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	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, February 20th, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Gimbo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1218.
	This is No Agenda.
	Pardoning all producers and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone, Star State.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it appears that California's re-gone into a drought.
	I'm John C. DeBoer.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Well, I could send some of our rain your way if you want.
	We've had non-stop for the past week.
	Oh, you should.
	Yeah, yeah.
	What's up with you guys?
	No water?
	Eh, they said winter's over.
	Oh.
	Alright, so you get fire next then.
	No, actually, when there's not a lot of rain in the summer, or the winter, I mean, it doesn't grow as many plants, so the fire actually goes down.
	Well, that's better.
	Oh, okay.
	Good.
	Yeah, but that doesn't mean anything, because it just charges more for the water.
	Every time they get a chance, they jack up the bill, and you guys are...
	I don't know why you stay there, John.
	I don't know.
	You like the milieu, obviously.
	It's the milieu.
	It's the milieu.
	Well, you say milieu.
	I say milieu.
	You say milieu.
	I say milieu.
	So...
	There was debates.
	Yes, yes.
	They had these horrible debates.
	And I think that we should go over some of the debate clips right away and do it as members of the Curry-Dvorak Media Consulting Group.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, first of all, in the first round of advice would be Mayor Bloomberg, don't debate at all.
	Stay home.
	But no, he didn't listen to our advice.
	Well, I think, I watched him try to, he's not what you'd call a natural, that's for sure.
	I remember when Trump did his first debates, and he came out saying, I'm a natural at this, I'm good.
	You gotta step back for a second.
	First of all, there was no box.
	And there was no box, and it was obvious to me, because I was looking, I'm like, alright, let's see.
	And they lowered the podiums, or podia, I guess you would say.
	The lecterns, they were lower.
	Yeah.
	He had to do something.
	You see Bernie and Biden bowing down.
	No, no, no, no.
	It was so obvious.
	Smart, though.
	Good way to get it.
	Well, here's what I noticed.
	It was, to me, obvious that Bloomberg never had any pre-debate coaching or a...
	He's Bloomberg.
	Hold my beer.
	I'll do this.
	Oh, shit.
	Give me my beer back.
	I've got to drink it.
	That's exactly what happened.
	He wasn't ready.
	There were five questions he should have had a pat answer for.
	Yes, and the big one was I thought the one he should have had the pat answer for, and I can tell you what the pat answer is, in fact, because I've listened to this clip, as Warren badgered him over the non-disclosure agreements.
	Oh, I thought you were going to go with the first one.
	Well, what was the first one?
	Well, right off the bat when she...
	I mean, Warren came out swinging.
	Well, why don't you play the first one?
	But my prepared comments are about his inability to answer the nondisclosure.
	I want to follow your prepared comments.
	Where's the clip for this?
	That was the bonus clip.
	Oh, okay.
	It's the same one then.
	Gotcha.
	I hope you heard what his defense was.
	I've been nice to some women...
	Yeah, this is what I meant.
	The mayor has to stand on his record, and what we need to know is exactly what's lurking out there.
	He has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign non-disclosure agreements, both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.
	So, Mr.
	Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those non-disclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story?
	I've never heard people so happy for non-disclosure agreements.
	What is that, by the way?
	What you just said is the key to Bloomberg getting out of this.
	But he never executed it.
	He just choked.
	He is not going to beat anybody if he chokes something like this.
	I have a very few non-disclosure agreements.
	How many is there?
	Let me finish.
	How many is there?
	None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke I told.
	And let me just...
	There's a difference between two parties.
	Wrong answer!
	...that wanted to keep it quiet, and that's up to them.
	They signed those agreements and we'll live with it.
	So wait, when you say it is up to...
	I just want to be clear.
	Some is how many?
	And when you say they signed them and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and tell their side of the story about what it is they allege, that's now okay with you?
	You're releasing them on television tonight?
	Senator, no.
	Is that right?
	Senator the company and somebody else, in this case a man or a woman, or it could be more than that, they decided when they made an agreement...
	I didn't quite understand what he meant that could be more than that.
	Men, women, or it could be more...
	Does he mean all the other genders you can be?
	Is that what he meant by that comment?
	He was not quick on the street, but I think he was thinking about maybe corporate entities.
	That's signed off on something or other.
	Yeah, sounds to me more like transgender, non-conforming, you know, binary.
	I don't know.
	Maybe.
	They wanted to keep it quiet for everybody's interest.
	They signed the agreements and that's what we're going to live with.
	I'm sorry.
	No, the question is, are the women bound by being muzzled by you?
	And you could release them from that immediately.
	Because understand, this is not just a question of the mayor's character.
	This is also a question about electability.
	We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many non-disclosure agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against.
	And already some of those NDAs are leaking out, so of course, well-timed.
	What should the mayor have done in this case?
	Well, he should have done a jujitsu move and started by saying, well, first, let me stop you right there.
	And then, of course, kept her stopped by saying, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, because she's going to try to step on him.
	Let me explain what these things are.
	And then gone into a long discussion of what are called non-disparagement agreements, which is what most non-disclosures are.
	And these could be – there's a lot of them.
	And big companies – then they should go on and say big companies like mine have a lot of these because they're usually part of a – Because a lot of people feel they've been wronged and they're going to make commentary about the company that's going to be negative.
	It's going to be seen in a negative light.
	And this is part of their severance package.
	They won't get the severance package if they want to go do that.
	This is not unusual.
	Most big companies, most modern big companies do this.
	You wouldn't know anything about it.
	Elizabeth, because you've never run a company.
	You haven't even run a city.
	You're just a legislative person that just signs and designs laws.
	You have no idea how things actually work.
	And that's what most of these things are.
	They're non-disparaging agreements.
	You're bringing up really the best point.
	I think, didn't they say NDAs consistently, NDA? Yeah.
	I mean, so the jujitsu move would have been...
	Yes, that stands for non-disparagement agreements, and let me explain what they are.
	By the way, non-disparagement agreements are non-disclosures.
	Yeah, of course they are, but it just sounds much better.
	In fact, I got a message from one of our producers who left the Koch brothers' super PAC, and he has a non-disparaging agreement, so I can't identify him, or her, can't identify where the person is from, and, you know, telling me all kinds of stuff about, you know, open borders, etc.
	Good information, but could never go public with that.
	Well, in today's media, it's different, of course, because the press will just say, a person's familiar with the matter.
	But yeah, non-disparity.
	That would have been the move.
	I totally agree.
	Totally agree.
	Yeah, he would have gotten her off guard.
	She would have tried to interrupt him.
	He could shut her down using the Kellyanne Conway technique, which is the best.
	What's that?
	In that kind of agreement where you just say...
	Excuse me.
	Excuse me.
	I'm talking.
	Excuse me.
	I'm talking.
	To make it look like she's, you know, trying to butt in.
	And then he could have finished at the very end.
	He says, and of course we're not going to release these and you're not going to bully me into doing it.
	It would be irresponsible.
	Now, the clip I thought you were going to start with was this one.
	I'd like to talk about who we're running against.
	A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians.
	See, now the only...
	Well, let's listen to how he handled that.
	Because he did it.
	And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump.
	I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg.
	Democrats are not going to win.
	What?
	She thought that was clever.
	That was her idea of doing some material.
	That was a joke.
	That was her opening shot.
	Yeah.
	Now, the moderators didn't even throw it back to Bloomberg, which I thought was odd.
	And Bloomberg didn't demand to have a retort.
	Later in the debates, he started holding his hand up like a little boy.
	Yeah, but he should have just said, listen, that was a descriptor.
	It has nothing to do with whether she was a lesbian or not.
	She had a dog face.
	It's a problem.
	Yeah, that wouldn't work.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, all right.
	We won't put that in the report.
	But again, it's obvious that he never did a mock debate.
	He thought it was beneath him, I guess.
	He thought it was such a big shot.
	And he suffered for it.
	He came out the worst in this thing.
	I thought his message was very clear.
	The way I would have summarized it is...
	I can beat Trump with my money, and I'm a competent manager, and I'll bring back stability and order.
	That was his message, and here, in fact, was his closer, which was seven seconds short of the time limit.
	Well, you can join me at mikebloomberg.com, too, if you want, but I'm not asking for any money.
	This is a management job, and Donald Trump's not a manager.
	This is a job where you have to build teams.
	He doesn't have a team, so he goes and makes decisions without knowing what's going on or the implications of what he does.
	We cannot run the railroad this way.
	This country has to pull together and understand that the people that we elect, and it's not just the President of the United States, they should have experience, they should have credentials, they should understand what they're doing and the implications thereof, and then we should, as a society, try to hold them accountable so the next time they go before the voters, if they haven't done the job, we shouldn't just say, oh, nice person, gives a good speech.
	We should say, didn't do the job, and you're out of here.
	And I think his message was super clear.
	And people who were expecting to hear that heard that.
	No one else heard it because, of course, this is a show, and it was a much better show than it's been in the past.
	Just to contrast that, and then I want to get back to your analysis.
	This is what Bloomberg said on The View, and this is a video he's been trying to have scrubbed.
	Let's just all hope that Donald Trump is a good president of the United States.
	He's our president, and we need this country to be run well.
	I didn't vote for him, but I think I would not make the mistake Mitch McConnell said when Barack Obama was elected, let's make him a one-term president.
	Let's not make this work.
	And I thought, that's our country.
	That's my kids and my grandkids.
	We have to make it work.
	You have an election.
	Whoever wins, then we've got to get behind.
	And you can run against somebody else.
	But the difference between America and some other countries, in other countries, if they lose an election, they try to tear down the government.
	They try to have a revolution.
	We should sit back and say, okay, four years from now, how do I get my person, my woman, or my man elected?
	And that's very different.
	You see...
	He's full of shit.
	This is what he thought originally.
	And he's right, though.
	Wait, wait.
	Let's go back to 2011, what he thought originally.
	This is Bloomberg.
	Did somebody dredge this old clip up from 2011, Bloomberg on Trump?
	I know Donald Trump.
	He's a great guy.
	He doesn't do everything he says, but he sure tries, and I'm a big fan of Donald Trump.
	You know, for all the shit I give Google, I really appreciate YouTube.
	I really do.
	It's highly appreciated.
	Which brings me to one other gripe.
	I'm sick and tired of these politicians saying, Amazon billions in profit and they're no pay, zero in taxes, zero in taxes, zero in taxes.
	That warrants a little bit of explanation because I'm no fan of Amazon's practices.
	There's a lot of things I don't like.
	But what they do, and they've done consistently since the beginning of the company, is plow all profits, almost all, back into research and development.
	R&D is a deductible cost.
	In fact, in 2018, this is what everyone's referring to, where Amazon paid $0 in U.S. federal income tax on $11 billion in pre-tax profit.
	They really only made $2.6 billion, and they plowed $3 billion in a quarter into research and development.
	Now, this research and development...
	What makes your Alexa run?
	Everybody loves the fucking Alexa.
	You don't want that?
	You don't want your ring doorbell?
	Mergers acquisition is also another tax benefit, depending on how you do it.
	Half the internet runs on Amazon Web Services.
	That is thanks to the research and development cost that they write off of Amazon.
	So, to me, it's a great American success story.
	Are they Evil Corp and doing crappy things?
	Yeah.
	But that's not about the income tax.
	I'm sick and tired of it.
	Because everyone loves all this stuff.
	Oh, look, I just ordered it.
	It's Prime now.
	It comes in two hours.
	Everyone loves all that.
	But we don't want to pay for it to be developed.
	So, it's just stuck in my craw, that.
	I'm sick and tired of hearing it.
	I think you made your point.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Let's back to the debates.
	I thought the Bernie versus Bloomberg clip was one of the better ones, because this is the one time where Bloomberg actually stood up like a man.
	Although he couldn't tell because he wasn't on his box, but still.
	I believe in democratic socialism for working people, not billionaires.
	What a wonderful country we have.
	The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses.
	What'd I miss here?
	Well, you'll miss that I work in Washington, House 1.
	That's the first problem.
	Live in Burlington, House 2.
	That's good.
	And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp.
	Forgive me for that.
	Where is your home?
	Which tax haven do you have your home?
	New York City, thank you very much.
	And I pay all my taxes.
	And I'm happy to do it because I get something for it.
	Yeah.
	You know, Bernie, Warren, they're also in the top 1%.
	You know, the one they're bitching and moaning about.
	Yeah, they're phonies.
	Yeah, the big phonies.
	The whole thing is phonies.
	The only people who I feel are honest, the only one, is Amy Klobuchar.
	You know, I've got a crush on her.
	I like what she does.
	You know, she's not my kind of president, but she's a good person.
	I think she's tough, and she wants to run things, and I think she made an impact.
	Last night.
	Not that it'll help, but it made an impact.
	To you.
	Come on, man!
	Come on, man.
	You sound like Biden.
	Here's the deal.
	Look.
	So I got the two...
	So Biden was...
	I'm team Amy.
	Oh, man.
	The Adderall kicked in within 30 seconds of the show starting.
	That was great.
	And so he can't finish a sentence.
	He stops right in the middle of the sentence.
	Then says, look.
	And his eyes go wide.
	And goes off on something else.
	And his eyes went all wide.
	Like a meth head.
	Blah!
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	So I have two clips.
	Here's the one where he goes off on climate change, promising jobs.
	I think this is the one where he promises, these are good jobs.
	Look, look, look, these are good jobs.
	These are going to pay $50 an hour jobs.
	What?
	What's he talking about?
	Any executive who is engaged in...
	And by the way, minority communities are the communities that are being most badly hurt by the way in which we deal with climate change.
	They are the ones who become the victims.
	That's where the asthma is.
	That's where the groundwater supply has been polluted.
	That's where, in fact, people, in fact, do not have the opportunity to be able to get away from everything from still asbestos in the walls of our schools.
	I have a trillion-dollar program for infrastructure.
	That will provide for thousands and thousands of new jobs, not $15 an hour, but $50 an hour plus benefits, unions, unions being able to do that.
	And what it does is...
	It will change the nature...
	Look, here's the last point I want to...
	Someone needs to consult Joe.
	He's always doing this.
	He's always saying, well, I'm almost out of time.
	Everyone else pushes, pushes up against the deadline.
	He wastes four seconds just on saying that.
	It's something, some odd thing that he can't get away from it.
	I think you're wrong.
	Oh.
	He's saying that because his thought process ran out of material.
	Look, look, I'm going to run out of time.
	That is his moment so he can try to collect himself.
	Yeah.
	No, you're right.
	You're right.
	Here's the last point I want to make to you.
	On day one, when I'm elected president, I'm going to invite all of the members of the Paris Accord to Washington, D.C. They make up 85% of the problem.
	They know me.
	I'm used to dealing with international relations.
	I will get them to up the ante in a big way.
	Vice President Biden, you did an answer to my questions.
	I thought I did.
	What would you do with these companies that are responsible for the destruction of our planet?
	What would I do with them?
	I would make sure they, number one, stop.
	Number two, if you demonstrate that they, in fact, have done things already that are bad and they've been lying, they should be able to be sued, they should be able to be held personally accountable, and not only the company...
	Not the stockholders, but the CEOs of those companies.
	They should be engaged.
	And it's a little bit like, look, this is the industry we should be able to sue.
	We should go after, just like we did the drug companies, just like we did with the tobacco companies.
	The only company we can't go after are gun manufacturers, because my buddy here.
	Now, hold on.
	What executives from drug companies have really gone to jail?
	Like Pharma Boy?
	Okay, we got one.
	We got Pharma Boy.
	I had one douchebag.
	Everybody made it for you.
	Yeah, and then...
	He's a scapegoat.
	What Wall Street bankers and bank presidents went to...
	Where did you address Jamie Dimon today?
	Where did they go to jail for the collapse in 2008?
	There's nothing peaceful and crap, that guy.
	But look, look, look.
	Look, here's the deal.
	Yeah, what?
	Look, look, here's the deal.
	Look, look.
	Meanwhile...
	He'll go on once and we start talking about blah, blah, blah.
	Look, look.
	Look, look.
	Right in the middle of a sentence he drops it.
	The other...
	I'm sorry.
	But the other one I have...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	He must just go to...
	This is...
	He goes off on...
	And he somehow, through his look transitions, look, he ends up going off on high-speed rail, which is...
	Hold on a second.
	We've gone back to 2009.
	They want their term back.
	Unbelievable.
	What you might not know is that Las Vegas and Reno are the vibrant economic engines for the state of Nevada and are also two of the fastest warming cities in the country.
	Before he even gets into that, when I heard this question, I was thinking, wait a minute, where does Las Vegas get its power from?
	It's from the Holder Dam, mostly.
	The dam, yes.
	The dam is right there.
	And it's the greenest kind of...
	Well, I mean, there's debate over dams, but...
	Oh, they're trying to get rid of most of these dams.
	It's incredibly efficient for a generation.
	And then this jamoke comes in about solar panels and shit.
	In certain months of the year, the heat is already an emergency situation for residents and for tourists walking up and down the Strip.
	So I'm going to start with you, Mr.
	Vice President.
	What specific policies would you implement that would keep Las Vegas and Reno livable, but also not hurt those economies?
	It is the existential threat that humanity faces, global warming.
	I went out to Tech, and you have a facility where you have one of the largest, largest solar panel arrays in the world.
	And when the fourth stage is completed, they'll be able to take care of 60,000 homes for every single bit of their needs.
	And what I would do is, number one...
	Work on providing the $47 billion we have for tech and for making sure we find answers is to provide a way to transmit that wind and solar energy across the network in the United States.
	Invest in battery technology.
	I would immediately restate all of the elimination of what Trump has eliminated in terms of EPA. I would secondly make sure that we had 500,000 new charging stations in every new highway we built in the United States of America or repaired.
	I would make sure that we, once again, made sure that we got the mileage standards back up, which would have saved over 12 billion barrels of oil had he not walked away from it.
	And I would invest in rail.
	In rail.
	Rail can take hundreds of thousands, millions of cars off the road if you have high-speed rail.
	Thank you.
	There is no animus for high-speed rail.
	The last project, which Obama touted, by the way, which was great because you wouldn't have to take your shoes off.
	High-speed rail.
	That's the whole thing in California.
	It's a massive failure.
	Oh, and they're still just trying to pull out of it.
	It's going to cost them an additional billion, apparently.
	Oh, more than that, probably.
	That's the latest announced amount.
	Meanwhile, Trump was in Arizona with his counter-programming, as it's now known in the biz.
	And now they have a new member of the crew, Mini Mike.
	And I hear he's getting pounded tonight.
	You know he's in a debate.
	He's getting pounded.
	He's getting pounded.
	Ha, ha, ha.
	Oh my goodness.
	Okay, the other one is, do I have another clip?
	I'm not sure.
	Oh, while you're looking for that, on climate change, just real quick, I came up with a new one.
	I want to try this on you.
	Can you be someone who's all in on climate change for this test?
	Very easily.
	Hey, about climate change.
	Do you think that we have a population problem with too many people on Earth?
	Of course.
	Okay.
	Do you think that climate change is man-made?
	Absolutely.
	Perfect.
	If we do nothing, we'll kill a couple billion.
	Problem solved!
	Oh, that's a kind of a specious way of looking at it.
	The problem isn't solved because we're not going to kill a couple of billion.
	We have a serious problem.
	You're just joking about it.
	No!
	Do you think this is funny?
	Do you think that this existential threat could wipe out our children's children?
	Yes, my way is much better.
	Do you think this is funny?
	Yes, my way is much better.
	You want these people gone anyway, so let's just let them die from climate change.
	They're brown anyway.
	Who cares?
	I'm never talking to you again.
	Okay.
	It needs work.
	I'll work on it.
	500,000 charging stations.
	Yeah, which are powered by solar panels, apparently.
	Can you imagine, you know, if you have – this is what I've been waiting for, the electric phenomenon to kick into high gear.
	So you'd have – so the solar – so like at a gas station before a big weekend, people are lined up to get gasoline.
	And there's always – maybe, say, at a Costco, there's maybe five cars that might be lined up.
	Right.
	Well, if you have to wait an hour to two to three hours to do the charging, how long do you think that line would be?
	Hey man, that's not true.
	A Tesla has a supercharger.
	It's only 45 minutes.
	Can you imagine if it took 45 minutes to fill your tank instead of 5?
	How long that line would be?
	Well, you remember the former New York banker tried to live like that for a while when he had his Tesla P90 or 80, I think.
	And we traded that one week because of a distance he had to go.
	But...
	He has a business in Houston, and he can't quite make Houston and back on a full charge.
	And he would try and convince me, like, no, it's great.
	You know, I drive in about 15 minutes outside of Houston.
	I pull over into the supercharging station.
	I read the paper.
	I have a cup of coffee while the car's charging.
	That lasted about two months.
	And then he was all pissed off about it because people have things to do.
	This idea, I think, will lower our GDP by two full points.
	Just from time-wasting alone.
	Yeah.
	So I think I'm not going to argue that.
	So, I mean, at least when you're on the train and you're reading the newspaper, you're moving.
	Yeah, there's something happening.
	So I picked this little 17 second thing out of that Biden clip about the existential threat.
	And I swear he says egg-sustential.
	Oh, uh, where is this?
	Okay.
	There will be irreparable damage done, not just to Nevada.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	No, this is right.
	This is the right clip, but it was burning, not biting.
	Oh.
	There will be irreparable damage done, not just to Nevada, not just to Vermont or Massachusetts, but to the entire world.
	Joe said it right.
	This is an existential threat.
	You know what that means, Joe?
	Yeah, it's bad for eggs.
	That means we're fighting for the future of this planet.
	I love how all of these people, except for a couple stragglers there, will be close to 90 by the time the world is supposed to blow up.
	They don't give a crap.
	They can promise anything they want.
	Existential Existential threat.
	Life for Bernie.
	500,000 charging stations.
	Life for Bernie is an existential threat because he doesn't have that many years left.
	I don't want to be coy about it, but I'm sick and tired of it.
	Now, I found something interesting this morning as I was going through a couple of clips I wanted to share.
	They had the final round where everybody does their little pitch.
	We already heard Bloomberg's.
	But just before that, they did something that they promised wouldn't happen in the debates, which was a yes or no question.
	And every NBC-related video site, and of course I scoured YouTube, eventually found what I was looking for, but it was hard to find because the official NBC online video does not include...
	Because I had a commercial break, does not include the question about the convention.
	And that is very telling to me, and I think it's the most important part of what went down during this debate.
	Here it is.
	Also winning the Senate races in Arizona, and in Colorado, and beyond.
	And the reason we won't, because this state gets it.
	Oh, what the hell is this?
	Ah, shit, did I clip the wrong thing?
	Damn it!
	...is bigger than any.
	Thank you.
	And you can join me at Amy Clark, asking for any money.
	Ah, shit.
	No, it's a completely wrong clip.
	So you don't think they'll lead into it, maybe?
	I don't think so.
	Now, what this is is the missing part of the online video, but this is not the piece I wanted.
	Hold on.
	Well, you can join me at MikeBloomberg.com, too, if you want, but I'm not asking for any money.
	This is a management...
	No.
	So damn it!
	This was the...
	I'm pissed off about this.
	This happens once in a while.
	It happened to me.
	Well, what it was, the question was, do we follow the rules of the convention, which means you have to have 1,990 delegates in order to win the nomination, or...
	Or, since it looks like, as was intended, it's impossible for any one person to get that total amount.
	See, Mayor Pete alone, who, you know, through the Iowa fracas, stole an extra delegate.
	In my mind, he stole it.
	Or should the person with the most delegates win?
	And he even said, oh, Bernie, you go last, and went down the line, every single one of them, yes or no, yeah, no, we should follow the rules, yeah, we should follow the rules, we should follow the rules, because Bernie is going to get screwed.
	They all admitted it right there on stage, done.
	Done!
	I'm so upset that I don't have this clip.
	Okay, here's the deal.
	Look, look, here's the deal, look.
	I found the clip.
	I found it.
	I found the raw video.
	I found the raw video.
	Hold on a second.
	Why is this not...
	We're going to patch it straight in.
	We're going to do it live!
	Yeah, we're going to do it live!
	We're not fucking around!
	All right, hold on.
	To the Democratic National...
	We are less than two weeks away from a national primary.
	And I want to ask all of you this simple question.
	There's a very good chance none of you are going to have enough delegates to the Democratic National Convention that clints this nomination.
	Okay?
	If that happens, I want all of your opinions on this.
	Should the person with the most delegates at the end of this primary season be the nominee, even if they are short of a majority?
	Senator Sanders, I'm going to let you go last here because I know your view on this.
	Okay?
	So instead, I will start with you, Mayor Bloomberg.
	Whatever the rules of the Democratic Party are, they should be followed.
	And if they have a process, which I believe they do, so that everybody else, everybody can...
	So you want the convention to work its will?
	Yes.
	Senator Warren.
	But a convention working its will means that people have the delegates that are pledged to them, and they keep those delegates until you come to the convention.
	All of the people.
	All righty.
	Vice President Biden?
	Play by the rules.
	Yes or no?
	Leading person with the delegates.
	Should they be the nominee or not?
	No.
	Let the process work its way out.
	Mayor Buttigieg?
	Not necessarily.
	Not to lose the jury.
	Senator Klobuchar?
	Let the process work.
	Senator Sanders.
	Well, the process includes 500 superdelegates on the second ballot.
	So I think that the will of the people should come down.
	Yes.
	Thank you, guys.
	So they promised they wouldn't do that anymore.
	And you heard the crappy clip before.
	It's because they cut it out.
	It's not available on the NBC video archives, even though they say full debate.
	Watch it all here.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's the great catch for today.
	You caught the Marlin.
	Thank God we did it live.
	I mean, it's not that you caught the clip.
	What you caught was NBC changing history.
	Yeah.
	Well, trying to.
	But what was the point?
	Well, because I thought...
	Didn't want to piss off all the Bernie bros?
	Yeah, and it looks bad.
	The tear down the convention center if Bernie doesn't get in?
	I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.
	It's a possibility.
	I mean, this crazy woman, I got this clip from her, Shama Sawant, who goes on...
	This is her introduction to Bernie in Seattle.
	She was the keynote, as it were, the preliminary to Bernie coming.
	I had to take a lot out because it was these long, lengthy clauses.
	This was his Tacoma Dome appearance?
	Yeah, I believe so, yes.
	Hey, 17,000 people.
	I mean, it's not, that's not, the capacity is 23 or something, but it's not bad.
	And zero coverage.
	Zero!
	Well, they did, this was covered.
	Did they mention how many people were there?
	No, this was no.
	But they had this woman.
	As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said last month, as she said last month, in any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party.
	So, we need to elect Bernie!
	And we need a new party of, by, and for working people.
	To win!
	Hold on, I know who this is.
	We have a clip of her.
	Yeah, listen, this is her.
	Medicare for all!
	Yes?
	Don't eat me, Bulldog, and you're scary!
	So scary!
	It's her.
	To end the racist mass incarceration system and to win a bold Green New Deal to avoid climate catastrophe.
	And we need a powerful socialist movement to end all capitalist oppression and exploitation.
	Our immediate task...
	Our immediate task is to go all out and win for Bernie.
	And to prevent the elite from rigging the primary against him.
	That's why my organization, Socialist Alternative, is calling for a million people in Milwaukee to have Bernie's back.
	My friends, History is calling on us!
	Are we ready?
	Woo!
	Yeah!
	It is so interesting to see how the M5M is...
	Even Bloomberg's campaign manager, I think I saw.
	Oh yeah, these guys are just like the Trump supporters.
	Yeah, they're violent and nuts.
	Bernie bros are no good.
	They were that way into 2016.
	When Trump tried to go to Chicago and give a speech, one of his big rallies, it was the Bernie bros who started punching people and prevented him from even showing up.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	He has a bunch of thugs working for him.
	I mean, that guy, that punk that was on that Veritas video said, yeah, we're going to burn down Milwaukee if they don't give it to him.
	Burn, burn, brother.
	Be on fire.
	A couple of observations from our producers.
	Dame Jamie says, Bloomberg wasn't wearing his normal hearing aids, and I feel remiss.
	I should have caught that.
	And I don't know if he had different ones, or the ones that go all the way in the ear are not considered very good, so maybe at none.
	I'm not sure what that was about.
	Dame Jamie says, when he's attacked, Bloomberg will eye-roll.
	If he suppresses the roll, he grips the podium.
	I saw that, too.
	That's a great tell.
	You can see just a gripping, gripping.
	The eye-rolling was never-ending.
	Gripping, gripping, gripping.
	There was one thing in the, and I recently had a short conversation with someone about this very topic, although not packaged in this way, when Mayor Pete said something which was just like, I don't know, it felt really odd the way he said it and the facts also, we're going to fact check him on this.
	If we really want to deliver less inequality in this country, then we've got to start with the tax code.
	We've got to start with investments in how people are able to live the American dream, which is in serious, serious decline.
	Matter of fact, last time I checked the list of countries to live out the American dream, in other words, to be born at the bottom and come out at the top, we're not even in the top ten.
	Number one place to live out the American dream right now is Denmark.
	Okay, now...
	The number one place to live out the American dream, ladies and gentlemen, is now Denmark.
	This went from, it's the happiest place on earth, which can possibly be true since they're number four on the list of most people on antidepressants.
	In the United States, we kill it, obviously, but they're number four.
	So in that regard, they're getting close to the American dream of being high all the time, legally.
	But as one of our producers pointed out, and Bernie does a lot of this too, Denmark!
	Denmark!
	Bernie and Mayor Pete should know that under all governments, right or left in Denmark, for years, stop, question, and empty your pocket areas can be called by the police at any time and have been.
	This is mainly done in cases of gang warfare and or terror, read immigrants' issues.
	So how is that a great country, if it's such a horrible thing to stop and frisk and Denmark has it?
	Or is that part of the American dream?
	These guys.
	Michael Moore has a podcast where he talks like he's hoping to get it on PBS. Oh, I'd be perfect.
	No, NPR. I'm sorry, what am I thinking of NPR? And if not NPR, maybe I could be on the Luminary or Wondery or one of those fine podcast networks.
	And he gave us, I think, the definitive end-of-show ISO. Michael Bloomberg is a terrorist.
	Top that.
	Top that.
	Well, I don't even know if I have a...
	Top that.
	No way.
	This is the best.
	Michael Bloomberg is a terrorist.
	Michael Bloomberg is a terrorist.
	NPR. I'm Michael Moore with my podcast.
	Okay, the only one I have, my ISO comes from one of the clips, and I'll just play it cold, and this is Drugged.
	Drugged by a tainted cupcake.
	Hmm.
	Tough call.
	Very, very tough call.
	Very tough call.
	Drugged by a tainted cupcake.
	Gosh, I have to admit I like it.
	Let's try back-to-back.
	Drugged by a tainted cupcake.
	Michael Bloomberg is a terrorist.
	I can't decide.
	It's a toss-up.
	It is a toss-up.
	It's a toss-up.
	We'll let the trolls decide what we should do there.
	Yeah, so I thought the stage was nice.
	That was a much more Vegas style.
	The flag, of course, there was no flag hanging, but they had stripes and stars and all kinds of stuff that looked really good.
	People like the cupcake, actually.
	That's what the trolls are saying, so I guess we have to go with the taint cupcake.
	Well, keep the other one as an evergreen, because it's usable.
	Here's the status.
	I have just the one Bernie.
	This is the Bernie update, because Bernie is really the focus.
	And this is ABC's rundown, and this is the Bernie update.
	In California today, the line to see Bernie Sanders snaked for blocks.
	I hear the establishment saying, oh, Bernie can't win the election.
	Take a look at this crowd today and tell me we can't win the election.
	But Sanders, well aware he's now facing a new kind of challenge.
	Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spending $380 million and counting to blanket the airwaves with ads.
	Mayor Bloomberg, with all his money, will not create the kind of excitement and energy we need to have the voter turnout we must have to defeat Donald Trump.
	Bloomberg firing back that the Sanders campaign brings a different negative kind of energy, releasing a video highlighting the online anger of so-called Bernie bros.
	Bloomberg tweeting that when it comes to beating Trump, this type of energy is not going to get us there.
	The billionaire's Democratic rivals say now it's high time he come out from behind his campaign ads.
	He has to answer questions, and of course I think he should be on that debate stage, which eventually he will be, because I can't beat him on the airwaves, but I can beat him on the debate stage.
	As Bloomberg's poll numbers rise, his past drawing new scrutiny, including his treatment of women in the workplace and allegations of sexist and crude comments reported by multiple outlets, including ABC News.
	A Washington Post investigation making waves this week in prompting Bloomberg to tweet, I would not be where I am today without the talented women around me.
	I've depended on their leadership, their advice, and their contributions.
	Bloomberg says he's championed women.
	Do you think he still needs to answer for these allegations?
	Yes, but he needs to answer for these allegations.
	You're not championing women when you have non-disclosure agreements so they can't tell their side of the story.
	I want to hear from Mike Bloomberg that he is going to let these women talk, un-Muslim, and let's find out what's really happening.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Right there.
	Right there.
	What?
	That little clip with her was the day before the debates.
	Yeah.
	Bloomberg's people should have saw that thing coming a mile away.
	They didn't.
	So they don't care.
	And this is the conversation that the mainstream will not have.
	Bloomberg, as I said, here's my money.
	I'm going to do everything I can.
	And you should take me and my money because I'm a competent manager.
	That's his entire message.
	And everything else, he really doesn't care.
	It's obvious.
	I personally am extremely happy he's doing this.
	Because for all the...
	Years of hearing Citizens United and, you know, campaign finance reform and all of this.
	Koch brothers.
	Koch brothers.
	By the way, Koch brothers are massively anti-Trump.
	Yes, they have been from the very beginning.
	Yeah.
	For all of that, and all the bitching and moaning, this is a good test.
	Can you actually go with unlimited funds, which is not true, but can you go with a lot of money, and can you subsequently buy the presidency?
	I think not, but let's see how it plays out.
	And no one can discuss this for a lot of the reasons mentioned in your excellent essay that you sent out with the newsletter.
	And to that point, There was a lot of Bloomberg slamming right after the debate.
	I immediately went to MSNBC. Bloomberg, no good.
	Useless.
	Down one channel.
	Fox.
	Trump won, of course.
	Okay, thanks, Fox.
	CNN, slamming Bloomberg.
	The only thing I can contemplate here is that we have Super Tuesday two weeks away.
	Two weeks, two and a half weeks.
	March 3rd.
	Yeah.
	The media buys are already in.
	So he's stacked.
	You're not planning any more buys at this point.
	You're done.
	You're locked and loaded.
	They've got their money.
	Everything's in.
	All they have to do is fulfill.
	And then they'll see.
	Because they definitely were not kowtowing.
	They were happy to slam him down and kind of did a different version of a little bit of marginalizing almost.
	Yeah.
	And that was a little surprising.
	I believe, I still think this is true.
	The guys who do the loudest complaining about Bloomberg are the guys who got the least amount of money from Bloomberg.
	I hear you on that, yeah.
	CNN's not getting a big buy.
	MSNBC, nothing.
	There's nothing there.
	So you really think it's the local media?
	The local media is getting most of the money and then the big networks.
	ABC, NBC, CBS. Then after that, it's just scattered around.
	It would be more later, but these guys are pretty much shooting themselves in the foot.
	I'm sure they're sales guys.
	If I'm a sales guy working at CNN, I'm not happy with this coverage.
	Why are we blasting this guy?
	Why don't we just see what happens?
	Because there's some money for us in this.
	And this is what it's really all about.
	These organizations aren't.
	They don't do what we do, where we actually literally have the people that listen or the same people that produce and sponsor the show.
	They are dependent on these big ad buys, and the sales guys can't be happy.
	Can you imagine that meeting on Monday?
	We have a problem, people.
	So we have Nevada and South Carolina coming up.
	Maybe you still believe Joe Biden will win South Carolina, which I think he will be second, but we'll see.
	If he's second, it wouldn't surprise me.
	Well, that's not winning.
	No, I said it wouldn't surprise me, but I don't think he will come in second.
	But I'm not going to be, oh my God, he came in second.
	I'm not going to be that shocked because there's I'm in South Carolina.
	He's got a good message.
	Everybody right now is hyper-focused on ADOS, American Descendants of Slavery, commonly known as black and brown communities, or black and brown communities, people of color, whatever they choose for non-offensive phrases, they think.
	And not on the debate stage, but still trying his best.
	Tom Steyer, yes, he's still in the race, and he thinks he knows what to do.
	Well, When you talk about trying to even the playing field with reparations, something that you said you support, how do you repair it?
	Do you say that the divide is about education or are you talking about financial restitution, writing checks?
	Well, what I've said, Margaret, is this.
	And you're right.
	I am the only candidate running for president who will say that he or she is for reparations.
	But what I've also said is this.
	The way to figure out the correct solution in this case is I would have a formal commission on race starting the first day of my presidency.
	We tell the story of the more than 400 years that African Americans have been here.
	This is completely the wrong message.
	We just had a reparations commission.
	The minute you say, oh, I'm all for reparations, but we're going to have a commission from day one.
	Eh, non-starter.
	Goodbye.
	You're not happening.
	Trump has his surrogates out on Fox and Friends, the niece of Dr.
	Martin Luther King Jr., and here's her message to the Trump voters.
	So respond to that comment by Pete Buttigieg.
	No one's feeling the pain more than black Americans right now.
	I am an African-American woman of 69 years old and almost everyone that I'm speaking with, whether they're Republican, Democrat, Independent, some don't vote, various perspectives.
	However, people are saying our wages are up, our families being united.
	I was on an interview with Alice Johnson recently and she was talking about her experience of coming home and being reunited with her family.
	The second step, first step, Second chances is moving so quickly that we are seeing so many gains in the African-American community.
	Some people say, well, President Trump says, what do you have to lose?
	But he certainly has shown us what we have to gain.
	So people are not suffering in the manner that was just stated.
	I'll have to ask Mo what impact Alveda King has in the community.
	Meanwhile, a long-predicted person on the scene appeared on Where Else?
	The View, and there's nothing like a little Stacey Abrams to spice it up.
	A lot of people want to see you on that ticket versus vice president.
	And you said, you know, any Democratic candidate can come and talk to you about being VP. Explain to people why you say this.
	Okay, so the first time I was on here, I got the question about running as VP during the primary, and I very...
	Apparently famously said, no, because you don't run for second in a primary.
	However, because that conversation started, I'm now getting the question a lot from folks.
	And the answer is, of course, I would be honored to run for vice president with the nominee.
	I mean, it's a bit disconcerting because it seems really obnoxious for me to say that out loud since I'm not, you know, no one's asked me.
	But what I want people to understand is that...
	You're being asked in the media.
	Exactly.
	The issue is, as a woman of color, especially as a black woman, This is an unusual position to be in for someone to be considered possibly the next vice president.
	And it would be doing a disservice to every woman of color, every woman of ambition, every child who wants to think beyond their known space for me to say no.
	Or to pretend, oh no, I don't want it.
	Of course I want it.
	Of course I want to serve America.
	Of course I want to be a patriot and do this work.
	And so I say yes.
	Yes, very good.
	You also see yourself running as president, too.
	Oh, absolutely.
	That's some point.
	Absolutely.
	Again, when someone starts in the mailroom and says, I want to be the CEO, we never go, oh my gosh, that's too much ambition.
	Why should we not want someone to have the power to fix the problems and the brokenness that we have?
	Still in play.
	In play for a VP spot, I would say.
	That's what she was doing.
	That's what you do.
	She was forced.
	Folks be asking.
	Just like Hillary.
	Lots of pressure.
	Lots of pressure.
	Mayor Pete, on the other hand...
	I want to stop for a second and mention, so when people listen to that clip, the previous clip, Steyer.
	It's loaded to the gills with performatives.
	Oh, Steyer or Abrams?
	Tom Steyer.
	Mm-hmm.
	They ask him, what do you think about this?
	And he says, well, what I've said about it is...
	Yeah, he's full of crap.
	He never says what he thinks.
	He says what I've said about it.
	Yeah, good point.
	Good catch.
	Anyway.
	I will say, I am a little more impressed with Mayor Pete, not as a president, but as an animatron.
	He's gotten really good with his replies, and so good, in fact, Amy, Team Amy, Klobuchar called him out and said, you've got everything rehearsed.
	You've got all these comeback lines.
	But he was asked the so-called Bill Maher question at the CNN town hall, and I thought he answered it appropriately.
	I want to ask the Bill Maher question.
	In one channel.
	You know what it is.
	I'm a little worried about this.
	Let's see which Bill Maher question you have in mind.
	So, it's November.
	Pete Buttigieg just won the election.
	And the current occupant says, no, this is all a hoax.
	The Senate agrees with him.
	Fox News starts going on about it.
	What does President-elect Buttigieg do about this when he doesn't want to leave?
	So, well, what I said to Bill Maher was it was going to be pretty awkward when Chaston and I are moving in our furniture.
	I mean, if he won't leave, I guess if he's willing to do chores, we could work something out, but...
	I'm liking Poot.
	I'm liking what he's doing here.
	That was professionally written.
	Of course it was professionally written, but he's nailing it.
	He's got some professionals on his side.
	Absolutely.
	Bloomberg should get some joke writers.
	Now, we have the Nevada caucus on Saturday, if I'm correct.
	I think the results come in on Saturday.
	The results come in on Saturday, yeah, because they have early voting this year, and based upon the Iowa results, which to my knowledge still have not 100% been reported, and everyone's just giving up on it, oh well, we'll take the L, but Poot did get an extra delicate there somehow, magically.
	Nevada, would you believe it?
	Was all set to do their caucus and early voting caucus with the same app.
	Yeah, you know, this is well known.
	But they've come up with a fix.
	This is one of the things, Christina, that has confused me a little bit.
	So in Iowa, there was an...
	This is an AP podcast, in case you're wondering about the sound and professionalism.
	App.
	That didn't work.
	Nevada decided not to use the app.
	So they're using what they're calling a tool app.
	What is the tool?
	And is it really just another app?
	Well, yeah, certainly semantics.
	What it is, is a Google form.
	And so what we know is that it's going to come preloaded onto iPads that are going to be distributed to the precinct captains on the day of the caucus, on February 22nd, this Saturday, preloaded into the Google form that they will be entering information is information about early voting.
	So Nevada is very interesting.
	in the fact that they're trying to be as accessible by having and offering early voting.
	But it's a very complicated and complex step.
	I know it's irritating to listen to, but I think it's good information for us.
	That Iowa didn't attempt.
	They just did the in-person caucuses.
	So in this Google form, it's going to have pre-voted information for each precinct on early voters and their preferences.
	So the precinct captains, as they oversee the caucus process on Saturday, will be utilizing this Google form and it's going to have all this information.
	It's going to calculate viability for the presidential candidates and they're going to use this to submit results to the state party.
	So basically we've taken a caucus system, which is already kind of complicated, and made it even more complicated by adding in early voting beforehand.
	Absolutely.
	And that's where a lot of concern from volunteers, and we've heard it from some campaigns as well, is how that integration is going to happen, particularly as the caucus moves into later stages where there can be realignment particularly as the caucus moves into later stages where there can be realignment of voters to different candidates after the initial preference
	And so there's still not a lot of good answers about how that's all going to work.
	And the volunteers that I've spoken to have said that's a particular concern.
	Alert!
	Alert!
	Scam ahead!
	Sorry.
	Google Forms?
	That's how it's going to be done?
	Google Forms.
	A part of Google Docs.
	Yeah.
	This is insanity.
	By the way, Google Docs does go down.
	I cannot believe...
	I don't know, I don't use it.
	Well, but I see all the time, Google Docs down.
	Just like when Slack goes down, all offices around the world shut down until it comes back.
	People rely on Google Docs.
	It goes out, sure it does.
	But besides that, you're going to have Google be the back end for this?
	I find it unacceptable.
	If I was in the caucus, I'd be very angry about this.
	And they're just rolling it out.
	I think that they're going to scam something again.
	We're going to have another problem.
	Biden.
	Biden for Nevada.
	Yeah, sure.
	Sure.
	I cannot believe it.
	You've had years to prepare for this.
	And even since Iowa, there was enough time to come up with something better than Google Forms preloaded on an iPad.
	Oy, oy, oy.
	I don't know.
	That's not the way I understood it's supposed to work anyway.
	What did you understand?
	Well, they have these little groups, they meet up, they decide on somebody, and the one guy represents the whole crowd.
	I represent 10,000 votes for this little caucusing group, and they were putting our vote for Biden.
	And they'll put that into the Google form.
	I didn't know about the Google form, but I guess they do that now.
	But this reminds me, this is a cycle in the Democratic Party.
	This is when I was a kid.
	They had a big thing.
	That's when the primaries first started getting developed because in the olden days, before I was a little kid, back I guess in the 30s, 40s, 50s, it was always the so-called – and they used to use this term until probably the term maybe died out around the early 90s or late 80s or even late 70s.
	I'm not sure.
	Smoke-filled room.
	Yeah.
	Smoke-filled room in the back where we're making deals.
	And so they had to determine how many delegates go to which candidate and it comes out of a...
	The door opens of a smoke-filled room with a bunch of guys smoking cigars.
	And they decide all the votes are going to Biden.
	And so the Democrat Party got all irked about this because it was like, oh, jeez, this is terrible.
	These smoke-filled rooms.
	We don't know what's going on.
	It's not transparent.
	And so then they split off into doing primaries on the one hand and caucuses on the other.
	Smoke-filled rooms are gone.
	Now they're getting rid of the caucuses.
	That's what's happening now.
	This is at the end of the caucus.
	This may be the last time.
	Everyone's got to do primaries.
	There's more money in the primaries.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	It's an anachronism.
	It's very complicated.
	It's not the simple, okay, I get it.
	No one gets it.
	Yeah, it's dumb.
	Well, I don't know if it's dumb.
	It's just people are dumb.
	They're too dumb to...
	I think it's really an interesting system because it's real politicking on the spot by the people who are, you know, trying to convince others, come over to my guy, you know, you guys no chance or your lady has no chance.
	We'll do that.
	I kind of like that.
	It's a real boots on the ground type of experience.
	Smoke fill room is the same thing.
	Well, isn't that kind of what America is?
	Let's be honest.
	Smoke-filled room?
	We're one big smoke-filled room.
	Smokeless-filled room.
	Smokeless-filled room, yes.
	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 existential threat known as climate change, John C. Dvorak!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	Also in the morning to all boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, subs in the water, feet in the air, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Something like that.
	Look, here's the deal.
	In the morning to our trolls in the troll room, noagendastream.com, counting and rise as we speak.
	We have 1,072 trolls all at attention today.
	Good to have you here.
	Thank you.
	That's where you can hear the show live, participate in the troll room.
	It's 24-7, so there's always some trolling to be done, and we need you.
	If you're a troll, head over to noagendastream.com.
	Big in the morning to Darren O'Neill scored excellent artwork for episode 1217.
	The title of that was The Elders, and it was our podcast award.
	And it made me, and when I saw this, because...
	It's the podcast award.
	It's a gold ribbon.
	It says podcast awards, best producers, plural.
	And I thought, yeah, that is exactly the problem with podcast awards.
	If done properly, every podcast has producers and not listeners.
	If it's proper, otherwise it's just another NPR thing as far as I'm concerned.
	There's no stage big enough to hold all of our producers.
	They don't have enough trophies.
	It could never happen.
	So we cannot compete in these types of contests.
	But Darren, thank you very much.
	Darren has just been on a tear with the art.
	Always in competition.
	Such a huge supporter of the show.
	Doing the pre-stream as well.
	What happened?
	I was just giving him a ring.
	Oh, a ding.
	A good ding.
	A salute.
	Yeah, a salute, indeed.
	Oh, I was going to say something about the art generator.
	Sir Paul Couture is on the scene.
	Yes, he sent a couple of notes, and it looks like the art generator is almost fixed, completely fixed, or will soon be fixed.
	New accounts, I think, can already be created.
	And we really appreciate it, because what an incredible resource it is for our producers who like to submit art for the album art, so we have something fresh, new, something that pops, that's fun, that gets attention, and all those podcast apps.
	And it's also cool to go through it and look at all the historical stuff.
	I mean, it is a history of the world in pictures, in a way, kind of.
	I hope someone finds this one day.
	He does make a mention.
	He says it will also be placing the entire library of artwork and new submissions on a CDN for better performance.
	Ah, cool.
	It should be much easier for other devs to contribute additions, fixes, et cetera, within the public Git repository for the generator.
	And there will also be a weekly backup, again, with user info scrubbed of the entire library that will allow anyone to download a current copy, currently 15,177 art submissions.
	a little over 13 gigs of art, and cloned a code base and placed on any server with PHP 7.2 and SQL database for their own flavor choice, run a few scripts and Have a clone up and running.
	Yeah, that is really fantastic.
	And I appreciate it because throughout the years, and Paul has been producing things for the show for a long time, people always have great intentions, start something up, and then it kind of fades, breaks, or stuff happens.
	For instance, bingit.io, search.io.
	It hasn't updated since the changeover to 2020, so it's not current in indexing.
	There's lots of things that kind of fall by the wayside.
	I try to prod people and ask them to help.
	It is part of the challenge of the model that we've chosen, but on the other hand, Man, I'm glad we did it, because no way could we have just done this first hour on mainstream.
	The studio would have been locked down, would have been gassed.
	Gassed.
	Gassed.
	Gassed those guys.
	We can't have this shit.
	Gassed them.
	Gassed them, I tell you.
	As part of our value for value model, and since you started to reiterate that earlier, the most interesting part of how we finance the operation of the show is by asking a simple question.
	If you've listened to two and a half, three hours of our program, what kind of value did you get for it?
	And I'll give you a comparison.
	If you go to the movies this weekend, you'll take a date, your wife, your husband, whatever.
	An hour and a half, you get popcorn, maybe a drink.
	It's 50 bucks.
	It's just going to cost you around 50 bucks.
	Hour and a half, 50 bucks.
	Listening to our show, did you get the same value, equal value, less value?
	And when you ask people to determine value for themselves, the results are often surprising.
	And somehow that makes the model work.
	And I think we should thank some of our donors who are helping us out for today.
	Starting with Sir Otaku, the Duke of Northeast Texas in the Red River Valley came in at the top of the list, and he's actually a show number member.
	He gave us 1218, which is show 1218 from Louisville, Texas.
	Case in point.
	What does he say?
	To start a barbecue competition season for me, and I need to up my karma so I have a great competition competitive season.
	What he says is he wants $1,200 worth of karma.
	So I thought, why not get a show credit?
	Some might say it's cheating to ask for karma from the best podcast in the universe, but if you ask me, it's just hedging your bets.
	When the difference between first and last place relies on a single bite.
	Adam, I'll be competing in your neck of the woods on April 4th at the Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off in Cedar Park, Texas.
	If you and the keeper want to come by on a Saturday afternoon, hang out and have some great Q. Can I get some JCD mac and cheese karma with a little girl?
	Yay!
	73's K5VZ, Sir Otaku, the Duke of Northeast Texas and the Red River Valley.
	Yeah, 73's Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
	What is Q? Barbecue?
	Oh, gee, I've never heard it abbreviated like that.
	Which state are you living in?
	I forgot.
	They don't say that.
	I've never heard that in Texas.
	Sure they do.
	Maybe it's just Austin.
	Sir Otaku, you will get a special extra credit today, which you should totally put on your LinkedIn if you have one, and we really appreciate that.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	You've got karma.
	I should probably talk to him sometime about brisket.
	Yeah.
	For tips or you want to give him tips?
	I don't have any tips for him on brisket.
	I got tips for everything but brisket.
	I've had nothing but trouble cooking brisket the way they do it in Texas.
	And I think a lot of it has to do with I can't get the right brisket here.
	I don't have fatty enough brisket.
	I've done it.
	I've cooked for 12 hours.
	I've used pecan shells.
	I've done all these things, and I still can't get it to be a good product.
	Anyway, onward to Baron Walkman.
	Is it Walkman?
	$600?
	Yes.
	Apparently it is.
	Baron Walkman.
	ITM gents.
	Shout out to the troll room.
	Please cue all the...
	The Abrams stopped the hammering.
	Oh, Jill Abrams.
	Jill Abrams, yeah.
	Jill Abrams stopped the hammering.
	Fisting nuts.
	Hold on.
	Fisting nuts, is that a whole thing?
	Yeah, it's a bit.
	It's not really a clip.
	It's long.
	Well, it's worth it because this was trending on Twitter.
	I demand an inquiry as to how my territory was taken, according to the peerage map, by Viscount Sir Patrick of the Enormous Noggin.
	This is an outrage.
	Have you seen his noggin?
	So...
	I don't think he's talking about the noggin being the outrage.
	So to rectify, please accept my donation of $600, which by my accounting moves me to Earl status and thus taking back the Buckeye State of poisonous nuts.
	That's Ohio for the less informed.
	Adam, I'll be debriefing you further on the China situation.
	That's his son.
	House renovation karma as we prepare to sell and relocate to wherever dementia B is non-existent.
	Counting an email.
	Yeah, he's debriefing his son who's coming back from somewhere.
	He sent me some info about that previously.
	What do we do about this issue with the peerage?
	Well, one's going to be in the same area, but one's going to be boss of the other.
	Oh, okay.
	That's easy.
	That's fixed, then.
	I think.
	And I'm going to play it, but I have to tell you, your nut fisting was trending this week.
	Yeah, it should be.
	Yeah, and what was interesting is this note from Baron Walkman, he sent it to you, and it got rejected by your squirrel mail spam filter for use of the porn word fisting.
	Oh, that's pretty extreme.
	Eric and I had a good laugh over it.
	Wow.
	What are you doing?
	Chatting with Eric.
	Well, I'm sorry, can I not talk to the employees of the organization?
	I don't know why you're chatting about my email bounce back.
	Obviously, I read the New York Times all day long, mainly on my iPad app.
	Stop!
	Stop!
	The hammering!
	Just go for it, John.
	Tell us your peeve about the fisting method of eating snacks on an airplane.
	I see this on the airplane, and it's very annoying, and I think it will result in fights breaking out, because it's just so annoying to watch.
	Guy takes his bag of peanuts...
	Throws a pile of them into his palm of his hand and then he makes a fist around the nuts.
	Around the nuts.
	And then he shakes his fist to try to bring a nut to the little hole.
	Stop.
	To the little hole.
	And then he throws a nut in his mouth from his fist.
	From his fist.
	Then he does it again.
	He shakes and throws and shakes and throws.
	It is...
	You've got karma.
	A classic.
	A classic, I tell you.
	Yeah, we've got plenty of them on this show.
	Onward to Jamie Breitsch.
	Yes.
	In Mentor, Ohio, 441.
	We've got good donors today.
	Thank you, people.
	I'm making this donation to my husband's name, Sir Matt of Northeast Ohio, a long-time listener, and the best thing that's ever happened to me.
	The show?
	We just welcomed our first baby girl, Lydia Morgan, to the world.
	So here's $213 for her date of birth and $228 for the upcoming birthday.
	Wow.
	Or for his upcoming birthday, sorry.
	Please give them both some karma and thank you for a great show.
	Yeah, and congratulations, Lydia and Sir Matt, on the new human resource.
	That's fantastic.
	A new No Agenda producer.
	You've got karma.com.
	Next on the list is Eric Svensson, and he gives us $333.33 and sent a note in.
	And here's his jingles, by the way, unless you have the note in front of you.
	No, I don't.
	Can you see the juice?
	Someone's getting cornholed.
	And the OG Pelosi jobs karma.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Currently in Dallas, he writes.
	Working with my auto finance employer on relocating to LA. They may dick me.
	I find out Friday.
	Jobs and karma, please.
	Looking for opportunities in the Los Angeles area for SAAS, Software as a Service, Customer Success Experience Managers, HMU, LinkedIn.com, slash I-N, Eric Svendson, that's E-R-I-K, S-V-E-N-D-S-O-N. If you're on LinkedIn, you can do a search on him.
	Yeah, and he'll be happy to have his executive producer credit right there in his LinkedIn profile.
	That's what he does.
	You can also write him at eric.svenson.net.
	Love the show, love the digressions, and into audio gear.
	Adam, did you ever eat that MK Ultra Acid?
	Smiley face.
	Stay safe, stay strong, stay juicy.
	Love and light.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	Someone's getting cornhole today.
	Sounds like a recipe for success to me.
	You've got cornhole.
	God.
	You're sick.
	You're sick, people.
	You're sick.
	Bryce Neeseth.
	Or Nesseth, I guess.
	In Barron, Wisconsin.
	333333.
	Uh, please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Second investment, halfway to nighthood.
	Keep up the great work.
	I have an upcoming trip to visit the fiancé in Singapore, so I humbly request travel karma, immunity karma, and immigration karma for my fiancé as we attempt to gain the K-1 visa.
	Epstein didn't kill himself.
	Bryce from northwestern Wisconsin.
	You've got karma now.
	Dropping down to associate executive producer, we start with Justin Bosar in San Francisco, 222.44.
	Been freeloading like swine for too long, so it's time to chip in before the Trump bubble bursts.
	For what it's worth, I enjoyed John's last cognac-fueled rapprochement on Twit.
	Hope it's not the last.
	It was two years ago.
	Cheers!
	Hey, I gotta, speaking of chip in...
	Hold on a second.
	The President sent me another note.
	And I believe he used the chip in.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me find it here.
	And it was...
	What was the last one I got where it was five times match?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Well, they've changed it now.
	They've changed it up.
	Okay.
	Here we go.
	I'm going to do it in the voice in which it is written.
	If I raise my voice, that is all caps.
	We start.
	This tax is your official notice!
	Your final deadline to support President Trump with 500% matched funds has been extended three more hours!
	500% now.
	They're trying everything to get me into their subscription.
	Well, 500% is the same as 5X. I know.
	Hello, of course, but it sounds better.
	Trying to trick you, yeah?
	Yes, because I'm dumb.
	And I didn't realize that the copywriter for all these things was comic strip blogger.
	Well, there you go.
	Now you know why he's been hanging around all this time.
	Well, it's good money.
	Learning how to get us to chip in.
	So I think To me, they have a lot of nerve, in my opinion, to send notes out like that.
	It's very entertaining.
	It really is.
	And I loved our animated No Agenda version of that.
	Thank you very much, Jennifer.
	Oh my god, so funny.
	It's really good.
	Onward with Tom Bayard, brother.
	Kruikenstad in Tilburg.
	Kruikenstad.
	Kruikenstad in Tilburg.
	Netherlands, Holland.
	If you hadn't figured that out by now.
	I TM, John and Adam.
	Tomorrow is my 38th Tour du Soleil.
	And the most no agenda-like festivities are almost there, colon, carnival, aka vasto lovend.
	It's like a party.
	All the more reasons for the early contribution to the best podcast in the universe.
	Please accept my gift of two times 11 that went 1111.
	Without your show, I sure would transform back to Dimension B. Saved him.
	Huh.
	Especially here in the lowlands where the M5M U.S. pundits are the son-in-law of the Speaker of the House and Lib Joe, Eric Mouton.
	Mouton.
	This is the guy who is engaged to Pelosi's daughter, Christine Pelosi.
	Oh, and he's a Dutchman?
	Yes.
	Yep.
	Shout out to my Smokin' Hot fiancé, Shashky.
	Shacky.
	Shacky.
	Shaki.
	She's the best.
	10-10-2020 is the magic date.
	Good idea.
	In November, we'll be traveling to your side of the pond and have our...
	Okay, you're traveling.
	I have the honeymoon in Florida and the tropical islands of the kingdom of the Netherlands.
	It's the best time for a romantic road cuisine trip and listening together in some epic, crazy election news deconstruction.
	It's true!
	Please accept these jingle requests.
	Effing cancer karma or goat karma for my dear friend Rolo.
	Keep the Faith, Jobs Karma, Pelosi and Trump, Obama Chicken Dance, most carnival-like jingle I could find, or as an alternative, the Magical Shifting Jews.
	I think the Chicken Dance is better.
	Thank you for all your efforts in keeping us sane.
	Wishing all the No Agenda listeners a fine vessel for Dovenwind.
	Perfect.
	Nailed it.
	Excellent.
	Tom Baird.
	Kruikstad.
	Kruikenstad.
	Yes.
	So the Dutch take their carnival very seriously.
	And it's just a whole weekend of drinking, and the songs are pretty much like the Obama chicken dance.
	Exactly.
	Here we go!
	Hey, hey, hey, hey!
	Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs.
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You've got karma.
	Mm!
	There we go.
	Thanks, Tom.
	Sir Dirt Farmer comes up next $212.18.
	Wild group for some reason.
	I must have loved the essay.
	Yes.
	Jingle requests, cam trails.
	It's true, Obama, China, a-hole.
	The show has been stellar as of late, and I greatly appreciate your in-depth analysis.
	I find it interesting that today when I tried to access Dvorak.org for my work PC, that my company has blocked the website and categorized it as adult humor.
	Ha!
	Can't have that, slaves!
	Can't have adult humor!
	It's your free and open internet in the great American country that we live.
	Shut up, slave!
	I guess you should have that going for you, I guess.
	I would like to get an update on the potential for Adam to tour John's studio when he's in California.
	For some reason, this possibility is intriguing.
	Perhaps it's a good opportunity for another fundraising gimmick.
	Adam, if you get a tour, perhaps you should take a can of oil for the squeaky chair.
	Please give me a big helping of travel goat karma for my wife.
	And I are taking out our three human resources on vacation next week.
	And it will be a lengthy flight there and back.
	Best regards, Sir Dirt Farmer.
	Yeah, I thought about this, Sir Dirt Farmer.
	And I don't think I want to see John Sudio.
	It might ruin the vision I've built up of it over a good 12, 13 years.
	See, this is as though I can't see through this ploy.
	What Adam's doing here is...
	I'm honest.
	Okay, what's my ploy?
	And then I'll tell you what the real ploy is.
	You analyze that and I'll tell you what's really going on.
	Adam knows I've got the cleaning maniac, Jay, and myself included.
	I can clean it.
	That if Adam's going to come, if I agree to let him see the place, it'll be clean as a whistle.
	It'll be spanking, it'll be just gleaming.
	But if he thinks that, oh, he's not going to come, I don't give a crap, it'll be the mess that it is.
	And that's what he wants to see.
	Wrong again.
	Yeah, says you.
	Okay.
	Let's play his requested jingles.
	China is asshole!
	You've got karma.
	And Sir Tom McRod Adams showed up in Florida.
	Oh, cool.
	$200.
	How's the Tom McRod doing?
	I was reading a lot recently over some atomic energy stuff from Tom McRod.
	I wanted to let you know that there's a lot happening in advanced nuclear tech these days.
	You can learn more from my Twitter feed at Atomic Rod.
	Yes.
	Atomic Insights is still a good place to find other older info, but I've been too busy with a new job as a capitalist to do much more writing.
	No jingles, just karma.
	I know.
	Doesn't it suck when you're a capitalist?
	Atomic Rod, and I would, you know, he has a podcast, he has a blog, if you really want to know, and he's taught us, I think, pretty much everything that we know about atomic energy.
	And the whole Backyard Nukes conversation started years and years and years ago.
	And he would know.
	You know, he formerly was on a nuclear submarine.
	He was captain, commander.
	I don't know.
	We always give him more than it was, but I think he was actually in charge of the entire fleet.
	And we're very proud to have him.
	Very proud to have him as one of our associate executive producers today.
	Thank you very much, Tom McRod.
	You've got karma.
	Brian Warden, $200.
	Howdy, gents.
	I just need a job of karma for my wife.
	Current proven version would be fine.
	Also, a happy birthday shout-out to my oldest, Jack, who is turning 15.
	All right.
	On the 24th.
	No jingles.
	Okay.
	Where's he from?
	Do we know?
	It's not on you.
	All right, Brian.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Jobs, the approved one.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	Now we have fakeologist.com in Toronto, Canada, who sent a Canadian dollar check of $200 so he gets credit.
	I'm also thinking, looking there down one list is to Kalen, who's going to get mentioned anyway for $199.99.
	And he's a...
	I don't know what the point is.
	Michaela Nistler came in with one penny shy.
	Well, you know what?
	Hey, let me do this.
	I have one here.
	Somewhere I have.
	There it is.
	I just dropped a penny.
	So now he's also an associate executive producer.
	Fakeologist.com writes...
	I find my $200 Canadian Dollaretts check to make my fourth annual donation, keeping me one step closer to Canadian knighthood.
	My blog, fakeologist.com, is all about exposing media fakery.
	Every major media event is a hyper-realistic drill portrayed as real, including 9-11.
	As shown in the Blockbuster YouTube movie, September Clues.
	Oh, that is a pretty good one.
	I've also got research that shows nuclear science is based on science fakery, which is good news if you believe in nuclear weapons.
	Have you ever considered that nukes were fake?
	How about, this is right after Derrod Adams' donation.
	I just love these.
	This is great.
	It could not have been more perfect.
	Random number event.
	Have you ever considered that nukes were fake?
	How about nuclear power?
	If the power stations were fake, that certainly better explains why this magical energy isn't used everywhere to replace all the other sources.
	Oh, well, that's a good conspiracy theory.
	I hadn't heard that one.
	I like it.
	It's one giant 124-year worldwide fraud.
	Thanks for considering this idea.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Soon-to-be surfacologist.
	I'm going to give one jingle to him.
	WTC7 won't go away.
	And that concludes our list of associate executive producers and executive producers.
	Hold on.
	Colin Nistor.
	Oh, yeah.
	We're moving.
	Colin Nistor.
	But all he says is keep on trucking.
	Oh, okay.
	Didn't have any big note.
	Okay.
	Yeah, it's Colin.
	He's in Northfield, Michigan.
	Well, I have to say, despite...
	Your essay in the newsletter.
	Good showing today.
	Yes.
	Because typically when we put actual content, maybe this is a turning point.
	You know what I think it was?
	Just for insiders who like to do this, like look into why something works and why something doesn't work.
	I think the point of the article was that the money being spent by Bloomberg, this is all bitching and moaning.
	the article, the essay was about the effectiveness of advertising.
	And with some possibility that it's not going to be effective when it comes to Bloomberg at the end of the day after he dropped $600 million of his own money into the campaign and brags about it, which is a pittance compared to what he has.
	And so I think there was the element of, well, here's how we do it.
	We do it differently than just throwing money at it.
	We don't accept Bloomberg ads, so we're going to actually talk about things about Bloomberg that no one else will talk about.
	In fact, Bloomberg has really been spreading the love online.
	Have you seen?
	He was paying Instagram influencers $150 a pop just to put something in your comments.
	Yeah.
	What a bonanza it could have been if we were a commercial outfit.
	Oh, yeah.
	We'd be cleaning up.
	That's beautiful.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Manny, Mike, how can the president call him that?
	It's ridiculous.
	What a horrible person Trump is.
	What are you reading?
	Where's this coming from?
	I'm just showing you what the show would be like.
	I'm sorry.
	How about this?
	I'll try it on for size.
	This is how it works.
	I really appreciate Mike Bloomberg.
	He sees the America that I see.
	He wants to help people directly.
	You call him a billionaire, but he gives away tens of billions of dollars to the most charitable, fantastic causes.
	He's a true patriot.
	I've heard he's a pretty good guy, too.
	Alright, well, I'll cut that out and I'll send it in as a submission.
	And I would like to...
	Where's our money?
	I would like to say that today is the official Pecha Kucha Day.
	This is the project that was started years ago by Dame Astrid and Sir Mark.
	Pecha Kucha, P-E-C-H-A-K-U-C-H-A. It's 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide.
	It's global.
	Everywhere in the world, these Pecha Kuchas will be taking place.
	It's their version of No Agenda, Value for Value.
	Go to PechaCucha.org and see if there's one near you.
	It's really a fantastic...
	It's really a great gathering.
	It goes by quick.
	It's fun.
	And there's hot chicks there, my hair.
	Yeah?
	Yeah.
	I should do a No Agenda slideshow.
	What, for PechaCucha?
	Why what we're doing is important and why it really matters.
	Well, if someone will put it together, I'll present it.
	I can put it together.
	Oh my goodness.
	20 slides.
	How many times do I get to twitch and blink per slide?
	Like 8 or 9?
	Yeah, 20 seconds.
	You got all the blinking and winking and squirming and jumping.
	Thank you very much to our executive producers and our associate executive producers for supporting this program, keeping the lights on, keeping it running, and for showing us just how valuable the work is that is done here by all producers of Gitmo Nation because it Everyone is putting this show together.
	We just happen to be tasked with the actual work part of it.
	But thank you.
	And if you'd like to support us for our show coming up on Sunday, I will be in Florida doing the show live from there.
	And, of course, that means we have a meet-up on Friday.
	But Sunday, we'll need your help.
	Go to...
	I think you're pretty much up to date.
	You can sound intelligent about the debate.
	Ain't that true?
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	New world order.
	Shut up, play.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Shut up, slave.
	By the way, since someone brought that up, thinking that that was New Water Order, I've received several notes from people who said that they also misunderstood that New World Order jingle, which we've been playing for about 10-11 years, and people think it's You Order Water.
	There's all kinds of interesting ways that's been interpreted.
	I kind of like that.
	Yeah.
	This is great.
	Hey, so the president issued some pardons and commutations, which received a lot of attention from the M5M. Did you pick up on anything?
	Well, I noticed that they were bitching in a morning.
	In fact, they do have a clip.
	I think there's a clip.
	Good, good, good.
	Where they mention, I think this is under one of Amy's clips.
	Let me see what we got here.
	This might be a try to pardon stone Trump democracy now.
	President Trump issued a wave of pardons and commutations Tuesday to a group of his political allies, circumventing the normal Justice Department process.
	Among the 11 people granted clemency Tuesday were former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who had been jailed for attempting to sell Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat.
	Former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who was convicted of tax fraud and lying to officials.
	And investment banker Mike Milken, who was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy and was best known as the junk bond king.
	The clemency comes amid speculation Trump might also try to pardon his longtime friend and former campaign advisor Roger Stone.
	Hey, you hit my eye with that thing.
	Put it back.
	Stone, it just happened, I guess, in the last couple of minutes.
	40 months.
	He's been sentenced to 40 months for lying to Congress.
	By my calculation, that is the magic number.
	3.333 years.
	Am I right on that?
	Oh, I never thought of that.
	Well, that's code then.
	Okay, well, that's good for him.
	Now, a couple of things she says in there.
	She says he slants the story.
	That's why I gave the boing at the end, because she deserved it.
	Yeah.
	Political allies bloggo in Illinois.
	When is he a political ally?
	Well, when you're done analyzing what you said, I have...
	No, go ahead.
	Go down the list and I'll come back to it.
	Well, Mike Milken is another one.
	I don't know that they've ever done business together or had to even nose the guy.
	But Milken was the guy who invented the junk bond.
	It really helped bring the country back from its couple of slumps.
	And the junk bonds actually work.
	People don't want to admit it, but the whole Wynn empire was built on junk bonds.
	The Mirage Hotel was built on junk bonds.
	It was very successful.
	He also wasn't in jail anymore.
	He's not in jail, but he needed the pardon because now he can get his licenses and everything back.
	Right, he can go up and trade again.
	I would like to see if Michael Milken, who was a genuine genius, who was set up by Ivar, or Ivan Bosky is the bad guy.
	It's a shame because the guy was, Milken's one of the smartest finance guys in the history of the country, and he should be back in business.
	Well, let's run down the list here because there is something going on with this.
	So we had Edward D. Bartolo Jr.
	He's the...
	He owned the San Francisco 49ers.
	And...
	Yeah, so I'm not quite sure.
	I think maybe he...
	Doesn't he live in Ohio or something?
	I think he's in Ohio now.
	He's a...
	Super mall builder category of person.
	I think he does live in Ohio.
	Yes, I think that he wants...
	Trump is doing that for Ohio support for the election.
	I pretty much can deconstruct most of these.
	We just went through Milken.
	Then we have Ariel Friedler.
	Don't know much about him.
	Bernard Carrick.
	Wasn't this the police commissioner who got caught on Nannygate?
	Because I think I was in New York at the time.
	I don't...
	To be honest about it, I don't know anything about that guy.
	Well, he got screwed.
	He was...
	Most of these guys got screwed.
	That's why I think these...
	Right.
	These were legit, unlike what Amy said, against the department guidelines.
	The guy could...
	Okay.
	Well, let me tell you what's going on here, because I figured it out.
	The minute I saw the mainstream...
	I mean, there's a lot of people you could jump on, and they completely ignored the women who received pardons or commutations...
	pardons, actually, for...
	Actually, maybe it's been commutation.
	But they're out of jail.
	Women who were involved in non-violent drug crimes, some of them just deserve to get out, I think.
	I think they did their time.
	They got a little railroaded.
	So that's been completely ignored.
	Everyone focused on Blagojevich.
	And Trump himself said, well, yeah, you know, I met him a few times.
	You know, I just thought that he'd been...
	And he wasn't pardoned.
	His sentence was commuted, which means you're done.
	So you're still guilty.
	You still did it all, but you can get out of jail now.
	And the way the mainstream jumped all over that...
	Got my no agenda producer sense tingly.
	And I went back to our notes because...
	Good point.
	This went down when we were...
	Well, actually, it goes back to before the show started.
	And it deserves...
	No.
	Yes, it does.
	It goes back to when Obama became senator for Illinois.
	That's before the show started.
	That is, but not the...
	This is all a part of it.
	Because if you go and listen to...
	There's a famous tape of Blagojevich, and he's talking about how I've got something to trade, I've got this valuable Senate seat, etc.
	It was really only about 2 or 3% of everything that was recorded at the time.
	And you've got to ask, why was Blagojevich being wiretapped by the FBI? Was it just because he was trying to sell the Obama Senate seat?
	No.
	We do have to go back to how Obama got his Senate seat in the first place, because this is all Chicago politics, and Trump's commutation, getting Blagojevich out of jail, is a big F-you to Obama, and I'll explain why.
	So when Obama met Trump, David Axelrod.
	At the time, David Axelrod had just left the Tribune Company in Chicago, where he was the City Hall editor, so very closely tied to Chicago politics.
	He was a consultant who himself said he packages up black politicians for white voters.
	So he became Obama's main man.
	In order to get his Senate seat, there were two people in the way.
	One was a billionaire hedge fund guy, who was way ahead of Obama in the polls for the nomination to be the senator, so this was a primary vote.
	I'm not quite sure what it was.
	I have all this in the show notes, by the way.
	I'm just trying to go through it quickly.
	And then suddenly, documents leaked about his contester that he, in his divorce papers, which both he and his ex-wife had sealed, they were leaked By the Tribune Company, of course, there's David Axelrod, and it showed that there had been some spousal abuse.
	Yeah, he punched her.
	No, he actually kicked her in the shin because she was kicking him.
	But when they did a debate, there was a four-minute segment, so that killed the guy's chances.
	Then they had Jack Ryan.
	By the way, I don't want to stop your flow, but you can collect yourself.
	This is very similar and parallels a bit the way Hillary got her Senate seat.
	If you remember, all of a sudden she's running against the guy that would be unstoppable, which was Rudy Giuliani, but somehow Giuliani gets cancer or a cancer scare or something.
	He has to drop out and she just gives it to her.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, I remember this bullcrap about this guy who should have beaten Obama.
	Well, then we had the second one.
	Then there was Jack Ryan.
	This guy is handsome, also multi-millionaire, very well connected in politics, and he is clearly going to ring Obama's bell in this, but Obama...
	Oh, uh-oh, the Tribune Company once again finds leaked documents from the sealed divorce papers between Jack Ryan and his ex-wife, Jerry, who we know as Seven of Nine of Deep Space Nine, and...
	There it showed and was kind of funny because they had disagreements over group sex and sex clubs and it was, interestingly enough, she wanted to do it and he didn't.
	But it was a scandal.
	I thought it was the other way around.
	No, I know.
	I went back and looked at it.
	The guy actually got excoriated for not wanting to have other people bang his wife in the sex club.
	But whatever, that was another scandal, and whoop, Obama pops right in.
	So Obama was a state senator for a number of years, and his main fundraiser is a guy named Tony Rezko, R-E-Z-K-O. You might want to look that one up.
	Tony Rezco is incredibly corrupt.
	He also helped Blagojevich fund his campaigns, all of Obama's campaigns.
	And that's where the FBI trouble started.
	And by the way, there was all kinds of alleged payoffs where Obama bought a house next to Rezco.
	Rezco then sold him a little piece of land for money.
	Payoffs, basically.
	And Obama has admitted, oh, that was a mistake.
	I never should have done a deal with that, num-nuck, even though they were best buds.
	What Blagojevich was ultimately, because there was two trials.
	The first one hung jury.
	They couldn't convict him on anything on these phone calls.
	They just said, eh, the guy's braggadocious, but he really didn't do anything wrong.
	And they finally nailed him on asking for campaign contributions to for an increase in Medicare payments to a hospital.
	And here's the problem.
	On the board of the Illinois, no, I think running the board of the Illinois Hospital and Medical, I don't know exactly what it's called, was Barack Obama.
	He was part of corruption in Chicago and payoffs between Resco and the medical industry, the hospital, everyone you can imagine, because that's how politics works and that's certainly how Chicago politics works.
	So the guy that Blagojevich was discussing this with on this phone call, and again, you've only heard a little bit.
	You didn't hear the whole setup to it, which probably would have exonerated him, where Blagojevich was really saying, you know, this guy, you know, these effing Obamas, full of tricks, all this stuff, I'm sick and tired of it, and he essentially laid out the corruption that Obama was involved in.
	So Trump has...
	I'm sorry, Blagojevich got 14 years.
	His co-conspirator, much more corrupt than him, actually involved in the payoffs, got 10 and a half years.
	Why?
	They wanted to shut Blagojevich up.
	Shut him up for Obama's term, possible second term, and another term after that, and another term after that.
	And Trump has pulled him out, and he is going to rat Obama out.
	Target number one, no small aircraft, no hot tubs.
	Stay away from hair dryers in the bathroom.
	Blagojevich has a big target on his head.
	And Trump...
	No one caught this, except I think a lot in the mainstream know it.
	And they immediately went to, it's his buddy.
	He was on Apprentice.
	Now, all of this is total horse crap.
	This is...
	It's on.
	It's on.
	And we'll see.
	But Trump did this either to just...
	Make everybody worried because there's a lot of people involved in this.
	Axelrod is still on TV. Not that he's a big fish.
	There's a lot of people involved.
	The Pritzkers.
	This is such a Chicago shitstorm.
	And all these links are in the show notes.
	Take a look at it.
	You will be astounded.
	And you'll understand why this protectionism of Obama is outing itself as Blagojevich is a crook.
	Yeah, he is.
	He's crooked.
	Yeah.
	This is what politicians do.
	Give me a campaign donation, I'll get a contract for your military-industrial complex company.
	And maybe this is the overarching point that I'm not prepared to unravel today, but I... I've been looking at how this kind of, what they call the deep state or the administrative state,
	the stuff that really, all these people, the judges, the judge who just sentenced Stone to 40 months, all of this, and you can help me with this, I think started with FDR. And FDR was the champion at giving away government money, programs that he invented.
	Of course, we had the New Deal, but there was all these programs that he would give money to political friends, but not just that, he'd give it to the media.
	In fact, they found out that he delivered huge amounts of money to LBJ, so Texas would be all in on it.
	LBJ passed that money on to Brown and Root.
	I didn't even know.
	That he was a part of that.
	That's Kellogg, Brown, and Ruth.
	That's Halliburton.
	This goes way back.
	What you see with these little people at the top, with a Comey, or what's the FBI dickhead who didn't get convicted of anything?
	McCabe.
	They're all part of it.
	They're all part of what the national security bureaucracy, all these little intelligence agencies.
	It's a mess.
	And I don't think...
	Ten thousand sealed indictments!
	Precisely.
	God bless them.
	I don't think Trump can blast through all of this.
	It's impossible.
	I can't blast through any of it.
	But this is what's going on here.
	And I like that he's playing this angle.
	Let's see what happens.
	We have to keep our eye on it now, because no one else will.
	No one understands what's happening here.
	Well, they don't care.
	I care.
	I think it's fantastic.
	No, I said they don't care.
	I didn't say you care.
	Yeah, so I would love for all producers, this is your eyes peeled warning.
	And just to wrap this up, this little segment, the first part is this complaining about Barr should...
	I told you this was going to be a big deal.
	Barr should resign.
	It's crazy.
	We've got 2,000 people, former prosecutors, signing a letter.
	A letter!
	Oh my God, a letter!
	He has to resign.
	He's taking instructions from the president.
	This is wrong.
	This is not how it's supposed to work.
	No, in the...
	NSB, the National Security Bureaucracy, that is indeed not how it's supposed to work.
	You're supposed to let them handle everything.
	Unfortunately, it's always been this way.
	This is Eric Holder, President Obama's Attorney General for the first six years of his presidency on The Breakfast Club.
	He called in and talked about his relationship with President Obama.
	Remember, this is the Trump-Bar relationship of the Obama presidency.
	You gonna stay around for all four years?
	Well, I don't know.
	We'll see.
	Come on, man.
	Come on.
	Come on.
	We need you.
	I got to ask.
	Come on, Lieutenant General.
	Please.
	I'm happy.
	I'm still enjoying what I'm doing.
	There's still work to be done.
	I'm still a president's wingman, so I'm there with my boy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We'll see.
	We'll see.
	I'm still the president's wingman.
	I'm his boy.
	That's exactly how it's supposed to be.
	But oh no, can't be the lawyer of the president.
	You have to be the lawyer of the United States.
	Well, this is pretty transparent.
	Here, play this clip.
	Firestorm over the 2000 ex-DOJs.
	I got a comment about this.
	Next tonight, the growing firestorm surrounding Attorney General William Barr.
	More than 2,000 former Justice Department prosecutors and officials now publicly calling for his resignation.
	The AG facing heavy criticism for intervening in the sentencing of President Trump's longtime friend, Roger Stone.
	That sentencing now set for Thursday.
	Long time friend.
	Now, if you remember, about six months, it may have been a year ago, but I think it was more like six, between six months and a year ago, nine months maybe.
	There was the same 2,000 ex-DOJ guys who signed a petition saying that the president should be, I believe, should be impeached.
	And this is just a mailing list.
	This is a group of 2,000 that are all Democrats.
	You're right!
	You're right!
	So I looked into, first time it happened, which is the same 2,000 guys, you can look at the list, it's the same people.
	I looked into this back then, when it happened the first time, and I wrote, I tracked down two or three of them, and wrote them, emailed them, maybe I tracked down more than that, but I only got responses from two or three of them.
	Wait, you were trying, so did you acquire the entire list?
	The list is available.
	That's a hot list, man.
	The article that ran in Medium is the same list that they just ran with these people.
	John, you know what we can do with this list?
	Here, we'll send the email.
	I saw what you were doing.
	I was able to turn on your webcam.
	I saw what you were watching.
	You need to send me five Bitcoin.
	Come on, man.
	It's a great list.
	It's a great list to do that for.
	I don't have the emails.
	It's just a list of names.
	Oh, that's a problem.
	Yeah.
	So I had to dig through and dig around and I finally got the emails from maybe five or six of them because some of them are in famous law firms and you go to the website and there's the guy.
	And, you know, ex-DOJ. It's amazing how many ex-DOJ people there are in giant law firms.
	So I sent a bunch of notes out because I didn't – I thought this sounded like a bunch of bull crap.
	They're just putting people's names down, you know, like petitioners do.
	But no.
	They wrote back, no, no, yeah.
	And they were all irked that I even questioned that they'd signed on to this thing.
	And you can tell they're all just a bunch of either never-Trumpers or just Democrats that don't like Trump.
	And it's the same group.
	So this is going to crop up every six to nine months.
	2,000 ex-DOJs saying that Trump did the wrong thing.
	This is bullcrap.
	And the fact that ABC News and so did Democracy Now!
	just played it straight is just beyond the pale, as far as I'm concerned.
	Just bad coverage.
	It's not very well done.
	Good deconstruction.
	I had forgotten all about that list.
	That makes so much sense.
	What a bunch.
	It's hooey.
	It's malarkey, I say.
	It's malarkey.
	But if you really want to know the constitutionality of it, you've got to go to the constitutional lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, because he knows if this is legal, can you do that?
	Can you open investigations?
	And he has an interesting example.
	There was a lot of White House control of the Justice Department during the Kennedy administration, and I don't think we saw very many liberal professors.
	I have some information as well about the Obama administration, which will be disclosed in a lawsuit at some point, but I'm not prepared to disclose it now, about how President Obama personally asked the FBI to investigate somebody on behalf of George Soros, who is a close ally of his.
	We've seen this kind of White House influence on the Justice Department, virtually in every Justice Department.
	The difference is this president is much more overt about it.
	He tweets about it.
	President Obama whispered to the Justice Department about it.
	And I don't think these thousand former Justice Department officials would pass the shoe on the other foot test.
	Maybe some of them would, but a good many of them wouldn't.
	And let's be very clear about the constitutionality.
	The president could make a decision to really control the Justice Department.
	He could decide who to prosecute, who not to prosecute.
	He shouldn't do it.
	It hasn't been done since Thomas Jefferson.
	Thomas Jefferson did do it.
	We've seen this throughout our history.
	You said that George Soros asked Barack Obama to have his Justice Department investigate somebody?
	That's going to come out in a lawsuit in the near future.
	That is not unusual.
	People whisper to presidents all the time.
	Presidents whisper to Justice Department all the time.
	It's very common.
	It's wrong.
	Whoever does it, but it's common.
	And we shouldn't think that it's unique to any particular situation.
	I have in my possession the actual 302 form, which documents this issue, and it will at the right time come out, but I'm not free to disclose it now because it's a case that's not yet been filed.
	How juicy.
	This guy's a genius.
	I can't wait to find out who Soros wanted it.
	Forget that Obama took care of it, but who was it?
	I can't wait to find out.
	Well, we're going to find out, unless it's another...
	Or it's going to go thrown into the pile of 10,000 sealed indictments.
	Nah, Dershowitz kind of...
	He doesn't say stuff if he doesn't mean it, is the impression I get.
	But it's a good point, because after the media, the N5M tried so desperately, Oh!
	Oh!
	Bolton!
	Oh, Bolton!
	Bolton!
	We need Bolton on the stand!
	Bolton!
	I think this was another masterstroke.
	I think it was a scam.
	I think Bolton was in cahoots with Trump and played everybody.
	Here's Chris Matthews grousing about the latest news.
	Tonight, former National Security Advisor John Bolton spoke publicly for the first time since the impeachment trial, where he discussed his unpublished manuscript, which reportedly contains new details of the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
	According to NBC News, when Bolton was asked about Trump's attacks, he said, When asked if Trump's call with Ukrainian President Zelensky was perfect, in quotes, Bolton said, you'll love Chapter 14.
	And when asked if he's concerned with Trump's attacks on Alexander Vindman and Marie Yanovovich, Bolton said, I think it's legitimate to worry about it.
	Uh, scammed?
	You've been punked?
	He's selling a book!
	What did he say?
	He's not even telling people what he said.
	What Trump allegedly said to him.
	Hey, it's in chapter 14.
	And all these dummies fell for it.
	Well, they fell for it because they wanted to fall for it.
	They're grasping at straws.
	They know they've got a problem.
	They ground the news cycle to a halt for at least four days over this.
	What a waste of human energy.
	Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton.
	Please.
	Well, Bolton knows that if he does anything that was really disparaging...
	That he would be a jackal in the Republican Party.
	His whole world would be done.
	He'd be done for good.
	He's still playing.
	He wants to be an ambassador or he wants to do something.
	Sure he does.
	Well, first of all, he's going to get a nice pile of money for this book.
	People will buy the book.
	Yeah.
	There's going to be nothing in the book.
	Oh, of course not.
	Chapter 14 would be like, psych.
	Just one word.
	Psych.
	Psych.
	Yeah, well, welcome to the 70s.
	So, I have a couple of offbeat clips.
	I got one here I think might be a good one to play.
	We used to do this more on the show than I've been doing it recently.
	Not we, it's mostly me.
	Watching ABC Nightly News with David Muir and finding the native ad.
	Oh, yes.
	We always love the native ad.
	Unless it's the ring doorbell.
	I'm kind of tired of that one.
	Yeah, well, that probably would put the kibosh on it.
	But now I see a new kind of native ad, and this is posing as a news article, as they do.
	It's a native ad.
	But it's one of these things.
	I started seeing this in the Super Bowl.
	There was one Super Bowl ad where the Coca-Cola Bears were there renting a Hertz car and having a tasty freeze ice cream at a Dairy Queen.
	I mean, it was just a whole bunch of people ganged up to produce.
	They all jumped in on one ad.
	Yeah, because it was expensive.
	So they figured, let's triple up.
	Well, this is the new version of that.
	And by the way, exactly, if you take the intros and outros out, get rid of that.
	It's 60 seconds, I'll bet.
	60 seconds.
	Just nails it right on the number.
	Rebecca Jarvis, out to save your money tonight.
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	David?
	All right, great advice, Rebecca.
	Thank you.
	Nailed it.
	60 seconds.
	Nailed it.
	Wow.
	Good catch.
	That's disgusting.
	And that was on the nightly news.
	Yes, on the nightly news.
	That's your news for you.
	They slipped this bogus ad for a whole bunch of companies.
	They charge each one of them a piece of that, so they probably net it out more than you'd get for the native ad normally.
	You know how you do that, right?
	You divide it into five segments, or in this case, like about eight segments.
	We'll mention your name twice.
	We're going to mention your name.
	We'll give you two products.
	What two products do you want?
	Okay, we're going to give you those two products.
	This is going to cost you this.
	That's going to cost you that.
	Yeah.
	It's a scam and this is the nightly news as it's posing as news.
	Not how we do it.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
	Yeah, 60% off.
	Right.
	I'm going to thank a few people for show 1218, starting with...
	We did, Kayla, in this store already.
	We're going to move to Forbes Benning.
	$146.82.
	He's in London, Ontario.
	It's actually $202 Canadian.
	Ah!
	Ah!
	We have to push him up.
	Oh, he goes up.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me make a note of that.
	Make a note of that.
	Yes, his note...
	Dame Moneypanny's in here from Davis, California.
	$133.33.
	Got a birthday call-out for a smoking hot husband.
	Vicky Ferris, 100.
	Nicholas Blexrud, I think.
	8008, another smoking hot wife call-out for Anna.
	That'll be a birthday list.
	She's on the birthday list.
	Jan Wellam Hiddink in Den Haag.
	Netherlands, 8008.
	And then Eric Mackey, 8008.
	Is he asking for a dedouching?
	Yep.
	Okay.
	You've been dedouched.
	Sir Rick, Arlington, Washington, 6996.
	Baron Mark Tanner always comes in the same time with a check, 6789, along with Sir Rick.
	It's like a combo.
	They both come in.
	Scott Richardson in New Orleans, Louisiana, 6006, small boobs.
	Lauren De Bruyne, Bruin, Bruin in Trondheim.
	Another birthday call-out.
	He calls this a Pentium donation.
	It is 5860.
	Hmm.
	I don't know.
	Sir Beardmaster, 5510.
	Andrew Domenici in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
	I don't know how to pronounce the name of that city.
	Caguas, Caguas, Caguas, Caguas.
	Sounds about right.
	Stephen Schnellker.
	Steven Schnelker in New Haven, Indiana.
	Need some Jobs Karma for Dame Fitness Fanatic.
	Would be appreciated.
	Put that at the end for you.
	Sure will.
	Dean Roker, 5510.
	Andre Pietju in Rishwick, Netherlands.
	How am I doing?
	Well, that's Reisveik.
	Reisveik!
	You'll be made the mayor if you ever go over there.
	That will love you.
	Hey, it's Dvorak.
	He's the mayor of Rice Lake.
	Nancy Murphy in San Bruno, California.
	Gonna be a dame someday, she writes.
	Matthew Burns.
	In Nelson, B.C., 5225.
	Another birthday.
	This is his birthday day.
	I said to himself he's going to be 30.
	Thomas Follett in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
	Robert Case in Mill Spring, North Carolina.
	50.
	These are $50 donors, name and location.
	Thomas Robert.
	Jeremiah Tribal.
	Donald Richards in Franklin, Virginia.
	Brad Taylor in Duval, Washington.
	It's where the Franklin Mind is, I think.
	Robert Blank Shane.
	Blank Shane.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	He has emergency jobs karma.
	I'll do that at the end for you.
	Okay, yeah.
	Sorry.
	Okay, well, I got another.
	Before when I finish this list, I want to read a little note.
	It's got another emergency jobs karma.
	Unless that was his.
	I don't think so.
	No, no.
	I know what you're talking about.
	Yes.
	Yeah, get that one back.
	We'll mention him and get him some emergency karma.
	Clayton, California is Sir Scott of...
	Be a blow.
	Be a blow.
	Canyon something.
	I don't know.
	Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas.
	Oh, it's Diablo.
	Sir Scott of Diablo.
	Oh, Diablo.
	Ah, I see.
	And he needs an emergency.
	Oh, he's emerging from Douchehood to donate again.
	Good.
	Thank you.
	Good to see you back, Sir Scott of Diablo.
	Sir Andrew Gusick in Greensboro, North Carolina.
	Sir Jerry Wingenroth in Sagas, California.
	And last but not least is Daniel Galloway in Marietta, Georgia.
	And we do have this note from, who is it?
	I think it actually was from Robert.
	Robert Blankshane, yeah.
	I'd like to ask for an emergency jobs comment from my mom, Mana Blankshane.
	I'm a poor college student who cannot donate very much, but without my mother I would not have what I have to give, nor the opportunity to receive such an education as I am now without her support.
	It is times like these when one can turn to their community for help, and I feel as though no agenda through the power of concentrated goodwill can generate extraordinary results.
	The last emergency jobs karma I asked for worked to abate the coming disaster, but even darker waters loom ahead.
	I believe some added karma can boost the results of the last.
	Hopefully this compounded effect will be just what is needed to help her company get back on track.
	Well, of course, I'm happy to do that.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	I also got a request from Sir Chris Wilson.
	We do break for our nights.
	Please, emergency karma to Sir Felix's school buddy, Logan, who was taken to hospital this afternoon and for his family as well.
	So, of course, we'll do that.
	You've got karma.
	And that's it, I guess, for our donors, yeah?
	Yeah, that's it.
	That will be it for show 1218.
	These are the producers, and earlier we had the others, the associate and executive producers.
	Yes.
	I want to thank every one of them and all the people that came in with the lesser amounts for helping us get through this show, which was actually, this was okay, a good show.
	Yeah, and we appreciate it.
	And we will be doing it all over again on Sunday, and we would like you to consider helping out again, or maybe for the first time, you'll get a dedouching for it.
	Just go to...
	I think we had one jobs karma that someone needed, just extra one.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	It is 22-2020 and we have some birthdays.
	Sir Andy of Terrigal Beach says happy birthday to his daughter Sophia.
	She turns 14 on the 22nd.
	Jamie Bright says happy birthday to her smoking hot husband Sir Matt of Northeast Ohio.
	Tom Bjart Kraukenstatt will be 38.
	I guess his birthday is today.
	Brian Warden says happy birthday to his son Jack, 15 on the 24th.
	Dame Moneypenny, happy birthday to her smoking hot hubby.
	Surreptitious night of the Marin Headlands.
	It's his birthday today.
	Nicholas Blexrud says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife Anna.
	Belated Lawrence the Brown celebrated on the 17th.
	And finally, Matt Burns turns 30 today.
	Happy birthday.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	Happy birthday, yeah!
	Okay, and finally, we've got a nighting.
	Actually, a daming.
	A daming, no less.
	So, I get the...
	Here you go.
	That's the one.
	Artemis, hop up on stage!
	You, young lady, are about to become a dame of the Noagenda Roundtable.
	This is where we have everyone here who has supported the show in the amount of $1,000 or more.
	That gets you a seat at this coveted roundtable, and I'm very proud to pronounce to Kate the...
	Dame of the Waxing Moon.
	Dame of the No Agenda Roundtable for you.
	We've got, if you want them, hookers and blow, or perhaps some red boys and chardonnay.
	They're right over there behind door number two.
	We've got single malt scotch.
	We've got pog and poi, bourbon and bong rips, cold brew coffee and cannabis, goat chops and goat milk, pepperoni, rolls and pale ales, beer and blunts, Ruben S. Women and rosé, maybe vodka, vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, ginger ale and gerbils, or...
	Everybody's favorite, mutton and mead.
	And you, Dame of the Waxing Moon, should go to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Give us all the info.
	We'll gladly send out your Dame ring along with your sealing wax and your official certificate.
	And congratulations.
	Welcome to the Roundtable.
	The place is a lot better looking now that you're here.
	Title changes.
	Turn and face the slate.
	Title changes.
	Don't want to be a douche fan.
	And we have a title change, as you heard earlier.
	He's now the boss of you.
	Baron Walkman becomes Earl, and hereby will be known as the Earl of Ohio.
	Watch out!
	He's in charge.
	No agenda meetups!
	It's not your party!
	It is like a party.
	No meetup reports for today, but we do have an overview of what's coming up.
	This is where people go hang out together who are producers of the No Agenda show.
	They meet all around the world and can pretty much discuss anything without triggering because not only do they have healthy-sized amygdalas, these meetups make them even healthier.
	And today, Kitchener, Ontario, local 42033 will be meeting at Moose's Winooski, Moose Winooski's in Kitchener.
	That'll be at 7 o'clock tonight.
	What?
	You okay?
	Nothing, no.
	Go!
	What's wrong?
	I just made a noise.
	You groaned.
	You dropped the whole ball here.
	I'm not even near the mic.
	Well, I have sensitive ears.
	Drat you, Mike.
	Magnolia, Texas, NA Local 667.
	Also tonight, Houstonians come for craft brews at the Lone Pint Brewery in downtown Magnolia, Texas.
	Texas Joe organizing for you.
	Then, tomorrow, the Keeper and I will be at Delray Beach, 6 o'clock.
	That will be the South Florida Meetup at the Saltwater Brewery.
	This will be at 6 o'clock.
	We're very excited.
	Look forward to seeing all of you there.
	Saturday, Snow Agenda Banff.
	That is a meeting on the slopes for the Snow Agenda details.
	Josh Cox has everything on noagendameetups.com.
	San Antone on Saturday, 5.30 at the Flying Saucer on Huebner Road.
	Andrew White organizing for you in New Mexico.
	Albuquerque.
	Sidetrack Brewing.
	This is Sir Jeff Tuig.
	Go tell him to stop driving motorcycles.
	I've known the guy for...
	A couple of years during the show, twice he's been knocked off his motorcycle.
	So he's been banged up and he's back in the saddle.
	That'll be at 3 o'clock.
	Springfield, Missouri on Saturday at Lindbergh's Tavern.
	We have the LAX Flight 002 of the No Agenda, 3 o'clock on Saturday at LAX. This will be in FEMA Region 9 at the Proud Bird on Aviation Boulevard.
	Leo Bravo organizing for you.
	Missoula, Montana, Local 406 on Saturday's second meetup.
	Christopher Raymer will be hosting that.
	Three Mile Island Evac Zone meetup, 6 o'clock.
	That'll be Pennsylvania, of course, at the Hillside Cafe, Goldsboro, Pennsylvania.
	Durham, North Carolina, 2 o'clock.
	And a shrinking amygdala will leave more brain room for the thinky stuff, says organizer TJ. Meet at Briar Creek Beer Garden in Raleigh.
	And that's what's coming up.
	Oh, I should probably give you Monday and Wednesday as well.
	Monday...
	Now, the 24th, the London-UK meetup at the Victorian.
	That's near Paddington Station.
	Make sure you go there.
	It's a great meetup.
	Londoners are a lot of Londoners.
	It's fun.
	Wednesday is Vancouver, British Columbia.
	Wait, you're going to meet at Paddington Station?
	Where in Paddington Station?
	At the Victorian near Paddington Station.
	Oh, that's the place where you have all the meetups.
	Yes, it's near Paddington Station.
	That's how Londoners talk.
	So you know, oh, I can get there from what station?
	Paddington Station.
	Yeah, Paddington.
	You get out there, boom, you're there.
	No Agenda's styly musical marijuanical meetup for the masses.
	Sounds like a stoner thing.
	That'll be at 12 Kings Pub, Vancouver, BC. Adam Bowen hosting for you.
	Brand new on the list, Nuremberg Embedded World Meetup.
	7.30 at the Kloster, K-L-O-S-T-R. That'll be organized by Lawrence.
	And that's 7.30 in Deutschland, Nuremberg.
	And then Friday, finally, the Bay Area Troll Moot in...
	I think you should be at this one, John.
	The Bay Area Troll Moots.
	That's not this Friday, but next Friday at Drake's Dealership.
	Jennifer and Sean organizing for you.
	There's a lot of meetups taking place.
	If you didn't hear anyone on this list that's near you, go to noagendameetups.com.
	You can search on date, etc.
	And if you can't find anything near you, for God's sakes, man, set one up yourself.
	It's like a party!
	Living as a slave in the world today takes everything you got.
	Seeing heads on a stick of Dvorak and Curry sure would help a lot.
	Wouldn't you like to get away?
	I played the wrong one.
	This is the shorter one.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered on hell's flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	And I love our family.
	I love our No Agenda family.
	what a bunch of crazy fuckers y'all are and and is to and that's a sandy oh and and and let me look look here's the deal this is the deal look and let's catch up with some international news for people Yes, I have some international news too.
	Yes, what you got?
	Yes, I get the parallel.
	If you got new, we got two governments at the same time.
	It's like a juggling act.
	It's parallel Afghani winners.
	In Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani has been declared the winner of last year's presidential election after the results were delayed for five months.
	But Ghani's main opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, has also declared himself the winner and says he'll form a parallel government.
	The political chaos comes amidst breakthroughs in the peace negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban, with a peace plan expected to be announced in the coming days.
	I was watching the story about, it wasn't clippable, about the defense budget.
	Trump literally cut $500 billion from Afghanistan.
	Of course, it's proposed.
	The administrative state will still try to do whatever they can.
	But yeah, $500 billion cut from Afghanistan.
	I think another $600 billion cut from Iraq.
	He's just taking the money away.
	And also, no new drones.
	I found that interesting.
	No new drones.
	Or droned out?
	Maybe the old ones are still good.
	The drones in the gills?
	We all need new drones?
	I think it's all Space Force now.
	I think it's lasers from space.
	Space Force!
	The drones are just in the way of the laser beam.
	Laser beam, you mentioned.
	Well, yeah.
	I stand in there.
	Oh.
	Not all...
	Not only can I imagine, I'm sure it's completely possible.
	I mean, they have lasers to take drones out from the ground.
	Why wouldn't you have a laser from space?
	I feel so hot, honey.
	Bill!
	Why?
	I'm waiting for your drama to end.
	Okay, well, here's a story that nobody on the mainstream is discussing whatsoever.
	The Cameroon Massacre.
	Oh, geez, I didn't even know about this.
	In Cameroon, the United Nations says at least 22 people were killed, including 14 children, in a massacre Friday in the Anglophone region of the country.
	An opposition party has blamed the killings on the army, which the armies denied.
	The massacre comes amidst a conflict between the Cameroon army and English-speaking separatist fighters, which has killed thousands of people and has forced more than half a million civilians to flee their homes.
	Hmm.
	Half a million refugees from this and we haven't heard one word of it?
	Well, you know why, don't you?
	Trump!
	Come on.
	You know why.
	Trump, Trump, Trump.
	There is no news here.
	There's zero news.
	No one cares anymore.
	Even Brexit.
	Brexit, there's interesting things going on.
	In particular, as...
	You got something?
	Well, yes, as predicted, the European Union is making it as difficult as possible.
	In fact, for Hofstadt, Guy for Hofstadt...
	Came out with a quote and said, oh, negotiations with the UK and EU? No, no.
	It's a hell of a job to do this.
	It's like being on two different planets.
	And it's gotten so bad that the EU is possibly going to force the UK to return the Elgin marbles.
	Which you may not know what they are now that I think about it.
	I do not know what this is, so you're going to have to tell me.
	The Elgin marbles also known as...
	So they got a gift they have to return?
	These guys are ungifting.
	It's questionable whether it was a gift.
	It's the Parthenon marbles, a collection of sculptures.
	I think they were originally rousted from the Parthenon.
	Near the Acropolis in Athens.
	Rousted.
	They were totally rousted.
	If you look at...
	There's a Wikipedia entry.
	No, no.
	They were totally rousted.
	Okay.
	Let me see.
	But some...
	Oh, they probably should send them back anyway.
	Well, because they...
	They're at the British Museum.
	Is that where they are?
	Of course.
	They were rousted.
	And they're at the museum.
	And the UK or the European Union is saying, yeah, this belongs to Greece.
	That's the European Union.
	We're going to want to have those back.
	So this is the level that they're going to on this Brexit deal.
	They will not make it.
	They're never going to make the December 23rd deadline.
	It's going to be another crisis at the end.
	It's all going to come together at the same time.
	We'll have the U.S. elections.
	Then we'll have the Brexit.
	It'll be horrible.
	People don't care.
	They don't care.
	It's great.
	It's great for us.
	They want their marbles back.
	For the show.
	They want their marbles back.
	Okay, I got one more.
	I got a coronavirus update.
	This is the ABC version.
	Landing in Omaha, Nebraska today.
	Escorted from the plane one by one by medical teams.
	Rushed off by motorcade to this special isolation unit.
	They've had a very long journey, so I think we're not going to make any assumptions about anything that's passed along verbally.
	We're going to go ahead and just test everybody.
	338 Americans were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, flown to bases in Texas and California, arriving overnight.
	Fourteen are suspected of having a coronavirus infection.
	Four now in isolation and hospitalized near Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento.
	Ten in Omaha.
	Hundreds of passengers checked before leaving the ship were deemed healthy to fly.
	I have to put my mask on.
	The bus will take you to the airplane.
	The airplane takes you to the United States.
	But after the evacuation had already begun, a complication.
	New test results revealed those 14 people were positive for the virus, exposing others on a 40-minute bus ride to the airport.
	Officials making a critical decision, saying the safest option was to push forward with the evacuation, putting infected patients in the back of the planes in these special isolation chambers.
	They took temperatures, and if you had a high temperature, you went into that isolation booth.
	Mark Jorgensen had to leave his wife behind in a Japanese hospital after she tested positive for the virus.
	So far, 454 cruise passengers have been infected.
	We met John and Melanie Herring when he spiked a fever and had to be hospitalized.
	He's now fighting the virus and has pneumonia.
	Goodbye, Diamond Princess.
	The couple deciding Melanie should be on that flight home.
	Melanie is now back in the U.S. telling us she, too, spiked a fever.
	Alright, so let's get to Clayton Sendell.
	He is live from Omaha tonight.
	And Clayton, the rest of the roughly 300 passengers, the Americans who showed no sign of the virus, we know they spent time on those buses with these passengers, the Americans, the 14 who it's believed might be infected with coronavirus.
	Of course, more testing here at home.
	But I gather the rest of the passengers who are in close contact, they'll be watched closely now for the days to come?
	They will be watched very closely, David.
	They'll be in quarantine for two weeks.
	And it's important to note that those 14 others who tested positive in Japan will be tested again here in the States.
	And while that happens, they will be kept in quarantine, in isolation, away from everyone else.
	David.
	Yeah, I've got a couple of updates on this.
	I still am tracking very closely Africa.
	The only case that has been reported is one in Egypt, which, of course, is Africa, but nothing else with over a million Chinese trafficking in and out of Africa back to China and back and forth.
	Nothing happening.
	I'm not worried about it.
	This is...
	The smallest hint of anything in Africa, everyone dies.
	They die from all kinds of stuff.
	But no, it's not happening.
	I did get some statistics that are interesting.
	The fatality rate, I have two stats here.
	And this is from one of our producers, and I trust this.
	We have the fatality rate by comorbidity.
	Which is pre-existing conditions and the fatality rate by age.
	So I'll start with by age.
	Here we go.
	Sorry.
	Yes.
	10 to 19 years old, 0.2%.
	20 to 29 years old, 0.2%.
	30 to 39 years old, 0.2%.
	Then we get 40 to 49 years old, 0.4%.
	Then we get into my territory, 50 to 59, 1.3%.
	It starts to increase in your bracket, 60 to 69, 3.6%.
	70 to 79, 8%.
	And 80 years old plus is about a 15% chance you're going to die.
	Which is kind of, you know, it happens when you get, ultimately with a respiratory disease, you get pneumonia.
	Now let's look at by pre-existing condition.
	Those died with no pre-existing condition is 0.9%.
	People with cancer, 5.5%.
	Hypertension.
	What is hypertension?
	Is that also respiratory or is it cardio?
	Hypertension is just high blood pressure.
	Oh, high blood pressure.
	6%.
	If you have chronic respiratory disease, 6.3%.
	Diabetes, 7.3%.
	And if you have some kind of cardiovascular pre-existing condition, 10.5%.
	And I think that that makes sense.
	You know, the Chinese also have a lot of old people hanging around.
	They're revered.
	They keep the old people at the house.
	They don't put them in an old folks' home.
	They keep them around so they can get the flu from the kids.
	Then, you know, they kill them off.
	But it's, I just don't see...
	I don't think that's the mechanism, but yeah.
	That's the results.
	I don't really see an issue.
	The president is very coy about it.
	He's like, hey, Xi's doing a good job.
	So I think it's, either it's much worse in China, only in China, only affects Chinese, whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be spreading rapidly, certainly not where you'd expect it to.
	However, Prada...
	So I got, there's one story.
	There's one story Mimi got.
	Sorry?
	No, go ahead.
	You know that boat that was floating or a ship floating around?
	Nobody let them dock?
	Yeah.
	And they ended up in Cambodia?
	Yeah.
	Well, on that ship was a stand-up comic.
	And he had a gig in Oregon he had to get to.
	So he escaped from the ship.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Typhoid Mary.
	In Cambodia.
	And I think, I don't know if he ferreted himself out of the country or not, but he was, he should be in quarantine and he snuck out.
	Fantastic.
	I don't know how he did it.
	There's no, there seems to be more details coming.
	But that's not being covered by anybody, I can tell.
	It's been around.
	There's news of how the ship...
	I'm sure there's been a few people that have escaped.
	Yeah.
	In Japan, they have a Prada.
	Prada, you know.
	Who are you wearing?
	Prada.
	They've canceled the fashion show.
	They're not going to show off their new fashion.
	And the Tokyo Marathon...
	Is as good as cancelled.
	Only elite athletes will be able to participate.
	So, of the 38,000 people, mostly non-professional athletes, 200 will be running the Tokyo Marathon out of fear of the coronavirus.
	And then we got a follow-up from Sir Farm Boy, not to be confused with Pharma Boy.
	Sir Farm Boy is actually Dark Knight of the Two-Foot Ledge.
	And he said, on Sunday's show, you were discussing how millennials are being more susceptible to the media about the virus.
	This is what I identified.
	Had you actually followed up on that with any of the millennials?
	No, I didn't.
	I had something else from them, and I can't remember what it was.
	I'm remiss.
	I noticed that two of our girls were worried.
	They'd say, well, I'm not worried about much.
	I'm really worried about coronavirus.
	Yeah.
	So Farm Boy says, as a pharmacist, I am on the forefront of this.
	I've given more flu shots these past weeks to younger customers than all of flu season, even children.
	Surgical masks are on shortage or back order.
	Elder Butterberry is flying off the shelves.
	I'm selling more Tamiflu than I have all season.
	All of this happening late in the season.
	We stopped pushing flu shots at the end of the year, but people have stated they are wanting the shot for the virus, even when I tell them it won't protect them from the virus.
	Anyways, I thought I'd give y'all an update on the Kung flu here in the States and how the media is affecting the sheeple.
	Current douchebag will change, hopefully.
	Sounds right.
	Yeah, so don't be snookered by this, people.
	Don't be snookered by it.
	It's not necessary.
	I did get the message about elderberry, and there's some research on elderberry and chokeberry.
	Chokeberry.
	Which apparently keeps the Russians from ever catching any of these.
	Yeah, chokeberry.
	Look it up.
	It's another berry.
	Mm-hmm.
	These two particular products have an immune effect on the immune system, specifically targeting viruses.
	And the Russians make a big deal of having choked berry and elderberry syrups and drinks and such during the wintertime.
	Is this a millennial thing now?
	Is it like a small batch deal?
	I don't know, but this is where I got it from.
	I mentioned it in his report, the elderberry phenomenon.
	And so I guess they're all aware of it.
	And so now you can somehow invest in the elderberry business or chokeberries.
	You're going to make a lot of money.
	Exit strategy.
	Wuhan elderberries.
	I'm feeling it.
	We can do it, John.
	We can do it.
	I got myself a case of Wuhan flu.
	I don't Did something really weird happen at the White House the other day?
	Yeah?
	The president had the parents of Harry Dunn visiting.
	Do you know the story of Harry Dunn?
	I do not.
	He is the young man who was killed in August by the wife of a diplomat in the United Kingdom because she was driving on the wrong side of the road.
	And she then declared diplomatic immunity and they both left the country.
	And the UK is upset over this.
	The peoples of the UK are upset.
	They're saying, hey, this woman, Sascolas, S-A-C-C-O-L-A-S, She should come back and she should face prosecution.
	Now, it wasn't a hit and run, but she was driving on the wrong side of the road and it was in an odd place.
	It was near a military base where her husband, quote unquote, works.
	And so they, I guess they were invited, or they were at the White House, and the President then apparently said, well, you know, I have, Mrs.
	Skulas is next door, would you like to meet her so you can, you know, maybe find some kind of solace over this horrible accident?
	And they said, no, why would we want to do that?
	No, we're not, these people are, of course, they're distraught.
	And I'm now seeing this woman was a spook.
	She and her husband were both spies.
	They're over there at this base.
	I'm looking for the name of the base.
	It's a listening station.
	So there's spooks.
	The president tries to smooth this over.
	I'm sure one of the intelligence services said, hey, at least give it a try.
	But I expect this to have some legs.
	This is not going to end.
	The U.K. wants justice served over this, and the White House is trying to put them together and pawn it off and see if we can smooth it all over.
	This has international fracas written all over it.
	What kind of a spook was she?
	Did they train these people how to drive on the right side of the road in countries like England?
	It doesn't take a genius to drive on the left side of the road.
	I will say, if you hit a roundabout, I have hit a roundabout in the UK when I first lived there and then wound up on the wrong side of the road.
	And at night, it can happen.
	I mean, it's horrible.
	And there was police there, and so she didn't, again, not a hit and run, but these people were up to no good.
	These are spooks.
	You're probably right.
	I don't have much else to say about it other than, damn, man, you're getting the president to try and fix that for you in such a pathetic manner?
	Ugh.
	That is pretty bad.
	Yeah.
	Well, talking about people coming and going, here's an interesting story that ran, another one that's not being played up much, but apparently it's a major situation that's been going on since 1988.
	This is the case of the missing Saudis, and I picked this up off of CBSN. Five Saudi Arabian students studying in Oregon have disappeared while facing criminal charges in the United States.
	But an investigation launched by the Oregonian newspaper has discovered these cases are not unique to that state.
	Cases have also been reported in seven other states and Canada.
	The Saudi nationals vanished either before their trials or before completing their sentences.
	Shane Dixon-Kavanaugh has been reporting on these cases.
	He joins me now from Portland, Oregon.
	Shane, thanks so much for being with us.
	Based on your reporting, how long has this been going on?
	And do you expect to find more cases like these?
	Our reporting in the last few months have found these types of cases going back at least 30 years in the United States.
	We have some going back as far as 1988 and some as recently as last spring.
	University students from Saudi Arabia I have been accused of fairly serious crimes from rape to vehicular manslaughter.
	And in these instances, the defendants have disappeared while facing prosecution.
	Hmm.
	This goes on, unfortunately, CBS and this thing went on for 15 minutes with questions and answers.
	And it turns out that they're not even necessarily famous Saudis or from a big family.
	If a Saudi commits a crime in this country and is going to be prosecuted or jailed or who knows what, they sneak him onto a plane and ship him out of the country, apparently.
	That's what it seems to look like.
	They haven't figured out the complete mechanism.
	Yeah, isn't that what we did with the whole bin Laden family after 9-11?
	We shipped him out, just got on their own private plane and flew away.
	We're famous for doing these things.
	Well, we're famous for doing that, but who's taking these kids?
	And then it turns out, at the end of the story, which I didn't just sub-clip, I should have clipped it, almost, I'd say, 90%, the guy finally admits, 90% of the Saudis That got arrested were arrested for rape.
	Geez.
	Or some sexual abuse.
	One kid apparently had one of the biggest collections of pedophile literature that any of the police have ever seen.
	Oh, man.
	Off the field, off the Saudi Arabia.
	Ugh.
	Very bad form.
	Here's the clip that I got that...
	I saw from I wanted to play because this is a weird story.
	This is a kidnapping attempt.
	It got kind of played by most of the major media.
	I thought it was interesting enough that I'd clip it.
	This is the weird kidnapping.
	Oh, you mean the end of show ISO that you were talking about?
	Yeah, it came from here.
	Tonight, this woman stands accused of posing as a newborn photographer, then drugging a mother to try and steal her baby.
	Now authorities say as many as 10 other women are claiming they too could have been victims.
	I was completely appalled.
	I was like, that could have been me.
	The women say they sell Juliet Parker's ad on Facebook offering a free newborn photo shoot.
	Just last year, the 38-year-old ran for mayor in Colorado Springs, seen here in this campaign video.
	Juliet Parker, candidate for mayor here.
	One woman agreed, and Parker came to her home for three different shoots.
	On the third, she brought her own teenage daughter and a treat, a cupcake for the new mom.
	We believe that she was drugged by a tainted cupcake.
	Wow.
	That's horrible.
	Yeah.
	Oh my goodness.
	I have a few clips left for the unhoused here in Austin, Texas.
	We are at the frontier, the front lines of the homelessness clash.
	Well, before you go on, I do want to say a couple of things.
	I may have a clip for this in the next show.
	This is our governor did a state of the state speech.
	Oh.
	And that's all he talked about.
	In California.
	And we have another thing I should just mention is we have literally a communist district attorney in San Francisco is elected.
	Yeah, the young guy, right?
	What's his name?
	The young guy?
	Yeah, I can't remember his name.
	He's a weird name.
	He has a weird name.
	We have this break-in problem with cars in San Francisco.
	If you have a car and you're driving around San Francisco and you park somewhere, especially in certain neighborhoods, there's a good chance someone's going to come by with those special little ping ball things.
	It's like a little hammer, and then boom, they're going to knock your window out and steal whatever they can find.
	And so this is an epidemic.
	There's like a thousand cars a day or something.
	There's some ridiculously high number.
	And so you know what the city's solution is going to be?
	With this guy, this new guy who came up with this solution?
	I can't wait.
	The city will pay for the broken windows.
	Oh, of course.
	That's a whole different take on the broken window theory.
	Oh my goodness.
	Chesa Bolden.
	Chesa.
	Yeah, something like that.
	I can't pronounce his name.
	Chesa.
	C-H-E-S-A. Yeah, there's this.
	Instead of enforcing the laws and capturing wrongdoers, that's the term I don't like.
	No, no, no.
	We'll just give you some money.
	It's just because of the inconvenience fee.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Well, you know, what we're seeing is all the bad stuff is coming back.
	What has returned in New York City?
	What has returned in Manhattan at the tunnels?
	Your favorite.
	My squeegee guys.
	That's right.
	This is what Giuliani was so good at getting rid of.
	Now, I don't know what he did with him.
	I think he dumped him in the East River, but it doesn't matter.
	It was gone.
	It was cleaned up, and everything was much, much better.
	But the homelessness issue, which is really turning into a camping issue, and where can you camp?
	Because you're unhoused if you're camping.
	You're not homeless.
	You're not experiencing homelessness.
	You're camping.
	Lots of people camp.
	I know a lot of people who live full-time in RVs, Airstreams, even smaller tents, cabins, and they go to the KOA or rent some...
	There's lots of places you can...
	Even if you're on disability, you can afford a camping site.
	But no, this all has to be on the medians.
	It has to be everywhere where it's no longer allowed in Austin downtown, but of course it's all moved just to the fringes of that.
	And this is not unique to Austin.
	It's happening everywhere.
	And it does come back to, a lot of people argue with me about this, but it's the rejection by the Supreme Court to actually discuss the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling that you can't, even though it's illegal, and it should be policed, it is illegal to just build a structure without a permit in a public place.
	Removing those people is an Eighth Amendment violation, cruel and unusual punishment, unless you have a place to send them, to send them indoors, which they don't want.
	It's a circular jerk.
	No one wants to be the bad guy.
	And particularly here in Austin, Mayor Adler.
	Everyone's afraid to say something.
	But this is not unique here.
	This is one we haven't discussed yet.
	This is Denver, Colorado.
	Denver's urban camping band has been struck down by a county judge.
	The judge says it violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment because it criminalizes homeless individuals who have nowhere to go.
	Nearly 83% of Denver voters decided to keep that ban in place back in May.
	Activists consider the judge's decision a victory for the homeless.
	Still, the head of the Denver Rescue Mission says this could make it harder for them to serve the homeless.
	Joel Hillen reports.
	My message is to the people on the street, come in, and let's try to help you.
	That's really our message.
	Brad Miley is the president and CEO of the Denver Rescue Mission, which has been serving Denver's homeless population for the last 128 years.
	Last year alone, we had 700 men come through our Next Step program, and 400 of those men are no longer homeless.
	He feels overturning the camping ban isn't the best way to take care of our homeless.
	This ruling is a great concern to us.
	We don't think people should stay on the streets.
	We think they should come into facilities like Denver Rescue Mission, Catholic Charities, Salvation Army, Volunteers of America, where they can get the help that they need.
	Friday's ruling prohibits Denver police from arresting or harassing individuals experiencing homelessness who choose to camp on public property.
	And I don't think anyone should stay outside.
	I wouldn't want to stay outside.
	I think folks should come in where it's warm, where it's safe, where you can go to the bathroom, where you can take a shower.
	Miley said despite Saturday night's cold and snow, they still had 240 beds available.
	Several local business owners I spoke with did not agree with the ruling but declined to go on camera, hearing retribution from homeless advocates.
	This ruling is being appealed, but regardless, Miley's message remains the same.
	We just want to help people and help them to get out of poverty, out of experiencing homelessness.
	And so this is the baffling point, is that actually, even according to the ruling, they can say, move along, you can't camp here, there's a spot right inside, we have the spot, you gotta go.
	They're not even doing that.
	Except, of course, when it comes to where the truly rich, famous, and elite live, such as Malibu, California.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we're standing just beside Pacific Coast Highway here, and as Thomas pans over, you can see there are a lot of RVs and other vehicles here.
	And these are all public parking spots for the beaches, which are all open to the public here in Malibu and most of California, for that matter.
	The issue is they're not coming for just hours.
	They're coming for days, weeks, and indefinite periods of time in some cases.
	So what they're doing is the city of Malibu is working with the The California Coastal Commission, which controls PCH, they're changing the rules about spending the night overnight, being able to park all night.
	You have to move your vehicle.
	In fact, we just saw a couple of sheriffs towing a vehicle that apparently couldn't move on its own, or it looked like it had been there for quite some time as well, so they were towing that away.
	This is also not just an issue, though, about access.
	Take a listen to one of the councilmen.
	Where the motorhomes have 30 to 40, 50 gallon capacities in the septic systems, they're dumping those right onto the rocks or onto the beach into the public right-of-way.
	They're dumping sewage into the right-of-way.
	That's a health violation and it's a humanitarian violation.
	It's me above everybody else.
	Yeah, another big issue out here is fire safety.
	Obviously, concerns about open fire cooking in this area that's still recovering from the Woolsey fire just a little more than a year ago.
	Many of the homes here still have not been rebuilt from that.
	So there are solutions that are looking to create a 24-hour safe parking zone that's not along a highway.
	They're also looking to get more people into the system here.
	If you take a look, we have a chart showing you housing costs here, just as rent.
	It's up by about 50% over the past decade.
	Clearly, wages not keeping pace.
	It's a very high-cost area, particularly if you're talking about Malibu or anywhere alongside the coast.
	But they are offering lower-cost vouchers for home-subsidized housing.
	The problem, though, Melissa, not a lot of takers because that's more inland, and, of course, people want to be near the coast.
	Now, my final clip in the series.
	Before you go on, I do want to comment on the clip before this one.
	Where I found the...
	Just a tidbit in there where the guy says he tried to put some business people on the air, but they refused to talk on camera.
	For fear of retribution by the homeless advocates.
	What are they talking about?
	Are these a bunch of...
	Cancel culture, John.
	That are promoting homelessness and they go beat the crap out of some guys.
	Is anything bad?
	No.
	This is the cancel culture.
	This is the world that people allow themselves to live in, which is total horse crap.
	They're afraid because the minute you say, hey, get your tent away from my business, the advocates, and they are this nutty, they will come out in droves, they will tell everyone to boycott your store, they will do everything.
	They're crazy.
	The cancel culture is insane.
	And they're afraid.
	They're afraid.
	See, this doesn't happen in Chinatown.
	Well, no.
	Or in Malibu.
	Malibu was also going to change that, but they just didn't have their private cops move them off, whatever, like, hey, here's, go, no, okay, they're going to kick them out.
	Now, in Austin, where it's the same thing, people are afraid, although it's starting to bubble up, and people are going to take matters into their own hands, You will see, I guarantee you before the year is out, there will be at least five unhoused people, or as the news would say, people experiencing homelessness, who will be shot by citizens in the greater Austin area.
	It's going to happen.
	Already we're seeing things like the following story taking place.
	It's just the beginning.
	An Austin man has set up a live stream of the alley behind his apartment.
	That alley is filled with people who are homeless and drug dealers who prey on them.
	Box 7 Austin, Shannon Ryan in studio with that story.
	Shannon.
	Yeah, Mike, Rebecca, users can pay to play audio in the alley.
	Police say it's a noise ordinance violation and make allegations within those citations that this is a hate crime.
	The live stream founder tells me it's freedom of speech.
	It's a half a block from where tens of thousands of people are coming to party, every weekend.
	And nobody sees this side of it, you know what I mean?
	And I just thought, people need to see this.
	It's super raw, and it's super uncensored, obviously.
	And I feel like that just brings eyes quickly, I guess.
	It's been less than a week since Keegan Godsey started live streaming The Alley behind his East 6th Street apartment.
	He calls it a social experiment, and it's quickly gained popularity.
	Viewers can pay $5 to play audio in The Alley.
	The audience is often homeless.
	And this is, it's unbelievable.
	The guy is blasting out.
	You can, you know, you can yell at the homeless.
	You can play, you know, Metallica.
	You can choose all kinds of shit to play.
	And, of course, the guy is, he's getting the citations, of course.
	But this is going to bubble over.
	Not just here.
	It's going to be in many places, except for California, because they're just beaten down.
	People don't care anymore in California.
	But it's going to end very poorly.
	Well, it's not an issue going anywhere, that's for sure.
	It's very slowly going nowhere.
	But, you know, today we have this.
	Tomorrow we'll have the same, you know, the $1,000 limit or the $950 limit you got in California.
	You can just roust anything you want up until $950 worth of value.
	Yeah.
	You can go to any store, steal whatever candy bar you want, and just walk out.
	Nobody cares.
	I can't do anything about it.
	It's a very toxic place to do this because we have guns here.
	Someone's going to be cleaning it.
	It'll go off.
	Yep.
	Of course.
	And we'll be here to cover it.
	Well, of course.
	Hey, this is what we do.
	Sorry to go out on such a bummer, but...
	A bummer!
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	Another double ender bummer.
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	Until then, adios mofos and such.
	I got you.
	Gee whiz, somehow or another.
	Look it up.
	Check it out.
	And the truth is that when you see some troubled waters, you don't blow up a bridge, you build one.
	Turning to somebody like Senator Sanders who wants to burn the house down.
	So I want to be clear.
	Let me be very clear.
	I am the only one who knows this man.
	I do have to respond.
	The man or a woman?
	Or could it be more than that?
	I'm more of a Microsoft Word guy.
	And if you look at my plan...
	Area, maybe the Mayor Bloomberg and I share, you have two stents as well.
	25 years ago.
	Well, we both have two stents.
	It's a procedure that is done about a million times a year.
	We might all be surprised if my blood pressure is lower than Mayor Pete.
	We can't be so eager to be liked by Mitch McConnell that we forget how to fight just the Republicans.
	And the good part of the economy, this drama is only 66, not up yet.
	Maybe they didn't like the joke I told.
	And let me just...
	And let me play.
	We have a 138 in progress.
	I'm the President of the United States.
	I have all of the power.
	He's not leaving.
	These people are not going to give up power.
	It's just about power.
	What do you do then?
	There's no facts anymore.
	You have the people on your side.
	I'm the President of the United States.
	I have all of the power.
	He has a lot of people on this side, the ones with the guns.
	The military, the police, and the bikers.
	You're obsessed with this.
	He loses, but he won't leave.
	I'm President of the United States.
	I have all of the power.
	Gobsheitz.
	Power.
	The first thing you do is now.
	You're assuming that the Democrats can win.
	I think we'll do this.
	Being in the era of fake news.
	I'm President of the United States.
	I have all of the power.
	Gobsheitz.
	Always had a peaceful transition of power.
	Correct.
	Always have had.
	He said it himself.
	This is the belief.
	He says, we have the rough people.
	Win big.
	14,000 have died.
	I'm the president of the United States.
	I have all of the power.
	Gupshites.
	Power.
	Okay, I know I'm the crazy person.
	Power.
	Correct.
	It's just about power.
	Power!
	What is the plan?

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