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1221: Biden Reset

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	Just tell me what's happening with your banana.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, March 1st, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1221.
	This is No Agenda.
	Unstuck in Time and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone, Star State.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we're Joe Biden's back.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crack Blot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	I gotta hand it to you.
	I had no...
	If you had said to me Joe Biden would win South Carolina with 50%, I... No.
	No.
	You were absolutely right about this.
	Yeah.
	However, I did learn something about the primary elections in South Carolina.
	I learned something which I didn't realize.
	Let me see.
	I have a note here from one of our producers.
	Apparently, you do not have to declare or reveal your party on the ballot when you vote.
	You can only vote for one candidate in the primary.
	So from what I understand, a lot of people who would normally vote for Trump since this kind of like no contest for him on the Republican side went in and voted for Joe Biden.
	Why would they not vote for Bernie?
	I have no idea.
	I'm just telling you what I've heard.
	I'm guessing.
	You can do this cross-ballot stuff in many states.
	I didn't know that.
	I had no idea.
	I thought that only registered Democrats can vote in the Democratic primary.
	I didn't know that.
	In California, for example, if you're a registered Democrat, you can't do that.
	Independents can vote Democrat if they want.
	The Republican Party in California, for example, says, no, you can't come over here and vote with us.
	But the other states, it's just like it is in South Carolina.
	So the way I saw it, in terms of it swinging the election towards Sleepy Joe, was, I thought it would, if you were a Republican pulling that stunt, which is not uncommon...
	I think it would spread out a little bit more.
	I think Bernie would get some.
	I think Bloomberg would get a right in.
	I don't know.
	I just don't think that the Republicans would be going all in for Biden.
	Although...
	No, I think they were doing that to...
	To me, he is the funniest guy.
	What I understood is that they were doing it to mess with Bernie by voting for Biden.
	That's what I understood.
	Yeah, well, I never heard...
	That would have to be a concerted effort, and I got no wind of that.
	Oh, no, I got a couple tweets about it, but that doesn't mean anything.
	It doesn't really mean anything happened.
	I think you would have beat him anyway, but...
	Well, good.
	I'm glad Joe is still in the race.
	However, this is perhaps one of the saddest couple of days he's had.
	And Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five, and in that he introduced the concept of unstuck in time, referring to a person living from one moment in life to another instead of day-to-day like most people do.
	And I think Joe is witnessing this in real time, and we're seeing it.
	We're seeing it happen with him.
	He has, everybody has programming.
	For instance, you can probably wake me up in the middle of the night, and I can do the intro to the show verbatim.
	I'll still say Thursday, even if it's a Sunday, but it's a program.
	You can run it off.
	You know, there's other things.
	Hey everybody, it's Adam Curry.
	Top 40, that's right.
	Z100. You can do these things.
	And Joe has done things about running for Senate, and just the Senate is somehow in his mind.
	I guess that was the only time he actually, you know, he's never won a presidential race, so he has won senatorial races, and maybe that's what's stuck in his head.
	But I've just got a couple examples that are just really bothersome.
	Well, I'm looking forward to appointing the first African-American woman to the United States Senate.
	I think he means Supreme Court, but there it is.
	He's going to nominate someone to the Senate.
	Now we know that's not the way it works.
	Here's another unstuck in time moment.
	Now we need to stand behind Jamie Harrison.
	The next president is Miss Senators.
	South Carolina.
	The next sub, what is...
	I just...
	If this were anyone else except the person that the establishment of the Democratic Party really needs for whatever their strategy is, it would be ridiculed across the board.
	Now it's only us.
	No one else is ridiculing the fact that he's just not 100% on board.
	I don't want my president...
	Well, if it was Trump, he'd be checked on the checklist as a lie.
	Oh, man.
	Man, we'll get to coronavirus and the lies in a bit.
	I do have another kind of odd example of...
	Yeah, of Biden.
	Yeah, he's talking about...
	I got a couple of Bidens, too, for you.
	Now, I'll throw this one out, then we'll switch over.
	And here's the last point.
	If you take a look at it, China.
	China's now going to...
	China...
	And I'm not happy about this...
	China doesn't have enough water.
	W-A-T-E-R. They're talking about spending tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to try to turn around the rivers so their populations have potable water to drink.
	40% of their land is polluted with cadmium.
	They can't grow things.
	They're in a situation where they have 2 million Uyghurs, Muslims, in prison camps in the mountains.
	You see what's happening in Hong Kong.
	And now what they're trying to do with regard to Thailand.
	Folks, the idea that they are a competition, they're going to beat us, is bizarre.
	Wow, Joe.
	Wow!
	Wow, Joe.
	And it's water.
	W-A-T-E-R. Why did he spell water?
	What possibly could I confuse water with?
	Or is he just doing like a rap?
	I have to tell you this, but I'm giving you a borderline clip of the day for that fine.
	Like a hip-hop guy.
	I'm Joe to the B. Got my W-A-T-E-R. Water!
	I don't know what he's doing.
	What's he talking about?
	I don't know, but I really feel uncomfortable about it.
	I mean, if you were making these mistakes, I wouldn't make fun of you.
	No, wait, I would.
	What am I talking about?
	You better.
	It's just...
	I don't know.
	What you got on Joe?
	Well, let's see what we got.
	I got a bunch of...
	First, I think there is a Joe clip here.
	I tried to bite into...
	Now, this is probably not a...
	I don't think I have a...
	I thought I had a Joe clip that fell in.
	I think I had yours.
	But let's listen to some Biden analysis.
	This is the Biden win is a reset on CBSN. I want to start with you.
	The grin on your face could not be wider.
	Tell me what you're thinking right now.
	Well, there are a couple of things I said from the very beginning of this process.
	South Carolina will be the place that will set the tone and temperature for this race.
	I think everyone can agree with that now because of the participation from the most loyal constituency in the country, African-American voters.
	Number two, I said this.
	It was always Joe Biden's race to lose and everyone else has been fighting for second place.
	And I also said this, loyal African-American voters are going to show up and they're going to display their loyalty to Joe Biden because Joe Biden has been loyal to them.
	And lo and behold, Elaine, I think I'm right.
	Humility is a good value.
	In other words, I told you so, right?
	Okay.
	So let me ask you, though, Antoine.
	So is that it?
	Is a win a win?
	Or as we get more numbers in, is that something, though, that in all seriousness, because we saw what happened in the other early states, people are going to be still examining pretty closely here.
	There are several things to look at from Joe Biden's victory tonight.
	Number one, he's moved up to second place in a delegate count.
	So that means, and we all know this is a game of numbers.
	Delegates are important.
	That means he's behind now Bernie Sanders with a number of delegates.
	Number two, I think he will end up having a very handsome victory tonight.
	And the strength of African-American voters is going to be important, setting a tone for those type of voters in Super Tuesday.
	And number three, you know I like to connect sports and politics together.
	The Golden State Warriors won their NBA championships.
	I don't remember, and I'm sure you do not remember either, the score, but all you know is they won the championship.
	So tonight, Joe Biden won his championship.
	This is the first time he's won a primary or a caucus.
	I think this is a reset moment for this campaign.
	Oh, okay.
	Not quite sure I understand the analogy or the logic, but fine.
	Well, I don't understand why he's talking about the Warriors.
	The Warriors.
	How did that come into play?
	But he did, this guy, this black guy, he was amenable.
	He did predict all this, like, a couple days ago.
	And who was he?
	He's a guy that's a CBS analyst.
	No, I'm sorry.
	He does work for CBSN, and he is a Democrat strategist.
	Well, there was a...
	Excuse me.
	It was Friday or Saturday.
	The New York Times published a piece.
	Maybe that was just Thursday.
	I can't remember now.
	Where they interviewed, I think, 95 of the 500 superdelegates.
	And 93 of the 95 they spoke with said, oh, well, you know, we're totally going to make sure that Joe Biden wins.
	Or I think what they were more specific about was make sure Bernie does not win in some version of a second-round superdelegate comes swooping in or might call it a contestant convention.
	And I thought that was pretty rude.
	Just for the process itself.
	I mean, that's the New York Times really mucking around here.
	You know, I'm taking all the New York Times stories nowadays as...
	Oh, it's comical.
	But what it does is it feeds into the machine.
	Here's a little super cuts of the media's response and how they talk about this particular article.
	This is what people need to remember.
	The Democratic Party has a party.
	The party decides its nominee.
	The public doesn't really decide the nominee.
	The public gets to vote for President of the United States, but people who are active in the party, who participate in the party, they decide the nominee.
	And just because you're a pledged delegate for Bernie Sanders or a pledged delegate for Joe Biden doesn't mean when you get to the convention floor that you'll stay a delegate for Biden or Sanders.
	Ninety-three Democratic Party officials are willing to have a brokered convention if Sanders does not receive the majority of delegates by convention.
	They're also willing to risk damaging the party to stop his nomination.
	The Times notes that such a situation may result in a brokered convention, a messy political battle, the likes of which Democrats have not seen since 1952, when the nominee was Adlai Stevenson.
	I can't even imagine the rebellion among his supporters if he doesn't get the nomination.
	There would be, but his supporters helped write those rules.
	The way I see this is you write the rules before you know where everybody stands.
	And then you stick with those rules.
	Everybody got in the race thinking that was the set of rules.
	I don't see how come you get to change it just because he now thinks there's an advantage to him for doing that.
	This is not a done deal, and so that's why I think we should tamp down on the anxiety about Bernie Sanders and figure out how it is that we're going to get to a nominee and have a convention where we all do come out as a unified party.
	And if somebody wants to beat Bernie, get out there and beat him for Pete's sake.
	It looks like it's entirely possible Bernie Sanders would have a significant plurality, but not a majority of the votes.
	And he said if that's true, he demands the nomination.
	Other people are saying, we'd like to deny it to you.
	Bernie made this mess for himself, and he has to live by those rules.
	And if we have someone, if he's one delegate ahead than somebody else, that doesn't make you the majority winner in all of this.
	And he's got to face his own roles.
	You're going to have two or three candidates going into the convention that are probably going to be really strong.
	That's why even Bloomberg has been talking behind closed doors with the superdelegates already to try to go ahead and maneuver himself into a good position.
	If Biden should fail and Bernie is the nominee, he can swoop in and be the savior for the party.
	So I don't understand exactly how this went down.
	Something doesn't make sense.
	What I keep hearing is...
	The rules were changed.
	It was requests that Bernie Sanders made.
	He was there.
	He wanted these changed.
	I don't know if that's true, but that's what's being said.
	And when the question was posed specifically to the candidates, Bernie said, well, if I got the most votes, I should be the candidate.
	Should be the candidate.
	Somewhere someone's telling a half-truth or I'm not quite understanding.
	I'll tell you what I think.
	Or my understanding of what I think.
	The major rule change that was made Was to take the superdelegates out of the first round.
	And that was Bernie's thing because he felt he got screwed on that deal last time because of the superdelegates being in the first round.
	So they're in the second round as Bernie wanted.
	But And the rules have always, as far as I know, have always been for the majority.
	I mean, you can't have Adlai Stevenson or anybody, for that matter.
	The rules have always been you have to have the majority of the delegates in the first round.
	Remember last year, Trump, oh, Trump will never make it.
	He won't make enough delegates.
	He won't get the nomination.
	Broken convention!
	And he just swept it.
	So that's always been in place.
	The only change was this super delegate thing.
	And Bernie knows that if that comes into play, he's done.
	Just like last time.
	Now maybe he'll change the rules again.
	In his 80s, Bernie runs again.
	And he's going to say, let's move the super delegates to the third round.
	Maybe he can pick up some of those Tom Steyer voters.
	Poor Tom Steyer.
	Poor Tom Steyer's a dick.
	Spent $250 million, didn't get a single delegate.
	Man, you could have at least sent some to the podcast.
	Yeah, you bastard.
	We would have talked you up a bit.
	We could have maybe gotten you a delegate here or there.
	Man, that's just...
	Well, it shows that money doesn't really buy you love.
	Well, if you're unlovable, it's pretty difficult.
	You know, Bloomberg.
	So I talked to Mo about the ADOS vote for Bloomberg.
	And now he's adamant, like, no, people have not forgotten stop and frisk.
	But it's interesting that some of the black media, and I don't know if it's African American, Adolfs, or black, but, you know, who knows?
	Karen Hunter on SiriusXM is really pushing, she's black, pushing hard for Bloomberg.
	And this is a clip that is so bizarre.
	She brings on this other African-American woman, Lori Daniel Favors, who...
	Well, I'll let you hear just how mad she is at Mike Bloomberg, but the end is kind of surprising.
	Bloomberg is responsible, not just for stop-and-frisk, furthering it, systematizing it, glorifying it, defending it up until last year when he decided he was going to run, but he was surrounded by intellectuals, black activists...
	Activists of color across the entire spectrum who outlined for him the problems.
	New York City Lawyers Association, NICLU, the data, the statistics, he had facts, he had information, and he was committed to a racist policy that jailed black people, arrested black people, stop and frisked black people.
	I had 32 students, Bushwick 32, 32 students who were on their way to a funeral, had permission from their principals, had letters from their parents, accosted by the cops, Held for 36 hours, had to go to trial, had to get in.
	My husband is beat up in court by court officers at their defense trial because the way in which police and court officers were militarized against black and brown communities.
	And you expect us to just eat that he's got money, so he's going to be the best candidate?
	Gentrification.
	Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Eastern York, Flatbush, Harlem, the Bronx.
	Black people driven out of this city under policies that favored wealthy white people and developers.
	We cannot even sustain our communities right now.
	Education.
	He undermined the ability for us to have culturally competent education.
	You want me to say, because he can beat Trump?
	So Trump gonna, he's gonna do what he do.
	Bloomberg gonna do what he doing.
	Yeah, he might win, but guess what?
	All y'all getting arrested.
	All y'all getting stopped and arrested.
	If he implements the same policies across the country that he furthered and supported in the state of New York, give me a break.
	We can do better than this.
	And I'm sorry I got to agree with Meghan McCain, but now I'm upset.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't mean to add that.
	If he's the nominee, are you going to vote for him?
	I don't think he should be the nominee.
	If he's the nominee, because that's a strong possibility.
	If he's the nominee, knowing and having said everything that I just said, because I'm aware about how the politics and the system in this country works, yes, I will have to vote for him.
	Explain that to me.
	I can explain it to you.
	Okay.
	Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat.
	Oh my goodness.
	I only think I'm a Democrat.
	I gotta vote Democrat.
	Democrat.
	I'm a Democrat.
	I vote Democrat.
	I guess.
	Even though everyone's gonna be stopped and frisked all over the country.
	Yeah, I'm a Democrat.
	I vote Democrat.
	I'm a Democrat.
	I vote Democrat.
	I'm a Democrat.
	I vote Democrat.
	That's what I do.
	I vote Democrat.
	Wow, you just gave someone all the makings of an end-of-show mix.
	I know, I realize.
	That's why I gave them a little extra.
	You are completely toast on that one.
	You got a little extra bit there.
	Nice.
	It's already toast.
	I might as well at least give and make it so they can do something good with it.
	So, just one other thing from MoFax.
	The Liftgate, man.
	Some YouTuber, and it doesn't make any sense for a clip here because it's in the show notes.
	We discovered that Bloomberg, even though he was not standing on the box, and of course we know the lecterns were lowered a little bit, he's wearing four to five inch lift shoes.
	And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
	And so he has...
	His pants are very long.
	And it's almost like he's standing on a version of male pumps.
	That's how high up he is.
	But you don't see it because his pants flow over it.
	But you can see his foot is four inches from the bottom of the ground.
	It's kind of popping out at the sides.
	But when he walks...
	You see his knee bend.
	He's like the longest shin in human history.
	This guy, he's so frustrated about his height.
	He's willing to do anything.
	Anything.
	Well, I'm of the opinion.
	I agree that, and I think Trump is the one who's pointed this out.
	And he just hounds him about it.
	But I'm of the opinion that they should have had the Apple boxes for people so they could even out the heights to make it more fair.
	I don't think he should have to go through all this agony.
	Now, I used to work for a guy at the Air Pollution District who was the guy who ran the whole thing as an ex-admiral from the Navy who must have been...
	Ridiculed by his crew, who always wore lifts.
	Was his name Louie?
	You could just see the lifts.
	What?
	Was his name Louie?
	No.
	That's the guy I envisioned.
	Louie, eh, Louie?
	Yeah.
	So you always wore lifts.
	So you wear these lifts all the time.
	And I think Bloomberg probably always wears the normal lifts, which are just a heel lift.
	Yeah.
	No, no, no, no.
	These are elevated shoes.
	I say it always, generally.
	Yes, yes, yes, normally.
	I would say he just generally wears some lifts because some of these guys do that.
	And you can spot those because the back of your foot is basically the top of the back of the shoe.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But if you're going to wear these big giant things, which...
	In fact, there was an example that went around the net of De Niro in that the Irishman had a shot of him in a scene.
	And he had these, like, five-inch lifts on both feet walking around because Scorsese wanted the shot, the guys to be even high.
	They weren't shooting his feet.
	They just wanted to shoot them walking down the street.
	And he didn't want one guy real short.
	That's not that abnormal in Hollywood.
	Tom Cruise wears them all the time next to certain leading ladies or ex-wives.
	I think the crate, I still don't think the crate's a bad thing, but they shouldn't be visible.
	No, I'm not against the crate.
	I'm just looking at, look, these two guys are trying to get under each other's skin.
	What Bloomberg is trying to do is say, no one likes you.
	We always laugh behind your back.
	You were the joke.
	And I don't know if that gets under Trump's skin.
	It might.
	I can see where it might.
	And so he knows Bloomberg's weakness, his Achilles heel, to coin a phrase, is truly his height.
	It's just, you know, these guys were so successful, and can't they just be happy with what they got?
	That's a good one.
	Now, Bloomberg is, I mean, this guy is tone deaf.
	He's doing shtick now.
	I mean, we saw him do a little bit of shtick on stage, which fell flat.
	He's no good.
	Now, I think I'm the only candidate to come to Wilmington, but all of them should visit.
	Senator Warren could go to Elizabeth's Pizza on Market Street.
	Yeah!
	Kulbuchar could do a Flaming Amy's restaurant.
	Senator Sanders could go to the KGB bar.
	When my speech writer came up with that one, I thought that was pretty good, too.
	Oh, my God.
	Cringe.
	Cringe.
	First it doesn't land.
	Then he's going to blame it on the speechwriter and say he thought it was pretty good.
	That is dreadful.
	Yeah.
	It's like, I'm going to miss Trump, whether it's in November or whether it's in four years.
	I'm going to miss him for that.
	Somebody's going to have to use the line, here we have an unfunny Jew.
	Ooh, and where does that line come from?
	It's got to come from somewhere.
	I believe the comedy community is going to have to do it because it's just like, how does this happen?
	Let's see what else I have.
	Yeah, you know, I finally got a hold of the ad that Obama issued a cease and desist order over.
	Have you heard about this?
	Yeah, I know.
	Trump had some...
	No, it wasn't Trump.
	It was one of his PACs.
	One of his PACs, yeah, like a Republican PAC or a Defend Trump PAC. I'm not quite sure what it was.
	And so the issue was that they took, of course, what everyone has done.
	Actually, we haven't done that.
	But how many times have you heard someone, or someone has sent you clips, oh, look, here's what Obama said.
	It's from his audio book.
	And it's just him saying some crazy shit.
	Yeah, but it's like, okay, ha, ha, ha, ha.
	He read a book.
	It's completely out of context.
	But in this case...
	He actually said something in the book, which he reads from the book, and I don't think there's any reason.
	I don't know if it worked or not.
	I haven't followed up on that, but I don't see why it would be foreboding to put it together in an ad like this.
	Joe Biden promised to help our community.
	It was a lie.
	Here's President Obama.
	Plantation politics.
	Black people in the worst jobs.
	The worst housing.
	Police brutality rampant.
	But when the so-called black committeeman came around election time, we'd all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket.
	Sell our souls for a Christmas turkey.
	Enough.
	Joe Biden won't represent us, defend us, or help us.
	Don't believe Biden's empty promises.
	The Committee to Defend the President paid for and is responsible for the content of this message.
	I mean, how is that a problem?
	That was a lousy ad, for sure.
	God, give us some work.
	In this case, they actually got a lot of bang for the buck.
	Well, by accident.
	Well, who knows?
	But I don't see the illegality of it.
	I don't see why there should be a cease and desist over that.
	It's well known that the black vote has gone en masse to the Democrat as a bloc, and that there are elements who are just not thinking of doing that anymore, like not voting or doing something else.
	This is well known.
	That was my little bit I just did a minute ago.
	Right, but somehow this was false advertising.
	I don't know what that was.
	I don't understand.
	It probably was just this, I don't know, they probably did the cease and desist to make somebody feel better.
	Well, what they did is they brought attention to it.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	I know, it's dumb.
	Yeah, if they would just let it slide, no one would notice.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Perhaps the cease and desist was a scam.
	It was no cease and desist.
	That was part of the whole marketing scheme.
	Oh, well, I thought...
	Do we know that for a fact?
	No, no, no.
	That's an excellent point.
	But it was in the New York Times, I believe, is where I read it.
	Oh, even better.
	Proves it even more.
	Steve Bannon was on with the Money Honey, the original Money Honey, Maria Bartiromo.
	I still like her, no matter what's happened to her.
	She's still the Money Honey.
	And this is, I guess it was Fox Business, maybe yesterday?
	It's Bernie versus the anti-Bernie movement.
	You know, last night you saw Biden obviously had a big night.
	I think one of the most important things is the African-American vote, which is obviously so critical of the Democratic Party, is not buying what Bernie's selling.
	They're not buying the socialism.
	They're not buying the radicalism.
	They're not buying the revolution.
	These are very practical, pragmatic people.
	And I think you're going to see on Super Tuesday how that plays out.
	Look, Bloomberg's capital...
	Is going to back one of the establishment alternatives, whether that's Biden or whether it's Hillary Clinton or somebody else, okay, against Bernie.
	They're going to try to steal the nomination from Bernie again, and that's why I think many Bernie supporters will come to President Trump at the end of the day.
	There's nobody on that stage.
	There's nobody in the ballot in South Carolina.
	There's nobody in the ballot on Super Tuesday that is going to defeat Donald Trump.
	You still think Hillary Clinton might make an appearance in this election?
	I think that the Democratic Party is going to look for any alternative to Bernie.
	If Biden can't do it with Bloomberg's capital, obviously Bloomberg doesn't have the charisma or the presence, I think, to be commander-in-chief and president right now.
	If they can't get Biden to do it, they will look otherwise.
	Hillary is already out there pushing herself.
	And what about Michelle Obama, who you've mentioned before as well?
	I think if they go to the convention and they're desperate, and Bernie is way behind, seven, eight points behind Donald Trump, the Bamas and the Clintons will look for any alternative to try to defeat President Trump.
	Remember, their number one objective is defeat President Trump.
	That's why they've had so many snarky, you know, they accused suppression of information.
	Dr.
	Fauci stood up there on national TV and said, I haven't been suppressed.
	I've had, what we're trying to do is get it.
	Accurate information out.
	And that's what you need right now.
	The Democrats will do anything to destroy Donald Trump.
	And that's why I think that they will come around any candidate that they think can do it.
	So this thing is still wide open.
	But here's the point.
	This is Trump's Churchill moment.
	He's got to bring the country together, which he's doing.
	He's got to confront not just the virus, but the economic contagion that's coming out of China that Rubio talked about.
	He does that.
	You don't need to worry about 2020.
	I don't know, man.
	She's circling overhead any minute now.
	Even Maria Bartiromo's not buying it anymore.
	Really?
	You think that's still possible?
	Don't.
	You know, she is starting a podcast.
	Hillary.
	Yeah.
	I know.
	I know.
	Actually, I'll give you a little preview.
	Has her team talked to you?
	Because, you know, you invented the podcast.
	Maybe Benjamin there in Austin, man.
	Maybe he's gotten a call.
	Here's a little preview of our end of show mix.
	Hillary Clinton is starting a podcast.
	Here we go.
	I have to listen to the end for the full song.
	Wow, that's a goodie.
	Of course, we have the best producers in the universe.
	We all know that.
	Yeah, so we should probably talk about coronavirus, but before that, the one thing that we haven't heard much of in the past few days, because obviously, you know, the president's crazy, we're all going to die from coronavirus, and Bernie's getting screwed.
	Just all the news is anything, but anything worldly, anything else.
	But oh, no, no, we forgot to talk about the Russian hacking.
	And will we see a repeat of 2016 and 2020?
	I'm pretty sure you heard this clip.
	I don't want to go off the rails right away.
	I do have a couple more clips about Biden.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I thought you were done.
	I'm sorry.
	No, I got a bunch of stuff.
	Oh, good.
	Because I want to get these in.
	Oh, good.
	This is more analysis that needs to be discussed because this was...
	This is Brooks...
	You know, the Democrat who poses as a Republican on PBS News.
	This is from Brooks and Dunn.
	Brooks and Dunn, talking about Sanders before this.
	South Carolina, these are some comments I thought were interesting.
	I was in Compton in South Central L.A. last week.
	And I talked to 15 people, and I was saying, there's a Latino, African, American community.
	Who's making sparks in this community?
	And of those...
	I just got to stop.
	Whenever you hear someone talking about the Latino African American community, they're full of shit.
	This is not a thing.
	Unfortunately, I don't have the very beginning of this clip where it's even more full of shit.
	He says, this guy writes for the New York Times.
	He's in New York.
	He says, I was wandering around Watts.
	Really, he was in Watts.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	He was in Watts.
	Just yesterday.
	Oh, talking to people.
	They are people.
	In the black and brown community.
	In Watts.
	In Watts.
	In Compton in South Central LA last week.
	I was in South Central LA last week as an old white dude.
	Actually, it's pretty gentrified now, to be honest.
	If you could still find black and brown communities.
	15 people, and I was saying, there's a Latino African American community.
	Who's making sparks in this community?
	Sparks!
	And of those people, I'd say a bunch, maybe the majority, certainly couldn't name the candidates.
	They were against Trump.
	They knew that was clear, but they didn't include in.
	You ask about local politics, they've got a lot of opinions.
	And so the national politics swoops in, and all of a sudden, people have to make a view.
	Do you notice that a lot of people are using the term swoop now?
	I'm glad you caught that.
	That's very interesting, yes.
	Everybody's using swoops.
	Everyone's using a swoop.
	Swoop, swoop, swoop, swoop.
	All of a sudden, people have to make a view, but they've been focusing on, frankly, more important things in their lives.
	I would make a call to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
	I think Bernie Sanders represents a challenge to their style of Democratic Party.
	And the only two people who can create unity in an anti-Sanders wing are Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
	And if they came in and said, we're going to organize so we don't divide the vote five or six ways, then they could be the only ones to do that.
	They're probably not going to do it.
	They're going to sit on the sidelines.
	But I do think if they want to defend the Democratic Party as they understand it, this is the week.
	This is the moment when they say it's going to be Biden and we're all going to work together or it's going to be X and we're all going to work together.
	I do think there has to be some leadership.
	Otherwise, it looks extremely likely to me that Bernie Sanders.
	So this guy, and he says he's a Republican?
	Is that the guy?
	You know, he says he represents that side of the argument, but he never does.
	He's just a different kind of Democrat than the other guy.
	So what he's in essence saying is that we just can't have Bernie Sanders, and everyone agrees.
	Do they realize they're making the exact same assumptions and mistakes they did with Trump?
	This is going to give Bernie a certainty.
	Well, maybe.
	But the Democrat Party still is behind not getting – I mean, the party itself, as I said, I follow that.
	Yeah, and I can't disagree because you were right and Joe – Joe's going to have trouble on Super Tuesday.
	Joe's going to have trouble with his cereal in the morning.
	Yeah.
	See, it's so easy to make these jokes, but I feel bad about it, because one day I'm going to be 78, and I know I'm going to be...
	Yeah, they'll be making jokes about you, but you know, if you're going to be out running for president...
	I deserve it, then.
	It's a little different than just being around the house.
	Oh, there's Dad again, using a fork to eat his cereal.
	With a joint in my mouth.
	Yeah, with a blunt.
	Hey, with a blunt.
	Hey, kids.
	So, okay, thank you.
	I'm over it now.
	Screw him.
	The guy's off his rocker.
	Let's play another Brooks clip.
	Brooks also discusses the COVID-19 thing and the elections.
	I mean, here's the thing.
	We'll get into this eventually, but This thing is not going to get through the summer.
	But anyway, let's just play this so we can get a little background.
	I've got one more clip with Shields talking about the election, too.
	It could take over the election.
	I mean, I have really no idea.
	I'm not qualified to know how big this will spread.
	But I saw an article that most Americans will get some form of it.
	And not a bad form, but some form.
	And if we start canceling events...
	If the economy goes down, if we can't gather in crowds, that's suddenly a gigantic event.
	And so many people who are Trump's critics, or who even sympathized with him but didn't think he was a great manager, a great leader, suddenly they all say, we've been saying this for years, well at least we haven't had a real crisis.
	And then suddenly we get a real crisis.
	And so to look at it in the crass political terms, I don't see any upside for Trump.
	I do see significant downside and a lot of upside for the Democrats since they are the party of healthcare.
	Since they are the party of government.
	And so, you know, it could really shock us how big this becomes, as it already is in other countries.
	All right.
	I have to play this clip from the Bill Maher show.
	It fits because it's about the politics of it.
	This was...
	Last night...
	But wait, before you play it, I should mention, how come nobody mentions that maybe the Trump crowds will diminish a bit because of COVID? I have a lot of coronavirus stuff to talk about.
	But I'm just interjecting this, then we come back to the Shields clip.
	Because it was...
	I mean, I saw...
	And I think I can see sometimes when Marr is really just in his act...
	And he'll say something kind of rational after he does his whole thing.
	But last night, he was truly a little...
	It was Friday night, but the Keeper and I were watching.
	We turned it off halfway through.
	It's like, I don't...
	You know, we're going to go to bed and make love.
	I don't want to hear this crap.
	I can't have this in my brain anymore.
	It was...
	So, Mar, of course...
	And he had...
	The first person he had on was some...
	Some shill...
	Epidemi...
	See?
	Epidemi...
	Epidemiologist.
	He couldn't say it either, which was interesting.
	How does it go again?
	Epidemiologist.
	Epidemiologist.
	Thank you.
	Epidemiologist.
	I got it now.
	And so the first ten minutes was about, you know, she basically was saying nothing new.
	She's a, I don't know, I don't know why he had her on.
	But then he had E.J. Dion, who some, I don't know, do we know him?
	E.J. Dion?
	No, I don't have to.
	Jane Klebb.
	Klebb?
	Yeah, do you know her?
	Do you know her?
	No, no, by the name.
	Hi, I'm Jane Klebb.
	He was very annoying.
	And then, I don't know why he even agreed to go on, Buck Sexton.
	And it's like, wow, when you see that, I don't care how much of an ex-CIA guy you are, you're in enemy territory, and you're going to be chewed up, and you're going to get shouted over.
	And it was exactly about this, and just...
	I'll set it up that Bill Maher is convinced, along with some version of the establishment that he rolls in, that Trump is a complete bumbling idiot, does not care, is making...
	We're all going to die, basically, because of Trump.
	That was the premise, and here's how it went.
	So, Donald Trump had a rally a few hours ago.
	By the way, I've edited it for sanity.
	So, Donald Trump had a rally a few hours ago.
	He is calling the coronavirus their new hoax.
	So, I'm going to look on the bright side of this and say that I think the coronavirus is going to change people's views of Donald Trump, finally.
	Not for the better.
	Woo!
	I think there are two simultaneous conversations that are happening from the president's side and really cross-country.
	One of them is, this is one of the very few issues out there, up there with foreign military invasion, right?
	Where everybody goes, this is something we have to deal with.
	I was at Long Island Railroad, JFK yesterday, people have got the masks on.
	Everyone's freaked out, markets are tanking, and nobody wants this to be a pandemic.
	The administration doesn't want to be a pandemic.
	So all of our interests are aligned.
	But he is lying his ass off about it.
	Do you really not have...
	Donald Trump has like one go-to, which is deny.
	Do you really have no buyer's remorse with a guy who is lying who says we're going to have a vaccine soon when there isn't?
	Wait, he said there's going to be a vaccine, but there isn't.
	There will be a vaccine.
	That's not what he said.
	This is like, Trump is terrible, therefore he's bad at this, and that's actually not talking about the response.
	No, because he's been denying it.
	You don't even believe this bullshit you're saying.
	I'm looking into your eyes.
	This is a crisis.
	This is a serious crisis, and the guy is a liar who is putting into place people who are not competent to handle something like this.
	Do you think he wants zero deaths from this?
	Do you think he wants zero deaths from the U.S. soil?
	What he really wants, what he cares about is the stock market.
	That's what he said.
	At some point, there's just a derangement where the president's interests are aligned here.
	If he wants to get re-elected, he's going to do the best job he can on this, no matter how terrible anybody here thinks he is.
	I almost admire you because somebody who tries to do the impossible should be admired.
	But trying to argue that this president is dealing with this in any other way but to protect himself, not protect the country.
	Why did he tell the Chinese?
	Why did he say the Chinese are doing a great job here?
	Why didn't he intervene there and say, well, we've got to get in?
	Why did he cut off flights from China when some experts initially said that that was a bad idea?
	Now they're saying, actually, it was probably a good idea.
	And why don't we have more testing kits all across our country, especially in our world community?
	Or masks.
	You know what?
	It's so interesting.
	In World War II, as soon as the war started, they closed down all the car factories.
	And in weeks, they were making bomber planes and tanks.
	We can't in this country make masks.
	Nobody can get a mask because they're sold out on Amazon and everywhere else.
	This guy's freaked out.
	He is!
	And by the way, a memo to Bill Maher, masks don't come from the magical Amazon warehouse.
	You know, masks are made somewhere.
	And it was policies of many other presidents before us and Congress who decided it was much better to move everything overseas.
	But that they can sit there and say, he doesn't care.
	He only cares about himself.
	He doesn't care about winning.
	I don't understand.
	It's unhinged behavior.
	They're totally unhinged.
	It's embarrassing.
	I think so.
	And just to people, I don't know.
	I just can't understand it.
	But also, what level of paranoia do they have out there in California?
	I guess Los Angeles maybe specifically.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	There's been one death.
	Do you want to do any more?
	I want to play the one last clip about Biden and about the election.
	Our show next Thursday is going to be a whopper because it'll be after Super Tuesday and we will have analysis you're not going to get anyplace else.
	This is the Biden campaign in California's shields.
	In California, as David's paper reported yesterday in a terrific piece, he has one office.
	And when the reporter went there, it was padlocked.
	Oh, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	I have to set it up.
	The clip is about Biden's campaign in states other than South Carolina.
	And I was talking about Biden has one office.
	In California, as David's paper reported yesterday in a terrific piece, he has one office.
	And when the reporter went there, it was padlocked.
	And when he went back the second time, they had tables set up for volunteers and there were more tables set up than there were volunteers.
	I mean, you know, so if he does win, it's a great tribute to his popularity, to the vestigial good feelings that people have for Barack Obama and for Joe Biden.
	But it's not any campaign that's been persuasive.
	What?
	What did he say?
	Oh, yeah.
	Sorry.
	What he said is that there's zero presence of Biden in California.
	He's not going to get a vote.
	Bernie's just going to take the whole state.
	Oh, I don't believe that.
	Well, there's no ads.
	The only ads that we've seen have been for Bloomberg, Bernie, and Steyer.
	Yeah, and I've seen all of them.
	I know we don't get the full gamut, but Bloomberg ads rampant here in Austin, Steyer ads, and Mayor Pete ads.
	I'm probably going to argue there.
	Bloomberg, I think, is sending the whole...
	Gambit, the whole range of ads to Texas is one of his targets.
	Well, I'm also hearing from people that they're hearing two to three Bloomberg ads in one ad block.
	Which means you've done a carpet bomb.
	If you're doing that, which I don't know if it really is effective, it might be, but you're carpet bombing.
	I mean, that's the stuff that, you know, Tide marketers, people who sell soap, dream of that.
	How much money can you have to do that?
	It's really incredible.
	And again, I'm very happy he's doing it because we'll learn if you can actually buy something.
	I think we should...
	Consider moving the coronavirus to after our first break and do a couple other things since there is some other news.
	But first, sticking kind of with the election, this is the Malcolm Nance clip.
	I think you heard this one.
	One of our producers sent it to us.
	I couldn't clip it.
	I found one thing.
	Malcolm Nance.
	Who's Malcolm Nance?
	Malcolm Nance is a chief petty officer who was in cryptography in the Navy and somehow spun that off into being some sort of an expert.
	He doesn't know jack shit, this guy.
	That's why I like him so much.
	And now he's on a podcast.
	He's already unhinged when he's on television.
	But now he's doing the podcast rounds.
	And this was him on the Why It Matters podcast.
	On a scale of 1 to 10, how strongly...
	By the way, John, I think that this would be the right voice for our podcast.
	What do you think?
	We should do auditions!
	On a scale of 1 to 10, how strongly do you think we responded to 2016?
	Zero.
	Oh, that's...
	I didn't even have it on the scale.
	It's not on the scale.
	It's not on the scale.
	We're not prepared at all for 2020.
	The way Russia had attacked us was using truths, half-truths, and lies as sort of like information cruise missiles.
	And the air that they glide on is the internet.
	The explosive payload is the lie that's embedded in there.
	And the problem is, unlike a regular cruise missile where the payload hits and explodes, this is more like spreading a virus.
	Right, it's like a rumor or a lie, and once it's out, even if you say it was a lie or a rumor, it can't be.
	But it's more insidious than just a rumor or a lie.
	What was hacked in 2016 wasn't the Democratic National Committee.
	It was the mindset of the American voter.
	And the way they hacked it was to enter it, pour in misinformation, allow you and your loved ones to spread the virus, and now completely infected, you refuse to believe that anything is wrong with you.
	Well, that's bleak and scary.
	I'm good at that.
	Yeah, you're an idiot.
	I love the music.
	I love the whole production.
	It was perfect.
	This is done by the Council on Foreign Relations of all places, who apparently have money.
	I know why they budget this girl.
	This girl is a New York writer.
	Is a CFR chick?
	Sorry?
	She's a CFR chicky?
	I don't think so.
	I think she just was hired to do these podcasts.
	Oh, okay.
	She might be, but she's too low-end.
	She writes a lot about her own tattoos.
	She had a whole essay on the troubles she had to go through to get one removed.
	You did research.
	You did oppo research on her.
	She's solid Brooklynite.
	She seems like a very lonely woman to me.
	What is her name?
	I'm so happy you did all this work.
	I can't remember her name.
	She's just a wreck.
	And so she's doing this podcast with this guy.
	And she's not the worst.
	They brought a woman in that has more vocal fry than she does and uptalks a lot.
	Gabriela Sierra.
	There we go.
	Yeah, that's her.
	And she brought some other women in on that same thing, and she's worse.
	And unfortunately, they both have such similar voices that you can't tell one from the other, and it's like it becomes confusing to listen to the podcast.
	You nailed it.
	She does look like a solid Brooklynite.
	You're so right.
	And yes, I can see why she'd be lonely.
	Not because of her appearance.
	No, she's actually in her mid-30s.
	She's good-looking, actually.
	Yeah, but I know this type.
	Stay away.
	What do you mean you know I know that?
	You don't know me.
	You know the type I know that.
	When I talk about the Oakland media, we had an imposter that came in.
	Oh, a spook?
	No, it was a girlfriend of one of the guys who's trying to show, hey, these guys are okay.
	And you can tell.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, I know.
	Okay, let's go to Brexit.
	And I love that people are yelling at me on Twitter, saying, you're wrong!
	Brexit happened, man.
	Brexit happened.
	Brexit happened, man.
	No, it hasn't.
	Oh, what happened?
	Yeah, they took the flag down.
	Yeah, so they say that because the deal was signed, you know, they give me the date and the time of when it was signed.
	Yeah, I know that, but they're still kind of negotiating.
	The entire deal is like getting a divorce, but signing the papers and then saying, let's split up the assets, which is a very odd way of getting a divorce.
	And I didn't invoke the divorce meme.
	That was everybody else.
	But now, according to Conservative Member of Parliament Ian Duncan, the EU is panicking.
	And it's panicking over a number of things.
	You know, the fisheries.
	They may starve without the UK. I don't know.
	But here he is...
	Talking from, I think, a renewed sense of F you, EU. Well, Europe's in a panic now, because they suddenly realise that Britain going is an enormous deal.
	They've tried to pretend it's not.
	It is an enormous problem for them.
	And so now what they're doing is panicking over how competitive the UK will become.
	And we will become incredibly competitive compared to the European Union, which is...
	Just bogged down in rules, regulations, bureaucracy.
	We're going to break free of all of that.
	That's what people voted for, to make our own rules on migration, on our fishing waters, on our borders.
	All these things are really, really important.
	So we're very clear that we're not going to accept this negotiating position, because this negotiating position is all about trying to tie us down so that we can't compete.
	And we need to say, I'm sorry, we are not going to do that.
	And if that means, at the end of it all, we move to WTO, World Trade Organization terms, then so be it.
	And the countries that will really be damaged by that will, of course, be in the European Union, not us.
	After all, remember, we run a trade deficit in goods and foodstuffs of over £100 billion a year now.
	That's £100 billion worth of goods and foods that they sell us more than we sell them.
	You know, that is a point for the European Union.
	You now are at risk to a minimum of 100 billion a year.
	You make your minds up in Europe.
	Do you want to do trade with us?
	Because we want a Canada style, in other words, a normal free trade deal.
	And then we're going to go and make free trade deals with America.
	We'll make them with all the other countries like Canada, Japan.
	Australia wants to do one.
	New Zealand wants.
	India is now begging us to do a deal.
	Huge possibilities for the UK. Being tied to Europe is not the answer to Brexit.
	I like the bravado.
	I think they have some...
	Certainly with the fishing, they have some...
	Some advantage.
	I'm not sure what else, that $100 billion.
	Where does it all come from?
	What are they selling?
	Who?
	The UK. The Brits?
	Yeah, what are they selling?
	Cars?
	Parts?
	What cars?
	T? What cars?
	Well...
	Doesn't everything owned by BMW or Mercedes?
	Don't they still make a Morgan?
	The Morgan cars?
	The plywood car.
	Yes.
	Fine British motor vehicle.
	I don't know.
	Um...
	It just seems like they've...
	I mean, everything points towards a crash-out, screw-you type of deal.
	That's what it looks like.
	I don't see how they can do it.
	But the EU is faltering.
	They're having so much trouble right now that they can't really afford to just blow it up like that.
	They're going to have to do something.
	Yeah, and the problems...
	So we have a couple of things.
	First of all, the migrant issue...
	That all over Europe doesn't really bubble to the top of the news because, you know, Trump, at least in these parts, but I think even what I'm reading in the EU papers, probably no one told you about what was going on in Paris.
	A massive fire in the center of Paris forced the partial evacuation of one of the capital's busiest train stations, Gare de Lyon.
	The fire has been brought under control.
	Demonstrators reportedly set fire to scooters and bins during a protest against the Congress.
	Scooters and bins.
	While you're talking about, since you're going to play some of these clips, do I have the clip for what's going on?
	Turkey opening the gates again at France 24.
	That's exactly where I was going, and I have looked into this somewhat.
	For weeks, Erdogan has been warning that his country is struggling to cope with the growing number of migrants in Turkey.
	In recent years, millions have fled war-torn nations to Turkey in the hope of using it as a stepping stone to reach Europe.
	An agreement in 2016 saw the EU promise Ankara 6 billion euros worth of financial aid.
	But Turkey says Brussels has failed to hold up its side of the bargain and that the borders into Europe were once again open.
	What did we say months ago?
	If things continue like this, we'll be forced to open the gates.
	The EU didn't believe what we said.
	But what did we do yesterday?
	We opened the border gates.
	The decision means the migrant crisis that so polarised European opinion in 2015 will probably flare up again and for millions of people that a new life in Europe could be in reach.
	I just came from Izmir.
	I am going to Greece and then to France.
	I will wait there for two, three days or a week.
	If they don't open the borders, I will go straight to the Everest River.
	The move comes after one of the bloodiest weeks since Turkey's military intervention in rebel-held areas of Syria began in October.
	On Thursday, dozens of Turkish troops died after an airstrike by Russian-backed regime forces, and Turkish drones retaliated with an attack that killed dozens of Syrian soldiers.
	The Syrian government has also failed to comply with an ultimatum from Ankara to pull its troops back from Turkish observation posts, meaning further retaliation seems likely.
	Yeah, so the gates have been opened.
	I think 30,000 migrants were let out of their containment.
	18,000 already made it into Greece.
	Greece is trying to stop them.
	And I'm trying to...
	This is all about Idlib.
	Idlib in northwestern Syria.
	And it's a little complicated to understand what's going on.
	I can only really see it as being oil, oil refineries specifically.
	There's the M5 motorway in Syria, goes right past Idlib.
	It's strategically very important.
	There's the connection over to Latakia, I think it is, Latakia, Latakia, where they have, you know, it's actually a beautiful part of Syria on the west side, on the coast.
	The way I understand it is when, and now the strategy starts to come into play, but I don't understand it yet, is when Trump took out Soleimani, that completely upset the balance in the Middle East, in particular as it relates to Iran.
	And so now you have Rouhani and Erdogan, so the president of Iran and the President of Turkey talking, saying, okay, you know, we have to have a political solution to this.
	They're going to try and split stuff up.
	But the Russians are in there and they're not having any of it.
	But really, the Turks are kind of the aggressor as far as I can see in this.
	They're the ones that are messing around in something that's not their country.
	They're getting pushback.
	And then, you know, so you have Russia, Syria, and then Iran is also tied to Syria, but not really.
	And it's confusing.
	It is confusing, but the Turks will tell you that their problem is that there's all this action taking place in Syria that is causing these people to want to flee.
	Right, but the Turks are there themselves.
	They should get the hell out.
	What are they doing there?
	Well, I don't want to say that we suckered them into going in there.
	It feels like it.
	But it looks like it to me, too.
	I mean, we weren't supposed to be there in the first place.
	No.
	Because we had set up this phony baloney revolution that was going to take place and take him out.
	Never happened.
	Never worked out.
	So we had to send some troops in.
	That wasn't doing us any good.
	And we shouldn't have done that either, but we did.
	And then Trump comes along, and he's trying to figure out how to get out of this deal.
	And somehow...
	It cajoles Turkey into taking over our role of screwing things up with the excuse that, hey, you guys have to take the brunt of all these refugees.
	Why don't you just shoot at them instead of letting them in?
	Hey, I got an idea for you.
	So the Turks are getting the pushback, like you said, and so they say, okay, screw it, then we're just going to open the gates, let the refugees come through, we're going to create a trail that will go right through Turkey, right into Greece, and it's not our problem anymore.
	And we're talking from the reports that 900,000 people have fled Idlib.
	Interestingly, when I look at the video and pictures of what's coming into Greece, I don't see families.
	I see young men.
	And that may just be the ones who are the first to go.
	I don't know.
	There's not a lot of information.
	And...
	What is disappointing, although, gee, I'm not surprised, where is the mainstream media on this?
	You recall only, I don't know, six weeks ago?
	Oh, they're just throwing the cards at some Syrian people!
	They're just, no one gives a shit!
	They're killing them!
	And it's Trump!
	Trump!
	Bad Trump!
	And now there's actually almost a million people who have been displaced because of what's going on there.
	No one gives a crap.
	Not a single second have I seen on television.
	Yes, crickets.
	Total crickets.
	And that's a real humanitarian crisis that's going on there.
	But, of course, I have to remind myself, it's American mainstream media.
	Those are brown people who live in sand.
	Unless we can tie it to Trump, who cares?
	That's how they think.
	It's RM5M racist media.
	It truly is.
	I've just been trying to get some good information.
	Everything is sketchy.
	Bottom line...
	So, Iran and Turkey have to work out some difference.
	They have to work something out, and otherwise, this is only going to get worse.
	And what they need to work out, I'm not sure, but Erdogan says, oh, we need a political solution, which means he doesn't want more war.
	And I guess no one wants it.
	But I don't know.
	Any help from the producers would be fantastic.
	Certainly anyone who's boots on the ground.
	We know you're out there, but...
	I don't know what to do with this.
	I really don't.
	That is something you can do.
	We do what we can.
	And then just to show you how stupid the overpaid media is, this is a report from the BBC. And I'm sure it's important to know that the Panama virus is killing bananas.
	You've probably known about this.
	You'd be someone who would know about the bananas.
	Yeah, the Cavendish banana is about to go extinct.
	Yes.
	Thank you.
	And that's, I think, a big deal.
	I like bananas.
	Will all bananas go extinct or just the Cavendish bananas?
	No, no, no.
	Just this one, the one good banana that's left.
	And apparently it's not even as good as the other one that went extinct, I'm told.
	The one good, the long...
	You know, yellowy banana that ripens slowly and it ripens, it goes from green and it ripens, that banana is going to be gone in probably a decade or two.
	So I hear about this, I'm looking around, and you've already heard Boris Johnson say, I'm going to cut funding to the BBC. Well, when I hear this, I just wanted to learn something about what's going on with the banana.
	This is the production, and just imagine the video with it, but you'll hear, almost like the Council on Foreign Relations podcast there with Malcolm Nance, they need to dress it all up and give you sound effects and set the tone.
	Just tell me what's happening with your banana!
	The banana is one of the world's favorite fruits.
	But in the fields where they grow, a fungus is creeping through the soil and ruthlessly destroying one banana crop after another.
	So, work is underway.
	Just so you know, I didn't put that in there.
	This is the BBC. They put a scream in there?
	Yeah, this is all the BBC. I have not touched this.
	All I did is cut it off after a minute because I couldn't take it.
	This is how they produce a simple story.
	They got way too much money.
	Ah!
	So work is underway to rescue the banana.
	This man thinks he might have found the solution, using the bananas he's grown in a greenhouse in the Netherlands.
	These are Cavendish bananas, which are the best known variety in the world.
	But before long, they could become a thing of the past.
	The killer is a fungus called Fusarium oxysporum.
	When it gets into the soil, it causes bananas to develop the TR4 strain of Panama disease, which has wiped out crops on farms in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia.
	Once it's in the soil, it's almost impossible to get it out again.
	So could the answer be just to take the soil away?
	I just realized what's going on.
	This is a sickness.
	And this sickness probably started when a lot of the NPR people went to podcasting.
	And it's like, what's that radio...
	Radiotopia?
	What's the name of that podcast?
	Radiotopia!
	Oh, I didn't think so.
	Everyone has this, or everyone, there's these producers out there, this desire, this insatiable need to dress up everything and put the scary music under everything to make you feel like you're really in the mood for it.
	People.
	People.
	Oh, stop.
	There's a reason why Joe Rogan has 100 million subscribers, because he doesn't have any of that crap.
	Get a clue.
	You know, don't you think it's some kind of sickness of this overproduction?
	Just give me a little bit.
	I don't mind a little bit, but just give me the news.
	Well, it's a little bit like our jingles.
	Which are there to mock.
	We do it to mock the model, which a lot of people don't understand, but you can see that a lot of people got put off by it.
	Oh, this is terrible.
	What are they doing?
	It's this what I call high amateur.
	Ooh, I like that term.
	High amateur.
	And I would put myself in that category.
	I like a lot of noise and stuff, but I would never produce something that actually was a finished product.
	I mean, on the fly, I think it's fine because you're just doing a live show and you're just throwing stuff in.
	But when you sit down and actually produce and you bring the music...
	About a banana!
	About a banana!
	About a banana when it should be just straight...
	And I just want to hear about this.
	I want to understand the mechanism that's taking place regarding the banana.
	I don't need...
	What's the point of the music?
	Put me in a mood?
	Music is to put you in a mood.
	I don't need to be in a mood.
	You heard it in that piece, like, oh, the Cavendish banana is dying off.
	Scary music.
	And then people will save the world.
	No.
	No.
	We used to call that...
	Well, it works better on television.
	It's just, I don't understand it.
	I don't understand.
	It's not necessary.
	I find it annoying.
	And I think you're wasting time.
	But this is like the videos and stuff.
	You know, these guys who produce these high-clip videos.
	Clip, clip, clip, clip.
	Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.
	Dutch cameras.
	Everything's angled.
	A shot of the guy's face with its tongue sticking out.
	Then a shot of him cutting something.
	And then boom, boom, boom, boom.
	You know, you see this on the Food Network and some of these other places where you have these production companies.
	They use these old tricks of fast cuts.
	You never learn a damn thing watching this show.
	They try to kind of keep you hypnotized.
	Bloop sounds occasionally.
	It's the whole thing.
	I don't know.
	I never liked it personally.
	I shouldn't say it because I do like it, but I don't like the way they're doing it.
	I don't know, maybe they're playing into the 1.5, 1.3 time speed listeners.
	There's something wrong.
	There's an element.
	That's an interesting point.
	I got an email from one of our producers.
	He said that he started listening to not just our show, but lots of podcasts at 1.3.
	And he says that he got nightmares.
	And somehow he deduced that that might have something to do with it.
	And he went back to one time speed and the nightmares went away.
	Wow.
	If anyone else has that, let me know.
	That is interesting.
	Now, there's a couple of different things we should talk about, just for a split second.
	Is the speed-up, like the 1.3, 1.5 is usually what it is, but is this a manual speed-up where you're actually just accelerating everything and then changing the tone?
	No, no.
	Digital, and it really chops out silences.
	Okay.
	The digital ones, which YouTube employs...
	Yes.
	It's very interesting to listen to because it's mostly chopped out silences.
	So you chop out the silences and then you...
	Mostly.
	A lot of chopped out silence.
	And you speed up the voice, but you change the tempo, but not the pitch.
	Yes.
	And so it still sounds like the person, but they're talking real fast.
	We're talking a little bit faster, because it's time for it.
	We could probably tie that, and people who are listening at 1.3 speed right now, they're really starting to freak out, because they have no idea what's really going on.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage to say, in the morning to you, John C. DeVorek!
	John C. DeVorek!
	Wow!
	That's a lot better than I can do.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	We are good.
	In the morning to all ships and sea, boots on the ground, feeding the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls in Le Troll Room, Le Chambre de Trolls.
	Let's see how many trolls we have in Le Chambre.
	Oh, nice, 1450.
	Good showing.
	And they're pretty.
	Amazing.
	That is noagendastream.com.
	If you're a troll, if you want to learn how to be a troll, if you live under a bridge, head over there and join the merry band of trolls.
	The entire point is to troll.
	You can also say something interesting or give me a one-liner or some feedback.
	It's always in the corner of my eye.
	It seeps into my brain somehow.
	And you can do that while listening to the show.
	Or any show because it's there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
	Lots of podcasts.
	No commercials.
	All talk.
	All fun.
	24-7 trolling.
	Noagendastream.com.
	And we're going to thank our artists for episode 1220.
	The title of that was Sloganeer.
	And this we had promised to do.
	I think you said it was time for us to do it.
	And I even thought we had used it before, but no, we had discussed it.
	And this was from Joshua Pettigrew.
	And this was the infamous Pete Buttigieg as Alfred E. Newman.
	And it is one of the best versions, we feel, that has ever been out there.
	It's the best I've ever seen.
	And I have searched for somebody trying to do a better job.
	No one has ever beat this particular piece of art.
	It's actually astonishing.
	Joshua made this.
	Let me check this out for a second.
	He made this a long time ago because, what is it?
	It doesn't have an upload date, does it?
	No, but I think it was for show 11 to 30 or something like that.
	At least almost 100 episodes ago.
	Yeah.
	In general, Joshua has interesting pieces, which I don't think we've used many of, but he does put some good stuff together.
	We've actually used quite a few of them.
	Really?
	He's the one who does the book covers.
	Oh, right, right, right.
	He does the DC Comics look.
	Yes, you're right.
	He does those, and he was always good, doesn't he?
	I will say...
	He fell off.
	No, he didn't fall off.
	He did the Buttigieg one, which was a tour de force, as anyone who looks at it can notice.
	Tour de force, and then he didn't get picked, and he quit.
	Yeah.
	We're hoping to bring him back into the fold.
	I sent him a note.
	I said, what happened?
	Why don't you send me some art in once in a while?
	And he never responded to the note either.
	I think he's overboard.
	On his No Agenda art generator page, he has crafting fine album art since Thursday, June 23, 2011.
	So that's when he started and sadly he's gone.
	Well, maybe he'll come back.
	Matters not.
	We love it.
	We appreciate it.
	I think this really helped for the previous episode.
	When you see a piece of art like that pop up on your podcast app, you want to click it!
	And it's such a good reminder.
	We're one of the few people who do this.
	And, you know, podcasters, if you want to make a difference to what you're doing, change your album art with every show.
	It does work.
	People say, oh, that's interesting, something must be new.
	Click, done, good.
	Don't rely on the app to update and people to see it.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	You can check out all the artwork, and what we love the most is having artists come in and create stuff.
	We pick it right after we're done with a live show, and this is truly incredibly creative and stunningly quick work that these people do.
	A lot of them are real pros or should be pros and do it professionally.
	NoahGenerator.com.
	Thank you all.
	And now continuing in our Value for Value network where all we ask is what kind of value you get out of the show.
	Send it to us at Dvorak.org slash NA. We'd like thanking our top supporters, producers who we label as executive and associate executive producers right off the top here at the show.
	So let's thank some of them.
	We had a lot of them today because apparently show 1221 had magic to it.
	It's the palindrome.
	It's the 1221, which is a 33.
	All the elements that we love are in this show number.
	And it's funny.
	We've noticed this before because you have to explain these different people.
	Oh, let's all donate.
	Let's not donate.
	They donate for the show stuff specifically, but they don't donate necessarily for dates.
	If it was 12-21-12, it wouldn't get the attention, although that did get a lot of attention back in the day.
	It's just very funny to study.
	People like numbers.
	William Hale II is at the top of the list from Clarksville, Tennessee.
	He's also a member of the 12-21 club.
	He actually gave 12-21 and 12 cents.
	ITM Jets.
	First off, I believe that a dedouching is in order.
	You've been dedouched.
	I've been a regular listener since Sir Dave, then one of my trusted and highly respected instructors during my time in Kansas, recommended that I give the show a listen.
	As someone who is often looking for the machinations hidden away where no one dares to look, I found the No Agenda show a natural inclusion to my day and a humorous source of infotainment.
	When I realized that this show was the last palindrome for a while and a combination of the magic number 33, 333 in total the way he does it, I could no longer resist the call to donate.
	With this donation, I understand that I become an Insta Knight and would like to be dubbed Sir Will with one L. Knight of the Crossed Cannons.
	And he'd like Cordite and Coronas at the round table.
	I already had it on order.
	It'll be there.
	Good to go.
	To accompany my mutton and mead.
	Because there's nothing like the smell of Cordite in the morning.
	Or any time, really.
	It's never the wrong time for Cordite.
	For jingles, I'd like chemtrails.
	You're gonna die.
	That's true.
	And two to the head.
	Also, a healthy heaping of international relationship karma for myself and the rest of the Gitmo nation as we can all use it in one shape or another.
	Thanks for all you do and keep it coming.
	And a shootout.
	A shot out.
	To Sir Dave for being the humbly awesome guy he is.
	Well, thank you very much, William, and we'll see you at the roundtable later on.
	Ken Fails.
	You might die.
	That's true.
	You've got karma.
	Oh, I got something special for you today.
	In case people want to request this for the next show.
	You've got corona.
	Just in case anyone wants some.
	We have it on tap.
	Sean Newcomer is next on the list from Clinton, New York.
	56665.
	Dear John and Adam, with today's donation for show 1221, I have finally achieved knighthood accounting attached.
	Where is he from again?
	New York.
	Okay, I got the voice.
	I started listening some time ago, some years ago, after hearing it sound like it's in Chicago.
	I sound like a Chicago guy.
	And after hearing about the No Agenda from the podcast formerly known as Unfiltered, yes.
	Oh, yeah.
	Those guys were good.
	I'm sad they're gone.
	They modeled their show after ours.
	Mm-hmm.
	The mistake they made.
	Yeah, they tried to do video.
	Well, that was mistake one.
	Yeah.
	Mistake two was they produced.
	Oh yeah, all in post.
	Yeah, everything was posted up.
	So the show didn't come out for days.
	We're not for the no agenda.
	And that took a lot of time.
	That will wear you down.
	It wears you down.
	Yeah.
	We're not for the no agenda show.
	But then again, not everybody has an Adam Curry at the helm.
	Oh, thank you for saying that, honey.
	It's true.
	It's true.
	We're not for the No Agenda show.
	My current job at an undisclosed social media company in the Bay Area is one of two or three.
	Yeah.
	In the Bay Area, in perpetual state of being surrounded by amygdala-swollen sheep, certainly would have driven me insane by now.
	Wait a minute.
	I wouldn't mind in future, Sean, maybe some more anonymous boots-on-the-ground updates.
	Is it truly that bad?
	Is that all that there is that's around you?
	Are you by yourself?
	Are you the lone wolf in the flock of amygdala-swollen sheep?
	Wow, that was good.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he probably is.
	I live in the area.
	Thank you for all that you do.
	I respectfully request the title Sir...
	Sir...
	Sir Jingle requests.
	Huntsman Chinese 2?
	Or Huntsman, Chinese, that's true.
	Former, and he's got the former.
	Oh, he wants the former.
	Oh, I didn't understand.
	And then he's got the accounting.
	And he wants the former.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	I didn't understand.
	Oh, it's former.
	Give me some former.
	Where?
	Here we go.
	That's true.
	Oh, my God!
	Listen to that horn!
	You've got karma.
	And you wonder why people are confused when they hear our show for the first time.
	Yes.
	All right, well, yeah.
	Now, Cuevas is on here, and I thought I had an email from him.
	It may have been something before.
	He's gotten lost in the shuffle.
	Yeah, I don't have anything from him, so I know Eric's saying that note was MIA. I looked.
	I don't have anything.
	Now, Milton Cuevas came out with 407.
	I will continue to look, and hopefully I'll find it before the end of this, during the second donation segment.
	Well, then let me give him just a karma, just in case, because everyone can always use that, and I don't know what his 407 number is about, so I'm sure it's important, and I hope we find his note.
	Milton, thank you.
	You've got karma.
	Baron Horatio of Arabia, 333.99.
	Forgive me.
	This, by the way, people use this a lot.
	Forgive me, Podfather, for I have sinned.
	Not only has it been a while since I last donated, but I feel I have to let my fellow producer, Sir Dave Fubizotto, Earl of America's Heartland in Saudi Arabia, let him down.
	Yeah.
	On February 14th, I was in Manamana, Manamana, Bahrain, Bahrain in the meet-up day and chose not to go to Sherlock Holmes, the bar, and have been there many times.
	I lived just over the causeway in the magic kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
	I chose to celebrate my 59th birthday brunch with my friends, leaving Sir Dave alone.
	Yeah, that's...
	Hold on a second.
	I just want to...
	Was it Bahrain...
	Just listen to how sad Sir Dave sounded.
	This is Sir Dave, Earl of America's Heartland in Saudi Arabia.
	I'm at the Sherlock Holmes pub in Monoma, Buran, for the most marvelous Middle East meetup in Monoma.
	Unfortunately, I sit here alone and didn't have any takers today.
	Aww!
	I hope you feel really bad about this.
	Yes, I would.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, not much of a party.
	My guilt has made it even worse when I heard Sir Dave was all alone in the pub.
	There you go.
	I have donated $333.99 for my sins and would hope Dave will plan another meetup, and I'll do my best to turn up and make it like a party.
	Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.
	I continue to enjoy the crazy stuff that the No Agenda covers and M5M never covers.
	It's been so since episode one, and I think my whole worldview is significantly enhanced by my two Sunday listens every week in the morning.
	Thank you, Baronet Horatio.
	And your sins have been wiped, my friend, my son.
	We have a note from the Fergus Otto that I'll read at the end of this.
	The donation never came in, but the note came in.
	So, there's some confusion there.
	I did dig up the note.
	Maybe I should read the note now.
	Let me find it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Why don't you do that?
	Fugizotto, Fugizotto, Fugizotto.
	Of course, big talker.
	I'm like, you know, leading up to here it is.
	In the morning, earthlings, first things first, Baronet Horatio of Arabia, a loyal citizen of my extended earldom, confessed to missing the most marvelous Middle East meetup in Manamana to celebrate his birthday.
	If it hasn't already been done, can I request a de-douching for him?
	Yeah, of course.
	You've been de-douched.
	No problem.
	I think a birthday celebration certainly trumps a meet-up, although you can combine them.
	Mm-hmm.
	Just saying.
	Especially since we don't know how many we have left because of coronavirus.
	We're all going to die.
	You got the de-douching.
	Yeah, I got the...
	Wait, no, no.
	No, no, no.
	That's not what he has.
	Oh, you mean we're going to do Dave Fuguzotto's?
	No, I don't have those.
	What does he want?
	We're all going to die and the dedouching.
	You already did the dedouching.
	Oh, okay.
	Given my recent history, I request a double dose of travel goat karma.
	In a few days, I head off to India for a temporary position as a Yanni groupie at an upcoming cage match in Karada against his arch enemies, his arch nemesis, John Tesh.
	There's stuff going on there, man.
	Also, I will ask around to see if I can locate our one Indian producer.
	Wow, very elusive.
	You'll never find him.
	I don't even think he listens anymore.
	We had one Indian, not that there's other Indians around the world.
	One Indian producer who would actually donate.
	Who was in India.
	Yeah, yes, yes, one.
	That was years ago.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah.
	I'm returning via Sri Lanka, and it looks like a long walk back to Riyadh.
	Yeah.
	The only other option is to hire myself out to run the bilge pump on a leaky doll sailing to Yemen, then join a camel train hauling brass coffee pots, frankincense, and cat across the empty quarter.
	It all sounds terribly exotic, but I'm reasonably sure it would suck.
	And you have to deal with the questions the next time you come back to the USA. That's a surefire way to get the SSSS on your boarding pass.
	Right on.
	Come on, goat karma.
	Keep those airports open.
	So he needs to travel goat.
	We're all going to die.
	You've got karma.
	There you go.
	So that matches well.
	Okay.
	We keep these superstars in the family happy.
	Yes.
	Sir Seat Sitter comes up at $333.33.
	And the jingles at the beginning, you can see those.
	Yep.
	Today I surpassed the halfway point of nighthood, even though my alias was Sir Seat Sitter long before I discovered the best podcast in the universe.
	The feeling of stolen valor dies.
	Due to having Sir at the beginning of my username, keeps me donating.
	So soon I shall be Sir Sir Seatsitter.
	Oh, he's not actually a knight?
	No, that's his name.
	Could have fooled me.
	It's like one-hour cleaners.
	Yes, indeed.
	He'll be Sir Sir Seatsitter.
	Okay.
	So he'll be Sir Sir Seatsitter.
	I got carried away making jingles, mixes, and songs that are a bit long for the show sometimes.
	So follow me on Twitter, at Sir Seatsitter.
	For full versions of the No Agenda songs and mixes that only get partially played on the show.
	I'd be remiss if I didn't call out K-Bob Stevenson, Noah Beams, and Logan Qualops as douchebags.
	You need three douchebags for these guys.
	There we go.
	I would call out Seth Emmers as a douchebag, but I'm pretty sure he hates the show.
	Let's call him a douchebag anyway.
	He's probably the only real douchebag.
	I need some jingle-making karma and some preventative F-cancer karma for myself and all those who need it.
	I don't think I have cancer, but I smoke too many cigarettes and I leave my cell phone in my pocket way too often.
	It's radiating my balls!
	For jingles, can I get a JCD radiating my balls?
	Alex Jones, it's real and that's true.
	That's true.
	Crackpot, when Joe Rogan inevitably invites you back on...
	J-R-E, due to you being the pot father, please bring Buzzkill with you.
	There's 33 more years of the best podcast in the universe.
	Boom.
	I don't think that would be a good show.
	We are so uncomfortable in real life together.
	It's no good because we don't want to ruin the show by getting into a fight.
	No, we don't get into fights.
	We just don't really know what to do.
	When you were here for the wedding, people looked at us and went...
	Are you sure you actually do that show together?
	Is it you guys?
	It's like we're so uncomfortable.
	It's like this magical wall of microphone and headphones is very, very handy.
	Well, we've actually decided to eliminate one of the elements of radio, which is a good one, but, I mean, when I was working with Leo a lot, it was available to me then, which is visual cues to the other guy.
	Yeah.
	No, we're beyond that.
	We got some kind of...
	We have, yeah, magical cues.
	We got some magic.
	But the visual cues are very handy.
	With my Tourette's, you'd be like, what?
	What do you want?
	What do you need?
	What do you need?
	Here we go.
	It never worked with Tourette's guys.
	That's right.
	Never worked with animals, children, and Tourette's guys.
	That's your show business tip for the day.
	It's electrifying my balls.
	It's real!
	It's real!
	That's true.
	You've got karma.
	There we go.
	Baronet Hoji Hung.
	No, no, you're missing Bob De...
	De...
	Bob day hands in good or core core Bob day gins and poor day things they see once you get you can I know you're able to do the it's just shortness above day once Bob Dachens.
	And whore.
	And whore.
	Yeah, very sexy.
	G-O-O-R for those taking notes.
	Yes.
	But apparently it's pronounced whore.
	Whore.
	Whore.
	And whore.
	Whore?
	Whore is also an adjective, and it's, when someone will say, that is really disgusting, you'd say, that is whore.
	That is horror.
	That is horror, mom.
	That is horror, man.
	Excellent.
	You're nailing it.
	Huh.
	Uh...
	Greetings, Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	I've been a long-time listener without a donation, so for this magical episode, I'd like to donate a magic number and ask for some baby-making karma for my beautiful wife and I. Uh-huh.
	Please continue the awesome value you are providing, the best to both of you and everyone in the No Agenda family regards.
	Bob from the beautiful region of Twente in the east of the Netherlands.
	Yeah, Twente, the Tukers we call them.
	They're really nice people.
	These are the salt of the earth Dutch people who live in Twente.
	And apparently we can help them out with a little bit of baby-making karma.
	Happy to do that.
	You've got karma.
	Now we got Baronet Ho Ji Hung.
	Yes.
	And he sent a note in.
	Of course, this is really problematic.
	I didn't get it to Eric.
	I did, but it got lost.
	You know, the names don't match.
	But luckily, I found the note.
	I sent a donation via PayPal.
	I thought it would allow me to add a note, but I used one of the links in the newsletter.
	You missed it, is what happened.
	What are you saying?
	He sent a note.
	He says that he sent a note on PayPal, but he didn't see the note.
	He tried to, in other words.
	So you should get a donation for $3.33.
	Yeah, okay, we got it.
	The email matches my baronet name, Ho Ji Hung.
	And he actually has an email.
	I apologize for any confusion.
	Thanks.
	He doesn't really have any desire for anything.
	He says, thanks, Ho Ji Hung, a.k.a.
	John H. Baronet, Mong Kong.
	We're spending these days stateside to avoid the bat-eaters and Wuhan flu.
	The bat-eaters.
	What, that doesn't happen in Hong Kong?
	Oh, the Cantonese in Hong Kong, they eat everything.
	They're chomping, they're chomping.
	Well, that's what he's saying.
	No, he's probably referring to the Hong Kongers as the bat-eaters.
	Ah, okay, good.
	Okay, onward.
	Well, thank you very much, Baronet Hoji-Hung.
	John Vogel in Bronx.
	Oh yeah, this is the guy I was talking about.
	Okay, got it.
	Yeah, 3-12-21.
	With this donation and accompanying executive producership, I finally take my seat at the round table with the No Agenda Nights and Days.
	I'd like to bring gnocchi and kosher wine to the round table.
	Nice, I like it.
	Well, I have the attention of the, what kind of, which kosher wine?
	when i have the attention of the valley for value network i would like to plug an independent feature film that i am a lead actor in it's called the trouble and it's a spaghetti western crime thriller set in south bronx it's an 84 minute feature film that was self-produced and self-financed with any hollywood msm of influence having no marketing budget it We picked up enough awards and good...
	Oh, yes, right.
	I remember about this guy.
	Word of mouth to earn a producer distribution deal.
	He's got a...
	Wow.
	Woody Allen's Rainy Day in New York...
	Can't get on Netflix or anywhere.
	Amazon.
	Can't get a producer deal in the U.S. He's been blackballed by Jeff Bezos.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yet the trouble from our very own knight joining the table today has nailed it.
	I can't wait to see this.
	I'll watch this.
	This could be the beginning of a massive career, which then I can get...
	Maybe this is my in.
	For your cameo.
	My bit parts.
	Yeah, man.
	You can be in the director's cut.
	Despite having no marketing budget, we've picked up enough awards and on and on.
	It is, to my knowledge, the only feature film starring a no-agenda knight.
	And it's available streaming on Amazon Prime, free for subscribers, or to be free with ads.
	Okay, so this is on Amazon Prime, and this will be, and it's called The Trouble.
	So everyone should go check it out.
	Even so, the douchebags can watch it with a clear conscience.
	The trailer and more info can be found at TroubleFilm.com.
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm on the Amazons as we speak.
	You can also go to TroubleFilm.com.
	Let's just see what this is.
	There he is.
	Okay.
	So you know I told you I've been going to these underground poker games?
	No Limit Texas Hold'em.
	Okay, I can't wait.
	I'm going to watch that tonight.
	That's fantastic.
	Congratulations!
	That's great.
	I love that.
	Made it into the system.
	Snuck in.
	Backdoored it.
	Please spread the word if you like the film.
	We rely heavily on word of mouth.
	Duh.
	I shall duly request the title Sir John Vogel of the Shameless Plug.
	I also request some jobs, Carmen, in hopes of booking another good role.
	I don't want to send war and peace to you, so here are some stray notes you should either read or not.
	I want to give a big shout-out to Sir Cal of Lavender Blossoms.
	Probably helped me with a movie in some way.
	I recently switched from another brand and LB works much better and costs less.
	Hi, I'm John Vogel.
	You've probably seen me in some of my work, like The Trouble.
	I recently switched from a different brand to Lavender Blossoms.
	I'm a happy customer.
	I know you guys hate it when producers specify they don't agree with everything you say, but I fear there's a growing sense among the younger generations that one should only consume media that matches their ideology.
	For whatever reason, millennials and Gen Z may need extra encouragement to seek and support interesting perspectives.
	They don't always agree, support perspectives they don't always agree with.
	podcast playback speed to 1.3x.
	I started getting horrible nightmares every night.
	This is who you're talking about.
	And when I went to sleep, when I turned my playback speed back to 1, the nightmares stopped.
	That being said, I still use a setting.
	I use the setting to cut out the silence and pause it.
	So he still compresses the Which I think is still a mistake.
	Do whatever you want, and I encourage the user manipulation.
	But Adam is a fan of the pause.
	Big fan.
	It's very important.
	It lets everything reset.
	It lets things sink down.
	It lets you catch your breath for a second.
	And then we can continue.
	I am a fan of it.
	But it's okay.
	I enjoy anyone being able to mangle it any way they want.
	That's fine.
	Of course.
	Thank you, John.
	And I will be giving a review of the movie on the next show.
	And also, by the way, humor sometimes requires pauses.
	Jack Benny, of course, being the premier example of the guy who could use them.
	But sometimes you need to be, you know, you need to say something or you need to drop something in and it has to be timed a certain way.
	And sometimes it requires a pause, sometimes a long pause.
	Sometimes a long pause is funny.
	And so you're just taking all that out of the show.
	It's an insult.
	It's okay.
	It's an insult.
	It's a minor insult.
	It's okay.
	There goes my role.
	Yeah, right.
	So much for your bit part.
	All right.
	Anyway, onward.
	Did he have some karma requests?
	He's getting it.
	You've got karma.
	Yes, I'm sorry.
	He actually needed jobs, Carmen.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You thought.
	Threw in a goat there.
	So, next on, let's just say Dame Sarah Rupert, who's just recently married, has a baby.
	She was at the Oakland meetup.
	Oh, okay.
	And the baby was there, and everybody, even when she left, talked about this baby.
	Well, tell us about this baby.
	What was the baby?
	The second almost perfect sucker baby that's been to one of these meetups.
	We had a sucker baby show up at, I think it was a Yeah, I know those.
	Every sort of thing a baby should be.
	It was like, what?
	And we talked after she left.
	That's a baby.
	That's a good-looking baby.
	Those are the ones that once they hit two, they become terrorists.
	Well, not necessarily, but when they're little babies, Mimi always calls them sucker babies.
	Sucker babies.
	And a sucker baby is a baby that you bring out in public.
	And other women and even guys go, oh, that's great.
	Oh, I want one of those.
	Did you guys bring Theodorable?
	Yeah, he showed up.
	Did he take the L train?
	The adorable was there.
	Did you get a picture of The adorable with the sucker baby?
	No, I did not have the sucker baby with the adorable.
	Touching cones?
	Anything like that?
	No.
	It could have been fisting, you know.
	John.
	Well, you know what I mean.
	Yeah.
	Fist bump.
	Fist bumping.
	So, yeah, she was there with the sucker baby.
	And there was an interesting meetup.
	I do want to tell one out there.
	We had one woman there who was...
	I think she was a woman that worked for a quango of some sort.
	And people should look into that.
	And she was a girlfriend of a guy that's a real fan of the show, but she's not so much.
	And I think he brought her there.
	And you look at the group picture, she's not going to show her face.
	Yeah.
	But she's a classic, and I spotted her.
	And I was like, oh, I've seen this type before.
	And which, of course, we really know her just saying a type, type.
	And it was the type of pretty, with very little makeup, if any, but pretty, which is always a good thing.
	Kind of frizzy hair.
	And a look...
	Which looks like she should be squinting her eyes when she looks at you, but you can see the thought bubble in her head as she's looking at you with this kind of virtual squinty eyes looking at you, and the thought bubble says, Min.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	And not to insult her or her boyfriend, who I won't mention, Uh, she would be the type to convince him to get a vasectomy in his twenties.
	Ah, yes.
	Okay.
	Story done.
	All right.
	And she was going to, dead bastard.
	Uh, I just thought I'd throw that in there.
	So, but Dame Sarah did write a note in and, uh, Go right to it.
	Good morning.
	From former Baroness Sarah Bradley, now in need of a name change.
	She needs to be put on the list for a name change.
	Baroness Sarah Rupert.
	You got it.
	This donation is a special thank you for the No Agenda community for helping me make my repeated requests of relationship karma work.
	It really took a long time, nearly 10 years, and now I finally met the right person.
	At 45, I was afraid it was too late for me, but with my no agenda karma, I'm now married to the love of my life and have the best little human resource, six-month-old baby Violet.
	Nice!
	And she's how old?
	Six months.
	No, Dame Sarah.
	No, it's 45.
	God bless you, girl.
	Nice.
	Yeah, she looks like she's about 36.
	Maybe.
	Maybe 32.
	She's very young looking.
	Good skin.
	Yeah, good skin, actually.
	I've been listening since episode one.
	Sorry about that.
	The No Agenda Show has been there for me all these years to support the infosainment, keeping my amygdala small, and for the karma.
	My donation requests this relationship karma to be given to all the producers that are listening and need it now like I did.
	Also, I'm the protectorate of Sonoma County and like to add it to Napa County because I now live in both spots.
	I'm bivalid.
	Wait.
	It's time for it's time for a North Bay meetup.
	I really like to see you see the Santa Rosa and Sebastopol producers.
	I hear them in the donation segments.
	Russian River Brewery, home of the Pliny the Younger and Elder in Windsor would be a great spot.
	Actually, it's not in Windsor.
	It's in Santa Rosa.
	Be a great spot.
	Hopefully some steps in to set up the date, time, post the meetup page, blah, blah, blah.
	Violet and I will come if it's posted and announced, but I never seem to get organized enough to do it myself.
	Love and Light, Baroness Sarah Rupert and Baby Violet.
	Still hitting my husband Jonathan in the mouth gently.
	And I should mention there's an operation that Jonathan's part of, which is this giant wine and food Dina DeLuca went broke, and these guys kind of took over.
	In fact, the place in St.
	Helena is the Gary's, it's called Gary's, Gary's Wine Market and Marketplace, something like that.
	And most of them are in New York and New Jersey, and there's one in Napa for some unknown reason.
	And it's an interesting place, and I would say they probably have a lot of good, apparently nail a lot of good wine.
	Yeah, but anyway, she's married to this guy, and he's like a skeptic about the show already.
	And she dragged him along to the meet-up?
	No, he didn't show up.
	It was just Violet.
	Little baby Violet.
	So we'll see.
	Anyway...
	Relationship karma for everybody else.
	You've got karma.
	I should probably mention that because of A, the palindrome on the show episode, along with, which means we have a lot of donation notes to read, along with all the meetups on the 29th, the leap day, the show's going to go long, so if you're an affiliate, be on alert.
	Do you want me to pick up one and we alternate a bit?
	Because these are long.
	Yeah, go.
	Mark Menzik, $233.33.
	Jingles Sanders on the president.
	AOC who's ready for the revolution.
	You pigs in human clothing.
	Goat karma for all.
	Trump Pelosi jobs.
	Karma for my daughter-in-law, Brittany.
	I was compelled to donate after I was hit in the mouth with a couple of 33s during a vacation with my smoking hot wife in Cape Town, South Africa.
	Huh.
	We wandered into a random restaurant in the harbor area and sat at a random table that happened to be...
	Table number 33.
	Later, while sightseating, I noticed a sign displaying all of the cities in the world on the 33rd degree south longitude line, including Cape Town.
	Finally, when the latest newsletter explained the 1221 palindrome and hidden 33, I knew I could no longer ignore these signs and I must donate!
	The 23333 represents the 233s I saw in Cape Town.
	One final observation, my wife and I spent two weeks in South Africa in Joburg, Johannesburg, but I guess that's what you call it if you're in the hood, Joburg.
	That's what they call it.
	They call it that there too.
	Joburg on a safari and in Cape Town.
	During that entire time, we tuned out all news sources.
	In fact, we did not turn on any TVs and my amygdala has never been smaller or healthier.
	Very good.
	Is that the end of the note?
	I think that's the end of the note, isn't it?
	Yes.
	Yes, and a Trump-Pelosi jobs karma.
	I'm the President of the United States.
	I have all of the power.
	Who here is ready for the revolution?
	You pigs in human clothing!
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You've got karma.
	Next on the list is Wouter Sloten.
	Wouter Sloten.
	Wouter Sloten.
	Yes, close.
	But he's in Denmark, 233.
	Sounds like a Dutch name.
	I think he is.
	This is my first donation since the two of you started accompanying me during my daily commute for a little more than a year ago.
	De-douching would be appreciated.
	You've been de-douched.
	No jingles, but a little goat Carmen ever heard.
	I'm a Dutch civil engineer living the American dream in Denmark.
	Well, we know that's where people, according to Pete, was it Pete Buttigieg who said that people live the American dream in Denmark more than in America?
	Yeah.
	Nice, nice, nice.
	Did you know that Pete is actually Maltese?
	Yes, we've been over this.
	Okay.
	Antidepressants, Aquavit, and Blonde Shield maidens all around.
	It's the love of a king.
	The life of a king.
	This is the live.
	I tell you, John, as the other producers have stated earlier, Adam used to be a big cultural hero for Gen Xers like myself growing up in Holland in the 80s.
	Key phrase, used to be.
	Yeah, used to be.
	I'm a has-been cultural hero.
	Hello, I'm the has-been cultural hero.
	Friday evenings, driving around in Rotterdam, the Curry and Van Inkel show has always been playing on the car radio, and boy, do I miss this.
	Even to this day, I have difficulties as to when my weekend actually starts without the official Curry and Van Inkel.
	The weekend has started jingle.
	Do you have it?
	No, I know how it goes.
	Something like that.
	Okay, that's enough.
	If you can get it, it'd be great.
	Adam, on one of the previous shows you mentioned, your interviews with musicians on the Dutch national TV while drinking milk, I think one of your first big interviews was with Don Johnson.
	You were probably...
	Around 20 years old and I remember how proud I was on your behalf.
	Oh, that's right.
	That's right.
	I remember that.
	That's true.
	Finally we had a Dutch show host who could actually have a conversation in English without that terrible Dutch accent.
	What are you talking about, Walter?
	Walter, what are you talking about, boy?
	When you thanked him for the interview, I remember him saying something like, hey, this was a good interview.
	Adam, you also had the Bee Gees in the countdown show at one time where you pissed off Barry Gibb by asking how much it was to work with Wacko Jocko.
	Do you remember that?
	Yeah, I do.
	He turned to you and answered, well, I can tell you that Mr.
	Michael Jackson is a very good friend and deserves respect.
	Let me tell you something.
	Hear me now, believe me later.
	That one moment in time changed my attitude forever.
	And I thought, you know, it's so easy to call famous people names.
	Now, let's just forget this show for a moment.
	Let's forget this show.
	Let's forget this show for a moment.
	And I really like the Gibb brothers.
	Of course, the only one left is Barry now.
	And I was young.
	I was 19, 20 years old.
	And he flipped his head.
	Yeah, you know, Mr.
	Michael Jackson to you, basically.
	And I remember feeling so small and so stupid for trying to be a cool, hip DJ. It taught me a big lesson.
	And so I appreciate that.
	Well, I should mention that using nicknames and being disrespectful...
	Trump, for example, makes a habit of it.
	I think you can use the checkbox, it's okay, after you're 50 years old.
	When you're 20...
	It's not cool.
	It's not cool.
	But when you're 50, if you were 50 and you said something like that, it would be like, yeah, whatever.
	You can do it.
	And when you're my age, in the 60s, plus...
	Wow.
	You just got free pass.
	Yes, of course.
	Do as you like, old man.
	Who cares?
	All right.
	I want to thank the two of us for a great show and following up on a discussion you had a while back, I would like to conclude with the following.
	I'd like to taste a good Swiss cheese is determined by the holes.
	It's the pauses in your dialogue.
	Whoops.
	Whoa.
	This is good.
	It's the pauses in your dialogue that proves the quality of the best podcast in the universe.
	Best regards.
	So, he says, like good Swiss cheese is determined by the holes, the pauses in our dialogue prove the quality.
	Thank you.
	I will take that to my grave, sir.
	Thank you.
	And he wanted a goat, I think.
	A karma of goatage.
	Here we go.
	You've got...
	Thank you all, Wouter.
	Joseph Gass in Wilmington, Delaware, $229, and all he says is Purple 313.
	Purple 313.
	Purple 313.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Eric Nguyen, I think that's how it's pronounced, the Vietnamese name, Nguyen, 22820, Richardson, Texas.
	Hi, John and Adam.
	Thank you for your hard work.
	I want to give a shout-out to my friend, Sir Chaotic Master, hitting me in the mouth half a year ago.
	Ever since that moment, I've been hooked listening to every show for the past six months.
	I deserve a douchebag call-out for not donating sooner.
	Douchebag!
	I always question that.
	A proper donation and a de-douching is long overdue, but just in time for my 29th birthday on February 28th to 2820.
	I also want to thank you.
	Will I give him the de-douching?
	I was going to say, yes, let's do that.
	You've been de-douched.
	I'd also like to thank you, An, for your media deconstruction, especially for your coverage of the vape wars in recent times.
	I work in the vaping industry and have been seeing the trends come and go, but the past few months have had a profound effect on the industry and the capitulation of Juul, the THC cartridge scare, and sweeping new regulations.
	I look forward to the inevitable knighthood as I make regular donations for the value-for-value model.
	Please accept these jingle requests.
	Pelosi and Trump, jobs.
	Al Sharpton, resists we much.
	Little girl, shut up, slave.
	China is a-hole.
	It's true and a goat karma.
	Eric from Richardson, Texas.
	Yeah, I'd just like to add some content to this because I would have brought it up anyway.
	There's now a bill that has been passed in the House.
	It still has to pass the Senate.
	The President has already said he will veto it and it lumps in The vaping industry with new tobacco regulations.
	And it's very negative.
	It completely compares e-cigarettes and vaping to tobacco products, which is no comparison.
	They even go so far as to say that they have regulations for synthetic nicotine, so not even nicotine derived from tobacco.
	So there are a bunch of jamokes who are doing that.
	I think it's a fine cessation product.
	Also, they're putting regulations on that look like they want to kind of capture the vaporizer inhaling methodology.
	I'm not quite sure where that is, but the point I wanted to say is that they are now going to do something that we learned is counterproductive.
	And we learned this years ago when I was still living in the, I think in the UK.
	They are now going to mandate all tobacco products, just like the UK and the EU, have pictures on it of horrible lungs and hearts and bleeding crap.
	And what we've learned, and I remember we made quite a study of this, is that actually makes people want to smoke more, believe it or not.
	You remember we had that daredevil, man, your daredevil.
	It has a very odd effect of pulling people towards the product.
	But here's the thing that it may be different.
	What they're doing here.
	It's not going to be pictures.
	It will be photorealistic images.
	So they're actually going to draw, if you will, create in graphics horrible looking lungs and say that's what your lungs will look like if you use this product.
	So it's a type of propaganda that I find very interesting coming from the government itself.
	And I hope the president vetoes it.
	It's ridiculous what they're trying to do to the...
	People want to kill themselves, let them do whatever they want.
	But to then employ photoshoppers to make it look horrible and not even from a real picture?
	Interesting.
	Doesn't make sense.
	Here are your jingles.
	But resist, we much.
	We must and we will much.
	About that, the committee.
	Shut up, slaves!
	Are these assholes!
	That's true.
	Jobs.
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	You've got karma.
	Jacob Schlachter is next on the list from Fairview, Texas.
	It could be Schlater.
	Pronounce that way.
	227-87.
	Nice note.
	Nice note.
	Long-time listener, first-time donor.
	Currently listening to the podcast on my 33rd birthday and enjoying every minute.
	Request a de-douching and old jobs karma.
	You've been de-douched.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	And I'll grab anonymous here.
	2222.
	Regarding the spread of the coronavirus, considering the spread of it amongst the high levels of government in Iran, I would be concerned about Dubai as a hub for spreading it.
	I lived in and traveled the region for many years.
	The Dubai airport has a regional terminal that services Iran as well as many other countries in the region, many with a lot of expats from the EU and Asia.
	There's also a considerable number of USA, OGA, other government agencies, people that transition through that terminal entering, exiting the region.
	Considering the amount of third world traffic that enters Dubai through Terminal 2 and then leaves the region via Terminals 1 and 3, I think that would be cause for concern.
	Not to mention the economic impact worldwide from local seaways being shut down if they are spread within the Emirates.
	The majority population is just there for work and lives in cramped quarters.
	Yes, Anonymous.
	However, we will be talking about this once we get through all the donations.
	I don't think you have to be that worried.
	But thank you very much for your support of the best podcast in the universe.
	OnoPriester221, did he send us a note or is that just...
	I have it.
	Okay, good.
	Hello, Podfathers.
	I have sent my donation for show 1221 through PayPal.
	A small token of my appreciation of your great work as by the...
	Actually, I wish you could have this and read it in a Dutch voice.
	A small token of my appreciation of your great work as by the Mueller Report's omission.
	Surely the best podcast in the universe.
	Happy to send you the...
	Brothers of Karamazov to read out on Sunday's show.
	Last Thursday's show left me troubled.
	Certainly the Frog 24 account of the extinction level of the skiing industry in the Alps to investigate I bullied my human resources and my smoking hot better half in the car in Gitmo Nation, plus 31, and made my way to Austria.
	Also, on John's behest, I must go country for lovers of the outdoors.
	It's a beautiful place.
	I am pleased to report that the death of the winter sport, at least in this part of the Alps, is highly exaggerated.
	Mm-hmm.
	More snow than you can eat, and I may leave with some for people who wish to visit the country after me.
	The region where I am in is just north of the Italian region of Lombardia, so hopefully we can get locked up in quarantine here for an extra two weeks.
	And then, oh, okay, get your pencil out.
	By the way, this donation propels me to knighthood.
	Oh, okay.
	I also donated Julian Naus' as Dame Drive.
	Gee, really likes that noogen and meet-up report.
	The title I would like, aspire to is Sir Lather of Indecision.
	Okay.
	For the roundtable, please serve me a case of Corona and a Schachtel Vlamitz.
	Hold on.
	V-L-A-M-M-E-T-J-E-S. Case of Corona and a what?
	Spell it.
	S-C-H-O-T-E-L. Schottel.
	Vlamitz.
	V-L-A-M-T-J-E-S. Is that some sort of fish?
	V-L-A and then?
	The whole thing is this.
	Vlamitz met road nous.
	Just spell it.
	V-L-A-M-M-E-T-J-E-S. Yeah, and the next word?
	Met, M-E-T. Road, R-D-E. Saus, that's the US. What is it?
	Schotel flammetjes met rode saus.
	Come on!
	Yeah, that's what I said.
	It's a very Dutch thing.
	Yeah, look forward to John reading the letter.
	Yeah.
	The later.
	The latter.
	Very funny.
	Glad you put us through that.
	Okay, whatever.
	For gentles, I'd like the special helping of 33 is the magic number.
	Yeah.
	John's Fist of Nuts.
	Oh, brother.
	We don't really have that.
	And Karma.
	Thanks again for all the value for value you gave of the show.
	From the show, special thanks to Dame Jennifer for ANA. Best of luck with this week's JRE, another program I look forward to.
	Okay.
	Keep up doing your sanitation media declassification and the invaluable amygdala trimming.
	Okay.
	And just a regular karma?
	Uh, well, yeah.
	You've got karma. - Mike Schwab from Brooklyn, 212.12.
	And he says, We're good to
	go.
	The book is available on Kindle and Apple.
	I'd love some feedback from No Agenda producers.
	Also, for those who love numerology and karma, feel free to try out a project I helped with at LifeElevated.com.
	Life prayers.
	Get a birth card reading from the deck of playing cards, then check the readings for your friends and role models.
	Have a great experience on Rogan, and thanks for bringing us so much show to look forward to every dang week.
	Jangles for...
	Jangles.
	Jingles for Biden's big day.
	Gay-gay bathhouses.
	Could not find it.
	I don't know what that is.
	I'm going to give you the whole load.
	While we're underwater, we're doomed.
	Mike Schwab, the boy in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
	Do you know what the gay gay bathhouses jingle is?
	Never heard of it.
	I'm going to give you the whole load today.
	We're underwater!
	We're underwater!
	We're doomed!
	We're doomed!
	Where'd that come from?
	I don't know, but I had it.
	I had it.
	Wow, I don't remember.
	I don't either, but we had it.
	Did you look up gay gay?
	Maybe find something?
	Many variations, yes.
	Nothing.
	Bath houses, bath, nothing.
	Take this one, too.
	Matthew Weaver, 202.02, requesting aim and fist bump.
	John and Adam, the second ever No Agenda Three Mile Island meetup wanted to chip in for an associate executive producership.
	Of course, this happened just days before the official pronouncement on episode 1220 that this shall not be done.
	Anyways, we didn't have any water or blankets, so here's your cash.
	Another great time was had near the banks of the Sasquahanna River.
	The highlight was definitely the appearance of Brendan F. all the way from Connecticut.
	Wow.
	On a mission to endure diversity in all meetings in the Northeast U.S. Is Brendan our token black who's running around?
	Is that what's going on?
	That's fantastic.
	Thank you for your courage, sir.
	737 photo and audio report sent via email to Adam and John.
	Yes, I have that for the meetup segment.
	And we'll throw in a karma for you, Three Mile Islanders.
	Amen!
	Fifth bump!
	You've got karma.
	Something different.
	Okay.
	Almost there.
	This is one of the meetup guys.
	Jim Van Beveren in Concord was there.
	$201.
	And he dropped off a check with a note.
	No Agenda is the best podcast in the universe.
	But watching animated No Agenda has made the show even better.
	I used to listen to...
	Oh, by the way, he's got two jingles lined up.
	I'll tell you what they are.
	Listen to that train and little girl yay.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	I used to listen to the show and visualize you in your respective studios based on photos I'd seen.
	Not any longer.
	After watching animated No Agenda, I see you guys as cartoon figures in a cartoon world.
	What an improvement!
	Agreed.
	Your media deconstruction simplifies and clarifies the M5M. Now I have a simple vision to accompany my simple understanding.
	Keep up the good work.
	P.S. I forgot to mail the check in January 10th.
	I hope it's still good.
	Jim Van Beveren.
	Yes.
	Anyway.
	Thank you, Jim.
	And thank you, Jennifer Buchanan, for always, for the fantastic Animated No Agenda.
	Go to Animated No Agenda on YouTube.
	Subscribe if you haven't already done that.
	Oh, my God!
	Woo!
	Listen to that horn!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	Anoushka Wardy from Lafayette, California.
	Oh, this is for you, but I'll read it.
	Hey, John.
	Last time I donated was shortly after an Oakland meetup.
	You called me out.
	Where were you?
	I planned to show up yesterday, but was on a winning streak playing Mahjong, so I couldn't leave.
	Love the show.
	Catch you next time.
	When you're on a winning streak of Mahjong, you just can't leave.
	It's like bad form.
	I guess.
	Yeah.
	Well, we got other meetups coming up.
	Maybe she'll show up.
	I won't recognize her.
	Who?
	Heather Isaacs next on the list.
	Fort Worth, Texas.
	$200.
	She writes, Can I get a de-douching so my smoking hot boyfriend can stop threatening to call me out as a douchebag?
	Done.
	You've been de-douched.
	Done.
	I am cutting my financial ties to Austin, Texas and selling my home so that I can escape the campers and the hipsters that have taken over my beloved home.
	I have lived in Austin for 10 years, by the way, TBD, which is worse for ATX. I'm not sure what that means.
	To be determined when she's going to leave.
	I have lived in Austin for 10 years, and while I have some great times, I'm running away for multiple reasons, mostly that the city I fell in love with has changed drastically, and Cleveland, Ohio, is pretty good.
	Well, hold on a sec.
	It's okay, Heather, I understand.
	However, I will stay here and fight back.
	I will fight the hipsters.
	I will push them back in their place.
	I think it's still worth a try to save Austin.
	Anyways, jingle request.
	Can I get a pretty good?
	It's true.
	Real estate buying and selling karma for me and my boyfriend.
	Thanks.
	Thanks, shining a light on the M5M. Epstein didn't kill himself and neither will Blago.
	Thanks, Heather.
	I think that sounds pretty good.
	That's true.
	You've got karma.
	Also from the Oakland Meetup.
	And by the way, there's a note that came in from the producer of the Meetup.
	She, by the way, works for For Slack.
	Is it Slack?
	Slack?
	Whatever that company is.
	Yeah, Slack.
	Yeah, she's one of the Slackers.
	She dropped off stickers for everybody.
	Oh, wait.
	This was Heather?
	Is it Heather?
	Yeah.
	Oh, my goodness.
	I wish I was there.
	Is it Heather?
	I have so many questions.
	I think it's Heather.
	I think that as much as I despise it and think it's very damaging, I believe that Slack...
	Despite what Andrew Horowitz thinks, is the groupware of this generation.
	I think it will continue to grow and be a very successful company.
	There's no lack of demand.
	No lack for the demand of Slack.
	It's very, very, very interesting how people come into companies and they expect Slack to be there.
	I think it's a long-term winner.
	We actually had something of a conversation.
	About Slack.
	Jennifer.
	Jennifer Chang.
	Not Heather.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	We had a long conversation about Slack and its implications.
	Many people have the special ring.
	It comes with a special bing.
	It makes some sort of noise.
	And it's sociologically in all the families of the people that are working in a company that requires Slack.
	They're always bitching about the phones.
	They're on the phones all the time.
	I'm in agreement with Andrew, but I'm in agreement with you.
	Slack, specifically, is Pavlovian, slave-oriented groupware.
	Yes.
	And that's better than Zoom and all that other stuff.
	I don't know where her position is at the company.
	She dropped a lot of stickers.
	She gave me a Slack bag.
	Wow, you are such a lucky man.
	I got more stuff to sell.
	Oh yeah, you sold the Frisbee.
	You sold your Bob Frisbee.
	Sold the Bob Frisbee, got other things to sell.
	We'll hopefully get to it in this show, otherwise I'll be at the wait.
	This show will end on Monday if we don't continue.
	Onward, onward.
	A lot of the commentaries in this segment.
	This is the last donation is Ron Pepper, who was at the meetup, and he sent a note in on a very interesting paper.
	Accounting via email.
	Please, oh yeah, okay, get your pen out, sorry.
	Please knight me Sir Peperazzi.
	He may be listed there because I thought I sent that to Eric.
	Yes, he is.
	Sir Peperazzi.
	He's listed.
	And just the jobs karma for my photography business, Panorama Network.
	All one word, panoramanetwork.com.
	Also, just back from Mexico, so he also dropped in an extra $25 by dropping off 500 pesos.
	Which I didn't account for because I'm just going to put it in.
	I'm not going to do anything with it.
	I think you'll like the photos from Mexico at Instagram.com rpepper slash rpepper.
	So there's photographs for everybody.
	That's it.
	He doesn't have any requests, so he's good.
	Wow!
	Well, these are an extensive list of executive producers and associate executive producers of clearly an important episode, 1221, The Palindrome to End All Palindromes.
	Thank you so much for doing this.
	It also makes me feel I'm really excited to go to Joe Rogan.
	I'll be appearing on Super Tuesday.
	I'm actually leaving tomorrow.
	Can I take my time?
	And I'm staying at the airport.
	I'm getting, like you now, John, old and curmudgeon-y.
	It's like, you know, that's the best place to stay is at the airport.
	And just all of this...
	Because you don't have the hassle of going to the airport.
	Exactly.
	But all of this support is incredibly encouraging, and I feel on top of the world, people.
	Thank you, and please take these titles seriously, because they are completely accepted wherever credits are recognized.
	So you can say that you are an executive producer or associate executive producer of No Agenda, so 1,221.
	Thank you for your courage, and for those so inclined, please support us for our next show, which will be on Thursday, the Big Super Tuesday Review Show.
	Can't wait!
	Remember, 3-3!
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water.
	Water.
	Shut up, play.
	Shut up, slave!
	All right.
	Kung flu.
	Kung flu.
	I'm going to give the most important piece of information right up front.
	It's going to be a big spoiler.
	And I posted this, but this is from the New England Journal of Medicine, which, as far as I know, is a reputable source.
	Is this a reputable source that we can see?
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Okay.
	So when people read this, they're not just going to say, It's not like the New York Times, no.
	This is written and researched by Anthony S. Fauci, Dr.
	Fauci, Clifford Lane, and Robert R. Redfield.
	These are people who have been around in the business for a very long time.
	The most important paragraph of this I'm going to read for you.
	Because this is the problem that I'm seeing with the numbers.
	And the numbers is the mortality or fatality rate which people are throwing out there.
	And the fatality rate is based upon number of cases who have it and number of people who die.
	Now, unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with testing kits.
	Some of the testing kits don't actually work as a kit.
	You have to draw blood to do it.
	So we really don't know how many people are actually infected.
	I could be infected right now and not know it.
	I may or may not get symptoms.
	This is a little different than severe influenza, which has different symptoms, and as much more is known throughout decades and decades of witnessing this.
	So it's very easy to say, oh, it has a 2% fatality rate.
	Well, yeah, that's with the people we have tested now.
	And I should mention that, as JC pointed out, I think I mentioned in the last show, to get tested, if you're like, here, and I want to get tested, the fee is $3,000 and the insurance companies won't pick it up.
	Yes, and so this skews our numbers, and actually I'm very tired of people telling me that I'm not taking this seriously, or send me all this stuff to look at.
	Let's just look at, and I think we've always taken the New England Journal of Medicine seriously.
	We don't take a lot of things seriously, but this we have.
	So I'll read you the most important paragraph.
	On the basis of a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, that's what people die from, or not, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%.
	In another article in The Journal, Guan et al. reported, report mortality of 1.4% amongst 1,099 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19.
	So that's an official.
	They got almost 1,100 people, and they got 1.4% of those people dying.
	These patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity.
	If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, that's what I just said, so I may have no symptoms or I'm feeling just a little uneasy, I'm not reporting, I'm not going to the emergency room, I'm not going to my doctor.
	If that is the case, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%.
	This suggests that the overall clinical consequences, which I believe to mean death, Of COVID-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza,
	which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%, or a pandemic influenza similar to those in 57 and 68, rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36% respectively.
	So this confirms what we have been suspecting, and from all the reports we've received, that this really is not a big deal.
	It is a media big deal for a number of reasons, and I have a few things to back up all assertions here.
	The first thing is Sanjay Gupta, who literally...
	Agrees with what is being said here, but this guy doesn't agree with it in real life, but he's saying the following.
	Do we have the means to test everyone?
	I don't think we do.
	And I think that this has been a glaring problem, to be candid.
	Again, you look at other countries around the world, including Korea, they have the testing.
	They've been doing the testing, up to thousands of tests a day.
	We know that some of the original test kits that were sent out to what are called POC, point of care locations, were flawed for various reasons.
	They didn't have the right control, they didn't have the right reagents, whatever it might be.
	But I think, you know, the numbers change a little bit, but maybe only seven different hospitals and locations around the country where you can actually get this testing done.
	And look, anecdotally, I talk to my friends in the medical community and they say, hey, there's patients who...
	Maybe fitting the criteria here.
	They weren't necessarily in China, but they were in Korea.
	They fly back.
	They're sick.
	They go to the doctor.
	They say, I should be tested.
	They're told, no, you don't fit the criteria.
	And by the way, we don't have the test anyways.
	Anyways?
	I'm going to overstate that.
	What the hell?
	Did you hear him?
	The doctor said anyways.
	Nice, Gooka.
	He said anyways.
	He told, no, you don't fit the criteria.
	And by the way, we don't have the test anyways.
	Anyways?
	I don't want to overstate this, but the concern is from a public health standpoint, readiness, really one of the first criteria is surveillance.
	And it's not clear to me right now that we have had the adequate surveillance in this country over the last several weeks to really get an idea of how significant this coronavirus outbreak is here in this country.
	We could be missing people.
	Okay, no, you are missing people.
	You're missing lots of people.
	And therefore, this magical two, some people are throwing around 3%, is completely unproven, not scientific, not based on actual data that you have.
	So if we can't test it, you can't be throwing these numbers out.
	And this was an exchange that took place during the press conference with Sanjay Gupta.
	And actually, it was Scott Adams who brought this to my attention.
	And I'm still not sure I agree with Scott Adams, but the...
	Sanjay Gupta definitely wanted to interpret something the president said the way he wanted to interpret it.
	I'm not so sure he got it right, but for sure there should have been some clarification before he went off reporting that the president is a complete nutjob.
	There were many times that the president expressed surprise about certainly the severity of the flu.
	He kept saying that this was news to him.
	He didn't know how serious the flu was.
	I mean...
	He watches a lot of TV. You'd think that that one would have come up.
	Can you believe this smug woman?
	He watches a lot of TV. Really?
	That's okay.
	He didn't know how serious the flu was.
	I mean, he watches a lot of TV. You'd think that that one would have come up.
	But here's your exchange with him.
	The flu has a fatality ratio of about 0.1%.
	This has a fatality ratio of somewhere between 2 and 3%.
	We don't know exactly.
	And the flu is higher than that.
	The flu is much higher than that.
	There's more people who get the flu.
	But this is spreading, or it's going to spread in any given communities.
	That's the expectation.
	Does that worry you?
	Because that seems to be what worries the Americans.
	No, because we're ready for it.
	Now, before we continue with this clip of Sanjay back at home base, how did you, John, how did you interpret what the president said when he said, it's much higher?
	He said that the flu is much higher.
	But it could have been the flu is much higher in the number of cases.
	It could have been the flu is much higher than the 0.01% that he said.
	So the...
	It was implying that the flu cases were either much higher or that the fatality of the flu is much higher.
	But not much higher than coronavirus, just much higher than whatever Gupta was saying, the 0.1%.
	Yeah, just much higher than what you're talking about.
	Because we're ready for it.
	What did you take away from that exchange, Sanjay?
	Well, you know, I mean, there are a few things.
	First of all, the president, I think, earlier was talking about the similarities between this coronavirus and the flu in terms of how it spreads.
	And, you know, there are similarities there.
	These are both very contagious pathogens.
	I think there's two things that really surprise me.
	One is that, like you point out, that we've been talking about the fact that Did you hear that, John?
	No, I didn't hear that at all.
	Well, that's how Dr.
	Sanjay Gupta is interpreting that.
	I didn't hear it either.
	Well, this is the way that Dimension B people interpret everything wrong.
	Let's just listen to it one more time.
	The clue has a fatality ratio of about 0.1%.
	This has a fatality ratio of somewhere between 2 and 3%.
	Given that, we don't know exactly.
	And the flu is higher than that.
	The flu is much higher than that.
	There's more people who get the flu, but this is spreading, or it's going to spread maybe within communities.
	That's the expectation.
	Does that worry you?
	Because that seems to be what worries the Americans.
	No, because we're ready for it.
	So again, here's what Gupta interprets.
	All of a sudden, he said, well no, flu mortality rates are higher than coronavirus.
	That's not what he said.
	He did not say flu rates are higher than corona.
	He never said, he never used the word coronavirus.
	I listened to it the second time.
	I can see the misinterpretation being there and nobody asked for clarification.
	And then you make the assumption that that's what he's saying.
	This is very common.
	Yes.
	But when you're talking, when you're scaring people on television, it's not such a good They should have at least asked for some clarification before blatantly.
	Let's finish it up.
	He said, well, no, flu mortality rates are higher than coronavirus.
	No, he didn't.
	I don't know why he said that, where he got that.
	It's not true.
	I mean, here's the concern.
	If you have two transmissible pathogens...
	Flu and coronavirus.
	They're both pretty transmissible.
	Flu mortality rates are about 0.1%.
	So 0.1% of the people who get an infection with the flu will die of it.
	With coronavirus, so far, the largest studies show the number's closer to 2%.
	That's a 20-fold difference.
	So if you have the same transmissibility, but one is 20 times more lethal, it is clear why public health officials are concerned about this.
	And I guess I was a little worried in an effort to sort of I'm not sure the president understood that particular point, at least in our exchange.
	That's a big deal, Sanjay, and that struck me as incredibly worrisome.
	It's dangerous if the president doesn't understand that coronavirus is 20 times more deadly than the flu.
	You see, now they're just making stuff up.
	So we already reviewed, they don't really have the mortality rate.
	We don't have it.
	Hold on a second.
	Does anyone have a calculator there?
	Because if the flu is 0.01, is what they said, right?
	20 times is 0.2, not 2.
	No, I don't think you're correct on that, John.
	I'm totally correct on this.
	It's 0.1, not 0.01, it's 0.1.
	You sure it's 0.1 or not 0.01?
	No, it's 0.1.
	Why would they just say.1 then?
	I don't think so.
	I think they said.1.
	Go back to the original clip.
	To Gupta's with the president?
	That clip?
	Yeah, where they dropped these numbers out.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Sorry.
	Here we go.
	Did you hear it in the beginning?
	Yeah, he said.1.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	So they're doing the math correct, but they're doing it based on no information.
	They don't have the test.
	They don't know.
	So it's very easy to say, well, we have this many people who have gone to the hospital.
	This many people have died.
	That's what it's got to be.
	But you can't compare that to decades of understanding influenza and when people show up.
	So I find it irresponsible.
	Irresponsible.
	It's just more anti...
	I said this to Mimi.
	I said, this is just, you know, anything you can do to pound Trump is good.
	And so there's a lot of, he doesn't know what he's talking about, stupid, and this was an interesting little...
	This was an interesting little controversy.
	We had one person die in Washington State.
	Here's the president talking about it.
	At this moment, we have 22 patients in the United States currently that have coronavirus.
	Unfortunately, one person passed away overnight.
	She was a wonderful woman, a medically high-risk patient in her late 50s.
	Wonderful woman.
	Now we go to CBS. Washington state public health officials gave new details in an afternoon press conference about the circumstances that led to the man's death.
	The person who died was a patient at Evergreen Hospital with underlying health conditions.
	It was a male in his 50s.
	So when I hear this, I'm like, okay, is the president lying?
	Is he stupid?
	That was a lot.
	This is MSNBC. Let me start with the most important part, and that is confirmation that an American has died in Washington state.
	We had early reports that it was a male, and a release from the governor of Washington referred to, our hearts go out to his family and friends.
	The president then said...
	That it was a woman in her 50s.
	The governor of Washington's press release has been changed to make a reference to there.
	So we are unclear.
	We do not have confirmation.
	We're trying to get confirmation.
	But we do know that the first U.S. citizen has died.
	I still don't know if it was a man or a woman, but this just goes to show you how stupid everything is.
	Dr.
	Drew, are we overreacting as...
	Yes.
	I'm hearing this from doctors left and right.
	Yes, and we are not overreacting.
	The press is overreacting, and it makes me furious.
	You are the press.
	The press should not be reporting medical stories as though they know how to...
	Oh, no, I heard...
	Yeah, Dr.
	Drew is really irked about this.
	Yeah.
	Dr.
	Drew, are we overreacting as...
	Yes.
	I'm hearing this from doctors left and right.
	Yes.
	And we are not overreacting.
	The press is overreacting.
	And it makes me furious.
	The press should not be reporting medical stories as though they know how to report it.
	If we have a pandemic, I won't know how to tell that we're actually having a pandemic because everything is an emergency.
	People that are infectious disease specialists, the CDC, the epidemiologists need to take this very seriously.
	The press needs to shut up because you're more likely to die of influenza right now.
	However, I'm not trying to go against you, but I have a question.
	It has now beat SARS in terms of fatalities, 362, and they're saying...
	But its fatality rate is still lower.
	But they're saying it spreads fast.
	It's a mild illness.
	It spreads all over the place, and it's only out of the 17,000...
	Indocumented infected, I bet there's hundreds of thousands of cases, 300 deaths, and always in immunocompromised people, always in people that are at risk for these sorts of things.
	If they get a severe viral respiratory infection, whether it's flu or corona or whatever, all of these can hurt people who are compromised.
	They can.
	The rest of us need to wash our hands carefully, get our influenza vaccines, listen to the CDC. If there's a problem, they will let us know.
	This The CDC made it very clear that 5,000 people just in the last two weeks have died from the flu.
	Here in America alone.
	Why are we panicked about that?
	Three people died on the streets of Los Angeles this morning from homelessness.
	If that were coronavirus, people would freak the hell out.
	Why aren't we putting our parties in the right place?
	It's the press.
	Yes, the press.
	And there's reasons for this.
	And there's beneficial reasons.
	This was just something, could not be, you know, could be something.
	Maybe I'm just reading too far into it.
	Tim Cook was interviewed by, I think it was CNBC. And of course, because China is where all their stuff is made, you know, the issues came up.
	Also the stock prices.
	Well, the stock market obviously is reacting and Apple has been down in the past few weeks.
	For someone that creates value inside America's largest company, do you think there's value that investors are missing?
	Well, my perspective, first of all, I don't really focus on the short-term gyrations of the market.
	I think, for me, and with the way we run the company, we work to the long-term.
	And I see no long-term difference between what was happening four weeks ago versus what's happening today.
	And so, the market takes time to recognize that and so forth, and it'll do what it's going to do.
	And I'm the last person to be able to predict it.
	But I would, you know, for me, I look through that, look through the noise and concentrate on the future.
	And the future looks very bright.
	You might be able to get Apple at a discount, at a 15% discount.
	Well, we are a buyer, right?
	You know, we have a share repurchase planned, and so, yes.
	This might be an opportunity to maybe up those share repurchases for Apple.
	I don't want to announce anything on the air, but everybody knows that we're buying shares and if the stock is lower, you buy more shares for the same amount of money.
	Bonanza!
	This is going to be a bonanza for these dickwads.
	I mean, Apple's been a net buyer since Carl Icahn first got involved in the company a couple of years ago.
	They've been doing this very consistently month after month after month.
	Of course.
	I still think they're buying high, but okay, if you think it's a bonanza.
	Can we play the CBS report?
	This is yesterday's update of the coronavirus story from the mainstream media on CBS.
	And just so we can get a little perspective on what the media is actually doing.
	Breaking news tonight.
	President Trump addressed the nation today, announcing the first coronavirus death in this country, a patient in Washington state.
	The president says there's no reason for panic.
	He plans to meet with drug companies on Monday to discuss vaccines.
	The outbreak has now spread with at least 65 cases across nine states.
	There have been three new cases today, all in Washington state.
	And Wall Street has been infected.
	The Dow lost more than 3,500 points this week, a 12 percent drop.
	CBS's Steve Dorsey is at the White House.
	There's no reason to panic.
	In an abruptly arranged White House news conference, President Trump tried to reassure the country his administration is taking unprecedented actions to contain the virus.
	It comes after he accused Democrats of trying to weaponize it against him at a South Carolina rally last night.
	This is their new hoax!
	And today, he doubled down.
	The hoax was used with respect to Democrats and what they were saying.
	It was a hoax, what they were saying.
	But the president's critics say he's the one putting politics ahead of public health.
	The problem is when you have the highest levels of the Trump administration actively using words like hoax, it sends a very dangerous signal to the American people.
	We want folks to take this seriously.
	Meanwhile, the White House is announcing new travel restrictions on foreign nationals who've recently visited Iran.
	It's also now telling Americans to avoid traveling to areas in Italy and South Korea most affected by the virus.
	It's certainly not a good situation.
	When you lose travel, that's a big part of market.
	But for a period of time, we're going to have to do whatever is necessary.
	Safety, health, number one.
	The markets will take care of themselves.
	The President also stepped up pressure today on the Fed to cut interest rates to help protect the economy.
	Steve, thank you very much.
	They're talking 50 basis points.
	Yeah.
	And I don't know much about the stock market.
	I've done some technical day trading.
	I see a beautiful double bottom on the SPY and the spider.
	I think that's done.
	I think we've hit the bottom.
	Unless the Pope dies, and that's like an if, who knows?
	He's been...
	Hold up in his chambers for the past three days.
	If the Pope dies, then all bets are off.
	Yeah, he's in the strike zone.
	Keep that mofo alive and we're pretty good.
	Let's compare SARS to coronavirus for a moment.
	Erin, authorities here do not know exactly how or where the man contracted this virus.
	All we know is that a Qatari man is in critical condition with a coronavirus.
	This is the same class of virus that causes the common cold, but also SARS. Now, unlike SARS, this virus doesn't just cause severe respiratory illness, it also seems to cause...
	Kidney failure.
	Now, fortunately, it doesn't seem to spread as quickly as SARS, but this is something that medical authorities still are trying to figure out.
	What they do know is that a second patient was diagnosed earlier in June with that same virus.
	That patient died.
	And what authorities are looking at now is to see whether or not these two patients were in any way connected and how or where these two may have contracted that virus.
	And that will help authorities figure out whether or not this virus is spreading or whether it is already much more widespread.
	Just to show you, we've been around that was MERS, though, that clip.
	That clip was from 2012.
	Yeah, that was a MERS. That wasn't SARS. No, I just wanted to put it in there.
	Oh, yeah.
	Just to show we've been through this.
	We've seen it.
	We've been around the block.
	We got the DVD, the t-shirt, the bumper sticker.
	Calm down.
	Calm down, people.
	And you're right.
	It is just more reason to go after the president, which I find, when you're talking about life and death, even though it's not all that horrible, it's really messed up what the press is doing.
	In fact, this is...
	Fauci, who is...
	I'm not a fan of Fauci, by the way.
	The guy owns patents on viruses.
	He's a total douchebag.
	But he's been in this business for a long time through multiple administrations.
	People trust him.
	So he canceled several appearances on the Sunday shows.
	And immediately, this is what the press does.
	Thank you, Mr.
	President.
	And I'm just going to ask you directly about this with regard to the flow of information.
	From the very beginning, you received a lot of criticism regarding that, in particular about...
	Dr.
	Anthony Fauci.
	He is world-renowned in contagious diseases.
	And there were reports out there that he was being muzzled.
	Can you tell us that this widely respected expert, Dr.
	Fauci, will have every opportunity to tell us the truth?
	That's a very dishonest question because he has had that ability to do virtually whatever he's wanted to do.
	He's not being muzzled.
	In fact, he was never muzzled.
	Okay.
	I think I can speak.
	You can speak.
	Why don't you speak to them?
	That's a very dishonest question, but that's okay.
	It's not dishonest.
	I want to clarify, Mr.
	President.
	I want to clarify.
	So, let me clarify it.
	I have never been muzzled, ever, and I've been doing this since the administration of Ronald Reagan.
	I'm not being muzzled by this administration.
	What happened, which was misinterpreted, Yeah, well I can't wait until the media says he's been co-opted.
	He's been hypnotized by the president.
	Yeah, that's good.
	He's gone off the reservation.
	We can't trust him anymore.
	Fauci is one of them!
	Yeah, this is what they did with Barr.
	Yeah.
	And you know you've reached...
	Go ahead.
	No, that's very funny that you make that obvious, because that's exactly what they do.
	First, they accuse the president of something that didn't happen, and they do a dishonest question, as he says.
	And then the guy who gets the focus says, hey, no, nothing happened.
	He says, oh, the guy's sold out!
	Sold out.
	That's the one.
	Sold out.
	He's a multi-millionaire, owns patents to multiple vaccines.
	Sell out, sure.
	But you know you've reached peak coronavirus when Fox Business News brings you this one.
	Four-legged furry friends.
	We're talking about all ourselves, we're focused on ourselves, you know, buying perishables, trying to prepare for whatever's gonna happen in the next coming months or weeks or so, but what about our pets?
	The FDA is now saying that six out of the 32 companies here in the United States that make active drugs for pets could be facing supply issues.
	Why is that?
	Because they get some of their active ingredients from China.
	They've already issued just they're talking about the fact that there could be disruptions.
	There haven't been any disruptions.
	So I don't want to alarm any of our viewers right now.
	OK, but we know that on the CDC.
	I like it when she's not trying to alarm me by shouting website.
	They are warning us to get nonperishable items and to stock up on possibly medication.
	Now you may have to consider that for your pets, given this industry, true, is worth about $75 billion.
	I'm not sure if we can see it on the screen right now, but there's some stocks that I pulled up.
	Zotus, they're well known in the industry in the United States for animal health.
	I was just speaking with an investment banker earlier this morning who said he flew down to Texas for a deal.
	He went to go shake the CFO's hand and the CFO for this deal refused to shake his hand for fear of catching something.
	And it wasn't just the CFO, it was one of his colleagues as well.
	So I feel like the fear factor seems to be escalating a little bit, even though we haven't seen the spread yet here in the United States.
	But people are definitely taking precautions, especially when it comes to your pets.
	Yep, but those anecdotal stories actually are very important.
	Very important!
	I know they're anecdotal, but they are important because that's the mood of the country.
	I need to assess the anxiety level in the country.
	Good stuff, Christina.
	Thanks so much indeed.
	Yes, cover your kids' ears.
	Fuck you, Varney.
	I was watching Kimmel, and I don't remember the guest.
	But one of the guests comes out and refused to shake hands or hug.
	And so you came up with a fist bump?
	Yeah.
	And the guest...
	No, no, no.
	He said, no, let's do a...
	Elbow.
	Foot bump.
	No, knee bump.
	No, I think it was a foot bump.
	Did you watch it?
	It wasn't the one with Schlesinger, but that was their first...
	It was the...
	Oh, no.
	It was the one before Schlesinger.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Wasn't it Better Call Saul, the actor?
	Yeah, that guy.
	I thought it was...
	I didn't know it was a knee bump.
	I thought it was a foot kick.
	Whatever it was.
	Stupid.
	It was totally stupid.
	Come over here.
	I'll put my tongue in your mouth.
	Well, no, I won't do that.
	But you know what?
	Just kind of the idea.
	You can do that with Rogan.
	Now, that would be legendary.
	That would be the way.
	Think of the ratings.
	Now, one other thing I do want all producers to pay attention to.
	We've heard the calls for, the president said, $2.5 billion, which is really only a billion because we already had this money set up.
	January 29th, the president announced his coronavirus panel of experts.
	And if you recall, what was the media's response?
	Do you remember what CNN said about the president's coronavirus task force?
	Losers!
	No.
	Look at the picture!
	Coronavirus Task Force, another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity.
	No black people!
	That's all they can say about it on the 29th of January.
	And the people who are in and on the task force are quite accomplished.
	But, of course, no one's going to look at that.
	Now, what you need to look at is Chuck Schumer said, no, no, no, no, no.
	Oh, we need eight and a half billion.
	Minimum, we need eight billion.
	Ahem.
	This will all be put together in the coronavirus spending bill.
	And I was talking to the keeper about this yesterday.
	She didn't know this, and it warrants re-explanation.
	When big bills go through, National Defense Authorization Act, any spending bill...
	There will often be line items in there known as pork, which will have zero relation to what is the topic at hand.
	So the National Defense Authorization Act will have something in there for a post office lawn.
	These are all the goodies.
	This is the negotiation that goes on in the smoke-filled rooms to get the bill passed.
	The Patriot Act, which has enabled massive spying on United States citizens by the government, is due to expire on March 13th, 12th or 13th.
	If it's not reauthorized, the authorization to spy and many other things, some good, but most of them egregious and crap in the Patriot Act, will not get reauthorized.
	Pay attention to the coronavirus spending bill.
	I guarantee you there's going to be some little gotchas in there that'll be jammed through that will reauthorize some parts of the Patriot Act.
	We've got to pay attention to that because that's how these a-holes would do it.
	Big fear.
	Gotta spend it.
	Gotta put it through.
	Gotta do it.
	Don't pay any attention.
	And they slip it in.
	And that should come up any day now.
	It should be on the house of the floor perhaps this coming week.
	It should be at least.
	And that is your coronavirus updates.
	You've got Corona.
	I got myself a case of Wuhan flu.
	I don't know what I am supposed to do.
	Didn't know I had it when I gave it to you.
	Now we all got the Wuhan flu.
	We live another day.
	Well, while all this is going on, the big story, what do you think the big worldwide story is?
	At least I have my opinion.
	That's not reported at all.
	We don't care.
	Screw it.
	Because I see your clips, I know what it is already.
	I can already line it up.
	I will line it up.
	It's locusts!
	In northern Kenya, the next generation of locusts has already been born.
	But as the plague multiplies and spreads Africa and the Horn of Africa, governments, hit by violence or a lack of supplies, are struggling to hold back the tide.
	In a region where 19 million people already go hungry, The UN's Food and Agricultural Organization representative to Kenya, Dr.
	Tobias Takavarasha, says it's a disaster that eclipses all others.
	It is a big threat.
	It is the biggest threat.
	Much as we say drought is a threat, much as we say that floods can be a threat, but if we are trying to rank them, I think they're all threat, but desert local situation is an unprecedented threat on food security.
	A single square kilometre swarm can eat as much food in a day as 35,000 people.
	And the FAO warned last month that, left unchecked, the number of locusts in East Africa could explode by 500 times by June.
	When eggs hatch, as they have been doing recently in Kenya's Archer's Post, the young locusts, or hoppers, are earthbound for two weeks and are more vulnerable to spraying.
	But this month Kenya, the region's wealthiest and most stable country, ran out of pesticide for about a week and a half, leaving residents and farmers to watch helplessly as the crops they count on to feed their families were devoured.
	Yeah, I have been following this a little bit, but only when you turn on Pluto TV will you see this report anywhere.
	Yeah, this is unbelievably horrible.
	Nobody's reporting on it.
	It's good.
	I mean, if I was a news director, it's good material.
	It's great video.
	It's great video.
	To horrify people.
	Yeah, the videos are good.
	The videos are fabulous.
	Let's play part two.
	It's disturbing because we've never seen anything like this.
	And also, when they land on vegetation, they eat everything, even the grass.
	If this continues, they will eat all the vegetation.
	In neighbouring Uganda, the military has been deployed, hand spraying trees in the morning before locusts take flight.
	Somalia, where the infestation was first reported in December, can't provide security to exterminators.
	Ethiopia needs 500,000 litres of pesticide for the upcoming harvest and planting season.
	But the country's single pesticide factory is struggling to produce its maximum 200,000 litres as foreign exchange shortages have delayed the purchase of chemicals.
	The pesticides are available, but the pesticides require financial resources before they can be released.
	The FAO says containing the plague will cost at least $138 million.
	So far, donors have pledged $52 million.
	And where's Bill Gates?
	Where's Bill Gates?
	Yeah, it's $138 million, which is a lot of money to kill some bugs.
	$138 million, Bill Gates, you can name him, you can name Bezos, there's all these guys.
	This is like chump change.
	Because they're black, John, they don't care.
	They're racist.
	I don't know if that's true, but it sounds good.
	Let's look at the ten plagues of Egypt, of which the locust is one.
	Water turning to blood.
	I don't think we have an example of that yet.
	The frogs.
	Ebola.
	Okay.
	Frogs.
	The frogs.
	Lice or gnats.
	Lice is definitely all over the place.
	Wild animals.
	Yeah, hmm.
	I don't know.
	Pestilence of livestock.
	Boils.
	Thunderstorm, hail, and fire.
	There you go.
	That's California.
	Darkness for three days and death of firstborn babies.
	We're ahead of the game so far.
	I think we're doing okay.
	Yeah, sounds good.
	We're doing okay.
	Yeah, it's very interesting how actual news is just pushed away by something that is handy to scare people with.
	And it's done by amateurs.
	These news people are amateurs.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	And they don't care.
	They don't care.
	You're incompetent.
	It's just like, why does anybody read these publications or watch these TV shows?
	They don't give you anything.
	There's nothing else.
	By the way, the locust story is exciting if you're a news person.
	No, that's not for these news people.
	It's got to do with Trump.
	Yeah, got to have Trump.
	Here's how I would spin it.
	Now, here's how I would spin it.
	Let me see if I can do this.
	It would have to be something like...
	Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the president already ignoring coronavirus, now the heavens above are showing us how scary he is with locusts!
	I could turn it into a story.
	There's some ways.
	There's just ways of doing it.
	I got other international stories, but I think we need to take a break.
	But I do want to get this one out of the way, which is there is an Afghanistan story flow.
	Just a small story.
	Small one.
	Yeah, we've only been fighting this war for 18 years.
	But this actually was on CBS, so it's not completely, I think it was on Saturday.
	It's not completely ignored by the mainstream, but it could have been, I think it's a little more important than Trump calling a man a woman.
	The United States today signed a historic peace agreement with the Taliban.
	It could end America's longest war, which began after September 11, 2001.
	MTS Tayyip has the details.
	For a war that started with such fury, the first real step towards ending it was a gentle pen stroke.
	The agreement signed by the U.S. and Taliban's top negotiators was also, quite literally, written on the wall.
	A peace deal nearly 19 years after 9-11.
	Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was there to witness it.
	We recognize that America shouldn't fight in perpetuity in the graveyard of empires if we can help Afghans forge peace.
	We believe that the Afghan people are ready to short their own course forward.
	The course forward follows more than a year of tough negotiations.
	The Trump administration is promising to pull out 5,000 of the roughly 13,000 U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan within 135 days.
	And in 14 months, a full withdrawal.
	The job we've done has been a fantastic one in terms of Terrorists and terrorism, and it's time for our people to start coming home.
	But only if the Taliban keeps up its side of the bargain, which requires it to sever ties with al-Qaeda and to negotiate power-sharing with other Afghan political factions.
	Not part of the deal?
	Protecting the rights of women and minorities who were so brutally repressed the last time the Taliban was in power.
	But after a trillion dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, If you want to see the fighting continue, I hope this really is the beginning of the end.
	If you have time, CBS News, London.
	Yeah, did you look at the details of this deal?
	No, I didn't.
	I did, and I think it's a drug deal.
	Oh, I'm sure of that.
	Because we're going to leave 8,400 troops there, which is kind of what we had before we put in a few more.
	And we're going to allow 5,000 Taliban to be let out of incarceration as part of the deal.
	To me, it's like, okay, you got your guys to get the drugs and you got us to go ship them back.
	There's no way we can leave there.
	We need to continue to ship the drugs.
	Yeah, we're the drug dealer, and we also have to protect the lithium from the Chinese.
	Exactly.
	And Iran is not happy with any of this.
	Iran is really like, ugh, they don't like it.
	Well, they haven't been happy since we first talked to the Taliban, and they made a point in telling us that.
	Well, I think they're the ones that killed a few people when they were supposed to go to Camp David and have the meeting, and then Trump blew them off.
	He said, oh, these wise guys.
	But I think the Iranians did part of that.
	It's a messy part of the world.
	Let someone else have it.
	Yeah, the Turks.
	There you go.
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	No Agenda Meetup!
	It's not your party!
	It's not your party!
	Yes!
	It's like a party!
	Yeah, just to jack it all into one show, we had a number of meetups on Leap Day, of course.
	How could you not want to do that?
	And we received increasingly improving meetup reports.
	I'm really liking it, people.
	You're doing much better.
	You're keeping them short.
	Some of them appear to be produced, which is incredibly appreciated.
	And this, of course, is not only for people to see each other face-to-face, to meet like-minded people who are not triggering, which is incredibly healthy, but it is also your way to feed back into the show, just like the donation segment.
	So we'll go through these reports.
	The first one is the Vancouver-British-Columbia meetup.
	Thanks, Adam and John.
	This is Adam Bowen on location at Gunking.
	I'm here in Vancouver, Scandinavia, with a no-agenda meet-up.
	You know, not a lot of people showed up, but the people that did were really quality people.
	It was like a party!
	That's true.
	Hey, this is Kevin at the Vancouver meet-up in the morning.
	Hi, it's Adam.
	In the morning.
	Hey, it's Dean.
	Thanks for the healthy amygdala.
	It's Al, Baron of BC here, just at the Vancouver meet-up.
	Hope to see another meet-up here in the short future.
	Hey, it's Laura.
	Thanks for the sanity.
	It's Demi.
	In the morning!
	Hey, man, fist bump.
	Isn't that one of the best meetup reports you've ever heard?
	The best so far.
	Doing like the outdoor yelling in the wind like Anderson Cooper.
	That's the way it is in Vancouver.
	Chicago, Illinois!
	And this is Brian, this is us live at the Chicago meetup.
	We are sucking in soot and we are here!
	In the morning!
	Yeah!
	That's true!
	From Chicago, Illinois to Three Mile Island.
	Greetings Gitmo Nation from the Three Mile Island meetup.
	We'd like to say hi starting with our special guest, Brendan.
	Hi everybody.
	Thank you for your courage.
	I went up and down the northeast looking for another person of color and I found one.
	That'll trigger mall 58.
	Sir 737 and my smoking hot bride.
	Hi, I'm token girl Chris.
	Steve here, in the morning, and it's like a potty.
	This is Chris here, sucking in soot here in Central PA. In the morning, Gitmo Nation, this is Sir Fomgar.
	Good morning, Adam and John.
	We're here just having a great potty.
	Stay woke!
	You slay me.
	Kansas City!
	Alright, Sir Spencer, Wolf of Kansas City here with another KC edition of No Agenda Meetups here in the city of Super Bowl champions.
	We're going to pass it around right now.
	Hello, this is Circumspect from Oak Grove, Missouri.
	I am officially requesting a name change.
	I'd like to be Sir Dick Pound, the longest standing member of the No Agenda Nation.
	Thank you.
	Shout out to everybody in Omaha.
	Made the one show hour trips down here.
	Shout out to Pasty.
	Jordan with an H. Douchebags.
	Damn it, can we start over?
	No!
	Damn!
	Messed it up.
	I'm a douchebag anyway.
	Who are you, douchebags?
	Darius from Lenoma, the lower Platte Valley of Ashland.
	Here we go.
	Let's just give it in the morning, right?
	In the morning!
	From Kansas City to Zurich, Switzerland...
	Greetings from Gitmo Nation Fondue here, Switzerland.
	We have 10 people here.
	My name is Sir Swiss Senna, Black Knight, and let's hear from the other ones.
	Hi, this is Cyrus, the American virus from Iran.
	I'm feeling pretty good.
	Hi, this is Phil.
	I have an important announcement to make.
	Ah, there goes the sepher.
	Hi, this is Sir Lucas from Munich in the morning.
	ITM, here is Sir Philip is out and Jeffrey Epstein didn't care himself.
	ITM, I'm Sub-Swiss from the Zurich Islands.
	Hi, here's a dude named Stefan.
	ITM. All together.
	In the morning!
	Now, that actually...
	I wish I could be at that meet-up.
	I bet that was fantastic.
	Zurich.
	Ten people.
	Now, San Antone, Texas.
	Look, my name is Andrew and I'm having a fantastic time at the No Agenda Meetup in San Antonio.
	Let me be clear.
	I'm Jess and this is the San Antonio Meetup.
	Listen, there are good people, good beer, good conversations to be had.
	We need more San Antonio slaves coming out here.
	Y'all have a good time.
	Have a good one.
	Hi, I'm Anne, formerly from California, now happily at the San Antonio Meetup.
	Hello, I'm Godman, just a douchebag on the internet.
	And then finally, the Bay Area Troll Moot Meetup in California.
	Hello, this is the Bay Area Troll Moot.
	In the morning.
	Drake's dealership.
	In the morning.
	In the morning.
	The anonymous gay accountant.
	In the morning.
	At the meetup.
	In the morning.
	In the morning, this is Dave from NoAgendaFun.com.
	This is Nancy.
	China is asshole for the coronavirus.
	It's KM6TMZ. It's true!
	Roll room, the sewer, and hog story.
	This is lavish.
	In the morning, this is Alex, 11-11 night.
	Xie Gong Wu.
	I'm braving the coronapocalypse for heads on sticks.
	In the morning.
	In the morning, this is Jim from Concord.
	This is fairness.
	Sarah Rupert, here with human resource Violet.
	In the morning!
	This is Adriana.
	My millennials, stay awoke.
	In the morning!
	Wow.
	Wow.
	It's like my brain is just blowing up from this.
	Thank you, everybody.
	These are fantastic reports.
	Very, very good.
	Well done.
	On the calendar, Thursday, Michigan Local 1.
	Friday, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
	Oregon Local 33, also on Friday.
	And the day of the dude, that will be Friday.
	Where is that going to be?
	Miami, Florida.
	Meet at Hookah and More.
	If you...
	Would like to know more about any meetups, go to NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	If you don't find something near you, it's very simple.
	Just put something on the list.
	AgendaMeetups.com.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Triggered all hell's flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	You had a lot of fun at the Oakland Moot Meetup.
	Except it was at Drake's, which is the only drawback.
	I can't believe the food they cook at that place.
	Oh my god, it's just so inedible.
	Oh, really?
	And everything has to be french fries.
	It's like french fries with this on it, french fries with that on it.
	Nachos were french fries.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Nasty.
	Good group, though.
	Well, I mean, just listen to these people.
	I mean, who doesn't want to be a part of that?
	I mean, I wanted to be there.
	There's a couple of them.
	I want to be all of them.
	It'll be great.
	Can we play a little Spot the Spook?
	Yes.
	Oh, just for your data points, Steven Spielberg has pulled out of the new Indiana Jones movie, which is supposed to start filming this summer.
	Steven Spielberg pulled out of the French Academy for the César Awards after Polanski won it.
	I mean, play this Polanski, cause this stir clip.
	Oh, interesting.
	I had a different take on it, but good.
	The renowned French film awards, the Césars, held their 45th ceremony on Friday evening.
	But they took a dramatic turn when convicted child rapist Roman Polanski won the award for Best Director.
	Actress Adele Enel, a figurehead of France's Me Too movement, stormed out of the hall shouting shame while she was followed by a few others.
	A couple hundred protesters rallied outside the venue before the event started, calling out the choice to celebrate Polanski's work.
	One activist said that supporting the director's work stopped victims from coming forward.
	Polanski said this was a public lynching, but he was convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in the U.S. in 1977.
	He pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and fled the country on the eve of his sentencing.
	He's faced multiple accusations of rape since then.
	This is the fifth time Polanski has won Best Director at the Césars.
	But this time, the Academy resigned en masse.
	Two weeks ago, the whole board of the awards stepped down.
	A general meeting will soon be held to elect a new board, which the Academy says will work to implement reforms in modernization.
	Well, this is interesting because it plays into what I was going to inform you of, is that Spielberg pulling out of the new Indiana Jones movie is a big deal, moreover, because it is a Disney film.
	And so we have apparently some very old audio and or videotapes of casting that Spielberg was doing, asking very inappropriate questions of child actors.
	Remember, Bob Iger just resigned from Disney.
	There's a lot of pedo stuff circling around these guys.
	Something's going on.
	Something smells bad.
	I don't know.
	I don't know why I know.
	But I know a lot of people are like, what?
	He's not going to direct that?
	What?
	Shoot.
	You got any more gems like that?
	Oh, that's the gem of gems.
	That is pretty good.
	We can go.
	Now you got a couple things to just get out of the way.
	These are short.
	Okay.
	Let's play the SpaceX rocket blows up, so we know that happened.
	A spectacular explosion of a SpaceX rocket, the Starship Super Rocket, blew up late Friday night during a test near Brownsville, Texas.
	The rocket, designed to ferry cruise to the moon and Mars, was destroyed.
	The blast could be heard and felt for miles around.
	Yeah, I heard it.
	I heard it.
	The ground shook.
	Really?
	No.
	No.
	Well, thanks.
	I didn't even know it until this morning.
	I don't care.
	I have an example of lousy reporting.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm always in for that.
	Trader Joe, the Trader JPE loused reporting.
	Trader Joe has died.
	Joe Cologne was 89.
	He opened his first quirky grocery store in Pasadena, California, 53 years ago.
	Now there are more than 500 Trader Joes in over 40 states.
	They don't want to mention this is actually now owned by the German grocery store chain?
	Yes, it's Aldi.
	Yeah, Aldi.
	But they don't mention that?
	I mean, because there's not Trader Joe running it.
	I hate that kind of thing.
	In fact, the way I understood the story is that there were two brothers, and they were going to take over the supermarket business in the United States.
	That's Aldi's.
	Yeah.
	But then the one brother didn't want to sell tobacco products, so then he bought Trader Joe's.
	Because he didn't want to be a part of the Aldi selling tobacco.
	Yeah, they had a tiff.
	This whole Trader Joe was a hashtag.
	Oh, RIP Trader Joe, I love your place, man.
	The guy hasn't had anything to do with the store for a decade.
	For years.
	Oh, well.
	Oh, well, Twitter.
	We'll just go along with you.
	Now, I thought this was a good story.
	Another underplayed story that nobody's talking about, but it's a gem, because, you know, I think if it wasn't for coronaviruses, it would have been played up a little bit.
	China Olympic doping scandal like the Russians.
	Oh, boy.
	China's three-time Olympic gold medalist Sun Yang expressed his shock of being handed an eight-year ban on Friday for a dope test violation that rules him out of the Tokyo Games and said he would immediately appeal the decision.
	The Court of Arbitration for Sport earlier accepted an appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency against a decision by swimming's governing body to clear sun of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 test.
	Cass said the eight-year ban was imposed because the 28-year-old already had an earlier anti-doping rule violation against him.
	Sun expressed his anger at the decision, saying in a statement, I firmly believe in my innocence, believe that facts must overcome lies.
	The Chinese swimmer is the reigning world and Olympic champion in 200 metres freestyle and won two gold medals in 2012 and another in 2016, but is also a controversial figure in the sport.
	At the Rio Games, Australian rival Mac Horton accused him of being a drug cheat and refused to share a podium with Son at last year's World Championship whilst the appeal hung over him.
	As did British swimmer Duncan Scott, who won 200 metres freestyle bronze.
	Cass ruled that Sun's world championship results should remain because he passed doping control before and after the 2018 test when his entourage smashed vials containing blood samples taken out of competition.
	The Chinese Swimming Association said it deeply regretted the ruling and supported Sun in defending his interests.
	You know, I'm sure this is not being reported.
	The Chinese own so much media industry.
	I mean, do you know that they own, like, 15% of Reddit?
	No, but why am I not surprised?
	Yeah, well, that explains everything.
	That's explained why they're getting rid of the Trump forums or whatever, the Donald or whatever it is.
	It explains why there's dicks on our Reddit.
	It's Chinese who hate us, I think.
	Well, maybe.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	Last story I want to play is the new...
	Trump has gone back to Radcliffe as his head of the DNI. Yeah, DNI. Yeah, DNI. Department of National Intelligence, whatever it's called.
	And, of course, they're making a story out of a fuss about it, the mainstream media, because they don't like, you know, Trump picks the guys no good.
	Because let's play it so we can catch up.
	Yeah, I'm just not sure.
	Intel honcho.
	Ah, that's what I wanted.
	President Trump still praised John Radcliffe, his pick, once again, to be the nation's top spy.
	All right, the guy, he cut out because they were coming up with some oppo research on him that he had inflated his academic career or something.
	Yeah, he had some bullshit or something that wasn't necessary.
	He took some time to go erase the problem.
	He pulled a Biden.
	Yeah.
	Catherine Herridge reports he's a controversial choice to lead the nation's 17 intelligence agencies.
	In his first television interview since the announcement, Texas Congressman Republican John Radcliffe pushed back against charges he's not qualified to lead the intelligence agencies.
	I've been handling national security issues as far back as 2005.
	But critics say you've never held a job in the intelligence community.
	I think what we've seen is that some of our most experienced intelligence officials have gotten it wrong with respect to important issues.
	I want you to respond to critics who say President Trump puts loyalty ahead of experience.
	My experience as a U.S. attorney on national security issues, as a legislator almost exclusively in these areas, that was important to him.
	Loyalty, what we've talked about is my loyalty to the Constitution.
	Randcliffe was a passionate defender of the president during the Russia probe and more recently impeachment.
	He was among the first to flag irregularities in the surveillance of a Trump campaign aide.
	I've had a very public role and I've demonstrated that I've been right on some of these most important issues.
	Radcliffe was tapped last summer for the job, but it was withdrawn after allegations he padded his resume.
	What's changed?
	I reconsidered because the president asked me, and I think when the president asks you to do something for your country, you look at that.
	Just because someone in your business accuses you doesn't make it true.
	The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, called him unqualified.
	Can you get through the confirmation process?
	I think that I'll have the support of all Republicans at the end of the day.
	I'm going to work hard to convince at least some of my Democratic colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
	Congressman Radcliffe tells CBS News he expects the confirmation process to move quickly.
	And if confirmed, Radcliffe said, one priority is ensuring the intelligence community becomes entirely apolitical.
	Well, this is the guy...
	That has to do it.
	This national security bureaucracy, which I've named myself, stands for NSB. Look it up, historically.
	That has to stop.
	This is the problem, is these intel agencies, 17 of them.
	He's got to do something about that.
	Yeah, well, he's got a mind to, so we'll see.
	I think he had a mind to before, and I thought they rousted him.
	He's the one who withdrew his...
	His resume and his application.
	He got driven out and he came back.
	Maybe in the purge of the National Security Council.
	Maybe they got rid of some elements that were bothersome and now he's coming in.
	I don't know.
	Can we call it?
	I think we're good.
	All right.
	I think we're very good.
	But we're also at the end of the show.
	And we're also late.
	Eh, what's late?
	What's late?
	It's a podcast.
	There is no late.
	You got somewhere to go?
	You got a job or something?
	Thank you all very much for listening to our...
	Oh, it'll be three and a half hours by the time we're done with our end-of-show mixes.
	Thanks to Jesse Coy Nelson, Danny Luce, Sir Fletcher, Conan Salada, and Sir Seatsitter for our end-of-show mixes.
	And it's Emi Karm, everybody, for the JRE on Tuesday.
	It'll probably be out on Wednesday, I guess.
	He doesn't stream live anymore.
	And I look forward to seeing y'all on Thursday.
	Coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, FEMA Region No.
	6 on all the governmental maps, in case you're looking for them.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's Biden country, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda, noagendastream.com.
	Until then, adios mofos and such.
	Hillary Clinton is starting a podcast.
	Podcast girl, she's been living in a podcast world.
	I wonder if she'll talk about the ever-growing Clinton body count.
	I'm so happy for the podcast girl.
	Her podcast gonna change the world.
	Will she talk about the whiskey's dress?
	Or will she talk about the Lolita Express?
	Or how she killed Jeffrey Epstein?
	Or a recipe for spirit cooking.
	Podcast Girl!
	I'm so happy for the podcast, girl She's got a new podcast, yeah It's gonna be a blast in her hair The Hillary Clinton experience Just to rip off Joe Rogan right away Alright, hit this.
	I would appreciate it if you would goat me.
	Straight up goat me.
	So, um, goat me.
	hello yeah here we go yeah
	With the invention of Senseo, that's what started.
	Earthquake weather.
	Earthquake, earthquake.
	Stop!
	Earthquake weather.
	Stop, man!
	Oh, I see what you're saying.
	Drill the extra hole.
	I can drill my own damn hole.
	Drill the extra hole.
	They would have the equipment to drill the hole precisely.
	You're using a super-beam-a-stick plastic coffee maker in the motel room.
	Wow.
	It sounded tiny, Mike.
	It really did.
	Have you seen it?
	Computer algorithm failure.
	Great show.
	Oh, it's just a bunch of dudes.
	Computer glitch.
	Whoops.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Woo!
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Touchy show.
	Woo!
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	If a human being does want to stay alive.
	Woo!
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	Oops.
	Oops.
	It was a little too much ambience for me.
	Ha, ha, ha, ha.
	What's the option?
	Sure, well, I think I was told it's going to be this.
	Which is, I got an interview with Dick Pound, who is the longest standing member.
	I'm told what Russia intends to do, Russia is going to do.
	Dick Pound.
	And the Japan Times, which is, I got an interview with Dick Pound.
	I would have jumped on.
	The president is a Russian operative.
	And the I 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.
	It's going to be the same playbook.
	I'm going to interview with Dick Pound.
	It's going to be a member of the internet.
	What's the guy's name?
	I think I was told it's going to be...
	She's got an interview with Dick Pound.
	I would have jumped on.
	It's going to be...
	I'm told what Russia intends to do.
	It's the longest, come on.
	It's going to be...
	Are you kidding me?
	That came up with the internet.
	2016 playbook.
	Of stealth is a Russian operative.
	We're going to do the same thing.
	Carnage on our streets.
	A hundred and fifty million.
	You know, I think I am told what Russia intends to do is...
	Don't get far unless you ask.
	My name is Joe Biden.
	I'm a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.
	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.
	If you could have, 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.
	It's going to be...
	If there was a pill that I could take and not be gay anymore, I would have jumped on it.
	The president is a Russian operative.
	There's a pill.
	There's a pill.
	I got an interview with Dick Pound.
	I would have jumped on.
	And a member of the Internet.
	Russian operative.
	And the Japan Times.
	And the Japan.
	Who is the longest dick pound of the internet?
	What's the guy's name?
	Dick member of the pound.
	And he's the longest.
	Compound Times.
	Which is, I've got an interview with Kidding Me.
	I would have jumped on.

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