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	Oh, just use GIMP! Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, January 2nd, 2020.
	This is your award-winning GIMPO Nation Media Assassination Episode 1204.
	This is No Agenda.
	Celebrating the China's New Year and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where I'm on the lookout for tumbleweeds, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Happy New Year!
	There we go.
	There we go.
	Ah, yes.
	There we are.
	So we got a bunch of these little streamers you blow on and you get that sound?
	Yeah.
	Jay bought a pack.
	Yeah.
	They're all from China.
	Of course.
	But they all sound like this.
	They're all pathetic.
	It's the Chinese trying to undermine the country.
	Well, once again...
	They didn't have a joyous sound when I was a kid.
	We rang in the New Year 2020 in New York, and as always, we, as the commercial giants that we are, once again, for the second year running, sold New Year's Eve to China!
	Did you see it?
	I didn't watch that, no.
	Oh, the big New Year's Eve show.
	It's so much fun every year to welcome the dignitaries from China onto the stage in New York Times Square with their red scarves.
	Joining me now is Lili, the Executive Vice President of the Sino-American Friendship Association, a prestigious, independent, non-profit organization that promotes business, culture, and educational activities.
	Woo!
	We are very happy to be here for the ninth year in a row.
	Ninth year in a row.
	Second year televised.
	...with everyone in Times Square and the people around the world.
	We wish everyone a very happy new year and good luck in 2020.
	And a gulag in 2020.
	She said it right there.
	A gulag.
	A gulag.
	And of course, we are so glad that you're back here with us.
	Yeah.
	You've got some friends.
	We would love to meet your guests.
	Yes.
	First.
	Oh, did you notice that?
	She did a sure.
	That's cool.
	It's even, it's propagated to China.
	You can barely speak English, but she can say sure.
	Sure.
	You brought some friends.
	We would love to meet your guests.
	Sure.
	First, I would love to welcome our co-hosting organizer for tonight's opening ceremony.
	Peter Zhang, the president of the Sino-American Friendship Association.
	Friends!
	Friends!
	Friendship!
	And our tonight's special honorable guests are Ambassador Huang Ping, Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York.
	And let's talk to the ambassador to see what his vision is.
	What good things do we have in store?
	And now, I would like to invite Ambassador Huang Ping to share his greetings with Times Square and Otherworld.
	Dear friends, we welcome you to visit China in 2020.
	You will find our country both modern and ancient with incredible landscapes and friendly people.
	So join the millions of the people who have already discovered its wonders.
	In jail!
	China welcomes you with open arms.
	In jail!
	Happy New Year and Xinyang Kui!
	Xinyang Kui!
	Thank you, Ambassador, for that wonderful message.
	We love that.
	Oh, yes, we love it so much, especially in New York.
	Oh, let's do a quick little interview.
	Well, we're so glad you joined us this year.
	Thank you for being here.
	Happy New Year's to you.
	Anybody back home you want to say Happy New Year's to?
	Sure.
	Happy New Year to everybody.
	This is actually my second time to be here in Times Square to celebrate this country.
	Thank you.
	world.
	I'm so happy China played a part and I grateful everyone.
	I sincerely invite our friends to come to China to see this incredible landscape and enjoy having a good experience.
	If I come to China, can I stay at your house?
	Of course, of course.
	I would be very happy to be your host.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Don't step on it.
	Having a good...
	If I come to China, can I stay at your house?
	Of course, of course.
	I would be very happy to be your host.
	And first of all, I would issue a very good visa.
	Good visa.
	Not like other stupid tourists.
	They not get good visa.
	You get good visa.
	You not go to jail with good visa.
	I just, something about this bothers me.
	This is New York.
	It's our American tradition.
	Dropping the ball.
	And there were so many people on stage.
	They all had to jump in and say something.
	Great.
	Well, maybe I'll stay half with you and then half with you.
	Can I stay at your house also?
	Of course, yeah.
	Thank you.
	Tonight is a very wonderful night.
	And there was really someone weird in the background yelling stuff.
	I look forward to meeting friends around the world in China.
	China is a very beautiful country.
	If you visit China, China will be beyond imagination.
	Thank you.
	Happy New Year.
	Thank you.
	Well, thank you so much for being here.
	Happy New Year to all of you.
	Thank you for joining us in Times Square.
	We hope you'll come back next year.
	Yes.
	Definitely.
	We'll be back next year.
	Oh, yeah?
	In the next ten years.
	Ten years.
	Oh, yeah.
	End of the camera.
	Happy New Year's on three.
	You ready?
	One, two, three.
	Happy New Year!
	What?
	What did he say?
	Couldn't resist.
	Did you hear it?
	Well, that was pathetic.
	What channel was that on?
	I don't know.
	Producer Shane went through six hours of video to get these clips for us.
	And then, after the ball dropped, of course, nothing better than the Communist Manifesto!
	We had just talked about this song, too.
	Which is why a lot of people emailed me like, wow, they played that at New Year's Eve!
	Imagine there's no heaven.
	Imagine there's no countries, no borders.
	It's easy if you try.
	We're all the same.
	Nobody is different.
	It's beautiful.
	No hell below us.
	It was all New Year's Rockin' Eve.
	That's not rockin'.
	No.
	Rockin' was CNN's coverage again.
	What is wrong with that channel?
	I mean, there's a lot wrong with it, but for some reason they feel it's a good idea on New Year's Eve to go completely gay.
	Hello!
	Andy Cohen, who is not on CNN, but he is friends with Anderson Cooper.
	Andy Cohen produces, you know, huge hits like Keep It No.
	Ben Carr's Zephyr, by the way.
	Tato, Economy on the Up.
	He produces The Real Housewives.
	And so here they're just talking about something, and it was still 10 o'clock.
	She turned to Anderson and said, he's not going to ask me who has the biggest bleep of anyone I've ever been with, right?
	No, it was...
	She turns to me out of the blue and goes, he's not going to ask me who has the biggest cock in Hollywood, is he?
	Okay.
	That's what she asked.
	And just said it.
	Okay.
	When is this okay on CNN? What?
	Yeah, who has the biggest cock in Hollywood?
	Yeah, no, I heard it.
	Oh, I thought you were going to give us the answer.
	Well, you might know.
	You've been to Hollywood.
	We all know it's Billy Preston, the fifth Beatle.
	Everybody knows this.
	Is that true?
	Look it up.
	It's on the Wiki.
	It's on the Wikipedia.
	This is disgusting.
	And then Don Lemon was in Nashville with Brooke Baldwin, who looks very different, not behind the desk.
	And Don was hammered, as usual.
	I didn't clip him singing, but I did get this, you know, what's he going to do for 2020?
	What are his resolutions?
	Did you see the video going around of Anderson Cooper taking a shot at tequila?
	Yes.
	Like a real man, I saw him down that thing.
	I'm going to lean in harder.
	Harder!
	I'm going to lean in harder.
	What does that mean?
	I'm gonna lean in harder.
	I'm sick of the craziness.
	So, if you thought I was...
	I went hard in 2019.
	Watch 2020, baby.
	There's more to come.
	I'm a soldier.
	I'm ready to fight.
	I'm a fighter.
	It's a big year.
	It's a big year.
	I'm going to be more grateful, spend more time with my family, but also lean into work harder.
	Lean in.
	Lean in harder.
	It's an election year.
	We're on the grind.
	We are, but it truly is a privilege to do what we do.
	Wait, stop.
	And to all the people who say hello and thank you.
	Stop.
	You know what?
	Did he say what?
	Go back that up.
	What do you want to hear?
	Well, he said he's going to go after Trump or something.
	We'll spend more time with my family.
	Oh, yeah.
	But also lean into work harder.
	And we've got to get ready.
	It's an election year.
	We're on the grind.
	We are.
	But it truly is a privilege to do what we do.
	And to all the people who say hello and thank you.
	It is an honor to sit in our seats and talk.
	It's such an honor, John, to sit in our seats here on the podcast.
	It's such a platform.
	It's so fabulous that we've got to lean in.
	The voice we have and the platform we have.
	Have you ever had so many people come up to you and say thank you for what you do?
	I've never been high-fived more on a plane in my life.
	It's amazing, right?
	It's awesome, so thank you so much.
	It's awesome.
	Oh my God, lean in harder.
	Did anyone tell Donna that that's a Sheryl Sandberg meme for women?
	Lean in.
	And?
	Right.
	So I just don't understand.
	I don't know.
	I just don't understand.
	It's entertaining.
	I mean, we will switch back and forth.
	Well, I don't think they understand either, to be honest about it.
	No.
	They really think they're the cat's ass.
	I don't know if it's that or if they're so tightly...
	They're clearly tightly controlled on CNN, so maybe this is the...
	It's like you've got to let them out of the pen.
	Not sure.
	You don't need to control people who are predisposed.
	No, that's true.
	That's the great thing about it.
	That's true.
	Hey, we got another note from Sir Chris.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Yeah, the place is burning down.
	He wants more stick.
	Yeah, I'm going to read this to you.
	The rain stick propagation to southeastern New South Wales has not been too good, and while we did have a couple of unexpected droplets on New Year's Eve and a much-needed cool change, anything to help the burning has not made it above the background noise.
	Clearly, need more power and an antenna with more gain on a different band, free of QRM from the likes of Greta.
	Well, let's get it.
	Well, we only have the one band.
	Everyone has to turn down their speakers except Australia.
	Yes, otherwise you're going to get drenched.
	But I'm going to do a triple shake here because this is clearly calling...
	What do you call a triple shake?
	Are you flipping it six times?
	No, I'm going one, two, three.
	So I'm flipping it three times.
	I flip one, I flip two, I flip three.
	I'm flipping it three times.
	Triple shake.
	Well, then I'll back it off with a double.
	All right.
	Ready?
	Three, two, one.
	No, no.
	Oh, whoa!
	Jeez, man.
	He got the stick.
	That was almost catastrophic.
	It could have been.
	You ready?
	Okay.
	Let me wait.
	All right, Australia.
	I have a hold on.
	I got a grip spot I got to hold to.
	Okay, go.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Put your glasses on, man.
	Safety goggles.
	Yeah, safety goggles, of course.
	Ready?
	One.
	Three, two, one.
	One, two, three, go!
	One, two, three.
	With an extra aftershake.
	There we go.
	Woohoo!
	I don't know.
	Alright, now that'll help.
	Guaranteed.
	We'll see.
	Guaranteed.
	So here in California, but in Washington State on the Highway 240, they had...
	And by the way, Eric's power was knocked out as a miracle.
	He got the spreadsheet in.
	Anyway, what happened was this windstorm apparently...
	Pulled up, like, I don't know, 100,000 tumbleweeds from part of Washington.
	What?
	And blew them down Highway 240.
	Now, tumbleweeds are a common phenomenon in the desert areas.
	Yeah, like Reno.
	Or Texas.
	Texas has them.
	Yeah.
	And you see them tumbling along, tumbling along.
	It's a funny product, this thing.
	But apparently, they don't have this area to tumble much in in Washington, but they found this Highway 240.
	Yeah.
	So they decided to come down Highway 240, like 10 feet high wave of tumbleweeds covered up a bunch of cars.
	They had to dig them out the next day.
	No way.
	Oh, I'm looking at it now.
	Tumbleweed takeover.
	Oh my goodness.
	Oh man.
	Cars were buried in 10 feet of tumbleweeds and they couldn't get out of their cars.
	That's fantastic.
	I'm looking at it now.
	Oh man.
	We have confirmed no one is in this car, but we are trying to access the license plate.
	Wow.
	Man, I had no idea there was so much tumbleweed.
	It's unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	So, tumbleweed again.
	Yes, indeed.
	Well, did you have a nice New Year's, John?
	That was good.
	We had a nice big dinner and we watched the fireworks.
	Yeah.
	And open Christmas gifts.
	I'm sorry.
	It's the Dvorak clan.
	Yeah, I have to remember that.
	You guys do things different.
	Did you get anything nice for Christmas?
	I got what I wanted.
	Okay.
	A dash cam.
	No, really?
	Yeah.
	Oh, interesting.
	Well, my favorite video is if anyone wants to go have fun in an entertaining manner for a good couple of hours.
	Oh, it's the Russian.
	The Russian.
	Russian dash cam videos on YouTube.
	There's nothing better on television.
	And so you're hoping to be...
	Well, they put a new stop sign in down at the bottom of the street here and people just keep running it.
	I'm going to film it and take it to the police.
	I think I'll be a local fink.
	Hey man, don't walk by that house.
	That guy lives there.
	Guy.
	Yeah, there's a lot of other good gifts.
	I can't think of anything that was more spectacular.
	The fireworks are a dud.
	Actually, the local fireworks, the ones that the locals were just firing illegally, was better than the San Francisco show that was supposed to be so good.
	It was terrible.
	Right.
	Anyway.
	How did it go with you?
	How was your New Year's?
	What did you guys do?
	We stayed home.
	Everybody seems to have stayed home this New Year's.
	Well, the past two New Year's, we went out.
	Two years ago, we went out for dinner at the Four Seasons, which is swanky.
	And basically, the meal had just been kept worn under red lights.
	I guess the chef had cooked it up, went home, just left it there.
	They served it up just lukewarm.
	That stinks.
	Yeah, last year we went to another restaurant where they had special wine pairings.
	Like, oh, this will be fun.
	It's eight courses.
	Every course had some kind of wine sampling.
	It was all mixed up and they served them wrong, wrong order.
	It's like, oh, come on.
	Phew.
	So we stayed at home.
	I made black cod.
	We drank a little bit.
	And we celebrated on New York time.
	So we were in bed by 11.30.
	Well, that's decadent.
	We were in bed at 11.30.
	Happy New Year, everybody.
	Happy New Year.
	Well, we didn't go that far, although we threw a couple of bottles of good champagne.
	Just following up on the end of 2019, one thing that people take away from this show is a mental health aspect, and we've gone deep into how the amygdala works and how...
	Outrage and triggering can start to inflame this thing and it grows and then you go into primal mode and then everything is a danger.
	Then you're a reptile.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	You're buying crickets at the store.
	You want to eat bugs.
	But this is not just for mere mortals.
	You know, this also goes for politicians, and I think we're seeing it take its toll now.
	We had Elijah Cummings pass away, now John Lewis, two guys who were really, really sour the past three years.
	You know what I mean?
	Really, really sour and mad and Trump and Republicans.
	Yeah.
	So then we heard sad news that John Lewis, of course, he was at Selma.
	The guy's an icon.
	Now he has, I guess, pancreatic cancer.
	Of course, CBS couldn't tell him apart.
	Now, to an apology.
	Monday during the East Coast airing of our story about Congressman John Lewis being diagnosed with cancer, a photograph of the late Congressman Elijah Cummings was inadvertently labeled as Congressman Lewis.
	This due to a production error.
	We deeply regret the mistake and sincerely apologize.
	The racist production error, they all look the same.
	I know exactly what happened there, CBS. Racists.
	Racists.
	But I think the most clear example of an amygdala that is on the verge of bursting...
	And not just the act itself, but the face this man made after this incident was truly spectacular.
	And in a New Year's message this morning, Pope Francis denounced violence against women, saying they should be treated with dignity.
	He also apologized for his response to one woman's excitement over meeting him yesterday.
	Take a look.
	The Pope was greeting visitors in St.
	Peter's Square when the woman roughly grabbed the Pope's hand pulling him toward her.
	Francis slapped her hand away before turning from the crowd.
	He said this morning that he lost patience and called it a bad example.
	It seems the Pope's human after all.
	I like the little editorial.
	I guess he's human after all.
	I thought you said post-human.
	Well, that too.
	But this incident, I found it to be shocking.
	Now, actually not shocking because I called this guy being the Pope before it ever happened, before any smoke rose out of the chimney.
	He's a New World Order guy.
	I don't think he's a good guy.
	Now, maybe if you're ordained the Pope, then you turn into a great guy.
	I don't know.
	But the slap that he gave to this woman to let go of his hand was kind of understandable because she did just pull him over.
	It's like, get off me, lady.
	But when he turned and he's walking away, the face...
	That is a face of disgust for small, irritating people.
	An elitist...
	It seemed like more of a disgust for mammalians.
	Now you're taking it very far.
	And even though, you know, as a human being, you can understand this type of reaction.
	It's the Pope!
	This is not what you're...
	Yeah, this is not a Pope.
	This is of all the things.
	Before you're about to do a speech on how to treat women, you don't do that.
	I think he's got to go.
	I think that's an impeachable offense.
	Can you impeach the Pope?
	I think we should be able to.
	Popes don't slap hoes.
	It's not the way to go.
	They're now impeaching coaches in the NCAA. I'm curious if there will be any fallout from this.
	I found it shocking.
	I mean, not that it personally offended me, but I was shocked.
	Jesus, the poor and the meek were clamoring, and help me, Jesus, and just slapped them away.
	Go away, you idiots.
	I know.
	I thought that...
	Yeah, it was the grumpy face afterwards.
	The slapping and slapping was, you know...
	One thing, but the face, the face...
	I should have just pointed to her and says taser to the security guys.
	That would be more logical.
	I can just see it.
	How weak is he that she gets pulled back by this frail woman?
	There we go.
	That just drops from being a taser until you can give her the blessing.
	That would be great.
	Oh well.
	Anyway, keep your amygdales small, people.
	That's the message.
	Don't get caught, because this is what happens.
	You get all messed up.
	I did see a lot of people tweeting about, I'm not going to get mad anymore.
	I'm just going to let it go.
	I realize I can't change anything about Trump, so I'm going to let it go.
	I'm telling you, even my lib devs are posting similar things on their blogs.
	Oh, my resolution.
	Good for them.
	I wish them all the luck in the world.
	Yeah, it's great.
	Yes, because it will keep them healthy and sane.
	Yeah, but they won't be able to do it.
	That's the problem.
	Yeah, probably not.
	So, 105 show days, I've been told, for this year.
	Let's make the best of them.
	Is that more than usual?
	I think it is.
	I think it's three more than usual for some reason.
	Well, maybe because we got started on the day after.
	If yesterday was a show day, it would probably get a lie in.
	Extra show days.
	Extra show days.
	So I have a number of things to talk about, but I figured 23 minutes in, I'll let you do something.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	After 23 minutes of...
	Whatever it was you get.
	Entertainment, yes.
	Entertainment.
	Top-notch entertainment.
	Let's listen to a little bit of the BBC's 2019 rap.
	It only pulled down 22 seconds of the core of BBC's.
	Mostly the Politics Today show where they have a bunch of incredible douchebags sitting around pontificating and making people's lives miserable.
	We're going to fulfill the repeated promises of Parliament to the people.
	And come out of the EU on October the 31st.
	No ifs or buts.
	I think if we don't leave on the 31st of October, this country will explode.
	If we get a Liberal Democrat majority government, we will take that as a mandate to revoke.
	To revoke?
	Yeah, they're going to revoke.
	This is the Liberal Democrats thinking they're going to get a mandate.
	They got nothing!
	No, they got less than nothing.
	Much less than nothing.
	You got a nothing burger.
	Everything I... You know, for someone who accuses me, you say it a lot.
	I do.
	I like it.
	I like the term, you've sold me on it.
	Okay.
	Just listening to the BBC over the past couple of days, nothing really clippable, but it seems like the general consensus is it'll be a full 18 months before anything is really all taken.
	I mean, it's very confusing, although there was a good bit...
	Let's see, what was this?
	This was in The Guardian, of course.
	They had a very interesting article, which the intent is very clear.
	Brexit.
	Ten things UK citizens can still do in the EU after the 31st of January.
	And what they're saying is, after Britain leaves...
	So they're not going to be handcuffed and beaten?
	No.
	After Britain leaves, its people will still have certain rights, at least for another 11 months.
	And so here's the things that...
	So what they're saying is, you'll have 11 more months, and then it's over.
	Then you're right.
	Then we're going to be beaten with garden hoses.
	So what do they put at the top?
	Holiday in the EU. You'll still be able to do that before you won't.
	Number two, take up a summer...
	Hold on a second.
	What do you mean you won't?
	So they can never go back?
	So if you're a Brit, you can't go into the EU ever for a holiday?
	You can still travel to any EU member state up to the 31st of December 2020 with no impediments such as visas.
	After Brexit, it is likely that visa-free trips will continue for stays of up to 90 days.
	The European health insurance card that gives health cover for tourists in another member state still applies.
	What they're doing is saying, this is all the great stuff you have, and it's all going away.
	Even though there's no evidence, they don't actually report on what the changes are going to be.
	So it's really, it's an insidious, I think is the term, peace.
	Yeah, insidious is a good word.
	This is the kind of thing the globalists, they just cannot deal with this.
	So take up a summer job in the EU. Oh, listen, some might have fond memories of formative weeks and months working on the continent as a student, whether waiting in a restaurant, working in a factory, child minding in the med.
	That's a great term, by the way.
	Child-minding.
	Wow.
	So in other words, babysitting.
	Well, for some rich fucker on a yacht, obviously, child-minding in the med or working in a holiday resort in Spain.
	So that's all going away.
	These are all low-end service jobs.
	What do you want those for?
	Well, number three on the list, get a full-time job in the EU. Well, that's never going to happen.
	Retire to the EU. Go on an Erasmus study program.
	Oh man, I'm bummed.
	I can't do that.
	Apply for EU funding for science research.
	Oh yeah.
	That's the money.
	It's drying up.
	Apply for arts funding.
	I don't have any arts funding in Britain.
	All comes from the EU. Apparently.
	EU is the source for everything.
	Britain is just a shriveled up old hag.
	Yeah.
	Nominate yourself for a literature prize.
	I guess you can do that anytime you want.
	I can do that.
	Look at cross-border healthcare opportunities.
	Why would you need to do that if the National Health Service is the best in the world and you love it so much and it's your jewel?
	Yeah.
	That's a question that needs to be asked.
	And know your rights and benefits for 2020.
	So then they have a guide and then they'll go scare you.
	So I just thought it was just a mean piece.
	Where was this?
	Where did it disappear?
	Guardian.
	Of course.
	Oh, the Guardian.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	Guardian.
	What did you expect?
	Yep.
	Well, we'll see what happens on January 31st.
	We're sticking to it.
	Well, Yano, you are.
	No, I'm skeptical.
	I'm super skeptical.
	You're skeptical.
	I'm with you.
	Yeah, I just don't see it.
	You just heard Boris say that October 31st.
	Yeah.
	Bingo.
	And then they had Katie Hopkins on Twitter.
	I found an old tweet from her where she says she's going to strip naked to go to a tea shop with If it doesn't happen on the 31st of October out of the EU, I'm going to go naked to a tea shop with tattoos of Nigel Farage on my nipples.
	And she tweets this.
	That's what she tweeted?
	Yeah.
	There's a lot of things I like about her.
	That whole idea, that whole visual is not one of them.
	No, no, not a good visual.
	No, no.
	Speaking of old hags, no.
	Alright, well we might as well talk about the war machine cranking up in an almost laughable wag the dog type of way with the green zone in Baghdad.
	Yeah, let's start with some background.
	Let's start with some background.
	Do we have, I think we might have a clip.
	Yes, we do.
	Is this the right one?
	Well, this is from 2016.
	I just wanted to go back.
	In 2016, thousands also stormed the Green Zone, which I think cost a billion dollars to build this embassy.
	This is from 2016.
	Iraqi security forces have opened fire on protesters who stormed the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.
	Dozens of mainly Shiite demonstrators have been injured, and security personnel suffered stab wounds, according to the army.
	The thousands involved in the uproar included supporters of cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
	So, the Green Zone is pretty much impenetrable.
	At least it's supposed to be.
	And this is not new, but despite having all the B teams, there were no A team producers, no A team presenters.
	Oh man, we had to roll it out.
	Iran!
	Iran!
	In Iraq!
	Iran!
	In Iraq!
	They're just not giving up.
	We need some kind of war.
	Yeah, I'm in agreement with this thesis.
	Let's listen to some of the clips about this thing that just happened.
	Here's a light, they're all in Iraq, light analysis, play that.
	Foreign ministers spoke about their joint commitment to see peace and security in the region and how to work together to make that happen.
	Again, Qatar very critical.
	The U.S. has about 10,000 troops stationed in a big air base just about a half an hour outside the capital of Doha.
	And Qatar, while a key ally of the United States, also speaks with its neighbor Iran as well.
	And when it comes to the hostilities between Iran and the United States, Qatar has very much a neutral attitude towards it, trying to facilitate perhaps any sort of dialogue that could potentially happen.
	So what you're seeing here is the United States very much sending troops to the region, 750 to be exact, taking no chances.
	But also the Secretary of State taking no chances on the diplomatic front as well, playing all of his cards, because it just shows how serious the U.S. is taking this and how potentially it could escalate again.
	I just want to say something about the 750 troops of like that.
	Trump's sending more troops!
	Trump's sending more troops!
	More troops!
	More troops!
	Trump's sending more troops!
	There's a general who was interviewed on CNN, and he kind of let slip out of the bag where these 750 troops come from.
	Let's talk more about this now with CNN military analyst and retired Lieutenant General Mark Herling.
	General, let me start with you.
	You may have heard President Trump there actually reference Benghazi.
	He's also been tweeting about how this situation will not devolve into a Benghazi-like situation.
	It doesn't appear to be calming down at all.
	From your perspective, just how serious is the situation there?
	Well, first of all, I'd say that the use of the term Benghazi is a bad analogy.
	In 2012, after Benghazi happened, these Marine Crisis Response Task Force were established seven years ago, eight years ago.
	They have been in Kuwait ever since then for a response specifically to these kinds of situations.
	The 100 Marines came in to reinforce the Marines that are already providing security at the embassy, along with the security forces from the government of Iraq.
	What's going to happen next, as Ryan just said, was about 750 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne will begin deploying within the next day.
	The rest of the brigade is estimated to be following them within the next week.
	That's normal procedure as well when there's a crisis around the world.
	The IRF from the 82nd Airborne begins deploying just in case of any eventuality.
	So it's not like quite a whole new deal yet, but...
	To me, it's so obvious that they tried to kind of make a semi-Benghazi type of thing on an embassy.
	It's kind of cool if you could get someone killed.
	That would be even funnier against Trump.
	Well, there was that, but I want to play two clips before we start analyzing it.
	First of all, this is a Friday clip.
	This is a rock-light, two-trapped...
	The U.S. is now trapped in Iraq.
	U.S. diplomats are trapped in that embassy.
	They were cordoned off there overnight.
	They had to stay overnight in the embassy.
	How did they get out now?
	By helicopter, like U.S. diplomats had to flee Saigon, Vietnam when it collapsed?
	This is like three swimming pools in this place.
	Nuts.
	Please.
	So yesterday, just before I was closing my clips, we finally found this one.
	This is the up-to-date clip, and this one's not under Iraq.
	This is under Baghdad's siege is over.
	Uh-oh.
	Supporters and members of an Iran-backed group have withdrawn from the U.S. Embassy compound in Iraq's capital Baghdad after a two-day siege.
	Leaders of the Popular Mobilization Forces ordered them to leave, but there's a condition.
	They want Iraq's parliament to vote on a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops.
	Al Jazeera's Simona Faltin reports from Baghdad.
	They left just as they had arrived a day earlier, determined and angry, but also pleased that they had managed to deliver a message to the US. Supporters of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces, who had defied the Prime Minister's orders to withdraw just a day before, now heeded the call of their leaders.
	While some dismantled tents and ferried away supplies used to camp the night out, the more defiant ones staged a final showdown in front of the embassy gates, burning tires and flags to the sounds of anti-American slogans.
	They must get out from our country.
	We don't need America.
	We can't protect ourselves.
	We have more than two million fighters who get out, who killed ISIS, who defend their country.
	The attack on the U.S. Embassy was sparked by the latest U.S. strikes against Hezbollah brigades, which is part of the Popular Mobilization Forces.
	The majority of the crowd consisted of its members and supporters, but some here say they were also driven by what they perceive as an unjust American policy in the region.
	This is my land.
	And if you want to stay here, you must understand all rights.
	When the American government believes and understands our rights, we can leave.
	It sounds like we're all kind of on the same page.
	So they left?
	So the news media won't let you know that yet?
	No.
	That was from Al Jazeera.
	They're gone.
	Now, what I observed during watching all these clips and these reports from other sources than American sources was, first of all, the Same.
	I'm glad you got that clip from 2016 where the shot at anybody tried to get near the green zone.
	They just let them waltz in.
	Yeah.
	I was like, when I first heard, it's like, you can't just walk into the green zone.
	It's not that easy.
	Yeah.
	So they let him walk in.
	And okay, come on in.
	Come on in.
	I think there was some sort of an agreement.
	It was a setup where they were told to let him walk in.
	This whole thing is phony as it comes.
	They all had...
	Newly manufactured flags that were brand new.
	And they were of two or three types, including some with some writing on them and some nationalist flags.
	And they looked phony as anything I've seen in an American march with the phony baloney printed signs that all were identical.
	These all were identical and new.
	Gotta love it.
	Somebody behind this.
	Soros.
	Soros signs again.
	Soros signs.
	Well, to me, the minute Pompeo said, Oh, I'm canceling my European trip.
	Gotta stick around.
	You never know.
	I mean, this.
	It's him.
	It's Fox News.
	It's CNN. It's MSN. It's all of them.
	Oh, we got some war.
	Oh, this will be great.
	Iran.
	So here's the Iraqis who are saying, Hey, you know what?
	Could you get the fuck out by now?
	Trump, when are you going to get everybody out?
	You're not out.
	You're not out yet.
	Why aren't you out?
	So now there's some protest.
	They want out.
	They want us out.
	We want to get out.
	But then, must have been Iran attacking our embassy.
	I mean, it's so transparent.
	Even the Rouhani of Iran tweeted.
	He tweeted at Trump.
	He said, think logically.
	We're not doing this.
	No, it's us doing it.
	I think it's the State Department that wants the war.
	I think Pompeo is behind this.
	This thing is fishy, it's phony.
	They came and they went.
	Why would they leave in the first place the way they did?
	Which, of course, isn't being reported correctly at all.
	No.
	The whole thing is just smell.
	It's bogative.
	Bogative.
	I don't think Trump's falling for it either.
	But there's a thing that's missing.
	Oh.
	One of these things that we can predict because we've been doing the show long enough.
	I'm waiting for the Democrats, and Joe Biden in particular, to reignite the old term that Republicans used to use.
	What is?
	Cut and run!
	Oh, right, right, right, right, right.
	Oh, that's Trump.
	We can't put him as president because he cuts.
	He cut and run.
	He cut and run.
	Cut and run was always used to denigrate anybody who was like, you know, somebody shakes their fist at you.
	Oh, okay, we'll leave.
	Yep.
	To make you look like a coward.
	Like a pussy.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So they're going to use the word cut and run against Trump.
	Yep.
	They just do not like the idea of this guy wanting to shut down bases and move troops out of places where it's just costing us a lot of money and not really doing anything.
	Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.
	Yeah, baby.
	Go.
	Judge Jeanine, she knows.
	That's from Fox.
	Yeah, she knows.
	But this is what's mounted to, as far as I can tell, there was no real threat.
	I mean, they made a mess.
	It's going to cost a lot of money to clean up.
	Not even that.
	But yeah, go and take a look at the wiki page for the Baghdad Green Zone and the Baghdad Embassy.
	This is not a little building somewhere.
	This is a huge compound.
	It's huge, just like the town of Hayward.
	At the time, when it was built, a billion dollars was a lot of money.
	It may still be a lot of money.
	I think the billing only referred to the cost of the embassy itself, not the maintenance or the building out of the green zone.
	Oh, it could be.
	It was very expensive.
	Yeah, just because of all the...
	And then they showed movies, you know, on the regular TV networks, our networks, they showed the cowering staff, and then we had that woman going on and on about, they're trapped!
	They're trapped!
	They're never going to get out!
	It's a humiliation!
	They're trapped!
	They're going to die!
	Oh, yes!
	So she was completely flat-footed on that one.
	Anyway, yeah, this thing, I think we both agree this is something very suspicious about this protest and entry into the green zone.
	Well, not just suspicious.
	Let's just pin it clearly on...
	I'm putting it on Pompeo.
	And the signs...
	That's State Department work.
	You're so right.
	When you get freshly printed signs, whether it's the Maidan in Ukraine, whether it's even Red Square in Russia...
	You get freshly painted signs.
	You only have two places to look.
	State Department or Soros.
	Or the Socialist Workers' Party.
	But that's kind of the same thing.
	Yeah, but they always put the Socialist Workers' Party or actually World's Workers' Party is the one that does all the work.
	They always put their little logo at the bottom of their sign.
	Make it easy.
	They don't miss a beat.
	We don't do that.
	The State Department doesn't put the U.S. State Department at the bottom of the flag.
	Exactly.
	Compliments of...
	The State Department is a...
	You start looking into it, it goes back historically as to being a lot of bad actors there.
	And they got their own little CIA, which you don't know who's in it.
	They're more secretive than the NSA about that little operation.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Whenever you have a civilian in the State Department or a civilian in the Pentagon, either way, it's all spooks.
	It's all spooks!
	Okay.
	Any more on Iran?
	Because there's not much more to say.
	I think we covered that one.
	Yeah.
	I do have a little update on Seth Rich.
	You know, I got some information from that woman.
	Her podcast, Tory Says, that the law firms were now filing civil suits to evoke discovery because they're very worried about what information people might have on CrowdStrike, who this...
	Who this one law firm is representing.
	And so I got a little more detail on the imaging of the server, because this is where we left off, that Seth Rich had stolen data.
	Now, it was initially thought on a thumb drive, and that it was just the emails that were the DNC emails, which got Hillary and...
	Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Donna Brazil and everybody in so much trouble because they were screwing around and were basically screwing Bernie so that Hillary would win the nomination.
	So, a little more detail on this.
	She actually, one of our producers reached out, said, hey, Noah Jen has been talking about you.
	She sent me a couple of emails, very long emails.
	She likes emailing, lots of details.
	And for some reason, she likes putting me on CCs of things she's sending to her lawyer.
	So, I'm kind of not responding.
	I'm just letting that flow into my box and just collecting it.
	First data point is that the server image was made on an SD card.
	And there were several copies of this SD card.
	I just thought it was an interesting detail because I think an SD card would probably give you about the same data throughput rate as a USB drive.
	If it's a USB 3, it would probably be similar, wouldn't it?
	Depends on the port.
	True.
	How's the SD card?
	I'm thinking it was a dedicated SD card port, is what I'm thinking.
	Well, there are some machines that have that.
	Shoot!
	My Surface has it?
	Lots of machines have that.
	Okay, then that would probably be at least USB 3 speeds.
	Very fast.
	Right.
	So in addition to this, apparently WikiLeaks, when they did their exchange, was accessing that data over the Internet to Seth Rich's computer where he had the SD card inserted.
	Now, that may be important or not.
	It's not a big deal.
	But what she reminded me of is what actually the incriminating information was that was on the server.
	And of course, when I read it, like, God, I know we've talked about this, but it's been years ago.
	I know where you're going.
	And I know.
	And we did talk about it.
	Is that Hillary Clinton had a, on her website, which or whatever the vote for Hillary was, had polling places listed, which you were intended to go to, but they weren't official polling places.
	They were staffed by...
	Yes, fake polling.
	And so what they would do is because you're sending people to a Hillary polling place, they're pretty much all going to vote for Hillary.
	So they would take those ballots and then swap out a whole bunch of Bernie ballots as they took them into the DNC to be counted.
	And that was why Seth Rich got killed because that, or let's just say that happened...
	Whatever happened to Seth Rich, that was the incriminating evidence, which of course could easily be used in many other scenarios, including a general election, I think, depending on what kind of systems you're using.
	It's a pretty good idea.
	It's so simple.
	Just send people to a polling place.
	You have to understand, in America, lots of polling places are just someone's garage.
	This happens all the time.
	Yeah.
	My mom used to be a polling place.
	Case in point, she was probably a Russian bot.
	Yeah, she did it for years.
	She was the, I don't know what your job is to have the polling place there, but it was a garage, a garage in a little house that she had, and she would just, we'd go to vote.
	Yeah.
	I think it was for about five or six years.
	Yeah.
	They've since moved it, but you know.
	Now, of course, if that ever came out, that would be a scandal.
	I mean, that's really cheating.
	I mean, there's just no two ways to go about it.
	You set up a whole polling place, and on your website, send people there so they wouldn't go to the official polling place, so you could swap out the votes.
	I mean, that's pretty brazen.
	We did have a clip from that era about some place, one of the precincts, In the New York area where there was 99% of the vote always went to the Democrat, which is a possibility, but it seems unlikely because there's always, you know, there's too many people who just disagree with it.
	Oops, sorry.
	And one of the things that then they went and one of the networks went to this precinct because it seems so fishy and talked to, oh yeah, we're all Democrats here.
	And so they seemed to confirm that they were, you know, 99% going to vote for the Democrat in one of these precincts.
	It still looks fishy to me.
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	It was all within the New York area, and that's where Bernie really got burned.
	He got burned in New York, and then there was the missing ballots, if you remember that one, where they never did the swap out.
	Yeah, they just tossed him out.
	It's like, let's just throw him out, the guy he'll never notice.
	Exactly.
	All of this.
	If anybody's going to win a lot of votes in New York, it's going to be Bernie in New York, not Hillary so much.
	Absolutely.
	All of this, of course, will lead to thousands of sealed indictments.
	There's no doubt about it.
	And he is back.
	Joe DeGenova on the trail again.
	Are you sure it's just not an old clip?
	No, it's not.
	Well, he's no longer on Fox.
	Now he's moved over to One America News.
	He's downgraded to OAN. Here's just a quickie, and of course, this is also just a memory jog, a little reminder about some of the irregularities that we haven't heard about for years since the impeachment thing has been on.
	Do people go to jail for this, and why not?
	People should go to jail for the Carter Page stuff, the lying on the FISA warrants, the misleading the FISA courts, submitting false documents to the FISA courts.
	Those are all felonious acts.
	For me, what matters is accountability at this point.
	You have two institutions that are vital to American freedom.
	The FBI and the Justice Department.
	They were completely corrupted under two attorneys general, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, with the authority and knowledge of the then President of the United States, Barack Obama.
	And you'll never forget, I'm sure, that famous Susan Rice email on Inauguration Day of Donald Trump where she sends an email to the file, Memorializing that there had been a meeting on January 5th with the President of the United States, all senior law enforcement and intelligence officials, where they reviewed the status of Crossfire Hurricane, and the President announced, President Obama, that he was sure that everything had been done by the book.
	I must say, I want to thank Susan Rice for being so stupid and so arrogant to write that email on January 20th because that's exhibit A for that Barack Obama knew all about this from start to finish and was more than happy to have the civil rights of massive numbers of Americans violated so he could get Donald Trump.
	And we kind of, you know, it's easy to forget these things about that email that Susan Rice sent to herself.
	And that is, of course, I mean, I don't know if it's incriminating, but it certainly shows that President Obama knew what was going on with this crossfire hurricane.
	But even One American News is not lowbrow enough.
	We have to go to a podcast.
	We've got to go down a little bit lower on the show business ladder.
	To get Joe DeGenoa to really talk a little bit more about what's happening with the thousands of sealed indictments as so many people will be going to jail.
	As now Durham, because we had everything resting in Horowitz, and then nothing.
	And now everyone's like, oh, Durham's going to send people to jail.
	It's going to happen.
	Before you continue, I have to say, people should note that this is a mirror image of what the left is doing.
	Totally.
	The left.
	Oh, Trump's going to quit.
	He's going to quit the campaign.
	Oh, there's all this stuff.
	He's going to quit the campaign.
	Oh, he won't.
	He's going to quit the presidency.
	He's going to resign from the presidency.
	Oh, Putin's running the country.
	I mean, it's the exact mirror image of the nuttiness.
	Except that this happens on a podcast.
	That's true.
	The other one happens on CNN. Yeah, exactly.
	So, here is Joe DeGeno.
	And...
	Now, although I think he's correct, because we know about the NSA and these FBI consultants unmasking hundreds of telephone calls of Americans, which is completely irregular to the whole FISA process, but apparently now Rogers is talking to Durham, and now it's going to happen!
	There was news, Joe, that Admiral Mike Rogers, the former head of the NSA, is voluntarily cooperating with John Durham's investigation.
	I would think that might cause quite a bit of fervor for some folks like James Comey and others.
	Oh yeah, we're going to jail!
	This is the biggest single development in the Durham investigation.
	I love how on the podcast, Joe DeGeneva is talking out of his butthole through his pants.
	We were told, according to published reports, that Admiral Rogers has met several times with John Durham.
	Just stop for a second.
	On the podcast, was DeGeneva ever asked what model number of Radio Shack microphone he was using?
	I think he's using the snowball, actually.
	The classic snowball that all the YouTubers use.
	I'm sorry.
	Someone in the troll room has his ball gag in.
	Now I understand the problem.
	...times with John Durham, and that we now know That Admiral Rogers, who was the central figure in uncovering the illegal electronic spying done by the Obama administration prior to the Carter Page FISA warrants, the spying that went on from 2012 to 2016 involving FBI contractors illegally accepting NSA data.
	Mr.
	Rogers discovered that, reported it to the FISA court, All of that spying was stopped by her, and it led to the crescendo of illegal activity by Comey, Clapper, and Brennan.
	It led to the so-called crossfire hurricane investigation to cover up that previous spying that had been going on.
	Rogers has an electronic trail of all the spying that went on over five years.
	He has personal notes.
	A la James Comey, only this time they are not self-serving notes, they are the truth.
	Mike Rogers, I have described as the Rosetta Stone of this investigation.
	This is the single most important development in this.
	I have been suggesting for a long time that ultimately Rogers would be the key to any criminal investigation.
	That is coming true.
	What we now know will happen is I can be barely comfortable in suggesting that there is going to be a substantial criminal conspiracy indictment involving a lot of people.
	There it is.
	The electronic spying, by the way, which was done.
	That electronic spying that went on from 2012 to 2016 into NSA databases...
	Was used for unmasking people and then leaking that information to the press.
	And when the Attorney General talks about investigating private parties, he's talking not only about GPS, Fusion, and Glenn Simpson and all those people, and Nellie Orr.
	He's talking about the contractors who were illegally accessing NSA databases at the request of Comey and Brennan.
	So there you go.
	What you learned is nothing because it was unintelligible, pretty much.
	Well, you could hear it.
	You could make it out, but it's very sad that that's the best that Joe can do at this point.
	But as I was thinking about this, and not even so much about that, but about the corruption allegations, which is kind of, if you look, I think someone, no, this was in the newsletter.
	You had a picture of this.
	What are the chances of the kids of the following people having jobs with oil companies in Ukraine?
	And it's Biden's kid, Pelosi's kid, Kerry's kid, and who's the fourth one?
	Yeah, yeah, Romney.
	Romney.
	Romney's kid.
	Yeah, Romney, the worst.
	And what are the chances?
	What are the...
	You know, we hear about corruption all the time.
	You know, there's crap going on in Bolivia.
	My goodness, we have the guy who escaped Japan, the former Nissan-Renault executive who escaped Japan in a cello case to go back to Lebanon.
	You know, the thing is, we believe in America, certainly, but maybe in most of the modern West, that those are just banana republics.
	That doesn't happen here.
	No, what doesn't happen here is they don't get run out of town on a rail.
	Because, of course, our politicians are equally, if not much more corrupt.
	Just, it's hard for us to believe it.
	It's hard for an American...
	That's more high level, too, and they're not stealing from the Americans.
	Well, they are.
	Yes, directly from Americans.
	But they're doing it through Ukraine, so that's okay.
	Well, yeah, it's not so apparent, but...
	I really think that people in America and in the modern West, really not.
	It can't be like billions of dollars?
	No.
	No.
	They're not really stealing billions of dollars.
	No, that doesn't happen here.
	Newsflash.
	It does.
	And it's so bad.
	It is really everything from these NGOs to the little rinky-dink foundations, money flowing everywhere.
	You know, look at Baltimore with the mayor and her scandals and just everywhere.
	Selling non-existent children's books to the schools.
	Yes.
	It's rife with corruption.
	You don't see the forest for the trees anymore.
	So, we're just as corrupt, only we don't want to believe it.
	You know, a couple of black people over there in Africa, of course they're corrupt, look at them!
	Of course!
	But here, no.
	No, that can't happen.
	Well, nothing's going to happen about it.
	That we can be assured.
	Well, with that, I do want to thank you for your courage, though, and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in corruption, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam C. Curry.
	In the morning, all ships of sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air.
	Subs in the water.
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to all the trolls at NoAgendaStream.com.
	Affectionately called the Troll Room.
	Thank you for handing off the one-liners once again.
	All kinds of good things happening in the Troll Room.
	How many trolls do we have online right now?
	Let's see.
	We've got 925.
	Not bad for January 2nd.
	Those are the people listening live.
	You can listen live on Thursdays and the second Thursday of the month, the week on Sunday.
	But there's always something on noagendastream.com 24 hours a day.
	Also, big in the morning to, of course, Darren O'Neill once again brought us the artwork for the final show of 2019.
	Now, that episode was 1,203.
	We titled it R.E.T., which we actually discussed in the show, which is our retro clips, and we did have some retrospective.
	Now, here's what's interesting about the artwork that Darren brought us.
	And there were a couple of pieces, but this really stood out, but it became extra funny for a reason I shall explain.
	So this was the No Agenda I Heart Poot, P-O-O-T, which was the flub that we got from...
	Actually, we probably played that flub...
	Who was it again?
	Amy and Michael Moore.
	Yeah, Amy Goodman is somebody.
	Yeah, Michael Moore, and this is what they were talking about, talking about Mayor Pete.
	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 are for him.
	The millennial that's running, 2%.
	2% of 18 to 35-year-olds are for the person their age.
	You're talking about Poot Buttigieg?
	Yeah, Poot Buttigieg, yes.
	I'm not trying to avoid trying to pronounce the name.
	It is Buttigieg.
	Right.
	Poot.
	Poot Buttigieg.
	So that was a funny piece of art.
	And it wasn't until I saw the art that I realized, oh my, the word poot, P-O-O-T, or poot in Dutch, is completely recognizable.
	And once I saw the word, I'm like, holy shit, in this...
	It says, I love fag.
	That is the Dutch slang word for gay is pot.
	And you could translate it directly to fag.
	So it had such an interesting meaning with I love pot that we used it immediately, of course.
	Always go for the lowbrow, the lowest laugh possible.
	But nobody, pretty much nobody picked up on it.
	I was expecting some Dutch listeners to say something.
	I looked up the word in the Google Translator and it came out as leg.
	Yes, it is the word for leg in Dutch as well, but slang is very obvious.
	But no one, no tweets, no nothing.
	I was surprised.
	There you go.
	Sometimes this happens.
	But it was the 33rd win for Darren O'Neal.
	According to Comicstrip Blogger, that's why he didn't even compete.
	He says he knew that Darren was like a no-hit-no-run.
	I'm not going to ruin his 33rd.
	Yeah, it's like throwing him a softball to hit the last homer of the year.
	Exactly.
	So kind.
	So collegiate.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Very nice.
	And thank you very much, Darren O'Neill, for doing so much for us in 2019.
	Yeah, I'd say 33 is about a third of all the shows.
	Huge.
	Huge.
	And Darren was there this morning doing the pre-stream once again for this show.
	So he's a great force in our Value for Value network.
	He really understands it, and we really appreciate what he does.
	And all of the artists, you can go take a look at their work at noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And we've got some people to thank who supported us, our executive and associate executive producers for today.
	Right, and this is the New Year's special, so they get an extra good credit if they're executive producers.
	Starting with Anonymous, we probably won't use it.
	Anonymous comes in at $678.93, and it's in Michigan.
	Probably one of the Michigan local guys.
	ITM Anonymous is Oh, he says no name or location.
	Well, you're in Michigan.
	I think they won't track you down.
	But may I please get an Atlas Shrug followed by a big Al respect.
	Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
	The email from Adam tugged at my heartstrings.
	He sent you an email?
	I actually emailed a couple of our top supporters.
	Love, love, love you guys at the ONA Family.
	Bonus was good this year.
	Tax cut did help some slaves.
	So you should donate more anyway.
	Any cheap bastards out there need to do the same.
	Adios and such mofos.
	It's some...
	Oh, brother.
	It's your 3-33-33.
	Thank you, John and Adam, for a wonderful year.
	The magic number is everywhere.
	33.
	Also, can I get some karma for the new year?
	Happy New Year to all.
	Can't wait to use my executive producer title.
	33.
	That's the magic number.
	It's the magic number.
	We've got karma.
	I threw that in as a little bonus.
	Gregory Pierce in Cockiesville.
	Maryland, I'm sure there's a better pronunciation than that.
	33333.
	Another special executive producer.
	Happy New Year.
	I would like some jobs karma.
	So a dealer's choice on jobs, jobs, jobs.
	Also, don't eat me, Bo Jiden.
	Yes.
	And boom, shakalaka, little girl.
	Okay.
	We have all of that for you lined up right now.
	So scary!
	So scary!
	Boo-chaka-laka!
	Boo-chaka-laka!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	We've got Carmen.
	That's child abuse exhibit A and B on the show.
	I don't think it's abuse.
	The kids like it, so it's not abuse.
	I think what it is is exploitation.
	One of our producers, I guess, gave their daughter one of those little mini plastic cards you can drive around yourself, sit in it and drive it.
	It has a radio.
	Or something that resembles a radio.
	I guess maybe some pre-recorded sounds.
	She's like, Mommy!
	No Agenda is no longer on on my radio.
	She's filming with the kids driving around.
	She says, What do you like best about No Agenda?
	I couldn't clip it because it doesn't really work without the visuals.
	He says, what I like best about No Agenda is the dirty words.
	I'm like, okay, there you go.
	Corrupting the children.
	That's you.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Ed Laboutier, $333 comes in.
	Let's make 2020 a great year for No Agenda.
	Happy New Year to the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you, Sir Ed Laboutier.
	Craig Conetti in Southampton, Massachusetts, Nuts, $333.
	No agenda has been a medication-grade gift of sanity.
	There you go.
	I have no desire to imagine my life without it.
	That said, I have been a douchebag for about four years now, and I need to start this decade off right with this donation.
	May I get a much-needed dedouching, jobs karma, and a grad school karma.
	Thank you.
	Uh, Craig from the Lost Lands of Western Massachusetts.
	You've been de-douched.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Louis Perez in West Palm Beach, Florida, 333.
	Professors John and Adam, I've been a douchebag since day one, but no more.
	Please de-douche.
	Yes.
	You've been de-douched.
	Thank you kindly for sharing all of your knowledge and stories via this virtual university that is the No Agenda Show.
	Jingle, connect the dots, dots with Maxine.
	Here's what I've said.
	I've said that we need the information.
	We need to connect the dots.
	And we've got to drill down.
	We've got to connect the dots.
	Get the facts.
	Connect the dots.
	Do everything that I possibly can to help connect the dots.
	I've said we've got to connect the dots.
	I've always said...
	If we connect the dots, I believe that they should have to connect the dots if we're able to connect the dots.
	And if we determine the facts, if the dots are connected, let's get to the bottom of it all.
	Let's see if the dots connect. The dots connect. you Once again, once again.
	She's got a lot of things, those floaters in her eyeballs, I bet you.
	Yeah.
	I'll bet she does.
	Christopher Walker in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
	Go Packers, 20202.
	That No Agenda show has been, the No Agenda show has been and will continue to be the best podcast in the universe.
	I'd like to thank you both for your courage and passion.
	Now, if I may, I'd like to thank every producer who submits art for the show.
	You artists are phenomenal.
	When I first discovered No Agenda years ago while using the No Agenda Stream Roku app, the thing that really drew me in was the new art that was distributed with each show.
	That stuff is too funny.
	Furthermore, who else does that?
	Exactly.
	Only No Agenda, that's who.
	That's right.
	Now down to brass tacks.
	With the most recent donation, I have achieved Viscount status.
	This is all very exciting.
	I'd like to request a title change, if I may.
	Henceforth, I'd like to be known as Sir Christopher Barron of Brown County and the Viscount of the Troll Room, a.k.a.
	Gummy Nerds.
	If that isn't acceptable, then I'll be in touch.
	I think it's fine.
	I'm not sure.
	Now I'd like to request a de-douching for a friend and fellow No Agenda enthusiast.
	Would you please de-douche Mike Hunt?
	You've been de-douched.
	God.
	Are we in kindergarten?
	Is that the deal?
	We're in kindergarten now?
	All right, gummy nerds.
	And the troll room goes wild.
	Jeez.
	There's enough childish behavior from both of us here.
	We don't need your help.
	Yes, we're supposed to be the source.
	Finally, I may request a few jingles.
	I'd like to request any jingle of John's choice.
	I think just share a secret's a good one.
	Any jingle of Adam's choice, and I would like the Drone Again Naturally song to be played at the end of the show.
	Well, for a Viscount, you might be able to do that, although Adam tends to forget to do that.
	No, actually, thank you.
	I try.
	I'm getting better.
	Hey, what are you going to do?
	Anyway, keep it up onwards to a 2020 and beyond.
	Yes.
	So you chose Tell a Secret?
	That's what you wanted?
	Yeah, let me see what, uh, then I'll choose, uh, I'll choose this one.
	Oh, there's no winning.
	We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot.
	Now everyone hug and share a secret.
	Monday!
	Monday!
	You better hide the stash, cause there's a war on cash.
	The drone again.
	Yes, and I will play the full Drone Again track at the end of the show.
	Promise.
	Thank you for the madness.
	Dave Tanya, the Viscountess of New York City, $201.69.
	I haven't heard from her for a while.
	She was going to buy some wine at some dinner, some recent dinner.
	I sent me a list.
	So she had this sale wines.
	These sale wines are a scam.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop!
	What are you talking about, man?
	She sent me a note this last time I heard from her.
	Okay.
	Asking to help her with the wine selection, which I do gladly with any Viscount Knight, you, and other people.
	Right.
	I said, these wine deals, they are a scam.
	So she sent you a list of wines that she could choose from.
	They were on sale at some restaurant.
	Ah, okay.
	And then you sent back and said, they're all a scam.
	Was that your response or did you choose from?
	With that exact voice.
	I've been hearing it for you.
	I know, I know.
	It's crazy.
	So she said, okay, well then can you pick something from the big list?
	So she sends me the big list and I never realized.
	I never wrote her back.
	I just forgot.
	This whole wind-up was a mea culpa and a shitty one at best?
	Yes, it was a wind-up for a mea culpa.
	Damn.
	Anyway, she writes, Happy New Year.
	Thought it was time for another associate executive producership.
	1.69, the amount of Amount is a nod to episode 169 where I was knighted.
	I'm planning to be at the New York meetup on January 18th.
	Athena and Alex rock for setting it up and looking forward to meeting them.
	I completely dropped the ball.
	Aha!
	On organizing my mom's four-day hospital stay after open-heart surgery turned into a month and a half.
	Aha!
	What kind of excuse is that?
	But she's home now.
	What kind of excuse?
	And much better, I think, no agenda health karma did work.
	Oh, good.
	Oh, thank you.
	Something worse may have happened without it.
	Right.
	Anyway, sorry for war and peace.
	Hardly.
	And I love you guys as always.
	We love you, Dame Tanya.
	Dame Tanya, the Viscountess of New York City, she's very important in the Big Apple.
	She's one of the holdouts as it gentrifies towards China.
	Yuck.
	She's apparently not a swollen amygdala liberal somehow.
	Somehow?
	No, what do you mean somehow?
	She's a Noah Generalist.
	Well, that's what happens here in New York.
	I mean, that's all you get.
	Well, that's true.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	Thank you, Dame Tanya.
	See, we don't need the taxes from them because we're New York.
	We don't need money.
	We're New York.
	New York.
	We don't need money.
	Angela Castaneda.
	Dame Angela from Las Vegas.
	Dame Angela from Anderson.
	By the way, let's go back up to Dame Tanya.
	Give her some more health karma for her mom.
	Okay, absolutely.
	I'm going to add a little twist of goat.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	So Dame Angela from Henderson, 200 bucks.
	I haven't been able to listen as much lately, but I had caught the show today.
	The report about Trump bringing the troops home from places we don't need to be made me remember why I need to make listening and supporting the show a priority.
	Thank you.
	And I'm going to give her and her husband some karma from me and from Tina.
	You've got karma.
	Really nice.
	Angela's done so much, man.
	She's organized tours for us.
	She's a massive, massive producer.
	Well, good.
	She doesn't organize anything for me.
	Well, you don't need any organizing except that office of yours.
	I've come up with a solution to your issue.
	Yeah, that you won't ever let me see your studio?
	No, I'm going to let you see it.
	You have to sign a non-disclosure and give me $100 cash.
	$100 cash?
	Is it worth to you that much?
	A hundred bucks.
	That's the tour of the studio.
	Anyone who wants to see it, a hundred bucks.
	Now, okay.
	Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	What do you mean anyone?
	Now all of a sudden anyone can see it?
	I'm thinking maybe I can make this into a tourist attraction.
	It's a hundred bucks and an NDA? I don't quite know.
	So what can I cannot do once I sign this NDA? Stop.
	Let me revisit this.
	I've only been to John's house once, and I believe it was about 11 years ago, maybe a little bit longer.
	10 or 11 years ago.
	It was probably 10.
	It was for Thanksgiving.
	It was very nice.
	I said, let me go see your studio.
	What?
	No!
	You can't go upstairs!
	In that voice.
	I'm nailing it today.
	I said, whatever it was, it was like a no.
	A hard no.
	I've never even been invited back We're not anywhere in the neighborhood.
	With your daughter getting married in May, and we've been invited and we're very excited about coming, although it's on a Sunday, which is rather odd.
	I mean, what child of no agenda nation gets married on a Sunday?
	Show day.
	Hates, hates dad.
	Well, hello.
	We'd love to come, but I'd hate to be in San Francisco once again and not be able to see your studio.
	And you immediately went, no!
	And so now, if I sign an NDA, a non-disclosure agreement, and pay $100...
	Cash.
	Well, the NDA... So, I mean, you've got to let me...
	I mean, can I... I can't mention anything?
	Can I see the language of the NDA? Man, you drive a hard bargain.
	Yeah, you can see the language of the NDA. How about I just won't take pictures?
	I mean, I will remind you, you came to my house an hour late, and people were already leaving, and like, hey, hey, hey, you come in, you turn on the Warriors game on television, like, we're getting married now, hey, got a TV? Where's ESPN? And then you go upstairs and you take 100 pictures of my studio.
	I took 100 pictures of your studio?
	Yeah.
	Where are those 100 pictures?
	I don't have them.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Fine.
	All right.
	No, I will not sign an NDA. I will pay the $100, though.
	That's well worth it.
	But the NDA, I need to be able to talk about something.
	How about this?
	A non-disparagement agreement.
	Oh!
	That may be good.
	So I can't disparage you or your studio.
	Yeah, but you're a professional, and professional broadcasts have ways of disparaging that aren't technically disparaging.
	So that would have to be in there.
	If I determine that as a disparagement, there will be a fine.
	Okay, write it up.
	I think we can sign phase one of this deal very soon.
	Alright, Sir Tristan Banning in Toronto.
	200 bucks I mentioned.
	Happy New Year, he says.
	Letter to follow.
	I don't have a letter.
	I looked.
	He says JK, he says.
	So I guess it was a joke.
	No letter.
	Joke.
	Oh, aha.
	JK. Please give a healthy dose of goat karma to everybody.
	Cheers, Sir Tristan in Toronto.
	Toronto.
	Toronto.
	You've got...
	Marv Dorner in Mandan, North Dakota, 200.
	I'm in serious need of a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	As it's been years since my last donation.
	It's time to clear out my PayPal account to wrap up the knighthood as we enter another exhausting election year and no agenda keeping me sane.
	This donation will get me pointed in that direction.
	Could I also please get some F cancer karma as my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer the day after Christmas.
	So I'm looking for all the help I can get.
	And since we're in the middle of an oil and train country, oil and train country is where we are.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	Please play a listen to that horn jingle.
	Have a great 2020.
	Oh my god!
	Woo!
	Listen to that horn!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	And that'll be the conclusion of our list of well-wishers, associate executive producers, executive producers for show 1204.
	It includes the moniker as producing the special New Year's, or producing the No Agenda New Year's Day special.
	Now what is it?
	Well, you can put whatever you want, just a New Year's Day special show.
	It's a New Year's special.
	I would say something like executive producer, no agenda show, 2020 New Year's special.
	I mean, something like that.
	Something like that.
	Use that.
	That would be good.
	That would be good.
	It works!
	You just tell us how much you like the show.
	It's an immediate gratification.
	It puts us on notice.
	It really motivates us in many different ways.
	And it also really continues to produce the best podcast in the universe.
	If you don't believe me, go look at the Mueller Report.
	By admission, it is proof.
	And, of course, we'll be back on, what is today?
	Today is a Thursday.
	On Sunday, the other Thursday of the week, please consider supporting us as we roll into the Roaring Twenties.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And, of course, you're up to speed on everything in Iran, Iraq, so you're on top of it!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	There's something on this show we don't do, but I appreciate people that do it.
	Uh, But I wonder about how many of these people are just fakes.
	They're phonies.
	Sometimes it just doesn't make I listen to C-SPAN, the journal, when they have these call-ins.
	These guys call in, and it's not really for interaction.
	It's mostly for what most call-ins are anyway.
	Just make a statement.
	Well, yeah, you call in the Republican line or the Democrat line and you get to bitch and moan in a partisan fashion.
	Well, they changed it over the holiday to the pessimist-optimist lines.
	Oh, brother.
	So C-SPAN had a formatting change first time in 35 years.
	Guys have got an idea.
	Well, just for the holidays.
	So one of the pessimists calls in, and this is C-SPAN, Dave in Atlanta.
	Dave in Atlanta, Georgia, says he's pessimistic about what he sees in 2020.
	Hello.
	Hello, yes, I'm Dave in Decatur, Georgia, and I heard 20 minutes ago that you're doing fine today, so I'm not going to ask you how you're doing.
	And I want to tell you that I'm pessimistic because it was in the 1970s that And I'm standing there listening to this big ol' Protestant preacher telling a crowd of teenagers, one of the boys had on a t-shirt that said, all one people, and had an image of the world with all these different national flags.
	And that preacher stood there and corrected that young man.
	We're not all one people.
	We're Americans.
	We are exceptional.
	And that's what's got us where we are today.
	We are not exceptional.
	We're a bunch of racist bigots.
	When we went into Vietnam, it was to side with the white people, the French, who went over there and brutalized those Vietnamese people.
	We took up that brutality, and I was involved in it.
	I killed people over there for a lie.
	And the lie is that American exceptionalism is a load of nonsense.
	We're all about to love each other and be kind to each other instead of loving the almighty dollars.
	Thank you very much.
	Wow, was that the optimist line or the pessimist line?
	No, it was the pessimist.
	That was the pessimist line.
	Wow.
	You know?
	Well, I don't know what to say, really.
	But he made some points there.
	He said, hey, I went over and killed people in Vietnam for all based on a lie.
	Yes.
	Well, at least he's woke.
	That's for sure.
	Yeah, that's it.
	He's woke.
	He's woke.
	I'll take that.
	In this new year, a lot of musical chairs taking place.
	The Bank of England, the chief, the head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, And I recall last year, his last hurrah as he was already given up.
	He was leaving his post.
	He was at the bankers meeting.
	Where did they do that?
	That secret bankers meeting.
	The central bankers.
	Is it in Georgia somewhere?
	I'm thinking.
	Jekyll Island!
	I bet it is Jekyll Island.
	Let me see.
	So by the way, that place in Jekyll Island where the Fed was orchestrated...
	It's still there, and it's turned into a hotel for tourists.
	It looks like a pretty cool place to visit.
	He...
	Okay, yes, that was...
	What was that?
	That was September.
	And he was saying, oh, well, you know, looks like we're going to have some digital currencies.
	It's time to blow it all up.
	The system's not working.
	This was his last hurrah.
	You remember those clips?
	And he's like, oh, Bitcoin, well, that may be the future.
	Blah.
	So this guy, you know, kind of, for a moment, it's like, oh, that's kind of cool that he said that on his way out.
	You know, it's nice to, you know, just throw a little hand grenade before you leave.
	But he's back on the scene, or let's just say the musical chairs have, the music has played, the music has stopped, and he's in a new chair.
	Guess where he is now and what his new job is?
	World Bank.
	Close.
	This guy is a former Goldman Sachs.
	He ran the Bank of England, so that's the Federal Reserve of the United Kingdom.
	No, now he is the UN envoy for climate change.
	Yeah!
	Bring the financial guys in.
	Oh, yeah!
	And the BBC interviewed him.
	Hold on a second before we continue with this.
	Are you implying that there is a connection between world banking?
	And climate change because there's money involved somehow?
	If you hold on for two clips, I'll answer the question.
	Here's Mark Carney regarding the emergency.
	It's talked about 2020 being a decade of action, absolutely necessary, on climate change.
	We want action on the finance side.
	We want disclosure, companies doing that disclosure.
	There's a lot of memes in here.
	Climate disclosure is another good one.
	You have to disclose your something.
	On that disclosure, companies doing that disclosure, we want that to become the norm.
	It's important that you and I, people watching, can understand how our money is being invested.
	Is it being invested consistent with the transition path that is the law of the land, that is what our citizens want, which is that we're transitioning in a way that will stabilize.
	This guy sounds just like Adam Schiff.
	Ah, interesting observation.
	I'll pay attention to that.
	It's probably the same milieu, for sure.
	I just like that he's saying that, you know, of course he's talking about the UK. The law of the land, it's climate change, you've got to make sure the money is spent right.
	Remember, the last...
	The COP25, which was held in Madrid, was all about the climate negotiation, which apparently didn't go so well because everyone wanted to receive, but no one wanted to pay anything.
	So here's this guy telling the British subjects, it is a BBC interview after all, we're taking your money, and we'll make sure you feel very good about how we invest it.
	Invest it in ourselves.
	The land that is what our citizens want, which is that we're transitioning in a way that will stabilize the climate.
	You'll spend a lot of 2020 working on climate as part of...
	How arrogant...
	I'm sorry, how arrogant is that?
	We'll spend your money in a way that will stabilize the climate.
	I mean, if I went on the street 20 years ago, people would shoot me if I said these things.
	Give me your money.
	Don't worry.
	I'll make sure I invested wisely so the climate will stabilize.
	What our citizens want, which is that we're transitioning in a way that will stabilize the climate.
	You'll spend a lot of 2020 working on climate as part of your UN role in the run-up to the Glasgow summit.
	I wonder why you choose not to use the term climate I would say we're in a climate crisis, just like a financial crisis, where action needs to be taken.
	Now, this is a slow-burn crisis, if you will, so it's more difficult to act because you don't have the public spectacle of a failing bank or queues outside a building society or those types of technologies.
	Tangible, the markets moving around a tangible way that force action.
	That's part of the challenge.
	That's part of the tragedy of the horizon.
	So, listen very carefully what he says here.
	He's saying, we don't have, like a financial crisis, we don't have people standing outside banks, you know, a run on the banks, etc.
	Now, I would...
	Wait, no, wait!
	I want to hear your point.
	I would argue, well, what about all the fires?
	Isn't the Amazon, California, Australia?
	That's all being shown as huge examples of the climate emergency, the climate crisis.
	He says, we don't have that.
	It's not tangible enough.
	And he says, that's the challenge.
	I think these guys are planning some kind of financial crash with all this.
	I think these guys have already planned these fires recently.
	Well, there's that.
	I mean, right now in Paradise, they're selling the properties there, left and right, as you would expect.
	You can go buy some of these old properties now for about pennies, not pennies on the dollar, but about a third of what you would have paid some years ago, and people are just rebuilding.
	The other people just abandoned the area, and they're leaving the properties for sale at fire sale prices.
	It's a really good time to get in on some of these things because the whole town burnt down, which makes no sense to me.
	How does the whole town burn down like that?
	Let's go back to what I wanted to talk about.
	When does the reporter start to grill you about your language usage like she did?
	She said to him, why are you calling it a crisis and not a climate emergency?
	And we already know that climate crisis and climate emergency were two terms that showed up on purpose to change the conversation from global warming and climate change.
	And they decided it's not alarmist enough.
	They haven't done enough of alarming the public.
	Let's change these to climate crisis and climate emergency.
	And sometimes Amy, for example, Goodman will say both.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Climate crisis, climate emergency is said right back to back.
	One piece report.
	But when does a reporter, instead of just getting somebody to talk, actually correct their language?
	How did that happen?
	Well, it is the BBC, after all, and they have a style guide, and they all chose, if you recall, they chose to use the alarming words, climate emergency.
	But again, and I'll play the last 11 seconds, Carney here is saying, no, you don't have anything tangible, but that's the challenge.
	The public spectacle of a failing bank or queues outside a building society or those types of tangible, the markets moving around a tangible way that force action.
	That's part of the challenge.
	That's part of the tragedy of the horizon.
	That's part of the tragedy on the horizon.
	That's part of the challenge.
	Let's play that again.
	The last bit?
	He's predicting there's going to be a situation?
	Well, it's hard to understand exactly how he means it because he said it's part of the challenge.
	Here, listen again.
	Because you don't have the public spectacle of a failing bank or queues outside a building society or those types of tangible, of the markets moving around a tangible way that force action.
	That's part of the challenge.
	That's part of the tragedy of the horizon.
	Okay, so what he's saying is we don't have...
	That spectacle that forced action.
	What he means by forced action is that's how, in 2008, our money was taken from us because of forced action and given to the banks.
	Literally given to the banks.
	This is when everyone started to retire, including my buddy, the former New York banker.
	Everyone made off like bandits because they had a horrible spectacle.
	You had Obama there.
	We're all going to die.
	I'm just going to give it to you straight, people.
	It's not good.
	It's not who we are!
	So that's what he's vying for, and the guy's in the right position to make these things happen.
	He's a banker.
	I don't think you're ever really a former banker.
	He's a Goldman Sachs guy.
	He ran the Bank of England.
	Now he wants to cause some kind of panic.
	I don't think it's a financial panic he's interested in causing, because if there's a financial panic, that means that people are going to I'm listening to them.
	I think they don't know what to do.
	I think they're looking for a good idea.
	Well, let's listen to this second clip.
	Maybe we'll learn more.
	You've taken a fair amount of flack in this role on various different fronts, including from MPs.
	I wonder if you think that we have, as you look at this country, whether we have enough truth in our political debate, enough truth in our Brexit debate?
	I think what's essential on this topic on climate change is that we have a cross-party, nonpartisan approach to it, that the science is clear, that the type of transition that we've been talking about, that we get as specific as possible about what's needed.
	We can't afford on this one to have selective information, to have spin, misdirection, misleading information.
	It needs to be absolutely clear because we're all in.
	We're all in on it.
	All in on it.
	You betcha.
	I like where there's a double meaning, the way he says it.
	The way he says we're all in on it?
	Oh, yeah.
	We're all in on this one.
	We're all in, you know, as in lean in.
	We're all in.
	We're all in.
	We're all in on this, yep.
	Or we're all in on it.
	There's no debate.
	Truth wants to come out there.
	I'd like to play a historical clip.
	For some context, obviously John and I are not big believers in this climate change.
	Send all your money to the elite so they can invest it for us.
	European Union now with Franz Timmermans, who is the Green Deal czar.
	He must have 50 or 60 people working for him overnight in this deal.
	And he is requiring from the 26 member states in the European Union annually 260 billion euros to fight climate change.
	So every member state has to send 10 billion euros, which they don't have.
	They have to find it somewhere, which comes from the citizens of And they're going to send it to the European Union and Uncle Franz is going to make sure we don't die because of it.
	And he needs that for a span of 10 years.
	Where does this all come from?
	2008, at the height of the Great Recession, Bill Moyer's journal, PBS Television, sat down with George Soros to discuss a number of issues.
	It's only a minute and 37 seconds, but if you've never heard this clip, it will bring clarity to what global warming is really about.
	So let's leave them something to think about as they go home.
	Let them go home and say, Mr.
	Soros said, here are three things we can do, simply.
	One, work on a better world order, where we work together to resolve problems that confront humanity, like global warming.
	And I think that dealing with global warming will require a lot of investment.
	You see, for the last 25 years, The world economy, the motor of the world economy that has been driving it was consumption by the American consumer who has been spending more than he's been saving.
	All right?
	Than he's been producing.
	So that motor is now switched off.
	It's finished.
	It's run out of...
	Can't continue.
	You need a new motor.
	And we have a big problem.
	Global warming requires big investment and that could be the motor of the world economy in the years to come.
	Putting more money in, building infrastructure, converting to green technology?
	Instead of consuming, Building electricity, saving on energy, rewiring the houses, adjusting your lifestyle, where energy has got to cost more until you introduce those new things.
	So it will be painful.
	But at least we will survive and not cook.
	We will not cook.
	It will be painful to send all your money to me for the better world order.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	The motor he's talking about was the hollowing out of the United States for sure.
	We didn't produce that much anymore.
	We're just borrowing money and spending it on cheap crap from China.
	The motor stopped.
	The motor is his motor.
	It's his drop a penny and get a dollar out of the bottom motor.
	So he literally said, we need a new motor for a better world order.
	This global warming thing.
	Yeah, that'll take huge investment.
	Rewire your home, slaves!
	I don't know what the hell that means.
	But we should do it all, remember?
	Otherwise, we'll cook!
	That's it!
	In the cap-and-trade bill, which was...
	Bounce back.
	This is back in 2000.
	Around the same time.
	Eight or nine.
	Eight or nine.
	The cap and trade bill came up, or as Gohmert called it, the crap and trade bill.
	It had provisions in there.
	And if you remember, this is when John Boehner was the Speaker of the House.
	He's crying all the time.
	Yes.
	He went on about, with segments of it, he read segments.
	We had clips.
	Where he's talking about how a lot of today's structures just need to be torn down because they're not energy efficient enough.
	And it was a phase out law where you'd just be leveling houses left and right and rebuilding them from scratch.
	And that would be the motor, the rebuilding motor.
	Of course, it'll be done under international, one world government, hopefully, according to Soros, hopefully.
	And it was just a nightmare.
	So the rewiring, I think, was just kind of what was left over, what you could just remember about the bull crap they tried to force down our throats.
	That's where the jobs, jobs, jobs karma came from.
	Yes.
	So the point here is the whole idea was huge investment.
	Take it from us, from the taxpayer.
	Take that money.
	Invest it in huge, important things, like anything that Soros is involved in.
	And that will be the new motor.
	And then Trump came in and said, no, not going to do it.
	And guess what?
	It's all falling apart.
	At least not that motor's not getting started.
	And it was a part of the same push.
	In fact, I have it here.
	Hold on, where is it?
	If you recall...
	Here was President Obama.
	And by the way, when I went to fish this clip out of the archives, I kind of missed him, particularly for stuff like this.
	Hi, everybody.
	Hey, everybody.
	Hey, everybody.
	How you doing?
	It's your buddy Barry.
	This week, I'm proud to join the students, teachers, businesses, and nonprofit organizations taking big new steps to support computer science in America's schools.
	Now, you remember this?
	You remember this whole push?
	Yeah, this is the code, code, code push.
	Because you're not going to have any jobs.
	There's no more coal jobs.
	It's going to be done with you.
	Done with your jobs.
	You need to code!
	Learning these skills isn't just important for your future.
	It's important for our country's future.
	If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans like you to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.
	That's why I'm asking you to get involved.
	Don't just buy a new video game.
	Make one.
	Sure!
	Don't just download the latest app.
	Help design it.
	Okay!
	Don't just play on your phone.
	Program it.
	Yeah, not possible.
	No one's born a computer scientist, but with a little hard work and some math and science, just about anyone can become one.
	You hear that?
	Hear that, Google?
	It's so easy.
	A little math and science, a little hard work.
	we're coming for you this week is your chance to give it a shot and don't let anyone tell you you can't whether you're a young man or a young woman whether you live in a city or a rural area computers are going to be a big part of your future and if you're willing to work and study hard that future is yours to shape thanks everybody all right STEM.
	STEM, everybody.
	Thanks.
	So this, this, of course, was in Joe Biden's head when he goes to the miners.
	Where was he in West Virginia?
	Where was he this time?
	I believe it was West Virginia, but it was in one of the Virginias.
	So I have the shorts set up, how we started off.
	I come from a family where, in an area where his coal mining is created.
	Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in the mine, sure enough, can learn how to program as well.
	So if you can go down 3,000 feet into a mine, you can program?
	A little bit of math?
	A little bit of hard work?
	Yeah.
	Now, so this was what was tweeted about.
	It was actually hard to find the audio for it.
	Then he went into this longer rant, which made it even more interesting that Joe was living in 2008.
	The President asked me to get Detroit out of its problems.
	Remember, Detroit went bankrupt.
	And he gave me authority to do whatever I needed to do.
	So I set up with all the agencies.
	What is all the money out there Detroit could qualify for?
	They didn't ask for it.
	They didn't know how to get it.
	The end result was, not just because of me, but because of the team I put together, Detroit got out of bankruptcy.
	We started to come back.
	We were able to provide everything from street lighting for them that they didn't know they could have, to inner-city rail.
	So we put in a rail system.
	Anyway, make a long story short.
	The rail to nowhere.
	Has he been to Detroit recently?
	Apparently not.
	It's still a shithole.
	Hello?
	Apparently not.
	Oh, excuse me.
	Inner city rail.
	So we put in a rail.
	Anyway, to make a long story short, things really started to move.
	And then we found out something interesting.
	Everybody, when things hit, went bankrupt, everybody who had any talent in terms of technology left.
	Black, white, Hispanic, man, women.
	We didn't have anybody, not a joke, who could turn on the streetlights.
	You hear me?
	Not a joke.
	You hear me?
	Not a joke.
	No one could turn on the streetlights.
	No one knew how to turn on the sewer system.
	No one knew how to turn on the sewer!
	Because it requires computer capability and programming capability.
	Really?
	Flipping a switch.
	Get a computer play.
	And so we went out and hired this outfit that the major corporations are, and they need IT. They went out into the neighborhoods.
	They found 54, happened to be all women, not by intention, mostly women of color, with a few exceptions, ages 24 to 52 or 4.
	They went through a 19-week training program at the community college there, learning how to program.
	And I remember telling people this, and my liberal friends were saying, you can't expect them to be able to do that.
	Give me a break.
	Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake.
	Okay.
	What?
	You've got to give that clip of the day, but...
	I'm going to take it because this was one of the most unhinged things he's ever said.
	Clip of the day.
	So what he's saying is, when he saved Detroit, Joe, because...
	This is news to me, by the way.
	Well, the president gave him the directive.
	Joe, we're going to save Detroit.
	So Joe went and saved Detroit with his team.
	He gave his team some props for saving Detroit.
	Yeah, good for him.
	So they fixed everything.
	They fixed the sewer.
	They fixed the streetlights.
	They fixed the light rail.
	They didn't know how to turn it on.
	So then they got one of these IT recruiting firms who instead of going and getting a whole bunch of H-2B Indian workers went into Detroit, found 50 black women and they trained them And his conclusion is, if you can shovel coal into a furnace, you can code.
	I don't understand what one has to do with the other, but that's exactly what he said.
	People who are not even miners, but just shovel coal into a furnace, maybe on that train, you can code.
	And this is 2019 he's saying this.
	Does he even know?
	Can he code?
	With a little bit of hard work and some science and math.
	He can't even remember his own text code.
	Let alone that he can code something.
	No, people.
	This is not the solution.
	Don't send your kid to code school.
	Give your kid your old laptop with a Linux distro.
	Here, kid.
	Go make something work.
	This is unbelievable to me.
	This guy is so naive.
	He doesn't even know what any of this means.
	You can't code a game.
	Somebody just sitting there at home...
	Can't just sit there and code a modern game?
	Yeah, they can hunt the wumpus.
	They might be able to do that.
	But I don't think there's a lot of market for stuff like that.
	John, if you can shovel coal into a furnace, you can code.
	It's clear.
	We took 50 black women in Detroit and they turned on the sewer.
	It doesn't get much more intersectional than that.
	What's a wampus, by the way?
	Hunt the wampus.
	What?
	Hunt the wampus?
	No, I don't know what hunt the wampus is.
	Holy moly.
	You said holy moly.
	I did.
	Sorry, should we know what hump the wampus means?
	Hunt, hunt.
	I want to hump the wampus.
	Well, there's a bunch of dudes named Ben out there that are rolling their eyes with your lack of knowledge about this fabulous game.
	Apparently, it works best on a TI-99.
	It works fine on anything.
	Anyway, that guy, I'm sorry, cannot be our president.
	He just can't.
	That is not a modern thought pattern that he has there.
	It's sad.
	I understand what he's trying to say.
	Because, of course, anybody can do anything they set their mind to.
	But it's not just about coding an app.
	By the way, what kind of a country would we have?
	Let's just take the logical extreme of this.
	I'm going to take the other side of this.
	Let's say that something happened.
	It made it possible for anybody to write high-level code.
	Everybody, the entire country could write the highest-level code just like falling off a log.
	Anyone could do it at any time.
	What would that do to the economy?
	Well, we'd have a lot of hypercard applications.
	Well, that's pretty much like a reference to Hunt the Wampus.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Maybe we should just take it to the OTG. Off the grids, everybody.
	I did want to give a little update.
	We do have a couple of OTG things to discuss as we try to save our sanity with technology, or at least I do.
	Ever since we talked about it, and I should probably look it up, when did we do our first Linux talk?
	In fact, I can see it was episode 1194, Mint 19, and that was, what's the date of that?
	No, it'd be 10 episodes ago, so it'd be...
	November 28th.
	Okay.
	Yeah, November 28th.
	I have been on my Linux distro since then, have not changed, have not gone back to Windows, have customized it, fine-tuned it, and am completely satisfied.
	It is...
	I mean, I feel so good...
	You're not running the podcast on it.
	No, I wish.
	No, no, no.
	The USB stuff in Linux is a whole different problem, and that's really up to the device makers, but the USB consortium is a quagmire.
	I've kind of given up on that.
	But everything else, and I have this thing tricked out, hydromized, optimized, all my workflows because I can, but most importantly, it just works.
	Day in, day out, no reboots, no shaking, like an etch-a-skets, no upgrade of my experience, and it just keeps working.
	I'm so happy with it.
	Well, this is new.
	I mean, this is Linux we've been playing with for 10 years on the show, on and off, you know, and then...
	And it's always got something wrong because it doesn't work.
	Now, I know that you have very different requirements for me.
	I'm an information manager.
	That's what I do.
	So my main tool is email.
	The workflows I was able to create through a combination of a great email program, ClauseMail, which is also available on Windows, by the way.
	But you could do, I think, a lot more interesting things in Linux.
	You can pipe it off to programs, send it to files, a lot of stuff I'm doing, which I should probably document and write up.
	The browser, of course, simple browser work.
	And that's about it.
	You don't need much else.
	And it's very lightweight.
	I have it on a USB stick, so I have it loaded on three different computers, so I have automatic backups.
	It's fantastic.
	Your requirements are different.
	I don't know if you've still stuck with it, or if you've gone back and forth, or what's the status of your Linux life?
	I can't use Photoshop on it, so it's a no-go.
	Until Adobe makes a Linux version of Photoshop, which they refuse to do because John Warnock personally has a, as long as he's alive, even though he's the chairman of Emeritus, he has a hard-on for Linux and open source.
	Literally, because he thinks that the Postscript clone that came out that was open source was ruining his life, even though he's a billionaire.
	So they're not going to see Photoshop.
	I mean, you can run it through Wine or one of these things and get it kind of to work.
	Or you can use GIMP. Oh, just use GIMP! GIMP's great!
	That was going to be my question.
	I mean, you have used GIMP. Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I've used GIMP. I've used GIMP quite a bit.
	GIMP does work in some situations, but it doesn't work as well as Photoshop.
	It's just not as good.
	Well, here's a question.
	Is it GIMP or Jimp?
	Well, I think it's GIMP. You don't know.
	It could be Jimp.
	I think we should keep it consistent.
	I don't know anyone who calls it Jimp.
	But if you create GIFs with GIMP, why isn't GIMP GIF? Because the guy who made...
	Who invented the GIF, the graphics interchange format.
	I think it was for CompuServe.
	He calls it GIFs.
	I understand.
	And he's the one who gets to designate how it's pronounced.
	I mean, it's just the way it is.
	Anyway, so I don't know what you're working on that you need all these high-end tools for.
	I don't see it on your Twitter feed.
	What are you doing with Photoshop that you need Photoshop so desperately?
	Where's the output?
	One of my outputs is on a four foot by five foot artwork on the wall that needed Photoshop for certain specific functions so it printed out okay.
	What are you printing?
	Photos that are very pretty.
	I've got one a couple for sale.
	I'll put them up.
	When I see your studio.
	You need Photoshop to do that sort of work.
	You can't do it on GIMP. All right.
	And also, if you're going to write a lot, the markup stuff and the things you can do with Microsoft Word, you can't do with any of the word processors.
	Like what?
	You can't, for example, go 10 deep on every edit made of a sentence.
	But why would you even need, what, for your books that you're publishing?
	Sorry, I couldn't resist.
	Well, you can say that all you want, but the fact is that if you're going to have something edited, it's nice to have an edit trail that you can follow.
	Yeah, but LibreOffice has an edit trail.
	It doesn't have one like these.
	These are better.
	And, further, the grammatical correction of Microsoft Word is pretty formidable.
	They don't do any of that on any of these other products.
	Well, you should use it before you send me the newsletter, then.
	It does have flaws.
	I found one great tool that I just wanted to mention for Linux, which is called Notecase Pro.
	You know, I love outliners.
	My whole life is an outliner.
	And Notecase Pro does outliners very well and will import and export OPML, which is what the entire No Agenda universe is based on.
	All of it, if you...
	Go to any page you'll see down at the bottom, created with the Freedom Controller, a little icon there, and that's the XML version of the page, excuse me, which is an OPML. And so when I found that, then, you know, because there really is no good OPML editor for any other platform.
	Well, I guess it's...
	Mac does have Omni Outliner, but anyway, this NoteCase Pro is very good.
	So I'm still on the Linux life, and I love it very much, and I see no reason to go back, especially now that I don't have to deal with Windows whirring around and doing stuff and eating up resources.
	And you kind of got to wonder about Microsoft winning the JEDI contract.
	Remember that?
	The big $10 billion Pentagon contract?
	Contract that Amazon wanted, and Amazon even had their insiders and their shills, and they still didn't get it.
	Microsoft got it.
	You've got to wonder if they're doing some kind of Pentagon and or spy cloud project.
	Well, let's assume so.
	How tightly does Windows 10 integrate into that?
	Because it's just spying on you, just taking all your information.
	Everything you do has to go to cloud and Windows Drive and all.
	No!
	You don't need it.
	And that is part of the OTG life, I think.
	I didn't really realize how much I would enjoy being OTG as in not on Windows.
	It's very good.
	Shouldn't be OTW off the Windows?
	Yeah, OTW. I'm an OTW kind of guy.
	I'm all for it.
	Huh?
	The California Consumer Privacy Act went into effect as of yesterday.
	My life has changed!
	I was going to ask you about that, if your life has changed.
	I'm not quite sure what it is anymore.
	But apparently it's sweeping.
	That seems to be the term everyone's using.
	Sweeping new data privacy law, known as the California Consumer Privacy Act.
	I'm not quite sure.
	I think you're supposed to be able to tell one of these companies, delete my data, which would be nice if that's really what it says.
	I'd like to have a form letter and just send Google a note every month, delete my data, delete my data, delete my data.
	But something tells me that it won't really work that way.
	Was there anything else of interest?
	Yeah, Venmo had an outage.
	That freaked everybody out.
	I guess kids use Venmo to pay bills and pay rent.
	I didn't even know that was a thing.
	I didn't either, but this is another one of those millennial things should be on the list.
	And Hackaday was very clear.
	Flip phones are making a comeback.
	So once again, on the leading edge, on the tip with the No Agenda show, with my Go Flip 3 from Alcatel.
	now of course they're talking about the new motorola but you can still look cool with a flip phone stay safe out there in 2020 everybody Go OTG and OTW, and you will be fine.
	So here is the related to the California privacy law.
	People, there's a clip.
	Leaving California.
	For Texas.
	The nation's largest economy, California, is losing a generation of wage earners.
	Jane Wells joins us now from Los Angeles to explain where they're going, Jane.
	Hi, Mike.
	Yeah, it's not just large companies like Charles Schwab leaving California.
	The census numbers do not lie.
	All kinds of young professionals, some of them making decent salaries, are leaving too.
	Take, for example, 30-year-old Sydney Mulkey.
	She was an educator in Oakland making about $58,000, moved to Portland, Oregon, got the same job at $70,000, allowing her to buy a brand new condo, something that never would have happened in California.
	At one point I was working three jobs and I was just really tired.
	So that was kind of the last straw.
	Small business owners Danielle and Scott Fortier moved from L.A. to Nashville because they couldn't afford to save for retirement or their kids' college funds, even though Scott was working 80 hours a week at his own business.
	In L.A., look at this, they owned a 3,100-square-foot house on a small lot.
	In Tennessee, they own a larger house on seven acres with the building to run their business out of, no state income taxes, property taxes a third of what they were in California, health insurance costs cut nearly in half.
	We've been here about six months, and in that six months, we've already had six friends of ours, six couples, relocate to the same area also.
	People have this image of all these old people who are frustrated leaving, but actually the ones who are leaving are family-age people, people 30 to 54, that group.
	That's the group that's leaving.
	And that's Joel Kotkin at Chapman University.
	Now, while millennials are leaving California, fewer are moving in.
	Kotkin says that could really eventually impact California's sort of entrenched culture of innovation and dreamers.
	And that could hurt the nation, besides the fact that we're all moving to your state and maybe driving up your prices.
	While it's easy for people to leave, guys, this may sound geocentric, it's really difficult to recreate that culture somewhere else from scratch.
	Yeah, we don't allow that here in Texas.
	You can come here.
	You can't recreate your culture here.
	Oh yeah, because Texas is so, especially around Austin, they're so conservative and they're all Trump supporters and nobody's going to change that.
	I have understood that depending on the results of the census, California may actually lose one or two congressional districts because so many people have left, and Texas may gain one or two districts because so many people have entered.
	Probably, okay, maybe it's Adam Schiff's district.
	But for sure, if you're leaving California, San Diego is a place you want to leave.
	Information on a controversial decision to put cameras on nearly 3,000 streetlights in San Diego.
	According to its contract with the city, General Electric will own the images audio collected with no restrictions on its use.
	That means anyone's personal information potentially could be bought and sold by private companies.
	City Attorney Mara Elliott signed the contract with GE back in 2017.
	The contract allows GE to install cameras on 3,000 streetlights citywide, and it also grants GE to use the data as it sees fed.
	The program has been criticized by some civil rights and privacy groups.
	Local attorney and candidate for city attorney Corey Briggs says city leaders were not properly informed about the data sharing.
	It turns out that they're gathering the data, they've been giving it to police, but they're also giving it to Wall Street with no constraints on it whatsoever.
	The city attorney's office told us the contract is legal and was approved by the city council.
	But three city council members now want the mayor to stop installing those cameras until GE provides more information about how it will use the information.
	How about that for some representation, city council?
	Nice!
	Sign a deal for some streetlights.
	They just threw in some cameras as a nice little gimme.
	And they said, well, that's our camera, so we can do whatever we want with your face.
	Slave, shut up!
	Yes, you do need to leave California.
	They took out the red light cameras in Texas.
	They tried to sneak that in.
	Well, that comes and goes.
	It'll be back.
	They've had those red light cameras all over the country.
	I do have an ISO from San Francisco.
	Ah, good.
	Okay.
	This is the dead raccoon ISO from that clip.
	This is an RET ISO. Only in San Francisco!
	Yes!
	We didn't use that one?
	We didn't use that?
	I always remember the guy who found the dead wreck.
	I know we played it.
	No, we didn't because the clip is so profane.
	We did play the clip.
	We played part of it.
	To each other.
	Well, I bet you have the raccoon clip.
	It's really bad.
	The guy is just cussing the whole time.
	It's very funny.
	Actually, I don't have the raccoon clip.
	I don't think I ever sent it over.
	You're right.
	We played that after the show, like secret stuff, secret club stuff.
	Yeah, Secret Club.
	It's too...
	It's gross.
	Only in San Francisco!
	Just look up Dead Raccoon on YouTube, Dead Raccoon in San Francisco, and you will all get to listen to this guy go on about this bum who comes in and drops a dead raccoon in a McDonald's.
	I'm gonna show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	And we do have some people to thank for a show 1204.
	1204!
	Beginning with Baron Latican.
	Baron Latican, $100.
	Sir Jim Zuckel, $100.
	Okay, I've got to read this.
	He says, as a person firmly rooted in the Gen X generation, this is about my millennial list.
	I have been using Dr.
	Bronner's soap for at least a decade.
	Well, first of all, if you're a Gen Xer...
	Dr.
	Bronner's soap?
	Yeah, I pointed this out as one of the...
	It's just a millennial thing.
	Oh, right, right, right, right, right.
	Dr.
	Bronner's soap, which is this Castile soap that doesn't...
	From what I can tell, it doesn't really clean anything.
	But Dr.
	Bronner's stuff is funny because he's got a lecture on every bottle about how bad capitalism is.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	You should get some Dr.
	Browners.
	Anyway, so he, this guy, Jim, Sir Jim, says that he's been, 10 years ago is about the time where the millennials started making it popular.
	Hmm.
	If you said I've been using it all my life, then I'd say, okay, you have a point.
	But you don't.
	You don't have a point.
	Sir Jim is probably 40-plus years old as a Gen Xer, and he's only been using it since he's 30, which is when the millennials came in.
	Dr.
	Bronner's soap is over 150 years and five generations of soap excellence.
	I've always wanted to achieve soap excellence.
	Yeah.
	Nice.
	It's quite the product.
	But there's always a lecture about something or other on there.
	In fact, a ball is mostly a lecture.
	I can see it.
	I'm just looking at some pictures.
	Sir Greg at Parts Unknown.
	Niner, niner, niner, niner.
	Sir Pate in Amsterdam, 6969.
	I'm going to do this for him later on.
	He says, this is irregular for donations.
	Of course, he's a knight under associate level.
	I'd like to get some F cancer for my neighbor.
	Hopefully enough of this.
	She is undergoing cancer treatment and is waiting for the outcome of a recent scan.
	She's a very attractive and deliberately kind person in our community.
	And we'd all like her to stick around in sound health.
	So yes, we'll roll that out just before we get to the knighting serpate.
	Consider it done.
	Attractive and deliberately nice?
	I've never seen that.
	It seems like a contradiction, right?
	Never seen that.
	We're going to fix her up.
	Anna Mercuriev, I think, in St.
	Louis, Missouri, 6006, Julie Shepard in Angola, Indiana.
	She sent a card in I want to read because she went through all the trouble writing a card.
	She put two pictures of her dog wearing a hat.
	Uh-oh.
	Sheltie, which is either a great dog or a lousy dog, depends.
	We had a Sheltie once.
	What exactly is a Sheltie?
	A Sheltie looks like a small collie.
	How does it taste?
	Like the half size of a collie.
	It's a similar looking dog.
	Long nose.
	A lot of long hair.
	Very friendly.
	Pretty dog.
	Always a pretty dog.
	But they have idiosyncrasies that don't fit in with a lot of people.
	Okay.
	Anyway, my dog's had a birthday last month, but since they don't know what's going on, I'm donating to the best podcast in the universe.
	Ta-da!
	Smart.
	Smart move.
	The dog doesn't know a birthday from anything.
	Hmm.
	Any producers who know that they make their dogs endure birthday hats and parties for their own enjoyment should send donations to No Agenda instead.
	Yes.
	And, you know, we could do dog birthdays on the show.
	Minimum.
	A hundred bucks.
	What's the dog's name?
	She never told us the dog's name, but she'd just say Merry Christmas at the Native Jobs Karma.
	Hey, doggie, doggie, doggie.
	Hey, doggie, doggie.
	Happy birthday!
	See, we could do that.
	Give her some Jobs Karma at the end.
	This is Julie and Matt.
	You got it.
	And the dog is pretty.
	I'll post the pictures of the dogs in the next newsletter.
	You're doxing her dogs?
	Well, maybe we can start doing more dog pictures in the newsletter because we like to have pups.
	Might as well have people's pups.
	Yeah?
	Okay.
	Make sure she gets the job, Carmen.
	Robert Bruckner, 5555.
	Jonathan Evans, 5555.
	Nick Secord, Redmond Washington, 5510.
	He wants a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	I'll put the jobs karma at the end for you as well.
	Daniel Mariano, 5510.
	Lynn Kessig in Newark, Delaware, 5510.
	Austin Wilson, two first, I guess not.
	Two last names, Austin Wilson.
	He's got something there.
	5150.
	He's Sir Austin Baron of the Puget Sound, if you recall.
	Oh, he's the Baron of the Puget Sound.
	That's right.
	We have a bunch of Puget Sounders that are vying for...
	There's going to be a fight.
	Eric Wills in Eldersburg, Maryland.
	$50.
	This is $50 name and location group.
	Jeremy Cartwright in Rockford, Illinois.
	Bradley Ledden, unknown.
	Michael Janoski in Lidora, Pennsylvania.
	Andrew Oxenham in Knoxville, Tennessee.
	Nice barbecue there.
	Brian Kinnett.
	Paul...
	Contramas?
	I love some.
	You're like, yeah, Tennessee, yeah, they got this nice barbecue.
	Every town, like, you have a little thing.
	Tennessee, yeah, they got some good music.
	I hear they got good music there in Tennessee.
	Paul Contramas.
	Well, I'm going to make that a theme now.
	And Iichi Kitagawa.
	Hey, wait, Rockford, Illinois, they got free weed there, I hear.
	Free weed.
	They do?
	Well, it's legal now.
	It's legal now.
	It probably is free.
	Aichi Kitagawa, one of my favorite names in San Francisco, closes.
	It's kind of a short segment today.
	We want to thank all these folks for contributing to show 1204, producing it.
	And I want to thank all the people with lesser amounts of money, too, for helping us get this show.
	The first show of the year, the new decade, the first show of the new decade, unless you're a pedant.
	It's the first show of the new decade.
	Oh yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	Here's what's going to happen.
	People are going to email me bitching at you.
	Tell John the decade's not really over yet!
	And I'm okay with your counting, but come on, it's media.
	It's 20 now.
	We're not saying...
	You know what I mean, right?
	Have you gotten this?
	I've gotten emails.
	Oh yeah.
	I just ignore it.
	Let's go back to the birth of Christ.
	The year zero.
	So let's go back.
	So you had 1 BC, which was the year before Christ was born, or common era as they call it now.
	Then Christ was born at zero.
	And then a year later, it was the year one.
	So wait a minute.
	So when you got to 10, it was...
	It wasn't the decade until one.
	That's 11 years.
	This doesn't make any sense unless there was no year zero and everything started with one, which I don't think it did.
	I think you have a year zero.
	You must have a year 0.5.
	I don't know.
	Somebody should clarify this for me.
	If they can prove to me there was no zero...
	Then I'll buy it.
	Yes, so please email john, J-O-H-N, at dvorak.org.
	D-V-O-R-A-K. D-V-O-R-A-K.org.
	Dvorak.org.
	Don't email me, please.
	Thank you to our...
	A CC Adam, though.
	Yes.
	Thank you very much to everybody who supported the show.
	It is your show.
	That's what we've been doing for 12 years.
	Well, I guess you could say we're in our 12th year.
	What's the 11th year?
	I don't remember.
	Year zero.
	We're in our 13th year.
	We appreciate this.
	It keeps us going.
	It keeps the whole program, the whole kit and caboodle keeps running because of the support you were showing us.
	And yes, indeed, people under 50...
	$5 are not mentioned because a lot of them want to stay anonymous.
	I see you, $49.99.
	But there's also people on the ongoing programs.
	So appreciated that you do that.
	And even if it's $5 a month, it all makes a difference.
	We highly appreciate it.
	And we have a couple of things to take care of here business-wise.
	You've got some jobs karma.
	You've got the F Cancer karma for Sir Pate's next-door neighbor.
	Also, Sir Gin sent me a note.
	And he says he's been actively looking for a job since September, but he's fighting white male boomer discrimination, so he needs some jobs karma.
	And Sir Colton...
	Learn to code!
	I actually think these guys know how to code.
	That's the beauty of it.
	Yes, for all of you, as requested.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And I wish I could roll out the happy birthday jingle, but we have no birthdays.
	Zero.
	That doesn't happen very often.
	No agenda meetups.
	It's not your party.
	Sir Chris Wilson emailed me something, and I wonder if I still have that.
	Shoot, I'll have it for Sunday.
	He emailed me something really beautiful about the meetups, and it was the verbiage, because I've been trying to get this right.
	What exactly is it that happens at these meetups where people get together who probably would never get together, they never encounter each other in any other situation, and they voluntarily go to a bar, or it's usually a bar or some place where you or it's usually a bar or some place where you can acquire a beverage, and hang out with people who listen to the show.
	And it's not really about the show, it's just about being able to talk with someone, give someone your opinion, listen to someone else, and no one gets pissed off.
	It's almost like the 50s.
	Except then everyone's afraid to say anything, but here no one's afraid to say anything, and it's a beautiful experience.
	If you've never been to a meetup, go to noagendameetups.com and experience this for yourself.
	You can go to Amsterdam tomorrow, if you should be so lucky.
	The TPO Podcast Meetup will be there.
	At the Café Restaurant Dauphine at 5 o'clock.
	You can go to Seattle, other side of the world, also tomorrow.
	Patrick is organizing at 7.30 in the Hopvine Pub.
	Check the back of the bar.
	Tuesday, the second biannual Knoxville Meetup.
	I hear they got some...
	What do they have over there?
	They got music.
	Meated Barley's.
	Good barbecue.
	Great barbecue.
	Upstairs at the pool table, Sir Seatsitter Organizing.
	Then next Thursday, the No Agenda Tune Man Tour, just to show you that you can bump into No Agenda producers everywhere.
	This will be in Lebanon, Beirut.
	And you will meet Jesse Coy Nelson, your host, at the Rabbit Hole on Makdisi Street in Beirut, Lebanon.
	This is just a couple of upcoming meetings, meetups, that are being organized by the producers of Gitmo Nation.
	It is something you should at least witness once.
	If you can't find one near you, then start your own.
	Noagendameetups.com is where you can sign up for that, but also find any meetups near you in the future.
	And thank you, Daniel, so much for keeping that site running.
	It's been fantastic.
	All right, we do have this.
	Title changes.
	Don't want to be.
	One title change, as you heard earlier, Sir Christopher upped it up once again.
	He has contributed another $1,000 to the No Agenda show, and hereby is Baron of Brown County and Viscount of the Troll Room.
	We saw no issues.
	The peerage committee has approved.
	So, Sir Christopher, there you go.
	Your title is in and approved, and thank you very much for your courage.
	Now, if you could get out your blade, John, I will...
	Lookie here.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	Alexander Salzberg and Donald Rolf, both of you up on the podium.
	Gentlemen, thank you for your support of the No Agenda Show.
	You have both supported us with a total amount of $1,000, which means you both get to join our Knights and Dames here at the No Agenda Roundtable, and I am very proud to pronounce the KV, Sir Alexander Salzberger!
	Also, Sir AFIC! Both of you, Knights of the Noagent Roundtable for you.
	We've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Foie Gras and Sauternes by request, zucchini and meatloaf, brisket and barrel-aged copper ale, pinball and power cords, goat chops and goat milk, Polish potato vodka, vodka and vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum and...
	Mutton and mead.
	It is the No Agenda staple.
	It's the favorite.
	Go to noagendanation.com slash rings, both of you.
	with your newly minted knighthoods and you'll fill out a little bit of information there.
	Eric the Show will get back to you as soon as possible and send out your rings, your ceiling wax, your certificate.
	Once you get that in, please tweet out pictures, put them in your profile, anything you can.
	It makes everybody look cool.
	And thank you for your courage and support of the best podcast in the universe.
	Okay.
	There's something I ran into.
	I was watching Al Jazeera.
	Yeah, I noticed.
	So apparently the Russians...
	This is going on.
	It's not in our news, but it's going on.
	The Russians are claiming there's some Georgian lab...
	That is making viruses or propagating viruses and putting them in vaccines and killing people.
	Really?
	Yes.
	This was Russia?
	Wait a minute.
	Al Jazeera is reporting?
	Or that Russia is saying?
	Al Jazeera is reporting it.
	And so they visited this Georgian lab, which seems innocuous.
	It's a virology lab that is used to determine, it's for testing.
	Yeah.
	This is an Alex Jones theory, putting cancer viruses in the vaccines.
	Yeah.
	Well, this is the theory that the Russians supposedly are probably, according to Al Jazeera, so they go visit the lab, and there was one little tidbit in here.
	That I thought was kind of interesting because I had not heard this and I haven't heard on Alex Jones, although I don't listen to him that much, but I would think I'd have heard it there.
	But just play this one out.
	We were shown inside George's Luger Laboratory, which detects and prevents the spread of dangerous diseases.
	But pro-Kremlin media claim it spreads disease, experimenting on humans with cancer, the Zika virus, killer mosquitoes, and plagues of stink bugs.
	I asked the laboratory's director whether there was any truth to these narratives.
	But we are not making Zika virus in this laboratory.
	But the laboratory is, the level of the laboratory is so high that we can diagnose here the Zika, Ebola, Crimea, Congo, and many, many infection diseases.
	But we are not making these viruses here.
	No marmorated stink bug coming from the Luger laboratory?
	What?
	The marmorated stink bug.
	I'm not a scientist, but what I have been seeing here suggests that this laboratory is exactly what the Georgian government says it is.
	The Russian claims that what's going on at the Luger lab is far more sinister haven't been supported by any hard evidence.
	Very odd report.
	So, they're talking about Zika, Ebola, and then the stink bug?
	The marmorated stink bug.
	I'm not familiar.
	Well, you look up marmorated stink bug, and apparently there's been a contamination in the Mid-Atlantic U.S., for example, is a contamination of field corn.
	Uh...
	It has something to do with some sort of spray or something that's making these bugs propagate.
	It's something we need to start looking into.
	The marmorated stink bug.
	Yeah, marmorated.
	Finally, we found something that's lower than a podcaster.
	Marmorated stink bug.
	You can't get that low, even as a podcast.
	Marmorated stink bug.
	Here's a study from APS, from the publication...
	Relationship between invasive brown marmorated stink bug and fumonacin contamination of field corn in the mid-Atlantic.
	I don't know.
	I never heard of this until I heard this report.
	I never heard of the marmorated stink bug.
	No.
	Trump in peace.
	I did get a vaccine clip since you brought up vaccines.
	In Texas, authorities are warning that a traveler with measles may have unknowingly exposed others across the country.
	That new alert comes amid an increase in measles cases nationwide.
	Sam Brock is in Austin with the latest.
	Tonight, an urgent health alert from Texas after a passenger infected with measles passed through the Austin airport last week after traveling in Europe.
	It's Travis County's first detected case in 20 years.
	We're trying to get on top of this, share as much information as we can to try to really contain this.
	The passenger left from Austin International Airport on December 17th, but then proceeded to go to airports in Chicago and Virginia, meaning that other passengers and not one, not two, but three different airports were potentially exposed.
	This after separate cases at LAX and Denver International Airports earlier this month.
	But health experts say Austin is at greater risk because of low vaccination rates of children.
	Austin, unfortunately, is one of the epicenters of the anti-vaccine movement in America.
	A startling study earlier this year estimates one infected person could lead to an outbreak of more than 400 cases in Austin.
	With nearly 1300 confirmed cases of the measles nationwide this year, more than three times the number last year, the highly contagious virus can linger in the air for hours.
	Symptoms include cough, rash, fever, and sore eyes.
	Tonight, doctors say it's another stark reminder to get vaccinated.
	Sam Brock, NBC News, Austin.
	I live in Austin.
	I get around.
	I listen to the radio.
	I read the papers.
	I haven't heard shit about this.
	No one is panicked.
	We're talking about measles outbreaks.
	So this story has been just created out of thin air.
	Thin air.
	You would know.
	Thin air.
	And certainly when it comes to vaccinations, I'd be paying attention.
	I also don't think Austin is the ground zero of the anti-vax movement.
	Are you kidding me?
	Of course not.
	We're a bunch of libtards here.
	I said it.
	You said it.
	I said it.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	Since we're talking about Texas, to get that out of the way, we have to talk about the shooting that is being so miscovered by the media.
	Oh, the church shooting?
	They don't know how to deal with this.
	Well, of course.
	It didn't go as it's supposed to go.
	This was all wrong.
	What happened, and if you watch any YouTube videos where there's actually somebody objectively telling you what happened, that guy comes in with a shotgun.
	I'll just summarize.
	I do have a clip of the latest kind of phony baloney way to try to present this to the public.
	They want to present it.
	The media has decided, well, the guy was shot down by a security guard.
	But this guy wasn't a security guard.
	He was just one of the parishioners who happened to be with seven or eight other parishioners coming out of their seats with gun in hand.
	Did you see that slow-mo video of everybody like poof poof poof?
	It's like all these guns coming out all of a sudden.
	There were guns coming out every which way and the media was not going to present it that way.
	They just weren't going to do it.
	They weren't going to...
	They weren't going to present it honestly, is what I have to say.
	But also, so this guy, I think he was already in the church.
	He stands up.
	I have that clip.
	Let's play that clip.
	Here's tonight about that deadly church shooting in Texas.
	The minister now claiming they had past incidents with the shooter.
	The church sometimes giving him food, but he would get mad when they wouldn't give him money.
	Witnesses saying the gunman came in wearing a wig and a fake beard before opening fire.
	ABC's Marcus Moore in Texas again tonight.
	Tonight, new details are emerging about the suspect in Sunday's deadly attack on this Texas church.
	The church's pastor telling the Christian Chronicle the gunman had been to the church before, saying, quote, we've helped him on several occasions with food, adding that the suspect would get mad when they wouldn't give him cash.
	Keith Kananen, who witnesses said was wearing a fake beard and dark coat, gunned down 67-year-old Richard Wright and 64-year-old Tony Wallace before a hero congregant killed him.
	The entire incident captured on the church's live stream.
	I mean, I got a lot of conspiratorial emails about it.
	Like, yeah, it's coincidence.
	That angle of the video is too coincidental.
	I was like, no, this actually happens.
	People are nuts.
	But luckily, another one for the good guys, maybe people will think twice.
	And there was a recent change in the law here in Texas where you are allowed to carry a gun in a place of worship, which, of course, oh, no.
	How can we even allow that?
	And, you know, well, there you go.
	Coincidentally, it turns out to be a reasonably good thing.
	Although two people did die.
	Two guys who were also trying to stop this gunman got shot and killed.
	And pretty much point-blank shot in the face with a shotgun.
	So it's not all pretty.
	Um...
	But in a normal situation, you know, run by liberals and run out of town.
	Gun control, immediately.
	We've got to take away guns.
	One guy come in, no one have a gun in the church instead of like in Texas where he had at least seven with guns ready to shoot the guy.
	And nobody just shot randomly either.
	They just, once the guy was down, he was down.
	You'd have a massacre.
	There'd be ten people shot dead before this guy was stopped.
	Right.
	Right.
	So, you know, yeah, okay, two guys got killed, but in fact, it was not as bad as it ended.
	You know, this is a good lesson for people.
	People in Texas who want to go shoot up a church, they may run into this problem.
	They're not going to get very far.
	But let's don't report it like that.
	And I tell you, most of the reports were the guy was a security guard somehow.
	I don't know how they make that up, but okay.
	Well, he is in the business.
	Well, he's the one that, yeah.
	And he's a firearms instructor.
	They may sound like the church had a security guard working for him.
	Well, even if they did, what difference is he just as good?
	Well, it doesn't make any difference, but that's the way they could pull him it off as they report that, you know, the security guard, not all these armed parishioners, are responsible for the killing.
	They...
	It downplayed the fact that there was about 10 people.
	Well, there's probably more people that didn't pull their guns out.
	To be honest, though, I'm really sick and tired.
	Because the media, the only one media did play this, and that was Fox.
	And all they could say over and over again is, See?
	A good guy with a gun beat a bad guy with a gun.
	It's just disgusting.
	Just to say they're right.
	I hate Fox News.
	Do you have a clip of that?
	Because I never heard that.
	Oh, my God.
	It was the whole day, starting with Fox and Friends in the morning, all the way through Tucker Carlson at night.
	I agree with you.
	You're beating the drum.
	Yeah.
	But...
	The mainstream wasn't playing it that way.
	No.
	Well, Fox News is also the mainstream, even though they like to say they're not.
	They like to talk about...
	But Fox News, per se, when you watch Fox News, is a cable channel.
	There's no network news on Fox.
	They could put one on.
	Hey, they could take...
	They could take Brett Beyer.
	He tries to do some news.
	Brett Beyer.
	Whatever his name is.
	Brett Beyer.
	They could put him on to compete with ABC, NBC, and CBS, but they don't do it.
	So Fox News is still kind of...
	You know, playing the cable game.
	Well, they've got to.
	That's where their ratings are.
	Their ratings aren't playing to a right-wing base is what it is.
	Well, again, let's just go back to your basic thesis.
	They're a bunch of Democrats.
	Well, sure.
	Why don't they put...
	There's Fox stations in every market, just like there is here.
	There's one.
	Channel 2 is a Fox station.
	And when 5.30 or 6.30 comes around, when all the networks are playing their half an hour of news...
	Fox hasn't got anything.
	It's just some local programming.
	Why don't they take that Bret Baier guy and put him on a half-hour real network show?
	Honestly, I'd rather watch a stupid game show because none of it's news.
	None of it.
	I'm asking you a serious question.
	Why don't they do that?
	That's not the reason.
	Because they're making more money.
	First of all, that's not all their stations.
	Fox News is not the same as your local Fox station.
	That's just not the same thing.
	So you can't just take Bret Baier and then...
	Who owns the Fox station and who owns Fox News?
	There are other companies who own Fox affiliates.
	It's not just Fox.
	Well, there are companies that own CBS and NBC affiliates, and they can drop the network news if they want to, too.
	They're independents, but they have affiliation with CBS. What's the difference?
	Because they can't produce a good product, and no one can.
	You're talking about...
	I'm not going to argue.
	This is stupid.
	It's all stupid.
	It's all horrible.
	They make more money putting some stupid entertainment show against counter-programming against the news.
	That's why it's done.
	Well, that would have to be the reason unless they don't want to.
	Well, I think you should take your grievance to 20th Century Fox.
	Or ESPN, whoever owns it now.
	No, I think it's part of News Corp.
	I don't know who owns it.
	20th Century Fox is now owned by someone else.
	Disney.
	I have some good news for you.
	Since this is your beat, you have been very adamant about people not hiring social justice warriors and not bringing that into your organization.
	Correct?
	Because it's toxic.
	In fact, we even had a...
	We had an animated No Agenda video about that very topic.
	And I got a nice note from one of our producers who says, I just had an interview for a company, and they basically screened me to see if I was a social justice warrior crybaby.
	Here was the question.
	Do you find South Park funny or offensive?
	That's a very good question for this type of interview, I'd say.
	And my reply, our producer writes, both.
	And I explicitly told them that I'm not one of those easily offended people.
	I got hired.
	And he's 47.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	He's 47.
	I'm usually the one people cry about, a no bullshit type.
	My experience is a lot of younger people go out of their way to avoid any conflict or debate on any topic.
	And social media only exists to enable everyone to provide positivity, not for real socialization.
	Yes, of course.
	But that's a good question.
	To find out where someone stands in life.
	Funny or offensive?
	South Park, funny?
	What do you think, John?
	Have you ever found South Park to be offensive at any point in time?
	I think it's totally offensive.
	And that's why it's so funny.
	Exactly.
	I don't think I've ever been offensive.
	Rick and Morty is the same way.
	It's incredibly offensive.
	And funny.
	Exactly.
	Just like the No Agenda show.
	Incredibly offensive, but oh so funny.
	And you learn about the world at the same time.
	So that's pretty good.
	I'm going to have to come up with some questions.
	I think we should develop a questionnaire.
	That's a great idea.
	That people could use, legally use.
	Legally, key phrase.
	To make sure to keep these SJWs out.
	All right.
	I like that.
	And we'll have that for you on Sunday.
	I'm sure of it.
	I will remind John every day until then.
	That's going to work.
	Coming up on NoAgendaStream.com right after this fine program, a work through the mind, the New Year's resolution, Sir Billy Bones on the No Agenda Stream.
	For end of shows, clips, mixes, we have for you Donald Winkler and, of course, the drone again by request.
	Coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas.
	FEMA Region 6 on all governmental maps.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're celebrating the new decade.
	Let's make it a great decade for No Agenda.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then, adios mofos and such!
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	Obama gave me a push, more than push.
	And I cost millions.
	I'm supposed to target terrorists.
	But not so much civilians I don't know what to say Whoops, some got in my way A drone again Naturally.
	A drone again.
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