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	I had my underpants on, and it was an old lady.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, January 26, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1211.
	This is No Agenda.
	Surgical masks and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here at the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone, Star State.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's no coronavirus around here, I'm John C. DeVore.
	It's Crackball and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Not yet.
	Lots of Chiners there, man.
	They're all on the other side of the bay.
	And they're protected by the poop.
	I can't quite decide what's better to start with, with a shorter, boring television show known as the President's Defense in the impeachment trial.
	Still boring.
	They just made it only three hours.
	Thank you.
	That was better.
	Or do we start with the obvious big news, which is the Wuhan virus?
	Well, the boring thing, it's a violation of our rules.
	We don't want boring.
	We want the Wuhan virus.
	It's killing me.
	There you go.
	We got jingles.
	Nothing like a little of my coronavirus.
	That's beautiful.
	I have two clips.
	Yes.
	I have the ABC Corona update, which is a little long, but we can play that, and then we can play the Corona on PBS, where they kind of downplay it, which is, in fact, they fall into your way of thinking at the very end.
	Tonight, concern growing in the United States.
	Officials saying they expect more people will contract the dangerous new disease.
	Passengers on flights to Boston wearing face masks.
	Everybody's wearing a mask because they're afraid of getting infected by other people.
	In Seattle, Chicago, and Los Angeles, reports that stores are running out of supplies of masks.
	Two cases currently confirmed.
	In Chicago, a woman in her 60s.
	She had cold-like symptoms, shortness of breath, fever, and many times it would present just like a cold, just like a cold or flu.
	And outside Seattle, a man in his 30s.
	At least 63 people are now being tested for the respiratory illness in 22 states, including three possible cases in New York.
	Symptoms include fever, dry cough, and shortness of breath.
	Tonight, hospitals on high alert.
	Dr.
	Jennifer Ashton visited New York City's Health and Hospitals Bellevue.
	So this is a negative pressure room here at the hospital where a patient with coronavirus would be cared for by specially trained medical personnel.
	They showed her precautions they would need to take.
	How prepared are you and your staff to receive a patient who may have coronavirus?
	We're prepared to take that patient now.
	Our radar is always set high.
	So we can screen these patients so we can stop it from infecting other people and the public.
	Wow, this is ABC News with a minute and a half of completely information-free news report.
	There was nothing in there.
	Nothing.
	Is that different than any of their reports?
	Well, I mean, they could have at least, you know, done the bat stuff.
	They could have thrown that in.
	Oh, the bat, yeah.
	They could have done a lot of different things.
	But no, this is just about...
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, the bat stuff doesn't show up as much as you'd think.
	Well, it shows up as the only reason in the M5M that I haven't seen anyone report, seriously report on the bio lab that's in Wuhan.
	Ah, yes.
	Well, I do have something, but it's...
	I guess we can switch to it.
	We can do the PBS thing if you want, but I have two clips here that kind of bring the whole thing to a head.
	Okay.
	Okay, let's find it here.
	Dave Hodges, our buddy from the Common Sense show.
	What did the Hong Kong man say, Dr.
	Guan?
	He's a virologist.
	He said China's doing it all wrong.
	They haven't taken the steps they needed, but he doesn't know that any nation will take the steps they need.
	And he says, I've covered this forever, forever, and I've never been scared until now.
	So here's a guy who's made a life work out of studying this.
	And he said this is the first time it's ever frightened him, and he's really frightened.
	He said this could sweep the globe and do unbelievable damage.
	He said this particular strain, in his professional opinion, is ten times more lethal than SARS. That's another reason why I say this is bioengineered.
	Everything speaks to this.
	Do you think maybe we should take this guy's threat seriously?
	It answers a lot of problems for the deep state, doesn't it?
	This is one hell of a distraction from Ukraine and Burisma.
	It truly is.
	I would say the timing is a little suspect, wouldn't you?
	And I've said this before, too.
	This comes out of the Chinese equivalent of Fort Detrick.
	How many coincidences do you want to buy?
	Right now, I think Dr.
	Guan is right.
	We need to not panic, but we need to take steps to protect ourselves.
	So please, take those steps we've talked about on here.
	Also, too, pay attention to what the health experts are saying.
	Do not pay attention to what the news says, because they're going to under-report government statements, because the government doesn't want you to panic, and so they're going to underestimate the problem, and in fact, they're going to lie to you.
	Well!
	But don't worry, the Infowars store has all kinds of stuff that'll let you help me.
	Oh, no, so does Dave Hodges.
	He sells this stuff, too.
	So Dave takes it to the next level, though, and part two kind of tells you what we need to be thinking about.
	Yeah, got it.
	Very well, maybe.
	And we're going to talk about that here on the Common Sense Show.
	My name is Dave Hodges.
	I'm the host.
	And you've got to be prepared to be hunkered down.
	Martial law could be a possibility here with what's coming.
	So what I want you to do is to prep like you're going to be in martial law.
	You can't go out of your home.
	I don't mean travel, dusk to dawn, curfew.
	I mean total shut-in.
	You may go nowhere.
	And that is one of the provisions I've reported on earlier.
	That was a recommendation I was allowed to report on that went from acting FEMA Director Gaynor to President Trump.
	Martial law!
	It's going to happen!
	Martial law!
	The little tidbit in there was the, I was allowed to report on.
	Yeah, oh yeah.
	As if somebody's feeding him.
	Yes.
	He was allowed, really?
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Alright, I have some thoughts about this.
	What is this other report, this Wuhan report?
	Is that something we want to play?
	Uh, well, where is that?
	It's the Wuhan freakout.
	Oh yeah, this is definitely one of the better ones.
	This is the Wuhan report freakout.
	Tonight, at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak...
	Wait a minute, where's this from?
	Tell me, where is this from?
	You're not going to believe where it's from.
	It's from ABC. What?!
	Oh my goodness.
	This is what I expect from ABC. Go!
	Tonight, at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, the crisis is escalating.
	Dozens of workers in Wuhan with heavy machinery racing against time to build a brand new 1,000-bed hospital in just 10 days.
	And now, a second 1,300-bed facility in the next 15.
	The space desperately needed.
	Hospitals teeming with patients and staff stretched thin.
	In China alone, there are now more than 1,400 cases and at least 42 deaths.
	I've got to fix this guy's report.
	This is not working out right.
	Let me see.
	He's reading it the right way, but he doesn't have all the elements.
	Let's see.
	Let's see if we can help them.
	There's more than 400 medics who've worked on SARS and Ebola deployed to help with the rapidly growing emergency.
	Wuhan and 16 other cities in a travel lockdown.
	That's a total of 50 million people ordered to stay in place.
	That's the population of the states of New York and Texas combined.
	The US government evacuating the majority of consulate employees and families from Wuhan and is reportedly working on a charter flight to get all remaining Americans out.
	The term cabin fever is probably coming into play here.
	Here, it's the Chinese Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday.
	New Year worshippers have gathered here to pray for good luck in the year of the wrath, but people have also been warned about gathering in large places like this, and so most people here are wearing these kind of protective masks.
	The list of cases outside mainland China also growing, with more than 35 cases in 13 countries or territories, including France.
	We are all going to die.
	That might not be ABC, but I think I... I don't care.
	I don't care.
	Who cares?
	It got much better with the music.
	It was a lot better with the music, and I think you should be producing news for the networks.
	Yeah.
	Since we played all these clips, we might as well play the PBS one, which has the kicker at the end, which I think was just kind of like a deflator that was worth listening to.
	China's President Xi Jinping warned of a, quote, accelerating spread of the coronavirus today and called the situation grave.
	Forty-two people have died, and the virus has infected more than 1,200 others since the outbreak began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
	At least 48 hours.
	Million people in China are now in a lockdown that includes a travel ban covering 15 cities.
	Festivals and events marking today's Lunar New Year are canceled.
	Hong Kong ordered schools closed through mid-February.
	Ten other countries, including the United States, have confirmed cases of the coronavirus, which causes symptoms ranging from cold and flu to pneumonia, which can be fatal.
	So far, those cases that have reached other countries are linked back to Wuhan.
	So in terms of person-to-person transmission outside of China, we have not seen that yet.
	And there are, and I always like to put this in perspective, there are viruses in this country right now, such as the flu, that pose a much, much bigger threat.
	Yes, exactly.
	Well, that...
	That's interesting.
	PBS is the only one that got a little bit of what I think is real information.
	Everyone else loves to do the, whoa, we're all gonna die.
	We got pressurized rooms.
	Woo!
	We got one in Texas A&M. We got people over here.
	People over there.
	I have tried to collect facts.
	Now, the show has been through a couple of these incidents.
	In fact, the last one we had was...
	It even got a jingle for itself.
	Let me see.
	Here it is.
	We spotted that one a mile away.
	That came out of Mexico for some reason.
	Yeah.
	Then you had SARS. You had the H1N1. And there is some interesting facts about this particular virus, which is its R0 value.
	R0, as in R0, but for some reason they pronounce it R0, as in not, zero, not, not, not, is over two, which means one person will infect at least two people.
	And that means it has virality.
	It's gone viral, which is good.
	That'll propagate it all over the world.
	Apparently, the incubation period is two weeks, so we have no idea.
	It could be everywhere.
	The people who have died so far are mainly elderly.
	And because you don't die of the virus, you die of pneumonia resulting from the virus.
	Very similar to a flu, so in that regard, PBS is right.
	The sanitary and hospital situation, particularly in Wuhan, as we know from our boots on the ground reporting, is very poor.
	Sick people huddle together in hallways similar to a subway.
	I guess like a really packed subway.
	People are just not hygienic at all when it comes to spitting everywhere.
	It's just part of Chinese culture.
	But what no one has really focused on...
	By the way, if one person can infect two, which means two out of every ten, which Democratic candidate do you think he will go down?
	I'm just saying.
	One of them's got to get it.
	And they're all kind of old, so that could be interesting to watch.
	But what no one really in the mainstream is taking a good look at is the economic effect.
	And that's what I find interesting.
	In particular, this Wuhan, as our producer told us on the last show, is very much like, well, people say it's the Chicago of China.
	Our producer said it's more like the Detroit of China.
	And I think our producer, with boots on the ground, is a little closer to the fact, the reality of what Wuhan is.
	This is a report from the Chinese CNA television.
	It may take quite some time before we know the full economic impact of the Wuhan virus, but the disruption is likely to dent China's economy.
	And that's because Wuhan is a major transport hub.
	In recent years, it's become a symbol of capitalism in central China, with international automakers such as Honda and General Motors building cars there.
	In fact, reports say that more than 300 of the world's top 500 companies have a presence in Wuhan.
	Local government data showed that Wuhan's GDP growth was 7.8% last year.
	Now, that is 1.7 percentage points higher than the national average.
	Wuhan's economic strength last year came as its total value of imports and exports hit a record high.
	It was 13.7% higher than in 2018, and it accounted for almost 62% of Hubei province's overall foreign trade value.
	Not an unimportant city, which has now been effectively shut down, no one in or out.
	Walmart has stuff packaged up there and is shipped over.
	Kentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King.
	I guess Detroit sounds a little fair to me because it's all steel industry stuff.
	A lot of cars.
	A lot of cars.
	This is quite an important deal, economically speaking.
	I think that this was floating around.
	It wasn't handled properly.
	The Chinese, in the past, certainly with SARS, just haven't handled these things properly.
	They get in too late.
	They're not really transparent.
	Before you know it, this is out.
	It's because the commissioners are all fearful because they can get executed for giving, you know, not doing a good job.
	Well, of course.
	They lie.
	The system does not promote honesty.
	However, having just...
	Because, you know, the timing...
	I liked our buddy Dave there with...
	The timing is so coincidental.
	Yeah, this will distract from the impeachment hearing.
	I think I predicted, by the way, that this would be, that they would interrupt impeachment proceedings or in every break they'd do something about the Wuhan coronavirus.
	I think that's kind of true.
	That came out.
	But is that really the thing that's coincidental?
	Or is it more coincidental that we just signed phase one of the China trade agreement?
	And perhaps what is happening is President Xi is overcompensating because he's...
	Deathly afraid of what this will do to the Chinese economy.
	Already rumored to be in trouble.
	You never really know where the Chinese are rumored to be in trouble.
	There's secondary loans that seem to be falling apart.
	The IOU financial system, which is just all pieces of paper shuttled back and forth.
	And now you have all these factories, which already were going to be somewhat understaffed because of the Chinese New Year.
	But there just may not be any product going out, and I think Xi was worried, still maybe worried, that Trump would say, you know what?
	I got some leverage here.
	How about if we stop all containers from China?
	Just in case, you know, we don't want some guy over there sneezing into the Walmart cereal aisle, and then all of a sudden it comes over here.
	We should just stop that.
	Trump was interviewed in Davos by CNBC, and later, this was a very good interview, all about economics and, quote-unquote, his great economy.
	But the first question off the bat was an economic question about this Wahoon virus.
	It's great to see you.
	Thank you for joining us again in Davos.
	We've done this before.
	That's right.
	I think it was a couple of years ago.
	Before we get started, we're going to talk about the economy and a lot of other things.
	The CDC has identified a case of coronavirus in Washington State, the Wuhan strain of this.
	If you remember SARS, that affected GDP, travel-related effects.
	Have you been briefed by the CDC? I have.
	Are you worried about a pandemic at this point?
	No, we're not at all, and we have it totally under control.
	It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control.
	It's going to be just fine.
	Okay.
	President Xi, there's just some talk in China that maybe the transparency isn't everything that it's going to be.
	Do you trust that we're going to know everything we need to know from China?
	I do.
	I do.
	I have a great relationship with President Xi.
	We just signed probably the biggest deal ever made.
	It certainly has the potential to be the biggest deal ever made, and it was a very interesting period of time.
	But we got it done, and now I do.
	I think the relationship is very, very good.
	So the president has no issue at all, is not worried.
	I think he's really signaling to Xi saying, you know, and same with tweets, it's okay, you know, you're doing the right thing, but I think he's holding this over his head so hard, and no one is talking about the millions of Chinese in Africa.
	You want to see virus spread?
	Introduce some crap into Africa.
	And that's, I think, where the Chinese will see their biggest problem if this virus really pans out, if everything they say is true.
	That could cause great issues.
	It's their whole belt and road strategy, the no belt, 15 roads, a train.
	I think China is in a very precarious position with this.
	Yeah, it could be.
	It could be if this thing is what it's cracked up to be.
	It's killing one out of ten people who catch it.
	One out of ten people.
	The virus is not killing people.
	It's pneumonia that's killing people.
	The virus is responsible for one out of ten.
	The virus is responsible at the core of it.
	Now, I don't know if this is true, but I read a report.
	In fact, it could be likely untrue, because you know the stuff I read and the people I talk to.
	So far it really has only affected Chinese, or Chinese-Americans in our case, but Chinese.
	And so it appears to affect Chinese, and there are now four cases in Israel, which the people I spoke to said it could be that this goes by DNA, and it could be Askenazi that it will also take to.
	And I was just thinking, how cool would it be?
	If it turned out that this virus was really deadly.
	What?
	What kind of thinking is that?
	Just listen.
	Let's just say...
	Bring out your dead!
	Let's say that there was a particular type of person that would be more susceptible to carry the virus.
	Could be Chinese or could be Askenazi.
	Could you imagine how cool it is that all those people have their DNA with 23andMe?
	Wouldn't that be great if we could segregate it?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Yes, we looked at your 23andMe results, and you are 1% Askenazi, so we're sorry.
	We're going to have to quarantine you.
	Oh, my God.
	That would be such a sweet moment.
	So you're looking three or four levels back on that for your personal amusement.
	That's just my personal amusement, yeah.
	But I think the economic impact is being used right now by Trump as leverage without even having to say anything.
	Xi, I think, is really worried.
	Has he got like 15 cities shut down now?
	Completely, I mean, no traffic in or out.
	A little surrounding Wuhan.
	Wuhan, I can see, I'm looking at the map where it is.
	It's kind of in the middle, isn't it?
	What?
	Isn't it in the middle of China?
	Isn't it central?
	It's not really in the middle.
	It's kind of in a Chicago location.
	It's kind of in a nice place to transfer through.
	It's just west of Shanghai and way south of Beijing.
	So Beijing is nowhere near this place.
	It's very interesting.
	People should look on the map and see where it is.
	It's not where I expected it to be.
	I was thinking it would be more to the west.
	It's not quite as western.
	It's right on one of the big rivers so they can put the cars on a boat and send them off to the ports and send them off to the U.S. When I look at these theories and propagate them, it's only...
	Enhanced by the genome of the Wuhan coronavirus, you probably got a note about this, you know, a genome sequence has a bunch of letters and numbers grouped together and that represents the genome of that particular item, in this case the virus.
	It ends with 33 A's.
	Huh.
	Yeah.
	And there's a lot of people noticing this and saying, well, why is that?
	That's odd.
	And, you know, no agenda producers, we know it means something.
	Yeah.
	We just don't know what.
	Something's up.
	Something's up.
	Yeah, it's literally 33 A's all in a row is how the genome sequence ends.
	Hmm.
	Just one of those things.
	Sorry.
	Another one of those things is like, I don't know, maybe this is some sort of a...
	There's a joke about my mom and the toilet paper and the Chinese.
	Yes.
	Well, it's not a joke.
	It's a fact.
	It's the truth.
	It's a true story.
	Chinese are buying all the toilet paper.
	So now I have this with my wife.
	Did you just say your wife reminds you of your mom?
	Because that's never good.
	No.
	She says, oh, you got to go buy some of those face masks because the Chinese are the only people that make them and they're going to buy them all up.
	It's kind of a variation on a theme.
	I mean, you don't need the face mask.
	I don't need the face mask.
	What do we get out?
	Do you leave the house like more than once a week, really?
	There was a report about you going to be stuck at home.
	Oh, gee, what am I going to do when I'm here at home?
	Well, there just goes the wine collection.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I'm coming over.
	We'll have a look.
	Anyway, it'll be very interesting to see how this unfolds.
	I'm just looking at the economic factor.
	I believe the last, was H1N1 the last one or SARS? I don't remember.
	No, it wasn't SARS. It was the swine flu.
	It was the swine flu.
	And that brought down...
	No, the last one in China.
	That was SARS, I think.
	SARS was the last one in China.
	No, I think bird flu was the last one in China.
	That was H1N1 then.
	That came way after SARS. But it hurt the economy by $40 or $50 billion.
	The Chinese economy.
	I mean, it's not huge, but it's not nothing.
	You know, it makes a difference.
	And I think that...
	You know what?
	Let me just play this...
	Where is it?
	So Trump sat down with a CNBC interview, and I, you know, normally, what are you going to clip from Trump, you know, that isn't already cut up to crap?
	By the M5M, you know, because he says stupid stuff.
	This was a very interesting interview, and I was surprised at just how calmly, there was no stuttering, there was no hand waving, it was pretty relaxed.
	I'll just jump to one of the clips about GDP. You know, the U.S. had a GDP of 2%.
	Or is that growth of 2% over the last year?
	Apparently, Davos is just freaking out about the economy, just so happy, and how do we get a piece of it?
	But Trump kind of signals that it could have been much better because of some black swans.
	Do you attribute the GDP at 2% to the Fed being tight for too long?
	Do you acknowledge that maybe some of the tariffs or some of the uncertainty engendered by the China trade war affected GDP?
	Well, it'll be higher than 2%.
	A lot of people are very thrilled with that.
	Me, I'm not.
	But we had a lot of bad things happen.
	Number one, the Fed was not good as far as I'm concerned.
	And that was a big blip that should not have taken place.
	It should not have happened.
	But it's one of those things.
	But we have Boeing.
	We had the big strike with General Motors.
	We had things happen that are very unusual to happen, including some unbelievably powerful storms.
	You know, we were hit with storms.
	Now, with all of that, had we not done the big raise on interest, I think we would have been close to four.
	And I could see 5,000 to 10,000 points more on the Dow.
	But that was a killer when they raised the rate.
	It was just a big mistake.
	And they admit to it.
	They admit to it.
	I was right.
	I don't want to be right.
	But I was right.
	So what if, you know, the economy is clearly, you know, on paper and on Wall Street, the charts, it's off the chart, built on, you know, kind of magical stuff that no one understands.
	What if Trump, and this is the same interview where it's like, I'm not really worried about, I'm not really worried about the coronavirus.
	What if he wouldn't mind having everything tank by a couple of points because of this?
	We were doing great, and the Chinese, you know, they couldn't keep it together, so all right, no, so not.
	But we'll build, you know, it'd be perfect for that pause.
	We're looking for some kind of pullback, don't you think?
	Well, everybody's expecting some sort of a...
	Yeah, pullback.
	Correction.
	Correction is the term, yes.
	Correction.
	I don't see that there's going to be one.
	I mean, it's possible that this could cause it.
	There's just a panic effect.
	You know, people really get all freaked out and they maybe do more telecommuting.
	It'd probably increase the domestic product.
	But having products not coming in from China, wouldn't that hurt us too?
	Well, if it actually shows up to be the case, I mean, right now, for example, they talk about all those cars that are being made by General Motors and Daimler and all these people that have plans in Wuhan.
	Those are for domestic use.
	The stuff that's coming in from China, which is out of the coastal cities, I don't think that's going to slow down enough to make a difference.
	Okay, I'm just looking at all angles.
	I mean, it could also be that this is...
	I mean, it's possible.
	I mean, I would think it could create a huge panic in the market.
	Yes.
	Borderline collapse, but I don't think that was going to be good for Trump's re-election.
	No, but, well, if it, listen, if it collapses, or I mean collapse, so we have a huge pullback because everyone's freaked out.
	You know, it could happen.
	It certainly hurt the Chinese markets.
	These things hurt markets.
	It would be the perfect timing for it to pull back.
	Then we fix it.
	We get the so-called vaccine.
	Whatever.
	Blah-de-blah.
	It's always the same cycle.
	It's always the same.
	And then build it back up and we'll be back to where we are right about now in November.
	You can't do that.
	What you described...
	Especially at the point we are now.
	Can't be done.
	Ah, unless you lower interest rates yet again.
	It won't work.
	What you're describing takes too long.
	That's a long cycle.
	That takes about a year and a half, what you described.
	Okay.
	With or without interest rates going to zero.
	I mean, you can't lower them much more.
	They're almost nothing.
	I don't think it's doable.
	I think the timing would be off.
	This had to start six months ago for it to work.
	Do you mind if I just play a couple of these Trump clips from Davos?
	Because I think you'll like it.
	It's really, especially because we're talking about this stuff right now.
	Sure.
	Well, first, let's close this.
	Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael.
	Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
	Sir Chris Wilson, as always.
	All right, so this interview, I just like the whole thing.
	I like what Trump was saying.
	He seems to have a grasp on what is actually happening.
	He's not the total stupid oath that he's been portrayed to be, apparently, or he just mimics...
	Stuff that people tell them very well.
	So this, again, is the CNBC interview in Davos.
	And it starts right off with what the scene was like in Davos.
	This is the big elite get-together there in...
	Is it Switzerland?
	Yeah, Switzerland.
	Yeah, it was a ski country.
	There was one little thing, just before I forget...
	I guess there was some, one of the governors was there and Trump was walking, and the governor was on the other side of a rope.
	Yeah, Governor Abbott, yeah.
	Yeah, Abbott.
	And so Trump goes by, hey, how you doing?
	Because Abbott's been sick or something.
	But it's on the other side of some rope.
	So they got these guys partitioned off in various ropes.
	So the superstars are in, you know, the big shots are on the one side of the rope.
	Sadly, that rope was like at his neck height.
	It was kind of like a decapitation vibe.
	Because I saw the video.
	But Trump was saying to him, hey man, you want me to wheel you over here?
	We can take you.
	Hey, do you want to fly east?
	I think he even said, do you want to fly back with me?
	Back to the States?
	You know, I'll give you a ride.
	So, yeah, people saw...
	Well, no, that was generous of him, but I'm just thinking more of the way they...
	Oh, the segregation.
	...kind of segregate people.
	Because I know the reporters that go to this thing, they're on some other third rope where they can't even get to the second rope.
	Yes, Governor Abbott is not in the A group.
	He's just a governor, for gosh sakes.
	He's not a world leader.
	So, everyone was digging on the U.S. economy in Davos, and they were not abashed of actually changing some of the conversation intended to go on just to talk about it.
	We came to Davos expecting to hear about this ESG, environmental, social, and governmental issues.
	We expected to hear about stakeholders versus shareholders.
	We expected to hear about climate change.
	In four hours yesterday, with the CEO of Bank of America, Schwartzman, all we talked about And all they wanted to talk about was the strength of the US economy.
	It's the envy of the world.
	And I think if you have a strong economy, all these ancillary issues become easier to deal with.
	And I think even the Europeans, even the plutocrats of Davos, Well, I appreciate that very much.
	We do.
	We have an incredible economy.
	The consumer has never been so rich.
	I think he means the consumer's never been so much in debt.
	I think that's what he meant.
	But okay, we're rich.
	Between the tax cuts and the regulation cuts, people forget about regulation.
	I think it might have been more important than the tax cuts.
	But we have a consumer in the United States that has never done so well.
	And I think we're really poised to have tremendous potential.
	You know, we're at a point where we've done so well.
	I think we're going to do much better.
	We have tremendous potential.
	So the interest rate, the Federal Reserve's interest rate came up several times in the conversation.
	And a clip after this one, it'll become very clear what's so interesting to the president about it.
	But he already alludes to it here.
	And luckily...
	He was also asked to give his opinion on negative interest rates, which we here on the show have been following.
	I just want to ask you, because we're starting to see this bandied about that, the re-expansion of the Fed's balance sheet somehow correlates with the move in the stock market.
	You don't say!
	Do you think there's anything to that, that they've primed the pump and some of the gains are not warranted by the underlying economy?
	Well, I think it's the opposite, actually.
	The Fed raised too fast interest.
	They brought up the rate too fast, and they didn't drop it fast enough.
	And that was a lot of increases, and it was a lot of increase.
	And I think it's really the opposite of what you're saying.
	Now they've dropped it, but it was very late.
	And you look at other countries where they actually have negative interest rates, negative in a positive way.
	I mean, they're actually...
	Negative in a positive way, yeah!
	What does that even mean?
	Well, because it's negative interest rates, but it's positive somehow.
	But he admits he doesn't really understand it.
	Negative in a positive way.
	I mean, they're actually getting paid.
	They make a loan and they end up getting paid.
	Are you hoping that it comes to that in the United States, that we get to negative rates?
	Because a lot of people don't think it's a great thing and it hasn't worked well in other places.
	Do you?
	I don't know yet.
	It's so new.
	I want to know who are the people that buy, okay?
	Who are the people that buy and they invest in Germany and end up getting, you know, less money at the period of time.
	So I have to find these people.
	I agree with him there.
	Like, who does that?
	But no, if Germany, and we're the most prime in the world, we're the leader in the world, we have the dollar, and the dollar is very strong.
	A lot of things are happening.
	But, you know, we're paying higher interest than other countries because of the Fed.
	If we were paying less, I would do it, and I'd pay off a lot of debt.
	I'd do a lot of things.
	Is Chairman Powell out of the doghouse?
	Are rates where they should be?
	Are you satisfied with his research?
	Well, I don't want to talk doghouse.
	I wish he didn't raise the rates.
	That was not what I thought would happen.
	Level now, do you feel?
	I think the rate should go down.
	No, because I think the dollar is very, very strong, and I think the rate should go down.
	We have a very strong dollar, and that sounds good, and it is good in many ways, but it's very bad in terms of manufacturing.
	I've created almost 700,000 manufacturing jobs.
	The past administration said manufacturing is dead, which I said, tell me about that.
	You can't do that.
	And we have had a tremendous success, but it's harder with a strong dollar.
	And...
	I want this dollar to be strong.
	I want it to be so powerful.
	I want it to be great.
	But if you lower the interest rates, so many good things would happen.
	And one of the things I do want to do is pay off debt.
	So there's a lot there.
	Do you want to comment on this before I play the last clip?
	Short clip.
	Yeah, he's just rattling off stuff.
	I don't think there's anything going on.
	He's not paying off debt.
	Well, he's not paying it off.
	This is his idea.
	We had one of your guys, the NEC director, Lawrence Cutlow, on yesterday.
	We asked him about deficits, and we asked him, I mean, we acknowledged that you wanted to rebuild the defense industry, and you had to agree to certain things with the Democrats.
	In the second term, will you look at, do you need to raise taxes, or do you need to cut spending?
	We're going to actually probably lower taxes, if you want to know the truth.
	You know, if you take a look at what we've done, we've cut taxes in half.
	And we've taken in more revenue substantially than we did when the taxes were high.
	Nobody can even believe it.
	But we've taken more revenue with the big tax cut.
	I mean, you were paying really 41 percent, and we've run it down to 21, and it's sort of lower than that.
	That will be a priority.
	Oh, absolutely.
	And one of the reasons I'd like to see the interest rates lowered, frankly, is because I'd like to refinance the debt and pay off the debt.
	All right.
	We're going to have tremendous growth.
	We're doing a refi!
	I love it!
	Yeah, that's what you do.
	Do you think we can get a refi with zero points?
	Or do you have to throw in some points?
	And who's going to refi us?
	Who does that?
	I love the idea.
	The public does.
	Right.
	Yeah, okay.
	So we get our money back and then we loan everything again at a lower rate.
	I think...
	To the public.
	Most of our bonds are owned by us.
	Right.
	People always think China owns most of what we own.
	No, they own, what, a trillion?
	Is that about it?
	They get some.
	Yeah.
	I think it's great.
	Refi.
	Yeah.
	Well, if Trump really does his job, Deutsche Bank will end up taking the beating and they'll lose all their money and we'll be free to go.
	We're lucky.
	Yeah?
	Anyway.
	Who knows.
	I thought it was...
	He's in his milieu, I think, to some extent, even though it's...
	Oh, totally.
	Totally.
	He's out there with all the boys.
	People always say when he's a social climber, he wants to be in the socialite world of Manhattan.
	This is really the world that he's in.
	He's beyond Manhattan.
	Because none of these people are socialites in their own countries.
	No, they're...
	They make the money run.
	It's the money guys.
	Yeah.
	So, I enjoyed it.
	I thought it was, you know, it was better than anything else because now we can go to the hearing, the impeachment hearing.
	Yeah.
	By the way, we discussed some of these people, you know, the Lib Joes and these others that have these fixed thoughts about one thing or another, and the two of us have kind of isolated, really stemming, all stems from the New York Times.
	Yes.
	But there is a, I think I mentioned this to you in an email, there is a concentrated version.
	If people want to know how the left is, TDS, as you might want to put it, the Trump Derangement Syndrome folk.
	If you want to know where they're really getting their kids, it's really in alternet.org.
	And that's interesting.
	Yes, there was on email.
	I didn't even know alternet was still around.
	That's been around for ages.
	It's been around from day one, almost.
	It should be a little more of a kind of a progressive, objective progressivism.
	And now it's just pretty much anti-Trump propaganda.
	And this is where there's two other things that the Libjo said to me.
	He expects, and this comes right out of...
	As a reminder, the Lib Joes are the liberal journalists who were starting to fade into the sunset, but they're very famous.
	They go unnamed on the show, but we know their level is up there.
	They've been named once, but the...
	Two things come to mind, besides Trump going to jail, and Giuliani's going to jail, Nunes is going to jail, and Pence is going to jail.
	So you're going to jail, and you're going to jail, so everyone's going to jail.
	And that all comes from Alternet, because I'm looking at Alternet, the more recent edition.
	There's a whole thing about Nunes and how he's up to his neck in corruption.
	I typically watch MSNBC, although CNN, I've been switching back to CNN a lot because they have the anti-Bernie thing going on.
	So I'm just looking for the narratives.
	And of course, MSNBC has this video...
	I guess it was kind of the October surprise, as right as Schiff was closing his arguments on Friday, you know, we've got the news, oh, Lev Parnas recorded Trump at a dinner, and, you know, this was being played up really big.
	Yeah, the clip.
	I have an ABC clip.
	What do you have?
	I thought the ABC clip...
	No, it's long.
	How long is yours?
	Well, I have a bunch of ABC clips, too, because I thought they had the best stuff.
	Well, before you do that...
	Let me just play this opener from another source that I always use.
	It's the Trumpcast.
	It's a Slate podcast.
	And so they have their opening montage, and then this is how...
	This is Washington Post, let's make a statement.
	Yeah, this is Washington Post, but they own Slate, correct?
	Yep.
	Okay, so here's how it starts.
	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.
	I'm Virginia Heffernan.
	On the Mount Rushmore of evil American men, you might find the murderer, O.J. Simpson, the sex slave trafficker and child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, the sexual predator who's been accused of sexual assault over a hundred times, that's Harvey Weinstein, and of course, the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
	Yeah, it seems like pretty unbiased, that show.
	Wow.
	That's really pathetic journalism.
	I love it.
	Why don't they throw Hitler and Stalin in there while they're at it?
	Well, he wouldn't be on Mount Rushmore because he's not an American.
	These are only American Mount Rushmore of evil, you see.
	Mount Rushmore creeps.
	Of evil, yes.
	Well, I'll do this one ABC clip as an opener.
	It's long, but I think it really summed it all up.
	The president has repeatedly denied knowing Rudy Giuliani's former associate, Lev Parnas.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	That's the Lev Parnas thing.
	We can talk about that later.
	What do you have from ABC? Well, I have four clips.
	The one, the update and report good.
	Let's play this as the Impeach ABC update and report.
	This is a, I put good because it's a good clip.
	Tonight, President Trump's legal team didn't even warm up, opening their defense straight to the point.
	You will find that the president did absolutely nothing wrong.
	Even getting personal, attacking lead house manager Adam Schiff, going after his summary of the president's phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the center of it all.
	This is the essence of what the president communicates.
	I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent and understand lots of it.
	That's fake.
	That's not the real call.
	In their two-hour presentation, the president's lawyers repeatedly discrediting the Democrats' evidence that President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rivals by withholding military aid.
	Most of the Democrats' witnesses have never spoken to the president at all.
	Let alone about Ukraine's security assistance.
	President Trump blasting the, quote, totally partisan impeachment hoax, while his defense team suggested the Democrats are using the trial to influence the election.
	They're asking you to tear up All of the ballots across this country.
	Some Republican senators saying the defense's case is off to a good start.
	Their team entirely shredded the case that has been presented by the House managers.
	Tonight, the question of whether the Senate will compel witnesses and documents the president has blocked is still not resolved.
	But the Republican-controlled chamber appeared unmoved.
	They want this to be the first impeachment case in history without a single witness.
	There's only been two cases in the past.
	All of the history.
	Yeah.
	So, just my general thoughts.
	I thought it was weak.
	Maybe that was intentional, that they want to do the big show on Monday because of the timing of Saturday.
	The whole premise was, we're going to show you things that the Democrat, that the prosecution did not.
	Ask yourself why.
	And I guess it was Sekulow kept saying, why didn't they...
	Why didn't they show that?
	To me, that was...
	They're about to put Dave Hodges on the...
	I think that...
	I think it's poor.
	I think it's really poor to do that because why?
	Well, because, you know, they hate Trump.
	We know that.
	Because they're not idiots.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, anybody can answer that.
	I thought it was very poor and...
	What I'd hoped they would do, which I think if I were running this, and as you know, I'm a constitutional lawyer, I would have put the transcript on the screen of the call next to, and it only showed like just a few seconds, next to Schiff with his interpretation, and I would have had it scrolling next to each other, like, oh, here's what Schiff said, here's what really was said, here's what Schiff said.
	That's what I would have done.
	That's something that would show to...
	That's show business.
	Exactly!
	And maybe Ken Starr or the other Epstein cover-up artist, Dershowitz.
	Dershowitz.
	Hey, I have my underpants on, and it was an old lady.
	Maybe those two will bring the show, but they better do something, because I didn't think it was impressive at all.
	Interestingly...
	Right after, again, I was monitoring MSNBC, or as the president now said, MSDNC. I hadn't heard that one.
	I thought it was funny.
	It's a classic.
	And CNN. And within three minutes of coming out of this three hours of Ask Yourself Why...
	Jeffrey Toobin, my colleague, also a constitutional lawyer, had nothing more to say than this.
	Jay Sekulow was the only personal lawyer who spoke today.
	That, to me, was pretty striking.
	White House and white people.
	I mean, you know, this is a lesson.
	In the diversity of the two parties.
	I mean, you look at the house managers, it was almost evenly divided between men and women.
	It was, you had two African Americans, you had a Hispanic.
	I mean, you know, look, it was all white men today.
	There are two white women allegedly on the team.
	We'll see if they're allowed to argue.
	But, I mean, I think, you know, in a visual medium, when you have one side that has a very diverse team and the other side that's all white men, that says something in and of itself.
	Oh yeah.
	I mean, seriously?
	How is hating on Whitey going to benefit the Democrats?
	I was thinking about just listening to some of the stuff going on by some of these people And it was like, why are you just hating on Whitey?
	And you expect that to be some sort of benefit.
	And he's a constitutional lawyer.
	He should be talking about something else other than, well, that says it right there.
	It looks a bunch of pale...
	Whitey.
	No, pale males, I think is the...
	Pale males.
	Pale males.
	They could use some bronzer.
	There's no doubt about that, but that's beside the point.
	Okay.
	Um...
	You know, by the way, in that clip I played from ABC where one of the Congresswomen or Senators said they shredded the other side.
	That was actually Joni Ernst.
	And Joni Ernst...
	From Happy Days?
	Sorry?
	I'm sorry.
	Joni Ernst, you know, the gun-toting senator from Iowa that did the ads where she's, you know, butchering a chicken or something.
	I forgot what she did, but shot a deer.
	But she's a tough Marine type woman.
	Oh, yes, yes, I know who she is, yeah.
	She looks terrible.
	Her hair is all gray all of a sudden, and...
	There's a new study out about gray hair as a result of any sort of stress.
	Boom, your hair can turn gray overnight.
	I think that's not new.
	No, it's not new, but it's a new study, I said.
	No, but back in the 70s, I remember people said, oh, he had a really bad shock, and that's why his hair started to go gray.
	I've heard this.
	Yeah, well, everybody's heard it.
	Oh, I didn't know.
	I thought that was already accepted science, is what I'm saying.
	Oh, I don't know that it is.
	I don't think anyone's studied it.
	I think that just the commonplace, common knowledge is like, you know, wives tell, oh, it's gray because, you know, he's worried.
	But apparently anxiety specifically will cause your hair to turn gray quickly.
	And she's got all gray-haired.
	What happened to her?
	They're putting a lot of pressure on her because, oh, you know, a Democrat can beat you.
	I think the local party in some of these states are really evil.
	Local Republican parties in some states.
	California is a good example.
	It's a terrible Republican party here.
	So I learned, and I think that this impeachment for the public version of it will obviously be litigated on television, and it seems like it'll be obviously Fox News against everybody else.
	At least that's the way Fox News positions everybody else as the mainstream media, even though they have the best ratings.
	It's very interesting how they do that.
	Millions of people more watch them.
	But there were some things said not during the...
	Well, I learned some things not mentioned during the impeachment presentations.
	This is actually right after the president's defense.
	Forget who it is who came out and set everybody up so they could talk on the microphone.
	But where we've had this whole...
	And this should have been, I think, in the presentation, but maybe it'll come up later...
	Throughout this whole impeachment trial in the Senate so far, it's all about the process, and Russia is our archenemy, and it's America's national security, our interest to make sure that Ukraine had the weaponry it needed and the military assistance.
	So to date, the defense of that has been, well, Obama gave water and blankets and we gave tank busting rackets.
	I was like, OK, but this is perhaps a better one.
	The facts of this case remain the same.
	And those facts are Ukraine, in fact, received the security assistance and there was no investigation into the Bidens.
	And a really important point that I think you should all report for the American people is that when it comes to supporting Ukraine security assistance, three of the Democratic House managers voted no.
	They voted in opposition of the U.S. providing defensive security assistance to Ukraine.
	Those members are Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, and Hakeem Jeffries.
	Wow, that's clip of the day.
	That's a nugget, right?
	Hey, hold on a second.
	Clip of the day.
	Nobody picks up on this stuff.
	That was fantastic.
	One of the things that bothers me is this our ally, Ukraine.
	Yeah.
	How many of our allies, for example, do we have no extradition agreement with?
	What ally in the world do we have no extradition?
	We have a lot of extradition agreements because some criminal runs off to the place.
	You want to get him up.
	You want to get him back.
	You want to put him on trial.
	We have nothing like that with Ukraine.
	It's just the same as it is with Russia.
	We've got nothing.
	What kind of an ally?
	This bullcrap, this ally.
	Well, you bring it up, and I queued up the clip just in case it would come to this, so you've kind of forced my hand.
	I feel it will be appropriate to play the phone call from 2014, I believe, that was intercepted by the Russians and released in great quality, which is why our own State Department said that had to be the Russians, of Victoria Nuland setting up the government of Ukraine for a complete coup, or we could call it a regime change.
	And I think it might be worthwhile, you know, it's now six years later, to just listen again to what we were really doing in Ukraine, and that may explain or make it clear to people why this is our allies, because our fingers were throughout the whole government.
	What do you think?
	I love that clip.
	It's three minutes, so it is long.
	It's a good clip.
	People have probably not heard this clip for a while, if they've heard it at all.
	But a lot of listeners probably never heard this clip.
	Nobody knows for sure it was the Russians who tapped the phone and released it to the public.
	But I would think it would be the Russians because it was to benefit them.
	I agree.
	It was an astonishingly good clip.
	I mean, they might as well have been in the room.
	They might have been in the room.
	So, Newland's talking to someone back in the States, and they're talking about who should be in the government, who shouldn't be in the government, who's going to help us make this happen, and then some other tidbits.
	What do you think?
	I should mention, this is before the quote-unquote regime change that took place, that We had, that we orchestrated, and people like John Brennan were actually in Ukraine at the time.
	John McCain, John Brennan, Victoria Nuland, Lindsey Graham, handing out cookies at the Maidan.
	McCain taking pictures with known terrorists who might have been at the Maidan.
	I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but it seems like he was pretty involved in that.
	And so not only does this show you why there are allies, if you think about corruption and people getting stuff, and when you put a government in place and you are literally putting the president and the prime minister and the foreign, you're putting these pieces on the chessboard, there's kind of room for corruption.
	Yeah.
	I think we're in play.
	The Klitschko piece is obviously the complicated electron here, especially the announcement of him as Deputy Prime Minister.
	And you've seen some of my notes on the troubles in the marriage right now, so we're trying to get a read really fast on where he is on this stuff.
	But I think your argument to him, which you'll need to make, I think that's the next phone call we want to set up, is exactly the one you made to Yachts.
	So Yachts is Yachts.
	Remember the guy who looks like a bass player of a bad 70s band?
	And all of a sudden he was the guy.
	He might be dead for all we know.
	That guy's gone.
	Sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in this scenario.
	And I'm very glad he said what he said in response.
	Good.
	So, I don't think Cleach should go into the government.
	I don't think it's necessary.
	I don't think it's a good idea.
	No regime change here.
	Yeah, I mean, I guess...
	You think...
	In terms of him not going into the government, just let him sort of stay out and do his political homework and stuff.
	I'm just thinking...
	In terms of sort of the process moving ahead, we want to keep the moderate Democrats together.
	The problem is going to be Tani Book and his guys.
	And, you know, I'm sure that's part of what Yanukovych is calculating on all of this.
	I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience.
	He's the guy, you know, what he needs is Cleach and Tani Book on the outside.
	He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know.
	Not only setting up who's going to be in the government, but explaining how we're going to talk to the people we're not going to let in the government.
	And Victoria Nuland, just to understand, was the ambassador.
	She's the assistant secretary of state.
	Right.
	Yeah, but I think she had like an ambassador title because of it.
	But yes, assistant secretary of state, but high up.
	And of course, married to Robert Kagan.
	The Peace Foundation.
	Right.
	Yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	Those guys are not neocons at all.
	I just think Cleach going in, he's going to be at that level working for Yatsenyuk.
	It's just not going to work.
	Yeah.
	No, I think that's right.
	Okay.
	Good.
	Well, do you want us to try to set up a call with him as the next step?
	My understanding from that call, but you tell me, was that the big three were going into their own meeting and that Yachts was going to offer in that context a three-plus-one conversation or three-plus-two with you.
	Is that not how you understood it?
	No, I think that's what he proposed.
	But I think just knowing the dynamic that's been with them where Klitschko has been the top dog, he's going to take a while to show up for whatever meeting they've got, and he's probably talking to his guys at this point.
	So I think you reaching out directly to him helps with the personality management among the three, and it gives you also a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind you.
	Before we get to the great quote here just a reminder that part of the impeachment hearings that are going on now The prosecution is very clear that we were really endangering our ally, the European Union, the European Union, who we have to protect at all costs.
	So anything we do in Ukraine is to help the European Union.
	Those are our brothers and sisters.
	Keep that in mind.
	Behind it, before they all sit down, and he explains why he doesn't like it.
	Okay, good.
	I'm happy.
	Why don't you reach out to him and see if he wants to talk before or after.
	Okay, will do.
	Thanks.
	Okay, I've now written...
	Oh, one more wrinkle for you, Jeff?
	Yeah.
	I can't remember if I told you this or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy, Robert Seri.
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	We needed to get people to come in and help put this deal together.
	Listen to all the hoodlums who are coming in to help put, who have nothing, they're not Ukrainians, nothing to do with Ukraine.
	Oh, we're going to bring in some elites for you to fix this.
	The midwife it.
	If I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy, Robert Sari.
	Did I write you that this morning?
	Yeah, I saw that.
	He's now gotten both Sari and Ban Ki-moon to agree that Sari could come in Monday or Tuesday.
	Yeah, bring Ban Ki-moon in to bless the deal.
	Sure, although these guys make so much sense, Secretary General.
	You know what's funny about this, listening to her?
	I forgot this part of Noodleman.
	She sounds just like Nurse Cratchit in One Threw Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
	This is cold, calculating style.
	Sad, but yes.
	He's now gotten both Sari and Ban Ki-moon to agree that Sari could come in Monday or Tuesday.
	Okay.
	So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it and, you know, fuck the EU. What?
	Wait a minute!
	This is our brothers and sisters!
	We're supposed to protect them!
	How can this be?
	Remember, if I told you this or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy, Robert Seri.
	Did I write you that this morning?
	Yeah, I saw that.
	He's now gotten both Sari and Ban Ki-moon to agree that Sari could come in Monday or Tuesday.
	Okay.
	So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it.
	And, you know, fuck the EU. No, exactly.
	And I think we've got to do something to make it stick together, because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it.
	And again, the fact that this is out there right now, I'm still trying to figure out in my mind why Yanukovych did that.
	But in the meantime, there's a Party of Regions faction meeting going on right now, and I'm sure there's a lively argument going on in that.
	Let's bring in some more people to help close this deal.
	...group at this point.
	But anyway, we could land jelly side up on this one if we move fast.
	So let me work on Klitschko, and if you can just keep...
	I think we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing.
	The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych, but we can probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.
	So on that piece, Jeff, when I wrote the note, Sullivan's come back to me, VFR, saying, you need Biden, and I said, probably tomorrow for an attaboy and a get-the-deeds-to-stick.
	So Biden's willing.
	Okay, great.
	While I'm driving off laughing, this is what I'll say.
	It was Nurse Ratched, by the way.
	I didn't realize until listening to this thing a second time that Biden was involved in this scam.
	Yeah, he was there to bless it, you know, to give an attaboy and to make the deets stick.
	And when I hear this, and I hear how all those people testified about the process and our policy, what these people want...
	And I'm saying, everybody, all sides, this has nothing to do with partisan.
	What these diplomats, bureaucrats, and politicians want is they really want it to be like the EU, you know, where Senate, we'll choose the president.
	This is exactly how they did this.
	Like, okay, yeah, your party wins, but we're going to choose the guy, you know?
	And we're much smarter than you.
	We're technocrats.
	You don't understand this stuff, you stupid people.
	To me, that's what they want.
	They want it to be just like the EU. I agree.
	Listening to the more recent stuff going on about the impeachment and the rest, the new meme, it's been pointed out by all the right-wingers, they say this, and until you start looking for it, you don't see it as much, but then you start seeing it quite a bit, which is they're already predetermining that the next election is going to be rigged.
	Yeah.
	By Trump.
	And it's going to be illegal.
	So the Senate should determine.
	It's easier.
	It's more trustworthy if the Senate determines who wins.
	Yeah.
	Speaking of Nunes, who, as we know, will soon be in jail...
	Uh, I learned something from an appearance he had on Fox, which I really, I can't believe that we, in all the years we've done this show, we've never looked into it.
	The National Security Council.
	When I say, when I hear National Security Council, what do you, I mean, we know there's a, there's the National Security Advisor and the National Security Advisor, that was most recently Bolton, now we have another guy and forgot his name.
	Um...
	Do you know anything about the National Security Council?
	I mean, to me, it's like a room, 12 guys, you know, we got military brass in there.
	Do you know anything about the National Security Council?
	Well, they work for the president specifically, and it's just a little group of advisors called the National Security Council.
	Yeah, that's what I thought, too.
	How am I wrong there?
	Well, this Colonel Vindman, or Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please address him as Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.
	He is on the National Security Council, and let me just tell you, he's still on the National Security Council.
	And here's Nunes to, for me, information I did not have.
	I thought the same thing you did.
	There's a lot of problems with the National Security Council, and the Trump administration is trying to get it under control.
	The new National Security Advisor is doing what the previous National Security Advisors under Trump didn't do, and that is to try to reduce the size and scope.
	So there's hundreds and hundreds of people over at the National Security Council, which, look...
	I've never been on the National Security Council, but if you go back 20, 30 years ago during the Reagan days, I'm told that you had a couple dozen people, maybe three, maybe four dozen people total that were on the National Security Council.
	Obama put hundreds.
	And from all this, don't forget, you also had people that were on the National Security staff that went over to Adam Schiff's staff.
	Okay, that knew the whistleblower.
	Vindman, the guy, you know, he served his country.
	That's great.
	He wants to be called lieutenant colonel.
	That's fine.
	His brother is also there as a lawyer.
	So all of these people colluded and coordinated with the whistleblower.
	They coordinated with Adam Schiff's staff.
	So, you know, really what you had there is you had a den of thieves there at the National Security Council.
	Look, I have said this over and over and over again.
	I said this to McMaster.
	I said it to Bolton.
	And I said it to the new National Security Advisor O'Brien.
	They just need to get all those people out of there.
	Like, if you were there and worked for Obama and you were a holdover, just, you know, get a used building somewhere on the other side of the Potomac.
	Just get them out of there.
	Hundreds of people on this thing.
	Well, I guess I was right, though, in the 50s.
	Yeah, back when we first heard about it.
	That, no wonder!
	No wonder we've got all these...
	This is in the...
	I think they're in the White House.
	Don't they assemble or in the executive...
	Well, that's what's implied by what Nunes just said.
	I mean, and so Vindman...
	So this is a bunch of Obama guys, and they're just screwing things up.
	They're the ones who are causing problems.
	But the interesting thing about Lieutenant Colonel Vindman is his brother, who apparently is also on the National Security Council, is a hedge fund guy.
	Lawyer, he says here, but he's a hedge fund guy.
	And his fund received a $1.4 billion fine for, you know, all kinds of shenanigans in...
	Ukraine!
	It's amazing what is going on.
	We have no idea.
	And then I'll stop.
	But One American News had an interview with a whistleblower from the...
	It's the...
	The net...
	What is this thing called again?
	The net assessment...
	The Office of Net Assessment.
	I've heard of this, the Office of Net Assessment.
	It's a Pentagon thing.
	But wait until you learn about what this...
	This is fantastic!
	Senator Chuck Grassley has expanded his investigation into the Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment.
	The office was supposed to be a unique, futuristic think tank reporting directly to the Secretary of Defense.
	But Grassley, in his January 22nd letter, noted the office may have become a part of the deep state.
	He asks if the office awarded contracts to Stefan Halper, who hired the Russian intelligence officer and who contributed to the now discredited Trump dossier.
	To dig into this obscure office, whistleblower Adam Lovinger, in his exclusive interview, talks to us.
	About how it has become a slush fund for Washington's politically connected.
	There was some very deliberate thinking that went into the placement of the office that this had to be the Secretary of Defense's think tank to advise him on difficult strategic challenges.
	The Office of Net Assessment produced no net assessments to inform our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has produced no net assessment on Iran, for example.
	And so, truly, when you look at the range of threats to the United States, the Office has actually avoided all those.
	And what Senator Grassley has revealed in his letter is that it's really a two-part problem.
	One is that the office is derelict in its duty, its primary duty, to produce these high-level strategies known as net assessments.
	And secondly, what has it become?
	And what it's become is a slush fund for politically connected contractors.
	The contracting system in the Office of Net Assessment is utterly broke.
	The contractors chosen are not chosen for their ability to contribute to net assessments, which is really the reason why they should be chosen.
	They're chosen because they're the friends of the leadership of net assessments.
	The office, unfortunately, I mean, the leadership was put in place by President Obama.
	It leans leftward.
	It's an office that has historically downplayed the strategic threats posed to the United States by our adversaries.
	So we've got the National Security Council filled with people who hate Trump.
	We've got the Pentagon with, you know, paying this, was it the professor who was part of the whole sting operation.
	And just to make it crazy, I don't know, do you want to play one of your Lev Parnas clips?
	You had an ABC thing and then we can almost be done with this.
	A couple of them here.
	Let's play, yeah, this Lev Parnas guy.
	You know, I want to mention this.
	They make a big, they try to dramatize the fact that Trump said, I never met, I don't know who this guy is.
	As if everybody that ever has a picture taken with Trump, I could have had a picture taken with Trump.
	And Trump could honestly say, because you can get a picture taken with Trump if you're in the right circumstance, and he'll take your picture.
	And, you know, you get a picture.
	It doesn't mean he knows you or he ever, you know, even remembers you.
	No, but the problem is they're spinning it because now there's this video where you actually hear Parnas say something and Trump respond.
	Right, but I mean, so they're spinning this.
	No, I know what they're doing, but I don't think they're even spinning it.
	I think they're dramatizing it.
	That's a better way.
	So let's start with impeach ABC goes after Trump about Lev.
	A brand new phase of the President's impeachment trial underway in Washington.
	And tonight, new developments in a story ABC News was first to report.
	Tonight, audio and now video of President Trump at a small gathering with Rudy Giuliani, associate Lev Parnas, you see him here, and others.
	Parnas, recently indicted for campaign finance fraud, is someone the President has repeatedly denied knowing.
	On the recording, a voice sounding like the President's orders the removal of Ukraine Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch saying take her out.
	Sources familiar with the recording say it's from a Trump hotel private dinner in the spring of 2018.
	ABC's David Wright at the White House tonight starting us off.
	President, thank you for being here.
	In April 2018, President Trump arrives at a private dinner at the Trump International Hotel.
	Don Jr.
	is there, so is indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas.
	And there's the place set for the president.
	On the tape, a voice identified as Parnas can be heard telling Trump that the ambassador to Ukraine was bad-mouthing him.
	Yeah, she's basically walking around telling everybody, wait, he's going to get impeached, just wait.
	Really?
	It's incredible.
	Get rid of her.
	Get her out tomorrow.
	Get her out tomorrow.
	Take her out.
	Okay?
	Do it.
	President Trump has repeatedly said he doesn't know Lev Parnas.
	I don't know him.
	I don't believe I've ever spoken to him.
	But on the tape, they talk in detail about Ukraine.
	How long have they lasted a fight with Russia?
	I don't think very long.
	Without us, not very long.
	Without us.
	Were you relying on Lev Parnas to get rid of your ambassador?
	No, but I have a lot of people.
	Speaking to Fox News, the president did not question the authenticity of the tape.
	Were you telling Parnas to get rid of her?
	I mean, you have a state department.
	Well, I wouldn't have been saying that.
	I probably would have said it was Rudy there or somebody, but I make no bones about it.
	I want to have ambassadors.
	I have every right.
	I want ambassadors that are chosen by me.
	I have a right to hire and fire ambassadors.
	The recall of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch features prominently in the Democrats' case against the president.
	You know, what's funny about this, and if you look it up on, even Snopes has this, is that Trump fired all the ambassadors when he first got into office.
	Yeah, they didn't all leave, but yes.
	She didn't leave.
	She refused to go.
	I'm staying here.
	And so nobody ever even brings that up.
	I mean, it wasn't as though he hasn't been trying to get rid of her.
	No, you're right, because the dramatization is perfect.
	We have the president saying, well, I don't think I've ever spoke to him.
	And clearly, damning evidence at a meetup.
	I said a meetup.
	I mean, I don't want to degrade our meetups because our meetups are really fantastic.
	Our meetups are fantastic, but you won't remember everybody.
	You won't remember everybody's name.
	No.
	Now, let's play Trump.
	This is part two of that clip.
	All right, David Wright joins us now live from the White House.
	And David, there's no evidence of anything illegal on this tape, which was recorded on the phone by another indicted Giuliani associate.
	Both men have pleaded not guilty to charges.
	But David, Democrats believe this bolsters their case.
	They do, Tom, for two reasons.
	First, it shows that despite his efforts to distance himself, the president had first-hand knowledge of at least some of the work being done in Ukraine by Giuliani and his associates.
	Also, it suggests there may well be other material out there that we haven't seen yet that could be relevant to the impeachment.
	Ah, there's all kinds of material that may be out there.
	I like the way they use indicted this guy.
	Oh, yeah, the indicted.
	The indicted, yes.
	When does that become something that's kosher?
	Well, how about just saying the not-yet-indicted John C. Dvorak?
	I mean, that's perfectly...
	You can say that.
	The not-yet-indicted Adam Curry.
	You might as well say that about everybody.
	Well, I'm going to say it about us.
	It's bad.
	It's really a bad form.
	I am the not-yet-indicted Adam Curry.
	I just want to make sure everybody knows.
	Not-yet-indicted.
	So Lev Parnas is, of course, the character that is very interesting.
	The Keeper, I think, nails it by saying, oh, it's the new Avenatti.
	I think she's right, although this one belongs more to MSNBC than to CNN. Well, Avenatti also was a superstar hero.
	He's going to run for president and all the rest.
	This guy starts off indictment.
	I'm excited, so it's not quite Abinadi.
	But check this out.
	George Webb, investigative journalist George Webb, who does fantastic work.
	I always wonder how the guy makes his money, because he travels all over the U.S. mainly, but he's international.
	He does 45 minutes of video a day.
	It's impossible to keep up with him.
	But he's down in Florida, or at least he was on the 22nd when he shot this.
	I pulled the clip.
	And he's right across from the Afghan Pakistani Center of Excellence, which is right by the base there.
	And of course, it's a spook training operation.
	And he has some interesting connections to that and others.
	And Lev Parnas!
	Staying here very close to try to get as much information as we can, especially about this center that was established called the Afghan...
	Pakistan Center of Excellence, the AFPAC Center of Excellence, or COE. And that's going to become very important in CENTCOM's recruiting a private set of DIA informants that are used and were used politically, and have been used politically at least since 2012.
	The AFPAC COE was established in 2009.
	One of the key directors was a guy named Derek Harvey, and he is the handler and recruiter of Lev Parnas.
	He is the handler and recruiter of Lev Parnas.
	So, Lev Parnas was trained here in Tampa.
	We also have Hina Alvey, who was the sidekick or the main contact for encrypted communications for Debbie Wasserman Schultz through Imran Awan.
	We also have the person who lured Roger Stone with emails from Hillary, supposedly the hacked Russian emails, a guy named OKNY. Anski, or his gnome to plume was Hank Greenberg.
	But he also came through this AFPAC Center.
	We have the IP numbers from when they went to training.
	That was their fatal flaw.
	That was the piece of when they went off to training from here in Tampa over to Fort Huachuca when they did their initial training.
	I should say here that it's a much longer piece, of course, but Webb has evidence, router logs, and somehow he's been able to connect Parnas' device to IP addresses coming from this training center.
	Now, How he got that, I'm not sure.
	Maybe it's one of the previous videos.
	But when Webb says he has proof of the IP addresses and that it came from that device, I'm just going to believe him, because, you know, otherwise it would be a short show.
	Left these telltale IP addresses.
	We know that Lev Parnas, the star witness of Adam Schiff's impeachment, the star witness of Adam Schiff's impeachment, Shares not only one set of IP numbers with Derek Harvey and one set of IP numbers with Peter Strzok, the key architect of all the takedown Trump.
	The takedown of Crossfire Hurricane, the CIA takedown before that, the transition attempted takedown with Mike Flynn, the attempted takedown with the Oconus lures after that, the attempted takedown with the Mueller plant.
	Again and again and again, all these lures by Peter Strzok.
	We have the key star witness for Adam Schiff, Lev Parnas, sharing IP numbers at Fort Huachuca.
	I can't get enough of this.
	This is fantastic.
	It writes itself.
	It does write itself.
	Now I want to give one of my one last clip, which is the one, you know, all these left, all the left harness, all the rest of it, and even that last report from ABC that I played always hinted, well, there's more to come or there's more.
	This is all about a vote taking place later this week.
	This is all about this.
	Whether or not they're going to call any witnesses.
	Because you guys already did your impeachment thing.
	You want to call more witnesses?
	I mean, it's not...
	And the House isn't running things.
	And they've already insulted the senators.
	A couple of senators that may have said yes are now not going to say yes because when the short fat guy went out there and talked...
	Nadler.
	Nadler.
	He...
	He insulted the Senate, and everybody got bent out of shape about it.
	There was one analyst on MSNBC or CNN, one of the two, who said you never insult the jury if you ever expect to win a case.
	So he's losing votes.
	But there's always one steadfast guy who will probably vote on the side of the Democrats.
	In all circumstances, because, well, he's the number one Trump hater for various reasons.
	I have my own theories, but this is the Impeach ABC update to witnesses.
	Okay, Kira Phillips joins us now from Capitol Hill, watching it all play out today.
	Kira, in a major development today, Republican Senator Mitt Romney is indicating he may now support hearing from the witnesses.
	That's right.
	This is the furthest he has gone, Tom, saying now it's very likely that he will be in favor of witnesses in the Senate trial.
	But remember, Democrats will need at least four Republican senators to vote in favor of calling witnesses.
	And right now, even with Romney, it's far from clear that they have enough support for witnesses when that's put to a vote next week.
	Tom?
	No!
	Okay, so when it's almost certain that no one else is going to vote, Romney comes out to be the hero, even though he definitely doesn't want anyone uncovering stuff that went on in Ukraine.
	Yeah.
	Doesn't he have a kid also?
	Yeah, he's involved up to his neck, but he can look good in this situation.
	First, he had to wait.
	Make sure that after the insult and everything, they turned the whole everybody that may have been on the fence against the idea of voting for witnesses.
	Bromley looks back, looks left, looks right.
	He says, I'm in.
	I'll do it.
	Unbelievable.
	Yeah, the guy is the worst.
	I didn't imagine what a creep he was.
	And with that, I'd like to...
	I'm sorry?
	I said until recently.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the coronavirus...
	In the morning to our trolls in the troll room.
	Let's do a quick count, see how many trolls are in there today.
	Today we have 1,276.
	Yes, a lot of interest for our deconstruction of the virus.
	And also, what?
	I said, hmm, 276.
	Yes, 276.
	I just count overflow.
	Sorry.
	We have no overflow room.
	They're all in there.
	1,276.
	All in one room.
	And they're trolls.
	And that's what's great about it because the trolls just hang out and they troll.
	They troll each other.
	They troll the live shows, the hosts of the live shows.
	They're trolling me at this very moment.
	And I love it because we don't really have any rules other than thou shalt troll a lot.
	And sometimes it's helpful and usually it's just annoying.
	But it makes for good content, I find.
	And a fun place to hang out.
	24-7.
	We've got shows there.
	Rolling all the time.
	Great podcast and a great place to hang out.
	And it's part of our No Agenda network.
	Also, a big in the morning to Comicstrip blogger.
	Two in a row.
	He'll be looking for the hat trick.
	He brought us the artwork for episode 1210.
	The title of that was Pain of Imprisonment, which is exactly what the senators have right now.
	Pain of being imprisoned in the chamber.
	And he did a nice kind of Chinese rubber ball coronavirus made in China rendering.
	And I don't think we had any argument.
	It was good to go, wasn't it?
	Was there anything else we looked at?
	We looked at all of them, of course, as usual, but that was the best of the group.
	It also pops a little bit.
	Let's see what else.
	Yeah, that really was the best one.
	And I want to remind the artists that when you are creating artwork, look at it in the small overview of submitted art.
	Don't look at it in the 512 by 512.
	Yeah.
	That's not, you're not going to see that.
	You won't see that on the iPhone.
	You won't see it in the tweets.
	You won't see it anywhere, except if you click through to the album art in the show notes or at the art generator.
	So when you've got a lot of stuff together and text, you can already kind of determine that it just, it's not going to work.
	Little text.
	There was one piece that I liked, but unfortunately, and let me take a look where it was.
	Yeah, no agenda is master's data.
	The little logo down there.
	The Spotify logo.
	Yeah, it was too small.
	And the Spotify logo, you can't even read it on this page.
	I mean, it's a nice piece.
	I like the piece and I like the colors.
	But the little Spotify logo is not readable.
	If you maybe put it on the side of the horn bigger, that might have worked.
	Exactly.
	But, of course, the work of all artists is incredibly appreciated.
	It is such a super feature of the show and of our Value for Value Network.
	We're working on a new homepage, but if you want to see how great the artwork looks in context, go to noagendaexperience.com.
	You can really see how good that looks.
	Just like, holy crap, look at all these different pieces of art.
	What is going on?
	This show must be fantastic.
	I'm subscribing right away.
	So thank you very much, comicsterblogger.
	We'll see how he does if he goes for the hat trick today.
	No agenda.
	They're going to block him.
	They're blocking his underway.
	What?
	Don't say it.
	Don't even make fun of this.
	But you've already blocked him.
	You've blocked him on Twitter, and he's very upset about it.
	No, I'm saying they're going to block his art.
	No.
	Who, you?
	No, the artists are going to do something to spectacular pieces.
	Oh, okay.
	They're going to block his hat trick, you mean?
	Yeah, like a good goal, like a defenseman would do on the hockey field.
	You know, we just saw the All-Star game this weekend.
	But we, of course, are completely fair, and we just pick based upon what we think is right and what pops.
	Yeah, we don't even look at who the artists are until they get it.
	And by the way, since you mentioned the All-Star game, can I just briefly rescind my prediction on the Super Bowl with a quick explanation?
	Sure.
	What?
	I know.
	Something came up.
	I got new information.
	This has never happened before.
	Because some strong information came to me, which I guess I could have known.
	You could have even brought it up.
	The reason why it seems San Francisco 49ers will win as twofold.
	One, I've learned from our Kansas City meetup that the Chiefs were not named after an Indian tribe, but after a Mayor Chief.
	So that kind of hurts my argument.
	Does that also account for the fact that there's an Indian head on the helmet?
	No, but I think when it comes to social justice issues, there's only a few things that will beat out the abuse of minorities, which would be redskins, chiefs, etc., And that would be the fact that Katie Sowers will become the first female coach in a Super Bowl and she's gay.
	They're going to win.
	Oh yes, do we have a female coach on the Niners?
	She's assistant offensive coordinator.
	And she's gay.
	Yeah, what do you mean?
	What do you mean, well?
	Yes, she's...
	What do you expect?
	No, that, I disagree with what you're saying.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	But the social justice warrior angle is in.
	I got that part, but I got another one for you.
	The last time the Niners were in the Super Bowl, it's the only one they ever lost.
	And the quarterback at the time was Kaepernick.
	And they're...
	They have to win so the league can make Kaepernick the loser.
	Oh, right.
	Get him out of the scene.
	He's got to go.
	Right.
	Now, on donations, I have one more thing to do before we get to our very helpful executive producers and associate executive producers.
	Several weeks back...
	We were requested to give horse race karma, which we don't do karmas for any kind of sports, betting, etc.
	We made an exception because this producer owned the horse.
	Yeah.
	And the horse...
	What?
	Yeah.
	I'm saying it was an exception, rare exception.
	The horse's name is fast enough.
	Yeah.
	Was racing in the Cal Cup Derby.
	Is that a big thing, the Cal Cup Derby?
	It's one of the many.
	The big derby is the California Derby.
	I don't think that was it.
	Well, the Cal Cup Derby was televised and fast enough to...
	Started out last.
	And they're off in the Cal Cup Derby.
	Dapper, better trip Nick.
	Hustled up now to take the lead.
	The odds are 9-2 for fast enough.
	Club Aspen in the red colors.
	Mid-pack about five lengths off to speed into the first turn.
	And now moving toward the inside to save a bit of ground.
	On the fence is Indian Peak who's moved up within four lengths of the pacemaker.
	At the back of the field now fast enough.
	Back of the field!
	Who's just in front of rookie mistake and big return.
	Indian Peak is down on the fence, only two lengths off the speed.
	Fast Enough is trying to launch a wide bid on the outside of Club Aspen as the field turns from.
	Better trip, Nick, trying to hold on, gets a reminder, leads by a half-length to Summerfire.
	Outside of them, Sacred Rider, and Fast Enough continues to storm home in the center of the track.
	Here comes Fast Enough!
	Sacred Rider!
	Better Trip Nick is back to third!
	It's Sacred Rider and Fast Enough!
	Fast Enough is just in front, close to home, and Fast Enough wins!
	The Cal Cup Derby!
	Can you believe it?
	Yeah, well, I hope...
	From the back of the pack, Fast Enough wins!
	It's Fast Enough!
	It's Fast Enough!
	I just thought that was fantastic!
	Like, how does this even work?
	Yeah, well...
	Okay, well, we're holding this sort of thing in abeyance.
	It was a major exception.
	We do expect probably some sort of a finder's fee.
	I would think so.
	The finder's fee.
	I'm bringing it up in the donation segment for a reason.
	Karma for a horse.
	For a horse.
	I mean, goat, okay, but a horse?
	Well, because he said he owned the horse and we believed him.
	Yeah.
	So, there you go.
	Rigged.
	Rigged by your No Agenda show.
	Woo-hoo!
	Well, these things can happen.
	Let's start with what is happening.
	For show 12, what is this?
	12, 11.
	12, 11.
	Right, 12, 11.
	A couple of lucky numbers.
	12, 11.
	Starting with Anonymous with $1,000.
	That's nice.
	I have a stress-free union gig as a flight attendant.
	Huh.
	For American Airlines, and since our profit sharing was pretty dismal this year, I'll pass it on to you.
	Wait.
	Wow, thanks.
	That's odd.
	Thanks, lizards.
	I'm a slackified Gen Z googly something shittison attempting an OTG turnaround.
	Wait, a slackified Gen Z googly noodle shittison attempting an OTG turnaround.
	The analysis of the financial company Plaid was on point.
	Adam, I was at a hotel bar listening to the show in Dallas and nearly choked on my mac and cheese.
	Sorry, John.
	Was such a dick about it.
	Really?
	You have to understand.
	Whatever happens on the show, after the show, we're just...
	There's no animosity.
	No one holds on to anything.
	It's all for the benefit of the show, ultimately.
	What did I do?
	Something that he thought you were dickish.
	I don't know.
	I don't remember.
	I don't hold on to it, so I don't know.
	Can you please knight me, Sir Scatman of Norristown?
	All righty.
	I'd like a Klobuchar pretty good, and a Hey Shittison.
	Thank you for your courage.
	All right.
	Thank you, Anonymous.
	No requests for the roundtable, and I'll add a gratuitous karma for you here.
	I think that sounds pretty good.
	Hey Shittison.
	You've got karma.
	Brett Samuel comes in, also $1,000, and he sent a note.
	Nice.
	Thank you.
	He sent a very short note.
	Well, I just have 45 jingle requests.
	I hit myself in the mouth.
	I hit myself in the mouth, he writes.
	That's illegal in several states.
	But it was probably DCJ's enduring personality that hooked me on the show.
	Adam, love you too.
	No jingles, but your Hawaii Five-0 slash duck and cover end of show song was amazing.
	Thanks to the producer, I've been in the Middle East for the last five years, so I find your ONG coverage funny.
	Isn't that obstetrics and gynecology?
	We'll take it.
	If you like it, we're doing it.
	Oil and gas, that's what it means.
	He's in the Middle East.
	He says, you really need to work with these guys to understand the mindset.
	I have worked with them, kind of.
	Not in the Middle East.
	Thanks for five years plus of awesome.
	Night of the dark fate, since I work cyber.
	He's getting a...
	Wait a minute.
	What?
	Accompaning.
	See PayPal from Brett.
	Accounting.
	Oh, he...
	Oh, Knight of the Dark Fate question mark.
	Okay, so you have to put him on the knighting list.
	Okay, let's see.
	So, who am I putting?
	Brett Samuel.
	Brett Samuel?
	Oh, he has an insta-knight.
	Duh.
	Duh.
	And what will he become?
	Knight of the Dark Fate.
	Okay.
	What do we need accounting for?
	You gave us a thought.
	Okay, well, I'm not going to complain.
	Okay.
	Anything for the roundtable?
	No, nothing.
	Okay.
	All right.
	All right, onward with Brian Furley.
	Furley, yeah, in Littleton, Colorado.
	$333.33.
	Hello, John and Adam.
	Long-time listener realizing how big of a douchebag I am for not giving value back to the best podcast in the universe.
	I turned 33 on Wednesday.
	January 25th, he needs to be on the list.
	He is.
	And cannot go through my 33rd year as a douchebag.
	It's just bad luck.
	The show keeps me sane.
	It's true.
	If you're going to be 33, you have to become a knight or something.
	The show keeps me sane in this bizarre world we live in.
	I refuse to live without it.
	I'm donating 333 today, and I'm signing up for a monthly donation to keep the Podfather and the Cranky Geek on the air.
	Thank you.
	Everybody should do this.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Please keep a seat warm for me at the round table because a new night is coming in fast.
	I also recently hit my child in the mouth.
	No, my dad.
	Not my child, my dad.
	I walloped the kid.
	Another good example of what a great cold reader I am.
	I hit my dad in the mouth and he's now a faithful listener.
	So shout out to my amazing pup, the stinky hippie.
	Can I get a de-douching?
	You've been de-douched.
	And he'd love to get a Ben Shapiro maniac laugh and a relationship karma.
	Keep the shows coming and thank you for your courage, Brian in Denver.
	You've got karma.
	That's our boy Ben.
	Oh, Ben.
	Dame Laura in Daleville, Virginia, 333.
	Thanks for the sanity, John and Adam.
	Happy concurrence of the Chinese New Year and Burns Night!
	What's Burns Night?
	Burns Night, it turns out, is where people go to a dinner and gather and reimagine, reminisce, and read the poetry of Robert Burns.
	Apparently, according to Eric, it's the same importance as Chinese New Year.
	So the coincidence of these two days at the same time is pretty unbelievable.
	Anyway, I think he's just kidding me.
	Probably.
	If it weren't to be an imposition, can I use some jobs, Carmel?
	Of course you can.
	You're an executive producer.
	I need some this week, and please upload it to any...
	A lot below to anyone who needs it at any time as well.
	All the best, Dame Laura.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You saw.
	Come on.
	Dropping into associate executive producer, Dame Astrid leads the way.
	Hey, Dame Astrid, Duchess of Japan.
	Disputed islands in the Japan Sea.
	That's right, all of them.
	$222.22.
	She's in Tokyo.
	It's been years that I've been listening to No Agenda and yet and yet again and again I'm in awe.
	This can only be because of its consistent authenticity where you and all the producers just give it their simple best without pretension.
	Whether it be analysis or entertainment.
	I was also blown away by Sir Chris Wilson's impeachment song, and therefore I'd like to suggest the Make Sir Chris a Duke Drive.
	Please credit my donation to him.
	Oh, that's cool.
	I like that.
	Okay, well, Sir Chris Wilson will have to track that himself, obviously.
	Yes, Chris.
	If Chris is going to go along with this...
	Uh, we can, uh...
	Yeah, we can attribute that, no problem.
	We can do it, but he has to keep track of it.
	But then, he actually became, he'll have to become Dame Duke, because it's a Dame drive, and now it's a Duke drive?
	I think he should...
	No, that's a specific drive for him.
	Okay.
	Uh, Dame...
	Let's face it, Dame Master's gonna end up making him a Duke.
	Day Master, the Duchess of Japan and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea.
	Long-term supporter along with Sir Mark.
	But Day Master really writes the notes.
	She writes the notes.
	Thank you so much.
	Always lovely to hear from you.
	And thank you, Sir Chris.
	That was indeed, it was long, but it was a very entertaining impeachment song.
	If you didn't hear it, listen to it at the end of 1210.
	Michael Bernstein is up next in Monrovia, California, $200.07.
	He sent a check in, but he didn't send anything about his business card, which is a very small little business card.
	Very dinky little business card.
	And so when you go to his website, MutualWin.com, MutualWin.com, you discover he is a promoter and developer of tiny homes back east.
	Oh, there he is.
	So his little business card is a reflection of the tiny homes.
	Cool.
	Cool.
	And I looked at his website.
	It's very interesting.
	He puts tiny homes in historical areas.
	What's the web?
	I want to look at his tiny homes.
	What's the website?
	Mutualwin.com.
	All one word.
	Mutualwin.com.
	Mutualwin.com.
	And these are attractive little tiny homes that are very well outfitted.
	300 square feet.
	Wow, these are cute.
	Yeah, they're very cute.
	And get a deal and throw one in the backyard.
	You can...
	Why not?
	This looks great.
	Well, you've got enough room.
	Well, you have to clear some trees.
	You have to develop your backyard and do about ten of these things.
	Yeah!
	And then have all kinds of fun people living in the back.
	I can hear Tina's eyes roll as we speak.
	They're very good looking.
	Very modern.
	Nice.
	312 square feet.
	That's enough.
	Sir Colton in Fresno, California is up next with 200 bucks.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	This donation is going toward my smoking hot fiancé's damehood.
	Hope to make her a dame before the wedding.
	I'm also looking for a new job.
	I'd like some jobs karma.
	It would be greatly appreciated.
	Thank you for all the hard work, Sir Colton.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Shannon Davis in Lost Wages, Nevada.
	200 bucks.
	John and Adam, this is Omega Man of OmegaManRadio.com.
	Shouts out from Bali and congrats to you gentlemen for 12 years of cutting edge with almost 7,000 shows under my belt.
	I want to thank you, Adam, for inspiring me to get into internet radio as I used to listen to your original shows back in 2005 and knowing nothing about how to get started in podcasting, you took the time to answer some emails which helped me get launched.
	Oh, well, that's so nice.
	God bless you both and your families in 2020.
	Sometimes I do that.
	You're welcome, Omega Man.
	And of course, I remember.
	Who could forget Omega Man, always written in all caps?
	It stands out.
	I remember.
	And thank you very much for your support of the best podcast in the universe.
	Go check him out at megamanradio.com.
	Hell yeah.
	Texas Dragon, Louisville, Texas.
	$200.
	ITM, BPITU. And John and Adam, thank you for all you do.
	Oh, a little rhyme there.
	Your deconstruction of the news helps keep me sane while I work my daily job.
	Work on my startup.
	Seek certifications and practices for future steak cook-offs.
	Oh, it's the Texas Dragon.
	Okay, yeah, it's the spice guy.
	Yeah, he's going to send us some spices.
	I can't believe I was a douchebag for so long.
	It was 10 years or so before I made it my first donation in November 2019.
	I appreciate all the producers and listeners who have purchased products and have given some great reviews of my startup at texas-dragon.com.
	It's great to see the Value for Value model in action.
	Who knew?
	Facebook and Google ads are terrible.
	I've added the coupon code for the No Agenda folks for 2020.
	Enter NA2020 at checkout and save 20% on orders over $20.
	Check out our seasonings and sauces.
	I will donate 50% of the discounted amount to the No Agenda show throughout 2020.
	Yes.
	No agenda, no jingles, no karma, just dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Now, I received some of those.
	I know you did too.
	Have you tried them out yet?
	I haven't had an opportunity to try them out yet.
	I Sitting there waiting to be used.
	I'll probably use them when the weather clears up and I can do some barbecuing.
	I mean, you're the guy who does the smoker and stuff, so I would expect you to try it out.
	They look very appropriate.
	Nice.
	Oh, and I want to thank Sir Pokey.
	Just briefly, Sir Pokey sent me a fully configured bare metal Linux laptop.
	Now, the laptop is off eBay, seven years old, but man, truly shows you the power of Linux.
	And I won't go any deeper into it now, but I appreciate Sir Pokey doing that for me.
	That's not bloatware.
	Zero bloatware, but how fast?
	Fast!
	Fast!
	It's just crazy how fast this thing is.
	And it's running on an i7.
	An old laptop weighs about 18 pounds.
	It works best on heavy hardware, apparently.
	Well, thank you to our executive producers and our associate executive producers, especially to Instant Nights.
	Fantastic.
	Thank you so much for supporting the show.
	We really did need it, and the newsletter reflected that as such, and having everybody step up like that is very nice, particularly nice to see people also taking out a monthly.
	If everyone just had a couple dollars a month monthly, we'd be okay.
	Donation segments would be much shorter.
	But for now, it's how it rolls.
	It's going well 12 years and counting in our 13th year, part of the Value for Value Network.
	As you can see, if it's your first time here, it's quite vast.
	The reasons why people donate, the amounts they donate, it all comes down to the value they get from the show.
	And obviously, we appreciate that value coming back in return.
	You can help us for our next program on Thursday.
	And you know that if you own a horse, you know, karma seems to work.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	I think that sounds pretty good.
	Shut up.
	I said.
	I may have to run that end of show again.
	It's so good.
	You know, you have to ask yourself when she did that.
	What is she thinking?
	Why did she say that?
	She's trying to appeal to middle America with an accent, I guess.
	Good.
	I think something like that.
	Seems about right to me.
	Well, she also corrected herself after she did it.
	She said it sounds pretty good.
	Normal speak.
	Hey, the Armageddon is upon us.
	There always is.
	No, no, no.
	Now!
	Now!
	Just 100 seconds away!
	We are closer to Doomsday than ever before, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
	They created the Doomsday Clock at the University of Chicago and based the countdown to midnight on how much time civilization has left.
	Two years ago, they moved the clock to two minutes to midnight, closer than it had been since 1953, when the United States and Soviet Union successfully tested hydrogen bombs.
	Now they've moved it to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it's been since being created following World War II. The reasons why are political leaders, ending a nuclear arms agreement between the United States, Iran, and Russia, and failure to address climate change.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Failure to address climate change.
	So now this group of nuke guys has decided that they're all in on climate change and that they're now, they get to set the clock based upon climate change activity.
	That's where the money is, baby.
	Money.
	That's right.
	And so who did they invite to be on their board of elders?
	And of course...
	No, no, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no.
	Moonbeam!
	Jerry Brown.
	Yeah.
	Speaking of danger and destruction...
	This is him.
	With the elders, the atomic scientists, he was invited to speak.
	It's never very easy.
	If you speak the truth, people will not want to listen because it's too awful.
	And it makes you sound like a crackpot.
	Oh, really?
	Our own president, in front of the Davos businessmen of the world...
	Called out against what he called the prophets of doom.
	Now, he didn't particularize on what doom he was talking about.
	But I think back to the prophets of old, to Isaiah, to Jeremiah, are ones who don't necessarily know the future, but they warn of the danger that they see ahead.
	Today, we live in a world Vast, deep, and pervasive complacency.
	So let me get this straight.
	So he's calling himself one of the biblical prophets because he's truly warning and he's not one of those crackpots?
	Is that what he's saying?
	Well, if you want to interpret it that way, I'd say absolutely.
	That's what he's saying.
	Unbelievable.
	That guy has a crackpot.
	That's why they call him Moonbeam.
	Yeah.
	Unbelievable.
	Crazy.
	I'm Governor Jerry Brown.
	That song, that old Dead Kennedys song still works.
	Hey, I sent you a copy of the Spike Jonze song.
	It's in your inbox.
	Oh, just now?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Well, not just now, just before the show.
	Uh-huh.
	And that's the song you might want to play a bit of because it's an earworm because I was humming it before the show.
	And I think we maybe should give the audience a treat and play a little bit of Der Fuhrer's Face by Spike Jonze about 1942.
	Okay, you just have to keep talking for a moment because you asked me...
	Oh, I can keep talking for a lot longer than that.
	And by the way, yeah, you want me to just keep talking?
	No, no, no, it's good because you asked me before the show if I had the bonus clip and I had the bonus clip which came in as bonus clip but after that apparently you did send me...
	uh this little ditty which is going to play now pre-production would have helped maybe yeah Well, let's get some lyrics going here.
	Der Führer's Face, Spike Jonze.
	When the Führer says We is the master race We hire, hire Right in the Führer's face Not to love the Führer It's the greatest race So we hire, hire Right in the Führer's face Yeah You won't hear this song anywhere but on your No Agenda show.
	I can tell you that.
	The reason I sent it over is because you said a little thing before the show you mentioned that some kids are not liking the movie JoJo.
	Yeah, JoJo Rabbit is a problem because kids don't like anything that makes fun of the Holocaust.
	I've not seen the movie, so I don't know if it makes fun of the Holocaust.
	I've seen little snippets, and it looks like a Monty Python sketch to me, really, which I'm kind of used to that.
	But I guess we can't have any fun anymore.
	Can't laugh.
	I don't know that it makes fun of it.
	It just seems like a dumb movie.
	I don't understand why anyone would not want to see it for some political reason.
	It's ridiculous.
	That's not political reason.
	It's kind of a political reason.
	Holocaust?
	It was political?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Now, there's some commentary that can be made because I've got the bonus clip ready to go.
	And this is, apparently, they have dug up a mummy and then they computerized the vocal cords so we can hear what a mummy sounds like.
	3,000-year-old mummy...
	Wait a minute.
	Explain this.
	What is going on here?
	Apparently there was a mummy that they could dissect in such a way that they could get the vocal cords to either be modeled or actually maybe run some air through them, but they could actually have the mummy's voice recreated.
	Right.
	Someone has too much time on their hands.
	Look into this, but it's the mummy's voice.
	This is genuinely a 3,000-year-old person.
	this is what they sounded like.
	It's like one of those dog videos where the dog, look, my dog could talk.
	Yeah.
	So how much did that cost?
	That little bit of research?
	Probably too much, I'm sure.
	Sounds like Hillary.
	Oh, man.
	That was the bonus clip.
	Yeah.
	I feel blessed.
	All right.
	Goldman Sachs running with the Social Justice Warriors.
	This is actually a big opportunity for people in the no agenda producers, really.
	If you want to make some good money, and sitting on a board of a public company, I think anybody, almost a no-no, as long as you have some credentials, you can make $15,000, $20,000 a year just for attending the meetings.
	And then you probably get some stock options.
	Now, if you're on a committee, like the compensation committee or other important things, you can get paid more just for being on the board.
	So I would like to recommend, in this case, certainly any of our gay men should pay attention because there's money out there waiting for you.
	What you need to know is all pale, all male, isn't cutting anymore, at least for Goldman Sachs.
	David Solomon issued this ultimatum in Davos.
	The biggest underwriter of IPOs in the U.S. will no longer do business with a company lacking a director who is either a woman or diverse.
	So this comes after July.
	If a company wants Goldman, the board must have at least one person who is not white, male, or straight.
	And next year, the bank will raise the threshold to two diverse directors.
	Now, Goldman said the decision came after it learned that more than 60 U.S. and European companies in the last two years went public without a woman or a person of color on the board.
	Fred Foulkes, he's a manager professor at Boston University, he says for Goldman and Wall Street, this is a seismic change.
	We cover diversity and equality here a lot at Bloomberg, and questions will remain.
	How will other Wall Street firms follow Goldman on this?
	Will they?
	Will they not?
	And more importantly, whether this actually represents the high watermark for diversity, or is this just the beginning to bring greater representation to boardrooms and sweet seats around global Wall Street around the world?
	In my lifetime, it is fantastic to see that now the token black, token gay, token woman is now required.
	And they're doing everything but calling it token.
	Mind-boggling to me.
	Yeah, token.
	Isn't that exactly what it is?
	A token.
	One token.
	But they just won't say token.
	Well, no, but we will.
	You know what happens in these situations, I can tell you in advance.
	There are already plenty of black board members on big boards.
	Of course there are.
	I think IBM would have one.
	And that's the guy that they're going to tap to be on every board.
	The guy's going to make millions.
	One guy.
	Being a token can pay off.
	You can if you're on board after board after board after board.
	That's fantastic.
	So, yeah.
	I got one here.
	I like the pale male though.
	Yeah, pale male.
	Pale male.
	Pale male.
	Hail the pale male.
	Hail the pale male.
	People making songs from that.
	Let's go to Democracy Now!
	We'll do it back to politics a bit.
	Talk about Bernie.
	Of all things, on Democracy Now!, this is kind of funny.
	Democracy Now!
	has this woman who's Puerto Rican.
	I can't tell.
	She's on every once in a while.
	She's dour.
	She could be kind of attractive, but very dour.
	When there's any celebrity on, she brightens up and she's got this big smile on her face and she bats her eyes and flirts with him.
	It's really embarrassing.
	So Tim Robbins, the actor-producer.
	Ah, well wait, wasn't he at one point married to the other Bernie woman?
	The actress?
	Oh, Bernie Sanders!
	What's her name?
	Oh, she may have been.
	The Thelma and Louise lady.
	Yeah, what's her name?
	Come on, chat room, you can come up with it.
	No, trolls, you gotta address them as trolls, otherwise they don't listen.
	Bernie!
	Yeah.
	Susan Sarandon.
	Yeah, Susan Sarandon.
	He comes out for Bernie and makes kind of a fuss about it, but he makes some observations that we make on the show all the time.
	Of course, it's all futile, but I just thought it would be interesting to play this.
	But I wanted to ask about your recent endorsement of Bernie Sanders.
	I don't know if a lot of people heard about it, although there was a massive rally in California.
	AOC was there, of course, Bernie Sanders, Cornel West.
	How many people would you say were at this rally?
	I believe it was estimated about 25,000 to 30,000 on the beach in Venice.
	So this isn't so much about you as, of course, about him and the erasing of Bernie Sanders that the corporate media does.
	Was there huge risers with cameras?
	I mean, tens of thousands of people?
	There were cameras, and someone has it on tape.
	Yeah.
	I know you can find it on YouTube.
	Not getting much coverage.
	No, but that's par for the course.
	The reason why I support Bernie is because, despite all of this, he still has immense numbers.
	He's leading in the polls, despite being erased or ignored.
	And I believe he is the only one of them that can defeat Trump.
	I truly believe that he is the best shot we have of getting rid of this guy.
	The centrist Democrats have run with a strategy for years to try to appeal to suburban housewives that might be conservative.
	If we get a few of those votes, we'll shift the focus.
	And we'll be able to win the election.
	They may not be so conservative.
	Well, yeah, maybe not.
	But here's the thing.
	It didn't work for Gore.
	It didn't work for Kerry.
	It didn't work for Clinton.
	Clinton?
	Obama won because he ran to the left.
	He ran a progressive campaign.
	I don't know.
	Oh, really?
	Hold on a second.
	That's the only reason Obama won?
	Really?
	That's what it was, Tim Robbins?
	To the left.
	He ran a progressive campaign.
	I don't know why they believe this strategy will somehow change now.
	Now if we run to the center, everything will be fine.
	The electorate is restless.
	They've rejected it in the past.
	And you see how strong their support for Bernie is.
	And so I believe he has the best shot.
	I agree.
	He has the numbers.
	I don't know if he can keep the money flowing, but he has the numbers.
	He'll never get it, of course.
	He's going to get screwed.
	He's going to get screwed again.
	I mean, they're already trying really hard.
	I think they made a mistake.
	There's a lot of mistakes in this one.
	But the Barry Weiss-Joe Rogan question kind of put Joe Rogan through the bowels of the machine for 24 hours.
	This is...
	This 45-second clip was taken verbatim and used on Twitter and other social media outlets and platforms to show Joe Rogan endorses Bernie Sanders.
	This is not by any means an endorsement, but here's exactly what the 45-second clip was.
	Who are you going to vote for in the primary?
	I think I'll probably vote for Bernie.
	Him as a human being, when I was hanging out with him, I believe in him.
	I like him.
	I like him a lot.
	What Bernie stands for is a guy who...
	You could dig up dirt on every single human being that's ever existed if you catch them in their worst moment and you magnify those moments and you cut out everything else and you only display those worst moments.
	That said...
	You can't find very many with Bernie.
	He's been insanely consistent his entire life.
	He's basically been saying the same thing, been for the same thing his whole life.
	And that, in and of itself, is a very powerful structure to operate from.
	The last bit has me puzzled about Joe.
	Everything else is fine.
	He's a Bernie bro, so that's cool.
	Well, people lost their crap over that, particularly the Bernie people.
	I don't understand it.
	Because he's transphobic, don't you understand?
	He's homophobic, transphobic, white, straight, male, punches other men used to in the ring.
	He's everything wrong, everything wrong about the left.
	The left's response to that, simple.
	Light-hearted endorsement.
	Is everything wrong with the left?
	It's not even an endorsement.
	He's just saying, yeah.
	No, it's not even an endorsement.
	He's going to vote for him.
	But the point is that anyone would care so much that they would throw him under the bus for wanting to...
	I mean, don't they want anyone to vote for Bernie?
	I mean, these guys are self-destructive.
	Because, you know, I saw it trending, and I'm like, let me take a look at what's going on.
	But it was all like, he's a known transphobe!
	I'm like, oh God!
	And it all stems from Rogan at one point saying, yeah, you can do whatever you want and you can call yourself a woman and you can go fight, but you can't fight chicks.
	I think that's literally what he said.
	And so now, of course, he's transphobe.
	I mean, look at the platform that Rogan has, and they're going to shun that?
	It's nuts.
	It's really nuts.
	I don't understand.
	What I also don't understand is Joe's reasoning, because by the same reasoning, you can go look at Trump interviews from the 80s, and he'll say exactly the same thing about China and immigration.
	Yeah, he's been very consistent.
	Very powerful platform from which to operate from.
	So he could easily be a Trump guy, just as easy as he is a Bernie guy.
	Well, if this only criteria is consistency.
	But the overarching message for me, once again, is what Tim Robbins was saying.
	And yes, he was never married to Sarandon, but they lived together for a long time.
	Boyfriend, girlfriend kind of deal.
	Yeah.
	Is that there were 45,000 people on a beach and you didn't see it on CNN, Fox, or MSNBC. And I bet even during this interview, did they show video of it or just talk about it?
	They showed no video, which is curious.
	It even said, somebody has video of it.
	No.
	No, you gotta understand.
	Bernie is being ramrodded.
	He's not...
	It's just as maddening to me.
	Well, is it possible that Bernie is such a bad person, and a communist, let's say, that the agencies have actually walked into the editorial offices, and the New York Times would lead the way on this?
	You're not doing that.
	You're not showing this.
	That's possible.
	And you go into the New York Times and say, you're not showing this, you're not talking about it, just, you know, you can put Bernie coverage in this, you know, as is normal, but we don't want this.
	Because you're putting the country at risk.
	If this guy becomes president, who knows what will happen.
	We don't want to take a chance.
	And then they go into NBC, CBS, and ABC, and they do the same thing.
	And they say, look, you're not running these pictures of these big rallies with Bernie.
	Because we saw them at the beginning of the 2016 campaign.
	They showed one or two of them.
	Yeah, one or two.
	That was about it.
	And then that was the end of it.
	They stopped showing them.
	Meanwhile, they said, you know, you want to do big rallies, you show Trump.
	So they showed Trump, gave Trump all this free publicity, but they never showed Bernie.
	And that to this day, they've never shown these big rallies.
	And maybe there is one on Google.
	I couldn't find it.
	And then they didn't even show up even of still photo on Democracy Now!
	So there you go.
	Sums up.
	Well, something that's up is obvious, is that the media will not show it.
	Look, Fox News doesn't like Bernie, but neither do any of the left-leaning, liberalized meteorology budgets.
	They don't like it!
	And sadly, that is...
	I'm not sure they don't like it as much as they're told not to cover it, and they do as they're told.
	Well, good point.
	I mean, ultimately, money talks, and...
	And bullshit walks.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's like Bloomberg.
	You know, it's like he's just spending and spending and spending.
	But the money's not going to work for him.
	It doesn't matter what he spends.
	He'll never get the nomination.
	Well, he has switched his message a little bit.
	Because of the impeachment, he has now gone into anti-Trump mode for his advertising.
	Oh, you know, that's interesting.
	Actually, let me open this up again.
	Where was this?
	I don't have a copy of one of these ads, but he starts off bitching about Trump and how he's got to be out.
	Yeah, no, I don't have that.
	What I do have is the neocons, who I think are now aligned with the Democrat Party, Bill Kristol.
	Yes, totally.
	So, he's got something funny, ha ha ha ha, that he's doing with a new group.
	So he's back on the scene.
	Our boy Bill Crystal has showed up on Morning Joe with his latest commercial.
	Mike Pence doesn't brag about sexually assaulting women.
	Grab him by the p***h.
	I can do anything.
	Mike Pence doesn't pressure foreign governments into investigating his political rivals.
	Ukraine should start an investigation into the Biden.
	Mike Pence doesn't mock and make fun of people with handicaps.
	You gotta see this guy.
	I don't know what I said.
	Donald Trump is being impeached.
	It's time for President Pence.
	At least it's an improvement.
	That was a new ad from the group Defending Democracy Together.
	And joining us now is the group's founder and director, Bill Kristol.
	Bill, I'll start with you and the ad.
	What's the strategy there?
	You know, I just got so tired of people telling me that the election is going to be reversed.
	And of course, the president's own lawyers have been saying that.
	And I really do think that half the people who watch Fox News and support the president think that if he's impeached and removed, that Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi will become president.
	And I thought It's worth, you know, let's just remind them that the president will be Mike Pence, a pretty conservative Republican.
	If you like Trump's judges, guess what?
	Mike Pence will appoint the exact same judges.
	If you like the deregulation, Mike Pence will deregulate industry just in the same way.
	He'll keep the cabinet, etc.
	So I'm not a huge fan of Mike Pence, but I do think it was just worth reminding people of that and causing maybe a little trouble, maybe...
	President Trump will see that and get a little annoyed, a little worried that Pence is maneuvering behind the scenes to encourage people to replace him.
	So we have a little website, presidentpence.com, just to get that idea bouncing around out there.
	What a smug cock.
	Don't you think?
	It's like, what is the point of this?
	And Jimmy Kimmel was all in.
	Jimmy Kimmel?
	I mean, like, no one knew.
	No one saw this.
	You didn't see it.
	I only caught it by coincidence.
	This ad is not really running anywhere.
	The guy's not spending any money with his DDT group.
	I don't know what his game is, but he did somehow get it on Kimmel.
	Kimmel played it, came out of the clip with this.
	Mike Pence better hope Donald Trump doesn't see that commercial.
	Or Mike Pence is going to have Donald Trump's foot up his oval orifice.
	But I do love thinking about that.
	If some kind of miracle happens and these senators actually do the right thing for a change or remove the president from office, which they won't, but if they did, I wonder what that would look like.
	Like, would they actually have to remove him physically from his office?
	What if he won't leave?
	Will they drag him out and put all his stuff to the left, to the left?
	And where would...
	When that was happening, where would Mike Pence be?
	Would he be hiding in, like, the back of a van outside, waiting for the coast to...
	Would there be hair pulling?
	I mean, don't you want to remove him just to see that?
	Come on, everybody.
	So, I mean, I don't know.
	I don't know what the point was.
	It's not that funny an ad.
	No, it's not funny in that.
	And Kimmel is just a Trump hater.
	He's gone really off the deep end.
	I mean, only Fallon is trying to stay a little bit neutral with his kind of lighthearted material.
	But Kimmel just hates Trump.
	And it all began about a year and a half ago.
	Kids in cages, I think, is what it was.
	Right.
	Oh, he was crying!
	He was crying!
	He was crying!
	Yeah, he was crying, yeah.
	Kids in cages.
	Crying, man.
	Just crying about it all.
	So horrible.
	Kids in cages.
	What are we going to do with the kids in cages?
	I can't understand.
	It's just so bad.
	I'm part of a creepy ad that I put on this list here you might want to play.
	Uh, creepy.
	Part.
	Part.
	Just part.
	Part of a creepy ad.
	Okay.
	Your data being sold is not the only problem.
	It's also being used for other reasons.
	Worse reasons.
	You're being profiled.
	Whether it be political persuasion or what the men in black suits want people of your type to be looking at.
	Bottom line is, it's ultimate control.
	Do you see and read the same news that someone with the opposite political belief sees?
	Do you read the same news that someone of a different race or someone who makes more income than you sees?
	What about your children?
	Are they really being given an equal shot?
	Or is everything predetermined?
	So, who is behind what pops up and what doesn't?
	Google chooses what to show you before you even press enter.
	Internet use is not just limited to laptop and smartphones.
	If you use a debit or credit card, your purchases, time and date and physical location can be tracked.
	What was the ad for?
	I like it.
	It was for some VPN or something.
	It was ridiculous.
	Totally up my alley.
	Yeah, I know.
	I put it aside for that reason, because it sounds like an OTG element.
	But...
	Go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	But, you were saying?
	I'm reminded every time I hear something like this, and it probably never shows up too much in the OTG segment, but I remember the late 70s and the 80s for sure, when all these, way before the internet, All these promises were...
	It was a holy grail.
	Any old-timer out there remembers this.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, one of these days, they'll be able to customize your news.
	So when you get your news, they'll be customized to you.
	By the way, that was part of the RSS promise, that you would be able to customize your own news feed, your own news flow.
	That was part of the promise.
	Yeah, so you get what you want.
	Not all this other crap.
	Not the fake news.
	You only get what you actually want.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, how'd that work out?
	And so they start doing it.
	This is one of the two kind of idiosyncratic complaints I have.
	They start doing that automatically for you.
	They say, well, this is what you want.
	We figured it out because we got all the algos and we got your profile and this is what you want, so here it is.
	And now you're complaining?
	The other one...
	And that would include you.
	And the other one was another one from the 80s.
	I remember all these basics.
	Oh, one of these days all the libraries in the world will be digitized.
	All the knowledge will be everywhere.
	And so nobody did that.
	So Google starts doing it just on their own.
	And then everyone started bitching again.
	And everyone's bitching and suing them.
	You can't do that.
	It's fantastic.
	Yeah, I was listening.
	Scott Adams, for some odd reason, interviewed one of the investors of Clearview AI. Which is that the app that they've now, temporarily it's only available for law enforcement, where all you have to do is just have a picture, you throw it into the app, and they've been scraping Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, you know, all the social media sites.
	And so pretty quickly they, whoop!
	They pop up who you are with links to posts or tagged pictures.
	Which, you know, and actually they came up...
	I didn't pull any clips from it, but they did talk about some interesting uses such as identification of victims, of course.
	But, you know, they're really focusing on bad guys.
	Just going to get bad guys with this.
	And Scott Adams said something that I thought was very interesting.
	He said...
	Pretty much everybody with technology like this, and this will be...
	The company wants to make it available to anybody.
	I don't know if they're going to...
	He says that would be the great equalizers.
	Everybody had it.
	And I'm sure this concept can be replicated even in open source.
	It should be possible.
	So this is going to exist.
	And Scott Adams' point was interesting.
	He says, you know, in the past 20 years, but certainly since he's been doing this show, so what is it, a year and a half, two years...
	He says, I've become recognizable and people know who I am.
	They know about me.
	A lot of them don't like me because I might have at one time said, oh, you know, the president's doing a good job.
	He says, so everybody will have this.
	In the future, everybody will be quote-unquote famous or have the same attributes where you could say, hey, who is that person?
	You look them up and you'll know a lot about them immediately.
	You'll know political, socioeconomic standing, etc., And he said, interestingly, he said, if I had to exchange being recognizable and famous for not being recognizable and famous, he said, no, I probably wouldn't.
	He said, I kind of enjoy it.
	There's a lot of benefits.
	However, he said, if you asked me before I'd ever been famous, I probably wouldn't have wanted it.
	And I thought that was an interesting take.
	And for me, it brought up the following bastardization of the soup can man.
	How about this?
	In the future?
	Everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
	I think that's where we're going.
	That's cute.
	Thank you.
	Two products to talk about for the OTG segment.
	Just some quick OTG kind of guy.
	There's an app that comes with an envelope.
	And you put your smartphone in the envelope, and it seals, so the only way to get it out is to rip and thus ruin this envelope.
	It's a square kind of cardboard box.
	It's called an envelope, but it's more like...
	It's almost like a packaging box that a phone would come in when you first buy it.
	And there's two versions of it explained in this short clip, but really printed on one side of this package envelope are certain buttons you can use.
	So the idea is you put your phone in the envelope and then it helps you with your digital detox.
	It comes with an app, of course.
	As a studio, we're really interested in exploring ways to find a balance with technology.
	When it comes to mobile phones, people find all sorts of strategies to limit and control their use.
	Some people buy a much simpler second phone and try to use it at weekends, and other people go to great lengths to hide their phones.
	We wanted to create a really simple, accessible way for people to experience a digital detox.
	So we made Envelope.
	All you need to do is seal your phone inside to transform it into a much simpler device.
	You can make and receive calls.
	You can speed dial a favorite number and there's even a little clock to tell the time.
	The idea is to try and last as long as possible before opening the envelope and getting your old phone back.
	The camera envelope removes all the functionality of your phone apart from the camera, so you can only take photos and videos too, but you have to wait until the end of the day before you can look at them.
	We hope you like these little concepts and can give them a try to find your balance with technology.
	The envelope.
	I know.
	It's crap.
	The second product is called Show& Tell.
	It is a feature of an existing Amazon Echo product.
	The Amazon Echo now comes in a self-contained unit with a screen.
	and the new technology the new features it has are being touted as great for people who are blind but you can just imagine the implications the whole idea for show and tell came about from customer feedback actually challenges around identifying things in their pantry i can be thought yeah we can do this We can help here.
	I'm going to give you a product and then you're going to say, Alexa, what am I holding?
	Let's see.
	It looks like 365 everyday value.
	Macaroni.
	Great.
	That's awesome.
	I think that's garlic powder.
	Wow.
	That's impressive.
	It's critical for us that we're working with our customers, building with them, not just building for them.
	They really need our feedback to tell them what we need.
	You'll hear sounds to help you position your item.
	It looks like we're going to play pineapple.
	Whoa!
	Is that what it is?
	Oh my gosh.
	All these devices that are acting as your eyes, I think it's very revolutionary.
	For me, the less stress I have to put on somebody else is less stress on me.
	And it makes me feel good.
	Yes, Amazon show and tell.
	It's great for people who have vision issues, but it kind of shows you where it's going, doesn't it?
	I think the idea for that particular product is dynamite.
	Of course, for sure.
	Well, Amazon, you have to remember, Amazon, if you had a Fire phone, Which we found out Bezos doesn't himself actually use.
	No, no, because it won't hold enough naked pictures.
	Memory's too small.
	He can't put the cool filters on it.
	Look how long it is.
	Anyway.
	Anyway, they had this feature.
	You'd point the phone at something, you'd push a button.
	And it would just look all over the shot.
	Yeah, it still does that.
	Yeah, well...
	Well, the Fire Phone, you're right, had multiple cameras.
	I remember that, yeah.
	It had some system.
	It was really fast.
	It could go into Best Buy.
	And it would tell you exactly what the product was, because then it would link right to Amazon and say, we sell it for $1.99.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Which is the idea.
	But I think it's going to go much further now.
	It just identifies stuff you're wearing, you know, anything.
	It'll start doing stuff.
	You know?
	Yeah, tell you how it was the last time you washed your shirt.
	It just doesn't feel good.
	Nothing about it feels good.
	No, all this stuff sucks.
	In fact, the internet stinks.
	I'm going to show my soul by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	That wasn't grouchy enough.
	I can get worse.
	But I want to thank a few people first, starting with Tracy Bossano in Madison, Alabama.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
	If Anonymous Dog wants to help me, I am grateful.
	So she's on the list.
	It's Anonymous from Dogpatch.
	It's not Anonymous Dog.
	Now, you might as well get it right if you're going for the promotion.
	I'm just saying.
	Really?
	City bus driver in Eugene, Oregon, $100.
	Christopher Remmer, 88, parts unknown.
	Carolyn Blaney in Aurora, Ontario.
	Isn't that one of the hogwash, hog stories, Carolyn?
	Yes, I think it is.
	Maybe.
	She got the newsletter before this latest one with all the horrible children's books in there.
	She thought it was frightening.
	End of show.
	We have a reading by Sir Felix Wilson of the No Agenda book, As You Requested, John, My First Gun.
	My first gun, a Elias Kekesh in Talapusa, Georgia.
	He needs a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Elias.
	It is Elias.
	8008 for him.
	Adriana Villanueva in Blue Spring, Maryland, 7777.
	And she needs a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Brian Burgess, 6933 from Pelican Rapids, Minnesota.
	John Kramer in Harlem, Netherlands, $69.
	Gary Blatt, $66.60.
	Keep up the good work.
	Spencer Pearson in Kansas City, Missouri, $66.00.
	Now it's in the meetup, the 816 collection.
	This is actually the, so this would be the 816 locals donation.
	Yeah.
	Okay, nice.
	Thank you very much.
	John Tierney, $56.78.
	By the way, don't we have a make good with somebody who sent a note in?
	Yes, the one that you said you would take care of.
	Yes.
	Did you have that note?
	Oh, God.
	You said...
	Keep going.
	I'll look it up, but I will point out that you specifically said you would take care of...
	You can point out my foibles.
	That's not a problem.
	I know, but now I'm hustling trying to figure it out.
	Okay.
	Well, wait a minute.
	I may actually have done something.
	Let's see if I printed it.
	I should have.
	That's the problem.
	I had good intentions.
	I know you have good intentions.
	I got one from Sir Roadwolf.
	Oh, this is a good note, but this is something else.
	I'll read that afterwards.
	Onward with Tyranny, 5678.
	Jim Buell in Spring Hill, Texas, 53.33.
	Dan Doering in Eolia, Missouri, 50.50.
	And the following people are $50 donors, a short list again.
	Gerald Van Den Brink in East Ulster Utrecht, Netherlands.
	Utrecht.
	Utrecht.
	There's no L in Utrecht.
	Utrecht.
	I finally received Knighthood celebrating it with an extra donation of 50 bucks.
	I got the accounting in.
	I'm a long-time listener.
	Recently, I found to know Agenda the TPO podcast in Holland for, as we should say these days, the Netherlands.
	I'm a loyal listener since day one during commutes, mountain biking, and traveling in the Far East.
	In January, I came back from China with a nice and deep something.
	Cough.
	While listening to No Agenda drinking too much Corona beer.
	I always love to hear John slaughtering Dutch names.
	And Adam using the Dutch accent.
	What are you talking about?
	Thank you for keeping...
	Why don't you read the rest of this with that accent?
	Okay, one moment.
	I was looking for the email you lost, you know?
	Thanks you.
	Yes.
	Thanks you for keeping my amygdala small and my mind healthy.
	I would love to have beer and bitterball at the round table.
	You got it.
	Some goat karma and the jingle, nothing to see here.
	Look over there, which has been my ringtone for many, many years.
	It's great.
	Over all these years listening to No Agenda, I'm noticing people are more and more waking up with a healthier worldview, resulting also in the Netherlands' podcasts like Café Weltschmerz, TPO Podcast, Jensen, and the upcoming of Think Tank and Political Party Forum for Democracy.
	Thank you for all the work you do, the insights you give, and the joy and laughter.
	My future knight name will be Sir Doris Knight of the Wild Boar Mountains in the Lowlands.
	Now, the reason I requested you do that is because I think when you do accents that are so complete like that, they do need to be exercised, and you have not done that one for months.
	Thank you.
	And so what does he need?
	Beer and bitterballen.
	I shall put that at the round table.
	And what else do we have to do?
	I'm sure there was other stuff.
	Tons about it.
	That needed to be done.
	Onward on the list, Colin, Colleen, I'm sorry, Colleen Garrett in Cary, North Carolina, $50.
	Matthew Ching, $50.
	Elwha Leibel in Newark, Delaware.
	Noah Davis in West Lafayette, Indiana, $50.
	And Mitchell Kaufman in Hillsborough, Oregon, also $50.
	Along with Jesus Allen in Austin, Texas.
	Julian Robbins in Aptos, California, and Will West in Peoria, Arizona.
	We've got more.
	Colin Villanueva.
	Another Villanueva.
	It's not the same one.
	In Blue Springs, Maryland.
	Joe Winkie in Santa Rosa.
	Jambo Joe.
	Yeah, Jambo Joe.
	Jambo Joe.
	Jambo Joe, our guy.
	That concludes our group of producers for a show.
	12-11.
	Yes.
	And we hope to get another big group in for 12-12.
	12-12 is the next one.
	That's kind of a famous couple of numbers there, 12-12.
	So we'll look forward to promoting that.
	Okay, let's look at what we messed up here.
	So one is David Russell.
	He was miffed that he made a donation and then somehow he's missed on the birthday list.
	So he's on the birthday list for today.
	And it was Herb Lamb.
	Ah, yes.
	The Earl of Georgia.
	Yes, and here's what he said.
	He was hoping for some F-cancer karma, which he'd put in the PayPal note.
	By the way, I found something.
	I discovered something.
	If you donate to the show on a mobile device, PayPal, interestingly, has the note at the top of the page.
	I think that's what confuses a lot of people.
	Because, you know, you kind of work from the top down.
	Here I am.
	I'm sending the money to this.
	Here's the amount.
	And then you expect there to be a note, but it's not.
	You have to scroll back up.
	It's the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
	Oh, really?
	Yes.
	I'm surprised nobody's complained about that publicly.
	Because I was making a donation for some software I've been using.
	Because I want to put a note.
	Like, hey, I support this stuff.
	Oh, you've discovered it.
	Yeah.
	So, Herb...
	I'm going to give Herb the...
	Who was it for, though?
	Monday, my uncle, who is not much older than I am, has stage 4 cancer in his lungs and brain.
	We are still waiting on a final prognosis, but it's not good I figured the karma couldn't hurt.
	Of course.
	And here it comes.
	You've got karma.
	Woo!
	And apologies, Sir Herb.
	Apologies for that.
	But thank you to everybody who supported the show today.
	These people over $50.
	And of course, reminiscing again about the great list of associate executive producers and executive producers.
	It all makes a big difference.
	And in particular, when you look at people coming under 50, these are the ongoing, sustaining programs that you can join.
	There's always a couple people at $49.99 who just want to make sure they are anonymous because we don't read anything over $50.
	But then you see the $33.33 under.
	We have the $20.17, $20.18, $20.19 all started probably in the January of that year.
	So fantastic to see those still going.
	And $12.12.
	Not that many $12.12.
	That was a short-term thing we tried.
	But all of that is just so appreciated, and it's the way the Value for Valium system works.
	It's still working for us, and it's working for you, because after all, you are the ones creating the show.
	It is your podcast, and we all know by now it is the best podcast in the universe.
	An emergency karma request from Sir Fudge Fountain, Baron of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
	Kilo 8, Tango India Yankee, 73, from K5ACC. I don't like to whip out my peerage and waggle it around too often.
	It's so long.
	But, gotta make an exception and petition for health karma from my mom.
	There's talk of a potential blood clot in the lung leading to her recent difficulty breathing.
	We find that pretty worrying.
	If you get a chance to swing your beam towards Florida and direct a few watts of karma in that direction, my family and I would be very appreciative.
	What the hell was that?
	No, no, no.
	Now I have to throw a goat in to fix it.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	And for anyone who wants to participate in this great Value for Value network, all you have to do is get ready to come up with a number and visit this website.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. And for those who need it, a jobs karma.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	It's a sad day, bad day.
	I'm so much younger.
	We're getting close to the end of the monsters.
	It's the 26th of January, 2020.
	Here's our birthday list with a belated happy birthday to David Russell, who turned 50 on January 18th.
	Joe Carlson celebrates today, actually.
	Dave Jennifer's happy birthday to her husband, Gary.
	He is celebrating today.
	Brian Furl, 33, on the 29th.
	And Chris Grimald says happy birthday to his son, Steeler Grimald, 24 years old, on the 24th.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	Now, hold on a second.
	I'm just looking at this.
	Did we read the note from Dame Jennifer for her husband Gary?
	Did we read that?
	Because I completely...
	I don't believe we did.
	Because she is giving him...
	Do you see her on the list somewhere?
	She's got to be on the list.
	It may have come in sideways on the email.
	Let me see if I can find it.
	So she made a donation, and I know that she is upgrading her title to Baronetis, but I believe she deferred or has upped the numbers for her husband, Gary, who becomes a knight today.
	So I want to make sure that...
	I'm sure she had a note because I know I forwarded it.
	I just don't see it anywhere on the list.
	Is this because of...
	Am I just blind?
	Let's see.
	Make sure we do this.
	Well, here's the note.
	Oh, you got the note?
	Good.
	I just got an email.
	Yeah, good.
	It's on Squirrel Mail, so as I click on it, it pops right up.
	ITM, as I mentioned a couple weeks ago, Eric helped me with my donation accounting and recently passed 3K. Rather than upgrade myself to Baroness, I would like to upgrade to just Baroness and gift the knighthood to my husband for his birthday, which is tomorrow.
	We just listed him.
	Yep.
	And I showed a LGY. I would like to be Baroness Jennifer of the possible exit strategy.
	Yeah.
	Dame Jennifer, soon to be Baronetis, is the entire brains and art director behind the animated No Agenda.
	And that is seen as a possible exit strategy.
	I think the title is appropriate, apropos.
	And she obviously has a heck of a sense of humor because her stuff is quite funny.
	the government grants might be the most lucrative, but I think animations would be way more fun.
	For Gary's nighting, he says, it's a surprise.
	How about Sir Gary, patient husband and supporter of animated no agenda?
	Sorry, I know it's long.
	For now, he can give Eric something different for a certificate if he wants.
	He's a bourbon lover, so he's already covered for the roundtable request.
	Dame Jennifer soon to be bearing the test.
	That's her note.
	All right.
	Beautiful.
	Why don't we do it right now?
	Let's get the swords out here.
	If you got some bladage.
	I got my blade right here.
	Nice blade.
	It's so long.
	Up on the podium, Gary Buchanan, Anonymous, Gerard von der Brink, and Brett Samuel.
	Bunch of dudes.
	Gentlemen, thank you very much for your support of the No Agenda Show, your podcast, the amount of $1,000 or more, and I'm very proud to pronounce the case name Sir Gary, patient husband and supporter of Animated No Agenda, Sir Scottman of Norristown, Sir Doris, knight of the wild boar mountains in the lowlands, and...
	Sir Brett's Night of the Dark Fate.
	Gentlemen, for you we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay.
	We've got beer and bitterball, Dr.
	Pepper and a quick handy cold brew coffee and cannabis.
	Rubenesse women and rosé, ginger ale and gerbils, bong, and some bourbon.
	And of course...
	Of course, there's always mutton and mead.
	All of you should head over to noagendanation.com slash rings, and we'll get those out to you as soon as possible.
	Just fill in some of the paperwork there.
	There's always paperwork with peerage.
	It's the way it's always happened.
	And thank you very much for supporting your No Agenda show, the best podcast in the universe.
	Title changes, turning faceless ladies, just changes, don't want to be a douchebag.
	No douchebags here.
	Dame Jennifer, as you just heard, upgrades her title to Baronetis Jennifer of the Possible Exit Strategy.
	Another valuable member of the Value for Value Network and the No Agenda family.
	Thank you, Dame Jennifer, for everything you do.
	And possibly getting out of the show.
	Well, we'll never get out of the show because we have to do the show for the exit strategy.
	But we'd be rich!
	I think that's the idea.
	Isn't that the idea?
	If we have a show on Netflix, we're golden.
	We're in.
	We're home.
	We can retire.
	Maybe even get a bidding war with Apple.
	Apple TV. I mean, anything could happen.
	So, mentioning that, before you go on, I did start watching The Morning Show.
	Ah, with Jennifer Aniston.
	This is probably her best acting job ever.
	I agree.
	And, uh...
	I think it's really an interesting show because it's so inside baseball.
	It may not be appealing to everybody, but I really thought it was a very good, well-done show.
	It's like someone with a grudge really puts something nice together with a big budget.
	Big budget.
	Big budget.
	It's a good show.
	I agree.
	And seeing as she won at the Golden Globes, And Brad Pitt, of course, won the Golden Globes.
	And we've seen the pictures.
	I can tell you, if Brad and Jennifer get back together, then all our problems will be solved.
	I think when they split up, that's when America started to divide into two dimensions.
	I think they are ground zero of the dimensional split in the United States.
	There you go.
	I'm just hopeful.
	Yeah, baby!
	It's like a party!
	Potty going on.
	In fact, meetups today at the Daytona International Speedway.
	Sir Raptor this evening, the Rolex 24 meetup.
	Also in Philadelphia, the Philly Local 76.
	It's their first one.
	That will be in Southeast PA at the Philadelphia Brewing Company.
	Sir Scatman, now a night, as you just heard, of Norristown will be hosting for you.
	And Alexandria, Virginia, which should be underway.
	They started it at noon.
	It's a trademark drink and eat.
	Sir William of West Pennsylvania hosting.
	Let me just tell you what's coming up this week.
	Friday, the Colorado Springs 719, local 719.
	At Phantom Canyon Brewing, upstairs, M. Andrew Jones hosting that for you.
	Also on Friday, the local MCO Central Florida Meetup No.
	4 at 6.30.
	That's the Stanford Brewing Company, Brandon E., organizing that for you.
	And I might as well tell you...
	Well, we'll leave it at that.
	I'll do the next Saturday...
	Charleston, South Carolina, the six-week cycle at one o'clock.
	Dame Jennifer Buchanan hosting that, the animated No Agenda, Baronetas.
	Also next Saturday, the Boston No Agenda Meetup.
	That's Red 33, Red 33.
	And that will be at the, oh my goodness, the Castle Island Brewery in Nord, Massachusetts.
	And finally, for next Saturday, Southwest Ontario, Scandinavian Meetup at 6 o'clock.
	Enjoy a burger, rebellion, and beer from Refined Fool, Trevor Collette Organizing.
	Find all of this at noagendameetups.com.
	We have some meetup reports.
	The first one comes to us from the 816 Local.
	Hey, this is Sir Spencer, Wolf of Kansas City.
	We're here at the Rhino in North KC for the first 816 edition of No Agenda Meetup.
	So I'm passing it around.
	We're all going to say hello.
	Hey, Dame DeLorean here.
	Hey, No Agenda Nation.
	What's up?
	Hello from Kansas and Missouri.
	Howdy from KC Moe.
	I'm no longer a douchebag.
	Caleb Brinkman from Springfield, Missouri.
	Circumspect from Oak Grove.
	Colin Villanueva from Blue Springs.
	In the morning, Adriana from Blue Springs.
	No Agenda is the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you all for your courage.
	All right, then we have, let me see, where's this next one?
	This was the Austin Local 512 meetup sent to us by, I think it was Sergeant Fred who sent this.
	Oops, this one here.
	We're recording right now.
	Here we are at the meetup, which is called...
	The Flight of the No Agenda.
	Flight of the No Agenda here at...
	Right next to Los Angeles International Airport.
	I'm sorry, that was not the one I was thinking of.
	Holy crap, why...
	I thought this was...
	No, that is Fred, I guess.
	I don't know what the hell this is.
	This is...
	Oh, that's the meetup in L.A. on the 18th.
	And I guess I'm...
	Oh, I messed that up.
	I'm sorry.
	I have to work on organizing this better.
	But I do have the New England meetup from the 25th.
	My name is Mike.
	I'm a millennial and important.
	Hi, I'm Jeff.
	I'm a member of the original OTG family.
	I'm here with my wife, Emily, and my daughter, Runa.
	Thank you for your courage in keeping our amygdalas clean.
	I got de-douched tonight.
	Hey, what's going on?
	It's Brandon.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Once again, the only black person here.
	Step up!
	Chip in!
	Hey, from a dude named Jeff, in the morning.
	Hey, it's Will.
	What do you call a group of podcasters?
	A curry.
	Hey, not Jake from the Quiet Corner, ITM Adam and John.
	Hey, Robert Case here, ITM. I made it to the New England meetup.
	Yo, it's like a party!
	Hey, Craig, ITM from Massachusetts.
	Amy from Western Massachusetts.
	In the morning, this is Chris from New England.
	Lady Butters from Narragansett Bay, drinking an IPA, and now it's a party.
	We're doing a meet-up report.
	Um, shit, I don't know what to say either.
	We are drinking great beer, talking about great people who host an awesome podcast that we couldn't live without.
	Thank you!
	Yeah, what she said.
	That was my wife, so yes, good.
	This is Sir Gin making the recording, watcher of the Stargate Protector of Fish.
	Hello, it's Sir Knives here, and I just wanted to say ITM and thank you for your courage, gentlemen.
	And I may be better recognized as Sir Knives, but we're all here having a great time.
	In the morning, everybody!
	Sir Ernesto, have a good time in New England Meetup.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Thank you, Sir Ernesto, for organizing in the morning.
	Outstanding reports, Saul.
	Thank you so much.
	And finally, a written one from Tim, who hosted the Oregon Local 33 Meetup the other night.
	Four slaves present, he says.
	Three producers.
	A small turnout, yet a great time was had by all.
	The low turnout raised some concern.
	There might be some confusion over the venue.
	I guess there is a Bar 33 Brooklyn where we met and a place across town named Bar 33.
	We'll see if you hear a different meetup report.
	We had a brief round of another No Agenda game, this one based on the game Telestrations, only with NA-themed items.
	It's challenging even when I was the one creating the word list and a nice picture of the producers there.
	Thank you all.
	Noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find one that's happening near you, for God's sakes, man, set one up.
	Get it going already.
	NoagendaMeetUps.com.
	Woo-hoo!
	We went long today, but I do have an important one.
	uh This, I think, is pretty important.
	You know, we've been tracking the war on cash.
	Jeez, almost since the beginning of the show.
	Would you say, is that fair?
	Is that fair to say?
	In fact, we have a jingle for it.
	Yeah, of course.
	And the jingle, let me see how old this thing is.
	Monday!
	You better hide your steps Because there's a war on cats At least 2013, so it's been tracking it for a while.
	We're big proponents of cash.
	Cash is becoming a problem.
	There are stores everywhere that, certainly in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, you know, sorry, no cash, no cash at all.
	What's really good about this, what's just funny, is we're now in one of those situations where social justice is frying everybody's brain.
	Because, yeah, we all want to hurry up and just touch and go, and we don't want to have this nasty, pesky old cash.
	It's stinky, and why would you want it?
	Okay, boomer, have some cash!
	But there's a little problem.
	Whether you swipe, insert, or tap, it's become part of the consumer culture in New York City.
	The goal?
	To keep you moving.
	And it's the reason why some businesses like Sweetgreen have completely gone cashless.
	But now it will be against the law as the Big Apple becomes the latest city to ban businesses from not accepting cash.
	Cash is the great equalizer.
	It is the universal currency.
	The legislation, which was sponsored by Bronx Councilman Richie Torres, will penalize brick-and-mortar businesses who don't accept cash with fines of up to $1,500.
	Supporters of the legislation, overwhelmingly passed by the city council Thursday, say the cashless business model discriminates against the poor, homeless people, and undocumented immigrants, as they are more likely to be disconnected from the financial system.
	A ban on cashless business is a protection of privacy, is a protection of equity, but above all, it's a protection of consumer choice.
	The ban comes as many businesses move toward the so-called tap and pay model, like the cashierless Amazon Go, which now has four locations in the Big Apple, where customers only have to use an app to make purchases.
	After getting much pushback, Amazon announced the last year it will accept cash at select locations.
	We have to ensure that our increasingly digital economy in no way leaves New Yorkers behind.
	Now the mayor is expected to sign this legislation into law in about a month making it official and the legislation itself will go into effect by the end of the year.
	Gotta love it!
	They just can't do it.
	Their brain is...
	You can't have a cashless society because it's unfair to poor people, but particularly homeless people.
	Yes, we had a couple...
	We talked about this in the show before.
	There's a couple places in Berkeley that are cashless, and they're kind of...
	They should be shamed.
	They should be shamed.
	And they were, yeah.
	It was Jay that said, oh yeah, they're cashless because they don't want any homeless coming in there and buying a cupcake and then using the bathroom.
	I think the homeless should just poop in front of the place, right in the doorway.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, yeah, this is a good development.
	Amazon can get around their little problem because all you have to do, and I think New York has an exception for this, is if you make Amazon Prime members, because you have to be a member of Amazon or something when you go into one of these walk-in-out, walk-out stores without paying anything, you just make it a private club.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I'm thinking there's, you know, people will have to have cash and there's got to be some kind of wallet that you can, you know, like a phone case that has...
	When the grid goes down, what are you going to do?
	No, listen to what I'm saying.
	I'm talking exit strategy.
	One of these stupid phone cases that has a special wallet for cash, not for cards, but for cash...
	You know, and you can dispense it, and you just kind of, like, swipe the bottom of your phone.
	Something you can put around your belt, and you can click on it, and coins come out.
	Hey, man, it's a show day, and there's some sad news that just came out.
	Yeah?
	Kobe Bryant is dead.
	What?
	Dies in helicopter crash.
	Well, that's terrible.
	Kobe was traveling with at least three other people in his private helicopter when it went down.
	A fire broke out.
	Emergency personnel responded, but nobody on board survived.
	Five people confirmed dead.
	Vanessa Bryant was not among those on board.
	That is...
	That's a day wrecker, man.
	Holy crap.
	Yeah, Kobe was peaking, too.
	He was, like, doing business deals, getting a lot of TV work.
	It was too bad.
	This will change the reporting.
	I would say, if you want some ratings, you gotta hammer the Kobe story a lot.
	I think that will...
	That'll liven things up.
	That may solve coronavirus.
	We'll get a couple of days of that.
	At least two days.
	That sucks, man.
	That's a shitty way to go.
	Yeah, I'd say.
	Chopper death.
	Well, I have some stuff left over for our next upcoming show.
	I can...
	I could probably get a couple things out of the way.
	Maybe let's get this out of the way.
	Okay.
	Since you brought up Kobe's death, let's bring up Jim Lehrer's death.
	Oh, yes.
	Newsman extraordinaire.
	Newsman extraordinaire.
	He also was the one who pretty much mentored Gwen Ifill.
	Oh, a lot of people.
	Not just Gwen, but tons of people, I would say.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'm saying specifically for that show because what you're going to hear is like you'll hear nothing but, well, they don't do that anymore.
	Well, they don't do that anymore.
	Well, they don't do that anymore because the current people running the news hour are just – they're just not cutting it as far as I'm concerned in terms of being objective.
	I mean, everybody – I mean, when you can have Al Gore – we should have that clips around, but I'd dig it up – Al Gore telling Judy never to mention that there's people that are still skeptical about climate and her obediently obeying is pretty pathetic.
	But let's hear this, because this is Jim's rules for, and this is rules for journalism, he throws in at this little, in this ditty here.
	...told those of us privileged to work with him, it's not about us.
	But night after night, Jim showed by example that being yourself, journalist, writer, family man, citizen, can be a high calling indeed.
	For 36 years as an anchor of the NewsHour, Jim reported the news.
	People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call McNeil-Lera journalism.
	Well, yes, there are.
	He did it with a clear sense of purpose, even as the world of media changed around him.
	Do nothing I cannot defend.
	Cover, write, and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
	Assume there is at least one other side or aversion to every story.
	Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am.
	Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
	Assume personal lives or a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise.
	Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label everything.
	Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions.
	No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously.
	And finally, I am not in the entertainment business.
	He's rolling over in his grave, that's for sure.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the New York Times leading the way with anonymous bullcrap.
	Exactly.
	Alright.
	Well...
	You wanna call it a day?
	I think it's time, yeah.
	Okay, I definitely have stuff for Thursday.
	More on the OPCW, some more Epstein stuff.
	Yeah, good.
	Leave some people wanting for something.
	I mean, we did a long show today.
	And we do have end-of-show clips.
	Let's see, we've got Sean Cardinal, Leo Lapuke, and we also have Sir Felix Wilson.
	And coming up on NoAgendaStream.com, Grumpy Old Ben's number 47, The Health Scare.
	That's at NoAgendaStream.com.
	And I am coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas.
	It is in FEMA region number 6, in case you're looking for it, on the governmental maps.
	And my name is Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where things seem very normal, and there's no corona yet, I'm John C. Morag.
	Ha, ha.
	We return on Thursday.
	Please remember us at thevorak.org slash NA. It really matters that you help with our Value for Value network and keep the show going.
	Keep your eye on the newsletter, everybody.
	And until next time, adios mofos and such.
	Gitmo Nation Publications present My First Gun, read by Sir Felix Wilson.
	My First Gun.
	My first gun is not a toy.
	My first gun is for girls and boys.
	We're all born equal, we all say.
	My first gun helps keep it that way.
	My first gun is for target fun.
	My first gun is for when bad guys come.
	My first gun I always check the chamber because if it's loaded there is danger.
	My finger's off the trigger and the safety's on so I don't accidentally shoot someone.
	I check my target and what's behind before I take aim with my chamber prime.
	Only at my target, I point my muzzle to avoid accidents and misfire trouble.
	With an empty chamber and magazine, I keep my first gun all shiny and clean.
	I'll get closer inch by inch when I'm relaxed and do not flinch.
	If my aim is true and my spread is lean, my next gun will be an AR-15.
	Apocalypse alert.
	Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock.
	It is 100 seconds to midnight.
	The bearers of unbearable news.
	Time is almost up until the world is doomed.
	The hand of this fateful clock has been placed at various positions.
	Since its inception more than 70 years ago.
	But in 2018, it was set at two minutes to midnight, the closest since 1953.
	Now the Nobel laureate studded panel has moved it 100 seconds before a climate catastrophe.
	I'm absolutely terrified.
	This is the closest to midnight the clock has ever been in the history of ever.
	Tick tock, tick tock.
	It's a news day clock.
	It's a news day clock.
	We're in a countdown.
	TikTok, TikTok.
	I do like children.
	You use children as puppets.
	People can't throw things at children.
	You can't say, hey, Greta, can you show me your science degrees, please?
	I don't want you to listen to me.
	What's Bloomberg's net worth?
	His net worth?
	His personal worth?
	How many billions is he worth?
	I think he's up in the 20 billion range.
	50 plus.
	He can spend a billion on his campaign and his peanuts to him.
	Anything he wants.
	Anything he wants.
	Is that it impresses people?
	I have no idea.
	Bloomberg's...
	But I'm not running as president to do small things, but to do big things.
	He's full of crap, this guy.
	The challenge of African-American wealth creation today.
	Africa.
	Africa.
	I just heard that.
	He's having stumbling left and right here.
	Bloomberg.
	Bloomberg.
	For hundreds of years, Americans systematically stole black...
	I like how he kind of passes through that pretty quickly, doesn't he?
	Hundreds of years.
	Hundreds of years.
	Wow, does that impresses people?
	I have no idea.
	Bloomberg.
	Yeah, I think he's going to fail on this.
	Okay, so what are you thinking?
	Joe Biden.
	Howard K. Smith, 1978 ABC News, warning us about the coming Ice Age.
	There's a theory advanced by climatologists that an Ice Age is returning to the Earth.
	There's glaciers down to the Mason-Nixon line.
	The evidence adduced by Professor Reed Bryson of the University of Wisconsin, our leading scholar.
	He's Mr.
	White Christmas.
	He's Mr.
	Sun.
	Professor Reed Bryson.
	He's Mr.
	Icicle.
	He's Mr.
	Sun.
	Professor Reed Bryson, he cites the rhythm of 100,000 years of ice age interrupted briefly by a mere 10,000 years of warmth.
	And our 10,000 years of warmth has now packed.
	Who believes in global warming?
	Raise your hand.
	Nobody? Nobody? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
	The US Pacific Command has detected a missile threat to Hawaii.
	A missile may impact on land or sea within minutes.
	This is not a drill.
	If you are indoors, stay indoors.
	If you are outdoors, seek immediate shelter in a building.
	Remain indoors well away from windows.
	If you are driving, pull safely to the side of the road and seek shelter in a building or lay on the floor.
	We will announce when the threat has ended.
	This is not a drill.
	Take immediate action measures.
	The U.S. Pacific Command has detected a missile threat to Hawaii.
	A missile may impact on land or sea within minutes.
	The sky is very bright.
	All lit up.
	very the best podcast in the universe Adios.
	Mopo.
	Dvorak.org.

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