Let's thank some people.
	By the way, everyone should yell at the TV. It's fun.
	It is good.
	Well, let's start with Richard Bagwell in Louisville, Kentucky.
	They don't even give horse racing scores.
	Uh...
	He gave one, two, three, four, five, six, which he does every year.
	Yes, that's right.
	Beautiful.
	We'll call him Sir Richard, even though I don't think he's claimed it.
	No.
	But Sir Richard contributes, my annual contribution to the best podcast in the universe requesting Jobs Karma, the original Pelosi solo.
	Also requesting Adam, accept my LinkedIn request.
	Well, this is a very good point.
	I have not managed my...
	You lost his password.
	I do not know the password.
	I know I can retrieve it.
	I have not managed my LinkedIn profile probably ever, but I think I set it up when we started Podshow because that looked professional.
	I am hereby requesting to outsource my LinkedIn profile.
	And anyone who is serious...
	I would like you to manage it, because I believe that managing the profile is of huge importance and could actually help the show.
	I'm sure somebody will take you up.
	I mean, I'm thinking of doing it, but I wouldn't.
	No, no, no.
	I'm not letting you anywhere near that thing.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	I think I just felt the keeper's ears perk up going, hmm, maybe I can manage that.
	Yeah, she could probably do it.
	I know she could.
	I don't think I can afford her.
	You don't have to pay her.
	All right, onward with Sir AJ Vanderstein in Carlsbad, California, with $1,000.
	This is our...
	Retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Marines.
	Ah, yes.
	Semper Fi!
	Semper Fi!
	That's right.
	Has it been a year since we last heard from him, or did he come in an interim?
	He comes in about once every six months.
	Yeah, well, we love hearing from him.
	I know he came in during the year at least once, if not twice, with smaller donations.
	But he always sends a very nice note.
	He got himself into a health jam, as you recall, from his last note.
	Okay.
	He's back, I believe.
	He's also, his official title, Sir Joseph, with an F, Earl of Southern California, when approved.
	Oh.
	There are issues with the segmentation down there, and it has to be resolved by the peerage committee.
	It's taking a lot longer than it should.
	Clearly.
	You know, what is with these guys?
	I don't know.
	Anyway, so he always writes on Marine Letterhead.
	It's very attractive.
	ITM, John and Adam, I have attached my last contribution for our calendar year 2019 omnibus budget.
	Please put it to good use.
	Regret that we are a bit tardy with this submission.
	We were visiting family in Texas where we got a clear impression of the awesome power of the M5M.
	No.
	We spent three weeks with the most prolific Trump haters, Rachel Maddow watchers, and just plain crazy people.
	For this family?
	I guess.
	You know you're in trouble when you see Rachel Maddow on the family's Sirius XM radio list.
	laughter And the bumper sticker Beto on the back.
	I honestly didn't know that Sirius XM carries a full-time Maddow show.
	We love our family, but it sure is good to be home 1,500 miles away.
	Carl's bad.
	This contribution makes me eligible for promotion to Earl on the Peerage List.
	Okay.
	With the blessing of all the members of the Peerage Committee, I would like to maintain sovereignty over the Southern California Protectorate.
	Please change my title to Sir Joseph Earl of Southern California and ask the back office to send the appropriate parchment.
	No jingles, but I could use a bit more of your goat health karma.
	Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and your families.
	So I think I should put him down for an Earl upgrade.
	We just leave the protectorate in abeyance for now?
	I think you can give him the protectorate in abeyance.
	Okay, Southern California in abeyance.
	Yeah.
	IA. That's a fix.
	In abeyance.
	It's abeyance.
	A-B-A-Y? A-B-E-Y. I think it's E-Y. I think it's abeyance.
	I'll punch it in.
	It'll give you an underline.
	I'm punching it in.
	You're right.
	Punch it in.
	A-B-E-Y. Yes, you're right.
	You're correct.
	It's with an E. Good.
	Okay, so he's on the list.
	Outstanding.
	Well, I'm glad you survived your health issues and the family.
	Don't know which one is worse.
	Well, it's like you go through this.
	You probably did him well to go down and hang out with him.
	Makes you appreciate life.
	In Texas of all places, by the way.
	Makes you appreciate life and sanity.
	Sanity of the amygdala.
	Exactly.
	Healthy, healthy, healthy, healthy.
	Yes, and he wanted a goat karma, right?
	Of a health variety.
	You got it.
	Here it comes.
	Semper Fi.
	You've got karma.
	Is that cool for us to say that, even though neither of us are Marines?
	Yeah, you can say it.
	Okay, cool.
	It's a greeting.
	It's like a greeting.
	It's like a cheers, like cheers.
	Yeah, it has a little more history to it.
	Well, it means a little more to the Marines, that's for sure.
	No kidding.
	Yes, okay.
	Well, the Marine trolls in the troll room say yes.
	Yeah, of course.
	They like hearing it.
	Right.
	R.C. Mouse in Vista, California is next on the list with $334.
	He's in Vista, California, and he also has a handwritten note.
	And I've got to get my glasses on again.
	He's actually sent a nice card with a mouse on it.
	I'll make a small correction.
	We're allowed to say Semper Fi, but we're not allowed to do Hoorah!
	I'm not doing that anyway.
	You've got to have gone through the training to do that one.
	Yeah, I would think so.
	I agree.
	It makes sense to me.
	Warm Christmas wishes, writes RC Mouse.
	Thank you for another year of entertaining media deconstruction.
	I could not think of a better way of showing my appreciation than to become an executive producer.
	Many thanks for all the plugs on the show for the furry con meetup in Chicago.
	We had a blast.
	We are furry enthusiasts.
	We are.
	We are.
	And why not?
	Why not?
	No, there's no reason.
	So I have a furry kind of a...
	Well, let me explain what happened.
	Chest?
	So...
	No, I don't.
	I have a furry dog head, a big giant thing.
	It's a huge...
	I'll take a picture of it and put it in the newsletter.
	Put it on your head and take a picture.
	And put that in the newsletter.
	And it has a little drape.
	I think it's officially a furry costume.
	Jay, who does dog walking, ran into a period for about one month where every time she went dog walking, there was something with a little free sign.
	Laying out on somebody's driveway and she picked up like a, not a couch, but a big chair, a table that was actually, she refinished.
	And this dog head was the biggest dog head.
	And the thing about the dog head, by the way, and you'd be surprised how big it is, it has a fan in it, a battery-powered fan.
	Oh, to keep you cool.
	Yeah, because otherwise I guess you'd sweat to death in the thing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I guess somebody's throwing their kid's furry costume or maybe their wife is a cousin.
	So let me just get this straight.
	So Jay and Nick are still living with you, right?
	Temporarily.
	So they're bringing trash back to your...
	So it's like Sanford and Son, this whole outfit that you're running there.
	A junkyard.
	Like, look, Dad, I got a table.
	I can finish it and make it look good.
	Here, I got a dog head for you.
	Great find, Jay.
	Another day's work is good.
	Well, I like Doghead.
	I've decided, as an aside, and Tina and I both appreciate the invitation to Jay's wedding in May, I think, and we're very excited about coming, but I do have one stipulation.
	I would, for once, just like to see your studio.
	No.
	Why not?
	And why am I not allowed to see it?
	It's a mess.
	I know!
	What if I sign an NDA? Think about it.
	Just think about it.
	I'm just putting it on the table.
	That's an interesting idea.
	Alright, onward with Kalen Nistor.
	$333.33 to be a special executive producer for the special coming up.
	Thanks for a great year, he writes.
	My...
	Thank you for a great year, my friends.
	Many more.
	Happy New Year, Sir Cal and team.
	Yes, this is Cal from lavenderblossoms.org, who I think started his company during our tenure of the show.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, it was only a few years ago.
	And it's apparently going quite well.
	Well, we've helped him.
	Yes, yeah.
	And I want to mention...
	It's a good product.
	That's the only reason.
	I mean, if it was crappy, we wouldn't say anything.
	Both the products from Lavender Blossoms and Jumbo from Jumbo Joe have...
	Now, we're not sure if it's directly attributable, but Tina had a sciatic nerve problem, which can be quite painful.
	And the minute the CBD was applied, the next day things got better.
	I'm not saying it's completely attributable, but I'm a believer that...
	I'm a huge believer in these CBDs.
	Mimi's got rheumatoid arthritis and she uses the cream on her hands and she says they're fantastic.
	Is that what she calls you?
	That and acupuncture.
	Yeah, I like acupuncture.
	I'm actually okay with that.
	So, Cal, thank you very much.
	Thank you for your support of the show and thanks for bringing those great products to market.
	Boner pills next.
	What?
	Nothing.
	Okay, now I have to look this, look, I'm going to squirrel mail here.
	No way!
	Do I have to do it?
	No.
	Yeah, I do.
	I have to because it is better than just plain old IMAP or SMTP. You like send mail?
	Forget about it.
	You want to go straight to the source.
	The source can find your emails anywhere that's driven down, way beyond the spam.
	He doesn't get none of that, ladies and gentlemen.
	I want to tell you that it's time for John C. Dvorak's mail program known as...
	Hit it, ladies!
	No, there's nothing there.
	Ah!
	Scott Spencer, $333.33.
	Thanks, Scott.
	Squirrel Mail obfuscated your mail, obviously.
	Peter Chong's next with another $333.33.
	And I can say we only had three of these donations that clicked that particular button, so...
	We do have the show coming up, but I'm guessing that these special things are...
	People have already got their specials in.
	I'd like to be knighted, Sir...
	This is Peter Chong.
	Oh, good, good, good.
	I'd like to be knighted, Sir Peter, knight of the day.
	Oh, that's a good one.
	I either sent accounting to the wrong place or John skipped over it.
	Yeah.
	Could you repeat?
	Can you repeat on the air where new knights should send accounting info?
	Yes.
	I will do so afterwards.
	John at Dvorak.org.
	It works.
	Hey, Baron, he's on the list.
	You're on the list, Peter.
	Yes, Peter.
	Thank you.
	Baron Hay, idiot.
	$333.
	Credit to Baron Hay.
	Felicitations, gents.
	I'm making this donation to show support.
	I smacked my lips there because I wasn't smacking my lips.
	I was trying to swallow some saliva.
	That's apparently getting into my discussion here.
	That's even worse.
	I'm making this donation to support the show for the animated No Agenda YouTube channel.
	John should check his squirrel mail for details.
	Well, I'm not going to play the jingle, but thank you for bringing that up, Baron Hey Idiot.
	I had on my list for today, we're at like just under 4,000 subscribers for Animated No Agenda.
	Everybody right now, go to Animated No Agenda on YouTube and click the subscribe button.
	Oh, and click the little bell so you'll be notified immediately.
	Timecode.
	Timecode, timecode.
	We need to hit 5,000 because that's a magical number, apparently, with YouTube.
	But also, just go there again to revisit all of the...
	I mean, Horowitz called me yesterday, and he says, man, I gotta tell you, that animated No Agenda is really, really good.
	My daughter is showing it to her friends.
	My daughter never listens to the show.
	You're like, oh, I should listen to the show again.
	It's pretty funny what you guys are doing.
	She'll never listen to the show, but she'll listen to the animated No Agenda.
	Right, which is a good start.
	And remember the hashtag Netflix because we're going to get this thing placed.
	We're going to get it placed.
	They just announced they're no longer going to carry Friends because it's $100 million a year.
	It will be a lot cheaper than that.
	Yes, exactly.
	And we can have as many episodes easily.
	No problem.
	Lather up, Jennifer.
	As many episodes as friends.
	We can do it.
	Yes, Jennifer.
	What do you mean, we?
	Jennifer does a great job with that.
	And I really would like to see that push past the 5K subscriptions.
	Algos kick in.
	Let's see if we can get this.
	Let's exit strategy, people.
	Let's try and get this going.
	Thank you.
	I said it before.
	I'll say it again.
	It's not an exit strategy because to do the cartoon, we have to keep doing the show.
	Well, then what are you going to call it?
	It's just easier to call it.
	Okay, it's not an exit strategy.
	You're right!
	It's just another income.
	It's just more work.
	It's more work.
	It's more work.
	We love it, though.
	Love it.
	I never thought I'd be a cartoon.
	Well, you are now.
	Ah!
	Tony Cabrera, $309.
	Sorry, Sir Alex Vanderhengst, $321.20.
	Is his annual contribution donation, 321.20?
	Yep.
	Happy New Year, Sir Alex.
	Thank you very much, Sir Alex Vanderhengst or Vanderhengst.
	Both will work.
	Tony Cabrera, $309.69.
	Checking in with your latest share of profits today is the official relaunch of NoAgendaShop.com.
	Yes!
	With an updated design and new products like stickers and hoodies.
	We've been waiting for this.
	This is good.
	People should go there and get some stickers and When you're going to the toll plaza, get a little closer to the left, a little closer to the thing, and slap a sticker on it.
	You can see bands.
	Everybody's putting stickers up, but there's no agenda stickers.
	It always irks me when I drop to the toll booth and there's a place where you can easily place a sticker.
	And there's no agenda sticker there.
	I like that.
	I also like the baggage carousel.
	That's one of my favorites.
	That's a good place to put a sticker.
	They never stay long because they wear down quick because of the suitcases.
	But there's nothing like seeing a sticker come around and go around again.
	You can kind of mark it like, oh yeah, okay, that's where it started.
	Oh yeah, my suitcase not here.
	I'm getting dizzy.
	No agenda show.
	No agenda show.
	It works.
	It works.
	It does work.
	All right, back to where we're at.
	We hope the new changes help us survive and grow in 2020.
	Well, we hope so, too.
	For those who, and we didn't talk about it today, about noagendaartgenerator.com, but art from that website, some that's not even been used on the show at all or in newsletters, goes onto t-shirts, mugs, hoodies, stickers, etc., And then a third of the proceeds goes to NoAgendaShop.com, a third goes to the artist, and a third goes to the show.
	It's a beautiful value-for-value collab.
	And I appreciate what Tony and the team are doing there.
	And what does he want?
	In the meantime, please hit me with a Manning and Little Girl Bingo Boom Shakalaka combo for good luck.
	They're saying that all hell is going to break loose and you're going to need a Bitcoin.
	Boo-chook-a-lacka.
	Boo-chook-a-lacka.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, $263.37 becomes our first associate executive producer.
	And he wrote us a note.
	I will return to the glasses, grab the note, and read it.
	And I believe he may also have a title change or something today.
	Yes, right at the top.
	Sir Rick becomes Viscount of the Puget Sound.
	All right.
	Close finder check.
	I find it difficult to predict when John checks the P.O. box, but this should arrive about the time as my normal automatic $6,969 donation.
	If so, feel free to combine it with this amount for a $33,33 executive producership.
	I think there was one that did come in.
	It's possible.
	Okay, we'll push you up to executive then.
	We'll have to remember to do that.
	With this donation, I've exceeded 5X and I will claim the title of Icon.
	At the end, he says, $73, Sir Rick.
	NJNK. Epstein didn't kill himself.
	73s.
	K5ACC. 73s.
	Martin Weiler in Berlin, Deutschland.
	Nice.
	Nice time of year in Berlin.
	Dear John and Adam, thank you again for the great value of your show, Love and Life for 2020.
	May I ask for some R-E-S-T-E-C-P karma?
	And all the best, Martin.
	Ja, danke, Martin.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T You've got karma.
	Kim Vacheron comes in with $250, and she's in Foxborough, Massachusetts, where the New England Patriots play football.
	I think it's the first donor from Foxborough.
	She sent a note in.
	This is my first donation.
	My oldest son, Griff, hit me in the mouth sometime late 2017.
	And not long after I pulled a walkaway, hashtag walkaway, from the foolish Democratic Party.
	That's interesting.
	I was a lifelong dem up to then, but had become increasingly frustrated and finally had enough!
	I'm now happily...
	Unaffiliated.
	Very good.
	That's the way to go.
	Unaffiliated.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	And a devoted listener to the best podcast in the universe.
	I hope we helped.
	Please accept this donation of 250 bucks and thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping my sanity in check with your excellent deconstruction and many laughs.
	You guys are seriously the best.
	Aw, thank you, Kim.
	I know she didn't ask for it.
	I would like to offer her a dedouching.
	No, wait.
	What?
	I didn't even finish the note.
	Merry Christmas to you both and best wishes for a happy, healthy 2020.
	I'd love a resist-we-much...
	And stop the hammering along with a long overdue de-douching.
	Okay.
	So now I've got to find all the other stuff.
	Because it wasn't...
	Well, I think resisting much you can find pretty quickly.
	But you can do the de-douching now.
	Okay, here we go.
	You've been de-douched.
	But resist we much.
	We must and we will much.
	About that, be committed.
	And I couldn't find it.
	I couldn't find it.
	Damn, I couldn't get it in time.
	What, stop the hammering?
	Yes.
	Do you know how many...
	Can I do it on word search?
	And do you know how many jokes we have about stop the hammering?
	I don't know.
	Just play a random one.
	It's actually one of my favorites.
	Okay, I'm going to do the sequence over again.
	But resist, we much.
	We must and we will much about that be committed.
	Stop the hammering!
	There we go.
	That feels better.
	I feel good now.
	You know, people should know that Adam is superstitious.
	I am?
	What?
	It's more like obsessive-compulsive, but yeah, you can call it superstitious.
	Scottsdale meetup.
	Oh, nice.
	Oh, okay, Scottsdale.
	They gathered $220.
	Oh, beautiful!
	How many people were there?
	I didn't get a note, so I have no idea what happened.
	No, I got a note with a check.
	And it says here, we had our first meetup in Scottsdale.
	This came in from Jenna.
	We had our first meetup in Scottsdale.
	With about 10 attendees, the good news is we collected $220.
	The bad news is 200 of the 220 came from the Baron of the Verde Valley.
	That's funny.
	So we're going to put Baron of Verde...
	No, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	It's the Scotchdale meetup.
	No, no.
	That's what it is.
	It's official.
	Yeah, he put it in there.
	Okay.
	Keep it there.
	The remaining 20 is from your host, me.
	Mr.
	Genitals.
	As this was an inaugural meetup of strangers, I didn't push too hard for donations.
	However, we plan to make this a regular thing, so in the future, I'm going to get more strongly encouraged donations.
	If for no other reason, then we don't look like a bunch of douchebags.
	There's no data you may be interested in.
	As you guys have predicted, everybody got along well, and there was no awkwardness whatsoever.
	All attendees were male.
	Most were 35 to 55 with one 22-year-old and one over 65.
	Two to three learned about the No Agenda show from Today in Tech.
	A couple by word of mouth and a couple by just listening to random podcasts.
	And one from the Donald subreddit.
	Hmm.
	I've been struggling to come up with a short explanation of exactly what the meetup is.
	Because what is it exactly that makes this happen?
	It's such a mouthful to say, well, you meet people who have really one thing in common is that they're not going to be triggered by whatever you are, what you say, and you're not going to feel triggered by them.
	Yeah, it's a triggerless environment.
	Let me finish his note with this.
	Finally, one of the most interesting observations was as follows.
	Although many different topics were discussed, there was zero mention of impeachment.
	Yeah.
	As far as I'm aware, he says.
	Right.
	I thought this was odd considering that this was the big controversial news of the week.
	No, I think that's exactly right.
	And no agenda meetup would completely ignore that.
	That's not important.
	It's a sham-peachment!
	Anyway, I'm struggling with coming up with the right descriptive sentence.
	I want just a sentence.
	Somebody can write it for us.
	We have people out there who are creative.
	Okay.
	And last on our list of associate executive producers is Staffan Madison in Brooklyn.
	$211.55.
	We need more Brooklyn listeners.
	Hi, gents.
	Donating purely for...
	Excuse me.
	Selfish purposes need...
	I need that sweet, sweet Nancy Jobs.
	Now I have the hiccups.
	For an idea I proposed to my boss which would eliminate a management position that gave me a hefty chunk of change.
	I'm enjoying the show as always.
	We need...
	Nine more seasons.
	Seasons?
	Now we're doing seasons.
	I'm against this.
	This idea of seasons.
	You brought it up once before and I've never subscribed.
	Someone else brought it up previously.
	I would never recommend this.
	I don't like it.
	No, we do in blocks of 1,000 shows.
	Exactly.
	We're 1K blockers.
	We don't mess around here.
	Yes, I'd be more than happy to give you some sweet Nancy Jobs karma for that idea you proposed, and let's hope that works out.
	Taffan, thank you very much for your courage and your support.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And that concludes our list of executive producers and associate executive producers for show...
	1203.
	I'm going to have trouble with this number, by the way.
	I keep thinking 19.
	That's okay.
	And thank you to these execs and associate execs.
	You know the deal.
	This is the credit that you deserve, and you need to take it.
	You need to display it proudly, loudly, if only just for the badge that it is, the badge of courage, of honor.
	But it can also be a lure to bring people closer to you.
	Executive producer.
	I wonder.
	Maybe he's looking for an unknown.
	Anything could happen with an executive or associate executive producership as long as you use it accordingly.
	And thank you.
	We'll be thanking more people, $50 and above, in our second segment.
	And if you have not supported us, please consider that for our next show, the first one of the new year, by going to...
	And you can look pretty smart around New Year's.
	You know what's really going on these days.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Stop the hammering!
	Shut up, Steve.
	I have an update.
	I have an update.
	We need an update.
	Yes, an update.
	Let me see.
	I don't have an update sound.
	Update sound.
	I have an update.
	Update on 23andMe and the military.
	I have the update sound.
	Update!
	Nice.
	I'm time-coding that.
	There was a story that we talked about last show of the show before, about the military not wanting any of their enlisted people, anybody, the Pentagon not wanting anyone in the military to do one of these DNA tests.
	Specifically 23andMe and Ancestry.com were mentioned, and it was a little confusing.
	It's like, oh, it's national security, security of the troops.
	So, you know, we weren't really sure what it was about, but of course, we have a very vast array of producers, many who are boots on the ground, literal boots on the ground, and two emails I'd like to share some information with.
	The first one, just wanted to let you know, the military actually takes a DNA sample during the initial medical processing.
	I was told the DNA profile is kept on file in order to identify remains if a soldier is killed in action and could not be identified by other means.
	That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
	But instead of the military saying, we already have the DNA, you don't need another test.
	The second email is perhaps a little more pertinent.
	Adam, the reason they're not saying the true reason is because having your own DNA under your control could help you or others discover unknown kids belonging to military members.
	This could or could not be a problem in the military and even punishable under military law.
	Example of the kid as a result of adultery.
	That's a legal uniform code of military justice, UCMJ.
	Best case scenario, maybe single troop had one night stand and didn't know.
	Now the kid and mom take part of your check and the kid is entitled to military benefits.
	I don't think the military wants to deal with that because it could make you less deployable.
	I think that's probably something to that.
	I think that's probably it.
	I mean, I hear so much about...
	I would never do a DNA test for my own personal privacy reasons, but there are so many people who find out that their parents aren't their birth parents or their brother's been adopted.
	None of this seems like a great idea to know.
	People who know and have found this out, I think typically at the end they say, well, at least it enhanced my knowledge of who I am, but it comes with a lot of heartbreak and stuff.
	I knew a guy who was a stockbroker, and one day I saw him, he was like, he's kind of pale, and somebody knocked on his door, and it was his son that he never met or knew he had, 21 years old.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Whoops.
	What?
	Whoops.
	Whoops.
	There was a little bit of a fracas that happened I think two days ago.
	Putin did his big press conference for the media where he answers all these questions.
	Yeah, he does it once a year.
	He does a big press conference.
	He spends all day there.
	I think it was a week ago.
	So, now we have people from all over the world who listen to the show.
	A comic strip blogger.
	I'm not sure if he is Polish or if he grew up there or if he's there now.
	I have no idea, but...
	He pretty sure is Polish.
	I think he's Polish.
	So he sent me a note saying, look at this!
	He was accusing the Poles of assisting the Nazis and the damn anti-Semites in Poland.
	And he said, you have to talk about, you might talk about, there's no agenda.
	So I take his note, and of course, the clip that he sent with it associated.
	But, you know, there's subtitles and there's, you know, interpretations.
	So I send it to Sir Gene.
	You know, the Earl over here, because he speaks the Russian.
	And so I said, well, what's going on?
	So, of course, I get the Russian version, which is, comrades, this is much ado about nothing.
	You know, so it's like everyone's arguing about who was the biggest shitheel in World War II. When I've discovered that it had nothing to do with any of that, it is purely a political statement by Putin, For a pipeline!
	According to the Russian state television, Vladimir Putin ended his end-of-the-year speech to high-ranking military officials with accusations towards the Polish diplomats from the 1930s.
	He referred to the 1938 Appeasement Pact, where the Allies agreed to deportation of Czechoslovakia.
	What's more, he reserved particular criticism for Poland, namely stating that Poland's ambassador to Germany at the time was a Nazi sympathizer.
	Essentially, they colluded with Hitler.
	This is clear from the documents and archives.
	Particular critique was reserved for the Polish ambassador at the time, Josef Lipski.
	Apparently, Putin said this about him.
	That bastard, that anti-Semitic pig.
	He expressed full solidarity with Hitler and his anti-Semitic views.
	According to Polish analysts, there are several reasons why Putin is singling out Poland.
	First is the practical seizing of the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline due to US sanctions.
	That's it.
	That's what this is all about because Poland is playing with us.
	See, that's why Trump gave Poland the visa waiver.
	It's like, they're helping thwart the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is the big deal for Gazprom in Russia.
	That's what all this is about.
	And meanwhile, exactly what it wanted is people yelling at each other over something that happened before they were both born.
	And Gene is a duke, I'm sorry, he's not an earl.
	Who is also the sheriff.
	Yeah, that's confusing.
	He just wants to be a duke.
	And he is a duke.
	So anyway, so that's what this is about.
	It's all about the pipelines.
	And by the way, this is the Russian agent, Donald Trump, who is making all this trouble.
	Russian, yeah.
	And also, Putin's running the USA, according to the LibJoes.
	And Russia just finalized a $2.9 billion transfer of money to Ukraine for gas transport.
	You know, they're at war and national security.
	No, they had a nice little chat in Vienna and they figured it all out.
	They also exchanged prisoners, Donbass prisoner swap.
	So, you know, maybe it's not quite as horrible as the M5M would have.
	You think it is.
	They're clearly doing business.
	Well, the M5M's got its own agenda.
	And I actually agree with the guy earlier, the William Arkin character.
	Who is an old military intelligence guy that you will never hear on the air again after that little thing he did on the Amy Goodman show.
	Where it was like, you know, there's one party in charge, it's the war party.
	Yes, this is true.
	And so the war party is just giving us the news and they're not going to tell us anything that has anything to do with peace.
	We talk a big game about peace, but they're the war party.
	I was thinking about this.
	If you look at the people who are, well, there's a couple things.
	First of all, the ruling class.
	And I had a long discussion with the keeper about this, about what the ruling class is, because I believe it's people who run, the banks are the ruling class, the educators, the universities are the ruling class, and yes, politicians.
	But the politicians aren't actually calling the shots, they're influenced by everybody else.
	How would you define the ruling class?
	I would say it's the top-level influencers.
	Right.
	But not necessarily lawmakers, but just influencers.
	Right.
	I think there's a few lawmakers in the class.
	Must be.
	So Nancy Pelosi is, of course, part of the ruling class.
	Yeah, she would be there.
	So if you look at the ruling class, and my goodness, man, look at who is running the country.
	I think anybody in Congress that's worth over $100 million.
	That's all of them!
	Not really.
	There's a lot of them.
	There's a lot of them.
	They're all pretty old.
	They're 70-plus.
	Which is, you know, it doesn't bother me at all, but when you think about how they view Russia, they grew up with the Soviet Union, USSR, and I think there's plenty of trauma that went around.
	I'm not diminishing, you know, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I don't know how old you were, but I can see that would have been very scary to a lot of people of a certain age today.
	You were maybe too young, but it doesn't matter.
	These people who are running the show, between 75 and 80, witness that and I think have trauma.
	The same goes for...
	Their whole globalist New World Order view, which is what we keep getting pushed towards.
	And I was watching an interview with a Dutch politician, and he made this point.
	He said, these people, who are the ruling political class, grew up with John Lennon's Imagine.
	And I had to think about it.
	And you look at the lyrics.
	Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try.
	No hell below us, above us only sky.
	Imagine all the people living for today.
	Imagine there's no countries.
	It's not hard to do.
	Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.
	Sound like something?
	Yeah, it sounds like a formula to get shot.
	This is the dream.
	No borders, no religions, we're all one.
	We all live in peace and harmony, a brotherhood of man.
	I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
	I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.
	Yeah, it's a very...
	New world order-y thing.
	New world order, no borders, one world government.
	That's what he left out.
	Yeah.
	Imagine there's one world government dominated by the ruling elites.
	I mean, he should have added some more lyrics.
	I'll rewrite it for him.
	They killed him because he didn't put that in.
	That's probably what happened there.
	Yeah, I know.
	It just hit me.
	It's like, yeah, I can see where people who grew up, and I remember the song, but, you know, it was like the 10th anniversary of it.
	Well, by the time he wrote that song, he was in the ruling elite, even though he didn't know it.
	He was the ruling class, yeah, true.
	But, I mean, you know, McCartney's a billionaire.
	I mean, let's get a clue here.
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Well, of course, he's not the real Paul.
	These guys aren't doing us any favors.
	He's a different guy now, but it doesn't matter.
	Your point is well made.
	Well, it's still, yeah, it's still posing as the same guy.
	And he probably thinks he's that guy now.
	So, one way or the other, these people are going away.
	It will get better.
	I mean, how much longer can they last?
	They're done.
	It's not just them.
	They pass it on to their kids.
	Oh, yes.
	And Nancy Pelosi is toast, man.
	She is...
	Her eyebrows are at her hairline now.
	Just touch your face.
	Your eyebrows start above your eye socket.
	Hey, one more facelift and she's going to have a goatee.
	I hadn't heard that one, but I like it.
	Goatee.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Enough of my silliness.
	Do you want to hear another retrospective?
	Yeah, let's do a retrospective.
	First of all, I want to bring in a retrospective of an ISO showing that this is a 12-second ISO that was used at end of show.
	We used to have used longer ones when they were funny.
	No!
	No!
	I think the nose habit.
	Are you sure we use that end of show?
	I'm pretty sure.
	It's doubtful.
	But it's a good one.
	It's a very good one.
	I mean, I have one that I'd like to offer as a potential.
	This is Matt Gaetz.
	The Congressman Matt Gaetz.
	No agenda for America.
	Doesn't get much better than that.
	Yes, somebody read it.
	We had that one and we just dropped the ball on it.
	This is the one, though.
	That's the one.
	It's good.
	This is another one of these little clips that I picked up.
	This was my favorite.
	This was from the spy show...
	Berlin Station.
	We ran this in January.
	It's a retrospective.
	I consider it one of the best.
	I consider it my favorite clip of the year.
	And this is the turn to set it up.
	This is a one of the spies had quit the agency, but now he's still living in town and he's going to everyone's afraid of what he's going to do.
	And here we go.
	What do you know about Gilbert Dorn?
	Gilbert Dorn?
	Um...
	Same as everyone?
	Legend put out to pasture?
	Saw and did it all during the Cold War?
	Cast a pretty long shadow at Berlin Station.
	He never left.
	Retired in Berlin.
	Did not know that.
	Let me guess.
	He's writing a book.
	Worse.
	Podcast.
	That is the new spook outlet of the future.
	Podcasts.
	That's where all the spooks are moving towards podcasts.
	I think that's a good idea.
	Yeah.
	Hey, you want some influence, that's the way to go.
	People are tuning out of your M5M. Before you continue with retrospectives, let's do something a little more au courant.
	There's an issue in Australia that the temperature of the sea has gone down.
	What?
	Yes, I know.
	It's problematic.
	So at the same time, climate change is burning everybody alive in Australia.
	So somehow this has to be fixed.
	You might want to get a pencil and a piece of paper to write down the reason as brought to you by the BBC. Potential for these fires.
	In this particular case this year, we've had a phenomenon known as a positive Indian Ocean dipole.
	And what that basically means is sea temperatures in the eastern side of the Indian Ocean, so close to Australia, have been lower than average.
	Now, cooler seawater generates less rain.
	The warmer the air is essentially over the oceans, the more rain we get.
	And because the oceans have been a bit cooler, there hasn't been as much rain.
	That's one of the reasons why it's been so dry across Australia.
	Because the ground is so dry, it heats up more quickly.
	So, you know, we can trace it back.
	We can find reasons for this.
	But scientists will obviously be looking at it in the broader context of world events to see that link with climate change.
	Alright, Ben Rich, thanks for bringing us up to date on those weather conditions.
	Yes, lovely.
	We have to link it to climate change.
	The positive Indian Ocean dipole.
	Of course!
	If it's not the Arctic blast, what was the other term we had?
	There's a bunch of them.
	The polar vortex.
	It was like to bring up the fact that there's going to be, they made the prediction there's going to be no snow in England ever again.
	Yes, the children in England would only see snow in snow globes.
	Yes, so it's the opposite of the polar vortex is the positive Indian Ocean Dipole, which of course we've heard about for years whenever this took place.
	No, never, ever!
	And how it just rolls off.
	In fact, I need to play it again, just for myself.
	I just need to hear, just need to hear him say that again.
	We've had a phenomenon known as a positive Indian Ocean Dipole, and what that basically means is...
	I mean, can you believe this?
	And they say that with a straight face.
	I can't believe it.
	This is when they say the oceans aren't rising because Australia, again, is providing a sponge effect.
	Oh, yes.
	Sucking up the water.
	Yeah.
	And the cyclone bomb.
	We need to keep track of these.
	The cyclone bomb.
	Well, let's go back again to January and remind ourselves, this is a 19-second RET, Amy Climate Gloom.
	A new study published this week finds the melting of Greenland's ice sheet may have reached a tipping point and could severely increase sea level rise over the next 20 years.
	The report confirms other recent studies which warn the Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet due to climate change.
	Yes, and let's just do a little update.
	We'll go to Google, which I don't use typically, and we'll do warming at twice the rate.
	Right, this was one of the originals.
	We had a clip that you had of all these people saying this is twice the rate, twice the rate.
	How does one place, with global being the operative word, How does one place start warming at twice the rate?
	So, now, let me just hear what Amy said again.
	A study published this week finds the melting of Greenland's ice sheet may have reached a tipping point and could severely increase sea level rise over the next 20 years.
	The report confirms other recent studies which warn the Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the planet.
	In Climate Watch, Canada is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world.
	What?
	There you go.
	So we have Canada, the Arctic, Northern Hemisphere, UK. This is fantastic.
	Everyone's claiming it.
	Everybody, Russia warming twice the global rate, Australia warming twice the global rate, Britain, China warming twice as fast, Ireland warming.
	Just look it up on Google.
	It's all there.
	Horseshit, people.
	That's what I say.
	Manure du Chaval.
	Well, then, bringing up one more of these, and then we'll get back to normal.
	Yeah.
	You might as well go to this, R.E.T. Fat People.
	I don't think I remember this one.
	Kit Doe on why researchers say obesity is bad for the environment.
	Obesity and global warming, both heavy topics now linked by a new study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
	It says people who weigh more tend to drive more and eat more.
	And all that food?
	It's shipped on average 1,500 miles from where it's grown to your plate.
	Fat people, researchers contend, are killing the planet more so than those who are thin.
	Well, I don't remember this clip.
	You don't?
	No.
	But does this mean that fat people are causing global warming?
	Yeah!
	That's a whole new dimension to fat shaming right there.
	Oh yeah.
	Damn.
	I know.
	I'm surprised it didn't catch on.
	There was a...
	I think the reason it didn't catch on is because most of the people seriously in the global climate crisis tend to be overweight.
	Oh, please.
	Just making that up.
	There was a...
	What was this article?
	I don't know if it was in the Los Angeles Times.
	It was a professor, yes, from California.
	To address climate change, we must seriously question private property ownership.
	I really like this angle that this guy is taking.
	What is this guy's name?
	He's from UCLA. Aspirations of home ownership and the belief in the importance of private property could be reinforcing the conditions that result in wildfires.
	See, the idea here, I think, and maybe it's been part of the Agenda 21 push and subsequently the 2030 goals and the 2050 climate neutrality, is to not let you determine where you want to live or what your house looks like.
	No, you should just all be renting and the homes will be built specifically like cinder blocks, I guess.
	Just a cinder block where you sit in it and enjoy.
	The best new housing developments that you describe like that are also easily convertible into minimum security prisons.
	They are!
	Sad but true!
	I'm going to show my soul by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	And on we go with some people that helped us in show 1203.
	Starting with Lauren Smudski in Pleasant Grove, California.
	And she sent a check in and a note.
	She came in with $100.
	Dear No Agenda, thank you for you two and all of your support.
	And this is handwritten.
	And back and people.
	And this is a...
	Special thing and has a unique audience.
	I appreciate the autonomy and see that, which is what we have, and see it as a light.
	Yes.
	There are many great aspects of No Agenda.
	The anthrax-sounding Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself being one of them.
	But your independent, standalone, sort of original internet Operation is the coolest.
	Thank you, Lauren.
	Thank you.
	You skipped over Jessica Sawyer.
	Jessica Sawyer actually topped Lauren with $136 in Lakewood, California.
	And she, well, we don't need to know, but she does have a birthday.
	Yeah, let me do this, because donations are not long.
	In the morning, in honor of my birthday, which is show day today, will be my first donation, so please dedouche me.
	You've been dedouched.
	My smoking hot boyfriend started hitting me in the mouth about 18 months ago, and it took about a year for me to start shrinking my amygdala regularly.
	I feel so much lighter.
	Please call him out as a douchebag, though, because, well...
	No, just please call him out as a douchebag!
	We will be dedouching him next month for his birthday.
	Listening to the best podcast in the universe is our favorite pastime, as it is a breath of fresh air in the madness of life.
	With this donation, I start on the road to Damehood.
	If you can be so kind, please send us some house-selling goat karma.
	We will do that for you at the end with everybody else.
	Thank you very much, Jessica, and you're on the list for today.
	On to her with Jay Heisel in Lenexa.
	You know, I've never known how to pronounce this town in Kansas.
	Lenexa?
	I don't know.
	99.33.
	Ryan Raditzki in Iron Mountain, Minnesota.
	8008.
	Herb Lamb in Earl of Georgia.
	8008.
	I'm sorry.
	I wanted to read Ryan's note.
	It was a nice note.
	Forgive me, Podfathers.
	I must confess I've been a No Agenda listener since early double-digit episodes.
	I have reason to believe that I may have been a factor in the 8008 donation as I came up with the number a few weeks after the 6969 started and I added it to my Hit My People in the Mouth speech.
	My girlfriend at the time told me to list the first 8008 donation on the next show because her friend from Michigan was going to use the number.
	And then did the rest get cut off?
	He had a nice note.
	Damn it.
	He was close to knighthood was the point.
	Yes, well he is close to knighthood and he'll be knighted shortly.
	Not today.
	No.
	Okay.
	Sir Herb Lamb, Earl of Georgia, 8008.
	DJ Anonymous, 8008.
	And he actually wrote a note in, which I will look at.
	Which is the boop, boop donation.
	Boop, boop, boop.
	I am a last...
	In my last letter, this is all longhand.
	It's pretty funny looking, too.
	I mentioned my opinion that a real message should be handwritten on paper.
	You did me one better by claiming it not only...
	The only count if it was written in cursive does this much count.
	And then he goes to...
	He leaves cursive.
	He stopped.
	He couldn't do it.
	While listening to the show, other than Zephyr sightings, you seem to be happy...
	You happen to...
	Happiest reading letters featuring the United Federation of Planets letterhead.
	So here's some United Federation of Podcasters stationery.
	This is our guy.
	Yes.
	He sent me some.
	If you enjoyed or even if you don't, I'm going to scan the cartoon and put it in the newsletter.
	Did you see what I mean?
	It's very funny.
	It's like a real podcast with the hookers on each arm.
	Yeah.
	And a girl in the back with her heart pumping.
	Have a happy new year.
	Merry Christmas.
	Coming to you from Mach Zero.
	Baroness Susan Johnson came in with 80.
	She's in Hillsboro, Oregon.
	Sir Brian Kaufman, Scottsdale, Arizona, 7575.
	Baron Mark Tanner with his twice monthly donation of 6789.
	Sir Scott Morgan, Austin, Texas.
	He is Sir Scott of the Armory.
	He organizes all the pew-pew.
	Pew, pew, pew, pew.
	Tara Reese in Urbana, Illinois, 5520.
	She has a note.
	Happy Yule and Happy New Year to the best podcast in the universe.
	Happy birthday to my douchebag mother, Barb.
	Douchebag!
	Love you, Mama.
	Wow.
	We do get some crazy, crazy.
	Lee Olivares, 5510.
	Michael Delosier in Maryville, Tennessee.
	He reaches knighthood with this donation.
	He would like to be dubbed Sir Dancing Mike.
	And he wants Smoky Mountain Brewery...
	What?
	Help me with this.
	Helles?
	And Yeehaw Kolsch?
	I'm going to butcher this.
	What is this?
	Smoky Mountain Brewery Helles.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	And Yeehaw Kolsch.
	I think Kolsch is a beer.
	I don't know what Smoky Mountain Brewery is.
	It's a beer.
	These are beers, I think.
	He also wants to kick off the dame drive for his smoking hot wife, Denise, slightly increasing my sustaining donation to make the accounting for her damehood easier for me.
	It took me a few years and several vacations, but I finally hit her in the mouth about a year ago.
	I'd also like to request a dedouching for her as the contributions will be in her name going forward.
	And since she makes more than me, she's been indirectly contributing to the show for some time now.
	Yes!
	That's right.
	Get it from your woman.
	You've been dedouched.
	I wonder if the fact that she was always making more money than him put her in a state of mind not to pay attention to the show or dislike the show because what does he know?
	He doesn't make as much money as me.
	Wow.
	I'm not going to go there, really.
	I'm just suggesting the possibility.
	Maybe.
	Because it took him over a year to get her to like the show.
	Well, now they're set for life.
	I guess so.
	Judy Schwartz is also set for life.
	Baroness of Kendall County in Bernie, Texas.
	That's right.
	$50.65.
	Happy New Year.
	Winfried Buwalda.
	Buwalda.
	Buwalda?
	Greetings from the Gitmo Lowlands.
	No.
	This is not a very typical name.
	Fenray.
	She, him.
	Fenray.
	Thank you, Winfried.
	Scott Nelson in Melbourne, Florida.
	$50.01.
	The following people are $50 donors, name and location.
	Scott does not want to be on this list.
	Robert Fittler in Mars, Pennsylvania.
	I won't say what I used to say anymore because his wife objects.
	Paul Gabrielson, $50.01.
	Elwha Liebel in Newark, Delaware.
	Newark, Deutschland.
	Nice.
	Newark, Deutschland.
	Newark, Delaware.
	Sir Richard Gardner.
	Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland, Michigan.
	Part of the group there, I think.
	Darren...
	Denizewski, I think?
	In Dubai?
	No, no, no.
	Denizewski.
	Denikowicz.
	How you got Denizewski?
	I don't...
	Denikowicz.
	Sorry, Darren.
	Sorry, Darren.
	Darren, not Dennis.
	Darren.
	Rydia.
	Can you imagine what Rydia...
	Can you imagine...
	Yeah.
	Well, he's in...
	Dubai.
	In Dubai.
	What a place.
	What a place!
	John Kaverick.
	Please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	He also wants to call out his brother Darius Miller as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Says he's hit him in the mouth around show 900 and hasn't given a dime.
	Huh.
	And last on the list is Eric Dutro in Flint, Michigan, with $50 donations.
	These are people that helped us do show 1203, helped produce it, and we thank each and every one of them, and we have a lot of people that also gave lesser amounts, which...
	You and I get credited for reasons of anonymity.
	Yeah, well, we don't mention them on the show, although they are credited in the overall scheme of things, certainly for saving up for knighthoods.
	We have people who have been doing it for multiple years on $10 a month and eventually wind up with a knighthood.
	They're proud of it, and we're proud of them.
	Really, the sustaining donorships under 50, which is a lot of our subscriptions, you can find it at dvorak.org.au.
	It's very, very helpful.
	And all of it's appreciated.
	And all of you are producers of the best podcast in the universe.
	And we'll do it again next year.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. We'll see.
	Karma is requested.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	That's right.
	Today is the 29th of December.
	We're winding down 2019.
	Only two birthdays on the list.
	Tara Reese congratulates her mom, Barb Reese.
	Apparently a douchebag.
	She'll be celebrating on January 1st.
	A Capricorn indeed.
	And we say happy birthday to Jessica Sawyer.
	She celebrates her birthday today, December 29th, 2019.
	It's your birthday, yeah.
	Okay, let's see.
	Now we have, we do have some titles.
	Title changes for today.
	Michael Delosier becomes Sir Dancing.
	Mike Christopher Gutierrez becomes Sir Q-Itis, Knight of the Multicloud.
	And Peter Chong assumes the title Sir Peter, Knight of the Day.
	Now, shoot.
	These are not the titles.
	These are the knightings I've got to do.
	Scratch that, we'll edit it out.
	Here are your title changes.
	Sir Rick becomes Viscount of the Puget Sound, and A.J. Vandersteen becomes Sir Joseph Earl of Southern California in abeyance.
	There we go, I'm sorry.
	It was in the wrong order on my sheet here, so...
	Those are the titles, the birthdays, and now we can get to our nightings.
	We have three of them.
	I just mentioned them, but we need to get...
	I'm out of control, John.
	Here you go, I got one.
	Thank you, that'll help.
	I'm out of control.
	Michael Delosier, Christopher Gutierrez, and Peter Chong, please come up here.
	You are really getting a title change.
	This is the big one that you get because I'm about to pronounce the Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable, and I do that by calling you Sir Dancing Mike, Sir Q-Itis, Knight of the Multicloud, and Sir Peter, Knight of the Day.
	You are all now Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable for you.
	We've got Hookers, Blow, Rent Boys, Chardonnay, Smoky Mountain Brewery Helles and Yeehaw Kolsch.
	We got Horsehead Pumpkin Ale, Bourbon and Bong Rips, Pinball and Power Chords, Pepperoni Roll and Pale Ales, Rubenes, Women and Rosé, Gachas and Zake, Vodka and Vanilla, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, and of course, Mutton and Mead, all to be acquired at the roundtable.
	And please go acquire your ring by going to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	That is where Eric DeShield will help you.
	You're going to help him by giving him your ring size and an address where he can find you.
	And then you'll receive your ring, your sealing wax, your certificate.
	And please tweet out a picture of it or put it on No Agenda Social.
	Anywhere where we can see it because we love it very much.
	And here we go!
	Meetups!
	No gender!
	Meetup!
	Like a party!
	Like a party!
	Now, a couple things off the top.
	February 21st, there should be a Delray Beach meetup in Florida.
	I know it was being planned or planned.
	I have not been able to retrieve it from NoAgendaMeetups.com, but the Keeper and I are going to be in Florida, Delray Beach, on the 21st of February.
	It's a Friday, and we need a meetup organized because it's going to be fun.
	Maybe Horowitz will even drive up for it.
	I talked to him about it yesterday.
	He says, well, will people know who I am?
	He says, yes, Andrew, you're famous.
	Don't worry.
	People will love you.
	It's true.
	People will love you.
	Yeah, no problem.
	No problems there.
	So please get on the stick, people, and confirm with me so we can have some closer coordination for the Delray Beach, Florida meet-up on February 21st.
	Delray beat-up.
	The Delray beat-up.
	We had a number of Meetups take place, of course, over the course of the past week, and we got a report, an audio report, which, if it's short enough, and I edited this one down a bit to make it a bit tighter, I'm happy to play it.
	This is from the fourth Trajecta meetup in Utrecht, the Netherlands, also known as Gitmo Nation Lowlands.
	So, this is Sir Henrik at the 4th Trajectum meeting in Trajectum, also known as Utrecht.
	Your name is?
	Babo Segeda, Sir Robert of Easton.
	There we go.
	And this is Dame with a little hedgehog.
	Dame Corey with my echo.
	Ten Boom.
	Ten Boom, yes.
	Dame Corey of Ten Boom.
	Yes.
	Hello, Adam.
	I'm Kees.
	I'm here for the first time in Utrecht.
	Fantastic.
	In English, of course.
	Oh, sorry.
	Adam, I'm Kees.
	I'm an escaped slave.
	Hi, I'm Dame of the Doomsday denies.
	I drink white wine.
	Hi, Adam, Fred van Leeuwen from Helmsham, you know me.
	I'm from Save Our Democracy.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, me too.
	Sir D. of Hollandse Rading.
	Sir Herco, tell us who you are.
	I'm Sir Herco.
	I'm Sir Herco.
	I'm Sir Jacob, guardian of the Lindbergh Coast.
	There we go, that's our server.
	Sir Herco, knight of the fable, thief them up, Utrecht.
	I mean, just hearing that, you want to be there.
	That sounds like a great group.
	I love Dame of the Doomsday Denier.
	I drink white wine.
	Can't get much better than that.
	Yeah, sounds like a party.
	It's just like a party.
	Thanks, guys.
	Thanks for sending that in.
	And this is what happens at these meetups.
	People come together who really, in regular passing in life, would probably never bump into each other.
	But we all have this one thing in common, amygdalas of normal size.
	And we can talk about anything.
	Without anyone getting triggered about it because we know it's just not worth it.
	We're not participating in the game.
	And there will be a number of them for the month of January.
	Amsterdam kicks off on the 3rd at Restaurant Dauphine, and Entrepreneurio is your organizer for that one.
	That'll be at 5 o'clock Amsterdam time.
	At the same time, the other end of the world, Seattle, the Seattle Monthly, at a new location, the Hop Vine Pub.
	Check the back of the bar.
	Patrick will start organizing that at 7.30.
	Then on the 7th of January, the second biannual Knoxville Meetup, 4 o'clock at Barley's Knoxville, Sir Seat Sitter hosting for you.
	Then on the 9th, that'll be a show day, Thursday.
	This is a good one.
	A No Agenda Toon Man Tour, the Beirut Stop.
	This is Jesse Coy Nelson.
	He has done end-of-show mixes for months, almost without fail, every single show.
	And I've seen him progress.
	I mean, you hear a Jesse Coy Nelson mix, you'll know it right away, because he often sings and it's atrocious, but somehow it makes it work.
	He's a traveling teacher, and he's set up a number of meetups.
	As I said, Thursday the 9th in Beirut, Lebanon.
	Jesse will be hosting this at the Rabbit Hole on Makdisi Street in Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon, 6 o'clock Beirut time.
	And looking forward to getting a sound clip from the people who meet up there.
	And Jesse's also going to, he thinks he's going to go to Israel, hang out with the knights there.
	He's on a tour.
	Then the 11th, a brand new entry.
	That's the Saturday and two weeks.
	The Long Island Meetup.
	Excelsior Slaves.
	Come one, come all.
	First attempt at a Long Island and New York City Gitmo Nation Meetup.
	Meet at St.
	James Restaurant and Bar.
	Andrew Grasso will be hosting that.
	And that is your current overview for No Agenda Nation Meetups.
	Go to noagendameetups.com where you too can enjoy in this activity, which is...
	A great compliment to the show because meeting people in person is incredibly important.
	Having that human interaction.
	The troll room is good.
	No agenda social is fantastic.
	But when you get together and you drink and you talk and you see each other's faces and energies, it's a very good thing.
	It's fact, scientific fact.
	Look it up in the Mueller report.
	Well, that was a good report.
	Yeah, well, we got good people, man.
	We got producers all over Gitmo Nation.
	Well, let's do at least one impeachment story, which is that the impeachment has stalled.
	Stalled.
	And so nobody knows what to do about this, and so they don't even know how to report it.
	Here, for example, is NBC's report.
	President Trump and the first voice of dissent, or at least dissatisfaction, among Republican senators over the way the Senate leadership is planning the president's trial.
	We get more from Hans Nichols.
	Tonight, President Trump dealing with a potential Republican defection on impeachment.
	Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski signaling she's unhappy with Senator Mitch McConnell's pledge to work in total coordination with the White House.
	When I heard that, I was disturbed.
	Murkowski, who has defied party leaders in the past, responding to these comments from the Senate Majority Leader last week.
	I'm going to take my cues from the President's lawyers.
	Murkowski demanding some distance from the White House.
	We have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense.
	I need to be able to sit back and look at both sides of this.
	President Trump has relished in Republican unity on impeachment.
	We had 196 or so Republicans voting 100%.
	We didn't lose one Republican vote in the House.
	While putting his faith in McConnell's Senate moves.
	Ultimately, that decision is going to be made by Mitch McConnell, and he has the right to do whatever he wants.
	He's the head of the Senate.
	But Trump today admitting that impeachment is impeding his role as commander-in-chief.
	Writing on Twitter, it makes it much more difficult to deal with foreign leaders and others when I am having to constantly defend myself against the do-nothing Democrats.
	And Hans is with us now.
	Hans, how are other Republicans reacting to Senator Murkowski's comments tonight?
	Well, we heard from Louisiana Senator John Kennedy.
	He's a Republican and an impeachment skeptic, saying she's entitled to her opinion and Mitch McConnell is entitled to his.
	But still, no news on a potential trial or a start date.
	Wow, a minute and a half that I'll never get back.
	Yep.
	That's so empty.
	You know, this is the biggest TV show on Earth.
	But the thing is, Donald Trump is the show.
	He's the show.
	So, everything you hear has to relate to Trump.
	Every news story, everything.
	He can never be impeached.
	The media, if they could, would give him a third term.
	He is the show.
	Yeah.
	And now that the impeachment's stalled...
	Yeah, what are we going to do?
	These guys are, like, beside themselves because they can't cover it, apparently, as we point out on this show every show.
	There's all kinds of news stories around that could be covered.
	Yeah, but that's not the show.
	No one cares about dead people in the Philippines.
	We won't even pull global warming into it.
	We can't connect it to Trump.
	Did Trump ever have a Filipino hooker?
	No.
	Sorry.
	No story.
	No story.
	They're working on it.
	Now, there are some other parts to the big show that I wanted to touch on before we say goodbye to 2019.
	As the show progresses, if you don't have money, then you're not in the show.
	And Elizabeth Warren, I think, is running out of money.
	And when you run out of money, you're not buying ads.
	When you don't buy ads, you're not in the show.
	You get voted off the island.
	So now it's Warren.
	She was great.
	She was just great.
	Just a few days ago, she was great.
	But now, no, she doesn't like polling, and I don't know, her Medicare for All answer wasn't right.
	I mean, it's annoying, I think, when any kind of political candidate says, I don't do polls.
	I mean, yeah, I get it.
	You don't want to hire pollsters, but you can't ignore the polls.
	I mean, the polls, 50% of her voters are saying that they're not for Medicare for All.
	Is she going to ignore that poll?
	Because her numbers continue to drop.
	And is Medicare for All to blame for Warren's crash?
	Should she not be paying attention to that poll?
	Well, Medicare for All, I think, is a big piece of this puzzle.
	Because if there's one thing the Democratic voters want, it's not actually universal socialized health care or anything like that.
	It is defeating Donald Trump.
	So they need to nominate someone who will be electable.
	Elizabeth Warren, over the summer, was sort of positioning herself as the person who could be that, who could be the electable progressive, maybe not as far to the left as Bernie Sanders, but maybe doing better, sharper on the trail than Joe Biden.
	But I think her stumbles around Medicare for All have left some Democratic voters a bit worried that she's not the person to get them across the finish line.
	In other words, she has no money.
	Just look at the numbers.
	She's running out of money, can't buy ads, can't buy polling numbers, so she's off the island.
	Done.
	You know, out here, this is one of the rare opportunities.
	In California, we have, because everyone wants to be, that's where California is going to be important in one election and one election only.
	That's the Super Tuesday number, because there's a lot of numbers involved.
	So all the Democrats want to win California.
	And so they're advertising here.
	But if I watch the ads, the only two people that are advertising to an extreme, I mean, every once in a while an ad comes in, it pops in, it pops out.
	There's only two.
	And which one?
	Take a guess.
	Bloomberg.
	Bloomberg is number one.
	And who do you think the second one is?
	Biden.
	Well, of course it's Biden.
	Yeah, I should have known.
	Yeah, Bloomberg and Biden are advertising like crazy, and I don't see anybody else advertising at all.
	Cory Booker's never...
	I've never seen a Cory Booker ad.
	No.
	I think Mayor Pete is now somewhat in play, because he does have money.
	That's why they call him Wall Street Pete.
	Although, Amy Goodman and Michael Moore...
	I had a hard time with Mayor Pete the other day.
	I mean, just like any candidate, he's a politician, you know, people watching this will have their disagreements or whatever, but one thing you can't disagree with is he has been true to his convictions.
	He will fight like hell for us.
	The fact that 52% of young people are for him in the latest poll, 52% of young voters.
	That's about Bernie, but here comes the Pete bit.
	...are for him.
	The millennial that's running, 2%.
	2% of 18 to 35 year olds are for the person their age.
	Young people want to...
	You're talking about Poot Buttigieg?
	Yeah, Poot Buttigieg, yes.
	I'm not trying to avoid...
	I love that.
	Poot Buttigieg.
	Poot Buttigieg?
	I think they say poot.
	They're not saying poop, they say poot here.
	Young people want to...
	You're talking about Poot Buttigieg?
	Yeah, Poot Buttigieg, yes.
	I'm not trying to avoid...
	Poot!
	And then they're going to correct themselves and say, listen.
	You're talking about Buttigieg?
	Yeah, Buttigieg, yes.
	I'm not trying to avoid trying to pronounce the name.
	It is Buttigieg.
	You pronounce his name Poot!
	Poot.
	And then he corrects Buttigieg.
	He never corrects Poot.
	I like Poot.
	I think that's his new name.
	Poot.
	Mayor Poot.
	No, Mayor Poot.
	Now, Mayor Poot got butt slammed by all right-wing press, and here's how Fox News presented his interview with the Iowa Des Moines Register.
	Dems want to legalize marijuana, but this is the first time we've heard a 2020 contender pledge to decriminalize every single drug out there.
	Listen to this.
	Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession.
	Is that across the board?
	So if it's meth or coke or ecstasy, any drugs, if it's possession, incarceration isn't.
	That's right.
	Meth, coke, ecstasy, all of it.
	Mayor Pete releasing his bold drug plan this week.
	It also includes reducing sentences for other drug offenses.
	So, you know, this is, of course, what Fox News would do.
	Coke, meth, heroin, everything!
	Oh, my God!
	What an idea!
	Timecode.
	Timecode.
	If you listen to the full...
	Now, he sat with the Des Moines Register for an hour and a half, but he's actually saying something a little bit differently, and I'll play it since we have some time.
	It's a little long, about two minutes.
	I do not disagree with what he's saying.
	I think we've discussed on this show many times what Portugal did.
	By now, that must be 18 years ago.
	They decriminalized, didn't legalize, they decriminalized All drugs, as far as I know, you can go to a doctor and get a prescription for opioids or whatever you need, whatever your addiction is,
	but across the board, the numbers show that criminality related to drugs declined, prostitution declined significantly, a lot of things went down, but And there is a difference between not locking people up who are strung out,
	who clearly have a dependency issue and need medical help, There's validity to this, but the way it's presented, the way Fox News just presented that to you, is intended to make you feel, oh my god, we're going to have meth addicts running around!
	They never mention Portugal in any of these reports.
	Well, neither does...
	Because Portugal, it's just like, it proves a great point, but they...
	It's not a point anyone wants to make.
	It's weird.
	And, you know, I am against the lowering of standards for crime.
	You know, if you're drugged out and you're committing crime or you're in a nuisance, yeah, goodbye, you gotta go.
	Whatever the penalty is for whatever you're doing, but just for possession or for using or for being addicted, this is not necessarily something you should be locking people up for.
	Not real popular with the Fox News crowd.
	I think I've developed much more in the direction of criminal justice reform.
	I would not have said even five years ago that what I believe now, which is that incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession.
	But what I've seen is that while there continue to be all kinds of harms associated with drug possession and use, it's also the case that we have created in an effort to deal with what amounts to a public health problem.
	We have created an even bigger problem, a justice problem and its own form of a health problem.
	If you think about the adverse impact on a child, we have kids in South Bend who've grown up with the incarceration of a parent as one of their first experiences.
	That makes them dramatically more likely to wind up themselves having an encounter with the criminal legal system.
	And so I've always been skeptical of mass incarceration.
	I love that line.
	I've always been skeptical of mass incarceration.
	Yeah, everybody should be skeptical of mass incarceration, poot!
	What is that?
	You know, when Hitler did mass incarceration, I was very skeptical.
	Jeez, poot!
	...one of their first experiences.
	That makes them dramatically more likely to wind up themselves having an encounter with the criminal legal system.
	And so, I've always been skeptical of mass incarceration, but now I believe more than ever that we need to take significant steps, like ending incarceration as a response to simple possession.
	And on that, is that across the board?
	So if it's meth or...
	So you're hearing all this context which Fox News doesn't give you, and here comes the one piece they took out of it, and listen to what he says after that.
	For ecstasy, any drugs, if it's possession, incarceration isn't...
	That's right.
	It doesn't mean legalization of everything.
	And, you know, one issue that gets dramatically less attention than some other forms of addiction is something like synthetic marijuana.
	In our city, it's mostly affecting African-American youth.
	But in a case like that, what we found is it's convenience stores selling this stuff that is basically rat poison sprayed onto grass.
	You'd be much better off with real marijuana than this stuff, which is very toxic.
	And we worked with the community to make sure that we were addressing it at the supply end with anybody who was selling it.
	The reality is we're seeing more and more counties and states, prosecutors and local criminal legal systems who want to keep people out of incarceration but don't have the funding so that there are long backlogs on these alternative to incarceration programs and these diversion courts.
	That's the example of the sort of thing that federal money ought to go into.
	It's another example of something that pays for itself.
	Higher rates of rehabilitation.
	None of the cost of incarceration.
	And none of the human cost of people being divided from their family, their community, or whatever support network might be best positioned to help them through an addiction scenario.
	And again, don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about blanket...
	I do believe in legalization of marijuana, but I'm not talking about blanket decriminalization of a lot of other harmful substances.
	I'm saying that our enforcement efforts should be targeted at those who are willfully and sometimes violently profiting off of it, not at those who get caught up at the level of having a substance abuse problem.
	So the sad thing about this is here's a newsroom with eight people from the board of the Iowa Des Moines Register, and not a single one of them can come up with a lucid thought about incarceration being a huge business in America that is set up by politicians who want people to be incarcerated because it's money in the bank.
	What is the name of the company, the Correctional Facilities?
	Correctional Corporation of America is one of them.
	There's another one with a more high-tech name that I can't recall.
	Somebody in the chat room knows what it is.
	Not a single person of that newspaper, this really important newspaper, can come up with that?
	It's not about Trump, man.
	Trump!
	So obvious.
	And then the final thing, I actually watched these Des Moines Register interviews because, well, because only little snippets are taken out and force-fed into the left or right paradigm, whatever you're living in, so it can affect you.
	Joe Biden said, I'm not going to, I will refuse all subpoenas!
	I'm not going to be subpoenaed.
	That's not exactly what he said.
	At all, really.
	Can you stand by your earlier statements that you wouldn't comply if you were subpoenaed to testify in an impeachment trial before the Senate?
	Correct.
	And the reason I wouldn't is because it's all designed to deal with Trump doing what he's done his whole life, trying to take the focus off him.
	The issue is not what I did.
	Not a single person, not one single person, even that Doug Giuliani and his great compatriots, have said I did anything other than my job.
	Every one of the people who have sworn testimony worked for him said Biden did his job and he did it well.
	This is all about a diversion.
	And we play his game all the time.
	He's done it his whole career.
	He's done it his whole career.
	And I'm very proud of the job I did.
	I never, never, never Moved off of dealing with corruption there.
	Every single person thought that the Prosecutor General should be fired from the IMF to all our European partners and the people in the administration.
	But this is a technique he uses all the time.
	He's a chronic liar.
	Doesn't that position you as if you're defying a subpoena, putting yourself above the law?
	Well...
	Look, the grounds for them to call me would be overwhelmingly specious.
	So I don't anticipate that happening anyway.
	But what it would do if I went, let's say I voluntarily just said, let me go make my case.
	What are you going to cover?
	You guys, instead of focusing, you're going to cover for three weeks anything I said.
	And he's going to get away.
	You guys buy into it all the time.
	Not a joke.
	Think about it.
	As we say in my church, examine your conscience.
	Doesn't mean I shouldn't testify if you thought I should, but think what it's about.
	It's all about what he does all the time.
	His entire career.
	Take the focus off.
	This guy violated the Constitution.
	He said it in the driveway of the White House.
	He acknowledged he asked for help.
	Don't you find it fascinating?
	This is the only president that thinks that, you know, I've learned three things.
	One letter of Putin doesn't want me to be president.
	That's why he spent millions of bucks and all these thousands of bots that were finally taken down by Facebook.
	Alright, so Joe goes nuts at the end there.
	Russian bots on Facebook.
	But the reason why he didn't hear this is because he's calling out the media.
	In his own Joe way, but he's saying, you guys focus only on everything he does and says, it's like he'll get away.
	Now, true or not doesn't matter, but he's scolding them, so we can't tell you what Joe said.
	Just that he said he won't go.
	And that is why you need to continue to produce No Agenda in 2020.
	Because this is how we help you.
	This is what keeps you sane.
	And thank you for those of you who helped produce this in more ways than just donations.
	Yes, we have a lot of...
	Your eyes and ears.
	It's a community effort.
	We're kind of what the left wants to be.
	I do have a couple of things I wanted to get out of the way.
	First of all, let's clear out the Eddie Gallagher story.
	Which is going to go nowhere.
	I don't know anything about the Eddie Gallagher story.
	Oh, you should know about the Eddie Gallagher story.
	That's why I'm here.
	Here we go.
	Let's start with Eddie Gallagher 1 and you'll catch up.
	A retired Navy SEAL who's been celebrated by President Trump is under new scrutiny tonight after the Weekly, a documentary series from the New York Times, obtained videotaped interviews from the Navy investigation of Gallagher's conduct.
	And we want to warn you, what you're about to see and hear is disturbing.
	Now, is this the guy who took trophy photos with dead Iraqis?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Yeah, this is a problem in general.
	Well, this is a problem in general.
	If the guy's a psycho, like some of these people like to say, behind closed doors, it's possible.
	You have to remember, he's not in the Navy.
	He already got drummed out.
	Right.
	And the whole thing that Trump did, even though this is really an attempt to just slam Trump, it was to get him his little pin back.
	And that pretty much is all he wanted.
	And so Trump did that, and many people thought it was fine.
	I mean, the National Security Advisor, this guy O'Brien, defended Trump.
	There's a lot of people that, the right wing was all in on this because they thought this guy was getting railroaded and he was getting drummed out for no good reason.
	But it's possible there was good reason, but whatever the case, Trump met with him the way Obama met with Bergdahl.
	Obama paid for Bergdahl.
	Yeah, well, yes, Obama paid for Bergdahl to get out.
	Trump really didn't.
	This wasn't a big money loser or anything really bad.
	But let's play through this, because I had a number of people bitch and moan that we're not covering it, as if it was like, this is a scandal.
	But let's play Gallagher, too.
	The guy got crazier and crazier.
	In 2018, one after another, Navy SEALs expressed grave concerns about their platoon leader, Eddie Gallagher.
	You can tell he was perfectly okay with killing anybody.
	They are going against this unwritten rule of not taking dirty laundry outside of the SEALs.
	In Navy tapes obtained by the Weekly, they accuse Gallagher of targeting civilians, women, and children.
	I saw Eddie take a shot at probably a 12-year-old kid.
	It kind of turned into the platoon being Eddie's personal, like, sniper escort to get in from place to place so he could try to dupe the sniper ops.
	He's just like metal chaser.
	Team members saying they would intentionally fire shots to warn Iraqi civilians.
	Other snipers would shoot, so they would run away and hide before Eddie would engage them.
	They were trying to protect the civilian populace from Eddie.
	The Times also obtaining helmet camera video never seen outside of a courtroom.
	A young ISIS fighter had been wounded by a bomb.
	Eddie came over the radio and specifically said, don't touch him, I got him.
	No way to touch him, he's all mine.
	Gallagher is seen with a medic bag pushing him, and then the camera goes black.
	It is not clear why.
	All of a sudden, Eddie just starts stabbing the dude.
	I see Eddie laying over him with a knife, shaking his neck.
	In a text message later, the New York Times says, Gallagher writes, got him with my hunting knife.
	Did Eddie say anything when he did this, or did he just literally pull out a knife and just start stabbing him?
	He pulled out a knife and started stabbing him.
	But that seal, Corey Scott, changed his story in a bombshell moment at Gallagher's trial last summer.
	After being granted immunity, he said he was the one who killed the ISIS fighter.
	Did you suffocate him?
	Yes.
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	I'll wait for all to play before I render my judgment here.
	We'll then play the third clip.
	Eddie Gallagher was acquitted on charges of murder and attempted murder.
	He was found guilty of posing for a photo with the corpse.
	They went in and they just told these completely fantastic unsupported and fake stories.
	Gallagher's attorney says the New York Times is trying to re-litigate the story and says Gallagher has asked him to sue reporter Dave Phillips.
	There's a couple of members of the platoon who had a personal animosity towards Eddie Gallagher.
	They didn't perform well in combat.
	They were afraid of being called out for being cowards.
	They made up a story and they went with it.
	This past weekend, Gallagher posed for photos with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
	He was a great fighter.
	He was one of the ultimate fighters.
	Tough guy.
	In November, President Trump ordered the Pentagon not to strip Gallagher of his rank and trident pin.
	We're still sort of on cloud nine about it, but I can tell you that my family is completely grateful for this decision.
	The Navy SEALs tonight and an attorney for Corey Scott are not commenting.
	NBC News has not spoken with any of the individual SEALs shown in those taped interviews, but the New York Times says it reached out to every one of them.
	They all declined to comment.
	So this is a story that is undecipherable.
	You don't know one way or the other on this, but it's water under the bridge at this point.
	And why are they dredging this up if they can't even prove it?
	It's just an anti-Trump story.
	Yes, an anti-Trump story, but in general.
	Civilians who have never been in combat need to shut up.
	We have this expectation, somehow we are, you know, we're the proud men and women, and we have righteousness on our side, and we go in there, we do clean kills!
	No!
	We drone people, we shoot them up in half, we do horrible things, hand-to-hand combat, IEDs everywhere.
	War is ugly, ugly business.
	No one has the right to talk about it, and people who've been in combat, who have a thousand yard stare, they don't talk about it.
	This whole thing is actually insulting.
	It's insulting to war.
	War is horrible.
	It's ugly.
	It's nasty.
	People are being shredded to bits.
	And that's why we should be getting out of these unnecessary, which is the key word, unnecessary wars.
	I mean, the people behind these unnecessary wars are a bunch of...
	Haven't served themselves.
	Half our generals haven't served.
	Half our generals have not served.
	It's disgusting.
	I can't believe that...
	I mean, we haven't done this story.
	I know why I haven't done it, because of course I saw it come by, but I'm like...
	I can't bring myself to talk about something that I really cannot talk about.
	And to hear other pundits and douchebags talk about what's right or what's not right.
	I was in Iraq for 10 days.
	You want to know what scared shitless is?
	Go to the desert where these boys and girls are and where they're being fired at.
	You have no idea what's going on.
	You'll talk very differently.
	So, this whole thing is disgusting.
	That they're bringing it up just to do an anti-Trump story.
	Hell awaits you, dickheads.
	Hell.
	Brother.
	Here's the story up your alley.
	Take us out on a high note, John.
	I've got to get out of there.
	This will be a high note.
	Oh, a real high note, huh?
	Yes, because we're going to talk about drones to be regulated.
	The FAA today put out the most comprehensive proposal yet to regulate drones.
	The new rules are designed to make the skies safer and they wouldn't just affect commercial drones but also smaller consumer drones too.
	Gotti Schwartz has those details.
	In the skies across America, more drone liftoffs than ever before, from hobbyists to delivery drones.
	And tonight, a sweeping rule proposed by the FAA could bring real-time tracking to most drones as soon as they take flight.
	Think virtual drone license plates with beacons that broadcast their location and identity even for small drones bought by consumers.
	A tracking system that regulators say is needed before massive fleets of drones start making the kind of same-day deliveries companies like Amazon, Google and UPS have been planning for years.
	The new proposal also aimed at addressing safety issues when it comes to closed calls with the new rule allowing law enforcement to monitor where nearly every drone takes off.
	The NTSB already investigating several instances of drones crashing into aircraft and even a hot air balloon in Idaho seen here from the drone's camera as it hits the side and tumbles out of the sky.
	A drone hitting an aircraft of any size is potentially a life or death situation.
	Dozens of other drones getting way too close.
	We missed the drone by about 30 feet off our right wing.
	Sometimes shutting down air traffic and causing massive delays at airports like Newark or grounding critical air operations during catastrophic wildfires.
	Got a confirmed draw sighting.
	Got a holdover.
	For now, the proposal is only a draft, giving the public 60 days to comment, and then another three years after the regulations are finalized to take effect.
	And until then, any plans for large-scale drone deliveries are still a future out of reach.
	Gotti Schwartz, NBC News, Los Angeles.
	Well, I don't know exactly what was in this report, because it was just Peter and I was like, well, there's just a lot of drones flying in Amazon, and we have those guys, and oh my god, drones are so cool!
	But before that's going to happen, it's going to be, oh, money, more years!
	Oh, I hear I work 30 feet off of my wing, we always cross into it!
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
	What I think is going on is that drone delivery to your home is not going to happen.
	It'll take 30 years for the self-driving car to be everywhere, if it's even in 30 years.
	This is not going to happen.
	It's a danger.
	It's a menace to society.
	It's a danger.
	To anyone who has a drone flying overhead with a package, it's all intended for investors.
	It's meant to sex up the company.
	Where's Uber with their people drones?
	No, it's all meant to get investors excited, to bring more money in, do your secondary offerings.
	It has nothing to do with reality.
	Dream on.
	It's not going to happen.
	I'm all in.
	You're right.
	It's exactly what it is.
	They're getting their little publicity for it.
	That's it.
	You miss the kind of where they actually showed three drones, one with a UPS logo, one with an Amazon logo, and one with an Uber logo.
	Exactly.
	That's it for your deconstruction for 2019.
	We will return.
	Yeah, that's it for 2019.
	Yeah, we'll return.
	After us on noagendastream.com, Random Thoughts, number 65, the digital wasteland.
	Make sure you tune in for that.
	And please consider supporting us with a donation for the first show of the new year, which will be on Thursday.
	Is that the second already, I guess?
	Yeah, the second.
	The second, yeah, it'll be the new year special.
	Yeah.
	And coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, we are FEMA Region No.
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	And please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I see a UPS truck pulling up now, maybe inside there's the GIF from North Korea.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll be back in the new year on Thursday.
	Till then, adios mofos and such!
	A couple in suburban Atlanta tonight says the only reason they bought one of these Ring security cameras three weeks ago was to keep an eye on the dog.
	Ring doorbell, ring doorbell, ring doorbell hack Ring doorbell watching you scratch your nutsack Crying and spying on you has begun Now that the ring doorbell hack has been done Ring doorbell,
	ring doorbell, ring doorbell hack Ring doorbells chime with ring doorbell crime Hundreds of people will be watching you soon In your bedroom, what a bright time, it's the right time, for perverts to tune in.
	Ring the bell time, it's a swell time, for voyeurine to begin.
	What's going on, my main man Shaq?
	It's Boyd Chance on Nose.
	Welcome to the Nosecast.
	The hacker starts talking directly to the husband and wife about their son.
	Wait, wait, so does your child come out black or like, kind of like, I don't know.
	Is your kid a baboon, like the monkey?
	Wait, does your child look like an Oreo?
	It's the right time, it's the right time for perverts to tune in.
	Ring doorbell time, it's a swell time for voyering to begin.
	All of the deviants on the ring doorbell show, checking your girlfriend's rack.
	Watching your kids when you don't even know.
	Well that's the ring doorbell, well that's the ring doorbell, well that's the ring doorbell.
	Heck!
	And in a statement, Ream says this is no way connected to a breach or compromise of their security.
	And they're encouraging customers to change their passwords regularly.
	Gmail was fine till the time that I noticed.
	It was what I said.
	We're targeted ads.
	Like me, I used Facebook to stay connected.
	Put me on display for the NSA. Don't know if I will, but until I can fight me, Technology that will collect data on me.
	I'll be what I am.
	OTG man.
	OTG man.
	I'm glad to hear living where I am spied on.
	Hearing everything Don't know if I will,
	but until I can find me Technologies that won't collect data on me I'll be what I am, an OTG man,

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