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	Nightmare!
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Sunday, March 21st, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1227.
	This is no agenda.
	Cutting through red tape 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 there's virtually nobody on the freeways, Next week at this time, there'll be blood.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	For those of you who tuned in to feel calm and serene, that opening, I'm sure, helped a lot.
	Blood in the streets.
	Stop it!
	Stop it!
	Yes.
	A little check-in first.
	How's everyone there?
	Everyone okay?
	Yeah, it was fine.
	Yeah.
	Okay, we're good here, too.
	Well...
	Stir crazy?
	I wouldn't say they're stir crazy.
	Not yet, but by this time next week, for sure.
	My niece has coronavirus.
	Which niece is this?
	Well, is it my cousin's daughter?
	Is that a niece?
	You're asking the wrong guy.
	Yeah.
	Is this the one that told you you don't have high enough security level?
	No, but she could be one of those, but no, she's not.
	That was pretty, actually, it was pretty harsh.
	A couple days, she was very sick.
	Yeah.
	But she's at home now, so it looks like she's going to be okay.
	Did she go to the hospital?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	No, she was in the hospital.
	Yeah, they had to take her to the hospital.
	She was puking and fever and just not good.
	Puking?
	Yeah, that's a new one.
	That was not a part of the set, as far as I know.
	It was a part of the set.
	And every time somebody brings something up, you know, as part of the set or somebody ad-libs like Trump...
	Yeah.
	So PBS is all over it.
	Now, I found something that I picked up from a Chinese Communist Party news.
	They were describing the symptoms, and they included, at least with the Wuhan version that they had, conjunctivitis.
	Isn't that something with your eyes?
	Yeah.
	Huh.
	That's interesting.
	I've only heard it once, and I've only heard it on the Chinese network.
	No one has ever mentioned conjunctivitis anywhere, and I never heard the puking part.
	That could have been part of fever.
	It could have been anything.
	I don't know.
	But she's tested, and she's tested positive.
	I know that.
	We do seem to have a possible off-ramp, though, in this whole thing, and there's a lot of weird stuff going on around it, which brings into question some of the team members that we see on stage, although a couple team members appear to have been dropped, as I was watching over the weekend.
	No sooner had we talked on Thursday about the chloroquine, Which had apparently gone through some small trial in France.
	No sooner had we talked about it than the President came out and pitched it.
	And this started off a very unique set of events, which I don't think has been picked up very well by the M5M. I wonder why.
	Well, it depends.
	No, it was picked up.
	Well, let me give you the whole piece of what was picked up or not.
	Because...
	It started off, and I think this was the right way to roll it out.
	And let me back up.
	The president is at a D-grade level for his briefings.
	They're no good.
	He's not good at this, and he just looks cavalier.
	He gets into little pissy fights.
	Of course, whenever someone lashes out at him about...
	You know, about being racist or whatever, or not fast enough, then he immediately goes back to, I shut down.
	It's not helpful, and no one cares.
	He's not doing a good job at all.
	In fact, Cuomo, who was doing kind of the pre-show to Trump's briefings for the past three days, people love him.
	And he's sitting at a desk and he's got a PowerPoint and he's going through things and he's got his emergency outfit on and it makes him look very, dare I say, presidential.
	There's even some noise now that Biden and Bernie are a little worried about how well he's doing, that he could just jump in and save everything.
	Wouldn't that be crazy?
	You're talking about Governor Cuomo?
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	He stinks.
	People like him.
	I'm not saying I like him.
	People like him.
	Before we go on, then why don't we just get this out of the way?
	Okay.
	Which is the Cuomo vs.
	Cuomo CNN spat.
	This is well worth it.
	Curfew.
	I don't like the word curfew.
	Maybe we should just set it up for people who don't know.
	Governor Cuomo, is this his brother?
	Yes, his brother.
	His younger brother.
	Yeah, his brother is Chris Cuomo from CNN. Also known as the Cuomo Kid.
	Curfew.
	I don't like the word curfew.
	Dad tried to have a curfew for me.
	I never got past the resentment.
	But I do believe you'll see more tightening if the numbers don't slow.
	Your problems with the curfew.
	It's the least of your problems.
	Just so you know.
	You violated the curfew all the time.
	Caused much pain.
	But that's a different story.
	I don't believe in rules.
	Governor Andrew Cuomo, I appreciate you coming on the show.
	I love you.
	I'm proud of what you're doing.
	I know you're working hard for your state, but no matter how hard you're working, there's always time to call mom.
	She wants to hear from you, just so you know.
	Yeah, I called mom.
	I called mom just before I came on the show.
	By the way, she said I was her favorite.
	She never said that.
	Good news is, she said you were her second favorite.
	Second favorite son, Christopher.
	We both know neither of us are mom's first or second favorite in the family.
	I can't believe you're lying to my audience.
	You've blown the credibility of the entire interview.
	I should have ended it before.
	Second favorite son.
	Listen to the words.
	Listen to the words.
	Politicians are very tricky.
	You throw a word in there after the first time you said it, creates a lot of doubt.
	But I appreciate you clarifying.
	Not me.
	Straight across the plate.
	Stay strong.
	Straight across the plate.
	Stay strong.
	Stay for your people.
	And I appreciate you being here.
	I love you, brother.
	You too, brother.
	Oh, lordy.
	What a jackass.
	What is that all about?
	I have no idea.
	The whole thing is out of context.
	It doesn't make a lot of sense.
	And these two guys either hate each other.
	What would he have him on the show for?
	I think Chris was resentful that he brought him.
	Did somebody book him?
	I don't know.
	Sounds like it.
	Okay.
	He was irked about something.
	And by the way, I did get an ISO out of it, though.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Oh, I see it already.
	Yes, we'll give it a shot here.
	I don't believe in rules.
	Yeah, possibility, possibility.
	I may have something later on for us to counter that.
	We'll check it out.
	So, the President wants to pitch something.
	He comes out, and he first, I think, does what would be appropriate, although, man, he's so bad, he's just not getting the message out.
	There's a lot of hummin' up, hummin' up, hummin' up.
	But he sets it up by revisiting his right to try legislation.
	Yes, it was legislation passed by both the House and the Senate.
	And that's the precursor to what he is going to pitch.
	And you know, one of the things that I'm most proud of that I got was right to try.
	That's where somebody who's ill, somebody who's very sick, terminally ill usually.
	In past administrations, we signed this a year and a half ago.
	you wouldn't be able to even think about getting any of the drugs that may be showing great promise now.
	And they've been trying for many decades to get this approved.
	And it sounds simple, but it's not because there's liability involved and lots of other things.
	And I was able to get it approved working with Congress.
	Right to try.
	This is beyond right to try.
	What we're talking about today is beyond right to try.
	Right to try, and that would be trying something off prescription.
	Is that what it's called?
	You're thinking of off-label.
	Off-label, I'm sorry.
	That's legal.
	But what right to try implies is that Off-label prescribing is legal and it's done all the time and the doctors do it.
	And the pharmaceutical companies like it that way because they can do repatents.
	They love it, except if it's out of patent and they don't own it.
	They don't love it then.
	And I think we're going to see that popping up.
	This is about the chloroquine, which is an anti-malaria drug.
	And I have another doctor who's going to explain exactly what it does.
	But here's Trump pitching it.
	But this is beyond right to try.
	If treatments known to be safe in Europe, Japan or other nations are effective against the virus, we'll use that information to protect the health and safety of American people.
	Nothing will stand in our way as we pursue any avenue to find what best works against this horrible virus.
	Now, a drug called...
	Chloroquine, and some people would add to it hydroxychloroquine.
	Say chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine.
	Now this is a common malaria drug.
	It's also a drug used for strong arthritis.
	Somebody has pretty serious arthritis.
	Also uses this in a somewhat different form.
	It is known as a malaria drug, and it's been around for a long time, and it's very powerful.
	And it's shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results.
	And we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately.
	And that's where the FDA has been so great.
	They've gone through the approval process.
	It's been approved.
	And they did it.
	They took it down from many, many months to...
	So we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states.
	I spoke with Governor Cuomo about it at great length last night, and he wants to be first online.
	Let's just understand exactly what this drug does.
	Dr.
	William Grace is at one of the...
	He's an oncologist, but he's at one of the hospitals in New York that are filling up.
	I forget which one it was for a moment.
	And he'll explain in this interview how, well first, how the virus attacks the immune system, and there's some...
	Kind of, I guess, relatively new information about what is actually happening, why older people have issues.
	It's not necessarily because you're old and decrepit, but because of how your immune system is mature, and that is actually what creates a response from which you can die.
	One of the things you have to realize here is there's a paradox in that the immune systems of people who are very young are very immature.
	That's why they get vaccinations.
	And as you get older, you get exposed to more and more external threats.
	And so your immune system matures even though your body ages and maybe becomes weaker.
	But your immune system is not weaker.
	Thereby, many of the people who are dying from COVID-19 pneumonitis are dying from what we call in medicine a cytokine storm, where the immune system basically goes crazy in fighting the virus and kills off a lot of healthy lung tissue.
	So that's a little different than what we've heard so far, but it makes total sense.
	And there is a way to combat this, and that's possibly with chloroquine.
	And so the way in which hydroxychloroquine works is not only in some of its more well-documented prevention of...
	The prevention of replication of the virus but also it is an immunosuppressive agent.
	That's why it's used in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus and other inflammatory states to cool down the immune system.
	So it's felt that it probably works in two ways.
	As a checkpoint against the cytokine storm, and two, as its ability to inhibit replication of the virus.
	And despite what we've been hearing and reading, there have been several tests done, not the type that the FDA would typically want, but with success, and the doctor has some numbers to back it up.
	Yes, you'll see that articles in China, there was a randomized 100-person trial.
	There was a trial in Japan and in South Korea.
	And, of course, the most recent and most exciting data coming out of Marseille, France...
	Where the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azifromycin managed to get 100% of the patients disease-free, I mean, literally virus-free in five days.
	And the significance, and again, this data...
	Was weighted against the success of the treated group.
	There were more men in the treated group who do worse.
	There were more older people in the treated group and the older people do worse.
	And there were more people in the treated group with pneumonia in the lungs.
	And in spite of that, the people who got the combination therapy did remarkably well.
	So well that the significance is that there was less than one chance in 10,000 that the data was there by chance alone.
	And as you know, in medicine today, we use one chance in 20 for statistical significance.
	But chances of less than one chance in 10,000 is an extraordinary outcome.
	That's why these doctors published this work.
	Because they thought it was morally imperative to save lives.
	You know, in a perfect world, you would have a nice randomized trial and everybody would digest it, you know, after four or five or six months when it would eventually appear in the New England Journal of Medicine.
	But they wanted this out there now because they thought it would save lives.
	And my experience is that in New York, it is going to save lives.
	And the combination may save many more lives.
	So, sounds like a cool off-ramp that we could take, and the President, in his typical fashion, went out and said the following with his usual caveats.
	So, those are two that are out now, essentially approved for prescribed use, and I think it's going to be very exciting.
	I think it could be A game changer, and maybe not.
	And maybe not.
	And maybe not, but I think it could be, based on what I see, it could be a game changer.
	Very powerful.
	They're very powerful.
	So I want every American to know that we're doing everything we can.
	And these actions are important next steps.
	I mean, for the FDA to act the way they acted with this kind of speed is an incredible thing.
	Normally they'd say, well, we can have it by next year.
	Now here's where it got interesting.
	So Trump does all this.
	The FDA guy is standing behind him.
	He's looking a bit like the CDC guy, you know, now that CDC has effectively been taken out of the equation because they screwed it up so bad.
	The FDA guy's behind him.
	He's like, yeah, he's kind of looking like that.
	But then Fauci takes the stage.
	Dr.
	Fauci, as was explained yesterday, there has been some promise with hydroxychloroquine, this potential therapy for people who are infected with coronavirus.
	Is there any evidence to suggest that, as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against COVID-19?
	The answer is no.
	And the evidence that you're talking about, John, is anecdotal evidence.
	So as the commissioner of FDA and the president mentioned yesterday, we're trying to strike a balance between making something with a potential of an effect to the American people available at the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine we're trying to strike a balance between making something with a potential of an effect to the But the information that you're referring to specifically is anecdotal.
	It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can't make any definitive statement about it.
	Fauci clearly has looked at different data than the doctor at the hospital in New York, and he's kind of poo-pooing it.
	Well, let's stop for a second.
	Fauci brought this up, but this was a rigged question, and specifically had nothing to do with what the guy in New York had to say, because the questionnaire said, is it useful as a prophylaxis?
	Which is not a medicine for treatment.
	He specifically asked him if it was a prophylaxis, and Fauci said no.
	And if you listen to any of these clips from the mainstream media, they play the Trump thing like you did.
	Then they skip the question and they just play Fauci saying, no, it's no good.
	And that's my point.
	The question is rigged as bullshit.
	But that's my point.
	My point is what people are seeing is his answer.
	I'll make it a little more clear.
	I will point out that he specifically said, now, the studies, they're anecdotal, which I think can be disputed.
	We like to do big trials.
	I'm just listening to what he says.
	Then he did a round of media, and he went on Fox to walk some of it back.
	Now, from the briefing earlier today, you seem to dismiss the suggestion...
	That chloroquine, an anti-malaria medication, can have much of an effect.
	And if I heard you correctly, you said we just haven't had enough time to figure that out.
	Is that an accurate reading on your answer for that medication?
	You know, I'm not dismissing it at all, and I hope that that interpretation wasn't widespread.
	What I said is that we don't have definitive proof that it works.
	So what we need to do, since there are suggestions anecdotally that it works, try to get it available, but to do it in the context of a protocol where we accomplish two things.
	We make something that's maybe hope and promising for someone.
	At the same time, we determine whether or not it's safe and whether or not it actually does work.
	I wasn't dismissing it.
	I was saying we need to be careful.
	So he...
	Wants to be careful, wants to slow it down, wants to take their time, and it wasn't until I saw him being interviewed by the most important man in the universe that I realized that he may have a second agenda, because this is not the only compound that is being tested and getting ready for treatment.
	Oh, Fauci's probably got a patent on something else.
	So who do you think interviewed him?
	Who of all the world's celebrities, the most important man, the man we all should look to as our hero, our savior, we really need to hear from him.
	Don Lemon?
	Close.
	Mark Zuckerberg.
	Because of course Mark Zuckerberg has to interview everybody from his bunker.
	What is Mark Zuckerberg doing interviewing anybody?
	Well, I'll tell you one thing.
	Because we don't have video, he's going to start off, and he has problems with his IFB. And so while Fauci is speaking, Zuckerberg has taken this thing out of his ear.
	Fauci still has an IFB, an Interfold, what does it stand for again?
	Oh, I can't even remember.
	Intercom foldback.
	Intercom foldback.
	The control room can talk to you.
	And the control room, and we see this happening that, you know, instead of talking to the host, they talk to the guests and things go wrong.
	Look what happens at the beginning of this interview. - Everyone, and thanks for joining.
	I'm here today with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is the director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease and is the nation's top infectious disease expert who's involved in leading our response against the coronavirus.
	So, Dr.
	Fauci, thank you so much for joining today.
	And I was hoping that we could just get started.
	Maybe you could tell us about where we are with the situation overall.
	Where are we with the spread of this and the overall government response?
	Well, we are certainly still in the escalation phase of this outbreak, Mark.
	As you know, globally, different countries are at different phases of the outbreak.
	China got hit very early on, which was the origin of where the virus first came out in Wuhan.
	Are we okay?
	Yeah.
	Okay, so I just wanted to tell you what happened there.
	So, by the way, it's interruptible feedback is what IFB stands for.
	He mentions China, origin in China, and immediately someone's yelling in the wrong IFB, namely his.
	It's the timing is uncanny.
	Got hit very early on, which was the origin of where the virus first came out in Wuhan.
	Are we okay?
	Yeah.
	I'm telling you, someone was saying, hey, get him off of China.
	Tell him not to talk about China.
	China, China.
	I'm sure Facebook has some agenda, which is why I watched this dumb interview.
	Wait a minute.
	Let's back up a minute.
	Where was this interview?
	It was played on Facebook?
	Yes, and I got a copy on YouTube.
	And they were using IFBs instead of cans, or what people normally do on the podcast?
	No, it was pro.
	It was pro.
	IFBs, yep.
	And he was at some office, maybe his home office.
	People should know this, what Adam's describing here.
	These things are only used in professional environments where you have usually a lavalier mic, and then you have this thing in your ear, which is...
	Which is curiously a sound audio device that doesn't have any electronics in it.
	Yeah.
	Except in the back.
	Yeah.
	It's got a little speaker.
	With a tube.
	With a tube.
	With a tube of sound.
	This tube of sound.
	Literally sound.
	Yes.
	And it goes into the...
	And I think the reasons for that are varied.
	But that's what they do.
	And...
	And it's used so the control room can punch your butt and talk right to you individually, you or Zuckerberg or Fauci, whoever who's got these things plugged in, and they will tell you stuff as you're talking.
	And really good people that are very talented with it, I've been there, can actually tell an entire story from scratch from somebody talking in their ear.
	Yes.
	And I've seen it happen.
	I think I can almost do it.
	But it's very uncanny to watch.
	And so what the situation is here is that because it was set up for pros, but this is not a real pro environment, somebody probably pushed the wrong button.
	And so Mark first had to get rid of it.
	Because I guess something was squawking in his ear, and then the minute Fauci says the origin in China, boom, someone's on the internet.
	And I see this happen a lot, these hitting the wrong buttons.
	And I think it's relatively new that they're really pushing guests and prompting them.
	I'm just seeing it more and more, certainly on Fox News.
	You mean in this arena?
	Because it's not new in broadcasting.
	No, I'm seeing more of the guests being prompted more, more of it.
	Oh, in all media?
	Yeah, Fox in particular.
	But then, Zuckerberg, of course, spoke to many scientists, because he and Elon Musk and Tim Cook, they're all going to save the world, because they're all meeting and doing important things.
	And curiously, they're not hams.
	I'm not so sure.
	Zuckerberg might be a ham.
	And that's where Fauci, of course, with his guard down, because what the hell is this?
	It's on Facebook.
	I think he lets the cat out of the bag.
	Remember, we're talking about him purposely slowing down the approval of chloroquine, although I think the president has pretty much just buffaloed his way through and there are already a lot of doses on the way to New York and he and Cuomo have a deal, I think, that he's going to try it.
	So I'm talking to a lot of scientists now who basically all have hypotheses of compounds or things that they love to get tested.
	What would you like to see happen there to prioritize which ones are the most optimistic and what do you think about that strategy overall?
	Well, it's a great question because it's exactly happening and I like the strategy.
	So, there are a number of already approved drugs or drugs that have been developed but almost approved, not quite approved, that are now being looked at because of initial, either in vitro or animal data work, suggesting that they may be helpful.
	I'll give you some examples.
	There's a drug called Remdesivir, which is a drug that was developed by Gilead as an antiviral.
	We tried it in Ebola.
	It didn't work as well as some of the other drugs, but it's there.
	What we're going to do now is that clinical trials going on right now, both in China and in the United States, to see if it works.
	It's likely that one or more of these drugs, and there are several, are going to be out there Another one is interesting.
	There's a lot of buzz on the Internet about this.
	Oh, mind you, John, it's not something the president suggested.
	There's a lot of buzz on the Internet.
	If it can work.
	Another one is interesting.
	There's a lot of buzz on the Internet about this, and that is a drug called chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, which is a drug that's been approved for decades.
	Very cheap.
	Used in malaria and used in certain autoimmune diseases like lupus.
	There's some indication in the test tube that it might have some activity.
	The FDA said today that they are going to see if we can do some expanded use access, getting people who might want to use it off-label, namely since it's an approved drug.
	So your point is extremely well taken.
	I don't know, man.
	That sounds like a PharmaShield douchebag to me.
	No, but besides that, the chloroquine is what he was saying doesn't work, and it was just anecdotal.
	Oh yeah, now it's in the test tube and it's big on the internet.
	Now it's promising and there's a buzz.
	And it's a buzz on the internet.
	Dude, he's already in trials.
	He is already in trials with Remdesivir.
	And he should know because his very own, where he comes from, National Institute of Health, did a study in 2005 with coronavirus on primates with incredibly high success rate.
	Now, I don't know if he's gone back and looked at his own research, but it's there.
	But no, no, no, this is just a test tube buzz on the internet.
	This clip, by the way, where he mentions chloroquine as if he'd never heard of it, after blasting it is ludicrous.
	And by the way, this is the stuff that JC took, we mentioned this before, to get rid of his coronavirus, which he believed he had a case of, and he looked into it and found chloroquine.
	He says the downside to chloroquine, which is never mentioned by these people, and I believe was one of the reasons why Fauci was not saying anything positive about it in the earlier press conferences, is that you have to have a lot of blood tests to make sure it's not damaging your liver.
	Right there, you got your, oh no, liability, oh my god, what are we going to do?
	Well, there's also, and I've received so many emails from people, thank you.
	Producers everywhere give me all kinds of, and we have producers in interesting places, which we'll find out later.
	It also apparently can, has side effects of really weird dreams, could cause some depression.
	I mean, it's not without side effects, obviously.
	Well, that brings me to the clip I want to play, because now it brings it into greater focus.
	Okay.
	Which is the report, the update, the COVID, PBS, this is the COVID report update number one.
	I've got two, it's a two-parter.
	This is PBS going through and giving us a briefing on what's going on and how everybody's full of crap, and Trump's a bad guy.
	More of the country is closing down tonight, trying to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
	New York State and Illinois have now joined California in taking that step, with more states expected to follow.
	Meanwhile, President Trump invoked emergency powers to move medical supplies into place as quickly as possible, as U.S. infections topped 15,000 with more than 200 deaths.
	William Brangham begins our coverage.
	In much of California, stay-at-home orders have already brought much of public life to a halt.
	And today, those orders expanded statewide.
	Governor Gavin Newsom asked the entire state, 40 million people, to stay home.
	He cited an analysis that half the state could be infected in the next eight weeks if more aggressive moves weren't taken.
	So he ordered that nothing but the most essential activities continue.
	We will have social pressure that will encourage people to do the right thing.
	Just a nod and look, saying, hey, maybe you should reconsider just being out there on the beach, being 22 strong at a park.
	It's time for all of us to recognize, as individuals and as a community, we need to do more to meet this moment.
	It's unclear how the new orders will be enforced, but it's one of the most drastic containment efforts underway.
	Across the country, another huge effort.
	New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered every employer in his state to keep their workers at home.
	100% of the workforce must stay home.
	These are non-essential services.
	Essential services have to continue to function.
	Grocery stores need food.
	Pharmacies need drugs.
	Your internet has to continue to work.
	The water has to turn on when you turn the faucet.
	So there are essential services that will continue to function.
	Cheers.
	Cheers.
	Yes.
	Oh, that was the end of that?
	That was the end of it, yes.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I don't remember cutting it, though.
	I was waiting for more.
	Or I may have lost my connection.
	The internet continues to work.
	Well, anyway, so that's kind of the lead in it.
	So now we go into, like, the detailing, some of the issues going on.
	Do we include the Fauci denying the chloroquine thing?
	And we also have Trump being condemned, condemned for his description of the disease itself.
	An Illinois governor issued a shelter-in-place order effective tomorrow.
	These states have seen a surge in COVID-19 cases, and they, along with Washington state, are the hardest hit in the country.
	Their hospital systems are already being stressed, and critical protective supplies are running low.
	The White House offered some forms of relief today.
	President Trump said he had invoked the Defense Production Act and directed certain companies to change their focus and produce supplies needed for the coronavirus fight.
	And the president also announced an extension to the April 15 tax filing deadline.
	We're moving it all the way out to July 15th.
	No interest, no penalties.
	Your new date will be July 15th.
	In a move to stem the spread of the virus across countries, he announced the U.S. and Mexico had agreed to close down the southern border to non-essential travel.
	But in what turned into a testy, contentious press conference, the president also said several things that are factually wrong.
	For example, he cited the wrong symptoms for COVID-19.
	They're sneezing.
	They're sniffling.
	They don't feel good.
	They have a temperature.
	There are a lot of different things.
	Actual symptoms are fever, but also dry cough and trouble breathing.
	Sneezing and sniffling are not.
	Did you put that in?
	Yeah.
	I was like, whoa, they're getting creative over there.
	He implied that an unproven anti-malaria drug could prevent infection.
	There's zero proof of that.
	One of his top health officials, Dr.
	Anthony Fauci, had to correct the record moments later.
	The answer is no.
	And contrary to all public health guidance, the president implied the U.S. didn't need additional testing for the virus.
	You're hearing very positive things about testing.
	It's able to test millions of people.
	But we inherited a broken, old, frankly, a terrible system.
	We fixed it.
	And we've done a great job.
	I very appreciate your 1930s throwback sound effects.
	It really does spruce it up a little bit.
	Before we continue, because I think we can go down this path for a bit, I've done a lot of research into the two questions that keep getting asked over and over again.
	And there's a disconnect with, I think, the American public at large.
	Somehow people in America believe that the federal government is your mom and dad and has everything under control and can just do anything you need, because we're America, we can get for you.
	And it starts with the masks question.
	I've yet to find a single report where someone honestly says masks were no longer produced in the United States.
	They were produced in China.
	China withheld masks and gowns from shipping to the United States.
	No one reports on that, honestly and fairly.
	We have companies in the United States who make, or at least stockpile, construction masks.
	And that's right in the president's backyard.
	So he called up his builder buddies and said, hey, I'm going to get you a liability waiver for these so you can hand them over to the hospitals.
	That's happening.
	There's now manufacturing without having to invoke the Defense Production Act, which everyone is pushing for.
	Come on, come on, come on!
	Because you know that the war machine just wants, hey, we can force people to do stuff.
	Meanwhile, the companies are gladly doing it.
	They're doing everything they can.
	They're donating masks.
	People are changing their tooling so they can create ventilators or to jerry-rig them.
	So there's a lot of interesting things going on.
	But, you know, the government is trying to connect the states and the hospitals where they can get the masks.
	You don't want the government in between.
	So they'll match it and say, here, we can get you this, but talk to them directly, buy it and get it in.
	And this is being presented as Trump orange man bad.
	He screwed it up completely.
	And let's talk about that, which is the testing.
	And the testing truly went wrong with the CDC and at this point I almost want to think that they did it on purpose.
	And so we lost some time.
	But now when you get down to how this is being spun we have yet a new piece to this Which is just a head shaker and almost, for me, confirms that the elites know we're on the tail end of this, we're going to come out okay.
	Because when you can politicize to the angle and degree that Joy Reid does on MSNBC with, I think, another blatant lie in there...
	I mean, then you either have no scruples and you don't give a crap or you know that we're getting towards the end.
	The fact that we also have an outbreak where the President of the United States did not take seriously his own intelligence community saying, no, this is going to be bad.
	Again, the intelligence community.
	No names, no agency names, no, the intelligence community, the same ones.
	What did we just have recently, the intelligence?
	Oh yes, that Russia was already hacking our election.
	Turned out to be kind of exaggerated.
	No, apparently these intel agencies are back and they've got news.
	Seriously, his own intelligence community saying, no, this is going to be bad.
	Members of the Intel Committee in the Senate knew it was going to be bad.
	Only told rich donors.
	Didn't tell everyone else.
	Only told rich donors.
	Can you believe this shit?
	I mean, this is insane.
	Donors.
	Didn't tell everyone else.
	Meanwhile, the president is downplaying something that his media, his affinity media, picks up his line that it's nothing, that it's a hoax.
	Now, these are the same people who intend to be older.
	No, of course he never said that, but that's...
	Now where the narrative is set and cast and it's in stone forever.
	He said the whole thing was a hoax.
	No, he didn't.
	But, okay, this is now what it is.
	A hoax.
	Now, these are the same people who tend to be older and who tend to live in states that don't have health care.
	Washington Post reports one in eight Trump voters lives in a county...
	Hold on, stop!
	What state...
	What is the state?
	Name me the state that has no health care.
	What are they talking about?
	There's no doctors?
	There's no hospitals?
	Just listen.
	It's only 30 more seconds.
	You'll wet yourself listening to what she's saying here.
	Yeah, there's no health care.
	These are the same people who tend to be older and who tend to live in states that don't have health care.
	Washington Post reports one in eight Trump voters lives in a county with no ICU beds.
	Many Trump voters live in states that refuse to expand the Affordable Care Act, so people without a lot of money don't have any health insurance.
	How lopsided could we wind up seeing this outbreak become, Dr.
	Jha, because Donald Trump's own followers are now behind the curve?
	And Joy, to your point, I mean, there is no doubt about it that we're going to have a lot of states that have not invested in Medicaid, that have not invested in making sure everybody's covered, that are going to have real problems.
	This is going to be a national challenge that we're all going to have to work on.
	I'm just shaking my head.
	You don't care about people, Joy Reid.
	Whatever you're doing here is not sincere.
	It's political.
	It's political, and you're saying, oh yeah, well, Trump, basically, why don't you say Trump people?
	They're going to die.
	They're just going to die because they're dumb.
	They tend to be older.
	I'm not sure what that is.
	Do you tend to be older, or was that just on Thursdays?
	You know, it's like, come on.
	And then, of course, we have a group of never-Trumpers.
	What's the name of this group?
	It's Republicans for the Rule of Law, and they have a timeline ad, which is on the internet.
	I have not seen it on television yet, but apparently it's an ad for television.
	It is a 60-second.
	And it's a timeline where you see on the screen all these different clips of Trump, and when you hear ch-ch-ch-ch, that's the counter of cases going up.
	And the date's changing.
	And he's lying.
	And he's no good.
	Are there words about a pandemic at this point?
	No, not at all.
	How concerned are you?
	Well, we pretty much shut it down.
	A lot of people think that goes away in April.
	We have contained this.
	I won't say airtight, but pretty close to airtight.
	It's going to be down to close to zero.
	It's going to disappear.
	It's like a miracle.
	It will disappear.
	They're going to have vaccines, I think, relatively soon.
	Americans who are concerned that you're not taking this seriously enough.
	The president say, for example, he's going to continue with political rallies.
	Is this sending the right message?
	Going to a rally?
	There's no reason that you shouldn't go.
	It's really working out.
	The president, stop shaking hands.
	In our line of work, you shake hands.
	No, I don't take responsibility at all, but it's something that we have tremendous control of.
	How would you rate your response to this crisis?
	I'd rate it a 10.
	This is a pandemic.
	I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.
	So, you know, Trump may have made massive mistakes.
	He may have done genius work.
	I don't know.
	I don't want to hear it from him, and I don't want to hear it from the media until we have a handle on this.
	This is counterproductive, and I'm going to remember these people, the rule of law, Republicans.
	F you.
	It's unbelievable.
	So either they really know that this is almost over, or they're just not human beings.
	It's pretty bad.
	So they're condemning him for shaking hands.
	That's a good one.
	This seems to be, to me, a very strong...
	This is a worldwide phenomenon.
	This isn't just here where we're getting this kind of weirdness.
	You have the toilet paper phenomenon and you have the shutdown.
	Everything's shuttered.
	And it's almost like a test run to see if we had a one-world government, could we all...
	Pull together in the same way by one edict?
	Is that possible, I wonder?
	Well, let's find out.
	I'd love to get to those theories in a moment.
	A few more things.
	I think it kind of starts with South Korea.
	South Korea is the shining light, the beacon of how to do it right.
	Their death rate is extremely low.
	Now that they've tested quite a lot, that's how the death rate works, or the morbidity rate.
	I caught an interview with the South Korean foreign minister, a charming lady, and I have three clips that pertain to what we're talking about here.
	Starting off with their strategy.
	We have a very good healthcare system to begin with.
	We have a system that is highly wired, as you can imagine, and fully utilizing that.
	We have dealt with this outbreak from the very beginning with You know, just full transparency.
	And that's the way we've won the public trust and support for this.
	And as you say, we are seeing a stabilizing trend.
	For three days in a row, the number of newly confirmed positive cases is smaller than the number of those fully cured and released.
	So their curve is trending down.
	True or not, doesn't matter.
	They can show a graph and people believe it.
	Interestingly, they went through the same curve we did with testing.
	Well, first of all, testing is central because that leads to early detection.
	It minimizes further spread and it quickly treats those found with the virus.
	And I think that's the key behind our very low fatality rate as well.
	I think our system quickly approved the testing system.
	After the Chinese authorities released the genetic sequence of the virus in mid-January, our health authorities quickly...
	We conferred with the research institutions here and shared that result with the pharmaceutical companies who then produced the reagent and the equipments needed for the testing.
	And so I think our testing is nearly a quarter of a million at this point, at 268,000 as of today.
	So we had a similar issue where the CDC received the data.
	They created the test.
	Their test was no good.
	Now, why?
	I don't know.
	You can't necessarily...
	Of course, that's being blamed on Trump because of some vague replacement of people in the National Security Council.
	Bull crap.
	The CDC fumbled it.
	I'm going to just presume that that was an accident, and then...
	How about this?
	It happens.
	It happens.
	And then Trump went to the FDA and said, we've got to open it up.
	I want to interrupt one more time.
	Yeah.
	Which is that everyone's all up and up.
	Oh, we should have...
	South Korea, look what they did, look what they did.
	A couple of things.
	That number was useful, which is they only tested 250,000 people.
	Thank you.
	That is like less.
	I mean, their population is 50 million.
	Our population is 350 million.
	So we have to...
	When the CDC had to do testing, it wasn't going to be for a measly 250,000 people.
	It had to be for at least a million or two.
	And so it's out of whack, this comparison with South Korea.
	And everyone wasn't doing the comparison because it makes Trump look bad.
	But the comparison is just out of whack.
	It makes no sense.
	But okay, Korea is better than we are.
	And by the way, if anyone thinks that Korea is so great, watch the movie Parasite and see how the lower classes live.
	It was, after all, your favorite movie of the year.
	So the CDC has a centralized system where you have to send them back, they have to process it, and I believe it was the president himself who said, okay, no good, bypass it.
	Rewrite the rules.
	Scrap the regulations.
	We have to have the commercial labs doing it.
	The commercial labs still have to test.
	They all have different systems.
	We got one in Austin that I think already has the home swab.
	So that was very smart to do that for a number of reasons, although maybe not so smart because...
	Man, do you really want to see the numbers go up and make everybody crazy now that we're being tested?
	Because they go up and it looks like we're all going to die.
	By the same token, the morbidity rate goes down with the more cases that you can show.
	On the testing, I received an email from a dude named Ben in a lab.
	He wants to be anonymous for obvious reasons.
	Longtime producer of the show, listening since before episode 200.
	So, he says, I, as a dude named Ben at a major clinical laboratory, was shown a report of the positive cases of coronavirus that have passed through our lab.
	After having processed tens of thousands of swabs over the last two weeks, the real rate of positive cases we have found is less than 0.1%.
	You don't get that impression from the numbers we're being shown.
	I thought that was an interesting data point.
	Data points are going to come out and the whole thing is going to be embarrassing.
	Final clip from the South Korean foreign minister, and I think this is the template.
	This is where we may be going.
	We already see the logo out there.
	They did not quarantine people.
	And they have chosen for a different path, which I'm quite confident will be recommended here very soon.
	The other thing that you do, of course, is that you monitor people afterwards.
	You're not going into the same kind of lockdown, the social exclusion that a lot of European countries are, but instead you're monitoring people by phone app.
	Again, can you explain why you're doing that and not closing down large chunks of your country?
	Well, I think this is being faithful to the values of our very vibrant democracy, which is...
	I love that.
	Tracking people goes to the core of our very vibrant democracy.
	I mean, this needs to go down in history.
	Pull it back a little bit.
	That's too good.
	Well, I think this is being faithful to the values of our very vibrant democracy, which is open and, you know, the government fully in the service of the people.
	And I have to say our public is very demanding and expects the highest standards from government services.
	And I think this is the key, the drive of our response to this.
	And they're not the only ones.
	Lots of countries are now doing this.
	We know about China, but we actually have a promo reel for the Trace Together app from Singapore.
	Play your part in fighting COVID-19 with just two simple steps.
	One, download Trace Together and help those around you to set it up.
	Two, turn on your Bluetooth.
	And it is as simple as that.
	Get peace of mind for you and your family through community-driven contact tracing.
	TraceTogether helps contact tracers notify you more quickly if you have close contact with a COVID-19 case, whether or not you know the person.
	But how does it work?
	TraceTogether uses Bluetooth signals to determine when your phone is near another phone but also has the app installed.
	Both phones exchange anonymized IDs, which are then stored in encrypted form only on your phone.
	If a user gets infected with COVID-19, he or she will be asked to give contact tracers access to the Trace Together data, a list of anonymized IDs that your phone has been close to.
	And that's really it.
	No geolocation or other personal data is collected.
	The anonymized IDs will help contact tracers quickly identify and contact people at high risk of infection to provide care and prevent the spread of the disease.
	Take this time to 1.
	Download Trace Together and help those around you to set it up.
	And 2.
	Turn on your Bluetooth.
	The more people on board TraceTogether, the faster we can combat COVID-19.
	Okay, stop, it's killing us.
	No, I have to kill you.
	TraceTogether.
	You know what happened about halfway through?
	I zoned out completely and I heard her say, turn on your Bluetooth a second time.
	I said, wait a minute, this thing is just going around and around in a circle.
	That is the worst.
	And the music, oh!
	What are they trying to do, hypnotize the public?
	So I'm pretty sure that we're going to...
	First of all, the Cashless Society is happening.
	I know we had a little disagreement about that on the last show.
	Oh, we still do, and I wrote about it in the newsletter.
	You said, maybe we'll see this.
	And I have picture after picture after picture of people snapping shots of...
	A point of sale that says, no cash, coronavirus, we want to take ultimate responsibility, careful for our employees and our customers, no cash, card only.
	So, it's going to be very easy to demonize cash, and because it was Tedros, the Ethiopian, at the World Health Organization who said it, I take that very seriously.
	He's also the guy that said, morbidity rate of 3.4%.
	And it will go down drastically over time.
	But no one ever reports that.
	So, just taking it to its...
	Forget about the app, and it'll be very interesting to see what people like me will have to do.
	I think you automatically just get a mark.
	It's like, what, you don't have a smartphone?
	You're just red on the map no matter what.
	This stay-at-home concept is going to get legs.
	We're going to see stay-at-home as a solution to things.
	Certainly, we've all trained and we'll all have an app or multiple apps or maybe your phone will have it built in.
	It's time to stay home, cower in place.
	This will come back maybe next year.
	We'll have another one of these.
	We're not going to the end times yet.
	There's way too much money to be made.
	But for sure, You can count on the messaging coming that because we all stayed home, CO2 levels dropped dramatically.
	There was much less pollution in the air.
	You might have looked up and you saw it was a beautiful blue sky.
	And I think we'll have maybe quarterly stay-at-home days.
	No!
	Oh, yeah.
	Because we have proof that staying at home saves the climate.
	We will have staying-at-home weekends or days or weeks.
	It's coming.
	Yeah, well, I hope not.
	There has to be a reason for this.
	It's not in the numbers.
	And I want to remind everybody of this clip that I played on the pre.
	I won't play the whole thing.
	This clip I played on the last show at the top.
	Some of the tech world's biggest names announced they are joining together to combat the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus on their platforms.
	In a joint statement released by Microsoft, Facebook, Alphabet's Google, and Twitter, the tech giants said they will work together to quell misinformation.
	Yeah.
	And let me tell you the extent that this is going.
	So someone posts something on Medium.
	A good article about the numbers, the numbers that we've been talking about for several weeks, that they don't really add up to the response.
	Removed by Medium.
	Blocked by Twitter.
	Someone tried to send me information about chloroquine.
	The document that he shared on Google Drive.
	His own Google Drive.
	And I went to the link and it says, sorry, this document violates our community standards or terms of service.
	It's not available.
	I mean, come on.
	That's private sharing that they're now interrupting.
	What?
	They're digging into private sharing on Google?
	Yep.
	On Google Drive?
	So they're going through your drive.
	So in other words, what you're telling me...
	Is that if somebody has private information that they're putting on Google Drive, Google's actually going through it.
	Yes.
	It's interesting you say that because as I was, you know, my head and my brain started whirring this morning around 3.30 and woke up.
	And I was thinking like, that is so messed up.
	Just imagine what kind of profile you could build off of someone, off of your docs and your Gmail.
	I bet you could build a pretty good profile of somebody just by looking at their email.
	Well, that's another good reason not to use either system.
	I use Google email for one reason only.
	And I don't know how you're going to profile this.
	I use it because it's the easiest way to send you a block of clips.
	Yes, and that's pretty much all I use it for.
	And that's all I use it for.
	And I don't use Google Docs at all.
	It's very possible that if you said...
	Why would I want to?
	When I have a hard disk, I can buy a terabyte drive.
	I can buy an 8-terabyte drive at Costco for $150.
	Why would I want to put my stuff in Google's cloud for them to pour over?
	To block!
	So the censorship is on.
	And for some reason, we've put all of our faith and no one questions that they're blocking just articles, just information.
	An article about the numbers is taken down by Medium, blocked by Twitter.
	I don't have Facebook, so I don't know what's going on there, Instagram.
	And then the Google Drive just blew me away.
	Now, that could have been...
	Well, I'm going to remain skeptical about the Google Drive.
	Why?
	I mean, I talked to the guy.
	He said, this is what I sent you.
	And, you know, the test is there.
	I have the link and I open up the link and I get this block.
	I need to see one more piece of evidence that this is what's going on and it's just not some...
	A bug or something was done wrong.
	Because to do that, now it's doable.
	I've never seen a community terms of service block from a Google Drive.
	That's the community of two.
	One person sharing to me.
	There's no community.
	It's just a file in the cloud that they're giving to you.
	Where's the community?
	Let me let me go.
	Well, it's a community of everyone at Google's looking at it.
	Yeah.
	OK, actually, so here it is.
	It's from J. Donnelly.
	You know J. Donnelly.
	Placanil used for anti-malaria and lupus drug.
	His ex-wife was on in the mid-90s.
	He has an interesting doc about it.
	I click on the doc.
	It opened on the link.
	It opens up.
	We're sorry.
	You can't access this item because it is in violation of our terms of service.
	Sorry, not community standards.
	Terms of service.
	With a link to terms of service, which of course takes you down a rabbit hole.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	So, a document about some old product that is being sent to you specifically, where's the terms of service on this?
	What terms of service is good?
	Maybe the guy's got too much stuff up there or something.
	Okay, dream on, Dvorak.
	I'm just...
	Dream on.
	It's almost hard for me to believe, and I'm a skeptic, that Google is digging through Google Docs They're doing it by machine.
	I mean, because you can't do it by hand.
	Well, now, recall that they said in that clip that I didn't play fully, they said because people can't work because they're at home, which is a total lie because all of these content checkers work from home.
	They're contractors through third parties.
	We're switching on the AI and a lot of stuff might get deplatformed, delisted unfairly, but we won't be able to do anything about it for now.
	Well, even so, let's even drop that.
	If it's a doc file that you put in your folder, in your cloud that you rented or bought or you paid for as part of your system or your service...
	And it's just a single file that's talking about something and he sends it to you.
	Where's the violation of the terms of service?
	I don't know.
	It sounds to me as though they're fishing through files that they have no business fishing through that are closed files that are on their cloud.
	Their cloud is completely useless to anyone who cares about anything if that's true.
	So you have a filing from your attorney that's talking about some strategy for your divorce settlement.
	Google now knows about it?
	Are you going to tell me there's gambling going on there?
	Stop it!
	You can't feign this surprise?
	Please.
	I'm just saying, this is disgusting.
	Welcome.
	Welcome, citizen.
	Uh, let's look at the, uh, the racist angle for a moment.
	This is really being played hard and heavy.
	Um, San Diego.
	Racist.
	This race, before you go to the racist thing, and I, I want to go there, but I want to get the one, I have a Fauci clip I want to get out of the way.
	All right, sure.
	Um, this is Fauci.
	You know, they're asking him crazy stuff on, uh, for first of all, Judy is trying to set Fauci up to say something bad about Trump, and he won't do it.
	Orange man bad.
	But he goes into this other thing, which is kind of interesting.
	This is...
	Well, let's start with Judy versus Fauci.
	Here's Judy trying to get Fauci to...
	And she, by the way, looks like she's getting old.
	She looks like she's...
	It looks like the painting in her basement has...
	Somebody stole it and started punching it.
	Sorry.
	Say it again.
	The painting in her basement what?
	The painting in her basement...
	Which kept her kind of youthful, has been destroyed, and she's aging on the spot from fretting.
	Well, it's possible.
	She's an old woman who is fretting a lot.
	Let's go.
	Dr.
	Fauci, Reuters is reporting today that the first cases of COVID-19 reported in the United States and South Korea on the same day, January the 20th.
	But in South Korea, they moved very quickly.
	They had testing made available, manufacturing made available within days.
	They moved very quickly to identify who had COVID-19.
	The story in the United States has been a lot slower.
	This country is still, as you've said, not ready with tests everywhere they're needed.
	What has gone wrong here, not just with testing, but with all the equipment and the preparation and the social distancing that didn't get implemented until the last few days?
	To be fair, I don't think that something has gone wrong.
	Obviously nothing was perfect.
	With regard to the testing, we've gone over that over and over again about initially the system that we use for testing from the CDC, developing a test, getting it to the public health authorities, was not designed to the broad type of high-throughput testing that goes out to the country.
	We are now really in that arena now.
	Let's look forward as opposed to back.
	That's working.
	But the other things we're doing, I think that we are actually being and have been quite aggressive.
	I mean, whenever you have an outbreak, if you look at the history of outbreaks, it's a little bit like the fog of war.
	I mean, people try to do the right thing, and sometimes they get it right, right from the beginning.
	Sometimes they correct and really go.
	I would think where we are right now, We're now in a good place.
	It isn't perfect by any means.
	We still have to get more equipment and we're doing something to get more equipment.
	We still need to make sure that testing is much more available, but it's getting there really rapidly.
	So it shuts her down.
	I mean, she's obviously...
	That was actually the nicest I've heard him about testing.
	He's explained it many different ways.
	He said, well, we messed up.
	We made a mistake.
	I've heard that.
	He said that in the house, I think.
	I think he sensed that he was being set up.
	And so he got his hackles up and he just defended the whole situation because of the way she's asking these questions.
	She has turned into a very negative, hyper-liberal, progressive reporter.
	Listen to the teaser.
	This is what...
	This PBS's audience is supposed to be the intellectual, the intelligentsia, it's supposed to be all these people that are running, you know, the smart people are supposed to listen to PBS, and they're being fed stuff like this Judy teaser.
	Still to come on the NewsHour, warning signs, the critical days ahead as the virus spreads through the U.S. I should mention the movie Contagion, which is such beautiful predictive programming for this event, And I remember this because we went through it with a fine-tooth comb in 2010-2011.
	It was a CDC slash NIH project.
	Fauci, Ian Lipkin, at the time was the CDC director.
	They were all consultants on this film.
	And they went through 12 script rewrites.
	You remember us talking about that?
	And I think we even said this is a setup.
	I wish I could find which show that was, but it was 2010-2011 time frame.
	But these people...
	I've become very, very cynical and skeptical about what I'm...
	Just everything I'm seeing now is...
	There's too much of this.
	If they really were worried...
	Why would they keep pushing this Trump and the racist thing?
	I mean, here is a council member, San Diego, and she's...
	Go ahead.
	I just want to say, before you go into the racist thing, which, you know, we can do, I want to say that this is...
	We're going to.
	It seems to me, it seems to me, because of your MoFax podcast, it seems to me that there's a desperation...
	And the Democrats are worried sick that there's going to be a few blacks voting for Trump.
	And they've got to pound this home.
	Or not voting for a Democrat.
	Or not voting at all.
	Yes, not voting at all.
	But no, I don't think...
	I think their fear of the voting for Trump is...
	I think if they don't vote at all, it's like, oh, what are you going to do?
	But if they vote for Trump, there's some sort of...
	I think it would be very upsetting to them because Lyndon B. Johnson promised a black vote to the Democrats for the next 100 years.
	He was a liar.
	And that was in the 60s.
	A lying Texan, I'm telling you.
	He said, I'm going to deliver the black vote to the Democrats for the next 100 years.
	And then you push the civil rights like they did, a bunch of other things.
	And that was the guarantee.
	And now they're fearful that the blacks are going to go, hey, these guys haven't done jack shit for us.
	Yeah, that's kind of the thinking.
	The ADOS definitely are thinking, hey, we're not participating in this.
	I don't know how many are going to vote for Trump, but I think the Democrats are dumb enough to think that.
	And the Republicans are also probably dumb enough to think it.
	Corotavirus.
	If the Wuhan flu doesn't kill you, then media panic will.
	Now do whatever the government tells you to do.
	I love that one.
	We have the best producers!
	Alright, is it time?
	Can I go now to the...
	I'm sorry you're interrupting so much, but you can please...
	I want to go to the racial stuff.
	Because it's just, it's so obvious that...
	China, and I have to remind, I mean, I think we're just so used to it, but China is in all of our society, particularly academia.
	Lobbyists, the Chinese lobby in Washington, D.C., it's huge.
	Entertainment.
	They've got their money and nothing, you know, hey, I don't blame them for doing it, but we're kind of waking up now and saying, wait a minute, there's a lot of...
	They bought Hollywood.
	Yeah, well, they bought everything.
	They've bought a lot of our...
	They bought the NBA. The NBA is another fantastic example.
	You know, so what do we see?
	The NBA is probably the example.
	We got King LeBron saying, you know, and then three days later, oh, we have to be careful what we say about China because it could hurt people, it could hurt people's feelings, it could hurt people's money, people's pocketbook.
	He said that.
	Because China rules, or I should put it this way, money rules.
	It's really not even about China, it's about money.
	When people see their paycheck in jeopardy, they make interesting decisions.
	So there is a Chinese lobby that is saying, we have to stop being called out for this.
	I can understand, can understand their reasoning, but they're going about it in the following ways.
	So I'm not sure what the connection is.
	This council member of San Diego, she's a first-generation immigrant, I presume from China.
	I haven't had time to look her up, but just listen to what she's saying.
	As a first-generation immigrant, when I hear about this talk about the Chinese virus, No!
	with fear and history has shown that when we're afraid we want someone to blame and we often turn to xenophobia and we know that doesn't really solve it.
	When we're afraid, do we actually turn to xenophobia?
	When I'm afraid, I immediately turn to xenophobia.
	And we often turn to xenophobia, and we know that doesn't really solve anything and only creates more problems.
	Asian Americans are actually the first illegal immigrants in the U.S. during the Yellow Peril era.
	The Chinese in particular were seen as dirty, diseased, taking away jobs from good people.
	That of course led to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
	Fast forward today, where even before all these social distancing measures, Asian restaurants have been the first to financially suffer, and they became ghost towns.
	And there are increased reports of bullying, harassment, and violent hate crimes against Asian Americans.
	And in one case that was reported on CNN, a woman was attacked on the subway by a man who yelled, every disease comes from China.
	Everything comes from China because they're disgusting.
	And by the way, this victim was Thai-American.
	So when we hear xenophobic rhetoric, especially from Washington, we cannot ignore it.
	We must condemn it right away, call it out, and force our leaders to be accountable because our well-being is at stake.
	And can I gently remind everyone that Asian Americans are American.
	Thank you.
	So, you know, there's reasons for this.
	And it's not just your typical wokeness, although I believe that political correctness and wokeness is our problem.
	That's why people...
	No one's taking a stand.
	Everybody's afraid.
	And I think it's not by coincidence that we have New York, Los Angeles, or I should say New York, California, Oregon, Illinois...
	All super woke leadership in those cities.
	And they're just shutting down.
	Like, okay, stay inside.
	Be quiet.
	They're afraid to do anything else because they know they'll be cancelled if they say, well, I think we're okay here.
	We should wait a couple more days.
	No, no, no.
	They're afraid.
	Anyway, back to the racist part.
	Then Trump clearly sets up the One America News reporter with the stupidest gambit ever.
	I mean, I was insulted by this.
	I get it.
	You're under fire for a lot of things.
	But this was dumb.
	Do you consider the term Chinese?
	O-A-N. Yes, sir.
	Very good.
	Thank you very much.
	I have two questions.
	Do you consider the term Chinese food racist?
	No.
	Because it's food that originates in China or it has Chinese food.
	No, I don't think it's racist.
	Excuse me, Mr.
	President.
	I'm going to ask you a dingback question that you've never heard before.
	Do you think Chinese food is racist because it comes from China?
	That's her question!
	And Trump equally does the dumb shit thing after it.
	I don't think it's racist at all.
	On that note, major left-wing news media, even in this room, have teamed up with Chinese Communist Party narratives, and they're claiming you are racist for making these claims about Chinese virus.
	Is it alarming that major media players just to oppose you are consistently siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic radicals, and Latin gangs and cartels, and they work right here at the White House with direct access to you and your team.
	I ain't...
	Okay.
	Let us back up for a second and remind ourselves what happened during the Bush administration.
	When George Bush was in office, they had some gay model who was one of these beefy gay guys.
	Oh, yeah.
	It was one of the midnight tour guys.
	Yeah, one of those guys posing as some sort of reporter, some phony baloney reporter, asking this sort of stupid question, pandering to the president.
	And he was planted there and given credentials to come in and do it.
	And he was immediately busted by everybody who had spent a lot of time trying to get credentials.
	And this is the same sort of thing.
	This is a bad idea, and it's extremely stupid.
	OAN, who is doing a good job of keeping a good pace up for bringing out good news stories, and they have some good people there.
	They should be ashamed of themselves for taking part in this.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I think it went down a notch, in my opinion.
	Two notches.
	Two.
	At least two.
	But there's other stuff, you know, NBC, and it's really only three companies who own all of our television news, Comcast, Disney, and Viacom.
	And Viacom, right.
	That's really it.
	Well, since we're on this sort of thing about the Chinese influence, let's listen to Steve Bannon's podcast, which is actually played on WABC in New York City.
	I've been listening to this show for, I think, since it started.
	And I suppose they have professional engineers in the control room.
	No, no.
	I have actually sent a message to him, although I don't have his email, so I just DM'd on Twitter.
	I said, my God, have someone call me.
	I know what's going wrong.
	It sucks.
	It's horrible.
	And you must fix this.
	No, no answer.
	Idiots over there.
	It's horrible.
	Well, I got two clips from one of his products.
	There's some woman named Mara who's an expert on all kinds of things.
	And she comes in on the phone way over-modulated.
	I compressed it myself, tried to fix it.
	It's useless.
	I tried, I tried, I tried.
	There's hiss, there's noise.
	It's beyond belief in amateur hour.
	Now, I want to play two clips because the second clip has a piece of information that is quite interesting, but let's play the first clip.
	And the funny thing is, with any Steve Bannon interview, it is, well, I'd say seven-eighths Steve Bannon yammering.
	We're using all kinds of military code and terms.
	He likes doing that a lot.
	He is a Navy man, so I'll give him that, but he loves the whole war setting.
	Isn't the podcast War Room?
	War Room Pandemic.
	It's called the COVID Report now.
	He's changed it.
	The COVID Report.
	Damn.
	All right.
	So here we go.
	So listen, here's the thing.
	Today, you've seen this ratcheting of the Chinese Communist Party propaganda from their state media.
	Mike Pompeo, a couple weeks ago, actually put out a proclamation that the state media was going to have to essentially be like a foreign mission.
	They weren't really media.
	They were more like an arm of the Chinese government.
	I don't think.
	There's now a leak of this phone call where the Chinese foreign minister, an individual I know, not a particularly pleasant fellow, called Mike Pompeo, and they leaked it immediately to the Chinese state media.
	And he, according to Chinese state media, really laid it down on Secretary Pompeo about they were tired of being smeared by the United States government.
	And then later today, we just found out that they have essentially kicked out The American national reporters and non-Chinese nationals, I think, of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and also, I think, Voice of America.
	So you've been at this a long time, particularly the freedom of the press and the ability to get information into China.
	Can you kind of contextualize this for the audience?
	Well, none of this is any surprise to me at all.
	I did spend many years working for Radio Free Age's Tibet service, and that is the most difficult part of China, to get information in and out of Western China, Xinjiang and Tibet, under permanent lockdown at all times.
	And I think it is very important for your listeners to use this as an opportunity to examine Xinhua, Global Times, China Daily.
	I mean, we see them on news boxes in every single corner of New York City.
	And Xinhua, which is a propaganda wing of the Chinese Communist Party, is not a legitimate news organization.
	It has been spreading Chinese Communist propaganda for decades.
	But it has been normalized and integrated into our society.
	Oh yeah.
	You know, there's some news about the journalist being kicked out of China.
	The U.S. journalist, New York Times, Washington Post.
	There's Wall Street Journal.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, it's in retaliation because we kicked out, I think, five or six journalists from Chinese media, quote-unquote, media companies here first.
	No one ever mentions that.
	But these were Chinese spies that we kicked out, and we wouldn't put spies in this journal.
	No!
	Not at the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, no spooks there.
	So this is the part, though, that got me this little tidbit that she puts.
	I didn't know this because I don't live in New York.
	And but there's a little thing that Bannon pointed out.
	And then as soon as she confirmed it and they talk about it, I thought this is absolutely the worst case.
	It's not like it's not even native advertising.
	Listen to clip to and you see what I'm talking about.
	Everywhere I go, I see people now parroting propaganda from the CCP when they should be supporting the president, supporting Governor Cuomo.
	This is bipartisan.
	This has nothing to do with picking fights on the other side.
	We have to come together in the midst of this humanitarian crisis.
	So I think it's very dangerous when I see mainstream media siding with the Chinese Communist Party.
	But I don't think it's surprising at all.
	But correct me if I'm wrong, in New York City, I think if you get a paper edition of the New York Times delivered on Wednesdays, isn't the China Daily an insert into the New York Times?
	Yes, I've found this appalling for years, and that's why their coverage is so biased.
	It's pounding this Russia thing.
	Russia, Russia, Russia is responsible for all the ills of our society.
	But they always take a light touch with China, because they're taking ad dollars from the Chinese Communist Party every week.
	And so I suppose that would influence your coverage, wouldn't it?
	It's not just ad dollars.
	John explained the editorial insert process and business.
	Well, the editorial...
	Well, it is ad dollars because those are considered advertisements.
	But they're disguised as content.
	Oh, they're disguised as all kinds of things.
	I mean, you have the special report is a classic.
	Oh, a special report!
	And it'll be a special report on some part...
	In many cases, nowadays, it's like it'd be a special report on some part of China.
	Right.
	And as you read about in the special report, which looks like editorial, but it's not as bought and paid for, and it's usually written with some...
	Advertising guys' oversight.
	And it'll have all kinds of little subtle propaganda within it.
	But this idea of inserting an entire thing, an entire newspaper inside your newspaper, this is expensive.
	It's a lot of money.
	And you're the advertiser of your China Communist Party dropping their China Daily inside the New York Times on Wednesdays.
	For home delivery, you are paying us a lot of money and the coverage will reflect that.
	I don't care what anybody thinks.
	I've talked to people about this.
	You talk to two people.
	You talk to the higher-ups in the New York Times structure.
	Oh no, that would never happen.
	We have a church and state.
	The church is one thing and the state's another.
	They don't mix.
	And then you talk to the reporters.
	Hold on a second.
	Give yourself a pat on the back for that voice.
	That's a new one to the show.
	I like that guy.
	That guy's cool.
	That's the New York Times editorial guy.
	It's also like this a little bit.
	So...
	Then you have the reporter on the street.
	By the way, John, did you say Chinese wall?
	No, I said church and state.
	I didn't say Chinese wall, but I should have.
	Chinese wall is better.
	Thanks, trolls.
	Church and state is the thing they do.
	But it's the thing they say.
	They never say Chinese wall.
	And the reporters all say, will tell you that, and I've written in big magazines that you know what's going on.
	You say, well, you know, these guys advertise a lot.
	We're not going to do this report because I'll probably get fired or, you know, whatever.
	Yeah, of course.
	And then you talk to the New York Times editorial guys about it.
	They say, yeah, these guys won't write about that because they say they'll get fired.
	That's never going to happen.
	We wouldn't do that.
	And they do.
	It's a joke.
	Yeah.
	It's a joke that they're putting the China Daily in the newspaper, and it's not affecting coverage.
	It's totally affecting coverage.
	Man, I'm so disappointed in just the media approach.
	Who is running the White House communications?
	Who's in charge of the media and getting stuff out?
	I know they got some new woman there, I think.
	I mean, so...
	I think it's very...
	Oh, wait.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	I know who it is.
	It's Trump.
	Exactly.
	Yeah, I'm sure he's the one.
	Hey, get one American News.
	Get that cute girl over here.
	She was cute.
	Get the cute girl and put her in the bag.
	Oh, yeah, it was the cute one.
	The blonde?
	No, no, I don't like her.
	I think she's...
	Oh, that's right.
	You don't like the blonde.
	No, I don't like her.
	You can't even see her, but you can tell.
	But just the way she's like, oh, I mean, it's set up.
	You...
	Man, if you're a cub reporter for One America News, you're going to do this without some preamble with the administration?
	I don't think so.
	Or maybe they know that Trump loves that.
	I don't know.
	But very appropriate to have the First Lady say something comforting.
	And I'm a fan of Melania as a First Lady.
	And then they put her in a hallway with an echo, and it sounds like she's in the Addams Family house.
	It kind of looks that way in the back, you know, just...
	And her accent comes in, and she's saying really sweet things, but it sucks balls!
	Today, I want to speak with you about coronavirus and what it means for you and your family.
	Yes, Gomez.
	We will make crazy love later.
	While changes need to be made now, this is not how we will live forever.
	Our children will return to school.
	People will return to work.
	We will gather at the places of worship, concerts, and sporting events again.
	It's like Zsa Zsa Gabor in her mansion.
	You know, it's just, it's so wrong.
	And I feel bad for her.
	She gets screwed every time with this deal.
	I urge you to stay connected to family and loved ones through the video chats, phone calls, social media and other safe technologies.
	Please be sure to follow CDC guidelines which can be found at coronavirus.gov or cdc.gov along with other information and resources.
	It's also kind of like one of those in-flight videos, you know, where instead of the stewardess, they have a little video that shows you how to buckle your seatbelt.
	Yeah.
	You put the metal tip into the buckle.
	Stay safe.
	And remember, while many of us are apart, we are all in this together.
	It's bad.
	Trump came from it.
	He has enough show business chops.
	Why doesn't he bring a sound guy in there that knows what he's doing?
	I don't think he was involved in this.
	Here's the ISO. This will not last forever.
	You know what?
	The sound is so bad.
	Yeah, you can't even use it.
	I have another candidate.
	Oh, ISO candidate?
	Yeah, this one is scary.
	Okay.
	It's very scary.
	Talk about sound quality.
	It's horrible.
	It's like a Skype warble.
	It's very scary.
	No, I think this is still...
	I don't believe in rules.
	I think that's still the topic.
	Well, that's clean as a whistle.
	Yeah, that's still the best one.
	You're going to go by sound quality.
	Best one so far.
	But the scary clip, if you want to hear that, I have to...
	Well, what were we talking about?
	Do you want to finish your point of discussion?
	Because I have one more topic.
	No, go for it.
	I'll tell you what.
	We can continue this.
	Yes, what I want to talk about, and we continue it right after what you're going to do, I want to talk about how these idiots, because they're taking this so seriously, Hollywood has decided to start doing their programming from home.
	Yeah.
	And we'll talk about that right after I thank you for your courage and your tease and say in the morning to you, the man who put both C's in Cuomo vs.
	Cuomo, John C. Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all our ships and sea boats on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the names in the...
	In the morning, everybody.
	Hello, producers, and hello, trolls.
	It's got a troll count right now.
	We have, whoa, almost 2,000.
	1,989 trolls in the troll room.
	Hoo-hoo.
	That is a lot.
	Yeah, that's great.
	It's noagendastream.com, which has been on fire this past week.
	Of course, people are home.
	It's on fire.
	I think people are seeing that the social media networks are just...
	Either they're blocking information or the algos are kicking in.
	So people are going to NoAgendaSocial.com.
	They're using that.
	They're checking into NoAgendaStream.com, which is, by the way, where you can get an invite for No Agenda Social.
	And it's great.
	It's where I do my blitzes of material that doesn't get into the newsletter.
	Once a week, you do your blitzes of material right there, noagendasocial.com.
	Agenda random.
	Yes.
	And again, it's fun to join in with the trolls because there's almost 2,000 of them right now.
	Go take a look at noagendastream.com.
	For the artwork, we say a big in the morning to Mountain Jay, Lady Mountain Jay.
	Who brought us the most appropriate piece of artwork for that particular show at that particular moment in the time continuum.
	The No Agenda Sanity Kit.
	And I just...
	I thought it was spectacular.
	I think we looked at everything and this was it within a minute or two, wasn't it?
	Well, I had...
	There was a discussion.
	I liked...
	Oh, there's the sanity kit.
	I liked a couple of things.
	I liked the...
	What did I like?
	I'm looking at...
	Oh, I like the...
	One I like was Riley's quinine-tipped arrow.
	Yes.
	Which, of course, was just mocking you.
	That's okay.
	I had no problem with it, but we thought it would be so obscure.
	But it was a little bit...
	Yes, it was a bit...
	It was very obscure.
	Yeah, it was a bit much.
	I used the...
	What I liked a lot is the Sorry We're Closed.
	And that was used in the newsletter.
	And it's in Canada for today's show.
	Okay.
	Excellent.
	But yes, it was the no agenda sanity kit, which was used twice.
	Very rarely.
	And there's very few pieces that have been reused for both the beginning of the show, the stream, and then again, the show itself.
	And this is because the artist wisely made a second copy without the show number.
	Yes.
	Very smart.
	Very, very smart.
	If you're doing something for the pre-stream, do one without the episode number, because that's kind of a non-starter for us, typically.
	There's always exceptions to the rule.
	I did receive a nice email from art producer Lady Mountain Jay.
	She says, after almost three years of douchebaggery, I finally started chipping in with monthly donations in May of 2019, replacing my Audible payment.
	Excellent.
	Then as an art producer in October 29, I receive enormous value from everyone's work on No Agenda.
	I'm very happy to provide some value in return.
	A formal de-douching would be very much appreciated.
	And, of course, we'll do that for you right now.
	You've been de-douched.
	And noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can find all of the artwork that is submitted, and you can submit some yourself.
	It's like a contest.
	It's just like a contest!
	And thank you once again.
	Then we have people who support the show and our value for value system.
	Since we obviously can't be taking Chinese money, we can't be taking any corporate money.
	This conversation would never take place.
	Even on a podcast with advertisers, it would not happen.
	We'd get cancelled.
	We'd get deplatformed.
	We'd be gone.
	So, we rely on our executive producers, associate executive producers, and other financial producers of the program, and we're going to thank some of them right now for this episode, 1,227.
	And we actually have two big donors by big InstaNights.
	Sir Truman, who's already a Knight, 1033 from Linden, Utah.
	He says 33 is a nice number to have in there.
	The No Agenda show is the antidote for the fear virus.
	The little known side effects being laughter, perspective and critical thinking.
	Horrible.
	Horrible.
	The Ides of March indeed.
	My dad passed and sister to brain cancer earlier this month.
	That's not good.
	My daughter shares my birthday, 51st on St.
	Patrick's Day, on the list.
	So we got matching four-leaf clover tattoos.
	First tattoo for each of us, symbolizing luck, hope, and love.
	Grateful for you, too, and the No Agenda Show.
	Thank you very much, Sir Truman.
	We got some longer notes, I've noticed.
	And in general, have you noticed that the emails are long that people are sending us?
	Outside of donations?
	Some of them are getting very lengthy, yes.
	Some require some reading.
	But coming up in this segment, we'll have a very long note from our photographer.
	Yes, that's a very good note.
	It's funny.
	Of course, it's one of the notes we always read because it's edumacational.
	Indeed.
	But meanwhile, we have Michelle Winton in Bartlett, Tennessee, who came in with $1,000 even.
	Wow.
	And she says, I will try my best, and this is a long note, but fine.
	To keep the length into rocking horse winter rather than swan's way, feel free to leave out as much as you want.
	My smoking hot husband, Todd, hit me in the mouth about six years ago.
	I refused to listen until about five years ago.
	It took a year.
	Yeah, wow.
	So hang in there, mouth hitters.
	It might get through eventually.
	Mouth hitters.
	I have sporadically contributed and donated until 2018.
	Nothing you did.
	Nothing you did.
	Life just got incredibly hard.
	My dad died and I told you about it in a drunken late night donation.
	My last one, as a matter of fact, until now.
	In writing, it looks like a bad country song.
	In reality...
	I kept the man who is my hero, the dogs who love me, the son who is a damn smart kid, and the roof over my head, and didn't slide off the bar stool once.
	So here we are.
	It's the reverse country song, yes.
	I have recovered as much as one does and now my amazing husband is harassing me daily to become a dame.
	Okay.
	So I put him off for a few months because I honestly didn't know what to say, but I'll try.
	She hasn't even started yet.
	I like you.
	I think you...
	Actually shrunk my amygdala.
	You provide a bastion of sanity that is sorely lacking in the world at large, especially today as I work from home, waiting to see the next big story that I promptly deconstruct to, quote, where's the money and who benefits, unquote.
	I get back to the office on April 6th, by the way.
	Mm-hmm.
	You are the boys in our household.
	Even our 15-year-old is in.
	Look, here's the deal.
	You made us think and laugh, and that is well worth a few bucks.
	I would like to be Dame Shelly, C-H-E-L-L-E. I think Shell, because it's Michelle, so Dame Shell, probably.
	Okay, could be Shell.
	Shell.
	Hey, Shell.
	Hey, Shell.
	How you doing, Shell?
	Of the High Plains in honor of my father, a West Texas man who did his best to pick attach is the only evidence I have that he heard that he heard my mouth hitting.
	He heard my mouth hitting.
	Okay.
	I request F cancer.
	Seriously.
	Fuck it right in the ear for dad.
	For a manana.
	For an ITM mix.
	For my son, Reverend L. Money shot for my love.
	Todd and little girl yay for me.
	And, of course, karma for all love and light.
	Dame Shell.
	Alright, Dame Shell.
	We'll see you later on at the podium.
	That's a show of money shot!
	Woo, Jesus!
	Woo, Lord!
	Look at that!
	That's a money shot!
	Kenan Conway is a money shot!
	you've got karma .
	And we have a Jay McGinn, $500, who will be sending a note in later, and we'll wait eagerly for that.
	I know who that is.
	Baron at Large is next, from Bridgewater, New Jersey, $400.
	Do not use my name.
	Please read this.
	Thanks, and regards from the Baron at Large.
	Now sequestered at home.
	That's it.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you, Baron at Large.
	Yeah, well, New Jersey is a cower in place.
	Cower in place, folks.
	Cower in place.
	Duck and cover.
	Duck and cover.
	Cower in place.
	Sir Curley knighted the slums of Shaolin in Nalamara, Western Australia.
	Yeah, he was just recently knighted, I recall.
	Yeah, this guy's on a roll.
	Yeah.
	Looks like he's got one of those games called where you fill in the blanks.
	Mad Libs.
	Mad Libs!
	Ever since my drunk Aussie Dollaret donation, I have been a nagging feeling of a night imposter syndrome.
	Okay.
	This is one of the things that happens.
	It happens.
	There are worse syndromes.
	Trump derangement, irritable bowel, not to mention the current coronanoia.
	I think that's got to be a better way of putting that.
	But the KIS is just not sitting well with me.
	I feel like a fake, a fraud, a fugazil.
	Fugazil.
	I don't know what that is.
	Fugazi.
	Fugazi.
	It's a fugazi.
	Oh, a fugazi.
	Ah, that's an exclamation mark.
	The Aussie dollar is in the toilet right now, so the 1022 AUDs I sent simply not worthy of no agenda knighthood.
	I could sense the disappointment in John's begrudging bargain basement knighting.
	And much like Adam, I hate to disappoint Mr.
	Dvorak.
	As a junior dude named Ben, Dan, I know there's nothing worse than a cranky geek that would never want to kill John's buzz.
	The only correct action is to top this off to the proper amount with my formerly great British pounds, also at 35-year-old.
	Also F'd, yeah.
	Yeah, so please accept my 333 pounds and 33 pence.
	I feel better already.
	No jingles, no karma necessary.
	Just give me a D... Give me a douchebag and then kindly de-douche me once more.
	You've been de-douched.
	He's a request, man, on whatever he's asking for.
	It's the Dirty Sanchez of de-douching.
	I love you both and selfishly hope you never find your exit plan.
	Yours faithfully, Sir Curity, Security Night of the Slums of Shaolin, Perth.
	Australia.
	Since we have a lot of these big ones, should I take Fugizotto?
	If you want to read Fugizotto, sure.
	Dave Fugizotto.
	Halahaboobs, as they say in the local Patois, for good day, my fine fellows.
	A boots-on-the-ground report from Saudi Arabia.
	Sorry in advance for the length.
	The kingdom is doing pretty well, and as of today, has under 400 cases with 16 recoveries and no deaths.
	International flights were cancelled last week, so I'm stuck away from my dames for the time being.
	But they also cancelled domestic flights, buses, and long-haul taxis on Saturday.
	The country is mostly shut down with governmental pleas to stay home and not go out unless absolutely necessary.
	Restaurants are only takeout or drive-thru and most non-essential retail services are closed.
	Grocery shelves are well-stocked, though, and there's no interruption of food supplies that I can tell.
	The local hygiene regimen tends to use an en-suite spray hose, so there's no mad scrum on, quote, John Wayne paper, which is what it's called because it's rough, tough, and don't take shit off anyone.
	I hadn't heard that one.
	Sanitary wipes and hand sanitizer are hard to find, though, and here there's no using Tito's as a substitute since alcohol is verboten, and hypothetically, if it did exist, would be too precious for topical application.
	Of course, Dr.
	Bronner is always on call.
	We expats typically live on compounds that are suitable...
	To our Western style of life.
	Mine has an international mix of residents, one whom apparently had the bug, but they and their family were confined to their villa and have since recovered, but nobody wants to hang out with them now.
	Very sad.
	All of the compound services, restaurant, gym, pool, coffee shop, spa, hair salon, etc.
	are closed.
	We're encouraged to socially distance ourselves, but you do see residents out for strolls and jogs and occasionally congregating in small groups.
	My company is complying with the kingdom's guidance for a 14-day minimum work from home, although my position still has me at the office.
	That said, I'm getting a lot more work done than normal since the normal stream of supplicants has dwindled off to a mere trickle.
	In all of this, my amygdala remains strong, clean, and right-sized thanks to the twice-weekly refreshing lavage of truth and sanity from my old friend, the best podcast in the universe.
	Not only can I maintain an unnatural serenity amidst the chaos, but I have clear unpanicked perspective that I use to influence those with whom I interact.
	This show and the media deconstruction it provides is truly more important now than at any time in its history.
	I hope you guys understand the impact you're making.
	Without exaggeration, you are probably saving lives by interrupting the panic chain.
	Finally, I humbly request the honor of an upgrade as I unwittingly passed the threshold for dukedom earlier this year.
	Accounting attached, request title change to Sir Fugizoto, Duke of America's heartland, and the Arabian Peninsula.
	I might as well snaffle up the rest of this place while I'm stuck here with no way to get home.
	One jingle request, please play the anthem of our No Agenda tribe at the close of the broadcast day.
	I think we could all benefit from this unifying, triumphant, and optimistic tones.
	Apologies for the verbosity.
	So he has a title upgrade, which I don't think was reflected on my sheet today.
	Well...
	Thank you very much, Duke Dave.
	I was in Dubai, and there was a guy, a British guy, was showing me the ropes about everything.
	And he...
	I don't know what he really did for a living, but he lived in one of these compounds in Saudi Arabia, and generally speaking, these compounds are verboten to the Saudis.
	The Saudis can't live in one.
	And I said, well, is that...
	Is it because of some legal thing that Saudis can't?
	No, no, no.
	He says, we don't allow Saudis in these things because a classic Saudi that's actually Saudi Arabia, Saudi that's never really been out of the country, all they do is stand by the pool and ogle the girls in the bathing suits.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Sounds about right.
	And it's very disturbing to the women.
	No kidding.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure Fuguzotto has the same story.
	Timothy Perez is next on the list.
	He's also overseas with $333 flat out.
	ITM, John Adams, my first donation, de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Yeah.
	One of my biggest takeaways is that residual jobs karma is dangerous.
	When I first started listening to your podcast, I was working with my company to secure a large multi-million dollar contract overseas.
	If we won, I would have a key position on that contract and a nice raise.
	As the months went by and I began listening more often, I thought about donating, but I never did.
	However, I thought, let's test this jobs karma thing.
	I'll donate if we win.
	We did win.
	In June 2019, I was given a position I wanted and the raise I was looking for, but I didn't donate.
	Uh-oh.
	As the first few months after winning went by, that job became almost unbearable, and I was miserable.
	However, residual jobs karma came to the rescue again, and in January 20, I moved to another job, given another raise and a cash bonus, but I still haven't donated.
	While I was greatly enjoying this new contract, I It ends in a few months and we are fighting to get it renewed long term.
	So I will sit on my ass no further.
	It is time to donate and backdate to all those times I would have done it before.
	I need specific jobs karma directed toward me and securing this contract long term.
	Please, people, do not rely on residual jobs karma.
	You do not know what you're going to get.
	No!
	Donate today.
	Please give me an Obama.
	You might die.
	That's true.
	Two to the head followed by a little girl.
	Also the strongest jobs karma you got.
	Keep up the good work, Tim.
	You might die.
	That's true.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs.
	Can't get any stronger than a goat job karma.
	And that's about the max.
	I wonder what he does.
	Brian Boatwright, Lake City, Florida, $333.
	Another $333.
	Donation for Brian Boatwright.
	This is my second EP donation towards knighthood.
	Thanks for the excellent coverage of the Chinese coronavirus.
	I hereby request a smoking hot MILF girlfriend, Karma.
	Hopefully, I find a dame in the five months it took Sir Stephen...
	And also a health karma to get rid of this damn persistent and dry cough, which is probably just allergies, right?
	All right.
	All right, Brian.
	I think you need that relationship karma, a dame-finding karma quick.
	That's one mother I'd like to find.
	You've got karma.
	And now...
	I'm so good, but this time I wasn't good.
	Yeah, keep it going, keep it going.
	Gooseball! Gooseball! Gooseball!
	Wait, this is the one we want.
	Shit.
	This is not ants on the mic.
	Yeah, Nussbaum.
	Nussbaum!
	It's a Nussbaum.
	Nussbaum! Nussbaum! Nussbaum! Aum.
	Aum.
	There we go.
	That's what we wanted.
	Sir Thomas Duke, Grand Duke Thomas Nussbaum in Virginia Beach, Virginia 314.
	Archduke, Archduke, Archduke.
	Is he an Archduke?
	Okay, Archduke.
	Note to self, don't rant on Twitter when drunk.
	Ha!
	I never proved to my stepmom microwaves don't poison food.
	Others think there's an old man upstairs watching over us.
	Love you guys when a bunch are getting that last check done.
	Thank you, Archduke Thomas Nussbaum.
	Speaking in code as always.
	Yes, well.
	We dive at dawn.
	You can take this one.
	Yes.
	Joel Blazek, Reno, Nevada.
	Reno!
	This is, of course, the Baron of Northern Nevada.
	Check out my podcast, The Skinny Trucker.
	30303 is a donation.
	Thank you.
	I'm new to this.
	Check out my podcast, theskinnytrucker.com, or on your favorite podcatcher app.
	I have low production, but talk about how I keep it skinny on the road through a low-carb, whole-food, keto way of eating.
	Go podcasting!
	As a feeder.
	Driver for Big Brown.
	We have had multiple messages about how UPS is deemed essential for the country and our work schedules will continue as normal.
	I would suggest anyone who needs some work to check it out, although our hiring process usually takes about a month or so.
	understand kroger walmart and other food suppliers are hiring as well the decrease in traffic around reno has been calming the closing of the ski resorts is troubling not so much for the corporate owned places but the smaller locally owned spots in tahoe that just received the best snow of the season but will not get the spring break rush that should be going on right now is a problem there are also thousands of seasonal employees who are expecting to work through april at least i don't forget the j1 visa employees who come over from the southern hemisphere to fill the gaps
	Meanwhile, instead of going out to buy more guns and ammo, I will donate this week.
	An excellent choice.
	If I lived in L.A. during the riots, worked for the American Airlines during 9-11, had my own bankruptcy and foreclosures in 2009, well, this one will work itself out as well.
	please credit this donation to my smoking hot keeper asuka she works at the tesla gigafactory just outside of reno but has been telecommuting this week before the pandemic there were concerns over whether panasonic will be able to fulfill tesla's battery needs for the model 3 yeah because basically tesla repackages panasonic's batteries especially since the culture clash of the american and japanese worth ethic has caused some issues with Hmm...
	Basically.
	I think, to be honest about it, I think it's they're repackaging Panasonic batteries which are made in China for Panasonic.
	There you go.
	I could be wrong.
	Basically.
	But I doubt it.
	Sorry.
	Go on.
	Basically, the American attitude is, that's good enough, and why you gotta keep looking over my shoulder?
	Well, the Japanese technicians training them just want the job done correctly so they don't have to fix problems and can go back home to their families in Japan.
	The 12-hour workdays are kind of tough, too, so it looks like they will slow down as well, as the Fremont plant is suspending operations.
	Man, we gotta stop this crap.
	John, maybe sometime you can talk about the NUMI venture of GM and Toyota that failed in the 80s for the same reasons.
	This American Life has a pretty good rundown of it titled NUMI, N-U-U-M-I. I make too much to get a bailout check, but because I have no debt besides my mortgage, I am pretty well prepared to weather the storm.
	So donate if you can, support local businesses where you can, and keep ordering online because we are delivering!
	How about a train's good, plane's bad, and a good old clippity-clop?
	Thanks for your courage, Sir Joel.
	And did he ask for a karma as well in that, or is it just those two?
	I don't see it.
	All aboard, trains good, planes bad.
	The message is clear.
	You've got karma.
	Classic.
	Classic.
	Eric Remington is next on the list.
	He's in Morristown, New Jersey, and he's an associate executive producer at $250.
	I sent you this happy birthday donation.
	Too long I have gone without donating, and an old friend finally paid me back for some money from 2010 and decided that since I'd written it all off, no better place to use it than to send to the best podcast in the universe.
	I would like $333 to go to the podcaster license signed by Adam.
	Send me an email, Eric, so we can set that up.
	Yeah, it's got to be.
	It's online.
	It's a process.
	It's impossible.
	This remains to be a normal donation.
	This remains to be a normal.
	The remains of the money.
	Oh, the remains.
	Okay.
	I would like to call out Gregory Hayes as a douchebag.
	Douchebag.
	I recently learned he's a listener and he's never donated.
	Health and welfare karma, please.
	Also, same for you two guys.
	That is an acceptable group pronunciation.
	Y'all right?
	I'm not offended.
	Thank you very much, Eric.
	You don't know my gender.
	Now, wait a minute.
	Does he become...
	He's also in blue here on the list.
	I don't know why.
	Eric Remington.
	Let me just double check if he's...
	Is he down here somehow?
	Yeah.
	Yes, he becomes a Black Knight, I guess.
	Was that still owed to him?
	Oh, this must be some make-good or something.
	Yes.
	Okay, it's possible.
	Okay, all right, all right, all right.
	Yep, that's why it's happening.
	Good.
	Well, thank you for supporting us again, Eric.
	That's very kind of you, and you shall be Black Knighted today.
	Ed Labatouillier in Hesperia, California.
	250 bucks.
	Keep the great work, is what he says, and we appreciate the short note.
	Stephen Myers in Austin, Texas.
	Right down the street from me, $250.
	I started listening to the best podcast in the universe, but around show 60...
	Back around show 60, sorry.
	Somewhere early on when you've got karma, pre-goat was heavy on the rotation.
	I got a cat and named him Karma.
	So every time I heard the jingle, I'd think, yes, I do.
	You've got karma.
	Get it?
	And I'd smile.
	Last month after going to a doctor's appointment, I came home and discovered my dog had killed my cat.
	Holy crap.
	That's just dogs.
	Dogs will pack up.
	Which is a problem when you've got a lot of dogs.
	I like to donate to his memory and only request one jingle, the original You've Got Karma, because you'll always be living my heart and in the best podcast in the universe, according to the Mueller Report.
	Alright, well we're sorry that karma is gone, but here you go, you've still got it.
	You've Got Karma.
	Favorite number, 23456, Christopher Baylor from Grafton, Wisconsin.
	I feared my donation wasn't going to make it in time.
	It's 1.30 here in the great state of Wisconsin, but I think I'm saved by John being two hours behind.
	Actually, I think it came in late.
	I'm not sure.
	No, I think it came in just before.
	Otherwise, you wouldn't be here at all, because I was going to skip it.
	But I think I'm saved by John B. If not, then Thursday's show is fine.
	I'm going to apologize now for war and peace, but it's important to me and for others to hear it might save their kid's life.
	So, we will read this.
	Of course, this is the value that we expect from our executive and associate executive producers.
	I've never donated at this level because, well, you know, I'm cheap.
	I normally donate $6789, $67.89 around family birthdays.
	I know John loves his numbers, so I try to keep it the same.
	Anyways...
	A year ago, I asked for some human resource karma.
	My daughter was due in about two weeks and there were some signs of possible health issues, but we wouldn't know until she was born.
	I decided I should shoot for a little human resource karma to make sure everything was A-OK. It was a scary time for us.
	Four days later, on a show day, a Sunday, my wife went into labor and gave birth to our third child, Anya.
	A-N-J-A, Anya.
	She was and is perfectly healthy and the most amazing little girl a guy could ask for.
	No.
	Her big brothers are amazing and love the de-douching clip.
	They also love calling people douchebags.
	Yes, get them going early.
	Working on that.
	Of course, I tweeted a picture when Anya was born and you both had kind words.
	Thank you.
	But just as amazing, so did other producers.
	No agenda producers are more than a tribe.
	We are family.
	And seriously, people karma works.
	On to COVID-19.
	I'm just finishing Thursday's show and it hit me what Adam said that others were sending him.
	My oldest son and daughter had this in December, January.
	My daughter was not as memorable since she couldn't tell us how she felt, was getting teeth, and also had an ear infection.
	However, they both had a crazy high fever and this odd cough that would not go away.
	My son was out of school for weeks after Christmas break.
	Several other kids at his school had it as well.
	His doctor chalked it up to a, quote, virus and said, eh, let it run its course.
	He kept telling us he felt fine.
	He really seemed fine.
	Maybe running about at 80%.
	But as a 6-year-old, he was still bouncing off the walls.
	Now, my other son did not get it.
	And my wife may have had it, but far less drastic.
	The kicker here is my mom in her 70s.
	And mother-in-law in her 60s saw him several times since they helped watch him while we were at work.
	Neither of them got sick.
	Now, obviously, I cannot prove it was COVID-19, but it sure seems like the symptoms.
	I hope all this passes quickly and people can get on with their lives.
	My wife and I are stuck at home.
	Working from home and our kids are here as well with no real end in sight and getting back to normal would be just great.
	Thank you both for all the work in this crazy time that you do.
	Can I get a little karma for myself but also sprinkle it on the douchebags?
	Jingles, number station, rubblizer with cruise missiles and pew-pew mixed in.
	It's not like you're asking for anything special there.
	Cruise missiles and Pew Pew mixed in.
	In Over the Top, followed by Sanders, I'm King slash President of the World.
	It is too many clips.
	It's actually, I'm the President, I have all the power.
	If that's too much, just a number station with Pew Pew.
	Oh, now you say it.
	Also, birthday shout-out to Anya on her first birthday Tuesday.
	Thank you both.
	Sorry again for the long note.
	Chris in Grafton, Wisconsin.
	India, hang out.
	Mike, stand by.
	33, 33, 33.
	Rob Eliza, out.
	President of the United States.
	Jesus.
	You've got karma.
	What a nightmare.
	Nightmare.
	Nightmare!
	Thomas Gillickson in Greer, South Carolina, 222-78.
	We're almost done.
	ITM gents, please accept my contribution for show 1227.
	Younger brother Jim is celebrating his birthday today, March 2, you're on the list, March 22nd.
	If the drone is operational and not subject to COVID-19 related air traffic control restrictions, could you please send over the updated 2020 No Agenda Invisible hat to my brother Jim and please add him to the birthday list?
	A little pew pew.
	Coincidence?
	I think not.
	A little pew-pew and some goat karma for us all hunkered down producers out there.
	Here it is.
	Here it is.
	And does he need a karma?
	He's getting it.
	Sure.
	He's getting it.
	There it is.
	He's got karma.
	Now we have...
	Whoops.
	Bill Cotter, C-O-T-T-E-R, in New Brighton, Minnesota, 201, and he sent a note, a handwritten note, literally handwritten, and he says, doing a great job.
	No jingles, no karma.
	But get my name correct.
	Last year you spelled it with a K. Sorry.
	So there you go.
	Thank you, Bill.
	That was short and sweet.
	Bjorn Sandar Cleven in Norway.
	Here's our last guy.
	He says, send a note to no agenda or from, oh, well, hmm.
	I thought it was a note.
	One of these has said he sent one to Adam.
	It's a $200 donation.
	Hopefully a conversion reflects that.
	Please read my note.
	Okay, so it is, let me see if I would look it up, under Cleven, C-L-E-V-E-N. Oh, Sandark.
	I'll look it up under Sandark.
	Sandark.
	Ready to play the jingle?
	Oh, sure.
	No, I'm not going to...
	Oh, you mean that jingle.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm setting stuff up here.
	Okay, don't worry about it.
	I missed my opportunity.
	I missed my opportunity.
	Before you could even play the squirrel male jingle, boom!
	From Handy, ITM, Jen says, long-time listener, first-time donor, please dedouche me.
	Boom.
	Okay.
	You've been dedouched.
	That's it?
	No.
	Hardly.
	Oh.
	Going OTG is how I discovered your show.
	I hope this finds you well.
	A decade ago, I carried a Sony Ericsson feature phone and a Zune.
	The Zune was dynamite.
	It was good, by the way.
	I only jumped...
	It was great.
	The Zoom, it was a great device.
	It had a nice sound.
	It was like the loser device of podcasting, that's for sure.
	Yes, well, there's that.
	So I only jumped a smartphone bang-wagon when Windows Phone hit the scene in 2012.
	Actually, it came out in 2007.
	The years went by, and downloading the podcast and MP3s gave way to streaming YouTube and Spotify Premium.
	By 2005, I was working for a company that supplied Company iPhones, no doubt, is slackification measures, except we still use email.
	I reluctantly gave them my Windows phone and added app diversity only made my hedonistic habits worse.
	By now, it's mandated to carry the wretched thing until one day I spotted a colleague carrying an old Nokia phone.
	I asked her about it and she said for $2 monthly fee, our company's carrier offered a second SIM card tied to the same phone number.
	Incoming calls and texts could then be received by the two phones.
	I could be dialed or sent from either phone.
	I tried it myself and I strongly encourage any listeners who are.
	considering the OTG lifestyle, but are reluctant or simply unable to take the plunge to check out their carrier about this service.
	It's commonly known as twin SIM.
	However, two things to be aware of.
	One, if your OTG phone uses mini SIM, make sure to ask for the old micro SIM stock.
	Nano SIM chips don't always line up with the min SIM contacts on the phone, even with the appropriate plastic shell intact.
	Second, the twin SIM lifestyle is a gateway drug to full OTG living.
	I should know as I eventually asked the company to take their iPhone back, which they allowed.
	Now it's just me and my ever-growing collection of discarded candy bars that my family donates to me.
	So going that far, I decided to cancel my Spotify subscription and buy a new complimentary Zune.
	i vowed to buy music instead of renting it if it's worth listening to it's worth owning people i also resubscribed to the podcast i listened to but was aghast to find that one john c devorek was no longer on twit john's cynical take was the only reason i listened to that show it worried me that he may have retired
	i looked him up on the book of knowledge and found that he's been laid off in disgrace but that he was hosting a finance show and a political analysis show both which sounded pretty dull.
	Yeah.
	Nailed it.
	Still, I gave them both shows a chance, and whilst the first was a bit too inside baseball, the latter was also inside baseball, but in a way, I wanted to get in on it.
	The amount of enthusiasm and humor the two of you exhibited was infectious, and I was very blown away by your lengthy three-hour bi-weekly output.
	I've never seen such a long-form production before, which makes your business model all the more impressive.
	Adam, I was not familiar with, but his excitable and lively demeanor was and is a perfect foil to John's deadpan style.
	I'm the...
	She's calling me the straight man.
	The two of you work very well together, but if the bickering can become slightly uncomfortable at times, it's not fun to hear mommy and daddy fighting.
	We've heard that before.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Yeah, blah, blah, blah.
	We don't care.
	Yeah, but it's price worth paying for in such a great unrehearsed show.
	That's the point.
	It's unrehearsed.
	Exactly.
	Okay, so I will...
	There were no continues, and I'm going to stop and read any requests for jingles.
	I hope this helps.
	It's a health karma.
	And I'd like to request a big health card from mom and pop, aside from that fair bit of chronic pain that our wonderful Norwegian health care system has been unable or uninterested in helping either of them with, even though before the Kung Flu outbreak and they were quite vulnerable to the virus.
	So give them a health card.
	We'll be good with this.
	Oh, and one more thing.
	After the card, I'll tell you what it is.
	You've got karma.
	March 31st.
	Put him on the birthday list.
	So give him a birthday call.
	Yeah, you could have done that.
	Okay.
	I could have not done it.
	But I could have done this during...
	Believe me, it's a wall of text.
	Okay, and when is his birthday?
	The 31st of March.
	Okay.
	That's on there.
	And actually, we have one more, because it's Michelle Cartmel, $181.
	However...
	This donation was $271.59 Scandinavian.
	Ah, yes.
	So that means that because it's a dollarette, we'll bump you up to the associate executive producer level.
	No problem.
	It was our 16th wedding anniversary on March 20th.
	Instead of waiting until June to donate for his birthday, I figured for the show's sake, I would bump up my donation time to now instead.
	We could sure use some anniversary karma.
	Adriel came down with some type of food poisoning, so not only we were stuck inside from COVID-19, but also because he quite literally could not move from the couch.
	Amazing timing, I must say.
	Happy anniversary to the best husband in the universe.
	This donation also officially brings him to knighthood.
	This will be a surprise to him, so please place his knighthood in abeyance until he chooses a knight name.
	Thank you, Adam and John, for the twice-weekly sanity.
	Absolutely, and what a beautiful gesture.
	Thank you so much, Michelle, and congratulations.
	You've got karma.
	To you and Adriel.
	Excellent!
	I know it's a special time, so these longer notes are nice, but try to keep them short, people.
	Yeah.
	A little shorter.
	I mean, the deal is we'll read them, but, you know.
	So, yes, we will be doing another eight-hour show today.
	So we get everything out.
	I have to mention something.
	Can I close the segment, or do you want to do it before we do that?
	Let's do it, because it's about the segment.
	We had an earlier one where we had the two guys with the pew-pew.
	It was like a coincidence.
	Yeah.
	There's one...
	It's in the second half where we have a coincidence with the two exact same donations and exact same requests for $133.
	I just want to mention this random number thing.
	They don't know each other.
	They're both exactly the same donation, the same requests, and they're both from Texas, from different parts of Texas.
	Nice.
	I just was like, and they came in bang, bang.
	I was like, what?
	This is crazy.
	By request, I will give Michelle and Adriel the Swazilnuff karma, actually goat karma, and an LGY for their anniversary.
	69!
	69, dude!
	You've got karma.
	You've got karma.
	And thank you all of our executive and associate executive producers for supporting the show.
	This is exactly what we needed because it's going to get tough.
	Hopefully, I'm still looking at April 6th.
	I feel very good about that based upon what we're seeing today and how people are moving away from death and destruction into just blaming Orange Man bad.
	So they must know something, otherwise they're complete idiots.
	And we'll be thanking more people in the second half.
	Please remember us for, of course, another show, which we'll do on Thursday.
	Just go to...
	And you know what to ask for.
	If it ever does get approved, it may save lives.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	What?
	It's very scary.
	Coronavirus.
	If the Wuhan flu doesn't kill you, then media panic will.
	Now do whatever the government tells you to do.
	I love that.
	I have a note I want to read from a Bay Area cop.
	Ah, yes.
	We got a couple of similar notes, but this is a good one.
	I've been a time since I've emailed you guys.
	It has been a time.
	The show is absolutely awesome, by the way, and I'm propagating the formula.
	In overdrive due to the corona madness going on, I up my donation to $49.99 a month and hope to get my knighthood soon.
	If you guys use any of this, keep me anonymous.
	I am a cop!
	I like the way they use agency for the police department nowadays.
	Most of all of the police departments have been put on some sort of modified enforcement directions, meaning at this time no one is getting stopped for traffic violations or drunk driving.
	If you can find them, if you can find them, our typical dealings with transients have been put to a stop as we...
	Usually go out and find the ones that have warrants or possessing drugs, etc., and then take care of them.
	Our departments have decided they don't want us catching, spreading the virus around.
	So many cops are working hard.
	So many cops are working in what I would call a holding pattern, only responding to emergency-type calls.
	That being said, if we can handle things over the phone, we will.
	But if it involves needing a cop to physically show up, we will unless something changes.
	We've had absolutely no direction from the upper heads about enforcing any kind of stay-at-home order.
	Frankly, there are too many people walking around, going to work, getting their food, and going about their business.
	Frankly, because all you have to do is say you're going to the store.
	Frankly, so the cops aren't going to stop you.
	Frankly, many cops are just irritated that the days off are being canceled and that we have to wipe ourselves and the insides of our cars with numerous chemicals before and after our shifts, which seems ludicrous if you ask me.
	Yeah.
	A lot of us are anticipating the at-home staying trend continuing.
	Couples are going to start boozing and beefing as is the American way.
	If we're told to stay home, I'll definitely report if something interesting comes along.
	Now I will mention this.
	Mimi took a friend to the airport.
	She's up in Washington.
	She's reporting from Washington about all the craziness up there because of the maniac Governor Jay Inslee, who is, you know, all in on global warming and he thinks that he should put borders between the counties of his state.
	And they're even thinking about stopping traffic from Oregon to Washington.
	She made a record time drive to the airport.
	There's no traffic.
	And so that means they're not enforcing the speeding laws, which are – Washington State, for anyone who doesn't know this, if you ever travel up there, you should know that it's one giant – Speed trap.
	Speed trap.
	And so she was just doing 70, and she says she got back from the airport in two hours flat.
	Go Mimi.
	As opposed to three and a half, which it normally takes in normal traffic.
	And it's just a dream come true for people who have to go someplace.
	So I've received similar emails from Philadelphia, from Illinois.
	We have a lot of police officers who listen to the show.
	I can imagine it's a lot more exciting on the stakeouts to listen to us.
	But same thing, cleaning, don't really, you know, if you can avoid interacting with the public, which is exactly the opposite of what the police do, you know, please don't arrest, you know, exactly, holding pattern, they're really not going to do anything, they're not going to go after anything small,
	and it's so bad in Baltimore, we talked about it on the last show, but now I got the clip, Mayor Jack Young is, I mean, Where were you when the crime and the killings started years ago, Mayor Jack?
	Thank you all for your hard work and dedication to the people of Baltimore.
	I've also asked Commissioner Harrison to join us today to provide a public safety update.
	Before we hear from the Commissioner, I want to reiterate how completely unacceptable the level of violence is we have seen recently.
	We will not stand for mass shootings and an increase in crime.
	We will not stand for this level of violence, and I've instructed Commissioner Harrison to do everything in his power to combat this crime.
	We're dealing with the COVID virus, and those of you who want to continue...
	It's the COVID virus.
	...to shoot and kill people in this city, we're not going to tolerate it.
	We're going to come after you.
	Hey, it's okay if we don't have the COVID virus, but today, no shooting and killing people.
	...you who want to continue to...
	Shoot and kill people in this city.
	We're not going to tolerate it.
	We're going to come after you and we're going to get you.
	We cannot clog up our hospitals with their beds, with people who are being shot senselessly, because we're going to need those beds for people who might be infected with the coronavirus.
	And it could be your mother, your grandmother, or one of your relatives.
	So take that into consideration and put down the guns.
	That'll do it, Mayor.
	That'll do it.
	That'll tell them.
	That guy should be recalled immediately.
	He's horrible.
	That is just a head shaker.
	A real head shaker.
	I want to mention something else which the Jay and Nick have been sneaking out to go play basketball or walk the dog and other things.
	There's a lot of people out.
	It's not like normal.
	It's just an abnormally small amount of people.
	And they commented on this and I've talked to Mimi about it.
	She's noticing the same thing.
	That everybody that's out floating around are so happy, they said.
	They just seem happy.
	Now, my thinking is they're happy that they're out.
	Not at work.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm thinking this because, oh, my God, I hate my job.
	And I think a lot of people just hate their job and they're just happy to be away from it.
	But Mimi believes is they're happy because there's no traffic.
	There's no swarms of people.
	It's just a minor thing.
	But there seems to be a happiness going on that's really unaccounted for.
	I don't see that.
	I see quite the opposite.
	People are starting to go stir-crazy.
	There's not enough information.
	They're very worried.
	They are insanely, insanely scrolling through Social media, which is the ultimate way to get sick from something else besides the Rona.
	It's really not healthy.
	And of course, we're around young people who are all out of work.
	Every single one of them.
	And then they hope they'll go back to work maybe April 3rd, maybe April 6th.
	Hey, but that person came from overseas.
	She's on vacation.
	There's not enough information.
	I do not get this happiness vibe at all.
	We'd go out.
	We're not on lockdown, you know, cower in place.
	But, you know, we go out and we...
	I thought you were.
	I thought Texas, I thought Abbott closed the state.
	No.
	No way.
	No way.
	So all the restaurants are running?
	Everything's fine?
	The restaurants are all doing curbside pickup.
	There's about 20 of them.
	And so we order from them, if not cooking at home.
	They say that, you know, they still had to let part-time staff go, but it's keeping them afloat.
	So the ingenuity is really coming from the people themselves.
	We have a cupcake shop here called Sugar Mamas Cakes and Cupcakes.
	They too had to cut back on their part-time staff, but what they're doing is they're now converting to also be baking bread, because it's harder to get fresh bread, and people are still doing some hoarding, obviously.
	But I think that the stay-at-home is...
	I think it's starting to bother people, and I am quite sure, just like our officer said there, people are going to...
	What was the term he used?
	I'm going to start hanging and banging.
	I'm going to start boozing and fighting.
	Yeah, boozing and...
	Oh, that is what Texas did do.
	We've allowed alcohol deliveries.
	You can do a lot in Texas.
	You can shut us down, but if you cut us off from alcohol, you've got real problems.
	So, alcohol deliveries are now possible.
	But...
	In the broader sense of this, and I want to ask you a few questions, or maybe you can just provide some answers when you're looking at it.
	Where we're at right now is just an overview of the money.
	On March 6, $8.3 billion was appropriated.
	That was by request by Schumer, Senator Schumer.
	It was much lower.
	He wanted much higher, 8.3.
	That had to be spent within 30 days, hence my April 6 prediction, and I think we're still reasonably on track.
	If not for the financial and economic reasons, people will start hurting each other.
	This is not what people are used to anymore in this life.
	So he's looking at a $2 trillion package, which will be done in two different...
	Oh, then we had the gimme to the Democrats, which was the Family First Act of $50 billion, which keeps food stamps going at children who rely on school for their breakfast, and made Nancy Pelosi look really important and good for half a second there.
	So now we get into the two tranches, which should equal $2 trillion.
	It's held up...
	On one thing at this point, as far as I can tell, and that is Trump wants to put in this bill that the companies who also receive money, because it won't just be checks to everybody, it will be money to essential industries, he wants it to be forbidden that they use it for buybacks.
	And he's very disappointed in some of the companies who used his tax cut for repatriation of their money to do buybacks.
	And when you do a buyback, the company buys the stock, which drives the price up, and the only people who benefit are the people who already hold the stock, typically shareholders and insiders such as the executives themselves.
	And that seems to be a point of contention, which gives me another clue that there's bullcrap going on.
	Why would any company say, well, we've got to enrich ourselves with that money.
	We can't just keep it for the American people.
	So I'm skeptical of that.
	And then the final thing, which I'd like us to remember, the markets did not crash on the coronavirus news.
	The markets crashed because of the oil price.
	And I don't understand why that's not being discussed.
	It's just over there.
	Trump says from time to time, hey, we got cheap prices.
	It's good for everybody.
	Yeah, we're not driving anywhere.
	Thanks, fool.
	What is going on?
	If it's just Saudi Arabia, we know Trump can put in a call and say, yo, MBS, what's up?
	Stop that.
	What is going on?
	And why are we forgetting that that's what tanked the market?
	Well, it was the straw that tanked the market.
	It was a 2,000 point straw is what it was.
	That was not insignificant.
	No, I'm saying the oil crisis was the last straw.
	Now, the oil crisis came quickly.
	We had a down day.
	I followed this.
	We had a down day.
	It went up.
	Then, over the weekend, we had the oil price, and then all bets were off.
	And it just tanked everything.
	But it was the oil war, whatever that is.
	You don't hear about it.
	No one's reporting on it.
	Can anyone say, hey, Saudi Arabia, Russia, work it out?
	Because that's what we've been told.
	I... So I'm getting calls from everywhere.
	This is the big reset.
	They're going to reset the financial markets.
	And I'm here to tell you no.
	And the reason why is easily explained with help from the former New York banker.
	There's still money to be made in growth.
	And he still...
	He wrote me last night.
	He still believes in the V recovery with the technology companies leading the way.
	And that's being supported almost everywhere in a kind of, oh, wouldn't it be horrible kind of way...
	But when it comes to online ordering, fulfillment, telemedicine, work at home, Slack, Zoom, all of these different, what is it, Citrix, all of these different companies that are benefiting from this, it's very hard to believe that some of this isn't done to get a great ride on the way back up again.
	Wasn't he the one who said that we should keep an eye on Goldman Sachs because everyone's going to hit the hardest and they're going to be out, done?
	Yes, and I'm still waiting.
	I'll ask him again about that because that was the repo market that they were pumping.
	And now they put in a trillion and a half dollars into the overnight lending, into the repo market.
	That's typically done in non-crisis times, and they've done several hundred billion dollars.
	It's because there's a weak brother amongst us, and he was hinting to me that that was Goldman Sachs.
	So something has to give somewhere in that regard.
	Here's MSNBC's crack analyst, Kramer.
	Amazon.
	People are out of their bunkers.
	The analysts have been waiting, I think, for a one-up day to be able to say some good things.
	And what's remarkable is there's just a chorus of people saying you've got to buy Amazon, that the world has changed forever, that people realize that they can buy Amazon.
	This, by the way, is what the New York banker told me he bought was Amazon.
	Many more things on Amazon than he thought.
	I mean, I got home last night.
	There were four packages from Amazon that my wife ordered.
	All sorts of things that we would just normally have just gone down the street to a Rite Aid or Walgreens.
	And why?
	Because we don't want to be where there's crowds.
	And so Amazon is the anti-crowd retailer.
	By the way, Amazon and Walmart both announced hiring.
	Walmart announced a spectacular bonus plan.
	You know what I think these have to do...
	David, we come out of this sooner than other small businesses can open.
	If we come out of this later, David, there's going to be three retailers in this country.
	There's going to be Amazon, there's going to be Walmart, there's going to be Costco.
	And that is something that the government cannot afford to have happen.
	If it comes out that those are the three, can you imagine, David, what it means for this country to just have three retailers?
	Why is he even thinking like this?
	This is on his mind.
	It's on lots of people's minds.
	And they're going to get some of that.
	It's obvious that some places will...
	For whatever reason, they were already having a tough go of it from the likes of Amazon, etc., online retail, food delivery, instead of people going out.
	They're not going to come back.
	It is going to hurt.
	That's going to cost jobs.
	And these cocksuckers...
	I'm sorry.
	They're just sitting there like, whoa, whoa, what happened then?
	And by the way, I love it, no crowds.
	Screw these guys.
	This is...
	It has to be over by April 6th.
	They wouldn't be so cavalier.
	There's something...
	We didn't get the memo.
	Well, Trump did have a hint.
	I don't have the clip.
	I kind of wished I did have it.
	I don't think I have it.
	Maybe I have it.
	But he said that he's expecting to be...
	A lot of people are going to get rich when the bottom is struck.
	Yeah, he's mentioned this a couple times, actually.
	And...
	I mean, I think there's going to be a lot of buying opportunities.
	But I'm talking more about the economics and not the market itself.
	Well, I know, but the market is like a reflection.
	It's always a reflection.
	And I don't see a V, and I don't see one coming.
	I don't see any chance of it.
	I think if there's going to be a V, it's going to be a minor...
	Kind of a pullback.
	It's going to go back up a little bit.
	It's going to get back to where it looks like the $19,000 looks like a really nice bottom where it can sit and stew for a while.
	Okay, but how about...
	There's too much money being taken out of the economy by people that are part-time workers and everybody that should be spending money.
	They won't have any money.
	But here's what...
	Because of the lack of information and also the lack of hope.
	It seems like hope has just gone out the door.
	I still have Willow in Italy who hears 800 people died yesterday in Italy, although they count everyone who dies in the hospital, not just those who have coronavirus.
	Well, even the ones they say have coronavirus, apparently those numbers are exaggerated.
	It's still...
	It's not nice when you are on lockdown sitting home and she's now almost two weeks into it.
	There is so little hope and we cannot keep this going beyond two weeks.
	People will start to get cabin fever.
	And the experiences you and I have are not typical.
	You know, they're families living in little apartments, and they got the kids there, and it's stressful, and, you know, oh, dad's got to do teleworking, and the kids are yammering.
	It's stressful.
	This is not good.
	This is the part that worries me the most.
	Well, the essay I finished is going to be released tomorrow.
	If anyone is on the newsletter list, they will get a link to it immediately.
	This is a good reason to be on the newsletter.
	It discusses the homework telework phenomenon because I've been doing it for a lot longer than anybody I know.
	And I've concluded and I've changed my attitude about telework, which became the key word for a while in the 90s.
	Oh, telework is the word.
	When you use the word telework because it was telecommute before that.
	And I used to give actually even speeches, public speeches about how great it is and why I save all the money.
	Who needs these big, tall office buildings?
	I was all in on the whole thing.
	And over time, I've come to realize that it's extremely difficult.
	For most people, they can't do it.
	This whole idea of working from home sounds good on paper, but most people don't have a clue how to do it.
	They don't know how to organize themselves to do it.
	And it will be explained, I think, as a pretty...
	It's not that long of an essay, a couple thousand words.
	And it is just...
	My conclusion was this is a disaster, this whole working from home thing.
	That's why I say blood in the streets.
	Because at some point, people...
	It's not that easy to work from home unless you've done it for a long time.
	It takes over, I'd say, two years of doing it before you get the hang of it.
	And there is a hang of it mechanism.
	That's all I have to say.
	Second half of show stuff.
	Let's see.
	Of course, the conspiracy theories are abound in these times, and I feel that is usually my beat to keep an eye on them, make sure that whatever's going on is reported.
	So we had several things take place during yesterday's briefing.
	This was, oh, very funny, but again, I don't understand why we're cracking these jokes.
	When there's real fear and uneasiness amongst millions of people.
	And one thing, Secretary of State Pompeo is extremely busy, so if you have any question for him right now, could you do that?
	Because you know what I'd like to do?
	I'd like him to go back to the State Department, or as they call it, the Deep State Department.
	You don't mind.
	I'd like to have him go back and do his job.
	So does anybody have any questions?
	It's so not helpful.
	It's dumb.
	It's just dumb.
	Save the shtick for another time.
	And that's going to be his downfall, if anything, because this cavalier attitude is not working, even though normally I'd find that hilarious.
	Then I'm going to play this video as it was posted on YouTube verbatim.
	And I caught this too when Pompeo said it, and what Trump said after that, I think this YouTuber heard incorrectly, but this spun around the internet really fast.
	You may have listened to this video already, but I want you to listen again.
	This time I have a little better sound, and I want you to pay very close attention to what he says.
	Pompeo says this is a live exercise.
	And what you'll hear in the background is Donald Trump say, you should have let us know.
	So again, I'm going to let it play over a couple times so you can hear it.
	It's very interesting.
	Take a listen.
	This is not about retribution.
	This matters going forward.
	We're in a live exercise here to get this right.
	We need to make sure that even...
	We're in a live exercise here to get this right.
	So you get the idea, and I just want to debunk this because I know exactly what Trump said there.
	Obviously, when Pompeo says we're in a live exercise here, that can also be seen as code for it was a drill and it went live.
	We've seen this many times, which would presume a fried fish or false flag, as we would call it.
	What Trump says is not you should have let us know.
	Because that's now the theory.
	Oh!
	It was a live exercise and it didn't inform Trump and it got out of control.
	No.
	He continuously says they should have let us know.
	He is continuously saying China didn't let us know.
	That's what he's saying.
	So I'm just going to call that debunked.
	That thing is...
	It's out of context.
	I've got the same clip.
	With the same analysis.
	Here's the one that is right up my alley.
	Fits with the thousands of sealed indictments.
	And people are taking this one very seriously.
	I won't hit it all, but...
	And this comes from the Q group mainly.
	We are in total lockdown because Trump is now arresting all the pedophiles around the world.
	This is a good one.
	But it gets better.
	So the new one is adrenochrome.
	Are you familiar with adrenochrome?
	Yeah, that's what you scare children and you suck their juices out and you get this adrenochrome which makes you live longer and stay younger.
	So here's the thing.
	Yes.
	And that's why Hollywood elites eat babies and drink their blood.
	Now, that's not the conspiracy theory.
	I'm just stating that it's fact.
	Now, let's go to the conspiracy theory.
	You'll love this.
	Because it crosses one of ours.
	The theory is, one of the dealers of this...
	What's it called again?
	Endochrome?
	No?
	Adrenochrome.
	Adrenochrome.
	One of the dealers, because it's the most wanted drug amongst the elites in the Hollywood VIPs, They loaded one of those samples with coronavirus.
	Oh, I didn't hear this one.
	And that was the booby trap.
	And that's why Tom Hanks is in lockdown in Australia, because he, of course, drank the booby-trapped children's blood and got the coronavirus.
	And so there's these maps that overlays the coronavirus outbreaks, and you see that they're identical to where all of the people are going to be arrested.
	And people are very into this theory.
	Very, very serious.
	I hope none of our listeners really take too much.
	Oh, the troll room has been full of it.
	Of course.
	The troll room is always full of it.
	Well, no...
	But I don't want to make light of people because a lot of people have hope.
	I mean, they really believe this, but I'm going to have to let you down.
	I really don't see it.
	I really, really don't see it.
	There's just so much out there about this adrenochrome and then all these different celebrities are jonesing because they can't get their fix.
	It's fantastic.
	I forgot the point.
	I was going to think you had something when you're talking about Tom Hanks or something.
	Well, no, I know exactly what I'm going to lead you into.
	We're going to talk about how Hollywood has taken their studios into their basements.
	They've all become bad podcasters, I would say.
	But I thought it would be fun to just take a little break and we'll listen to some show business...
	Oh, I should actually...
	And now, back to real news.
	One week after their coronavirus diagnosis, Tom Hanks, along with wife Rita Wilson, are updating fans on their road to recovery with Hanks' signature sense of humor.
	Good news, the symptoms are much the same, he writes.
	Bad news?
	My wife Rita Wilson has won six straight hands of gin rummy and leads by 201 points.
	The couple under quarantine at a rental home in Australia after spending several days in the hospital.
	It's been a mad 24 hours, as you can probably guess.
	British actor Idris Elba also checking in with fans after revealing his coronavirus diagnosis Monday.
	Still don't have any symptoms.
	Checking my fever twice a day.
	And feel good.
	Feel okay.
	While the 47-year-old says he's trying to stay positive, he admits he's concerned.
	I'm worried about having asthma and how that could make things really complicated for me very quickly.
	Overnight, basketball superstar Kevin Durant becoming the latest celebrity to confirm he has tested positive.
	Telling a reporter he feels fine, adding, Everyone be careful, take care of yourself, and quarantine.
	We're going to get through this.
	Other stars are doing what they can to keep spirits up and help those in need.
	It's a little change.
	John Legend with wife Chrissy Teigen and daughter Luna performing a live concert on Instagram.
	Like all the other unicorns.
	Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Garner among the celebrities.
	I don't think I can take it anymore.
	It's too much.
	It's too much and it's all paid for and nothing's changed in that regard.
	But what gets me is we got Jimmy Fallon doing his monologue from home.
	I don't have any clips of it so bad.
	He's doing his monologue from home and doing the show from home with a laptop that he pushes buttons on and gets fake applause and laughter.
	And it's like, why are we wasting our time?
	Just show some old reruns.
	We can do this.
	Meanwhile...
	What?
	We can do an audience track.
	It would be just as bad.
	So I'm watching Saturday to pick up some...
	Some content for the show.
	Harry Sri Navasin is doing the PBS News Hour on Saturday from his basement.
	This is so over the top.
	It's incredibly stupid.
	But let's listen to this.
	I got a three-part clip because he got some freaky nurse on who's on Skype.
	And that's what you were bitching about curiously earlier when I had this scary clip.
	And you immediately recognized the Skype warble.
	And he's like, he's not mic'd right.
	He's using a webcam.
	And it sounds like crap.
	It looks like crap.
	And they're putting that on PBS. Yes, like the regular show.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I believe it.
	It's unbelievable.
	I believe it.
	And he has a green screen, or actually he has a wall behind him, but he keyed it.
	And so he's got like a background.
	It looks like the worst kind of Russian TV from the 60s.
	It's actually very interesting to see how incapable mainstream is of making do with very little.
	We've done this show on a shoestring budget, and if the whole setup has cost more than $1,500 total at any given time, it's a lot.
	And we've been around.
	We know how to do it.
	And these guys, they fall apart.
	They don't know what to do with it.
	They don't know what best practices are.
	And I guess they...
	They're not mic'd, right?
	They're mic'd themselves.
	They don't know how to mic'd themselves.
	John, I have to think they're doing this on purpose.
	They're doing this on purpose.
	There's plenty.
	You can send a crew over.
	The crew would gladly set it up.
	If Jimmy Fallon is not sick, test everybody.
	Whatever you need to do.
	I'm sorry.
	This is...
	This is Hollywood, man.
	This is being done for a reason.
	It's almost as bad as Alex Jones being, I'm in my bunker, locked in!
	It's like that.
	It's insulting.
	We know you can do better than that.
	No.
	It's now a form or some format they're doing.
	It's dumb.
	And it sounds like crap and I can't believe these guys take pride in this.
	But let's listen to Harvey and the Freaky Nurse.
	And this is the two of them going on.
	I got three clips.
	I don't even know if I need the...
	Let's play the whole thing because it's just...
	She's, he's on, they're on Skype, he's at his basement, he's got a lousy mic rig, and this is the, this is network television, supposedly, but listen to this.
	Under immense pressure, healthcare workers are bracing themselves for an expected deluge of coronavirus cases.
	NewsHour weekend special correspondent Carla Murphy spoke with Dr.
	Alexis Langsfield, who works in an emergency room at a New York City hospital, about her personal experience, not on behalf of the hospital.
	Now, is he reading a prompter?
	I would like to know because this sounds like it's definitely a read.
	I'm wondering if he's looking straight in the camera because then I'm going to call double bullcrap.
	He was looking in the camera.
	So he's got a prompter.
	I'm calling triple bullcrap on this.
	You bring in a prompter.
	Prompt is one of the hardest things to do if you've never set it up before yourself.
	I agree.
	So you're telling me he's got a prompter, but yet they can't mic him, it's horrible audio.
	No, no, no.
	This is stage, man.
	Yeah, fuck it.
	Yeah.
	Alright, so they cut it to this girl, this freelancer who's talking with...
	So they cut it to a freelancer, another one, who instead of him doing the interview, the freelancer does the interview, and she has almost the same voice as this freaky nurse from New York who is, she is just like a hill bot out of control.
	Her hair is every which way.
	She's got a scared, like a deer in a headlight look, and she's freaked out.
	And she almost starts crying at the end of this whole interview.
	It's, it's, Well, you can hear it in her voice.
	Then I got another clip after this woman of Brooks pretty much going into tears.
	Obviously, things are changing day by day, hour by hour.
	We're also seeing a lot of reports that there's just not enough protective equipment and safety equipment for healthcare workers.
	There's absolutely not enough protective gear.
	Oh, by the way, this is the trend.
	This is what we're all saying.
	There's not enough PPE, PPE, PPE. There's not enough...
	The first healthcare worker to die, Trump will have blood on his hands.
	You can just take it from me.
	They're ramping up supplies as fast as they possibly can.
	Even by the end of every shift, we're out of gowns or we're out of bleach wipes.
	We're out of all the things that we need in order to maintain a clean and sterile workplace.
	And, I'm sorry, I just have to say it again.
	Hospitals are completely managed by the insurance companies.
	The insurance companies, they don't reimburse for individual operations.
	They say, hey hospital, we're going to give you $800 billion this year.
	You figure out how you bill everybody for it.
	They are the ones that keep the supply lines tight.
	Since the 90s, they're the ones that said, we've got to be more efficient, less hospital beds.
	So let's take a look at where the real problem, the genesis of the problem is insurance companies, A, for your cost, and B, for your just-in-time supply lines, which are falling flat right now.
	A lot of the emergency room just...
	And people expecting the government has to have that all fixed up for you.
	No, no, no.
	Trump.
	Yeah, Trump.
	let's blame the right people not have doors you know a lot of places that's open spaces with curtains in between and those aren't places where it's safe to have people cohorted so we're trying as fast as possible to actually divide the er into multiple sections so that we can keep non-respiratory patients safe what are your biggest concerns in terms of keeping yourself safe and your family safe My biggest concerns are that now we're beginning to see that young people are getting sick too.
	The scariest thing here is that initially we thought that this was a disease of older people and people with pre-existing conditions.
	And as horrible as it sounds, I can handle that.
	But now that we're finding 30 and 40-year-olds that are coming down with it just as severely, just as quickly, just as fiercely, it's much scarier to try and protect myself.
	And where does she work?
	What are her credentials again?
	She's a nurse at one of the big hospitals in New York.
	She's really only talking about herself.
	You think?
	I'm afraid of not coming home to my kids and my husband, and I'm afraid of them getting it and me not being with them and not being able to protect them.
	I'm in a situation now where I've decided that I'm going to Pick up more shifts and I'm dropping my family off outside of the city and I'm going back into the city to pick up more shifts and work.
	When we made these decisions it seemed like I still personally wouldn't be at much risk but now we just don't know.
	So with the lack of personal protective equipment and with the worst of the disease still to come knowing that everything is you know we're just at the beginning of that steep incline Man, the steep incline comes from increased testing.
	That's where we get it from.
	This is a fear monger.
	You think?
	The whole PBS NewsHour group is a bunch of fear mongers, although they're taking it serious.
	I don't think they're doing it out of evil intent as a fear monger.
	No, they're doing it because it's horny to them.
	Yes, yes, they get off on this.
	When I went to Iraq with the radio show, I admit fully there was an element of, holy crap, we're going into a war zone.
	Look at me, the big hero.
	That's what this woman ends up saying about herself in the last of the clips.
	The beginning of that steep incline.
	It's very scary.
	I just don't know.
	I can tell them that I'm going to do the very best to protect myself and that I have to do what has to be done because people need my help.
	But I can't really promise them it's all going to be okay.
	And when you drop them off, do you know when you're going to see them again?
	It's not really clear.
	Depending on how things go, if they close off the roads, if they change things, if I'm more needed, then it's really an indefinite stay.
	I will stay and work as long as I'm needed and can work.
	So if the population of needy patients picks up enough that I am needed round the clock in the hospital, I will stay.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	Everyone in the media getting a Corona boner from this.
	We're in the basement.
	Look how innovative we are.
	It reminds me of CNN, Gulf War, round one, where they're downstairs, the cameras rocking, we're being bombarded, it was all green screen.
	Or that one guy, I forgot what his nickname was, but he's always ducking.
	Peter Arnett?
	Peter Arnett?
	No, not Peter Arnett.
	It was the young stud.
	It was the Scud Stud.
	The Scud Stud.
	Who was that?
	What was his name?
	It wasn't Peter Arnett.
	It was the Scud Stud.
	He'd be ducking and...
	And meanwhile, they were perfectly safe in the basement.
	They had palm trees brought down there.
	Arthur Kent?
	Yeah.
	Arthur Kent.
	Thanks, Mr.
	Bobo.
	Well, let me play a couple of other ones.
	Well, Brooks.
	I want to hear the Brooks one.
	Well, I got to...
	Let's start with...
	Another Corona boner.
	But this time, these two jokers have gotten off on the...
	This selling the stock scandal.
	Oh, this is...
	Set that up, because we've been tracking this...
	Well, it's not really insider trading.
	We've been tracking this government stock trading for...
	Almost since the beginning of the show.
	And we went through the Stock Act, which didn't get rid of this capability, but put some dumb little things in place.
	The Stock Act was mostly about reporting.
	Yes.
	And that came out in 2012.
	And then the next year, immediately, they took the reporting, because you had to report it on your website, any transactions, stock transactions.
	But they were all legal.
	They were still legal.
	You could trade on information that you have.
	Well, explain the problem first.
	Explain what's going down because this is going to be big news.
	It already kind of is.
	But it's going to propagate.
	And what's interesting about it is there's mainly Republicans but also two Democrats involved in these allegations.
	And Feinstein is involved and they don't mention her ever.
	Well, yes they do, but Fox News mentions her.
	You know how it goes.
	It's left, right?
	I don't watch Fox News.
	Trump even did this.
	He said, well, that's interesting you mentioned two Republican senators.
	You didn't mention Dianne Feinstein.
	That shit makes me crazy at this point.
	Stop it, all of you.
	Remember.
	Well, you can...
	Complain all you want.
	Yeah, well, we have guns.
	So the idea is that it turns out that if you're in Congress or if you're even working in a congressional office, you can trade stocks on proposed legislation and information that you find out in the process of legislating.
	You can trade.
	As crazy as it sounds, ladies and gentlemen.
	As crazy as it sounds.
	The only way to stop something like this is to prohibit all stock market trading, and they just refuse to do it.
	And so they created something called the Stock Act, because it was out of control during the Bush and before that Clinton administration, this sort of thing, and people got wind of it.
	So they came with this phony baloney Stock Act, which is really, it sounds like you can't do it anymore, but in fact it really involves more reporting it than anything else, and they even have a In addition to the amendment that they put in, so the reporting has to be private, in the basement of the...
	The Library of Congress, in the basement, you're not allowed to...
	I don't think it's the Library of Congress.
	I think it's in the basement of the Congress.
	But you're not allowed to make digital copies.
	You can't take in a cell phone.
	You have to write everything down, the information you get there.
	I mean, it's...
	It is the biggest scam in...
	Well, one of the biggest scams in our government is this.
	Hey, they're all millionaires up there.
	How does it happen?
	So it's legal.
	Yeah.
	Most of it, with rare exceptions, is totally legal.
	But everyone made a big stink because a bunch of guys got busted because some smart reporter got off his ass.
	He was bored stiff.
	He had nothing better to do.
	We've been looking at this for a decade.
	Like, oh, whoa, man, they got a briefing and they sold their stock.
	Woo-hoo!
	Even though, as you pointed out at the beginning of the show, this market didn't really collapse when they got the briefing or even shortly thereafter or even when the coronavirus was announced.
	They could have sold their stock.
	They had a long time to sell their stock because it was the oil crisis that triggered it.
	And they didn't get a briefing on that.
	Nope.
	Well, not that we know.
	Not that we know.
	Well, even if they did, this whole thing, because of the timing, they sold their stock before the oil crisis.
	Okay, yes.
	That would be the timing.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	So they probably didn't know.
	And if they did, it's a good thing to be.
	So meanwhile, the media gets all bent out of shape about it, and they started being accusatory, and they're very upset about it.
	Oh!
	And so we have...
	But before...
	I've got two clips on this.
	I've got Mark...
	Shields going on about it and then Brooks going into tears.
	But I want to play the very opening of Brooks on PBS. This is a 56 second clip.
	This is Brooks nervous.
	Brooks...
	Who's supposed to represent the Republicans or, you know, he's just another Democrat.
	But he is so nervous and upset.
	He's going to go into tears throughout this whole thing.
	He's remote.
	He's in Annapolis.
	Oh, my God, what a horrible place to be.
	An Annapolis doing it remotely.
	And he is scared to death.
	I just want to see if you can hear the nervousness in his voice.
	David, how do you make sense of this?
	You know, things going on that I think most of us could never have imagined.
	Yeah, I sort of have a split screen reaction to this.
	When you talk about regular people and how they're acting, I think it's been a remarkably good week and an uplifting week on the whole.
	This is something, even though we're separated, it's something we're all going through together.
	And we're having the same experiences and undergoing the same anxieties.
	In a weird way, we had to be put apart in order to feel together.
	And there are so many acts I've heard about or communicated with and heard about of people helping elderly in their apartment buildings, about people having virtual cocktail parties.
	I really do think it's a moment where social connection has risen topmost in mind.
	Okay, it's enough.
	You can kill it.
	I just wanted to get to the point you can see.
	I don't know if you can hear it, but...
	He's very upset.
	Well, and this is because he buys into the same theory as one of my LibDev friends posting, literally, Trump must go or we all die.
	I'm not kidding.
	Trump must go or we all die.
	And Brooks buys into that.
	He's always bought into that stuff.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He's never even believed that Trump could even win or get more than so much votes.
	So let's play that.
	Now, here's the back and forth with Judy.
	Let's start with the Mark Shields.
	They're talking about the stock deal, Senator Stock Mark 1.
	Mark, the report about Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia selling stock back in January when they first heard privately about how bad coronavirus was going to be.
	They both say they didn't do anything wrong, nothing illegal, but people are asking questions.
	Judy, it's a time, especially as you're picking up on David's point, when 49 members of the Utah Jazz basketball team and company immediately get tested while hundreds of...
	Front-line health care workers can't even get tested.
	You know, there is special privilege and special treatment being shown, which the President seemed strangely indifferent to when the question was posed to him.
	And I just, I think, if this is blood money, that's all you could say.
	If, in fact, they had a private briefing and then sold their stocks and, you know, Senator Leffler, that's fine.
	Somebody else did it.
	I have a private briefing.
	I don't care.
	I mean, if this is the case, that you were informed of what was happening and unloaded stocks that looked like they were going to be losers and took a profit, that truly is unacceptable.
	It is blood money and has to be pursued and prosecuted.
	Prosecuted?
	Prosecuted.
	This guy, does he know what the law is?
	Does he know anything about this?
	No.
	These guys are getting paid a million bucks each to come on this show and go on and on.
	They don't even know the basics.
	I think it's abhorrent.
	I hope that at the end of this, people will really just be so turned off by the mainstream media.
	And I think that's also part of what we're seeing here, John.
	Is defensive moves.
	They know that people are home.
	The kid TV channels, their ratings are up 60%.
	It's a bonanza for a lot of stuff.
	They want to get in on the bonanza.
	And you know what's happening?
	People are going to podcasts.
	They know it.
	They know it.
	Their podcasters are podcasting seven days a week.
	They've got their own tribes.
	They're keeping everybody sane.
	Hold on a second.
	Maybe what you suggested earlier about these guys doing the at-home monologues and all the rest of it poorly...
	You had some theory, but what if it's to sound more like what they think a podcast sounds like, because that's what the kids want.
	And it's in every disaster movie, in every single disaster movie, you always have the guy in the RV. Hi everybody, it's coronavirus, we're on lockdown.
	It's obvious that the feds are coming in.
	This is all a hoax, people.
	But we're here.
	Don't worry, we're here.
	We'll be on the air forever.
	You've always got that guy usually played by Woody Harrelson.
	Although it should be played by Randy Quaid.
	Where is Randy Quaid, by the way?
	He's still around.
	This is the Corona boner that they're all on.
	And I think that that's a very good possibility.
	Like, yeah, this is the way to go.
	All the kids are doing it.
	Yeah, this is their sound.
	Which would explain the prompter.
	We'll give you a prompter anyway.
	Yes, of course.
	Here's your prompter so you feel just at home.
	We'll make it look and sound like the kids want it.
	That's a disgusting thought.
	Well, let's listen to Brooks now.
	They turn it to Brooks.
	He goes and he starts babbling about something.
	I had to cut deep into it before I get to the end.
	And then at the end, you're going to hear a pause.
	The pause you're going to hear before it finishes up.
	Is him actually choking up.
	He's about to...
	He's so upset that he's about to cry and then they cut away and he says goodbye and that was the end of it.
	I was just...
	It's a head shaker.
	But it also requires leadership from the top, leadership of empathy.
	It requires a sense that everything is surrendered to the common good.
	And we enter this crisis with all those things, all the social solidarity levels, at such low ebb that we have no luxury here.
	We just have to develop it and have to grow it in the worst possible way.
	And obviously what those senators did, or anything that looks like privateering, even if it's wrong, that is unacceptable.
	Yeah, so, I mean, we've just got to keep social solidarity uppermost on our mind.
	On that note, David Brooks, Mark Shields, thank you both.
	You sure it wasn't an IFB, someone squawking in his ear?
	No, no, you can see him.
	He was just, he was like, you've got a thing in his throat, he couldn't talk.
	If you see it visually, it's not an IFB issue.
	Okay, I got you, I got you.
	He's for Clint.
	He's for Clint.
	I'm for Clint.
	And he said this thing, he says, private Turing, even if it's wrong.
	Okay, if it's wrong, then you've got something.
	So he's got to, it's kind of script.
	Just one last clip, I'm going to sneak this one in.
	Can I just say...
	No one in the House of Representatives or in the Senate wants this story to get any legs.
	This story is to be kept very quiet.
	As quiet as possible.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's bipartisan, so it should get kept quiet by the media.
	Yes, it will be.
	But we have this other kind of, the same kind of, they had some shrink on Cooper.
	Anderson Cooper.
	And they were talking about the same thing.
	There's something about the left is doing this.
	Oh, we're all one.
	We're all one.
	Which I think is leading again to global governance.
	We're all one.
	We're all the great big one.
	And so I couldn't resist getting this discussion with shrink.
	Cooper Q. Behavior and to see the larger collective, to see the we.
	To see the we in all of this.
	Yes.
	And to actually see the bigger picture.
	I really, you know, Anderson, you and I have talked about that a lot.
	I mean, we are all in this together.
	How I behave affects you.
	How you behave affects me.
	And it is a larger purpose.
	You know, I have a question, Doctor, about this.
	You know, we're getting further into this crisis, obviously, in the United States.
	I have, you know, three kids at home.
	People have been home now for a number of days.
	They're social, physical, distancing.
	Yes.
	It's starting to settle in that we're in this for a while.
	This isn't a snow day.
	It's a season of this.
	What should we be looking for in terms of mental health in our family and our friends?
	It's a great question.
	Oh, I wasn't quite ready for that one.
	I'm going to show myself all 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.
	We have some people to thank for show 1227, I believe, is the show number for today.
	Yes, it is.
	Richard Fox in Houston, Texas is right at the top of the list, and he actually wrote a check and sent a note, and so I can find my glasses, which I put somewhere there.
	I'll use these.
	He wrote a note.
	Well, which ones are you using now?
	I'm curious.
	Is that the monocle?
	Yeah, use a monocle.
	I could use a monocle.
	What does it say there?
	Kevin McColpin?
	We're at...
	Oh, you did, Michelle.
	Kevin McColpin in Imperial, Pennsylvania says...
	He has $150.
	Thanks for taking the time.
	Okay, so Kevin's out of the way.
	It's Richard Fox and Steve...
	Steve and Richard Fox gave the exact same amount of money and Richard needs some dedouching.
	Give him that.
	You've been dedouched.
	And then I think they both had their note was very almost identical.
	Yeah, okay.
	Anyway, the point is that there was a coincidence here, and I want to read part of Steve's note.
	Steve says he works in broadcast himself back in the 80s, and he finds the media discussions interesting, which we do constantly.
	Got out in 83, went into the wireless industry.
	The broadcast never wanted to pay for engineers.
	I guess they've gotten cheap over the years, which we're noticing.
	Okay, sorry, boys.
	A de-douching for one of them, and then we're done.
	Okay, we just did that, so we're done.
	Okay, that's Richard in Houston, Texas, and Steve in Ore Dripping Springs, both 133.33.
	Sir Donald from Spokane Valley, this is Borosky, the fire bottles guy who's always sending a note on letterhead for the United Federations of Planets.
	Here's some support to the purveyors of anti-panic.
	That would be us.
	For myself, I have been practicing social distancing as I've been keeping myself as far away as possible from social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
	Time to kick back and have a Corona beer.
	Chair of Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles, Count of Eastern Washington.
	Thank you, Sir Donald.
	Official letterhead, always read.
	Onward with Sir Sonder from Zondam, Earl of the Swiss Alps.
	$111.11.
	Here's another coincidence, a Raven coincidence.
	He wants me to introduce Bambi to the stage.
	This was also in one of those notes earlier from Steve or Fox.
	It's just strange.
	I'm just finding it weird today.
	Well, are you going to invite Bambi to the stage?
	I don't think we have Bambi.
	Up next, Bambi.
	Bambi on the stage.
	Yes, we do.
	Yes, we do.
	Great.
	One of the guys asked, where did this come from?
	Where did you get this clip?
	As if it's actually a clip we recorded somewhere in a strip club.
	Yes, that's correct.
	It's part of an old bit.
	Club 33, which burned to the ground, and you can go back and listen to them.
	And of course it was a real club.
	In your mind.
	Rebecca Taylor, Staffordsville, Kentucky, $100, with a birthday coming up.
	For her incredible husband, yes.
	Incredible husband.
	Well, let's read this.
	He'll be 39 on 325.
	He's an amazing dad to her three kids, 6, 5, and 2 years old.
	We can't celebrate together because he's in California, part of an emergency response team.
	And she says, F-COVID-19.
	Happy birthday, Tony.
	Beautiful.
	Thanks, Rebecca.
	Annie Breglia in Summit.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Ian Field in Eastleigh, Hampshire, Great Britain, UK. 100.
	Annie Breglia in Summit, New York.
	100.
	Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington.
	6996.
	Layla Hansel Steensma in Satellite Beach, Florida.
	She has a little note that you might want to read.
	Miguel Lopez in Flanders, New Jersey.
	Sir Wayne Larkham in Sunnybank Hills, Australia.
	Sir Lee on Ice in Tampa, Florida.
	Sir Laugh-a-Lot or Laugh-a-Lot?
	It's Sir Roger on Ice.
	I don't know how you got Lee.
	Sir Roger on Ice.
	Sir Lee.
	Sir Roger on Ice.
	Sir Laugh-a-Lot in Metairie, Louisiana.
	Sweet Pickle.
	In Los Gatos, California, 5510.
	Stas Gomborg, Or Gomberg in New York City, 5510.
	Birthday is to date.
	Appreciate it if we could include him on the 322 birthday list.
	Okay, so today's birthday was yesterday.
	Since giving birthday congrats prior to date of is bad luck, and I just finished my first observance of Shabbat.
	Interesting times call for interesting methods.
	Thank you for the amygdala maintenance.
	You betcha.
	Connor Lawrence in Albany, New York, 5313.
	Sir Slam Bob Rolling Knight of the Guadalupe Trail in San Jose, California, 5150.
	Shannon Atkins in Warren, Michigan, 50.50.
	Christopher Bargeron.
	Bargeron, I think.
	Maybe Bargeron.
	Bargeron, maybe.
	In Ackworth, Georgia, 50.50.
	Let's see if it's Georgia.
	Christopher Bargeron.
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	Adam Wheeler in Little Rock, Arkansas, 5033.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	I caught something.
	I'm lifting the veil of anonymity, says Adam Wheeler, to wish my smoking hot wife a happy anniversary on 324.
	Thank you for your courage, Adam Wheeler, and thank you indeed.
	Forrest Martin, 5005.
	And the following people are $50 donors, name and location, starting with Viscount Patrick Macomb in New York City.
	I'm always calling it.
	Brian Lanning in Owasso, Michigan.
	Dustin Jones in Oklahoma City.
	Gregory Chenez in Lockport, New York.
	Sir Silverdude of the Silver Dolphins in Severn, Missouri.
	Daniel Laboy in Bath, Michigan.
	He's a sir.
	Alois Liebel in Newark, Delaware.
	50.
	Thomas Tullet in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
	Robert Case in Mill Springs, North Carolina.
	Sir Robin of the Utrecht Highlands in Utrecht.
	And that's it.
	That's our group of well-wishers and producers for show 1227.
	I want to thank each and every one of them for donating and keeping the show going.
	Yes, and thanks to everyone.
	And we're running along because we have a lot of donations today, and we appreciate that.
	I love the affiliates.
	We're going along.
	Yes, we are.
	Well, it's what it is.
	This is, you know, it's Corona, man.
	We've got to get in the basement.
	We've got to be broadcasting for hours and hours.
	Keep it all going.
	Thanks to everyone who came in under $50.
	That is always appreciated.
	It's just a non-stop floor that we have.
	Thank you.
	More people doing that would be better.
	Consider that.
	And consider supporting us for our next show.
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	For that, go to...
	And I'm sure people out there can use some extra jobs karma in these days.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
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	Karma.
	And here we go for the birthday list for today.
	It is the 22nd of March 2020.
	Sir Truman and his daughter celebrated on March 17th.
	Chris Baylor says happy birthday to his daughter Anya.
	She celebrated on the 17th as well.
	Thomas Gilkison, happy birthday to his brother Jim, celebrating today.
	Rebecca Taylor says happy birthday to her husband Tony.
	He'll be 39 on March 25th.
	Stas Gomburg celebrated yesterday.
	Sir Andy of Terrigal Beach says happy birthday to his smoking hot girlfriend Kylie.
	She turned 46 on the 20th.
	And Bjorn Sander Klavan celebrates his 31st happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	We've got one important title change today.
	Our very own Sir Dave Fugazotto.
	He's locked down somewhere in the Middle East.
	And he, as of today, becomes Duke of America's heartland and the Arabian Peninsula.
	And we thank him for his courage and his unbelievable support of the show.
	And just thank you very much.
	We highly appreciate it.
	Then we have one daming, one knighting.
	So this is a...
	I got the dame sword.
	Can you get the knight sword?
	Here's the knight sword.
	We need Michelle Winton up on stage.
	And Eric Remington, thank you both very much for your support of the No Agenda Show and the amount of $1,000 or more.
	That gives you the title of Knight or Dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	You get the associated gear that goes with it.
	But first, I'm very proud to pronounce the KV, Dame Shell of the High Plains, and Sir Eric Processum at Protector, known as a Black Knight.
	For both of you, we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	We've got Diet Soda and Video Games, Fish Pie and Fellatio, Red Heads and Ryes, Beers and Blunts, Cowgirls and Coffin Varners, Rubenes, Ruben and Rosé, Gases and Sake, Bacca and Vanilla, Sparkling Cider and Escorts, Ginger Ale and Gerbil, or...
	It's a big fave.
	So we've got one knight, one dame.
	Head over to noagendanation.com slash rings.
	Eric the Shill will take care of that for you.
	In fact, I saw a number of people posting their knight and dame rings as I guess a shipment went out.
	It was very nice to see that everybody has received them.
	And thank you so much for supporting the show.
	No agenda!
	It's just like a party!
	Yeah, it's just like a party!
	Only we're going to cancel most of them, I guess.
	I have the back office note here for our No Agenda meetups where you can meet people of the same tribe, really, and hang out and have a good time.
	No triggering involved.
	Let's see what we have.
	Today...
	The Philly Local 76, dogs are people too.
	Attention, slaves and producers, this is some serious Marianne Williamson shit here.
	This meetup will be in spirit only.
	Grab your loved ones and ponder the show and all of its great analysis.
	Lots of beer will be required for this spiritual journey into amygdala shrinking.
	So I guess that's cancelled.
	Loosely organized by Sir Scatman of Norristown.
	For this coming Saturday, we had a Kansas City meetup, a state of emergency edition.
	But effectively, Tuesday, the 24th, our fair city will undergo a so-called stay-at-home order for 30 days.
	30 days!
	One of the exceptions still allowed for travel is walking your dog.
	This is why our family decided we'd walk dogs over to the Swope Park Off-Leash Dog Park this Saturday from 3 to 5.
	Feel free to join us during that time for Amygdala Therapy and Fellowship.
	If you don't have a dog, don't worry.
	We'll bring extra.
	So you can walk during the specified time.
	Very creative, Sir Spencer, Wolf of Kansas City, and Dame DeLorean.
	And also this coming Saturday, the first of hopefully many meetups from the slave state of New York due to the venue being closed.
	This is Rochester.
	I have a backup plan.
	I would like to set up a virtual video meeting.
	If you're still interested, I'll email you a link before the event.
	The first ever Rochester video meetup.
	We will not be silenced, organized by MJ Schwan.
	And you can get all the information for that.
	And just cower in place, everybody.
	We'll wait until we can do more meetups.
	But it's good to see that people are trying to get that together virtually.
	Also, noagendasocial.com, they coordinate their jujitsu meetups or whatever that video thing is called.
	It seems to be a lot of fun around the world.
	And we look forward to reopening these meetups very soon with the proposed date of the turnaround being April 6th.
	We shall see!
	Just go to NoAgendaMeetups.com Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days You want to be where you want me Triggered on hell's flame We want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	It's like a party.
	Well, I got the one thing to discuss, just a quick one clip, which is a political clip, because we knew that if you read that essay I wrote some time back about why the Democrats don't want Bernie, It's because they want Bloomberg's money.
	And Bloomberg said, and the bankers said, that if it's going to be Warren or Bernie, we're out.
	You guys are going to have to fend for yourself.
	There's not going to be any money for down-ballot candidates.
	You guys are going to be screwed.
	So I guess that the Democrat National Committee did enough of a job on Bernie, you know, with the irregular voting and the errors.
	It's always the Republicans that are stopping the vote, but these guys have managed to get...
	Biden to win in states such as Minnesota, where he didn't even campaign or have an office to win anything.
	And so I guess they finally convinced Bloomberg...
	That the DNC did the right thing, and he's all back in now, and here's his clip.
	He's giving $18 million to the DNC. Former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg announced today he is transferring $18 million to the Democratic National Committee.
	The money comes from his campaign account and is the largest such transfer ever.
	At the same time, Bloomberg dropped plans to keep hundreds of campaign workers on his own payroll in support of the party's nominee.
	I think he fired them by now.
	I think he fired a lot of them.
	So much for that.
	So much for that.
	He's a people person.
	He's a total people person.
	Kill it!
	Total people person.
	I don't have anything else to do, Mike.
	This is a job you promised.
	You're going to keep us on.
	Get out.
	With all of the conspiracies surrounding the...
	The sealed indictments and the eating babies and drinking baby blood and all this crazy stuff.
	Sidney Powell, who I find to be quite an impressive lawyer, she's representing Flynn, I think, right?
	Mike Flynn?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, I think she is.
	Actually, the Keeper was reading her book, and she's reading me bits of it, and it's very interesting.
	She seems to be a very high-powered attorney, and amidst of all of these conspiracies, she throws a little ditty on top of the fire!
	Yeah!
	675,000 Clinton emails when they got Anthony Weiner's laptop in a search warrant because of all his sex perversion issues.
	It was all the Clinton emails, the Clinton Foundation, her Secretary of State emails.
	Huma Abedin's emails.
	Lots of people emailed Huma as a proxy for Hillary.
	So one of the things, if I were the president, I'd do is demand the Anthony Weiner laptop and get it to the most trusted person in the military to take apart everything on it and then start using it.
	There's a lot that can be prosecuted.
	I have no doubt on that laptop.
	In fact, I heard that the New York police officers who saw some of it, even though they're hardened investigators, literally had to go throw up.
	It's bad.
	What?
	Yeah.
	What would make you read?
	So you're going through Hillary's 675,000 meals randomly, and you read something and you feel like you actually have to literally...
	Oh, you don't know what this is about.
	You've never heard of this.
	No, I don't know what this is about.
	I'm all ears.
	The term is...
	Hold on.
	The term is, uh, come on, uh, uh, come on, Troll Room Frazzle, Frazzle something?
	Frazzle Pop?
	Frazzle Ritz?
	What the hell is it?
	There's a term for it.
	This is how it's coded by Q, etc.
	But apparently, there's a video of...
	This is what I've heard about.
	This is what's going on.
	Okay, the video of Hillary and Uma, and apparently they cut a child's face off and wear the skin face on their own face.
	Fraggle Rock, that's what it is.
	Frazzle Drip.
	Frazzle Drip.
	That's the one.
	Frazzle Drip.
	Don't go looking for the video.
	You'll get on a list somewhere.
	Don't do it.
	Don't do it.
	You're going to be on a list of the idiots.
	It's not in existence as far as I know.
	But that's where it's coming from.
	But, you know, who knows?
	I don't know.
	I really don't know.
	Here's one that I liked a lot.
	This kind of slipped by.
	And I love reporting on this.
	This is a NASA administrator.
	What's his name?
	Jim Burdenstein.
	He gave an update.
	Now, this is just before the coronavirus started hitting big in China, so we didn't hear much about this.
	But he gave an update on the Artemis program.
	This is our mission to the moon.
	And he's all jacked up about it.
	It's going to be, of course, a global initiative.
	It's going to be big.
	Never done before.
	And listen up.
	So as we go forward, there's a lot that needs to be done.
	In order to create the architecture that we need to create at the moon, we've got to have the SLS rocket.
	Again, the most powerful rocket the United States of America has ever built.
	We need a European service module.
	When we go to the moon for the first time, it will be international in nature.
	I mean, just explain to me how the administrator says this.
	We need a European service module.
	When we go to the moon for the first time, it will be international in nature.
	I'm so excited to go to the moon for the first time.
	First time!
	The European service module is a critical component to the Orion crew capsule.
	The Orion crew capsule is how we get our astronauts to the vicinity of the moon.
	But there's not enough Delta V there to go to low lunar orbit and land on the surface of the moon.
	Oh?
	What?
	Why not?
	So we need to get more Delta V. Where do we get that?
	We are building a reusable command module in orbit around the moon that we call Gateway.
	I like what someone in the troll room is saying.
	The troll room says he's reading the prompter wrong.
	That the line break or the comma is in the wrong place.
	Which is possible.
	I'd like to listen again.
	Again, the most powerful rocket the United States of America has ever built.
	We need a European service module.
	When we go to the moon for the first time, it will be international in nature.
	Oh, yeah, I think that's good.
	That's probably what it is.
	When we go to the moon, comma, for the first time...
	We need a European service module.
	When we go to the moon for the first time, it will be international in nature.
	Oh, I'm very disappointed now.
	Thanks.
	That's trolling, man, right there.
	You trolled me into bad mood.
	Yeah, it's just a bad read.
	Damn it, man!
	I thought I had him.
	Well, I'll keep trying.
	It's still a good clip.
	You can still bring it out at a conference, one of your UFO conferences you love going to.
	When you're the speaker, you can go and bring this clip out.
	Yeah, that'll work.
	Yeah, that'll work.
	Alright, let me see if there's anything else we need to talk about.
	I think we're pretty good for now.
	I do have quite a number of end-of-show mixes.
	As you can imagine, they are all surrounding the virus.
	Well, obviously, with the size of the troll room and the long donation segment, and as much as I hate to say this, That talking about this thing seems to be what people want for a while, anyway.
	Yes, for a while.
	I personally find it tedious and boring.
	I know.
	I know you do.
	But I think it's important.
	At least for somebody who's doing the job right.
	Yes.
	Yes, indeed.
	Indeed.
	Alright, end of show mixes.
	Sir Seat Sitter, Chris Wilson, Leo Lepuke, Atomic Glue, and Secret Agent Paul.
	And we've got Mo Fax coming up on NoAgendaStream.com right after we're done.
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	And keep the notes a little shorter if you can.
	But we appreciate it all, because after all, you are producing this show.
	Coming to you from FEMA Region No.
	6 in the governmental maps in the morning, everybody, I am Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where the traffic is light and the skies are blue, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Thursday right here on No Agenda.
	Until then...
	Adios, mofos!
	and such.
	Some free advice?
	You want to get back there?
	You hoard toilet paper.
	You understand me?
	Hoard it.
	Hoard it like it's made of gold.
	Because it is.
	I got my toilet paper stacked Wall to wall I'm gonna wipe Until I can't wipe No more enough hand sanitizer To survive martial law Gonna hide in my house And lock my door Toilet paper in stock Got that P.R.L. on lock Wallpaper,
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	I've got no stress, ain't worried, I ain't even easy, I'll get through shit.
	Plus I got toilet paper stacked on the wall, I'm gonna wipe until I can't wipe.
	Poilet paper has been in high demand.
	Yeah, surveillance video shows a stampede of customers clearing the shelves.
	Fights over toilet paper breaking out in grocery stores as shelves run empty.
	A bank town mother and daughter have been charged after a fight over toilet paper in Woolworths.
	All I need is toilet paper.
	I've never felt safer.
	I should win. .
	COVID-19, I'm in quarantine It's outrageous Can't do everything Nothing to do Thought I just had the flu I'm contagious With COVID-19 COVID
	-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.
	COVID-19.
	COVID-19.
	We have the formula, the assessment.
	COVID-19.
	COVID-19.
	Total number of deaths in the U.S. to 19.
	33 people have tested positive for COVID-19 on that ship.
	I wasn't really sure what was going on.
	COVID-19.
	U.S. health officials continue to caution that the immediate risk of being exposed remains low, and the majority of people who contract COVID-19 will have flu-like symptoms and will recover.
	The Hong Kong flu of 1968.
	The Asian flu pandemic of 1957.
	The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
	Ross River virus.
	The Machupo virus.
	The West Nile virus of 1937.
	Ebola is the Ebola River.
	Lyme disease is named for Lyme, Connecticut.
	Everybody was Kung Flu.
	They were fighting over the Kung Flu at the White House.
	The media fighting on behalf of the left and political correctness.
	Burning words wherever they find them.
	How dare you refer to the virus out of China as the Chinese virus or the China virus.
	Kung flu.
	The Wuhan Chinese Red Death.
	Say the time again.
	Kung flu.
	Kung flu.
	Oh no.
	Oh no.
	I'm so terrified.
	Someone said Kung flu.
	Comes from China.
	Saksaki virus.
	Saksaki is a town in New York.
	The Hendra virus.
	Hendra is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia.
	Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
	Oh, sure, we used to name viruses after locations, but we don't do that anymore.
	You know when we stopped doing that?
	When President Trump started saying China virus.
	That's when...
	Do you consider the term Chinese food racist?
	No.
	Because it's food that originates in China.
	I don't think it's racist at all.
	I shouldn't say that because you'll get me now.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	We'll be right back.
	Mopo.

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