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	Orange man kill babies.
	Adam Curry, John C. DeVore.
	It's Sunday, March 8th, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 1223.
	This is No Agenda.
	This is No Agenda.
	Throwing yoga flame and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where we have shaved heads and fists in the air, it's International Women's Day.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Wow, man, leave California.
	Is that what you got there?
	Is that all you have for International Women's Day?
	Shaved heads and fists in the air.
	No.
	Seriously?
	Is that what's going on?
	No.
	You're making that up, right?
	They screwed Elizabeth Warren.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, that's true.
	Oh, man.
	I just had to think.
	We had the New York banker, the former New York banker and his wife over last night.
	Yes.
	We hosted them.
	And so that's why I was chuckling about Elizabeth Warren.
	I learned a couple things.
	Yes, we're all ears, everybody.
	I just want to make sure you're ready for me.
	Let me see.
	Four main topics.
	One, the New York Times sucks.
	It's now using the same model as Fox News.
	Pander to your audience.
	Caveat, he says, that's the only way you can make money anymore in media.
	This is a revelation to him?
	Well, I don't know.
	I guess.
	Yeah.
	Then I have...
	Ah, yes.
	We talked about the economy and what's going to happen with the rebound once coronavirus is over.
	And he said that apparently now people are talking about a U recovery.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if, you know, there's some people say, at first it was, oh, we might see a V recovery, and then I guess everyone's talking about a U recovery.
	Ooh.
	But he refutes that.
	And he agrees with our basic premise that this is not a big deal.
	That's kind of how he got to the bull crap from the Times.
	And, you know, he says that a lot of Trump hate.
	He agrees.
	Trump hate in the reporting.
	He also thinks it will pass pretty quickly, and he believes he has the mechanism that will reverse the trend of the market, but also the fear factor in the world.
	And that would be once South Korea definitively publishes its numbers, and he thinks it'll be somewhere like a half of a tenth of a percent, he thinks it'll be extremely low, But that the South Koreans will be trusted because they can be trusted when they come out with numbers and it will be positioned as such.
	And I like that.
	I think there's some validity to that.
	I agree.
	However...
	He says, the United States, you know, I said, hey man, are we going into, what's going on?
	Is this going to be a financial reset?
	What's happening?
	All these, you know, there's a lot of stuff going on.
	And, in fact, he laughed.
	Let me see if I have this.
	I laughed.
	Well, what did I always say about Trump with the U.S. debt?
	What did you say?
	Well, you laughed about it just on the previous show.
	I said he wants to do a refi.
	He wants to refi our debt.
	Oh, I didn't laugh about it.
	I just thought it was...
	Yes, you did.
	But listen, here is the president at the town hall from earlier this week.
	Also a lot of questions, Mr.
	President, about the national debt.
	Since being president, you've signed into law $4.7 trillion of debt, including $2.1 trillion of discretionary spending.
	Understand that you're spending on the military as well.
	When you ran for president, at one point, you said that you would pay off the debt within eight years.
	So now we're about four years in, and the debt is up $3.5 trillion.
	That's about 18%.
	Republicans and Democrats, obviously, are not talking about the national debt a lot on Capitol Hill or on the campaign trail.
	But I talk about it.
	Do you care about the national debt?
	I do.
	Very much.
	And I'll always talk about it because to me it's very important.
	Now the good thing about the debt is we're paying very little interest, almost nothing.
	This is a great interest climate.
	In fact, I want to refinance the debt.
	I had to fix the military.
	There it is, man.
	Refinance the debt.
	He's a construction guy.
	They're all the same.
	A refi.
	Just a refi.
	So do a refi.
	But then he said something interesting about where we're going to go.
	He says, it doesn't matter.
	He says, we are in the Japanese debt trap.
	And I'm like, Japanese debt trap.
	Yeah, he says, look at what happened with Japan, although there was an important difference.
	And I'm paraphrasing him.
	He said, in Japan, it didn't matter how much stimulus, whatever they tried to do, how much they printed, it made no difference.
	The economy just kept slowly deflating.
	Which, of course, kind of backs up the modern monetary theory.
	But the problem Japan had, and he says the same goes for China, eventually, is they don't have enough young people.
	And that's why Japan just really can't get out of it.
	So his advice is, we better get busy.
	We need to make more babies.
	He says, that's the only way we can avoid it.
	And I don't see that happening with dogs.
	I don't see it happening with dogs either.
	Dogs replacing children in today's society.
	So, I thought that was interesting.
	And then the final one, as we were talking a little bit more about coronavirus...
	You know, of course, it's International Women's Day.
	When you have a societal discouragement of having babies and families, there's a discouragement of families, which means a discouragement of babies.
	And this is built into the economy.
	It's built into the school system.
	It's built into the colleges.
	And that's why we have all these people that have furry babies.
	And my baby has four paws and all these kinds of bumper stickers.
	The system has pushed the family.
	It's designed to destroy the country.
	And who was behind this system?
	And how do we stop them?
	Soros.
	You know, it's funny, I was talking to my buddy from Holland yesterday, Robert Jense, and I didn't think to look for a clip, but he says apparently earlier this year, maybe it was at the end of last year, Soros apparently said, yes, yes, it is only eight months until the election, but in the revolution, eight months is a lifetime.
	And so now the conspiracy-minded, of course, are thinking that all of this, including the coronavirus scare, has all been propagated by George Soros.
	And why not?
	They can't die.
	And in the mode of never let a good crisis go to waste, the analysis from the former New York banker was pretty interesting.
	About Silicon Valley is now...
	Is it Google, Amazon, Apple as well?
	They're all asking their employees to telework from home?
	A lot of them are.
	Amazon doesn't have a lot of presence down here, but they...
	Yeah, but they've done that before.
	I mean, it's very doable for these companies to have people working from home.
	Well, what the former New York banker posited is...
	Posited?
	Yes, he posited this.
	Wow.
	Just before AD, he posited it.
	He said, no, they're doing this to stimulate Silicon Valley.
	He says, by doing this, they want to stimulate more telecommuting companies, more technology, more networks, more broadband.
	It says it's, and of course for them, huge differences in overhead.
	So they're trying to use this to prove to, I guess, shareholders, board members, workers alike, that see, it works.
	We can do it.
	You can just stay home.
	That's much better.
	I think there's something to it.
	That's not even close.
	That's what he thinks is going on.
	Yeah, I'm sure he does.
	You don't think so?
	I used to imagine that sort of thing myself years ago when I was writing about telework, which it became known as.
	And then you start looking into it, and now...
	No?
	It's not the way it works.
	They want to see people.
	It's like you had a company pod show, and Ron Bloom wanted to see people.
	He wanted to see people on their desks.
	All these guys in Silicon Valley, all these bosses, they don't like the idea of people working from home.
	Yeah, it sounds good on paper, and maybe you can sell it to somebody, but in fact, they want to see bodies.
	I control these people.
	I've never seen any evidence to the contrary.
	One time on Silicon Spin Show, I had an entrepreneur on there.
	She was very kind of famous, famous enough.
	Who was this?
	I'm not going to mention her name.
	Oh, okay.
	But she would go on and on about it.
	I don't understand why people would have to be in the office because sometimes we have a meeting.
	We need teams.
	We need to have teamwork.
	We need...
	We need this camaraderie.
	It has to be in the present.
	I got into a big argument with her about telework.
	No.
	No, there's no chance of that happening with this mentality.
	Interesting.
	Okay.
	That's why they have all these big buildings.
	That's why there's this Salesforce tower.
	This tower is mine.
	I am the king of this tower.
	Well, three out of four for the former New York banker is not bad then.
	Not bad.
	It depends on the you thing.
	I think I'm also of this, I subscribe to the you idea.
	The V recovery, U recovery, I think your recovery would be better.
	But he says it's going to be a V. He doesn't say it's going to be a U. Yeah, I know.
	When he says V, I think U. Two out of four ain't bad, ladies and gentlemen.
	Coronavirus.
	So we might as well stick with that for a moment.
	It's kind of hot.
	And I do have the bill that was signed into law by the President on Friday, the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act.
	Money, money, money, money, money.
	But first, let's find out what happened.
	Within the hour after the President signed this bill, which contains appropriations, means distribution of money, to the tune of $8.3 billion, within the hour, our fearless leader in Austin, Mayor Adler, Cancelled South by Southwest.
	Disaster declarations from both the city of Austin and Travis County cancelled what would have been the festival's 34th year.
	Community leaders saying people's health is just more important.
	This is an evaluation that is ongoing daily, with decisions made daily.
	Friday afternoon, just days from the start of South by Southwest, the city of Austin canceled the festival with a disaster declaration.
	At the same time, the county issued a similar declaration.
	To festival gatherings that are attracting individuals from areas that have documented cases of person-to-person transmission of COVID-19, and also those participants would be expected to be in close and sustained proximity with one another.
	But just two days ago, the city's health officials said that canceling the festival would not stop the spread of coronavirus in Austin.
	There is no evidence that closing South by Southwest or other activities is going to make this community safer.
	Friday, they added having the festival would help spread the virus faster.
	There was no acceptable path forward that would mitigate the risk enough to protect our community.
	Officials looked at the size of events, venues, where guests were coming from, and if those places had any threats of person-to-person contact between people with coronavirus.
	The fact that this is a high-impact disease and that we lack a vaccine or treatment at this stage makes the threat higher as well.
	There are still no confirmed cases in Austin or Travis County.
	And for the past week, businesses and performers have been dropping out of South By.
	Right, so let's take a look at a few things.
	First of all, this is very sad for Austin.
	This is our big event.
	It's our big annual event.
	It brings in over $350 million, according to last year's numbers.
	Can I make a quick comment?
	Yeah, sure.
	A couple of things.
	One, they said they're canceling the event for health reasons.
	Well, if that was the case, they would have canceled it years ago.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if you've ever, you know, the drunk fest that it is.
	Uh-huh.
	The other thing is, as soon as I hear all this, because I know people were starting to bail.
	Yes.
	Oh, we're going to keep doing it.
	This guy bails, and then that guy bails, and then this guy bails.
	It was headed to being a money loser.
	If it kept on, and you probably know the answer to this, but is it possible that it was cancelled officially?
	Because that triggers some insurance clause to keep these guys from losing their asses.
	Well, the insurance clause on the South by Southwest organizers is unclear.
	There's conflicting reports.
	but the reason why this was signed an hour within the president signing it into bill this declaration was made is uh very obvious from the money being distributed there is emergency money and you know when you look at eight billion dollars and i'll break it down a little bit um it doesn't sound like a lot but when you break it into hundreds of millions and you see how many hundreds of millions that is and you think a hundred million dollars a lot of money
	um they uh the most important chunk of money is 475 million dollars which will be made uh available to uh cities uh and uh well they also do tribal areas stuff like that but cities uh who have declared an emergency And that $475 million says here...
	The $475 million of the funds made available in the preceding provisio shall be allocated within 30 days!
	It's like, gotta rush!
	Gotta spend it quick!
	Gotta get it out there!
	So I think Adler, of course, had no choice.
	There was a moveon.org or change.org petition, which to me is always like, okay, you got 50,000-somethings.
	50,000 people signed this!
	Nah, I don't know about that.
	Maybe.
	Maybe not.
	I don't know exactly.
	But, you know, as a Democratic mayor, he had no choice.
	For him, it's the easiest one.
	It's like, if I just bail out, if someone gets sick, then I'm screwed.
	Now we're going to get the money anyway, so maybe some of that money goes to compensate South By, but there will be programs for small businesses as well.
	I'll read some of that to you.
	But here's the, to me, disgusting thing.
	The same day, in the evening, after this announcement was made, the mayor posts a video with the city attorney, who you heard speak there, and his health official, and they're sitting in one of Austin's better-known eating establishments, and they got tequila, and they're drinking, and they're eating, and during this eating and drinking of the food, they record this video.
	I'm here with our senator and our county judge, standing with Austin.
	You know, we canceled South By this week.
	There are a lot of people that are hurting because of that.
	Now is the time that we should be going to restaurants, going to clubs, buying musicians, merchandise, helping one another.
	We want to make sure that everybody knows it's still safe and a wonderful thing to stand with Austin, to eat with Austin, to take rideshares with Austin, and to go see local bands with Austin.
	So y'all get out and enjoy yourselves.
	Go to the bars, go to the clubs, listen to the music, tip your waiters, tip your bartenders, and if you want to, you can make a contribution at the Austin Community Foundation.
	And that's AustinCF.org.
	You can make a contribution to help those people who are hit the hardest by this and are the least likely to be able to come out of it.
	Stand with Austin!
	They're drinking shots.
	Come on!
	So, how does this jive with that speech he gave when he canceled South by Southwest?
	It's like, oh, you know, it's emergency, health emergency, but people go out and party!
	It's like, I don't see how that works.
	It doesn't.
	It is a douchebag.
	Yes.
	NPR had a good short piece on the bill, which I'd like to just dive into briefly, but they set it up, this $8.3 billion.
	Interestingly, it's the largest of its kind.
	$8.3 billion sounds like a lot.
	How is it helpful here?
	It really is actually a lot.
	There are some figures for comparison here.
	$5.4 billion for the Ebola response in 2014, nearly $7 billion for H1N1 in 2009.
	So this is many millions of dollars more than Congress put towards those efforts.
	One important point, this is quite a turnaround for the Trump administration.
	Just last week, they requested only $1.25 billion in new funding.
	They wanted to move money around to get to $2.5 billion.
	And they defended that figure as members of Congress from both sides of the aisle said this really seems like a lowball.
	The president did say last week he was open to more.
	And that is what he got, $8.3 billion, more than three times that initial ask.
	To which the president said, oh, you're $8?
	Okay.
	Okay, I'll take it.
	So this is, as I said, the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act.
	What this is, is a division of that $8.3 billion.
	And the main takeaway from this is it's incredibly fuzzy as to what this can be used for.
	But in general, it is for...
	Preparedness.
	Actually, I'll read it verbatim.
	Let's start first with some of the chunks of money which are really ill-defined do require an additional designation by Congress before it can be used.
	And that's kind of peppered throughout this thing, so there's still some power strings, because this is so obvious that You know, the president didn't see a need for a lot of money.
	Chuck Schumer jumped in.
	And this is so typical of Washington, D.C. Everybody jumps in.
	They've all got their, oh, I need some money.
	Hey, I need some money over here.
	For instance...
	An additional amount for the disaster loans program account for administrative expenses to carry out the disaster loan program for the Small Business Act.
	$20 million goes there.
	And the amounts may be transferred to and merged in salaries and expenses.
	So, you know, we're going to go hire some people.
	Then we have the Department of Health and Human Services, $2.2 billion, and this is what it's for, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus domestically or internationally.
	That's it.
	Uh...
	Is there any obvious pork besides just the giveaway?
	Well, the pork is the giveaway.
	So underneath this $2.2 billion, and of course I was looking for some keywords, this will be made available to, quote, carry out surveillance.
	That's all it says.
	And I guess that can be monitoring people, but surveillance is pretty specific.
	I don't know.
	It's not specified anywhere else.
	Also for communications, preparedness, and then we have that $475,000.
	The real pork is in there.
	Funds may be used, I think this is CDC, for purchase and insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries.
	I guess we need that, $5 million.
	We're going to go on a car shopping spree.
	$10 million goes to Fauci's group there, you know, Dr.
	Fauci.
	Thanks, Burl.
	Oh yeah, he gets some communications money.
	There is $3.1 billion made available for countermeasures and vaccines, prioritizing platform-based technologies with U.S.-based manufacturing capabilities.
	And the purchase of vaccines.
	So I think that will be used to build up some manufacturing capacity.
	That's one of the president's favorite little moves there.
	Further, provided funds appropriated in this act may be used for grants for the construction, alteration, or renovation of non-federally owned facilities to improve preparedness and response capabilities.
	That just sounds like we're going to give it to certain favored organizations or manufacturers.
	Yeah, gussy up your building.
	Yep.
	Also, in many cases, it says here, they might be hiring people, but be known that such individuals may not be deemed employees of the United States.
	So we're going to hire...
	What does that mean?
	Well, it says for the purposes of...
	Any law administered by the Office of Personnel and Management, I guess they're just saying we're going to be hiring foreigners or shelling out money in foreigners' lands.
	Well, it doesn't really imply foreigners.
	It just says there's not going to be employees of the United States.
	It means they're not going to be working for the government.
	This means there's going to be a bunch of money going to NGOs, I think.
	Oh, yeah.
	Department of State for, quote, diplomatic programs.
	What's diplomatic programs got to do with the virus?
	Don't they already have money for that?
	for necessary expenses to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, including for maintaining consular operations.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, that makes sense.
	Well, but still.
	If everybody in the council dies, they've got to put in a skeleton crew.
	That costs money.
	Here's my favorite.
	Actually, let me play this second clip from NPR first.
	So another big pot of money in here, $950 million, will go to the state and local public health response through CDC. And as you say, half of that has to go or be allocated in 30 days.
	That's really, really fast.
	And what the money will be used for at this point in the epidemic is things like health departments staffing up to work 24-7, laboratories buying equipment and paying staff overtime, I love how they don't blink an eye, bat an eye at that.
	Everybody wants to buy a mass spec.
	That would be the key.
	Global health programs.
	This is for the State Department.
	We'll receive $435 million for the same expenses, for necessary expenses to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
	Then, funds appropriated by this title, and this is for Homeland Security, I believe.
	No, this is still state.
	Anything under the heading diplomatic programs may be transferred to and merged with funds available under the consular and border security programs.
	And I'm thinking maybe there's some wall money in there that Trump tried to hide.
	But this is my favorite.
	Administration of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Programs of the Department of State Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations.
	Well, we all know what that is.
	CIA. CIA Black Budget.
	Exactly.
	Why do those guys have to get some of that money?
	Those guys know how to scam money from everyone.
	Then they have an additional security protection not to exceed $100 million.
	Let me see.
	New cars for this.
	Here we go.
	New cars.
	Here we go.
	Amounts transferred by Congress for overseas contingency operations slash global war on terrorism.
	I mean, come on.
	It's like everyone's just taking money.
	They're just stealing little bits and pieces.
	Oh, I think I'll grab this.
	This is a nice little bit.
	Eh, nice work if you can get it.
	Now, one other important designation in this...
	In this act, they have the term coronavirus.
	So what do you believe the legal term for coronavirus should be in this document?
	I think it should be specific to the COVID-19.
	Yeah, but that's not what it is.
	It's SARS-CoV-2.
	Yes, this is what, by the way, I sent you that clip of the Army.
	And their little group of...
	A guy from Fort Detrick and a bunch of other, I would say, creepy people.
	But very knowledgeable.
	They all called it...
	That's what all the army calls it.
	They call it SARS-Corona 2.
	Yeah.
	Because it's extremely similar to SARS-Corona 1.
	Yeah.
	And I don't understand.
	Why did we have to have a COVID-19 then?
	This is odd.
	When I first heard this SARS... I thought to myself, well, this is Army, so they're always very good about finding the right title and making it sound militarized.
	I felt exactly the same way.
	What was all this rigmarole, this falderol?
	About COVID-19 when it's really SARS-CoV-2.
	Yeah.
	It's the SARS virus.
	Now, of course, the rumor mill in the internet has it is, it's SARS that's been injected with HIV. Yes!
	I don't know if there's any evidence of that, because it's all bull crap, it sounds to me.
	But I think it's just SARS, too.
	Yeah.
	Here's the prediction I make, and I think it's a fairly good one.
	This was signed on Friday the 6th, so by April 6th, this should all be over.
	30 days from now, it's all done.
	Everyone has their money.
	We know it has to be spent.
	The important money has to be spent.
	Adler, within hours, is already acting like it's party time.
	I mean, so transparent and obvious.
	That's a great point.
	First, he cancels the event.
	It should be a sad time.
	But no, now he's out partying.
	Yeah, and everybody else come on and party.
	Doing shots, you say?
	Woo-hoo!
	Oh, yeah!
	We're doing shots!
	Yeah, the three of them do a shot at the end of the video.
	And meanwhile, the actual information is just never really brought to the top of the stack.
	We are still...
	I'm sorry, I should say who this is.
	This is Admiral Brett Girard.
	He is the Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services.
	We are still very early in understanding, and all the evidence isn't there, so I want to caveat that.
	But to set some foundation, the typical mortality...
	Who wants to caveat that?
	Is that bad?
	Wow, what a usage.
	What are you supposed to say?
	I would like to add a caveat.
	A caveat is a noun.
	I would like to add a caveat.
	You don't caveat something.
	It's turning it into a verb.
	Give me a break.
	I mean, that is classic.
	He's trying to do a Google move.
	Turning a noun into a verb.
	We are still very early in understanding.
	All the evidence isn't there, so I want to caveat that.
	But to set some foundation, the typical mortality rate for seasonal flu is about 0.1% or 0.15%.
	The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate For COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%, okay?
	That's lower than you heard probably in many reports.
	Why is this?
	Number one is because many people don't get sick and don't get tested.
	So probably for, and this reflects the overseas experience, so probably for every case, there are at least two or three cases that are not in the denominator.
	So I just want to sort of scale that it's It certainly could be higher than normal flu.
	It probably is, but it's not likely in the range of 2% to 3%.
	So our best modeling, again, you have a denominator problem, and I want you to understand that, that only the people who are really sick or have symptoms come in and get tested.
	So based on the models we have right now, we estimate the mortality as 0.1% to 1%.
	Yeah, of course, no one wants to look at their models because that's only good for climate change.
	Yeah, models.
	Now, the last show, I believe it was the last show, or the show before, I had a clip, two clips in a row, to point out the idiocy of this whole thing, which one guy says, it's three and a half percent.
	Oh, yeah, the Harvard professor, the expert.
	No, then the expert came out.
	Well, first it was somebody else said 3.5%.
	Then the expert came out using that data and his own data, the expert, who predicted by the calculations, by the numbers he just threw out, we calculated it, 10 million dead!
	Yeah.
	Now, he gets his money.
	All his money shows up.
	A bunch of free money.
	And now we go from the 3.5 and 10 million dead to, well, you know, it's kind of maybe worse than the flu.
	A lot of people haven't.
	They don't report it.
	30 days, John.
	30 days and it's all over.
	It'll all be over.
	In fact, on MSNBC, they're already done with the death and destruction part.
	They're moving straight on to politicization.
	And this is that Princeton professor, Eddie Glaude.
	Real smug prick.
	But I was thinking about this in terms of politics, right?
	Right.
	That's how professors at Princeton talk.
	Right.
	But I was thinking about this in terms of politics, right?
	We talked about the business community finally not kind of sticking with Donald Trump.
	But this may be, and you know, Nicole, I should mention this with a little trepidation, but this may be Donald Trump's Katrina.
	Yeah.
	Let's just lean into that for a minute.
	Hey, let's just lean into that for a minute.
	We've got to talk like that.
	Let's just lean into that topic for a minute.
	Let's just lean into that for a minute.
	I mean, Katrina was the moment when all the things that felt incredibly incompetent about the Bush presidency, the appointment of Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court, the botched attempt to pass Social Security privatization.
	I mean, I lived it.
	Hold on, stop.
	She just can't sit there and lie like that.
	She was in the Bush administration.
	She was in the press office.
	So she's quoting her own administration here, Nicole Wallace.
	Harriet Myers was not put on the Supreme Court, as we know.
	It was a suggestion that floated around.
	Nobody took it seriously.
	Okay, let her continue.
	I'm sorry.
	She's a horrible person, this woman.
	That's why I bring her up.
	Botched attempt to pass Social Security privatization.
	I mean, I lived it.
	I can go through the whole list.
	We realized, we gave them a proof point that we were indeed incompetent.
	And also people died.
	I mean, this just has the making structurally for the same kind of moment.
	And if there's any moment that would shake that 40%, the folks who would allow him to shoot someone and write down, if there's any moment, it's this one.
	Because it's babies, it's friends, it's loved ones.
	Do you hear what this a-hole is doing?
	It's like, this is different because it's babies that'll be dying.
	Babies will be dying.
	Orange man kill babies.
	It's this one.
	Because it's babies.
	Hey, Bill, look at all this toilet paper we've got.
	It's your nana.
	Right?
	And so it seems to me that this is...
	An event that could take down a president.
	Oh, yes.
	It could take down a president, this event.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	So, I think everyone's kind of getting over it.
	The clock is ticking down 30 days and we're good to go.
	And you can wait for the U. I'll take the banker's advice on the V. A note from Black Knight of Seven Hills, Cincinnati.
	Adam and John listening to the show had some intel to share.
	First, you mentioned toilet paper shortages.
	Yes!
	By the way, I went to Central Market yesterday and I saw people in the parking lot.
	Filled with toilet paper.
	Wow.
	And it was super busy.
	There was no shortage inside.
	But however, it may be different on the West Coast.
	As our producer says, yes, particularly on the West Coast, but in general in the U.S., retailer inventories of toilet paper are critically low.
	I'm being told...
	Well, wait.
	He has standing here.
	Hold on.
	I'm being told the retailer warehouses are essentially empty.
	I work in the consumer supply chain and we're being told that toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and bleach are essentially out of stock nationwide.
	We're making paper as fast as we can and are unsure if we should expect a huge drop-off in April as people work off.
	Yes, exactly.
	Yes.
	Or if people will use more because they have so much and demand will just level off, so we're preparing for both possibilities.
	Well, you don't use more toilet paper because you have so much.
	Hey, Bill, look at all this toilet paper we've got.
	Yeah, I'm going to wipe myself and wipe myself for no good reason.
	This is nonsense.
	Hey, man, he's one of our producers, so go easy on him.
	This is probably management.
	Management that's saying this.
	All right.
	Further, my wife and I work at...
	I'm sorry for our producer.
	Yeah, man.
	I just don't imagine people, we've got more toilet paper, so let's use more toilet paper.
	Okay.
	Well, I don't know.
	How about this?
	If coronavirus is over, so within 30 days, and everyone's got gobs of toilet paper, then I can see where people are like, hey, we're not dead!
	And yeah, wipe some more!
	I don't know, maybe.
	It's possible.
	Further, my wife and I work in major Cincinnati-based companies in consumer goods and groceries, and in the social justice warrior times, they cannot be seen as putting the employees at risk.
	Therefore, although travel isn't technically banned, we are being encouraged to not travel.
	To that end, we've elected not to participate in Tissue World.
	The paper industry trade show for toilet paper and paper towels.
	This is a show I would like to go see.
	Wow!
	Can you imagine a trade show for just toilet paper and paper towels?
	Wow!
	That is unimaginable.
	There may be some great innovation that we don't know about.
	You know, see?
	Maybe they have, you know...
	The shells.
	Was it the shells or the rocks?
	The pebbles?
	I can't remember.
	I have no idea what it could be.
	You're right.
	This would be a show just worth going to, just to go to it.
	Thank you very much, Black Knight of the Seven Hills, Cincinnati.
	Yeah, I got a kick out of it.
	Thank you, Black Knight.
	Let's use more toilet paper because we've got more toilet paper.
	Let me see what else we have.
	Oh, um, no, let's skip that.
	Jack Dorsey is rethinking his plan of living in Africa amid the coronavirus outbreak, which we might want to note again is not in Africa.
	Although Uganda has, what did Uganda do?
	Uganda cancels all international conferences, issues travel ban.
	Lombardy now, in Italy, a little north of where my sister Willow lives, they're on lockdown.
	And another one of those Illuminati numbers, 11 million people just like Wuhan, 11 million people are shut in, locked down.
	So we'll see how that goes.
	I missed that story.
	Jack Dorsey, with his Taliban beard, is going to rush off to Africa because he's afraid of the...
	What is wrong with these people?
	No, no, no.
	He had this plan to move, I think, a second headquarters or something.
	He wanted to do something in Africa because his Swami told him to.
	I don't know.
	And now he's rethinking that.
	Isn't that what we used to have, Swamis?
	Back in the 70s.
	He probably has a Swamis.
	I bet he does.
	I bet he does.
	United Nations...
	I'm just reading through the headlines.
	United Nations refuses to call coronavirus outbreak a pandemic.
	So we know that's still based upon the pandemic bonds, which they don't want to trigger.
	And I think they won't be triggered, because now the U.S., the one thing Donald Trump is always bitching about, that we're the ones ponying up.
	Here we are.
	Not the bondholders.
	Not Germany.
	Not Japan.
	No.
	No, we're going to pay for it.
	Because we've got more than a billion dollars going overseas.
	More than that, actually.
	Let's see.
	In fact, that NPR interview.
	And to be clear, is this all domestic spending, or is there any money being offered to other countries that are dealing with the outbreak?
	Yeah, so this is interesting.
	The Trump White House did not request any funding for an international response.
	The head of the Coronavirus Task Force and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar actually told Congress they were focusing on the homeland.
	But Congress in this law did include over a billion dollars for the international response.
	And that could be used, for instance, to help low and middle income countries shore up their resources to be able to contain or mitigate outbreaks.
	Experts I talked to were really pleased and quite actually relieved to see this funding in there.
	It's shameful.
	There's a pandemic preparedness fund, funded fully, ready to go.
	All the World Health Organization has to do is say, yeah, yeah, it's at that level.
	And I think the numbers are there because it's specific numbers.
	But no, no, we'll pay for it.
	Don't worry about it.
	This jackass is in Congress, man.
	It's unbelievable.
	It really is.
	It really is.
	If you were on the other side of the fence getting all this free money, you wouldn't be bitching and moaning.
	You know, it's interesting you say that.
	Because, you know, of course, power and money corrupts.
	I started watching the long-touted and perfectly timed Hillary Clinton documentary on Hulu.
	And it's four hours.
	So I've only watched the first hour.
	And I must say, that whole first hour, you can't help but be a fan of Hillary Clinton in that moment.
	Because she seems like such a genuine person, a true fighter for women, very daring.
	Good work, people.
	Good work.
	She did a lot.
	No, it is extremely well done.
	You do not get even a slight whiff of the corruption.
	Something bad happened to her.
	You have to...
	Yeah.
	Bill.
	Yes, I think you're right.
	I think it is exactly what happened.
	Now...
	You have to watch all four hours now that you watched the first hour.
	Oh, of course, of course.
	Have you seen any of it?
	It's possible that they, I don't, you know, it's, you sometimes you can blow your, you can blow it.
	You can do what you just described as like, wow, this is great.
	I'd vote for her.
	She's the best.
	And then after a while, it starts to wear on you.
	And after four hours, maybe, I don't know, I don't care for her.
	It's possible that they can't sustain that.
	If they can sustain that feeling that you achieved within a one-hour period as a filmmaker and they can do that for four hours, wow!
	They can run her.
	Well, okay.
	So again, this was incredibly well-timed.
	We have just the perfect...
	And I'm sure you have some Biden stuff, but we have the perfect potential...
	But before we go switch gears completely, I did want to run a total update on COVID-19.
	Oh, you still have that?
	Is it really worth it?
	Is it more than I just did?
	It will add?
	No, it's totally in a different dimension.
	What you just did is actually something reasonable.
	This is just the COVID is going to kill us all, continue, but it's kind of backing off a little bit.
	But this is the mainstream media via PBS on Saturday with Hari Srinivasan reporting.
	And it's a lot different than what you gave us.
	I mean, it's not better.
	The Food and Drug Administration is rapidly expanding the distribution of test kits to detect cases of the new coronavirus across the country.
	Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement in Florida today at a briefing with health officials.
	Was this before the bill was signed or you don't know?
	No, it's just yesterday.
	Oh, okay.
	More than one million tests, and in cooperation with those same commercial labs that I mentioned, we'll be expanding access to tests in the weeks ahead to every American.
	Even with more kits, there are concerns about the capacity of different states to test people as the number of cases increase, how that data will be gathered and reported.
	There are nearly 400 total confirmed cases in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking this spread globally.
	Florida officials reported two deaths from COVID-19.
	Both people who died were elderly.
	That brings the total number of deaths in the U.S. to 19.
	New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency after 21 new confirmed cases today.
	We have now been...
	Also going after the money.
	Testing around the clock, as you know.
	We are aggressively testing, following up leads because we want to find as many people who test positive so we can get them out of circulation.
	That's a great concept.
	I'm sorry, Mr.
	Curry, you've been taken out of circulation.
	And there's many people who test positive so we can get them out of circulation.
	The Grand Princess cruise ship remains off the coast of Northern California with its 21 confirmed cases of the virus, among the more than 3,500 people on board.
	As of this afternoon, officials have not said when or where the ship will be allowed to dock.
	In Egypt, a cruise ship on the Nile River with 100 foreign tourists is in quarantine in the city of Luxor.
	33 people have tested positive for COVID-19 on that ship.
	In southeastern China, a hotel collapsed today, trapping about 70 people.
	Officials say the hotel was being used to quarantine people who had contact with COVID-19 patients.
	Is this just intended to raise the blood pressure of their audience?
	It's like...
	Just going down a list of all this...
	Italy reported its biggest daily increase in virus cases.
	What?
	As you say that, it continues.
	Infections now total more than 5,800 people, and 36 people have died there from the virus in the past 24 hours.
	In Iran, 21 people have died from the virus just since yesterday, one of them a member of parliament.
	The number of confirmed cases in Iran is also more than 5,800 people.
	U.S. health officials continue to caution that the immediate risk of being exposed remains low and that the majority of people who contract COVID-19 will have flu-like symptoms and will recover.
	Wow, thanks for putting some actual info at the very end.
	Oh my goodness.
	All right, I'm closing the door on this sucker.
	When I step up in China, yo, I step correct.
	Wuhan.
	From the North China plane all the way to Quebec.
	Wuhan.
	Wuhan.
	Alright.
	Back to Hillary for a moment.
	The woman does fascinate.
	So just the release date of this documentary, it is all about her running for president, from what I can tell.
	Um...
	And, of course, she's doing the rounds and she showed up on Fallon.
	And, of course, we needed to talk about the current 2020 candidates in the primary for the Democrats.
	And it's always interesting to check in and see what HRC is thinking.
	What do you think of that?
	Look, I thought it was very exciting because starting in South Carolina, he had so much energy and what he had to say was, you know, really enthusiastic and positive about what he was going to do and who he was.
	And the people of South Carolina obviously rewarded that.
	And then that kind of set off this momentum and it carried him.
	He won all but, I guess, three states.
	Yeah.
	Why do you think people connect with Joe Biden?
	You know, look, I've known him for a really long time.
	I think people know he is a deeply decent person.
	He is a kind person.
	He doesn't take cheap shots at people.
	He doesn't insult people as a way of, you know, trying to put people down and lift himself up.
	He is such the opposite of what we currently have in the White House that I really think a lot of people...
	You know, had a chance to think about it as this contest got going and decided, boy, the most important thing is we retire the incumbent.
	That's more important than anything else.
	And he has the experience.
	He knows what needs to be done.
	He can repair the damage that he would be inheriting.
	I think that's what was going on in people's minds.
	Hillary is clearly talking about herself here.
	She doesn't believe a word of that when it comes to Joe Biden.
	And she does her disgusting Russia dance one more time.
	The candidates also have to be willing to admit Russia interfered last time, they're interfering this time.
	We know that, even the Trump administration has to admit that.
	So the propaganda...
	It's just not true.
	Wait a minute.
	Did I miss something?
	Did we not miss that that was overstated and it was what the actual intelligence report said was that Russia wouldn't mind if Trump was reelected so that they because they felt they could deal with him?
	Wasn't that the actual intelligence reporting?
	Putin's calling the shots, man.
	The Trump administration has to admit that.
	So the propaganda, the lies, the disinformation, the theft of information, and all of that that went on last time is going to be back.
	And so it's not only the candidates, although they have to be prepared to take it on, but voters need to be aware of all that.
	What advice do you have to the voters?
	Oh, okay.
	Hello, stupid people of America.
	Your queen now tells you what to do.
	Really pay attention.
	Don't get fooled by the propaganda.
	Just because something pops up in your Facebook feed, don't think it's true.
	I'm really very sad that Facebook has said we're not going to take down false information.
	Candidates, and particularly Trump, is doing this.
	You can pay to put lies on Facebook, and that's really slickly...
	Whoa, whoa.
	Is there a portal for that?
	Is there a dashboard I can go to where I can put lies on Facebook?
	Particularly Trump is doing this.
	You can pay to put lies on Facebook and it's really slickly produced.
	People think it's true.
	Really be skeptical about what's coming in the Facebook feed or really any kind of social media information that you get because so much of it is manipulated.
	You don't know where it's coming from.
	I was going to say, is there other people besides Russia?
	Is there other countries?
	Well, we know from the intelligence that's been shared that Iran tried to mess with the primary.
	Did I miss another report?
	Iran tried to mess with the primary.
	They did?
	She says, we know.
	Which primary?
	I don't know.
	What is she?
	Is she still read into everything?
	Is she top secret?
	I mean, what are you talking about?
	I guess she has clearance.
	I don't know, but this one was new to me.
	The intelligence that's been shared that Iran tried to mess with the primary...
	But if you were a foreign adversary of ours or if you just wanted to mess around with us, why wouldn't you try?
	Because it worked last time.
	So, hey, get in there and try to pretend you're for somebody else or pretend you're, you know, a certain kind of citizen and you have a certain set of beliefs and you try to, you know, gin something up.
	So, yeah, I think all of that's going to go on and is going on as we speak.
	Oh, thank you, Hillary, for our Intel update.
	Luckily, over at the Hulu premiere, someone actually asked the question that would be on my mind.
	Because the most important thing for our country, not just for the Democrats, all Americans, is to defeat Donald Trump.
	That's what I'm going to be working toward.
	And Joe Biden had a big night last night.
	Would you consider being his VP if he asked?
	Oh, I'm not even thinking about that.
	I was very pleased that we had a huge turnout.
	People really are focused on beating Trump, and that's what they should be focused on.
	Interesting how she answers the question by saying, I'm not really thinking about that.
	Well, why do you say that?
	Because she could have just said no.
	She always has to leave it in the middle.
	And we all know...
	She would have just said no.
	She could have just said no.
	But, of course, we got a clue.
	A clue from Amy Klobuchar.
	That is a sign of...
	Lying.
	Of course.
	The simplest thing you do is you say no.
	Or you just say Iran.
	I don't know.
	It's fine.
	Iran.
	They got new technology over there.
	So this is the clip.
	I found the clip of Amy Klobuchar apparently gaffing out by saying that she was happy to join the Biden tickets.
	Now, I'd like to let you for finding this because I could not find this clip.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, it irritated me.
	Whenever I see an article and there's, you know, it states something with quotes and there's just a picture, I go looking.
	Yeah, well, I went looking too, but then about halfway through I said, wait a minute.
	This is out there so much.
	Adam will start looking and he'll find it.
	I'm done.
	And I said that day...
	I could not think of a better way to end my candidacy, as hard as that was to do with our beloved staff and everyone else, than to join the Joe Biden.
	Kidding.
	Then to Joe.
	Then to join.
	Then to join.
	Guys, guys. - Yes!
	I was going to set you guys.
	I'm sorry, you're misgendering us.
	I was going to set you guys.
	No, no, you can't say guys as women here too.
	I was going to set you guys.
	I was going to say that to join the terrific, the terrific, terrific campaign of Joe Biden.
	What do you think?
	Trial balloon, actual...
	Test market.
	Yeah, trial balloon test marketing.
	No, I think she was given the opportunity, and I mean, my pick is Grisham from New Mexico as the vice president, but...
	Which the former New York banker likes that idea, by the way.
	It's a very good idea.
	Yeah, he liked it.
	And...
	But this is a possibility that the Democrats...
	Biden's got nothing to do with it.
	He doesn't even know what room he's in.
	Somebody went up to Amy and said, look, you got a bailout.
	We'll give you the vice presidency.
	And Joe's probably not long for this world.
	So you think that she got it?
	You really think that they asked her?
	The reason that when she did the gaffe...
	She goes, the ticket, and then she, instead of saying, if she was like, oh, I gave it away, or it was a gaffe, or it was actually a gaffe, she would have said, oh, yeah, Joe, I didn't join the ticket, but believe me, I would if I was given the opportunity, because that's how much I like this guy, Joe Biden.
	She wouldn't have gotten so flustered, because there's probably a lot of this is based on confidentiality agreements and all the rest, and she can't say anything.
	So I think that they've offered it to her.
	On a contingency basis, she may have blown it right there.
	That's why she was so nervous.
	Yes, yes.
	She got all flustered because, oh my God, now they're going to take it away from me.
	We did get a quote from her after that gaffe.
	Here she is.
	Don't!
	And you're scary!
	So scary!
	Sorry.
	That's indeed.
	And so I think, yeah, it's a possibility.
	And that would, of course, it takes Grisham out of the picture.
	And it would explain why Amy just bailed so quickly and left Warren hanging out to dry as a war.
	And she doesn't know what she's beside herself.
	Now Warren is because she can't.
	Because the party's on her case, too.
	There's people over there saying to her, let's face it, you can't endorse Bernie.
	Here's the thing.
	He's not even a member of the party.
	Do you understand?
	And by the way, you and him got into this beef.
	Do you remember that?
	He called you a liar and all the rest.
	So you have a good excuse not to endorse him.
	Throw it to Joe.
	Who do you think has the better relationship with the unions?
	It should be Bernie, I would presume, right?
	There's no evidence of this.
	Biden is an old school Democrat, old union guy.
	I'll tell you why I asked.
	I'm talking about big unions.
	I'm talking United Auto Workers.
	Is that big?
	It's as big as it is.
	Yeah, it's one of the biggest.
	I've been a member twice, I might add.
	So, here's my question.
	I find it incredibly coincidental that after five years, five years they've been working on this case, just four days, with a weekend, four days before the primary in Michigan...
	We have this story.
	Michigan, of course.
	Detroit, Michigan, Motor City.
	The United States of America is charging Mr.
	Jones with one count of conspiracy to embezzle union funds and conspiracy to aid racketeering activity.
	This is the former United Auto Workers chief who has been indicted for these horrible crimes.
	Listen to them.
	And one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States by failing to pay taxes on over $1 million that he and his cohorts stole from the UAW. The allegations are that in connection with his UAW roles, Mr.
	Jones conspired with other UAW officials to steal over $1 million in UAW money and property.
	Instead of that cash and property going to help the men and women of the union, Mr.
	Jones spent it on his own personal enjoyment and on the whims of other high-ranking union officials.
	Mr.
	Jones together with UAW officials Vance Pearson and Edward Robinson spent UAW money on items that the workers of the union could scarcely afford.
	These improper expenses were completely unrelated to union business.
	Such as luxury condos and villas in California, lavish dinners at expensive restaurants, premium liquor, five sets of custom-made golf clubs specially designed by a golf pro, Horseback riding on the beach.
	Now, there's a couple more in here.
	But yes, I found it here.
	The United Auto Workers endorsed Bernie Sanders.
	So the way I read this is, this is Bernie Sanders.
	This is the guy who works with these people.
	These people is your unions.
	You want, oh, this is horrible.
	And look at what they're doing.
	I love the specification of these horrible crimes.
	Really?
	...designed by a golf pro, horseback riding on the beach.
	Over $100,000 in golf green fees, golf clothing, sunglasses, and tips for caddies.
	Over $60,000 in high-end cigars, humidors, and cigar paraphernalia.
	Over $8,000 in spa treatments for UAW officials and their spouses.
	And much, much more.
	I'm thinking we've got to find us a union.
	Sounds like a party.
	This is really a great clip.
	They're doing this to screw Bernie.
	Let's analyze that for a moment.
	Okay.
	The golf, the emphasis on golf, of course, is Trump.
	It's just like elitist Trump.
	Horseback riding on the beach, this is not what a union man would do.
	It's just showing some defeat.
	It would have been better if you said romantic horseback rides on the beach.
	This is part of the...
	It's kind of like a reverse smear to make Bernie an elitist.
	All these socialists, they want to take your money and they're going to use it for their own pleasure.
	Which is the kind of argument you want to sell people to kill this idea of socialists being anything but assholes stealing your money.
	And then they're driving around the big luxury cars and they're making you do all the work.
	And tips for caddies.
	And tips for caddies.
	And so this is really...
	And again, the party that would be tight with a lot of dimensions are the upper echelons of the Democrats.
	And this would be the way to go.
	This is a fantastic clip.
	And you're right.
	It's all about Bernie.
	It's all about embarrassing Bernie in some awkward way.
	Once they gave the endorsement to Bernie.
	There's no reason the UAW should endorse Bernie, by the way, that I can tell.
	There's nothing connected to it.
	And when one of us has a really great clip and the other one appreciates it, what do we do?
	Well, what we do usually, but as you mentioned one time ago, that if somebody actually asks for it...
	Zij die vragen worden overgeslagen.
	If you ask, you get skipped.
	Alright, so...
	You're mean.
	Okay, give yourself the clip of the day.
	Thank you.
	Everyone's calling for it, man.
	Clip of the day.
	So I want to get back to this analysis of Biden.
	That was great, by the way.
	That was one of the best out of the blue things.
	These guys, which I said, by the way, a month ago, when the Democrat elites decide that they don't want Bernie, Bernie's done.
	I mean, this makes the thing they did with Hillary, where they just had a few memos about how to screw Bernie up.
	This makes it look like, that looks like Sunday school compared to what we're witnessing here.
	This is dynamite.
	This is real professional.
	It's high-end stuff.
	High-end.
	We're getting rid of this guy.
	They got a U.S. attorney to roll it out.
	And with those words, to really, you know, not just embezzled funds.
	No, no.
	Let's really spell it out what these horrible wrecks of human beings have done with your money.
	Yeah, your money.
	Now, we talked about Brooks on the PBS Newsart going on about how Bernie had the message and nobody could beat him.
	Well, now this is another week goes by, the next thing you know, Bernie's in the toilet and...
	machine, and I have a bunch of them today, is kicking his ass.
	So what is Brooks going to say?
	So this is his thing, explaining it.
	He's kind of baffled by it.
	He's always baffled, this guy.
	He was baffled by Trump right to the end.
	So let's go with Brooks on the Dems community shift.
	Oh, I've never seen anything like it.
	It was in the 48 hours after South Carolina, the polls were moving so fast.
	Some pollsters were saying that polls that were 12 hours old were obsolete.
	And it was a spontaneous move by millions of people all around the country in different demographics.
	Spontaneous.
	Turning as one and reaching the same conclusion that it's got to be Joe Biden.
	And why they didn't do that six weeks ago or four weeks ago?
	I think first, Super Newsday forced a decision on a lot of voters all at once.
	Second, you had an amazing act of political selflessness.
	Amy Klobuchar could have won Minnesota and it would have been a nice feather in her bonnet.
	And she said, no, I would be selfish.
	And Pete Buttigieg did the same.
	And so you had a party establishment, frankly, doing the right thing.
	But more important was the rank-and-file voters.
	Who just, they looked at reality and like a community.
	A community is more than just a bunch of individuals.
	A community, people have common values.
	They sense each other's movements.
	And I don't really think the Democratic Party acted like a community, moving all at one moment.
	A community.
	Now, a couple of things that are interesting that we're going to witness as we continue on this married journey.
	The media has decided, since the media is part of the Democrat Party, they have decided to cover up Joe's gaffes.
	Now, I'm going to refer back to my essay that was linked in the newsletter.
	A couple of newsletters ago, which is that this is really all about the money because they've already given up.
	Maybe Biden could win, but who cares?
	We don't want to lose the money.
	They need the money for the down-ballot candidates.
	Yeah, all the down-ballot people.
	They're going to lose it all if Bernie gets nominated, so they're going after him.
	And here's the funny, this is my favorite clip, which I think should be kept around.
	This is a...
	especially for your use.
	This is Brooks on Bloomberg advertising.
	I wanna play this with it in mind that the newspapers and magazines and everybody's always promoting the idea of how advertising works and how it works so well.
	And then we hear, of course, this is on PBS, so there's no advertisers involved.
	You probably would have not heard this analysis on any of the network stations. - On Bloomberg, I started this thinking, you can't buy your way in votes in a presidential election.
	There's too much free media.
	Good ads don't do it.
	And I think there's a lot of political science evidence to this, that advertising, especially in a high-profile campaign, just does not work.
	And Bloomberg did not help himself in the debate, but I don't think ads enough to get any votes.
	Well, hold on.
	Hold on a second.
	Is that just television, or is it all his Facebook and Instagram stuff?
	I don't know, man.
	The Russians did pretty well with $110,000.
	I've got to keep saying that.
	This blows people away.
	Yes, the Russians did great with $110,000.
	And by the way, don't forget Citizens United and the Koch brothers.
	Yes!
	Oh, my goodness.
	How come you don't bring those guys into the conversation, Mr.
	Brooks?
	Ha, ha, ha, ha.
	All the Democrats do is moan and groan and moan and groan about all this.
	Cold Brothers!
	Cold Brothers and the Citizens United and all the rest of it, and they can't get it.
	So they're conflicted with this.
	Very conflicted.
	You can't say that on TV. You can't say that advertising doesn't work.
	I'm amazed he's still alive.
	Now, which brings us to a side clip.
	Which is the idiot, one of the members of the New York Times board.
	This is, and I'm happy you're playing this.
	I clipped it too.
	It is important to record this and have it in our show for future generations to enjoy.
	She's talking with Brian Williams on MSNBC, and this is what we hear.
	Wait, wait, let's just set up.
	It's Brian Williams, MSNBC. It is Mara Gay.
	It's Mara Gay.
	Right, but the tweet itself is from a Washington Post reporter.
	Somebody, I don't know who the guy is that did this.
	No, no, it's a woman.
	Mikita, I think.
	She's got some funny name.
	I didn't get to look at her tweets because they're closed.
	They're protected, yeah, but she's a WAPO reporter.
	So it's the trifecta.
	That's another dimension.
	Yes, it's NBC News, it's the New York Times, and it's Washington Post.
	It perfectly shows the Ministry of Truthiness, NO 2020.
	Billion bucks, beating this guy, he could do it.
	Absolutely.
	Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars.
	I've got it.
	Let's put it up on the screen.
	When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.
	Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads, U.S. population $327 million.
	Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math.
	He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.
	It's an incredible way of putting it.
	It's an incredible way of putting it.
	It's true.
	It's disturbing.
	It does suggest what we're talking about here, which is there's too much money in politics.
	My favorite is, it's true.
	It's true.
	I'm a reporter.
	It's true, damn it.
	Brian Williams is like, we forgive him because that's part of his charm now.
	So 300 million people...
	Times a million dollars, of course, is $300 billion, which is not what Bloomberg spent.
	He spent what they said, which is about $500 million.
	But to come up with the idea, it would be about a buck and a half if somebody did the math.
	It's easy enough to figure out.
	But they figured that it's the same as giving everybody $1 million.
	First of all, to say that in the first place, you have to stop and think.
	You have to say, wait a minute, maybe my math is off here because that doesn't sound right.
	It doesn't sound right.
	This is a problem with these reporters.
	They can't There's no sniff test for them.
	It doesn't sound right because it's not even close.
	You're off by a factor of one million.
	One million.
	This is not a small factor.
	This is not like a factor of ten.
	I've done that on the show.
	I've been off by a factor of ten.
	I made a math mistake and it's off by ten.
	It's not off by one million.
	And they play it straight.
	And then somebody produced the tweet and put it on the screen.
	There's a director.
	There's cameramen.
	There's guys in the control booth.
	They're all over the place.
	And nobody says anything?
	I don't see why you're surprised.
	I'm not surprised at all.
	This is fantastic.
	I think Brian Williams should be on the talk show circuit.
	He should be on The View tomorrow talking about this.
	Yes!
	Yes, but your point is well made, and that is the milieu and the complete trust of other libjoes.
	They just trust each other, just completely blanket.
	Car blanche you have with me!
	I have a letter from one of our readers who's in the control room.
	One of our readers?
	Readers.
	Well, he reads our newsletters.
	I have to find it because it's around here somewhere, but it also reiterates what somebody else said is...
	And this was regarding you and the sound guy.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
	He says somebody hates him.
	Somebody commented on Twitter.
	Somebody in the control room.
	Because there's no way this could get through all those levels.
	Somebody must really hate Brian Williams.
	Maybe he's a dick.
	And this girl, this gay, what's her name?
	Whatever her name is.
	She is...
	She was so glib-looking.
	Oh, yes.
	And she had this look of, like, unbelievable satisfaction.
	Because she had done math for the first time and liked the answer.
	That's it.
	She liked the answer.
	You're right.
	This is the New York Times epitomized.
	This is the epitome of what we're getting from the New York Times and the Washington Post and the NBC. And I think the former New York banker is on to it as well.
	Well, it's about time.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the circulation, you get taken out of God's Sea!
	Good morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, our boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, feet in the air, subs in the water, and the dames and knights out there.
	Well done.
	Nailed it.
	In the morning to the trolls in the troll room at noagendastream.com.
	Let's take a quick look at count.
	We have, ooh, nice, 1369.
	That's a lot of trolls there.
	Where y'all from, trolls?
	Where you checking in from?
	This is at noagendastream.com, where you can listen to lots of live programming.
	If it's not live, then we're rolling out value-for-value podcasts.
	Go to noagendastream.com, and here we go.
	Ecuador, Columbus, Ohio, Banger, Maine.
	Ecuador.
	Yeah, Scandinavia, Nevada, Chirac, Confederate California, West Slope of Colorado, Gitmo Lowlands.
	Ah, this is good.
	This is very good.
	Good to see you all, everybody.
	Then, I would like to thank our artists for episode 1222.
	This episode was, last one on Thursday, was titled Booby Trap, and the artwork was a nice piece.
	And this was done by comic strip blogger.
	And this was the Democrat donkey symbol kicking, as a donkey does, a Bernie 2020 ball behind him or her or it.
	And this was an older one, wasn't it?
	This wasn't...
	Or was this...
	No, this was from a week ago.
	From a week ago, right.
	I used it in the newsletters.
	I think the second time we've used a newsletter artwork for the show.
	I think it's only been done twice.
	It's very special.
	And...
	Well, I mean, I saw it, and it really epitomizes what's going on.
	It was very symbolic.
	It was very well done.
	It's a good piece.
	It's well thought out.
	Definitely a good piece.
	Thank you for that, Comic Street Blogger.
	We have many artists who contribute their value to the show by giving us fantastic artwork.
	It also shows up on hats and T-shirts and hoodies and mugs at noagendashop.com.
	And in general, in our value for value system, I just want, before we get to the executive producers, associate executive producers, who were also obviously adding value to the show.
	I just wanted to say, looking at how, because I got a lot of extra email coming in after the Joe Rogan appearance.
	It's so nice how everybody, I said it before, but everyone's like really, they've been promoting this.
	If you look at the YouTube comments, It's just every five comments.
	There's an in the morning.
	Here's the URL. You got to check out the podcast.
	You guys have...
	Gals.
	Hey, guys and gals.
	You've done great...
	Guys and gals.
	You've done a great job at promoting.
	And that's what you do.
	But also, I wanted to thank everyone.
	Over the years, art producers have gotten so sharp when it comes to spotting things that they think will be interesting for the show.
	Their eyes are really sharp on important topics.
	Really, it's like having our own network of intelligence analysts.
	I just want everyone to know.
	It's exactly what it is, by the way.
	Yes, seasoned research professionals.
	And it's so incredibly enjoyable.
	And when I look at just other models, even what Joe's doing, I'm like, we are so fortunate to have built this community.
	And yes, and I want to respond to one more thing, and then I'll shut up.
	We're not a cult.
	We're a tribe.
	And I was just thinking about it with Rogan said, well, you guys like a cult.
	And my answer should have been, well, either no different from your cult, but smarter would have been, yeah, we're a tribe.
	This is tribal media that we're doing now.
	And in this case, we had two tribes united by the same peace pipe.
	Yeah, I guess.
	Anyway, any new newcomers, hello.
	Welcome to the party.
	It's like a party.
	And here's where we thank people who supported this particular episode in extraordinary measures.
	And that's why we like to bestow them with the title of executive producer or associate executive producer.
	Yes, we start off with anonymous.
	Today's a little slower than it's been.
	We didn't get any of the dame, insta-dames, you know, because it's International Women's Day.
	We thought that might accomplish something.
	So that was a dud, huh?
	It was a total dud.
	Nobody cares about the women.
	No.
	Well, there you go.
	Maybe if they didn't shave their heads, it would be better.
	There's no evidence of shaved heads.
	Shaved heads and fists in the air.
	Anonymous.
	$369.99.
	From the Colorado bunker.
	Now, he has donated a lot over the years, and now he's going to be the...
	I don't know if he never asked or we knighted him something else, but now he's going to be the anonymous baron of the ADF-C, which is code for something he's doing.
	ADF-C. Yeah, something.
	You have to figure it out.
	This is the 14th time I've contributed.
	Oh, I know what it is.
	Yes, I've figured it out.
	Okay.
	This is the 14th time I've contributed monetarily to the show.
	I'm still unwilling to allow my true identity to be revealed on the show.
	So please keep my name anonymous.
	I am knighted as Sir Anonymous Baron of the ADF-C.
	I typically donate once annually as my tax refund rolls in.
	I donated annually.
	My title and tithing are only mentioned once a year.
	Because of this, I feel unworthy, unsightly, and douchey.
	Please dedouche me.
	Oops.
	I almost missed the douche button.
	You've been de-douched.
	When I hear all the knights contributing more frequently, I feel a pain of angst and I think that I should simply break up my annual contribution so that my name is mentioned more frequently as a salve for my conscience, as a pacific way to obtain moral self-indulgence What?
	Moral self-licensing, sorry.
	And virtue signal to my fellow knights and dames.
	So here I am donating again.
	As I've stated before, you must continue your work.
	It is vital to our nation's interests.
	And the citizens are better for it.
	As the peerage grows, the knowledge spreads.
	As I hit people in the mouth, they are illuminated by the light that is the no agenda show.
	As the tax returns roll in, overpaying like the good little slave that I am, I return a small sum in kind, paying back the value for value in any small way that I can.
	I have donated before and I've managed to rise amongst my peers to the level of barren.
	Hopefully I can continue to contribute throughout my wage-earning years, which are rapidly diminishing.
	This particular donation and the amount of $36,999 is a special contribution that I call the Triple Intel Threat.
	The Triple Intel Treat.
	That's treat, not threat.
	This donation celebrates the power of three and the almighty EO dash one, two, three, three, three, pronounced O12 triple three.
	Yes, that's executive order.
	Twelve, three, triple three.
	Bring it on, bitch.
	The triple threat.
	Presidential threat.
	That's PPD, I think.
	Is it a presidential preparedness order or something?
	Let me ask you a question.
	Did the Jambo Joe package arrive for you?
	No, I got nothing.
	Oh, you sound pretty happy today.
	Oh, no.
	I didn't get anything.
	I did.
	No, it's because I'm happy because the clock changed and I got to get up earlier.
	Oh, my God.
	I was hating myself so much at 4.30 this morning.
	5.30, but really 4.30.
	It was bad.
	Damn elites.
	Stealing time.
	So this guy is accounting on the back in a very orderly fashion.
	I take it as a very high compliment from him.
	Once you figure out ADF-C, it's a high compliment that he says that we're doing important work.
	So I like that, and I appreciate it.
	Thank you.
	And he will be knighted Sir Anonymous, Baron of the ADFC, today at the roundtable.
	Yes.
	He sends interesting notes, I will say.
	Although we don't get any inside stuff from him, but it's still good stuff.
	Tony Cabrera, 35667.
	And he says, in the morning, here's your latest kiratsu profits from the No Agenda Shop.
	Do you know, this refers to, it's kiratsu.
	This refers to the Joe Rogan show.
	I talked about how No Agenda Shop.
	I refer to the Japanese idea that is used in Silicon Valley so much.
	Which is why I brought it up on Joe Rogan.
	I talked specifically about No Agenda Shop.
	And how it worked.
	And I said, it's kind of a kiretsu.
	Yeah, he was of the opinion that it was nuts that we weren't doing mugs.
	Yeah, and I said, we got mugs, just we don't take care of it ourselves.
	Our boys over there at NoAgendaShop.com, they do whatever they do.
	We have people.
	Thousands!
	We have people, and they know how to do mugs.
	They know how to make money doing some of this stuff that...
	It's not our core competency.
	Our core competency is to scream into a microphone.
	But also, yeah, okay, fine.
	I will be mailing out some no-agenda mugs to both of you.
	Yes, good.
	Get another mug.
	Yes, and I will send the bonus one to Joe, of course.
	And the bonus one is to Joe via Adam, since Joe mentioned he wanted one.
	Good.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Being part of the No Agenda Network is enough for today.
	Thank you, Tony.
	And we love what you guys do.
	Noagendashop.com.
	The artist benefit, the shop benefits, and sometimes the show benefits.
	It's fantastic.
	Well, there we go.
	Right there.
	He's an executive producer.
	Chuck Boyce, SirHashTagBlessed333.
	And I'm listening to you on the Rogan last night.
	My first thought was...
	Does he know what he just did?
	That JRE episode is going to make some waves, man!
	Congratulations.
	Sup, John?
	ITM Chuck.
	Hey, we have 1.4 million views on the full interview.
	And another 1.8 million views on the clips.
	You know, they cut it into clips.
	10 minute bits.
	So, and that's, all that's excluding the actual podcast, which I think does huge numbers.
	Oh, it's good.
	The numbers of the podcast should be higher.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Brian Boatwright in Salt Lake City, Florida, 333.
	Uh...
	Request goat karma.
	About three months ago, I started listening again, and I don't know why I ever stopped.
	Thanks for all the great episodes, and keep being awesome.
	We shall do our best.
	Here's your goat karma, Brian.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	L. Bolin in Farmington, Minnesota.
	26969.
	First associate executive producer for today.
	Show 1223.
	Uh...
	Jingle.
	Oh, 6969, dude.
	Stop the hammering.
	You didn't read those because you...
	I got those.
	No, I got all those.
	I'm good.
	I'm just working on my damehood here.
	AJ Bolin.
	Sorry, not L. AJ. AJ. Damehood here.
	I'm a millennial girl stuck in a big amygdala world.
	If I could get a jobs karma...
	By the way...
	So we had a guy write in saying, it's just the opposite of what you said.
	Yeah.
	I'm not convinced of this because we were playing some, it was some guy went on, this was a couple of years ago, some guy went on and on about the amygdala swollen when you get mad all the time and it starts to get bigger.
	Right.
	But whatever, we're going to stick with our theory.
	Anyway, she's stuck in a big amygdala world.
	If I could get some jobs karma, I'll need that for the annual review at work.
	I harbor much love for you, John and Adam.
	Adam and John.
	She harbors much love.
	Yes.
	I find that to be an interesting usage.
	Well, she's going to caveat that in a moment.
	Stay calm and keep podcasting.
	Love and light, AJ. AJ, thank you so much.
	69!
	69, dudes!
	Stop the hammering!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got to come up.
	I like that combination.
	It's a good combination.
	I haven't heard the 9-9 Rosie thing in a long time.
	That's an old one.
	Yeah, with the hammering, it worked out.
	All right.
	So, Robert Zogel in Franklin, North Carolina, 218-82, wrote in.
	Just a little lengthy note, but it's kind of interesting.
	With the included donation and attached donation record, I hereby request to be knighted Sir Robert of the Smoky Mountain Brass.
	Is he on the list?
	I think so.
	Yes, he is.
	On March...
	Blah, blah, blah.
	It's his 65th birthday.
	Ah!
	I didn't put him on that list.
	Oh, okay.
	I'll put him on that.
	Also, I ran into this note on one of my previous shows, and I'm not sure that we ever put...
	Milton's Cuevas' son, Jackson, who's in his final month of the Army training at Fort Lee on the birthday list.
	For today?
	Well, his birthday is on March 1st.
	So Jackson, what's his last name?
	It would be Jackson Cuevas.
	C-U-E-V-A-S. And that was March 1st.
	And how old was he?
	21.
	21.
	I have a feeling we did it, but we'll just do it again?
	Yeah, give him another one.
	We'll do it again.
	We'll do it live!
	It should have been done in pile two.
	Anyway, he says he's going to be the mountain brass.
	He says, brass has a double meaning in my title.
	It refers to the brass instrument I play, an E-flat alto horn in the Smoky Mountain Brass Band in Asheville, North Carolina.
	Oh, nice.
	I told you.
	Our producers are the best, man.
	That is an E-flat harmonica.
	The brass I sweep up after the day at the local outdoor range.
	Oh, that brass.
	Moss Knob Shooting Range.
	That's some real brass.
	Moss Knob Shooting Range in Nantahala National Forest.
	He needs a de-douching.
	We got that.
	You've been de-douched.
	Request some birthday karma, a little Sharpton.
	I got ants and don't eat me Bernie Sanders.
	Do you have that one?
	I don't know.
	Anyway, he says, having discovered no agenda from JCD plug on Twit several years ago, I've sought to hit various friends and family in the mouth with only one full-time success, my U.S. Naval Academy roommate.
	Despite forcing my girlfriend over 10 years to listen to no agenda in the car and dragging her to two N.A. meetups in Atlanta...
	Her standard retort remains quote they have an agenda.
	What were his jingles?
	Because I couldn't prep for those.
	What did he ask for?
	Oh, sorry.
	Birthday Karma, a little Sharpton.
	Andy Sharpton.
	I got Ants and Don't Eat Me Bernie.
	Okay.
	Well, we don't have Don't Eat Me Bernie, but it's Bo Jiden.
	We have Don't Eat Me Bo Jiden.
	Why don't you play that?
	And Ants, we don't play the full Ants.
	It's a minute 45, but I understand what people want.
	Is there anything else in his note?
	Yeah, I'm reading.
	She says they have an agenda, yet I do see her crack a smile every now and again, especially when dogs are people too segment pops up.
	She is not a dog person or a big dog person.
	She should listen to Adam.
	Adam and her be right in the same boat.
	She also tells me that the reason I listen to Noah Jen is because I'm an old crotchety white man like you guys, especially J.C.D., Boom shakalaka.
	Jeez.
	Compliments flying fast and heavy here today.
	And I and my now adult human resources have been tech media groupies since Erica Hill was young and hot.
	Come to think of it, she's still hot.
	But I digress.
	There's only crotchety old man can say stuff like this.
	Yes.
	A few years back, I posted something.
	Yeah, I'd say something like that and I'd get slapped.
	I'm not.
	A few years back, I don't know what it refers to, but it's just another funny story relating to a recent episode right after the first or second Democrat debates was respected in the discussion about how unbalanced audio levels were on a couple of women candidates.
	The reason for that, according to my other human resource who works in one of the AT&T Time Warner CNN-Turner subsidiaries...
	Was that just before they went on the air, they went for one last pee break and their lavalier transmitters got knocked into the toilet.
	Oh, really?
	The audio guys did not have time to check levels on the replacement transmitters before they went on the air.
	Too funny not to be true.
	That explains it.
	It would explain it.
	Anyway, he drives.
	He's got a two-hour and 15-minute drive each way.
	The Noachinda podcast is the ultimate driving companion for making the trip.
	One habit I've developed, which I need to break, is that every time I hear someone on the radio or TV say, look, I yell, look!
	Here's the deal.
	I wanted to add to that, and I love those types of reports from technical crew are gold, I feel.
	It's gold.
	I mean, who would know that?
	I have one here.
	An anonymous producer who works for a production company in Manhattan does large corporate galas, fundraisers, and benefit dinners.
	Bloomberg has attended many of these events, and every time his height has been a problem.
	If he's speaking at a lectern, it must not be made of lucite or a clear material.
	See, this is Bloomberg's rider.
	His handlers have a specific box for him.
	And they want it hidden while other people are speaking at the lectern.
	I do not have the exact dimensions of the box, but my guess is about 8 inches tall.
	When he's speaking at a fireside chat or in an interview setting, there must be a pillow on the chair to prop him forward so his feet touch the ground.
	These rules, by the way, also apply to Janet Yellen.
	Big fan.
	Thanks for everything you guys do.
	The secrets of TV and media.
	Being exposed right here before your very eyes.
	So we do.
	Yeah.
	I'd love that.
	I need a pillow so my feet touch the ground.
	That's worse than the box.
	That's worse than the box.
	That's horrible.
	What did our Robert want here?
	Don't eat me bojied in Sharpton.
	Any karma or jobs karma?
	Yes, any karma.
	Regular karma?
	No, he wanted a...
	Where is it?
	It was some special karma.
	It was a regular karma, but it was for some special reason.
	Well, now we have to know.
	He had to put it right in the middle here.
	The funny story episode...
	Oh, here it is.
	We did that.
	Birthday karma, that's it.
	Don't eat me, Bojart, and you're scary, so scary!
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T I got ants.
	I got ants.
	You've got karma.
	I'll give an Erica Hill story.
	So Erica Hill was at Tech TV. Who is Erica?
	Erica Hill is an anchor for CNN. She was on the morning show on CBS. She was one of the hosts of the morning show during one of their transition periods.
	She's a very pretty woman.
	And I'm Consider myself the one that discovered her.
	Oh, okay.
	The monkey comes out of the sleeve again.
	Well, it wasn't like a discovery.
	It was like she was very attractive.
	She had the right size head.
	She had the dimples.
	She had everything going on.
	And they would have her do little reports from the office or some bullshit, some phony baloney thing.
	But every time the camera hit her, the camera loved her.
	And she liked the camera.
	And it was just like this relationship.
	You could see it between her and the camera.
	And as soon as I saw it once, I said, oh, if this girl wants to go into broadcasting, she's got it made.
	Because it was just one of those things, you don't see it that often, where it's just a match made in heaven between a camera and a person who just has the eye sparkle and everything with the camera.
	It's just a funny thing to see and witness, but she was like...
	Top ten of that sort of person.
	And I'd like to expand when John says she has the right head.
	We are speaking as television executives in this case.
	You want a big head on television.
	Big heads are good for ratings.
	Look at Pat Sajak.
	Look at Jay Leno.
	I mean, I don't have a big head, but I made my head big with hair, and it worked very successfully.
	Big heads equals ratings.
	Yes, but the funny thing is Natalie Del Conte has a very small head.
	She also had to run away to Portugal, so let's be honest here.
	How is she, by the way?
	Is she still out there?
	Is she still on the lam with her husband?
	Well, according to them, they're never on the lam, but...
	She has a blog and I check in on about once a month to see what they're up to.
	And I have not, they've gone to radio silence.
	Anyway, so that's your, some more insights.
	You know, people actually do care about how the mechanism works.
	Of course.
	Broadcasting, because it's all trickery.
	They're trying to fool the public.
	Darren Grimes is next on the list, $202.02.
	And by the way, if you skipped the donation segment, you missed that story.
	That's right.
	Welcome, JRE listeners, to the best podcasts in the universe.
	Be prepared to have your paradigm shattered or reinforced, depending on which dimension you're in.
	Great job on JRE, Adam.
	And thank you for our shout-out last show.
	Hopefully, we can have you on the Grimerica show soon.
	Often described as the second best podcast in the universe.
	We'll be interviewing Jen Briney in a few weeks.
	Very good.
	She's another one that's kind of a natural.
	She's also your discovery.
	No, she was discovered herself.
	You've coached.
	I helped her as much as I could because when I heard her voice, she has one of the most...
	A lot of women that are good on broadcasting, they have a kind of a song in their voice.
	It's got a ring to it.
	It's hard to explain it, but when you hear it, you know it.
	It's pleasant.
	It's a pleasant voice.
	When I met her and talked to her the first time, it was like, she has no training.
	You know, it's just natural.
	And that's just, oh, I got it made if you're that natural.
	It's like people you run into, this is another one, I hate to go digress too much, but it's like once in a while you run into somebody who's like a natural teleprompter reader.
	Never seen one, don't know what it is.
	They start to look at it, they read it like it's like...
	I know.
	I know.
	Trump is exactly like that.
	Trump's the worst.
	Trump's the worst.
	The worst teleprompter of you.
	His whole body shifts.
	And now I'm going back to the teleprompter.
	The United States!
	And then it gets so boring.
	Why don't the Democrats call Trump out on this?
	He's a lousy teleprompter reader, and he bitched and moaned and groaned about Obama and his teleprompter, and the next thing you know, he's reading from it, and nobody says anything.
	Well, it's because the Democrats' guy, Bo Jiden, is not much better.
	So, people in glass houses, people in front of glass screens, people who read from glass screens should not cast the first stone.
	We will be interviewing Brian in a few weeks.
	Lastly, he continues, we need to call out the brothers of the Serpent podcast as douchebags.
	We hit them in the mouth last May, and I know they've been loving the show.
	Better donate soon, boys.
	Keep up the good work, lads.
	Onward and upward.
	Thank you for your courage.
	There's no threat there or anything.
	Better donate soon, boys.
	Thank you very much.
	Matt Davidson's next.
	He came in with $200.
	They're John and Adam.
	I've been thinking about donating for a while.
	I knew it was time when listening to the first donation segment for episode 1222 when JCD said, now let's thank some people for show 1222.
	I looked at the clock in my car.
	It was 1222.
	It was a sign.
	Thank you for the sanity.
	Adam, great interview with Rogan.
	Thanks.
	Matt Davidson jingles, please.
	Okay.
	Sounds pretty good.
	With a goat health, Karma.
	I think that sounds pretty good.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	Thank you, Matt.
	Wait a minute.
	Oh, he didn't ask for a dedouching.
	It seems like he might have been in order for one, but he didn't ask for it, so...
	David Alcock, 200.
	I've been a douchebag for far too long, but thanks for some...
	But thanks to some good house-selling karma, I've got a little scratch to add to the kitty.
	Even though I do not have as much as I would like to give, I gave 200, which is fine, I have included a little something-something extra to sweeten the pot.
	I have been fortunate enough to have a good voice, although that is what people tell me.
	Oh, so he made a clip that he hoped you'll like.
	I think I don't have it.
	I have it.
	I think it's in order to give some background on the clip.
	First of all, it has nothing to do with sex, although the name might imply something different.
	When I produce, I have a dry track, which is the original recording, and a wet track, which has been enhanced.
	As you'll find out, I named the track Pussy, so naturally I... Named the first track Dry Pussy and Nobody Likes Dry Pussy and the enhanced track Wet Pussy.
	So my gift to the greatest podcast in the universe is not only in the universe but in the multiverse as well.
	And all the nice dames and douchebags in the noagentic community for a little scratch for this kitty and some wet pussy.
	Humbly request a thorough dedouching.
	Some wet pussy and a Don't Eat Me Hillary.
	Sincerely, Nature Boy.
	Douchebag.
	P.S. I'd like to work with other No Agenda producers, so hit me in the mouth on the No Agenda social.
	Okay.
	Well...
	I don't know.
	That was a note I don't feel comfortable reading.
	You've been de-douched.
	If you don't like what we have to say, pussy, then don't fucking listen.
	No Agenda with Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak.
	Don't eat me!
	You've got karma.
	Well, I think we should give him some general feedback since he produced this.
	Um...
	The preamble in the note was a little overboard, to be honest.
	Yeah, there was more note than there was material.
	Yeah.
	And you just read normally.
	You go a little bit too low like that.
	That's a bit too much.
	So a little less.
	I like the sound in general.
	But we wouldn't play a clip like that often with an F-bomb in there like that.
	No, no, we try to avoid that.
	And it's not necessary.
	What does it bring to the party?
	Exactly.
	So, but you got a good voice, but you just stop trying to force it like you're doing in a world where women wear comfortable shoes.
	Just ease back and send us a new one.
	The meeting's over.
	And by the way, most people are better off in broadcasting if they try to sound like themselves.
	Yes.
	It's like everything else.
	Thank you, David.
	We appreciate it.
	And I believe we have a Scandinavian associate executive producer here on the list.
	Is that true?
	Sir Asset of the Scandinavian Woods.
	Yes, Sir Asset of the Scandinavian Woods in Cortese, Ontario, 14362.
	This donation is...
	Yeah, okay.
	Jingle request, you've got it.
	That's true.
	Dvorak's chair gently squeaks.
	Karma request of cancer goat.
	Forgive me, Podfather, for I have douchebagged.
	I completely missed my monthly donation for February, so I am making it up for it with this donation for both months with some extra cash on top to bring me to the associate executive producer level.
	Please de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	And give me some goat karma along with some F cancer karma for my father who's No, no.
	And while Dvorak's chair, yes, he did put there, gently squeaks.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'll play a little bit of it here.
	Thank you both for your courage, Sir Asset of the Scandinavian Woods, Cortese, Ontario, Canada.
	And just to reiterate, any other country using dollarets, we will honor your 200 dollaret level as an associate executive producer here on the show.
	And it's getting better for you guys in Canada.
	You're not even hitting 150 bucks now with your 200.
	That is so sad!
	Well, that's the Canadian economy is about to collapse thanks to Justin Trudeau's policies.
	They're cutting off the oil guys and all the money.
	The Albertans used to be the richest place in the world.
	Now they're all suffering.
	I mean, it's just a nightmare up there.
	Perhaps he was influenced by Gurgle and the Third Reich.
	That's true.
	I tune in to hear the best media deconstruction.
	While the 4X chair jelly squeaks.
	What a fuck!
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Well, that's our group of well-wishers in the form of associate executive producers and executive producers for show 1223.
	Yes, and thank you.
	Yes, I'm sorry.
	No, I was going to say thank you.
	I want to do what you're going to say.
	Say it.
	Well, I was going to say these are credits that are completely legit, and you can use them anywhere credits are recognized.
	So this is great for your LinkedIn profile, your business card.
	Do anyone still have business cards?
	Do we still do business cards?
	I do.
	Yeah, well, of course you do.
	Anyone else in a normal state of being, do people still use them?
	I guess.
	I ask for business cards once in a while and I get them.
	But, you know, maybe you're looking for a job, but also it just looks impressive.
	Executive producer of No Agenda Show, episode 1223.
	Thank you very much.
	We'll be thanking more people in our second segment.
	And of course, we've got some nights to bring up on stage, the podium.
	And we'd love to see you back again to support us for Thursday's show.
	Please do so by going to...
	So while you're telecommuting, you can tell everybody you know what's up with COVID-19.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Real.
	Water.
	Order.
	Shut up.
	Wait.
	Shut up.
	Sleep.
	It's a little bit creepy, but mostly just sleepy.
	It's sleepy, creepy Uncle Joe.
	Joe.
	Joe.
	But in the week.
	Who?
	Yes, I'm waiting for the Joe Gapst.
	You want to do some Gaffs?
	Yes, I can't wait.
	I want to do some Joe Gaffs.
	Okay, well, I have the Gaff Mania.
	I got a bunch of Gaff Mania.
	Gaff Mania.
	I have one, two, three, four.
	Sorry.
	Four very short ones and a longer one.
	Actually, yeah.
	Let's start with the one that's not under Gaff, but under Biden Gaff, and this is the one that got, I think, most of the play, where he loses it in the middle of a discussion and says we have to re-elect Trump.
	And turn, turn this primary from a campaign that's about negative attacks into one about what we're for, because we cannot get re-elect, we cannot win this re-election.
	Excuse me, we can only re-elect Donald Trump.
	Now, I would like to stop for one moment here and put the No Agenda producer-researcher hat on.
	This is...
	You've been duped.
	You've been duped.
	This is out of context because what actually happened is Joe said something else after that.
	So this is unfair.
	So I have to protect Joe.
	I mean, he's still out of his gourd, but that is not fair.
	Well, here it comes.
	I'm not going to argue with that, but let me just say one thing first.
	We're only doing these gaps because the mainstream media has decided to cover up for Joe.
	And many of these gaps came from people listening to these clips on the mainstream media and noticing chunks missing.
	Right.
	This one is unfair.
	I just want you to hear the whole thing in context.
	If you want a nominee, we'll bring this party together, who'll run a progressive, positive campaign, and turn this primary from a campaign that's about negative attacks into one about what we're for.
	Because we cannot get reelect, we cannot win this reelection.
	Excuse me, we can only reelect Donald Trump.
	If, in fact, we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.
	So he saved it.
	But it's important to point out that something else, it was still nothing you...
	Okay, let me just step back.
	Who is in charge of Joe Biden?
	He just had a fantastic showing on Super Tuesday.
	Put the man at home.
	Put the gimp ball in his mouth.
	Lock him up.
	Don't let him out.
	Put the surrogates on the road.
	Get Jill Biden out there.
	Anybody, don't put this candidate out there before your Michigan primary.
	That's crazy.
	You can't manage this kind of person.
	So they put him on the Chris Wallace show.
	Oh, jeez.
	And so now we have a stand-alone kind of a gaffe followed by more gaffe, and this is a real disaster, in my opinion.
	This is the gaffe stand-alone, thanks, Chuck.
	We'll see me standing next to him and him standing next to me.
	We'll see who's sleepy.
	Mr.
	Vice President, thank you.
	Thanks for your time.
	Please come back in less than 13 years, sir.
	All right, Chuck.
	Thank you very much.
	All right.
	It's Chris, but anyway.
	I just did Chris.
	No, no, I just did Chuck.
	I tell you what, man, these are back-to-back.
	Anyway, I don't know how you do it early in the morning, too.
	Sick travels on the campaign trail.
	Thank you, sir.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Sad.
	I think that wasn't even the real Joe.
	Now I have just a bunch of real short ones that came from a compilation.
	There was about tandem in the compilation.
	Most of them weren't very good.
	But I like these.
	And for a couple of reasons.
	This first one, which is at the top of the list, which is because all of these...
	We're at the same speech, and this would have all, like two or three years ago, on our show, would have been a drunk or not drunk.
	Do you want to do it?
	Do you want to do it drunk or not drunk?
	No, we don't have to, but you can maybe later.
	No, we don't need to do that, but let's start with this one.
	This one says three.
	This is where he says, instead of Obamacare, he says Ogamacare.
	Okay.
	I have been national firefighters.
	What I even, you know, I ponder though is the incredible enthusiasm and excitement this campaign has generated.
	Folks?
	This was something different.
	I didn't hear it.
	Did it end?
	That was the end, yeah.
	Oh, I must have clipped it poorly.
	Oh, good.
	Well, sorry about that.
	Well done.
	Good work, drunk or not drunk.
	Let's go to the mania or drunk one.
	This was one.
	Oh, you wanted two first?
	Oh, no, I wanted three.
	This says Ogamacare in the clip.
	Oh!
	Okay, let's start over.
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	They'll never know.
	I'll edit this out.
	Okay, good.
	Gee, John!
	Hey, John!
	Tell me, do you have more gaff clips?
	Let's start back to that first one, the one you played.
	This is the one that would have qualified for the drunk or not drunk.
	This is just him rambling about talking to Firefly.
	He sounds plastered.
	I have been national firefighters!
	What I even, you know, I ponder though is the incredible enthusiasm and excitement this campaign has generated.
	Oh, thick tongue, yeah.
	Oh, man.
	He needs to drink courage now.
	Now we'll move the clip.
	This one says two.
	We'll move the one I wanted to the end.
	This one says two.
	And this one I was very happy to get because he actually says O'Biden.
	A lifelong Democrat.
	A proud Democrat.
	An O'Biden bomber Democrat.
	An O'Biden bomber.
	He says O'Biden.
	He does.
	Because that's not the real Joe, man.
	The real Joe wouldn't make that mistake, would he?
	It's about his own name.
	Oh, Biden.
	Oh, Biden.
	The reason why is because he keeps throwing in there what some consultant told him.
	Say, Obama-Biden.
	Obama-Biden campaign.
	Obama-Biden administration.
	Obama-Biden care.
	And then he comes out with...
	But then when he, for some reason, says, oh, Biden, or Biden first, Biden-Obama, his brain can't process.
	So it comes out, oh, Biden...
	You're probably right.
	This is probably exactly it.
	Now, this is the one I like, which is the Ogamacare.
	We can do this by building on Ogamacare.
	Ogamacare.
	You know, if he actually used that on his platform, I think people would vote for it.
	Ogamacare.
	I like that.
	I want some Ogamacare.
	Fantastic.
	Poor Joe.
	Well, as somebody once said, this is elder abuse.
	Elder abuse, yes, it is.
	Totally.
	But the media will not play these clips.
	Well, no, no, no.
	They're covering for him.
	They really...
	Everyone is all in on getting this guy the nomination and letting him run against Trump and lose.
	I would just like to remind everybody that even if you go to Wikipedia...
	And this is why I don't...
	It's an insult, really, to run this guy, particularly when he talks about, I wrote that bill!
	I wrote that bill!
	I wrote the Federal Assault on Weapons Ban bill!
	Well, the problem is, that was all wrapped up into one act of 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.
	And this is the act that put 100,000 cops on the street, that built the entire commercial prison system.
	This was what Hillary Clinton said, this is how we need to bring the super predators to heal.
	And if you look right here on Wikipedia, my point is, not a very pro-African-American thing you did here, Joe.
	And it says right here, The bill was originally written by Senator Joe Biden of Delaware.
	He was behind the whole thing.
	But okay.
	Run, Joe, run.
	This would be a good opportunity to mention that we do not have an explicit two-party system in the United States.
	You go anywhere overseas.
	Well, you only have Republicans and Democrats!
	No, you can actually...
	There's a lot of different parties, and I looked some of them up.
	And I would like to share some other choices that you can vote for.
	Brian Carroll is the nominee for the American Solidarity Party.
	Jerome Siegel, who is a philosopher from Maryland, he is running for the Bread and Roses ticket.
	We have Don Blankenship from West Virginia.
	He is running for the Constitution Party.
	Then we have Gloria Larriva.
	And Gloria is running for the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
	Howie Hawkins, the Peace and Freedom Party, he's an interesting dude.
	And let's see, do we have anything else?
	What about the Libertarian Party?
	Do they have a candidate this year?
	Well, let me see.
	I think they do, actually.
	No, Independent...
	I don't see the Libertarian Party anywhere in this list.
	Usually they do something.
	Yeah, they have usually a convention and then Gary Johnson gets to be president.
	Yeah, there's been none of that.
	Maybe it folded.
	Libertarian Party 2020.
	Let me see.
	I could be wrong.
	I mean, wasn't McAfee running for something?
	He's always running for something.
	Here we go.
	2020 presidential candidates.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So they do have a...
	Here we go.
	We could have been on this list.
	Adam Kokesh, Brian Ellison, Daniel Berman.
	Daniel Berman's got a big hat that says taxation is theft on it.
	Sounds like a good libertarian.
	Jedediah Hill.
	I'm just reading the names that I recognize.
	There's quite a lot of people running for...
	Oh, there he is!
	Thank goodness.
	Well, here's the guy.
	You go to vermansupreme2020.com.
	He is on the ticket.
	Pony up, America.
	Vermin Supreme 2020.
	Oh, he's got a great website, John.
	You've got to take a look at what he's doing this year.
	Who is Vermin Supreme?
	He's the guy with the boot on his head.
	The guy with the boot on his hand.
	Yeah, and he gives a pony.
	His platform is everyone gets a pony.
	How do you spell this?
	Vermin, V-E-R-M-I-N? Yeah, Supreme.
	You know the guy.
	2020.com.
	platform for a pioneer america and a zombie powered future the mission of this campaign is this guy is to spread a loud and unapologetic message of free thought clean smiles and ponies through satire and humor i present real issues with fantastical context in-depth analysis and a dose of much-needed humor in the political sphere with thought-provoking activism
	i stand against the tyrannical duopoly the violent police state and all forms of overreaching government. - He's got a link for a video.
	Maybe there's audio on this video.
	Wait, from the homepage?
	Yeah.
	Hold on, let me see.
	I can play it.
	He's got a good picture of himself, says motherboard, and he's got a boot on his head.
	Here we go.
	Hi, my name's Herman Supreme, and I'm generally known as a person who's running for president.
	I'm a friendly fascist.
	I'm a tyrant that you should trust, and you should let me run your life, because I, too, know what is best for you.
	I'm a fringe candidate.
	I'm running for president of America, of course.
	That's it.
	He's got my vote.
	He's got my vote.
	I voted for him before.
	The guy is fantastic.
	Love this guy.
	Vermin Supreme 2020, everybody.
	Is he actually on the ballot anywhere?
	Well, that's a good question.
	I mean, he has to be...
	Usually he's on the ballot in New York, but I don't know if he's...
	Hmm.
	That's a good question.
	I don't know.
	You can also donate to his campaign.
	He doesn't even say chip in.
	So, while we're on the topic of Vermin Supreme, I have a kind of a side clip that might be worth listening to.
	Okay.
	Because I've got to compete with you now, digging up some of these things.
	This is Chunk.
	Chunk.
	Chunk Uger.
	Uger?
	Uger?
	Yes.
	So, he actually recorded this himself.
	Oh.
	And this is only part of the recording.
	He's at the airport.
	And he, I guess the flight was delayed.
	Yeah.
	And he decided to make a fuss about it, and he was going to, and he's going to post this, I guess he did, or somebody got it.
	Isn't this old?
	He's done this before.
	Hasn't he gone through some airport scene?
	Yeah, he does this every so often.
	I don't know if this is new or old, but I've never heard it before.
	You've heard it before?
	I think this is old.
	I think you got snookered again, man.
	Is the flight coming?
	Supervisor!
	Is the flight coming?
	Supervisor!
	I think this is, I think this is old.
	You've at least got to be honest.
	Is there a flight?
	Is there a plane?
	You've got to be honest.
	Is there a plane?
	Is there a plane?
	Where's the plane?
	Is there a plane?
	Where is it?
	Where's the plane?
	You know, but listen, if we just sit here and take it, they'd have us here until 6 in the morning, and then they'd fuck us even harder, okay?
	So, you're a supervisor, aren't you?
	Where's the plane?
	Sorry, I'm not going to answer your question.
	No, I know, because I've been here for four hours!
	Don't give me this!
	Where's the plane?
	Here, I got a question for you.
	When did you make the decision that we weren't gonna have a plane?
	When did you make that decision?
	Who made the decision?
	Who made the decision that we weren't...
	It's funny to you, right?
	It's not funny to us.
	Who made the decision?
	Who made the decision?
	Who made it?
	Well, who is it?
	That's what I'm asking.
	Whose fault is it?
	Whose fault is it?
	Is there a crew?
	By yelling, we're not going to be able to answer.
	Okay, let me whisper it.
	Is there a crew?
	Is there a plane or a crew?
	My crew, your plane is already on its way from the hangar.
	No, no, no, but they told us that four hours ago!
	Yeah, I think this is old.
	I'm pretty sure it is.
	Well, it's new to me.
	And I got a kick out of not the, like as though somebody was recording somebody going nuts, you know, with their own camera.
	I got a kick out of the arrogance for him to record it.
	Oh, he thinks he's all that in a bag of chips, man.
	It's unbelievable.
	He really does.
	He really thinks he's all that.
	I know.
	I know.
	I mean, let's record ourselves being an a-hole.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	Hey, I have an update.
	Not really an update, but I caught something in the...
	Oh, wait a minute.
	I need to play my theme song.
	Hold on.
	I have a theme song here.
	See.
	You do.
	You do. You do.
	You do.
	You do.
	was one of them being easy to wear.
	Remember...
	Still! - Hello.
	I am the vaped crusader, hero of the vapors.
	I have exposed evil tobacco.
	Apparently, by the way, I should mention this, not to promote Joe Rogan, but...
	Why not?
	Everybody commented on your...
	Because I heard that part, too.
	On your exposition, on your...
	And I was asked about it by Nick.
	Yes.
	He says, what is all this?
	I said...
	Adam has been going on and on about this for weeks.
	Months, probably.
	If not months.
	And he became an expert.
	I explained Dexter, and I went to the background and everything.
	I said, I don't think that many people know so much.
	He's almost like he's like, now he's the expert.
	He should be hired by, or brought into the government.
	And he summarized, apparently beautifully, according to everybody, on the Joe Rogan show, and I guess nobody...
	It baffled everybody.
	Wow!
	So it's a compliment of some sort that I'm giving you.
	Yes.
	I know it clearly pains you, but okay.
	Keep it coming.
	Ha!
	It's not well structured.
	No, not really.
	So the even shorter version is vaping has been taken down by big tobacco and the states that have the master states agreement.
	That's an important part, which means tobacco companies...
	We have a deal with states.
	States, particularly California, get a lot of money to compensate for the death and destruction that tobacco causes.
	And the states wrote bonds against these.
	So they borrowed money against their future earnings.
	And with vaping, guess what?
	People were not smoking tobacco, so they had to put a stop for it.
	And taking Juul effectively out of the market, and I think Monday or Tuesday they're going to try and pass this bill for flavored e-liquids because, oh, you know, that's just trying to hook the children.
	Don't mind giving your three-year-old a cell phone, but please don't have any flavored vape liquids around.
	And this is all to shepherd in, which is now coming, and we've been waiting for IQOS. And it's a stupid name.
	No one even knows how to pronounce it.
	Little I, capital Q-O-S. And what was...
	This is a good...
	I'll stop you here.
	What were they thinking with this naming convention?
	It's an acronym for I Quit Ordinary Smoking.
	And I'm sure the URL was available.
	Because who the hell comes up with that?
	So, and why is this the genius they've been working for, working towards, is because it is a device that looks like a vape pen.
	It comes with little cartridges you plug in, but it is heated tobacco, which means it's almost smoke-free.
	This is since the barbarians at the gate.
	If you've never seen that movie, I think it was HBO. Barbarians at the Gate is about the leveraged buyout of RGR Nabisco.
	And a running gag throughout this was, well, actually not even a gag.
	They had on deck the smokeless cigarette, and it was going to be a huge bonanza, so they do a leveraged buyout.
	But it turns out the smokeless cigarette, when you light it with a match, something, some chemical reaction took place with the sulfur, and it smelled like a turd.
	So the IQOS apparently is smokeless.
	So now I'm looking at how else are they going to try and introduce this because they need a few more pushes.
	We already have vape is bad, vape is going to kill you even though it's completely unrelated with illegal THC cartridges filled with vitamin E acetate added.
	We have all the scary stuff.
	Kids are getting hooked.
	It's all bad.
	Here's IQOS. It's going to save the world.
	But we still need to highlight how great this new device is.
	And what better than some new research?
	Yeah!
	Now, let's think.
	Almost no smoke.
	Practically no smoke from this.
	That's important because of a new term.
	Third hand smoke.
	You don't have to be anywhere near a cigarette for toxic chemicals to affect you.
	That's because the residue is lingering long after that cigarette is put out.
	What you need to know, John Banshaf is a professor of public interest of law at George Washington University Law School.
	He's also the founder of the group Action on Smoking and Health.
	Many of us had no idea what third hand smoke was.
	How exactly, if it's on clothes or in walls, is it so powerful that it can actually harm our health?
	Well, in many ways, third-hand tobacco smoke is like second-hand tobacco smoke, although the experts tell us it is more toxic.
	The Surgeon General tells us there's no safe lower level of exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.
	It kills 40,000 Americans every year.
	Compare that, by the way, with the coronavirus.
	Now what this study shows is if you're a typical non-smoker, you go to a movie theater where they haven't had smoking for over 15 years, you sit down, it's not too crowded, some of the people in the audience are smokers, although they're not smoking then, simply the residue from their clothing will be enough to expose you to about the exposure of 10 cigarettes secondhand tobacco smoke.
	This is pretty outrageous research.
	I mean, I don't think the jury is really in or is done on second-hand smoke, but now third-hand smoke.
	You go to a movie theater, just the smoke, the residue that is hanging on other people's clothes is equivalent to you sitting next to somebody smoking 10 cigarettes.
	It doesn't even pass...
	Oh, the sniff test.
	This is bull.
	No, this is PR is what this is.
	This was on HLN. And is it different?
	What's the difference?
	Well, because this aired on CNN Headline News.
	This is their propaganda channel.
	I mean, not any less than the other CNN. But this is where you can get these kinds of guys on.
	Here's the National Center for Health Research.
	Sounds important.
	Not really.
	These guys are paid shills.
	And this research is going to be distributed.
	It's coming from them.
	Go ahead, wait for it.
	This will become a story.
	They need a break.
	They need a break in the media cycle so they can slip this in.
	But that's what we're getting now.
	Just follow it.
	That'll be the next step towards we need IQOS. Yes, because it takes care of the nasty third-hand smoke.
	Want to hear some more?
	I have another minute.
	50 seconds.
	That is even worse for kids because this stuff tends to collect on rugs and furniture.
	Kids are crawling around on rugs.
	They're more likely to pick up things, to touch things, to put them in their mouths.
	And so it's much more dangerous for kids, but it's terribly dangerous for adults.
	Fortunately, there are legal remedies.
	And what are the things we can do?
	Because obviously the takeaway...
	Now listen to this.
	This is really egregious because they're going to use HR and all kinds of other mechanisms to screw people who...
	And probably people who are vaping too.
	You just watch.
	It'll be, oh, third-hand vapor.
	Oh yeah, it's really bad.
	Listen to what he suggests you do at your company.
	On legal rivage.
	And what are the things we can do?
	Because obviously the takeaway, I can go to a movie theater.
	I can't prevent whether someone next to me smoked a cigarette.
	No, but if you work and you work where somebody is smoking, go outside for smoking break and come back in and they smell tobacco smoke, you can complain to your employer.
	You can file a complaint with OSHA. You can file a complaint under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
	You can probably file a complaint under your local laws relating to this.
	And we've actually done this, and in fact, it works.
	Or you could give him an I-Cross for his birthday.
	It's coming.
	No legs.
	The third-hand smoke story has got no legs.
	Okay, we'll see.
	I'm predicting that as we speak.
	And this guy sounds like an old crank.
	Now, if the Iquos manufacturer comes along and says, hey, we want to buy some ads, I think it'll get some legs.
	We'll see.
	The third-hand smoke thing is too laughable.
	It's got no legs.
	It's stupid.
	He had a lab coat on, John.
	He looked official.
	Well, the lab coat was a smart move.
	But I'll say this.
	This is not going to work.
	It's too stupid.
	It is stupid.
	How would you suggest Iquos market to the masses?
	I don't think they're going to...
	That's a good question.
	If we were sitting around trying to figure out how to sell this turkey, how to go about it is the question.
	It's got a bad name.
	It's too similar to vaping.
	Why would you just vape?
	It makes more sense.
	I would mark it as idiotic.
	They're painting themselves into a corner.
	It's impossible.
	No, no, no.
	Iquos.
	The safe vape.
	That's what I do.
	Because it doesn't have...
	That's better than what they're doing.
	Yeah, it doesn't have any harmful chemicals.
	As a bonus, there's almost no second-hand smoke, let alone that crazy third-hand smoke people are talking about.
	I already know what the tobacco company would say to that pitch.
	They'd say, we don't want to use the word vape in any way.
	We were trying to get people not to even think about vaping, so we can't put vape...
	Can't put the competition's word in our pitch.
	Okay.
	Well, it's a real shame if they can't even launch a new product off of this destruction.
	I mean, the vape industry is quite large worldwide, and it's being hammered.
	When I say they're outlawing flavored e-liquids, that's not entirely true.
	You have to go through the FDA process, about $1.5 million per flavor.
	So, you know, it's like, who can afford that?
	And there's a lot of vape shops, and there's a lot of family businesses.
	This was a very grassroots movement that was taking place, and in collusion with the government, Big Tobacco came in and screwed everybody, and is getting away with it.
	And that's it from your Vaped Crusaders!
	See you next time, everybody!
	So I'm noticing a couple of interesting things.
	The thing that irks me, the little trend that's irking me, is the ageism that I'm starting to see on Democracy Now.
	Oh, interesting.
	And this, I only have one, but I could say that she says this constantly over and over again because everyone's all irked about the way it's gone for Elizabeth Warren.
	Once she quit, everybody's in a tizzy.
	And so you end up, if you go to Democracy Now!, you hear...
	The following kind of thing, and you hear it a lot.
	This is Amy Goodman, and the way she describes the competition, this is the top clip, the Amy Older White Men.
	Senator Elizabeth Warren has suspended her bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, leaving the race down to two older white men, former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders.
	It's sexist, man.
	She says older white men a number of times.
	And then when she starts talking to people, they go off the deep end complaining about racism and sexism.
	Yeah, but ageism doesn't count.
	Ageism apparently is okay with these folk.
	And so they go on and on.
	Now, I do have one clip that I did kind of enjoy.
	She brought on this guy, old socialist hack, Norman Solomon, to come on.
	And they were, of course, defending one of the older, old white men, Bernie Sanders.
	But they were discussing, and I think pretty much what we've been saying for a very long time, the corruption of the media and why we see a lot of anti-Trump corruption of the media happening.
	The anti-Bernie thing is, at least if you're a socialist, It appears to be even worse, but they never make the jump to Trump.
	They will not see Trump.
	Whatever they say about Trump is fine.
	But let's listen to this clip, because I enjoy this.
	This is Norm Solomon on corporate media.
	Let's face it.
	MSNBC and CNN, huge and powerful cable networks, have been engaged in all sorts of slander and innuendo and sometimes smears against Bernie Sanders.
	And for Rachel Maddow and MSNBC and other networks and media to act as though this is only coming from one direction and toward one direction is of a piece of a pattern of bias against Bernie Sanders that shouldn't be a surprise but should outrage us.
	These are corporate-owned entities.
	MSNBC is owned by Comcast, a very anti-labor, anti-consumer, huge corporation.
	They don't want Bernie Sanders to be president.
	He would tax their profits.
	He would challenge the prerogatives of the wealthy to determine the policies of the U.S. government.
	And overall, I think we should note That corporate media have been on an assault against Bernie Sanders.
	We've gone through several phases.
	A year ago he was old news.
	Other candidates were saying the same things.
	Then when he stuck with Medicare for All, which is an affirmation of the human rights of all people, then he was portrayed as an extremist or too radical, out of step.
	Then we were told he had no chance to win the nomination.
	Then after New Hampshire, and especially Nevada, he was being trashed.
	The mud was flying from corporate media to pretend that, therefore, progressives should stay neutral until a convention.
	I just don't understand that.
	We have Elizabeth Warren saying now that she's going to stay in the fight.
	Is the fight for Medicare for All?
	Is the fight against corporate power?
	that fight is to affirm the human rights of all human beings, how can she stay neutral?
	This is very disturbing to me because every day goes by and Elizabeth Warren fails to endorse Bernie Sanders and go out and campaign for him is a de facto assistance to corporate power, to corporate America and Joe Biden.
	And I don't think we should pretend anything else.
	She was on SNL last night.
	Liz.
	Oh!
	Yeah.
	Did you catch it?
	Yeah, I did.
	She was pretty good, I have to say.
	They did a whole bit.
	And what's her name?
	Kate McKinnon.
	She does Elizabeth Warren.
	So Elizabeth all of a sudden came on.
	She was answering questions.
	It's fuzzy, but it was good.
	But more importantly...
	Elizabeth Warren, and she's, what, 70, I think?
	She's just about 70?
	No, she's over 70.
	She's like, well, she might just be 70.
	I'll look it up.
	She's an old white woman.
	But if she got contacts, grew her hair back...
	And ran as a Republican, she'd have a shot.
	She's pretty good looking.
	Her neck, good skin.
	She does not look 70.
	And if you look at older pictures of her, she had some hottie in her.
	You have to go way back.
	She is exactly 70, yes.
	But she just needs to stop dressing like a hysterical nutjob.
	This is just some advice from the Curry Dvorak Consulting Group.
	She actually dresses like an 80-year-old woman.
	Yeah, yes.
	She dresses older than she is.
	And just, you know, don't part it in the middle.
	Get contacts.
	She could look really good.
	She should go ask Hillary where she gets her hair done in Paris.
	In Paris, in Paris, yes.
	Woo-hoo!
	Exactly.
	Get some hairdo there.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But she was good.
	Again...
	She was good, but she's still not exactly as Solomon said.
	She's not endorsing anyone.
	She's not helping Bernie.
	She's not helping anybody.
	Who the hell knows what she's doing?
	She's not going to help Bernie.
	The party's going to be on her ass saying, look, do you like...
	Look!
	Do you like this job of yours as a senator?
	You want to keep the support?
	You're going to stay in the party?
	You're going to become an independent?
	What are you going to do?
	If you're a Democrat, you're going to endorse Joe.
	And here's how you're going to do it.
	And they're going to give her a script that's a good excuse for her endorsing Joe.
	She is not going to endorse Bernie.
	There's no way.
	There's no way she's going to ever endorse Bernie.
	She can't do it.
	They won't let her.
	No, you're right.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	Well, maybe she did hold out.
	Maybe she was holding out for a great deal.
	Maybe there's something.
	I don't know.
	We'll see.
	Kamala Harris.
	Kamala Harris endorsed Joe Biden.
	Kamala Harris, who stood there and said, I was one of those children you bust a skull, Joe!
	And now she's all, this is the man.
	I trust him.
	He's great.
	Oh, please, hypocrite.
	Camilla hypocrite.
	I'm going to show myself the Lord by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda.
	In the morning.
	And we do have a few people to thank for show 1223.
	Yes.
	Beginning with...
	Well, we did, Sir Acid.
	So let's go to Sir Richard Hufford.
	$100.
	Loves the show.
	Keep it up.
	Sir Herb Lamb, the Earl of Georgia.
	808.
	Boob.
	A compliment for you on JRE. Joshua Pettigrew.
	You know who he is?
	Yes.
	In Monticello.
	Well, he is our artist.
	Oh, yes.
	And he can't do art anymore, so he sent us in some money, and I got a note from him, and I want to read it.
	Okay.
	I've got to figure out where it is.
	Here it is.
	It's a little longer than I'd like, but here it is.
	Dear Jack Benny in Rochester, I write to you in the response of the many kind words of appreciation that you both have heaped upon the Pete Buttigieg artwork I submitted.
	A special thanks goes to John, who has personally championed it.
	Mentioning it on the show more than once and using it in the newsletter and posting about it on Twitter.
	That's true.
	It's because it's a great piece.
	It's good, yeah.
	I also write to apologize for the belatedness of this note.
	I should have responded quicker.
	You guys deserve better of your producers.
	I have not gone overboard and continue to be blessed by your wit and wisdom during these deranged times.
	The reason for my lack of artwork submissions in recent years is due to the fact that I can't listen to the show live anymore.
	Right.
	Yeah, he told us that.
	As you can imagine, this can be a difficult hurdle to overcome.
	The Pete Buttigieg art came after Trump called him Alfred E. Newman on Twitter.
	The hilarious image that conjured in my mind was just dying to be expressed in real life.
	As John has described in the show before, sometimes an artist just has to create.
	This is true in this case, and I couldn't help myself, despite the low possibilities of being selected.
	And that was the reason I wanted to read this note, is that we have another guy that's one of our artists, we won't mention who it is, who's always quitting.
	He, you know, you'll get upset and you'll never, I'm not going to do any more art.
	But he listens to the show and this happens.
	Artists are artists.
	They are.
	And they can't not do it.
	And I just thought it was a sweet note.
	That's a sweet note.
	And just, it reminded me of last night, the former New York banker.
	I know who he wanted to be the candidate and who he thinks will be an excellent president next time around.
	Pete Buttigieg.
	And I know this because I said, oh, CIA Pete, the white Obama.
	That was the wrong thing to say.
	What did he think of that commentary?
	He did not like that.
	But he's the smartest guy.
	He mumbled and I could see him.
	I backed off immediately.
	You upset the apple cart.
	No, that was early on in the evening, so it was still good.
	Everything turned out great later.
	After I sent them home with one of those cinnamon bottles from Jambo Joe.
	Everybody loves me now.
	I'll bet.
	Jim Zucco loves us.
	6969 came in from Beverly Hills, California with a donation.
	And he says, in this age of Corona, can John share his recipe for basmati rice?
	Thanks.
	I don't know what coronavirus has to do with it.
	You should consider publishing that.
	I have it written up somewhere.
	I'll post it.
	Good, good.
	Bobby Schramm in Dubuque, Iowa.
	Dubuque.
	He's 60 bucks and him and his smoking hot wife need a dedouching.
	Kate, yeah.
	You've been dedouched.
	Mark J. will call him because it's what it says on his note from American Fork, Utah.
	Sent a note in that is again worth at least a little mention.
	He needs a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	He says, he also, I didn't do this, and I made a mistake.
	He needs to be on the birthday list.
	Okay.
	Mark J. He's turning 50 on Saturday.
	Okay, Mark J50 on Saturday.
	Done?
	So he says the last 10 years have been a string of bad things after another.
	Maybe some no agenda karma.
	We'll help put that at the end for you.
	He says, I first discovered no agenda in the back of the early days when John mentioned on Twit that he was doing a podcast with the original and greatest host of Headbangers Ball.
	Ricky Rackman!
	What?
	So I had to listen.
	Uh.
	And he says, I immediately connected with the show.
	As you were talking about things, I was noticing about the MSM that nobody else seemed to notice.
	And he says, I stupidly became a man overboard, and it only returned in 2016, after the 2016 election.
	That's all right.
	We're happy you're here.
	And here's the PS, so I wanted to imagine.
	He says, he didn't know, we talked about this before, he didn't know they were saying New World Order.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	I always thought he says, no, what a oda.
	Yeah, it could be.
	Who knows?
	If it's that to you, it's all good.
	It's all good.
	Onward.
	Yeah.
	Marshall Bennett in Locust Hill, Virginia, 555.
	And he's got...
	He says, I'm calling out the very person who hit me in the mouth, my father, as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	I also want to wish him happy birthday at the same time he's on the list.
	Sorry, Dad, and happy birthday!
	Lots of love!
	I also need health karma and F cancer karma from my mother-in-law who is battling cancer.
	Yes, we'll put that at the end for you.
	Thank you.
	John Monaco, 5510, Highland Heights, Kentucky.
	Sir Matt Hatter, 5510.
	And he'll be wishing Dame Jamie the love of his life a very happy birthday for March 10th, also on the list.
	Micaiah Stoddard.
	I'm hoping I got that.
	5510 in Oceanside, California.
	Also another douchebag call out here.
	He's got a...
	Can you please call out Jew, J-O-O, Birmingham, as a major douchebag.
	Catherine, 5510 in New Hampshire, another birthday.
	For Abel Kirby.
	Yes.
	He'll be turning 30 tomorrow.
	Abel Kirby, man, he does a lot of our great jingles.
	Brian Burgess in the show, does he?
	Yeah, hold on a second.
	I'll play a shorty, one that you'll recognize.
	What is this?
	No, that's an end of show.
	He has...
	what is the stuff he's doing here?
	He has a lot of end of show things.
	Thank you.
	Cool.
	Yeah, what was this one?
	Yeah, not gruesome at all.
	Nice.
	Sawing Khashoggi.
	Onward, Brian Burgess in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, 5405.
	Then we have Katrina Okerstrom-Jazuski in Iowa City, Iowa, $50.30.
	And she's got a dedouching, needs a dedouching for starters.
	You've been dedouched.
	Music And then she's got a birthday call-out, but it's also a douchebag call-out for his dad, Brad Jaszewski.
	Douchebag!
	But it's for Andrew.
	She's donating for Andrew.
	Today's his 30th birthday.
	He's also on the list.
	Brian Mosier, $50.01.
	And now we've got $50 donors who have wrapped this up.
	Edwin Mazurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
	Aloha Leibel in Newark, Delaware.
	Sir Franco in Cebolo, Texas.
	Larry Hay in Mooresville, North Carolina.
	Brian Hay with a birthday, some parts unknown.
	Has he got a dedouching request?
	This is nice.
	For Brian Hay, as a birthday gift from his wife and kids.
	He's always saying he wants to donate more often.
	We aren't sure what a dedouching is, but we're pretty sure he'd appreciate one if that's enough for it in the morning.
	Yeah, we'll dedouche it.
	I love that!
	I mean, here's the white mom and the kids, and like...
	Well, you know, you could have gotten Old Spice or some damn socks.
	No, you give the man what he wants.
	Thank you.
	It's appreciated.
	Mary Hui, Hui, Hui, Hui, H-O-E-Y, 50.
	Sir Chris Abraham in Arlington, Virginia.
	This is birthday day.
	We had a number of strings of days.
	There's a lot of birthdays.
	Is there anything in there that we need to do besides the birthday?
	Jonathan Meyer in Xenia, Ohio.
	Brett Farrell, sir, I believe, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	Viscount Allen Bean in Tigard, Oregon.
	Now...
	You remember that name?
	I have a note from him.
	I do have the note.
	Who is this?
	Oh, Viscount Alan Bean?
	Yeah.
	Is this the special letterhead?
	No.
	No, no, no.
	This is the guy who's been giving his $50 check since the beginning of the show from Oakland.
	Okay.
	This area has been such a draw to me, now he's in Tigard, Oregon with our Grand Duke.
	Huh!
	This area is Sir Dwayne Melanson.
	This has been a draw to me over the years.
	I've moved to Tigard, Oregon from Oakland.
	This is a recent move.
	We've only been here a week and we're already very happy to have been done.
	So both my wife and I are newly retired and look upon this move as a new adventure.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Nice.
	Yeah.
	Got out of California.
	Jason DeLuzzi on Chatsford, Pennsylvania.
	That got out of Oakland.
	Sir Kyle Myron, Atlanta, Georgia, and last but not least, Jeffrey Zinneman, rhymes with cinnamon, in South Euclid, Ohio.
	I want to thank all these folks for contributing to show 1223 and keeping us going.
	Yes, and everyone under 50, for brevity's sake, we don't credit that anymore, but under 50, that's where a lot of the subscriptions are.
	This is a great opportunity.
	Just get something recurring, and before you know it, you're at the roundtable.
	This goes quite fast, but also it really helps us through the slower periods to have something recurring.
	Whatever the value of the show is to you.
	$5, love it.
	$50, even better.
	Thank you so much.
	It is, after all, the best podcast in the universe.
	And you are the producers.
	So it's up to you to support us for the next show.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. My requests.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got...
	Karma.
	It's your birthday, birthday!
	Karma.
	And we're looking at the calendar for the 8th of March, 2020.
	Here's who's celebrating or who has celebrated.
	Belated to happy birthday is to Jackson Cuevas, who turned 21 on the 1st.
	Marshall Bennett says happy birthday to his father.
	Sir Mad Hatter says happy birthday to Dame Jamie, who will be celebrating on the 10th.
	Catherine says happy birthday to her brother Abel Kirby.
	He'll be turning 30 tomorrow.
	And Katrina Okerstrom-Jazuski says happy birthday to her husband Andrew.
	He turns 30 today.
	Brian Hay is celebrating.
	Sir Chris Abram turns 50 today.
	Robert Zogel turns 65.
	And on Saturday, Mark Jay will turn 50 years old.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	One, two, three nightings for today, so I could just do with a medium blade if you are ready for that.
	There you go.
	There it is.
	Thank you.
	Up on stage, Jeff in Cincinnati, Anonymous, and Robert Zogel.
	Gentlemen, all three of you are about to join the No Agenda Roundtable of the Knights and the Dames.
	That's where they all sit and where you will take place after I pronunciate the...
	Sir Techno Expert, Sir Anonymous Baron of ADFC, and Sir Robert of the Smoky Mountain Brass.
	Gentlemen, for you, hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, warm beer and cold women, Captain Morgans and women with questionable reputations, kebab and Persian wine, redheads and ryes, organic macaroni and plasticizers, breast milk and pablum, sparkling cider and escorts, bong hits and burbling.
	Let's see, ginger ale and gerbils, geishas and sake, and of course we've got mutton and mead, and as discussed, You will receive your ring, your sealing wax, and your official certificate after you go to noagendanation.com slash rings, fill out your info.
	Eric, the show will get that off to you as soon as possible, as soon as China's shipping them again.
	Are we expecting any...
	How does that work?
	Do people run out of t-shirts in the world?
	I wonder, you know, there's got to be a lot of cheap stuff from China that we're not going to see anymore.
	And I have a question for you.
	There is talk of an oil war.
	Saudi Aramco slashing crude pricing, apparently trying to destroy OPEC, screw with Russia.
	Have you followed any of this?
	No, but I do have a clip, although you have to do your meet-up report first, I believe.
	Oh, shoot, man.
	Thank you.
	You're so right.
	No agenda meet-ups!
	Stag-up!
	It is like a party.
	Actually, I have a...
	Thank you for reminding me, John.
	I do have a meet-up report.
	This is the Miami Beach meet-up report.
	In the morning, this is the Miami meet-up on Friday, March 6th.
	We're at the Hookah and More in North Miami.
	This is Greg in the morning, everybody.
	Hey Gitmo Nation, this is Prem, and I have to call myself out as a douchebag.
	Hey, this is Alex from previously Panama, then later Italy, and now in Belgium.
	Thank you for, I don't know...
	In the morning!
	A small but dedicated meetup.
	These are meetings that people go to.
	Sometimes we're able to attend in different parts of the world, but people like to get together.
	They know that when they're a part of the tribe that there's no triggering.
	Everyone can talk openly, freely, don't have to worry about someone getting all mad about anything.
	And they meet up and have food and drinks and hang out.
	And it's all walks of life, all race, creeds, religion, backgrounds, ages.
	It's well worth it.
	And we've got a couple coming up this week.
	Tuesday in Toronto, it is the meetup, M-E-A-T, and that will be at Union Chicken.
	Look for Bishop, your organizer.
	Thursday in Monroe, Connecticut.
	Sprawl, to be exact, in Monroe, which has a diaper-changing station.
	Meet at Republic Kitchen.
	Dame Jamie organizing for you.
	Also this coming Thursday, No Agenda Local 512, March Sunset Valley, Texas.
	This is Sir Scott, Black Baronet of the No Agenda Armory.
	I may try to go to that one.
	On Thursday, mainly because Sir Scott says he's got some beautiful fresh venison for me.
	I know.
	I'll come to the meet-up for that.
	I woke you up.
	And then Friday, the Mississippi Rocket Ranch.
	This is a meet-up at the John C. Stennis Space Center in South Mississippi's Hancock County.
	And you got an RSVP 48 hours prior to the event for access to the meetup site.
	How cool is that?
	John Horner is organizing that.
	Finally, a good reason for an RSVP. Yes.
	Colorado Local 5280 in Denver.
	That's the first ever Denver Local 5280 meetup.
	And they're on a six-week cycle.
	Hofbrau in Colorado.
	George Preidel is hosting that for you.
	And then Friday, the Charlotte meetup.
	Friday the 13th.
	Spooktacular.
	That will be at Sycamore Brewing Cameron hosting for you.
	And what does this say?
	Friday, Amsterdam No Agenda meets...
	Oh!
	What is this?
	Meets top...
	I think there's a meeting of...
	I think this is Roderick Velo's podcast group.
	Maybe meeting with ours in Amsterdam?
	Yeah, it sounds like it.
	That'd be fine.
	It's at Lokai van de Stott.
	And Entrepreneurio is organizing that for you.
	For all the details, go to NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	If you can't find something there, you can start your own.
	It's free, it's easy, it's available, and you'll meet incredibly fun children from other lands.
	NoAgendaMeetups.com.
	It's like a party!
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Drink it all hell and blame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Thank you for reminding me of that, John.
	Now, back to this oil war.
	It looks like we're under, we're like at $45 a barrel now, and it could go down, some say, to $28?
	I saw a clip years ago that Saudi Arabia can make money at 20 because it comes out so easy.
	But there's something else going on there too.
	I wanted to play this clip.
	This is about some Saudi Arabian intrigue.
	Okay.
	At least four members of the Saudi royal family are being detained, according to reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
	The Saudi princes were reportedly taken into custody for allegedly plotting to oust King Salman and the king's designated successor, his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
	Two of the men, the king's brother, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, and his nephew, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, were arrested in their homes and charged with treason.
	Naif had been crown prince until 2017 when King Salman replaced him with his son, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS. Saudi officials did not comment on the four arrests as of Saturday afternoon.
	So from Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia kicked off an all-out oil war on Saturday, slashing official pricing for its crude, making the deepest cuts in the last 20 years on its main grades in a bid to push as many barrels into the market as possible.
	The cuts in monthly pricing by state producer Saudi Aramco are the first indication of how the Saudis will respond to the breakup of the alliance between OPEC and partners like Russia.
	The kingdom plans to accompany the price cuts with a hike in crude supply.
	So they're going to flood the market.
	I got people in Texas emailing me saying they're worried because we can't go much under $50, I think, for our shale.
	No, shale, no.
	50 is definitely the...
	The bottom, right?
	Yeah, you can't do...
	Otherwise, it's just no...
	There's no money.
	Saudi Aramco lowered April pricing for its crude sales to Asia by $4 to $6 a barrel and to the U.S. by $7 a barrel.
	And then, you know, Putin's also starting to dump now.
	Now, this is...
	Well, the Russians don't have...
	Well, I think they're trying to crush Russia.
	They have a price floor, too, that is...
	It's not much lower than what it is.
	No.
	I don't know.
	Maybe this is part of a giant scheme.
	Maybe it's part of the whole Syria thing.
	You know, it's all about oil there, too.
	And so maybe someone stepped on somebody's toes.
	But yes, I've read, I don't know if I can find it anywhere here, but I think I read that the incarceration, because when I read the story, I'm like, is this an old story about MBS incarcerating his family?
	But no, it's happening again.
	There's a rumor that King Solomon is dead.
	That he's dead.
	Yeah, he's dead.
	Yeah, you heard that too.
	Yeah.
	So what happens if they really go down to 28?
	I mean, won't we have an oil crisis again like in the 70s?
	Isn't that exactly what happened?
	No.
	In the 70s, the price went up, not down.
	Oh.
	What am I thinking of then?
	I don't know.
	As far as I'm concerned, you lower the price of oil and the economies all perk up because it's cheap energy.
	Okay, well wait.
	Here we go.
	This is Trump with his buddies.
	Remember?
	His orb friends.
	They all stood at the orb.
	And he said, hey, hey, MBS, bruh.
	Let's put Putin out of business, man.
	How about that for a strategy?
	It'll definitely hurt Putin.
	It'll hurt some of our oil suppliers, mostly the frackers.
	It won't change much with the drillers.
	And I don't know.
	I mean, I'm watching it closely trying to figure out what the hell's going on, but it's very weird.
	It's very odd.
	There's no reason for it unless something's going on.
	There's something afoot.
	Okay, well, I expect to know more by Thursday, I hope.
	AOC was on Seth Meyers.
	We haven't played any AOC stuff in a while.
	If you're interested.
	Yeah, I'm always interested in whatever she has to say.
	Well, and this caught my eye because people are, like, upset because she said illegal aliens should vote in the, or should participate in the census.
	And, you know, of course, there's all kinds of people, particularly on the right, who are triggered by that.
	But as far as I know, the idea is everybody signs it.
	I mean, it states quite specifically in the FAQs that I read on the census.gov site that, yes...
	If you want money to go to your community, your city, your town, whatever, even if you're there undocumented, you should participate in the census.
	So she's not saying anything out of the ordinary, but I guess this stems from the potential question that the Trump administration was toying with putting on, which was, are you here legally or not?
	I think, was it citizen or resident alien?
	Yes.
	Anyway, here she is.
	Another thing that will have huge implications, not just on this election, but the next decade, is the census.
	Can you speak about how you're approaching that?
	Just try to explain to people exactly how important it is.
	This is such a setup.
	Y'all come on if you let me talk about this.
	So we are all going to get census forms or a prompt.
	We're all going to get mailed a prompt to fill out the census in the next two weeks or so.
	And so I think what's really important is that we all fill this out.
	It happens once every 10 years.
	Every single person, no matter your documentation status, no matter your housing status, income, etc., is to be counted.
	And it determines how much our schools are going to get funded, how much infrastructure gets invested, and, of course, how many members of Congress each community gets.
	And if you get undercounted, you know, in some parts of New York City, some communities, the self-reporting is about half of what we think it should be.
	And that has real impacts on apportionment of how many teachers that your local schools get.
	So it's really important.
	It's completely confidential.
	And it's even confidential within the federal government.
	Your census data is not shared with any other federal agency at all.
	So don't worry if you're having a creative living situation and it's not going to be told to your landlord or anything crazy like that.
	Don't worry.
	Totally safe.
	A good tip.
	A good tip for my viewers.
	Such a phony dude, that.
	Now, this is also, the census is also used for redistricting, so it's very important to have everyone counted.
	Certainly if you have people who will be sympathetic to AOC, such as undocumented immigrants.
	I don't think she's going to get re-elected, by the way.
	I think she's out.
	All of these, the whole squad, I'm pretty sure there's going to be some movement against them as well.
	And they'll get out.
	Well, the party's fed up with them.
	Yeah.
	And so there's one other clip here, a short one that I have.
	I was surprised by this.
	And as a citizen, as a taxpayer, somewhat irked.
	I'm very happy to see you got some companionship for yourself.
	I did.
	I would imagine Washington, even though it's crowded with people, can be very lonely.
	You got a new dog.
	Yes, Deco!
	Deco!
	These are very, very attractive photos of Deca.
	Were these professionally done?
	This was taken in the House Rules Committee.
	He was a doggy chairman of the day.
	He rotates, so there's a cast of characters, and so they very graciously invite the dogs of many members.
	Oh, so this was not a special treatment for you?
	It's a rotating set of dogs?
	Yeah, it's a thing.
	So there's a lot of different doggy chairs of the day.
	That's great.
	By the way, I don't know why that's not on C-SPAN. It should be.
	It should be, because C-SPAN is boring and needs more dogs.
	It would be like Puppy Bowl.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So they take time to bring their dogs into the chambers, and they have professional photographers, and they put their little dog with a little sign with his name, and they take a picture of it, and he's the chair dog.
	Really?
	Really?
	I can see why you're irked.
	Dogs are people, too.
	And with this behavior, you're putting us into the debt trap of Japan.
	She's the one saying you can't have children because of climate change.
	Well, look at Japan and enjoy your future, AOC. You should change your tune, young lady.
	I had gotten a couple of clips from...
	To finish things up.
	I want the tensions on the Greek border so we can catch up with that little problem that's becoming a mess, which is not being reported.
	The PBS does report it on Saturday.
	Tensions on Greece's border with Turkey escalated today as migrants trying to get into Europe faced off with Greek police.
	Authorities used tear gas to try and disperse a group of migrants armed with rocks who tried to tear down a border fence.
	At least two people were reportedly injured in today's clashes.
	Greek police have been clashing with Syrian migrants trying to cross into the country since Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the border last week.
	Greek officials said that the tear gas and water cannons were used for, quote, deterrence purposes.
	Man, it's such a mess.
	It's a total mess.
	I hear that there's now a new movement starting for Nexit.
	For the Netherlands, they want to Nexit.
	Yeah?
	How's that going to work?
	What do you mean, how is it going to work?
	They're landlocked.
	They're right in the middle of a landlocked.
	I mean, they're not landlocked.
	But they're right in the guts of Europe.
	I mean, it's not like England's an island over there someplace they can kind of maybe pull it off.
	I don't know if they could pull it off.
	Well, I'm just reporting.
	I'd push for it.
	Yeah, I'm all for it.
	In fact, I talked to the former New York banker last night.
	I said, what do they do with the Euro?
	Because that's a problem.
	He said, that's a real problem, to do a Brexit-type move while holding...
	If you're in the Eurozone, yeah.
	Well, what he said was they should bring back the Gilder and peg it to the Euro...
	But then at the price that it went in.
	So the biggest complaint when the Gilder turned to the Euro is you got 50 cents.
	It was two Gilders to the Euro.
	And so you'd buy a cup of coffee a week before this changed over and it cost three Gilders.
	And a couple weeks later it was three Euros.
	They have the Italy, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	So I think it was 220 or something was the exact number.
	So he says, peg it back to, you know, so that would be, what, 60 cents or whatever, and introduce the euro, the Gilder at that price, but peg it, peg it to the euro for five years, and then you can always change that later.
	That would cause a boom in the economy.
	Oh, my God, it would be so good.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's a good idea.
	Hey, do we have an end-of-show ISO, or are you leaving me high and dry here?
	I don't have any ISOs.
	I do have one little end-of-show kind of sad story, kind of, but it's interesting to me.
	Well, that's not good for end-of-show.
	No, it's not that sad.
	Okay.
	It's the fact that...
	Rosalind P. Walter, who you've heard her name a million times, she's financed half of PBS, died.
	And she's a rich woman.
	She was an inheritor of Schwab and her dad.
	Super rich.
	But there's a kicker in this story about her.
	She, Rosalind P. Walter, who nobody knows who she is, but she was Rosie the Riveter.
	Oh, with the muscle arm?
	And the muscle arm in World War II. Wow!
	Really?
	I found that to be fascinating.
	It's a very strange story about her in general because her parents wouldn't let her go to college for probably the same reasons you shouldn't go to college today.
	I thought it would be a good obit.
	We don't play them on the show too much, but this one was kind of fascinating.
	It was run on a Saturday, of course, so nobody got to hear it.
	The more you know in the morning.
	This week, Rosalind P. Walter, one of the most generous and devoted supporters of PBS programming, including the NewsHour and NewsHour Weekend, died at age 95.
	Her name has been a constant on the credits of programs like American Masters, which she helped launch, to great performances, to Ken and Rick Burns documentaries, and dozens of other programs since the mid-1970s.
	Rosalind P. Walter served as a trustee at WNET for more than 30 years and became the station's most generous individual supporter in its history.
	But most people don't know that Rosalind P. Walter was also the inspiration for a 1942 hit song, Rosie the Riveter, and the posters honoring the women who worked in U.S. factories during World War II. She's making history, working for victory, Rosie...
	In the early years of World War II, Roz worked as a Riveter on the night shift at a Long Island aircraft plant making the Corsair fighter planes.
	They had to find out whether women could earn the same pay by doing the same job, so they timed me after I'd learned them all.
	And I broke all the men's records they had to pay, the women, the same amount.
	She was never known as Rosie, always Roz, but the song was born.
	Rosalyn P. Walter was born into a privileged, wealthy family.
	Her father was president and chairman of the pharmaceutical company ER Squibb& Sons, and her mother was a well-known educator, poet, and writer.
	But her parents refused to allow Rosalind to attend college.
	She once said that she chose public television as the focus of her philanthropy because she, quote, wanted all Americans, whether they were rich or poor, well-educated or not so well-educated, to have equal access to news and knowledge and the arts.
	Her legacy is ours to carry on.
	Thank you, Rosalind P. Walter.
	Aw, that is a nice, nice note to leave on.
	It's nice.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	When I die, I want a plaque.
	I want a plaque.
	I don't want a PBS Saturday thing.
	I want a plaque, please.
	Plaques are good.
	Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, which you should be listening to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Baron Sir Mathieu's brand new show, Maps with Matt.
	So it's a debut on NoAgendaStream.com.
	Oh, nice.
	You get the Super Bowl lead-in.
	All right.
	End of show mix is from Jesse Coy Nelson, our very own John Fletcher, and Sir Seatsitter.
	And we look forward to returning with you on Thursday.
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	And adios, mofos and such.
	Completely illogical what's going on.
	Sadly, we're reacting in all the wrong ways.
	My favorite part of this script as it unravels was the Pope sneezing and coughing like, oh my god!
	If the Pope dies, this will freak out the world.
	We're conditioned through horror movies for this.
	We're conditioned?
	We're primed.
	We're primed to be suckered into something.
	Someone was trying to talk to me about that.
	Whatever's going on with the pandemic, there's always something going on in the background.
	Do you think whenever there's something going on with the pandemic, then they use it as an opportunity to sneak stuff in in the background?
	Yeah, yes.
	So you have a bill, and the bill will be financing for coronavirus, whatever that means.
	So this is when you move in with new legislation, and you stuff a bunch of shit in that bill.
	A piece of the Patriot Act may actually get passed in that.
	Like a million and a half was already kind of there.
	You cannot vote against this shit.
	Because how can you vote against Pandemic Saver?
	How can you vote against Patriot?
	You cannot vote against this shit.
	Pandemic saver.
	This whole thing is very, very spooky.
	There's all kinds of weird shit.
	You cannot vote against this shit.
	How can you vote against Patriot?
	So this is when you move in with new legislation?
	Yeah.
	I'm gonna go learn some fucking Muay Thai.
	I'm going to kick you in your fucking head.
	It was awesome, man.
	But anyway, the problem is the joking around about it while death is happening.
	This message is being broadcast by the Department of Defense of the Republic.
	This video is about the coronavirus and how it is another Illuminati scam.
	Now, the first thing that got my attention was that Wuhan is a major city with 11 million people.
	Remember, 11 is a Masonic number.
	A story going around today claims that many people think the illness sweeping the globe is connected to Corona the Beer.
	It's true.
	Google searches have spiked since January the 18th for the terms Beer Coronavirus.
	So far, Corona Beer's parent company has yet to comment about this.
	And overseas, many popular tourist destinations are eerily quiet due to coronavirus concerns.
	The waterways of Venice are largely empty and the Louvre in Paris is closed today as more infections are confirmed across Europe.
	Hundreds of shoppers rushed into a Los Angeles Costco this morning with this warning.
	Supplies are being rationed to keep up with the unprecedented coronavirus panic shopping.
	Customers run down store aisles at full speed and then quickly start loading up their cart.
	Yesterday during a segment on the exchange, I said maybe it would be a good idea to expose everybody to the coronavirus.
	Maybe it would be better off for the global economy or the markets in general.
	It was the dumbest, most ignorant, stupid thing anybody could have ever said.
	I think an epidemic, either naturally caused or intentionally caused, is the most likely thing to cause, say, 10 million excess deaths. is the most likely thing to cause, say, 10 million Please don't tell the supervisor I have the flu.
	I've been working with a shattered pelvis for three weeks.
	I am going to avoid small aircraft, hot tubs, canoeing in any water in D.C., and what else should I be on the lookout for?
	What are you doing?
	Well, I laid out the vape wars.
	I explained the scandal.
	Oh.
	And I took it, and I've become like a hero of the vape community all of a sudden.
	Uh-oh.
	Sitting in his car Before the Rogan show What should he talk about?
	He didn't know But he got out the car He was living the dream For the non-livestream Adam blew a thick cloud From his favorite fate And then he blew it all His favorite fate man came Brought up the fate wars In the second hour And
	once he hit that blunt He knew for showers That he had to protect the bad faith in his hands.
	So he went on along.
	The long faith wars ran.
	He exposed Iquod on the big door.
	And now he's on the run from Marlboro.
	So he ran back across.
	Ain't never gonna stop.
	Gonna keep on talking.
	Gonna keep open his favorite fake shop.
	And be a fake, force, hero.
	Stay out of the fire.
	Be a fake, force, hero.
	Stay out of the fire.
	Running from big tobacco.
	Stay down, my boy.
	I hope those in the world should get too excited.
	But it's probably going to happen.
	You know, try to put money on it.
	And the vape community is like, I'm the hero.
	I'm the hero of the vapors.
	I need a vape cape.
	Wow.
	You're gonna have the vapors.
	But as I was thinking about it, and actually Rogan made me think about it.
	He says, this is kind of like who killed the electric car.
	And I thought to myself, oh crap.
	I gotta be careful.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'd be, uh, stay out of the hot tubs.
	Best podcast in the universe!
	Mopo.

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