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	Choke on the toilet paper.
	Douchebag.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, March 26, 2020.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1228.
	This is No Agenda.
	Dodging the Rona!
	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 yesterday I'm sad to report...
	The Zephyr only had seven cars.
	I'm John C. DeBarack.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	Well, that is indeed worrisome.
	The standard, normal, economic Zephyr measure is nine cars.
	Yes.
	Ten is good economy.
	Nine is good.
	Eight is weak.
	Yeah.
	And seven?
	I don't think we've ever had a seven cars ever.
	I've never seen a seven.
	It was like the thing shows up and boom, there it goes.
	It's only seven cars.
	I don't think anyone was even on it.
	People are freaked out, man!
	There's something else we have to look at then, since we have many indicators that we've developed over the years with this show that really seem to be incredibly accurate.
	I'd like to know about another economic indicator.
	During this time of social distancing and economic uncertainty, you have questions about how it's affected Dvorak's Law.
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	Perhaps time to explain Dvorak's Law once again.
	Well, Dvorak's Law is taken from a joke from a comic who once said, you know, the thing about lousy economic times is that the hookers are cheaper and they look better.
	How are we doing on the standard?
	I haven't seen a hooker for a year.
	You mean...
	Okay.
	We'll just leave that as the ISO that it is.
	Yes.
	Thank you, Dame Jennifer.
	I mean, in San Francisco, you used to see these streetwalkers that used to be here and there, but they've...
	I don't know.
	Well, they're not allowed on the street.
	They're not allowed on the street anymore.
	Oh, man.
	That's Dame Jennifer.
	I didn't know she had such a great voice.
	Oh, that's funny.
	I didn't know that was her either.
	Oh, she could do some voiceover work.
	I'll say, this sounds like she might have done one of these before.
	I'm just saying it.
	You have to do what you have to do when you live there in South Carolina.
	Oh, man.
	So much going on.
	Last night, I spent, well, actually late last night, I spent quite some time looking at the 880-page CARES Act.
	CARES, C-A-R-E-S, CARES Act.
	This is pretty incredible what they've done here.
	I'm all ears.
	Yeah, people are actually going to get checks.
	And not just...
	Yeah, did you get...
	I mean, you couldn't obviously read every word in that thing, but wasn't there just a lot of cheesy gotchas in there?
	No, no, like what?
	Like they're going to, you know, require gas emission standards.
	No.
	They have all these little aspects.
	Board of directors of any company getting any money has to have a number of minorities on it.
	No, no, no.
	You're a whole round behind.
	Yeah, and I really must say, I've just been watching C-SPAN. I've been watching, of course, all the news channels.
	Yeah, you're a round behind.
	Here's what happened.
	The Senate came up with a bill, and that would have been Sunday, what's it, Sunday night?
	Or Monday, I can't remember exactly.
	And it's kind of what it is now, the official act.
	And the idea was to pass it in the Senate, and then the House would just go by majority without a vote present in the House of Representatives.
	So just for people who don't know the process, typically a bill first goes to the House of Representatives, then it goes to the Senate, then they come up with the combined bill, then it goes to the president for signings.
	So in this case, the Senate had it first, and apparently, either Pelosi or the Democrats at large, I'm not sure who exactly, wanted to delay this.
	And the way they delayed it is, and I went through this, I did find, you know, not search and replace, but I went looking for the similarities.
	These were literally pieces that just taken out of the Green New Deal bill and just copy and pasted with a search and replace to put in to combat coronavirus.
	But it was only a delaying tactic measure.
	And what happened subsequently is that all the Republican senators were like, whoa, they want this, they want that!
	Well, that's what you would do, of course.
	By the way, this effort just went by.
	Okay.
	And?
	Seven.
	Double sevens.
	On a show day, I'm worried.
	So the only reason for them to do this is to make sure that it would never, ever, ever pass anything.
	And it was just a tactic to shove back and say, okay, stop.
	We want to have some hand in this.
	And it gives everybody a chance to politicize a little bit.
	And then we go through two days of negotiation.
	They come up with something that is, I'd say, reasonable.
	I mean, within reason of $4 trillion being made available as prop-up power for the Federal Reserve and then over $2 trillion to American businesses and workers.
	What they did a good job on, so good in fact that that was one of the final sticking points, Was on getting the actual people money, including gig workers.
	So right down to your part-time Uber driver.
	Unemployment doubles from $300 a week to $600 a week.
	And anyone who makes up to $79,000...
	Actually, it's really up to $99,000, but there's some leeway there.
	We'll receive $1,200...
	Every child, $500.
	So a household of four, you could wind up somewhere around maybe $3,300.
	It all depends.
	Well, hold up.
	This unemployment thing became a stickler.
	Well, so this is what I'm getting to.
	The stickler point was, if you count it all up and you look at it on a weekly or bi-monthly basis, Some people who are making $12 might be making more than they made previously, and we had a group of Republicans headed by Lindy Hop Graham who said, no, no, no, we can't have this.
	This cannot happen because that will incentivize people to not work.
	Because they'd be making more by just staying home.
	Of course, people who work and get their stipend from the government will be making out fabulously.
	This is what the final point was last night, and Bernie Sanders took to the floor.
	And now I find that some of my Republican colleagues are very distressed.
	They're very upset that somebody who's making 10, 12 bucks an hour might end up with a paycheck for four months.
	More than they received last week.
	Oh my God, the universe is collapsing.
	Imagine that.
	Somebody who's making 12 bucks an hour, now like the rest of us, faces an unprecedented economic crisis with the 600 bucks on top of their normal, their regular unemployment check.
	Might be making a few bucks more for four months.
	Oh my word!
	Will the universe survive?
	How absurd and wrong is that?
	What kind of value system is that?
	Meanwhile, these very same folks had no problem a couple of years ago Voting for a trillion dollars in tax breaks for billionaires and large profitable corporations.
	Not a problem.
	But when it comes to low-income workers in the midst of a terrible crisis, maybe some of them earning were having more money than they previously made.
	Oh my word, we've got to strip that out.
	We've got to total those poor people.
	That no matter what, by the way, when this bill, when the McConnell bill first came up, unbelievably, and I know many Republicans objected to this, they were saying that, well, we want to give a, whatever it was, $1,000 or $1,200, but poor people should get less.
	You see, because poor people are down here, they don't deserve, they don't eat, they don't pay rent, they don't go to the doctor, they're somehow inferior because they're poor, we're going to give them less.
	Well, that was addressed.
	Now everybody is going to get the $1,200.
	But some of my Republican friends still have not given up on the need to punish the poor and working people.
	You haven't raised the minimum wage in 10 years.
	Minimum wage should be at least $15 an hour.
	You haven't done that.
	You've cut program after program after program.
	And now, horror of horrors, for four months, workers might be earning a few bucks more than they otherwise would.
	And I'm not sure exactly how it works in the Senate, but Sanders could definitely hold up the bill being voted on by standing down the floor and doing this.
	You know, what bothers me about Sanders is that he uses his polemics always include some lie.
	And the lie I refer to is the tax breaks for the rich, which never existed.
	And we know that for a fact because we have an attorney.
	I'm sorry, an accountant in our midst who does the richest of the richest tax forms or tax accounts, whatever.
	Tax returns.
	I'm sure.
	Tax returns, that's it.
	And so this is just nonsense.
	And so it always bugs me that when you have a...
	Well, you will finish the story that our CPA, he's getting calls or was getting calls at the time of billionaires saying, hey, how come I'm paying more?
	Why am I not paying less?
	Exactly.
	And this is the thing that the left tends to do, and they just can't seem to get off doing it.
	This is like repeating false Trump narratives over and over and over again.
	Because the argument is fine without that.
	So why do you throw that in?
	And that's an excellent point, because throughout this whole process, which I really followed very closely, multiple screens, watching C-SPAN Senate, watching what was going on in cable news...
	Politicians are always slipping little bits in.
	If I hear Republican slush fund for big corporations one more time, I'm going to get sick to my stomach.
	It's like, okay, we get it.
	In the bill itself, there's some interesting things.
	We have such a great...
	The community of producers, we have the CPA who does the richest tax returns, producer Dave Jones, who has a dude named Ben at a CPA firm.
	He really, in a couple sentences, said, oh, the small business loan scheme is fantastic.
	This is another part of the bill.
	So I'm just going to leave the $500 Republican slush fund for companies over here for a second.
	But for small business, so that's your restaurant.
	I love the example of hardware store, by the way.
	I hear this all the time.
	You go to your local hardware store.
	Now, there's no more local hardware stores.
	Everyone goes to Lowe's or Home Depot.
	But your local businesses, they'll be able to do the following.
	The Small Business Administration loans, which you can go to the bank, I guess as soon as this is passed, and you can get from your bank a small business loan immediately.
	You don't have to show your cash flow or any of your business results.
	It's backed by the federal government, and it's a loan that converts to a grant.
	So the way it works is you estimate your payroll for the next three months, Apply that amount to the loan you want to take out.
	Anything you don't use by July 1st, you'd give back, and everything else is free.
	So basically three months of tax-free payroll.
	That is...
	And according to Dave, CPA firms all over the country are going to be applying for these loans on behalf of their clients.
	He says it's a free money bonanza.
	Which it is.
	But I think those parts of the bill are good.
	And it's going to work.
	To the $500 billion...
	For loans to big companies, so this is where we're talking about Boeing, we're talking about the entire hospitality sector.
	The bill specifically states, they had to do it, that any business controlled or owned by any member of the administration, any member of Congress for that matter, Any member of staff or their family, and they went out of their way to say, including son-in-laws, I see you, Jared Kushner, can't benefit from the loan scheme for this, from the CARES Act.
	So it's just so fucking petty.
	We get it.
	Trump, orange man, bad.
	We get it.
	Well, they did, they made a big point on PBS Newsart, which has just gotten to be It's gotten worse and worse.
	They had Pelosi on, babbling her way.
	I tried to get clips from it, but it's just...
	No, it's not.
	It's hard.
	There's nothing to get.
	It's not even possible anymore.
	They had her on for 20 minutes, promoting the Democrats and how they're really responsible for all this.
	And it was just pathetic.
	And they went on and on about it.
	Trump was specifically named, you know, because that was important.
	Because he was going to rip us off!
	Well, what they wanted before the final bill was written, the Democrats wanted to have, you know, like some mechanism...
	That would give them an oversight committee that would be next to the Treasury 24-7 and had full subpoena and impeachment power if $1 went to Trump or whatever.
	Moronic stuff.
	By the way, I think I got the ISO from Bernie from that clip.
	Oh my god!
	The universe is collapsing!
	Possible ISO. It's a little long.
	It's a little long.
	It's a possible ISO. I think oh my god would just suffice.
	We can always use that.
	So there's stuff for hospitals in there.
	On the surface of it, of course I wasn't able to completely get through everything, but I've also seen trustworthy analysis, at least that I trust, and it seems like this is pretty much spot on.
	Will it work?
	Will it be enough?
	Who knows?
	Who knows?
	I think that depends more on when we get back to work than anything.
	But it wasn't filled with any of the crazy...
	I mean, there's some...
	They wanted all airlines to pay for carbon offset for every flight they made.
	All of that got...
	But that was all Green New Deal.
	And it was just a delay.
	And that's what really pissed me off.
	I think a lot of people...
	And, of course, accentuated by the Republican senators who were just like cotton going on for...
	Hours and hours about all these crazy things they want.
	Everyone knew it was just the delay tactic.
	Actually, a lot of people missed that cycle.
	But then we went to the past day and a half, and then last night, late last night, 96 to 0.
	A couple of senators were self-quarantining.
	It passes.
	The House says, yeah, we'll vote on it Friday.
	Because now they have to do all kinds of, you know, who knows?
	But they're going to push it off just a little bit longer.
	They're not there.
	Yeah, they can do it by proxy.
	Maybe they're using today to figure it out.
	Or they should just pass it.
	96 to 0 in the Senate.
	Just go.
	No, no, no.
	They can't pass it because they're not there and it's illegal.
	Okay, so that's why they want to do it by the...
	I don't know the exact mechanisms, but the two ways to do it were, one, with approved proxy voting, which apparently can be made legal, and you can do it by not requiring a vote in the House by tally, but it can be a unanimous decision somehow that magically Nancy Pelosi makes happen.
	I wish I knew.
	They won't.
	Yes, they...
	There are mechanisms, there's no doubt about it, because we've seen it.
	We have excerpts from years ago where some House member would come up and blather off some crazy thing during one of those periods of, you know, open discussion, and he'd just say all kinds of crazy stuff, and it was, yes, you know, bang, bang, bang the gavel a few times.
	Done.
	Massive bill was just passed.
	Yeah, done.
	Right in the middle of the, you know, chat time.
	What I worry about and what I think will happen is the Democrats who rule the House, of course, will have to get their word in.
	At this point, it's no longer about actually helping anybody.
	This is done.
	We don't even really have to look at the bill as far as I'm concerned.
	I will, of course.
	But that's just the level one dividing up the money.
	Everybody's got their piece.
	Yeah, we got the good pieces for American businesses and for American workers.
	Everything else, who the hell knows?
	Now it's about what are we going to do next?
	How is this situation going to be taken advantage of to further multiple agendas?
	That's where my focus is.
	I've got to get something off my chest because I heard a couple of interviews.
	I was listening to a lot of different podcasts in the past couple of days.
	This incessant hammering on ventilators is...
	Let me tell you this.
	This incessant hammering on we need 5,000, 6,000, 7,000, 10,000, 30,000.
	How many ventilators do we need?
	And this has become a metric and the press asks about face masks and ventilators.
	But here's the problem.
	Why is no one asking how many ventilator operators we have?
	This is a technician-level job.
	This is not something you read the manual, you jump in, and you can do it.
	One technician, I think it's a respiratory ventilator technician, can operate about 10 devices simultaneously.
	No one is asking, and if you go ahead and look on the job listings, three, four, five hundred different listings for ventilator operators, no one seems concerned about that.
	I don't think it's really true.
	There's, what are there, 3,000 cases in California?
	Am I right?
	More or less?
	I don't have the numbers in front of me.
	But you'll need 50,000 beds by May 1st.
	Are you kidding me?
	This doesn't make sense by any stretch of the imagination.
	Most of it doesn't make sense.
	By any stretch of the imagination.
	And you're right about that.
	And the ventilator thing, I'm glad you mentioned it because it's gotten to me too.
	It's like the ventilator is in itself some sort of a metric.
	Yeah.
	Even though it's useless.
	It's useless without operators.
	General Motors is going to be making them.
	And Ford's going to be making them.
	That's crazy.
	And with that in mind, just on data and stuff that we're being given, because it's very hard to...
	Humans have a hard problem or tough time in general understanding macro numbers and the largesse of something or something that seems large, which isn't.
	Like, this still is reasonably blown out of proportion.
	17 million views, I think, on Joe Rogan's interview with Michael Osterholm.
	And this is the guy, he was on, like, two shows after I was on with Joe.
	This guy pops on, and I think this freaked out an inordinate, a huge amount of...
	Inordinate.
	Thank you.
	Inordinate amount of young people.
	Inordinate, yeah.
	Inordinate amount of...
	A lot of young people were freaked out by this, and I just want to revisit what he said three weeks ago, March 10th.
	Just off the bat, how serious is this?
	Is this something that we need to be terrified of, or is this overblown?
	How do you stand on this?
	Well, first of all, you have to understand the timing of it in the sense that it's just beginning.
	And so, in terms of what hurt, pain, suffering, death has happened so far, it's really just beginning.
	Okay, arguably true.
	This is going to unfold for months to come yet, and that's, I think, what people don't quite yet understand.
	And so this really is acting like an influenza virus, something that transmits very, very easily through the air.
	We now have data to show that you're infectious before you even get sick.
	I'm not so sure it was ever proven that it is completely transmittable through the air other than water droplets or if someone spits in your face.
	Well, I think that's what they meant.
	They don't mean you're just exhaling some CO2 and you can get the disease.
	You have to sneeze, you have to cough.
	In some cases, quite highly infectious.
	Just breathing is all that you need to do.
	Is that what you just said?
	No.
	Well, wait a minute.
	I'm not going to out-defend him, because I should.
	Yes, if somebody coughs and there's a little droplet, because there's millions of them when you sneeze, for example, and you're just breathing, you would breathe one of those droplets in.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Well, the way I interpreted it was, if you were contagious and you're just breathing, you could transfer it.
	No, I don't believe that.
	Okay.
	All right.
	And in some cases, quite highly infectious.
	Just breathing is all that you need to do.
	So from this perspective, I can understand why people would say, well, wait a minute, flu kills a lot more itself every year than this does.
	And I remind people this is just the beginning.
	Probably the best guess that we have right now on what limited data we have is say, this is going to be at least 10 to 15 times worse than the worst seasonal flu year we see.
	10 to 15 times, which you know now is completely untrue.
	Well, I want to bring back my point.
	Which was that we've had these two co-existent bacteria, viruses, co-existent in the same population.
	The flu is outpacing it.
	For deaths.
	And I want to mention a couple of things.
	First of all...
	Can I just play the last 30 seconds?
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Because it will fit right in with what you're saying.
	Just listen to his actual numbers.
	Clear, we see.
	10 to 15 times worse in terms of fatalities.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And just illness.
	In fact, I just brought some numbers.
	Yeah, I just brought some numbers.
	Here comes the modeling numbers based upon the imperial model.
	Conservatively estimate that this could require 48 million hospitalizations, 96 million cases actually occurring, over 480,000 deaths.
	Well, now, it's just beginning.
	Can't wait for those numbers to not come true.
	That can occur over the next three to seven months with this situation.
	So this is not one to take lightly.
	And I think that's what I can understand if you say there's only been 10 deaths or 20 deaths or 50 deaths.
	Just remember, two weeks ago, we were talking about almost no cases in the United States.
	And now that we're testing for it and watching the spread as it's unfolding, those numbers are going up astronomically.
	So it was this kind of reporting where he just, oh, I got some numbers for you, and reports 48 million people will have it, 90 million people, or 48 hospitalizations, 90 million will have it, 480,000 deaths.
	You better hurry up to hit your first three-month target.
	Yeah, more dead than in World War II. So let's, well, actually about World War II. Well, you were saying something about the numbers and about flu outpacing coronavirus.
	First of all, the flu and the corona have been co-existent for a while and the flu is outpacing it in deaths.
	How do you account for that?
	Nobody does.
	I want to stop here and I am sick of computer models.
	That are designed to scare the public.
	They're bullcrap.
	This has been happening with the global warming thing is all computer models.
	It's got nothing to do with reality.
	And every time it's checked against reality, none of the computer models work except apparently for some Russian model, which shows none of the numbers that we keep getting told.
	This is a challenge for the community.
	If anybody likes C-SPAN, they might want to try this because I have been working on this and I have not done it.
	I can't do it.
	I can't find it.
	About seven years ago, C-SPAN had one of their, during the congressional breaks, they have these little specials they do, usually a lot of hearings, some meetings at the Brookings Institute, all kinds of stuff like that.
	There was a guy who was a major computer modeling expert that came on C-SPAN and gave a lecture to a small group showing how How the community that is involved with computer models does not trust them at all, and they should never be, and he said specifically, they should never be used for certain things such as what we're using them for.
	The global warming thing, this coronavirus extrapolation of how many people are going to drop dead next week.
	These computer models are not supposed to be used for these things.
	And this guy went on and on about, I cannot for the life of me.
	And I know it's in there somewhere.
	C-SPAN has it.
	Find this guy in his lecture.
	But that was his message, is that computer models should not be used for these purposes.
	And that's all they're being used for.
	I read a quote.
	All computer models are wrong.
	Some are helpful.
	And that's probably true.
	That's probably true.
	I agree.
	That's probably what they're for.
	Yeah.
	Dr.
	Birx, who still receives almost zero coverage, serious coverage, even though she is the coordinator, the COVID-19 response coordinator for the White House.
	She mentioned this yesterday and the day before.
	I think this is from the day before, about the reporting on infection rate and what we should expect in full infection.
	I wanted to say one other thing because you see a lot of numbers out there about 70% of the population is going to get infected or 60% of the population based on those models.
	Understand that the way you get to that number is you do nothing, and it goes through three cycles.
	So they're talking about this cycle that we're currently in, another cycle in 2021, and a third cycle in 21-22 in order to get that level of population infected.
	And you know we will have vaccines most likely by the 21-22 season.
	And we're going to hopefully have therapeutics in the fall of the next season.
	So the reason we're so much focused on blunting the curve for this piece is if the virus comes back, we'll have much more facility both for diagnosis, testing, monoclonal antibodies, treatments, and then the vaccine.
	So, if only they would play one of those clips of hers somewhere in the coverage.
	Instead, the Washington Post did a profile.
	Deborah Birx has a style that is always in fashion, competent and reassuring.
	Oh yeah, the fashion editor highlighted Dr.
	Birx.
	Burks does not wear the typical Washington power uniform.
	No, her tone is gentle but firm.
	From her background as a diplomat, she's skilled in soft force.
	The art of getting people to do what they want them to do without having them think it was their brilliant ideal all along.
	She stands out on what was a distressingly crowded stage until recently thinned out.
	Women are in the minority during these public expositions, but she's distinctive because of her attire.
	And they go into this whole thing about...
	Birx doesn't dress like a lady politician in jewel-toned suits and statement jewelry.
	She doesn't wear power dresses, those sleek sheets that are a critical part of the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's professional wardrobe.
	She doesn't turn up in a white coat.
	I mean, it just goes on and on about her scarves, which I agree with, but this is the person who is the coordinator of the COVID-19 response.
	This is the most misogynistic thing I've seen.
	They're not even taking a woman seriously for the job that she's doing and the things she has to say.
	Point well taken.
	That said, she does look fabulous.
	What do you expect?
	She does look fabulous, I'll have to say.
	She's got it all together.
	She says the guy has no influence.
	I wanted to correct you on something.
	I was listening to DH Unplugged.
	And, uh, all of a sudden, the genesis of the April 6th lifting of the cower-at-home restrictions changed.
	All of a sudden, the former New York banker gets credit, and what is wrong?
	That was horrible when she said that.
	No, it was you.
	Literally you.
	You literally said...
	I never mentioned New York.
	Well, I said...
	Yes, you did.
	Well, do you have the clip?
	Will you just believe me that I'd listen to it?
	Okay, you can stammer.
	Okay, let's say I did that.
	He was wondering where you came up with this.
	Yes, and you didn't remember.
	So I said, well, I think what happened, and I gave it suppositions.
	And I know that this probably was inaccurate, but it was just to get to change the topic.
	It's not a big deal.
	It's just a way for me to bridge into reminding everybody how we came up with it.
	Okay, good.
	I'm glad you did.
	I can renew myself.
	I can renew my own information.
	And I have a clip.
	I mentioned the part about the 60 days after the bill passed.
	Or 30 days after the bill passed.
	I mentioned that.
	John, it's okay.
	Let's just play it exactly as it was.
	And it was the $8.3 billion bill, which was signed on March 6th, March 8th.
	We looked at the bill, and it said the majority of the money had to be spent within 30 days.
	I think it's just SARS, too.
	Here's the prediction I make, and I think it's a fairly good one.
	This was signed on Friday the 6th, so by April 6th, this should all be over.
	30 days from now, it's all done.
	Everyone has their money.
	We know it has to be spent.
	The important money has to be spent.
	Here...
	Adler, within hours, is already acting like it's party time.
	So that was the genesis of it, was the 30-day clock.
	Of course, none of that really makes sense anymore in light of the $2 trillion.
	I know.
	It's like two small potatoes, $8 billion.
	But I think...
	I think we're still going to start easing on the 6th for the simple reason that the president obviously said he wanted to have that done by the 12th.
	Because we have to do that.
	I'd love to have it open by Easter.
	Okay, I would love to have it opened by Easter.
	I will tell you that right now.
	I would love to have that.
	It's such an important day for other reasons, but I'll make it an important day for this, too.
	I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter.
	That would be a great American resurrection two and a half plus weeks from now.
	I thought that was...
	That's Fox, of course.
	And something about this briefing, which was called a virtual town hall, the day before, for some reason, MSNBC and CNN decided they were not going to carry any more Trump briefings live.
	Fox carried it live, and they didn't.
	So the next day, Trump did an exclusive with Fox.
	Well, that ended the ban pretty quick over at MSNBC and CNN. And why they wouldn't want to air it is beyond me.
	Okay, it's tedious, it's annoying, it's repetitive, and that's just the journalists.
	So, the President wants it open by the 12th.
	So, immediately, we get our cower-in-place order in Austin until April 13th.
	You know, we're just going to add one more day just to spite the guy.
	Why?
	We're going to add an extra day.
	You're right.
	That's exactly it.
	Just to spite him.
	These guys are crazy.
	Yeah.
	They've gone...
	You know, here's one of the things that's going on that should be noted, and it's driving everybody nuts.
	Now, the idea was that you get this COVID thing and you let it get out of control and then the president botches everything and they get him out of office.
	Or maybe even better, he gets the disease and you can 25th Amendment him.
	Yes.
	Which, by the way, Fauci said that he might get it.
	Did you see some comment this morning?
	Of course.
	Of course.
	That's – Fauci makes some comment like someone's going to bump into him and prick him with the pricker and give him a case of this thing.
	So it's that his – the problem is that his – they don't understand the mechanism.
	And I finally figured out what's going on in terms of my cycles theories, which I don't discuss too much on the show, but I – Because some of the cycles have gotten so skewed by the government interference with the economy.
	But every 80 years, we've had some incident in this country that has been seminal in the formation of the country itself.
	The country started with an American Revolution, and you go 80 years from there, you have the U.S. Civil War.
	And that changed things.
	And then 80 years from there...
	We have World War II exactly to the date.
	And that changed things because after that, we opened up and became a security state from 1947 on because of the creation of the CIA, the NSA, and everything in between.
	And so that's changed things.
	20 years later, I'm always expecting, well, there's got to be another war, because these things always seem to be war-oriented.
	You had your revolution, then you had the Civil War, then you had World War II, and now we're going to have some other kind of crazy war against the Muslims, or who knows what.
	No.
	This is it.
	Yes, and I have a clip to back it up, that this may even happen from our own government services attacking us.
	Here is the FEMA director.
	And finally, a little bit about the National Guard.
	The federal government continues to take aggressive action and proactive steps to address the COVID-19 threat as we attack the health and safety or protect the health and safety of the American people.
	You've got to say that one more time so people are aware they've got to drop you in there.
	The truth always wants to come out.
	And finally, a little bit about the National Guard.
	The federal government continues to take aggressive action and proactive steps to address the COVID-19 threat as we attack the health and safety or protect the health and safety of the American people.
	It remains our top priority.
	It's our top priority.
	Attack him, I tell you.
	Attack him!
	Oh, I almost forgot.
	The V-shape recovery.
	Oh wait, before you go to the V-shape, let me get back to my point.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	Which was, the point is that because it's a similar 80-year cycle war, During those episodes, the president's acceptability numbers go skyrocketing and keep going up and up and up, and it is driving everyone nuts.
	Ooh, I have a clip just for that from Andrea Mitchell.
	There is politics involved.
	We've heard very little from, for instance, the more likely, most likely nominee of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden.
	He's having difficulty projecting through this crisis as the campaign goes totally on hold.
	And we're also seeing some polls indicating the president's approval ratings among Democrats and independents skyrocketing to their highest levels yet.
	It's some 60% approval ratings for the way he's handling this crisis as he continues to hold these briefings.
	The briefings are working for the president.
	No matter what he says, people seem to be seeing him as a leader.
	At least more people do.
	Listen to the response, this douche.
	Yeah, as you know, Andrew, you and I share a healthy skepticism on public polling, and I think what polling shows right now is not going to be what happens, right?
	Right.
	All of a sudden we believe in, oh, polling, that's no good, man.
	Only when Hillary's going to win 98%.
	I have a similar clip about this turnaround in the way things are looked at.
	Yeah.
	I don't want to shift gears completely, but I can do it because you're going to go into the V recovery.
	I was listening to, again, I'm kind of really upset about the PBS turning into this kind of a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
	It's just really gone off the rails.
	And I'm almost of the opinion that whoever got Gwen Ifill out of the way, she died, unfortunately, and they gave her a stamp.
	I'm going to go buy those stamps and use them.
	The post office has a Gwen Ifill stamp.
	I know.
	We talked about it.
	It's dynamite.
	So, okay, so here's an example.
	Now, we've already known about, you know, the, oh, you know, the South Koreans, they kicked ass.
	They did such a better job than everything.
	You know, we couldn't do anything like that, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	And now listen to this.
	This is the clip.
	Odd testing fact shows bias.
	And this evening, President Trump held another briefing on COVID-19, this time declaring victory on the pandemic aid package still being held up in Congress.
	But let's turn right now to our Yamiche Alcindor, who's been listening in.
	So, Yamiche, we know the White House has been involved in those negotiations on the Hill.
	What are they saying about where things stand right now?
	Well, just a few moments ago at the White House, President Trump said he would sign the $2 trillion coronavirus bill if it was sent to him immediately.
	So he was urging the House and the Senate to move quickly.
	One thing that was remarkable, the Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, said even though this $2 trillion bill would be the largest stimulus package passed by Congress if it passes, he said it would only keep the economy afloat for three months.
	The President said if we have to go back, we will.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	This clip has not been edited correctly, or I clipped too much of it.
	Go about halfway through it and start playing it from there.
	That's right.
	Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said, this is a bill to get people back to work.
	We are fine with unemployment benefits, and we want it to go forward.
	And the president said, I will sign it immediately.
	And then also quickly, Yamiche, we know the president and others at the briefing spoke about the status of the fight against the coronavirus.
	What are they saying?
	Well, the president was praising the job that he's been doing, and he talked specifically about testing.
	Here's what he said.
	We're also doing some very large testings throughout the country.
	I told you yesterday that in South Korea, this is not a knock in any way, because I just spoke with President Moon.
	We had a very good conversation about numerous other things.
	But...
	They've done a very good job in testing, but we now are doing more testing than anybody by far.
	We do more in eight days than they do in eight weeks.
	Just a quick fact check here.
	President Trump is saying the United States is doing more testing, but South Korea is six times, is only one-sixth the population of the United States.
	They're doing more testing per capita than the United States.
	Also, the United States was slow at testing, so this is testing being ramped up.
	That's why we're now testing so many people, Judy.
	Testing is now ramping up.
	That's why we're testing.
	This is complete bull crap.
	Not only that, but she brings up this one-sixth the size, although she says six times.
	She botches a lot, by the way.
	I can't believe she's on the air.
	But she says one-sixth the size, and she goes on.
	What was the one-sixth the size when they were praising South Korea for doing all this great testing and being way ahead because we all got infected at the same time?
	That was never mentioned.
	But now, because we're doing more, it's mentioned.
	This is a classic example.
	I want to give you one more of these from PBS because it's like they can't stop themselves.
	I want to play.
	This is the same clip.
	I'm going to play it twice.
	This is the clip.
	This is not about anything other than just a separate news story.
	This is about the dead CIA guy.
	I don't remember anything about him, but I kind of do.
	I've got two clips.
	I want you to play the minus kicker.
	This is just the straight-up 24-second story, dead CIA guy minus kicker.
	In the day's other news, the family of one-time FBI agent Robert Levinson says U.S. officials now believe that he died in custody in Iran.
	Levinson disappeared there in 2007 on an unauthorized mission for the CIA. Iran never acknowledged holding him, but the New York Times and others are reporting now new intelligence shows he died in the last few years.
	Okay.
	So that's the story, right?
	That's the story.
	Well, we can't leave it at that.
	We play the other one now?
	So we'll play the same story, but instead of just leaving the story lie, we have to do some little dig at Trump.
	In today's other news, the family of one-time FBI agent Robert Levinson says U.S. officials now believe that he died in custody in Iran.
	Levinson disappeared there in 2007 on an unauthorized mission for the CIA. Iran never acknowledged holding him, but...
	The New York Times and others are reporting now new intelligence shows he died in the last few years.
	President Trump said this evening that no one has told him that Levinson is dead.
	What does that have to do with anything?
	Nothing, but it leads me into more of this hate and really focusing on things that don't benefit their viewers or people interested in getting actual information.
	And this started with, I believe it was Monday or Tuesday, the team came out for a briefing and, oh, the horrors!
	Oh, the horrors!
	Fauci was not on stage.
	Dr.
	Fauci, the voice of reason, the people who we just can't do without him because Trump's a crazy.
	Now, this was after a weekend of Fauci doing several interviews in which the headlines, and boy, headlines are bad these days, headline was, I can't just jump in front of the mic on stage!
	Although that was completely unrelated to any question about vaccine or chloroquine or anything like that.
	That became the headline.
	And, of course, everyone points to the Times and then they do their own version of it.
	And before you know it, Fauci is saving the world.
	Without him, Trump will kill us all.
	Chris Cuomo, as an example.
	Not seeing Dr.
	Anthony Fauci on stage today worried me, and it should worry you.
	You know the doctor now.
	He's a member of the Coronavirus Task Force, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
	But more than that, he's become like America's grandpa.
	He gives conscience and comfort and fact to this country, and uniquely so.
	Instead, today in his absence, we got this.
	Where is Dr.
	Fauci right now?
	Why is he not this briefing?
	Will he attend future ones?
	I was just with him for a long time.
	Oh, he's at the task force meeting right now.
	We have a task force meeting.
	He is there.
	Does he agree with you about the need to reopen the economy soon?
	Well, he doesn't not agree.
	He doesn't not agree.
	I don't know what that means, but it doesn't matter, and here's why.
	Is Dr.
	Fauci important to our economic decisions?
	No.
	Why would we make Fauci a foil to Trump?
	Why would we not want to do that?
	Do you know what's more dangerous than COVID? Telling the truth about Trump as a member of the executive branch.
	No one survives that.
	Why put Fauci in a position of having to admit that Trump is wrong or lying when we already know that to be the case?
	You literally sometimes leave Fauci with no good answer other than, what do you want me to do?
	The answer to his question is, help us get through this.
	Fauci must be kept bigger than the politics of Trump, just as our collective well-being has led us away from the petty gripes and calls from coast to coast for lawmakers to be not right or left, but reasonable.
	More dangerous than COVID-19 itself, I'm telling you.
	Shut up.
	Oh my God!
	I'm going to give you a clip of the day for finding that one.
	Well, it wasn't hard.
	Well, you listen to MSNBC. I don't.
	Well, that's CNN. Oh, CNN. Well, same.
	I don't listen to them either.
	So by Tuesday, Fauci had had more than enough of it because he's just trying to keep his $100 million partnership with the Gates Foundation and Gilead on track to get their vaccine and their therapeutics on the market for the next cycle.
	So he's just playing along.
	He's doing his thing.
	Yeah, it's okay.
	Anecdotal this, that, that.
	But he was tired of this, and the only place he was either allowed to or where he rebutted any of this was on WMAL in Washington, D.C. Dr.
	Fauci, I want to ask you about something that I've seen transpiring over the past couple days, especially as it relates to you.
	It seems like increasingly a bunch of the questions from the media are designed to create a rift between you and the President of the United States, or at least to sort of emphasize differences of opinion in a way that, you know, creates distance between you and the President.
	Are you sensing that as the media continually asks you questions about the differences you have with him?
	That is really unfortunate.
	I would wish that that would stop, because we have a much bigger problem here than trying to point out differences.
	They're really fundamentally at the core.
	When you look at things, there are not differences.
	The president has listened.
	To what I have said and what the other people on the task force have said, when I've made recommendations, he's taken them.
	He's never countered or overridden me.
	The idea of just pitting one against the other is just not helpful.
	I wish that would stop, but we'd look ahead at the challenge we have to pull together to get over this thing.
	So there you go.
	He's a little tired of it.
	The president is smart, though.
	He's really playing the media, I think, in an interesting way.
	He's backed off a lot on the fake news, unless it's, for instance, the question you heard in the White House reporter.
	I came across this little gem.
	This week, in the spirit of unity, I made a moral appeal to the White House to consider the homeless and the incarcerated amid the COVID-19 crisis.
	To my surprise, President Donald Trump called me to discuss it.
	He and I have exchanged some very contentious words over the last several years and though we have not changed our view of each other, we did talk about the fact that in the midst of this pandemic People that may be on different sides politically must discuss and try to come to some kind of common ground to deal with those in this country and around the world that are most vulnerable.
	For that to be committed.
	You know, but this is a very different tone.
	Reverend Al is typically, Trump did this!
	Trump!
	And now it's like, well, you know, we're all together in this.
	When they look at the numbers and see Trump's approval rating skyrocketing, which is the word that Andrea Mitchell used for Democrats, they start to back off because they realize that they're going to get themselves into trouble.
	I'd like to now move over to the April 6th, which I think arguably is too early, but based upon just where we're at, I think it's still fair to say within a couple days.
	Eighth, maybe more likely, Wuhan is opening up.
	Manas, this is a major development.
	These strict lockdowns have been in place in Hubei province since January 23rd.
	Now we finally have a date for when this lockdown will be removed.
	The date is April 8th.
	This means people will now be allowed to leave the city.
	Leave Hubei Province.
	Leave the original epicenter of this outbreak.
	We have been reporting in the ensuing days gradual policies to ease restrictions.
	We reported several days ago that residents would be allowed to leave Wuhan after proving that they're virus-free by getting a nucleic acid test and getting a health certificate.
	It's not clear, however, despite the removal of this lockdown, that transmissions have been totally cut off despite the fact that official counts That's
	interesting.
	They never included asymptomatic in their count.
	Why?
	Well, it will give you a higher morbidity rate, that's for sure.
	What would you want?
	To make it look scary?
	This is a crisis of testing.
	That's what the whole thing was about, was test, test, test, test, test.
	And now we go, oh my god, it's spiking!
	If I hear that one more time.
	Spiking.
	Spiking.
	Worrisome spike.
	No, it's because we're testing.
	We're probably in the same boat as China, probably not that much later than Wuhan.
	We got it.
	We may have gotten it last year.
	Wouldn't it be great if we could track down a public relations agency behind this whole thing that represents a testing company?
	Well, that would be the entire pharmaceutical industry, because all of these labs are, you know, it was basically open-sourced.
	Open the door for them.
	But to this, today, still, it's like, oh, the curve's not flattening.
	No, because we've got 150,000 tests a day now, apparently.
	So, yeah, it's going to look, you know, it's a lag.
	It's a huge lag, and...
	You can't compare our testing to China's testing and the morbidity rate anymore because we just heard they never included asymptomatic cases.
	Yes, you can because the Harvard professor, we had a clip of the Harvard professor who said that 35% of the people are going to drop dead and 70% of all of us are going to get it.
	And he used a computer model to prove it.
	Wait a minute.
	Was it one of these Harvard professors?
	We're here today to announce three separate cases highlighting the ongoing threat posed by Chinese economic espionage and research theft in the United States.
	First, the arrest today of a Harvard University professor for lying about his participation in a Chinese foreign recruitment program.
	Second, this morning we have unsealed a separate indictment of a Chinese national working as a scientific researcher at Boston University who failed to mention on her visa application that she is also a lieutenant with the People's Liberation Army.
	Finally, this office has indicted another Chinese national for trying to smuggle vials of biological material out of the United States to China and lying about it to federal investigators.
	That defendant, whose entry to the United States had been sponsored by Harvard University...
	Was he affiliated with those people?
	What was the name of the professor that they arrested there?
	I don't know.
	Yeah.
	You don't do that.
	Well, but this was January 20th.
	Yeah, it was a month or two ago, but the point is, why aren't they naming names?
	At these press conferences.
	What I liked is that it was an actual sealed indictment.
	That was the first.
	The first of two of them.
	999 to go!
	We're going to get there.
	Anyway, so you heard health certificates and some kind of plaque acid test, which is interesting.
	So I guess now you can just get a quick swab and know within a second?
	Or is that something you do at the border, at the checkpoint?
	Yeah.
	I'm not exactly sure what they're talking about there.
	I don't know either.
	I have no idea.
	But it does bring up One of the things that we're looking forward to, I'm looking forward to it, not the actual implementation, but is tracking.
	And now around the world, we have governments tracking.
	In fact, this is Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe.
	Many of us have already cut back on social functions and traveling.
	And a recent study of cell phone data places Pennsylvania at the top for social distancing.
	So I want to thank all of you for the sacrifices you're making.
	So, of course, when you look into this, don't worry, it's anonymized.
	You know, we get rid of it right away.
	We have helicopters now in Austin every night.
	And I know exactly what's going on.
	They're getting the data.
	We have too many cell phones in this area.
	And they fly over it and they circle.
	I haven't heard the giant voice system, but it's coming.
	Dispose, citizens.
	Dispersed.
	You are under power in place.
	Dispersed, citizens.
	It's coming.
	So now they just circle around.
	They circle around to make you scared and go home.
	Well, you know what they're doing at some beaches in Europe, I guess.
	Oh, yeah, with helicopters, they're blowing the sand up so people can't...
	Yeah, they're prop-washing people off the beach.
	That's great.
	So here's Dr.
	Oz, who, of course, America's favorite physician when it comes to all things dump.
	On Fox, of course.
	Here's his plan.
	Well, in medicine, when you have a program that's worked, you copy it.
	And if you look around the world, the most successful effort has been in South Korea.
	And I think the reason they worked, and I've done a fair amount of research in this, is they basically created a digital vaccine.
	Everyone got tested.
	Your information was entered into a government-run app.
	That tool was used to track where you were going, what you were doing, to help you make sure you're being smart about your social distancing, to quarantine you if you're infected, to track people you've been near to so they can get it tested ahead of time, so you can contain the virus.
	So as we come through this difficult time, if we want to release the restraints earlier, we've got to be really meticulous so we don't let this grow back again.
	And so we're going to want a sophisticated program like they had in South Korea.
	We can do it.
	All the tech companies, the leaders are in this country.
	We've got wonderful programs.
	All the big boys know how to do this.
	And we've got the ability to do more testing smartly.
	And if we can do that together, I think we'll buy ourselves a lot more time next time around.
	Let's do it smartly.
	Yeah, let's get some tracking.
	And I'm going to tell you, let me just tell you one thing.
	This is not going to be mandatory.
	Everyone will gladly put this app on.
	And this ties right into the term only really used in America, social distancing.
	This is a very evil term.
	We're taking distance from humans six feet.
	Social distancing has subconscious meaning, which I don't like at all.
	Well, before you go in that direction, let's go back to what the clip said.
	First of all, he made it seem as if the entire country was tested.
	If you listen to that clip, it's very misleading.
	He says, first of all, everyone was tested as if the entire country was tested.
	Well, that's his dream.
	Testing, testing, testing!
	But my understanding is 250,000 people in Korea were tested.
	Yes, 280 or something, yeah.
	Yeah, it's in that range.
	And the population of Korea is 30 million.
	But the idea is...
	The idea is to mislead us.
	So again, it's all about testing, because the longer we get people to test, and I think that's different here in the United States from Korea.
	We want to keep testing.
	Keep testing.
	Why do celebrities...
	The more you test, the longer this thing lingers in the media.
	The virus with the public relations firm, known as coronavirus...
	The longer we test, the longer it stays around.
	The more we can harangue, the more we can bitch and moan that Trump's going to kill us by trying to open up the economy and the country again, get people back to work.
	And if I just go back to where we are now, and tracking comes into this, when you have people going back to work, but they're getting money in addition, That is a great trial, including what Bernie was harping about and what is now taking place.
	Some people, if you work, you'll make more money because you're back at work, you got some unemployment, and you get your $1,200 if you're an adult.
	This is a great beta test, three month beta test for universal basic income and how people respond.
	And MMT while you're at it.
	Well, MMT, you can't do this without some MMT, modern monetary theory.
	You can't create all this money.
	I think that there will be analysis of how do people look at other people who don't go back to work and just take the universal basic income for that period?
	How will people look at others who go ahead and work and take the money?
	What will the money be spent on?
	This is very interesting from a universal basic income perspective, and I have to question If this difference wasn't left in there, to just see if, hey, who knows, we might learn something how people respond to that for the future.
	Remember, it came from Bernie.
	So this tracking is all going to be a part of it, and the idea is everyone will want to get tested.
	You'll probably be able to get a test with your 23andMe DNA swab.
	They'll send it right back to you.
	As if you're not being DNA tested for any swab as is.
	It'll be very simple, and then you can add that, and you get to put it right into your app, and then everyone will know if you are immune, if you've had it.
	You know, it'll be Bluetooth and geofencing.
	All of this stuff is going to come into play.
	And then you'll get true social distancing where you're like, oh, I think I should probably take Fifth Street and not go up main because...
	You're going to get a little beep, beep, beep.
	Yes?
	You're too close, citizen.
	You're too close to the person in front.
	Too close, citizen.
	You're too close.
	That's exactly what I see coming.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And people will love it.
	They don't care.
	It's for your own safety.
	No kissing.
	And just a social distancing term.
	This is not used anywhere else but the United States.
	And it's just the term now.
	I'm not social distancing.
	I'm standing five feet behind you or to the side.
	I can still be social with you.
	There's something evil about that.
	Back to the other big laugh about the V-shaped recovery.
	Here we go.
	That I did get from the former New York banker.
	And on the briefing, I want to say it was Tuesday, the President said...
	It happens.
	Now, in addition to that, we're talking about economic, where you, you know, really hurt a country.
	It could take years and years to recover.
	And the longer you stay out, the harder it is to recover.
	I happen to think that you're going to have, they call it the V. I think you're going to have a very big bounce back.
	I think it's going to be very big.
	We'll see.
	He didn't quite say V-shape recovery.
	He said, they call it the V! He's probably wondering, why do they call it the V? It doesn't matter.
	They call it the V. Yeah.
	I'm with the president.
	I'm with the president on this.
	Yeah, well, good.
	I hope the V does work out, and it's not just another bull trap.
	Well, that's always possible.
	Because, man, has this thing been abused?
	Now we have...
	Greta Thiemberg coming out and saying, well, I think I had the coronavirus, so that's just putting everybody on notice, because once it's time for her to speak, she's going to come out to speak, and it will be something based upon or very similar to the reports that are now coming through.
	It was unavoidable.
	This is CNN. This is what Chinese cities usually look like this time of year.
	Thick smog blanketing the skyline.
	But this year, there's something different in the air.
	Blue skies.
	In several Chinese cities, the air pollution has improved.
	Especially Wuhan, the original epicenter of the deadly coronavirus.
	NASA and the European Space Agency released satellite images from January showing Wuhan's nitrogen dioxide levels.
	And the dramatic drop in February after 11 million people there were quarantined.
	CO2 emissions for the past four weeks are down by at least 25%.
	25% reduction in CO2 emissions.
	For the world's biggest polluter, that could mean a drop of 200 million tons of carbon dioxide.
	This is more dramatic than anything else that I've seen in terms of the impact on emissions.
	The Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air says coal consumption at fired power stations saw a 36% drop compared to last year.
	Their research also shows carbon emissions from the aviation industry plunging due to falling demand and widespread travel restrictions.
	In neighboring Hong Kong, air quality has also improved as the virus triggered partial shutdown.
	There are lots of people who work from home, and that reduced the traffic volume and reduced the traffic congestion.
	Naofeng says this brief period of clean air should be a wake-up call.
	If we want the children, the elderly, who could live healthily in Hong Kong, then we should think about how to make business as usual change.
	And that's where we're headed.
	Did you notice the bogus information in that report that makes zero sense?
	Go ahead.
	How is, I can see, okay, air traffic's down, so there's less jet fuel.
	How, with everybody holed up in their houses, running electricity, running air conditioning, running heaters in their houses all the time, all day, 24-7, how does coal consumption suddenly go down?
	What is the rationale?
	Do they have one?
	That coal consumption's dropped like a rock, but everybody's in the house instead of outside roaming around.
	How does that work?
	Well, it's unimportant because that's not the point.
	No, we know that's not the point.
	Okay, you're asking me questions that I can't answer.
	You have a bogus piece of information in there making it sound great.
	What?
	They're lying?
	What?
	Gambling?
	No, no, the joke is gambling.
	Yes, but I did that last time.
	I got tired of it.
	So the same app, the social distancing app, which will be with the logo you see everywhere, stay home, the little heart with the house around it, stay home.
	You're going to have companies that have A and B teams, circle teams, triangle teams.
	Half of the company will be, and this is how we're going to restart.
	This is how we're coming back as of the 6th.
	There will be rules to keep, if you can, keep half your workforce at home, working from home, then switch out after two days, the other part comes back, and that's going to be permanent in a lot of companies.
	And we're going to have climate change, stay-home weekends, all tracked, and socially tracked, social distancing.
	So I will be able to see, hey, wait a minute!
	I see a...
	That's my neighbor's phone!
	He's walking up the street!
	He's not social distancing!
	Ah!
	I wonder how much involved Slack will be.
	Slack is a winner, and I called it weeks ago when this happened.
	Slack and Zoom are the two big ones.
	Cisco's trying to horn in with WebEx, which they've had for a while.
	I don't think they...
	They've had that for a decade.
	They don't know how to market that.
	They're not that kind of company.
	They're not going to market anything.
	But it's...
	In fact, the CEO of Slack wrote some Twitter thread and, you know, these...
	It was a very good piece of PR. And I hate to say it, but the way it came across to me is, you know, look at how good we are.
	Look at what we've done.
	But meanwhile, it was all about jacking up the price and getting people interested, and fairly so, because...
	Jacking up the price.
	Yes!
	Yes, fairly.
	Who are the good guys?
	We're jacking up the price on your slaves.
	Now, to be fair, they did give away some...
	Some free accounts.
	Oh, they gave away something.
	They changed some stuff.
	But I think that this is where we're headed.
	Because the fight now, right this very moment, is going to be Trump wants to kill us all by getting the economy back to work.
	Oh, by the way, before I forget, one of our dudes named Ben is on a very panel, a governor's panel.
	I don't want to say too much because it's very small.
	And they're working on, I think it's backed by a lot, all or a lot of governors for social distancing tracking.
	And they're in the ideation stage now, but it's happening.
	And he said he joined it specifically to A, have some influence, And B, to be boots on the ground.
	But we have to be a little cagey about where he is and where this is happening because it's a small group.
	He doesn't want to be narked out.
	We'll be on silent mode until the whole thing's over.
	Then he'll give us a briefing.
	Yeah, well, he'll give us some briefings on the way there.
	But testing data will be used.
	We're going to actually probably forget about the morbidity rate.
	I think that's already gone out the window.
	All these 10, 15 times worse than the flu is all untrue.
	It's not happening.
	It's not the way it played out.
	For whatever reason, and those fear-mongering stories are going to continue.
	There's one metric they have left, and that is testing.
	And the more we roll out, well, the curve hasn't flattened.
	Of course, you would want to look at the morbidity curve, the death curve, but the media will continue to tell you that Donald Trump is trying to kill you.
	Yeah.
	Kill you.
	And he's not releasing the ventilators.
	And he wants to kill you.
	I mean, if I see one more Twitter post from people I used to respect saying, Trump has to resign now or we will all die, or Trump wants to kill you...
	Yeah, it's sad.
	How out of touch are these people when this president, when his approval rating is, as Andrea Mitchell said, skyrocketing?
	How far out of touch do you have to be to now be making tweets about Trump trying to kill you?
	I got a cool supercut from another one of the fear-mongering, panic...
	Media prostitutes, Nicole Wallace.
	Remarkable, stunning, all those words we get tired of using here on this show.
	Stunning news this morning.
	It's a stunning, it's a stunning, just stunning, it's a stunning, stunning, stunning, stunning, galling, shocking, that was stunning.
	Giving me a pit in my stomach and a lump in my throat.
	Stunning, stunning, stunning, stunning, stunning, stunning.
	Ugh, I just got chills.
	Gave me chills.
	Stunning, stunning.
	What?
	Stunning, stunning, stunning, stunning.
	It gives me chills.
	It gives me chills.
	Stunning.
	Just stunning.
	I can't.
	I'm at a loss for words.
	I have no words.
	I have no words.
	I read it with my jaw open.
	My jaw dropped my jaw on the floor.
	It was stunning and it was breathtaking.
	This is stunning on so many levels.
	Stunning.
	Well, in the previous answer, it made me sweat.
	And every time she says stunning, it's something about Trump.
	Every time she says, my jaw dropped on the floor, it's about Trump.
	This is all this woman does.
	Now, I have some advice.
	Wait a minute, I have a question for you.
	What is a pit in her stomach?
	Does she eat an olive?
	No, I don't know.
	I've never heard of a pit in my stomach.
	Well, that's Nicole Wallace.
	She moves in mysterious ways.
	This is a pit in her stomach.
	A pit in her stomach.
	Everyone agrees this is a war.
	How many times have we heard it?
	It's a war.
	A war on the invisible enemy.
	War!
	We're at war.
	Would you agree that's pretty much what we all feel?
	We're at war against this invisible...
	This is my 80-year cycle theory, yes.
	Thank you.
	So if we're at war, and when we're at war, we do crazy things.
	But we do it all to protect the homeland.
	Das Hinterland!
	We do it all to protect America.
	We always go overseas and kill brown people in sandy areas for American interests, which benefits our economy back home.
	So to not...
	Start opening up to take some risk in this war.
	Just like we send our 18, 19, 20-year-old boys and girls to the sand at risk for das hinterland, for the homeland, who get killed and maimed by the tens of thousands.
	We can be at home a little brave, And some people may catch it.
	Some will die.
	But the war is for the motherland.
	We need to get back to work.
	Stagger it.
	Get it going.
	Roll.
	Anyone else is a traitor.
	That was my Max Keiser at the end there.
	A traitor!
	No, that's not Bernie.
	Anyway.
	That's what I'm missing.
	That's the talk I'm missing from somebody.
	It's coming.
	Who's going to say that?
	We've got the part, the war coverage, we have war news coverage of the death toll.
	Yes.
	If you looked at the newspapers from 1943, you see this many dead, that many dead, this many dead, that many dead.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	We're trying to get those numbers up so it matches, you know, World War II, but we can't quite get there.
	I mean, they keep predicting the predicted numbers, always the World War II number.
	Yeah.
	And I think that is the way we should be approaching this.
	I liked the assistant governor of Texas who said, look, I'm in my 70s.
	It's this older people like me are at risk.
	Why don't we send other people back to work who want to go to work and I'll just take the risk.
	Time for my generation.
	Okay, boomer.
	Time for my generation to take some risk, which I liked a lot.
	That's turned around into...
	Republicans just want to kill old people.
	I mean, this is...
	I thought it was a very noble thing, you know?
	It's like, hey, we're all 70-plus.
	Go ahead.
	Get out there.
	We'll take our risk.
	We've had a great life so far.
	I'd like to make another couple of years, but go.
	None of this is taken into account.
	Instead, Trump wants to kill you.
	I'm really tired of that.
	I'm sure he's going to be able to get back to work, but we still have to deal with the governors and the mayors.
	What are they going to do?
	By the way, this is all voluntary, except for in Austin.
	Now we're on lockdown until April 13th, because, oh, you know, I guess they'll shoot you.
	They don't have any plans to do any of that.
	At all.
	It was beautiful.
	I went out yesterday, the day before.
	I went to pick up some supplements from Dr.
	Ron.
	I roamed around.
	I stood in line at the HEB to get in.
	They have little placards on the...
	Yeah, they have that here now.
	Please help us social distance.
	You have to wait outside.
	That's going to continue.
	That will continue.
	And we'll probably open up restaurants half full for this very reason.
	Curiously, they haven't done it at Costco.
	They don't have quotas?
	How many people can be in the store at one time at Costco?
	The place is packed, you know.
	Interesting.
	So we have quotas per square foot.
	I asked it.
	HEB wouldn't tell me.
	They didn't know.
	At Whole Foods, it was $150,000.
	150 what?
	150 people in the store at the same time.
	Oh, we have 80 locally.
	One comes out, the other one goes in.
	We have an 80 quota in our store.
	At the Whole Foods?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so that's a size, obviously.
	And I thought, personally, it should always be like this.
	This is nice.
	I can get around.
	It's quite empty.
	150 people does not feel like a lot.
	Croc.
	It's a croc.
	So that's the main thoughts.
	While you're bringing up these old farts, I might as well play this.
	This is De Niro and Danny DeVito being played by the governor, your governor friend Cuomo, who for some unknown reason is laughing like a son of a bitch in the background.
	Hello, this is Robert De Niro.
	We all need to stay home.
	We need to stop the spread of this virus and we can only do it together.
	Not just to protect ourselves, but to protect others and all the older people you love.
	Please.
	I'm watching you.
	Hi, everybody.
	It's Danny DeVito.
	And I'm asking you from the bottom of my heart, all over the state of New York, stay home.
	I mean, everybody.
	I mean, we got this virus, this pandemic, and, you know, young people can get it, and they can transmit it to old people.
	The next thing you know, I'm out of there.
	So Governor Cuomo asked me to ask you, please, do us a favor, all of us, and stay home, not spread this virus around.
	Thank you all.
	Watch a little TV, why don't you?
	Yeah, I'll make a prediction based upon this and based upon what I saw on social media.
	It is quite interesting that when we're all at home and can be on social media all day, we're kind of ready to go outside.
	I'm actually seeing, I think, a decrease in some Twitter usage, at least anecdotally what I'm seeing.
	But when you have John Legend and Christy Teigen, and they're out in the car, and they're exchanging a pie for a loaf of bread with somebody at some neutral location, they're rolling the food at each other, and they laugh, and this is going to turn out bad for celebrities.
	Because people, now they're getting antsy.
	They don't feel so good.
	A lot of people are out of work, and these a-holes are gallivanting around on Instagram how cool they can be when they're at home and locked down.
	There's a blowback coming on this, and they deserve it.
	Well, I think the blowback is not even something that is due them through their own karma.
	The Hollywood scene looks to me, if we're going to be this freaky about lines in front of the store and all the rest of it, there goes the theaters, there goes Hollywood.
	Everything's going to be home theater.
	You're going to be downloading your movies, and the economics for downloading and watching movies do not work.
	It's not the same, and this happened with the magazine business.
	I got to be there.
	Magazines could make, I mean, PC Magazine is a good example.
	It was a big, thick magazine, came out twice a month.
	It was making millions and millions of dollars per month.
	And now when you go online, you don't make anything like that.
	You make a tenth, maybe even less than that.
	The same thing with movies.
	The movie industry and the big tentpole summer film, that's done.
	And that's the big money maker.
	I have a feeling that Netflix lost their shirt on this, on this period.
	Because there was too many people watching Netflix movies when hopefully they're not watching as much as they did?
	No new sign-ups, you bet.
	I think their sign-ups will be low.
	I don't think a lot of people will be jumping on who weren't there already, but the existing customers consumed maybe 10 times as much.
	This is just data I'm guessing at.
	And that's not free.
	It's not free to them.
	In this house, the slack is picked up a lot by Disney+.
	Right.
	Disney Plus actually gets a lot of, I think, a lot more attention than people want to give it credit for.
	But your point is well taken.
	If you're going to go with the subscription model like Netflix, and all of a sudden people are overusing it because they're getting nothing else to do, there's no money in that.
	And there's no money in renting, bringing out some of these movies that, by the way, so just as a quick movie review, The Rise of Skywalker.
	Yes.
	It's the worst thing ever.
	From what I can tell, I can't even get through it.
	It's got no plot.
	It's got just a lot of shooting, and it looks like a Hong Kong film from the late 80s by John Woo.
	It's just a lot of action and no story, and it's just unbelievable.
	It's the worst thing they can imagine.
	They had to sell it to the public.
	They had to get it out of there, and they're selling it for 20 bucks or so a pile.
	Yeah, yeah, 20 bucks.
	There's no money in this.
	Going out to the theater for the theater experience and spending 20, 30 bucks or bringing your whole family.
	The money comes from the concessions at the theater.
	And the concessions, right.
	Yeah, there's none of that.
	It's all done.
	I have identified the Kung Flu TV hit.
	One has emerged as the, you know, we always have a summer hit movie.
	This is the summer hit stream, Tiger King.
	Have you heard of this?
	No.
	Oh, man.
	After the show, you immediately have to start watching Tiger King.
	Give us a little review here.
	It's a reality show.
	About a guy, primarily a guy in Florida, who started raising and collecting big cats, tigers, lynx, leopards, the whole deal.
	He has about 200 of them, and he makes money exploiting them, but he grows up with them, so they play with them around the house, and they're not eating him, apparently.
	And then there's another guy, also in Florida, and he has his own zoo.
	And there's a third person, a lady, who is a so-called preservationist, but her place is also a zoo.
	And somewhere in this reality, I've only seen a few episodes, there's a murder for hire, the whole thing goes haywire.
	It's like, what's the Swamp People reality show?
	It's just a real reality show.
	How do you get a hitman involved in the reality show?
	Because it happened during the filming of the show.
	It's fantastic.
	You'll love it.
	Probably not.
	I don't like reality shows generally.
	No, no, no.
	This is different.
	In fact, when people are fake, they actually show it.
	It's hard to explain how that works in it.
	It's like swamp people meets nut jobs with guns meets nut jobs and throw in some murica.
	And that's exactly what it is.
	It's great.
	And that's the hit that's going to emerge from this stay at home.
	Which, again, is just something that costs Netflix more money.
	Wait, what's the connection between COVID-19 and this particular reality show?
	Nothing.
	This is just what everybody started watching.
	I think it's going to be okay.
	Yeah, Duck Dynasty with tigers.
	No, not exactly.
	No, no, no.
	It's dirty, it's nasty, it's crazy, it's dangerous.
	You'll love it.
	It's Tiger King, now on Netflix, streaming everywhere.
	In low quality, because we've been asked to do low quality.
	You saw that, right?
	Except in the United States, everywhere in the world, Netflix has been asked to throttle back their quality.
	YouTube is throttling back their quality on the YouTube videos because it's taken up too much bandwidth.
	And the ISPs can't do it because of net neutrality.
	Isn't that great?
	As we've always predicted, life-saving need for internet.
	No, no.
	You can't throttle Netflix because my video might stutter.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That's exactly where it is.
	We've got a lot more on this, but first I'd like to thank you for your...
	Well, I was going to do one more since we're on the...
	because we're not going to get back to it.
	Yeah, good.
	I'll edit that out.
	You'll never hear it.
	You can be in there.
	I don't care.
	I just want to give another plug for something that I recently subscribed to, even though I don't like the idea of having to, but I needed to, and then I subscribed.
	It's going to be interesting to watch how this works out, especially with the net neutrality and the throttling back and all the rest, is I took out a subscription to YouTube video.
	Oh, wow.
	And I did that because it has all the local sports, it has Comcast Sports, and it has ESPN, and it has all these sorts of channels, plus it has the basic cable channels.
	Did you give something up for that?
	Yeah, I gave up Sling TV. Oh, okay.
	I was just wondering what it replaced, if anything.
	Well, Sling TV was I was using for my sports habits, and then...
	Then I just canceled it and kept away from it and then I decided, well, let me try this because they had a free sample for a couple of weeks.
	A couple of things you should note if anybody wants to try this.
	It has an infinite virtual cloud-based VCR capability.
	PVR. So you can record any show you want to record and it just keeps it forever.
	I know how they're doing this, and I know the mechanism.
	Like, for example, I want to record NCIS on a weekly basis, so I record it, and then I can go back and watch these episodes when I feel like it, like I would with a regular video recorder, or my own, you know, the ones that come with Dish and the rest.
	And that's because they just record everything.
	They've got enough computer power to do that, so they're not recording for me.
	They already have it.
	They're already recording it, so it's just something of a scam.
	But at the same time, when you're on it, you can stop video, you can stop the show.
	Wow, what an amazing capability.
	It's all virtual.
	Since we've had, since TiVo, I get it.
	Yeah, it's virtual.
	There's no box.
	I got it.
	And so then you can fast forward through ads, which is another capability, which is nice, and so forth.
	But the interesting thing is it is maxed out.
	This is where it comes in with the net neutrality.
	It's maxed out insofar as resolution is concerned.
	And there's a little button you can push, and it says nerd something or other.
	You can get all the stats on the stream.
	Mm-hmm.
	They're all coming across at 1080.
	Mm-hmm.
	1080p.
	Mm-hmm.
	And unless it's 720p, but it's mostly 1080p for almost everything.
	And the image quality is unbelievable.
	Well, that's not fair because they need to diminish that so people can watch Netflix.
	It's pretty remarkable.
	Is there any porn on YouTube TV? I don't think so.
	Oh, okay.
	Maybe.
	Well, thanks for that update on YouTube.
	It's a plug.
	People want to know these things.
	I will stay far away from it.
	I want nothing to do without what they're tracking what I'm watching.
	Uh-uh.
	Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your obvious courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in cash is coming, John C. DeVorex.
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
	You know all the morning, the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, names and knights out there.
	And in the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
	Let's do a troll count.
	Hands up, trolls!
	Let me see.
	We've got 1,637.
	Not bad for a Thursday.
	Very nice.
	Welcome, trolls.
	NoagendaStream.com is where they hang out.
	That's up 100 from last Thursday.
	Yes, but it's down a little bit from Sunday, but that's to be expected.
	No, Sunday everyone's home.
	It should be home today, by the way.
	Yes, yes.
	Hand check.
	NoagendaStream.com is where it's been quite the communauté with the podcast.
	We have a podcast running there 24-7 on a stream.
	You can join in, troll the host when they're doing it live, or just find interesting people, and there you can get an invite to No Agenda Social.
	When you're in the chat room, just type exclamation mark NA social and it will give you a link and you can go to knowagindasocial.com, which is also exploding in activity.
	Great to see how everyone is doing virtual meetups, etc.
	Let's do you read today's meetup list.
	Yeah, that's why the meetups are virtual is an interesting concept.
	Also, a big in the morning, too, our artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1227.
	We titled that one Boozing and Beefing.
	Darino did it simple, to the point, gets it.
	It was the Rx No Agenda prescription, and the prescription is written in by our very own Dr.
	Darin O'Neill.
	Take one dose, two times a week.
	It was simple.
	Apparently, listening to the show puts people's minds at ease during these trying times of war against the silent enemy.
	I would...
	Talking about the art, I do want to mention something people should note so they don't waste their time.
	You know, the way the art's picked Adam and I go or stuff and then, you know, one of the two...
	We have to both agree.
	It's like one of these things where it has to be 100% agreement.
	Which means...
	It means that one of us has a veto, either one of us.
	Yeah, there's always veto.
	I will veto anything with a picture of the coronavirus on it.
	I think it's a disgusting image.
	It's not even real.
	It's an artist's conception of it that comes, I believe, out of Italy and then became licensed.
	And it's not from an electron microscope or anything, which doesn't look like that at all.
	It looks a little like it because it's got the corona part.
	But I find it's kind of an ugly image, and if I see it, you will not get picked.
	So if you want to just put coronaviruses on there, you're not going to ever get picked.
	And John has a veto, so even if I like it, it just won't work.
	And the other, I mean, I will veto...
	Or just not vote for it.
	It's not really a veto, but I just won't vote for any image that is ugly.
	I don't like the idea of a toothless hag or some horrible looking thing.
	I just don't think these are attractive images that people are going to be.
	People are not attracted to it.
	If you're not attracted to the image, then what's the point of using it?
	It's a marketing tool.
	And so ugly images are just verbote as far as I'm concerned.
	And the coronavirus itself, that stupid looking thing with all the plugs sticking out of it, is just out.
	So do your art, whatever you want to do, but you put that up there.
	You're not going anywhere.
	Just thought that should be mentioned so you don't waste your time.
	Well, thank you very much, Darren O'Neill.
	You did not waste your time.
	You did a fabulous job.
	Love it.
	It worked out perfectly for us.
	And we look forward to art that will be uploaded for today's episode.
	We changed the album art, part of our Value for Value network.
	Well, we are just better than the rest because we have tens of thousands of producers.
	Not listeners.
	Not fans.
	Producers.
	And we'd like to thank the...
	The executive producer and associate executive producers for today's episode.
	Indeed.
	And there's a couple that I think sent you notes or something you might want to look at.
	Oh, really?
	One in particular.
	Jason Howard in Allison Park, Pennsylvania.
	69633 is the top of the list.
	And he writes in, gentlemen and sir...
	Always appreciate your show, especially in these long, large amygdala times.
	Wish for a new amygdala-shrinking variation of the nominal virus.
	I hail near Pittsburgh.
	I ask for a hard dedouche.
	You've been dedouched.
	And a melody of your choice.
	I will work on my knighthood post-haste.
	Thanks for keeping me calm and carrying me on.
	You're truly a knight howitzer to be.
	I got myself a case of Wuhan flu I don't know what I am supposed to do Didn't know I had it when I gave it to you Now we all got the Wuhan flu You've got karma That's my medley.
	Derek Winkie in Clarkston, Mississippi.
	$399.96.
	In these times of need, here is your cut of my future COVID-19 stimulus check.
	33.33%.
	Ahead of the curve.
	Thank you.
	That's very kind of you.
	Everyone that helps with this show is ahead of the curve.
	How good would universal basic income be if...
	You still worked, but you were forced to spend your $1,200 or your $1,000 a month on podcasts or other media that you want to support directly.
	It'd be great.
	That would upend everything.
	Politics would change.
	Of course, Hollywood would change.
	News would change.
	It would change the world.
	Just a girl can dream.
	He says the balance of which will be directed to my employees who I continue to pay through the state shutdown.
	Right on.
	Good for you.
	I count myself fortunate and have prepared for events like these, both personal and business, so I do not need the money.
	Off it goes to support the show, a vital resource of these times.
	Karma to all producers who help navigate the mass hysteria that we're living through.
	ITM, Derek Winke.
	Thank you very much, Derek.
	ITM. You've got karma.
	Right.
	Now we have Cole Candler, who came in with 389.
	What is it?
	389.34 is in Lynchburg, Virginia.
	I believe I have a note from him.
	You've got mail.
	Good morning, gents.
	I got mail, yeah.
	Play it again, I stepped all over it.
	My timing was shit.
	So just say, I have a note here.
	We'll edit it in later.
	I have a note here.
	You've got mail.
	There you go.
	Dynamite.
	This donation at 389.34 will bring me to a long overdue knighthood.
	Oh, that's not on the list.
	Okay, hold on.
	I should have read this note earlier.
	It's called show prep.
	I did.
	But the prep was looking up all these missing notes and then putting them in separate tabs so I can go back and read them.
	Not necessarily read each and every one of them, which is going to take way too much time.
	And the number of people that slipped the old knighthood in out of the blue is so low that I've made the decision that I don't have to worry about it.
	Okay.
	Well, we're worrying about it now.
	Tell us the note from Cole.
	I would like to be known as Sir Cole.
	Mm-hmm.
	Of lower locks view.
	Lower what?
	Locks view.
	L-O-C-K-S view.
	Locks view.
	Like you're looking at a lock.
	Okay.
	Happy to eat and drink whatever's at the round table.
	I've been a listener since the very early days.
	Love the show.
	Like a fine wine.
	It's getting better with age.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, just like that.
	A couple of doses of karma and a douchebag call-out.
	All right.
	Who's the douchebag call-out for?
	Let's go.
	So first, I would like a large dose of goat karma to all members of the high school class of 2020 and university class of 2024.
	My daughter is a high school senior.
	She and her classmates are being robbed.
	Oh.
	And by the way, yes, robbed at what should be the best time of their lives.
	The dance recital she's looked forward to since she was five years old is canceled.
	as is her senior dance and almost assuredly graduated.
	It will be a tough time for these kids.
	Psychologically, maybe.
	Sitting at home and doing online learning will suck.
	Second, I need a dose of business selling karma.
	We're supposedly selling a large chunk of our business on March 31st.
	Here's hoping a dose of karma will help make that happen.
	I'll keep you posted.
	And finally, a douchebag call out to Zach Moss.
	Douchebag!
	I hit him in the mouth four years ago and when he was working with me.
	Time for a donation, Zach.
	Also, we miss you.
	Thanks, J. Cole Candler.
	Alright, so he also wanted a de-douching, I think.
	Was that at the beginning we give him that?
	No, he did.
	Douchebags.
	Just douchebags?
	Yeah, just the douchebags and the karma.
	Goat karma.
	We got it.
	You've got...
	Let me take Sir Goodfellow of the Rockies.
	33333 Arvada, Colorado.
	In the morning, gentlemen, Sir Goodfellow of the Rockies here.
	This donation has become war and peace.
	I hope it's worth it.
	So do we.
	Many have discussed the inconvenience of this current climate in comparison to it has been completely devastating for my company and everyone in the live event slash AV space audio video.
	Every event through May canceled or postponed with no clue when anything will begin to schedule or start working again.
	I've had to lay off 50% of my workers and cut salaries on top on the rest to keep the lights on.
	We have no foreseeable income till August.
	I hope it's sooner.
	While airlines, restaurants, and other social places will pick back up fairly quickly, we will see many more months of waiting on what is going to happen when people will start meeting again.
	Thankfully we will survive this, but I know many others whose lives have or will be ruined.
	It's just plain terrible.
	I would love to crowdsource any ideas from producers that might have alternate income ideas for us, because at the moment we are at a dead and complete stop.
	I'll take any thoughts at this point.
	The easiest way to reach us is through gigrent.com.
	This is a very serious situation.
	I believe that our industry has been affected by this more than any other one.
	Anyway, done with the bemoaning, I want to quickly give perspective to the constant notes about the terrible audio and everything that Joe Biden and others do.
	I have some standing here, as I have had the privilege of doing a number of events for the White House and other campaigns.
	Here we go.
	This is interesting.
	I was lead on the 2009 stimulus signing event in Denver, another Joe Biden VP event the same year, and other Obama campaign events in 2008.
	I've also staff that handled Bernie, Obama, Biden, and Bush events.
	Other than the president, none of the candidates pay for or have a dedicated sound professional with them unless they are on national television.
	Well, I'd say that's your problem right there.
	The president's smart.
	He's got his guy.
	At the campaign events, there will be a different AV company almost every single time, and you can't always guarantee a professional handling of the audio.
	Maybe this should change, but frankly, I don't think they care as long as it works.
	When it's a random video that they make, many times it's a staffer with a video camera filming them that has no idea what they're doing.
	No kidding.
	The president, on the other hand, has two to three comms department people that travel to each event and carry their own sound console that is on battery backups and pre-dialed for the standard Shure SM57s that they are always required to use on the podium.
	The crew are normally from the Army and have been assigned to the White House and served two to three years there.
	They're trained once assigned and doing audio for the President is most of what they do.
	This doesn't change the fact that they should do a better job, at least we can know why.
	Donation breakdowns as follow.
	$300.33 split evenly between the two guys that work in the warehouse that are Denver shop.
	I hit Michael in the mouth and they now listen to every show.
	I hope this can lift their spirits slightly and know that they'll be back in the warehouse as soon as I can possibly get them back in there.
	Can you de-douche Michael and Dalton for this?
	You've been de-douched.
	And the last $33 is for a podcasting license as I'm starting a new AV podcast this week.
	Would love a Sharpton compilation and the best jobs karma you can muster for both Michael and Dalton as well as all business.
	We need events back on the books yesterday.
	We're all getting pretty bored and tired of this out here.
	Lastly, I need a title change upgrade.
	Realized I moved to Barron last year and need to petition some peerage committee for a portion of Colorado as it is currently being managed by Sir Michael Gates and Sir Gene.
	I'd like a piece of the pie if you can afford me with some.
	I don't know if the peerage committee has done anything on this, John.
	Do you know?
	It's right now in committee.
	Okay.
	Well, it would be nice if the committee could get back to some people, because...
	It will.
	It will shortly be a...
	This will be a...
	This will be a yes.
	All right.
	So I'm going to throw the goat karma out there with some Sharpton respects.
	Seems like a lot of people are defending on Sir Goodfellow of the Rockies.
	R-E-S-P-I-C-T You've got...
	Karma...
	Fred Reed, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie, it's funny, I went back and forth with this guy a thousand times and never asked him how to pronounce his name.
	In Leesburg, Virginia, $333.33.
	He sent a note in.
	And, Podfathers, forgive me, this is my first donation, de-douche me.
	You've been de-douched.
	Bad dream woke me this morning at 3.33 a.m.
	and the next move could not be denied.
	Please accept this donation as a recompense.
	A big hello to Baron John Bell, Eric Wills, and the guy that hit me in the mouth, George Caleb.
	I believe George is a douchebag.
	Please call him out.
	Douchebag!
	And I just have some jingle requests you can write down as I continue to read this and discuss what we have here from Fred.
	He's got Biden's the whole load.
	The whole load.
	Obama, you might die.
	And China is asshole.
	And then some just old-fashioned karma at the end.
	Oh, he does have his pronunciation.
	It's pronounced reggae.
	So Fred Reggae, R-E-G-E, puts it at the end, by the way.
	It's funny.
	People, put this stuff at the beginning.
	Yes, please do.
	All right, here we go.
	I'm going to give you the whole load today.
	You might not.
	Chinese asshole!
	You've got karma.
	Okay, onward with our...
	Howard Morgan is next.
	$333.
	I looked for a Howard Morgan note.
	There's none to be had.
	It's possible, because I did look up his email, that he sent you something.
	Yeah, Howard Morgan, I do not have.
	See note?
	No, I have no Howard Morgan.
	You'd be surprised how many people ask for something and think that I know magically their email address and they provide the wrong one.
	It's very frustrating, but I don't have a note.
	We need a formula for people who say...
	I don't know why anyone says Adam a note because I'm the one that reads these, but okay.
	K5VZ, Sir Otaku...
	Dorth, Dorth, Dorth, Duke of North, East Texas, and the Red River Valley.
	Make it Dorth.
	He's contributed 300 bucks.
	He's from Louisville.
	Since COVID-19 has gripped the world in fear, it forced me to work from home and cause the cancellation of all the barbecue and steak competitions for the foreseeable future.
	Oh, no!
	I'm sending the, in the entry fee I would have spent for my next steak competition to help you guys out in this time of uncertainty.
	The next, I didn't know they had steak competitions.
	That would be, I'd love to be a judge on that one.
	I was a judge in a number of these things and I could do barbecue.
	Didn't he already invite you to the barbecue off or something?
	Maybe, but it's moot.
	It's moot.
	It's moot.
	It's moot, not happening.
	It's moot.
	The nice thing about prepping for a barbecue competition is I've got a freezer full of brisket.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, I need to go this way so I can learn how to cook brisket properly, Texas style.
	Because only Texans seem to know how to do this correctly.
	You have brisket all over the country, and it's not as good as what you get down there.
	Pork butts, ribs, and steaks in a closet full of nitrile gloves.
	Clorox wipes, paper towels, and toilet paper.
	So I got back and I watched the good folks of DFW raid the shelves of my local grocery and the big box stores.
	Thanks for keeping me from going store crazy in what seems like a totally surreal time.
	Can I get some JCD mac and cheese karma and a little girl yay?
	73's K5VZ surotaku.com.
	Duke of North Texas, Northeast Texas in the Red River Valley.
	Yeah, 73s, K5ACC. I wanted to mention that the hams, the ham radio community of which John and I are outstanding members, Not awarded with any awards, but we clearly are celebrating hams.
	They are going jitty over this.
	On the bulletin boards, the ham Reddit is my favorite.
	Here's a subject on the ham amateur radio Reddit.
	This is the moment we've trained for all our lives, people!
	Now here we have Ham Radio, guys.
	Ham Radio is the public service network of last resort.
	When the apocalypse comes, we're the guys who are going to save the world, right?
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Macaroni and cheap cheddar melted together.
	Mac and cheese.
	Hey, everybody.
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	I brought this up at the dinner table.
	I said, what do you think in this moment would happen to If the government announced that they're going to shut down the internet for public safety reasons or whatever, just shut it down.
	No internet.
	What would happen?
	And everybody agreed that there would be riots in the street.
	Yeah, likely.
	I think Google services went down for a little bit this morning and people are already losing their crap.
	Unbelievable.
	By the way, one of our producers or someone at the company, I don't know where this came from, someone sent me a Charmin big roll.
	I saw the picture.
	That's hilarious.
	Yeah, there's three rolls there.
	I didn't get to show the third one.
	And then you get this little rack they give you, and it goes in the bathroom.
	It just looks like it's a monstrosity in the bathroom.
	I love the idea.
	I saw the picture of you.
	It's great.
	Yeah, and it's like enough toilet paper.
	I would like somebody to tell me who did this.
	It's enough toilet paper.
	Each one of those rolls is good for a month.
	And so there I am.
	Hey, because the toilet paper has been sold out in the Bay Area.
	Every shop, every nook and cranny.
	Since day one, when they had the first toilet paper run, the panic, And Costco has not had any toilet paper in it.
	They have a big sign out in front of the store now, no toilet paper.
	And Costco's made a smart move.
	They've decided that they're not taking any returns on any paper products.
	So if you buy way too much paper towels or you bought tons of toilet paper and you can't get rid of it, they're not taking it back.
	Whereas Costco, even if you buy a bottle of wine and you don't like it, you take it back, full credit.
	Yeah, they'll take it back.
	They'll take almost anything back.
	Without complaint.
	No hassle.
	But now they've made a new policy.
	You cannot bring the toilet paper back.
	You bought it, you keep it.
	Choke on it!
	Choke on the toilet paper.
	Douchebag.
	That's what they should say.
	I think it should be added to the employee manual.
	Yes.
	On with the associate executive producer, starting with Remy.
	Cooter.
	Cooter.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I didn't see it.
	Yes, I would have gotten that.
	It's actually misspelled here.
	It would be K-E-U-T-E-R. E-U. Okay.
	Cooter.
	In Voerberg.
	Two, three, four, five, six.
	Forberg.
	Forberg.
	Nailed it.
	Thanks for the balance and disinfosainment to the bestest podcast in the Omniverse from the soon-to-be Sir Stinkfinger, a.k.a.
	the plague from the Hague.
	It's B-H-U-G. Thug, District 070.
	Calling out my buddies Olaf the Dark of Elmsburg and Big Ben.
	Hold on a second.
	I'm going to stop this read immediately.
	I'm going to give it over to Adam to read it in his best Dutch accent.
	Calling out my buddies, Olaf, the dark of Elmsburg, and Big Ben of the watery fields as douchebags!
	I give him two because he's two douchebags.
	Could I get some special number one customer Trump Pelosi jobs karma for my smoking hot wife Femke, a.k.a.
	Bam Bam of the Sweet Woods?
	Since a recruitment agency is suffering from a hard hiring freeze due to the panic pandemic caused by ConVit19.
	Get it?
	ConVit.
	Meanwhile, some personal health karma is appreciated, since I've been scraping pieces of my own lungs off the walls for three weeks, but not dying, so not getting tested, so no corona.
	That's how we roll in the lowlands.
	The real Spartans keep on walking slaves and take two parasitomoletjes.
	Jingles.
	Rubbleizer, Sheena's asshole, Bernie, master of the universe, and carry-on gentleman, Remy.
	Dude, a nod, and a wink to show.
	Excellent.
	There you go.
	I happen to have that lined up for you.
	India.
	Hang on.
	Mike.
	Stand by.
	33.
	Rob Eliza out.
	Chinese asshole!
	I'm the President of the United States.
	I have all of the jobs.
	Jobs.
	Jobs.
	And jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Jobs!
	You've got karma.
	And he will be our only associate executive producer, as we want to thank all these executive and associate executive producer for sponsoring show 1228.
	Yes, it's been extremely nice to hear from all of you.
	I love these notes, some of them longer than others, but, you know, this is a very interesting time we're living through, and I like the information that we're getting.
	Thank you all, especially you narcs, narcing on stuff that's going on.
	I love that.
	Anonymity Assured, whenever.
	Keep it coming because the media tribe known as No Agenda Nation clearly is head and shoulders above all other outlets.
	I mean, really, I've just heard so much misinformation, people just missing entire swaths of what's happening.
	I think we're doing a pretty good job.
	A very good job.
	It's probably the best podcast.
	We need Trump to say that.
	Can someone please get him to tell us how excellent we are?
	We, of course, do this under the value for value method, as you just heard.
	Whatever the show is worth to you, please let us know that in a donation.
	Go to Dvorak.org slash NA. We'll be doing another show on Sunday, still on lockdown.
	Dvorak.org.
	So you can easily go out and tell everybody that this is the place to get all the best info.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water!
	Water!
	Shut up, Slade!
	Shut up, slave!
	You know, there are other things to talk about besides this, but people seem to be interested, and I have coming up, or we can do it now, probably.
	Let's do it now.
	I think now is a good time.
	Which is a worldwide report, because we're not hearing as much as we could be in this, you know, every country in the world's been affected.
	It's a worldwide phenomenon.
	It's a world war!
	And I want to, we could do it in like a clip blitz, but I think we can just do it.
	And these are the different countries.
	Yeah, just tell me which country to go to.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me get the magic country wheel all lined up so we have them all ready to go.
	Each click on the wheel is a report from a different country.
	We're going around the world with COVID-19.
	Where do we start?
	Let's start with France.
	France it is.
	And we start for you here in France, where the army will be a more visible presence in towns and cities across the country in the coming weeks.
	More money, too, will be poured into France's public hospitals, which are under strain.
	This is all part of what's known as Operation Resilience, an updated plan to fight COVID-19 announced by the French president in an address to the nation on Wednesday.
	Let's take a listen to a little of what Emmanuel Macron told the French people.
	A lot has been done, but undoubtedly the response wasn't fast nor strong enough.
	Tonight I'm committing to a plan for all of the health staff...
	And the entire nation.
	When we reach the end of this crisis, I'll implement a large-scale plan seeking to invest and reassert the value of all careers within the health sector.
	This is what we owe our medical staff, and it's what we owe to our nation.
	Well, it's clear the situation in France is extremely serious and indeed across much of Europe.
	The United Nations has also been sounding the alarm about the risks of COVID-19 in the developing world.
	I'm really glad you're doing this.
	People easily forget outside their own bubble what's going on.
	This is a global war, and every country is trying to get money to their citizens.
	The EU has a very interesting problem.
	You know, who should get the money and why?
	Not all are affected equally.
	You're seeing our own little problems here in the US, but everywhere they're trying to figure out how to scare people into staying home and how to get them universal basic income so we can then figure out what the world should look like after this exercise.
	Yeah, and there's a lot of, I think, personally...
	Especially based on some reports out of Italy that only 19% of the people dying actually have COVID. So the possibility exists that some of these countries that like to do this to the EU are pumping up their numbers to get more cash.
	Not sure.
	I'm not accusing anybody.
	But coincidentally, the next on the list is Spain.
	Now let's take a look for you at the situation in Spain, where the death toll from the coronavirus is rising sharply.
	More people have now lost their lives in Spain than in China, where of course the virus originated.
	Over 3,400 fatalities have been recorded on Spanish soil, and authorities have been forced to turn an ice rink into a temporary morgue to cope with the number of dead, as Jean-Emile Jamin now reports.
	Where once this served as a Madrid ice rink, a makeshift morgue now takes its place.
	Batches of bodies continuing to arrive here every day, all of them victims succumbing to the coronavirus.
	Spanish suffering continued into Wednesday as the country's death rate overtook that of China.
	With more than 3,400 mortalities now recorded, Italy is the only country with a higher toll.
	India.
	Yes.
	Well, since China was mentioned, let's take a quick look at China.
	Okay, China is on deck.
	Back in the original outbreak epicenter of China's Hubei province, two months of travel restrictions were eased, allowing some rail stations and airports to get back to business and families to reunite.
	I feel so happy that this virus didn't affect my family so much.
	I'm so desperate to go back home now to see all of them there.
	China's worst hit area of Wuhan, however, remains under lockdown with no plans to ease restrictions for another two weeks.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And while we're still, we'd go back to the EU and finish with the only report from the UK. Yes.
	And in the United Kingdom, the heir to the British throne, 71-year-old Prince Charles is the latest high-profile positive test for coronavirus.
	He has mild symptoms and is self-isolating at his Scotland estate.
	Before we move on to the next sad sap country, what a great opportunity to satisfy the will of the British people, who clearly would rather have will as their prince instead of having to deal with...
	What?
	King.
	I meant Prince William as king, who clearly would rather have him king than Charles.
	A perfect opportunity.
	I mean, I'm surprised we're not seeing more people die.
	And I did take the liberty of clipping three short bits from Boris Johnson's State of the Nation.
	This is how it was presented.
	Now, I left out the whole...
	You're only allowed to leave your house for the same things as pretty much everybody has.
	And here we continue with some more rules about what you should or should not do.
	It's very different from the United States as this is the law.
	These are the only reasons you should leave your home.
	You should not be meeting friends.
	If your friends ask you to meet, you should say no.
	You should not be meeting family members who do not live in your home.
	You should not be going shopping except for essentials like food and medicine.
	And you should do this as little as you can.
	And use food delivery services where you can.
	If you don't follow the rules, the police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings.
	We knew those powers.
	Well, yes, we need to ensure compliance.
	To ensure compliance with the government's instruction to stay at home, we will immediately close all shops.
	Now, this is different.
	This was...
	No one ordered shops and restaurants to close in the United States.
	It's part of a directive, and it's part of the recommendations, which finally got down to the city level.
	But this happened at the top.
	We're closing shops.
	That's what he said.
	We are closing shops.
	Close all shops selling non-essential goods, including clothing and electronic stores and other premises, including libraries, playgrounds, and outdoor gyms and places of worship.
	We'll stop all gatherings of more than two people in public, excluding people you live with, and we'll stop all social events, including weddings, baptisms, and other ceremonies, but excluding funerals.
	I don't know why funerals are excluded, but okay.
	And he wraps it all up with a nice bow with a very somber tone.
	No Prime Minister wants to enact measures like this.
	I know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people's lives, to their businesses, and to their jobs.
	And that's why we've produced a huge and unprecedented programme of support both for workers and for business.
	And I can assure you that we will keep these restrictions under constant review.
	We will look again in three weeks and relax them If the evidence shows we are able to.
	But at present, there are just no easy options.
	The way ahead is hard.
	And it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost.
	We're all gonna die!
	And that's not...
	Is that how you end your speech?
	Sadly, many lives will be...
	How about, we can fight this, we'll take her to the beaches, we'll take her to the bunkers, no, none of that, sadly.
	Yeah, you should have slipped a Churchill speech in at the end.
	Yeah, but sadly, it's just, uh, nah, nah.
	You're probably gonna die, you little girl.
	We'll, sadly, be lost.
	Yeah, they will be lost.
	Oh my goodness.
	Thanks, Bojo.
	Let's take a look.
	Okay, onward with our little world tour.
	Let's go to India.
	India on lockdown.
	With police barricading roads, restricting movement, and checking driver identification, while markets and airports appeared abandoned.
	India's current tally of cases and deaths is dwarfed by countries like China, Italy and Spain.
	But the country has just 0.5 hospital beds for every thousand people, compared to 4.3 in China and 3.2 in Italy.
	Health experts have warned the densely populated nation faces a tidal wave of infections if harsh steps are not taken.
	While Prime Minister Mahendra Modi's announcement has mostly been met with a reluctant acceptance, residents remain fearful that the poor will be the hardest hit.
	Despite government's lockdown also extending to places of religious worship, a few locals managed to gather outside shut Hindu temple doors on Wednesday as prayers were offered on the first day of the Chaitra Navratri festival.
	India's going to be a good worst case example.
	Very interesting to see how they're going to do.
	Although you go down to Africa, which is where we're headed, it's going to be interesting.
	Big countries like Nigeria should have some problemos.
	Now to Nigeria, where the vice president and several other senior politicians are self-isolating after coming into contact with two people infected with the coronavirus.
	President Mohamedou Bahari's chief of staff is also said to have COVID-19, one of a growing number of cases in Africa's most populous nation.
	This Wednesday, Nigeria received test kits and protective gear from Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba.
	China's richest man has pledged to donate equipment to all 54 countries in Africa.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah.
	Jack Ma stepping up.
	Well, of course, that's where all his people are.
	Yeah, in Africa.
	In Africa.
	Yeah, that's where they are.
	But still, very low infection rate.
	Very low.
	Yeah, it seems so, but it's going to spike.
	Yes, alarming spike.
	Let's go to Zimbabwe.
	Zimbabwe, home of the trillion dollar bill.
	Right now we are exposed and no one seems to care.
	Those are the words of the president of Zimbabwe's Doctors' Association.
	Thousands of medical workers have gone on strike in the country complaining of a lack of protective equipment and water shortages.
	As they gear up to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, there have been at least three recorded cases in Zimbabwe in less than a week and one deaf.
	The outbreak is likely to test the nation's already stretched health system.
	Yeah.
	Three cases doesn't seem like it's going to stretch it that much.
	The place it's got the most is next on the list, which is South Africa.
	Yes.
	As South Africa gears up for a 21-day lockdown, there's been widespread panic buying.
	People have been rushing to stock up on essentials ahead of the shut-in.
	All shops and businesses will close except those providing essential services.
	There are currently over 700 confirmed cases in the country, which is the worst affected nation in sub-Saharan Africa.
	It's a worry for health officials, as South Africa has a large population of HIV and tuberculosis sufferers, who may be at greater risk to the virus.
	Hmm.
	Onward to Cameroon.
	I thought the whole point of some people...
	I thought a lot of HIV, some kind of antibodies or something was flowing around in Africa since they've had such horrible HIV and AIDS problems.
	Wasn't there some mention of maybe some immunity to the coronavirus?
	I'm just telling you what I thought.
	I know there's an HIV drug that's used against the coronavirus that's supposed to be effective.
	Yes, I think it's another Gilead invention.
	Probably.
	Probably.
	Cameroon!
	Now we head to Cameroon, where the country is in mourning, following the death of legendary saxophonist Manu DiBango.
	The Afro-jazz musician was one of the first global stars to succumb to the coronavirus.
	I like the use of the word saxophonist.
	Instead of saxophonist?
	Yeah.
	When I want sax, I call candy.
	Saxophonist.
	I like saxophonics.
	I use my esophagus for my saxophonics.
	Never mind.
	It's fine.
	I got a two-parter in this, the final two parts, which is Congo 1.
	Now the coronavirus is spreading quickly in parts of Africa, including in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
	Over 40 people there have contracted the virus and three have died so far.
	A state of emergency has been declared and that means borders are closed and the capital, Kinshasa, cut off from the rest of the country.
	And then continuing on that report was a guy talking about the capital and how they got cut off.
	...
	suspended all passenger flights to and from Kinshasa.
	The aim of these measures, of course, is to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus across the country and also to isolate the capital.
	That's because Congolese authorities know all too well that should the epidemic worsen here in the DRC, the health care system would be simply unable to cope with an influx of sick people.
	That's something that was confirmed by the National Doctors' Union, who said that there are only 50 respirators in the country.
	These new measures come a week after other safety and precautionary measures were implemented, including the suspension of all international flights.
	Schools, churches as well as bars and restaurants have also been closed and gatherings are now limited to no more than 20 people.
	When I hear all these reports, it sure sounds like a global reset, doesn't it?
	It sounds like everyone...
	In fact, isn't the euro and dollar now almost equal?
	It's maybe...
	I think it's a penny or so difference?
	Well, I can tell you really quickly.
	I thought it was one point...
	Maybe it's nine cents.
	Take a look.
	Let's see.
	I got a look up here and...
	No, it's about ten.
	Oh, okay.
	No, that's still pretty good.
	But man, there's all this money being created.
	Where's it coming from, John?
	Where does the $6 trillion come from?
	The pound is $1.21, by the way.
	Well, this is almost...
	It seems as though you're right.
	Everyone's agreed on the same process.
	Stay at home, close the borders.
	This is a...
	It's...
	And then give away a lot of money.
	This has got to be something like they had a meeting.
	The globalists had a meeting and said, well, you know, our plans to make one big government is not going to work.
	Let's try a different approach.
	There was something in the CARES Act bill that refers to the Gold Standard Act, let me see, Section 10A of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, which gives the government the power to take away your gold, basically.
	I don't know, and I tried to figure it out last night.
	Yeah, they did, but they could do it again.
	You know, there's all this noise that China had been buying gold before this came down.
	Gold has been moving around from country to country for years now.
	We've heard about repatriation of gold.
	And I would say that the big conspiracy theory has always been, you know, this is where they bring in the one world, you know, the currency, the SDR, which I don't believe.
	I do believe cash is gone.
	I'm waiting for the Amero.
	Remember that?
	That was great.
	The Amero scare.
	That was before Bitcoin, really.
	We didn't know what we were doing.
	You can't help but think that there was some coordination And then, where does it come from?
	I mean, yeah, I know it just gets created, but we have all these, we have banks now at 0% reserve.
	It seems like we're in a very precarious situation.
	Did I not see the three-month treasury now as a negative rate?
	No, I don't think so.
	I think it bounced back.
	I think it bounced.
	It did one of those little bounce-throughs.
	Bounce, okay.
	The one other thing I didn't mention is crude oil is now 22.
	Yes, so the way I... This is a major change.
	I mean, except in California where we're still being charged for old $60 gas.
	But everyone else in the country, and now I understand Oklahoma is down to like 95 cents a gallon.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, in an ideal recovery, and I recall...
	Yes, coronavirus hit.
	Yes, that took the market down.
	But we lost 2,000 points when the oil war started between Saudi Arabia and Russia.
	There's no in-depth reporting that I can find that explains exactly what the problem is other than, we don't like them.
	We don't like what you're doing.
	You're doing it wrong.
	Too much, too little, too high, too low.
	And if this is truly a setup for a V-shaped recovery, catapult everyone's rebalance somehow, you'd expect somewhere in the way up, as the bill gets signed and whatever else is going to happen, all of a sudden that should end.
	Just like it started.
	And that could catapult or slingshot something up.
	It's such an odd occurrence that is barely reported on.
	And if they do, it's just a mention.
	Well, you know, they're in a rift.
	This is not insignificant.
	This would be the story, I think, if coronavirus was not there.
	I totally agree.
	If it wasn't for COVID-19, this would be the story that everyone would be hand-wringing over and blaming Trump.
	Yeah, why don't you just call your buddies in Saudi Arabia and make it all better, which is a question.
	That, by the way, has been brought up in the conversation.
	I'm sure.
	I'm sure.
	Trump can fix it overnight.
	All he has to do is call MBS, whatever it is, and he'll tell him what to do because he's his boss.
	And meanwhile, how come Putin, who's calling the shots, he's the one running the United States, doesn't call Trump to call MBS. Exactly.
	Well, Trump is also killing people, and this is with the Trump cure, as it's now known, chloroquine.
	That is the Trump cure.
	It's dangerous.
	It's anecdotal evidence.
	Don't take it.
	Don't do it.
	All wrong.
	The media just hammering against Trump.
	You cannot find a mainstream story that speaks positively about this combination of Of the Z-Pak and the chloroquine, which has now been...
	FDA regulations have been changed.
	Everybody can take it.
	I hear that there's good results with it, but let's just check the mainstream media for a second.
	What?
	I was just going to say, before we play that, I talked to...
	JC keeps up on this because he used chloroquine to get over this COVID himself.
	And he keeps up with all this stuff.
	And I asked him about this combination they're talking about, and he told me the real problem with it is...
	Is that it causes heart dysfunction, which is, you know, you can get through that as long as you get over the COVID, but if you exercise or you start to do anything, you know, that might put a little stress on the heart, you drop, you have a heart attack and drop dead, and that's what's killed people.
	And so these athletes, you know, are real good examples because they can't stay still long enough.
	Yeah.
	It does work.
	Well, this is not true.
	Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope?
	No, I don't think so.
	No, I don't think so.
	I think that, I think it's got, you know, such a lovely question.
	Look, it may work and it may not work.
	And I agree with the doctor what he said.
	May work, may not work.
	I feel good about it.
	Yeah, that was, of course, horrible.
	Who is he to disperse medical advice?
	Fauci, you know, had confusing messages, but now everyone's on board and it can be used, and apparently it's being used in New York.
	And I again call to attention Dr.
	Fauci's other interests, why he may have been cagey, and I don't want to point the finger...
	Too directly, but I think his answers were pretty sketchy in light of his conflicting interest with the Gates Foundation, $100 million partnership for Gilead resolution to this, the company Gilead.
	I should mention, and this comes up in the conversation, Scott Adams, in one of his, whatever they're called, mentions that he was in close contact with one of his friends who Whose doctor gave him the chloroquine and got him through the COVID situation.
	So this is not as though this is not being used as we speak.
	We have lots of evidence that it is.
	So the whole thing is very fishy.
	And it would have been really nice to have Scott or his friend on CNN and say, hey, this has worked out for this guy.
	That's good.
	It's hopefully got some news.
	No.
	Instead, we get this from CNN. A game changer.
	That is how President Trump describes the anti-malarial drug chloroquine.
	It's now one of 69 drugs being investigated as potential treatment against coronavirus.
	The problem, it has not yet been approved.
	In Arizona, one man has died after an apparent attempt to self-medicate with that drug.
	In that report, no mention that he drank fish cleaner.
	That's how low the media goes.
	That's how low they will go just because they hate Trump.
	It's unbelievable.
	Third one.
	John, after President Trump touted the use of chloroquine as a possible treatment for COVID-19, three Nigerians have overdosed from that drug, according to Nigerian health officials.
	Yeah, sure.
	There's evidence less reporting.
	Yes.
	There's no evidence of any of this, but they'll report it anyway.
	Yes.
	Meanwhile, we have on Instagram, actor Daniel Dae Kim.
	You may recall, I don't know him for what he's doing now.
	I think he's in Hawaii 5-0.
	Here is a treatment protocol I followed as prescribed by my amazing doctor.
	It was what's called a drug cocktail, which means it's a combination of different drugs.
	It consisted of Tamiflu, which is an antiviral.
	The antibiotic azithromycin, more commonly known as a Z-Pak, a glycopyrrolate inhaler that was used to ease breathing and the inflammation that's commonly associated with COVID. And here's what I consider to be the secret weapon, hydroxychloroquine.
	This is a common antimalarial drug that has been used with great success in Korea in their fight against the coronavirus.
	And yes, this is the drug that the president mentioned the other day.
	It is also the drug that Dr.
	Anthony Fauci cautioned us about.
	He said that evidence that the drug was promising is anecdotal.
	And that is correct.
	It means it wasn't studied and it's only based on personal accounts.
	We'll add my name to those personal accounts because I am feeling better.
	Now, why is a famous actor...
	I think he's very recognizable.
	He's on a current show.
	Why is he not interviewed?
	Why does this have to be Instagram?
	Why is he not on a Skype connection?
	It's good news!
	It saves his life, potentially!
	We should be reporting on this!
	No!
	Or they could bring the doctor in.
	Yeah, no, that's not going to happen.
	And to prove that other interests are at work, I could not believe how low the tobacco industry was willing to go in propagating.
	And I don't know why the Michigan governor did this.
	I don't know why the Surgeon General jumped on this.
	But listen to this part of a statement from the Michener governor regarding their lockdown.
	We've got to do everything in our power to keep that from happening here in Michigan.
	I shared with you one anecdote about younger people being as susceptible as older people.
	There's been this misperception that if you're young, you're not susceptible to COVID-19.
	The fact of the matter is, in America, we are seeing severe consequences in our younger people in ways that they haven't seen in other parts of the world.
	And I've talked to more than one physician who has observed, and perhaps there's too little science to know precisely if this is what's going on, but vaping is a lot more popular in the United States than it is elsewhere, and that compromises your respiratory system and makes you more susceptible to respiratory illness.
	And so this is a crisis that we are feeling in ways that other parts of the world hasn't even experienced.
	So she goes out of her way to say young people are dying from this and uses vaping as an anecdotal example.
	She's spoken to at least one, at least one scientist.
	One guy.
	And she also claims that more people in America vape than anywhere else in the world.
	Absolute bullshit.
	Go look at the UK. You have no idea what you're talking about.
	And where's the warning about tobacco?
	Hey kids, don't vape and don't smoke cigarettes.
	That's gone!
	No, no, no, no.
	We can't talk about that.
	Even our own Surgeon General Jerome Adams is all on board on this.
	Are young people more at risk than previously thought?
	Well, so far the demography definitely seems to be very different.
	He sounds like Mike Tyson, doesn't he?
	Well, so far the demography seems to be different in the United States versus in other countries that saw this hit earlier.
	And we're looking into that.
	There are theories that it could be because we know we have a higher proportion of people in the United States and also in Italy who vape.
	We don't know.
	Oh, do you hear that?
	Also in Italy, i.e., hey, look at all the dead people in Italy.
	Must be some 80-year-olds vaping, but okay.
	In the United States and also in Italy who vape, we don't know if that's the only cause, but it's important for young people to know you can get this disease, you can be hospitalized from this disease, you can die from this disease.
	And the Surgeon General should say...
	Not a good idea to be inhaling anything foreign into your lungs, including tobacco?
	The Surgeon General warning is on every package of tobacco?
	No.
	Vaping.
	This is why I don't believe that this is a scam, and people are jumping in on it and getting anything they can.
	All the money's good.
	Magic money.
	Helicopter money.
	Who knows where it comes from?
	I will mention, because I just...
	Now that I'm watching the YouTube TV and some of these other systems where you're getting your TV from the internet, there's a lot of interstitial and other advertising moments on videos, especially YouTube plain old videos at the beginning, that are anti-vaping, and they're very, very expensive advertisements.
	It's Bloomberg-funded.
	Extremely slick.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's Bloomberg funded.
	And it says nothing about tobacco.
	No, I know, but it's Bloomberg funded.
	He's behind that group.
	Now, amidst all of this, and again, there's no reason this had to happen right now, but it did.
	Once again, we have taken a sad, sad, pathetic member of society, jacked him or her up for months, Gotten them all crazy, and then at the moment we need either our budget renewed for yet next year,
	or perhaps to spread more fear and terror amongst people, we're going to make this moron pop off and do something that he or she thinks is incredibly cool and big and dangerous, but it was all set up for months and it's phony.
	Also known as the six-week cycle.
	FBI agents shoot and kill a man in Belton, Missouri, who they say plan to bomb a hospital.
	It's on this dead-end street in Belton where the FBI say they met Timothy Wilson on Tuesday.
	He thought he was there to pick up a car bomb.
	Instead, agents were there to arrest him.
	During the operation, the armed 36-year-old suspect was injured.
	He later died at the hospital.
	At the same time, agents were at this house on Hickory Leaf Lane in Raymore, where neighbors say Wilson lived with his grandmother.
	There was two unmarked FBI trucks out here and they were bagging and tagging evidence and logging it in and loading it on the trucks.
	They were about three or four hours in and they all left.
	Federal authorities had their eyes on Wilson for several months.
	They describe him as a violent extremist motivated by racial, religious and anti-government hate and was planning domestic terrorism.
	Hung out with his grandmother that had the place and never did see anything that would indicate that he was some type of domestic terrorist or anything like that.
	The FBI said the COVID-19 crisis made Wilson speed up his plan to blow up a car bomb at an area hospital to cause severe harm and mass casualties.
	I mean, this is so horrible that they've done this.
	If this guy truly was, he had religious and terrorists and idealistic things, you could have carried him on a little bit more to go blow up something else.
	Why, all of a sudden, does it have to be a hospital in the middle of this crisis?
	And listen to what they're saying.
	They set him up for months.
	They had a phony truck bomb, car bomb ready for him.
	He wasn't planning something during the coronavirus.
	This is total horseshit.
	Even the eyewitness you hear speaking, what eyewitness speaks to the news media and says the following?
	Hold on, where was he?
	FBI's grandmother.
	There was two unmarked FBI trucks out here and they were bagging and tagging evidence.
	Bagging and tagging evidence.
	Okay, yeah, that sounds like a typical bystander.
	Logging and in, loading it on the trucks.
	Now, this is to terrorize people even further.
	Didn't you mention something about a terrorist attack a few shows ago?
	Maybe.
	Begging and tagging.
	This is despicable.
	They had it completely under their control.
	They controlled the guy.
	Yeah.
	Well, what's new about that?
	Because it adds an extra level of terror on top of people who are already terrified.
	Yeah, that's what it does, and the media picks it up instead and just ignores it.
	Shameful!
	Shameful!
	Yeah, if I was one of the supervisors of the FBI running this six-week thing, I would probably scold the agents for doing this.
	The agents may have been forced to.
	It's hard to say.
	You could probably read it in the indictment.
	I read the indictment.
	No, I don't think they were forced to.
	I mean, the indictment at least doesn't state that.
	The special agent just says, you know.
	But they're not going to say that specifically.
	You have to read between the lines.
	I don't know.
	I didn't pick up on anything other than business as usual.
	Well, they're protecting the public.
	Thanks, boys.
	Good job.
	I feel much safer now.
	Dynamite.
	They got two shows on now.
	They got FBI and FBI Most Wanted on NBC. Both Dick Wolf productions.
	Yeah.
	And it's kind of interesting because the narrative has shifted on television dramas from, oh, we're the local cops and we know what we're doing and we can handle these investigations.
	And, oh, no, the FBI is going to get involved.
	They're going to botch it.
	They're going to let the guy go.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You've got to do it now.
	They've switched it.
	Dick Wolf is the progenitor of all these things, by the way.
	They switched it.
	Now it's the FBI. Oh my God, the local dumb cops are going to get involved.
	They don't know what they're doing.
	That's right.
	I don't know how much money this guy's making for these two shows.
	I'm sure he's doing fine.
	Yeah, he's doing fine.
	He's always done fine.
	Who's not doing fine is Joe Biden.
	Joe continues to embarrass himself.
	It's incredibly sad.
	Did you see the teleprompter one where his hand's over in the side motioning?
	Trying to get the prompter to move up.
	Yeah, this is a sad one.
	In Hot Topics, we talked about Trump saying the government would reassess the recommended period for keeping businesses shut and people at home.
	Are you at all concerned, as Trump said, that we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself?
	We have to take care of the cure.
	That will make the problem worse no matter what.
	What?
	Yeah, that's what a lot of people said when they heard this.
	You want to hear that last bit again?
	That's almost an end of show clip.
	Are you at all concerned, as Trump said, that we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself?
	We have to take care of the cure.
	That will make the problem worse no matter what.
	It's this stuff that comes out of Joe's mouth that is confusing people.
	And if you hear the term...
	No, I won't even set it up.
	Just listen to this next one from Joe.
	And what we have done is the reason why most of the world has repaired us, particularly after World War II, is because of who we are as a nation.
	We, the people, we hold these truths, etc.
	Sounds corny, but it's real.
	When you hear the term, we hold these truths, you always have to complete it with to be self-evident.
	That's just what you do.
	He's making an example of why people love America and listen to us and want to be on our side.
	We hold these truths, etc.
	Sounds corny, but it's real.
	And that's why, no, but that's why the vast majority of the nations have followed us.
	Yes, and there's my ISO. Sounds corny, but it's real.
	And I thought that was reasonable.
	Reasonable.
	I like the actual ISO of we hold these truths, etc.
	Let me see how that sounds.
	It's so bad, man.
	I mean, let me see, where is it here?
	We hold these truths, etc.
	No, it's un-American.
	I can't play that.
	It's just no good.
	But meanwhile, meanwhile, Twitter exploded for half a second two days ago with the name Tara Reid, R-E-A-D-E. Did you hear of this story?
	I did not.
	Tara Reid was a staffer for Bo Jiden back in the day, and I don't know why it's coming out now.
	It is her own words, her own voice.
	I pulled a minute-long clip from her sexual assault committed on her by Joe Biden when she was a staffer for him.
	I don't know if it was Senate or VP. He was in Congress, too, I believe, for a while.
	Yeah.
	We were alone, and it was the strangest thing.
	There was no exchange, really.
	He just had me up against the wall.
	And I was wearing a skirt, a business skirt, but I wasn't wearing We're good to go.
	He went down my skirt but then up inside and he penetrated me with his fingers.
	He was kissing me at the same time and he was saying something to me.
	He said several things and I can't remember everything he said.
	I remember a couple of things.
	I remember him saying first, as he was doing it, do you want to go somewhere else?
	And then him saying to me, when I pulled away, he got finished doing what he was doing, and I kind of was pulled back, and he said, come on, man.
	I heard you liked me.
	And just that line alone makes it 100% believable.
	I believe this woman.
	Well, she's very upset with it, and so I believe her tone sounds right.
	I would like to know the date.
	Yeah, I can find out.
	The year.
	I don't care if it's a Friday or a Monday.
	I just want to know what year this was.
	That would be useful.
	Does anyone have any information on that?
	Well, and this is the interesting thing.
	This sounds like a solid allegation, an actual...
	Pardon me saying it.
	Grabbing by the pussy moment, but real.
	Let me see if I can find her when this was from.
	1993, when she was a Senate staffer.
	1993.
	Yeah, that's when Biden had hair.
	Yeah.
	He always started to love as a lady killer.
	I'm a lady's man.
	Lady's man.
	Yeah, she worked in his Senate office in 1993.
	There'll probably be some other allegation, because you can't be the...
	These situations, from what I can tell, or just from life experience, one-offs are rare.
	In other words, this guy has not done this one time in his life.
	Well, especially if he's putting it up against the wall doing that and then saying, and this is what rings true to me.
	Come on, man!
	I thought you liked me.
	I mean, that sounds like the delusional Joe that we see.
	Yeah.
	And I, you know...
	In the world of hashtag MeToo, come on.
	Come on, man.
	Here's the deal.
	Someone's got to make some noise about this.
	This woman sounds traumatized to me, too.
	And aren't we supposed to believe all women?
	Isn't that just the way it is?
	Well, you know, it turns out that you only believe all women if it has to do with Republicans.
	Oh, you don't say.
	I hope people see this for the farce that the media is.
	And this is the reason why the No Agenda show came to be.
	Our own frustration about the bullcrap way the media portrays so-called news, mainly for their own agenda.
	I will mention, yes, that's exactly one of the reasons this show got onto the track that it's on.
	And one of the early sales pitches we had, and we don't use it much anymore, but it's still a good one, which is that things that are being reported don't make sense.
	They didn't make sense to us.
	And if you look into it, it doesn't make sense for a good reason because it's bullcrap.
	And we had a lot of early listeners say to us, you know, I felt the same way, but then I was doubting myself and the next thing you know.
	And then you guys came along and confirmed my suspicions.
	Mm-hmm.
	And that's what we do.
	It's early days, too.
	This was 12 years ago when we started this.
	We didn't have as much.
	People are finding their own truths, their own facts.
	Yes, you can have your own facts, depending on what you're looking at and how you're looking at it.
	But there are some irrefutable things, and this is just typical.
	It stands above everything.
	Why is the media not all over this?
	Why is the media not showing gin from Lost who has been saved?
	Wow, that was deep.
	I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	We do have a few people to thank, as a matter of fact, that do support the show.
	Starting with Adrian Dunquey.
	It's a German.
	He's in Pfaffenhofen.
	No, I think it's Dunskuss.
	Adrian Dunskuss.
	Dunskuss?
	In Pfaffenhofen?
	In Pfaffenhofen.
	Deutschland?
	Yes.
	You know Adrian.
	I remember.
	Do you know anyone else in Pfaffenhofen?
	Only in Pfaffenhofen does he.
	I've seen him there at the bar in Pfaffenhofen.
	Love the name of Pfaffenhofen.
	Guten Tag, Adrian.
	Ah, guten Tag.
	Wie geht es Ihnen?
	Hallo Deutschland!
	Here's the Hof!
	Leroy Pacheco is next on the list with $100.
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	Taylor Boyd in Cary, North Carolina, $86.
	He got screwed over by COVID. All his plans are ruined.
	I'm sorry, just to backtrack on Adrian, just to let you know, yes, he wanted some F cancer karma to his friend Michaela.
	Yes, it's coming up right after we're done here.
	Oh, I missed that.
	Sorry, Adrian.
	The only I see is a long note there.
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	And he wrote a check and wrote a note, and so I'll read the note.
	Just a quick note.
	In the middle of all the Chinese virus, Wuhan virus, COVID-19, or just corona craziness, I... All I know is my president says it comes from China, and that's good enough for me.
	Watching the news media hyperventilate on new exposures and deaths and new guidelines is embarrassing.
	Thank you for your service in covering all topics in a reserve-measured, responsible fashion.
	Okay.
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	Washed his hands today, apparently.
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	Dame Jennifer, baronetess of the possible exit strategy, our friend who now does a sexy voice.
	Sexy voiceovers.
	We're going to have to put her to even more work.
	Yeah, we could get some out of that, I'm sure.
	By the way, fun story.
	Probably because of one of the videos, which is a COVID video, one of the animated No Agenda.
	If you guys haven't seen it yet, animated No Agenda on YouTube.
	Subscribe to the channel.
	So the algos, we got some kind of disconnected from the algos and the views went way down because we're no longer in recommended mode.
	And then she went on No Agenda Social and said, all right, here's what y'all have to do.
	And then, you know, within two hours, somehow, magically, the traffic was up and higher than ever before.
	Because we had a whole click farm on NoAgendaSocial.com.
	Click farm!
	Well done, boys.
	Well done.
	And girls.
	Well done.
	Now that you mention it, I'm glad that she did that.
	Because now it shows that we have some possibilities using that network as a click farm.
	Because, by the way, click farms work.
	They do.
	Anyway, Dame Jennifer's in Charleston, South Carolina.
	She gave us $57.50.
	Thank you, Dame Jennifer.
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	It's a birthday donation.
	League City, where's that, you think?
	I have no idea.
	Sir Hank Scorpio of the Electrical Grid, another birthday donation, 5510.
	Same donation number, interestingly enough.
	And a birthday shout-out for his friend Sir Dwight.
	In Cumberland, Ontario.
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	Now we have...
	Did you get to Sir Enough Said's note about Heyman?
	No.
	Heyman, who I hid in the mouth a while back and who immediately liked the show and now listens religiously while hunkered down there in Sarasota, Florida.
	Keep holding your breath and not touching anything.
	Dad, I love ya!
	Just wanted to pass that on.
	Now I have somebody who wrote this very long note in this segment, which is mixed.
	My spreadsheet won't get his name.
	It's anonymous.
	Oh, it's anonymous.
	Okay, well, he gave that I can get that part of it, which is 5510.
	And read that note.
	And don't read it out loud.
	Just read that note and see if there's anything in there we need to discuss.
	We'll continue with Scott of the Tall Corn in Davenport, Iowa, 55-33.
	Connor Lawrence in Albany, New York, 53-13.
	David West, 52-25.
	Keep up the good work, he says.
	Dame Tanya Wyman in New York.
	She's a big countess.
	She's got some rich title now.
	She's up there.
	$51, and she says she loves us.
	They'll go, yay.
	51, New York City.
	Daniel Walraven in Eindhoven.
	Walraven.
	Yes.
	50-50.
	And the following people are $50 donors.
	We have a few of them today.
	Name and location, if applicable.
	Sir Media Filter in Mississauga, Ontario, 50.
	Ben Housen in Humboldt, Saskatchewan.
	A couple of Canadians.
	Julian Robbins in Aptos, California.
	Rick Bonk.
	He's got a birthday donation for his brother, David Bonk.
	I don't know why I find that funny.
	Jesus Allen, your buddy in Austin, Texas.
	BRI Anonymous.
	Christopher Tucci in Scarsdale, New York.
	Alexa Delgado in Aptos, another Aptos dweller.
	You guys should have a little meetup.
	Sir Roy Tenhava in Pineacre, chipping in.
	Mitchell Kaufman in Hillsboro, Oregon.
	Steven Poskett.
	Mary...
	Oh, this is a good one.
	Olshner.
	Olshner in New Orleans.
	And getting to the end.
	Tristan Onion Martins.
	In Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	He needs a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	Welcome to the party, Tristan.
	He's new.
	Onion.
	Will West in Peoria, Arizona.
	Cassidy Eastwood, another birthday.
	We got a lot of birthdays today.
	In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
	Email to you, I guess, for something about the birthday.
	David McLean in Cuba, Missouri.
	He says, we do a great job.
	And last but not least, Scott Nelson, Cirque Scott down in Melbourne, Florida, 50.
	I want to thank all these folks for producing show 1228 and making it all possible.
	And they do.
	Yes.
	And I'm just filling in Cassidy's birthday request.
	Nice list.
	Thank you, everybody.
	Especially the notes are very nice.
	Lovely to see the effect we all have on each other.
	Keeping each other sane.
	Amygdala small.
	But also keep your eyes open.
	Remember after 9-11 we got a couple things.
	The main thing was the weapons of mass destruction.
	I'm sorry, we didn't actually get them.
	So keep your eye out for that because from there we got into Iraq and all kinds of other stuff.
	So this feels very much like we have a huge terror wave washing over us.
	So getting the information that people send with their donations, the notes, and one of the longer notes we had here, people who work in the personal protection equipment industry who can explain exactly why things aren't working.
	We can't read everything, but we read everything and take it into our analysis of what's going on.
	And clearly what we're seeing on mainstream is not a reflection of what's really happening out there in America or anywhere else in the world.
	Everyone's experiencing the same thing.
	But this media tribe called No Agenda Nation is one big producer of the best podcast in the universe.
	A couple of requests here at the end, and thank you all for supporting us.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Here is the list for the 26th of March, 2020.
	We'll never forget this period as we move forward.
	Carissa Mulan says happy birthday to her boyfriend, Scott Manning, turning his first 49 years old.
	She's sure that he'll be 49 for a while.
	Terry Hayman says happy birthday to his dad, Jerry Hayman.
	Sir Hank Scorpio says happy birthday to Sir Dwight the Night.
	Tonight, Rick Bonk, happy birthday to his brother, David Bonk, 59 today.
	And Cassidy Eastwood with a belated birthday for Dave.
	He celebrated on March 15th.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Yes, we have two changes surrounding.
	Sir Media Filer, actually, I think we said filter a moment ago.
	Sir Media Filer is changing his title to Sir ExaMediaTour.
	Sir Ex-Media Tour.
	And Sir Goodfellow today, as of his additional $1,000 in donations, becomes Baron Sir Goodfellow Sir.
	Baron Sir Goodfellow Sir.
	Congratulations with these titles, gentlemen.
	Thank you very much for supporting the No Agenda show.
	And we have one night, which luckily we caught just in the notes.
	We need to get up on stage.
	I got my note right back with a note.
	I mean my sword.
	There it is.
	Okay.
	Cole Candler!
	Cole, thank you so much for your contributions amounting a total of $1,000.
	You are now very welcome at the No Agenda Roundtable.
	We have all of our knights and dames.
	As you can see, they're here waiting your rival, and I am proud to pronounce to Kate the Sir Cole of Lower Luxview, now knight of the No Agenda Roundtable for you.
	We have...
	Ah, you wanted anything.
	Well, I got hookers and blow, rent boys, chardonnay, I got crawfish and cane breaks, brisket and barrel-aged copper ale, maybe beer and blunts, Brazilian hotties, and cachacha, cowgirls and coffin varnish, maybe some ginger ale and gerbils, bongits and bourbon, or mutton and mead.
	It's everybody's favorite.
	Go over to noagendanation.com slash rings and that is where you can enter your info.
	Excuse me.
	There we go.
	I bet you appreciated that in your ear, didn't you?
	I couldn't reach the mute button.
	Let me see.
	New batch of rings are on their way.
	So somewhere in about the next four weeks, you'll see all the new batches go out.
	And as well for you, a circle of lower locks for you.
	Just go to NoAgendaNation.com slash rings.
	Give Eric the Show all your information.
	It's all we need.
	Then, we've got this.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	It's just like a party, only we can't really do them anymore since we're all on lockdown.
	I do have a meet-up report.
	This is from the 29th of February.
	Belated, but it's the Oklahoma City Leap Day meet-up.
	No, my son!
	Bonjour, John and Adam.
	This is Cassidy from the Oklahoma City Meetup, passing it around to say hello.
	Hey John and Adam, this is Bethany.
	I got hit in the mouth by Cassidy like five years ago, something like that.
	I'm Cecil Morgan from the Colony, Texas.
	In the morning, this is Erin from Moore, Oklahoma.
	This is Derek, Jeff Epstein, and Philip Haney did not kill themselves.
	This is Zach from Oklahoma City, in the morning.
	ITM gents, this is David Timmons from Oklahoma City.
	In the morning, this is Air Force John at the Oklahoma City meetup, having a great time with great people.
	This is Sir Lawrence of Logansport, in the morning.
	I forgot what else I was going to say other than Harvey Weinstein's not going to kill himself.
	One, two, three.
	In the morning!
	Thank you for the production.
	Nice having Joe Biden's mic guys there.
	That was great.
	Thanks, Cassidy.
	Overview of the meetups.
	Frustrating, of course.
	Today, anytime in the South, we have the South African lockdown edition as it's posted on noagendameetups.com.
	Drink Castle, Black Label, or any great South African wine, despite what John thinks of it, in your own shack or at the nearest robot, Sir Brian White Knight in the Rainbow Nation.
	I don't know exactly what that means.
	But this is the back office.
	For Saturday, the Kansas City State of Emergency Edition update...
	Effective 324.
	The city is under stay-at-home order for 30 days.
	This can be lifted earlier, obviously.
	One of the exceptions still allowed for travel is walking your dog.
	This is why our family decided we'd walk the dogs over to the Swope Park Off-Leash Dog Park this Saturday from 3 to 5.
	Feel free to join us for some dogging during that time for amygdala therapy and fellowship.
	If you don't have a dog, don't worry.
	We'll bring extra.
	We got some great producers.
	We'll bring an extra dog.
	We'll bring extra dogs for you to watch.
	Hey, what are all you people doing here?
	Let me count the dogs.
	Let me count the people.
	One, two, three, four.
	Okay, okay.
	There's not enough dogs for the people.
	Something's wrong.
	Also Saturday, Rochester, New York, definitely on lockdown.
	The first of hopefully many meetups from the slave state of New York.
	Due to the venue being closed, I have a backup plan.
	I would like to set up a virtual video meeting.
	If you're still interested, I will email you a link before the event.
	Go to noagendasocial.com, M.G. Schwan, S-C-H-W-A-N, who is the organizer.
	They've got that all figured out over there with the jujitsu meetup thing, the jizzy jitsu.
	People apparently really like it, so why fight it?
	Use that.
	Go to noagendasocial.com.
	And we'll just leave the meetups for what they are until some of this starts to pick up.
	Hopefully after the 6th of April.
	You can still, of course, go and look at what's happening at noagendameetups.com, where we try to have a little party, noagendameetups.com.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me, triggered or held a flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Exactly.
	Now, I have some international news to get out of the way before we finish.
	Mm-hmm.
	But before I do that, I do have two competitive ISOs.
	Mm-hmm.
	We can try.
	I think you've already got the one.
	You can try stay home ISO. Okay.
	We all need to stay home.
	Yeah, okay.
	It's no good.
	It's not as good as yours.
	And then I have Yamisha's ISO, which is from a report we didn't play, and it says 00.
	It may not be anything in this file, but give it a shot.
	Well, Justin, you...
	What?
	Yeah, you can't get it.
	No, I can't hear it.
	It's because she's just mumbling, and I thought it'd be a good ISO, but it's not.
	Okay.
	Well, hold on.
	Well, wait, wait, wait, wait.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	I just got it.
	Is this our ISO now?
	Let me see.
	Is this it?
	Oh, my God.
	The universe is collapsing.
	It's a little long.
	I think, oh, my God, is the best part of that.
	Just, oh, my God?
	Oh, my God.
	The universe...
	Oh my god!
	Hold on, I can do this.
	Can you take a couple of beats out of that?
	Maybe you could use the whole thing.
	Well, then I'd have to edit it.
	Which I don't mind doing, but I don't have a long story.
	And what is this?
	Lockdown!
	No, that's no good.
	It's funny, but it's not for end of show.
	I like it.
	You like that for end of show?
	I do, I like it.
	Oh, well, excuse me.
	Hold on.
	Then I will keep that.
	Let's see.
	Lockdown.
	Okay.
	It's in the spot.
	It's just so dumb.
	It's not.
	Our producers are great.
	It's not dumb.
	Okay.
	No, I mean dumb funny.
	Yes.
	So let's catch up with some international news.
	These are all piss poor reports that marked as such from PBS's The Piss Poor Report on Yemen and the Saudis.
	Saudi Arabia is being accused of torture and other crimes against civilians in Yemen.
	Human Rights Watch reports that Saudi military forces and their Yemeni allies have committed a long series of abuses.
	The Saudis are backing the Yemeni government against Shiite rebels who are allied with Iran.
	Hold on a second.
	What?
	Aren't those Shiite rebels actually the Houthis who actually run the government?
	And the government is actually deposed?
	I mean, is any of this information important to PBS anymore?
	The CIA handlers told them, no, no, no, no, no, don't talk in those terms.
	Does that still get ratings?
	Has anybody watched this dreck?
	I don't know, but it's really gone down the tubes.
	Really?
	I'll give you another good example.
	I mean, if I were you, I'd give up on it.
	I mean, it's bad, but it's not even funny.
	It's not even funny anymore.
	Here's the other news.
	Chad Army loses the Boko Haram.
	Have you heard about this?
	Hold on.
	Other news.
	Oh, I gotcha.
	Okay, here we go.
	No, I had not heard this.
	In other news, nearly 100 Chadian soldiers have been killed by Boko Haram in the deadliest attack ever by the group on the country's armed forces.
	The Islamist militants have increased their attacks in the region in recent months.
	Nicolas Germain has the story.
	On Wednesday, more Chadian troops arrived in the Lake Chad region.
	The country's army is considered to be one of the most efficient ones on the continent, but it has just suffered one of its worst setbacks.
	Nearly 100 Chadian soldiers were killed on Monday in this region by jihadist group Boko Haram.
	President Idris Deby, who's been in power for 30 years, visited the scene of the attack.
	Hmm.
	That's it.
	I had to pick that up from overseas.
	I've got to get that from France 24.
	Pompeo versus China.
	Bad report from PBS. Another one.
	The Trump administration escalated a war of words with China today over the coronavirus pandemic.
	Secretary of State Mike Pompeo again accused Beijing of concealing vital information.
	He also charged that Chinese officials are spreading claims that the U.S. is behind the pandemic.
	This is news to her?
	Has she followed anything?
	This is Friday.
	I mean, yesterday.
	This has been going on for weeks, this back and forth blame.
	Oh, brother.
	Okay, last one.
	This is kind of interesting.
	Apparently, the Dakota pipeline, after in service for three years, they're trying to stop it, and they're all for it.
	Sorry.
	Back in this country, a federal judge in North Dakota ordered a full environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline three years after it began carrying oil.
	Construction of the pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation set off months of protests in 2016 and 2017.
	The tribe wants the line shut down.
	Boom.
	Boom is right.
	It's like, where did that come from all of a sudden?
	Now that's back on the radar?
	Yeah, that's pretty off the wall.
	No reporting on it.
	How about some info?
	There's got to be somebody involved with this.
	What does the company say?
	Does it really have a chance?
	Is there anyone going to do it?
	I mean, there's nothing.
	They're doing the same kind of news reading only from different sources that Amy Goodman does.
	They just have a little thing in front of them and they read a story.
	Here's the last one I'm going to play.
	Which is Turkey indicts Saudis.
	Okay.
	Turkey.
	There we go.
	Prosecutors in Turkey filed an indictment today against 20 Saudi citizens in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
	The Washington Post columnist was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
	The Saudis have refused to extradite any of the suspects.
	Boom.
	We don't even really know if it was true or any of that.
	No, we don't care.
	That's the way it goes.
	Read, read, read, read, read.
	Trump sucks.
	Read, read, read, read, read.
	Trump sucks.
	That's your news.
	That's your PBS news.
	Just a final...
	Please stop emailing me about the 21 fewer cell phones in China.
	I'd like to just address that.
	21 million, I think, something like that.
	Yeah, 21 million fewer cell phones.
	Yeah.
	So this is sent...
	Well, 21 million people died!
	They've been cooking them!
	They died!
	21 million people died!
	First of all, I would say out of 1.5 billion Chinese, it's very possible 21 million of them thought, F this, I don't want to be tracked anymore and just smashed the phone and got rid of it.
	Also, 100,000 people die a day in China regardless.
	Maybe even more.
	Without coronavirus.
	Please stop emailing it.
	This is the kind of data that people send around.
	Yeah, I got a bunch of those too.
	People die during a time and there was no sign-ups.
	No new sign-ups.
	So that skews your numbers.
	But these data scientists we have...
	Well, even the numbers, who verified this?
	Exactly.
	This could be just made up...
	Q, Q, Q verified it.
	Cue?
	Oh, well, cue it now with that guy for sure.
	I'm all in, whatever he says.
	All right.
	All right.
	Time for us to skedaddle out of here.
	Let me see what we have on noagendastream.com.
	That Larry show, The Big Reset.
	Ooh, okay.
	Interesting to listen to that Larry show.
	End of show mixes today come to us from Leo LaPuke, Tom Starkweather, and I'll throw in that Dame Jennifer again because I thought that was so good.
	Please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA for our Sunday show.
	Guaranteed we'll have something to pull apart for you since the media is entirely unreliable from beginning to end.
	Keep it here with your media tribe, No Agenda Nation.
	I'm coming to you from Opportunity Zone 33 in the frontier of Austin, Texas, FEMA Region 6, which is more important than ever to know on the governmental maps.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	Dan from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm seeing trucks go by on the freeway filled with toilet paper.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda.
	And until then, keep your distance, citizen.
	And adios, mofos and such.
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	Oh my God!
	The universe is collapsing.
	I don't want to get down in the marsh pit with these guys.
	It's not a place I want to play.
	Current status, we still have the trajectory going up.
	No one is going to want to tone down things when you see what's going on in a place like New York City.
	I mean, that's just, you know, good public health practice and common sense.
	I'm a guy who loves sports, but we're not, unfortunately, even be able to allow team sports.
	We have to keep people separated.
	Our men and women of the NYPD will be out there spreading the message, telling people, break it up if they have to break it up, move along.
	No lines typed together at a grocery store.
	No grocery stores for life.
	Here in New York, the current American epicenter of this pandemic, the first data tonight suggesting that maybe, just maybe, social distancing is helping to slow the onslaught of coronavirus.
	If you call it hot, if you call it any word you want to use, it is at a level that...
	I was speaking to Tony before.
	It's a level that no place else is trust.
	It's very unfortunate.
	You know, one of the things that...
	We will also enact mandatory playground social density.
	It's probably a new concept.
	And you can transfer it, which makes you dangerous to the people who you love.
	It's very possible that they won't be ever subject to what's happening in New York.
	New York is definitely a hot spot, there's no question about it.
	And you know what we're doing in New York to try and help.
	Let me tell you I'm motherfucking something.
	And I had the corona fucking virus.
	Corona virus!
	Your love gives me such a thrill.
	Yeah, it's real!
	But your love won't pay my bills.
	I want money.
	Woo!
	Woo!
	You're gonna get a check.
	That's what I want.
	Woo!
	Woo!
	Everyone's just taking money.
	Coronavirus!
	A lot of celebrities, y'all have to know if you need to pay $34,000 or whatever the fuck it costs to get tested and get cheated.
	Poor, whatever the crap.
	They don't fucking have that money.
	The fuck?
	Look at it.
	I want money.
	Wuhan, China.
	I want money.
	Guess what, bitch?
	I want so much money We're on the virus Get in real Give me your money It's party time We're doing shots Gonna give everybody cash.
	I want my check.
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