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	He's anti-science!
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, February 27th, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Gipo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1220.
	This is no agenda.
	Protecting you from the cum flu and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 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, I'm looking out at the weather and wondering, where's Mr.
	Rogers?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Not much improvement, but here you have it.
	It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
	For those of you who don't know what happened because you listened to the podcast, we started over.
	But that's...
	We do this live stream in the morning.
	Well, we have...
	NoagendaStream.com is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
	And about an hour before the show, Darren O'Neill typically will jump in.
	He'll do a whole show, get everyone pumped up, get everyone ready.
	Of course, I'm set up in the studio, and I'm really, I'm doing this clips, I'm prepping, I'm not paying much attention to everything, and I'm like, okay, it's got about 20 more minutes, let me see where Darren is in the show, and I open up the stream to listen to it, and it's dead.
	I'm like, oh man, so I think my volume's dead.
	Dead air on our stream?
	Well, so I think my volume's dead, so I do one of these.
	Where you turn up the volume on the computer, and I hear it coming back.
	I hear like an echo.
	Like, what's going on?
	I had captured the stream for like an hour and a half.
	And people just listening to, you know, blings and blongs and mainly silence.
	It was very odd.
	Well, what?
	Whoa.
	Huh.
	So somehow when I set up the stream, I guess I clicked it on or something.
	I don't know.
	No idea.
	Oh, you screwed it up.
	Of course I screwed it up.
	Oh, that makes sense.
	Because that's why I screwed up the opening in the first go-round.
	Ah, yes.
	As long as we can blame the guy with Tourette's.
	Yeah, I know.
	That's fine.
	By the way, that song, the Burning Down Milwaukee, is really a dynamite tune.
	Oh yeah, that's going to be an end of show.
	End of show mix.
	Fantastic.
	It's just a solo.
	It's only so long.
	It's very long.
	It's a full production.
	Yes.
	Well, we don't mess around here.
	We've got tons of producers, tons, thousands of producers here on the No Agenda show.
	They criticize their weight.
	Come on.
	I think before we, because so much has happened since Sunday, before we get into anything, we need to revisit the bogative Russia is meddling to help Donald Trump win, which is now off the radar already because of the debate and coronavirus,
	etc., But you recall that we played two clips of the breaking news, the two authors of the New York Times piece, Maggie Haberman.
	Is it Haberman?
	I think it's Halberman.
	No, it's Haberman.
	Anyway, yeah, I think it's Haberman.
	And Adam Goldman, Maggie was on CNN, Goldman was on MSNBC, and like, just breathless, and like, oh my god, it's happening!
	And he's trying to, the Russians are trying to get him to win!
	Ahhhh!
	And I think we pretty much laughed at it and said, this sounds like a bunch of bullcrap.
	And lo and behold, not one day later...
	None of this is really cut and dry, Alex, and it is complicated and it is nuanced.
	What we are hearing from three national security officials is that...
	This, by the way, is CNN, who, of course, you know, we're part of the problem.
	Overstated.
	Overstated.
	As it relates to Russian interference.
	She said that Russia was interfering in the 2020 election with the goal of trying to help President Trump's re-election campaign.
	Now, those three national security officials tell us that this is actually what the intelligence says.
	On the one hand, that Russia is indeed interfering in the 2020 election.
	And secondly, that Russia views Trump as a leader that it can work with.
	But the U.S. doesn't yet have the evidence to actually conclude that Russia is interfering in the election because of the fact that they view Trump as a leader they can work with.
	Because they have a preference for President Trump.
	Now, one official said that Pearson's characterization of the intelligence was misleading.
	Another official said that it lacked nuance.
	Now, we know, Alex, that after the 2016 election, the U.S. intelligence community definitively concluded that Russia did indeed interfere in the 2016 election in order to help Trump get elected.
	But that information, we should note, was based in particular on a high level Kremlin source that the United States actually relied on.
	And the United States doesn't have that source there anymore.
	That source was extracted and brought back to the United States.
	And so now the United States doesn't have that information as of yet to conclude conclusively that Russia is interfering to help the United States.
	It's not a stretch, of course, to say that perhaps that is ultimately what Russia will be doing as it looks to interfere in the 2020 election.
	But as of yet, the US intelligence community has not made that conclusion according to those three national security officials who me and my colleagues spoke with.
	So a lot of word salad there.
	Instead of just saying, oh, I guess we shouldn't have believed the New York Times who were so breathless to let us know that this was a fact and this was true and this was happening.
	It was breaking news.
	Brolf was all over it.
	But I think this is also untrue.
	Shelby Pearson, who is a career type of person in the intelligence field, who was brought in by Dan Coates, I guess.
	So she's been around for a while.
	So she apparently overstated what was going on.
	I don't believe that.
	I think that Adam Schiff...
	Because he's the one that usually leaks this stuff.
	That he took the information and overstated it to the New York Times.
	And I based that upon a January 22nd interview on NPR with Shelby Pearson.
	And the way she rattles this off...
	And you can even hear little pieces of it.
	If you recall, Adam Goldman did mention China briefly in his report.
	I think this is pretty much how she briefed the intelligence community and the oversight committee.
	Will the 2020 elections be secure from interference, either foreign or domestic?
	Yesterday, I asked Shelby Pearson.
	She is the first-ever Intelligence Community Election Threats Executive.
	She was appointed by then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats in July of 2019.
	Her job is to work with intelligence agencies like the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and the Department of Homeland Security to identify and fight actors that are trying to interfere with our voting process.
	The Russians, for example, are already engaging in influence operations relative to candidates going into 2020.
	But we do not have evidence at this time that our adversaries are directly looking at interfering with vote counts or the vote tallies.
	Is it fair to say we don't know what Russia is going to do yet?
	I think that is a fair characterization.
	And I would also say that this isn't a Russia-only problem.
	We're still also concerned about China, Iran, non-state actors, hacktivists, and frankly, certainly for DHS and FBI, even Americans that might be looking to undermine confidence in the elections.
	After Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
	What's that?
	What'd you say?
	With advertising.
	Certainly for DHS and FBI, even Americans that might be looking to undermine confidence in the elections.
	After Russia interfered in the 2016 election, there was this push for transparency about attempts to influence our elections.
	Pearson told me she's walking a line between not wanting to frighten people, but also wanting to keep them informed.
	Transparency enables resilience.
	And sunlight is the best disinfectant.
	So the more that we talk about the threat, potentially more we empower voters to understand this as merely a reality of today's landscape and that despite all of those challenges, we're managing them, we're countering them, and they should vote.
	I listened to the whole 15-minute interview.
	She sounds pretty level-headed.
	She doesn't sound like she's some kind of nut job.
	I'm pretty sure that someone on the Intelligence Committee, and I'm just going to say it looks like Schiff would be the obvious one, just took some of those words and made it his own and gave it to the New York Times.
	He's a creative guy.
	He even wrote some screenplays.
	He's a fiction writer.
	This is true.
	He is a very creative guy.
	Maybe before we go into the humorous portion of the show, which would be the most recent debate, because let's face it, somebody heard our message and they made the show not boring anymore.
	I appreciate that.
	Well, it's not boring, but most of it was unlistenable.
	Let's just talk about the Kung Flu for a second.
	It was Kung Flu fighting.
	Your podcast was talking about the economic ramifications of this five weeks ago.
	I hope people put puts in or whatever you do to bet against the market because right after the Sunday show, Monday and Tuesday, it was interesting to watch what happened with the financial markets.
	And for sure, exactly what we talked about is starting to happen.
	Travel is...
	In fact, my brother-in-law got let go from Expedia.
	They're losing a lot of money on...
	Just quick.
	Real quick.
	That's the thing that's bad about it.
	You've got to know Barry Diller.
	Wait a minute.
	This has been going on for a week and I'm done?
	What?
	Exactly.
	But we have so many...
	Let's first talk about the lethality itself.
	And I think the biggest problem we have here is this testing.
	And I'm not even sure if there's a real test yet.
	All the testing I see is basically pointing a digital thermometer at someone's head and say, you're good, you're no good, pass, no pass.
	Which, by the way, is a good precursor to a barcode.
	We're just getting used to it.
	Ooh.
	Ooh.
	This is good.
	First thing I thought.
	Wow.
	They're scanning us like pets.
	You know, like, hey, where's your chip?
	That was kind of my first thought.
	Because really, and I'm just looking at pure dad, I know.
	Could you just not ring the bell, alright?
	I'm getting people complaining about the bell more than the lip smack.
	I don't blame them.
	And so every time you go, so what?
	I'll do that.
	So stop it.
	So why?
	Because it's annoying.
	But I let you go, because I love you.
	Yeah, you did.
	You didn't let me go one bell ring.
	Wow.
	Okay, I'm done.
	Thank you.
	This is not a health crisis in my mind from all the data I'm seeing.
	And the data we're not seeing, but we shared with you on Sunday, is that this is killing older people, people who already have respiratory issues or immune deficiency issues, just like seasonal flu does.
	Now, this is not an influenza.
	It's a respiratory virus.
	But it is survivable the way the seasonal flu is survivable.
	I think we both agree on that.
	John?
	Yes, and I'm also going to take it further because JC has been looking into this because he has to work in the city.
	Besides stepping over poop.
	Which is in a state of emergency, I understand.
	San Francisco.
	No cases, but state of emergency.
	Somebody said, hey, you know what?
	If you just declared state of emergency, you get all this money.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, that's pretty much it.
	And so our mayor...
	Declared state of emergency.
	So he says, for one thing, if you want to get tested for this thing in the United States, it's $3,000, no insurance coverage.
	Uh-huh.
	See, there you go.
	That's info.
	Right there.
	So what are all these so-called tests for?
	Oh, I got tested.
	Got tested.
	Oh, I got tested.
	They will pretty much deny you getting a test unless you want to pay for it.
	I'm not 1,000% in line with your thinking, but I can't I don't even have a clip.
	I do have a clip, but everything I'm going to say is backing you up.
	Exactly.
	So the tests are a jip.
	And so now we're looking at there's some new tests coming out, and they're going to do some...
	They keep changing the test because the test is not good.
	And JC actually believes they're going to start testing in a fake way to get the market to kind of relax a little bit.
	And then we go to Europe.
	Now, Europe is either a...
	Has a suicide pact with itself?
	Or it's got another clue that's pretty much...
	Well, hold on.
	Before we go too far, because there's a couple of parts to the story.
	One is the actual lethality of what's going on.
	That seems to be quite low when it comes to the amount of noise that is being made about it and the measures that are being taken.
	Yeah.
	I just want to remind you, hundreds of thousands of people die in hospitals in the United States every year.
	30,000 people die from gun deaths, of which the majority is suicide.
	What?
	I thought it was 150 million.
	70,000 die of opioid overdose.
	So we're really talking very, very low numbers, particularly for something that has been out there for about three months, we know now.
	So this is three months.
	Yes, it's spreading.
	But of course, if you're testing everybody, and I don't know what these tests are, there's no mention exactly how that works, or if there's a real test that works well, yeah, you're going to find people, and then the media is doing the bidding of multiple...
	One, I, from the beginning, thought that this was a Xing GP move to reset his market because they were already in trouble.
	The Trump trade tariffs was having an absolute impact.
	There's this whole secondary debt market on pieces of paper and IOUs, and they needed to let some air out.
	Similarly, It was fine here to let some air out of the market.
	This thing was exploding.
	Clearly, I think, overinflated.
	It can only go up.
	A nice reset is desired.
	I think everybody was kind of looking for that.
	But also, what an opportunity to get rid of all kinds of crappy news.
	I mean, you've got companies saying, oh, bad numbers, it's all going to suck.
	We have CEOs resigning from big companies, although Bob Iger may not be related to anything business-wise.
	It could be something else with the CEO of MasterCard, the CEO of Salesforce, just a lot of news that gets buried because of what's going on.
	And then, most importantly...
	We can blame Trump for not being prepared.
	That's the new one.
	That's what we love doing.
	Chuck Schumer came along.
	Oh, what an idiot.
	We need $8 billion.
	And now the news cycle is just filled with, he fired, he cut the seed, cut this to build the wall.
	Ugh!
	So, let's...
	I want to add to that.
	You have to add this part, which is very important.
	He appointed Pence as the head of the operation.
	And everyone's freaking out.
	Pence doesn't know anything.
	He's anti-science!
	Exactly.
	Even though, you know, Joe Biden was in charge of big things, and that guy's anti-speaking right.
	You know, it's just...
	Luckily, we do have some CDC people.
	We have the president's little spiel he did yesterday, which I think he made a strategic error.
	There should have been at least two people in lab coats.
	I do not understand why he of all people didn't do that.
	You've got to have your lab coats.
	That's what gives people a good feeling.
	So he didn't do that.
	And, of course, the New York Times politicized it this morning.
	Laughing!
	Laughing!
	I've got to read this to you.
	For something that apparently is going to kill us all, Trump's coronavirus strategy, stay clean, wash hands, avoid friends.
	That's the headline in the New York Times.
	And this is written by Katie Rogers.
	She must really hate the president.
	He says, Keep them out of here, he wrote on Twitter in 2014 about an American aid worker infected with the Ebola virus.
	Nothing actually about what went on, except bitching at the president.
	And then the funniest thing, in the same article, answers to your most common questions.
	How do I keep myself and others safe?
	Remember what the headline was and the big laugh?
	Their answer, washing your hands frequently is the most important thing you can do, along with staying at home when you're sick.
	So they went out of their way to do this, to politicize this, and of course they have their own reasons because Trump is suing them.
	But the CDC did one of those phone calls where reporters should call in.
	These are typically much better than any press conference.
	And here was the specific question to a 25-year member, employee of the Centers for Disease Control.
	Thank you very much for doing the call today.
	There has been some political back and forth now that...
	Democrats are accusing the president, which essentially means the administration and everything that falls under that, as being ill-prepared for coronavirus, requesting too little of amount in terms of their request for two and a half billion dollars.
	Do you feel that we are ill-prepared from a financial standpoint?
	I know you are a clinician and I don't want you to get too much into politics, but do you have what you need to do your job?
	What I can say from my perspective is that I've been at CDC for 25 years, And that if you asked public health officials over the course of that time what they feared as an expectation, it was something exactly like this.
	And so the idea that we might have a pandemic of influenza or a pandemic of a respiratory viral infection is something that we've known about and have been planning and preparing for.
	That's why we at CDC have been exercising with our state and local health departments That's why the whole government exercised last year.
	That's why we've invested so much in the foundation on which we are now responding.
	But that being said, we are never going to ever be able to be so completely prepared that we're prepared for any inevitability.
	We always are going to find that diseases surprise us and that there was some consideration that is slightly different from what we planned for.
	So have we made a lot of progress in the 25 years I've been here?
	Yes.
	Are we better prepared today than we were 20 years ago?
	Yes.
	But are we completely prepared?
	You know, diseases surprise us, and therefore we need to be reacting to the current situation, even if it differs from what we planned for.
	So, pretty normal.
	We're prepared.
	This is all bull crap.
	We weren't prepared for the sound system.
	I even tried to EQ it a bit without much success.
	Now, why has this thing not been actually called a pandemic yet?
	Because that's what everyone's talking, pandemic, pandemic, pandemic, but no, it's not a pandemic.
	The World Health Organization calls it a public health emergency of international concern.
	And that was announced by the head honcho there at the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom.
	Now, this is a new head of the World Health Organization.
	If it was the Chinese woman, it would have been called a pandemic.
	Yes, exactly.
	Now, she was replaced by this guy.
	But there's a lot wrong with him.
	First of all, he met with Xi Jinping in Beijing on January 28th.
	And this was already after Wuhan had been shut down.
	So, on the 30th, after he comes back from meeting with Xi Jinping, which was a closed-door meeting, then he says, well, I've taken a look and this warrants a proclamation of a public health emergency of international concern.
	So, not a pandemic.
	And this guy is not a doctor.
	I think he's the first director general who has not come from the medical field.
	He's also the first African to head up the World Health Organization.
	But what's interesting is that he made his mark in the political world in Ethiopia.
	And flights are shut down to and from China almost globally, and of course there's exceptions here and there, but guess what is open?
	The Addis Abab, what is it, Ababa Addis, what's the airport in...
	Addis Ababa.
	Yes, that's something like that.
	In Ethiopia.
	That's the gateway for China into Africa.
	And, of course, we have a million Chinese in Africa.
	There's no stopping.
	You can go right to the airport.
	They're not even testing for people.
	They're just going in and out, in and out, China to Africa, continuously.
	What do we not have in Africa?
	Any mention of any cases of the Wuhan flu.
	There was one that they thought was in Egypt, but it turned out not to be that.
	So is this guy allowing this travel between China and Ethiopia because it's where he came up in the political scene?
	Or is it really not all that bad?
	Why is he not calling it a pandemic?
	Well, there's another piece of data.
	The pandemic emergency financing bond, which we missed, and of course, why wouldn't we?
	The pandemic bonds were written in June of 2017 for almost $500 million.
	It was purchased, or most of it, by Germany, a little bit by Japan, but I think 75% or 80% by Germany.
	And it's a fantastic, it's a very high-yielding bond.
	There's two different categories, but combined about an average of 10% annually on your money.
	And this was touted as a great idea and fantastic and, oh, this is just the best ever.
	This will give poor countries an opportunity to have access to fast cash in case there's a pandemic and they don't have any cash.
	But...
	If there is a pandemic, then all the money can be triggered, can be sent out to poor countries, and the investors have nothing.
	And they have very specific guidelines for what triggers a pandemic in this bond.
	And I think that's probably a good way of looking at it.
	Instead of some fuzzy-wuzzy stuff, they literally say you have to have...
	20,000 infected, 2,000 dead, and at least 20 other dead in a single country outside of the country where it starts, which we haven't hit yet.
	We may, or depending on the counting, but I'm thinking, given this guy, and this is from the World Bank, the World Health Organization will be the one to declare if the World Bank bond gets triggered and can be paid out to different countries.
	I have a feeling that if this were, let's just put it this way, if this isn't a pandemic, he doesn't want to call a pandemic because you'll have a bunch of really pissed off investors if they find out that you triggered that and all their money is gone for some bogative reason.
	So either they're being super careful about it, or it's just not true.
	It's just not at pandemic stage.
	Seeing that we have Chinese going in and out of Africa on a continuing basis, it never slowed down at all.
	So I'm very, very skeptical.
	What is baffling to me is the amount of noise the media is making.
	I mean, I tried to clip Tucker Carlson from last night.
	It bleeds, it bleeds.
	I mean, it's irresponsible.
	Here's that asshole doctor, Mark Klein, whatever his name.
	I forget his name.
	And he was at the airport and he's reporting, oh, people are coming in.
	It's just irresponsible.
	They're making people crazy.
	And now to get to your European story, because of the Italy stuff, what do we do?
	We send a little message to Willow.
	We haven't heard from Willow in several years on the show, I think.
	Willow has lived in Florence for, jeez, 28 years now, I think, with her family and her two kids.
	And Willow is a small amygdala species.
	Of course, she's a curry.
	And she's currently studying her master's in psychology.
	And I said, Willow, could you please tell me what's going on there?
	Because I think this is bullcrap, but I'd like to know what's happening.
	And she left me a voicemail, which I'm going to share with everybody here.
	It's a disaster.
	It's disastrous.
	It's crazy.
	It started out with a ridiculous psychosis against Chinese or any Oriental-looking people.
	So already, I'd say, two weeks ago, people weren't going to Chinese restaurants anymore, somehow thinking that, you know, anything Chinese, doesn't matter if they've been to China, were born here.
	And there was a lot of discrimination against Chinese people, couldn't even come into shops.
	Psychosis, total ridiculous stuff.
	In the meantime, Italy was one of the first to really start testing everyone.
	So I went to Madrid 12 days ago, I think.
	And I went to Spain and nothing going on.
	And then when I came back to Florence, they zapped me with a thermometer.
	So already, this really goes to prove how, you know, if you're testing everyone, first of all, you're going to find cases.
	And that's what happened.
	They found people who didn't have any symptoms at all and whatever.
	The government is, uh, everybody's giving the information that, you know, is very contagious, yes, but it's not lethal and only old people only.
	That's the problem, of course.
	Poor people with, you know, immunodeficiency problems or the elderly with issues.
	So the government and the media sort of are giving the, I think they're giving the right information, but the actions are just the opposite.
	So closing museums, closing schools, uh, I mean, and the final thing is, of course, canceling football games or doing football games in closed stadiums.
	That gives a big message.
	Yesterday, passengers from a bus called the police to come because they overheard the bus driver talking to his doctor about having coronavirus, so they called the cops.
	The cops came and turned out the bus driver was just telling his doctor that he had done the test because he had to for his job and that he was negative.
	So I mean, can you imagine people on the bus freaking out and calling the cops because they hear the bus driver talking about the coronavirus?
	That said, so Mateo's school is closed.
	I'm doing an online university, and of course the online stuff goes on, but I had two exams programmed for Friday, the 27th of March, and until further notice, those have been suspended.
	On the other hand, the University of Florence is open, and Sabi started classes again yesterday, and she said it was packed.
	So, and then you hear stories about supermarkets raided in Milan and even here in Florence.
	People are hoarding and we don't do this stuff.
	We just go, we're trying to go to as many Chinese restaurants as possible.
	Alessandra's doing his usual shopping at the Chinese junk store, so we're trying to contribute to normal life.
	Of course, I'm a remote worker, so I'm not really touched by any of this.
	But, you know, even if I were.
	I mean, we're treating it normally, but unfortunately the sheep are just going behind what everything's happening.
	So...
	I think that the human species, through entertainment, movies, etc., has been primed for this response.
	We have been primed.
	And yeah, Netflix, by coincidence, had that pandemic movie a couple of months ago.
	But there's been numerous types of entertainment products that talk about this.
	You can go back to the Tripp's disease, Stephen King...
	Somehow, we were so ready for this, and the media, as you said, if it bleeds, it leads.
	It's just seeing the results.
	All you've got to do is throw some fear in there.
	Boom!
	Fox News now has 4 million viewers!
	It's insane!
	And they're doing a lot of this fear-mongering.
	So, for the small amygdala possessors amongst us, really, do not believe all this.
	And why countries and cities and municipalities are taking these steps...
	To really ruin economics is beyond me.
	I mean, I understand why the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix.
	Well, yes, part of that is Trump.
	I totally agree.
	But Japan just said school is closed until April.
	The Pope...
	This is a great one, by the way.
	The Pope cancelled the Vatican event because he was sniffly and had a bit of a fever after touching hands and kissing heads at Mass.
	Now, how cool...
	I mean, I don't want anyone to die.
	But man, would that be a big one.
	If they could get the Pope to die from this, oh, bam!
	And the guy's prime candidate.
	He's old.
	You're up there.
	You know, you get a respiratory disease.
	It could be pretty bad.
	So, you know, I would keep an eye on the Pope.
	There was the Iranians.
	Now, of course, Iran does a lot of business with China.
	Here's an interesting report that leadership in Tehran is also pissed off about the noise versus the reality.
	So the corona outbreak in Iran is becoming deeply troubling.
	The epicenter was in the holy city of Qom, and it spread rapidly from there.
	Now, one of the main reasons it has affected Iran so badly seems to be that Iran has kept its flights open with China during the outbreak there.
	And because Iran has such close ties to China, both politically and economic links with the Chinese, Which have been a lifeline for Tehran to combat sanctions.
	They didn't close access from and to China.
	And it also seems that senior officials are not immune to the virus either.
	Members of parliament, the mayor of Tehran's 13th district have contracted the virus.
	And even the deputy health minister who's in charge of countering the coronavirus has tested positive for it.
	In a video that's become viral in Iran, he's seen standing next to the government spokesman during a press conference with the media.
	He's sweating profusely and constantly wiping his brow with a handkerchief.
	The government spokesman then attended meetings with other senior officials.
	That same deputy health minister also gave an interview on state TV last night where he was coughing and spluttering away.
	And today, in a live speech, Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, said that this is one of the threats of the enemy, the USA, to spread fright amongst Iranian society in Iran to lead the country towards closure.
	I mean, the moment we're in right now when you hear these things, like the Assistant Deputy Minister of Health, you saw the video probably, he's coughing, he's wiping his brow, he's sweating.
	Then you have the Pope.
	I mean, this is how these types of disaster movies start.
	You get these little clues, and I think that we're programmed now to be on our edge, like, okay, something horrible is going to happen, and then we all know we're all going to die.
	It's going to be the end.
	Here's Fox News' Tucker Carlson.
	And the other thing...
	A guest.
	How would it get out of the lab?
	Most people would think, well, a technician got infected through poor lab procedure and then walked out on the street, infected his family and friends and so forth.
	But there's another way it could have gotten out of the lab, because we know that that in China, some researchers, not all, but some researchers have actually taken their lab animals after they're done experimenting with them, after they've been infected with various viruses and so forth.
	If the lab animals aren't dead, they take the bats and the rats and the snakes and everything to the local fresh meat market and sell them on the fresh meat market to make extra money.
	So the virus may have passed to human beings by that means through the avenue, the vector of someone's stomach.
	I can't wait to drive by our Asian place after the show, see that no one's there.
	People believe this.
	Oh yeah, they sell their lab animals to the market and that winds up in your Chinese meal.
	Come on, people!
	The only other thing...
	No, Chinatowns are supposed to be deserted.
	So there's two other things, and I listened to DH Unplugged, and I don't think you guys brought it up.
	Although, even after I tried to calm Andrew Horowitz's fears at our dinner in Delray Beach, he's kind of going off about the flu.
	He's kind of into it.
	Yeah.
	He's kind of bought into it, which is fine.
	But from the financial markets perspective, for a long time there's been talk about a financial reset.
	This is kind of conspiratorial, but China's been buying up all this gold, and the theory goes that we'd all kind of have equal amounts of gold, the U.S. and China, and maybe we throw some other countries in there, and then we reprice all the currencies, and everything goes and then we reprice all the currencies, and everything goes down.
	It's a reset somehow.
	Max Keiser is really big on this financial reset idea.
	So that could be what's in the works.
	I don't know.
	Personally, I think within about a month or so, markets will start zooming back up and it'll all kind of be over and we'll forget about it.
	Maybe some other fantastic piece of news will cross our paths and it'll drown into the background.
	But the only thing, and this is what we started with five weeks ago, From a financial standpoint, the economy is a huge problem.
	On the other hand, as I think I laid out a couple of shows ago, there's a lot of good that has come from what Trump did when he first came in, namely the Trump tax cuts.
	An example is a buddy of mine works at Micron.
	They make chips.
	I don't know who they sell to.
	Everybody.
	And Micron, three and a half, four years ago, they were laying people off.
	Enter the Trump tax cuts with the repatriation of the overseas money.
	They opened up another fab.
	They're going to open yet another fab.
	They can't hire people fast enough.
	And that's because people will no longer want to do business in China or even maybe India for that matter.
	Although I think Trump has tried to, you know, keep that from dissipating, that relationship.
	But there's good things that could actually, if this was, you know, Trump anticipated something like this and he gets this magical coronavirus after all the steps he's taken against China, we're in a pretty interesting spot in the United States.
	I just don't know if this financial reset is something that anyone's angling for.
	And I have a question for you.
	Is this the tipping point for the bond market that you've been looking at for several years?
	Bonds seem to be strong.
	Okay.
	So, not yet.
	I don't know if that's ever going to...
	I mean, that whole thing has got me...
	That's the most annoying thing about the market in general is this bond collapse has never happened.
	It's annoying it hasn't collapsed yet, damn it!
	There's two extremes.
	There's the Asian extreme, which is this clip, Olympics to be cancelled.
	Oh, yes.
	Oh, man.
	Completely cancelled.
	And the Japan Times, which is...
	I got an interview with Dick Pound, who is the longest standing member of the international...
	What's the guy's name?
	Dick Pound?
	Dick...
	Pound.
	And the Japan Times, which is...
	I got an interview with Dick Pound, who is the longest-standing member of the international...
	And he's the longest...
	Come on.
	Dick Pound is the longest-standing member.
	Are you kidding me?
	I wasn't going there.
	And the Japan Times, which is...
	I got an interview with Dick Pound, who is the longest standing member of the International Olympic Committee, the IOC, and he is warning of a possible cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics, no less.
	He's arguing that measures now need ramping up in terms of this coronavirus outbreak, in terms of security, food, the Olympic Village, the hotels.
	And if those measures do not go ahead, Stuart, then you are probably looking at a cancellation.
	That's a quote from him.
	Another quote from him, this is the new war and you have to face it.
	This, of course, with four deaths in Japan from the coronavirus.
	And of course, one US publication you found looking at the story saying a reserve fund, if you like, could actually cushion the blow if the Games are not able to go ahead.
	Well, this is the US magazine Fortune, which says there's around $900 million to help finance global sports.
	It's pointing out that a number of global sporting events and Olympic qualifiers, specifically in Asia, have already been cancelled because of coronavirus.
	Now, if there was a cancellation, Dick Pound is saying there is still, to get to that point, there's still three months to reflect on that.
	If it did happen, it would be the fourth time since, when was it, the First World War there was a cancellation, and twice in the Second World War.
	Huh.
	This is going far?
	That's, yeah, you know, NBC's got to be concerned about that.
	They got the contract.
	And then we have this curious EU response to the coronavirus, which I found to be, based on everything else, discrepant and interesting.
	They met in Italy, now the epicenter of the coronavirus in Europe, trying to coordinate the response to the disease.
	While taking measures to block the outbreak, Europe's health ministers decided against canceling all major public events and against shutting their borders.
	We've decided to apply a set of common principles in the next days, weeks and months.
	Principles based on good cooperation and mutual assistance.
	And we've decided that it's unthinkable to even consider closing our borders.
	Such a measure would be inefficient.
	While China has applied drastic measures to stop the outbreak imposing lockdowns on tens of millions, Europeans say that closing their borders, imposing ID checks or examining travelers will not stop the disease.
	Scientists say it can still slow its expansion.
	Controlling the flow of travelers can slow down the spread of the disease, but I believe it can't stop it altogether.
	Since the latest spate of infections in Italy, COVID-19 has reached new countries, Switzerland, Croatia and Austria, through people who had traveled from Italy.
	Germany, France and Spain have declared new cases.
	Yeah, that's interesting in light of an article I saw just this morning about Euroland where there's an increasing number of what we used to call migrants, illegal asylum seekers traveling to the European Union.
	Well, now what they've done is there's a huge uptick.
	I'm going to read this from the article.
	Most of the increase is accounted for by a large number of applications lodged by applicants who are exempt of visa requirements when entering the Schengen area.
	So the visa-free applicants are mostly from Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador, and Honduras.
	So if you want to go to Europe, you go to one of those countries, and you just fly, and it's kind of like your ESTA visa.
	You just fill out a form, and you're good to go.
	So there's no border security at all for this, if they think they need it.
	Yeah, well, there's that.
	Huh.
	Well, we'd have to conclude from this exposition that this is much ado about not much.
	Right, but it is hurting lots of people and businesses because of the media hype, and I think that's egregious.
	And people also, luckily, no agenda heads.
	We think a little bit clearer, but I've seen enough.
	I've seen enough people tweeting, and I can smell the fear.
	But I just don't think it's warranted.
	Now, for you and I, a little different.
	We're in the danger category, 50 to 75.
	I'm pretty healthy.
	I think you're pretty healthy.
	So you don't want to get it.
	No.
	But such is life.
	But this big scare, you know, it's not Ebola, people.
	You don't get it, and you don't bleed out, and you don't have, you know, just...
	You don't walk around with blood coming out of your eyeballs.
	Or wherever.
	Exactly.
	So, I think we're pretty safe.
	It's now just a matter of management, managing expectations, and my eye's on the market.
	I'm interested to see...
	Well, my eye should be on the company that comes up with the vaccine.
	Well, you know, there's...
	There's money to be made.
	Well, that money has already been made.
	There's two companies, both of them down severely from big all-time highs yesterday.
	The first one is...
	What is it?
	Something manned with an M. I don't know.
	Either one of them.
	Hold on.
	I have it here.
	Yeah, because they're in a recently listed company.
	It's...
	Hold on a second.
	I have to get it here.
	Ah, yes.
	MRNA is the symbol.
	What is the name of this company?
	It's...
	Moderna.
	Moderna.
	There you go.
	Moderna shot up.
	From, where were they, like at $16 or something, shot up to $38, today down to $26.
	And the other one was, and I followed this because I heard the tease from no one less than Larry Kudlow.
	I think I have the clip.
	Yes.
	He was on CNBC. But I'm not at all convinced that we can't get hold of what we need here in the U.S. We have stockpiles.
	We also have the capacity to produce more in all these areas.
	I'm no expert in this, but we've seen some of these biotech companies, Gilead being one of them, Probably coming up with a vaccine in a much shorter time than people realize.
	Now, Kudlow is full of shit here.
	Gilead is not working on a vaccine.
	Thank you.
	Now, let's update on various aspects of this story.
	First of all, Gilead is in, what, the late-stage testing of a virus drug?
	Yeah, they are Remdesivir, which was originally brought out to treat Ebola, but they've shown in studies that it can be quite effective, they believe, against coronavirus.
	They're now going to test human tests, mainly in China and Asia.
	1,000 patients are going to be put on 5-day and 10-day dosing regimes, and they're going to monitor the patients after that for 14 days.
	This is lightning fast.
	We talked about this yesterday.
	Normally, this is such a long, drawn-out process.
	They are on a fast, fast track.
	Yeah.
	Okay, so Gilead also down sharply today after all this news.
	It's not a virus.
	It's a retroviral, which might be able to help you.
	And our experience from...
	Yeah, the AIDS. Yeah.
	Our experience from doing this show and these types of, you know, pandemic scares is that there's all, you know, you can even...
	I can list you the stocks.
	Novavax.
	You know, there's all these little biotech companies and people get all excited and then, oh, we're going to have a vaccine.
	But we know a vaccine takes...
	A year, a year and a half is fast.
	That's about right.
	If you can even do that.
	So, you know, I think that everyone gets all excited and then the stock price is zooming and then they all, well, wait a minute, it's going to be another year and a half.
	There's just so little good information in the market.
	Except for here.
	Sadly, you had to come to a podcast to learn that you're not going to die.
	That, of course, is why it's the best podcast in the universe.
	Indeed.
	And so then, you know, we talked about those CEOs.
	I've just found it very interesting that we have MasterCard, Salesforce.
	Well, this is what a lot of people believe, and I'm on board with this.
	It's the Veritas Project.
	Yeah.
	They just came out with a video yesterday.
	In fact, the guy got fired, an ABC guy that's been there forever.
	Yeah, reporter.
	Just got booted because...
	Here's the thing.
	He got fired for saying that ABC doesn't really care about the news.
	Yeah.
	ABC, part of the giant entertainment empire called Disney, doesn't care that much about the news.
	He feels bad about it.
	Isn't it interesting how they then fire the guy?
	I don't know if he's fired.
	No, they fired him.
	Oh, I thought he was put on non-active.
	I thought he was, from my understanding, he was fired.
	Well, could be.
	Could be.
	He's out the door.
	But...
	Yeah, I don't know how it all ties together.
	By the way, I listened to that.
	I didn't listen.
	I read the transcript.
	I'm not going to listen to that crap.
	It's impossible to hear it.
	But I read the transcript, and what I found interesting was that he felt bad about Trump not getting accurate coverage.
	Yes.
	But what really got my attention was that he himself claims that he is a full-fledged socialist.
	Well, I said democratic socialist, I think.
	No, no.
	He eventually said, I'm a democratic socialist, but in fact, I'm a socialist.
	If you read the transcript, he says he's a socialist.
	And I found it fascinating that we have both socialists running in the news departments of big major networks.
	This guy was up there.
	Mm-hmm.
	Also, a socialist with some sympathy for Trump.
	I just found the whole thing to be just kind of...
	Here's the quote.
	You're right.
	Are you a democratic socialist?
	Oh, yeah.
	More than that, I would consider myself a socialist.
	Like, I think there should be national health insurance.
	I'm totally fine with reigning in corporations.
	I think there's too many billionaires, and I think there's a wealth gap problem.
	But my two favorites were...
	You can't watch Good Morning America, his answer.
	Oh, no, he said, you can't watch Good Morning America without a Disney princess or a Marvel Avenger appearing, which, of course, is, you know, that's why they have the morning show, to promote their other Disney entertainment products.
	Yeah, totally.
	What does he expect, actually?
	Yes.
	And people in New York are constantly, I think, fascinated by how can people like Donald Trump, well, you know, Fuck!
	Cross the Hudson now and then.
	Come out and spend some time, you'll hear why.
	He's telling his own news colleagues that they live in a bubble.
	Get out of the office.
	Yeah, get out of the office once in a while.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, so, I don't know what's...
	I mean, the key word, of course, is resigning immediately, which is highly...
	Irregular?
	Not giving even a day's notice.
	I'm out of here!
	I'm thinking more like a Me Too thing, or worse.
	That's what I was thinking at first.
	It's possible the Veritas thing is enough, because he knows what kind of...
	He doesn't want to deal...
	He's already got...
	His life is complete.
	He's set, yeah.
	And so, does he want to deal with the aggravation thing?
	That he's going to have to go through.
	No.
	It's because that's what's going to happen.
	It's going to be hounded.
	The only other thing is that they launched the Disney streaming app, which everyone is saying is really competing with Apple or Apple's competing with them.
	I don't even know how the two compare.
	It's very possible that in addition to whatever else is happening, the streaming experiment is a flop.
	It started off with a bang.
	You haven't heard much about it.
	I don't see it as a flop.
	Okay.
	I'm saying it's possible.
	There's the death knell right there.
	No.
	Everybody, the Dvorak's are using it.
	We use Netflix, we use Hulu, and we use Disney, and everybody's quite happy with it.
	And the thing that I didn't like about it was it seemed to be put together...
	At the last minute with bailing wire.
	Right.
	But it streams fine.
	Yeah, I mean, just maybe people aren't, maybe they took their free trial, maybe, I don't know.
	That comes out in the annual report, and that's nothing a CEO is going to quit about.
	I have, I'm just saying, I'm just throwing stuff out there.
	It seems to me that it's going to be not wanting to be hounded about this Trump thing.
	Right.
	And I agree, my first thought was a Me Too thing.
	But it's just like, you know, it's aggravation enough to be a CEO of Disney.
	That's it.
	I'm out of here.
	Now, going back to this reporter who says he's a full-on socialist, if there's a question I'd like asked, is there going to be another debate?
	Do we have one more?
	Please tell me there's another debate.
	There's got to be a debate.
	We need more debates.
	I would like the question posed to the contestants, as Mike Bloomberg astutely said, could you please tell me what a Democrat is?
	And I'd like to know what is a socialist.
	I'd like to know each candidate's definition, and for that matter, I'd like to know what Trump's definition of Democrat and socialist is, and we'll throw in Republican.
	But when it comes to the socialists and democratic socialists in the news media, nothing is better than the editor of Time, Time Magazine, Anant Girharadas, I think his name is, I don't know if he's editor at large, but he's billed as editor.
	He looks like he could be on Queer Eye for the straight guy.
	He's an Asian as an Indian Pakistani type guy with bleached white hair.
	And he goes on this rant about the difference between capitalism and socialism.
	And we can laugh and hoot and holler, but we'll just let the minute 20 play out.
	It's mind-bending.
	We have come to a place in America, which I find fascinating, where our understanding of gender is more fluid than our understanding of capitalism, socialism, and democracy.
	It's remarkable.
	I never would have expected that.
	We've made tremendous progress in understanding that it's not like men, women, nothing in between.
	It's complicated.
	People fall all kinds of places on that distribution.
	But capitalism, socialism, no, no, no.
	It's one or the other.
	The reality is for any person who's actually traveled or read a book every country in the world with maybe a couple of exceptions has some mix of capitalism and socialism.
	When you're on the highway The thing beneath you, socialism.
	The things on the highway, capitalism.
	The cars and the trucks carrying stuff.
	When you are on Wall Street, the banks, capitalism.
	The regulators that make sure that brokers are not stealing their money, socialism.
	Right?
	When you work for 40 years at IBM, capitalism.
	When you retire and have Social Security and Medicare take care of you, socialism.
	Right?
	It's early in the morning.
	I have already in the course of this day, by eating certain things, engaged in capitalism.
	By taking a car here, engaged in capitalism.
	But I've also benefited profoundly, just by 8am, from socialism.
	From the fact that...
	People, you know, there were roads.
	It was nice to have roads on the way.
	It made a much faster commute.
	You know, all the ways in which capitalism and socialism are actually part of every hour of our lives.
	Let's end this ridiculous binary and have some understanding of economic fluidity.
	Economic fluidity, John.
	There we go.
	Oh, God, this is it.
	This is where they're starting to turn gender studies into economics.
	Economic fluidity.
	I mean, this guy should be fired immediately from his position.
	He has no idea what he's talking about.
	Well, the days of Time Magazine actually being a magazine.
	Oh, I know.
	And having anybody...
	I mean, this is a blog.
	Time Magazine and Newsweek are both blogs.
	I'm down with that.
	It's so true.
	And so the guy's the head of a blog.
	Just thought that was quite fascinating.
	Fascinating.
	No, I think your idea is good.
	It's solid.
	It would be interesting to hear what Elizabeth Warren says about it.
	And it'd be interesting to hear Bloomberg.
	Bloomberg was the only guy.
	We're not going to do the debates in a second because I think we need a break after an hour of SARS. Oh, I'm sorry.
	Hey, everybody.
	Oh, wait, wait.
	I meant swine flu.
	Yeah, hold on a second.
	Hey, everybody.
	It's Adam and John here.
	Yes, this is the SARS Hour radio show.
	Woo-hoo!
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the collapse of all markets, John C. Dvorak!
	What?
	Whoa.
	You've been taking lessons.
	I know, working on it.
	Glad you liked it.
	Well, in the morning to you, and in the morning to all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and the dames and the knights out there.
	Yes, in the morning to all of our shills and trolls, or as Al Sharpton would say, trolls, the trawlers in the troll room.
	At noagendastream.com, who tried very hard to get my attention when I was pre-streaming.
	I was streaming emptiness for an hour and a half this morning, but they were obfuscated.
	Just give them your phone call number.
	Lots of people have my numbers and data.
	Surprisingly, there's lots of DMs.
	Anyway, let's give a quick count, see how many trolls are in there this morning.
	We do the command for troll count, 1,048.
	Good to see you all there.
	Also in the morning, to our artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1,219, 1219, Melodious Owl, who...
	Has Melodious Owl scored art before?
	I believe a couple.
	One or two.
	This was a classic.
	We both looked at it and went, yeah, it fits, in particular because I couldn't find the jingle that it refers to, which is, don't send us water, don't send blankets, just send your cash.
	The classic George W. Bush jingle that we use from time to time when we can find it.
	And it was good.
	It was exactly right.
	And I don't think there was any other contenders.
	Do we have other contenders?
	I can't remember.
	There was a couple.
	We thought there was maybe three or four that were usable, but that one just had the nice...
	It had a softness to it, and it got to the point, and it was funny, in a funny way.
	It was fantastic, and we love the work that our artists do.
	It is incredibly important to the whole operation.
	It's a big deal for our visibility in podcast apps, even on Twitter.
	You see it like, oh, what is that?
	It draws attention, and we're very, very happy, and Proud of the work that our artists do.
	And you can join in if you want.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	You can sign up.
	There's pretty easy to, now that it's all functioning, pretty easy to get your art up there.
	And we choose it right after we close down the recording for every single broadcast.
	And thank you again.
	Melodius Al, Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And that brings us to our executive producers for the show.
	Absolutely zero commercial interest or corporate money comes into this program which is why we can speak freely the way we do and not give you the same fear-mongering message meant for ratings that every other entertainment property seems to be doing.
	And that is why we have our star producers that we like to thank right at the beginning.
	And that's why we have, yeah.
	But we don't have any movies to plug.
	No.
	That's okay.
	I'm cool.
	So I've got Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch showed up.
	Ah, and Loris Lobovia.
	Yes.
	With another coded amount.
	$1,318.
	$1,318.
	Well, the 18 would be...
	We never understand his codes, but the 18 would be maybe the Jewish code, but we're pretty sure he's Muslim.
	Oh, he's Muslim.
	Yeah.
	I wish I understood his codes.
	Did he write a note?
	He usually does.
	Yes, of course he did.
	Okay, good.
	By the way, is your line three missing?
	Line three?
	Yes.
	It is.
	I wonder what's supposed to be there.
	Hey, man, who's been doing my lines?
	So he writes his normal note.
	Of course, this time he's got some...
	Well, he's a lot like Fuguzotto in that he has stories to tell.
	Yeah, we love that.
	These guys are on the road.
	Yeah.
	On the run.
	I thought you were going to say on the run.
	They're on the run.
	They're on the land, man.
	I have an unusual request.
	Goat karma.
	Whoa!
	Did you want to write off the bat?
	I'll give it to him at the end.
	Sorry.
	Goat karma.
	Three goats in my tribe died in the past two weeks.
	Oh, boy.
	I am the owner, and I need it to last longer than a horse race, the karma, but not too long as Eid is coming, the E-I-D, the party time.
	Party time, but not for the goats.
	Yes, and it is coming, and several of their lives will be cut short anyway.
	Mm-hmm.
	But good health until then would be nice.
	Thanks for all the producers that make this the best source of news and analysis in the known universe.
	To non-contributing listeners, come on!
	Your alternative is the M5M, a commercial entertainment and opinion platform.
	The M5M offers information that has been approved by their advertising departments, or is the opinion shared by their owner elites?
	The M5M is not part of the fourth estate.
	Good point.
	The quick shutdown by North Korea against all Chinese gave me pause.
	As you recall, his last note, which he was talking was going to North Korea.
	Yep, yep.
	Suffering from a cold, I thought better of heading to the peninsula with a cough.
	Less fearful of issues in the peninsula than being penned up like my goats with other sick people upon my return.
	Yes, exactly.
	It turned out to be a correct conspiracy assumption since my intended return date coincided with the quarantine of America's returning from China.
	Hmm.
	I get enough SSSS on my tickets thanks to the programming bias.
	And that's what he's referring to on your boarding pass.
	Yep.
	There's these codes on there.
	Yep.
	Different airlines have.
	And that's one of them.
	You don't notice it, but when you go through...
	Four S's.
	Yep, four S's.
	Sir, can you come over here?
	Yes.
	And then we need to talk.
	We have a special line for you, sir.
	Thanks to the programming bias.
	As Adam has reminded people, until you enter, you are a foreigner, and as many have learned, you are innocent unless you are alleged to be guilty of a crime.
	And some groups are automatically alleged by the programs.
	He's bitching himself, being one of them.
	Despite these hassles, as a weary traveler returning to the U.S., I want to thank the many border officers for two words they often say.
	Welcome home.
	Yep.
	They do.
	I know.
	Which brings me to a point I was thinking about earlier, because I've heard about this.
	When you go into Texas from an international outpost and you come in, I know that they see your residency.
	If they see your residency is Texas and you're coming into Texas, I'm just asking because this has never happened to me.
	Do they say welcome home doofus?
	I was told that they say welcome home doofus to anyone from Texas.
	No.
	Oh, okay.
	I just wondered.
	I've had a lot of different treatment for different reasons, but in general, I get a welcome home.
	Yeah, I get welcome home, too.
	Which I do also find nice.
	I love it, yeah.
	Makes you feel good.
	Makes you feel good.
	Yeah.
	As opposed to welcome home doofus.
	Yeah, who told you this?
	He continues his note.
	Very difficult start to the year.
	Agent Orange took a close friend of mine, while another has significantly deteriorated from his Gulf War syndrome.
	Either has had a single regret for their decision to serve and defend our Constitution.
	Great Americans.
	No jingles.
	Well, except for the goat karma.
	Yeah, well, he said no jingles.
	Yeah.
	I just wanted to say one thing before we give him and his flock some cards.
	What is a bunch of goats?
	Is that not a flock?
	That's a herd.
	A herd of goats?
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	It should be.
	I don't know.
	Maybe not.
	Last night, the keeper and I wanted to watch Eliza Schlesinger on Kimmel.
	Yeah, I was going to stay up for that, too, but I went to bed.
	Well, so she was second guest, which means first you get the first guest, and then you get the second guest.
	If she was the first guest, I would have watched it.
	Yeah, well, so we bit the bullet, and we were invested.
	Now, before they got to her, they had an ad break, which was two breaks, and in the middle, they came back to the studio, and they did a native ad acted with Guillermo and Kimmel for D's Nuts.
	The total block of time, because we rolled it back and we looked at the time codes, was 12 minutes.
	12 minutes of ads.
	It's unbelievable.
	Wow.
	So what did Liza get?
	She didn't even get 12 minutes.
	She got one segment.
	Yeah, which is five minutes max, I think.
	Yeah.
	It was, I mean, I was blown away.
	Both of us were seeing, like, another ad and another ad, and there was a 60 and then two 15s and a 30s.
	Well, as you recall, as you recall on this show, I'm always pointing out the native ads on ABC News and Kimmel's on ABC. ABC is the king of the native ad.
	Yeah.
	So they broke it up, these two blocks of pre-produced ads with the native ad.
	It's like, Either.
	They're really raking it in, which I'm sure they are, but this is whorish.
	And by the way, if I were Kim, I can't have a nice chat with Eliza Schlesinger.
	It was funny.
	She's going to be in a movie with Wahlberg.
	No, it's probably not an ABC movie.
	Probably not a Disney movie, so that's why.
	Not even a clip.
	Shut up.
	No clip?
	It's a Netflix movie, that's why.
	Oh yeah, I would give her a short script.
	Get her out of here.
	In and out.
	Twelve minutes.
	It's unwatchable.
	And all of it is stuff you don't want.
	A group of goats is called a tribe or a trip.
	Oh, well that's what Sir Anima said.
	He said, my tribe.
	Yeah, his tribe of goats.
	I thought he meant his tribe, like Oonga Boonga.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	No, it wouldn't be Oonga Boonga.
	But that's racist.
	They're very good.
	I'm trying to be as racist as possible.
	People are innocent until, you know, alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity.
	All right, here's for your tribe there, Seronomous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia.
	And we'll throw an extra one after it just to make sure they're all nice and juicy for the fest.
	Thank you, sir.
	Well, I mean it well.
	Goats, delicious meat.
	We don't eat it much in this country.
	I've had a bad Mexican goat dish, but otherwise I like Jamaican goat.
	But I had a Mexican goat, which it's just like, it's like I was tasting.
	The goat was still going like that.
	I don't know.
	If you can get a goat leg or a leg of goat, like a lamb, and get the bone out of the thing.
	Yeah, it'd be great.
	Which you have to do by hand sometimes, which I've done.
	It is a better version of the lamb.
	It doesn't have a goat flavor.
	Except the one that I had.
	I don't know what day the guy peed in it.
	I don't know.
	Really?
	Really?
	You know, I've heard.
	Anyway, thank you very much, Seronomous of Dogpatch and Lois Lobovia.
	Good to hear from you.
	Love your notes.
	And, well, you got your karma for the tribe.
	Okay.
	Now you'll reopen the spreadsheet and go on.
	It was Robert Slack.
	And I don't know how that's pronounced Slack, but he claims it is.
	You tell me.
	Anyway, it's S-L-A-G-H-T. I'm not going to argue.
	He came at 333.33 for me.
	He's in Glendale, Arizona.
	And he sent a note in saying, hello, from Glendale.
	I sent a bank check.
	Yeah, okay.
	I would like to say in the morning to you, and that it has been a while since I donated, so he needs a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	He sent a bank check in through one of these systems.
	And rarely, I mean, most people just send a mail with a check in it and then have a note attached.
	You received it?
	Yeah, I did.
	I received it.
	I picked it up on Tuesday.
	Was that Zelle maybe?
	Zelle?
	No, no.
	There's a check.
	One of those checks.
	You get a physical check.
	I like the checks.
	But it came in through the system and it was like...
	What is the system you keep referring to?
	Well, it's like people can go to various check payments organizations, pay by mail.
	There's a whole bunch of them.
	Or you go through your credit union.
	You say, I want to make a payment to the No Agenda Show every month or every week or every whatever.
	Can you set that up?
	And they usually have a system.
	It's like a time payment system that the banks put together.
	And then you get a check.
	We get a check.
	The No Agenda Show gets a check.
	In an envelope that's printed by the bank.
	It's kind of just one step removed there.
	And there's two or three of these systems out there.
	One of them is this one company that consolidates.
	You get an envelope.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	20, 30 checks.
	There's another one that has one check in it, which Chase Manhattan is notorious for.
	Each check could cause them 50 cents to send it.
	They're losing money.
	And then there's this other one, which is a little foldy, foldy, envelope-y thing that you have to tear the top off and tear the sides off.
	My favorite.
	Those are the ones that usually look like junk mail and you throw out.
	Well, they don't really look like junk mail, but junk mail looks like them.
	And that's what he did.
	That one came through with that.
	So he sent an email then.
	Anyway, this is a long story.
	I don't know why I went on to it.
	I don't know either.
	Keep up the excellent work and let's see many more years of the best podcast in the universe to my lovely wife.
	I don't know.
	What do you think that says?
	Melgie?
	Melgie?
	Melgie and baby girl Audrey?
	I love you.
	They are avid listeners and just as long as they are with me on long road trips and Oh, they're avid listeners just as long as they're on a long road trip to a day.
	You mean when you have them quarantined in your vehicle?
	Yes, okay.
	Woo, we love the show, Daddy!
	Can you turn on some music?
	Can you give him a climate gate, a Sharpton, and a Karma?
	To the gate, to the gate, to the planet gate.
	President Trump said that because of the killing of Al Baghdagi, that the world is a better place.
	You've got karma.
	Charles Boyce, or hashtag blessed in Yarmouth, Maine, 333.
	We're always in contact with Chuck.
	Hi, Tim, John, and Adam.
	Good luck on Rogan, Adam.
	Oh, yes, you're coming up on March 3rd on the Joe Rogan Show.
	Tuesday.
	Yeah, it's Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday.
	That's a big, giant Tuesday.
	I'm very excited.
	Lucky Tuesday.
	What do they call it?
	Lucky Tuesday.
	No, it's Super Tuesday.
	That's it.
	It's Super Tuesday, but it's also 33, which is a good number for us.
	33, the magic number.
	And I've kind of been prepping in my head for days and days.
	You're going to overthink it.
	Anyway, he continues.
	I've decided to go freelance and retool my skill set.
	That means no more steady paychecks.
	I could use some SQL server freelance and anti-anxiety karma.
	Well, I think that most of these would work.
	I would appreciate it if you would play the Kava Kava jingle and the 2030 Omnopocalypse jingle.
	I believe this donation allows me to become a baronet.
	Can I please take the title of baronet at Chuck Boyce, Chuck Boyce Jr.
	of the data?
	Warm regards.
	Yeah, you can have that.
	Now, what is this Kava Kava thing?
	Do you know what that is?
	The only Kava Kava thing I know is the ad for the coffee.
	It goes, Kava Kava!
	I mean, I don't have anything...
	I don't remember us ever playing it.
	I personally remember it.
	Kava Kava!
	That was kind of good.
	Well, if you do that one more time, then I'll play the other one.
	Okay, ready?
	Yep. Kava Kava.
	20, 30, all the fuck.
	You've got karma.
	There you go, Chuck.
	And we'll see you later on with your title changement.
	Dwayne Long comes up next to me.
	He's an associate executive producer from Louisville, Texas.
	270-97.
	ITM-B-P-I-T-U... I'm preparing for another long life change in my family.
	So thank you for keeping all of us sane with your excellent news deconstruction and entertainment.
	The producers and the douchebags are truly blessed.
	Come on, douchebags.
	It's never too late to donate.
	It only took me 10 years.
	Thanks for all the producers who have purchased products From my website, TexasDragon.com.
	Oh yeah, this is the barbecue stuff.
	Texas-Dragon.com.
	Yes, rubs.
	Rubs and scrubs.
	And sauces.
	I'm glad you have been enjoying the products and appreciate all the great reviews.
	You all rock.
	I met up with Sir Otaku...
	The Duke of Northeast Texas in the Red River Valley at a steak cook-off last weekend.
	He's a great guy.
	I might assist him in some barbecue cook-offs this year.
	That's interesting.
	He has some wins in brisket.
	John, maybe we could have a No Agenda BBQ meetup in Northeast Texas in the future and you could get out of the house.
	This is actually an interesting thing.
	Yeah, you laugh.
	But this is an interesting thing.
	I know you want brisket.
	You'll do a lot for us to learn how to do some good brisket.
	Yes, Texas style.
	I have a coupon code for No Agenda listeners for 2020.
	Have you ever been to Northeast Texas?
	Maybe that's why I was laughing.
	North?
	Name a city there.
	Exactly.
	You're making my point for me.
	Yes.
	Well, I've been, yeah, I probably have been to Northeast Texas because I took a drive up through the panhandle up into Oklahoma once.
	But it was just a drive-through.
	Is Texarkana out that way, I think?
	Isn't Texarkana out there?
	I don't think so.
	Okay.
	Okay, here's your code.
	N82020 at the checkout.
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	Does he have something for the table?
	Well, no.
	He didn't say.
	Not everybody has to have something for the table.
	No, I'm just asking.
	Well, it's right here.
	You've got it in front of you.
	I'm doing other things.
	I'm knitting.
	I have other things to do.
	Okay, okay.
	No.
	Yes, bourbon and ribeyes.
	Ah, there you go.
	Bourbon and ribeyes.
	Which I would think brisket would be more appropriate.
	But okay.
	Anyway, jingle request.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs.
	Trump-Pelosi version, the combo.
	OMG, can you see the juice?
	And goat karma.
	Boom.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	So, Trump and Pelosi version.
	Okay, and I'll do the OMG for you.
	Let's do it.
	Oh my gosh!
	Can you see that juice?
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	All right.
	Sir Dave comes up at $234.56.
	Two, three, four, five, six.
	Fugusoto?
	I'm guessing.
	I think it's Fugusoto.
	Oh, yeah.
	It could be.
	Yeah, I see.
	It's Fugusoto.
	Yes.
	Good news.
	This Noto is only $188.
	And even better, I just found out that there's a Ministry of Interior app one can download that will make snitching on the scofflaws who are driving 160 kilometers per hour in the breakdown lane.
	Make it that much easier.
	Around here, they call it the breakdown lane, the Inshallah lane, because Inshallah, I won't crash into a broken down dump truck at 160 kilometers an hour.
	I downloaded it, of course, because I want to do my part to support a civil society.
	And it has nothing to do with, isn't Waze kind of the same thing?
	I don't know.
	So I guess you're turning these people into the police.
	But the police were looking at Waze.
	But this is real snitching.
	That's a little different.
	I think Waze is just to report accidents and speed.
	It's actually, you're on the good guy side.
	But I don't know.
	Okay, it has nothing to do with the fact that someone narked on me for over dark windows tint.
	Oh, I see.
	That cost me 500 Saudi reals.
	It's fine for having a window tint that's too dark.
	We have that in California.
	You can't really darken your windows too dark.
	Or that if someone gave a $500 real fine, the conscientious citizen who turned them in gets half.
	Oh, now this is an app I'm down with.
	I like this.
	So you get a part of the, you get a VIG. That would be great.
	This would corrupt society.
	Hello, Saudi Arabia.
	Of course, if I did happen to turn someone into the Ministry of the Interior and received a cut of their fine, a portion of that would come back to support the best podcasts in the universe.
	So win-win.
	In the meantime, here's an advance of my first payout.
	I mean reward.
	Please dispense a hey, citizen.
	If you see something, say something.
	And a goat karma for good measure.
	Thank you for your encouragement.
	Oh, P.S. And by the way, this is a note meant for Adam, because Adam is a big fan of John Tesh.
	And he says, P.S., Yanni would kick John Tesh's butt.
	Thank you very much, Sir Dave.
	Is he Earl?
	Or is he Duke?
	I think he may be Duke.
	I don't think he's an Earl anymore.
	I think he's up there somewhere.
	He maybe do.
	Now, we love hearing from you, Sir Dave.
	Thank you so much.
	And, of course, we've got what you need.
	Hey, citizen.
	If you see something, say something.
	You've got karma.
	Matthew Scott's next to 1220 in Springfield, Missouri.
	That was the special donation for the last show.
	Yes.
	This is my first associate executive producer donation.
	I'm now over halfway to knighthood.
	Wait a minute.
	Okay, so he's probably accumulated through cheaper donations.
	Yes.
	No jingles, no karma, but if Adam could please, please, please, please explain the best way for producers to submit end-of-show mixes, I would be grateful.
	And I'm going to put, you can do that at the end.
	I produced a track about three years ago and I've tried a few times to contact Adam to get it into the end of show rotation, even using a pay to play method by sending it with a donation last year, but to no avail.
	I sent a separate email with subject end of show mix about bicycles in China in case Adam is able to get it into the mix, despite it being about an old topic.
	Sincerely.
	Matthew Scott in Springfield, Missouri.
	Thank you, Matthew.
	There is no pay to play.
	What likely happens...
	It's a fun idea, but no, there's no pay to play.
	Sometimes...
	Yeah, could you imagine?
	Could you imagine?
	Sometimes it just doesn't work out, and that can be because there's a whole bunch of mixes that came in, and I always try to carry them over.
	Sometimes stuff gets lost in the shuffle.
	Even though we have thousands of producers out in the universe, it's really just Adam here with a big-ass hard drive and a search tool.
	So sometimes it just doesn't work, and I apologize, but I do have it lined up for you today.
	And I will say that I pretty much will play anything, as long as we have the time to play it, or if it's not just completely rude.
	I mean, I personally, the shittier the better.
	I think that's funny.
	And I also think it's encouraging if it's just good enough to play at the end of show.
	So nothing personal slipped through the cracks, and it's lined up for the end of show today.
	And thank you for your courage.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	What were you expecting?
	Did you expect something else?
	Yeah, I was expecting something less meanable.
	I would have said something like, well, you know, it's possible it's no good.
	No, it is good.
	And I just don't even remember it.
	So maybe he sent it.
	It's lined up.
	It happens.
	But it's nothing personal.
	Stephanie Simons, actually, in Fort Lauderdale, $204.20.
	She's our last associate executive producer for a show, $12.20.
	And by the way, the next show numbers a palindrome, $12.21.
	Yep.
	So think about that.
	It's nice.
	Because there's no more dates this year that are palindromes.
	It's also a really nice palindrome.
	You know, it really goes up and down.
	It's like a tangent.
	Yeah, and all of that.
	But if you take the 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 3, 33.
	Oh, hello.
	That's the 33 palindrome.
	It's the magic number.
	The magic number palindrome.
	So that's next show.
	That's Sunday.
	And that's when we need donations.
	So there you go.
	My name is Stephanie Simons of Fort Lauderdale.
	Navigator of the seas.
	Thanks to my smoking hot boyfriend, Sir Ramen Noodles, and his equally hot brother, Sir Haggis, I have developed a healthy habit of listening to your podcast.
	It has come to my attention that a good old-fashioned dedouching is necessary.
	You've been dedouched.
	Please grant this request, which we did, and accept my first donation towards my future dame status.
	Why don't we give her a gratuitous karma?
	You've got karma.
	Good idea.
	And that's our social executive producers, executive producers for show 1220.
	I want to thank each and every one of them for helping support this show and keeping our analysis safe.
	Which is very singular.
	Nobody else does this stuff like we do.
	Even close, actually.
	I want to thank them for making it all happen.
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	Proud producer, executive producer, associate executive producer.
	These things matter, and we really appreciate it as part of our Value for Value network.
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	And who knows what'll happen in the next few days.
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	Slash N-A. And of course, now you know that Dick Pound's member is standing up.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Real.
	Water.
	Order.
	Shut up, slave.
	Shut up, slave.
	I just want to make a quick little mention.
	Congratulations to Void Zero and his lovely family, his wife and his son.
	They have a brand new human resource, Felix.
	Felix was born...
	Uh, no, I think it was, now is it three, four, five days ago?
	I don't even remember the exact date anymore.
	No complications.
	Mom and baby are doing fine.
	Stephen's very happy with his new brother, and we could not be happier for the Void Zero family.
	Congratulations.
	As we say in the dude named Ben world, it worked.
	Yeah, congratulations.
	That's great.
	Isn't that nice?
	Well, debates.
	Debaterinos.
	Debaterinos.
	Great show!
	I have a lot of clips.
	Most of them are very short.
	I have only one clip over a minute.
	I loved this show.
	I was entertained.
	Okay, well, if you love the show, I'm going to play the most annoying clip I've ever produced.
	Yeah?
	One of those clips that if I don't put this warning out in advance, you would, like, bitch about it.
	But you can pre-bitch if you want.
	No, I'm not going to bitch about nothing.
	Now, this will be, this is essentially the entire debates boiled down into a 1 minute and 8 second clip.
	I will say, it could have been 10 minutes if I wanted it to be.
	Yes.
	You have to allow the Senator to respond.
	Can I respond to the question that Senator Sanders said?
	Amy used the word alienating.
	Hey, Amy, that the United States government has lost the years.
	That's what Barack Obama said.
	Margaret, did I interrupt?
	Do we think raising the minimum wage to a living wage?
	Do we think building the millions of units of affordable housing?
	Do we think raising taxes on billionaires is a radical idea?
	Do we think criminal justice reform is a radical idea?
	The things you just named.
	The things that you just named are the things we favor of.
	We've got to open this up.
	Universal health care, for example.
	Donald, Bernie.
	Bernie, you acknowledge that.
	But you don't have trade love lessons with them.
	This is 2020.
	We're living the Cold War.
	Thank you, Mary.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
	That was not edited.
	That was...
	There was no overlays.
	That was absolutely the straight feed from the debates that I put together.
	There's different segments, but it's the straight feed.
	There's nothing going on other than that.
	And it was mostly Buttigieg stepping on everybody.
	Did you get the idea that the CIA broadcasting system did not go to Buttigieg a lot?
	Kind of like leaving him out.
	It felt to me like he was a bit protected.
	They didn't ask him.
	I thought he got a lot less time than everybody else.
	It wasn't really asked a lot of questions.
	Well, he was butting into everything.
	He was the worst up there.
	And it was not funny and lame when he did.
	Well, everybody was not funny and lame, I have to say.
	Oh, everybody was funny.
	Well, they're only funny because they were goof doofuses.
	But let's listen to a couple of things that went on.
	Okay.
	I love this show.
	Thank you, CBS. Finally.
	Finally, you made politics entertaining again.
	Riveting stuff.
	There was a...
	I mean, I don't know which to go to.
	Let's start with this one.
	Let me just get this a long...
	This is one of the longest clips.
	It's 47 seconds.
	And this is...
	Tom Steyer.
	I thought I put a clip of him in there.
	And I was listening to this and I'm saying, this guy, if you listen to what he has to say, which is all lies, he is...
	Here's the problem with the Democrat Party is this guy.
	This is all globalism.
	And here's the globalist message.
	Listen to this clip.
	I want to say something about foreign policy, which is this.
	We keep acting as if we're in the 20th century or the 19th century.
	If you look at the biggest threats to the United States, we're talking right now about coronavirus that cannot be solved within the borders of the United States.
	We're talking about climate change, which is a global problem where we need U.S. leadership for countries around the world.
	In fact, Mr. Trump's policy of us going it alone, of America first, of having no values, no allies, and no strategy is disastrous for us.
	The biggest threat to America right now in terms of our safety of our citizens is climate, and it's time for us to deal with it that way.
	Every single foreign country.
	New topic, Senator Sanders.
	No, sorry, Tom.
	No good.
	That was not happening.
	No, it was no good.
	And he wastes so much time by saying, I want to talk about something and this is what I want to say.
	I want to talk about it and I want to say this.
	And then he talks about it.
	Yeah.
	What is the point of this performative at the beginning that just lingers?
	This guy is horrible.
	He's no good.
	He's no good?
	No good.
	All right, let's go to...
	Let's start with the little gem that was at the beginning.
	This is the D-base.
	This doesn't have the E in it.
	Warner Kill-It is the little Kill-It thing, which is kind of cute.
	At least I didn't have a boss who said to me, Kill it.
	The way that Mayor Bloomberg have said to one of his pregnant employees.
	There's so much going on with this.
	First, Bloomberg's eye rolls were great.
	I also noticed his mouth is, and that means not just his lips, but it's shaped very similar to that of Homer Simpson.
	Have you noticed that?
	Absolutely.
	If you look at his younger, some of his ads, he's taken these off the air, but the early ads, well, you don't get to see his ads.
	We do.
	So they got these ads of him.
	When he was fired when he was 39 and he started building his business after that, which is commendable, and they show pictures of him as 39, and he had his duck lips.
	His upper lip was sticking way out, very much like a Simpson character.
	Yeah.
	And it looked like a goofball.
	I think he's had the work done on that lip.
	So there's another thing that bothers me about this clip.
	And maybe it's just me being overly sensitive to all messages, because it's kind of what we do.
	But isn't the whole idea of a woman's choice...
	To do that if she wants to continue her career?
	I mean, for Warren to say that this was, of course, the way he said it, but isn't that kind of what abortion is, is killing it?
	To me, it felt like it didn't belong in the conversation, but also from the standpoint that she's supposed to be coming from.
	Yeah.
	Let's just kill it.
	It was a little weird.
	A little weird.
	I didn't need to look at it from that perspective, but now that you mention it, I now do.
	And before we go on with these clips, and there's a few more, I want to get a couple of ISOs out of the way.
	Ah, here we go.
	So it'd make it a little more entertaining.
	So I've got Kill It.
	All right, let's check it out.
	Kill It.
	For an end-of-show ISO, nice.
	In fact, it's going straight into the end-of-show slot, just in case.
	All right, what else you got?
	Just above that, how many hours?
	How many hours do you have?
	Which was not a great ISO for the end-of-show, but to me, that was the end of Bernie's chances of anything.
	He cannot explain how it's going to be paid for.
	How many hours do you have?
	And apparently it will take forever, as many hours as you have in your lifetime to understand it.
	I thought that was the worst answer he could have given.
	I'm not going to argue with that.
	Now we got piss up a rope.
	Piss up a rope!
	Wait a minute, that's not from the debates.
	No, it's not.
	I didn't say it was.
	Where is it from?
	Alex Jones.
	Oh, okay.
	No, disqualified.
	All right, next.
	Okay.
	President is a Russian.
	The president is a Russian operative.
	That's an old one.
	We've heard it.
	So you're liking Kill It.
	Kill It!
	I am loving Kill It, especially at the end of the show.
	Are you kidding me?
	That's almost perfect.
	Yeah.
	Let me just see if I didn't have anything to...
	I have nothing to compete.
	Nothing competes with the kill it.
	Kill it!
	It's great.
	End of show.
	It's just perfect.
	Well, she's so emphatic.
	Kill it!
	Because that's how he said it.
	She's doing the entire impersonation.
	Very good.
	Very good.
	Okay, so here's the...
	I want to save the Biden stuff for last because there's actually...
	There's Biden stuff that goes beyond the debate.
	I know.
	Because it's so funny.
	No, it's not.
	And I've decided that it is so sad.
	We're picking on him.
	It is elder abuse.
	The man is...
	They don't love him.
	They hate him.
	Someone really hates him putting through this.
	This is not okay at this point.
	We have some evidence.
	I'm with the side that says, yeah, it's okay.
	Well, for the show, I'm happy, of course.
	But I'm starting to feel bad about it.
	Now, here's a thing that took place in the debate.
	Well, let's keep the Biden stuff at the end.
	Here's the Bloomberg.
	This is the clip that everybody's all worked up about.
	And this is the clip that Scott Adams has some thoughts on.
	And this is...
	This is the bought them clip.
	You heard it.
	Of course, it's the truth always wants to come out.
	Let's just go on the record.
	They talk about 40 Democrats.
	21 of those were people that I spent $100 million to help elect.
	All of the new Democrats that came in and put Nancy Pelosi in charge and gave the Congress the ability to control this president, I got them.
	I got them.
	Yeah, we all heard it.
	Okay.
	So here's – now I'm going to skip to Scott Adams, and this is his little commentary on this, and he caught that too, and he says Bloomberg's a very important element in the money machines at the Democrat Party, and he thinks that there's some – That this is another reason they're going to try to screw Bernie.
	Here's the other hidden magic of what Bloomberg is doing.
	Do you think that if Bernie is the candidate, Bloomberg will spend his hundreds of millions to get Democrats elected in Congress?
	Would he?
	Because remember, Bloomberg thinks that Bernie's policies would be a disaster.
	So if Bloomberg, if you can imagine a scenario where Bernie gets the nomination, Bloomberg might turn off the spigot, right?
	If I understand Bloomberg's position, he thinks that Bernie would be a disaster.
	So I don't think he's going to vote more Democrat or help fund more Democrats to have a stronger position in Congress if that would make Bernie capable of getting what he says he wants.
	So the biggest problem that the Democrats have is if they nominate a centrist, even if it's not Bloomberg, they probably still get Bloomberg's money.
	You know what I mean?
	That doesn't seem like a crazy assumption.
	No, it was something I wasn't thinking about.
	Oh, well, I was only thinking about that part, and it's really a little bit more if we replay the original.
	Let's just go on the record.
	They talked about 40 Democrats.
	21 of those were people that I spent $100 million to help elect.
	All of the new Democrats that came in and put Nancy Pelosi in charge.
	Now, that part.
	And then he goes into the, I bought...
	He also owns Nancy Pelosi.
	This is the message that he's giving us here.
	They put Nancy Pelosi in charge.
	No, no.
	You bought Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House.
	The next part I'm wondering about this is all it takes is $4 million per candidate on average to win over Republicans in these states.
	It was quite a number of House seats.
	$20 to $100 is $50.
	No, I'm sorry, it's not 50, it would be 5, 5 million, okay.
	On average, on average 4, but thanks for the math, Bernie.
	How many hours do you got?
	How many hours do you got?
	I mean, was it purely a matter of $100 million for these races?
	The Republicans didn't have $100 million?
	Trump couldn't raise that?
	I find that interesting.
	I'm not sure.
	Well, you have to always assume that it's above and beyond.
	Yeah, but most of these...
	Yes, but still, $100 million for a majority in the House, it's worth $100 trillion when you think about it, or $100 billion at least.
	A majority in the House?
	You're kidding me.
	What a joke, what a bunch of losers the Republicans are if it was only $100 million and they could have...
	Or maybe if they put $125?
	But the point I'm making is...
	Yes, I agree 100%.
	To lose the House...
	For a hundred million dollars.
	But I'm also not agreeing with what he's saying.
	I don't think the money buys that.
	I just don't.
	And I love Mike Bloomberg being in this.
	Let me finish.
	I love Mike Bloomberg being in this race because we will know.
	We will know if you have unlimited funds, if you can buy yourself into the presidency.
	He clearly thinks so.
	He talks about bought, bought, bought.
	I'm not so sure.
	He's probably more frustrated that he doesn't seem to be able to buy himself the presidency the way he believes he bought the House seats for the Democrats.
	I don't think it's true.
	A lot of people have had these ideas.
	William Randolph Hearst I, with all his newspapers, thought he could push himself into high positions in the government.
	He never could do it.
	Bloomberg is a very similar character.
	He's underestimating the American public.
	I've written in the newsletter a couple of the essays, like not the recent ones but some of them, discuss this.
	This is a big deal because the media wants everyone to believe that it's true that you could by spending, spending, spending more money, spending, spending, spending more money.
	You will be successful.
	And this little message about Bloomberg and the 100 million is a good example where the media is going to go, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	This just shows you that if you spend more money, in other words, give us, the media, more money, you'll be successful.
	Yeah.
	We, of course, especially you more than me, say, no, it's not true.
	Advertising stinks.
	It doesn't even barely works.
	Yeah, I think it does thing.
	I think Trump won the presidency with much less money.
	It wasn't because of advertising.
	It was because of the non-stop news cycle.
	They don't really have a non-stop news cycle on anybody, except Trump still.
	Not really on any other candidate.
	Now I got Amy's little thing at the end.
	They said, give us a motto and what you feel about life or some stupid thing.
	I love Steyer when they did the motto thing and he closed his mouth and he might have wanted to say something, but they took it away from him immediately.
	He's a schmuck.
	All right, this is Amy.
	He is a schmuck.
	Politics is about improving people's lives.
	Got it, got it.
	Vice President Biden, biggest misconception.
	It's a pretty good one.
	It was a very good one.
	Very good one.
	Thank you.
	Uh, no.
	What the hell was that about?
	It was not pretty good.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	I got something here.
	Hold on.
	Let me just play your clip again.
	Politics is about improving people's lives.
	Got it.
	Got it.
	Vice President Biden, biggest misconception.
	It was a pretty good one.
	It was a very good one.
	Very good one.
	Thank you.
	Pretty good.
	It was pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
	You like that one, huh?
	Yeah, John Benson put that together for us.
	That was nice.
	I like that.
	Okay, so let's go to Biden and some of the stupid shit he said.
	Now, and this is on the debate.
	I'll have some after the debate.
	He continued.
	He's like...
	He's a...
	It's just a gift that keeps on giving.
	Here's debate.
	Biden and the black woman is not a joke clip.
	I'm looking forward to making sure there's a black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we, in fact, get every representation.
	Not a joke.
	Not a joke.
	I've pushed very hard for that.
	Oh, wait.
	I guess Sotomayor is a brown woman.
	She doesn't count.
	Is that the deal?
	No, no.
	The deal for me, the deal, as he would like to say.
	Here's the deal.
	He said that, by the way.
	I have the transcript of the whole debates.
	He said, here's the deal, five times.
	And once he said, here's the deal, here's the deal.
	Yeah, he had a double deal.
	Yeah, a double deal.
	He's double dealing.
	The way he presents this, it was pure pandering to the audience in South Carolina to say that in the first place.
	And they applauded him.
	And then he says, it's not a joke.
	It's not a joke.
	What is he talking about?
	It's not a joke.
	Does he assume that because they clapped that they thought it was a joke?
	Well, let's talk about that for a moment.
	The audience was very vocal during this debate, and the reason why, and Trump complained about this in his initial debates when he was candidate, this was the donor class.
	Tickets were $1,700, $1,800 a seat just to sit there.
	That's why, and there were a lot of Biden people who came in, and very few Bernie people.
	So this was a rigged audience.
	Alright, well that still doesn't explain, it's not a joke, it's not a joke.
	Well, hello, what this says is people are willing to pay $1,800 to see Joe make a fool of himself.
	This is an A-ticket ride, baby.
	This is the one you, this is like, you could take this to Vegas.
	Yeah, technically E-ticket's your top ticket.
	You know, I thought the E-ticket was...
	But someone corrected me years ago, and it's...
	Somebody corrected you wrong.
	In fact, I used to go to Disneyland when they had those tickets.
	Had the tickets, yeah, with the kind of rubbery backing.
	And the A tickets were like the free rides, you know, they were just junk.
	It's the e-ticket.
	Whoever told you that gave you...
	I don't know what they were thinking.
	Anyway, let's go on to...
	Here's another one.
	This is the Why Am I Stopping clip.
	Yeah, this was...
	Hold on a second.
	This was another one of my favorites.
	Oh, yes.
	Got it.
	We are going to continue to move closer to make sure that we can, in fact, prevent North Korea from launching missiles, to take them down, and if we don't...
	Why am I stopping?
	No one else stops.
	Okay.
	Here's my Catholic school training.
	Sad.
	This is where, although funny, it was sad.
	Can I do two that you don't have on your list?
	Are they Biden?
	Yeah.
	Well, you're free to go.
	They came up with the internet.
	They came up with the whole idea of stealth technology.
	I'm going to do the same thing.
	Where did that come from?
	Yeah, we just...
	The piece I wanted, which I didn't get, that DARPA, which is the advanced thingy.
	And this, I think, was the best.
	I provide for the opportunity for first-time homebuyers.
	Homeboners.
	The homeboners.
	Okay, you've also got the gaffe that's from the base about the $150 million.
	I do.
	Shut down.
	Yes, I have it all in context for you.
	Because I'm the only one that ever got it done, nationally.
	I beat the NRA twice.
	I got assault weapons banned.
	I got magazines that could not hold more than 10 rounds in them.
	I got them eliminated, except we had a thing called an election with hanging chads in Florida, and it was not reauthorized.
	In addition to that, I passed the Brady bill with waiting periods.
	I led that fight.
	But my friend and my right and others have, in fact, also given to the gun manufacturers Absolute immunity.
	Imagine if I stood here and said we give immunity to drug companies.
	We give immunity to tobacco companies.
	That has caused carnage on our streets.
	150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability.
	More than all the wars, including Vietnam from that point on.
	Carnage on our street.
	And I want to tell you, if I'm elected and I'm coming for you, And nobody called him on this?
	Yeah, but, you know, obviously, because he doesn't have orange hair.
	You know, it's not fun to do that to old Joe.
	It's sad.
	It's so sad.
	And the funny thing is, is he's going on and on about all these immunities.
	He's got immunity.
	He never mentions immunities of vaccine manufacturers.
	He makes a point.
	There's immunities to lawsuits.
	And he says that gun manufacturers have this immunity.
	He says, can you imagine if?
	And then he says, pharmacy...
	Right, but you're not actually taking him serious anymore.
	I mean, you know he's just here for entertainment.
	You can't be upset that Joe didn't do something right.
	Well, I'm more upset that somebody said, hey, Joe, there's not 150 million dead.
	It was like since 2007, that's 12 years, 30,000 years.
	He has a real issue with numbers.
	He'll say 50 million instead of 50 billion.
	He just has issues.
	It's cruel.
	Yeah, well, let's go on with the cruelty segment.
	Okay.
	Okay, this is after the debates.
	This is the debates after, and this is a little Biden one-minute clip where he said...
	I'm going to...
	Play it.
	Well, I don't know what the hell it is.
	Debates after Biden.
	I'm sorry.
	You see debates?
	I see debates.
	I don't see...
	You don't see the word after?
	No.
	It should be debates after Biden, Freudian slip.
	Oh, you know what?
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	It's because you've misspelled things.
	Never mind.
	Not your fault.
	I didn't misspell anything in this line.
	Okay.
	I will explain to you.
	If you're looking for debate after, right?
	So you have debatis, you have debate lowercase, debate uppercase, debates with an S, so it's no longer an alphabetical order if I'm looking for the next word after debate.
	Just saying it's not your fault.
	I clearly need to anticipate better.
	When I got a chance to say something, I said what I had to say.
	And look, it's all about whether or not we're going to give people an even shot.
	The idea that, you know, progressive is what we're looking for and not a revolution, this idea of a revolution, it's not going to happen.
	People want progress.
	They want to build on what we had, not go back, but build on what we had.
	And we should have a health care policy that covers people.
	We do that.
	We can afford it.
	We can get it done.
	Is the very notion of revolutionary politics within the Democratic Party disqualifying?
	No, it's not disqualifying.
	It's worth competing about.
	But the fact is, the idea that Bernie's going to bring out more people than Barack and I brought out in 2012 is just...
	Or 2008, even.
	2008 is just not like...
	I mean, and look what's happened so far.
	You've got to be able to go out and get mainstream Democrats, and you've got to be able to go out and get independents and some Republicans to vote to bring this country together.
	And you do that by talking sensibly about what's at stake.
	And I think that what we're talking about now is, you know, spending $60 billion.
	You know, I mean, it's just not...
	I believe the number we raised and others raised on the stage was $60 trillion.
	I mean, trillion, I meant to say.
	Over 10 years.
	Freudian slip.
	Don't eat me, Bulldog, and you're scary, so scary!
	Freudian slip?
	How is that a Freudian slip?
	Does he know what a Freudian slip is?
	No.
	I have two quickies from Joe in South Carolina, not at the debate, which I think are worthwhile listening to.
	This one, in context, I mean, there was a little snippet on Twitter people were sending around that went back and got the full thing in context.
	He confused himself by speaking about the past, and I think he wanted to say, this is how I did it, but it came across as, this is what I'm saying to you now.
	This is the first in the South dinner speech.
	South Carolina is going to determine who the next president of the United States is going to be.
	You really are.
	You're the ones that sent Bill Clinton to the presidency, and you're the ones that sent Barack Obama to the presidency.
	And I have a simple proposition here.
	I'm here to ask you for your help.
	Where I come from, you don't get far unless you ask.
	My name's Joe Biden.
	I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.
	Look me over.
	If you'd like what you see, help out.
	If not, vote for the other body.
	Give me a look, though, okay?
	That's all I've really got to say to you.
	I've got two minutes and 30 seconds left.
	I'm looking at the clock down here.
	This is ultra sad.
	Well, hold on.
	This would have qualified a year ago for our show as a drunk or not drunk question.
	I don't think it's drunk or not drunk.
	I think he's just, he has programmed, all of these candidates, everybody, they have things they say.
	They spout it off, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop.
	And this has just been programmed into...
	And I think he was taking himself back previous times, old times, Bill Clinton.
	You know, he's thinking about that.
	And so I got a simple proposition.
	And he said that thousands of times running for Senate.
	And it just came out.
	And it was...
	And everyone's like, okay, you know.
	They give him the hook.
	And here's another one.
	This is another...
	He's not up to date, literally.
	And folks, one of the things I'm proudest of is getting past, getting moved, getting control of the Paris Climate Accord.
	I'm the guy that came back after meeting with Deng Xiaoping and making the case that I believe China would join if we put pressure on them.
	Deng Xiaoping has been dead for, what, 25 years?
	He died in 1997.
	Oh, yeah.
	There you go.
	23 years.
	Xi Jinping...
	I know it's complicated, but, you know...
	I was going to give him a little more leeway on that gas.
	Bullcrap.
	How can people still actually be putting their money behind this guy?
	Do you want to beat Trump so bad that you'll put a weekend at Bernie's in the White House?
	This is delusion from Democrats who are actually supporting this guy.
	They need to help him.
	This is the top Democrats.
	Top, big money.
	Big money.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	It's unbelievable.
	Here's the one I've got.
	I do have another ISO, which is from the debates, and this is Biden.
	This was the best look, look, look, look.
	This is Biden's here is the deal look.
	Okay.
	Here's the deal.
	Here's the look.
	Here's the deal.
	Here's the deal look.
	Here's the deal.
	Here's the look.
	Okay, anyway, here's Biden 2.
	Do you think that anyone who loves him, like you love me, will ring the bell and say, hey man, just like you with the lip smacking, like, Joe, you gotta stop with his deal.
	You stopped lip smacking the entire show ever since that first bell rang today.
	The only reason why is because now I'm continuously wetting my lips.
	You've made me very super conscious of it, and I kind of hate you for it.
	But for the show, it's important.
	You love it.
	I have cottonmouth again.
	I wonder why I have cottonmouth.
	What's going on?
	This is another double deal.
	Here's the deal.
	Here's the deal.
	Fact of the matter is, look at what's happening here.
	Look at what's happening here.
	Yeah, this is good.
	It's not end of show.
	It's too long, but I like it.
	Here's the deal.
	Look.
	Here's the deal.
	The fact of the matter is, look at what's happening here.
	Look at what's happening here.
	Wow.
	He also said fact of the matter.
	A lot, yeah.
	And by the way, I did a list of the here's the deal and the looks.
	The look.
	The look thing.
	That...
	Who do you think the second guy was on that stage that said, look to Biden?
	Biden really ran away with it.
	It took a while.
	About halfway through, he started taking over.
	But who was keeping up?
	Who was keeping the pace of all the people up on that stage?
	Let me think.
	Steyer?
	Nope.
	Bernie?
	Nope.
	Then I give up.
	Buttigieg?
	Was he doing a lot of looks, really?
	I was checking the boxes.
	Look, look, look, look.
	Buttigieg was kind of more like a...
	Like a grease stain.
	He really had no personality.
	He didn't shine at all.
	He seemed really guarded.
	I think he was just trying to stay out of the way, but then he would butt in, and it would be dumb, and he'd try and make quips that didn't land.
	Well, that's why he kept saying look, because he was trying to get into the conversation.
	Yeah, trying to get people to look at him.
	Look at me!
	Look at me!
	Look, look, look!
	Have you heard the...
	I'm sure you have.
	Go ahead.
	I was going to say, and by the way, this should be the show because this is our last chance, because I think Buttigieg is done, to run the Joshua Pettigrew art, which we've never run as a show cover.
	Oh, is it Alfred E. Newman?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'm pretty good with that.
	Although I disagree.
	I vehemently disagree that this is it for him.
	I don't think he's out.
	He's got all the money he needs.
	He's got backing.
	And I'm sure if you...
	Did you see the side-by-side of him and Obama?
	Yes.
	I thought I clipped it.
	I have it here somewhere.
	I thought...
	We already know kind of what...
	Where he's coming from.
	He's got this totally manufactured military background.
	He was an interpreter.
	They call him, in Afghanistan, they call him White Powder Pete.
	Where did you get that one?
	From the military guys.
	He actually served with Peter Strzok in Afghanistan.
	This guy is super connected.
	So he helped put together the Iran deal.
	Pete is total intelligence, pop to the top, and he is so good that they said, okay, we want you to be the white Obama.
	I don't know if it works that well without the visual, but at least you'll get a good idea.
	And he studied him, and he's got the cadence, he's got the language.
	This is not plagiarism.
	This is what the CIA does.
	The way we do every other election, by giving it to the person who got the most votes.
	Just a thought.
	It brings us together.
	This country was built.
	It is a movement reaching in to church basements and barbershops and universities and with our kids.
	And if we can change the world, then we can change the city.
	Shining as a beacon around the world once more.
	And this is our chance to change.
	And Obama, I'm sure, also got the training.
	He said, you know, CIA, there's no doubt about it.
	Maybe the conversation was, alright, listen man, I'm thinking we need another Obama.
	This time we'll make him white and we'll have him actually admit he's gay.
	This will be great.
	The guy's going to be president.
	I can just see that meeting at Intel headquarters.
	Well, we do have, you know, we do have sources that say that Pete was never gay in Harvard.
	Yeah, he wasn't gay until...
	They had a meeting with him and his buddies.
	They had a meeting and then he was gay.
	They had a meeting in Malta, which is a known CIA kind of a clandestine meeting spot.
	Yeah.
	And he comes out of the Malta meeting and he's gay.
	I think it's after he met Dick Pound.
	Dick Pound came later.
	He came later.
	Yeah.
	So, the guy's a very sketchy character.
	But he's done, because, I mean, next to Bloomberg is like a small-town guy.
	I understand what they were trying to do, and they make him the new Obama, and maybe that's why they wanted him to be gay, because when he did this...
	That's what I'm saying!
	That's what I'm saying, exactly!
	Yeah, because they needed a minority.
	Well, he should be a minority.
	Whoever in the CIA came up with the gay idea, I think that was a mistake.
	Here's the Pete and the gay pill clip.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	I was...
	Leaning back.
	If there was a pill, if there was a pill that I could take and not be gay anymore, I would have jumped on it.
	When did he say this?
	When did he say this?
	This was recently because he's got his husband sitting there in the face.
	Oh my God!
	You never heard this one?
	No!
	Oh, and play it again.
	Play the whole thing.
	Oh my God.
	If there was a pill...
	If there was a pill that I could take and not be gay anymore, I would have jumped on it.
	And thank God I didn't, because then I would not have the amazing marriage that I have now to Chasten.
	Now, here's...
	Wow!
	I'm confused by his use of past and present tense in this sentence.
	Where's my clip of the day?
	Well, hold on.
	You're going to get a...
	People who ask are skipped.
	In Holland we say, mensen die vragen worden overgeslagen.
	Translates to, when you ask, you get skipped.
	Let me just hear this.
	Typical Dutch, by the way.
	If you could, if there was a pill, if there was a pill that I could take and not be gay anymore, I would have jumped on it.
	And thank God I didn't, because...
	Wow.
	Well, I do not understand why the LGBTQIAPPK community is not outraged by this.
	Well, a couple of things.
	First of all, yeah, you're right.
	There's a mixed...
	I mean, if you're saying when I was a kid, I was so freaked out, I was so confused, could I take an anti-gay pill?
	Okay, but that's not exactly the way it came out.
	And since this was a visual, they cut to his husband, and he had a look on his face like, what?
	What?
	What?
	It was not a good look.
	I hear Gilead's working on that.
	Anti-gay pill.
	Pete.
	I think this is...
	In the world of gayness...
	In the world of gayness...
	What?
	I don't know what he was thinking to say that.
	And you could tell he was stammering.
	Yeah, but in the world of gayness, I think that most people I know and love would say, what a dumbass shit thing to say.
	That just, it seems like counterintuitive to the whole message that he's supposed to portray.
	It sounds like something Pence would say.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Hmm.
	All right.
	So, anyway, I thought that was kind of revealing.
	I have a few random clips that Tom Starkweather sent to me.
	Well, I got one more out of the debates.
	Okay.
	One second, ISO. This is not a good clip.
	But it was suggested by one of our producers and I heard it and I said, I'll clip it and see if it works.
	But it doesn't work as well as I'd like.
	This is the Barack Obama was abroad clip.
	Barack Obama was abroad.
	No, it doesn't work.
	It doesn't work.
	You can't clip it tight enough.
	It's not funny.
	No, it's not funny.
	Okay, here is just some random clips.
	Amy Klobuchar.
	Because I know the vaccine is out there in the head of some kid right now in school in Columbia, South Carolina, or Houston, Texas, and it's investing in education.
	No, Amy, we already knew Gilead was going to solve all your problems.
	So, no.
	Bloomberg, a favorite of the ADOS community.
	And I know a lot of black people that if they were white, it would have been a lot easier for them.
	I know a lot of black people.
	It's just not a good...
	You don't start sentences like that if you're trying to appeal to everybody.
	Bloomberg again.
	But right now, I'm sorry if she heard what she thought she heard or whatever happened.
	I didn't take any pleasure in that.
	Okay.
	And here's Pete.
	I'll tell you what the Russians want.
	They don't have a political party.
	They want chaos.
	And chaos is what is coming our way.
	Okay.
	And Warren.
	I talk to people in selfie lines every day.
	Oh, she's an amazing woman.
	She talks to people in selfie lines every single day.
	I'm going to say something about that.
	By the way, that's the stupidest thing I've heard in the whole debate.
	I talk to people in selfie lines.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	In other words, people, that's who she talks to.
	That's her source of information.
	They're lined up to take a selfie.
	At the end of the debates, Joe went down and mingled with the audience and was doing selfie after selfie.
	Everybody who had a phone.
	$1,800 a seat donors.
	That's not just an audience.
	Of course he's going to go down there and talk to them.
	Oh, there you go.
	That's right.
	I forget that element.
	But the thing I noticed is that Joe, no matter what phone they gave him, knew how to do selfies.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	You're piling on, man.
	That's really bad.
	And by the way, unlike you, I remember to give you your clip of the day.
	Clip of the day.
	Well deserved, John.
	Well deserved.
	I'm not like you that tries to get away with not playing it.
	You mentioned...
	You're the man with the buttons.
	Wow.
	Opening clip right there.
	Thank you.
	Speaking of drunk or not drunk, Chris Matthews talking to Pete, White Powder Pete, after the debate.
	Speaking of bad countries, bad leaders, Putin apparently has decided, I love to pronounce that name that way, Putin has decided it's in his weird-ass interest to promote the chances of Bernie Sanders winning this nomination fight.
	What do you think he's up to?
	What scurrilous effort is he up to here?
	Drunk or not drunk.
	Well, it sounds drunk to me.
	Yeah, but since when does he say, real ass, real ass, real ass, real ass.
	Um, okay.
	Yeah.
	Alright, you got it.
	Play that clip again, because it reminded me of something.
	I've got to get back to that thought.
	Before getting into the night's news, I want to...
	Oops, wrong one, sorry.
	Speaking of bad countries, bad leaders, Putin apparently has decided, I love to pronounce that name that way, Putin has decided it's in his weird-ass interest to promote the chances of Bernie Sanders winning this nomination fight.
	What do you think he's up to?
	What scurrilous effort is he up to here?
	Scurrilous effort.
	Well, I know what the scurrilous effort is.
	Supposedly, at least from the perspective of a libjoe, And there were some analysts that actually came up with this.
	The only reason Putin wants Sanders to win is because he doesn't expect him to win, and it would be the best candidate that Trump could beat.
	Of course.
	Well, Putin's a smart man.
	We all know that.
	That Putin.
	That Putin.
	Yeah, okay.
	I have two clips related not to the debate, but to the 2020 race, if you feel you've done enough debate here.
	I'm over with the debates, and I'm ready to go to international news.
	Alright, so three clips.
	First, Chris Matthews, you'll recall that he said...
	About Bernie, they're going to kill him, but they can't stop the message, repeated by Brian Williams.
	He's such a fool.
	They made Chris come out and apologize, and maybe that's why he was drunk.
	Before getting into tonight's news, I want to say something quite important and personal.
	As I watched the one-sided results of Saturday's Democratic caucus in Nevada, I reached for an historical analogy and used a bad one.
	I was wrong to refer to an event from the last days, or actually the first days of World War II. Senator Sanders, I'm sorry for comparing anything from that tragic era in which so many suffered, especially the Jewish people, to an electoral result in which you were the well-deserved winner.
	This is going to be a hard-fought, heated campaign of ideas.
	In the days and weeks and months ahead, I will strive to do a better job myself of elevating the political discussion.
	Congratulations, by the way, to you, Senator Sanders, and to your supporters on a tremendous win down in Nevada.
	Food.
	Well, he got chewed out there.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, Dick Pound had a visit.
	Like, you gotta get to work, man.
	This is the one of the, by the way, I should remind people that this is one of the things that really makes this show special, because except for the two of us condemning each other, you don't have this sort of thing where you've got something lost.
	Top quality entertainment, people.
	It's like you don't have some boss, some third party that's not even on the show.
	That tells you what to do.
	You don't even know who it is.
	It's hidden in the shadows coming up and saying, hey, bud, you like your gig?
	Yeah, really?
	You like this?
	You like being able to pay your mortgage?
	Well, you're going to have to do this.
	Exactly.
	Thank you for pointing that out.
	But keeping each other in check is always good.
	I totally agree with that.
	Somebody's got to do it.
	Before I play these two external clips, who did you think came out best of this debate?
	Who do you think the winner was?
	Well, I have to say I think Bloomberg.
	Here's my reasons.
	Other people feel Bloomberg and other people feel Bernie.
	Some people thought Warren.
	Warren made a fool out of herself.
	I thought she was an idiot.
	The reason I like Bloomberg is he was calm.
	He wasn't holding his hand up the whole time going, call on me teacher, call on me teacher.
	And he would just seem like a normal kind of a presidential type of guy.
	He wasn't, come on me, teacher!
	Or screaming.
	He wasn't yelling like Bernie does.
	And in fact, I got something.
	I don't know if you listen to this thing or watch it later.
	And I could be wrong about this.
	But in the live feed that first came out, that was live on the air...
	The second hour, Bernie was screaming into his mic and popping his peas.
	Yeah, over-modulating even.
	Over-modulated.
	But if you go back and watch the tape, he's not over-modulated anymore.
	Oh, really?
	I think they fixed it.
	Yeah.
	Because that was going to be one of my clips.
	But then I went back to get it, and there wasn't anything to get.
	Okay.
	I thought Bernie...
	Had nothing new.
	It's just slogans.
	Look!
	I tell you!
	It's just slogans.
	And then a little over-modulated, because he's always bowing down into the mic.
	He gave us nothing new, nothing exciting.
	Slogans.
	He's a slogan man.
	Sloganeer.
	Sloganeer.
	That's a very good term.
	I don't know if it's a real one, but it is now.
	Oh, yeah.
	Sloganeer.
	So he's good at that.
	I agree with you on Bloomberg.
	I think he came back nicely.
	He needs to stop trying to do the humor.
	I didn't clip it, but at a certain point he said, well, I'm amazed all of you were here, that you even showed up after my great performance the last time.
	Yeah, he's not funny.
	But he didn't land it.
	The punchline wasn't right.
	It didn't land right.
	Everything wrong.
	It was uncomfortably dumb.
	Elizabeth Warren, I believe, has a contingency that I'll call kind of like my...
	My Austin Obama bots who divorced me and I'm never allowed to go have dinner with them.
	They won't talk to me.
	People like that enjoy the vitriolic attacks thinking, yes, Elizabeth can attack Trump.
	If she can take on Bloomberg, she can take on Trump.
	I'm pretty sure there's some of that in there.
	And that was the only thing she was really trying to achieve to appeal to that.
	Well, it's not helping.
	No.
	Poot was no good.
	Steyer was no good.
	He tried the reparations thing again, which he keeps messing up by saying, I think we should have reparations for African Americans, and we'll have a committee and we'll learn history.
	Believe me, this is not what my ADOS friends, Michael Bloomberg, would appreciate.
	So I think Bloomberg overall did pretty well.
	Joe is just sad.
	And who's left?
	Oh, Amy.
	Amy, she looked pretty good for a while.
	Pretty good?
	But then she just loses it on dumb stuff.
	Well, that thing at the end where she complimented herself awkwardly.
	She's awkward.
	I still think she is a really good senator and represents her state well.
	The Keeper and I have been going through all the policies.
	Actually, it was interesting.
	And against all better knowledge, she replied to something on Twitter.
	And it was about...
	Oh, someone said it was about Medicare for All.
	And Tina is rightly, she's like, hey, well, you know, I like my private health insurance, and I'm not so sure I want to give that up.
	And she's serious about this, and I understand.
	She's one of these people, and I get it.
	And I like her private health insurance, too, quite honestly, because I can piggyback along.
	Yeah.
	And so someone said, you have no idea what you're talking about.
	Here in the UK, the NHS, we love the NHS. It is our pride, the NHS. This is what you want.
	This is where it should go.
	And so just on a lark, I went to news.google.com and just typed in UK NHS. Here are the top four stories.
	A couple who fled Wuhan over coronavirus fears told they can't have free NHS maternity care.
	And that's because it happened outside of the UK. Transgender patients self-medicating over NHS wait time.
	Can you imagine how people's heads would explode if that headline were here in America?
	So, the most protected class, the transgender community, have to wait long and are now self-medicating.
	That's not a system that is working.
	I'd say.
	Now, the two external clips.
	This is the Bloomberg Senior Advisor, and this is something that we can look forward to.
	Let me see, does this guy have a name?
	I don't believe I have his name.
	Bloomberg Senior Advisor to his campaign.
	Clearly, they've done some oppo research on Bernie, and here's what they came up with.
	We've got a candidate who's risen in the polls because of his track record.
	Bernie has all of this loopy stuff in his background saying things like, you know, women get cancer from having too many orgasms or toddlers should run around naked and touch each other's genitals to insulate themselves from porn.
	Why has this stuff not been more surfaced?
	He's written about women's rape fantasies.
	That hasn't been surfaced.
	That's the loony side of Bernie.
	The policy side of Bernie is he has not been good on immigration.
	He's bad on guns, bad on immigration.
	And as a legislator, as a member of the Senate, I think he's only sponsored seven pieces of legislation, two for post offices in Vermont.
	That's the opposition research.
	I'm waiting for the stories.
	Have you ever heard of any of this?
	Yeah, I have heard of most of it.
	Oh.
	There was a, I don't know where I got it, but there was all that stuff about his, he wrote a novel or some book when he was like in his 30s and it had to do with pedophilia and women's rape fantasies and that's pretty much out there and that's I think it's available.
	And his legislative prowess, or lack thereof, is pretty well known.
	That part I know, but I didn't know about the kids should run around touching each other's genitals so that they won't be obsessed with porn.
	I mean, I'm sure it's more nuanced.
	He was more of a socialist than he is today.
	This was during the 70s.
	Well, that is the socialist way.
	Hey, let's touch each other's genitals.
	We're socialists.
	Yeah, that's...
	Well, there's another clip for opening show.
	It was the 70s thing, and in the 70s, you have to remember, this guy's old.
	So in the 70s, he was in his 30s, I guess, and he was thinking along with this crazy stuff that came out of the 60s, this revolutionary thinking, and a lot of it was sexual.
	It was the sexual revolution.
	This was when the birth control pill first showed up.
	You're within 10 years of it showing up.
	Bra burnings.
	So I was having sex.
	This is all pre-HIV. Yeah, I'm okay, you're okay.
	What color is your parachuting?
	These days?
	Yeah, and all these books, there was a number of books written from about 1968 to about 1975 on sex.
	There was the joy of sex started it, and there was a slew of little paperbacks and everything else, and all it was was, I would look back on it and say, I think a lot of it was about Kind of perverted sex that they were promoting.
	And it was very interesting to read this stuff, to be honest about it.
	That's when Marquis de Sade's material, the story of O and all that stuff.
	This period, that was Bernie.
	And so Bernie's right in that.
	And then he's jumped in.
	He's all on board with all this stuff.
	Where is Dr.
	Roos when you need her to talk about this?
	He kind of screwed up by putting it all out there like that.
	He doesn't...
	It's not going to fly.
	And then finally, and this breaks a rule.
	We have certain rules.
	There are certain people we do not play clips from on the show.
	Can you name three?
	Well, I can name three.
	We're supposed to not play clips from.
	One is Rachel Maddow.
	Yes, correct.
	Another one is Alex Jones.
	Correct.
	Although we break that from time to time.
	He's fantastic, yes.
	And the third one, who would be a third one?
	There's a couple of third or fourth ones.
	Well, there's Mitt Romney.
	We don't do him.
	We don't do Watermelon Head.
	John Kerry.
	Yes, John Kerry's been banned, but because his clips are so...
	It's impossible to get a good clip from him.
	And Mike Pence.
	I don't know that he was banned.
	I thought it was just kind of like, what are you going to get from Mike Pence?
	Well, he was...
	I got Mike Pence all fired up, and I thought we should at least listen to it.
	This is not a Mike Pence I recognize.
	Did you all see that debate in Las Vegas last week?
	Yeah, I didn't watch all of it either.
	I mean, that wasn't a Democrat debate.
	That was a demolition derby.
	What a train wreck.
	In the Midwest, we know what a demolition derby is, right?
	And it makes a lot of sense.
	I mean, seriously.
	I mean, you know, I grew up in a small town.
	County Fair comes to town, right?
	So everybody with the crummiest cars in town would drive them into the infield and crash them into each other until only one was driving.
	So now you've got all these Democrats with the crummiest ideas in politics smashing into each other And eventually there'll still be one still running.
	But I think we all know how this is going to end.
	There's going to be a monster truck with a T on the hood that's going to drive into the infield and roll over the top of them.
	How's that?
	Pence has material.
	Nice.
	Someone wrote something for him.
	I think somebody did write that for him.
	Well, of course.
	He can't do that by himself.
	He can't do that by himself.
	It's all visual.
	Good material like that is all visualized.
	And so you can see it in your brain.
	You can see the cars crashing.
	You can see the giant monster truck.
	This is a Midwestern group.
	The monster truck, which you see, even if you've never been to one of these things, the big monster truck is huge, and it does crush everything it drives over.
	It's huge.
	So it's a good visual.
	It's a good clip.
	And just one other quick note.
	Thank you very much, village people, for finally telling the truth.
	As there was outrage, as per usual, when Trump went to India.
	He was in the Patel Stadium and they played Macho Man by the Village People and YMCA, which is, you know, it's a Trump thing.
	And, you know, all these bands like, hey, you play our music, man!
	Which, of course, they have no right over, and we've discussed this many times in the show, that as long as the venue is paying for their performance rights, you can play whatever you want.
	There is no way you can stop it.
	You can't ban it, even though they make big noise about it.
	And the village people...
	After all this yelling and screaming on Twitter, he said, Since our music is not being used for a specific endorsement, the president's use is perfectly legal.
	He has remained respectful in his use of our songs and has not crossed the line.
	If he or any other candidate were to use any of our songs in a manner that would suggest our endorsement or a promotional advertisement, that would cross the line.
	And they went on to say that we are inclusive and we want everybody to enjoy our music.
	Well, thank you, village people!
	I like that.
	Finally, someone set the record straight.
	And of course now...
	It's like the very fine people hoax.
	They set the record straight, and the next time Trump uses any song, there'll be a big fuss.
	Well, even funnier is that now people are tweeting, If I hear the village people come on the radio, I'm changing the station!
	I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
	And we do have a few people to thank for show 1220.
	We're starting with Mark DeWitt in Linwood, Michigan.
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	Followed by Corey Ainsworth in Edgerton, Wisconsin, nearby.
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	We can put some house-buying karma for him at the end.
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	You might want to read that over and see if we had to go back to it.
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	The following people.
	This is a short list today.
	I want to mention that to people.
	The following people are $50 donors, name and location, if I have it.
	Starting with Scott Porter in Frisco, Texas.
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	He needs a dedouching, does he?
	No.
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	That's followed by Jesus, Ellen, and Austin, Texas, Joe Winky.
	Joe Jumbo.
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	We're done.
	Did Jumbo send you something new, Joe?
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	Did he send you something new?
	Well, I got a notification, I think an email that said something was coming.
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	Everybody helps us with it.
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	And before I do the final karmas and the shout out for donations, I have a couple of quick make goods.
	From the Del Rey meetup, Sean DeSantis, who was listening to the show Sunday, says my donation was not read out.
	I gave $70 cash.
	Yes.
	And some funny stickers.
	Yes, I got them.
	Just want to make sure you got them.
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	Appreciate it.
	Not quite sure what went wrong.
	I also forgot to thank Jeff McDougall.
	Jeff gave us a gift.
	And he's a glassblower.
	And it's a piece of wall art with a dish and a turtle that goes on top of it.
	I'll take a picture once it's on our wall.
	It's really beautiful.
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	I'm grateful I got to thank the podfather in person.
	I have many, many hours of time to listen to podcasts while working on my long-time obsession with blown glass.
	It was the most difficult thing I'd ever tried, so I accepted the challenge 24 years ago and have been happily playing with fire ever since.
	I make everything from pipes to...
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	But lately, it's mostly my own designs of chandeliers.
	John, I will make something for you in the near future.
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	Jeff McDougall, thank you.
	And final, in Morning Adam, my husband said he donated as a surprise for our wedding anniversary.
	I heard you read out his name for $50 on Sunday's show.
	He has no clue how the show works and just asked about, quote, those guys with the funny jingles.
	He'd put a message in but didn't realize you only guaranteed to read out higher donations.
	And yeah, if I had caught it, and of course a road show, sometimes you just don't catch these things.
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	Any chance you could read this message next show?
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	She celebrates her birthday tomorrow.
	And we also say happy birthday to Kurt Lemanowski.
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	No agenda meetups!
	It's like a party!
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	A number of meetups and meetup reports.
	Two reports.
	The Durham meetup, as organizer TJ says, was a bit rocky.
	But much thanks to Dave from the Garner meetup for helping host.
	Also thanks to Derek for helping with my memory loss.
	There were nine of us plus two human resources.
	And then there was a note here.
	We'd like to suggest peerage committee consider a group of knights is an order and a group of nobles is a house, so a meetup group that donates $1,000 will be upgraded from a local to an order.
	And I've been thinking about this, and I've had some chats with Mimi, and I'm sure you've been clued in.
	I would like to stay away from meetups with this type of activity, unless John or I are there for donations.
	I think it kind of takes away from the whole point of getting together, meeting people face-to-face, just having conversations.
	Chime in any time you want, John, because I didn't discuss this with you beforehand.
	No, Mimi did.
	Okay.
	You're in agreement, I presume.
	More or less, yeah.
	There are situations like...
	We have a couple...
	Like a Grand Duke, for example.
	I think that's...
	You could direct everything at him.
	But there's vetted people.
	I mean, just to have random...
	You know, it really...
	Random donations that are floating around.
	It just doesn't seem to be a little out of control.
	It's an administrative nightmare.
	And we really want everyone to enjoy each other's company.
	That's the way I see it mainly.
	Enjoy each other's company.
	You can always send in a donation directly.
	But I think pulling it together like that for a group is just maybe a little bit too much.
	But we certainly appreciate...
	Keep it simple.
	Yeah, keep it simple, exactly.
	So thank you for that report from Durham.
	We have our Kitchener Meetup reports.
	This is the Kitchener Meetup.
	Local 420-33.
	This is our second meetup.
	We've got seven people here.
	Great turnout.
	Great time.
	No amygdala swelling.
	This is Chris W., and I arranged the meetup, and I'll just pass the phone around.
	This is douchebag Tim.
	Had a great time tonight.
	Don't eat me, Bojitan.
	You're scary.
	So scary.
	This is Sir Kilgore Trout of The Dudes Named Ben.
	I've been propagating the formula since 2008.
	I'm going to hand you off to my smoking hot wife, Mary.
	I think she might be the spook.
	This is Mary Ratter, and I've had an awesome time tonight.
	I'm meeting all sorts of wonderful people, so thank you for including me.
	Great time with like-minded people.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Yeah, this is a dude named Jamie.
	Had a great time with the crew at Kitchener, and I hope to be no longer a douchebag.
	Thank you.
	This is Sir Brian, the Slow and Steady Knight.
	Had a great time at the meet-up again.
	Thank you for your courage.
	We had a really good time.
	It's kind of funny because it's not a party, but it's like a party.
	In the morning!
	And then the Springfield, Missouri meet-up report.
	In the morning, this is Caleb Brinkman here from Lindbergh's Tavern, the oldest tavern in Springfield, Missouri.
	In the morning, subs in the water, dude named Jim.
	He's not gay if you're underway.
	In the morning.
	This is Dishpan.
	Greg, long time listener, long time boner as well.
	Having a good time in the morning.
	Dude named Matthew here, and long time listener, long time donor, but recently a boner, so I'm going to make good on that today.
	In the morning.
	Yes, thank you all.
	Glad you had a good time.
	It's nice to see these meetups working well.
	Quick overview of the list because we have a leap here.
	Surprise, surprise!
	We got a lot of meetups on the 29th of February.
	First, though, tomorrow we have the Bay Area Troll Moot.
	That's in Oakland at Drake's dealership.
	I heard a rumor you might try to show up there.
	I don't want to pressure you.
	I am going to go to the...
	If people want to donate...
	Because we just talked about it.
	I will be there.
	Excellent.
	I am going to the Drake's meetup.
	I may have Buzzkill Jr.
	And Theodorable may show up.
	Oh, Theodorable.
	That's like a special event.
	So I will be there.
	You'll find me.
	I'll come wandering.
	And I'm sure that somebody will say, hey, we're over here in the corner with the very surly waitresses and mediocre a-hole staff that works that place.
	I'll be there and don't forget your envelopes.
	We'll be looking for it.
	Yes, with notes so we can track it, please.
	We need the notes.
	Saturday is our leap year day.
	A lot of meetups.
	We have the meetup in Montreal, Canada.
	We have the Leap Meet Oklahoma City.
	We have the Kansas City, Missouri meetup.
	We have the Lakes County, Minnesota meetup.
	San Clemente, California.
	Zurich, Switzerland at Rivington& Sons Bar.
	Same as the last time Rolf is organizing.
	We have Chicago, Illinois at Revolution Brewing on Saturday.
	Busan, Korea.
	Man, I hope people show up.
	That's Jesse Coy Nelson.
	He's out there.
	He's traveling around the world doing meetups.
	If you're anywhere in South Korea and you're not locked down, And I haven't heard from Jesse, so I hope he's okay.
	That's what is upcoming this week up until Saturday.
	NoagendaMeetups.com is where you can find all the information about these meetups, and if there's not one near you, all you have to do is make one yourself.
	It's easy.
	It's like a party!
	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.
	I should mention that, you know, these Friday meetups in Oakland or the Bay Area, generally Northern Bay Area, are very inconvenient for anybody.
	And we don't expect the Southern Valley folks to actually make it up.
	Although Sir J.D. Barron of Silicon Valley showed up to Drake's last time.
	But a lot of people that work at Apple, they just can't get up here because the traffic is impossible.
	We are going to do a Southern Silicon Valley meetup.
	Nice.
	So, stay tuned.
	Alright, somehow we've gone long, but I feel like we should do a little more show before we get out of here.
	Well, we've got the international news we've got to deal with.
	First of all, there's this farmers thing going on.
	It's just completely out of control.
	Nobody's covering it.
	Well, we've been covering it for months and months.
	I've got the EU's Farmers Report here to help us catch up on that.
	What's going to happen to the budget for European agriculture?
	Even as the EU's 27 member states gear up for what are certain to be tumultuous finance talks, the continent's farmers want to be certain they'll still get their slice of the pie.
	What we see today are severe cuts within the agricultural part of the European budget.
	Severe cuts in a sector which is already suffering today.
	We have European farmers who are in an average of 40% of the income of the average European citizen.
	So farmers who are already struggling.
	Stretching back nearly 60 years, Europe's common agricultural policy has seen often badly needed subsidies go to farmers across the block.
	However, funding set aside could now take a major cut of tens of billions of euros.
	The result not just of the 75 billion euro hole left by the United Kingdom's departure, but changing priorities within a Europe that's seeking to make up that shortfall.
	Historically, farmers are the ones governments need to look out for.
	And I don't mean like take care of them.
	You've got to look out for them.
	They have all kinds of weapons, and they've historically used them against their governments.
	They've been, you know, the farmers, and there's huge strikes in Spain, and the Netherlands had theirs.
	Germany, France, yep.
	Everybody.
	And the problem with farmers is that Without them, we'd starve to death.
	How annoying.
	And it's like, you know, yeah, there's a lot of subsidies that go to these farmers and some of them do get rich, but rarely.
	They don't become Bloomberg rich.
	It's really, you know, they're taking a little too much for granted in a lot of different ways, and they can starve us out.
	And I'm surprised they, you know, the French are close to about to do that.
	I mean, the EU thinks, oh, I was just bringing American farm goods.
	But it's also the reason why they're angry is mainly because of climate change policies.
	Yes, that's true.
	So their production is being cut in true socialist fashion, I might add.
	Their production is being cut under non-understandable, for reasons that a typical farmer just doesn't get.
	He's like, I'm still growing crops.
	What are you talking about?
	Crops suck up CO2. Crops suck.
	Produce oxygen.
	I mean, I don't even see how the climate change thing works it out.
	Well, mostly the dairy farmers.
	You know, let's get rid of them.
	So instead of drinking milk, let's drink almond milk.
	Do you know how much water it takes to make one almond tree, produce one almond?
	It's out of control.
	There's no...
	People are nuts, no pun intended, about some of these policies.
	But, okay...
	Anyway, this is going on right now.
	We need to explore this eventually, because this move, and this is part of the Oscars with Joaquin Phoenix, this move about the cruelty of drinking milk, that's kind of how it's being presented, warrants some investigation.
	Is this coming from the nut industry, or is this really, truly a movement that people are all in on?
	It's got to be coming from the nut industry.
	Those nuts.
	They're cleaning up.
	Milk is murder.
	If you go to Whole Foods, there's more milk substitutes.
	And the thing that needs to be changed is they have to change the name of these products.
	This is not milk.
	But okay.
	But there's more products coming from nuts and soy and cashews, which is kind of a nut.
	But the point is that there's more of that than there's actual milk products.
	And when you start trying a soy or a nut-based cheese or try some yogurt made from nuts, I mean, it's really disgusting.
	Yeah.
	Do you have anything on Idlib Syria?
	Neither do I, but I will for Sunday.
	It is interesting to me that we went through this maybe two months ago.
	Orange man bad.
	What are we doing?
	We're killing the Syrians.
	We're killing the Kurds.
	This is horrible.
	The humanitarian crisis.
	But now we actually have a million people Who are in the winter in Syria and moving into Turkey.
	Turkey won't even take them anymore.
	I think Turkey is mainly to blame for a lot of what's going on.
	Zero.
	Zero, zero, zero.
	In fact, this is the mainstream media.
	That's the mainstream media on Idlib in Syria.
	And I'll dive into it, but it's insulting.
	Now let's play the extinction of the Alps ski industry.
	Oh, this I do not know anything about.
	A moment ago, Emmanuel Macron is in the French Alps today.
	He says he will be saving Mont Blanc.
	He will also be saving the country's biggest glacier, which is shrinking very, very rapidly because of climate change.
	Some activists, though, are less than impressed, I suppose.
	That's right, and we'll get to that in two seconds, but I'll start with this tweet by Greta Thunberg, 20.7 degrees Celsius on Seymour Island off Antarctica.
	Not minus 20, but plus 20.
	No, no, plus?
	What's that all about?
	Fuck!
	And, okay, it is, you know, it's summertime down there, so maybe that's something to do with it, but this is the first time that a temperature over 20 degrees has been recorded ever in Antarctica.
	That was just today.
	This is a report also in the Guardian going back a couple of weeks now, but this kind of brings us to the point of Emmanuel Macron being in the Alps.
	Because he's had quite a few public spats with Greta, hasn't he?
	He has.
	And, you know, the fact now is that, I suppose, in terms of communicating the urgency, activists have as much power, if not more power, than heads of state.
	But this particular glacier that Emmanuel Macron was visiting, a lot of French websites have been pointing to the dramatic reduction of ice over the last, well, a number of years.
	And, indeed, this report in The Guardian is talking about an extinction-level event for the skiing industry in Oh, brother.
	28 degrees last night in Austin, Texas.
	That's Fahrenheit, so that's freezing.
	This is Texas.
	I have one question.
	Extinction event for the ski industry in the Alps.
	That'll be the day.
	If I ever met Greta, I would say, could you please tell me what is the optimal temperature for the Earth?
	Just tell me what it is so we know where to stay.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's a brain teaser, isn't it?
	All we hear about is 2 degrees, 2 degrees, 2 degrees Celsius.
	Well, what is the optimum temperature?
	What should the world be at any given moment?
	This is insanity.
	You're not going to run into it.
	One more little French.
	These are all from France 24.
	France Van Katte.
	Market report.
	Okay.
	Page of Libé Libération, which is reporting on the economic hit for the planet and in France.
	And it's arguing that this rollercoaster ride in the world markets is irrational.
	It says that the markets are exaggerating good and bad news much more than the general population do.
	Okay.
	Since I find this segment kind of like throwaway, there's no analysis or anything, let me do something.
	Tonight, after ducking into federal court one last time, Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janifs finally learned her fate.
	The judge sentencing her to five months in prison after she admitted to paying $300,000 to cheat college admissions for three of her daughters.
	Hot Pockets!
	Just love Hot Pockets jingle.
	We used to use that a lot.
	This is the guy who talks like this, and he's on network TV. But, you know, we're trying to...
	Hey, I'm going to be on television with Joe Rogan Tuesday, and I've got Tourette's, so I'm not making fun of that guy.
	Apparently, well, yes.
	Yeah, you don't want the jinx, you want the curse.
	It's going to come, but the karma is going to come back and bite you in the ass.
	I'm already screwed.
	Yeah, probably.
	Let's do something fun to end with, not just another France 24 report that's just brr.
	Well, I got this.
	This is kind of fun.
	This is Wells Fargo.
	We got to find $3 billion that still stays in business somehow.
	That's fun.
	Wells Fargo agreed today to pay $3 billion to settle criminal and civil probes into its sales practices.
	It's part of a settlement with the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
	The company acknowledged that its employees opened millions of unauthorized bank accounts in an effort to meet unrealistic sales goals.
	Excellent.
	Yes.
	Three billion.
	Yeah, we're good with it.
	Three billion fine.
	Three billion fine.
	It's crazy.
	We got a number of end of show clips to roll out here, so if you don't mind, I'm going to end it.
	Alright, you can wait.
	You're going to end the show.
	This show, yes.
	Only this show.
	Maybe you're choking on the Rogan thing and you're going to end it.
	No, no.
	I'll be able to handle it somehow.
	But before that, we'll have time to prepare and that will be Sunday's show.
	You can get me all psyched up and all ready.
	If you do a little prep, you've got to tell me what I'm going to do.
	I'll come up with some guys screaming in your ear.
	Yeah, I need some prep.
	Coming up on NoAgendaStream.com, random thoughts.
	Stay tuned for that.
	End of show mixes from Professor John Jones, Sir Seat Sitter, Tom Starkweather, and Matthew Scotts.
	Thank you all very much for sending in your end-of-show mixes.
	And thank you, everybody, for helping to produce Episode 1220 of The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	Remember us at thevorak.org slash NA. We need as much help as you can muster.
	Remember, after all, it is your podcast.
	Until Sunday in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return right here on No Agenda and noagendastream.com live Sunday.
	Until then, adios mofos!
	And such.
	You have been name checked.
	You are allowed to respond.
	I think we were talking about math, and it doesn't take two hours to do the math.
	Let's talk about math.
	Let's talk about math.
	Let's talk about math indeed.
	Okay, so here's the math.
	No, here's the math.
	I talk to people in selfie lines every day.
	And I know a lot of black people that if they were white, it would have been a lot easier for them.
	I provide for the opportunity for first-time homebuyers.
	Because I know the vaccine is out there in the head of some kid right now in school in Columbia, South Carolina, or Houston, Texas, and it's investing in education.
	Also, there's a majority of the American people who I think right now just want to be able to turn on the TV. I'm surprised they show up because I would have thought after I did such a good job in beating them last week that they'd be a little bit afraid to do that.
	We are going to need to be in your country.
	You have to be open.
	You have to be clear.
	We have to know what's going on.
	We have to be there with you.
	So the answer is one size doesn't fit all.
	Bernie Sanders' analysis is right.
	I'm hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight.
	I wonder why.
	So look, the way I see this is that...
	I mean, look, if...
	Here's the look.
	A guy is a friend of mine down here named Fritz Hollings.
	He said, you want to know what a man in a room will do?
	Look what they've done.
	I've been coming here for years and years.
	They came up with the Internet.
	I mean, they came up with the Internet.
	They came up with the whole idea of stealth technology.
	I'm going to do the same thing.
	Why am I stopping?
	No one else stops.
	Okay.
	That's...
	All I know is if we spend the next four months...
	Divisive, toxic, exhausting.
	The biggest misconception is that I'm boring, because I'm not.
	Now, if you look...
	Also, there's a majority of the American people who I think right now just want to be able to turn on the TV. They want chaos.
	And chaos is what is coming our way.
	Here's the deal.
	I'm not out of time.
	You spoke over time and I'm going to talk.
	Here's the deal.
	The fact of the matter is, look at what's happening here.
	Look at what's happening here.
	Pretty good.
	It's pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
	Looks like Bloomberg met his face.
	By this chance dawn gone away.
	Clover, Tyler, pretty girl Nobody's going strong D&C won't nominate Clunky Bicycles.
	Everybody has a bike.
	Okay.
	Everybody's bike gets stolen.
	Dropping these bikes.
	When your bike gets stolen, since you brought up bicycles, you just look at the bridge.
	Talking about just a little switcheroo here.
	and you steal someone else's bike, just jump on one and take off.
	Cruiser, a dumb bike, whatever the case, shared bicycle action going on in China, whatever If you visit any of China's major cities this spring, you're sure to notice a myriad of colorful bikes going around.
	I'll show you a situation.
	Jump on a random bike?
	Occupy the parking space.
	Jump on a random bike.
	Occupy the parking space.
	Jump on a random bike.
	Occupy the parking space.
	Jump on a random bike.
	Though he's a professional.
	And he's pumping his ass as fast as he can.
	He's wearing all the gear.
	Pumping his ass as fast as he can.
	And so making a huge mess.
	And he's pumping his ass as fast as he can.
	plowed into by one of them and he's pumping his ass as fast as he can bicycles something on the back so you can carry your girlfriend on the
	back so you can carry your girlfriend on the back Hey!
	Stop it!
	Just throw this out in the ocean.
	Oh, me.
	Because if burning doesn't win, then we're all gonna be burning down Milwaukee.
	Burning everything down to the ground.
	Burning down Milwaukee.
	Till capitalism goes down.
	So.
	the roast of Bloomberg upon the backstage Followed him back to his fancy limo So I could call him a fascist to his face But his security immediately stopped me Even though I told them I was reporter But there's a guillotine that's sized small enough for Mike and gulags for all his supporters.
	And we're gonna burn down Milwaukee.
	We'll burn everything down to the ground.
	Burning down Milwaukee.
	So there ain't no free markets around We'll be a caucus team for Bernie With our fists in the air
	And river and down will be your path When you haven't got health care We'll be a person for you But boy, you'll have health care in Milwaukee.
	After we burn Milwaukee to the ground, like after we rebuild it, then you'll get to health care, is what I meant.
	Now Buttigieg plays the gate card, but we still call him Wall Street Pete.
	So I went to one of his rallies to try and cause a scene.
	So I yelled real loudly that Mayo Pete is alright.
	And Pete said, tell me, do you look for a Kremlin man?
	And I said, Pete, I am tonight.
	Burn it down, Milwaukee.
	I really tried to burn it down.
	Burn it down, Milwaukee.
	But then I got arrested.
	I tried to work out that well.
	Burn it down, Milwaukee.
	Where's that smile?
	Wait, you know.
	Burn it down, Milwaukee.
	Yeah.
	Burn it down, Milwaukee.
	Burn it down, Milwaukee.
	Burn it down.
	Put on my Bernie shirt and I boarded the bus With a bunch of old white social letters To go and make a fuss Gonna tell all of the 1% To suck on all our nuts
	Gonna tell all of the 1% To suck on all our nuts .
	podcast in the universe!
	Yes, mofo.

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