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1224: CAPS
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Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
It's Thursday, March 12, 2020.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1224.
This is no agenda.
Flattening the curve 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're all asking the question, how's that V recovery doing?
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning!
Well, the V has to go all the way deep before it can go back up.
It's not a V otherwise.
Yeah, that's great today.
Very exciting.
We talked about this on the DHM Plug Show, and Hor was introduced to a new model.
Oh, what was this?
He says, how about the L? The L recovery.
It'll be very interesting to see.
I mean, what's happening in the markets is fantastic.
I'm so happy to be alive to see all this.
Well, you're so happy to be out of the market, apparently.
Well, it's not like we don't have some 401k IRA stuff.
Not me.
That's, well...
You can't take it out.
All cash, baby.
You can't take it out, baby.
You apparently can take it out because you've hit the age.
You can't take it out if you're under, what do you have to be, 63, I think?
Oh, yeah.
I forget that.
Oh, yeah.
I took that out.
You forgot that.
Yeah.
Well, of course.
So it's okay because you're more susceptible to dying from the COVID-19.
We'll bury that cash with you.
All right.
Let's just start.
I need to post a grade for the president's performance last night.
I would say a solid D-minus.
Why?
Oh, my God.
It was horrible.
Completely disorganized behind the scenes.
His demeanor was horrible.
He's snorting and sniffing and breathing.
He can't...
He has a completely deadened voice.
He would have gotten an effort...
That's because he's reading from the prompt.
Yes.
And it's...
This is...
Fail.
Epic, epic, epic fail.
Yeah.
I didn't think it was that bad.
The only...
Yeah, I did.
And the only thing that was...
Good as he got across the closing of flights from the EU. But, you know, it's like, this was so...
When will these idiots learn?
So, of course, they had the transmission live broadcasting before all the stations cut to it.
And, of course, people got all kinds of fun clips beforehand.
Don't we know you're supposed to keep an eye on what's being broadcast at all times?
Who's in charge over there?
The same guy does Biden's sound.
Well, maybe.
Here's the preamble as the president is getting ready to speak.
Oh, fuck.
Oh, fuck.
Uh-oh.
I got a pen mark.
Anybody have any white stuff?
He's cursing because he has a pen mark.
Where is it?
30 minutes.
Mr.
President, we're ready for a mic check, please.
Do you see it?
You don't see it.
Which side is it on here?
Tell me on the right side.
Mic check.
Mr.
President, can you count to 10, please?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
There it is.
Okay, let me see how the look is.
So, he's worried about some pen mark.
Quick, get some white stuff, somebody.
Help me out here.
And very unprofessional mic check.
We know that when you're doing a mic check, you never go past two.
It's one, two, one, two, check two.
That's not one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten.
That's not how you do it.
Then the president had a speech which was poorly written.
Poorly written and created a lot of confusion.
The main confusion was about the flights from the EU. And I'll read to you what was written for him.
I think he read it pretty much verbatim.
But it's very poorly written.
To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.
The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight.
These restrictions will be adjusted subject to conditions on the ground.
There will be exemptions for Americans who have undergone appropriate screenings, and these prohibitions will not apply only to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things as we get approval.
Anything coming from Europe to the United States is what we are discussing.
These restrictions will also not apply to the United Kingdom.
I mean, even to say these restrictions will also not apply, it's improper.
It's shit.
You're reading verbatim from the script?
Yes.
And it's written that way?
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah, so it made it sound like all trade and cargo would also be forbidden.
And so that had to be clarified, and that gave everybody room to jump up and down.
And so for that reason, Trump fails because he gave the media more bullcrap to frighten people with.
It's really, really dumb.
I'm extremely irked by it.
And then afterwards, of course, the mic stays on, the video stays up.
We're clear.
Okay.
Okay.
How did...
That's not...
You don't want your leader, the father figure, to go, Okay.
You don't want that!
Well, from the perspective of some, I'm suggesting agent provocateur involved here because this is like you said, this is all amateur hour.
Yeah.
To have the thing live and then have an open mic afterwards is all...
Stuff done in the control room or done by somebody who's not a good guy.
No.
And done on purpose.
These are not accidents.
Not at a professional level.
It should not be.
Thank you.
Not at a professional level.
This doesn't happen anymore.
This happened in the days of George Bush and even Bill Clinton's satellite time.
Not this.
This is dumb.
Just stupid.
And of course it gave complete room to give us some fabulous clips.
So, in that regard, I am happy the President performed as he did.
We got to see Don Lemon meltdown in real time.
It was fabulous.
He's the best.
Here he is melting down first, trying to convince the California Lieutenant Governor To hate Trump.
To say that he sucks and it's no good.
I want to talk about this reporting that is in the New York Times detailing the failures of the federal government that they had repeatedly to get ahead of this virus.
Give me your reaction to this reporting.
I have to really be very clear that the experience of state officials all the way up to the governor in working with the federal government has been very productive and very positive.
We believe very strongly that we don't want to see this devolve into a political situation, that the most important thing is that officials from the federal government, the state government, they're working together.
It shouldn't be a political, but what I want to know...
What I'm hearing from state officials is that the collaboration is very positive.
So I think, you know, really that's all I can say about it.
We want to continue to increase cooperation.
The public is relying on us to work together as collaboratively and effectively as we can.
And she's echoing the sentiment of the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who allowed hell to freeze over briefly.
We had a private conversation, but he said we're going to do the right thing, and you have my support, all of our support, logistically and otherwise.
So before he made those statements publicly, I had a private conversation with him around 4.30 West Coast time.
And he said everything that I could have hoped for.
And we had a very long conversation.
And every single thing he said, they followed through on.
So I'm just not interested in finding daylight on those statements because every single thing, his administration, and it starts at the top, Including the Vice President has been consistent with the expectation that we'd repatriate these passengers and we'd do it in a way that does justice to the spirit that defines the best of our country and the state of California.
I fell over backwards from this.
Of course, California was the first state to declare an emergency.
They've got the money flowing in.
Let's see.
Ohio.
How's Ohio doing?
John Kasich.
Republican, never-Trumper, at least on the surface, he's a never-Trumper.
Oh, he's a never-Trumper.
And Don Lemon tried to rile him up.
Come on, I've got to get someone who hates the president!
I just got to say, if the president came out to calm people's fears, he didn't do a good job of it because they'd had to come back and clarify it several times.
And this has been going on long enough for them to get it straight.
We need straight facts.
Accurate information from this president and this administration, and we're not getting it.
And I don't understand why you are tiptoeing around it.
He came out, gave an address that happens very rarely, and he doesn't get it right?
I'm going to tell you, first of all, he read it.
And somebody that wrote this book, I don't want to get into that.
Yeah, really.
That's why you're here to talk about the president's address.
Can I finish now?
No, no, no, no.
No, you can't, John.
John, because we're here to talk about the president's address.
Wait, we're here.
I don't want you to go on and deflect and talk about something else.
Because we're here to talk about the president's address.
And you said that someone else wrote it.
He's the president, even if someone else wrote it.
I know he did, and he has to be...
Don, Don, he put this thing out because there was some confusion out there, okay?
Now there's more confusion, John.
Look, I'm trying to say to you, Don, we've got to move down the road.
Looking back doesn't get things fixed.
We're not looking back.
The President's address was tonight.
That is the newest information with this.
It's the President's address.
I think it was fine.
That's what I think.
You think inaccurate information that you have to come back and clarify two or three times, you think that's fine?
Look, I thought he did fine.
That's what I thought.
I thought he had the right tone and he no longer played around with, we're going to blame Democrats or we're, forget this stuff.
I hope he's trying to move forward because he understands the seriousness of this situation.
Now the fact that they clarify, it isn't unusual in a speech for somebody to clarify something, okay?
But I don't think that the tone he showed tonight takes away from some clarification.
I think he set a serious tone.
That's what I wanted out of him for a long time, and I think we got it.
John.
That's what I think.
I can be serious and sit here and tell you 4 plus 4 equals 85.
Don needs a vacation, man.
He really needs a rest.
What kind of a reporter is this?
It's not a reporter.
It's the view for CNN's late night, overnight.
If you want some politicization of it, for that we need to go to CNN, where our brand new correspondent, no, contributor, is Andrew Yang, former presidential hopeful, who loses all credibility by doing this.
Nothing makes you appreciate a functional government like a global pandemic.
Right.
Yes, I've always said that.
There's very few people who have seen what happens when a society has the potential to really burst at the seams.
Joe Biden's argument has been about sort of a return to moral normalcy, but it's also going to begin to look like a return to competence.
Because Trump and the Republicans have been running the government in sort of an anti-government frame, which is not what you want when you're dealing with a health crisis.
And we all know when Joe becomes our president, he's going to bring back many of the Obama alums who are really, really competent and technocratic.
And there's going to be real hunger for that in the days to come among many, many Americans if the coronavirus crisis continues to grow.
I'm hungry for some technocrats.
I cannot wait.
Now, here's what I would have recommended the president to.
Hold on.
Stop a second.
I understand now that Biden is going to bring into the White House Obama's mom.
Yes.
I'm sorry.
It's Michelle's mom.
Yes.
She'll be living with them.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Now, what's happening, and thank you, everybody.
Producers from around the world are sending reports in.
I've been reading them all night.
Tina, the Keeper, and I are looking at everything, comparing.
First of all, it seems like test kits are really not available anywhere.
They are available, of course, but this is not like a spit-in-the-tube 23andMe, which I think people think that's what it is.
Oh, done!
Coronavirus?
Yes, no?
What am I doing?
And these things take several days.
It's unpleasant to have it done.
It does have to be done by someone who knows how to swab you deep in your nose.
Apparently it goes down the throat.
Yeah, it's not a pleasant experience.
But it's not like everyone else in the world has test kits.
So let's just get off of that.
They do in Belgium.
Yeah.
What I love seeing is that the American people are not...
I think they've dropped looking at a lot of them just like, okay, whatever, we're taking matters into our own hands.
And I'm seeing companies, organizations, all kinds of groups...
And it's kind of a similar message.
Alright, we're all going to do the best we can.
We're going to hunker down for a couple of weeks to flatten the curve.
This is the term you've got to be on the lookout for.
Flatten the curve of the infection bell curve.
And then we'll get through this okay.
And I, although I don't think it's necessary, I encourage this, let's just all, okay, for two weeks we'll do as little as we can, you know, try not to, you know, go to places where you could get or transmit information.
And that's what the president should have said.
Look, we're Americans.
We know how to do this.
A couple weeks, we'll all just do the best we can.
Check on your neighbor.
Can you get any groceries for them?
We're coming together that way.
I really see that happening.
But the president didn't give any of that message.
I think people are going to now start ignoring everything.
Or people's amygdalas are just going to explode and they're going to freak out.
And that's unavoidable and they're everywhere around us.
I don't know.
They're not ignoring anything around here.
Everybody's working from home.
I had my haircut yesterday.
The guy's packed.
He's going to go have an operation.
I couldn't get in.
Oh, no cancellations.
No problem.
So I go over to get the haircut.
This area of Oakland, the Elmwood District...
It's always jam-packed.
Parking on the street, the parking lot itself was dead empty.
The hair salon, I was the only one in there.
And there's a lot of reports about that.
Everybody's hunkered down.
It's hilarious.
But that's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
It's like, this is a good idea.
Do that.
That's what Americans do.
We're bonding together.
Don't listen to all this other crap and we're probably going to be okay.
And everything else is, I mean, maybe the recommendation, stay off of social media, because people are making each other sick just by talking about it.
Well, they've been doing that for years.
The rest of it.
So I did pick up a few clips because since we're going to talk about this, I do have some clips because you're the one that actually comes up with this, the idea that you're always irked about the fact that when there's a shooting or there's something screwy that happens.
Yeah, I know you're going to talk about it.
Event 201.
It's not like we didn't discuss it, but I'm glad you pulled clips.
That's nice.
I have clips.
Event 201.
Since you immediately are trying to say I didn't pay attention to it, I'm pushing back.
I didn't say that.
I said you're the one that's always pointed out that there's always these pre-events that take place before a real event, and there's one that took place with the COVID-19.
Yes.
Which is called Event 201, which was put on by John Hopkins.
I also got some more details about some of the money behind this.
And one of the guys behind it.
Well, isn't this Gates money?
It turns out really to be the open philanthropy money.
Gates was part of it, and so was the...
Well, it's even better if it's Soros.
Not Soros.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You said Open Philanthropy.
Oh, not Open...
Yes.
Who is Open Philanthropy?
Dustin Moskovitz and Carrie Tuna.
Dustin is a 2% owner of Facebook.
He's a guy who was at Harvard and then he became a billionaire.
He's never done anything.
And then he married this kind of Trump hater named Carrie Tuna.
And she's now...
Can you imagine?
This is my fiancée, Carrie Tuna.
Pfft.
Carrie Tuna.
And she's kept her name Carrie Tuna.
I don't know why, but she did.
She's on Top 40 Radio somewhere.
They started a bunch of different operations, and it ends up with Open Philanthropy, which has a huge endowment.
And their goal is, unlike other, Moskowitz says that, unlike all these other things, where you set it up so there's an endowment forever.
You set it up so there's money.
No, no.
We're setting this up to spend it all.
Oh, and what time frame?
Before they die.
Oh, perfect.
When they die, they're going to die broke.
So there's no difference between these billionaires and us.
That's pretty good.
Well, in their case, or maybe in our case, one of the two.
So the thing is actually out of the Center for Health Security, which is a Johns Hopkins operation.
And Johns Hopkins is kind of...
It seems to me over the years has turned into a front for USAID and the CIA. And I say that because our economic hitman is working out of there.
We have people on boots on the ground that makes nothing but sense.
And they have...
They're very interesting.
Over the years it's become a very spooky place.
And so they did this thing called Event 201.
And Event 201 was a...
And you can look it up.
Just look up event 201.
It was, and so out in the open, they're not hiding anything.
It was two months or a month, either two months or a month and a half before the breakout of the coronavirus.
And it was a simulation of a breakout of the coronavirus.
Crazy how that works.
And so I have about four clips and I have a couple of bonus clips later that talk about it.
And here, for example, this is the event to and you have to remember everything here.
It was a half day event and it was a simulation and it was a table read kind of of a TV show.
And it was this the scenario for what actually took place.
So let's listen to the intro.
This event to one intro to the event.
The goal of the Event 201 exercise is to illustrate the potential consequences of a pandemic.
The Event 201 scenario is fictional, but it's based on public health principles, epidemiologic modeling, and assessment of past outbreaks.
In other words, we've created a pandemic that could realistically occur.
And for those interested in our assumptions, we will have a lot of the background research of the scenario publicly available on our Event 201 website at the conclusion of the exercise.
The policy discussions, the challenges to be discussed in this exercise, represent controversial, high-stakes issues that would require high-level input from business and government leaders.
So just a few housekeeping notes before we get started.
For our in-person audience, please do silence all your electronic devices.
But you may tweet at hashtag event 201.
Yay!
Excellent.
You may tweet.
So they go on and then she enters, okay, we're ready to rock.
And so they go with the movie.
Here's how it works.
They presented a movie about how it started, and then they have a phony newscast from GNN. And the newscast goes on about it, and then they have, and then they go, it's like they might as well ring a bell and go, okay, now it's three weeks later, here's where we are.
But let's listen to the movie of how this whole thing got started.
And with that, here in New York and online, welcome to Event 201.
It began in healthy-looking pigs, months, perhaps years ago.
A new coronavirus spread silently within herds.
Gradually, farmers started getting sick.
Infected people got a respiratory illness with symptoms ranging from mild flu-like signs to severe pneumonia.
The sickest required intensive care.
Many died.
At first, the spread was limited to those with close contacts, healthcare personnel, co-workers, and families.
But now, it's spreading rapidly throughout local communities.
International travel has turned local epidemics into a pandemic spanning the globe.
Just three months ago, CAPS started in South America, but has now reached several countries with more than 30,000 cases and nearly 2,000 deaths.
Hey, have we gotten any terrifying numbers out of South America?
Anything from Mexico?
Nothing.
Nothing, right?
And Africa still as good as nothing?
Blacks can't get it.
Well, the weather seems to have an effect on it.
It's not supposed to.
I thought it'll all be over when the weather gets warmer.
No, no.
They said initially, and they reiterated this, this is not weather dependent.
It will not be over.
Where was this reiterated?
It was reiterated over and over.
I didn't even bother to clip it.
I thought you knew that.
No, I had heard quite the opposite, actually.
No, you've never heard that.
Yes, I did hear quite the opposite.
You're hearing other stuff like, for example, I heard this the other day on the radio.
Oh, it turns out that they...
Just by the way, I don't know why you're argumentative because this is all fitting into your...
I'm not argumentative.
I'm just telling you what I read.
Well, I heard on the radio this little ditty which really got to me was, oh, you know, the thing is the seasonal flu is worse because it spreads faster.
This is from one of these local experts.
Yeah.
Well, that's not the way we...
No.
We were told...
I don't know if you remember or not, but I remember it.
They were told that this is virulent.
One person will give it to three people, and three people will give it to nine people, and on and on.
And it was going to go like a bat out of hell.
In fact, this...
Event 201 kind of projected it to be that way, too.
Well, I'm reading everywhere from CBS News and Duke University that they think that it will affect the spread.
I believe this is new.
I believe this is playing into your scenario, which is this whole thing is bogus and it's going to end in April 1st.
Oh no, April 6th.
I'm still on my April 6th timeline.
April 6th?
Yeah, it was one, I said one month after the signing of the $8.3 billion bill.
That's the day after my birthday.
My birthday is on April 5th for anybody wanting to help the show out.
Um...
I mean, it's just saying that there are lots of reports that warmer weather will stop this.
And it doesn't matter.
I'm just saying, you know, don't tell me I haven't read that because I did.
Well, I'm not saying you didn't read it.
I'm saying it's playing into your scenario.
But I'm also saying that initially it said that this was not weather dependent.
And I'll find documentation if I need to, to prove that.
But whatever the case is, it may or may not be weather dependent.
It makes logical sense when you look at the map.
Except in Australia, where they do have a number of cases.
And then, most recently, Tom Hanks.
Well, now, let's just talk about Tom Hanks.
Because you can make the prediction right now.
That by Monday, we'll have multiple celebrities self-quarantined.
So they may or may not have the virus, but they'll be self-quarantined and all over Instagram.
This is going to be a trend.
Hi, guys.
Hi, guys.
Here I am.
Hi, guys.
Just before Tom Hanks was announced, I was talking at the table to dinner.
And I said to the kids...
This whole thing is bogus unless some celebrities get it.
Tom Hanks is like, why did you have to go straight to the top right away?
Build it up slowly.
Give me a Miley Cyrus.
Maybe the Kardashians, they need that for the show.
That could work very well.
Don't go straight to Tom Hanks.
I think that was overdone.
Well, then she mocks me, my daughter, saying what Tom Hanks says.
And I say, well, it doesn't count until he dies.
So now I've changed my tune to...
None of this means anything until some celebrities drop dead.
Well, you know...
Hold on a second.
I'm changing the table here.
That would have worked very well if the Pope had died.
That would have been the right celebrity.
The timing was perfect.
That didn't happen, of course.
I would say we should keep an eye on Ruth Ginsburg would be someone to watch.
Ooh.
Yeah, I think we should watch out for it.
The only reason I brought up the temperature or the weather change is just turn the weather machine on.
That would be easy to get rid of it.
Again, April 6th, the market's not going to be back to normal.
The V will have started, no doubt.
But the money's in.
It has to die down.
It has to die down.
We cannot have a Democrat convention with this underway.
It will stop.
Not that the virus will stop.
Let's go back to Event 201 and what was predicted and what they were working on to try to...
What was their game plan?
Now...
This is the third clip.
This is the three weeks in.
Now, this is what they came out with, like, the bell would ring and somebody would come, now we're six weeks in.
Now, you have to remember what happened to the real corona, the one in China, and the scenario they had predicted or they'd put together for us, depending on how you want to look at it.
This is event 201.
Listen to these numbers.
This is three weeks in, which would have been somewhere around, I don't know, January 20th, you think?
Well, yeah, although it was already, yeah, actually January 25th, it was already well reported.
And the way the scenario ran was it was underreported for the first while, and then within three weeks, though, still, this is what you got.
Welcome back.
Please silence your phones.
We now pick up this scenario three weeks later at the third meeting of the board on November 29th, 2019.
Thank you all for reconvening at short notice.
We need to present to this board a serious new issue related to the economic fallout that is accruing over the pandemic.
Let's start by getting the latest numbers and distribution from Dr.
Rivers.
The CAHPS pandemic continues to grow, with more than 1 million cases and an estimated 73,000 deaths worldwide.
These are only estimates because many countries are having trouble keeping up with surveillance and laboratory testing.
Our models are showing that with this continued rate of spread, there may be 5.5 million cases and almost 350,000 deaths in one month.
The three-month projection is alarming, with potential for over 30 million cases and 3 million deaths.
The Americas are still the most severely affected, but there are large outbreaks occurring in many countries across the globe.
Countries with limited healthcare infrastructure have seen the highest death rates so far, but healthcare systems in high-income countries are also becoming overwhelmed.
Financial markets have tumbled with all down significantly for the year.
Economic disruptions are being felt across the globe.
Thank you, Dr.
Rivers.
So now let's look at this recent exchange on GNN that focused on the economic and financial crises that are rippling around the world.
The response to the Caps pandemic is now the most expensive international emergency ever.
Political leaders around the globe are faced with many impossible dilemmas, including financial.
We have two guests today to discuss the bottom line of catastrophic response.
So, just listening to this, it kind of mirrors what happened.
They had a much better name.
I think CAPS is great.
Would have been much better than COVID-19.
But if they did all this preparation, did they produce a paper and give it to anybody after they figured all this out?
You can go look to the website.
Did they give it to anyone in the government?
Everybody got the paper.
You should look at this.
The paper, I don't have it in front of me, but you can look it up.
It's lame.
I'll give you the gist of it.
We need more globalization.
We need more cooperation between governments and corporations.
Yes.
Can I say that again?
Yeah.
We need to globalize because it's a global thing.
We've got to internationalize and we need more cooperation.
Do you remember the old cooperation between governments and corporations?
Yes.
I mean, this is the old bro-mite.
This is the opposite of what is happening.
People are now aware that globalization is a part of the problem and we're not stupid.
By the way, Tom Hanks' kid, Chet, he's a rapper or a hip-hopper.
I'm not quite sure.
He's completely tatted up.
Except, I'm sure, not his neck and face.
I don't think his parents will allow that.
And he is...
So he does this 33-second video.
In fact, it cuts...
It should be 34 seconds, but he literally cut...
One of his main tattoos in the middle of his chest is the all-seeing eye.
And I have to say that throughout the reporting on coronavirus, the number 33 is everywhere.
It's 33 cases, 33 diagnosed, 33...
33 is all over the place.
And we've always seen that as some kind of code, a message.
It's really prevalent right now.
And here's the 33-second video from the all-seeing eye kid.
What's up, everyone?
Yeah, it's true.
My parents got coronavirus.
Crazy.
They're both down in Australia right now because my dad was shooting a movie down there.
But I just got off the phone with them.
They both are fine.
They're not even that sick.
They're not worried about it.
They're not tripping, but they're going through the necessary health precautions, obviously.
But I don't think it's anything to be too worried about.
I appreciate everyone's concern and the well wishes, but I think it's all going to be all right.
But I appreciate it.
It cuts off.
33 seconds, exactly.
And I actually went on a quest to find mainstream interviews with people who are suffering, have suffered, family members, etc.
Almost unfindable.
Four on YouTube.
Four mainstream news organizations that interviewed people with pretty much the same results, which is, I mean, I can play a few.
But let's get back to the event.
201.
Here's the end.
This is the wrap.
The wrap.
So, as you can see, the CAPS pandemic was catastrophic.
And, as we've said, the impact of a severe pandemic is not only a result of the disease itself, but really the cascading economic and societal consequences that would follow.
Now, we don't want to give you the impression that traditional public health measures aren't valuable because they absolutely are.
In fact, in the 200-some outbreaks that WHO responds to each year, interventions such as isolation of the sick, social distancing, disease surveillance, really do help to interrupt the spread of disease and control epidemics before they become pandemics.
But in a severe, fast-moving pandemic, it may not be possible to contain the spread through these kinds of traditional measures.
And as we saw in the scenario, there's a limit to what government, NGOs, and global business can do on the fly to stop a widespread and lethal pandemic.
That's why prior planning and promotion of routine public-private cooperation in advance of the next pandemic is really critical.
Well, that's interesting.
Governor Cuomo certainly took that to heart.
Yeah, well, before we get to that, I want to just bring a couple of little things that bugged me about this whole thing, besides the fact that it looked like a playbook.
And it was one of these things that took place just before an event.
This was on CBS. I saw this guy over and over and over again on the different networks and every place else.
Pandemic expert on CBS. Play this is on Norah O'Donnell's show.
Yeah, hold on a second.
Here we go.
And we want to bring in Dr.
Tom Inglesby.
He's the director of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
You might have seen Dr.
Inglesby on 60 Minutes on Sunday.
So this is the guy who was part of Event 201 then.
If it was at Johns Hopkins, he would have known about it, right?
Doctor, thank you so much for joining us.
Today, the WHO declaring coronavirus pandemic, and then we heard Dr.
Fauci of the NIH say that this is 10 times deadlier than the seasonal flu.
That's a pretty serious message, doctor.
Yeah, it is a serious message.
Both the pandemic announcement is serious.
I think mostly for countries in the world that haven't had cases yet to kind of make sure that they're clear that this epidemic will affect them.
But Dr.
Fauci's discussion about the seriousness of this virus as compared to seasonal flu, I think he's absolutely right.
Yeah, this times 10 is constant.
The issue I have with the numbers is, of course, the numbers.
The denominator for seasonal flu is people who have died of flu or pneumonia.
So you're adding a lot in there.
So either it's very under-reported, the number of seasonal flu deaths, or we're going to see a much lower ratio with this pandemic once you add in pneumonia.
The point in that clip was not to bring that issue in, but it was to point out that this guy, Inglesby, was not only at the event, in event 201 bonus 1, Hold on.
I'm actually agreeing with you.
I'm saying that his message, what he just gave there, is the same one everyone's using.
The role of the Pandemic Emergency Board members here in New York.
And with that, let's welcome our participants and invite them into the room.
Tom Inglesby from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
Yeah, the guy is jizzing all over himself.
He can't believe his luck.
He's the head guy.
Yeah, he can't believe his luck.
He's the only one that knows the scenario that was mentioned.
Here he is just opening the whole event right here, bonus two.
Good morning, and thank you all for being part of this pandemic emergency board.
We're at the start of what's looking like it will be a severe pandemic.
And there are problems emerging that can only be solved by global business and governments working together.
The global community has been working to respond to this pandemic since its recognition, but as health and economic impacts have become more severe, the World Economic Forum has convened this board because of your combined expertise, your backgrounds, and your global voice.
We will need all of you to help us respond to urgent policy crises that are emerging.
The purpose of this board is to advise leaders in national governments, global business, and international organizations on the response to the pandemic, particularly focused on international problems that require collaboration between business and government.
Your recommendations will be critical and will be promulgated and communicated broadly at the end of this meeting.
Global, global, global.
This guy was on 60 Minutes the week before.
He was on 60 Minutes Australia, from what I can tell.
And if you look him up and look at all his YouTubes, he goes back years going on and on about these pandemics that are going to come, and he's managed to hit the home run when he ran into Moskowitz and Miss Tuna.
And loaded up their operation with a lot of money.
And in fact, if you look at their sponsors, it's unbelievable.
They've got Gates money.
They've got everybody's money.
They put this event 201 thing on.
And to make it, you know, and then all of a sudden, the next thing you know, we have a pandemic pretty much similar.
It's similar in terms of the virus being implemented.
And we're all in a panic.
The stock market's crashed.
The whole world's gone into a tizzy.
I don't think it worked out anything like this predicted or what they think how it should go, which is a global governance and a whole cooperation between this and that.
In fact, when you listen to the whole event 201 thing, there was none of the anything that's happening right now with this event is nothing like what they predicted.
They didn't expect toilet paper shortages.
They didn't expect people buying water.
So, first of all, this is why I never clipped it and why I wasn't that interested.
Although, I like that this guy is the expert that everyone's bringing on.
That I didn't expect.
It's like people saying we're going into a bear market.
Eventually, you're right.
And then you're going to be on TV every single day.
So they were right about the pandemic, which I think anyone could have said we'll have some kind of pandemic.
We have them every election year, so it's not that hard to predict.
The event was two months before this one took place.
If it was six months before, we would have been saying the same thing.
Like, woo, if it was a year before.
I mean, to me, I don't think you're suggesting that the coronavirus is a hoax.
No, the coronavirus exists.
It's killing people.
But it's not beyond the governments, especially if you lived in the Bay Area, where they used to gas people just occasionally with all kinds of different chemicals to see how they'd react.
I mean, it's as though the medical establishment's got a few Dr.
Mengele's in it.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a run, an actual run, as opposed to a dry run, of a real pandemic.
I'm not seeing evidence of it.
That's a real pandemic.
They're dead in Italy.
I mean, what's our latest report from Willow?
If you listen to Scott Adams, who's all panicked about this, by the way, most recently, he's talking about the dead being piled up.
No.
Bullshit.
I'm in constant contact with my sister, Willow, who lives in Fidenza, near Florence, and in fact, she gave me kind of a blow-by-blow as the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister's President came on, their President came on television last night and said, okay, here's what we're doing.
It's not a total shutdown.
When you ever hear, total shutdown in Italy!
No, it's not a total shutdown.
If you're driving around, you're going to work, it's okay.
If you can stay at home, please stay at home.
They are closing restaurants, which is, that's a problem.
I think they already were supposed to close after 6 o'clock.
If you are going out, then you have to have a self-declaration form, which you can print off right off the internet, fill it out.
Now, of course, people are jittery, so weird stuff happens.
But otherwise, there's inconvenience of the grocery store, where they only let a few people in at a time.
But there's no mention.
Now, there's a lot of conspiracy theories in Italy, and there's a number of them, which I, some of them I actually kind of like.
The big one for the Italians is this was, this is a bioweapon deployed by China because they want to buy up the country.
And it's happening already.
Italy has been selling out to China.
In fact, another conspiracy theory claims that because Italy was the first one, the first country in the EU to open up their hearts, their minds and their wallets to the Belt and Road Initiative, as we've discussed many times, that this was a punishment.
So, first we punish China just for being Chinese, and then any collaborators, including the Italians, will give them a dose of their own medicine.
The one I also like is the 5G conspiracy theory.
That 5G is being tested.
They turned up the power to see how people would respond in Wuhan.
And, of course, at a certain point, there's too much RF radiation and people start to get sick.
There's reams of Internet material on this, how you can get sick from radio frequency, overpowered radio frequency near your body.
And, you know, just for good measure, they tested it out in Italy as well where they're deploying 5G. So there's a lot of these types of theories, but it's not...
She says the same thing.
She says, people are panicking.
The toilet paper, I've looked into this.
And if you people listening, not you, John, but if you went out and got toilet paper, if you were seriously thinking about it, your amygdala is inflamed at best and probably enlarged to a degree.
This is a control mechanism.
There's pretty good articles about the psychology of it.
Of course, if you're really going to be shut in, you're not going to use...
The toilet paper is not handy because you need food and you need things to drink and other important things that you could think of.
But no, toilet paper is because people are very confused, feel out of control...
They see people doing stuff, and this is all from a large amygdala perspective, just as if someone in front of you is walking through the woods and they jump because they think they saw a snake, you'll probably jump too.
And the toilet paper rolls are great because it's big and it gives you a very good feeling when you can take big control of something.
Like, okay, I'm in control.
I've got a big thing.
Taking that back.
It's complete panic that is set in when people do these things.
But again, no dead bodies.
This is the same thing we heard from China, that they were incinerating bodies and it showed up on satellite pictures.
Yes, that's how bad it is.
No, I'm not believing it.
Every single video...
This is just where you have Event 201.
I have a huge problem with the complete lack of mainstream interviews with any victims.
You could just go look for it.
And, you know...
We interview lotto winners.
We'll do anything to get a human interest story.
Anything.
Here's a report from New Zealand.
Incapacitated, needing help to breathe and surrounded by doctors in hazmat suits is perhaps the go-to image of those infected with coronavirus.
Not so for Rebecca Frazier, who has COVID-19 as it's now known.
Curiously, she looks just fine.
She's in isolation in a Tokyo hospital after testing positive for the virus while on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship that's now docked in Yokohama and in lockdown for 14 days.
Her husband's still stuck on board.
Rebecca says she's shocked she has tested positive for the deadly virus given how fit and well she feels.
Just can't believe it.
Can't believe this is happening to you.
I, you know, I'm not one to freak out, so it's not like I broke down in tears or anything like that or screaming and yelling.
I just took it for what it was and, you know, come to the hospital and get well.
Did you feel unwell?
Do you feel unwell?
No, I never really felt unwell.
I had a little bit of a cough when they told me, and when I got here I had a bit of a fever, but all of that has normalized and I have no symptoms.
And I think this is part of the problem is they just can't get a horrible story out of anybody.
Crestview, Florida.
And tonight, an Okaloosa County woman who tested positive for coronavirus while on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan is back home.
Jeanette Ribaldo spent several weeks quarantined at a hospital in Japan and was eventually cleared by the CDC. Ribaldo talked exclusively with Channel 3's Renee Beninati.
And Renee, how is she doing tonight?
April, tonight Ribaldo is back home in Crestview and healthy.
She tells me she was quarantined in Asia for close to a month after catching the coronavirus.
I cried when I saw it.
It really brought a lot of emotion.
Jeanette Ribaldo showing us the Get Well notes that now fill her home.
I hadn't felt bad.
I never worried about my safety or my health.
But all these people were sending so much love.
Ribaldo was one of close to 4,000 people aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
And then the top hit on YouTube, or Google Video does the same, NBC News, the only one I could find from NBC. What's weird about these symptoms, and seems to be true for almost everybody, is I went days without knowing I have the virus, and all of a sudden, just clicking my fingers, I jumped from normal temperature to 103.
I developed a small, dry cough, but unlike colds or other flus that I've had, there was no stuffiness in the nose, no nose drip, no sneezing, no body aches, no chills.
So that was the weird part of this.
My worst symptom was the fever, and that hit for only about eight hours, and then lightened.
Like every fever after that I was drained, feeling lethargic.
I was definitely dehydrated.
There are no antibiotics for this, so they were pumping me up with a ton of Gatorade.
I've been through every color of the rainbow of Gatorade to keep myself hydrated.
And other than having the dry cough that still persists, it's getting better now.
Corona!
Coronavirus.
So, I'm just not buying it.
JC has what I think is a coronavirus.
And the description of that woman has pretty much the same description, exactly.
Your son, JC, has it, you say.
You think he has it.
Yeah.
Well, it could be the flu, too.
It could be something.
But whatever.
It's exactly what she said.
It's the same thing.
You're not...
It's debilitated, but you get this stupid cough, which is annoying.
But the thing is, they will not give him a test.
Exactly.
This is the same thing in Rotterdam.
Well, is it possible that they won't give the test because they don't want to see the real numbers?
No, no.
What I understand...
Well, it's easier to deal with if you don't have to deal with real numbers.
It might be that it's more common than we think.
It might not even be new if you really go out there and start testing.
So, I don't know the answer to that, but I know that around the world, I'm getting the same report, someone says, hey, I think I have coronavirus, I have symptoms, they call their doctor, they go to the hospital, and they are turned away and say, okay, self-quarantine, we need to use tests for people who have weak immune systems or are elderly, etc.
We have no time for you.
So, to me, it sounds like, yeah, there's tests.
Again, it's not an easy test.
It's not spitting a test tube.
The real virus is of the mind, and it's propagating through mainstream media and online.
We're not even talking about people.
We're just numbers.
Here's a chart.
Here's some numbers.
I got another chart over here.
Look at this.
Ooh, but this happened.
And, oh, it's more dangerous than that.
This is all a bunch.
Here, let me give you some real numbers.
Deadly diseases.
There's a nice chart that I've put in the show notes.
So this is...
What is the denominator here?
Disease deaths per day worldwide.
Number one disease death worldwide as of...
According to The Lancet.
9th of March.
I guess...
Heart disease.
Tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is number one?
3,014 deaths per day.
Number two.
Hepatitis B. Number three.
By the way, if anything should be quarantined, it's somebody with tuberculosis.
Yeah.
Pneumonia.
2,200 a day.
HIV, AIDS. This is much higher than I expected.
2,100 a day.
Malaria, 2,000.
Shigellosis?
What is shigellosis?
Never heard of this.
Well, I don't want it because it kills 1,600 people a day.
Rotavirus, 1,200.
Seasonal flu, 1,000 people a day.
Norovirus, 548.
Whooping cough, 440.
Typhoid, 396.
Cholera, 392.
Meningitis, 329.
Measles, 247.
Rabies, 162.
Yellow fever, 82.
And there it is!
Clocking in at 56 a day.
COVID-19.
So, we don't understand scale as human beings.
But we're being abused.
We're being abused by the system, by people with tons of agendas.
I mean, oh my god, they're pushing through another bill today.
Probably by the time we hear this, I'll have had a chance to read it.
Money!
It's money.
Well, there's also more going on.
This was on the floor the other day because, of course, the Patriot Act still has to be renewed.
You didn't see any of that going on except I have this little clip.
Madam Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk to correct the name of the bill.
Clerk will report the amendment.
Amendment to H.R. 6172 offered by Mr.
Buck of Colorado.
Amend the title so as to read, a bill to be known as the Federal Initiative to Spy on Americans, FISA Act.
At least we still have some humor here and there.
Um, uh, so actually here is, uh, now Pelosi, now this is also political.
Trump asked for something very big.
He said, let's have a payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year, which conservatively is about a trillion dollars less in the coffers of the United States Treasury.
This has been rejected flat out by the Democrats, by apparently some Republicans as well.
I personally, although I would love to try modern monetary theory at this point, I wouldn't mind giving that a shot.
Who gives a shit?
What have we got to lose?
We have to do it one way or the other.
We have to try one of these huge liquidity injections, although obviously I'm against the Federal Reserve and the way it's been set up, but we could give it a shot.
Pelosi's having none of that.
Most Democrats are actually, they've finished up a meeting in this room right behind me, talking about this and other issues as well.
But what Democrats are trying to do is get out in front of this issue, ensuring that their priorities are included in any sort of relief or aid bill.
And those are to ensure that people who aren't receiving any income because of coronavirus get some relief, and also people who are food insecure because of it also get some relief.
And so what that's translating to in a draft bill in the House of Representatives includes sick leave for people who either have to be quarantined because of coronavirus or who actually have the virus.
Other things is an extension of unemployment insurance and an extension of food stamps and services.
Aid for kids who get free and reduced lunches at school but can't go to school because their schools are closed.
But what's not included in this, Eamon, is the president's biggest priority, and that's a payroll tax cut.
It's fallen flat on Capitol Hill among Democrats.
Even some Republicans are saying that if people are not working, then a payroll tax cut does no good.
So what also is not included in the House bill at this point is anything else that the president is wanting.
But we do know that Speaker Pelosi and Secretary Mnuchin spoke just moments ago and that Pelosi wants a vote on this bill tomorrow before they leave town for a week.
Amen.
Yeah, so this is another little...
That's why I played the whole thing out.
So tomorrow would be today, before they leave for a week.
They should not leave.
They should be right in their seats in D.C. working very hard on this crisis.
I think it would be very bad optics for them to leave.
Then again, Pelosi could continue to propagate her message.
This is what she's saying in every interview.
This is...
Armageddon.
My new civilization as we know it is at stake.
Civilization as we know it is at stake.
This is Armageddon!
To which we say...
Now here we have Ham Radio, guys.
Ham Radio is the public service network of last resort.
When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
Right?
We're going to play corny's clips.
Play starting a podcast.
No, hold on.
While I look for that, here's my ISO recommendation.
This is Armageddon.
I thought that might be useful.
I'm starting a podcast.
This has truly been a dream of mine for years, and I'm finally going for it.
Who was that?
Who was that?
Just some rando?
Pretty much.
But I ISOed that for the end of the show.
Oh, you got an ISO? Okay, let me see.
I got it.
I'm starting a podcast.
I don't know, man.
This is Armageddon.
I think that's bad.
Let me have a downer ISO at the end.
This is good.
Because then we can laugh at it.
What, the Armageddon one?
Yeah.
You've been on this downer kick for ending the show.
I don't understand it.
You keep stopping me.
Because it's funny.
Well, it's not as funny as I'm starting a podcast.
It's pretty old.
It's a dream come true, by the way, for this woman.
Her whole life has been leading up to this.
I guess.
If you listen to her.
Yeah.
I'm so happy for her.
Well, while we're talking about these horrible things, there's one little test that's come up.
I don't even know that they know it's a test of the whole thing, the whole COVID nightmare.
And it has to do with the NBA.
First of all, they suspended the NBA.
It's because Rudy Gobert got COVID.
And they did a calculation on ESPN showing that he, with COVID, probably played maybe six or seven games.
Oh, really?
He's a starter, so he would be bumping and breathing and bumping and sweating on at least, I don't know, about 60, 70 players.
Now, they should all get COVID if it's as virulent, even if it's even mildly virulent, and we'll see if that happens.
In fact, here's the announcement.
As it came in, it got everybody irked.
This is NBA Suspense.
An 18-second clip just came in right live on the news.
They had to stop the news feed and bring this in.
And we are monitoring breaking news tonight.
The NBA just announcing a player has tested positive for the coronavirus shortly before a game between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder.
The NBA now announcing they are suspending the season.
Nora?
And that is huge news.
Huge.
Huge.
Now here's a funny pair of clips I want to play just to show you that no matter how rich you are, you can still be kind of, you can be rich and powerful.
But where your place is in society, you may not understand it completely.
And this was, I got two clips, this is about LeBron James.
LeBron James was told that they may be playing games, and there would have been one tonight, but they suspended the season.
They may be playing games in the NBA. LeBron James is worth nearly a billion dollars.
They will be playing games with no audience.
Right.
So here's what LeBron says.
This is LeBron won't play clip one.
We play games without the fans?
No, it's impossible.
On Friday night, after his Lakers pinned the Bucs, LeBron James let it be known that if the league schedules games with no fans in NBA arenas, that he would not play.
If I show up to an arena and there ain't no fans in there, I ain't playing.
So, they can do what they want to do.
They can do what they want to do.
You know what?
He can say whatever he wants, I guess.
They can do what they want.
Well, what happens the next day?
This is LeBron won't play part two.
But as coronavirus concerns mount, leagues are bracing for the unprecedented possibility that the games may go on while the fans stay home.
And James has now softened his stance.
They feel like it's best for the safety of the players, safety of the franchise, safety of the league, to mandate that we all listen to it.
Someone came down on James.
I guess he's not the king.
Yeah, apparently somebody knocked down his door.
So there's a king above James after all, huh?
I guess he's not the king.
Probably green with George Washington on it.
Yeah, I'm sure that has something to do with it.
The Dutch Prime Minister went on television, Mark Rutte, seen as a dweeb in general, and did this whole thing about, we're not gonna shake hands.
The Dutch will no longer shake hands.
Of course, the Dutch actually don't shake hands.
They like to do three kisses.
But okay, we're not going to shake hands.
And so he goes through this rigmarole of we can touch the elbows, we can touch our knees, we can do all this fun stuff.
And, uh, well, I'll play this.
So at this, I'll translate on the fly.
At this moment, we are stopping with the shaking hands.
You can do feet kissing, which apparently is a thing.
You can bump elbows.
I've seen all kinds of great variations in schools.
Very creative people.
But we stop today with shaking hands.
He then, the show ends.
He stands up, turns to the guy to the left of him on the panel.
And shakes his hand!
Oh, you're saying, no, stop, stop, we'll do that over, we'll do that over, oh, we can't do that anymore, oh no, oh no, oh no.
Oh, crazy!
Oh, you're not allowed to do that!
This is the kind of leadership they have in Europe.
Well, shaking hands has always been somewhat weird to me, and it's arcane, because it stems back from the days where you had a sword, and you put your hand out so the guy pulled a gun or something.
I mean, it was just so you have a grip on somebody in case something bad happens.
It doesn't really make a lot of sense.
I mean, the bowing is, you know, I'm surprised we don't try to adopt that.
Nobody's brought that up for some reason.
When's the last time somebody's got the fist bumping and the elbow bumping and the arms crushing and all the rest of it, but what about the bowing?
Why don't we just start bowing like the Asians do?
It's not who we are!
They have...
They started bowing for a reason, probably because of the coronavirus, the old one, the Corona 1510.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
A plane had to be diverted to DIA after several passengers became unruly because they were concerned that another passenger had the coronavirus.
The flight took off from Eagle, Colorado.
Our Mountain Newsroom reporter Matt Croeschel spoke to one of the people that was on that flight who watched this entire thing unfold, Matt.
You know, Karen, the concerns over coronavirus have hit the high country with two confirmed cases in Eagle County, one here in Summit County.
So the people on board this flight on Sunday noticed another passenger was coughing and sneezing.
They contacted the crew on board and demanded that that passenger was removed from the plane.
plane, but that's not exactly what ended up happening.
They were hooting and hollering.
They were trying to get the whole plane to join in what sounded like a riot.
United is telling us that the three passengers that were removed from the flight, they're still under investigation right now to see if there will be any charges.
As for that passenger that was coughing and sneezing, well, they're telling us it was just allergies.
They did check for fever, and that passenger was allowed to continue on to Newark.
People, keep your wits about you.
Don't go insane over this stuff.
And this is the problem.
We're so primed for this.
So primed.
We're so ready.
Media and entertainment has gotten us to this moment.
And the beautiful machine that is social networks and the mainstream media, the cable news networks.
It's a perfect storm.
And then the sad thing for me is you've got all these kids...
I've spoken about the Robinhood app before.
I think it's always been a scam.
They're front-running on these kids, which means you put in an order for, let's say, Apple stock, and then they'll go and buy it and sell it back to you at a higher price.
I mean, it's legal, but it's a total scam.
All these kids got their weed and their skateboard money in this app.
And then, of course, we have the market gyrating like crazy, and not once, not twice, but three times in a row...
Robinhood traders stuck on the sideline yet again.
The trading startups saw two days of outages last week during another historic market day.
Today, again, you see tons of red on the signs here at the Stock Exchange and another 1,000-point drop for the Dow.
The startup, meanwhile, once again saying it's seen...
Quote, major outages on equities options in crypto trading this morning.
Robin says it's now been partially restored.
Its last update says degraded performance.
But clients still on Twitter complaining that they can't execute trades.
The founders now saying that the two days of outages last week was due to higher than normal trading volume.
That stressed their systems.
We also saw some downtime at Fidelity, TD, and Charles Schwab last week due to that same trading volume issue.
Robinhood customers, though, taking to social media to vent some outrage about missing those trading days last week.
A lot of those are millennials and were first-time traders.
Most of them threatened to pull funds of those we saw on Twitter.
Late last week, we also saw a class-action lawsuit filed against a startup for negligence due to that outage.
Yeah, good.
Get rid of those guys.
Well, you know, they probably did the kids a favor.
It taught them a very valuable lesson.
It taught them a lesson and also kept them out of the market.
No, they were stuck in positions they couldn't get out of.
Oh, well.
And they let you short.
John, they let you short on margin.
There's all kinds of crap they let these kids do.
It's very bad.
Well, it's not good.
But there is a silver lining, not just for these kids, but also a potential exit strategy for you and myself.
Andrew, I almost did not believe this when I heard it.
I know, me either, Jesse.
Scientists in London are looking for 24 volunteers to actually be injected with the coronavirus to try and help them develop a vaccine.
Each volunteer will be paid over $4,000 to be given a weaker strain of the virus, which will see them develop similar respiratory symptoms.
In addition, the UK are promising to fund over $60 million towards battling coronavirus.
I'm telling you, there's money in that four grand.
That's not bad.
A lot of takers.
Yeah, I think so too.
Especially if you sell them on it.
You know, this is minor.
This is not the real deal.
This is like a minor.
It's attenuated.
It's attenuated.
Yeah, that would be good.
Let's see.
I thought the...
It's worth listening to this New York hand sanitizer presentation just because it was so weird.
Before you go on with that, I do have a suggestion.
It's a really great gag.
Okay.
So you buy one of these bottles of hand sanitizer.
I'm already feeling it.
Yes.
You dump it out and clean it out thoroughly.
And make sure it's completely clean so you can actually drink from it.
You fill it with water and put one drop of blue food coloring.
Go to McDonald's and you take the hand sanitizer and make sure you're in public.
And then you're you spray your hands before you eat the hamburger, then spray the burger and then open the burger and spray the burger and then open your mouth and spray a couple of shots in your mouth and start eating the burger.
You will get attention.
And just imagine seeing somebody do that.
I can't be too careful.
I think you have to say that.
I think that's part of the gag, is you have to say, I can't be too careful.
But I think you should do it, just have a little handy spray bottle, and just do it in a restaurant.
Do it all over the place.
Anywhere you go.
Absolutely.
So, New York State, you know, there's been a shortage of Purell and other hand sanitizers for a while now, for a couple of weeks, even though it's no more effective than washing your hands with soap and water.
But okay, it's handy and people like it, makes you feel good, you can sniff it.
But for some reason, New York decided, we're going to make our own!
So they did.
And this was the launch of the product edited down for your convenience.
Open the curtain, please.
We are introducing...
This is the governor of New York.
This is not some carnival barker.
This governor has gone off the rails.
This is the governor of New York.
Open the curtain, please.
We are introducing...
New York State Clean hand sanitizer made conveniently by the state of New York.
This is a superior product to products now on the market.
The World Health Organization, CDC, all those people, suggest 60% alcohol content, Purell, Competitor to New York State Clean.
70% alcohol.
This is 75% alcohol.
It also comes in a variety of sizes.
It has a very nice...
Floral bouquet.
Little I detected.
Lilac.
Hydrangea.
Tulips.
What does it smell like to you?
Tulips, yes.
Floral bouquet.
Making it in the state of New York.
I'm glad he's so panicked about coronavirus.
Corcraft actually is making it for the state.
Corcraft makes glass cleaner.
Floor cleaners, degreasers, laundry detergent, vehicle fluids, hand cleaner.
And who does this company employ to make these products?
Have you any idea, Mr.
Dvorak?
No, I've never heard of this company.
Prisoners!
State prisoners!
Having the prisoners make this shit for them!
And now they make hand sanitizer with...
I'll call.
The current capacity is 100,000 gallons per week, and we're going to be ramping up.
We'll be providing this to governmental agencies, schools, the MTA, prisons, etc.
That is now in production.
We'll start distribution.
We're going to distribute it to...
They should have come up with a better name.
Again, the naming.
Well, naming is not as easy as it looks.
How about prison hooch hand wash or something?
That would have worked.
Jailbird cleanser.
My favorite marketing gimmick that's ever, I don't even know how they pulled this off, but it's in your neck of the woods, is apparently there was a rumor going around that Tito's vodka was the great disinfectant inside and out.
Well, yes.
And it turns out it just doesn't have enough alcohol in it.
It has to be like 150 proof, Tito's.
I don't think it's like 120 maybe?
No, no.
Tito's is normal.
It's no higher than 100.
I think it's like normal 80.
Another fun report is the inhaling of vaporized propylene glycol.
Yeah, which can't be healthy.
Well, that's what vaping is, is propylene glycol.
That's what is in vape juice.
Oh, is it propylene glycol, really?
Yeah.
Yes.
And apparently that kills the...
It protects against the...
Kills the host.
Hey, it worked, didn't it?
It's not all vape juice, actually, but the ones I use.
And apparently that does...
Scientifically, it's proven to stop the flu, influenza, or to slow it down.
We don't know about the coronavirus, but hey, why take chances?
Wouldn't that be just funny if you could survive coronavirus by vaping?
Yeah, it would be very funny.
It would just be the perfect, perfect ending for all of this.
Well, there was just a couple more clips just to get this subject out of the way.
Might as well play.
We already talked about the synagogue being cordoned off.
I don't need to play that clip.
But we do have, you know, just so everyone shows that they're involved, we do have CBS. Again, they have, apparently, they've shuttered the New York office because they have some coronas in there.
And tonight, we here at CBS News also find ourselves in the headlines.
Two of our networks, New York-based employees...
Headlines?
Headlines?
Wait, they finally started doing the headline?
I didn't know that this was a headline.
Well, it is now.
We've been diagnosed with coronavirus, and they have our full support.
Those who worked closely with them have been asked to self-quarantine, and our New York City Broadcast Center is closed tonight in order for it to be cleaned.
None of that, however, will change our commitment to report the news to each of you every night from right here in Washington.
Well, as people will know, we too are in the headline, seeing as we have been self-quarantined for about 13 years doing this show.
We pretty much don't get out of the house, so we will continue to bring you the show twice a week on Thursday.
And actually, our model is being copied by CNBC. Thanks, Beck.
It's 8.02 now on the East Coast.
I'm Joe Kerner along with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the NASDAQ market site in Times Square.
Becky Quick is at CNBC Global Headquarters in Anglewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
And if you're wondering why the show looks a little different this morning, it's because we are deploying our teams to alternate locations out of an abundance of caution for the safety of our employees and everyone they come in contact with.
This is what we will look like for a while, but it won't change what we do every day.
Becky, as you can see, will still be in the middle.
I'll bring you the news you need to navigate these volatile markets.
U.S. equity futures, I'll tell you, on the Dow, that down 11, 191.22.
So, yes, we're also going to be very brave and continue to do the show from different locations just to minimize any potential effects.
The whole show could be brought down.
Yeah, it could happen.
The whole studio has to be shut down.
Or as in the case of WABC or WCBS, whatever it was in Manhattan, to be cleaned.
Because the place is apparently a crap hole and needed cleaning.
I will say this, the big upside to all this is the cleaning.
Rail cars now, they're cleaning the airline seats.
The cushions at the airport, they're cleaning the seats.
I mean, they're cleaning, finally.
You know, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a national time, like, every day, all right, at 10 a.m., we're all going to clean wherever we are.
Yeah.
And then get some of that blue stuff you were talking about.
Spray in your mouth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
It wouldn't be bad.
There's upside to it.
So, bottom line for people who are looking for some guidance from us, yeah, it's just as risky as anything that can get into your lungs.
And I say, from my experience and everybody else's, including Jay, who went up to Washington by herself and drove for a long while.
She had to test her driving skills, so she took a three-hour drive.
Yeah.
Now is the time to do stuff.
Now is definitely the time to go places.
Get out of the house.
There's parking.
It's true.
There's no crowds except the Costco is still crowded for some reason.
The mall in Austin is still crowded.
That hasn't slowed.
There's certain things that are still crowded for some unknown reason.
But the other things aren't.
And there's a lot more parking and it's easier to drive.
The traffic is lower, especially in the Bay Area where Silicon Valley, everyone can work from home because they can all work from home.
Half these jobs are bullcrap jobs.
There's no reason to be in the office except so somebody could do a head count.
So they're all working from home so the traffic is clear.
You can get to the city and back pretty easily.
It's like dynamite.
Get some airline tickets.
Well, be on the lookout, though, for the stuff that gets shoved in here and there.
That's the main thing.
You're going to see all kinds of rules.
There will be checkpoints, testing, scanning.
People will get used to this, which is sad.
It's just...
We'll see.
We'll see if they push the spying on American Citizens Act.
Well, that's been going on.
Well, but now is the time to pass stuff because people are not looking.
They do that anyway.
No matter what.
They're getting stuff through.
They pass a bill to limit farting in Congress and it's got all kinds of stuff in it.
I have not read this bill yet.
Yeah, the farting bill.
That guy from that joker from Colorado, whoever he was, should make him a hero of the show.
He tried to pass the spying law.
Changing the law.
Play that clip again.
I want to hear it again.
Okay.
Madam Speaker, I have an amendment at the desk to correct the name of the bill.
Clerk will report the amendment.
Amendment to H.R. 6172 offered by Mr.
Buck of Colorado.
Amend the title so as to read, a bill to be known as the Federal Initiative to Spy on Americans, FISA Act.
Mr.
Buck of Colorado.
He's our guy.
But you know what?
It was a good thing.
What he did gets attention.
That's the clip.
That's the clip.
Of course, you won't see it on any mainstream, but that's the clip that gets around.
And so it does bring attention to people, to the topic.
To us.
Yeah.
Well, we're some people.
We count...
We do count.
And we have a lot of listeners.
And producers.
In fact, we have quite a few producers.
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 catastrophe, John C. Dvorak.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
In the morning to all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air.
The V recovery and all the dames and knights out there.
Yeah, I'm waiting for it.
Don't worry.
1,300 trolls in our troll room in the morning to you trolls at noagendastream.com.
Trolls in the troll room!
And I believe my daughter is even trolling today.
She said she was going to check in as she is self-quarantining herself.
By the way, we have...
Self-quarantine trolls!
We have selfquarantining.com, in case you're interested in going to that.
It gives you lots of tips.
Oh no, it takes you to a noagendaexperience.com page, which also gives you lots of tips for a healthy lifestyle.
We love having the trolls there.
They're very helpful, good to get real-time feedback.
We're in the loop.
And also, for them, great to troll.
It's fun to troll me.
And anyone else who does the live shows, 24-7, noagendastream.com.
Trolls!
In the morning to...
No, wait.
Oops, that's the wrong one.
That was 12.22.
What I'm looking for is...
12.23.
Ogamacare.
That was the title of our previous episode.
And Darren O'Neill.
How could I mess it up?
He figured it out.
He got it.
He brought us the ultimate artwork for that episode.
Stock up now on no agenda toilet paper.
33 rolls.
I mean, there was almost no discussion.
It was good.
No, it's a no-brainer.
Have you ever seen Darren do his podcast?
I've heard it.
I mean, I hear him on the pre-stream before we start.
You have to watch him visually.
For one thing, he's got a borderline, he could easily be a professional broadcaster, old school style.
Yeah, you can tell.
Yeah, how you doing?
And he looks like a radio guy.
I mean, you just have to watch him do his thing.
He's really good.
And he's a mic nut.
Oh yeah, he knows everything about mics.
He's a good mic nut, and he's got some other...
He's a gearhead, for sure.
And he's interesting.
I enjoy listening to him go on and on about it.
He's my Darren O'Neill impersonation, right?
Impression.
Hey everybody, it's the No Agenda pre-stream.
I'm putting the bass in your face, slamming the speakers, your sneakers through your speakers.
I can't even do it.
He's got it down though.
He's almost like Broadway Bill.
Wasn't it Broadway Bill who did all the rap and rhyming?
Maybe.
Pumping the wattage into your cottage.
So since he does art so well, he's a multi-talented character.
Renaissance man, really.
Yeah.
And he is a part of the No Agenda community.
Our family.
Part of the Value for Value network.
And what are his podcasts?
Hog Story?
Is it Grumpy Old Ben's?
All of it.
Go to noagendastream.com.
That's where you can find them all.
You can talk to them.
They're in rotation.
Everything's in rotation.
And for the art, noagendaartgenerator.com.
Thank you, Darren, for your multifaceted contributions once again.
It's appreciated.
Now, to our financial supporters.
We'd like to thank the higher donors of the show because they'll get a special credit as they duly deserve.
It's just like Hollywood.
You become an executive producer or an associate executive producer.
And we'd like to give you these credits right up front or in a special spot up front in the show.
And here we go.
What are you laughing at?
And here we go.
I don't know.
And here we go.
That means it's like Q John.
Q John.
And here we go.
And here we go.
Starting with JT Barrington.
The Night of the Black Telecaster.
644.
Another guitar player on the show.
644.67.
Greetings, gents.
I'm making this donation, $644.67, to the greatest podcast in the universe, so that my smoking hot wife will obtain her damehood for her birthday today.
Today's her birthday.
She wishes to be known as Dame Sparkle.
We have been listening to the No Agenda since late November of 2009 and started donating small amounts monthly in January of 2010.
We have listened to every episode since.
I received my knighthood and received it in April of 2018 and I decided to make this large payment to accelerate her to damehood.
I was able to attend one meetup over in Berkeley last August.
It was a pleasure to meet John and Mimi and the interesting folks that came.
I have wanted to attend some meetups here in Oregon.
Ah, that's right.
I remember you.
But my schedule was not cooperated.
Oh, it has not cooperated.
I love being part of the No Agenda fraternity.
Could you please play There's Nothing Like a Dame?
Keep up the good work.
a JT Barrington Knight of the Black Telecaster.
There is nothing like a day.
Nothing in the world.
Give more nation real acclaim.
There ain't anything like a day.
There we go.
Nothing like a dame.
George Pradel or Pradel, Pradel, I'm guessing, 528.
He's in Arvada, Colorado.
Short note.
Contributing in honor of the first $280 Denver meetup tomorrow.
Please de-douche me.
Well, he says the first $52.80 Denver meetup.
It's like Michigan local.
So I thought it was a dollar sign.
It says a five.
Yeah, $52.80.
You've been de-douched.
He needs a jobs karma shifting into the cybersecurity field.
Join the crowd.
Requesting a China is asshole asshole as well.
ITM. Donald Trump don't trust China.
China is asshole.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
Sir Code Monkey in Renner, South Dakota.
$400.
ITM gentlemen, the $400 donation takes me to Barron.
Nice.
Please see the accounting below.
Please send my request to the peerage committee and ask if the title and protectorate can be Sir Code Monkey Barron of Data.
Yeah, of course.
I think so.
That's an easy request to accept.
I am a database developer and all your data belong to us.
That is not a typo, John.
It is a rip-off from this meme and an old game.
Really?
Anyway, if the protectorate isn't accepted, it is accepted, I will fill out the proper paperwork for a protectorate at a later time.
Adam!
Yes?
I know you've heard this a million times, but I love the JRE show you did.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Please call my brother Joe out as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Odd connection.
I also need JobsCarmen.
I'm currently looking for new work from home as a database developer.
If anyone in the Noagenda network has any openings, look me at Jason Zeisler up on LinkedIn.
Z-E-I-S-L-E-R. Okay, and does he want anything here?
Yeah, he wants...
Jobs?
Jobs karma.
Did he ask for that?
Yeah, right there at the end.
He says, I also need a jobs karma.
Oh, I got it.
Yes, got it.
Got it, got it.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Jobs karma.
Benjamin Wittbrot.
Which is white bread in German.
Benjamin Whitebread, 34567 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Well, that's a good name for there.
In the morning, Adam and John, with the next Charlotte meetup coming on Friday, I wouldn't dare show up as a douchebag again.
In fact, a double de-douching is in order as my brother Matt recently started a recurring donation.
You've been de-douched.
So, alright, we'll do a double for you.
You've been de-douched.
All right, well, I'm going to have to stop the show here and mention something.
Okay.
I think the brother himself should request that he do it.
Now he can't.
No, now it's over.
Now his time is gone.
And if he does ask for it, we will reject it.
I agree that he should do it himself.
That's true.
Sir Psychopath hit me in the mouth roughly two years ago, and my amygdala has never been smaller.
Your podcast is a welcome escape from the constant virtue signaling and parroting of what people think they're supposed to believe that we're all bombarded with by the M5M. At the first Charlotte, North Carolina meetup, I had the chance to really talk to people who fundamentally disagree with me on many issues in a completely productive and engaging way, which is the power of what you guys have built.
Honestly, I'm way behind on donations, and this is merely the tip of the compensation for you guys for the value I've received over the last few years, and I urge anyone listening to go.
Cross off everything on your list of excuses why you haven't donated and just do it already.
Damn it.
Some Pelosi's job karma would be especially appreciated for my brother and I as we begin to search for jobs after his post-doc and I work on an industry change.
Jingle requests.
You might die, Obama.
You might die.
That's true.
Two to the head.
Hillary cackling.
And then Amy was saying pretty good.
Did I have the pretty good?
I'll say it.
No, I got it.
I got it.
I just got to get it.
Here we go.
You might die.
That's true.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
I think that sounds pretty good.
Hillary never sounded better.
It's so lifelike.
Mike Keeler, Lost Wages, Nevada, 333.34.
And he writes, greetings from Lost Wages.
I was going to send you this amount in toilet paper.
It's got 3.14 rolls.
But it seems to be all gone now.
So you get money instead.
With this donation, they should change that thing or send your blankets and your water and your toilet paper.
With this donation, I have achieved Baronet.
Ah, he's not on the list.
Oh, hold on a second.
Mike Keeler.
I appreciate the work you do in keeping our amygdalas right-sized.
I'd love a don't-eat-me, Joe Biden, and a dealer's choice of Reverend Al.
I'd like some karma for my two human resources in college.
Okay, and he will become a baronet.
And here you go.
Don't eat me, Bojart, and you're scary, so scary!
R-E-S-P-I-C-T You've got karma.
Dianne Anonymous in Houston, Texas, 333.30.
She sent a short note.
She sent a check.
In the spirit of Lent and making reparations, one of my priorities has to be to catch up on my value for value, which, alas, has fallen seriously in arrears.
Being a hopeless no-agenda junkie, there is no excuse for falling so far behind and sponging off your other listeners.
I will do better after this.
Keep up the good work and blessings from Dianne.
Oh, Dianne.
Thank you.
Dianne.
Dianne.
Sherelle Patterson in Auburn, California.
Very nice area, by the way.
It's the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas.
$312.20.
This donation of $312.20 is on behalf of my husband, Ben Van Kirkwick, whose birthday is on March 12, 2020.
He was a dude named Ben for many years, then decided to pursue his passion project, UnchartedX.com, full-time.
It's UnchartedX.com, okay?
He produces long-format documentaries on topics such as the Younger Dryad Impact.
What?
What?
Dryas?
What?
Younger Dryas Impact.
I have no idea.
I have no idea what that is either.
Maybe that's a meteor or something?
Evidence for precision engineering.
Oh, in ancient Egypt and South America and improbable timelines of the ancient Egyptians.
I love our producers, man.
They can hire more at the History Channel anytime.
Uncharted X focuses on questioning mainstream archaeology and bringing in the facts.
Ben is the epitome of a one-man show.
He records his own on-location footage.
Rice gets him out of the house, I suppose.
I'm in Egypt.
Writes all the scripts, does all the video editing, narration, and marketing himself, and leverages the value-for-value model to keep it all afloat.
So happy birthday, Ben.
Can I please get the following jingles?
I guess we'll credit him with the donation.
Yes, we shall.
His head is gone.
Look at all that juice.
And Biden, nah, nah, nah.
Or Obama, no, no, no.
Plus, of course, karma for the ongoing success for Uncharted X. Cheers!
Alright.
So this will be for...
So we put in Ben, I guess?
Just to make sure.
Okay, and it's not his head is gone, but...
And her head is gone.
Oh, my gosh.
Can you see that juice?
I've been watching you.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Come on, where was I?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Hey, listen.
I love you, sir.
You've got karma.
You ask, we play.
you Sir JB, Knight of the DMV, 23456, and his note says, DO NOT USE MY REAL NAME! That's right.
All caps.
Thank you, Sir JB. We got it.
We got it.
Thank you for your courage.
Onward to Michael Robinson in Salem, Oregon, 225.75, and he wrote a letter.
Starfleet Command logo scribbled on in crayon as if it was a real thing.
It's a forgery.
But okay.
You get it read anyway.
This note comes to you in 14-point font to help John in his implanted lenses.
Thank you for your amygdala-shrinking twice-weekly Thursday laughs and insights that help keep me sane.
Your recent analysis of the Wuhan flu has been particularly insightful.
At work today, we drained 33 milliliters of fluid from a patient's groin, and I knew it was time to donate.
Yeah.
Is he donating the fluid?
Yeah.
Well, luckily, no.
My...
225.75 is four donations in one.
One lucky 33.33 donation.
A small boob is 90.09.
And an ever popular 69.
The four donations I achieved knighting on my 33rd donation.
See attached to counting.
I'd like to be crowned Sir Furry Furry Free.
I don't think I've sent this in.
No, I don't think so either.
That was my mistake.
I've been sending them in recently and I forgot to do this one.
I guess I didn't read the note.
I'd like...
Okay, right?
Here we go.
Yeah, he'd like to be known as?
Sir Furry Furry Freedom Fighter of the Oregon Green Zone.
Okay.
And if it's not sold out, I'd like to have corned beef and cabbage added to the round table.
Oh, a sparse request, but okay.
Yes, that was a good one.
We always have that.
Corned beef and cabbage.
You got it.
My smoking hot wife, Michelle, graduates from dental hygiene school.
Hold on, John.
Hold on.
Do you have the direct number for the table service?
I do.
I'll give it to you.
I'll put it on the Skype.
Okay.
My smoking hot wife, Michelle, graduates from dental hygiene school in a week and will be taking board exams and asking for jobs.
Can I get her some dimension-straddling Trump-Pelosi jobs karma?
Also, my sisters, Andrea and Jereen, are in Ireland for two weeks.
Can I get them some corona karma so they can get back safely?
Yeah.
By the way, Ireland is still on the flight.
You can still fly out of Ireland.
So if they're in Ireland, yeah, no problem.
Can I get them some Corona Karma so they get back safely?
For jingles, I'd like...
Okay, I'm sorry I didn't give you this earlier.
Give you the whole load, Biden.
Give you the whole load.
Look at that juice, which you've already had queued up.
And by the way, look at that juice after a head gets shot is a really good one.
And it tastes like poop.
Well, it tastes like poop is bugs, bugs, bugs.
It's I Love Bugs jingle.
I can cue it up, I guess.
Yeah, that's what it is.
I think.
I think.
Oops.
Wait.
I'd like to call out my buddy Dane as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
I hit him in the mouth years ago.
His smoking hot wife has donated, but I don't think he ever has.
Thanks again, Michael.
Okay, first we will do the requested Corona Karma.
You've got Corona Karma.
I'm gonna give you the whole load today.
Oh my gosh!
Can you see that juice?
Tastes like poop.
Jobs.
Jobs.
And jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You thought.
Hey, hey, hey.
On the fly, yeah?
On the fly.
On the fly.
Yeah, this is why I don't like you moaning and groaning so much, because I think you can do these all on the fly.
I'm not moaning and groaning.
No, I'm just, sometimes you do.
Anonymous, $200.69.
Anonymous, I need relationship karma.
If this works, I will be donating more.
You can't threaten karma.
It doesn't work that way.
69!
69, dude!
You've got karma.
That's our relationship.
If this works, I'll be donating more.
If not, I'll be sad.
I love this show.
You won't be sad.
Do we have, is that the end of that one?
Yes.
Dame Nancy's next of New Jersey.
She's in May's Landing.
And she came with a nice $200.
My husband and I are about to leave on a trip.
So, of course, we need some travel karma.
Also health karma so we don't get corona.
Thanks to you guys.
For keeping us company on the trip and for keeping us sane.
Much love, Dame Nancy.
Thank you, Dame Nancy.
And happy to oblige an all-in-one combo for travel and health.
You've got karma.
And last on the list is Brian Ellis, who has a note.
He actually sent a card, a very nice card.
Hail Romulus and Remus.
Hail!
First time donating, but please no dedouching.
Been listening since the Pipelines episode, and for a first episode, the show's structure was a little confusing.
However, it was like Plato's allegory of the cave.
You two are important men of our time, worthy of the same category as Plato, Hobbes, Locke, and Russo.
All men I was taught about in high school.
Oh, really?
Well, they don't teach that anymore.
No.
Thank you.
You must be of the older generation.
Thank you for all the infosainment and humor you provide on a bi-weekly basis.
Thank you for being a positive role model for me as well.
Oh, here we go.
Jingles.
I could have read these earlier.
I know.
I'm not going to grouse.
Adam's Italian niece saying, shut up, slave.
Two to the head.
And Dr.
Kiki, shut up already.
He continues to write.
I'll keep reading while you do this.
Some relationship karma as well.
He also had some relationship karma.
Being my smoking hot girlfriend is in Russia and I'm in Nebraska.
So thank you for your courage, love and light.
Thank you for the card.
Yes.
And I have everything here.
And what's just a regular karma?
A relationship.
Relationship.
Oh, we can do that one as well then.
We can do this all.
Shut up, slave!
Stop already!
It's science!
69!
69, dude!
You've got karma.
Shut up already.
It's science.
That concludes our group of executive producers and associate executive producers for show 1224.
1224.
Can you believe it?
1224 episodes of which you are now an executive producer or alternatively an associate executive producer.
I would say you should be very proud of these credits.
They are real.
They're recognized anywhere that credits are accepted.
So you can put them in your curriculum.
You can put them on your LinkedIn.
It does help get jobs.
We know that for a fact.
IMDB. Oh, IMDB. If you have an IMDB, put it right there.
In fact, can't you start an IMDB if you have a producer credit?
Yes.
In fact, the guy we spoke about earlier, Inglesby.
Yeah.
He's put one up for himself for a 60 Minutes performance.
Oh.
Now, think about that for a second.
Really?
You're interviewed and you're on IMDB. We should give him an executive producership just for the hell of it.
No, we should.
But no.
We will be doing this again on Sunday.
If we make it, you never know, but I think we'll be here to bring you more of your infosamen to keep those amygdalas at a nice and healthy size.
And to help us, please go to...
And you are well up to speed to debunk all the craziness about coronavirus.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Water!
Water!
I'm starting a podcast.
All right, I have one more candidate for ISO. Oh.
And this is I'm not a pundit.
Okay.
I'm not a pundit.
Now, it's Joe Biden micing, bad micing.
Yeah, and it actually flibbles at the end.
I'm not a pundit.
Yeah, it's got a big...
Oh, oh, oh, I have good news.
Because of the Joe Rogan appearance, the Joe Rogan experience appearance is even better.
I got a call from super agent Matthew Lesher in Los Angeles.
Yeah?
This is my agent.
He's been my agent for 25 years.
And he finally called you back.
No, he called me out of the blue.
I did not reach out to him at all.
He has gotten me zero gigs in 25 years, but he is officially my agent.
You can look him up in the agent directory.
And we had a little chat, and he said, how you doing?
I said, you got to check out Animated No Agenda.
And he was playing it on the phone before we even hung up, and he said, okay, call you back in a few days.
And as he was partying, he said, ha, it's great, they're short.
And I don't know what that means, but usually if the super agent is positive, good things come of it.
It's probably something in the ether, in the milieu, in that crowd that says these short videos are good.
Yeah, there's something going on, something.
Well, I think we're on our way.
We're on our way to the exit strategy, everybody.
Speaking of which, this kind of dovetails two topics.
We've talked about how people, when they're anonymous online, become such incredible douchebags and will say stuff to you that they would never say to your face.
This goes back to my first online experiences with Usenet.
And Eric writes in and says, Hey, so I saw you on Joe Rogan and have a funny story.
As one of the first celebrity types online, I sent you an email 25 years ago making fun of your hair.
And you wrote back saying, Fuck off, asshole!
Well, 25 years later, I'm sorry.
What a douchey asshole I was.
All of this amazing technology and I immediately troll Adam Curry.
Anyway, your appearance on Joe Rogan has inspired me to take my online security more seriously.
Bye-bye, Google.
Sorry, man.
Thanks for being a dick.
That's like a Casey Kasem long-distance dedication almost.
Isn't that beautiful?
That was fabulous.
I thought that was just beautiful.
I think you should have gone on the Rogan show, shaved head.
I'll do that next time.
Great idea.
Great idea.
Because we didn't get enough attention, right?
1.7 million views on the video.
And by the way, there are skull caps you can wear.
You can fake it.
And this gag has worked since the 30s?
Oh, yeah.
Always works.
I'd like to direct your attention to the European Union for a moment.
Two things.
First, just going back to the Kung Flu, the reason...
Well, let me give you the events as I see them.
There has been an ongoing argument between the...
It would probably be Department of Homeland Security and the airlines to get information on where people are coming from when they fly from Europe to the United States.
This is the genesis of this flight ban.
And the airlines, and this has been going on for a couple weeks, they're like, we can't do this.
We cannot track...
Where someone comes from, if they're doing a multi-leg flight, and of course we know why they can't track it.
They can't track their customers because they can't really hook into the mainframe.
It's two separate systems, and we've been through this many times.
The airline booking systems are pretty much all COBOL, big mainframe systems.
That's why your name is still all uppercase.
They can't even do mixed case.
So they couldn't figure it out, and that's why I think Trump said, screw it, we'll just block everybody for a month.
That's just one of the many problems going on in Europe.
The complete control for the European Union post-Brexit is in full effect.
Countries are now being asked to consider, read, to do...
To put clauses into their constitutions, the Netherlands, some politicians have already said this is easy, we should do this, we should amend what they call their version of the constitution to reflect this, and that is, once you're in the EU, you can no longer ever, ever, ever, ever leave.
And, of course, they'd like new states who come into the Union to already have that in their constitution.
Here is our friend Guy Verhofstadt.
He's the guy, when it comes to the crazy stuff in the EU, explaining exactly what he wants.
So, in my opinion, yes...
Yes!
Wait a minute, yes!
In your opinion, what is it?
So, in my opinion, yes...
Brexit is also a failure of the union.
It's also our failure.
We have to recognize that in this debate.
And yes, there is a lesson to learn from it.
And this lesson, dear colleagues, is not to undo the union as some are arguing here.
No, this lesson is, and that we have to learn from Brexit, is to deeply reform the union.
To make it a real union in the coming years.
That means a union without opt-ins, opt-outs, rebates, exceptions, and above all, without unanimity rules and veto rights.
Only then we can act, and only then we will defend our interests, and only then we defend our values.
It is this lack of effectiveness that is the problem that we have seen in Brexit.
There you go.
Where's the Zeke Heil?
Fear is freedom!
Subjugation is liberation!
Contradiction is truth!
Those are the facts of this world!
And you will all surrender to them!
You pigs in human clothing!
Isn't that nuts?
Zeke Heil.
I'm telling you.
No!
No rebates!
No getting out!
Now, this is a foregone conclusion that we're going to do this.
That's the only solution, because every time somebody gets hurt while they're in the Union, this is what happened in the United States.
It was the United States.
Bunch of states, you know, and then all of a sudden, a group of them decided, now, you know, we don't like where things are going.
It started a civil war.
What he said is what you have to do.
It sounds like the new German empire is what it amounts to, but still, it's either that or you're not going to hold us together.
Otherwise, you're going to have people like Hungary going their own way, and they're in the EU, but they still do their own thing, which you can't do that.
You've got to obey the rules from Brussels.
Polls in the Netherlands show 71% would like an exit.
Yeah, I'm sure they would.
Now, you got this turncoat, this guy, your buddy, what's his name?
I don't know who you're talking about.
This guy's always been a thorn in the sight of everybody.
He used to bit you at the Farage.
Yeah, this is not my buddy.
I'm not sure.
Is that?
I thought you knew him.
No, I know Franz...
Timmermans.
Timmermans, but this was Giefer Hofstra.
Hofstra.
Timmermans is the guy who wants $250 billion for the Green Deal, they call it.
The Green Deal.
Oh, yeah.
All of this is coming together beautifully.
Yeah, and I think the Netherlands should give it a shot.
It'd be fun.
What, trying to get out?
Yeah, why not?
What do you got to lose?
Come on.
Yeah, I think it's over.
What do you mean?
I think Brexit was the last.
I think it's over.
I think the EU is going to win this battle and they're going to put the clamps down on everybody.
It will be very interesting to see what happens with the UK. First of all, I believe the, just going back again to the Kung Flu, The reason why the UK's flights will be allowed into the US is because they're not in the Schengen area.
So it's totally trackable.
You know where someone came from because they had to show the passport.
Yeah, they couldn't have boated across from Greece and then gotten to Italy and then floated around and then just snuck into some country and flown back to the United States.
A little harder to do.
Yeah, a little harder to do.
However, we see a huge problem happening in the UK. This was already warned about as of April 1st, and I don't know why they still have this on the books.
The digital services tax will go into effect, which puts a 2% corporate tax on all basically American Silicon Valley companies.
So, search engines, social networks, etc.
And, I don't know.
I mean, it's not a law, it's a rule, but they keep restating it.
April 1st, 2020, the government will introduce a 2% tax on the revenues of search engines, social media services, and online marketplaces, which derive value from UK users.
There is a limit, though.
I think it starts at 30 million users, which is easily lowered to our 30,000 listeners.
They could do whatever they want.
Well, they're probably going to do it.
I'm surprised it hasn't been done already, to be honest about it.
Let's talk a little bit about the election.
The latest, we had another round, and we got a debate supposedly coming up on Sunday or Saturday, which is probably not going to happen, or maybe not.
It won't happen with an audience.
Well, you know, so as we discussed on the previous show, it seems only just yesterday, the smart money was on keeping Biden in his cage, keep the muzzle on, but oh no, you can't let the guy out for three seconds.
This is why they're trying.
I think that they should cancel the debate, and they should come up with some coronavirus-related reason for it.
I'm not sure how you do it.
Already, they've had to negotiate that Joe can sit down.
Apparently, it's troubling for him to stand during these the whole time.
I've only heard this.
I haven't researched it.
Sounds right.
Sounds right.
I know you have some glitchy stuff from Joe.
Not like the last show.
I only have two.
Okay.
And one of them, I will say, this is an interesting one because this is actually one of those moments where you can hear things two different ways.
We've had examples of this on the show before and it all stems back to the color of the dress.
Yeah.
Is it golden white or blue and black?
Two movies, one screen.
And so I'm listening to this clip.
Now, this is the clip where Biden says, Hitler's race, referring to Hillary.
Play the clip, and then I will say that I have actually seriously and cognitively Accurately heard it both ways.
Play it.
I'm not a punter.
There is...
For example, I saw there was sexism in Hitler's race.
And the way...
And it's real.
First of all, it's real.
So you know that?
I heard Hitler.
Now that you set me up, let me listen again.
I'm not a punter.
There is...
For example, I saw there was sexism in Hitler's race.
And the way...
And it's real.
Yeah.
I heard...
In both those plays, I heard...
I heard Hitler the first time, but then accidentally, as I was playing in the background, I heard Hillary.
And then when you just played these two times, I heard Hillary both times.
I hear Hitler-y.
I kind of hear a hybrid.
Well, that's the problem.
It's got a little both in there.
Yeah.
But everyone made a big fuss about this, and I, you know, who cares?
But I think your point that you, I think you made it on Twitter, is correct.
And?
And, what is untrue about the statement?
Yeah, right.
What's nothing untrue, no matter which way you heard it?
So, we're all in on that.
So, the good one, though, is this Biden going after some poor schmuck?
Who I think was a Trump guy or a Bernie bro coming in just to harass him.
Oh, just on that.
The guy was prepped and was reading his entire question from his phone.
Yes, he was.
And then he appears on Fox and Friends the next day on Fox, wearing a Don't Tread on Me hat.
It's like, this was an ambush.
It was a total ambush of Joe, and he can look forward to a lot more of this.
If he's gonna bite...
I mean, his bite was so big, and interestingly, do you know what most people in my household, because of course I'm only 49%, what most people dislike the most about this clip?
Shush?
Yes, the shushing, exactly.
The shushing.
The shushing was played up by the left to the max.
And I thought it was, when I heard it, I said, oh, this will get people irked.
But I thought it was, what was more interesting than the irksome aspect of him telling a woman to shush was actually the term itself.
Who uses shush?
Check the calendar.
It's 2020!
What should he have said?
What is the appropriate term?
Well, I mean, he should have just eyeballed her and just told her to shut up with his eyes.
But he could have said, shut up.
He could have said, quiet.
He could have said...
I'll take this.
I can deal with this.
Which is what he should have said.
I can deal with this.
But shush.
Shush, woman.
Shush.
Right.
Well, she is clearly a handler for in the crowd.
And I think she made a mistake.
It was her mistake to immediately jump on that because that showed us her job is to steer the candidate away from anything that could go viral.
She should be fired.
I agree.
She should have just moved him along.
This is...
And I hear this too in the White House.
It's worth...
Every single time there's a live event, right after the president says, thank you, the press...
And it sounds like mainly women, or that's only what I'm hearing above the...
You know, the press starts yelling questions.
And the White House press people...
That's it!
It's done!
Okay, goodbye!
You're leaving now!
They're so loud, and we hear it.
It's like, hey, I can hear you yelling the whole time, and it's like crazy.
Well, this goes back to Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan discovered that if he was cordoned off, if the press was cordoned off with a rope, and he was coming in on the chopper or whatever, and he stayed away from the press...
Filmed yelling at him, screaming questions.
Mr. President, Mr. President, screaming questions, making them look like a bunch of idiots.
Yeah.
And like, remember that during the Hillary run for president in 2016, where the Hillary bus was going and they would run after it.
The little van.
Yeah, yeah.
And this sort of thing.
But the way that Trump's doing it kind of differently, and I think he is making a mistake with his group of people that are over yelling.
They should let Trump walk away and let them continue to yell at him.
Because that makes them look like idiots.
But in this case, I'm not talking about a presser.
This is when he lets the press into the...
By the way, this is, according to the experts, this is his presser.
He does it on purpose.
Yeah, but it's the room and the cabinet's meeting and the press has to be sent out of the room.
No, they're doing it poorly.
Yeah.
I think so.
I should just throw a black hood.
Well, you know, the kid doesn't keep his staff very long.
No, I mean, on the press, man.
I'm not talking about the staff.
I'm the press.
Oh, the press.
Okay.
Well, let's just skip back to Biden.
This is the Biden arguing with the gun advocate.
These union workers that have been working countless hours under the Trump administration, I'd like you to explain how you plan to not only keep us working, but how you intend on getting the union vote when there is a large portion of the union workers that are gun enthusiasts and you are actively trying to diminish your second amendment right and take away your gun.
You're full of shit.
Alright, thank you.
Oh, wait a minute.
Okay, that's interesting.
So first he says you're full of shit, and then she jumps in, and then he's shush.
That's where the shush came from, because he couldn't get past the shit.
He was still in the shit.
Shit shush.
You're full of shit.
All right, thank you.
Shush.
Shush.
I support the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment, just like right now, if you yell fire, that's not free speech.
And from the very beginning, I have a shotgun, I have a 20 gauge, a 12 gauge, my son's hunt.
Guess what?
You're not allowed to own any weapons.
I'm not taking your gun away.
At all.
You need a hundred rounds of your gun.
I did not say that.
That's not true.
I did not say that.
It's a viral video.
It's a viral video like the other ones we're putting out that are simply alive.
Your voice, you said that you're taking a gun.
Oh, he just clarified it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Take the AR. Your AR-14s have looked great.
Okay, this is not okay.
Hold on, hold on.
There's a lot of guys.
You're looking for me, man.
I'm not working.
Thank you so much.
Give me a break, man.
You're pushing up on me.
Hey, hey, hey.
Here's the deal.
Here's the deal.
Are you able to...
A machine gun?
A machine gun?
I said, are you able to own one?
A machine gun?
That's right!
So we're at 15 something.
How about the machine guns?
No, it's not.
Do you need a hundred rounds?
Do you need a hundred rounds?
More threats in America from handguns are what you call assault rifles.
Why are you advocating for assault rifles when people are gunned by handguns?
Yeah, the AR-14 comment is quite off.
No, this exists.
The AR-14 is a directed energy weapon used in the game Halo.
And everybody knows the Binders would be Halo guy.
Really, no.
AR-14.
Yeah.
No.
Presented and this is pretty much the clip according to Democracy Now and I'm now I'm sorry I didn't clip this part.
She never played the clip.
She just said that first Biden and of course she's hates Biden because Amy is all in with Bernie and they all know he's getting shafted.
Yeah.
And she says that he threatened to punch the guy in the face and then take him out in the back and beat him up.
Yeah.
And I never heard any of that.
Yeah, yeah.
I heard it.
He says, he doesn't say, I'll take you out back and punch you in the face.
He says, you want to go outside?
We'll take this outside.
He did say, I'll take you outside, I think.
Okay.
Don't eat me, Bernie Sanders.
Oh, sorry.
That's the wrong one.
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, take your pick.
Well, okay.
Anyway, the thing was, Biden is kicking ass, and he's unstoppable, but I think that what we have here, and all I have to do is play this clip, and this is the tip of the iceberg.
This is what's really going on.
This is the voting irregularities.
Only Democracy Now!
went with this.
There were reports of irregularities at many polling sites during Tuesday's primaries in Missouri.
Some would-be voters in St. Louis County left long lines at dozens of precincts without casting a ballot after the county's electronic poll books failed.
In Kansas City, Mayor Quinton Lucas was turned away from the polls Tuesday morning and told he wasn't in the system, even though he's voted in the same precinct since 2009.
Mayor Lucas had just posted a video to social media stressing the importance of voting.
In Michigan, disabled voters reported problems voting in Detroit and Dearborn, and college students in Ann Arbor and East Lansing reported long lines with wait times of up to two hours.
In a statement, Senator Bernie Sanders called the voting problems an outrage, writing, quote, Yeah, it's the poll pads again.
They had to go all high-tech and all smart, and when will we learn?
For a reason, this whole thing, the Democrats are the ones, is that I say what you are, I am, problem with the Democrats, blaming the Republicans for trying to rig the elections or trying to suppress voters because they asked for an ID. Oh my God!
That's suppressing voters.
But meanwhile, they're pulling stunts like this to make sure that Bernie doesn't get elected.
It's a scam.
And the Democrats are really good at it.
They bring illegals in, they bust them in, they have them vote.
And my understanding is in many of these states, the actual presidential candidate votes were collected by the DNC separately.
Yeah, for tallying.
the back end surprise me the the back end that does all the local stuff was not even and it was known it was like known that this was not going to be ready that won't be ready for a couple months another reason like how can none of this be ready i mean it's been years i Why am I even asking?
Michael Moore, of course, has to weigh in.
And he is a big Bernie Sanders supporter.
And he blames Trump, of course.
But I think Trump has just pummeled this country so badly.
And I know, I mean, just, you know, I live in Michigan, so I'm familiar with how people feel.
They're frightened.
They're demoralized.
There is a malaise that has spread across this country and certainly throughout Michigan.
And people can't take one more day of this.
The fact that this coronavirus has driven home just how much danger we're in to this individual in the White House...
That I think people just didn't want to...
Asking people to do two things, get rid of Trump and get rid of the system, political and economic system, they gave us Trump.
That, I think, was too much to ask, probably, for people who were just like, can we just get rid of Trump?
Please.
And I understand that.
Okay, that makes him feel better to think that.
That guy's unhinged.
But it was really...
Talk about a guy who really looks like an old woman.
Again, how the DNC, how they...
Called everybody up and...
Oh, but I had a thing about the deals they were getting, or the proposed deals.
It doesn't mean anything, but apparently Buttigieg was offered an ambassadorship to the UN. I think...
Either Klobuchar and or...
Warren doesn't seem to have accepted anything.
But she was like Treasury Secretary and Kamala Harris, possibly Attorney General.
Oh, brother.
But we still need a Vice President and there's nothing like a pollster over on one of the CNNs or MSNBCs to tell you exactly who Bo Jiden needs...
And for these young Bernie people, issues do matter.
So yes, I think that Biden's best play in bringing in the Sanders people is to bring with him on the ticket somebody who is going to represent a more progressive platform.
Like I said, not the squad.
Like who?
What would that person name be?
You know, and also somebody who is not a white male, right?
Of course, right!
The party is very diverse.
Not white!
Can you believe this?
We just need not white!
Not white!
Excuse me.
Do you understand that's kind of racist?
You say not white.
Don't you want to bring in the best person possible?
No!
Not white!
No penis!
And also somebody who is not a white male, right?
Preferably not white.
And then saying right...
Like, you know, right?
Don't you agree?
Everyone agrees white men, white people with penises is bad!
Not a white male, right?
Preferably not white.
The party is very diverse.
So I would think Kamala Harris or Stacey Abrams would be my top two picks because they're hitting three metrics all at once.
Gender diversity, racial diversity, and ideological diversity.
Now if we look at your checkboxes, your candidate Grisham qualifies too.
She's much better than the other ones, except for Kamala.
But Grisham is Native American, which is even better.
She's from the Western state, which is what you need, and she's a woman, so she's the one.
No penis.
No penis.
Very good.
No penis.
Big three.
Tulsi Gabbard, by the way, is still running, and now described everywhere on mainstream media as a woman of color.
They keep saying that.
You know, we still have Tulsi Gabbard in the race, a woman of color.
Why don't you say a representative from the great state of Hawaii?
No, a woman of color.
You know, it's a veteran.
Actually, she's still in the reserves.
Dynamic, young.
She checks four boxes because she's got military.
Does she have a penis?
That's another one.
Well, I don't know, actually, maybe.
Okay, just saying.
The candidate that I have my eyes on presented himself to the press.
What?
You mean him.
I thought you were the Amy Klobuchar fan.
No, John.
For the vice president.
No, I'm talking about the president who I want to see as president of the United States.
The guy I will be voting for.
Vermin Supreme, of course.
He presented himself to the press.
Where Vermin Supreme is the candidate of the National Libertarian Party.
How much fun do you want to have in 2020?
That is the question you must ask yourself.
Thank you.
There you go.
Joe Biden did the sound for him.
He's good to go.
Well, yeah, exactly.
I love me some Vermin Supreme.
VerminSupreme2020.com.
He's your guy.
Could it be any worse?
Vermin Supreme is definitely the funniest candidate.
I want to play one more thing about these elections.
And this was on PBS. And this was a little back and forth with Judy and a couple of women going on and on about electing a woman president.
And they made a number of assertions that I think are complete bull crap.
It's a very short clip.
But it's worth listening to.
Electing a woman president.
Amanda Hunter, what are some examples of what women still have to deal with?
You know, we just heard Elizabeth Warren say, look, if I say there was a problem with sexism, people accuse me of whining.
But the reverse, you know, women know that's just not true.
There is sexism out there.
Certainly.
And we know from our research that women are held to a higher standard on the issues of qualification and likability.
Voters assume men are qualified.
All men have to do is put out their resume.
And women have to prove it over and over.
And that's part of the reason we saw this creeping electability refrain coming up over and over.
And we also know that likability is a non-negotiable for women.
Voters won't vote for a woman if they don't like her.
And they will vote for a man that they don't like.
And likability is something that's so subjective.
The advice is like walking a tightrope.
Use humor, not too much humor.
Take credit, but also share credit.
Dress nice, but not too nice.
So much of it is based on hunches and opinions.
And that's such a burden that women have to bear and men simply don't.
Such a burden having to learn how to dress.
Now listen to that bull crap.
Likeability.
If it's a guy you don't like, you don't vote for a guy because he's a man.
That's bull crap.
Women will do that.
They'll vote for women just because they're women.
If I don't like the guy, and we've done it on the show, he's a schmuck.
I'm not going to vote for some guy I think is unlikable.
He's a creep.
And by the way, the proof of the pudding was Bloomberg.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
He had everything, including money.
Yeah, nobody liked him.
I mean, even Billy Joel got Christie Brinkley with money.
There you go.
Bloomberg couldn't buy a vote.
This is out of the Hillary playbook, out of her Hulu special.
I've watched the second episode.
You know, they're an hour each, these episodes.
And Hillary said something very similar.
She said, I have to do, it takes me an hour for makeup.
Man, just throw on that.
And I'm like, that's not true.
That is so untrue.
Men have grooming habits.
We have things we need to do.
We need to put a knife on our face, typically, in the morning.
If the interview is in the afternoon, we've got to do it again, which means if you have TV makeup on, removing it.
There's definitely some time that goes into it.
I found that quite offensive.
But the timing of this...
There she is, circling over her head.
The timing of this documentary is so obvious.
I mean, I don't know when she's going to make a move, but this thing is set up for it.
And as a review of this second episode, indeed, it's around 1990 when she turns.
And she goes from, I mean, obvious hero for young girls and women and on a path, and she turns into a dude.
I think she said, all right, that's it.
I'm going to run Bill.
And especially after he lost his re-election.
You see her walking in front of him.
He never lost a re-election.
He lost the re-election of governor of Arkansas.
Yes, sir, he did.
Oh, yeah, in Arkansas.
Sure.
Okay.
And then he won the next time after Hillary took over.
Because Bill...
Bill is charismatic and he's an oaf.
He likes to get high, likes to drink, likes to hang out.
That's why Hillary got involved in all these douchebags.
The savings and loans shit, the whitewater.
Of course, Bill was in the background with the Bushes doing Mina Arkansas, running all the coke.
So she was corrupted and couldn't get out of it and just decided, I'm going to be a dude and I'm going to run it and one day I'll be president.
But she becomes very mean.
Very mean-spirited, very angry, and says things like, well, it's meant so easy.
I can't wait for episode three to melt my brain even further.
Well, I'm glad somebody's picking up the slack.
Do you think she's going to take a stab somewhere along the line?
Well, I mean, that's always been my theory, but the timing is getting really sketchy.
They have a defective product as candidates.
They're trying to protect the public from knowing this.
Yeah, but that's not going to work.
It's working fine.
It doesn't work for people who listen to our show or people who are online.
But the mainstream media doesn't play any of these clips.
Democracy now will approach it once in a while, but this isn't normally played.
They don't berate Joe for being a bumbling idiot.
I think you're overestimating the power of the mainstream.
I think that power is gone.
In fact, I think it's demonstrable.
People no longer trust it.
They certainly don't trust any mainstream after this coronavirus.
No one trusts it.
I think that the word is out.
Everyone can see it.
Just because they're not saying it doesn't mean that people aren't aware of it.
And the people who come on and protect them have something in the game.
I think you've isolated yourself from reality.
Oh, yeah, sure.
You're now in dimension B. Shut the fuck up.
You're very annoying today.
Yeah.
You've just been incredibly annoying the whole time.
Why?
That's a good question.
I don't know why.
You tell me.
I'm not buying it.
I'm just saying I'm not buying that the public doesn't pay any attention to the mainstream media.
No.
The public is catching on.
You can argue that with me, but then say that I'm no longer in reality, I'm in dementia B, is an incredible insult.
Well, I mean, if you're okay, I'm sorry I said that, but I'm not buying any of it.
I think the mainstream media has got a lot more influence.
I think there's a crossover point.
Maybe some people are paying some attention, but they still have the influence in New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, NBC. Let's skip to MSNBC. You really think that they still have the power that they used to have?
No, they don't have the power.
Not all of the power they used to have.
They have most of the power they used to have.
So can we just have a disagreement on it instead of shaming people?
Okay.
Alright.
I don't know why you're so sensitive.
I'm not sensitive.
I'm just responding.
I just got a little tired of it.
Well, you just said to me that I was a jerk of the whole show and it's irking you to no end.
Yeah.
You seem oversensitive.
You started off by telling me I was out of my mind about coronavirus.
I never said you.
When did I use the words you were out of your mind?
You know what I'm talking about.
No, I was backing your theory up that the coronavirus thing is something phony about it.
And it's just going to end all of a sudden when it shouldn't.
Okay, fine.
That's how you remember.
I was taking your side.
Strange way of doing it.
I was backing you up 100%.
Let's listen to the call that, once again, our Russian hoaxters are on path.
Let me see, who was the last person?
They punked Bernie by calling and saying, oh, this is Greta and Greta's dad.
And they did the same thing to Prince Harry, who, for some reason, thinks he still is allowed to speak on behalf of anything, even though he's effectively no longer a royal.
Kicked out.
Done.
But here he is with some good old Trump hate.
No, completely.
I think for many, many years we've been at, not at a tipping point, but every year we get closer.
And once we get over that tipping point, then it all changes.
But at the moment, the fossil fuel industry and certain presidents around the world are driving completely the wrong agenda.
And I think the most important thing to do is, I don't mind saying this to you guys, I think...
The mere fact that Donald Trump is pushing the coal industry so big in America, he has blood on his hands because the effect that that has on the climate and on the island nations far, far away, again, out of sight, out of mind.
But we've visited those places, and I'm sure you have as well.
People's lives have been completely destroyed.
People are dying every single month by some form of natural disaster that has been created from this...
Huge change in our climate.
So again, we have to almost physically shake these people and get them to realize that not only are they stealing from your future, which you've said over and over again, which I applaud you for, but also that they are directly responsible for actually killing people and wiping out whole communities.
And now I'm confident that within the next five to ten years things will change, but we can't wait five to ten years.
So I think If Donald Trump can become the President of the United States of America, then anything's possible, right?
Ah, so good.
So good.
They do this to more people.
Why does this guy even...
I don't want to even get into it.
Why do these guys make public appearances?
Because someone's willing to pay for it.
Someone is willing to pay for these two to show up.
They love it.
They love it.
I wish I could find that old clip of Joy Behar when she had her show.
You can try.
When she goes off on Rush Limbaugh, she just goes nuts.
Did we have that clip?
Is it a real clip?
Yeah, it's a real clip.
And what she says on the clip...
I don't understand how this guy can get off saying any of this stuff about the climate because he's not a climate expert.
He's not a climate scientist.
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
And I always use that as kind of the model for, like, why is...
How come if one guy on one side of the argument says this seems like bogus, doesn't make a lot of logical sense, that's bad.
But if a guy like the prince says just the opposite, anybody is not an expert.
It's Prince Harry.
He doesn't know anything about climate science.
He's never been a scientist.
What he does know, he knows a lot about coal.
His family, even Harry has been involved in coal mining.
Then I guess the coal mining...
Yeah, yeah, he was out there digging.
Yeah, exactly.
In the mine shaft.
He knows about it.
He certainly knows about it.
Okay, we have, let's see, where are we?
We've got an OTG segment coming up.
I think we should take a little break and thank the rest of our producers here.
I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab Yeah, on no agenda In the morning Yes, we have people to thank Starting with Ron Conway Uh It should be Conway.
I don't know what it says there.
Oh, Ron Convey.
Convey.
Ron Convey in Lincoln, Nebraska.
$160.16.
And he actually wrote a note.
I want to read part of it.
With his double boob donation, which is what that amounts to, I finally reached knighthood.
And I think he's on the list because I did send that one in.
Yes.
Even though John called my boob donations immature, I've enjoyed them.
And finally, when did I do this?
I've enjoyed them and finally reached the point where I can sit at the round table in honor of the Sun's nickname for me and the fact that I have been an ice hockey referee for two decades.
Now there's a job.
An ice hockey referee.
I'd like to be referred to as Sir Roland Ref of the Frozen Sheet.
I'd like Perdomos and Root Beer.
Perdomos?
I hadn't ordered this yet.
What is it?
P-E-R-D-O-M-O-S. Perdomos.
Which is a fine cigar and a sweet drink.
So it's some sort of brand of cigar.
Okie doke.
Got it?
I don't know.
I've never heard of him.
Thank you for all you do in keeping our amygdala small, and thanks to my son Grant for hitting me in the mouth.
Brad Jaszewski is still a douchebag.
Douchebag.
Oh, he's calling it out?
Douchebag!
And Epstein didn't kill himself.
No jingles, no karma.
Okay.
You wouldn't get him anyway.
Rob Van Dyke is next on the list.
$100.
Eric Mackey, 8008.
Sir Luke, the Viscount of London and the Southeast.
7777.
He's in London.
Matthew Mongan.
Thomas Wood, 60 in Grantsville, South Carolina.
He needs a Florida jobs.
Karma will give you that at the end.
Baron Bob of the High Point, High Point, North Carolina.
Sir Mike in Wakefield, 55-10.
Anthony Rodriguez in Tucson, Arizona, 55-10.
Rick LaBanca in Hope, Rhode Island, 52-42.
He says...
No exaggerations, the show is at max sanity.
And here we go, this is, it has to be, this is Renee DuPont, who has a complaint.
My name is Renee DuPont and I was declared an Instadame on show 1209.
You told me, that would be me, to contact you with my chosen title.
The following week, I sent in my title request, along with a donation of 5512.
Nothing happened.
I've sent you two emails since, and to no avail.
I'm a little disappointed because I followed the instructions to the letter.
If I am deemed worthy of Dame Hood, well, obviously, please title me, and she's on the list, Dame Chardonnay of the Llanu Grapefields.
But also a please big thank you to Sir Onimus of the Dogpatch and lover Loris Sublovia.
Please excuse my terrible spelling.
I love the show and will continue listening no matter what happens with this.
Does she have any requests for the roundtable?
Nope.
None.
She's good to go.
I would give her a karma just for her being inconvenienced.
You've got karma.
She is on the list, I believe.
Yes, she is.
Alexander Beattie in Houston.
And I apologize, Renee.
You got stuck in the vortex.
It does happen.
It doesn't happen to women so often, but it does happen.
50-01 in Houston, Texas.
Robert Dricosin.
Dricosin.
Dricosin in Oshkosh, Bogosh, Wisconsin.
He says he's never claimed his knighthood.
And wish to bestow it upon my wife, Jennifer, whose birthday's on the 13th.
She's on the birthday list.
She can be referred to as Dame Jennifer Drakasen.
Yes, she's also on the Dame list.
She's there.
Drew Mochak in El Cerrito, California.
Hey, there, Drew.
It's right down the street from me.
Daniel Kish in Macomb, Michigan.
These are all $50 donors, name and location.
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Rosen Tuchkoff in London, UK. And last but not least, Baroness Susan Johnson there in Hillsborough, Oregon.
I want to thank all these folks for contributing to the show 1224.
Yeah, thank you.
It was a good list today.
We enjoyed that.
And we've got a lot of dames and knights to do, which is to do.
We're doing them.
Although, when...
When you have a nighting or daming coming up, let us know what you want at the round table.
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We cut that off for brevity's sake, but it's highly appreciated.
The smaller donations always make a difference.
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No Agenda Meetups there, where the No Agenda producers gather for some sanity.
They gather amongst themselves all over the world.
It's happening multiple times a week.
As I said, it's a global event.
I'm thinking maybe if I can swing it, drop by the meetup tonight, although we may have some surprise visitors, so I don't know if I can make it, but the one in Austin, I think, is taking place.
Before we do that, though, let's listen to a meetup report from Winston-Salem.
This is Baron Bob at the Winston-Salem meetup, and we're having a great time.
It's like a potty!
This is a douchebag named Ben, having a great time.
Douchebaggery soon to be remedied.
This is a dude named Joe in the morning.
We're having a great time here in Winston-Salem.
And this is a dude named Sam.
Thank you for your courage.
It's Sir Jimmy, the hollow book guy, and it is like a potty.
This is Brandon in Winston-Salem, and I just want to say, go podcasting!
And even though he's not here, he's with us in spirit, on a stick, Sir Andrew sends his greetings and says thanks for the courage.
And thank you all for your courage.
Meetup's coming up.
As said, tonight we have the local 512 meetup in Austin, the Connecticut meetup as well.
On Friday, Charlotte's number three, Spot the Spooktacular.
That'll be at Sycamore Brewing, Colorado, local 5280 in the Denver area.
We heard a donation from that earlier on.
They're on a six-week cycle.
That's at Hofbrau in Colorado, in Denver.
Also on Friday, the 13th, of course, a very popular day for some meetups.
Mississippi Rocket Ranch, 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Now, you do need to RSVP. You may even be too late now that I'm thinking about it.
But look at...
Oh, by today.
I have a note here.
If you want to, because this is at the Stennis Space Center in South Mississippi's Hancock County, it's going to be a good one, I'll bet.
So make sure you go to NoAgendaMeetups.com and register for that.
In Amsterdam tomorrow as well, the No Agenda Meets the T.O.P. podcast.
The top...
Hmm, this is a complicated thing they've done here.
But it's going to be good.
We have a lot of producers in Amsterdam, in the lowlands in general.
Lokai de Stutt is where you want to be.
Saturday, Charleston six-week cycle event, home team downtown barbecue in the heart of college basketball season.
Yeah, while it lasts.
And Sunday, the Las Vegas...
Ooh, this is new.
A last-minute meetup.
At Atomic Liquors, look for the girl in a jean jacket and white sneakers.
She's in town for a work trip.
Her name is Catherine.
She's organizing.
Wow, that sounds like a honeypot trap to me, if I ever heard one.
Check it out on Sunday, Las Vegas.
And then Monday we have the SEA Royal Caribbean Oasis of...
Oh, it's the sea.
Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas...
What the heck is this?
Calling all cruisers, cruisegoers who might be on the oasis of the sea.
Meet up in the schooner bar.
Deck six.
Bring your face mask, I guess.
Dame Meowdison and Douchebag Dave were hosting that.
I can't wait to find out about this meetup.
It is in...
Where is this thing?
I don't see a place.
Wherever the ship is.
Yeah, but I don't know where it is.
It'll be out to sea for all we know.
Oh, it's literally saying wherever the ship...
Oh, okay.
Man.
Well, yeah.
If you're on the ship, it's at 2 p.m.
and I'll be on Monday.
Good luck from Z100. The ship's over, what, 3,000 people?
They could be...
Oh, there could be people there.
It's just funny to have any kind of fun event on a cruise ship at this time.
It seems like a dichotomy.
You have to stay in your rooms.
Yeah.
I want a meet-up report from the Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas.
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Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me.
Triggered all hell or lame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
And we should mention that, that the no agenda.
Right, hey, wow, wow, wow, wow.
I'm an OTG kind of guy.
I'm sorry.
Did you say something?
Because I couldn't hear it through the jingle.
Did you want to tag it?
I was still on the meetup thing.
Oh, okay.
Yes?
We have to remind people that the meetup site is for meetups.
It's not for announcements or selling cars or...
Well, let's be specific about it.
There's a thing called the Childerberg Camping Trip, which is a libertarian conspiracy theorist thing going on in Austin, and they wanted us to put it on the meetups.
But it's not a meetup.
And we have to make it clear so our meetup site doesn't get clogged with anything that's not meetups.
Specific to the show.
We had this before.
We had this discussion before.
Right.
My question is, if it's at an existing event, such as the Furries, such as the soccer game in Texas, I think it was Dallas, how do you do that?
You have a meet-up at the event.
Right, but isn't that what these guys were doing?
A meet-up at that event?
It sounded like a plug for the event itself.
Ah, okay.
In other words, if you had the furry thing, for example, you have a bunch of furries meeting up at a convention, that's actually the site.
Yes.
The idea is not to plug the convention.
Ah, okay.
If the furries would come and say, we've got this great furry thing going on, and then just coincidentally there's a meet-up there.
Gotcha.
I just think we have to keep it...
No, I'm in agreement.
I just want to understand the rules.
That makes a lot of sense.
So the way to position it would have been, we're having a no agenda meetup, and the location is here.
Right, but even in this case, it was pretty dubious.
Okay.
I don't know anything about this Childerberg.
Lots of people talking about it.
I have no idea.
It's in Austin, apparently.
According to Mimi, the guy chatted it up with you.
He chatted what up with me?
I don't know.
He says the guy tells me that Adam contacted him.
Okay.
And y'all bought into that?
I didn't buy it.
I didn't buy it in one way or the other.
I didn't care whether you contacted them or not.
Well, I contacted no one.
But I have seen posts about it.
I have seen Twitter things about it, but I've never contacted anybody.
All right, so let's try and keep it meetup-specific, everybody.
Now, the OTG story, which I want to do because I've been holding on to this for two weeks, we just haven't gotten to it, there's been so much going on, is about this geofencing warrant that took place in Florida.
Here's the backgrounder.
A search warrant was issued by the Gainesville Police Department to Google for GPS has drawn the attention of some experts.
In April of last year, GPD file was known as a geofenced warrant for three houses at their properties on Northwest 32nd Street.
They want Google to give them the GPS data of anyone with Google accounts in that area during a burglary that happened in late March of last year.
Professor of Media Law Frank Lamonte with the University of Florida and the Breckner Center for Freedom of Information says that one's right to privacy in matters like this one may have been signed away in the terms and conditions for use of online mobile services.
Once you use a service like say Gmail, you're agreeing to the terms of use of Gmail and part of that may be that they reserve the right to be able to comply with the warrant or turn over your data if they're demanded to do so.
Most recently, an anonymous third-party filed to have the search warrant squashed or quashed in Alachua County based on privacy and Fourth Amendment concerns.
That motion has not yet been seen by a judge.
So this is really quite an interesting case, and I think it's something that we'll see more of in the future if it even comes to light in the mainstream.
There was a guy who was on his bike, and he lives nearby a house that was burgled.
Burglared.
Burgled.
And the local police asked Google for a geofence of any devices they had seen in that area, which includes the street out in front and I guess some of the neighboring properties, so that they could issue...
Well, I guess they issued a warrant for this, that they wanted this.
And this guy happened to live nearby, was biking through the area, and all of a sudden now they want to look at all of his information.
And this is...
I think this is a new...
It's a new road that law enforcement is going down.
You know, we have the ring cameras.
That really has to happen with permission of the owner of the video.
But even that seems to be more easy to opt into.
And I'm a little bit concerned about this.
I mean, you could be implicated in stuff and then have...
Authorities go through your information just based upon the fact that you worse or your phone was somewhere at a certain time.
Which brings you to some great storytelling where you could take the phone and plant it on a dog.
Exactly!
But there has to be a crime.
It needs to be somewhere where something takes place and you'd have to know about it.
But how about this?
How about just, you know, like, don't...
If you're a burglar, an idiot criminal, don't bring your live phone with you when you bust into a house.
How else am I going to talk to the getaway car?
I mean, come on.
This is the stupidity of the criminal class.
But what's worse is that as an innocent person, a warrant can be issued just to go through your shit.
I think you could set someone up.
Exactly.
And the next thing that happens is, who knows?
This is for the people I have nothing to hide people?
So what if the authorities could just go through your Gmail today, just based upon the fact that you were in a certain area or your phone was in a certain area at a certain time?
Yeah, once they get access to one thing, and especially if it's Google, all these...
you have to give away the store to use them.
And any one of them, you know, they can go through any route to get all this data if they're collecting the data as we think they probably are because for marketing reasons.
Yeah, it's a real problem.
This, to me, still goes back to the first time they put the black box in the car.
And right now, it's for one thing...
But pretty soon, you'll be getting speeding tickets in the mail.
You know, oh, you went too fast the other Tuesday on the freeway.
It's just, this is a foregone conclusion.
We're doomed.
Yeah, the worst part is that it's just going to cost you more money to stay anonymous.
The Keeper and I have new health insurance.
I like it.
It's a pretty good outfit, but there you go.
Hey, install the app for your telemedicine.
I really don't need to consult.
I need to talk to you.
But you know what's coming?
Discounts.
Discounts.
You've got to put the app on your phone.
I wouldn't even mind calling the doctor from a browser.
No, no, no.
You have to use the app.
You're right.
The discounts are already...
Insurance companies have played with this marketing strategy, and it's working out.
Progressive being one of them.
You buy the little plug or whatever it is.
State Farm, actually, if you call them once a month and tell them your mileage, they give you a discount.
There's a lot of this sort of thing going on.
By the way, I want to just mention this.
This is what irks me.
Because Mechanics Bank, our bank, all of a sudden has jacked up all their fees on everything like crazy.
I guess they saw something coming.
Yeah.
Oh, brother.
And so it's like a total rip-off.
And now the free ATM isn't free anymore if you use somebody else's.
It used to be everything was free.
And now it's not.
Yeah, if you had like an X amount of money, then they would refund the ATM fees.
Yeah, yeah.
They don't do that anymore.
I think they're pulling it.
And now, the thing that gets me is that the ATM, I remember when it came into play, I think it was in the 60s or 70s, 70s maybe.
Probably the 70s.
This will save so much money because we don't have to have as many tellers.
We can have an ATM machine and that saves us money.
It saves you money.
It saves everybody money.
And then all of a sudden we go from saving everybody money to having a fee to use it.
It's the American way, man.
They go to a teller and they don't charge me five bucks to talk to the teller.
How does it go from free...
Money-saving device, you have to pay to use it.
This is what happens with what you just described.
It's like a discount for Progressive.
And then pretty soon, it's a fee.
Well, you're saving so much money, all the money you're saving, you have to pay now to use this system.
It's like with the cable companies, you know, they used to, oh yeah, we're getting broader distribution when it was CCTV, remember that?
Community television, you have an antenna, it was the beginning of cable?
Yes.
Everything was free, and now you have to pay for carriage.
Yep.
So that's, I can go on.
Well, I'd say Bitcoin is the answer.
I'm looking at the price of Bitcoin.
Man, that crashed.
I mean, it's fantastic.
Technically, it shouldn't have, should it?
Technically?
Why not?
Because it's supposed to be this big security blanket.
So when the market crashes, you'll have all your money in Bitcoin and it'll be safe.
Yeah, I do.
It's just not worth as much anymore.
It is.
I have it all.
It's still safe.
But it's now at $6,000.
That's down from, man, we were above $10,000 just two weeks ago.
Switch to gold.
Well, it's actually, you know, I still got coins.
I got Krugerrands.
Coins.
I find it actually interesting what Bitcoin is doing.
I don't really know what the, I mean, so apparently people found that that was not a safe haven and sold it off.
But maybe we'll see the V recovery there as well.
I think if there's going to be a V recovery anywhere, it would be in Bitcoin.
Because that's what it does anyway.
Yeah.
Well, this would be a pretty significant V if it did this, but it's possible.
It's possible.
I'm a hodler.
I'm in it for the long term.
It's like we still have the happening coming up around May.
So right now, I think a lot of this may have had to do with China, who were mining most of the coins.
And I guess a lot of miners must have shut down.
Who knows?
There's so many stories out there.
You don't know.
But we'll see.
I don't think they make any money at $6,000 for Bitcoin.
I think it costs more in energy and machines.
Well, yeah.
The mining might be a dead idea.
Let's play some international news.
I've got a couple stories.
First of all, there's a 14-second piss-poor update on Democracy Now!
about Saudi Arabia.
We still don't know anything about what's going on there.
Oh, you mean with the takeover by MBS and the oil prices?
Or who knows?
In Saudi Arabia, reports have emerged of a new crackdown on senior royal members and top officials as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears to be renewing efforts to consolidate power in the kingdom.
At least four prominent members of the royal family have reportedly been detained.
I mean, what kind of report is that?
We had that last week.
Hello.
Oh, jeez.
Amy.
Now, this is a good report because this is one of the West Clark 7s we don't talk about much and nobody reports on the mainstream.
Oh, shall we do a little reminder of the West Clark 7?
Yeah, you could.
You might as well.
We haven't done it for a while.
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan.
I said, are we still going to war with Iraq?
And he said, oh, it's worse than that.
He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper, and he said, I just, he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense's office today, and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
All right.
Well, we've got Iran.
We nailed that with our bioweapon.
So here's the Sudan.
They were going, instead of bringing troops in, they were going at their economy, and we're doing a pretty good job of it.
This is the Sudan report from Al Jazeera.
Queues of car stations are a common sight in Sudan's capital.
Drivers waiting for hours, just to fill up their tanks to be able to get on with their lives.
There is no time for work.
We dedicate all our time to queues, either for fuel or other things.
I've been here for hours waiting.
Sudan is now just a country of people and queues.
I've been here since 8 in the morning, and now it's 4 in the afternoon.
Our lives have been mostly put on hold as we wait to fill our car tanks to be able to go around.
Sudan has imported fuel since the oil producer lost 75% of its output when South Sudan became independent nine years ago.
Oil was the main source of the country's income.
The Sudanese pound started to lose value against the dollar.
Now, the government is struggling to pay for imports of fuel, which it largely subsidizes.
The impact of fuel shortages can be seen at bus stations like this one in the capital Khartoum.
Passengers are facing longer and longer waits for a ride because there are fewer buses passing through.
They're stuck at queues at petrol stations around the capital.
Buying bread can also mean a long queue.
The currency shortage affects imports of wheat for flour.
We suffer coming here from 7 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon or more just to get bread.
It's for our kids at home, and no government official has bothered to come and see why things are like this.
British shortages last year sparked protests that eventually led to the ousting of long-time President Omar al-Bashir.
Sudan's cash-strap transitional administration says it's working to bring in hard currency through other sources.
It's put together an economic crisis management team with the power to put forward new policies.
There are other alternatives that the country can go with in terms of policies that can help provide resources for the people.
Part of the solution we're looking into is to restoring back the amount of money stolen by the former regime, as well as getting rid of all the sham security companies that dried up the budget of the country.
Okay, so what is going on with this?
This is very odd.
They're broke.
Can't get gas.
They're spending all their time standing in lines for pretty much everything.
Right.
And the last time this happened, they had a regime change when we had pulled a stunt like this before, and it's happening again.
Meanwhile, South Sudan, where all the oil is, is being played.
They're part of the locust swarms.
Wow.
And so the locusts are attacking South Sudan in such a massive way that it's just screwing up that country.
Uh...
Uganda's being screwed over.
Kenya.
Thick clouds of the insects.
You can't get the stories.
Hold on, hold on.
Before you move on to locusts, I'm still in Sudan.
So apparently a lot of money was coming in through Sudan soldiers fighting in Yemen, which has now tapered down a bit apparently.
So their soldiers of fortune don't have any job.
Yeah.
And then are we messing with their money?
Well, you know, as you think of George Clooney and the fact that South Sudan split off into its own country.
Well, that's where all the money is in the South.
Well, it wasn't until the locusts showed up.
And that's where the money was when it was one big, giant country.
And now it's just a mess.
And it's part of this West Clark 7.
I don't think it's a coincidence, necessarily.
So...
Tell me about the locusts.
Is that only in South Sudan or in the North?
No, no.
It's a lot of Africa.
Uganda, South Sudan.
There's no report of the locusts in the old Sudan.
It's South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and apparently there's a plague of locusts taking place.
Plague, by the way, is a very specific term.
There's a swarm, there's a plague, there's a bunch of different words for how many locusts there are, but there's going to be 500x more if they don't do something about it pretty soon.
500x.
What's the breeding cycle of the locusts?
Well, you know, this is supposed to be always heard about the seven-year cycle, but this doesn't seem to really add up.
In fact, the last time they had a plague or...
There's no reporting on this, by the way.
Zero.
Zero.
Six major locust plagues in the 90s, the last of which was in 87-89.
In the 1900s, I'm sorry.
The last of which was 87-89.
And the last major upsurge.
Upsurge is less than a plague.
Hmm.
And that was in 2003, 2005.
And this is still qualifying as an upsurge, but if it gets to 500x, it will be a plague.
And it's like it causes nothing but trouble.
It eats everything, kills animals because they starve to death in the field and they can't breathe.
There's a certain situation you can't even see through.
It's like a fog of bugs.
I'm seeing Pakistan also, although not really...
Pakistan is also being hit for some reason.
Not anywhere near Africa.
That's interesting.
Yeah, that's what I thought was interesting, too.
So this locust story, which is really underplayed, it's not played at all, it's like, eh.
Alright, so what are the down...
Locusts, animals can't breed, they eat all the crops...
They eat everything.
What else?
They eat the grasses, they eat the crops, they eat the food, they eat everything they can get their hands on.
So how do you combat locust?
Well, you're supposed to...
Roundup ready?
Can we get some Roundup?
Spray that shit on them?
Kill their food and the people.
They're supposed to be...
You catch them apparently in the morning when they're sleeping.
They're all on the ground.
You've got to be quiet.
Shh!
Yeah.
And then you go out and you spray them with some toxics, but they can't get enough pesticides to do this.
And furthermore, these are the so-called desert locusts.
Locusts.
And the desert locusts are out in the middle of nowhere half the time and you can't find them to spray them.
And then all of a sudden a big cloud emerges of millions of these things.
Tens of millions perhaps.
And then they just start munching on everything.
It's just a nightmare.
Are the locusts edible?
Are they tasty?
Can we turn this lemon into lemonade?
According to some locusts apparently are very tasty and very edible.
Well, shouldn't we be harvesting them?
Well, it's like...
Apparently, that part of the story is not being reported either.
This is the story!
Free food!
There's some locusts that are poisonous, there's some locusts that are edible, and you could probably eat them, but it's like they're clogging the roads and you're sliding down the highway because of the dead locusts.
I mean, it's not the solution, is the point.
But I don't care what the solution, if you can eat them, not eat them.
How about some news report on this instead of, you know, it's Trump, Trump, Trump, Corona, Corona, Corona, Trump, Trump, Corona, Corona, Corona.
And if you, I watched the three news shows again, you know, just to compare them.
The whole front end of the news is corona.
They didn't even have any weather reports on CBS. And then there's a couple of slams about Trump and then more corona.
I mean, it's out of control.
Apparently, Israelis like locusts because they are the crunchy kosher snack.
They're kosher.
How does that work?
I have no idea how they're kosher.
Yeah.
They are now.
That's our marketing.
Well, it seems to me like there's a tremendous opportunity to hoover up some of these locusts and sell them.
You don't really have to hoover them.
You just have to put your mouth...
All you do is open your mouth.
It's free.
Yeah, so what are they complaining about?
They got free food everywhere.
This is what we're doing in the West, people.
Get with it, Sudan.
Figure it out already.
Quickie here from, oh yeah, this is not international news, but just as an entremant from, well, it might as well be international news.
It's from Massachusetts Nuts.
Weak state lawmakers and advocates will gather in support of a plan that would ban body size discrimination.
The bill would make it illegal to discriminate against someone based on height or weight.
Lawmakers and advocates will gather at an event on Tuesday to push the plan, which is yet to be voted on by either the House or Senate.
Now we've gone nuts.
That is nuts.
Can't ban, yeah.
Yeah, it's okay.
Fine.
They should go, I've always thought this, because I think it's just good policy.
Airlines should charge ticket prices based on your weight.
Yep.
Essentially, the way they're doing it now, it's not a comfortable flight, it's freight, your freight.
I think it would be great for Disneyland.
You have to be this high to ride Space Mountain.
Excuse me.
You can't discriminate.
Yeah.
I can see a lawsuit.
I think the guy I could do is Bloomberg.
He's probably never gone on Space Mountain.
Please.
See, there you go.
This is exactly the problem.
You're making fun of somebody's height.
Yeah, I was.
Mm-hmm.
And I don't even know what Bloomberg's real height is.
It could be 5'3".
I think he's 5'3".
I don't even think he's 5'3".
I think he's about 5'1".
Oh, you think he's that short?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I do.
Wow.
Well, it could be.
Petite males, it's not like you don't see them.
Yeah, you see them all the time.
Yeah, that's what I said.
You see them all the time.
Yeah.
It's just, you know, he's a little manic about it.
Which is okay.
Yeah, short guy's complex.
It's okay.
Napoleon.
Who was, I would think, about 5'8"?
Napoleon was 5'8"?
Oh, the impression you get is he was much smaller than that.
Well, I was reading along about this recently, and he's either 5'6 or 5'8, but he's not like a 5'1".
You know, just to the airplane thing, it's okay if they charge you by weight, but then I should be able to pay more for extra size that's really extra size, you know?
Yeah, if you're going to be paying for weight or size or height, you're paying for that space.
They have to provide you that much more space.
Yeah, more space.
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah, I think that's fine.
Well, right now, you're welcome to go take over any airline you want because I hear you can buy them up cheap.
Stocks are really good now for airlines, so I'd say hop in, take advantage of that.
Yes, now is it your last chance?
Yeah.
Well, the last little piece I got here, which is kind of...
Before the V recovery, that is.
The V. I would say we can at least get this out of the way.
Harvey Weinstein got 23 years in New York, so both of us were wrong.
Yes, holy crap.
We were sure he was going to pretty much walk.
Well, you weren't thinking they were going to throw the book at him.
No, not the 23 years.
I didn't expect that.
It looked like the way they were doing the case that he was going to get off, but apparently this woman who is the prosecutor, if you watch court TV enough, that woman who is a prosecutor in this jurisdiction is like something of a legend.
Oh.
And she's like, really good.
And so he got, you know, they threw the book at him.
I guess the judge didn't like him.
So this is a little report.
I do have a clip.
Harvey Weinstein, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, in a Manhattan courtroom today to face sentencing on charges of rape.
And on criminal sexual act in the first degree.
Let's go immediately to the courthouse where Stephanie Gosk is standing by.
She has been covering this trial throughout.
The big question today was, how stiff would this sentence be?
And there was a powerful message today sent by the judge, Stephanie.
Chris, there certainly was.
This is a very severe sentence thrown at Harvey Weinstein.
He is now facing 20 years in prison for the first-degree sexual acts charge and another three years in prison for the third-degree rape.
They are to be served...
He's saying consecutively, which is also a surprise here.
Often these charges come and these sentences come concurrently, meaning they're served at the same time.
Now he's saying consecutively, which means he has a, basically he's facing 23 years in prison.
He will also be put on the sex registry.
The judge telling the court today that this Maybe his first conviction, but it is not Harvey Weinstein's first offense.
We also actually heard from Harvey Weinstein, who stood up and showed very little remorse in the comments that he made.
He did say he had remorse for the women who accused him of these crimes, but he went on to say that he was the first In the Me Too movement.
And that he fears it led to thousands of men, in his words, not getting due process.
Saying that he, basically making the leap that he did not get due process himself in this situation.
The judge showing no mercy here.
This is a tough sentence.
More than many people had predicted, Chris.
Yeah, and it's hard to even analyze what Harvey Weinstein is saying in public, because I think he does have some points about process and how this trial went.
Not the sentencing, but I don't know.
What's your view?
Well, it looks like they're out to get Harvey Weinstein, and they're going to They're not going to put this sentence into effect until after his trial in Los Angeles, and he had another minor heart attack right after this that wasn't reported in this report, and ended up in the hospital again.
I mean, if I wanted to go with second half of show thinking, I would almost think that Harvey is setting himself up for that removal from the hospital dead, and then ending up in some island someplace.
Ooh.
Kind of, you know, like we expect the guy from MCI and Enron.
There's a number of these cases, a mysterious death.
They wind up in Argentina?
Well, or someplace.
I mean, they never get caught.
I mean, why is he in 67?
So the 23-year-old prison sentence would take him to 90.
Oh, yeah, no, he wouldn't.
And he has the money to pull off some stunt like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, not even second show of half stuff.
It's just the second half of show stuff.
It's just the entire...
I mean, the guy is an incredible douchebag.
But all of this is based on testimony, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's testimony.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, it's, you know, proof, hard proof.
I mean, it's just, I'm not saying that he is wrongly convicted or sentenced.
It's just, he's saying, well, this is going to be interesting for men.
I think, yeah.
I think he's right about that well men who get arrested Well, yeah.
Douchebags.
Total douchebags.
There's a lot of them.
Yeah, and the stories keep coming up with different kinds of douchebags showing up here and there.
I mean, could this same be applied to some of the other cases?
I mean, there are other cases out there.
I think this guy was the most egregious.
It was like an open secret, which was kind of bothersome.
It was such an open secret for such a long time, where Seth MacFarlane is doing material on one of the award shows, I think the Academy Awards.
Let's put it this way.
Let me put it this way.
If he's convicted on all these things, I think that there should be conviction of accomplices who enabled.
And, you know, you're an accomplice if you sent someone up to the room.
I think there's multiple cases of that.
Yeah, and that's a lot of women, by the way.
I think you're an accomplice if you were aware of this behavior and didn't...
And were...
Near him, or let's say in the same hotel, or party, or restaurant, or whatever, and you knew this was happening, and didn't report it, didn't do anything.
Let's go all the way.
Let's not just throw the book at this guy.
Let's get to the enablers, and the enhancers, and the...
And also the private detectives, and all the people that worked in his behalf.
Accomplices.
Total accomplices.
Accomplices.
Yeah, I agree with that.
That would be my idea.
They should do that.
Yeah.
Chance of it actually happening?
Zero.
Somebody should make a fuss about it.
Yeah, because he didn't do this by himself.
Nope.
Accomplices should be held to account.
And that is it for our show.
We went long today.
But then again, we're under quarantine, so you might as well make the best of it.
Bored stiff.
Bored stiff.
And we'll do it again on Sunday, if you will all join us, please.
And remember to attend your meetups.
And look out for that V recovery is coming.
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The stock market's a-losing.
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Cough.
Sneeze.
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I'm feeling real lightheaded.
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