This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1206.
This is No Agenda.
Guarding your sanity with reality 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 we're all shocked and stunned by the fact that Justin Bieber is fighting Lyme's disease.
Fact!
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It's Crack Blot and Buzzkill.
In the morning!
Thank you for this important fact.
I'm very glad we know this.
I've always wondered about...
There's a lot of celebrities who have Lyme's disease.
I wonder if that's...
I think they're all tick-covered.
Well, maybe it's what we used to call going to the spa.
You know what I mean?
I have Lyme disease.
You won't see me for a couple of months.
Yeah.
Don't you think that's what...
He's probably pregnant.
I think that's what it used to be.
I'm going to the spa for a little bit.
Just, you know, going to rejuvenate.
Yeah.
Well, we kept the amygdala small.
We sure did.
Nobody else seemed to do it.
Well, I gotta tell you, man.
When did the Iranian missile strikes happen?
When was that?
Was it Wednesday night?
Well, we did the show on Sunday.
Right.
I think it was the next day.
Well...
It wasn't yesterday.
That would be Wednesday night.
It was pretty incredible.
The Keeper, she saw it on social media, I'm sure.
She's like, oh my god!
And I'd heard my phone going, and I kind of ignored it.
And it was Agent Orange, who I think is in, he might be in Kuwait, or I'm not sure.
He's always around sandy areas.
And he was sending me, you know, pictures.
In fact, he was telling me stuff, and 10 minutes later would show up on TV. That's how short those lines are from the sand.
Whatever's going on there, it's pretty quick.
It only takes 10 minutes or so, and then it comes through on U.S. media.
But even I, for a second, was like, holy crap.
Is this the playbook?
What's going on?
And then pretty quickly got the message that, you know, well, they didn't actually hit sand outside of the base.
They did hit areas inside the base.
But as we now know, it seems to be some kind of game.
Trump tweets an American flag.
Khamenei tweets an Iranian flag.
One guy doing all of it.
When the leaders of countries are tweeting flags at each other, you know this is bullcrap.
That was our whole premise.
It is really bullcrap.
But there were a lot of extra little bits which made it just incredibly interesting.
So to reiterate our initial analysis of the situation with Soleimani, I think we even talked about once Soleimani or Khamenei was tweeting back at Trump.
It was pretty obvious that this was some kind of, well, as everyone says now, face-saving mission.
But it wasn't just face, or who knows exactly what went on, but there were a couple other things that happened during this evening, which leads me to possibly adjust the thinking of what exactly went down.
Was it just a bunch of missiles that showed up, some with warheads, some not?
I'm not quite sure what exploded, what didn't.
You had pictures in the newsletter of an unexploded drone, which we got a great analysis from one of our producers.
As to what exactly it was.
But if you look at everything that happened, you know, there was, let's see...
Shoot, man.
I'm looking for the best, but we'll start with this one.
I did speak to the FAA moments ago.
They said three hours before that Boeing aircraft went down, they issued an indefinite ban on all U.S. carriers flying over Iran, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Amman.
Translation, those are the waters between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
There was a concern about U.S. or any passenger being a target, but also misidentification of a plane.
Could it be something else?
So it may just be coincidence that three hours before the missile strike, FAA sent out a special warning to aircraft in the area.
No flyovers.
They already had, I think, a 26,000-foot ceiling restriction, but that's been there for a while.
This was new three hours before, just three hours.
What happened in Iran in the last 24 hours?
50 people or more killed in a stampede during Soleimani's funeral procession.
It had to be suspended.
He was eventually buried in Kerman later, but 50 dead in a stampede.
Then Iran launches 15 missiles directed at US bases in Iraq, hits two of them, no casualties.
Hours later, a brand new Boeing plane, recently serviced, falls out of the sky after taking off from Tehran's airport.
And then, this is not widely reported, but then there was a 4.9 magnitude quake, several of them actually, across Iran, including one very close to a nuclear facility.
And the markets are at record highs.
Thank you very much, Lauren.
Yes, the markets are at record highs.
So...
Just for argument's sake, I'd like to expand on the idea that maybe there was a little bit of warfare that did take place in the background.
And I'm going to say it.
Earthquake machine, it exists.
It's been talked about in the United States Congress since the early 80s.
Other countries apparently have this capability.
What if...
There was early warning.
There was knowledge that missiles were going to be incoming.
No knowledge if they were going to be targeted properly or not.
And you know what, guys?
The minute those things are flying, we flip on HAARP. We let them know that we've got the goods on them.
And unfortunately, the Ukrainian aircraft was in the way of the waves.
And it got toasted at 8,000 feet altitude.
I know it's nuts, but I just want to put it up.
I just want to put it out there as a possibility.
It's a possibility.
I'm not saying that...
I mean, the original theory is solid, but it's just a possibility.
The Ukrainian aircraft accident is an interesting one.
Yes, it is.
The most interesting aspect to me is that it was filled with Canadians.
Well, not filled, but there were 60, I think.
60 Canadians?
Yeah, 30 from the University of Alberta.
Hmm.
All, most of them dual citizens, going back to Canada, but somehow for some unknown reason, going from Tehran to Kiev to someplace then to Canada.
I don't know where they were routed that way, what the point of it was, but a number of professors, a lot of students.
Here's Ukraine's response, which is a take back.
Big development today is that Ukraine now says a missile strike or some act of terrorism are possibilities and must be looked into.
Remember, initially, those things were ruled out by the Ukraine embassy in Tehran, as officials there immediately pointed to mechanical failure.
That early statement was taken down, and the country said it was too early to tell what happened.
Now the president of Ukraine, who laid flowers at a memorial at the Kiev airport today, says the investigation must be open and the information from the black boxes shared in accordance with international law.
The plane crashed just three minutes after takeoff from the Tehran airport and about four hours after Iran fired missiles at air bases in Iraq.
Flight tracker data shows the plane ascended to about 8,000 feet at normal speed and then lost all contact.
Witnesses say the plane was engulfed in flames as it plunged to the ground.
There never was any communication between the pilots and the tower as the plane was going down, but officials in Iran now say the pilots were attempting to turn around the plane and land it back at the airport.
Iran is blaming the engine fire, and the Western intelligence agencies also believe there was a technical malfunction that caused one engine to overheat, but many crash experts in the U.S. are skeptical.
It got almost to 8,000 feet, so it wasn't like right after takeoff.
So the fact there was nothing coming from the cockpit probably meant that the cockpit was destroyed upon impact with something, and the pilots weren't there to make any kind of comment.
Canada is also expressing the desire to have a very open investigation.
They lost a majority of the 176 passengers on board.
Iran says that it will not allow Boeing to inspect those black boxes, and we'll have to see if that changes in the coming days.
Very fishy.
But there wasn't an explosion, it was on fire, they say.
Which...
Well, I witness accounts, you know, you only see just a smattering of the...
You don't get to watch the whole event because you're not looking there.
Yeah.
Um...
Yeah, it's very fishy.
They show a lot of bullet holes in the tail section.
It would look like bullet holes.
It may or may not be something, but who knows.
This will never get resolved.
No, no, no.
I don't think so either.
Other than the harp machine.
Theremin.
No, I'm not hitting the theremin.
All of this does come at a great time for Tom Cruise, though, doesn't it?
What, you got a new movie coming out?
Yeah, Top Gun.
Top Gun 2.
No, isn't this 3?
3.
How many Top Guns do we need?
This is what Ricky Gervais was pitching about.
Hold on, hold on.
We'll get to Ricky Gervais.
The sequel is reported to involve a conflict with Iran in which Tom Cruise steals an Iranian F-14 after being shot down.
Guy knows how to plan shit.
He's good.
Wasn't there an exact same movie with Clint Eastwood where he stole some Russian plane?
Oh God, I don't know.
I don't know.
These are not very creative movies.
Well, apparently the CGI is really good.
It's a flying movie.
It's a flying movie, so I'll go and take a look at that.
Now, there's just a lot of weird things around this 48-hour period.
The New York Times, specifically Steve...
What is this guy's name?
Who's this reporter?
Steve Simon, who used to be one of Obama's top policy guys, wrote in the New York Times...
about a hypothetical US military strike on Soleimani in Baghdad really only half a day before it actually happened.
Did you read this?
Did you see any of this?
I heard about it.
Yeah, so apparently he said, you know, imagine, oh, where is it?
I want to find the exact quote.
Something to the effect of, imagine you're going to, you know, you're Soleimani and you're in Baghdad and the address of where you're going is known.
It would be easy for a hypersonic missile to strike you.
I mean, that could either be, A, of course, complete coincidence, B, message a la Rubicon is what I was thinking, That sounds more like it.
Yeah.
To let people know to either buy or sell stocks.
I don't know what the thing is.
I think they can't seem to control the market.
The only thing that controls the stock market now are Chinese announcements.
Yeah.
And the Rubicon idea would not come from there.
Because the market went up, and then we did discuss this on the DHM Plug Show about how during these war episodes, the market tends to go up, not down.
So, I don't know if it was...
It sounds like a Rubicon event to me, but I don't know whether the investment...
The idea of a Rubicon, these things are always money makers.
Well, maybe it wasn't necessarily an investment advice.
Maybe it was a...
Just stay off of airlines.
Maybe it was, hey man, you might want to...
Oh, another one I heard is that Soleimani had a BlackBerry issued by CrowdStrike.
Yeah.
Which, I don't know if that's true, but I liked it.
That's a good joke, though.
CrowdStrike trying to make good with the elites of the world.
Hey, man, we'll help you drone that guy.
Don't worry about it.
Let me see.
There were...
Oh, yeah, this was...
These are all just interesting little data points.
This was...
Let me see...
Roe Kahana?
That's a congressman, I guess?
Yes, from Fremont.
Oh, he's from California?
Yeah.
Well, he brought up something interesting that happened with regards to the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, which was Signed, sealed and delivered by the President just two weeks ago.
And of course, if the White House hadn't intervened, none of this would have been possible at all.
So yet another curious data point.
The legislation is very simple.
It would say that there will be no funding for any offensive strikes on Iran or Iranian officials.
This actually had passed the House of Representatives as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, and there was majority support for it in the Senate.
Unfortunately, the White House stripped it from the final defense bill.
Had we fought, frankly, harder to keep it in, the Soleimani attack may have been avoided.
How about that?
Well, that's actually the most interesting of the group you've just presented.
That's pretty interesting.
Take that out.
We need that taken out.
So they probably, I mean, they probably were figuring that that would not fly because they knew they were going to take the guy out.
One way or the other.
This was not an overnight operation.
They've been tracking him for a while.
Yeah.
Well, let's go back to the basic premise, which I think needs a re-explanation for people who haven't heard the basic premise, which is your idea.
That the Iranians wanted to get rid of this guy and they needed some, but they couldn't do it themselves for some various political reasons because as you can see by the funeral procession, there were millions of people who were in love with this character.
But he had too much control.
He had control of the major armies and the underground and the Hamas and everything in between.
But he's getting too popular and he could have taken over the country.
Had to get rid of him without making it look like, you know, too obvious.
And have the United States do it, part of a quid pro quo.
Now we're going to start to be able to, we can do business now.
Right.
And we'll send some missiles over there in the meantime to save face, if you don't mind.
And okay.
And now it's everyone standing down and there's nothing that's going to continue that's going to maybe lead to something or not.
Yeah, and I think Trump's, the president's speech, which was orchestrated in only a way Trump could think of doing, coming through with the halo of light behind him.
I mean, that's a Putin entrance.
Surrounded by all these guys that look nervous as hell.
They did all kind of look like, oh, don't fuck it up, man.
Please just stick to the script.
And he was bumbling through it, too.
He was tripping over words.
I have most of it, including two what I consider to be hilarious gaffes.
Because within the speech, he pulled two O'Reilly's, which we've turned into one of our words.
And what's the word that we keep using all the time that O'Reilly threw out there?
Now it's become so common, I don't even remember what it is.
I'm racking my brain.
What are you talking?
An O'Reilly that sounds like you raped some woman.
What is an O'Reilly?
I don't remember.
Bill O'Reilly came out and he put two words together and made a word out of it that we use all the time.
It's so good that we can't remember it.
Well, there's chat room.
Chat room, do your job.
They're trolls, man.
They're not chatters.
Whatever.
Trolls, get to work.
Bogative?
What?
Bogative, yeah.
There you go.
Thanks, trolls.
See, we use it so much you don't even remember we even did it.
I thought you made it up.
I didn't know that Bill O'Reilly came up with it.
No, no, we had the quote where he said bogative instead of saying bogus and something else.
He came up with bogative.
And so we started using it as a term.
It's funny you don't even remember that part.
I don't.
No, I'm telling you.
I swear to God, I thought you made it up.
That's interesting.
I don't even see this clip.
Yeah, I'm looking in the archives.
I don't see it.
It's around.
He's the one who coined it.
He didn't coin it.
He just fell into it.
Trump said the same thing here.
Oh, okay.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
What are we going to play?
Well, first, I'm going to play a little bit of that speech.
Start with part one, which is the way he starts off, which was unusual.
He never says hello.
As long as I'm president of the United States...
Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
Good morning.
That was another part of the interesting entrance, the whole deal.
That was, I mean, the only, all I could think of is that was the message.
That's the message nothing else mattered?
Well, I've never heard anyone do a prelude to a hello.
Or like a teaser.
It's a teaser.
And I'll be right back with my speech after these words from our sponsors.
Then it starts yakking away, and it's very boring.
And this is part two, and you can get to sense how dull it is.
I'm pleased to inform you, the American people.
The breathing, man.
Yes, he's hyperventilating.
Yes, totally.
He's obviously nervous.
Maybe two or three of the guys behind him have a gun on him.
I think he really wanted to do this right.
This is what happens to Trump when he's in acting mode.
Because he doesn't have this when he's on stage and he's just doing his thing, doing his stick.
Oh, he's great when he's doing his thing.
He's just natural.
When he's in acting mode, I have this to some degree.
You're just so focused on what you're doing, what you're saying, that you forget to breathe.
And once it starts, I have this on the show sometimes.
And I'll have to hit the mute button and just take a deep breath because I've been talking for five minutes and I forgot to breathe.
Sometimes I have it on the phone, too.
So I recognize that you get in the...
And so he's trying not to do the big intake gasp of air.
Yeah, a little paper bag.
He should just take a paper bag and breathe.
He really should just...
Hey, man.
Excuse me for one second.
Iran will never have a nuclear weapon as long as I... President.
You should just do it.
Grateful and happy.
No Americans were harmed in last night's attack by the Iranian regime.
Oh, he's out of breath there, too.
It's really bad.
I think there's a couple things going on here.
One, I think that the basic no-agenda thesis here, which is your invention, which you dreamed up or got from someone, or I don't know how you think.
Came from God.
It came from God.
Well, you and Rush Limbaugh.
So, I think that he's obviously part of the scheme, but I'm wondering if he doesn't trust the scheme.
He thinks he may be being set up.
And that he's nervous because of that?
Because he can't trust anybody except his daughter.
Yeah.
And so this is making him nervous, but he's playing along.
Wow, so he's not in charge of the gambit.
No, he wouldn't be.
He's not going to dream this kind of thing.
This is a spooky, spook, spook, spooky thing.
It seems so simple, though.
I mean, okay.
Regime.
We suffered no casualties.
All of our soldiers are safe.
And only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.
Our great American forces are prepared for anything.
Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.
No American or Iraqi lives were lost because of the precautions taken, the dispersal of forces.
And an early warning system that worked very well.
I salute the incredible skill and courage of America's men and women in uniform for far too long, all the way back to 1979, to be exact.
Nations have tolerated Iran's destructive and destabilizing behavior in the Middle East and beyond.
Those days are over.
Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism and their pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world.
We will never let that happen.
Just on the early warning system, retired General Douglas McGregor had the following to say, and I think he may have let a little bit more slip out than he intended.
The President is very lucky.
These missiles, as you pointed out, were targeted in advance, and we were informed in advance of where they were going to land, so we were able to evacuate soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines and have no casualties.
The President made a right decision not to respond.
Now he needs to live up to the promises that he made to the American people and pull us out of both Syria and Iraq.
So that's not just an early warning system that tells me something was launched.
He said they were targeted before and we knew where they would land.
Yes.
Which, by the way, I should mention this.
We did have one of our producers go on about...
Yeah, but I think this changes that.
Well, I think, when I heard, the first time I heard that they were warned, I never got the impression it was from the base operations going, oh, those missiles, incoming missiles, take cover.
Which is what our military guy told him.
Right.
That's what did it.
It wasn't, you know, blah, blah, blah.
That's exactly what he said.
In fact, I believe this wasn't this whole thing.
If we're going to go along with it, if we're going to either take it or don't take the fact that there's a scheme afoot.
Yeah, no, I'm all in on Schema Foot, and I think our producer, who says he has good credentials, and I have no reason to doubt him, but that would be what he's been told to believe.
Of course.
He's not going to be...
Who's going to be let in on this?
We had somebody tweet, oh, one of the Comini says something, and he makes some announcement.
He says, there's no mention of any sort of an agreement.
Of course not.
What are you talking about?
Of course there's no mention of an agreement.
Although, man, I got a lot of Twitter hate when those missiles started coming in.
People were like, fucking Curry!
Shit, don't worry.
This is just all agreed to work.
Well, here, let me give you...
I got a better story than that.
Because I'm sitting at watching TV with Nick as they're announcing this.
Nick is your future son-in-law.
Nick is Jay's fiancee.
Yes.
And Nick is, and I explained to him the scheme with, you know, whatever embellishments I had.
Did he roll his eyes when you did that?
No, he's pretty much all in on these ideas.
His dad would definitely be rolling his eyes.
And I explained it to him in some detail, and then they made this announcement, and then as soon as they said, and there were no casualties.
Yeah, bingo, boom, shakalaka.
It was like, holy crap, exactly what we predicted.
You know, for a moment there, I felt my relationship was on the line.
You know, I'm here telling my beautiful wife, don't worry, this is just all show that was after our Sunday show.
Then these missiles come in, and her head, man, whips around, looks at me, and I'm like, oh, crap.
She's on the edge.
Well, hey.
You think you've got her shut down?
She's on the edge.
She's going to turn Democrat on you right there in the House.
Who says she isn't?
We've been doing this for 12 years, you and I. She's new to the party.
She hasn't been through a massive prediction, which turns out to be right.
Especially one when it's scary or you're being told to be very afraid because every channel had a person on talking in the dark with two lights in the sky.
That scared me.
What is that?
It looks like somebody shot a flare.
I don't know what the hell that was.
Alright, let's continue with Trump.
I'm not going to play.
I'm going to skip through it because these are pretty crummy.
Let's get to the gaffe parts.
Now, I have Trump take on Iran 4.
There's one thing I wanted to mention I was hoping was going to be in your clips.
Twice, he talked about the Iranian regime.
And when you discuss...
This type of...
Well, then play clips where you might be in there.
Oh, okay.
Well, it's not that important what I was going to say.
Last week, we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from threatening American lives.
At my direction, the United States military eliminated the world's top...
Did you hear what he said?
At my direction?
No, no.
It was his final say, so maybe he could make that claim.
Lies!
Anyway, he says we've stopped a terrorist from making threats.
Last week we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from threatening American lives.
You can interpret that in multiple ways, but I see your angle.
I know, but I'm taking it literally.
Yeah, I feel your angle.
At my direction, the United States military eliminated the world's top terrorist.
Terrorist!
He's doing a bush.
Terrorist!
Terrorist!
Qasem Soleimani.
And what happened?
What's this with Soleimani?
Soleimani?
Soleimani?
Or as the New York Times would have a Soleimani.
Yeah, oh yeah.
And you were right in the newsletters.
Like, this happens every time.
It's code.
It was Osama Bin Laden, then it was Osama Bin Laden.
It's code.
It is code.
It's like, what intelligence agency are you working with?
Well, we're spelling it this way, so you're with those guys.
Oh, okay.
Oh, yeah, gotcha.
As the head of the Quds Force, Soleimani was personally responsible.
Now he says Soleimani, so he's addressing all of the intelligence agencies.
Responsible for some of the absolutely worst atrocities.
He trained terrorist armies including Hezbollah, launching terrorist strikes against civilian targets.
He fueled bloody civil wars all across the region.
He viciously wounded and murdered thousands of U.S. troops, including the planting of roadside bombs that maim and dismember their victims.
Soleimani directed the recent attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq that badly wounded four service members and killed one American.
And he orchestrated the violent assault on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
In recent days, he was planning new attacks on American targets, but we stopped him.
So Soleimani's hands were drenched in both American and Iranian blood.
He should have been terminated long ago.
By removing Soleimani, we have sent a powerful message to terrorists.
If you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our people.
Unfortunately, what I wanted was not in there, which is the regime, which he mentioned twice.
Go to clip four!
Who knows?
We might get lucky.
Here we go.
As we continue to evaluate options in response to Iranian aggression, the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian regime.
See, almost no one talked about that.
Well, the regime part is one, but also new sanctions, which is really hurting the people of Iran.
It's really destroyed almost all commerce.
I think there is some persuasive verbiage going on here using regime, not saying government, not saying supreme leader, not saying president.
No, regime.
And that can only mean that we're talking about a regime change as near the end of the speech.
I don't know if you have it.
You know, he said, hey, the people inside Iran are all pissed off.
So, to me, it's like I'm just waiting and looking to see, okay, when do we see so-called protests with brand new signs pop up within Iran?
That would be the next logical step if this indeed is the type of game that we think it is.
Maybe.
I mean, everyone ends up getting rebelized.
I mean, we have to remember that...
Hold on.
We have to remember that Libya was a good example.
Trump had to put some tents up for the guy.
So he could stay.
What was it?
No hotel would allow him to...
Yeah, because he wanted too many floors.
Right, and so he let him set up tents with all of his...
Gaddafi set up tents.
He lived in tents set up by...
Of course, they're usually living in tents there.
He set up tents by Trump.
God, I wonder if we still have that clip.
We must have had a clip about it, or maybe we only talked about it.
Well, let's get to the gaffes, because I think they're the part we want to listen to.
All right, let's do it.
Okay, you're going to have to spot the gaffe.
This is part of the game.
Okay.
And it's an O'Reilly-style gaffe where he actually makes up a word.
And this will be the Trump on Iran for gaffe one.
Iran must abandon its nuclear ambitions and end its support for terrorism.
The time has come for the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and China to recognize this reality.
They must now break away from the remnants of the Iran deal, or JCPOA. And we must all work to...
Wow, hard swallow on that too, besides the breathing.
Listen to the swallow.
...or JCPOA. And we must...
Hey, stop for a second.
You know, the one thing that people have to realize about this show, because we realize, in fact, you, I think, are the first one to point it out seriously when I was playing these old clips from TV shows.
Yeah, how bad the acting is.
How bad the acting is.
Is that if you just listen to the audio.
Yeah, you hear so much.
If the show was on video.
If this show was on video, we'd miss a lot that we catch.
Everybody would be too distracted by my tics.
Well, there's that.
But we just keep you off camera.
But the point is that you cannot catch a lot of this stuff unless you listen.
Yes.
Exactly.
And this show really benefits from being audio only.
To us.
And we produce it to make sure you can hear it in your earbuds, in your ear.
Well, that's weird.
I just had a thought, though.
I had an idea for the president.
And it's an idea that has been pioneered here on the No Agenda show.
From time to time, I have a tick, which is a sniffing tick.
Yes, I heard it.
And that's why I did it.
No, I've heard it before.
Oh yeah, but it's really sometimes much worse than you would know because I have a foot pedal right here, so I just talk.
That's what Trump needs.
Every time he steps up to the mic, so he can just, you know, he'll talk like this and then he'll just hit the pedal and he didn't hear the snort.
Because the sniffing and the breathing is distracting.
I think so, too.
That's why he's so much better when he just does live.
So, it's just an idea.
This is actually, and I know someone listens, this is the Rolls Mic Mute MM11, and you can put it right in line with his setup, and he just steps on it with one foot, and then the problem's over.
Yeah, and he said, what do you got there?
I got a wallop in it.
Or you could have a whole board, so he could actually step on something else.
Or he could add a little echo.
For the Iranian regime, you know, he could do...
Oh, shit.
Put an echo, yeah, that'd be great.
Hold on, hold on.
I can't get it off.
There we go.
Oh, man.
What's going on?
Oh, shoot.
I'm sorry.
I'm stuck.
I'm stuck in echo hell.
Well, luckily, I can't hear it.
You can't hear the echo?
Well, believe me.
Oh, hold on a second.
You're stuck in echo mode?
What about me?
Am I in echo mode, too?
Hello, everybody?
Yeah, we're both in echo mode, but I can't seem to get it to stop.
Hold on.
Maybe this will work.
Just after bragging about how great the sound is.
Well, it's...
Oh, God.
I wonder what double echo sounds like.
No, let's not.
Okay.
Oh, shit.
The thing...
Double echo.
My console is frozen.
Okay.
Ah, there we go.
I did it.
Woo!
Sorry about that.
Let's get back to the President.
The Iran deal, or JCPOA. And we must all work together toward making a deal with Iran that makes the world a safer and more peaceful place.
We must also make a deal that allows Iran to thrive and prosper and take advantage of its enormous untapped potential.
Iran can be a great country.
Peace and stability cannot prevail in the Middle East as long as Iran continues to foment violence, unrest, hatred, and war.
The civilized world must send a clear and unified message to the Iranian regime.
Your campaign of terror, murder, mayhem will not be tolerated any longer.
I played that one back a couple times to see if there was any reaction from the stiffs behind it.
I think it was Esper, the defense secretary.
He shot a quick look like, oh God, there he goes.
Toilerated.
What exactly was the word?
Well, play the clip.
I have the ISO of it, which is ISO GAF 1.
Trump.
Oh, yes.
Oh, these are...
Those are ISOs?
Yeah.
Will not be tolerated.
Tolerated.
Tolerized.
You're tolerized.
It's being rubbleized, only it's the opposite?
Tolerized.
You're tolerized.
Wow.
I think that's the word, tolerized.
Will not be tolerated.
No, it's tolerated.
He says...
Well, he said tolerized as if he was Brazilian, let's say.
But...
It's still tolerized.
I'm staying with tolerized.
Okay, how do you spell tolerized?
Tolerized.
T-O-L-E-R-I-C-E-D. Yeah, tolerized.
Okay, new word.
You hear that, Merriam-Webster?
Tolerized.
I like it.
Yeah, it's good.
Okay, let's go.
Now he's got a second one in here, which we can play the long version, which is obviously the Gaff 2.
Today, I am going to ask NATO... To become much more involved in the Middle East process.
Over the last three years, under my leadership, our economy is stronger than ever before and America's achieved energy independence.
These historic accomplishments change our strategic priorities.
These are accomplishments that nobody thought were possible.
Wait a minute.
He said a couple of things in there.
There's one in particular.
Yeah, this one's.
These historic accomplishments, Shane.
A compliment.
That's it.
A compliment.
That's an a compliment.
I'd like to a compliment you on that.
Which I think means you...
So we got to tell the rise in a compliment.
You sound like words.
They do sound like words.
A compliment.
I don't understand why the mainstream media doesn't joke about that when he does that.
It's hilarious.
It is hilarious, and they don't joke about it because they have no sense of humor.
Oh, there's that.
So I have two opposing clips.
One is from a professor at the University of Tehran.
This is on Euronews, so that should tell you enough about the outlet.
And this is how the professor...
What is his name here?
Saeed...
Let me see.
What is his name?
He is, well, I can't find his name.
He's a professor at the University of Tehran, and here's what he says the feeling is and what people thought inside Iran of Soleimani.
People in Iran are outraged.
Oh!
And obviously the people in Iraq are also outraged because the Americans also murdered a senior Iraqi war hero who was the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Forces.
These two gentlemen, the Iranian general and the Iraqi commander, they were the people who basically pushed back ISIS. We're good to go.
It hides this reality behind the narrative.
The United States is bombing Iraqi government positions.
It has murdered an Iranian senior official, an Iraqi senior official, right inside Baghdad International Airport.
And they did this in contravention to Iraqi sovereignty.
They did this despite the fact that the Iraqi Prime Minister said that they have no right to carry attacks in the country.
But because the United States sees itself as exceptional, because Western countries see themselves as exceptional, they can invade countries like Iraq, they can create Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, they can support extremists in Syria and destroy the country, they can destroy Libya, they can help starve Yemen with the Saudis, and they still claim to be the supporters of international law and human rights.
So his point at the end there is well made, of course, that we are the assholes of the universe.
Was he at a disco?
Yes, it's called the University of Tehran.
Yeah, totally.
Certainly under previous U.S. regimes, we have done all of that.
Absolutely.
Yeah, of course.
But this guy is clearly in one part of Iran, but there's multiple parts inside.
And someone sent me, what's the travel guy, Steve...
No, Rick Steves.
Rick Steves, yes.
And in 2014, he did an episode on Iran.
It's in the show notes, nashownotes.com.
And, you know, what you see consistently is, of course, young people because most of the country is under 30, I think.
That's pretty young.
Young people who are very clued in.
In fact, when the internet first started exploding, the number one language on the internet was Farsi, not English.
That's probably been overtaken by now, but for years, Farsi was the number one language on the internet.
No, I find that not true.
I'm talking 93, 94, 95, yeah, in the 90s.
I'm talking 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95.
I don't think so.
Okay, well, I'll find some reports.
I mean, I don't know how anyone measured it to start off with, but yeah.
Anyway, they're very literate, internet literate, and they love America, and they love Americans.
They just hate their regime, and one of those who hates the regime is a fairly famous Iranian YouTuber.
Normally, she gets probably about 100,000 views on her videos when she's talking.
She's done a lot of videos about Syria, etc.
But this one got 3 million views, so I chopped it down to about a minute and a half so we can get her take.
And she partially grew up in Iran and is now an American citizen.
I'm an Iran watcher.
I'm an Iraq watcher.
I'm a Syria watcher.
I'm an Afghanistan watcher.
And for the people on the ground, they don't hate America.
They don't hate Donald Trump.
In fact, there's a lot of trending hashtags right now from Iran on Twitter.
Thank you, Trump.
We thank you.
Thank you for You know, Soleimani, thank you.
You know, go look for yourselves and people in Iran are happy and they're giving out, you know, in the Middle East, it's cultural practice to when something wonderful happens, when there's a marriage or when there's a celebration, you give out cookies, you make cakes and you should see the videos that are coming out.
People are baking cakes.
People are giving out cookies in public in the streets because they're happy.
I mean, I don't know.
Do we live in a closed society that we don't know that most people in the Middle East are not free?
Specifically in Iran, it's an Islamic state.
There's no freedom of religion.
There's no freedom of speech.
There's no freedom of peaceful protest.
And for anyone who disagrees with the regime, they're arrested, they're jailed, they're tortured.
You know, and yeah, there's a lot of video coming out right now about, you know, the funeral of Qasem Soleimani.
It's so much propaganda, you guys.
The regime has been saying death to America for 40 years.
They forced us in school to say death to America.
I was seven years old.
I didn't know what I was saying.
And the people that are saying that right now, They're called the Basigi.
They're like, you know, they're getting paid.
They're the ones that get paid to kill people on the streets.
So yeah, they're going to say death to America, but that's not the people.
The majority of the people in the Middle East don't hate America.
They don't hate Donald Trump.
And I'm probably going to lose a lot of friends for saying this, but thank you, Mr.
Trump, for making a very hard decision and for having the moral courage to do something that probably a lot of world leaders wouldn't have had.
Now, my experience with Iranians, or as they prefer to be called, Persians, certainly in Los Angeles when I lived there, I knew a number of them, but also Lex's wife, she's Iranian.
They go back and forth to Tehran a lot, and so she tells me what's going on, and it's the same message.
And they also always feel that America and the regime are somehow in cahoots And are always working on schemes together.
Now that's just the population who feels that way, but there's always something behind it.
There's always something behind these, especially the Middle East, the Middle Easterners in general, all the different...
Cultures and countries.
They're very gossipy.
Yes, they are.
And they tend to come up with these sorts of analysis, not dissimilar to ours in many cases.
And a lot of it is right on the money because it gets verified because they're so open about discussing this stuff behind everyone's back.
So what would be next on the horizon?
I mean, there are other evidences that we are working with them.
Oh, lots of it.
Oh, by the way, BBC now reporting, BBC reporting that CBS News is reporting that US intelligence says a satellite detected infrared blips of two missile launches followed by another blip of explosion, therefore saying that Iran mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian plane.
There goes the earthquake machine theory.
Well, it doesn't explain the earthquakes.
Earthquakes happen.
Two blips.
So, Sig Int, or who knows who, decided that there was a blip of showing a missile.
Two blips.
And hitting two blips.
Bang, bang.
Followed by another blip.
I love these technical explanations.
Yeah.
Blip, glitch.
Blip, glitch.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, exactly.
So, if we look at the cycles, if you look at the cycle of Iran, we're about due for a regime change, for a protest.
Hold on a second.
Why would they...
Well, we're due for rebelization.
Why would they mistakenly shoot down this thing?
What planes do they think were flying around, heading out of town, that were what they think was an American jet?
What were they thinking?
It was a mistake.
This is the reporting.
It was a mistake.
Oops.
You know, sometimes things are very unfortunate.
Bad day wrecker, as we say in aviation.
I tend to think if that was true...
Quote-unquote mistake.
There was somebody on that plane that they had to kill.
Yeah, I did get the passenger manifest, and I saw every name, but nothing I would recognize, so I had no idea.
Running names.
But that is obviously something that we would look at.
A day wrecker is what I see so far.
But you say they're due for rubblization.
I don't think so.
We're not going to rubblize Iran at all.
I think eventually we have to.
No, maybe oil fields, but you cannot rubblize.
No.
No, I just don't see that happening.
They could...
They rubblized everything else.
Why is Iran going to get it passed?
But Iran has been our buddy in the past.
They've done a lot for us.
So has Libya.
Yeah, I know.
It's bad actors that make these decisions.
So hopefully we're not going to rubblize Iran.
What I would be hoping for is another October surprise hostage situation.
This is the year to do it.
That's what I'd be looking at, a cycle.
Well, actually, this is not the year to do it.
The year to do it would be in 2024.
Because when they did it the first time...
Oh, no, you're right.
You're right.
It was after a first term.
Right?
No, you're right.
Because it was Carter's first go-round.
They had to get rid of him.
And this would be an attempt to get rid of...
So people wouldn't vote for Trump.
But they can't because he's such a loose cannon.
Nobody knows what he'd do.
And it's not like Carter, they knew he was going to wimp out.
Yeah.
But we all know that a deal was made to intentionally delay the release of the hostages so it would benefit Reagan.
Yes.
These are the level of deals that can be done with Iran, and I'm sure that that could come in handy depending on what happens with, I don't know, impeachment or something of that ilk.
We can talk about that in a minute.
I do have one more clip about Trump and his little chat.
And the only reason I want to play it because I have a WTF attached to it.
This is a seven second clip.
A Trump talk on WTF military spending.
The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of $2.5 trillion.
Yeah, I caught that number as well, and I actually expected some outrage.
I didn't read any outrage about that.
No, it's none.
Which is like, how much?
Who's giving the media, the media can't even think for themselves on any of these things.
They can't ridicule them for tolerizing and They can't talk about this number, which is, what is he talking about?
He's been in office two years.
They put in $700 billion each year for the military, which is one point.
I mean, if you add the two together, which is not rebuilding, that's just maintaining.
According to him, that's $1.4 trillion.
So how does he get this huge number?
I know, maybe that's the $2 trillion that Rumsfeld couldn't account for.
I don't know.
Do we still have that clip of Rumsfeld's pockets?
Rumsfeld, you know, we couldn't find...
And that was...
Wasn't that the day before 9-11 that he said that?
Yes, this is.
Wait a minute.
How much did Trump say?
That's very interesting.
Two point four trillion.
I think it's only seven seconds for peace.
Oops, sorry.
That's the wrong one.
Here we go.
The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of two point five trillion dollars.
2.5.
Now let's listen to Donald Rumsfeld just before 9-11-2001.
The day before 9-11-2001.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war.
Not on foreign terrorists.
The adversary is closer to home.
It's the Pentagon bureaucracy.
He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat.
In fact, it could be said that it's a matter of life and death.
Rumsfeld promised change.
But the next day, the world changed.
And in the rush to fund the war on terrorism, the war on waste seems to have been forgotten.
My 03 budget.
Calls for more than $48 billion in new defense spending.
More money for the Pentagon when its own auditors admit the military cannot account for 25% of what it already spends.
According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.
Oh.
Close enough.
Pretty close.
2.3, 2.5, who knows?
It's all a big rip-off.
It's a total rip-off.
You can support the military, but you don't have to support just squandering money.
And what did it go towards?
I mean, I saw the National Defense Authorization Act.
I think it went to a...
Space Force!
That's where the money went.
By the way, there are two producers of this program, the No Agenda Show, who I have confirmed are now in Space Force.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I think I heard about one of them.
One of them's pretty high up in the launch area, and another one is in the bowels.
That's just the ones I know.
But Space Force is the real deal, man.
It's the real deal.
So, yeah, $2.5 trillion.
This seems like a lot of money.
I know that...
What do we appropriate?
$750 billion?
$700 plus.
Yeah.
Hmm.
So where did it come from?
There's money.
Where did the $2.5 trillion come from?
Drugs.
They took the CIA's money.
They took that money back from them.
By the way, very interesting, ever since you had the guy on from the Quincy Institute...
Yeah, everybody's all over that.
They're showing up everywhere.
There's articles.
I mean, just, you know, opinion.
The Quincy Institute.
Hypersonic missiles are a game changer.
This is, maybe these guys are the new war, the war power college, whatever.
Well, you know the people behind it, right?
Um, let me guess.
Oh, wait.
Let me guess.
Soros?
You won't guess it correctly, but go on.
Soros?
Soros is one of them.
Actually, I did see this.
Coke Brothers.
Oh, yes.
I did see this.
Soros and Coke Brothers.
Yeah.
Two fine war outfits right there.
Wow.
All funding the Quincy Institute.
So whenever you see someone from the Quincy Institute, you know where it's coming from, where they're coming from.
Yeah, let's flag that one, please.
And then just a reminder that John Kerry's daughter is married to the son of one of, I think, the finance minister of Iran.
Just throwing that out there in case you see him making any interesting moves.
Well, he's always over there supposedly doing back-channel deals illegally in violation of the Logan Act!
Yeah, whatever.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, meanwhile, General Flynn has been broken by the system.
They took all his money.
The guy's a wreck.
I have just one last clip in this, relatively short.
So I guess a bunch of Democrats got up and we're talking...
The new push now is the War Powers Act.
Yeah, and by the way, Mike Lee finally turned on Trump like...
He was always an anti-Trumper, and he kind of caved for a while.
Wait, Mike Lee is who?
Who is he?
Mike Lee is the other senator from Utah with Romney.
Ah, right.
And I think Romney finally cajoled him in the, be yourself, Mike.
It's okay to hate him.
There's no problem there.
Yes, what were we discussing?
Oh, about the Democrats and the War Powers Act, right.
Their act.
Yes, Nancy Pelosi sent a message.
The original War Powers Act was in 1973, but they beefed it up during their era.
Right, but I think that they're going to try and use this to create more articles of impeachment.
Yes!
Yes!
And why not?
Want to hear my latest idea about what might be going on?
Sure.
Let's go back to the possibility that Nancy Pelosi's not insane.
She never wanted an impeachment.
But she flips on it and goes all for it, and now she's holding on to the impeachment papers.
She knows that to the embarrassment of the Democrats, if she pushes these impeachment papers over to the Senate...
Which, unlike, all the right-wingers are, oh, well, you know, they can, the Senate can just do what they want.
And they can just quit him without even getting the paperwork.
But they're not going to do that.
Nobody's going to do anything.
And I'm sure that Pelosi would be talking to McConnell over there at the Senate about what can we do to prevent this from happening because it's an embarrassment to the party.
So this would be a way out?
Yes.
Here's my thinking.
I'm not fully sincere or fully subscribed to this.
I'm just putting it out there as a possibility.
She's going to sit on the impeachment papers through the election and into the next couple of years.
She's going to sit on them because she knows that if they put them through and they get kicked back by the Senate, They will do it again and again.
Because they said they would.
They're going to just impeach him over and over again.
Different things.
We'll impeach him for this, impeach him for that.
So she knows that'll ruin the Democrat Party for sure.
So she's going to sit on it through the elections.
And her excuse to sit on it through the elections is going to be, well, if the American public gets a clue and they turn over the Senate to us Democrats, then we can get him.
So let's just wait.
Right, right.
Well, that would make sense.
Because she doesn't want to see, I'm thinking this possibility, she doesn't want to see the Democrats get kicked back, you know, they kick back the impeachment by the Senate, they'll kick it back, except for Mike Lee.
They'll kick it back, and then...
They'll do it again for something else.
Then they'll do it again and again and again.
The party's going to look like a bunch of buffoons.
So she writes to her Democratic colleagues, this week the House will introduce and vote on a war powers resolution to limit the President's military actions regarding Iran.
This resolution is similar to the resolution introduced by Senator Tim Kaine in the Senate.
That was Hillary's vice presidential pick.
Loser.
It reasserts Congress's spook, by the way, Tim Kaine.
It asserts Congress's long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further congressional action is taken, the administration's military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days.
It's true.
It's how the War Powers Act operates.
So what's new?
It's just a reassertion.
It's just a resolution.
All right.
The House resolution will be led by Congresswoman Elisa Slotkin.
She is a – it says right here.
Congresswoman Slotkin is a former CIA and Department of Defense analyst specializing in Shia militias.
Sounds like the man for the job.
Wow.
Should we put somebody in that actually represents the public?
She served multiple tours in the region under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
Multiple tours?
Tours.
What does that mean?
Well, I guess she...
She opened up a print shop.
She ran a magazine.
What is a tour when you're in the CIA? When you're in the CIA? Yeah, you're probably undercover as a journalist or something else.
I greatly appreciate the solemnity with which all of our members are working to honor our responsibility to protect American lives and values.
No mention of her true oath, which is the Constitution.
Thank you for your patriotic leadership during this difficult time.
Ah.
So, it's really nothing new other than a television moment from what I can see, because this is a resolution which is not law, it's just the same as impeachment.
It's basically another article of impeachment in this resolution, and of course it's going to take it past 30 days, like every other president before him has done.
Look at Syria.
And I can't believe these senators, and I think it was mainly senators, who were bitching and moaning about, well, we got a briefing, it was no good.
No, I looked over all these documents.
Most of the senators thought the briefing was fine, if not really good.
Except for Rand Paul.
Except Mike Lee.
And Rand Paul, too, I think.
Rand Paul, they're using Rand Paul as some sort of a foil.
I'm not sure what Rand Paul's up to.
Is Mike Lee a former spook?
I don't think so.
I'll look him up.
I mean, he might be.
I'll look him up.
So the Democrats are up.
They're talking about this.
And in the background, if you watch the video, the video would be handy for this very moment.
Elon Omar, the congresswoman representative from Minnesota, She is in the background, yuck, yuck, yuck, laughing it up.
She's guffawing with some of her cohorts behind Jayapal, I think, is in the front, in the foreground.
And, oh, Sheila Jackson Lee, who, by the way, when Sheila Jackson Lee sees this video, she's going to be very pissed because it was incredibly disrespectful as she's moaning, droning on about whatever, President Trump sucks, orange man bad, ugh.
Elon Omaha is in the background just cracking up laughing.
I don't know what the joke was, but then it's her turn to speak, and this is what she said.
Thank you, Ro.
I feel...
I feel ill a little bit because of everything that is taking place.
And I think every time I hear of conversations around war, I find myself being stricken with PTSD. And I find peace knowing that I serve with great advocates for peace and people who have shown courage against war.
Oh, why?
Her PTSD was triggered.
Except she's laughing it up in the background the whole time.
She is a very insincere woman.
Oh, you think?
Vote these people out.
What are you doing with that?
And with that...
I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C on CIA tours, John C. DeVorex!
In the morning to you, Mr.
Adam McCurry.
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It just sticks around.
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What do we have?
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I don't know if Mountain Jay has ever scored a piece of artwork for the No Agenda show previously.
He submitted quite a few.
And he has a very distinct style.
And we chose his artwork for episode 1205.
1,205 episodes.
The title of that was Death Bus.
And I like this.
I liked it right away.
There were a couple of...
We did have a discussion.
There were a number of other pieces we liked.
This is the War Machine RPM tachometer.
With Iraq changing to Iran.
It had nice no agenda with a little do not enter for the O for no agenda.
It was a custom job and it was nice.
It was very pretty.
And it popped.
It hit it on the money.
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There's so many great pieces of art that it just doesn't pop off the page because there's too much.
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And we don't insult them.
Yeah, we do, all the time.
What are you talking about?
Well, not like Ricky Gervais does.
Well, we'll get to Ricky Gervais in a moment.
Ren Fakima is our top guy.
Or Ryan.
How do you pronounce that, you think?
I think it's Ryan.
R-Y-N-E? I think it's a version of Ryan.
I don't know.
Ryan Fakima?
Well, it would be Fakima.
I would say Fakima.
Fakima?
It's not Fakima.
It's Fakima.
Well, in Dutch, it would be Fakima.
Fakima?
Fakima.
That sounds like Oakland Shaq.
R-Y-N-E. Ryan.
Maybe it's just Ryan.
He's in Seattle.
I hope to see him at a Seattle meetup.
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Too delicious to believe, my friend.
That's Lady MacDuff, I believe.
Yeah.
Isn't it?
Hillary, yeah.
Too delicious to believe, my friend.
I know it's Hillary, but I don't know if it's too delicious...
See, I like setting these clips up before we get to the show.
Yeah, we know.
Yeah, but I'm just bitching and moaning about it.
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You're stolen.
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Hey!
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You've got...
Just a tip, John.
Just a tip.
When I'm seemingly talking out of my ass about...
I know what you're doing.
You're looking up the clip while you're stalling.
What you could do is you could jump in and help me.
You could throw it to me.
You could just grab it.
After 12 years, I shouldn't have to throw it to you.
You should just grab it and run with it.
I was actually trying to get it, but then you were grousing back at me.
You were not getting anything.
I was moving in to grab it.
You have slippery hands.
You didn't even notice all the cues I had.
I was going, I'm going to take it.
I want to take it.
You did not give me a single cue at all.
I get 10 at least minimum.
Most unprofessional moment of our career.
I couldn't have done a better job.
And that's how it works.
Anonymous.
Hong Kong?
Hungary?
Hungary?
Maybe.
I don't know.
I don't know.
HR. Is he from HR? We're in trouble.
What did I say?
What did I do wrong?
Yeah, he sent this in.
He's donating $324 or $18 squared.
Croatia.
Henceforth known as the Lucky Jew donation.
It's Croatia, HR. Oh, okay.
Anybody who wants to go traveling, I would recommend Croatia as a place to visit.
It's just dynamite place.
Food's good.
They eat a lot of fish.
They eat a lot of fish.
But food's good.
It's beautiful.
It's a tremendous place.
We went through this.
We know the 18 squared.
We've talked about this.
I lost track of it.
When Jews give money, they usually do it with an 18, if I can recall.
They put the 18 in there, which is lucky.
Okay, 18 square.
So $3.24 is the lucky Jew donation.
I'd like to request a dedouching.
Okie dokie.
You've been dedouched.
I need travel and jobs, Karma.
I'm going to a work-related retreat by means of a long transatlantic flight.
I need some extra protection after that glitch in Iran.
No Agenda truly is the best podcast.
In the universe, it's not surprising that even the Mueller report confirms this by omission.
Yes, and just to make you feel better, the most dangerous part of your flight is the drive to the airport.
No!
You've got karma.
That's our two executive producers.
Now we drop to associate executive with Sir Dwight the Knight in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
23456.
Both you, John and Adam, have done an incredible job doing this show.
I'm making this donation because most Lily?
Likely.
What is this?
Likely.
Most likely, the donations will trickle off after the big celebration of episode 1200 and the holidays.
Absolutely true.
Yes.
Thank you for thinking of it, Sir Dwight.
Very mediocre.
I was talking to a co-worker of mine around the Chunkachunk Island bit on Maxine Waters when another co-worker, a Ukrainian man, overheard the name Chunkachunk and he laughed, saying the name is from a Russian children's song.
Yeah, it's actually, it's not just a song, it's also a cartoon, and I believe it's a really racist cartoon.
It's like little monkey kids living on Chunkachanka Islands.
It makes it even funnier in the context of which the Russian pranksters did it.
Yeah, that's what he says too.
Also about the alternative universe traveling machine.
Last time I brought up the machine, you both thought it was, I was asking for a jingle.
I was simply asking about the machine.
And how you haven't used it in a while, but Adam just fired it up the day before the show started that day.
I understand it's a very highly tuned instrument and it's not a jingle.
For the new listeners to the show, maybe you could explain universe A and B and verify which we are in because the craziness of the SJWs with their swollen amygdalas are getting out of control and I'm worried that we might be stuck in universe B. Well, keep up the great work, and I'm sure we're all looking forward to an amazing year.
P.S., I'm looking forward to more Scandinavian meetups this year, people.
Cheers, Sir Dwight, tonight.
So we identified multiple dimensions in a split universe years ago.
Was this even before Trump got elected, I think?
I believe so.
It must have been, yeah.
And it's what Scott Adams would say, the same movie playing on two different screens.
No, people seeing two different movies on the same screen.
Isn't that the...
No, you say there's two different movies.
They're watching the same movie, but you see it differently.
And I think just look at what pundits are saying everywhere in the news.
There's people who see the events differently.
And I think the no agenda screen we've identified as dementia A, and dementia B is everything that's unhinged.
That's our code.
That's it in a nutshell.
But we do, from time to time, use this highly tuned instrument, which is precision.
It's CNC'd into precision.
And we use it to travel to Dimension B when needed.
I don't really appreciate you doing it because I always get...
I didn't say this before, but I'm going to tell you now.
Always, two days later, I get hives.
Oh, really?
And you always get a little nauseous, too, when we're traveling.
Well, yeah, well, that's...
I'll get you the Dramamine for the next time we fire it up.
Thank you very much.
I'm going to use a copper.
No, I'm going to use the copper.
The copper bracelet.
Yeah, it'll work.
And of course, you know, Sparky.
I haven't seen Sparky in a while.
Sparky's a part of the machine.
I think I left him dementia.
He operates it.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Sparky actually flips the switch.
Thank you, Sir Dwight the Knight.
Appreciate that.
Onward to...
I hope that clears things up.
Dennis Price in Pine Grove, California.
$200.
John and Adam, thank you for another great year.
What you do means a lot.
John, in the summer, I manage a forest services station at Carson Pass, just past the Kirkwood Mountains on Highway 88.
Next time you go towards Tahoe, please stop in.
Do you ever come up?
Do you ever pass out that way?
Can I climb up into the tower?
We are open seven days a week and take some shots.
Yeah.
Shoot from up there.
From June through September, but if you come by on Saturdays, I lead a History of Carson Pass.
A History of Carson Pass from 10 to 11, an hour and a half lecture of the History of Carson Pass.
I'm sure I'd learn something.
I'd do it.
I'd go there.
It's cool stuff about Kit Carson, believe it or not.
Also about John C. Fremont, Pioneers and More Finest on Facebook, Carson Pass Station, Dennis Price, Pine Grove, California.
Give that guy some karma.
Alright, but before I do that, who is Kit Carson?
Kit Carson, he's an American hero.
He's like that era of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, Kit Carson.
I expected a little more from you.
I don't have any more than that.
I'm not a big Kit Carson fan.
It's an international show.
Carson City was named after Kit Carson.
The capital of Nevada.
Or Nevada.
American frontiersman.
Oh, that's a great one.
He was a mountain man, wilderness guide, Indian agent.
Indian agent?
Yeah, he was working for the Indian Spooks?
Not fast enough, sorry.
I could have done it.
Good try, good try.
Too slow.
U.S. Army officer.
He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime via biographies and news articles.
Often exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of diamond novels.
Yeah, you write those.
Dime novels.
Dime novels.
His understated nature belied confirmed reports of his fearlessness, combat skills, tenacity, and profound effect.
He was the original Donald Trump is what it sounds like.
Yeah, maybe.
Here's some karma for you.
Thank you.
You've got karma.
And always nice to learn something new.
Fabian...
Scherschel.
Fabian Scherschel.
Wow, that's... 200 bucks.
Scherschel.
Scherschel.
Last donated for show 601 went overboard for quite a while, but now I'm back with and loving the show recently.
Felt like it was time to chip in again.
I'd like to call out Brigadier Bradshaw as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
And then he'd like a dealer's choice of Reverend Al, best regards, ex-Linux outlaw, not operating radio nowhere at random.
I'm not getting any of this, but okay.
There's some code in here I don't get.
Read it again.
Best regards, Fab, xLinux, Outlaw, now operating Radio Nowhere.
Okay, so operating Radio Nowhere at Radio...
RadioNNW.org.
Oh!
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, you should check that out, actually.
RadioNW.org?
Yeah, he put some interesting stuff on there.
I think some of that should be on our stream.
But yes, he's always tweeting about Radio Nowhere.
RadioNW.org.
Well, thank you very much, Fabian.
We'll catch up to this.
I'm sorry I was flat-footed.
Yes, and I'm going to jam a Karma after this, too.
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Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. Pretty sure you could be the smartest one at the water cooler now that you know what actually went down.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
That is brand new information.
Shut up.
So I was baffled.
I was really baffled by Ricky Gervais.
And I was not baffled by his whole spiel, but baffled that NBC would sanction this.
And they had you.
It was all on prompter.
Oh yeah.
I saw him on the red carpet and the question was asked, does everybody know?
He said, oh no, it's all been approved.
There may be an ad-lib hair there.
He says, but no, it's all been approved.
Everybody's really happy.
For Gervais to go so hard, and to me it was really about one thing.
Wait, stop.
We didn't even tell you what the hell we're talking about.
Who doesn't know what we're talking about?
I think there's people that are wise people that don't sit around watching television all the time that would like to know what we're talking about.
Ricky Gervais, the original office inventor, and of course the U.S. office television show flowed from that.
Also early podcaster and comedian, who I think is very funny.
I love his stand-ups.
I think he's got some great bits.
It's very English, but very interpretable for the United States audiences and abroad.
Was the host at the Golden Globe Awards, which is known for, as we would say in the UK, taking the piss out of the celebrities.
But the extent that he went to this time...
To me, it was either, because it was on NBC, the Golden Globes, to me it felt like what he was saying was either a planned release valve, it was a perhaps corporate cover, or a message to Hollywood.
And I don't know if you have any clips, but I only have 36 seconds that matter.
I have 36 seconds that matter.
It was right in the beginning.
And this, to me, this is when I just went, holy shit.
But tonight isn't just about the people in front of the camera.
In this room are some of the most important TV and film executives in the world.
By the way, he does say important.
I'll let him slide because he's British, but he's dropping his T's.
People from every background, but they all have one thing in common.
They're all terrified of Ronan Farrow.
He's coming for you.
He's coming for you.
Look, talking of all you perverts, it was a big year...
It was a big year for paedophile movies.
Surviving R. Kelly, Leaving Neverland, Two Popes.
Shut up.
Shut up.
I don't care.
I don't care.
So, you know, the Ronan Farrow relationship with NBC is...
You know, we've read a lot about it.
And for NBC, in effect, to condone the message, or propagate the message, he's coming for all of you.
I felt it was, I really felt it was more than just, this is funny.
Because it wasn't funny to most people in that audience, I don't think.
At least it wasn't all, there was a lot of grimacing.
But I felt it was a message.
It's interesting you point that out, the Ronan Farrell NBC connection, and he would go.
You know what the last thing he said at the very end when he signed off for the show?
I forget.
Well, you didn't probably see it because you would have forgotten it.
No, I did see the whole show.
Then again, you didn't hear his bleep, but you could see his lips.
His last words as he left was, fuck off.
That's how he ended the show.
Could be.
No, it could be.
I don't remember.
I just don't remember.
That's what he said at the end, but he said that a number of times.
In fact, he said it on one of the clips.
That I remember.
Where he says, get your award and fuck off.
That was what he was saying, yes.
He could have said sawed off or buzz off or anything else.
It would have stayed in there and it would have been better for clipping because now you get your warden blank because they didn't beep him.
They just...
They cut it.
They silenced him.
Yeah, it was just...
They cut it out.
They cut out the sound.
Well, I have that same clip, but I have a...
I think mine's a slight variation on yours and the pedophiles, which is one of the things he opened with.
Let's play this.
But tonight isn't just about the people in front of the camera.
In this room are some of the most important TV and film executives in the world.
People from every background.
What?
You can stop.
It's the exact same clip.
I just wondered if I started at the exact same point you did.
Yeah.
It's kind of amusing.
All right, let's go on.
Typical.
Now, here's the part, this is Gervais, this is the part I thought that everyone picked up on, which was the accepting the awards clip.
Right, and this is what got all the play, which is why I immediately wanted to remind us about the Ronan Farrow comment, because this is, of course, what people love about.
Love to hear about the Hollywood elites, like, because it's so easy to hate them for these very reasons.
If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech, right?
You're in no position to lecture the public about anything.
You know nothing about the real world.
Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.
So, if you win, right, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God, and...
Yeah, and then it was cut.
Right.
Now, that is a throwback, and the audience did not like that, but back in 1978, I put 76 on here, Patty Chayefsky is the clip.
Patty Chayefsky went in front of the Academy Awards after Lynn Redgrave.
Oh my gosh.
Back in time.
Yeah, Lynn Redgrave went off on Jew hate, how Israel's a horrible place, and went on and on and on.
And Chayefsky...
And who is Chayefsky?
I'm sorry.
Patty Chayefsky is the greatest screenwriter ever.
Okay.
And you can look up at his credits.
He's got everything that's really...
Whoa, I know that.
I know that.
Oh, I've seen that.
It's really outrageous.
You can look him up on IMDb.
But Paddy Chayefsky, that's C-H-E-Y, is considered...
And in fact, there was a Paddy Chayefsky Award at the Golden Globes.
There you go.
So anyway, so this guy, who's a very famous writer, he...
In fact, he did the movie Hospital, and it was noted that with the...
It was just a movie, The Hospital, I think is the name of it.
Yeah, The Hospital.
It was one of the few films that was on the marquee, The Hospital, by Patty Chayefsky.
Very few writers ever get to that point.
Even Tarantino doesn't do that.
So he goes on there, and during this, they keep cutting to the audience, and the audience is applauding Neil Simons and the audience to see all these other famous people, and they're applauding Chayefsky for saying what he's saying.
If he said this today, they'd be booing him.
Before I get on to the writing awards, there's a little matter I'd like to tidy up.
At least if I expect to live with myself tomorrow morning.
I would like to say, personal opinion of course, that I'm sick and tired of people exploiting the occasion of the Academy Awards.
For the propagation of their own personal political propaganda.
Thank you.
I would like to suggest to Ms.
Redgrave that her winning an Academy Award is not a pivotal moment in history, does not require a proclamation, and a simple thank you would have sufficed.
Well, okay, so I'm going to think that 1976, this was, he was there.
78.
Yeah, I got the wrong date on here.
Oh, because.
It's going to be 78.
Because in 76, Network came out, which of course is a no agenda classic.
I'm going to Yeah, and one of his.
With Howard Beale, I'm mad as hell, I'm not going to take it anymore, which is all about the manipulation of the news media, or all media, all television, to behoove the elites, which is a must-see if you've never seen it.
Interesting.
Well, those days are over.
Yeah?
Well...
Again, we did get – we had a bunch of speeches on the Golden Globes.
But anyway, the last clip I have, though, is not one of these speeches.
Michelle Williams is one of them I didn't like.
But Gervais did – I thought the best bit was deeper into the show.
And Gervais does this – I thought it was really nasty – And the guy, he announces the guy from the Hollywood...
Foreign Press Association.
Yeah.
And the guy comes out and gives it back to him, and he's the only one.
Nobody else had the guts to say anything about Gervais' performance or anything about anything.
They were all chickens.
But it was obviously, you know, the president of the HFPA knew what Gervais was going to do.
He was ready for it.
So that's why he had no problem doing this.
Well, anybody could have said something.
There's a bunch of professional actors and comedians and all kinds of people.
They come out and they refuse to acknowledge anything Gervais said or did or insult him back.
Because they were shell-shocked, John.
They were shell-shocked.
I'm telling you, the whole pedophile thing, that set them on edge.
Welcome back.
Still having a good time?
As you know, the meal tonight was all vegetables.
As are the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press.
Please welcome their president, Lorenzo Soria.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Ricky, you keep saying this is your last year hosting.
For God's sake, please put it in writing.
Yeah, that was written.
That was perfect.
That's what you'd expect.
But John, I can't get over it.
Whatever...
The message was, it was there.
It was a clear message, and it may just be one of these things where, you know, you get a 10-speed bike, then all of a sudden you see 10-speed bikes everywhere, but there's a lot of pedo-bear news popping up all of a sudden.
The first one is this hashtag which has been trending on Twitter.
And the hashtag is TV Underground Hosts CP. And there's this guy who proclaims...
It doesn't really have any legitimacy in my mind, but it's kind of like a Q-type thing, I guess, where people are all jitty about it and all in.
He claims that the DNC server, the one that tanked Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the whole Democratic Party, although that proved that Bernie got screwed for Hillary to get the nomination,
of which we believe a server image was made by Seth Rich, who met an untimely demise, that apparently that server is up and running in Ukraine, where it went, to CrowdStrike, and that it is a relay for child pornography.
I'm just bringing it up in the context of Ricky Gervais' entire performance, which went back to that a lot with Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, he threw in a couple of Harvey Weinstein bits.
I mean, there was a lot of really odd stuff that he was pushing out there at the same time.
A mother of sexually abused boy Banders breaks her silence, implicates Disney, CAA, Hollywood Records, LAPD, district attorney, and industry elite in pedophile ring and cover-up, which is not a surprise.
We've been hearing about it for a long time.
But the craziest one was Paul Krugman.
Who all of a sudden tweets out, uh, well, it looks like, uh, I'm on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it, someone compromised my IP address and is using it to download child pornography.
Now, as a Nobel Prize winning economist, did you eat shit for breakfast?
I don't care what's going on.
That is not a well thought out tweet at all.
You know, I commented on that tweet, and my thinking was, who has a, you know, what is he talking about, my security consultant?
I mean, he's just a, what is he talking about?
I mean, if you're that concerned about anything, you, I don't know, I just don't, that tweet was baffling to me.
It's either that I don't know.
You're right.
I'm completely beside myself.
What's he talking about?
What is he trying to cover up?
That's the thing that you'd be wondering about.
And by the way, the Pentagon networks, there's lots of articles also the past few weeks about the amount of pornography, particularly child pornography, that is running around the networks at the Pentagon.
Yeah, but that's not new.
It's been around for a while.
Yes, I know, but it's back in the news.
I'm just saying, it's like the 10-speed bike thing.
Am I just picking up on it because?
I did the same thing with, you know, you decide to start looking for Priuses.
We used to have a game, my daughter and I. How many Priuses would we see on the way to the store?
And you'd think, well, you see two or three.
You see 20!
Well, look at where you live, man.
Maybe easy to say, how many gas guzzlers do I see?
Now, that would be a challenge.
You don't have that where you live.
All Priuses.
I'm with you.
That Krugman thing was very strange.
And remember, we still have the backdrop of Podesta...
You know, the fabled Pizzagate.
And just years and years of doing this, there seems to be a lot of pedophilia surrounding political and entertainment elites.
And, you know, whatever Ricky Gervais' role in this was, unfortunately, I think it was my initial thinking that it was kind of like a planned release valve.
That seems to be the most obvious.
Like, let's just get it out there so everyone can laugh and joke and create memes of Tom Hanks' face.
And then it'll die down because, dude, it's getting hot under the collar here.
And maybe Ronan Farrow is coming for somebody else.
Why not?
That is what Ronan Farrow's job apparently is.
Yes.
And he's got high, and his credibility is super high now, so he's got to be frightening.
Hey, Ronan Farrell's on the phone for you, boss.
Oh my god, scary.
Scary.
It's a word you don't want to hear.
By the way, that is something, before the Russian pranksters do it, could somebody please do that?
Call up some Hollywood people and say, Ronan Farrell here, I'd like to talk to, you know, fill in the blank.
That would be funny.
That's a great gag.
And then just start talking and say, okay, well, there's a couple of things I need to discuss with you.
See how far you could push it.
Come on!
Stop leaving this to the Russians.
We're good at this.
We used to be.
Who were the prankster kids we used to have?
The boys?
The jerky boys.
The jerky boys!
The jerky boys.
The original jerky boys.
What happened to us in the country?
But everybody was doing it.
Half the DJs in San Francisco were doing it.
Well, I got old, but these are good ones.
If you're not good at it, you can't do it.
Yeah, we had the Schiff.
I think it was the same two Russian guys.
We have Compromat on Donald Trump.
We have him naked picture with him.
We need more of that, please.
Definitely, I think, calling up and saying, Ronan Farrow, I'd like to talk to Phil in the name of Hollywood executive, Phil in the name of a politician.
See what happens.
It could be funny.
Well, you know, since that thing, and they had that Tom Hanks stuff, who's just pretty much of a, you know, kind of a boy-next-door guy, From the Bay Area.
I saw Twitter some picture of him getting on the plane.
Oh, he was on the low lead express.
Oh, yeah.
Tom Hanks, I'm not so convinced he's so squeaky clean.
At all.
Well, you'll find out soon enough.
Oh, yeah.
Thousands of sealed indictments the minute they're released.
Yeah.
Now, amidst all of this, of course, we have the big nerd show going on in Vegas, the Consumer Electronics Show, which neither of us pay attention to or would go to or really interested in at all, except Ivanka Trump did a keynote, and apparently people were really outraged by what she said.
And I have the clip of her outrage.
What did she say?
Well, I have a clip, and the clip will also explain that people were outraged.
I personally, when I listen to this, it's only 33 seconds, by coincidence.
I'm outraged by her dropping her T's.
So, just bear with it, you'll hear it, and then maybe we can figure out what was truly offensive to everybody else.
Many of the industries, tech support, cybersecurity jobs, not all of them require a bachelor's degree.
So thinking, and you had mentioned, Barry, the importance of defining work based on skills, Rather than credentials is incredibly important and requires a major shift in our thinking.
It's hard to imagine that that would have caused a controversy.
That, of course, is Ivanka Trump on the stage giving the keynote speech at CES. For some reason, some people were outraged at what she was saying.
Maybe because you don't need a bachelor's degree or something like that.
I don't know what it was.
I just couldn't get past the important...
She cannot be president if she can't pronounce T's in words like important.
Well, let's forget that side of it and try to figure out what it is that bothers everybody.
I think there's a sense, especially in tech, there's this...
I think it's like a fall...
There's a word for this, and I can't come up with it because I didn't think about this topic, where you...
You have these phony baloney degrees that give you some sort of key to the kingdom or if you don't have a degree.
Somebody is really a natural computer person that can just code like a champ.
They're usually bass players.
Many of them?
Yeah.
Great coders are bass players.
The point is they have these innate skills.
Right.
Yes.
And so they should probably be, those skills should be exploited to the max, but not if you're going to say, well, you don't have a bachelor's degree, so we can't give you that job.
That's the element we're playing with.
Yeah, something like that.
Well, it has to be STEM. You're anti-STEM if you say people can just do it without an education.
Maybe that's part of it.
Maybe.
Well, it's something that we need to figure out.
Well, have you been watching any of the coverage from CES? What are the great new gadgets and what are the fantastic consumer electronics that we're going to see in our homes that are now being presented?
I don't know, but I'm waiting for some more unboxings.
Well...
Because it's really the box that matters.
I have a couple of reports.
Of course, at the Consumer Electronics Show, we need to have more fake food.
And now I can't believe it's not pork is on deck.
Okay, my new best friend.
Are you ready?
Here we go.
I am taking a bite of the brand new, unveiled right here, Impossible Pork Slider.
Banh mi sandwich.
Tell me what's in it.
Soy protein, right?
Soy protein, sunflower oil, coconut oil.
I like it.
I'm not tasting pork, per se.
Interesting.
Wait a minute, the aftertaste is coming.
You are tasting pork.
Come on, they're advertising.
Tell That's weird.
Here it comes.
Really play it up here.
Wow.
Good job.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to finish this in the commercial break.
Okay, good.
Let's get out.
Thank you very much.
You know, real American...
Clearly it tasted like shit, which is in it.
And he's like, well, I don't taste anything.
And then all of a sudden, oh, yes, the aftertaste.
Would you burp it up?
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
So that's a product I don't need.
What other great products are out there at CES? This is where it all comes down, people.
This is the future of your life is right here at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Rich DeMuro here at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, here in the LG booth, and I found a refrigerator that does something pretty unique.
Whoa!
Finally, John!
We're there!
It's going to order the milk when you need it!
Mark Vitanza from LG is here to tell us all about it.
Thank you for chatting about this fridge.
What does this do?
So, it's an indoor cultivating machine that allows you to grow up to 20 different types of vegetables, okay, indoors, okay, self-contained, okay, controlling all the environments that you would have indoors.
So, you're getting precise vegetables.
Humidity, water watering, and light source to give you the best cultivating for different vegetables.
Hey, okay, can I grow weed in that sucker?
He said vegetables.
Go back, he says vegetables.
He's so okay, excited, okay, that he's stripping over his word, okay!
This, by the way, is what passes as technology reporting.
There are reporters who make a lot of money doing exactly this.
It's...
Disheartening!
Okay, watering and light source to give you the best cultivating for different vegetables, okay, within a certain column refrigerator.
Now, am I just planting seeds, or does this require some special equipment?
Great question.
So, it comes in this...
It's not a great question!
Oh, brother...
Disposable pods.
So each particular unit here is a specific pod.
So once you're finished cultivating, okay, the pods are disposable.
And finally, what types of items can I grow and when can we expect to see this in our kitchens?
Don't have the expectation on when it's coming to market, but primarily leaf vegetables.
Okay, smaller, lower growing leaf vegetables.
Maybe some fresh basil.
Basil, many different herbs, lettuce, kale, things of that nature.
Kale?
Alright, you heard it first.
And what's this refrigerator called?
It's part of the Signature Kitchen Suite brand.
What is it called?
This is where you say the brand.
This is where you say the name of the product.
That's not ever coming out because that's what CES is.
Bullshit.
They have nothing new to show you.
Why do I want to grow basil in my refrigerator?
All you can do is a seed.
You can grow it on your windowsill.
You can grow it anywhere.
It's like a weed.
He should say weed.
I'd be interested.
What is the name of the product?
Alright, you heard it first.
And what's this refrigerator called?
The Weederator.
It's part of the Signature Kitchen Suite brand.
You're at LG. Alright, finding some neat things here at CES 2020.
So neat!
If you want to learn more about this fridge, go to my website.
It is richontech.tv.
Reporting from Las Vegas, I'm Rich DeMuro.
We've got a great report, Rich.
Really fantastic.
Why didn't you suggest weed, okay?
That's what he should have done.
That would have made it more interesting because then the guy would have okayed himself out of there.
And none of this is like Sony introduces an electric vehicle, but we're never going to make it.
All of this.
And then this one from CNET, which is also known as CBS Interactive.
Real people getting paid real money to go to this real show and deliver this shit.
Literally.
Literally.
So this cute little guy is the Charmin Robot.
And the idea is, if an emergency strikes, and you're in the bathroom, and you run out of this valuable material, the Charmin Robot will be able to bring it to you, lickety-split, and you'll be able to use your phone to control it.
Okay, I just want to set the scene.
The guy's sitting on the floor of the booth.
There's a little, he calls it a robot.
It's like a little two-wheel device.
It's about the size of a Folgers coffee can.
And on top of it is a roll of toilet paper.
This is the innovation of 2020.
If you are taking a crap and you notice that your slaves didn't hang up a new roll of paper or put one underneath the sink like most people, Charmin is introducing a robot that you...
It's not even robotics.
You control it with your smartphone to...
And apparently it already has a roll of toilet paper sitting on top of it in the corner of your house, which is a great conversation starter.
And then you can have it...
And apparently you're also not downstairs or upstairs.
You're on the same level.
It will roll towards you and you can steer this thing to bring you a roll of toilet paper.
How does it open the bathroom door?
And then you don't have to worry and get up and embarrass yourself.
It's trying right now to balance itself.
See, it has a self-balancing technology.
Boom!
There it is.
So it can handle its own weight.
It can handle the weight of the toilet paper.
It works a little bit like a Sega.
No, it works exactly like a Segway, which is technology from 15 years ago.
It connects to your phone via Bluetooth, and then you can remote control it to go where you want, which, you know, is to you on the toilet, because you need the toilet paper.
You're not going to be able to buy this for a little bit.
Still, it's cute, it's very enthusiastic, it's already spinning its wheels again, and it's going to bring you what you need the most at that moment when you need it the most.
Just-in-time shit paper!
That's right, everybody!
I'm so dismayed by this.
So dismayed.
What has happened?
Remember the good old days?
This is your beat now.
We want to report on every show and more stuff like this.
It's so sad.
Okay, I think I saw some folding screens.
Okay.
Woo!
That's so crazy.
I tell you, I can fold my screen.
I got a flip phone.
But this, now impressive would be, you got to take a dump, the thing rolls up right underneath, you just poop into a hole on top and it rolls away and done.
That's impressive.
Not something that you have to steer with your Bluetooth-connected phone to navigate through your house.
Just get up like everybody else.
Clench and go get it.
Of course, this robot will also never go into production because, once again, what is Charmin doing at CES? And I think there's room for innovation.
Any free publicity on CBS Interactive?
Yeah, I think there's room for innovation in the toilet paper arena, but this is not it.
You know, I've never liked Charmin.
I've always thought it was too slippery.
Oh, I like Charmin.
That's my favorite.
I'm all about the Charmin.
If you want to try toilet paper, which you'll rarely find, but if you can ever find it, it's from Zellerbach, and it's called Z. Z-E-E. Zellerbach.
Hold on.
Zellerbach?
Yeah, this is a big paper company.
But they make a toilet paper called Z, Z-E-E. That stuff's unbelievable.
Now, what are the unbelievable benefits of the product?
It's just like a cleaning machine.
It just works like a champ.
It's just fabulous.
I don't want to go into the details.
Hold on.
No, I do find it interesting.
Let's see.
They've been around for a long time.
This is 1950.
Oh, that's very soft.
Okay, I can't play that one.
I can hear it.
Nah, it's not going to work.
Hey, I've never heard of Z. But they've been around for a long time.
Forever.
Is that the toilet paper your mom was afraid the Chinese were buying up?
No, no.
She's never seen Z. She just, whatever the Chinese were buying, she'd buy that.
It could have been anything.
Yes, my mom was always fearful.
When she went to the store and she saw a bunch of Chinese buying toilet paper, she figured the end was near.
So she bought as much toilet paper as she could afford at the time.
Now you can buy it all.
Crazy little moment.
The Chinese are buying it.
I gotta buy some.
You can buy it online.
I'll try some.
I'm always in for a better experience.
Sea is available online?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Get some and see what you think.
That's ludicrous, by the way.
That's how bad things have gotten.
People wonder what's wrong with the country.
What you just said there is what's wrong with the country.
Toilet paper online.
That's really the worst.
A case is $37.
You get 40 rolls.
Can't you get one roll somehow?
I'll get one.
Don't worry.
Please, do not send it to the P.O. box.
It's very confusing for the postal workers.
Why does this guy get so much toilet paper in the mail?
What's he up to?
Call the FBI. Call the FBI. Oh my goodness.
See something, say something.
Oh boy, I can't believe you brought that up because there are new jingles for the Department of Homeland Security's See Something, Say Something campaign.
Now, for those of you who have not been a part of the Value for Value Network for a while...
Years and years and years ago, when the MTA, the Manhattan Transit Authority, introduced and copyrighted the If You See Something, Say Something slogan, we immediately had a jingle for them made by the genius Sir Jeff Smith, and we have been trying to get them to use this for years.
This is what it is.
If you see something, say something.
Totally catchy.
All the kids get it.
It's on message.
It's easy to remember.
No.
They've never used it and now they're doing the stupidest thing ever.
They're shortening the slogan.
Why?
Why do we ignore the things that give us pause?
That seem out of place?
That don't feel right?
The answer to why defines who we are.
So if you see something, why do you say something?
I see say for my friends.
For my community.
For my family.
For each other.
Because all of this matters.
We all have something worth protecting.
So why do you see say?
Report suspicious activity to local authorities.
If you see something, say something.
So they've now shortened this to C-say.
Like it's a new verb.
What do you C-say?
That's dumb.
Thank you.
C-say.
Well, I want you to play the jingle, our jingle again, and remind people out there that it's there.
It's there for the taking.
I mean, we will gladly pass it along as a public service.
Thank you.
Maybe thank you for some money.
A couple of bucks.
A big donation.
A couple of shekels.
I mean, just saying.
I think $2,000 would do it, don't you think?
2,000?
What do you think?
No, that would be just for Jeff Smith alone.
If this is a national campaign, no, it would be much more.
But we'd be happy if they use it for free.
It's just a suggestion.
If you see something, say something.
What do you see say?
Oh, brother.
Yeah, exactly.
All right.
What else has happened while we're gone?
Well, let's see.
I think we had some Green New Deal stuff.
Oh, yes.
Oh, I have a clip I want you to just pay a little attention to.
Okay.
Play the Snowden has got to go clip.
Snowden has got to go.
The very latest on the international standoff over NSA leader Edward Snowden.
He is still in Moscow at this hour.
President Putin defying the U.S., saying the Russians will not turn him over, but also telling Snowden publicly, it's time to go.
ABC's chief investigative correspondent, Brian Ross, has been tracking all of the very latest.
Good morning, Brian.
Wait a minute.
Putin told him it's time to go?
Yeah.
Wow.
Well...
The thing about it is this is a clip from 2003.
Oh, you bastard.
Well, it's time to go.
It's really time to go now.
It's time to go.
Hey, Ed, it's really time to go, man.
Okay, Green New Deal.
First of all, the rains really started coming in Australia.
And we get no credit for it, but I'm going to take some of it because I really believe rain sticks work.
Our rain sticks are highly tuned precision instruments.
We've been trained on how to use them.
They're not made just by some...
Children gluing stuff together in China.
It's made in Utah.
Sacred Grounds by Sherry Osborne.
And it's working.
Granted, our direction was a little off.
Apparently, a lot of our rain stick action hit Indonesia and didn't quite make it to the spots in Australia that were necessary.
But you saw people dancing in the rain.
I mean, you can call it coincidence.
I'm calling it the rain stick.
I think so, too.
I don't like to flip this thing around randomly.
It's actually dangerous.
Well, because you can get a lot of rain in the wrong places.
Anyway.
By the way, it's 2013, that clip, not 2003, in case any way corrects me.
Just as good, as far as I'm concerned.
Well, it's seven years ago.
Well, I'm going to do the same to you, then, since you did that.
It's no good if you give me the clue.
I'm not going to tell you when I'm going to do it.
I'm just going to do it all of a sudden.
Oh, you've done it before.
So now we have confirmation that nearly 200 people were arrested across Australia for deliberately starting bushfires.
These so-called firebugs, the arsonists.
I just got a video in this morning, closed caption TV in Australia, and there was an interesting take on it.
You see, let me see if I can find the exact title of that.
What did they title that?
Brazen Teen Trio in Milton West.
This is from The Age.
So you see these three kids, who I would say were kind of Greta Thunberry age, walking around, lighting an entire field on fire in Australia, and then running away.
And the thing catches fire very quickly.
You've got to wonder, I hadn't considered this, could some of the school strike children be so riled up by Greta that they feel to propagate the danger of climate change to prove a point that they have to help light some fires?
Do you think that's possible?
I think absolutely.
I've always thought two things.
One, you have the environmental nut jobs, and this includes the tree huggers, the guys who spike trees.
There's a bunch of them, the Earth First groups.
And then there's a terrorist possibility too, which is why wouldn't a terrorist organization, if there is one, just go around and light the whole country on fire?
This happened in the Civil War.
They had these Confederate spies all snuck into New York and they were going to burn down the whole town.
They almost did it.
They just couldn't quite get it done.
They were lighting hotels on fire.
Here's a clip.
In Australia, unseasonably hot temperatures combined with strong winds to fan the flames of nearly 100 wildfires.
And 36 of the fires in New South Wales, the most populous state in the country, were burning out of control.
Smoke plumes stretched for miles and even cast an orange haze over downtown Sydney.
Conditions are still too intense to get an accurate number of how many homes have been destroyed.
And that was a clip from 2013, just to let you know that this is nothing new.
But as you were just mentioning, another clip, this time from 2012.
Dick, the terror threat is in an Al-Qaeda newsletter online.
It says forest fires are easy to start and hard to stop.
The Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos last year was New Mexico's biggest ever, devouring everything in its path.
It was started by a tree falling into a power line, but the state's Department of Homeland Security says that just shows how easy it would be for a terrorist with one match to cause widespread damage.
Do you remember this Inspire magazine?
Yeah, the CIA publication.
These threats are threats, and we are at war still with an enemy that is bent on inflicting harm on us.
Those threats are in this English version Al-Qaeda newsletter called Inspire.
It surfaced recently on the internet.
It calls on sympathizers to start wildfires, giving them a step-by-step how-to guide, even highlighting the American Southwest is a region ready to go up in flames.
How come this is never brought up again?
I know the answer, obviously.
I'm being facetious.
What is the answer, in your opinion?
Because it was a CIA magazine to start with.
It was bullcrap from the get-go.
Yeah, but the idea was valid.
The idea is valid, but how come it's not brought up?
I didn't hear anyone talking about it.
I think, personally, I think that it may actually have occurred.
I think some of the fires in California may have been started that way.
Not necessarily the newest ones.
But the problem is that it doesn't get the message across.
It doesn't create the terrorism message where, oh, now we have to be afraid of these terrorists.
It always drops back, and any smart terrorist organization would know this.
It falls back to global warming.
Yes.
So it's like we set the whole country on fire and they don't even give us any credit.
They blame global warming.
You're right.
It's definitely crossing messages.
Yeah, so the messaging will not work using that technique, even though it works to burn down a lot of stuff, but it always falls back on global warming, and it may actually be a counterintelligence move to know, say you knew that this was all done,
say in Australia in particular, was done by either dumb kids starting stuff on purpose or terrorists, but The counter, the co-intel message would be, oh, blame it on global warming, because we do not want to encourage people to light things up.
Right.
So, global warming, global warming.
Yes.
Now, think about it.
How many of those California fires might have been helped along by some overzealous kids who were mind-controlled by the Greta message?
Could be all of them, for all we know.
This thing in Australia...
They can only blame one or two on PG&E. Right.
I hope they really look into these kids in Australia.
Do they do more of that?
Were there more kids doing it?
What is the motivation?
That seems a very likely thing to me.
Seems likely to me, too.
I've been working on our exit strategy, as always.
Yes.
Well, there is something going on in Texas which might work for us.
I mean, it would still mean work, but we could certainly make a lot of money if you're interested.
Well, the work part of it is kind of disconcerting.
Here's Shelby County, Texas.
Shelby County Commissioners plan to pay more than $9,000 a month to a podcasting company to produce podcasts and market it on the internet.
This contract is so outrageous that it just baffles me why we're doing this.
Shelby County Commissioner Mick Wright is the loan commissioner who voted against paying the Kudzuki Network almost $110,000 to produce podcasts for the commission.
When you're talking about over $100,000, I mean, you could buy a small fleet of vehicles for that amount and still do a podcast.
The local I-team found there are cheaper options in town.
The OAM network operates out of the Crosstown Concourse.
Here, a podcast costs $300 for the first episode and $100 per episode after that.
OAM's owner questions why the county is even paying for a podcast when it video streams its meetings and also broadcasts them live on the radio.
The owner of Kudzukian didn't want to comment for this story, but at the commission meeting, he explained the cost this way.
We really work with businesses and we work with government entities to make sure that they have a very high-end product.
John, it's that easy.
There's a lot of counties.
Every county.
Listen, we work with a lot of businesses and we ensure you have a high-end quality product.
The Curry Dvorak Podcast Production Group.
I would love to hear these high-end products from this guy.
I wonder if they've produced any yet.
Shelby.
That would be funny.
I should have actually looked into that.
I'm sorry.
Podcast.
Let's see.
Shelby County Podcast.
No.
Nothing yet.
But it's something we could consider.
A hundred grand a year.
Yeah.
For just one county.
For one county.
Do a thousand counties.
Boom.
We'll just stay on the podcasting tip for a moment.
Thank you everybody who emailed in a clip from the most recent Family Guy.
Ah, yeah.
We have got to prove Lois is innocent.
That's right.
And the best way to crack any high-profile crime case is to do a podcast before you have all the facts.
Okay.
And the key to any podcast is poor sound quality and tons of commercials.
Alright, we've got Lois calling in from prison.
She's only got three minutes.
Thanks for looking at my case, guys.
You bet, Lois.
My first question is, do you get a good night's sleep?
No, because I'm in prison and my cellmate is bipolar.
Well, if you get a Casper mattress now, you have a hundred days to decide if it's the right mattress for you.
I don't have time for underwear that bunches up.
That's why I wear MeUndies.
Perfect underwear for hanging yourself in your jail cell.
Can we talk about the case?
I have 30 seconds before they haul me off to the freaking cafeteria.
Sounds like you could use Blue Apron.
Have you ever wanted to receive a vegetable in the mail?
Then you need Blue Apron.
I'm like obsessed with the stir fry.
Brian here likes the Moroccan beef.
I have no opinion on the Moroccan beef, Peter.
Brian, this is not art.
This is commerce.
Peter, before I go, I need a new lawyer.
This one made a sexual pass at me.
Oh boy, everyone knows hiring is a nightmare.
At least it was before ZipRecruiter.
ZipRecruiter.
We vastly overestimate how many podcast listeners are in a position to hire someone.
I'm going to show myself by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
And indeed, we did have a few people help us out for show 1206.
That family guy is so spot on.
Yeah, because probably Seth and half the other staff probably listens to podcasts and they hear of all this crap and they can't take it.
Yeah.
Which is...
And before we start into our value for value proposition, I would like to expand on that.
What you just heard there, yes, it's funny.
I like the vast overestimation of how many hireable people listen to podcasts.
But above all...
That is the limited universe of advertising, and they could have thrown in Squarespace.
Because I was just interviewed the other day, and that's why I wanted to lay this rap down for a second.
You cannot monetize the network.
I've said this for a long time.
And in today's connected social network world...
You can never get beyond these types of advertisers, which really, from a business sense, is such little marginal stuff.
It's what Spotify or Pandora or whatever these companies think they're going to own podcasting.
They will have to...
Get automotive, pharmaceutical, alcohol.
That's where the money is.
Everything else is just margin.
You cannot survive on that as a podcast network, podcast company.
Sure, you can get by with your podcast.
But, cancel culture has brought us to this point where if someone just doesn't like your show, doesn't like your opinion, they go after your advertisers.
This boat has sailed, it's done, and it's gone.
We saw this a long time ago.
Fortuitously, because we may not be pulling in Joe Rogan money, but we're still on the air and very proud of it.
And I think the show is better because we've opened it up for the listeners to become the producers.
And producers produce in multiple ways, and one of them is taking care of the financial aspect.
I like the idea of pharmaceuticals.
I'm watching some stuff yesterday on the TV. It's like there were primetime television.
Pharmaceutical companies have taken over that too.
It's unbelievable.
If you watch the news...
You wonder what kind of illness you might have by watching some show.
You can just watch the show.
Yes?
I have a pro tip.
No, I have a pro tip here.
When the ads come on, I definitely mute the sound because these ads that are talking about all these horrible things you can have, I believe the ads will give you that.
That could be.
And I'm not kidding.
A lot of old women and superstitious people think that too.
Well, thanks.
Geez.
Old women are not necessarily wrong.
Old women are known to be the best stock pickers.
I'm just saying that if you're continuously barraged by these horrible things that apparently people have...
Some of them are really bad.
The rashes and the stomach stuff and how many times that poor girl can't perform with the band because she's got to poop.
I mean, I just don't want to hear it.
You've seen it.
You know who I'm talking about.
I believe if you're infiltrated with that, it goes deep into your psyche.
Before you know it, you're pooping everywhere.
You can't poop.
You can't poop, but you're pooping all the time.
You can't do the show.
Yes, you can't do the performance.
So anyway, there you go.
Yes, poor girl.
Anyway, luckily we don't have to deal with making you sick by playing ads about how we can help you get unsick if you're sick.
It makes you sick.
We don't have any ads at all.
No corporate interest, which means we can talk about anything we want, and I think we prove that we do.
And we can thank anyone we want, starting with Sir Jellyhead, who's got a birthday or something coming up.
He came in with $120.60.
It's a very short list today, so we'll be done with it in a minute.
Sir Brandon in Vista, California, $112.35.
Steve Shevlin, $109.20.
Sir Kevlar in Atlanta, Georgia, 8008.
He's got a note.
Boobs.
Ms.
Jamie of the Highway, $7388.
J.C. Fiore Kramer in...
Haarlem, New Netherlands.
Yes.
Haarlem.
Sixty-nine.
Alexios Theakos.
Theakos.
Theakos.
I'm guessing.
It sounds Greek, but it's in Utrecht.
Utrecht.
Utrecht.
Sixty.
Sir Milkman, 5569.
Sir Paul in Twickenham, 5555.
Matthew Shower, 5510.
Double nickels on the dime.
Also, Rene Dupont, double nickels on the dime.
He's in Grosse Pointe.
No, no, no, no, no.
She.
She.
Oops.
And listen to this.
No, listen.
I'm female.
That's for you.
I only make $130 a week, so I'm trying to take advantage of Sir Dogpatch's offer.
Crossing my fingers.
Oh!
Well, it's not Sir Dogpatch, it's Sir Onimus.
I'm just reading.
So it would be better to use his name.
It would be better to use his full title, Sir Onimus of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia, but that might not have fit in the PayPal donation list.
We're going to maybe suggest that Renee Dupont in Rose Point, Michigan become a knight from one of...
Dame?
Dame, Dame.
What night, Dame?
Okay.
Maybe she wants to be a knight.
There is one woman that is a knight.
Sean Cardinal in Saskatchewan...
Well, what do you mean Saskatchewan?
It has to be Saskatoon.
Yes.
$53.47.
And that is for some baby-making karma for Sir Paul the Black.
Okay.
The following people are $50 donors, name and location.
Sir Jason Deluzio in Shatsford, Pennsylvania.
Drew Mochak in El Cerrito, right down the street from me.
Sir Kevin, protector of the Kiyama Blowhole.
Ha ha ha.
Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
There was a blowhole in Iceland I got to see.
Waves come in and boom!
Big thing goes up in the air.
It's called a blowhole.
Jonathan Meyer is not what you think.
Let me just read his note.
It's amazing!
Blow holes note.
It's amazing!
I asked Adam for some rain stick karma for the Aussie bushfires.
Next day, it rained a little.
First time in months.
Then, some more the next day.
It works!
Then he says, please accept this donation for a long, slow shake of your rain sticks.
No.
For long, slow, soaking rain.
I'm wary of this, John.
I do not think we should be stickin'.
I agree.
I think we should wait.
It's something we can't just abuse.
I think more is on the way, so I don't think we have to do anything.
I gave three extra shakes after my three turns.
Jonathan Meyer, that was your gun rogue.
Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio at 50.
Edward Mazurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
R. Tabak in Meppel.
Netherlands.
Meppel.
Oh, really?
It is Rene Tabak from Meppel.
Meppel is the very...
I don't know if it's that way anymore, but Meppel was the home of the Black Sock Church.
Black Sock Church?
Yeah, it's a very reformed, kind of sect-like, almost cult.
Cult-y, yeah.
I'm thinking more of Amish in a way.
Oh!
Religious, but Amish, yeah.
Gotcha.
Yeah, you got me?
You hear me?
Gotcha.
Larry Hay in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Tony Smith in Fort Worth, Texas.
And last but not least, Michael Rupert in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I want to thank all these folks for keeping the show going with the donations to show 1206.
Another show coming up shortly.
Hopefully we'll have a better response.
Yes, we do thank those who supported the show for today.
Short list indeed.
Also, thank you to everyone who came in.
Under $50, that is typically done for anonymity.
But when you look at what we have in subscriptions, there's people who do that as well.
And I would like to recommend everybody at least pick up one subscription.
In fact, I wanted to make mention...
One of our producers, this was from Sir Rocketman, Baron of the Bay.
Adam and John, I got a raise and so do you.
Ought to be effective next month with my regular donation.
Now it would be $10 a month.
And thank you very much.
That is value for value, and we appreciate that.
And please consider us for our next program.
That will be on Sunday?
Yes, Sunday.
All you have to do is go to...
As requested multiple times.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got...
Karma.
Karma.
It's your birthday, birthday.
Oh, no, no, no.
And also a very short birthday list.
I don't know what's going on, but no one's celebrating except for Sir Jellyhead, who is posthumous.
Post his date, December 6th.
And Sir Brandon says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Dame Illuminati.
Yes, we have the same sentiments.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
Shut up!
Meetup!
Meetup is just like a party!
Remember, we've got the big Delray Beach meetup on the 21st of February, which, I mean, now, I think it's been straightened out.
There's nothing listed now.
After seven people organizing a meetup, now there's nothing on the calendar.
But it is happening, and it will be up on noagendameetups.com soon.
For today, though, we have, and it's probably, yeah, it's either underway or over by now.
That would be the Beirut-Lebanon meetup.
The No Agenda Toon Man Tour.
That is Jesse Coy Nelson.
And hopefully some of you made it to the rabbit hole in Makdisi Street, Beirut, Lebanon.
He will be checking in later to let me know for sure.
Saturday, Long Island has a meetup at 7.30.
Andrew Grasso is your host.
Meet at the St.
James Restaurant and Bar, 7.30.
Also on Saturday...
Oh, is this the new time?
No, that is the time.
Then next Thursday...
They plan it on Thursday, so I can't attend, is the awesome local 512 meetup.
That'll be at Doc's Backyard in Sunset Valley.
I may try to...
What time is it doing?
7 o'clock.
I may drop by.
You can shoot over there.
Yeah, 7 p.m.
It's worth it.
Sir Scott...
Shower up.
Shower up.
Lather up.
Head off to the meetup.
Sir Scott Baronet of the Armory, No Agenda Armory, and his wife Christine will be hosting that.
Next Friday, the Charlotte Meetup, number 2, 7 o'clock at the Sycamore Brewing Establishment.
Look for the large crackpot and buzzkill heads.
And then there's a time change for next Saturday, as noted on my paper here.
Previously at 2 o'clock, now at 5 o'clock.
This is New York City, the New York City Meetup.
Join us in the afternoon in the heart of the city of swollen amygdala for much-needed post-holiday mid-winter relief and joyous camaraderie.
Meet your fellow No Agenda New Yorkers.
We know you're out there.
And, of course, all those in the general metropolitan area are welcome.
We meet at the Lorelei Beer Garden.
Athena and Alex will be hosting that.
And on the other coast, this is how insane this is.
People are organizing these everywhere in the world.
Also on next Saturday, Flight of the No Agenda.
That will be Los Angeles, 2 o'clock PST. This will be held in FEMA Region 9 at the Proud Bird Food Bazaar near LAX. Leo Bravo hosting that.
Also next Saturday will be the second stop of the No Agenda Tune Man Tour.
That's Jesse Coy Nelson.
He will be in the Amigo Pub in Amman, Jordan.
I hope people show up.
I know there's people out there listening.
I hope you go and support Jesse Coy Nelson on his tour.
And go to noagendameetups.com.
It's where you can find all the meetups near you.
If you don't find one, here's an idea.
Start one yourself.
It's a great place to get together with people, new people you've never met.
Non-triggering conversation.
Amygdalas are normal-sized.
And everyone seems to have fun.
We've not had a fight break out at one of them yet.
Yet.
Actually, I wanted to play...
I had a gaff clip, which I completely forgot.
For you.
I have a gaff clip that I completely...
You were playing the gaffs, Trump gaffs?
Yeah.
I have a gaff clip.
It's not Trump, but I wanted to play this because I feel bad.
I missed this.
This was on Fox News.
The President making it very clear that the suggestion that was kind of misfired from the Pentagon yesterday is actually not the case at all, that the United States is committed to staying and protecting and standing with our Iraqi allies and the soldiers that we've trained there.
What's the feeling on the ground about all of that tonight?
Well, look, the Iranians have been trying to increase their foothold in the Middle East for some time now.
Many analysts in the region describe the possibility of Americans being forced out of Iraq as a posthumous victory for Qasem Soleimani, who was killed last week.
Did you hear it?
Yeah, posthumous.
Do you think he meant that?
What the hell does that even mean?
Well, I think he meant to say posthumous.
Yeah, posthumous.
You don't know.
Maybe he never really said the word.
I don't know.
I mean, I'm reminded of words I used to say wrong, you know, chaus is a good example.
When I was a kid, I would say chaus.
Instead of?
Chaos.
Yeah, chaus.
It's pronounced, it's spelled chaus.
It's chaus.
I love chaus.
It's so good.
C-H-A-O-S. How is that?
How would any kid think that that's pronounced chaos?
Yeah.
I ask you.
Yeah, I hear you.
I hear you.
Well, I have a note from, I want to read, from Sir Psycho Mike.
No, Sir Psycho Mikeo, 96.
This is an important note.
ITM, the brown marmorated stink bug has been in western Maryland since the mid-aughts, first being found in shipping containers in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1998.
It is an epidemic.
And we have had it for years with thousands of them clinging to our brick houses in the fall.
And many getting in through the crevices.
There seems to be heavy years and some not so heavy.
Although you'll always see them in the fall.
Please note, do not vacuum them.
Yeah, bad.
Do not smash or excite them.
Their stink attracts more stink bugs.
On the worst years, we keep a medium-sized tote on the back porch filled with soapy water and deposit live bugs into it.
On light years, there was less bugs, we flush them down the toilet, although in California that probably isn't an option.
Ha ha ha.
I've lived in the same house for 18 years on Siddling Hill Mountain.
And it's only had maybe 50 mile an hour, this is a different topic, but it felt like throwing it in.
And we've only had maybe one or two 50 mile an hour windstorms a year.
For the past two years, we get 50 mile an hour windstorms at least 20 times a year.
Because again, I'm thinking weather machine.
Twice this year, in fact.
This happened all at once.
I've never heard an explanation for this weather pattern, which I see is caused by temperature swings that only last a couple of hours.
I.e., it's in the 30s, one minute the temperature will ramp over 60 in no time and then be back down to 30 with huge winds.
Also, maybe related, maybe not, I've noticed sometimes dramatic temperature inversion happening quite frequently.
Thank you for your courage, sir.
Psycho Michael.
Alright.
Stink bug alert.
People need to pay attention.
Somebody wrote me a note complaining that he was listening to the show as we were talking about stink bugs and there was a stink bug on his desk.
Yeah.
We actually called the stink bug apparently.
Yeah.
CNN settled their lawsuit with Nick Sandman.
This is one of the Covington Catholic High School kids.
Sandman is suing a number of mainstream outlets, including the Washington Post.
And CNN, apparently they settled with CNN, which I think is kind of sad.
Because I would love to see, you know, the documents, discovery, you know, we would get to know a lot more about how CNN works and how they just allow triggered individuals to go and blame whatever they think is on their screen, on their Dementia A screen.
We won't know now.
Dementia B screen.
Dementia B, I'm sorry, yes.
You get that right.
So there's nothing more to say about that.
I hope the kid got a lot of money.
I hope so too.
Borden is now the second large U.S. milk producer to file for bankruptcy.
And they cite the nut sap industry as the reason.
Well, that's pathetic.
Well, you're the one that's always...
It's kind of your beat.
You're the one that's always complaining about this, you know, milk substitute products.
Yeah, that aren't milk.
No, they're not.
They're nut sap.
We've been through this, but...
Nut goo.
No, I think...
Nut slurry.
Nut slurry is the term, yes.
That's interesting, though.
What happens?
Milk could just go away, I guess, or become a specialty product.
It is kind of handy for cooking.
It's actual food.
I mean, the other stuff, you know, it's questionable, some of this stuff.
Soy milk, for example, which is very popular and it's got to be bad for you, seems to me.
There's all these issues with people having all kinds of...
Hormone problems by ingesting too much soy.
There's a lot of research on this.
Always gets quashed.
Definitely.
Men developing breasts from the estrogen effects of soy.
Not unusual.
And it's not, you know, what is food?
I mean, humans, mammalians are milk dependent.
So they get started in life.
I just wanted to hear you say the word milk.
I just love that.
Oh, am I saying milk again?
Yeah, but that's, you know, it's the Dutch word.
It's also M-E-L-K, milk.
Yeah, well, that's where it already came from.
I can say milk, but milk is more.
No, no, it just pops out.
There will be a new source for us to mine soon.
It will be the BNC, the Black News Channel.
Which will be launched in February.
They intended to launch initially in November, but they changed the, according to this article, they changed the date for it to coincide with Black History Month, which is in February.
Which is easy to remember because it has the least amount of days and it's very cold.
I got that from Mo.
Which is easy to remember Black History Month.
I'm excited about that.
I want to see what will a black news channel bring.
It's going to be more Trump hate.
Why would it be any different than anything else?
Because one of the co-founders is J.C. Watts, former Republican congressman.
I don't know.
Maybe not.
Oh, well, maybe, yeah.
Watts kind of switched back over to the Dimension B side.
So, Watts and Bob Brillante?
Who's Bob Brillante?
Sounds like an Italian to me.
He looks pretty goomba, looking at the picture.
Yeah, whoa.
Okay.
They want to attract millennial viewers.
98% of whom have cell phones.
Yeah, duh, more than two.
Okay, what's the point here?
They're going to put the news on the cell phone.
Yeah, but they're launching it on cable channels.
February 10th.
I'll be watching.
I'm excited.
It's something new.
Have you followed any of those?
If you go up above...
It's going to be on Pluto?
Well, if you go past CNBC and all that stuff, have you seen Cheddar?
Oh yeah, Cheddar.
I mean, Cheddar is the oddest.
And Newsy.
That's the other one.
Cheddar and Newsy.
It's kind of like millennial news.
It's terrible.
It's very unprofessional.
Yeah, but I think kids are watching it.
I don't think anyone's watching it.
No, I watch it.
I love Cheddar.
Well, you're probably the only one.
I love me some Cheddar.
We've got the two viewers today!
I want to thank Lorraine, Tyler, Grace Ann, and Eileen, who sent The Keeper and I a fantastic wedding gift.
Which was not necessary, but I got it.
There was a huge box in the P.O. box.
Penzi Spices.
Are you familiar with this?
Penzi Spices.
P-N-Z-E-Y-S. No, you'd think I'd know that.
Yeah, you'd think you would.
But it's a box filled with just great-smelling spices and different kinds of salts and some different peppers.
I mean, the biggest problem is my spice rack won't hold it, so I have to figure out what to do with it.
But cooking with it, for sure.
It's a new spice rack.
Yeah, there's probably 30 different spice bottles in this pack, so it's big.
Is there anything really obscure?
Are there any blends?
It's blends.
Yeah, it's mainly blends.
And thank you, Jumbo Joe, who sent me...
What did he say?
Merry Christmas?
Yes, I want to send a thank you to Jumbo Joe.
He sent me the same thing.
You got the super mint oil pulling mouthwash?
I don't know what to do with it.
Oh!
It's oil.
It's a bottle of oil.
Yeah, and what you do is you swish it in your mouth for three minutes, and it pulls all of the dirt and grime off of your teeth that may still be there after brushing.
And if you do it for 20 minutes, you don't even have to go to the dentist for a year.
It's fact.
It's true.
It's fact.
I like this stuff.
You tried it?
Yeah, of course.
How much do you have to put in your mouth?
Just a little bit.
A little bit?
I thought you had to fill your mouth with oil.
Just a tip.
Just a little bit.
Just a little bit of oil.
Just take a swig.
Like mouthwash.
Except it's kind of disgusting.
Is it a shot glass full or less?
Less.
Less.
How much less?
A quarter shot glass?
Half shot glass?
I just did a quarter.
A quarter shot glass?
Yeah, a quarter shot glass.
And you just swish it around and it's a mouth douche.
It's fantastic.
It pulls the dirt and stuff.
Sure it does.
It's oil pulling.
This is not new.
It's actually a very old concept.
It's an old idea when people didn't have toothbrushes.
Right!
Well, maybe the toothbrush was the start of all the decay.
Could be.
God knows nobody had tooth decay or missing teeth back in the 1700s.
At all!
Nothing at all!
Last story for me, which I think there's some confusion going on.
Where do I have it here?
Yes, I've reported on this a couple times.
This is a first full report with the FBI involved now.
For the last week, Michelle Eckhoff has spotted a high-flying nighttime mystery above her rural northern Colorado home.
Drones.
Sometimes a dozen or more with wingspans six feet wide.
The sky is lit up with Christmas lights, basically.
There's lights and things flying all over.
Sheriff's departments across the border area of three states have been flooded with similar reports since mid-December.
I think whomever is responsible for it will probably have a little bit of answering to do to the general public.
The military and local companies have denied responsibility.
There's one hovering over here.
We waited with that golf until the sun went down and the skies lit up.
It's been dark for about a half hour and we are seeing drones all over the sky.
They appear as little twinkling lights.
Sometimes there's just one, but in other cases we've seen clusters of six or more.
Tonight there are still more questions than answers.
And residents are feeling vulnerable.
It feels like an invasion of privacy almost.
And a new development late today.
One of the sheriff's offices says it is now looking for a closed box trailer with antenna or a large suspicious van and is asking anyone who has seen it to call authorities.
I find this pretty interesting.
So it was Colorado, now it's Nebraska.
Yeah, something's up.
Well, there is one other thing.
Is there any theories out there about this?
No, no.
I mean, military denies it.
Law enforcement denies it's theirs.
I don't know how people can determine so easily that the wingspan is six feet.
It's very difficult to do that.
From the ground.
You have to be very, you really need to know your drones and your aviation.
Mimi has a theory.
Oh, what is it?
I'd love to hear Mimi's theory.
Let's call her.
She says it's Amazon and UPS, they're mapping the area so they can do their drone deliveries.
It's just mapping drones.
Possibly.
I mean, it's just a theory.
I don't buy it.
I mean, it would be kind of foolish for them with what they're trying to do to do that without clearing that with airspace and authorities.
Yeah, that's what I told her.
Yeah, it makes no sense.
I'm glad we didn't call her.
There is one other thing that can be at play as...
Elon Musk now has his Starlink satellites going into place.
I think he now has 120 or 180 of them in orbit.
Very low Earth orbit.
I think there's only...
I thought there was only 60 of them.
I didn't know there was that many.
Yeah, they've had three launches.
It's 60 at a pop.
But what they do is they communicate amongst themselves with laser.
And because of this, they're obviously lit up in the sky.
And if you look, there's a lot of videos and pictures...
It's this complete, almost straight line of all of these lights that are just going by, passing overhead.
He's already apparently sent a tweet from it, because this is the internet anywhere from space.
But there's a couple of things that are controversial about it.
And the biggest one is that it's messing up astrology.
The light pollution from these things is...
Astrology, you mean astronomy?
Astronomy, I'm sorry.
Yes.
Astronomy.
The light pollution is screwing up experimentation, is making it impossible during certain windows when these things fly over for astronomers to do whatever they're doing.
I kind of find it creepy myself.
Plants have, I think, 12,000, ultimately.
Skynet!
Kind of.
And people are now starting to question how Tesla automobiles will be involved in this because the Starlink system, while it will work great if you're stationary and you put a little box outside and it'll receive and transmit,
But in order for that to work ubiquitously around wherever you are, you'll need ground stations, and there's some evidence pointing to Tesla vehicles being used as a Starlink, downlink, and ground station, which is kind of a cool idea, but I don't think everyone's happy that he's going to be using their vehicles for it.
Yeah.
I didn't buy a car so he could use it as a base station.
Yeah.
But it's kind of crazy when you think about it.
He's going to have 12,000 of those little...
And they're not even that little.
I think they're a couple feet.
When do they start plummeting to Earth?
It'll be quite pretty.
Well, he says that, or he or whoever the spokeshole is for Starlink, says that 95% of the satellite burns up when it departs orbit.
So we won't get any, only 5% of the junk will fall on our heads.
Well, that's fine.
But just the idea that there's all these lights in the sky.
I mean, you know, it's my sky too.
Well, apparently it's not your sky, chump.
I just find it interesting.
The elites can do whatever they want.
So I have a four-clip clip blitz, if you don't mind.
Holy crap, I wasn't prepared for this.
Well, yes, I think this is a grand idea.
This will be it, then.
This is how we're going to get out of here.
Okay, clip blitz.
I need to set the line of scrimmage.
Okay, and I think...
Okay, I think we are ready, and...
Okay, let's start with TikTok.
Starting with what?
With what?
TikTok ban.
TikTok ban.
And the U.S. Army ban on a hugely popular app.
The military banning soldiers from using the Chinese-owned video app TikTok on government-owned phones, calling it a security concern.
This after a similar move by the Navy earlier this month.
Facebook's dropping deep fakes.
Facebook is taking aim at deep fakes.
The site is now banning certain types of videos which have been manipulated with artificial intelligence to make people do or say something they didn't.
The ban would not affect parodies, satire, or clips edited to change the order of words.
It's another No Agenda.
Earthquake.
State of emergency in Puerto Rico.
A 6.4 magnitude tremor, leveling businesses and homes, damaging schools.
This church completely destroyed.
The powerful earthquake killing 73-year-old Nelson Martinez.
A wall had collapsed on his bed.
Emergency crews now dealing with the aftermath.
Hundreds now in shelters, many in tents, afraid to go back inside.
Red 33!
Flip blitz!
Delta Airlines.
More than 500 Delta Airlines employees are suing Land's End, the company that makes their uniforms, alleging that the chemically treated fabrics in the uniform were causing migraines, hair loss, rashes, and other medical issues.
Most of the workers suing are flight attendants, but they also include ramp and gate agents and Sky Club workers.
Pilots not wear the same uniforms.
Land's End did not respond to a request for comment from CNN. Delta was not named in the lawsuit, but a rep for the airline says it's Top priority is the safety of employees, but it defended the uniforms, saying they underwent rigorous testing and the airline believes they're safe.
Red 33!
Flip blitz!
Well, if you want to finish something off, we can play an ISO from Donald Trump missiles.
Okay.
Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal, and fast.
I have some ISOs for end of show that I'd like to try.
That one's a little long.
I have this one.
That is brand new information!
That one?
Or this one?
Yeah, science!
That one?
I kind of like that one.
Yeah, I like that one.
Do you have any other ISOs to test?
Not really.
No, that was the only one.
Okay, well we're going to use that one then.
That sounds like the way to go.
That will be it for our deconstruction extravaganza for today.
We do have That Larry Show coming up with an exclusive interview with John McAfee, if you're listening to NoAgendaStream.com.
I actually heard part of that yesterday, so give that a shot.
End of show mixes, which I need to credit properly.
We've got Cyborg Dave, we've got Eric Colburn, we've got Tom Starkweather, and we've got Sir Chris Wilson.
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We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
Until then, adios mofos and such!
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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 54.
You need to code!
I remember telling people this, my liberal friends were saying, you can't expect that baby.
Give me a break.
He took 50 black women in Detroit and they turned on the sewer.
Can't doesn't get much more intersectional than that.
Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in the mine, sure enough to learn how to program as well.
Okay.
Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake.
People who are not even miners, but just shovel coal into a furnace on a, maybe on that train...
You can code.
Does he even know?
Can he code?
Just sit there and code a modern game?
Yeah, they can hunt the lumpus.
They might be able to do that.
With a little bit of hard work and some science and math.
Code, code, code.
He can't even remember his own text code, let alone that he can code something.
What's a wampus, by the way?
Did we know what hump the wampus means?
I wanted to hump the wampus.
Don't eat me, Bojart, and you're scary.
So scary!
Great, get some cooks.
By the way, it's called Poppin' Bottles.
Poppin' Bottles in the Club.
Poppin' Bottles in the Club.
Poppin' Bottles in the Club.
Relax.
The computer is processing the data.
I will be notified as soon as there is any information.
And I want to be careful here.
Any advertiser or campaign, I know we're working with them.
Its goal is to sell everything to everyone.
Why am I seeing this ad?
Well, that's a great, uh, great question.
Your user agreement sucks.
We see more passive listening and passive monitoring in our own homes with the information we've accumulated on...
We provided support to the Trump campaign.
And he's been terrific.
He may be a globalist, but I still like him.
He was calling those things that were not as though they were is what he was doing then.